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DAVID REMNICK:� We have today -- we have the great honor of meeting with the Russian foreign minister, whom you probably remember from his years in New York at the United Nations.� Sergey Lavrov has just come from a meeting with Condoleezza Rice, and I thought perhaps we should begin at the beginning --
MR.����� :� (Off mike.)� (Laughter.)
REMNICK:� -- and ask about that meeting.� In the Washington Post's article describing or setting up this meeting, what we call a curtain raiser, a U.S. official described our relationship -- the United States' relationship with Russia -- as very rocky indeed.
Was this a rocky meeting?� And if so, why?
FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV:� Well, first of all, thank you for this opportunity to meet again with the members of the council.� Since I was a bit late because of the meeting with Secretary Rice, we decided that I wouldn't make any opening remarks, but I have them and we will leave them with the council for you to consider how to use them.
As to the meeting, I did not feel any rocky style.� Certainly a rocky style is not my style, and it was not secretary's approach to this meeting.� We discussed our relationship.� We, I believe, agreed that we have to be pragmatic.� We would never be able to agree on everything.� And of course we discussed the immediate things on which we disagree, the situation in the Caucasus.� But we, as I said, agreed that we must not make this situation a rock on which everything else would be hit.
And we considered our future areas of cooperation, including the issues related to nonproliferation.� And it's obvious that we have to get clarity.
And we -- I welcome the pragmatic mood of the secretary and the pragmatic mood of the discussion, as I welcomed the pragmatic attitude of President Bush yesterday when he spoke in the General Assembly and devoted most of his speech to the issues which are indeed important to the entire humanity, including Russia and the United States, like terrorism, like human trafficking, drug trafficking, proliferation.� All these demand collective effort.� All this is impossible to do without uniting all assets we all have, and the Russian-American cooperation is certainly a key to such worldwide endeavor.
So it is also -- it is also clear that pragmatism in our relations, after the very emotional reaction in the West -- and in the United States, in particular -- to the Russian action to stop the aggression of Georgia against South Ossetia, the action firmly rooted in the right for self-defense as enshrined in Article 51 of the charter.� Of course, this coming down of the situation between the two countries and coming back to the pragmatism, which always was a feature of the American policy and of the Russian policy of late, would take some time.
And I had already a chance to explain that you cannot really have -- you can't really have it both ways, punishing Russia by cancelling some of the meetings and some of the formats which are really important for the entire world, and at the same time demanding from Russia to cooperate on the issue which is of crucial importance to you in particular.
I already referred to the fact that we didn't understand the reasons why G-8 events have been, if not cancelled, but then indefinitely postponed, events which are so important because they were about nonproliferation working group, they were about working group of G-8 on counterterrorism, they were about foreign ministers meeting, which takes place annually in the margins of the General Assembly and which discusses Iran, North Korea, other proliferation risks, and conflicts like Middle East and Afghanistan, for example.
The meeting of G-8 ministers of agriculture also became a victim, though they were supposed to consider strategy on food security, which was one of the highlights of the Toyako G-8 summit.� So we have to understand, if the United States would have some sort of list of items on which it doesn't want to cooperate with us and another list on which it wants to cooperate with us, when we have this list, we would certainly understand better how we ourselves should proceed on this relationship.
We don't believe it's right to make the very important items on our agenda hostage to the emotions and to the feeling of being offended, though there should be no such feeling.� We acted, as I said, on the basis of international law.� We have been protecting the lives of the Russian peacekeepers who had been attacked by their Georgian comrades, because there was a joint peacekeeping force.� And when the Georgian army started this assault against the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, the Georgian peacekeepers, serving in one contingent with their Russian friends, joined the army and started killing the Russian comrades in arms.
So we could not -- we could not tolerate this.� And if all this talk about responsibility to protect is going to remain just talk, if all this talk about human security is going to be used only to initiate some pathetic debate in the United Nations and elsewhere, then we believe this is wrong.� So we exercised the human security maxim, we exercised the responsibility to protect, and did so in strict compliance with Article 51 of the charter.
So we discussed in particular today with Secretary Rice the situation on the Iranian nuclear program and the situation on nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula.� We believe that in both cases our overriding goals have not changed.� We want to resolve peacefully both situations.� We want to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, and we want to establish that the Iranian nuclear program is entirely peaceful through the offices of IAEA.� These goals are unchanged, and it would be just irresponsible if, because of some disagreements on the Caucasus, our (country/countries ?) should drop these overriding goals.
As to the tactics on both issues, we never saw hundred percent eye to eye.� We always had some differences in tactical approaches.� But we have until now been able, on both these issues, find out common tactic by developing compromise approaches together also with other participants of the six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula on the one hand and with the Europeans and China on the Iranian nuclear program.
And we reiterated that this is the case in this particular situation as well, and we will be continuing our discussions on these issues.� And we will also expect our American colleagues -- and others, but I believe it's first of all the Americans -- not to prevent the G-8 discussions on crucial issues for the entire humanity.
REMNICK:� Sergey Viktorovich, I don't need to recite all the events that led up to it, the various speeches, maneuvers, alliances and so on, but anybody that's looking at the U.S.-Russian relations in the last few years can probably be forgiven for being alarmed or at least very concerned about the direction of that relationship, at least seen from the outside.
You describe it as not rocky at all, and yet you see the concern in Russia about our relationship with Georgia.� You see ours about your friendship with Venezuela and elsewhere.� And we've seen in the press and elsewhere discussion of the possibility of a new form or renewal of a Cold War mentality on both sides.� And we've seen that in speeches given by Prime Minister Putin, President Medvedev, Dick Cheney, President Bush, a real hardening of language that was not there some years ago.� So you could say it's not rocky, but how would you describe it in Cold War terms?
LAVROV: �Well, I think you might have missed something because I don't remember what year was it when Vice President Cheney made his speech in Vilnius, Lithuania -- I think it was about three years ago, at least, when no Georgia was dividing anyone, except that everybody was trying to concentrate on the mechanisms of settlement of South Ossetian and Abkhazian crisis, which eventually was disrupted by Saakashvili -- but in that speech and in some other speeches during that period which wasn't considered rocky by anyone, there was some very harsh language from President (sic) Cheney to which we had to react.� I wouldn't want to recite this language, but it was -- it was absolutely identical to the Cold War language.� It was not our choice.� It is not our choice now.� And I don't recall any speech by President Putin or President Medvedev which would be an invitation to the Cold War.
If you refer to the Munich statement of President Putin, I think it was -- it was a very important call which went unanswered.� It was a call for beginning of an honest dialogue on why this year's -- the world security system is not working as intended.� He presented examples, which in our view indicated that the implementation of the agreements on the issues of what I would call hard security has been flawed.
We agreed in Russia-NATO Council, for example -- and this is the key issue for what we are discussing -- that security is indivisible and that no one should ensure his security at the expense of security of others.� It's a very straightforward statement endorsed, I think, in 2003 in -- (inaudible) -- when Russia-NATO Council Summit took place and a few months ago in Bucharest, when there was another Russia-NATO summit on April 6.
We have been trying to develop a common statement for the presidents of NATO countries and Russia to endorse, and this statement failed because the United States didn't want to pick up the language of five years ago and to say once again that no one would ensure his security at the expense of security of others.� It was a very telling position, the position of not being able to say that the U.S. is prepared to take into account security concerns of other countries in this Euro-Atlantic space.
And this was -- this refusal to reiterate this phrase was done, of course, against the background of missile defense, third positioning area in Europe; against the background of reluctance of our American friends to discuss seriously post-START-2 regime -- post-START-1 regime, because START-1 is expiring in December next year.� And the only thing the U.S. is prepared to leave instead of this is the logic of the Moscow Treaty, which only establish the limits for operational deployed nuclear warheads.
They still don't want to keep the limits on the delivery vehicles, on all sorts of delivery vehicles.� And we still cannot get a credible answer on what about the American plans to develop non-nuclear warheads, which would be placed on strategic launchers -- on strategic missiles and strategic delivery vehicles, which would create a huge difficulty for the -- for those who watch the strategic stability situation in real time.
So when we see this fact -- and of course, NATO expansion, which we were told would never happen when the Soviet Union was leaving in Eastern Europe -- then establishing American bases on the Black Sea in Romania and Bulgaria -- which we were, again, promised wouldn't be the case -- and when you take the condemnation of the effects being created on the ground, and of course the plans of the United States to put the -- or rather, the reluctance of the United States to agree that we shouldn't put weapons in outer space and the plans to put such weapons being deliberated in this country, and the doctrine of prompt global strike -- when you take this all in combo and against this background, you ask your American colleagues in Russia-NATO Council to say a simple thing which they were able to say five years ago -- let's say that no one would ensure his security at the expense of security of others -- and they say, no, we can live without this.� I mean, if our reaction to this by way of inviting everybody to discuss how we shall proceed from now on is considered as an invitation to the Cold War times, then I cannot agree with this.
REMNICK:� Do you feel that Russia's surrounded by enemies?� In mid-September, President Medvedev gave an interview to Izvestia, and he said that in fact Russia's surrounded by enemies.� (In Russian, then continues in English.)� Is that the case?
LAVROV:� I don't think he said so.� I just explained to you in details.� It was a very specific examples by what Russia is being surrounded:� third positioning area of American missile defense system, military bases in Bulgaria and Romania, the outer space plans, the plans --
REMNICK:� But does that -- does that --
LAVROV:� -- the plans to put new radars somewhere in the Baltic countries and some down south, similar plans on the eastern borders of Russia between the U.S. and Japan, missile defense projects.� That's what Russia is surrounded by.
We are not enemies with anyone, but the military planners just must take this into account when they take the measures to develop their own military defense capacity.� That's -- that is a statement of fact.� President Medvedev did not say that we are surrounded by enemies.
REMNICK:� I beg to differ.� But -- indeed he did, on 9/19, in Izvestia, but --
LAVROV:� Look, we believe -- I don't know how you to translate the English into Russian, the Russian into English -- (laughter) -- but the feeling of hostile policies --
REMNICK:� Accurately.
LAVROV:� -- hostile policies, indeed, is something which we feel sometimes.
REMNICK:� Okay.
Do you feel threatened by, overall, the phenomenon in last -- over the years of what's known as the color revolutions?
LAVROV:� We don't feel threatened by this phenomenon.� We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy.
We tried it, you know, in 1917.� And you know -- (laughter) -- what came out of it.� And that revolution was red revolution, as you know.� And that's a color.� (Laughter.)
REMNICK:� But nobody accused it of being democratic, you know.
LAVROV:� Well, no.� If you think that a coup to overthrow the elected government is a coup everywhere, then you should remember how elections in Ukraine took place in 2004, how elections in Georgia took place in 2003, when the elections results have been torn and thrown away by revolutionary action.
I remember President Saakashvili storming the parliament and throwing away his teacher, President Shevardnadze, from the rostrum and saying, "I am -- I am the boss now."� And he was immediately recognized as president.� What's the difference between this and 1917?� (Laughter.)
REMNICK:� Did you feel --
LAVROV:� It wasn't Winter Palace, of course, it was a different building.� (Laughter.)
REMNICK:� The weather is better.� Did you feel that the Orange Revolution and the Rose Revolution were underwritten in some way by the West?
LAVROV:� I don't know.� I don't know.� I want -- I want to believe that noninterference in internal affairs is still the principle to which we all subscribe.
REMNICK:� In a second we're going to open this up to questions from members in the room.� So whoever's holding microphones, be prepared.
You gave a speech in the beginning of September in Moscow to the Diplomatic Corps.� And you quoted approvingly a Singaporean scholar who said the following:� "The West has gone from being the world's problem-solver to being its single biggest liability."� And you quoted this approvingly in the context of this speech, and I wondered if you could talk about that a bit.
LAVROV:� First of all, I quoted it to show that we must discuss these things.� We must not privatize values.� We must not privatize civilization.� We must admit that there are several civilizations in this world.� And we must admit that unipolarity based on the insistence that it's only the Western civilization which is right is absolutely a dead -- a dead end.
And we must also admit that we must not pretend that the European civilization -- and there are three branches of this civilization, European Union embodying the Europe proper part of it, the American branch and the Russian branch -- we must not pretend that the European civilization is going forever to be the leader in this world.� And to remain a leader you must be competitive.� We all must be competitive.� It's only together that we can be competitive.� And in competing with other civilizations, we can only prove -- we can only find out who is the leader.
And it's because this quote was a good illustration, in my view, that we must begin to talk seriously and we must respect others, that I quoted this scholar.� And the other reason was that he used to be my buddy, ambassador to U.N. and I thought it would be nice for him to know that I remember and read him.
REMNICK:� But you don't -- but you don't agree that the West is the world's biggest liability, as he -- as he sets it out?
LAVROV:� Well, I explained to you why I quoted him.
REMNICK:� But you don't agree?� You quoted him in a spirit of demonstration?
LAVROV:� Look, look, this "either you're with us or you are not with us or you are against us" black and white -- I explained to you why I did it and I think people understood.
REMNICK:� Steve Sestanovich -- that's you.
QUESTIONER:� Thank you, David.� Thank you, Sergei.
Over the summer, the foreign ministry produced a foreign policy concept for Russia and President Medvedev signed it.� But after the war in Georgia, he added a couple of words to it that have attracted a lot of interest, two words that hadn't been in what your ministry proposed earlier.� And those words are "privileged interest," talking about the region around Russia, it seemed.
Can you tell us what that means?� Because a lot of people have wondered whether it doesn't involve or imply defining your security at the expense of others, for example, or claiming kinds of rights that go beyond international law or introducing a new kind of hegemony that makes people in the West worry.� These words, as far as I know, have not been defined, but maybe you can make a breakthrough here.
LAVROV:� As soon you let me.
QUESTIONER:� Yes.� (Laughter.)
LAVROV:� Well, now I see -- now I see how -- now I see how easy it is to distort the policy statements.� You said that this particular phrase, which you quoted not very accurately, might mean that this could be ensured against international law.� The five principles which President Medvedev highlighted on August 31st, I think -- the principles contained in the foreign policy concept which you referred to, Steve, he started by principle -- and he said that, on the basis of foreign policy concept, I want to -- what -- how --
QUESTIONER:� Prioritize.
LAVROV:� -- prioritize the immediate principles on which our foreign policy would be based.
Number one, respect for international law.� And this wasn't intended as an abuse to the United States, I can assure you.� (Laughter.)
Number two, multipolarity.� We would henceforth build our foreign policy on the objective realties of multipolar world.� Unipolar world was maybe real in somebody's mind, but it did not work.� It failed completely in Georgia, just like the present system of European security architecture has failed.
Number three, non-confrontational approaches.
Number four, Russia has areas where it has privileged interests, not privileged areas, but some areas are the areas of privileged interest of Russia.� The foreign policy concept says that we will -- you want to get an answer from Vitaly or -- (laughter) -- the foreign policy concept said that we, Russia, will develop friendly, mutually beneficial relations with all those who are prepared to do the same on the equal and mutually beneficial basis, paying particular attention to the traditional partners of the Russian Federation.
Of course you're right, this is about countries of the former Soviet Union, but not only.� We have had since many years ago very good relations with countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America who send their students to study in the Soviet Union and in Russia, where we build a lot of industrial enterprises.� About 150 enterprises were built in Afghanistan alone.� Afghanistan is among those countries with whom we have very good relations.
And during the '90s, the period where we -- when we were considered one of the best democracies -- I don't recall that that period was dubbed with some sort of color revolution, but it was a democratic revolution without any color.� And during that period, unfortunately, we were so poor that we could not care about the immediate needs of our own people and we couldn't afford -- frankly, we didn't even remember about relationships with our old friends.
As we went out of this crisis, as we acquired resources sufficient -- maybe for the first time on history -- to address at the same time all the problems of the country at the particular point, including modernization of economy, including modernization of the army, which was in very bad shape, including resulting social problems, and including joining the club of donors who engage in official development assistance -- we just adopted a law to this effect -- we-- and we also saw the rising of the Russian business, who after they established themself inside the country, began, like any other business, to look abroad.� And of course the past experience, past connections are very important for business to reintroduce themselves in countries and regions.
And we will be paying attention to those who graduated from our universities.� We started a couple of years ago to invite them to Moscow for some sort of congress of those who graduated from educational institutions in our country.� We started to pay attention to those Russians -- ethnic Russians, who emigrated -- including from the time of -- before the revolution, to various countries and who now want to reestablish links, cultural and spiritual, with their motherland.� And we would like to use the economic assets all over the world, assets created with the assistance of our country, to get some benefit from it now.
So that's what is meant.� And principle number five, by the way, highlighted by our president, was about -- I was explaining principle number four for too long.� You don't remember?
AUDIENCE MEMBER:� (Off-mike.)
LAVROV:� Ah, protecting Russians, protecting Russian citizens wherever they are.� Again, you can -- you can easily say that this is an aggressive policy.� This is why Russian -- as Condi called it -- (educated ?) bombers are flying to Venezuela.� Slightly humiliating, but fine.� (Laughter.)� Protecting Russian citizens.� We would, with all means available to us.
And I can quote as example how we are trying to protect the Russian speakers in Latvia and Estonia.� We have been saying that the only thing we insist upon is for these two countries to respond positively to recommendations by the Council of Europe, by the OSCE, by the United Nations.
The rapporteurs of these organizations repeatedly visit and repeatedly recommend to them to speed up the naturalization process, to simplify the citizenship procedures for newly born and for the elderly, these type of things.� We would protect the Russian citizens whenever they are subject to discrimination in business or in any other sphere, through diplomacy, through international instruments, through international organizations.
And I hope that no one would start again the bloody aggression launched by President Saakashvili in the early hours of August 8th against a sleeping city, and that no one would be killing Russian citizens.� And people would have to choose.� You either support those who killed hundreds of Russian citizens, including peacekeepers serving under international agreement, or you don't support such people.
I would -- the parallels are not correct, maybe, but I remember when Panama was invaded in -- 1989?
AUDIENCE MEMBER:� (Off-mike.)
LAVROV:� No, Panama.� Panama.� And President Bush Senior, announcing this, said, we cannot tolerate this anymore.� One American serviceman was killed, another one wounded, the third one beaten.� And his wife sexually harassed.� That's enough, he said.� And the Americans raised like one to support the effort to protect the American citizens.� And I can also recall what was the motivation for a couple of other invasions, where no one was killed but there was a danger to their lives.�� And countries -- countries were invaded.
REMNICK:� Let's try to fit in some more questions.
LAVROV:� And I believe -- and I believe that -- you must understand -- well, maybe I am slightly emotional, but when we didn't hear any condolences to the loss of Russian life, and when we heard at the same time condolences to the loss of Georgian life, it's not -- it's not in the traditions of Christianity, at least.
REMNICK:� Steve (Cohen ?).
QUESTIONER:� Sergey Viktorovich, I'd like to ask you a question that maybe you can answer outside your official position as foreign minister.� And I'd --
LAVROV:� (Inaudible) -- remove my title?� (Laughter.)
QUESTIONER:� Back in Soviet days, at least before Gorbachev, it was the official position in Moscow that there were no fundamental disagreements in Moscow about foreign policy toward the United States.� Today the Russian newspapers, your newspapers, are full of disagreements about policy toward the United States.� My question is, which of those disagreements in Moscow do you think we should know about which are most important?� And I don't mean disagreements in the Kremlin.� I mean disagreements in the political class more generally.� I'm not asking for secrets about the Kremlin.� But it's difficult to understand the degree in seriousness of these foreign policy debates in Moscow, because we have debates here, as well.� And I'm hoping you can give us a little guidance on that.
LAVROV:� Well, first of all, I would like to say that there have always been disagreements, including in the Soviet Union.� It's another thing that they were not public -- made public.� But as far as I can say, because I don't know everything about how the foreign policy was done in that period -- I was just junior diplomat -- but from what I know, the disagreements sometimes were very, very tough.� But the rule of the game in the Soviet Union was that after a decision has been taken, everyone was supporting the decision, in spite of the previous disagreements.� And disagreements would always be in a society, even in closed society, but in the open society, those disagreements are known and made public, and you yourself refer to the not very free Russian media, which is full of disagreements with the government.
I would hope that you would explain, to those who criticize us for curbing the media freedom, that there is a possibility to find many, many alternative views in Russia.
What sort of disagreements you should be really aware of, well, if you read those newspapers, you would understand that some people criticize Russia for what happened in Georgia, for how we responded to this aggression, and they criticize us from very utilitarian reasons.� They say U.S. is unhappy, U.S. is angry and U.S. would cancel visas to officials, U.S. would impede Russian business abroad, and so on and so on, so that's why, this line goes, we should have swallowed.� Others say that we were not resolute enough, that we acted only in response, though we knew that he was planning this, and we should have taken preemptive action; then hundreds of lives would have been saved.
Some others say that we should have taken Tbilisi and create a tribunal to try President Saakashvili.� Some others referred to the example of the fate of Saddam Hussein.� And this is all discussed.
But I -- not because it's -- (chuckles) -- not because I am foreign minister.� You asked me to try to remove my hat for a moment.� I believe that from a combination of reasons -- first of all, moral, legal, pragmatic -- this was the only possible solution.� After President Saakashvili tried his first South Ossetian war in August of 2004, he didn't have enough arms at that time, and the war was stopped quickly by peacekeepers and South Ossetian security forces.
After that -- and of course he has rearmed hugely.� After that he is world record maker in the growth of arms, of military budget.
But since that August, for the last four years, we had to keep on alert our military units on the Russian part of the border, of the Caucasian Range, because we knew that he was preparing this.� And for us not to react or to react without destroying the assets which were used to shell Tskhinvali and other cities in South Ossetia would mean to continue this never-ending watch on the gentleman who never kept his single word and who never accepted the proposal not to sign a treaty not to use force to resolve his territorial integrity.� He undermined it through violating each and every agreement Georgia signed on resolution of these conflicts.� And those agreements were done in the context of keeping territorial integrity of Georgia.� He disrupted this himself, those papers and the integrity --
REMNICK:� On the aisle here.� Yes, yeah.
QUESTIONER:� Thank you.� Raghida Dergham, Al Hayat.
LAVROV:� Hi, Raghida.
QUESTIONER:� Hello.� How are you?
About your meeting again with Condoleezza Rice --
REMNICK:� Could you ID yourself?� I didn't --
QUESTIONER:� Yes.� I'm Raghida Dergham with Al Hayat.� Okay.
Now --
LAVROV:� From another civilization.
REMNICK:� No, I --
(Soft laughter.)
QUESTIONER:� Will you -- as a result of your meeting with Condoleezza Rice, will you now continue to postpone imposing additional sanctions on Iran?� Is this an agreement that you have that -- let's leave it till later?� Or was there any understanding that there would be a sort of timeline by which you will go back to this discussion?
And secondly, we heard about discussion between you and the Syrians on military facilities, military cooperation in the Tartus, et cetera.� Can you shed some light on exactly what sort of military cooperation are you planning with Syria?� Thanks, Sergey.
LAVROV:� The first one is easy.� We did not discuss any sanctions.� We just agreed that the three-plus-three group or five-plus-one group, whatever it is called, remains united in achieving its original goals, namely, making sure that IAEA has access to everything it needs to see to conclude that the Iranian nuclear program doesn't have any military dimension, period.
We also agreed that it was not timely to convene any ministerial meeting now, but that sometime down the road our experts could continue discussing how to proceed and how to support IAEA, especially since Iran is not found guilty, if you wish, in the last report by ElBaradei.� ElBaradei testified that IAEA doesn't possess any evidence that Iran has a military nuclear program, though of course ElBaradei said that Iran is still to cooperate fully on the remaining issues.
And the other one is also very simple.� We are not discussing anything with any country which would be against the internationally agreed norms and international law in the specific area.
REMNICK:� Right here.� Yes, you.� Yeah.
LAVROV:� Evelyn.
QUESTIONER:� Hello.� (Chuckles.)� Evelyn Leopold, who harassed him many years at the U.N. as a journalist.
Can I follow up on that?� Why did you not attend the meeting?� Why do not you think it's timely on Iran to have a foreign ministers' meeting tomorrow?� Are you waiting for the Bush administration to go out of office or another IAEA report?� Because the IAEA said it was very frustrated with Iran's position.
LAVROV:� Do you still smoke?� (Laughter.)
QUESTIONER:� No.� No.� You do, though.� (Off mike.)
REMNICK:� Is that the question?� (Soft laughter.)
QUESTIONER:� (Chuckles.)
LAVROV:� Well, Evelyn, I just said that ElBaradei said other things in his report.� But it's only the frustration part which is quoted here, and it's not the entire truth.� The truth is, as I said, that he said, reiterated, repeated once again that IAEA doesn't have any evidence that the Iranian nuclear program has a military dimension.
As to the meeting, yeah, I mean, Sean McCormack said today that they agree with us that this meeting is not timely.� So how can I challenge this?� (Soft laughter.)
And I can tell you that if anyone has the slightest doubt that the overriding goals of the three-plus-three group remain valid, we can tomorrow adopt a resolution which would bluntly says -- say that we reiterate all the existing resolutions of the Security Council, and we strongly call upon Iran to implement all these resolutions.� This would send a very clear signal to all those who believe that because of what is going on, some games would be played around nonproliferation issues.� No, this would not happen.
REMNICK:� Sergey Viktorovich, can I just interject a short question?� It's hard for us to understand from this distance.� And who is in charge of foreign policy in Russia at this time?� There's a great deal of confusion about whether the prime minister still holds sway in terms of matters of war and peace and security, or whether it's Mr. Medvedev, as the constitution would suggest.
LAVROV:� Look, for this -- for such a respected council not to follow the discussions about this I believe is not possible.� So you certainly know the statements to this effect by President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin, who discussed this very recently once again when the members of the Valdai Club came.� President Medvedev, in full conformity with the Russian constitution, is in charge of the Russian foreign policy.
And even Steve said that it was President Medvedev who signed the foreign policy concept.� Right, Steve?
QUESTIONER:� (Off mike.)
(Soft laughter.)
REMNICK:� I'm convinced.
QUESTIONER:� Hi.� Mr. Foreign Minister, thank you.� My name is Roland Paul.� I'm a lawyer.� I was in the U.S. government a couple of times.
One of your most important jobs is to draw conclusions as to what American foreign policy is toward Russia.� And with respect to South Ossetia and the activities there, do you believe that the American position is, we got the message that -- we hear and understand the message you're sending us, and we even respect your position somewhat, but don't make us say it out loud, and let's both be very careful?
LAVROV:� Can you -- (chuckles) -- can you repeat it?� (Chuckles.)
QUESTIONER:� Sorry.� I didn't mean to put too much in.� Concerning South Ossetia, do you see the American response to the Russian activity as being, you're trying to tell us something, you're trying to tell the United States something with a little bit more than what just happened in South Ossetia, and we hear the message -- we, the United States -- and we even respect what you're trying to say, but we are not going to say it out loud, and let's both sides be very careful?
LAVROV:� You know, it's not right to read anything more in all this episode than the protection of the Russian citizens and protection of the peoples of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.� We didn't have any geopolitical background in what we did.� We did what we did and nothing more.
The geopolitical twist all was perceived in other people's minds.� And some people of course were beginning to speculate immediately that this is the beginning of the restoration of the Soviet Union.� Some heated statements were made that now NATO must protect the Ukraine from Russian aggression to take over the Ukrainian Peninsula.
The Baltic states said the usual thing about their fears of being reoccupied.� And some people in NATO even began discussing ideas of creating a rapid reaction force to save NATO members from Soviet aggression.� It could have been, you know, a novel, a fantasy novel had it not been things which people actually say.
We have no intentions to claim anybody's territory.� We want everybody to reiterate the principles which have been guiding us in Europe and in the world, including the principle of territorial integrity, sovereignty, mutual respect for each other, none use of force, none interference in domestic affairs of others, in internal affairs of other states, indivisibility of security.
Let's put all these principles and let's look at them once again.� That's what President Medvedev suggested when he spoke in Berlin on June the 5th and said, let's have a summit and discuss Euro-Atlantic security problems.
(Cross talk.)
If all these principles, if all these -- I am speaking to the gentleman.� (Laughter.)� He managed his question with difficulty, so I have to.
He said that if all these principles which we agreed in the past, since Helsinki I, are still valid, then let's discuss why they are not applicable in practice.
Maybe the mechanisms are not adequate.� Maybe we need to expand some mechanism.� Maybe we need some additional mechanisms.� But both President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin, speaking to the Valdai Club members, when asked this question clearly said that we have no territorial claims to anyone.
It was President Saakashvili himself who violated territorial integrity of Georgia and the part of that integrity which was governed by international regimes established after the previous war launched by another Georgian president against these two countries.
That Georgian president, Gamsakhurdia, by the way, 1991, he said, Georgia for Georgians.� We must deport Ossetians into Russia.� We must cut the Abkhazian territory.� We must cancel the Adjarian autonomy.� And he said there must be no autonomies on the Georgian territory.� Only titular nation should be reigning there.� And then he started the war.
People don't -- I talked to Henry Kissinger this morning.� He didn't know the history.� He didn't know the history of how Abkhazia and South Ossetia became part of the Russian Empire, entirely independent of Georgia.
He didn't know the history of the Soviet Union being created and Abkhazia being one of the constituent republics, with the same rights, with the same status as Georgia.
And he didn't know that it was Stalin who put Abkhazia inside Georgia, who cut Ossetia in two and left, put, gave South Ossetia to Georgia and left Northern Ossetia in Russia.
He didn't know that for Abkhazians and Ossetians, when they were brought by Stalin inside Georgia, inside the Soviet Union, it was very difficult to get a decent career unless the Georgianized their names.
And people remember this and people remember how in the '20s when for two or three years, Georgia was an independent state, after the October Revolution and before Georgia became one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union, when in 1920, Georgians tried to conquer Ossetia, which was not part of Georgia.� And thousands of people died at that time.
And when you have all these facts combined, even for outsiders, it would be easier to understand that this issue is not very easy.� It's not just about restore territorial integrity of Georgia.� It's about two centuries of very difficult history.
And what about, I mean, if the outsiders can understand that this is tough, then what about the Ossetians and the Abkhazians who lived through all this?� And their ancestors lived through this and they, in the Caucasus, they conveyed the feelings and the emotions to the future generations in a very specific way.
When in 2006, President Saakashvili was asked whether he would use force to resolve this conflict, he said, never, I would never use force because I know what blood means in the Caucasus.� And he said that himself -- blood there means not decades, centuries.
REMNICK:� I think we have time for one more.� It's good to know what Henry Kissinger does not know.� (Laughter.)� Maybe Sarah Palin -- (laughter).
Right there.� Yes, yes.
But I think this is it.
(Cross talk.)
The woman on the --
QUESTIONER:� Thank you.
Minister Lavrov, thank you very much.� Elise Labott with CNN.
You spoke about the aging Blackjack bombers, so I know you were listening to Secretary of State Rice's speech.� I was just wondering, we've seen your comments from the ministry.� But if you could, just give us your candid assessment of the speech.� It was a very tough rhetorical speech.� She talked about Russia risking isolation and irrelevance.� I was wondering if you thought those were just emotional comments.
Did you take to heart what she said?� And do you think that coming to the United Nations this week, giving that speech just a few days ago, does that sour the atmosphere for the kind of pragmatic relationship that Russia hopes to have with the United States?
Thank you.
LAVROV:� Well, I could answer very, very briefly.� We understand the specific futures of the current period in the American life.� (Laughter.)
On isolation, one more remark, we don't feel isolated at all.� I have more requests for bilateral meetings during this session than in the past years.� And I really don't remember when there was so much interest in meeting and discussing things not only related to bilateral relations but related to the problems of the world and to the need for discussing those problems openly and the need to address those problems not with slogans -- you are a bad guy; you must do this; you must do that -- but addressing those problems intelligently.
This is what I feel.� And even if you take, you know, the countries who disagree with us publicly and even if you accept that all of those who disagree publicly feel the same inside them, then the problems related to the Caucasian crisis would be limited to some 25-30 countries.
And this again, you know, the question, the notion itself that Russia is isolated, the notion reflects the philosophy of unipolar world.� And I believe this philosophy is not going to prevail.� And life is much more complex and life is much more interesting than a unipolar world.
And I think in spite of the fact that the Chinese say, God forbid you to live in interesting times -- (laughter) -- interesting times we would have.
REMNICK:� Mr. Minister, thank you very much for -- (applause).


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May 12
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lottyshona says:
Just a lil Q's! HOW DO I CATCH A TRICKY PONY!?!? please help ASAP because i have lots of pony clubs and if i cant catch her i cant go! any ideas shot them out of your mouth i take any answers
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Aug 11
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jenappaloosapony says:
Leave a headcollar on her. Don't call her, just walk up, pat her, give her a carrot and clip rope on.
Just sit/stand until she comes till you, offer handful of pony nuts or some carrots or mints,
Apr 12
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jenhavocmanny says:
Join Up helps with My H.
Also used to know a pony who was a real pain to catch, so I'd pretend to eat an apple, making great enjoyment noises, and he couldn't resist coming to find out what I'd got that was so nice!
Hello thanks but if you go in the field she will kick thats the only problem jenappaloosapony but a good idea! jenhavocmanny I'll give it a go it is raining so i am going to go try and catch her and give her a feed its horrid rain!!!
Here are a few pictures of her some of her galloping away and some once we have been able to catch her lol
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Mar 10
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greyandbay says:
If every time you catch her she gets ridden, she'll maybe act like this because of that.
Try going up to her a few times with no headcollar, just a treat or apple or something, make a fuss of her, and let her go again.
Do that a few times, then try the same with a headcollar - put it on if she'll let you , make a fuss, give a treat, let her go.
It will take a while, it won't be a quick fix thing - also as jenhavocmanny says, try join up, it helps with a lot of things as it puts you as the dominant one, not her.
Good luck xx
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Oct 11
Posts: 94
ellasmellaa says:
Hi, when my ponys being hard to catch i just follow him using a flick of the rope to keep hm going if i need to. Then usually he gets fed up and comes to me. Its good this way as then its his chioce in a way! Its all to do with herding. Personally i wouldnt leave a headcoller on unless its field safe.
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CharParsley620 says:
jenappaloosapony said: Leave a headcollar on her.
Leave a headcollar on her.
A fieldsafe headcollar please! normal headcollars are dangerous to leave on.
It's lonely in the saddle since the horse died.
bang and shake a bucket. My little horse was absolutely shocking to catch. For Christmas, a friend of mine got me a tube of horse snacks. Now I've got it filled with nuts and I shake it..he comes over. Once I've put the headcollar on, he gets a reward and gets a handful of nuts.
Hasn't failed me yet and he was appalling to catch.
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A recent news report estimated that 80 million Americans are suffering from computer vision syndrome. In the report, Dr. Rachel Bishop, chief of consulting services at the National Eye Institute (NEI), says a major cause of dryness and fatigue is the fact that people using screens do not blink as often as they should when they are reading on a screen.
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Not too long ago, there was a ripple of publicity, including this report from ABC News, about the increasing prevalence of nearsightedness in America. The attention followed the release of an NEI study indicating nearsightedness in this country had grown from 25 percent in the 1970s to 41 percent this year in 2009. Some of the reports included speculation that the rise could be linked to texting and other screen time, but much more research needs to be done before that claim can be made with any certainty.
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Once again I am subjecting myself to humiliation for the sake of homemaking science by showing you another nasty appliance in my house.
This time it's my CHI flat iron.
Why is it so gross you ask? Well, let me tell you. :-)
I suffer from a serious condition called "poufy bangs" (sad but true) combined with a wicked cowlick.
Unless I straighten them everyday…(sometimes twice a day)…they just look ridiculous.
Problem is…I also use a fair amount of HAIRSPRAY on them and when I use the flat iron on my hairsprayed hair…this is what ends up happening.
A serious case of "gunk build-up".
The things we do for vanity. :-)
In the past I would wait until it got REALLY, REALLY bad and then throw it away and get a new one….because I couldn't find anything that would take it off. One day I was whining about my flat iron follies to my friend Danielle and she suggested I use the edge of a pair of scissors to scrape the gunk off. Afterall, the straightener is made out of CERAMIC. It actually worked quite well and didn't do TOO much damage to the iron. The slight scarring it did was worth it though, because I didn't have to buy a new one! An expensive proposition when a CHI retails for $120.00 at WALMART. Of course I didn't pay that much…thanks to a deal that was posted on Sweet Deals By Jillee! (how's that for a shameless plug?).
As you can see from the pictures…the "gunk build-up" was approaching a serious level of gross and I was about to attack it with the scissors again when I decided to give my "miracle cleaner" a try.
Turns out this was hardly even a challenge for the "miracle cleaner". :-) I made my usual paste of baking soda and hydrogen peroxide and started rubbing it in with my fingers. It immediately took all but the thickest parts of gunk off with hardly any effort at all. You can see from the pictures how the paste becomes discolored as it starts to "soak up" the dirt. It took some "elbow grease" to get the tough spots off…but eventually I did.
This is what it looked like "AFTER".
The main difference cleaning this small appliance vs. other things I've cleaned with the "miracle cleaner" was making sure I didn't get any cleaner or water inside the iron that would mess up the electrical stuff.
So I was careful to keep the cleaning mixture just on the plates themselves and then I used a wet rag to wipe it all off when I was done instead of rinsing it. It's still working like a champ at taming my unruly poufy bangs, so I must have done OK.
If you look close, you can still see where my previous attempts with the scissors did their damage. I point this out so you won't think the "miracle cleaner" did that. Nope, it was dopey me. But despite the unfortunate scissor scars….my CHI looks and feels like new!


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This is my first journal entry--post--on Oasis. Just the fact that there's a journal here makes this site insanely, insanely awesome. So hi everyone. I'm happy to be here.
That out of the way, it's absolutely ridiculous how hard it is for me to stop loving my best friend. She was the first person I really came out to (and I told her I liked her then, and she apparently liked me back). So, she's basically never stopped crushing on me, and it's the same for me. And we had this long phone conversation where we admitted to pretty much being in love with each other. She thinks we'll get together at some point throughout high school (freshman year here, BTW). And I... don't know. One the one hand, she's my best friend, and absolutely amazing, and I would never want to lose her friendship, ever. On the other, I'm totally in love with the girl. And we saw a musical and during a number or two there was some hand-holding, head-on-shoulder-resting... and it would have been just two very huggy friends, except it wasn't, and I know we both had the same thing on our minds. We went back to my house after because she had to wait to be picked up, and physicality just seemed so natural. And we were just lying on my bed, and she had her head on my legs... Her: "what are you thinking about?" Me: "...how weird it would be to have my first kiss in my bedroom." Her: "Great minds think alike."
She's bi, and currently has boyfriend. And as friends we're equals, and completely on the same plane, but when it comes to love, she's so much more confident and experienced, and if we get into a relationship then I'll... I don't know... lose status? Become inferior? She's always had a bit of sway over me because I'm head over heels in love with her, but she's been talking a little bit like it's that way for her too, so maybe I'm not the only one after all. I don't know what I'm trying to say here, anymore, it's just some abstract concept floating around in my brain that you should probably all ignore. But 'tever. Anyway, I'm just....... confused. If things were to end badly, I don't know what would happen; I'd lose my best friend. I don't know if I could sacrifice our friendship. And if she's my first real best friend, my first true love... how much of my life am I giving to her?
A lot of me says that we shouldn't get together, that we should stay friends. But part of me says I'll never have another chance. And another part of me wonders if I'd be able to say no to her. Argh. I am intensely confused. Advice would be greatly appreciated.
Here's hoping no one involved actually reads this! Best,
Hi Maia,
First of all, welcome to Oasis. Second of all, I've kind of been in your position, but my friend didn't like me back. But I've been through it, so I hope I can be of some help. I came out to her, and then told her I liked her. What we lacked was some real communication. I think you and your friend are relying on signals, which can often get confused and misread. If you can sit down and talk to your friend about how you're feeling, maybe you can get past your confusion. It's great that your friend likes you back, but tell her your concerns. And as always, with any new relationship, proceed with caution. Make sure you don't rush into it, because that can ruin any relationship. Again, welcome. And good luck.
Used to be it was a man's world and a woman's place was in the home...
they can kiss that shit goodbye.
Welcome to Oasis, first of all.
As for the girlfriend, stop ruining what might happen by mentally living out every possibility. the most attractive thing you can bring to a relationship is not needing to be with that person.
"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there." -- Josh Billings.
Add me on MySpace!
Heck, that wouldn't be so weird. I had my first kiss in my friend's mom's bedroom. xD
Whatever I did, I didn't do it.
Was it with her mom, though? That could be weird.
"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there." -- Josh Billings.
Add me on MySpace!
Yes, it would be very weird.
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Ph.D., Linguistic and Cultural Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 2003
Research interests
Language and culture, religion, ritual,
semiotics, discourse analysis, race and nation, language ideologies, historical
consciousness, religious community
Regional focus: Cuba, Caribbean, Latin America, African diaspora
Kristina Wirtz is a linguistic and cultural anthropologist who works on
Santería in contemporary Cuba. Her research and teaching interests encompass religion, discourse, ritual
performance, and negotiations over identity and community (racial, religious, and national). Dr. Wirtz is
especially intrigued by Santería's esoteric ritual register, Lucumí, as an emblem of
religiosity and of different strains of historical consciousness in Cuba and the African diaspora. Current projects
include editing a journal special issue on the topic of ritual unintelligibility, writing about the commercialization
of Afro-Cuban religion in Socialist Cuba, and researching the competing language ideologies that have shaped
"racialized" ways of speaking in Cuba, including ritual registers like Lucumí and marginalized
sociolects like "bozal."


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Dr. Tamara Kear talks about the Open Research Exchange
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Dr. William Polonsky talks about the Open Research Exchange
Dr. Thi Tranviet talks about the Open Research Exchange
Ben Heywood and Paul Tarini talk about Open Research Exchange
PatientsLikeMeOnCall™: Living with diabetes- an interview with Dr. Richard A. Jackson
For many, living with diabetes can be an overwhelming experience that comes with serious health concerns including heart attack, stroke, kidney complications and eye problems. However, Dr. Richard Jackson thinks there is another reason diabetes patients may feel overwhelmed… the medical establishment. "A typical diabetes education program series might tell you 150 things, but that might be 148 things too many."
PatientsLikeMeOnCall™: It's Friday Let's Journal Club. Dr. Taha Kass-Hout
Welcome to the fifth installment of our latest PatientsLikeMeOnCall podcast series, entitled "It's Friday – Let's Journal Club." This week's guest is Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, Deputy Director of the Division of Notifiable Diseases and Healthcare Information at the CDC. He came by PatientsLikeMe headquarters recently to discuss the BioSense project, an initiative launched following 9/11 and the subsequent Anthrax threats to create an integrated national public health surveillance system for early detection of potential bioterrorism-related illnesses.
PatientsLikeMeOnCall™: It's Friday Let's Journal Club, Catherine Brownstein
This week's interview is with PatientsLikeMe's own Catherine Brownstein, PhD, MPH, who recently won a highly competitive award from the International Congress of Human Genetics (ICHG). One of our in-house Research Scientists, Dr. Brownstein captivated PatientsLikeMe headquarters last Friday with her Journal Club talk about what the ICHG award means as well as how the study of genetics can influence healthcare decisions.
PatientsLikeMeOnCall™: It's Friday Let's Journal Club
PatientsLikeMeOnCall™ continues its weekly podcast series, "It's Friday - Let's Journal Club." In this installment, PatientsLikeMe member Sarah Taylor stopped by the PatientsLikeMe office to talk about her experiences with using PatientsLikeMe and living with type 1 diabetes since the age of nine. Sarah also shares some helpful tips for newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes patients.
PatientsLikeMeOnCall™: It's Friday Let's Journal Club
Interview with Kevin Dykstra Ph.D.:PatientsLikeMe's Aaron Fleishman sat down with Dr. Kevin Dykstra Ph.D. to learn more about how his team is working to measure the clinical utility of treatments in a systematic, quantitative way. Listen in to hear what exactly that involves and why Dr. Dykstra feels PatientsLikeMe is a "treasure trove of information" that is "incredibly useful" for both patients and drug developers
PatientsLikeMeOnCall™: It's Friday Let's Journal Club
Interview with David Hale, project manager of PillBox; Hosted by Aaron Fleishman. Aaron Fleishman sat down with Hale to learn more about Pillbox's goal of creating a one-stop resource for identifying unknown pills as well as how the project aligns with the Open Government Initiative enacted by President Obama. Tune in below to hear how Hale and his team took drug labeling data from "open to actionable" by listening closely to affected communities.
PatientsLikeMeOnCall™: "A Look Ahead" at Openness in Healthcare (Episode 4)
How can we put patients back at the center of healthcare? What barriers do we need to break through so that patients like you can openly share your health information? Co-founder of PatientsLikeMe Ben Heywood answers these questions and more in the fourth and final episode of our "A Look Ahead" podcast series.
PatientsLikeMeOnCall™: A Look Ahead Patient Safety
Interview with Co-Founder Jamie Heywood: Why does the healthcare industry need to shift from drug safety to patient safety? Co-Founder of PatientsLikeMe Jamie Heywood explains in this week's edition of "A Look Ahead." In this interview, Jamie explains the difference between drug safety and patient safety, why it is so important for healthcare to adapt more to patient safety and what this shift would mean for the future of healthcare.
PatientsLikeMeOnCall™: "A Look Ahead" at Patient and Industry Interaction
Interview with Chief Marketing officer and Head of Business Development David Williams: Why is it so important for patients and industry to work together? That's exactly what I asked our Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Business Development David Williams in this week's installment of "A Look Ahead." We sat down to discuss the benefits of aligning patient and industry interests as well as the role that social media can play.
PatientsLikeMeOnCall™: A Look Ahead Episode 1
Interview R&D Director Paul Wicks: Our Director of Research and Development Paul Wicks PhD stopped by PatientsLikeMeOnCall™ to discuss the future of PatientsLikeMe research, some of the challenges we face and the powerful influence patients like you can have when you share your health data.
PatientsLikeMeOnCall™: A Look Ahead Clip
Friday March 18th, OnCall will be releasing its first series of 2011 called "A Look Ahead." This series is going to look at some of the major shifts we see ahead for patients, patient care and patient/industry collaboration. We will be talking to co-founders of PatientsLikeMe Ben and Jamie Heywood as well as Head of business development and marketing at PatientsLikeMe David Williams and our head of research and development Paul Wicks. To kick this series off, we have a quick clip for you from my discussion with David Williams. In this episode David and I sat down to talk about the importance of patients and industry working together and David also gives us some examples of how patients and industry can work together.


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Fall's Standout Toppers
Fall's Standout Toppers
There's no use in a great outfit if you're covering it in a less than killer coat! Solution: twelve ultra stylish designs in the season's top trends. From cool leather details to ladylike waist-cinchers, these toppers are so chic you may want to leave them on indoors!
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It's Valentine's Day, and if you still haven't bought a special gift for your loved one, fear not. The Hour's Colin Kelly has a selection of romantic gadgets to inject some magic into your relationship.
First up is Glovers for Lovers, £19.99 from thepresentfinder.co.uk. It's much more fun to be able to hold hands during the winter, and the Glovers set contains one big glove for you and your other half to share and one glove each for your other hands. Perfect for a romantic stroll in the cold. Stephen wasn't too impressed and rated the Glovers a measly one out of five.
Next up was the Sound Splitter from lovehearts.co.uk. The device allows you to plug in two headphone jacks so that you and your loved one can listen to the same music or watch a personal DVD player. Perfect for the couple who travel, and at £7.99, it's a bargain. Michelle wasn't keen on the idea and gave the Sound Splitter a rating of two out of five.
- THE PERFECT LOOK: In a survey carried out by Optical Express, Colin's outfit was found to be the ideal first date look for British men. He was wearing a grey shirt, £40, and a £120 suit jacket, both from Studio by Jeff Banks. The look was finished off with black slim fit jeans for £26.50 at Red Herring and an £85 pair of Jasper Conran Bugsy centre seam loafers.
The Double Slanket is a gigantic fleece blanket with four arm holes so that you can snuggle up on the sofa with your loved one for extra cosy warmth. It's perfect for a couple's night in front of the TV and costs £24.99 from find-me-a-gift.com. Michelle loved this and gave it an impressive five out of five.
The Smart Control, £43 from oneforall.com, is a one for all remote that can control up to six devices. You wouldn't even have to get up from the couch to flick between devices, and it would stop arguments between you and your other half. This was by far Stephen's favourite, and he rated it four out of five.
Last on Colin's list of romantic gadgets was the Little Black Book for iPhone for £39.99 from firebox.com. The faux-pas leather case, handmade using traditional book-binding techniques, looks just like a vintage phone book and will protect your precious iPhone from bumps and scrapes, and will mark you out as an old-fashioned romantic. Michelle rated it a top mark of four out of five.


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Tom Rush always has been saddled with that most deadly of labels: critics' darling. Translation: popular failure. In a career that spans nearly 40 years, Rush has never achieved the kind of monster success enjoyed by his protégés Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and Jackson Browne. And yet as No Regrets attests, his stylistic ambitions mark him as the folk equivalent of the Velvet Underground: largely overlooked by the masses, yet hugely influential to the course of popular music. His 1965 album, Take a Little Walk With Me, is a monument in the folk-rock movement, while 1970's The Circle Game is generally regarded as the flagship of the songwriting movement.
The central question in surveying the 17 tracks on this retrospective (selected by Rush himself) is whether they withstand the test of time. The answer is, well, sort of. Some of the material assembled here still bristles with incandescence. A gorgeous, blustery arrangement of the traditional "Galveston Flood" showcases Rush's deft slide guitar work, as well as a lush baritone. "On the Road Again" is a good-time train song propelled by Bobby Gregg's snazzy snare drumming and Al Kooper's plinking guitar licks. "Lost My Drivin' Wheel" is accented by David Bromberg's mournful dobro and has the dark, stripped-down feel of a recent Beck offering. At the other end of the emotional spectrum is "Ladies Love Outlaws," a joyous honky-tonk romp juiced by the Memphis Horns.
Unfortunately not all of Rush's oeuvre holds up so well. A number of the cuts feel sorely dated. A case in point: the oft-covered title track, a pleasing-enough nugget of folk-pop that Rush rendered sodden and sappy with strings. The biggest disappointment is the disc's only new track, "River Song," a limp country offering that wastes backing-vocal turns from Marc Cohn and neofolkie Shawn Colvin. No Regrets isn't likely to fuel an instant Tom Rush revival. But it stands as an accurate and occasionally inspired tribute to his eclectic catalog. -- Steve Almond
Matthew Sweet
In Reverse
No career turnaround in recent memory has been as startling or as satisfying as Matthew Sweet's. His transformation from destitute pop unknown to globally lionized altrock figure hinged on one pivotal release, 1991's acclaimed Girlfriend. Sweet's rock redemption came after two decent pop efforts in the late '80s that went nowhere and got him dropped by two different labels. When he rebounded with the stunning Girlfriend, he encountered an unpredictable turn of events. Although the momentum built slowly, Girlfriend became a staple on radio stations and video channels and eventually appeared on scores of Top 10 lists. Equally impressive were Sweet's four subsequent releases, all of which expanded his burgeoning following.
In Reverse, Sweet's first album of new material in two years, is a decidedly pop though sonically experimental release. As the title suggests, the production leans toward a '60s sound, with Beatles-George Martin tricks and trifles, as well as a few references to the Hollies and the Move. The majestic Sgt. Pepper pop-pomp of opener "Millennium Blues" glides easily into the classic harmonies and hooks of "If Time Permits" and "Beware My Love," where Sweet soundchecks obscure '70s pop rockers Crabby Appleton. The pistol-whipping rocker "Faith in You" is perhaps the most propulsively crunchy three and a half minutes that Sweet has ever produced and is followed by the gorgeous slink of "Hide."
Sweet calls on a number of stalwarts, including Velvet Crush bassist Paul Chastain and drummer Ric Menck, both of whom are joined nearly throughout by percussionist Fred Maher. The trio gives much of In Reverse a rich percussive depth. Veteran session genius Greg Leisz offers a multitude of guitars as well as his signature pedal and lap steel to the mix, while Bruce and Walt Fowler, Frank Zappa alumni, contribute great horn arrangements and performances.
Matthew Sweet has made his potent point with Girlfriend and its follow-ups, so it's great to hear him take a chance and return to his purer pop roots. In Reverse has all the earmarks of being one of the year's best, and Sweet is well on his way to being considered in a league with other contemporary pop geniuses like Brian Wilson, Roy Wood, and Todd Rundgren. -- Brian Baker
George Carlin
The Little David Years 1971-1977
(Little David/Atlantic)
In the mid-'60s there were a lot of funny comics, but only two brilliant comedians: Bill Cosby and George Carlin. Cosby's genius lay in the universal themes of family and community and the recollection of his childhood as it crashed into his reality as a parent. Everything else was George Carlin's territory. Both men relied heavily on observational humor at a time when comedy was more joke-based than anecdotal. It was Carlin, however, whose simple bits became impossibly funny wordplays.
After establishing himself throughout much of the '60s as the comedy establishment's oddball, Carlin's act began to change toward the end of the decade. Vietnam, social unrest, and the hippie culture had a huge impact on Carlin, who had always been a malcontent disguised as a straight. He shunned the mainstream, grew his hair, smoked a lot of pot, and developed a new persona. When he returned, with 1972's seminal comedy masterpiece FM & AM, he was almost unrecognizable to his former audience, but he was too busy attracting a new audience to notice.


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Just Published by the Rudd Center
Legal Developments to Protect Obese Individuals from Discrimination
Obese individuals have reported discrimination in employment based on their weight, yet they have little legal recourse. Currently it is not illegal to discriminate against people based on their weight except in a limited number of jurisdictions.
Victims of weight discrimination have been unsuccessful in seeking legal justice through the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (collectively, the ADA), which protect against discrimination based on mental or physical disabilities in various settings, including the workplace. However, the 2008 amendment to the ADA, implemented in 2009, will have a positive impact on weight-based discrimination, according to researchers from the Rudd Center in a paper published in the journal Obesity.
The amendment to the ADA, known as the ADA Amendments Act, expands the definition of what constitutes a disability and incorporates a broad view of the ADA's coverage. Due to the amendment, courts and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission can now protect severely obese people from discrimination based on actual or perceived disability in the employment context. Despite this positive development, the ADA Amendments Act does not similarly protect overweight or moderately obese people in the disability context. Further, people who suffer from weight-based discrimination outside the disability context remain unprotected.
Previous research published in the journal Obesity showed that American adults are in favor of legislation to prohibit weight discrimination, particularly in the workplace. The authors recommend the implementation of a "Weight Discrimination in Employment Act" to adequately address pervasive and damaging discrimination toward obese individuals in the workplace.
The paper is co-authored by the Rudd Center's Director of Legal Initiatives, Jennifer Pomeranz, JD, MPH, and Rebecca Puhl, PhD, Director of Research and Weight Stigma Initiatives.
Dan Harris from ABC News Presents at the
Most Kids' Meals Don't Meet CSPI's Nutrition Criteria
Almost all kids' meals (97 percent of 3,498 possible combinations) at America's top chain restaurants fail to meet the nutrition standards of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), and 91 percent do not meet the standards of the restaurant industry's Kids LiveWell program, according to a report by CSPI.
Each of Subway's kids' meals meet CSPI's and the industry's criteria, and Subway is the only chain that does not offer sugary drinks in kids' meals.
Little progress has been made since CSPI's last review in 2008, when 99 percent of kids' meal combinations did not meet their criteria.
CSPI recommends that restaurant chains participate in the Kids LiveWell program and update their kids' meals to meet the program's standards, including removing sugary drinks from kids' menus, and creating fruit and vegetable sides and offering them as the default option.
Follow the Rudd Center on PinterestThe Rudd Center is now on Pinterest and is pinning photos and information about food marketing to children, sugary drinks, weight bias and discrimination, school food, and other obesity-related issues. Follow us! |
Health Groups Urge Supermarkets and Pharmacies to Promote Alternatives to Sugary Drinks
The Rudd Center, along with advocacy groups and health departments, co-signed a letter to chief executive officers of top supermarket chains and pharmacies urging them to increase their marketing of no- and low-calorie alternatives to soda and other sugary drinks.
Spearheaded by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), the letter discussed the opportunity retailers' have to promote health by encouraging their customers to switch from high-calorie to no- and low-calorie drinks. With one-third of children and two-thirds of adults overweight or obese, and a growing amount of research linking sugary drink consumption with weight gain and diet-related diseases, officials asked retailers to exercise their corporate social responsibility.
The co-signers' suggestions included limiting sugary drinks in check-out aisles, posting signs in the soft drink aisle to encourage people to switch to no- or low-calorie drinks, featuring primarily no- and low-sugar soft drinks at aisle end caps and in select feature and/or holiday displays, giving greater prominence to lower-calorie drinks in advertising, and adjusting prices to encourage the purchase of no- and low-calorie drinks.
"Our hope is that supermarkets and pharmacies seize this as a win-win opportunity that improves their customers' health and simply shifts chains' profits from disease-promoting drinks to healthier drinks," wrote the co-signers.
Patients' Bias against Obese Physicians
Health providers may be vulnerable to weight bias from their patients if they are perceived to be overweight or obese, according to a recent Rudd Center study in the International Journal of Obesity. The study shows the potential for patient weight biases to affect their levels of trust, adherence to medical advice, and desire to switch doctors and points to a clear need for education and stigma reduction targeting patients and the general public, said Rebecca Puhl, PhD, Rudd Center Director of Research and Weight Stigma Initiatives, in her blog on Medscape.
Howard County Students Urge Implementation of Stronger Wellness Polices
Concerned parents, citizens, and students of Howard County, Maryland spoke out about the Howard County Public School System's health and wellness policy during a recent Board of Education meeting. In March the school system's superintendent proposed changes to the health and wellness policy, but many felt the changes were not strong enough.
Those who spoke out were concerned that the changes would not do enough to encourage healthy lifestyles among students. Five high school students said more needed to be done to decrease unhealthy food options and increase physical activity.
Marie Pines of Marriotts Ridge High School said the lack of healthy food available after school is a problem. She suggested that schools make simple changes such as offering whole-wheat bagels rather than regular bagels or low-fat popcorn instead of movie theater popcorn. Amelia Manastreli of Mt. Hebron High School had similar concerns and questioned whether Booster Clubs had students' best interest in mind when selling candy, chips, fries, and pizza during after-school activities. Manastreli assured the Board of Education that if Booster Clubs offered healthy food, the students would eat it.
Marcos Miranda, a senior at Reservoir High School, addressed the need for uniformity among high school vending machines so that they all provide healthy options and not just junk food, soda, and Gatorade.
Centennial High School student, Jordan Baruch, addressed physical activity and suggested reducing the required 75 hours of volunteer service to 45 hours and allotting the remaining time to physical activity. Students would then learn the importance of both volunteering and participating in physical activity.
Representing People Acting Together in Howard (PATH), an interfaith network of active communities in the County and an affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), Babette Newman of Wilde Lake High School closed the student testimony by saying that the Howard County Public School System was in desperate need of reform, including prioritizing the health of its students.
The Rudd Center evaluated the County's wellness policy for The Horizon Foundation (a local health foundation) and found that if the superintendent's proposed changes were adopted, the school system's policy would rank as only average compared to others across the country.
The board is expected to vote on the policy on May 9.
Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Support Academic Achievement
The Learning Connection: What You Need to Know to Ensure Your Kids Are Healthy and Ready to Learn, a report released by Action for Healthy Kids, demonstrates that physical activity supports academic achievement, well-nourished children learn better, and healthier practices in schools can increase school revenue. The report helps parents, educators, school administrators, and school volunteers create healthier school environments so the children in their lives are better positioned to learn.
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Chief Program Officer; President and Chief Executive Officer; The Horizon Foundation
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BELLEVILLE, Ill. -- The mother of a southwestern Illinois teenager killed a car crash is being accused of giving her son beer and whiskey before the accident.
The Belleville News-Democrat reported Friday that Ginger Zehner-Denton, of Mascoutah, was charged with unlawful delivery of alcohol.
If convicted, Zehner-Denton could be sentenced to as many as three years in prison.
Her 18-year-old son, Stephen Zehner, died in a Jan. 26 crash. He was a senior at Belleville West High School.
A 16-year-old passenger in the car he was driving was seriously injured and was hospitalized for three months.
Zehner-Denton's bail was set at $100,000.
Online court records do not show whether she has an attorney.


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Yalumba The Scribbler 2010
Other Red Blends from Barossa Valley, Australia
Winemaker's Notes
Yalumba The Scribbler 2010 opens with a lift of raspberries, sweet spices and licorice followed by the fresh aromatics of herbs and crushed plums. This is a beautifully polished wine of medium to full body. The Cabernet Sauvignon structure defines the palate with the Shiraz cascading generously through the middle.
Pairing the distinct fruit and firm tannins of Cabernet, with the plush, rich, suppleness of Shiraz results in a harmonious partnership; the Great Australian Red. The 2010 Scribbler is warm, inviting, rich and always approachable.
Blend: 57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Shiraz
Critical Acclaim
Australian Wine Companion - "Bright colour; bright and pure cassis, redcurrant and fresh leather on display; the medium to full-bodied palate is vibrant and complex, long and layered, with plenty of stuffing for the future, and enough fruit to enjoy in the short term."
Yalumba Winery
Yalumba is one of Australia's oldest family-owned wineries and was founded in 1849 by Samuel Smith. From modest beginnings, the Yalumba Wine Company has grown to become one of Australia's most successful medium-sized wineries, owned by 6th generation Robert Hill Smith. Yalumba regularly receives accolateds for its distinctive wines, as well as for its leadership role in the Australian wine industry in the areas of viti-innovation and environmental policy. The Yalumba premium wine portfolio commences with the fresh and flavorsome varietal wines of the Y Series, then moves up to capture the essence of the Barossa Eden Valleys, explores old world varieties through innovated, modern wines in the Hand Picked line, and culminates with the coveted, collectible Yalumba Rare & Fine wines. View all Yalumba Wines About Barossa Valley
View a map of Barossa Valley wineriesThe Barossa zone consists of two sections - the Barossa Valley and the Eden Valley. Wines from the Eden Valley can be labelled Barossa or Barossa Valley.
Situated just a bit east of the large city of Adelaide, Barossa is Australia's wine headquarters. Mega producers are based here, boutique wineries call it home and a majority of the habitants claim their income on the wine industry. The valley is strewn with a series of hamlets, small towns spotted throughout the region.
Barossa Valley
Barossa is red-wine territory, with red grapes consisting of about two-thirds of the region's plantings. The reds, Shiraz in particular, are lauded for their rich, concentrated flavors and aging potential. Old vines of Shiraz and Grenache are popular, many up to 80 years old. The valley is home to some of the most famous vineyards of Australia - this is where the first Penfolds Grange was made. Whites are also found, mainly from the Semillon grape – these wines are as full-bodied as the reds although harder to find. Riesling and Chardonnay are also planted.
Eden Valley
Right next to Barossa Valley, but a bit higher in elevation, Eden Valley is an ideal neighbor. Many wineries source vineyards from both areas as the climate difference in Eden Valley leads to wines of a different character. Reds are still mainly Shiraz and Grenache, but the wines are often more restrained and less dense than those in the Barossa Valley proper. Whites are popular here too. Eden Valley Rieslings and Semillons are particularly excellent.About Australia
Like the United States, which is about the same size, Australia's winemaking regions are huddled into one or two pockets of the country. The state of South Australia, which produces about 60% of the country's wine, also has the most wineries and sub-regions, including McLaren Vale, Clare Valley, Coonawarra and Barossa Valley. New South Wales is home to the Hunter Valley, while the smaller, southern state of Victoria is best known for theYarra Valley. Head way west to the very large state of Western Australia and you'll find the tiny region of Margaret River at the southern tip. -
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great blend for under $20.Jim C. - Southborough, MA411/19/2014Not sure I'd rate this a 94, but this a quality wine. Very drinkable with notes of cedar, vanilla, and ripe plums, and Bing cherries. A steal at $16.99.Matthew Joachim - Hoboken, NJ211/4/2014mdburgen - Clarendon Hills, IL310/31/2014Not a 94. Needs time to open up. I was expecting a more complex wine.49/29/2014I liked this one. I'll be ordering more.Peter Bradley - Walnut Creek, CA512/12/2013- Style
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Wow! juicy ripe but good balance with decent finish. Great value for money.Related ProductsAlcohol By Volume Guide
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Light & Fruity
- Red wines that are more fruit-forward and lighter in tannin and body.
Smooth & Supple
- Medium bodied reds that go down easy, with smooth tannins and supple fruit.
Earthy & Spicy
- Wines where earthy and/or spicy dominate the flavors – typically medium to full body.
Big & Bold
- Full bodied wines that have concentrated fruit and are higher in alcohol and/or tannins. Some need age.
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