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Counseling Center staff members believe that it is important to offer programs where students, faculty and staff work and live. Our workshops, lectures, seminars and discussion groups are conducted at the center and at other sites. Examples of current outreach topics include: weight management and eating disorders prevention, sexual assault prevention, stress management, grief resolution, terminating a relationship, self-esteem building, test-taking strategies and assertiveness training.
Faculty, staff, parents, spouses or friends are often concerned about a student. Professional counselors can help these people make arrangements for a student to get counseling or refer the student to appropriate resources.
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The idea of raising a family in the heart of Toronto may be gaining traction, but the availability of kid-friendly residences in the city core is still a challenge. That's why Craig and Jaclyn Shaw snapped up a unit at Edition Richmond, a new townhome development on Richmond Street in the trendy Trinity Bellwoods park neighbourhood.
"We feel that Toronto is a great city to raise kids, a fun place with lots for kids to do," says Ms. Shaw, 32, who runs Devlish Angelz, a kids clothing boutique of high-end brand names as well as funky threads from local designers. She sees more of the couple's friends and people of their age opting to anchor their growing families deep in the city. "This is one of the main reasons I chose to open my business downtown," she notes. "There are lots of kids' specialty retailers popping up all over the downtown, from clothing shops to furniture stores to baby stores. As an entrepreneur, it's important for my family to stay downtown and support other local entrepreneurs and small businesses, which includes the small coffee shops, the independent yoga studios offering mom-and-baby yoga classes, all the amazing restaurants and shopping."
Mr. Shaw, 29, likes the small coffee shops, fine dining and casual eateries clustered around Edition Richmond. "People of our generation want to stay downtown in the heart of the action," he says. "Here we can enjoy all the city has to offer, all within easy walking distance from our home. This is now part of our daily lifestyle."
Having lived in a one-bedroom unit at the Annex Loft Houses, an ideal location for singles and couples, the Shaws are ecstatic about moving into their new two-bedroom, 1,300-sq.-ft. "Sky Loft" model at Edition Richmond (editionrichmond.com). "The two-bedroom layout is a huge plus for us, as we are looking to start a family in the near future," Ms. Shaw says.
"Trinity Bellwoods is a nice green space for walking our dog and a shady spot for picnics with kids," she says.
Another attraction for the Shaws is the size of the building, with just 20 units. "I prefer the smaller buildings that are quiet and you know most of your neighbours, and it just seems more of a home," says Mr. Shaw, who works in construction management. He says that he and his wife (they just married last October) appreciate Edition Richmond's features, such as modern, open living spaces, lots of natural light (sunshine pours in from lightwells at the rear of each unit), soaker tubs, marble-clad bathrooms, Caesarstone countertops and large master showers. They are set to enjoy their 500-sq.-ft. rooftop deck and play area, too, which "faces the city with amazing views."
Built by Curated Properties (curatedproperties.com), Edition Richmond has been designed by Audax Architecture and the interior designers Cecconi Simone.
"The inspiration for the architecture reflects the century row houses that characterize this area," says Adam Ochshorn, who, with Curated Properties' co-founder Gary Eisen, has steered the company's main projects, doing infill custom home building since the late 1980s. "We saw a gap in the downtown market for family-friendly housing and that has driven the Edition Richmond vision, created to help fill that void."
Edition Richmond's dramatic rooftop archways accentuate the sleek vertical lines of the structure's façade. The terraces draw the eye upward to the rooftop, where the archways provide privacy and shade. After dark, integrated LED lighting illuminates the space. "We've treated the terraces to be on a comfortable scale, a true extension of the living space, and to mark the building as a neighbourhood landmark," says Gianpiero Pugliese, principal at Audax Architecture (which transformed the Shops at Summer-hill). He describes the firm's design philosophy as based on what he calls "human" architecture. "Particularly with contemporary projects, I like to maintain a hand-built quality and reference pre-industrial architecture, which uses a rich material palette."
Mr. Pugliese emphasizes that he's not a fan of the stark high-rise glass box. "Edition Richmond is different," he says. "Everything the young family needs is here." He points to details such as 18-foot ceilings, eat-in kitchen with island, gas stove, built-in refrigerator, hardwood flooring and vanities with ample storage that's seamlessly integrated into the design.
"We both love this neighbourhood," Curated's Mr. Eisen says, "and when we first saw this hidden pocket we knew right away it was special."
The Shaws are eager to embark on raising their own mini-fashionistas. "We're looking forward to skating outdoors, rollerblading along the waterfront, going to the ROM to see the dinosaur exhibit, getting groceries in Kensington market," Ms. Shaw says. "This is a downtown neighbourhood tailored for families."
Just four of these brand new, easy-maintenance units remain at Edition Richmond, including a 1,560-sq.-ft. two-bedroom-plus-loft (at about $830,000), and a 2,000-sq.-ft. three-bedroom (at about $1,050,000).
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) � A North Texas man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in a child pornography case linked to his laptop computer seized at a California airport.
Prosecutors say 47-year-old Todd M. Fowler of Arlington was sentenced Tuesday by a federal judge in Fort Worth. Fowler in May pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography using file-sharing software.
Authorities on May 28, 2011, carried out a search warrant at Fowler's Dallas-area residence while he flew home from a trip to Hong Kong.
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2011-12-24 - Gori decided to make a LART
Two industrial size nuts and a piece of bridge rebar make one very nice LART. The ones on the internet are pretty puny [1] [2] so I decided to make a larger one. After a few hours of rust removal, arc-welding, grinding and polishing, rope wrapping and heat shrinking we have a nice tool, that some have trouble lifting up.
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The concept of "robo-advice"—the use of automation and digital techniques to build and manage portfolios—is attracting attention. Not only does it present an opportunity for wealth management firms to tap into underserved markets and increase advisor productivity, but it also opens up the industry to new competition.
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Implementation of the EU FRD in 4 points
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Every year severe flood events cause fatalities and enormous economic damage around the globe. Even in Europe flood events are an important topic. In the past 20 years, 953 disasters killed nearly 88,671 people in Europe, affected more than 29 million others and caused a total of 269 US$ billion economic losses.
Between 1998 and 2004, Europe suffered over 100 major damaging floods. Specially the flood event in 2002 in the Danube and Elbe catchments caused great damage and affected large parts in central Europe. Severe floods in 2005 further reinforced the need for concerted action.
The trend will probably continue to rise as floods and storms are expected to become more frequent and severe in the future in Europe (European Commission and UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2009). As a consequence, the revision and adaption of flood management strategies has recently been an important issue. Thats why The flood framework directive of the European Union (European Union, 2007) engages the member states to develop flood risk management plans by December 2015. These plans include structural flood protection measures, such as retention basins and levee systems, as well as non-structural measures, such as flood warning systems in combination with mobile flood protection measures. This helps to increase the preparedness immediately before a flood event.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – At the first dual meet of the 2012-13 season, the MIT women's swimming and diving team won 11 of the 15 events, defeating NEWMAC rival Springfield with a score of 180.5-119.5. The Engineers are now 1-0 for the season, while the Pride fell to 3-2.
Three Engineers won a pair of events each to help lead MIT to the win. Freshman Kristen Finney (Lake Orion, Mich.) had an impressive opening to her collegiate career when she won the 100 breast with a time of 1:08.68, before capturing the 200 breast in 2:29.93, seven seconds ahead of the second place finisher. Senior Anna Kokensparger (Omaha Neb.) won the 200 free in 1:56.37 and the 200 IM in 2:09.91. Freshman Katie Siegel (San Jose, Calif.) swept the 100 back and 100 fly, going 58.81 and 57.05 respectively.
Freshman Sarah Wilson (Westerville, Ohio), and juniors Allie Hall (Andover, Mass.) and Sarah Weiss (Edina, Minn.) competed in both the mile and 500 free, going lap for lap with the competition the entire time. All three finished in the top five.
MIT swept first through third place in both the 100 and 200 back. In the 100, Siegel was first, junior Christy Rogers (Bend, Ore.) came second and sophomore Jane He (Yardley, Pa.) came third, all finishing within two seconds. In the 200, Rogers came first, He was second and junior Katelyn Rossick (Middletown, Md.) was third, finishing less than half a second behind He.
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16 outstanding high school students have been announced as finalists for the 25th Annual Music Center Spotlight Awards. The top two students in each performing arts category will perform during the Spotlight Awards final show at The Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Saturday, May 4, 2013, during which the judges will announce first place and runner up in all categories.
Finalists were selected from more than 2,200 Southern California students who participated in the program. 1,230 applicants auditioned in the six performing arts categories: ballet, non-classical dance, classical voice, non-classical voice, classical instrumental and jazz instrumental. 1,017 applicants submitted artwork in the visual arts categories: 2-dimensional art and photography. This year's finalists represent a broad range of backgrounds and come from schools throughout Southern California.
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as for the hawk,( if i force sai's reintroduction to having any real meaning), he showed us that an aerial approach isnt best. it was his idea/announcement regarding the tactic they should use and to that end sasuke summons the snake which is both powerful and QUICK enough to slip through to get to the main body...
whether or not thats whats really going on, its where my imagination took things...
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and sakura was a blank slate so it literally could have been anything. of course slugs make the most sense, but who's to say she only has one summon? like sasuke she can have 2 as well. again my point was that it was boring and predictable. something offensive instead of defensive would have been cool
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Heh the whole Sasuke thing recently has been abit of a farce but you know what, I actually really did like this chapter, the last page was quite kick ass imo
I still waiting to know what has happened to the current gen of kages, still nothing on Tsuande's condition atm but since she was like cut in half I'm guessing it can't be good
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I have to admit this was one of my favorite chapters from the year. It even reminded to that Sanin fight. I really don't think that Naruto is going to be betrayed by Sasuke or anything like that. It just felt like the good old typical rivalry.
Oh yeah Sai got it a lot better than Yamato... Does anybody remember the last time we saw him?
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Shino's summon attack is sick as hell. Imagine that performed a humans
I wonder what's Orochimaru up to, maybe he has some plan for the 10-tails and rinnegan, which would also benefit him personally. Until now he cooperated with Sasuke, but maybe he has his own agenda, sure he would be an interesting final villain if he turns out to be some kind of Dr. Gero (from DB/DBZ) who collects knowledge and cells in this war and then disappears for some time and comes back for the last story arc. His goal was always to master all jutsu and we learned that everything that Kabuto did was based on Orochi's previous work, so he was basically a lesser Orochimaru, with that in mind it's clear that Orochimaru has all the abilities to become a final villain that can make even more impressive things than what we saw in this war. But i don't see what are the motivations of this new Orochimaru, how would he become a final villain that makes sense for his character. We know that losing his parents and many of his comrades was an important factor in him turning "evil", but it would be very boring and lame if it's just that.
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Why is Kiba allowed to do the shadow clone if it is meant to be forbidden? Soo that would mean he was allowed access to the scroll and from there leant how to do it. Still to me is was pretty meh well better then Sai. Given that all he showed off with a 3 headed dog which Pain did before. I guess he could the inspertion from that summoning. I do like how Naruto and Sasuke where bothing checking each other out after not seeing each other for quite some time. Plus Summioning no Justuusss was pretty cool. I pretty sure Sasuke going to bring out his Hawk justu later on when it is needed.
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Naruto doesn't make sense, does Kishi even know his manga any more? Hes even turned Sai into a joke, which is a shame since he started off cool than "Where'd Sai go?" He wasn't in the Pain arc either.
However, I will say even though the teams and Sasuke had ass pulls I enjoyed at least Team Shikamaru's team in action.
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In regards to the chapter it was pretty awesome to see all the rookies in action again. Kind of been stated already, but cool none the less. With Minato's and Naruto's inverted Kyuubi mode design, I wonder what Naruto will look like when he gets the other half, which I kinda hoped would have happened already.
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The last 2-3 chapters have zero connection to the previous 500 chapters.
Like a complete 180 degree turn with sasuke joining them and working together.
I also think the tailed beast's smaller spawns are lame as f*ck.
Pure fodder to show power ups in a cheap way, in that none of the Konoha 11 murders anyone. Kishi has of course done this throughout (having main characters fight monsters so it doesn't look as violent). But this is just too cheese and too cartoony compared to the badassness that was akatsuki (before they transform into monsters to be killed by "good guys")
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If the world pegs you as boorish, cocky, and self-righteous, perhaps that's just the price for keeping up your standards in a world where fewer and fewer people seem to care about doing good work. Chris Heath drifts out to sea with Russell Crowe and discovers that beneath the tabloid tough-guy exterior beats a punk-rock heart.
Russell Crowe passes me a meat pie and shows me how to slather tomato sauce over its crust. These local delicacies he thoughtfully picked up before we boarded this boat, the boat he has borrowed in order to surround us with the beauty of Sydney Harbor as we talk. Occasionally, he comments on the sights a passing yacht with a revolutionary swinging keel, towering architectural abominations here and there, the amusement park he used to play in as a kid—where, he explains, everyone used to get off inside the Ghost Train's haunted house, and where some of them remained when the original structure burned down in the late '70s.Russell Crowe passes me a meat pie and shows me how to slather tomato sauce over its crust. These local delicacies he thoughtfully picked up before we boarded this boat, the boat he has borrowed in order to surround us with the beauty of Sydney Harbor as we talk. Occasionally, he comments on the sights a passing yacht with a revolutionary swinging keel, towering architectural abominations here and there, the amusement park he used to play in as a kid—where, he explains, everyone used to get off inside the Ghost Train's haunted house, and where some of them remained when the original structure burned down in the late '70s.
What's the point of acting
Communication, I think. Storytelling. Its roots are age-old and part of who we are as humans. You know, playing John Nash in a movie is the same as me telling a joke in a bar. It's just a performance. It's the same job as the bloke that used to hold the talking stick aloft and talk about when the first canoe arrived. Except that subject matters these days can be more and more complicated. But the essential, simple point is just basic communication of really complicated ideas and emotions—particularly in the cinema, when a little blink can have a gigantic resonance. pauses Or do you mean the point of it in my life
Well, I guess that's the next question—why do you do it
I'm fundamentally quite shy, so that thing of taking on another character is quite a liberating thing to do if you're a shy person, because within that character framework you can now go to all these other places. pauses And I never found another job that I was actually that good at.
That's not people's first perception of you, as shy.
No, but you're also talking about two or three decades into doing the job. I did my first acting thing in 1970. Sure, it's very easy for me now to be up-front and open with people, because I've met millions of people in my time, so you kind of get past that. But if I want to do something that is going to emotionally expose the character I'm playing, it still requires me to really understand the whole broad spectrum of varying emotions you can pull_pauses; grimaces slightly_uhI don't know where the fuck I'm going with this. to himself Just simplify it. to me Because it's really hard to explain, because it's a fucking prick of a job, you know Particularly when you get successful with it. People don't understand why your life suddenly changed when, hey, to them it's fucking ten bucks at the movies, it's over in a couple of hours. They don't understand the prep, they don't understand the real physical shit that you put yourself through. I mean, the last movie's an example —shoulder surgery partway through preparation. And it's a $100 million train, man, and I'm the fucking guy that drives the train. And I've got to get back on that train and make sure that this thing is completed. And not everybody takes the same attitude towards it, not everybody takes it seriously, you know. If it's not going to be that serious, I don't want to do it. It's a personal taste. I don't like watching an actor have the same fucking hairdo from time period to time period, from character to ch'racter—I just think it's bullshit. It's a waste of money and a waste of my time as an audience member.
Do you think those actors are just not trying hard enough
I just don't think they care. They don't care.
That makes you angry
It doesn't make me angry. It's just not the way I want to do it. If you've got your memory of the last thing I was in that you saw, the next time you see me on-screen you go, "Is that him"
But that's one of the contradictions of the modern movie industry. So much is devoted to building up actors as icons, and yet the whole essence of believable cinema is that you need to not think about who the actor is when you're watching a character.
Yeah, well, I try and avoid it as much as possible. I don't use my "celebrity" to make a living. I don't do ads for suits in Spain like George Clooney, or cigarettes in Japan like Harrison Ford. And on one level, people go, "Well, more fault to you, mate, because there's free money to be handed out." But to me it's kind of sacrilegious—it's a complete contradiction of the fucking social contract you have with your audience. I mean, Robert De Niro's advertising American Express.
What do you make of that
Gee whiz, it's not the first time he's disappointed me. laughs It's been happening for a while now.
If you did all that, what do you think you would be losing
The first thing that goes out the door is your complete integrity. I'm the sort of bloke that will have stand-up arguments with producers, saying, "Look, mate, I know you're product-placing that fucking thing." If I can see it, I'm just not going to allow it to happen. You lose all of your integrity as soon as you cross over into that sort of crass commercialism.
I agree with you, but I think we live in an age when most of the audience couldn't care less.
Certainly a generation of journalists that I talk to don't understand. They actually think that I'm being stupid, you know That kind of credibility thing doesn't get me any Brownie points at all. There doesn't seem to be that understanding of why you bother to not prostitute yourself.
A lot of people seem to think, This stuff is one big selling machine, so chill out.
I absolutely have—in my mind, in my heart, in my being—the credibility required to be a serious artist, as laid down by NME in 1976. That's what I fucking believe in, and I'll never change.
What sort of stuff inspired you in that era
Individual artists Elvis Costello. The Pistols—-but the Pistols was just a laugh.
I don't think it seemed like a laugh at the time. I don't know if you're being wise after the event. It was a laugh, but it mattered, too.
nods It really mattered. It really mattered. And Sham 69, the Only Ones' "Another Girl, Another Planet," the Buzzcocks. I get a very deep sense that the generation after Generation X is a very conservative generation, and I'm not sure they understand the commitment part of what I do. I'm not sure if we'll ever be able to regain that ground. I quite often feel like I'm the youngest of the old guys, where I've got some really old-fashioned philosophies about what's credible and what's not. Suddenly, someone like me seems like a dinosaur from a different age, but I hope it's the opposite of that. I hope I'm at the forefront of thinking and it'll all come back to that at some point.
But if you are a dinosaur, you're proud to be that
In those respects—credibility, integrity for the work—absolutely. I don't think there needs to be another bloke who wants to be a superhero. I think there needs to be more people who are prepared to do the nuts and bolts of the job emotionally, and to take people on those sort of journeys. I just did a movie about a bor, and I've seen it, and I've seen its effect on people already, and this isn't a movie with tricks. There's no animated bits, no bits of cartoon, no utility belt, no laser guns. It's just one bloke, you know I mean, I'm 40 years old now, so to get in that sort of shape. Jack Aubrey was 228 pounds, Jimmy the Bor was 172. So there's all the training up to the shoot, but then during the shoot you have to keep training. But I watch the film, and I see its effect on people, and I know that every one of those miles has something to do with that depth of connection.
Every one of the miles you ran
Yep. Every one of the miles I did, they're in my eyes.
—He waited years for Cinderella Man. He tells me how he loved the script when he first read it in 1997, and details the various times when it seemed as though it wouldn't be his role—when Penny Marshall was going to direct or Billy Bob Thornton (with Ben Affleck as the lead) or Lasse Halstrom, and how, at one point, Crowe encouraged Harvey Weinstein to buy the project
"But that was just before he called me at about quarter to nine in the morning and wanted me to magically turn up for a meeting at twelve o'clock in Tribeca, but I was doing press around Central Park. I was, 'Look, mate, can't do it.' So he told me to get fucked. I rang my agent and said, 'Hey, Harvey just told me to get fucked before 9 a.m.' He goes, 'Oh, my God, what do you think that means' I said, 'I think it means we're getting somewhere.'
I presume that you're the kind of person who, when someone tells you to get fucked, that doesn't preclude your having a working relationship with them
No, because he was justifiably annoyed, because I'd been following another project for three and a half years and he had got me what he thought was what I required. But I was fucking right about that movie, too. It was a 100 percent fucking home run, except the central character of William Shakespeare was not a fucking writer—he was not smelly enough, he was not unshaven enough, and obviously hadn't had enough to drink. He was some prissy pretty boy. What the fuck That's so disrespectful.
And you had in mind a smelly, unshaven, drunk guy you thought could do it
Yeah, I wanted to see that grizzly fucker. I wanted to see him ower. I wanted to see him blossom under the fact of love. I wanted to see where the sonnets came from. They came from the same pen of despair that wrote Timon of Athens—I wanted to see that guy. I wanted to see that guy with the sensibilities of a man that could create a body of work that would last century after century. I wanted to see that.
And you wanted to be that
I wanted to play that character. I loved the script. I mean, it was an incredibly well observed script about actors. That's why I thought it was so cool.
Do you still think your version would have been better
laughs By fucking miles, mate. What are you talking about
Well, people loved it, I guess.
They did; they loved the movie. pauses I don't know—I suppose I'm still too young to say everything I want to say, though nobody'd ever give me credit for holding anything back. But I do…I just have no desire or need to slag Joe Fiennes. But I would look at that particular thing differently. I see the opportunity differently.
As well as acting, you started playing guitar and writing songs at a young age.
Yeah—7, 8, 9.
What would the 9-year-old you write a song about
Things that I didn't really have any understanding about, probably. Songs about love and all that sort of stuff.
And if you'd thought you were channeling someone, who would it have been
It's really fundamentally boring, but it was Elvis. I used to watch a lot of Elvis movies. And that time period was his big Vegas song period "Suspicious Minds" and "In the Ghetto." I remember being allowed to stay up late to watch Elvis live from Hawaii. Shit, that was disappointing. When he came on TV, I went to my brother, "Who the fuck's that That's Elvis Damn." You weren't getting breathless with him; he was just getting breathless all by himself.
You didn't do your first movie until you were 25. Most people who make anything of acting had success far earlier.
A lot of it had to do with the music, because that was my primary focus. Also, until I was 25, I had one tooth missing. When George Ogilvie cast me, he asked me about it, and I told him the story and that I thought it was very false of me to go and get a tooth cap. He was very nice about it, listened to it all, and said, "All right, well, let me put it this way, Russell. You're playing the lead character in my film, right The character of Johnny has two front teeth."
He Methoded you into it!
Yeah. See, I don't have a method. I don't follow anybody in particular. When people talk about Laurence Olivier or something, I go, "Fuck, man, once you've had De Niro with Raging Bull, that's where you begin."
It seems insane that you hadn't replaced the tooth for fifteen years….
Yeah, but at the same time, what it prevented me from doing was pretty-boy stuff. Somehow, it gave me an edge. I was sort of accepted into the rock 'n' roll thing a lot easier because I had this fucking half a tooth.
What about in your life away from acting and singing
Well, it made relationships with girls a little difficult as well. laughs Because I never used to smile.
Did you think of yourself as an attractive teenager
I don't know. That's not really important.
That's its own answer, too, isn't it
pauses Michael Mann was stunned when we were prepping The Insider, because I was taking it to a place that fundamentally was something he didn't requirebut I realized I couldn't play the guy unless I felt like I looked like the guy. On the set of Gladiator, I didn't have a very good relationship with the producers. I had a very good relationship with Ridley Scott, but the producers couldn't understand why I wouldn't just chill out. The reason I wouldn't chill out was because I knew that if I did fucking chill out, in those five minutes something stupid would now be in the movie. Like, they were trying to get me to do a love scene, and I'm saying to them, "What we're doing here is about the vengeance of a man whose wife has been killed—you cannot have him stop off for a little bit of nooky on the way." I've been told that Jeffrey Katzenberg rang Michael Mann and said, "Look, this guy is just not rolling with the punches as we want him to, so what's it all about" And Michael said, "Well, if you're having problems like that with Russell, then you've got to know that you should just follow him." Jeff said, "Is this about fucking ego and stuff" and Michael started laughing. Because vanity doesn't come into it. Is it right for the fucking character
But that's what people often think, don't they They think it's ego and vanity.
Well, that's the easiest thing for them to want to think. I'm sure at a certain point it's about self-protection and—if you want a real fucking word that smacks of ego and vanity—it's about protecting your legacy. The things that you've done previously and trying to get everything that you do to be that same standard. So yeah, I suppose there's egotism involved in that. But I don't give a fuck what I look like during a movie or between films. I couldn't care less. I don't have a certain haircut. I don't give a shit, you know But on behalf of the character, particularly if it's a real person, now, that's a huge responsibility. Every now and then I say something like this and it just sounds so self-righteous—but if there's anything I'm aiming at, it is that I want there to be a trust between me and an audience. I want them to absolutely know that if I've done it, there's some really good fucking reasons; there's something special about it. Sooner or later, the press, the magazine shit, the tabloid sort of shit, that'll all go away, because no matter how many times they say it, it's still not going to be true. What is true is what I put down in movies. Even though it's pretend, that's the truth.
Of all the chatter you mention—"the press, the tabloid sort of shit"—what's the stuff that frustrates you the most
I've always had a thing about being accused of something when I'm not guilty of it, you know That goes right back to a primary-school thing. It's the thing that scares me the most—being blamed for something that I didn't do. And there's that "If you get accused of something and you get angry, then you must be guilty."
I knew you'd had some rough things said about you, but reading all the stuff in preparation for this, my God, you really have had some rough things said.
It's really been fucking ridiculous, man. I spent time like this last year with a guy from Time magazine.
I was just about to quote to you from that. You're on the cover and yet, within two essentially laudatory pieces about you, they say you're someone who "comes off as a brute, a primitive Crowe Magnon Man," that you are "frequently perceived as one of the world's biggest jerks."
By journalists. That's the bit that's missing.
What do you take from that
Again, let's go back to Michael Mann, because he laughs at people who think that that description has any sort of accuracy. He just laughs at them. "How can you do the performances that he does if he's that guy If he's that guy, how can he be Nash How can he be Wigand How can he be the guy in The Sum of Us How can this 'lout' have that level of sensitivity"
Here's another one about you "Crowe is consistently referred to by those who have worked with him as a 'perfectionist,' which, in Hollywood, is a euphemism for 'jackass.' "
Unless they actually mean perfectionist. If they just mean, no, hold on, he wants it rightright on their behalf, too, not just for me. I say stupid things sometimes—like, I saw somebody taking the piss out of me on TV the other night, laughs talking about working for a director and how I give them "a gold mine of ideas." And I was thinking, Gosh, I suppose that does sound arrogant and fucking stupid. And maybe it is arrogant and stupid. But, you know, it's still true. laughs
I went shopping with Danielle yesterday, and we were in a bookstore. And this woman actually said, "Look, Russell Crowe reads—who'd have known" laughs
That's pretty rude.
But this is my environment. This is what I live in, day to day.
Did you think you were special growing up Did you think something special was going to happen to you
long pause Yeah, I did, actually. I used to have these very strange situations where I'd be walking down the street and I would imagine people calling out my name. I was as optimistic and as full of hope as anybody could be. And lots of things didn't turn out the way I wanted them to when I was a younger fella, but I didn't lose that thirst to understand what it is that I could do well.
When you were going to do Romper Stomper, did you realize this was going to be your chance to be noticed
nods I didn't think they were going to make another movie like that in Australia for a long time.
You had to feed yourself a pretty unpleasant diet of reading and listening, didn't you What do you remember about that
Not much. There's a sort of a filing system that you fill up and you empty. But stuff like reading Mein Kampf, it's nothing. I'm not reading it to take it in and believe in it, you know I'm just reading it out of interest, and it focuses me, and through the act of reading I'm considering other aspects of the character as well.
But you'd really sit and listen to Wagner and English soccer crowds and go to sleep listening to white noise That must have really fucked with your head.
Well, it kept me in an odd place. It kept me slightly unbalanced, and that's where I wanted to be while I was doing that role. A guy like Hando is abhorrent to me—the philosophy that governs his life is something that disgusts me completely—so that was an interesting learning experience.
The director also says that you got arrested during the shoot.
We did get arrested, but we weren't doing anything.
I heard that it was five times.
I'm not sure if it was that many. One big night, nine of us got arrested. And we're not doing anything particular, we're not hanging out in skinhead hangouts, we're just going to regular pubs. However, we don't have any hair, and we've got serious sixteen-hole fucking Doc Martens with white laces, which signify to the police "white supremacy." In an odd way, I was kind of weirdly comforted that these nine or ten blokes walking around together in Melbourne would immediately attract attention from the police.
Did you immediately say, "No, sir, I'm an actor"
Yeah, I mean, two constables came out and grabbed me and said, "Who do you think you are" and all that sort of stuff. And I said, "Mate, I'll tell you exactly who we are—we're a group of actors, and we're doing a movie where we're playing neo-Nazi skinheads." And this sergeant of police in South Melbourne says, "Is that right Right. Well, I hope you're a Method actor, son, because you're really going to enjoy this. Put him in the fucking cell!" laughs And at the time, I was really kind of angry, but over time you cannot help but laugh at that. That's funny as hell.
When the film came out, did you expect some people to misinterpret it and to assume wrong things about you
Not to the degree. In its immediacy, it wasn't accepted very well at all. I'm not going to deny the power of the film, but I believed that the piece said, quite clearly, that if you believe in this philosophy, if you partake in this type of behavior, you're either dead or arrested by the end of this story.
I think that's true, but at the same time you can't be naive enough not to know that some people will just enjoy seeing behavior and a way of life they like.
But in the full balance of what I've done as a career, one of the very next things that I did in terms of an Australian film was to play Jeff in The Sum of Us, knowing that there would be a certain amount of guys who lined up on day one because of Romper Stomper and they'll get a good surprise.
Which was the first movie role you did where you felt you were really getting somewhere
In what terms
Where you really felt, "I know what I'm doing"
From a skill factor, I knew when I was doing Virtuosity, when I was working opposite Denzel Washington, that I had the things that I needed and I could communicate the things that I had constructed intellectually and physically. But everything I've done in my career as a professional actor, it's like, I get the gig way after I've got the experience enough to do that gig. But yeah, you can follow the steps of it. Probably the biggest difference—the thing that really took my life and changed it, and made my relationship with the press a defensive one instead of one of tolerant amusement or whatever—was Meg Ryan. And, gee whiz, I'm not going to apologize for that situation in my life. It's just there. Well, actually, that's wrong—I would apologize if there are people that were directly hurt from that situation. There was never any intention like that. Quite frankly, it was in the papers before it was a reality, you know So we were already having to deal with the bullshit, and that possibly brought us close together, because we were both dealing with what it meant to be put in that situation.
He leads me back to the book-lined office of his waterfront Sydney home, disappears for a moment, and returns, his face full of fatherly delight, his 1-year-old son, Charlie, in his arms. When Charlie has taken his leave, Crowe suggests we listen to some music. He guides me through the highlights of (Last Night We Were) the Delicious Wolves, by the Canadian Hawksley Workman, a record Crowe was introduced to in Toronto by his Cinderella Man costar Renée Zellweger. Together we take sensible, mystied pleasure in the line You took your clothes off to remind me of the ocean. Then he asks whether I would like to hear his own latest song. He has been collaborating with a songwriter named Alan Doyle, from a Canadian band he likes called Great Big Sea; this new song, "Raewyn," has a different level of poise and grace than much of the records by Crowe's band, Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts, and its lyrics are both elegant and more direct. It draws on two traumatic early deaths in the Crowe family tree—his mother's sister Raewyn and his father's brother Charlie—and on his own new family, on how these are linked by name and heritage, and of what it is to be a parent and a child
"My mother's sister committed suicide when she was 21. Slashed her wrists in the bath. And my father's youngest brother died in a scuba-diving accident when he was 17. It just hadn't occurred to me what my father would have been able to say to my mother when she lost her sister, because he had had the same experience, and how close that must make them."
Growing up, were you very aware of all this history
She died while I was alive. He died just before I was born. It was one of the odd things, when Dani wanted to call the baby Charlie and I said, "I don't think that'll go down very well in my family." We've had two Charles Crowes. One died scuba diving at 17. The other, the uncle of my grandfather, died in the Battle of Britain at 21. But Dani had an Uncle Charlie who moved from York to Hollywood and lived till he was 96. So I went on two things a combination of genes and third-time lucky.
What have forty-odd years of life taught you about love
Um_long pause_I've got a really strong relationship with Dani that has a scaffolding of years underneath it, and I've started to recognize that the things that were important were the ways that we shared particular attitudes toward certain things, and the way that we could laugh about certain things. You know, I'm really young at this marriage thing, but there's some quite wonderful things that come into your life with marriage, you know, and we discuss it quite regularly, because we feel ourselves growing closer together. We can actually feel that happening. And centering what we have as a marriage around the birth of Charlie, who came along probably faster than we were expecting, but we had both been celibate for the three months prior to the wedding.
How did the idea of the three months come up
We were having a chat and we said, "Okay, let's keep some distance between each other." Because I've got a lot of mates, and it seems to be that quite a high percentage of Australian marriages don't get—what's the word
Consummated on the night. Thank you. And I didn't want to be in that category. But I think that three months meant that we werein a certain particular place. And with the excitement of the wedding and the depth of the ceremony and stuffit just made everything a little bit more magical too.
Is it true that you cried at your wedding
Not in the way that it's reported. I didn't cry at Charlie's birth, either. I've got all the footage, and Dani actually said to me the next day, "You were fucking outrageous." Whenever I sense that she's getting a little uncomfortable, my focus is on her, but I make sure I put the camera somewhere where it still gets a good two-shot. laughs And I don't stop or anything—one minute I'm shooting her, and you can see a little icker of eyelid, of pain or whateverI'm seeing her, seeing the painseeing the anglegoing to her, checking she's okayand then I'm back into it.
You were thinking about the lighting
Totally! I've got cutaways. Anything interesting that's in the corridor, I've got a cutaway, too. I've got the feet of the nurse. She was wearing purple shoes. I've got lefts and rights, covered over shoulders both ways, just in case, because I didn't know how I'd want to do it.
There are times when you can be too professional.
But, see, it was probably easier for me to deal with this huge thing that was happening by having this little thing to do, which was keep the video camera going. Plus, my wife has a record, an absolute record, of something that happened to her that she was not experiencing. And I know it sounds daggy and what have you, but, mate it's a hell of a cool thing to watch. I'm not being self-defensive or whatever—I have absolutely no problem expressing myself. This thing of confusing Bud White or Maximus with who I am is ridiculous. Like it's such a big fucking deal that Russell Crowe might cry Are you fucking kidding
We are discussing—because as Crowe points out, perfectly reasonably, over and over, how the weight of past stories and opinion, inaccurate and otherwise, might smother any fresh truth about him—a story of how he is supposed to have insulted Moby in the bathroom of an Australian club while he says he was actually in Ecuador at the time
"I think possibly there's a self-contained aspect to who I am that bothers people, because by now I should have had at least three or four visits to rehab; I should have probably been up on a domestic-abuse charge. Because I'm not really doing the fucking Russell Crowe brand-name shit. I'm not fullling that stuff. So if I don't fulll, then just write about it anyway You know, there was an article I was reading on-set somewhere, and there were eleven things on this list that made me a motherfucker, right The eleven points of motherfuckerdom of Russell Crowe. And nine of them were completely untrue, had never happened, but had been over time reprinted so much that they were now folkloric."
But you were two-elevenths a motherfucker
Yeah. drily Apparently. Yeah. looks at his watch Shit. I didn't even realize it was that late. I missed putting Charlie to bed. That's going to really bum me out all night. I'm an idiot. I didn't even look at my watch. It's just a really hard time, between bedtime and when he wakes up in the morning—it's a really long time to wait.
How much does it mean to you, having won an Oscar
Quite a lot, really. To be honest, when you're younger and cooler, you say those sort of things don't mean anything, but then on the day when they pat you on the back and they say, "Look, mate, we're noticing what you're doing—thanks very much," you think of the people who spent a life in the cinema and didn't receive that kind of accolade, and it's sort of a humbling experience. And it's very nice and all that. But it doesn't change the way I do things.
And in your mind, do you think Gladiator has been your best performance
No—not at all. Nowhere near it.
What would you put above it
This is not belittling it, because I do think it's a very emotionally and intellectually complicated physical performance, and it's the combination of those things that made it a little unusual, I suppose. But I definitely rate The Insider and A Beautiful Mind above that. I probably rate Romper Stomper above it. And there's a hell of a lot of nuance going on in L.A. Confidential as well.
In the midst of the Oscar celebrations and the success of Gladiator, there was the rather strange kidnapping subplot. What can you explain about that now
We just arrived in Los Angeles, and we got contacted by the FBI, and they arrived at the hotel we were staying at, and they went through this big elaborate speech, telling us that for the whole time we were going to be in America, they were going to be around and part of life. You know—oh, I shouldn't say things like this—I do wonder if it was some kind of PR thing to attract sympathy toward me, because it seemed very odd. Suddenly, it looks like I think I'm fucking Elvis Presley, because everywhere I go there are all these FBI guys around.
I don't think it did create sympathy for you. I think a lot of people were kind of mean about it. I think they wrote about it in a way that implied you were paranoid and self-important.
None of it was my application. I didn't pay for any of it. It wasthe FBI, bless their pressed white shirts. They picked up on something they thought was really important, and they were following it through. They were fucking serious, mate. What are you supposed to do You get this late-night call from the FBI when you arrive in Los Angeles, and they're like absolutely full-on, "We've got to talk to you now, before you do anything. We have to have a discussion with you, Mr. Crowe."
But who was supposed to be after you
pauses Umwell, that was the first conversation in my life that I'd ever heard the phrase Al Qaeda. And it was something to do with some recording picked up by a French policewoman, I think, in either Libya or Algiers. And it was a destabilization plan. I don't think that I was the only person. But it was about—and here's another little touch of irony—it was about taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as a sort of cultural-destabilization plan.
So presumably the trigger for it was that you played the iconic American movie role of that year
That seemed to be a Hollywood thing, yeah. But look, I'll tell you what, it was never resolved to any intellectual satisfaction from my point of view. I never fully understood what the fuck was going on.
But there must have been a point where they said, "Well, we're not going to be around anymore."
Oh yeah, there was a point where they said they thought the threat had probably or had possibly been overstated, and then they started to question their sources, and blah, blah, blah. But I don't know how it was resolved, you know But they were serious about it. And what can you say I mean, gee, there were a lot of man-hours spent doing that gig, so the least I can say is, "Thank you very much."
It must have messed with your head somewhat.
I think it was a bit odd. But I also thought, laughs Mate, if you want to kidnap me, you'd better bring a mouth gag. I'll be talking you out of the essential philosophies you believe in the first twenty-four hours, son. I might chew through the first one, too, so be prepared.
Chris Heath is a GQ correspondent.


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A big part of DIY success involves starting with the right tools and materials. It's difficult to tell what works and what doesn't just by appearances, so send me a message for any specific recommendations you're looking for.
Steve Maxwell, syndicated home improvement and woodworking columnist, has shared his DIY tips, howto videos and product reviews since 1988. Follow him at SteveMaxwell.ca, on Facebook or @Maxwells_Tips on Twitter.


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Friday, July 30, 2010
What we stand to lose
In the interest of providing more efficient service, large corporations are making more use of online services and phasing out having actual representatives that you can contact by phone. The new form of online commerce is the B-to-B system........no need for a phone at all-it's all done on the computer: Ordering, inventory check, shipping tracking......you name it ,you'll be able to access it right from your laptop, I-phone or whatever. I have recently been using these systems and when they work, it's pretty easy and quick.
Here's the problem for me : While the online system is really easy and nobody has to be there to answer your call ( Handy for orders that happen after work hours, particularly from companies hours ahead in time zones ) I have spent much of my work life building up relationships with the folks on the other end of the phone that B-to-B systems are replacing. I consider many of these people to be my friends-they let me know what is going on in their world.....this is what I consider the real thing that makes a life-long job more than a job -the community in the field we call home most of our waking lives.
The computer, while being a great tool could effectively take away our ability to talk to people at a great many companies-not because they don't have good people....it's because their good people are being spread too thin. The corporate board of directors mentality only sees profit numbers and efficiency ratios......there's no way they can quantify customer loyalty-nor do they seem to want to take the time. I'm profoundly worried about this trend as it means that the folks that run these companies are truly out of touch with the other 98 % of the human race that surrounds them. Call me old fashioned if you will, but I really appreciate people who answer the phone, call back and take their clients and their jobs seriously. I also appreciate companies who value good employees and find ways to utilize and reward their best skills.
As a person in the bike business, I feel that as builders, suppliers , manufacturers , sales reps , warehouse workers , we are all in this thing together and we are the ones that give it life.....we and the customers . After many of these large corporations have gone through buyouts and re-organizations , the folks at the top might not have any idea how their company came to be and what personal relationships made that possible. This is the big dis-connect ( to use an all-too-popular catchword) between the top and everyone below.
In the food supply and restaurant world there's a movement to make everything 'sustainable and local' from farming to running an eating establishment. I feel there is something to learn here for every line of work, in particular the bicycle business. Are we 'sustainable and local' going the direction we are- at least according to the corporate model-where person-to-person sales and domestic manufacturing is being phased out ? Will our business and craft improve with the trends that are set by the people at the top of these leading companies ? Are we really on the brink of losing what holds us together just so that a few folks can be proud of the profits they have secured and the jobs they have eliminated ?
Maybe I'm not the one to speak here.....I'm so primitive that i don't even take credit cards at my shop. I don't have or want paypal.....the way I see it, there's no life-or-death need for a custom bike-you either plan for it and save up the cash or you just live without it. I'm not saying that if you don't have the money, you don't deserve a custom bike..............just be thoughtful about it and realize that good things take time-time that corporate America doesn't seem to have for working folks right now.
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Hey Paul,ReplyDelete
There is a model for these new-fangled, B-to-B companies, that still allows for the human connection. For example: Zappos (online shoestore), has made it a huge part of their business model that there be personable, helpful people answering phones. Supposedly it's been a big part of their success. Fingers crossed it'll start catching on?
The cycle in the picture is very nice. As a person I am also from cycle business. And my company is going well.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 3, 2010 at 10:46 AM
Staying away from PayPal is a good plan. A arbitrarily frozen account (e.g. moving too much money through it...like the balance on a custom frame...is "suspicious activity") can ruin your day and dealing with such an automated company can ruin your soul. Ask me how I know.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 8, 2010 at 5:01 AM
I'll second the Pay Pal comment!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 15, 2010 at 7:29 PM
That's why I like dealing with Henry James and Bringheli. Joe isn't too talkative (at least not to me) but if you call HJ, you'd better be ready to tell Monika how the weather is and what's going on where you live:)ReplyDelete


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During a visit to the Diocese of Brooklyn, part of a six-day trip to the United States, a high-ranking Vatican official from China says he does not expect much to change in church-state relations with the new Chinese government. "It's not one of the immediate priorities of the new government," said Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai, secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. China unveiled its new Communist Party leadership on Nov. 15. Xi Jinping, the new president, repeatedly called for a "great renewal" in his acceptance speech, but that renewal may not include a re-evaluation of its relationship with the Vatican. "They have many other things to take care of," said the archbishop. The Chinese government has frequently clashed with the Vatican, particularly over the approval of episcopal appointments.
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Note: Historically, the set of frequencies used under the older analogue systems have differed from one another, meaning that the particular frequencies used across North America, Europe, Asia, etc., etc., will differ depending upon the transmission standard adopted within each nation. When countries began to make the transition to digital TV systems, most have opted to continue to use their old channel frequency schemes so as to make the switch from analog to digital systems as seamless as possible for the end user.
Frequency Scanning Utilities
- scantv (part of xawtv package)
- apps with built in scanning ... tvtime, xawtv/motv (which call upon scantv), kdetv ...
One of the handiest tools for scanning frequencies is "(dvb)scan", a utility included within the LinuxTV dvb-apps package. (dvb)scan parses the information from a pre-configured initial scan file that is specific to a particular country/region/location/service_provider (many of which are contained within the dvb-apps package as well as being available within the wiki or elsewhere), then tunes into the frequencies and lists the names for all available PIDs.
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- apps with built in scanning ... kaffeine, MythTV, Me TV
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It was cold this morning. I garbed up to drive a short distance to Salt Fork, my state park in my back yard.
As I left the nice warm house, the wind hit me. I shuddered.
Then I thought to myself, it's going to be cold for TWOT. And Reverse Ring.
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The switch has been flipped.
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The Town of Smyrna could possibly see improvements in the form of construction projects for utilities on Commerce Street and north of Duck Creek.
The Town of Smyrna could possibly see improvements in the form of construction projects for utilities on Commerce Street and north of Duck Creek.
Earlier this spring, town council approved a series of motions giving town manager Dave Hugg permission to apply for loans and grants for the utility projects. While the applications in no way commit the town to the loans, it gives Smyrna the ability to get the funding should they move forward with the projects.
Lack of utilities north of Duck Creek
The lack of utilities north of Duck Creek has hurt the town's chances of attracting companies; case in point, Hugg said a big factor in losing the Amazon distribution center to Middletown was the lack of utilities and the town's inability to get utilities installed quickly.
The projects include putting in a water system, a water tank and a sewer system north of Duck Creek.
Phase I of the water system involves putting a water system under Duck Creek and running a 10-inch water line up Route 13 on the east side up to the rest area.
Phase II includes a 750,000-gallon water tank on the east side that will basically serve the area. Hugg said there's a big chance developers will contribute to this phase.
There's also a project to put in a sewer system north of Duck Creek. Hugg said the town was previously approved for a loan by DNREC but the agency has been sitting on the approval while the town finishes other sewer projects. Plus there may be a redesign from the original plan that included a pump station on both sides of Route 13 to one big pump station to serve the whole area; once again developers may make contributions.
"The water and sewer projects up north are absolutely essential to any potential economic development that we might want to see happen up there," Hugg said.
Updating Commerce Street utilities
The town is also applying for loans to do a water and sewer replacement on Commerce Street from roughly Market Street to East Street. Basically, the water and sewer systems need to be replaced because they're old.
When this motion was approved at a March council meeting, Councilwoman Joanne Masten asked if this project could include the streetscape portion, which would have all utilities underground like on South Main Street. However, Hugg explained that this project doesn't include the streetscape portion but does make it possible for the future.
At the time, Councilman Jeff Flairty said doing this project now would make streetscaping easier in the future.
"This is part of our commitment to keep moving forward on the downtown area. At the end of this process, it's not going to look like it does on South Main Street but it takes us 70 to 80 percent of the way there," he said.
What's next? What's the impact?
The next step in the process is for the town to go to bid on the projects. Once the bids are in, this is when council will decide whether or not to move forward with the projects.
Hugg said they don't know what the impact would be on the town should the town move forward with these projects; however, some initial budget looks for 2013 and 2014 show the biggest impacts would come in 2014 and beyond.
The burden of the projects may be lessened though as Hugg said they expect developers to contribute to certain portions and hope that the projects at Duck Creek will stimulate economic development.
"It may be that as we move forward we could get a couple of phone calls coming from people asking when is the water and sewer coming near my property," Hugg said.
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Last year, American Electric Power Corp. announced that it would build a 1,000 megawatt coal-fired power plant, equipped with state-of-the-art gasification technology to remove pollutants. During a speech before the National Coal Council in Washington, D.C., Morris explains the progress his company has made with the integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) facility it wants to build in Ohio. He also talks about the factors driving AEP's decision, including new interest in the utility sector from General Electric Co., plus the belief that the federal government will someday limit carbon dioxide emissions.