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All rights reserved. webmaster@world-of-newave.com (Webmaster) Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:07:13 GMT Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:07:13 GMT Newave Lisa XML Engine v1.0 - http://www.world-of-newave.info/about.htm 60 http://www.world-of-newave.info/images/wi8831.gif World-of-Newave.info - Knowledge and Informational Database http://www.world-of-newave.info/ 88 31 {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Milestone for a prince whose life has been a waiting game http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/milestone-for-a-prince-whose-life-has-been-a-waiting-20081194224.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/milestone-for-a-prince-whose-life-has-been-a-waiting-20081194224.htm Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:04:26 GMT For many men, a 60th birthday is a time for reflection; a winding down of activities, handing over to the kids (passing on the family firm, perhaps), looking forward to retirement. Not so for the Prince of Wales, whose birthday it is today. All his life, since the age of three, he has been readied for the day when he will succeed his mother. It could happen maybe next week, maybe next year, maybe not for another 20 years. The Queen is fitter than her mother was at the same age, and she lived on to be 101.Abdication is not written into the royal DNA and so, barring accidents or long-term, incapacitating illness to the Queen, Charles also serves by only standing and waiting. He is already the oldest Prince of Wales and third-longest serving heir-apparent and, in another five years, he would be the oldest person to become king.Meanwhile, he is carrying on: last month there was a lengthy tour to east Asia (Japan, Brunei and Indonesia). This week, remembrance services in London and Verdun, dinner with the Sarkozys in Paris, receptions for insurers and a British Antarctic expedition and a comedy gala starring John Cleese, Robin Williams, Rowan Atkinson and Joan Rivers.Last night the Queen gave a private dinner for 170 guests at Buckingham Palace with the Philharmonia providing the music. Today will entail visits to Prince's Trust projects and a party at Highgrove, his country estate in Gloucestershire, where 75 close friends and celebrities will be serenaded by Rod Stewart. Apparently - and since it has been in the tabloids, the royal papers of record, it must be true - Camilla is planning to surprise him with 60 little gifts, one for every year of his life: a pair of walking boots, a personalised fishing rod, CD copies of the Goon Show, the sort of things any chap his age might relish. What else do you give a man with a £16m annual income from the Duchy of Cornwall's ancestral estates - 135,000 acres (54,521 hectares) spread across 23 counties - and a personal staff of 35?Charles may reflect that this milestone birthday should be more settled and satisfying than any for 30 years: 20 years ago he was in the midst of a marriage breakdown, 10 years ago he was reviled as the heartless, adulterous brute who had cast Princess Diana adrift. But now the turmoil is over: he has married the woman he loved all along, his sons are grown and tucked away in the armed services, his charities flourish and, mention it gently, some of his pet causes - the environment, organic farming, human-scale architecture, improving interfaith relations - no longer seem quite so wacky after all.One former palace adviser said: "He is in a much better place than he was five, certainly 10 years ago. He has moved towards the position of a king in waiting and there's a greater sensitivity to the public implications of his role. He used to rather enjoy going out on a limb and irking people to differentiate himself from the Queen, but I think he has realised that is not consistent with his role."And yet the moment for which his whole life has been a preparation eludes him. Robert Lacey, a historian and author, said: "I think he is finally coasting home, perhaps coming to the realisation that he will never be king or, if he does, he'll be like one of those elderly leaders at the end of the Soviet era - a sort of royal Andropov, with only a few years. His significance will lie in what he has accomplished as Prince and what he does to get the next king ready."Staff talk of a constant stream of handwritten notes - Charles, unlike his father and sister, does not generally use a computer - and of telephone calls worrying into the night. One who has worked for him for 20 years says: "He is computer illiterate so we get an unbelievable quantity of stuff. He spends an enormous amount of time writing notes: 'I have had a thought ...' followed by 10 pages in black ink. When you get your own memos back they are marked in red Pentel to suggest amendments. "In my area, I should think he spends 25 to 30 hours a week. It is micro-management: he has never learned to manage things. He rings up a lot but personally I try to discourage being called late."Senior advisers describe an ascetic lifestyle: one meal a day, working through lunch, and in the evenings on official papers. The money does not go on clothes, they say, pointing to frayed shirt cuffs and an overcoat he has had for years. There is wincing at mention of the famous allegation that Charles has a man to squeeze out his toothpaste for him - no, no, no, that was just once after he had broken his wrist. Jeremy Paxman's allegation that he has seven eggs boiled for him in the morning so he can choose the one best to his liking, is, alas, denied too: "Paxman got that third-hand," they say.As an alternative narrative, they cite the prince's compassion: the letters to relatives of servicemen killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the visits to wounded troops in hospital and the invitations to the families of victims of crime, such as the parents of the girls murdered in Soham, to have tea with him at Clarence House. There are also issues he takes up: "If I don't raise it, who else will?" in all those letters that irked ministers a few years ago.And there are the causes, non-partisan but occasionally veering towards the deeply political: the environment, organic farming, modern architecture, education. The Liberal Democrat peer, Lord Taverne, complained in the Guardian recently that the prince should not make his views known, but if he kept his mouth shut, the complaint would be that he was vacuous or indolent. He knows he would not be able to do it if he becomes king, so he feels he must take the opportunity while he can. And he does feel very strongly in a conservative, old-fashioned way that the world is in danger of going to hell in a hand basket. Hence one of his most recent initiatives, conserving rain forests.His sense of noblesse oblige comes out in the Prince's Trust, the venture to help disadvantaged youngsters that he launched in 1976 in the face of official opposition - it really took off only during the unemployment years of the Thatcher government. Last year it supported 40,000 young people in training and helping them launch their own projects and companies.Martina Milburn, the trust's chief executive said: "He is particularly keen that we should work with disadvantaged young people. He'll say things like: are we accessible enough to young Muslims? He knows a lot more than people might think about what it's like to live on benefits, or to leave schools unable to read or write, because he speaks to people. He does not go for popular causes: it is not like we are raising money for cancer, animals or children."Charles's championing of organic farming is also now more than 25 years old, a cause taken up long before it became fashionable. Signs around Highgrove evangelically proclaim "This is a GM-Free Zone". Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association and a long-term friend, says: "I think he has been totally outstanding. He's a global leader of the movement and he's not had the recognition he deserves. He runs one of the best organic farms in the country and, since he has travelled so much, he is in a better position than most to know what has been destroyed."He is very intuitive in the way he comes at things, ahead of the curve. He's been proved right and, if he feels something strongly, he doesn't let go easily. Thank God for the Prince of Wales. Who else is there? Even David Attenborough came later."Others take less kindly to his interventions. A senior teachers' leader expressed exasperation at the prince's occasional forays against declining standards in state education - on one occasion fulminating about the spelling and grammar of secretaries working for him, most of whom had turned out to have been privately educated. "I think he listens to people who would have a traditional view of education - the Chris Woodheads - and the rest of us generally ignore him. He does absolutely sod all for state education. I am pretty certain he doesn't often visit state schools though if you browse through Headmasters' Conference publications you will see quite a lot of pictures of royalty opening buildings."Or take Professor Edzard Ernst, the world's first professor of complementary medicine at the Peninsula Medical School attached to Exeter and Plymouth universities - a post created partly because of the prince's support of the discipline - who claims to have been harassed because of his scepticism about some treatments. Ernst says: "He took great interest when my chair was set up but I have only met him twice, to shake hands, for half a millisecond, not to have a dialogue. He stands for implementing complementary medicine at all costs, whereas I stand for therapies which can be proved by sound evidence."His influence and energy could be used so much better. As it is used now it is detrimental to progress. He has started a discipline but he doesn't seem to have any understanding of the need for evidence. I have repeatedly been told he cannot tolerate advice which is not 100% in line with his opinion ... I think his advisors are all sycophants."Or take some architects. Sunand Prasad, current president of the Royal Institute for British Architects, still winces at the "monstrous carbuncle" speech in 1984: "It was very wounding and not justified. It closed down debate and was destructive of individual careers," he said. "Everyone got cast into the same liberal mould. The prince has championed sustainability and stewardship of resources and it is fantastic that someone in his position should do so. But the debate has moved on: there's huge public interest in architecture, but people are buying modernist products, not classical ones."The prince is constrained in what he can say not just by the institution, but also by his background and inclinations. He has no real power, just the hope of wielding influence by what he says. When he does so and the columnists and newspaper-reading public merely snigger he finds it deeply frustrating. All very well, some say, for a prince - who has valets to pick up his discarded clothes - to tell others how they should live, how much space they need and what they should eat. It is particularly hard to tell those taking foreign holidays that they should fly less, given his chartered flights around the world and up and down Britain. Galling if you're a commuter squashed on a late, uncomfortable, rush-hour service to read of his use of the royal train, which costs thousands on the rare occasions it leaves the sidings: £18,916 for his jaunt from Gloucestershire to Cumbria last year to inaugurate a country pub project."He lives in a way most of us never could," one senior figure concedes. "But it goes with the job. It is a bit like criticising Gordon Brown for living in a tied house in central London." There is little denying that the prince's concept of real life is not quite as ordinary people's. Even those who have known him for years and count themselves as friends are deferential. Holden says: "I call him sir. I can see it's an anachronism but it is necessary to have protocols. If you demand respect based on birth, that's a sin, but I don't believe he does that."And then there is the media, with which his largely loathe-hate relationship has been mutual for many years. Understandable perhaps, given that the prince's whole life in every aspect, trivial and significant, has been lived so publicly - it is part of the job. But watch the prince on tour glaring at photographers or turning his head away - woe betide any hapless reporter trying to strike up a conversation or ask a question. There was that famous aside in 2005 at a press call during a skiing holiday when the BBC's Nicholas Witchell, one of the royal pack's most deferential correspondents, got both barrels: "These bloody people. I can't bear that man ... he's so awful." Such things get remembered and do him no favours when he has something he wants to say. Charles has been treated much worse by the tabloids, which took sides during the war with Diana, and have excoriated and mocked him ever since. "He is very thin-skinned. He knows all those 'dotty prince' headlines. He calls the Daily Mail the Daily Dementer," says an advisor. Holden's views are similar: "He is more thin-skinned than people realise, he feels issues are not taken seriously and his views are not heard. He is remarkably vulnerable and sensitive to criticism. And, it is quite hard to be told you are wrong, whoever you are." Two factors indicate new calm in Charles's life: his marriage three years ago and a household under more discipline than before. The days of spin doctoring and near-open briefings against other members of the royal family are past. His private secretary, the urbane Sir Michael Peat, and communications secretary, the former Financial Times reporter and Manchester United PR, Paddy Harverson, run a tight ship. Those who see him daily say the frustrated bouts of temper are less frequent and he is more content than before. There are still volcanic explosions and petulance, impatience and exasperation, but his wife has had a calming effect. "Charles and Camilla argue and fight a lot but they end up laughing," said Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine. "Diana would go off and sulk for days, but these two have their fights and they're laughing 10 minutes later."Now he has given up polo, Charles's energy is expended on long walks around Balmoral and bouts of hedge-laying at his farm at Highgrove, a passion which his security men, enlisted to help, have to endure.Lacey said: "Curiously I think the Duchy Original brands are rather appropriate for him: widely available in Waitrose, expensive, good quality and slightly old-fashioned. I think that symbolises what he has made of his career."The prince's weekSundayPrince Charles (and most of the rest of the family) attended the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph, then went on to the Guards Chapel in his capacity as colonel of the Welsh Guards and laid another wreath at the Guards MemorialMondayCharles and Camilla attended a private dinner hosted by President Sarkozy at the Elysée Palace in ParisTuesdayAt Verdun for French ceremony marking the 90th anniversary of the end of the first world warWednesdayThe prince met insurance industry leaders at Clarence House, then as patron of The British Army Antarctic Expedition, was at a reception to thank supporters at the Old Royal Navy College, Greenwich. He and Camilla went on to attend the comedy gala, We Are Most Amused, and met the performers at the New Wimbledon TheatreThursdayAs founder of the Mutton Renaissance Campaign and Patron of The Academy of Culinary Arts, Charles received the first Renaissance Mutton of the season, from Cumbria, presented by butcher Andrew Sharp at Clarence House. Reception and private dinner at Buckingham Palace, with music by the Philharmonia FridayAt the launch of Youth Week meeting youngsters participating in The Prince's Trust Team Programme at Beckton Community Centre, London. Then, as president of the Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts, attended a concert for nearly 200 children from schools across the country at the Royal Opera House, LondonSaturdayParty at Highgrove, the prince's country estate in Gloucestershire, that will host 75 guests including Meera Syal, Jilly Cooper and Edward Fox. Musical entertainment will be provided by Rod Stewart, who has waived his $1.85m (£1.26m) performance feePrince CharlesMonarchyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Guardian.Co.Uk Milestone for a prince whose life has been a waiting game {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - For many men, a 60th birthday is a time for reflection; a winding down of activities, handing over to the kids (passing on the family firm, perhaps), looking forward to retirement. Not so for the Prince of Wales, whose birthday it is today. All his life, since the age of three, he has been readied for the day when he will succeed his mother. It could happen maybe next week, maybe next year, maybe not for another 20 years. The Queen is fitter than her mother was at the same age, and she lived on to be 101.Abdication is not written into the royal DNA and so, barring accidents or long-term, incapacitating illness to the Queen, Charles also serves by only standing and waiting. He is already the oldest Prince of Wales and third-longest serving heir-apparent and, in another five years, he would be the oldest person to become king.Meanwhile, he is carrying on: last month there was a lengthy tour to east Asia (Japan, Brunei and Indonesia). This week, remembrance services in London and Verdun, dinner with the Sarkozys in Paris, receptions for insurers and a British Antarctic expedition and a comedy gala starring John Cleese, Robin Williams, Rowan Atkinson and Joan Rivers.Last night the Queen gave a private dinner for 170 guests at Buckingham Palace with the Philharmonia providing the music. Today will entail visits to Prince's Trust projects and a party at Highgrove, his country estate in Gloucestershire, where 75 close friends and celebrities will be serenaded by Rod Stewart. Apparently - and since it has been in the tabloids, the royal papers of record, it must be true - Camilla is planning to surprise him with 60 little gifts, one for every year of his life: a pair of walking boots, a personalised fishing rod, CD copies of the Goon Show, the sort of things any chap his age might relish. What else do you give a man with a £16m annual income from the Duchy of Cornwall's ancestral estates - 135,000 acres (54,521 hectares) spread across 23 counties - and a personal staff of 35?Charles may reflect that this milestone birthday should be more settled and satisfying than any for 30 years: 20 years ago he was in the midst of a marriage breakdown, 10 years ago he was reviled as the heartless, adulterous brute who had cast Princess Diana adrift. But now the turmoil is over: he has married the woman he loved all along, his sons are grown and tucked away in the armed services, his charities flourish and, mention it gently, some of his pet causes - the environment, organic farming, human-scale architecture, improving interfaith relations - no longer seem quite so wacky after all.One former palace adviser said: "He is in a much better place than he was five, certainly 10 years ago. He has moved towards the position of a king in waiting and there's a greater sensitivity to the public implications of his role. He used to rather enjoy going out on a limb and irking people to differentiate himself from the Queen, but I think he has realised that is not consistent with his role."And yet the moment for which his whole life has been a preparation eludes him. Robert Lacey, a historian and author, said: "I think he is finally coasting home, perhaps coming to the realisation that he will never be king or, if he does, he'll be like one of those elderly leaders at the end of the Soviet era - a sort of royal Andropov, with only a few years. His significance will lie in what he has accomplished as Prince and what he does to get the next king ready."Staff talk of a constant stream of handwritten notes - Charles, unlike his father and sister, does not generally use a computer - and of telephone calls worrying into the night. One who has worked for him for 20 years says: "He is computer illiterate so we get an unbelievable quantity of stuff. He spends an enormous amount of time writing notes: 'I have had a thought ...' followed by 10 pages in black ink. When you get your own memos back they are marked in red Pentel to suggest amendments. "In my area, I should think he spends 25 to 30 hours a week. It is micro-management: he has never learned to manage things. He rings up a lot but personally I try to discourage being called late."Senior advisers describe an ascetic lifestyle: one meal a day, working through lunch, and in the evenings on official papers. The money does not go on clothes, they say, pointing to frayed shirt cuffs and an overcoat he has had for years. There is wincing at mention of the famous allegation that Charles has a man to squeeze out his toothpaste for him - no, no, no, that was just once after he had broken his wrist. Jeremy Paxman's allegation that he has seven eggs boiled for him in the morning so he can choose the one best to his liking, is, alas, denied too: "Paxman got that third-hand," they say.As an alternative narrative, they cite the prince's compassion: the letters to relatives of servicemen killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the visits to wounded troops in hospital and the invitations to the families of victims of crime, such as the parents of the girls murdered in Soham, to have tea with him at Clarence House. There are also issues he takes up: "If I don't raise it, who else will?" in all those letters that irked ministers a few years ago.And there are the causes, non-partisan but occasionally veering towards the deeply political: the environment, organic farming, modern architecture, education. The Liberal Democrat peer, Lord Taverne, complained in the Guardian recently that the prince should not make his views known, but if he kept his mouth shut, the complaint would be that he was vacuous or indolent. He knows he would not be able to do it if he becomes king, so he feels he must take the opportunity while he can. And he does feel very strongly in a conservative, old-fashioned way that the world is in danger of going to hell in a hand basket. Hence one of his most recent initiatives, conserving rain forests.His sense of noblesse oblige comes out in the Prince's Trust, the venture to help disadvantaged youngsters that he launched in 1976 in the face of official opposition - it really took off only during the unemployment years of the Thatcher government. Last year it supported 40,000 young people in training and helping them launch their own projects and companies.Martina Milburn, the trust's chief executive said: "He is particularly keen that we should work with disadvantaged young people. He'll say things like: are we accessible enough to young Muslims? He knows a lot more than people might think about what it's like to live on benefits, or to leave schools unable to read or write, because he speaks to people. He does not go for popular causes: it is not like we are raising money for cancer, animals or children."Charles's championing of organic farming is also now more than 25 years old, a cause taken up long before it became fashionable. Signs around Highgrove evangelically proclaim "This is a GM-Free Zone". Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association and a long-term friend, says: "I think he has been totally outstanding. He's a global leader of the movement and he's not had the recognition he deserves. He runs one of the best organic farms in the country and, since he has travelled so much, he is in a better position than most to know what has been destroyed."He is very intuitive in the way he comes at things, ahead of the curve. He's been proved right and, if he feels something strongly, he doesn't let go easily. Thank God for the Prince of Wales. Who else is there? Even David Attenborough came later."Others take less kindly to his interventions. A senior teachers' leader expressed exasperation at the prince's occasional forays against declining standards in state education - on one occasion fulminating about the spelling and grammar of secretaries working for him, most of whom had turned out to have been privately educated. "I think he listens to people who would have a traditional view of education - the Chris Woodheads - and the rest of us generally ignore him. He does absolutely sod all for state education. I am pretty certain he doesn't often visit state schools though if you browse through Headmasters' Conference publications you will see quite a lot of pictures of royalty opening buildings."Or take Professor Edzard Ernst, the world's first professor of complementary medicine at the Peninsula Medical School attached to Exeter and Plymouth universities - a post created partly because of the prince's support of the discipline - who claims to have been harassed because of his scepticism about some treatments. Ernst says: "He took great interest when my chair was set up but I have only met him twice, to shake hands, for half a millisecond, not to have a dialogue. He stands for implementing complementary medicine at all costs, whereas I stand for therapies which can be proved by sound evidence."His influence and energy could be used so much better. As it is used now it is detrimental to progress. He has started a discipline but he doesn't seem to have any understanding of the need for evidence. I have repeatedly been told he cannot tolerate advice which is not 100% in line with his opinion ... I think his advisors are all sycophants."Or take some architects. Sunand Prasad, current president of the Royal Institute for British Architects, still winces at the "monstrous carbuncle" speech in 1984: "It was very wounding and not justified. It closed down debate and was destructive of individual careers," he said. "Everyone got cast into the same liberal mould. The prince has championed sustainability and stewardship of resources and it is fantastic that someone in his position should do so. But the debate has moved on: there's huge public interest in architecture, but people are buying modernist products, not classical ones."The prince is constrained in what he can say not just by the institution, but also by his background and inclinations. He has no real power, just the hope of wielding influence by what he says. When he does so and the columnists and newspaper-reading public merely snigger he finds it deeply frustrating. All very well, some say, for a prince - who has valets to pick up his discarded clothes - to tell others how they should live, how much space they need and what they should eat. It is particularly hard to tell those taking foreign holidays that they should fly less, given his chartered flights around the world and up and down Britain. Galling if you're a commuter squashed on a late, uncomfortable, rush-hour service to read of his use of the royal train, which costs thousands on the rare occasions it leaves the sidings: £18,916 for his jaunt from Gloucestershire to Cumbria last year to inaugurate a country pub project."He lives in a way most of us never could," one senior figure concedes. "But it goes with the job. It is a bit like criticising Gordon Brown for living in a tied house in central London." There is little denying that the prince's concept of real life is not quite as ordinary people's. Even those who have known him for years and count themselves as friends are deferential. Holden says: "I call him sir. I can see it's an anachronism but it is necessary to have protocols. If you demand respect based on birth, that's a sin, but I don't believe he does that."And then there is the media, with which his largely loathe-hate relationship has been mutual for many years. Understandable perhaps, given that the prince's whole life in every aspect, trivial and significant, has been lived so publicly - it is part of the job. But watch the prince on tour glaring at photographers or turning his head away - woe betide any hapless reporter trying to strike up a conversation or ask a question. There was that famous aside in 2005 at a press call during a skiing holiday when the BBC's Nicholas Witchell, one of the royal pack's most deferential correspondents, got both barrels: "These bloody people. I can't bear that man ... he's so awful." Such things get remembered and do him no favours when he has something he wants to say. Charles has been treated much worse by the tabloids, which took sides during the war with Diana, and have excoriated and mocked him ever since. "He is very thin-skinned. He knows all those 'dotty prince' headlines. He calls the Daily Mail the Daily Dementer," says an advisor. Holden's views are similar: "He is more thin-skinned than people realise, he feels issues are not taken seriously and his views are not heard. He is remarkably vulnerable and sensitive to criticism. And, it is quite hard to be told you are wrong, whoever you are." Two factors indicate new calm in Charles's life: his marriage three years ago and a household under more discipline than before. The days of spin doctoring and near-open briefings against other members of the royal family are past. His private secretary, the urbane Sir Michael Peat, and communications secretary, the former Financial Times reporter and Manchester United PR, Paddy Harverson, run a tight ship. Those who see him daily say the frustrated bouts of temper are less frequent and he is more content than before. There are still volcanic explosions and petulance, impatience and exasperation, but his wife has had a calming effect. "Charles and Camilla argue and fight a lot but they end up laughing," said Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine. "Diana would go off and sulk for days, but these two have their fights and they're laughing 10 minutes later."Now he has given up polo, Charles's energy is expended on long walks around Balmoral and bouts of hedge-laying at his farm at Highgrove, a passion which his security men, enlisted to help, have to endure.Lacey said: "Curiously I think the Duchy Original brands are rather appropriate for him: widely available in Waitrose, expensive, good quality and slightly old-fashioned. I think that symbolises what he has made of his career."The prince's weekSundayPrince Charles (and most of the rest of the family) attended the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph, then went on to the Guards Chapel in his capacity as colonel of the Welsh Guards and laid another wreath at the Guards MemorialMondayCharles and Camilla attended a private dinner hosted by President Sarkozy at the Elysée Palace in ParisTuesdayAt Verdun for French ceremony marking the 90th anniversary of the end of the first world warWednesdayThe prince met insurance industry leaders at Clarence House, then as patron of The British Army Antarctic Expedition, was at a reception to thank supporters at the Old Royal Navy College, Greenwich. He and Camilla went on to attend the comedy gala, We Are Most Amused, and met the performers at the New Wimbledon TheatreThursdayAs founder of the Mutton Renaissance Campaign and Patron of The Academy of Culinary Arts, Charles received the first Renaissance Mutton of the season, from Cumbria, presented by butcher Andrew Sharp at Clarence House. Reception and private dinner at Buckingham Palace, with music by the Philharmonia FridayAt the launch of Youth Week meeting youngsters participating in The Prince's Trust Team Programme at Beckton Community Centre, London. Then, as president of the Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts, attended a concert for nearly 200 children from schools across the country at the Royal Opera House, LondonSaturdayParty at Highgrove, the prince's country estate in Gloucestershire, that will host 75 guests including Meera Syal, Jilly Cooper and Edward Fox. Musical entertainment will be provided by Rod Stewart, who has waived his $1.85m (£1.26m) performance feePrince CharlesMonarchyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - The first great American play of the 21st century http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/the-first-great-american-play-of-the-21st-century-20081125632.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/the-first-great-american-play-of-the-21st-century-20081125632.htm Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:04:54 GMT Sam Shepard, the American playwright, when asked why he wrote so much about family, answered: 'What else is there?' Tracy Letts likes to borrow the quote, and it is easy to see why. Letts is the author of August: Osage County, an epic tragicomedy about family that has taken America by storm. His new play is the feted youngest member of American drama's extended, dysfunctional family - a natural heir (or, perhaps, wayward stepchild) to Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee and Eugene O'Neill. Steppenwolf's production first triumphed in its Chicago hometown, and then on Broadway (where serious work is often drowned out by the sound of musicals), and went on to capture the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, five Tony awards and the nation's imagination. Rachel Weisz described seeing it as one of her 'top 10 nights in the theatre ever'. Tracey Ullman told Deanna Dunagan, the actress who plays Violet - the bitter, addicted matriarch at the centre of the family web - that she recognised her own mother in Dunagan's performance. And Patrick Stewart paid the cast the awkward compliment of leaving after the first act because he found it too close to home (he promises to return). A film adaptation - with the Weinstein company - is now planned. But it is not just celebrities that are hooked. Family as a subject speaks to everyone - especially when pain and laughter collide.This week the show opens at the National Theatre in London. And it seems incredible that Steppenwolf have not been seen in the capital since their stunning, sell-out adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath in 1989. The Chicago company first flared into life in the mid-Seventies. Its founders helped themselves - rather cheekily - to the title of Hermann Hesse's novel (even though no one had actually read Steppenwolf). But the name appealed: it sounded arresting, original, bold - and Steppenwolf was all these things. The founders were three boys barely out of school: Gary Sinise, Jeff Perry and Terry Kinney. They had energy, nerve and style. And the company, although peripatetic for years, became renowned for its risk-taking and up-front ferocity. This was where John Malkovich, John Mahoney and Joan Allen started their careers -and many other Steppenwolf stars have blown from the windy city to New York and Hollywood. Yet the company has always commanded loyalty and first-rate actors who wanted to stay on. Their return to London is an event in itself. Before meeting the cast, I rang Tracy Letts in Chicago to ask about the family tree that inspired his play. Letts is 43 and has been an actor and Steppenwolf member since 2002. He is the author of several smaller-scale pieces (including Killer Joe and Bug - defined by one critic as 'trailer park noir'). Letts told me about the suicide of his maternal grandfather - a labourer who drowned in a lake. It's a story that has haunted Letts all his life. 'His death has always been a mystery and not one I remotely solve.' Instead, his grandfather's suicide exists in the play as the question from which everything else follows. His wife, Violet, is based on Letts's grandmother who became an addict after her husband's death. (Letts himself, more than a decade ago, battled with alcohol and drug addiction.)He grew up in Oklahoma and does not regard his own family as having been unhappy. His mother, Billie, is a novelist; his father, Dennis, was a literature professor. And it is his relationship with his father that is key to understanding him and the production. Steppenwolf boldly cast Tracy's father (who had, extraordinarily enough, taken on a second career as an actor) in the role of grandfather. He played in Chicago to great acclaim before briefly transferring to Broadway. But in November 2007 he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He left the show in January, died in February. He was 73. Dennis had believed absolutely in his son's play but never lived to see its laurels. For Tracy, this was devastating. The overlap between what was happening on stage and the drama of losing his father was 'the most emotionally powerful thing of my life'. On the night of the Pulitzer ceremony, he could not feel conventionally celebratory. Instead he was overtaken by a rage he could neither subdue nor explain. 'It was complicated. As my shrink said: we're not wind-up dolls. I could not access the feelings I was supposed to feel.'Letts has a highly developed emotional intelligence. In particular - and it is what makes his play powerful - he understands the force of what is not being said. It is difficult to feel to order - expecting an emotion may make it take flight. He expected his mother to be upset by his portrait of her mother - and she was. But he could never have predicted her verdict: 'You have been very kind to her,' she said. His mother seems to have a way of finding the right thing to say. Apparently - I gathered later from a cast member - she offered her son, after his father's death, the thought that for Dennis, his involvement in the play was 'the cherry on top of the sundae'. She told Tracy: 'Your Dad could not have picked a better last chapter.'The cast of charactersI met the actors on their first day in London - jet-lagged but buoyant. I had decided to pick half a dozen key family members (the cast is 13-strong) and ask each of them to begin by talking in character, to make it possible not only to ask personal questions but to reveal exactly how dysfunctional this American family is. The poky interview room at the National came perfectly equipped - with a couch.Jeff PerryActor, teacher, co-founder of Steppenwolf. He plays Bill Fordham, a married professor in his fifties having an affair with a student half his age. Perry is delightful yet distrait, with a way of holding one hand up like a traffic policeman, hoping to halt or redirect his thoughts.'I am Bill Fordham. When challenged, I defend myself with verbal analysis. My marriage is in dire trouble. I am on the second half of the mortal merry-go-round. My wife does not understand, accept or particularly like my hard-wiring. I look forward to hitting the refresh button in my new relationship.' This makes unpleasant listening because Perry's Bill entirely lacks remorse. I banish him, with relief, in order to ask Perry about the company he co-founded in 1976. He is thrilled, he says, that Steppenwolf now has, in Letts, a writer of international stature. And he explains that Steppenwolf has always been defined by its ensemble work: 'We made a religion of communication between ourselves as actors. That has been the unchanging way in which we have measured our success and failure.'Amy MortonActor, director and Steppenwolf member since 1997. She has been in many of the company's productions, including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Morton plays Bill's estranged wife. She is an angular beauty and in every way sympathetic but, in character, talks with injured defiance.'I am Barbara Fordham. I am 47. My qualities are my sense of humour. Loyalty. Passion. Yes - passion. It goes into my anger. My marriage is challenging but I am not to blame. I am not the one who left for someone younger. Bill won't talk to me. I am more than willing to talk to him. My daughter's drug problem? You'll have to talk to her father about it.'What has it been like to play Barbara? 'There are days when you'd rather peel the skin off your face than go on stage,' Morton says. After a recent rehearsal: 'I went home in an edgy, foul humour and realised: "Oh, right, it's her." She is very frustrated, angry and sad. The older you get as an actor, the less you bring it home, but if you do a role for more than a year, it's going to take its psychic toll.' She admits: 'I feel this character in my bones.'Molly Ranson Making her professional debut. She plays troubled, 14-year-old, dope-smoking Jean - Bill and Barbara's daughter. Ranson, unlike her character, is full of shining optimism. 'I have just found out Dad is sleeping with one of his students. Recently, Mum hasn't been there for me, nor has Dad. It all happened suddenly: we were happy, then my grandfather went missing. When did I start smoking pot? During 8th grade.' Jean represents family history - the addictive gene - repeating itself. Her 'inability to face reality,' Ranson suggests, is 'representative of many Americans'. She likens the play to 'watching a car accident. You feel you shouldn't be there but you can't look away.' The humour is 'real, terrifying and dark'.Deanna DunaganWon a Tony award, among others, for her performance as Violet Weston. Has been in eight Steppenwolf productions. Dunagan is poised, eloquent and diffident. In character, she is unnervingly deluded, unable to face up to being an addict. And she reminds us how often family is about front.'I am Violet. I am 67. I have to take many pills - but I don't agree that I have a problem. I have a bad back and knees. I am a survivor. I have been a good mother. I love my girls. Barbara left - she just left. In my day, families stayed together. Barbara is quite smart. Ivy, my daughter who stayed at home, could find a good husband. Karen - has gone away. Regrets? I wish I had been able to make a mark in the world. But my girls are good people and that is an achievement.'Dunagan believes that audiences want to 'find the key to how to live in a family. There will always be problems. Even if you love each other deeply. You'll be hurt. It's inevitable. Everyone comes to the theatre hungry to see another family's pain.'Rondi ReedMember of Steppenwolf since 1979. Has appeared in more than 60 company productions. She won a Tony as Mattie Fae. Reed is ebullient, warm, with a jesting energy. 'I am Mattie Fae, Violet's sister. I am 57. I am gregarious and sexy for my age. I am a goer, a doer, an organiser. I am well provided for by my husband in the upholstery business and I'm upholstered in every sense - always fighting my weight. I have a wonderful sense of humour. But my son is a trial to me. My sister is having big problems. Do I have faults? I like too many sweet things. I probably give people too many chances.' Reed laughs, exclaiming at how similar she and Mattie Fae are. That's not surprising: the part was written for her.Kimberly GuerreroPlays the Native American servant. She grew up near Pawhuska, Oklahoma, where the play is set. TV appearances include The Sopranos. Guerrero has an uplifting spirit and pride in her role.'I am Johnna. Some people think Native Americans no longer exist, or that we are inarticulate. My role is to embrace the compassion and wisdom of my culture. Native Americans see death as not so far from the beauty of birth - as its photo-negative. We don't look at life as linear, we see it as a circle.' Letts has described his play as a 'political parable' - a portrait of America. It is no coincidence, as Amy Morton points out, that the play begins (and ends) with a Native American. Morton believes the play reflects the 'mess of the American story and the beauty of it'. Rondi Reed sees the play as being about addiction and a 'toxicity that has pervaded the American psyche'. As a cast of Democrats, they all felt that if John McCain had won the US presidential election, the play would have had a 'sadder reception'. But, as Deanna Dunagan asserts: 'Since Obama has been elected, everything has changed. We were all so embarrassed, depressed, fearful and disgusted with what was happening in our country. Now there is hope. It is astonishing what one day can do in the life of a nation.' And it changes the way they feel about coming to London. Rondi explains: 'It makes us come here with our heads held high, as opposed to slinking through the back door.'? August: Osage County opens on Wednesday at the National Theatre, London SE1Theatreguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Guardian.Co.Uk The first great American play of the 21st century {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - Sam Shepard, the American playwright, when asked why he wrote so much about family, answered: 'What else is there?' Tracy Letts likes to borrow the quote, and it is easy to see why. Letts is the author of August: Osage County, an epic tragicomedy about family that has taken America by storm. His new play is the feted youngest member of American drama's extended, dysfunctional family - a natural heir (or, perhaps, wayward stepchild) to Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee and Eugene O'Neill. Steppenwolf's production first triumphed in its Chicago hometown, and then on Broadway (where serious work is often drowned out by the sound of musicals), and went on to capture the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, five Tony awards and the nation's imagination. Rachel Weisz described seeing it as one of her 'top 10 nights in the theatre ever'. Tracey Ullman told Deanna Dunagan, the actress who plays Violet - the bitter, addicted matriarch at the centre of the family web - that she recognised her own mother in Dunagan's performance. And Patrick Stewart paid the cast the awkward compliment of leaving after the first act because he found it too close to home (he promises to return). A film adaptation - with the Weinstein company - is now planned. But it is not just celebrities that are hooked. Family as a subject speaks to everyone - especially when pain and laughter collide.This week the show opens at the National Theatre in London. And it seems incredible that Steppenwolf have not been seen in the capital since their stunning, sell-out adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath in 1989. The Chicago company first flared into life in the mid-Seventies. Its founders helped themselves - rather cheekily - to the title of Hermann Hesse's novel (even though no one had actually read Steppenwolf). But the name appealed: it sounded arresting, original, bold - and Steppenwolf was all these things. The founders were three boys barely out of school: Gary Sinise, Jeff Perry and Terry Kinney. They had energy, nerve and style. And the company, although peripatetic for years, became renowned for its risk-taking and up-front ferocity. This was where John Malkovich, John Mahoney and Joan Allen started their careers -and many other Steppenwolf stars have blown from the windy city to New York and Hollywood. Yet the company has always commanded loyalty and first-rate actors who wanted to stay on. Their return to London is an event in itself. Before meeting the cast, I rang Tracy Letts in Chicago to ask about the family tree that inspired his play. Letts is 43 and has been an actor and Steppenwolf member since 2002. He is the author of several smaller-scale pieces (including Killer Joe and Bug - defined by one critic as 'trailer park noir'). Letts told me about the suicide of his maternal grandfather - a labourer who drowned in a lake. It's a story that has haunted Letts all his life. 'His death has always been a mystery and not one I remotely solve.' Instead, his grandfather's suicide exists in the play as the question from which everything else follows. His wife, Violet, is based on Letts's grandmother who became an addict after her husband's death. (Letts himself, more than a decade ago, battled with alcohol and drug addiction.)He grew up in Oklahoma and does not regard his own family as having been unhappy. His mother, Billie, is a novelist; his father, Dennis, was a literature professor. And it is his relationship with his father that is key to understanding him and the production. Steppenwolf boldly cast Tracy's father (who had, extraordinarily enough, taken on a second career as an actor) in the role of grandfather. He played in Chicago to great acclaim before briefly transferring to Broadway. But in November 2007 he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He left the show in January, died in February. He was 73. Dennis had believed absolutely in his son's play but never lived to see its laurels. For Tracy, this was devastating. The overlap between what was happening on stage and the drama of losing his father was 'the most emotionally powerful thing of my life'. On the night of the Pulitzer ceremony, he could not feel conventionally celebratory. Instead he was overtaken by a rage he could neither subdue nor explain. 'It was complicated. As my shrink said: we're not wind-up dolls. I could not access the feelings I was supposed to feel.'Letts has a highly developed emotional intelligence. In particular - and it is what makes his play powerful - he understands the force of what is not being said. It is difficult to feel to order - expecting an emotion may make it take flight. He expected his mother to be upset by his portrait of her mother - and she was. But he could never have predicted her verdict: 'You have been very kind to her,' she said. His mother seems to have a way of finding the right thing to say. Apparently - I gathered later from a cast member - she offered her son, after his father's death, the thought that for Dennis, his involvement in the play was 'the cherry on top of the sundae'. She told Tracy: 'Your Dad could not have picked a better last chapter.'The cast of charactersI met the actors on their first day in London - jet-lagged but buoyant. I had decided to pick half a dozen key family members (the cast is 13-strong) and ask each of them to begin by talking in character, to make it possible not only to ask personal questions but to reveal exactly how dysfunctional this American family is. The poky interview room at the National came perfectly equipped - with a couch.Jeff PerryActor, teacher, co-founder of Steppenwolf. He plays Bill Fordham, a married professor in his fifties having an affair with a student half his age. Perry is delightful yet distrait, with a way of holding one hand up like a traffic policeman, hoping to halt or redirect his thoughts.'I am Bill Fordham. When challenged, I defend myself with verbal analysis. My marriage is in dire trouble. I am on the second half of the mortal merry-go-round. My wife does not understand, accept or particularly like my hard-wiring. I look forward to hitting the refresh button in my new relationship.' This makes unpleasant listening because Perry's Bill entirely lacks remorse. I banish him, with relief, in order to ask Perry about the company he co-founded in 1976. He is thrilled, he says, that Steppenwolf now has, in Letts, a writer of international stature. And he explains that Steppenwolf has always been defined by its ensemble work: 'We made a religion of communication between ourselves as actors. That has been the unchanging way in which we have measured our success and failure.'Amy MortonActor, director and Steppenwolf member since 1997. She has been in many of the company's productions, including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Morton plays Bill's estranged wife. She is an angular beauty and in every way sympathetic but, in character, talks with injured defiance.'I am Barbara Fordham. I am 47. My qualities are my sense of humour. Loyalty. Passion. Yes - passion. It goes into my anger. My marriage is challenging but I am not to blame. I am not the one who left for someone younger. Bill won't talk to me. I am more than willing to talk to him. My daughter's drug problem? You'll have to talk to her father about it.'What has it been like to play Barbara? 'There are days when you'd rather peel the skin off your face than go on stage,' Morton says. After a recent rehearsal: 'I went home in an edgy, foul humour and realised: "Oh, right, it's her." She is very frustrated, angry and sad. The older you get as an actor, the less you bring it home, but if you do a role for more than a year, it's going to take its psychic toll.' She admits: 'I feel this character in my bones.'Molly Ranson Making her professional debut. She plays troubled, 14-year-old, dope-smoking Jean - Bill and Barbara's daughter. Ranson, unlike her character, is full of shining optimism. 'I have just found out Dad is sleeping with one of his students. Recently, Mum hasn't been there for me, nor has Dad. It all happened suddenly: we were happy, then my grandfather went missing. When did I start smoking pot? During 8th grade.' Jean represents family history - the addictive gene - repeating itself. Her 'inability to face reality,' Ranson suggests, is 'representative of many Americans'. She likens the play to 'watching a car accident. You feel you shouldn't be there but you can't look away.' The humour is 'real, terrifying and dark'.Deanna DunaganWon a Tony award, among others, for her performance as Violet Weston. Has been in eight Steppenwolf productions. Dunagan is poised, eloquent and diffident. In character, she is unnervingly deluded, unable to face up to being an addict. And she reminds us how often family is about front.'I am Violet. I am 67. I have to take many pills - but I don't agree that I have a problem. I have a bad back and knees. I am a survivor. I have been a good mother. I love my girls. Barbara left - she just left. In my day, families stayed together. Barbara is quite smart. Ivy, my daughter who stayed at home, could find a good husband. Karen - has gone away. Regrets? I wish I had been able to make a mark in the world. But my girls are good people and that is an achievement.'Dunagan believes that audiences want to 'find the key to how to live in a family. There will always be problems. Even if you love each other deeply. You'll be hurt. It's inevitable. Everyone comes to the theatre hungry to see another family's pain.'Rondi ReedMember of Steppenwolf since 1979. Has appeared in more than 60 company productions. She won a Tony as Mattie Fae. Reed is ebullient, warm, with a jesting energy. 'I am Mattie Fae, Violet's sister. I am 57. I am gregarious and sexy for my age. I am a goer, a doer, an organiser. I am well provided for by my husband in the upholstery business and I'm upholstered in every sense - always fighting my weight. I have a wonderful sense of humour. But my son is a trial to me. My sister is having big problems. Do I have faults? I like too many sweet things. I probably give people too many chances.' Reed laughs, exclaiming at how similar she and Mattie Fae are. That's not surprising: the part was written for her.Kimberly GuerreroPlays the Native American servant. She grew up near Pawhuska, Oklahoma, where the play is set. TV appearances include The Sopranos. Guerrero has an uplifting spirit and pride in her role.'I am Johnna. Some people think Native Americans no longer exist, or that we are inarticulate. My role is to embrace the compassion and wisdom of my culture. Native Americans see death as not so far from the beauty of birth - as its photo-negative. We don't look at life as linear, we see it as a circle.' Letts has described his play as a 'political parable' - a portrait of America. It is no coincidence, as Amy Morton points out, that the play begins (and ends) with a Native American. Morton believes the play reflects the 'mess of the American story and the beauty of it'. Rondi Reed sees the play as being about addiction and a 'toxicity that has pervaded the American psyche'. As a cast of Democrats, they all felt that if John McCain had won the US presidential election, the play would have had a 'sadder reception'. But, as Deanna Dunagan asserts: 'Since Obama has been elected, everything has changed. We were all so embarrassed, depressed, fearful and disgusted with what was happening in our country. Now there is hope. It is astonishing what one day can do in the life of a nation.' And it changes the way they feel about coming to London. Rondi explains: 'It makes us come here with our heads held high, as opposed to slinking through the back door.'? August: Osage County opens on Wednesday at the National Theatre, London SE1Theatreguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {SCIENCE > ENVIRONMENT} - The REAL Green Goddess: The eco-friendly granny who has lived without cooked food, heating... and li... http://articles.world-of-newave.info/science/environment/the-real-green-goddess-the-eco-friendly-granny-who-20081158315.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/science/environment/the-real-green-goddess-the-eco-friendly-granny-who-20081158315.htm Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT For years Joan has been scrimping and saving on energy, and, after three-and-a-half decades of abstinence, is now being recognised as a 21st-century eco-heroine. Dailymail.Co.Uk The REAL Green Goddess: The eco-friendly granny who has lived without cooked food, heating... and li... {new window}   Www.Dailymail.Co.Uk - For years Joan has been scrimping and saving on energy, and, after three-and-a-half decades of abstinence, is now being recognised as a 21st-century eco-heroine.
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]]> Science > Environment {EUROPE > NEWSPAPERS} - Dame Joan Bakewell profile http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/newspapers/dame-joan-bakewell-profile-20081116915.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/newspapers/dame-joan-bakewell-profile-20081116915.htm Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:35:07 GMT Born in Cheshire in 1933 Dame Joan went to a convent school and then allfemale Newnham College at Cambridge University where she studied Economics and History. Telegraph.Co.Uk Dame Joan Bakewell profile {new window}   Www.Telegraph.Co.Uk - Born in Cheshire in 1933 Dame Joan went to a convent school and then allfemale Newnham College at Cambridge University where she studied Economics and History.
Dame Joan Bakewell profile - Telegraph {...} Born in Cheshire in 1933, Dame Joan went to a convent school and then all-female Newnham College at Cambridge University, where she studied Economics and History. {...}
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media > Newspapers {EUROPE > NEWSPAPERS} - Don't keep pensioners alive indefinitely says old people tsar Dame Joan Bakewell http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/newspapers/don-t-keep-pensioners-alive-indefinitely-says-old-20081167718.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/newspapers/don-t-keep-pensioners-alive-indefinitely-says-old-20081167718.htm Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:08:40 GMT Elderly people should not be kept alive indefinitely by technology according to the Government's new "old people's tsar" Dame Joan Bakewell. Telegraph.Co.Uk Don't keep pensioners alive indefinitely says old people tsar Dame Joan Bakewell {new window}   Www.Telegraph.Co.Uk - Elderly people should not be kept alive indefinitely by technology according to the Government's new "old people's tsar" Dame Joan Bakewell.
Don't keep pensioners alive indefinitely, says Government's old people tsar Dame Joan Bakewell - Telegraph {...} Dame Joan Bakewell, Joan Bakewell, elderly, Voice of Older People, pensioners, Government, Baroness Warnock, Harriet Harman, pension, retirement, have your say, your view, opinion, comment, Debates,News Topics,News {...}
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media > Newspapers {NORTH AMERICA > RENTALS} - IMMACULATE, SUNNY, SPACIOUS, QUIET, UPSTAIRS (berkeley) $2150 3bd http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/immaculate-sunny-spacious-quiet-upstairs-berkeley-20081191721.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/immaculate-sunny-spacious-quiet-upstairs-berkeley-20081191721.htm Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:12:27 GMT AVAILABLE NOW. Attractive, modern, completely redecorated. New stove, refrig. Rent includes water/sewer, garbage and 2 offstreet parking. Coin-op laundry on premise. Nice bicycle rack in back. Looking for responsible tenants. I require a lease through June and $1,000 security deposit. To see call Joan WKENDS/NITES 510/526-0668. Mon-Fri DAYTIME 510/636-9654 ext 13. I have a hearing problem so please speak SLOWLY AND CLEARLY and leave your number TWICE. Sfbay.Craigslist.Org IMMACULATE, SUNNY, SPACIOUS, QUIET, UPSTAIRS (berkeley) $2150 3bd {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - AVAILABLE NOW. Attractive, modern, completely redecorated. New stove, refrig. Rent includes water/sewer, garbage and 2 offstreet parking. Coin-op laundry on premise. Nice bicycle rack in back. Looking for responsible tenants. I require a lease through June and $1,000 security deposit. To see call Joan WKENDS/NITES 510/526-0668. Mon-Fri DAYTIME 510/636-9654 ext 13. I have a hearing problem so please speak SLOWLY AND CLEARLY and leave your number TWICE.
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]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Joan Bakewell: Ageism, pensions and the end of high heels http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/joan-bakewell-ageism-pensions-and-the-end-of-high-20081140911.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/joan-bakewell-ageism-pensions-and-the-end-of-high-20081140911.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:05:43 GMT Joan Bakewell: The time to create a country fit to grow old in is now. Then those birthdays won't feel quite so threatening Guardian.Co.Uk Joan Bakewell: Ageism, pensions and the end of high heels {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - Joan Bakewell: The time to create a country fit to grow old in is now. Then those birthdays won't feel quite so threatening
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {NORTH AMERICA > RENTALS} - Spacious One Bedroom w/ Private Deck (lower pac hts) $1850 1bd http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/spacious-one-bedroom-w-private-deck-lower-pac-hts-2008117394.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/spacious-one-bedroom-w-private-deck-lower-pac-hts-2008117394.htm Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:07:28 GMT Spacious one bedroom one bath with private deck off of living room. Completely remodeled kitchen with granite counters, new appliances and marble tile floors. Large bedroom with great walk-in closet. Tastefully carpeted. Large closet in hallway. This is an elevator building. Laundry facilities in building. Nice quiet neighborhood. Sorry, no pets. Street parking only. Lease term - one year. Deposit = 1.5 X rent. Please call Joan (Agent-The Rental Source) for an appointment 415-350-6685 Sfbay.Craigslist.Org Spacious One Bedroom w/ Private Deck (lower pac hts) $1850 1bd {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - Spacious one bedroom one bath with private deck off of living room. Completely remodeled kitchen with granite counters, new appliances and marble tile floors. Large bedroom with great walk-in closet. Tastefully carpeted. Large closet in hallway. This is an elevator building. Laundry facilities in building. Nice quiet neighborhood. Sorry, no pets. Street parking only. Lease term - one year. Deposit = 1.5 X rent. Please call Joan (Agent-The Rental Source) for an appointment 415-350-6685
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Category: Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals

]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals {NORTH AMERICA > REAL ESTATE} - Excellent Mission Office (mission district) $650 450sqft http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/excellent-mission-office-mission-district-650-2008117375.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/excellent-mission-office-mission-district-650-2008117375.htm Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:50:50 GMT Joan Cooper | The Rental Source | 415-350-6685 Cesar Chavez at Mission, San Francisco, CA Excellent Mission Office Office $650/month Sq Footage 450 Parking Unspecified DESCRIPTION Spacious office in great corner Mission location. Very well maintained building. Good commercial carpeting. Restrooms in the hallway. All utilities included. Other businesses in the building include a deli, travel agency, real estate office and traffic school. There are also 4 residential units. Tenants: Please visit our website, www.therentalsource.com for additional listings! Property Owners: Please visit our website, www.therentalsource.com to see how we can efficiently manage your property and lease it out at market rent! see additional photos below LEASE TERMS 1 Year Renter contact info: Joan Cooper The Rental Source 415-350-6685 Equal Opportunity Housing Posted: Oct 27, 2008, 3:25pm PDT Sfbay.Craigslist.Org Excellent Mission Office (mission district) $650 450sqft {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - Joan Cooper | The Rental Source | 415-350-6685 Cesar Chavez at Mission, San Francisco, CA Excellent Mission Office Office $650/month Sq Footage 450 Parking Unspecified DESCRIPTION Spacious office in great corner Mission location. Very well maintained building. Good commercial carpeting. Restrooms in the hallway. All utilities included. Other businesses in the building include a deli, travel agency, real estate office and traffic school. There are also 4 residential units. Tenants: Please visit our website, www.therentalsource.com for additional listings! Property Owners: Please visit our website, www.therentalsource.com to see how we can efficiently manage your property and lease it out at market rent! see additional photos below LEASE TERMS 1 Year Renter contact info: Joan Cooper The Rental Source 415-350-6685 Equal Opportunity Housing Posted: Oct 27, 2008, 3:25pm PDT
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Category: Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate

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