Kim Cattrall - World-of-Newave.info World-of-Newave.info http://www.world-of-newave.info/ 2008-12-02T11:38:19Z Latest news and articles about Kim Cattrall Copyright (c)2004-2008. All rights reserved. {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - OSM meets Rebecca Adlington, the swimmer who went to Beijing unknown and came back a star The comedian Russell Howard said it best when he summed up what we all love most about Rebecca Adlington. 'She's so normal it's fantastic, she looks like she could work at Greggs! You know, "I've gotta go bloody fast, I've left pasties in the oven!"' As a fan of comedy, no doubt OSM's Sportsperson of the Year would roar her head off at that. It is Adlington's 'Greggs' appeal that the British public relate to; her expression of delight after winning two Olympic gold medals was so human it won over a nation. The unpretentious 19-year-old from Mansfield is instantly likeable.On the morning of the photoshoot, Adlington arrives straight from the pool wearing a Team GB tracksuit, her hair wet from a 6am training session. She is not precious about her appearance. She slings her coat over her lap, apologises to the stylist about the state of her hair - 'It was in such bad condition after Beijing I couldn't get a brush through it' - and gets down to the nitty-gritty of showbiz gossip from the previous night at the Cosmo awards. There was Kim Cattrall ('Stunning in real life, not at all wrinkly'); drag queen Jodie Harsh ('At first I thought it was Jodie Marsh!'); and Trinny and Susannah ('They never grabbed my boobs, but I haven't got any anyway'); all were there to collect awards. Adlington's was Ultimate Sports Superhero, which meant having to negotiate the dreaded red carpet. 'I don't know how to pose to save my life,' she says. 'Someone said cross your legs, but my shoes were so high I'd have ended up wobbling and looking like a prat. You know how celebrities do that thing where they keep the same face on every single photograph? They never seem to get the whole... [contorts her face into a series of gurns] whereas I always get that photo where I'm mid-sentence and looking awful.'As Adlington chats away, the stylist applies the curling tongs and there is a loud sizzle. 'Oh my God, is that my hair? I'm gonna leave with one side bald! Oh well.' Then, spying a large curl in the mirror, she lets out a delighted squeal: 'I feel like Sandy out of Grease!'Adlington confesses she is a bit nervous about being photographed in a swimsuit. Why? She's an athlete, she's bound to look gorgeous. 'Are you kidding?' she screams, 'I've got massive bingo wings, look. I've got this armpit hanging out which is my pec muscle, it just, like, hangs over because it's so big. I've got man shoulders, I'm not toned at all. And after Beijing I've put on a bit of weight.'Most people can reel off a list of things they dislike about their appearance, but they're either lying to make you feel better, or they really are unhappy. Adlington is neither, just honest. She yanks up her T-shirt and grabs a handful of her stomach. 'Look, I don't have a flat stomach. I've got the tyre. All the other girls on my swim team are skinny. Like literally nothing rolls over. 'I do get a bit insecure,' she continues, reflecting on all these new demands to be photographed. 'The worst thing is the photographer, because you feel like they must have shot so many gorgeous skinny people and then they've got to work with someone that's not.' In fact, the resounding verdict around the studio today is, 'My God, hasn't she got great legs?' and 'Doesn't she look gorgeous?' She does. Serene and beautiful, but wonderfully unaffected as, sweating under the hot photographic lamps, she asks for a tissue. 'If you don't want to see something really disgusting, look away now,' she says, wiping the sweat from her underarms with a grin. Adlington has been famous for only four months, but she has been swimming for 15 years. It started when she dived into a pool on holiday, aged four, and paddled about like a natural. So her parents took her for lessons at the local pool in Mansfield - due to be renamed after Adlington next month - along with her two elder sisters. It was Rebecca who showed the most promise, swimming competitively from the age of nine. By the time she was 12 she had joined her current coach, Bill Furniss, at the Nova swim club in Nottingham, making the 20-mile round trip from Mansfield twice a day. All those years of dedication and hard work, yet before Beijing you had to scour the internet to find anything written about her. Swimming is rarely big news - even when she won 800metres gold at the world championships in Manchester in April this year, there followed just one national newspaper article. But Olympic medals are different, and after Beijing, with golds in the 400m and 800m freestyle, Adlington was instantly hailed as Britain's most successful swimmer in 100 years. How, then, does she reflect on her achievements? 'You know when I wake up in the morning I think, "Is it 5.20am already?" rather than, "Oh I've won two Olympic gold medals." It's something that will never quite sink in. The weirdest thing is just the fact that you can say, "I've won an Olympic gold medal". That is the scariest thing in the world. I'm just a 19-year-old girl. Everyone keeps saying it's really special, but I don't see myself as being special. It's like how you don't think you're beautiful but someone else thinks you're stunning.'Adlington says she misses the Olympics, the camaraderie of being in a gang of friends. At times she makes it sound more like a holiday camp than a highly pressured environment for elite athletes. 'I loved it out there. The hardest thing was having to leave after we spent five weeks together. You found yourself picking up people's accents and phrases - you do though! Like if someone's being an idiot the guys called them a tool or a weapon, so when I got back home I start calling everyone a tool. When we got back together for the Olympic parade in London we had such a laugh on that bus, just being back together again was brilliant.'But when it comes to her own performances, the memories are more sober. 'You know I was so nervous. Especially for the 800m. It is my main event, closest to my heart. Winning the 400m was an unexpected bonus, but to get a medal in the 800m, that was always my goal.'Before the race I got really emotional. I thought I was going to throw up, then I thought I was going to cry, then I thought I was going to pass out. I had to lie down on the floor. Then I got in the call room 15 minutes before the race and suddenly I was fine. Michael Phelps was racing in the 100 fly and we were all watching it on the TV. It was so close at the finish, everyone was like, "Oh my God!" He won it by 0.01 of a second. I can't even click that fast.' Wasn't her own 400m final, against the American Katie Hoff, similarly close? 'Oh no,' she says, casually, 'that was 0.07 seconds.'The battle for the 800m title was more than just a second gold medal for Adlington. Breaking Janet Evans's 19-year-old world record was a physical experience more intense than anything she had ever endured. 'It was the most painful race in my whole entire life,' she says. 'I put every little bit of me into it, mentally and physically. When I finished my body collapsed, probably because I pushed it a little bit too far, but I was so wanting to do it and so up for it that the adrenaline just took over. Afterwards my body hurt, it had never been so sore. And you're drained. It wasn't just the pain, it was the nerves, all week I'd had them. People don't realise how tiring that is. You can't eat properly because you're so nervous. I lost 2kg in two days just from the heats to the 800m final.'Early in 2005, when Adlington was 15, she had been forced to curtail her swimming when she and her elder sister Laura contracted glandular fever. The disease was not new to the Adlington family: the oldest daughter, Chloe, had gone through it five years before and suffered so badly she had been forced to give up swimming. While Rebecca battled with the disease and its after effects of chronic fatigue syndrome, the virus entered Laura's brain and she lay in intensive care fighting for her life. 'It was a rough time for us. Laura had encephalitis [swelling of the brain], I had my final year of GCSEs and wasn't feeling too hot. My mum was really worried. In those situations family comes first and swimming has to come last. So for a couple of months I focused on my family. My mum and dad were constantly at the hospital, Chloe did everything else - looking after the house and driving me to training, while we kept the rest of the family updated with phone calls. If there was any news, good or bad, or even if Laura just woke up and spoke to us we'd be ringing round to tell everyone.'Adlington's coach, Furniss, wanted her to keep swimming so, with the agreement of her doctors, he created a pared-down regime. 'You have to keep the feel of the water going otherwise you lose your technique,' Adlington says, 'but every time I got in the pool I felt like I couldn't go anywhere. I felt as though I hadn't slept and yet I was sleeping 12 hours a night. I felt heavy all the time, like I was 40 stone. Bill was extremely good with it all. He never said, "Oh, she's ill, I'll leave her," he took a step back, made me go easy and got me right. It was hard, but I didn't ever complain because I'd seen what both my sisters went through, I was just grateful that I didn't have to give up swimming.'Everybody agreed that swimming was the best thing for her, but Adlington's parents could not help but worry. 'You have two of your children with a similar type of viral infection,' says her mum Kay. 'You ask yourself all sorts of questions. We monitored Becky's training very carefully: if her appetite waned, if she couldn't sleep, if she was irritable. We didn't want to scare her, though, we didn't want her to feel this was the start of what Laura had. But she must have asked herself the question, "Will it do this to me?" In Laura's case the virus attacked both the front and back of her brain, which made it more complicated to treat. The doctors pumped her full of everything they could. It was up to her then. It was agonising.'We carried on with as much normality as we could. School allowed Becky to drop one of her lessons so that after morning training she could come home and have a proper breakfast, and dry her hair. Before she was ill she just used to have her cereal in the car and go to school with wet hair. That sounds awful, doesn't it? But we were always on the go.'Adlington's parents shielded her from the worst of Laura's illness, insisting that the other two daughters didn't visit her in intensive care. 'They didn't want us to see her there with all the tubes,' Adlington says. 'It was a terrifying time. But it was hardest on my parents.' That is not entirely true. Adlington had been tipped as a medal hope for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, but her illness left her unable to compete, which was a tough disappointment to take.In true Adlington style it isn't long before she starts cracking a few jokes. 'You know, when Laura started getting better we were a bit nasty,' she says with a smile. 'Where the illness had impacted on her brain she was doing some hilarious things. Like she thought there were little men dancing on the end of her bed, or that the drip in her chest was a baby, or the thing you wee through - the catheter! - she thought she was leaning on a pen and she kept trying to move it. It was funny, but it was also scary.'Pulling through those events must have made her stronger. 'It did,' she says, 'it definitely made me stronger and I wouldn't be the person I am today without those things happening to me.'With the final photograph taken, Adlington skips off to get changed back into her tracksuit, but keeps the Fifties-Style make-up on. 'I love it!' she says. 'I definitely want my hair like this for Sports Personality of the Year.' Following on from her OSM accolade, Adlington cannot wait for the BBC awards night in Liverpool on 14 December, at which she is a favourite for the top three. She can barely contain her excitement as she talks about the outfit she plans to wear; it is her effusiveness that makes her such a genuinely appealing candidate. She has already chosen her dress and her shoes: all she needs now is the trophy. ? Watch a video of Rebecca Adlington collecting her OSM award.Rebecca AdlingtonSwimmingOlympics 2008Sport featuresguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/osm-meets-rebecca-adlington-the-swimmer-who-went-20081179435.htm 2008-11-23T00:24:32Z 2008-11-23T00:24:32Z Guardian.Co.Uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/nov/23/rebecca-adlington-swimming OSM meets Rebecca Adlington, the swimmer who went to Beijing unknown and came back a star {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - The comedian Russell Howard said it best when he summed up what we all love most about Rebecca Adlington. 'She's so normal it's fantastic, she looks like she could work at Greggs! You know, "I've gotta go bloody fast, I've left pasties in the oven!"' As a fan of comedy, no doubt OSM's Sportsperson of the Year would roar her head off at that. It is Adlington's 'Greggs' appeal that the British public relate to; her expression of delight after winning two Olympic gold medals was so human it won over a nation. The unpretentious 19-year-old from Mansfield is instantly likeable.On the morning of the photoshoot, Adlington arrives straight from the pool wearing a Team GB tracksuit, her hair wet from a 6am training session. She is not precious about her appearance. She slings her coat over her lap, apologises to the stylist about the state of her hair - 'It was in such bad condition after Beijing I couldn't get a brush through it' - and gets down to the nitty-gritty of showbiz gossip from the previous night at the Cosmo awards. There was Kim Cattrall ('Stunning in real life, not at all wrinkly'); drag queen Jodie Harsh ('At first I thought it was Jodie Marsh!'); and Trinny and Susannah ('They never grabbed my boobs, but I haven't got any anyway'); all were there to collect awards. Adlington's was Ultimate Sports Superhero, which meant having to negotiate the dreaded red carpet. 'I don't know how to pose to save my life,' she says. 'Someone said cross your legs, but my shoes were so high I'd have ended up wobbling and looking like a prat. You know how celebrities do that thing where they keep the same face on every single photograph? They never seem to get the whole... [contorts her face into a series of gurns] whereas I always get that photo where I'm mid-sentence and looking awful.'As Adlington chats away, the stylist applies the curling tongs and there is a loud sizzle. 'Oh my God, is that my hair? I'm gonna leave with one side bald! Oh well.' Then, spying a large curl in the mirror, she lets out a delighted squeal: 'I feel like Sandy out of Grease!'Adlington confesses she is a bit nervous about being photographed in a swimsuit. Why? She's an athlete, she's bound to look gorgeous. 'Are you kidding?' she screams, 'I've got massive bingo wings, look. I've got this armpit hanging out which is my pec muscle, it just, like, hangs over because it's so big. I've got man shoulders, I'm not toned at all. And after Beijing I've put on a bit of weight.'Most people can reel off a list of things they dislike about their appearance, but they're either lying to make you feel better, or they really are unhappy. Adlington is neither, just honest. She yanks up her T-shirt and grabs a handful of her stomach. 'Look, I don't have a flat stomach. I've got the tyre. All the other girls on my swim team are skinny. Like literally nothing rolls over. 'I do get a bit insecure,' she continues, reflecting on all these new demands to be photographed. 'The worst thing is the photographer, because you feel like they must have shot so many gorgeous skinny people and then they've got to work with someone that's not.' In fact, the resounding verdict around the studio today is, 'My God, hasn't she got great legs?' and 'Doesn't she look gorgeous?' She does. Serene and beautiful, but wonderfully unaffected as, sweating under the hot photographic lamps, she asks for a tissue. 'If you don't want to see something really disgusting, look away now,' she says, wiping the sweat from her underarms with a grin. Adlington has been famous for only four months, but she has been swimming for 15 years. It started when she dived into a pool on holiday, aged four, and paddled about like a natural. So her parents took her for lessons at the local pool in Mansfield - due to be renamed after Adlington next month - along with her two elder sisters. It was Rebecca who showed the most promise, swimming competitively from the age of nine. By the time she was 12 she had joined her current coach, Bill Furniss, at the Nova swim club in Nottingham, making the 20-mile round trip from Mansfield twice a day. All those years of dedication and hard work, yet before Beijing you had to scour the internet to find anything written about her. Swimming is rarely big news - even when she won 800metres gold at the world championships in Manchester in April this year, there followed just one national newspaper article. But Olympic medals are different, and after Beijing, with golds in the 400m and 800m freestyle, Adlington was instantly hailed as Britain's most successful swimmer in 100 years. How, then, does she reflect on her achievements? 'You know when I wake up in the morning I think, "Is it 5.20am already?" rather than, "Oh I've won two Olympic gold medals." It's something that will never quite sink in. The weirdest thing is just the fact that you can say, "I've won an Olympic gold medal". That is the scariest thing in the world. I'm just a 19-year-old girl. Everyone keeps saying it's really special, but I don't see myself as being special. It's like how you don't think you're beautiful but someone else thinks you're stunning.'Adlington says she misses the Olympics, the camaraderie of being in a gang of friends. At times she makes it sound more like a holiday camp than a highly pressured environment for elite athletes. 'I loved it out there. The hardest thing was having to leave after we spent five weeks together. You found yourself picking up people's accents and phrases - you do though! Like if someone's being an idiot the guys called them a tool or a weapon, so when I got back home I start calling everyone a tool. When we got back together for the Olympic parade in London we had such a laugh on that bus, just being back together again was brilliant.'But when it comes to her own performances, the memories are more sober. 'You know I was so nervous. Especially for the 800m. It is my main event, closest to my heart. Winning the 400m was an unexpected bonus, but to get a medal in the 800m, that was always my goal.'Before the race I got really emotional. I thought I was going to throw up, then I thought I was going to cry, then I thought I was going to pass out. I had to lie down on the floor. Then I got in the call room 15 minutes before the race and suddenly I was fine. Michael Phelps was racing in the 100 fly and we were all watching it on the TV. It was so close at the finish, everyone was like, "Oh my God!" He won it by 0.01 of a second. I can't even click that fast.' Wasn't her own 400m final, against the American Katie Hoff, similarly close? 'Oh no,' she says, casually, 'that was 0.07 seconds.'The battle for the 800m title was more than just a second gold medal for Adlington. Breaking Janet Evans's 19-year-old world record was a physical experience more intense than anything she had ever endured. 'It was the most painful race in my whole entire life,' she says. 'I put every little bit of me into it, mentally and physically. When I finished my body collapsed, probably because I pushed it a little bit too far, but I was so wanting to do it and so up for it that the adrenaline just took over. Afterwards my body hurt, it had never been so sore. And you're drained. It wasn't just the pain, it was the nerves, all week I'd had them. People don't realise how tiring that is. You can't eat properly because you're so nervous. I lost 2kg in two days just from the heats to the 800m final.'Early in 2005, when Adlington was 15, she had been forced to curtail her swimming when she and her elder sister Laura contracted glandular fever. The disease was not new to the Adlington family: the oldest daughter, Chloe, had gone through it five years before and suffered so badly she had been forced to give up swimming. While Rebecca battled with the disease and its after effects of chronic fatigue syndrome, the virus entered Laura's brain and she lay in intensive care fighting for her life. 'It was a rough time for us. Laura had encephalitis [swelling of the brain], I had my final year of GCSEs and wasn't feeling too hot. My mum was really worried. In those situations family comes first and swimming has to come last. So for a couple of months I focused on my family. My mum and dad were constantly at the hospital, Chloe did everything else - looking after the house and driving me to training, while we kept the rest of the family updated with phone calls. If there was any news, good or bad, or even if Laura just woke up and spoke to us we'd be ringing round to tell everyone.'Adlington's coach, Furniss, wanted her to keep swimming so, with the agreement of her doctors, he created a pared-down regime. 'You have to keep the feel of the water going otherwise you lose your technique,' Adlington says, 'but every time I got in the pool I felt like I couldn't go anywhere. I felt as though I hadn't slept and yet I was sleeping 12 hours a night. I felt heavy all the time, like I was 40 stone. Bill was extremely good with it all. He never said, "Oh, she's ill, I'll leave her," he took a step back, made me go easy and got me right. It was hard, but I didn't ever complain because I'd seen what both my sisters went through, I was just grateful that I didn't have to give up swimming.'Everybody agreed that swimming was the best thing for her, but Adlington's parents could not help but worry. 'You have two of your children with a similar type of viral infection,' says her mum Kay. 'You ask yourself all sorts of questions. We monitored Becky's training very carefully: if her appetite waned, if she couldn't sleep, if she was irritable. We didn't want to scare her, though, we didn't want her to feel this was the start of what Laura had. But she must have asked herself the question, "Will it do this to me?" In Laura's case the virus attacked both the front and back of her brain, which made it more complicated to treat. The doctors pumped her full of everything they could. It was up to her then. It was agonising.'We carried on with as much normality as we could. School allowed Becky to drop one of her lessons so that after morning training she could come home and have a proper breakfast, and dry her hair. Before she was ill she just used to have her cereal in the car and go to school with wet hair. That sounds awful, doesn't it? But we were always on the go.'Adlington's parents shielded her from the worst of Laura's illness, insisting that the other two daughters didn't visit her in intensive care. 'They didn't want us to see her there with all the tubes,' Adlington says. 'It was a terrifying time. But it was hardest on my parents.' That is not entirely true. Adlington had been tipped as a medal hope for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, but her illness left her unable to compete, which was a tough disappointment to take.In true Adlington style it isn't long before she starts cracking a few jokes. 'You know, when Laura started getting better we were a bit nasty,' she says with a smile. 'Where the illness had impacted on her brain she was doing some hilarious things. Like she thought there were little men dancing on the end of her bed, or that the drip in her chest was a baby, or the thing you wee through - the catheter! - she thought she was leaning on a pen and she kept trying to move it. It was funny, but it was also scary.'Pulling through those events must have made her stronger. 'It did,' she says, 'it definitely made me stronger and I wouldn't be the person I am today without those things happening to me.'With the final photograph taken, Adlington skips off to get changed back into her tracksuit, but keeps the Fifties-Style make-up on. 'I love it!' she says. 'I definitely want my hair like this for Sports Personality of the Year.' Following on from her OSM accolade, Adlington cannot wait for the BBC awards night in Liverpool on 14 December, at which she is a favourite for the top three. She can barely contain her excitement as she talks about the outfit she plans to wear; it is her effusiveness that makes her such a genuinely appealing candidate. She has already chosen her dress and her shoes: all she needs now is the trophy. ? Watch a video of Rebecca Adlington collecting her OSM award.Rebecca AdlingtonSwimmingOlympics 2008Sport featuresguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
OSM meets Rebecca Adlington, the swimmer who went to Beijing unknown and came back a star | Sport | The Observer {...} Rebecca Adlington went to Beijing unknown, but returned a star. Have the fame and adulation changed the Mansfield swimmer? Not likely, says Anna Kessel {...}
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]]> {ENTERTAINMENT > PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA} - When does Kim Cattrall hope to film Sex and the City sequel? Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall says there are plans to "hopefully" film a sequel to the hit movie next year. http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/entertainment/publications-and-media/when-does-kim-cattrall-hope-to-film-sex-and-the-city-20081136016.htm 2008-11-06T09:38:24Z 2008-11-06T09:38:24Z News.Bbc.Co.Uk http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7712494.stm When does Kim Cattrall hope to film Sex and the City sequel? {new window}   News.Bbc.Co.Uk - Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall says there are plans to "hopefully" film a sequel to the hit movie next year.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Cattrall 'hopeful' for Sex sequel {...} Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall says there are plans to "hopefully" film a sequel to the hit movie next year. {...}
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]]> {NEWS} - N. Korean Leader Kim Jong Il-l Again? Report: N. Korea's Kim Jong Il suffers "serious" health setback. http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/n-korean-leader-kim-jong-il-l-again-20081037832.htm 2008-10-29T11:51:38Z 2008-10-29T11:51:38Z Abcnews.Go.Com http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6134034 N. Korean Leader Kim Jong Il-l Again? {new window}   Abcnews.Go.Com - Report: N. Korea's Kim Jong Il suffers "serious" health setback.
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]]> {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Japanese TV claims French brain surgeon to treat Kim Jong-il Speculation surrounding the health of Kim Jong-il intensified today after a Japanese TV station reported that a leading French brain surgeon had been sent to Pyongyang, after talks with the "Dear Leader's" eldest son.In a report by Fuji TV aired today, a man the broadcaster identified as Kim's eldest son, Kim Jong-nam, was seen visiting the neurological department of a Paris clinic, where he spent two hours with the unnamed surgeon.The report said he was "believed to have met with a French brain surgeon, who later departed from Paris for Pyongyang under North Korean escort".The portly figure, dressed in a dark pinstriped suit with a red tie, ignored questions about Kim Jong-il's health as he got into a waiting car, but managed a wave and a hint of a smile as he left, according to the station.The report then showed the surgeon arriving at Charles de Gaulle airport two days later, in a car belonging to the North Korean mission to Unesco.The doctor, whose face had been blurred by the network, confirmed he was flying to Beijing, a common transfer point for flights to Pyongyang, but would neither confirm nor deny whether he was flying to the North Korean capital.A spokeswoman at Fuji TV's Paris bureau declined to comment on Kim Jong-nam's reported visit. "All of the information we have was included in the report," she said.Though accounts of political manoeuvering inside the secretive state are all but impossible to verify, few observers now believe the regime's recent claims that Kim Jong-il is in robust health.Rumours that he is seriously ill have been circulating for weeks, prompting speculation about a possible power struggle involving his three sons, his brother-in-law and senior members of the Korean Workers' party.US and South Korean officials said earlier this month that the 66-year-old, a former heavy smoker and drinker, had suffered a stroke and undergone brain surgery.North and South KoreaJapanFranceguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/japanese-tv-claims-french-brain-surgeon-to-treat-20081049949.htm 2008-10-27T12:36:07Z 2008-10-27T12:36:07Z Guardian.Co.Uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/27/korea-japan Japanese TV claims French brain surgeon to treat Kim Jong-il {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - Speculation surrounding the health of Kim Jong-il intensified today after a Japanese TV station reported that a leading French brain surgeon had been sent to Pyongyang, after talks with the "Dear Leader's" eldest son.In a report by Fuji TV aired today, a man the broadcaster identified as Kim's eldest son, Kim Jong-nam, was seen visiting the neurological department of a Paris clinic, where he spent two hours with the unnamed surgeon.The report said he was "believed to have met with a French brain surgeon, who later departed from Paris for Pyongyang under North Korean escort".The portly figure, dressed in a dark pinstriped suit with a red tie, ignored questions about Kim Jong-il's health as he got into a waiting car, but managed a wave and a hint of a smile as he left, according to the station.The report then showed the surgeon arriving at Charles de Gaulle airport two days later, in a car belonging to the North Korean mission to Unesco.The doctor, whose face had been blurred by the network, confirmed he was flying to Beijing, a common transfer point for flights to Pyongyang, but would neither confirm nor deny whether he was flying to the North Korean capital.A spokeswoman at Fuji TV's Paris bureau declined to comment on Kim Jong-nam's reported visit. "All of the information we have was included in the report," she said.Though accounts of political manoeuvering inside the secretive state are all but impossible to verify, few observers now believe the regime's recent claims that Kim Jong-il is in robust health.Rumours that he is seriously ill have been circulating for weeks, prompting speculation about a possible power struggle involving his three sons, his brother-in-law and senior members of the Korean Workers' party.US and South Korean officials said earlier this month that the 66-year-old, a former heavy smoker and drinker, had suffered a stroke and undergone brain surgery.North and South KoreaJapanFranceguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Japanese TV claims French brain surgeon to treat Kim Jong-il | World news | guardian.co.uk {...} Report from Paris bureau of Japanese TV station shows man alleged to be North Korean leader's son visiting Paris clinic {...}
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]]> {NORTH AMERICA > RENTALS} - 3ba: FURN: 2400 Square Foot 3/3 At The Brocklebank. *12/1* GAVIN (nob hill) $8000 3bd Fully Furnished Corner 3/3 At The One And Only BROCKLEBANK, Built In 1926. 2400 Square Foot Apartment Available Furnished Or Unfurnished. Views Views Views With Eastern And Northern Exposures. Grand Nob Hill Property Featured As "Madeleine's" Residence In Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 Classic Film *Vertigo*, With Kim Novak And Jimmy Stewart. Includes 1 Car / SUV Garage Parking. Extra Spots Available. Old World Property In Every Respect With 24 Hour Doorman. Mason @ Sacramento ( Nob Hill Proper ) Ready For Occupancy December 1. $8000/month. Details: • Spacious, Bright, Sunny, & Stylish 2 Bedroom + Office Or 3 Bedroom, 3 Bath Apartment • Approximately 2400 Square Feet Of Living Space • Very Large Entrance Foyer • Hardwood Floors, Crown Moulding & High Profile Moulding Throughout • Massive Living Room And Formal Dining Room • Contemporary Kitchen With Gas Stove, Dishwasher & Disposal • In-Residence Washer / Dryer Laundry • 1 Car / SUV Garage Space Included • All Kitties & Doggies Considered $8000/month. Ready For Occupancy December 1. For Occupancy Terms Shorter Than 8 Months, Broker Service Consideration 10% Of 1 Month's Rent. Owner Seeks Conscientious Residents With Appropriate Income Or Assets & Credit History. Gavin Coombs Corporate FURNISHED Listings: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sub/sfc?query=gavin Gavin Coombs Traditional UNFURNISHED Listings: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa/sfc?query=gavin WHEN INQUIRING Please Forward Link(s) For Property(ies) Of Interest And Provide The Following Information Via Email: • Reason For Move • Are You Seeking Unfurnished Or Furnished? • Preferred Occupancy Date And Expected Lease Term • Subject Property(ies) Of Interest • Neighborhood(s) Of Interest • Rent Ceiling • # Of Occupants • # Of Sleeping Bedrooms / Beds Required • Minimum # Of Bathrooms Required • # Of Parking Spaces Required • Pets? Weight, Breed, And Age • Name And Cell # • Preferred Date(s) & Time(s) To View "THE BEST WAY TO SECURE A NEW PLACE 101"... HELPFUL INFO FOR THOSE SEEKING TO RENT IN SAN FRANCISCO: If You're Looking To Put Your Best Foot Forward, Have The Following Info Prepared To Present & Any Agent Or Owner Should Love You. • Cover Letter Describing Your Situation • Pet References, If Applicable With Photocopies Of The Following: • Driver's License Or Passport • Credit Report With FICO Score From: www.MyFICO.com www.Equifax.com www.Experian.com www.Transunion.com • Most Recent Pay Stub -or- Job Offer Letter With Start Date And Salary And A Clear Idea Of Total Annual Household Income Advantageous, But Not Essential: • Bank Statement Or Financial Statement Reflecting Savings ••• Providing The Above Documentation ••• ••• Along With The Application You're Given ••• ••• Ensures You're Best Poised For Leasing Success ••• GAVIN COOMBS Honored BEST SF Leasing Consultant 2007. As Nominated By SF Landlords And Tenants & Ordained By The SF Apartment Association. The Gavin Coombs Companies, Incorporated. Investments | Sales | Luxury Leasing | Relocation Furnished Short Term Corporate & Traditional Unfurnished Rentals. Realtor. Broker. Agent. Designer | Vision. Decision. Action. Fruition. Charter Member, San Francisco Association Of Leasing Professionals. Member, PPMA, SFAA, SFAR, SPOSF, NAR, CAR, CA DRE # 1799029 Rights To All Posted Text And Information Contained Herein Reserved. The Gavin Coombs Companies, Inc Champion All Fair Housing Principles. GCCI Residential Leasing Listings Are Offered Exclusively On Craigslist. Photos Available For Most Properties. Photos Not Posted In CL Postings. The Gavin Coombs Companies, Inc. | 1998 - 2008 www.RentalRadar.com San Francisco & All California #1 Top Producer, Luxury Residential Leasing. *** Knock Knock 4 Barack!!! www.my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/gavincoombs *** GCCI Contributes Monthly To The St. Anthony Foundation. www.stanthonysf.org/home.html http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/3ba-furn-2400-square-foot-3-3-at-the-brocklebank-12-20081048831.htm 2008-10-27T00:55:51Z 2008-10-27T00:55:51Z Sfbay.Craigslist.Org http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/sub/894661686.html 3ba: FURN: 2400 Square Foot 3/3 At The Brocklebank. *12/1* GAVIN (nob hill) $8000 3bd {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - Fully Furnished Corner 3/3 At The One And Only BROCKLEBANK, Built In 1926. 2400 Square Foot Apartment Available Furnished Or Unfurnished. Views Views Views With Eastern And Northern Exposures. Grand Nob Hill Property Featured As "Madeleine's" Residence In Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 Classic Film *Vertigo*, With Kim Novak And Jimmy Stewart. Includes 1 Car / SUV Garage Parking. Extra Spots Available. Old World Property In Every Respect With 24 Hour Doorman. Mason @ Sacramento ( Nob Hill Proper ) Ready For Occupancy December 1. $8000/month. Details: • Spacious, Bright, Sunny, & Stylish 2 Bedroom + Office Or 3 Bedroom, 3 Bath Apartment • Approximately 2400 Square Feet Of Living Space • Very Large Entrance Foyer • Hardwood Floors, Crown Moulding & High Profile Moulding Throughout • Massive Living Room And Formal Dining Room • Contemporary Kitchen With Gas Stove, Dishwasher & Disposal • In-Residence Washer / Dryer Laundry • 1 Car / SUV Garage Space Included • All Kitties & Doggies Considered $8000/month. Ready For Occupancy December 1. For Occupancy Terms Shorter Than 8 Months, Broker Service Consideration 10% Of 1 Month's Rent. Owner Seeks Conscientious Residents With Appropriate Income Or Assets & Credit History. Gavin Coombs Corporate FURNISHED Listings: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sub/sfc?query=gavin Gavin Coombs Traditional UNFURNISHED Listings: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa/sfc?query=gavin WHEN INQUIRING Please Forward Link(s) For Property(ies) Of Interest And Provide The Following Information Via Email: • Reason For Move • Are You Seeking Unfurnished Or Furnished? • Preferred Occupancy Date And Expected Lease Term • Subject Property(ies) Of Interest • Neighborhood(s) Of Interest • Rent Ceiling • # Of Occupants • # Of Sleeping Bedrooms / Beds Required • Minimum # Of Bathrooms Required • # Of Parking Spaces Required • Pets? Weight, Breed, And Age • Name And Cell # • Preferred Date(s) & Time(s) To View "THE BEST WAY TO SECURE A NEW PLACE 101"... HELPFUL INFO FOR THOSE SEEKING TO RENT IN SAN FRANCISCO: If You're Looking To Put Your Best Foot Forward, Have The Following Info Prepared To Present & Any Agent Or Owner Should Love You. • Cover Letter Describing Your Situation • Pet References, If Applicable With Photocopies Of The Following: • Driver's License Or Passport • Credit Report With FICO Score From: www.MyFICO.com www.Equifax.com www.Experian.com www.Transunion.com • Most Recent Pay Stub -or- Job Offer Letter With Start Date And Salary And A Clear Idea Of Total Annual Household Income Advantageous, But Not Essential: • Bank Statement Or Financial Statement Reflecting Savings ••• Providing The Above Documentation ••• ••• Along With The Application You're Given ••• ••• Ensures You're Best Poised For Leasing Success ••• GAVIN COOMBS Honored BEST SF Leasing Consultant 2007. As Nominated By SF Landlords And Tenants & Ordained By The SF Apartment Association. The Gavin Coombs Companies, Incorporated. Investments | Sales | Luxury Leasing | Relocation Furnished Short Term Corporate & Traditional Unfurnished Rentals. Realtor. Broker. Agent. Designer | Vision. Decision. Action. Fruition. Charter Member, San Francisco Association Of Leasing Professionals. Member, PPMA, SFAA, SFAR, SPOSF, NAR, CAR, CA DRE # 1799029 Rights To All Posted Text And Information Contained Herein Reserved. The Gavin Coombs Companies, Inc Champion All Fair Housing Principles. GCCI Residential Leasing Listings Are Offered Exclusively On Craigslist. Photos Available For Most Properties. Photos Not Posted In CL Postings. The Gavin Coombs Companies, Inc. | 1998 - 2008 www.RentalRadar.com San Francisco & All California #1 Top Producer, Luxury Residential Leasing. *** Knock Knock 4 Barack!!! www.my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/gavincoombs *** GCCI Contributes Monthly To The St. Anthony Foundation. www.stanthonysf.org/home.html
3ba: FURN: 2400 Square Foot 3/3 At The Brocklebank. *12/1* GAVIN {...}
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Category: Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals

]]> {NEWS} - NKorea Defectors Drop Anti-Kim Leaflets NKorea defectors drop anti-Kim leaflets over border into communist homeland. http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/nkorea-defectors-drop-anti-kim-leaflets-20081021117.htm 2008-10-14T13:03:34Z 2008-10-14T13:03:34Z Abcnews.Go.Com http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6027582 NKorea Defectors Drop Anti-Kim Leaflets {new window}   Abcnews.Go.Com - NKorea defectors drop anti-Kim leaflets over border into communist homeland.
ABC News: NKorea Defectors Drop Leaflets Condemning Leader {...} NKorea Defectors Drop Anti-Kim Leaflets {...}
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]]> {NEWS} - New Kim Jong-il images released North Korea releases pictures of reclusive leader Kim Jong-il apparently looking well, despite reports he has been ill. http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/new-kim-jong-il-images-released-20081028117.htm 2008-10-11T07:22:53Z 2008-10-11T07:22:53Z News.Bbc.Co.Uk http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7664859.stm New Kim Jong-il images released {new window}   News.Bbc.Co.Uk - North Korea releases pictures of reclusive leader Kim Jong-il apparently looking well, despite reports he has been ill.
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | New Kim Jong-il images released {...}
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]]> {RESOURCES > NEWS AND MEDIA} - North Korea steps up bid to show "recovered" Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean state TV broadcast pictures of Kim Jong-il on Saturday as the reclusive country stepped up its campaign to show its leader was healthy after reports surfaced last month he may have suffered a stroke. http://articles.world-of-newave.info/sports/resources/news-and-media/north-korea-steps-up-bid-to-show-recovered-kim-2008106419.htm 2008-10-11T06:05:00Z 2008-10-11T06:05:00Z Reuters.Com http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49A09X20081011?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews North Korea steps up bid to show "recovered" Kim {new window}   Www.Reuters.Com - SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean state TV broadcast pictures of Kim Jong-il on Saturday as the reclusive country stepped up its campaign to show its leader was healthy after reports surfaced last month he may have suffered a stroke.
North Korea steps up bid to show recovered Kim| Reuters {...} SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean state TV broadcast pictures of Kim Jong-il on Saturday as the reclusive country stepped up its campaign to show its leader was healthy after reports surfaced last month he {...}
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]]> {NORTH AMERICA > LODGING} - CUTE 2 BR Cobb Mtn Vacation Home w/Hi-Speed-25 Miles to Calistoga/Napa (lake county) $125 2bd Kim McCulloch | Cobb Mountain Vacation Rental | 707-928-9845 or 707-718-4008 16241 Bottle Rock Road, Cobb, CA ADORABLE & ROMANTIC 2 Bedroom, Fully Furnished Vacation Home on Cobb Mountain. Only 25 Miles from Calistoga/Napa. Furnished 2BR/1BA Vacation Single Family House $125/night Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms 1 full, 0 partial Sq Footage 700 Parking 3 dedicated DESCRIPTION ENCHANTING GET-AWAY-JUST 25 MILES FROM CALISTOGA! Our Charming and Romantic Vacation Rental Cottage with Full Kitchen and Private Patio that Comfortably Sleeps 4. It's perfect for golfing and wine tasting weekends, a romantic get-away or just relaxing on your private patio with a good book, a glass of Wine and a special friend. A short walk or drive from Rob Roy Golf Club & Creekside Restaurant, The Brick Oven Pizza and Diner, Hardester's Grocery Store, Mountain High Coffee & Book store, a video store, Pine Grove and about 10 minutes to Middletown and Harbin Hot Springs. Equipped with BBQ, DVD/Video Player, Gas-Log Stove, Full Kitchen, High Speed Internet and Comcast Cable TV. Fully furnished with linens and kitchenware. Weeknights: $110-125/night � Weekends: $125-150/Night � Holidays: $150-175/night plus tax and $50-75 cleaning/linen fee � Discounted Weekly and Monthly Rates available on Request. For Information or To Reserve, Contact Kim at: 707-928-9845 or 707-718-4008 Cobb Mountain is the best-kept secret in the Northern Wine Country. Where else can you find a Tahoe-like setting, Napa & Sonoma-like wineries, excellent restaurants, hiking, golfing and a casino close to the Bay Area and only 25 miles from Calistoga? Enjoy casual winery tours without the crowds, fine dining without the "sticker shock" and a beautiful mountain setting without the long drive to Tahoe. Leave your Bay Area stresses behind and experience the Community on Cobb Mountain, where everyone knows each other at the coffee shop and where generations of families have spent their summers. A short drive to Konocti Resort & Spa (Concerts), Lakeport, Middletown, Kelseyville and Clear Lake for fun & fishing! After a weekend at Bottle Rock Vacation Rental Cabin you may not want to head down the mountain, back to your hectic lifestyle. That's O.K. with us. Just give us a call and tell us you'll be staying another couple days. Believe us, we'll understand. Elegant Comfort at Bottle Rock Vacation Rental Cabin CALL KIM AT: 707-928-9845 or 707-718-4008 see additional photos below RENTAL FEATURES Fireplace Living room Breakfast nook Stove/Oven Microwave Stainless steel appliances Balcony, Deck, or Patio Cable-ready High-speed internet COMMUNITY FEATURES Golf course RENTAL RATES Weeknights: $110-125/night � Weekends: $125-150/Night � Holidays: $150-175/night plus tax and $50-75 cleaning/linen fee � Discounted Weekly and Monthly Rates available on Request. For Information or To Reserve, Contact Kim at: 707-928-9845 or 707-718-4008 ADDITIONAL PHOTOS Renter contact info: Kim McCulloch Cobb Mountain Vacation Rental 707-928-9845 or 707-718-4008 Equal Opportunity Housing Posted: Oct 10, 2008, 1:16pm PDT http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/cute-2-br-cobb-mtn-vacation-home-w-hi-speed-25-miles-2008103808.htm 2008-10-10T23:19:05Z 2008-10-10T23:19:05Z Sfbay.Craigslist.Org http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/vac/874454147.html CUTE 2 BR Cobb Mtn Vacation Home w/Hi-Speed-25 Miles to Calistoga/Napa (lake county) $125 2bd {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - Kim McCulloch | Cobb Mountain Vacation Rental | 707-928-9845 or 707-718-4008 16241 Bottle Rock Road, Cobb, CA ADORABLE & ROMANTIC 2 Bedroom, Fully Furnished Vacation Home on Cobb Mountain. Only 25 Miles from Calistoga/Napa. Furnished 2BR/1BA Vacation Single Family House $125/night Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms 1 full, 0 partial Sq Footage 700 Parking 3 dedicated DESCRIPTION ENCHANTING GET-AWAY-JUST 25 MILES FROM CALISTOGA! Our Charming and Romantic Vacation Rental Cottage with Full Kitchen and Private Patio that Comfortably Sleeps 4. It's perfect for golfing and wine tasting weekends, a romantic get-away or just relaxing on your private patio with a good book, a glass of Wine and a special friend. A short walk or drive from Rob Roy Golf Club & Creekside Restaurant, The Brick Oven Pizza and Diner, Hardester's Grocery Store, Mountain High Coffee & Book store, a video store, Pine Grove and about 10 minutes to Middletown and Harbin Hot Springs. Equipped with BBQ, DVD/Video Player, Gas-Log Stove, Full Kitchen, High Speed Internet and Comcast Cable TV. Fully furnished with linens and kitchenware. Weeknights: $110-125/night � Weekends: $125-150/Night � Holidays: $150-175/night plus tax and $50-75 cleaning/linen fee � Discounted Weekly and Monthly Rates available on Request. For Information or To Reserve, Contact Kim at: 707-928-9845 or 707-718-4008 Cobb Mountain is the best-kept secret in the Northern Wine Country. Where else can you find a Tahoe-like setting, Napa & Sonoma-like wineries, excellent restaurants, hiking, golfing and a casino close to the Bay Area and only 25 miles from Calistoga? Enjoy casual winery tours without the crowds, fine dining without the "sticker shock" and a beautiful mountain setting without the long drive to Tahoe. Leave your Bay Area stresses behind and experience the Community on Cobb Mountain, where everyone knows each other at the coffee shop and where generations of families have spent their summers. A short drive to Konocti Resort & Spa (Concerts), Lakeport, Middletown, Kelseyville and Clear Lake for fun & fishing! After a weekend at Bottle Rock Vacation Rental Cabin you may not want to head down the mountain, back to your hectic lifestyle. That's O.K. with us. Just give us a call and tell us you'll be staying another couple days. Believe us, we'll understand. Elegant Comfort at Bottle Rock Vacation Rental Cabin CALL KIM AT: 707-928-9845 or 707-718-4008 see additional photos below RENTAL FEATURES Fireplace Living room Breakfast nook Stove/Oven Microwave Stainless steel appliances Balcony, Deck, or Patio Cable-ready High-speed internet COMMUNITY FEATURES Golf course RENTAL RATES Weeknights: $110-125/night � Weekends: $125-150/Night � Holidays: $150-175/night plus tax and $50-75 cleaning/linen fee � Discounted Weekly and Monthly Rates available on Request. For Information or To Reserve, Contact Kim at: 707-928-9845 or 707-718-4008 ADDITIONAL PHOTOS Renter contact info: Kim McCulloch Cobb Mountain Vacation Rental 707-928-9845 or 707-718-4008 Equal Opportunity Housing Posted: Oct 10, 2008, 1:16pm PDT
CUTE 2 BR Cobb Mtn Vacation Home w/Hi-Speed-25 Miles to Calistoga/Napa {...}
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]]> {NEWS} - Kim Jong-il 'at football match' North Korean leader Kim Jong-il reportedly makes his first public appearance since rumours surfaced he had had a stroke. http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/kim-jong-il-at-football-match-20081029811.htm 2008-10-04T16:01:28Z 2008-10-04T16:01:28Z News.Bbc.Co.Uk http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7652625.stm Kim Jong-il 'at football match' {new window}   News.Bbc.Co.Uk - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il reportedly makes his first public appearance since rumours surfaced he had had a stroke.
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Kim Jong-il 'at football match' {...}
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