PART ONE: QUESTIONS 1-5
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(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.
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PART TWO: QUESTIONS 6-10
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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…
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PART THREE: QUESTIONS 11-15
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Robin:
Serena:
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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?
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Serena:
Robin:
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Serena:
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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.
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PART FOUR: QUESTIONS 16-20
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(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.
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PART FIVE: QUESTIONS 21-25
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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.
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PART SIX: QUESTIONS 26-30
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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.
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