PART ONE: QUESTIONS 1-5 (TRANSCRIPT) (0) In a previous “How To” we looked at how to tell someone you’re not happy with something and ask them to change their behaviour in a polite way, with phases like “Would you mind?”. In this program, we look at more direct ways to tell someone you are unhappy with their behaviour, expressions that may come up in more informal contexts. If you’re not already in an argument when you use this kind of language, you’ll probably end up in one pretty soon... (1) The United Nations force in South Lebanon has described the shooting incident between Israeli and Lebanese troops along their common border as serious. The spokesman for the UN force said in the statement that the Lebanese Army started firing after an Israeli Army bulldozer moved across the border fence in an apparent attempt to clear the area of explosives. (2) For this week, what animal chews food with its legs? And last week I asked who were the original inhabitants of Japan? Congratulations Robert Ryan of Colorado, the correct answer are the Ainu, who today reside mainly in the Northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. According to Ainu legend the Ainu inhabited Japan a 100 thousand years before the children of the sun came from China. (3) Ken: I’m Ken Duffy, Fox News Radio, we’re spending a few moments with quarterback Brady Quinn with the NFL’s Cleveland Browns. Brady, welcome. Brady: Thanks for having me, Ken. Ken: Brady, you’re teamed up with Gillette for a contest. Talk about this contest. Brady: What it’s about is putting on your game face. You can go online to gilettegameface.com, submit the video of your game face, and you have the opportunity to win all kinds of prizes, you know, such as flat screen TV, and actually a trip to New York with two of your friends. (4) “I’m afraid it’s gonna be a bit longer, and I haven’t got an auto-cue, and I haven’t got a script. I’ve just got a few notes, so it might be a bit messy, but it will be me. In a world where we have most freedom and control are we really saying to people that when it comes to how you’re governed, how your country is run, you can’t have a say, it’s nothing to do with you? That’s wrong and that’s why we will keep pushing for that referendum, campaign for a no vote, and veto that constitution. (5) A functioning police force is the key for the international community’s ultimate disengagement from the country. How are things going? As always, there’s a wide range of views on current progress. These different views reflect the various theories for building a new police force and differences of opinion regarding the type of police the country needs. (END OF TRANSCRIPT) 1 PART TWO: QUESTIONS 6-10 (TRANSCRIPT) Melanie: I’m Melanie Grenham, Fox News Radio, and we’re spending a few moments with football great Joe Theismann, and barbecue great Chris Lilly. Gentlemen, how are you? Joe: Hey, Melanie, how are you? Melanie: I’m doing great, thanks for joining us today. Well, we’ve got NFL season opening up, weather still good which means good time to be barbecuing, and that’s what we’re talking about today. Joe: Great time to be Tailgating. I mean, you get yourself your grill, you get yourself your ## for charcoal, and you're ready to go. Chris and I have been working on a couple of meals, couple of recipes we’d like to share with you real quick. Melanie: Let’s do it. Let’s hear what you got. Chris: You know, I’ll tell you what, me being from Alabama, a little bit different from Joe, I do a smoked Alabama chicken with a barbecue white sauce. Melanie: This is radio but it looks great from my view, I’m the only one that can see you guys. Joe: You can taste it over the radio, though. Melanie: I can. I can smell it through the mike. Chris: I’ll tell you what, a couple things that I do is that I marinade early. I make up my Alabama white sauce early, and that’s a mixture of mayonnaise, vinegar, spices. All I need to do on game day is grill these chicken breasts over a nice, hot ## charcoal fire. Melanie: I think that we can hear the sizzle here Joe: You can smell it through the radio. Chris: How bout that! Melanie: We sure can. Chris: So I pull those off the charcoal fire, dip them in the white sauce and that is it, they are finished, ready to go. Melanie: I can see them, guys, you both look great. Thanks again for joining us… (END OF TRANSCRIPT) 2 PART THREE: QUESTIONS 11-15 (TRANSCRIPT) Robin: Serena: Robin: Serena: Robin: Serena: Robin: Serena: Robin: Serena: Robin: Serena: Robin: I’m Robin Moleskin, Fox News Radio and we’re spending a few minutes with Serena Williams. Serena, welcome to the program. Hi how are you? Well, you know, you’re one of the best tennis players in the entire world. What does that feel like? It feels awesome. I mean your whole life, you’re playing and trying to be good, and then one day someone’s telling you you’re one of the best players, what does that feel like? Like it’s your whole… you dream of it your whole life. You are the favorite to win Wimbledon this year, the prestigious tournament, it’s gonna be held on June 25th, to July 8th. How do you prepare for this, mentally, physically? For that level of fierce competition? I don’t know. I enjoy being in a tough position. I enjoy getting ready for it. I think I actually prepared for this years ago. So, I think that years ago my training just helped me prepare. Well, you were much younger then, though. But, so, what do you do now? I mean, people are curious. How do you stay in shape? How do you get ready? Well, there’s no way around it. You got to work out, you got to run, and I think you got to spend a lot of time in the court. That’s how I get ready. And, I don’t really tell all my secrets, in case some of my competition is listening. That’s how I pretty much get ready. We’ve read that you’ve had some sinus issues. How does this affect your game, and what’s your new training routine in light of it? Well, a lot of people don’t realize that I’m a normal person like they are and people like me suffer from sinuses, which is normal, you know, and... But how do you play with it on a professional level when you have a lot of pressure on me, I’ve a lot of pain, and a lot of congestion? And so for the second year in the row, I’ve teamed up with Vix, as tennis players use so few products that we can use, that they allow us to use cause we get tested for literally everything. It works really well, it clears up my sinuses, and I don’t have any worries with it. That's great. You know, I was looking back at some of your career highlights and no doubt in 2002 when you won your second Grand Slam title at the French Open by beating your older sister Venus. You know, you guys became number one and number two in the world and the first siblings to accomplish this. What’s it like when you play with your sister? It’s awesome. It’s fun. Especially if it’s the finals or something that we’ve always dreamed of. It’s like finally you get to that ###. It’s amazing. And off court? What’s your relationship like with her these days? 3 Serena: Robin: Serena: Robin: Serena: Robin: Serena: Robin: Serena: Oh we’re really close. We’re… she just e-mailed me right now, actually, we’re always talking, we’re always laughing, we’re like the best of friends. Are you both each other’s cheerleader? Definitely, she’s my biggest fan by far, I don’t know anybody that’s a more Serena Williams fan than Venus. I mean, she watches the matches even if it kills her, so… and she’s… when she’s not there, or… I mean, she’s the ultimate fan, so I feel lucky. And it’s not just tennis you’re passionate about. Clearly, you’re into fashion, into acting, you’ve been in the ER, the Simpsons. Tell us about your other passions besides tennis? I love acting, that’s something I love to do, and, I always have, I always say if I wasn’t a tennis player I would be a struggling actress in Hollywood, trying to make it there. Are there any offers on the table? Anything in the works we should know about? Just finishing some animation projects, it’s easier right now for me to do animation. That’s great. Listen. We’ll be watching, and we wish you the beast at Wimbledon as its upcoming on June 25th. Thank you very much. 4 PART FOUR: QUESTIONS 16-20 (TAPESCRIPT) (0) A Health Ministry spokesman in Baghdad says the deputy health minister has been arrested during a raid on his office. The spokesman said the minister, Hakim Al-Zamili, had been detained by American and Iraqi forces but an Interior Ministry source told the BBC that only American troops were involved. Several of Mr Al-Zamili’s guards were also detained. (16) Six party talks are starting in the Chinese capital Beijing in a further attempt to resolve the dispute over North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme. The discussions come amid hopes of progress. It’s though the latest talks could cover a possible freeze on the operation of North Korea’s plutonium producing reactor and the return of international nuclear inspectors in exchange for fuel oil deliveries. The American envoy Christopher Hill said the talks were the first step in implementing the agreement reached towards the end of 2005. (17) A protest by thousands of miners in Bolivia has been called off after an agreement was reached with the government of president Evo Morales. The government promised a 10 million dollar fund to improve working conditions in independent mining cooperatives, but there was no agreement on the proposed tax rise in the sector which the miners oppose. (18) An author with the fear of wide open spaces has won a major British literary award even though she’d never been to Canada where the book is set. Steph Penny won the Costa ?? Book of the Year Award for her first novel: “The Tenderness of Wolves”, which is set in Ontario in the 1860ies. She said she learned all she needed to know about Canada in the British Library. “It really didn’t occur to me that not going to Canada might be a problem. That’s due to some of the fantastic material that I read in the British Library, which, you know, so beautifully described and so vivid that it wasn’t hard work to conjure up this landscape.” (19) The United Nations force in South Lebanon has described the shooting incident between Israeli and Lebanese troops along their common border as serious. The spokesman for the UN force said in the statement that the Lebanese Army started firing after an Israeli Army bulldozer moved across the border fence in an apparent attempt to clear the area of explosives. Israeli troops then returned fire. No casualties were reported. (20) The chief lawyer representing the former Liberian president Charles Taylor, has again called for his war crimes trial in the Hague which is scheduled to start in June to be delayed. Speaking on his first visit to Liberia, the lawyer, Kevin Khan, who heads a United Nations appointed team, said they needed more time in order to prepare Mr Taylor’s case. He denies 11 charges arising from his alleged support for rebels in the civil war in Sierra Leone. If he’s convicted, he faces a life sentence. (END OF TAPESCRIPT) PART FIVE: QUESTIONS 21-25 (TRANSCRIPT) 5 Building a functioning police force is one of the hot topics in Afghanistan, at the moment, and there has been much high-level military and political debate on the subject. The essence of this debate is how to build up a force that is capable of providing long-term security and justice throughout Afghanistan. A functioning police force is the key for the international community’s ultimate disengagement from the country. How are things going? There’s a wide range of views on current progress. These different views reflect the various theories for building a new police force and differences of opinion regarding the type of police the country needs. But firstly, in order to assess progress, it’s important to be clear where we’re starting from. The start point is not looking good. Sad to say, but most Afghans currently regard the police as a source of fear rather than security. For example, the town of Mosacalla was retaken by the government earlier on this year. Afterwards, there were widely believed stories that the newly arrived police took advantage of the town’s empty houses to loot them of beds, bicycles, radios and fridges, before the residents had the chance to return. Whether these are true or not, they are believed. And they serve to further undermine the relationship between the police and the people. Police forces around the world always contain a few bad apples, but by and large they don’t detract too much from the good work of the majority. The problem is when the bad outnumber the good. That seems to be the situation here. Not only is there a problem with trust. There’s also the issue of equipment. In parts of the country, mostly in the main urban centers there have been significant enhancements to the quality of the police’s kit. But in the rural areas the situation is pretty dire. In fact, the Ministry of Interior’s spokesman, my friend, Mr Bashari Nausai, said the other day that it was totally unfair to expect Afghan policemen to fight terrorists when they only have five rounds of ammunition each, and no shoes. There is such a long way to go, but the good news is that the journey has definitely started, and we can expect to see accelerated progress over the coming months. Substantial amounts of money will be heading into the system from the US, and the EU is showing signs that it’s beginning to build up some steam after a tricky period earlier this year. (END OF TRANSCRIPT) 6 PART SIX: QUESTIONS 26-30 (TRANSCRIPT) Morning. Yesterday the second phase of the new mental capacity act came into force. One of its provisions allows patients to sign power of attorney so that a relative or friend can decide what interventions should be avoided at a later stage. I’ve a close friend suffering from a degenerative motor-neuron disease. He knows he faces prolonged and terrifying air hunger, as he slowly looses the ability to breathe. And he’s concluded that when the time comes refraining from all food and liquid would give him a more controlled and mindful demise. This illustrates how the legislation might work from the patient’s point of view. But such living wills are contentious as they may oblige doctors to act against their conscious or religious convictions. It seems to strike at what it means to be a doctor. Or what Hindus would call “Dharma”. Something more than just duty or responsibility, Dharma defines the essence of a profession. In the ancient epic Ramayana, Ram brings the royal physician of his adversary to heal his injured brother. At first the doctor objected to helping his king’s enemy and warned Ram: “How do you know that I will not intentionally harm your brother?” Ram replied that trusted the physician to put his Dharma as a healer above any other consideration, and asked him to act according to his hart. I’ve long contended that it’s unethical to compel doctors whose very reason is to prolong life to actively end it, either through the termination of pregnancy or euthanasia. The mental capacity act raises the converse issue. Doctors can be stopped from providing life-preserving treatments by the wishes of their patients. Some might feel this compromises their vocation as a doctor. For me the question then becomes: is acquiescing to a patients refusal of all interventions contrary to the Dharma of a physician? Hinduism approaches it from the underlying philosophical principle that life belongs to the soul residing within the material body. The soul is an eternal spiritual entity and the body is a mechanical vehicle to be employed to best advantage while it lasts. The general injunction is that the individuals should strive to keep the body healthy and active and doctors serve that objective. However, inevitably, our mortal coil reaches a state where it is no longer productive to maintain life within it. When it is clear that the next phase for the soul is preparing for departure the Dharmas for the individual and the doctor change. A higher purpose prevails and the Dharmas of both patient and doctor coincide in trying to provide the best possible circumstance for the soul to leave the body in peaceful and enlightened consciousness. (END OF TRANSCRIPT) 7