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No that was, and that’s an important aspect, as you alludedto earlier we’ve previously done work which has proven that in some situations,even people whose blood pressure is not high, can benefit from blood pressure lowering therapy.So in this study the main reason that we included the patients was because of diabetes, we didn’t care what their blood pressure was, whether it was high or low. And our objectivewas to see whether or not lowering average or below average blood pressure in diabetics was beneficial and the resultsuggested that irrespective of whether your blood pressure was high or low, if you had diabetes you benefited.

Oh, it’s very spooky. First of all, probability by itself is spooky. Give me… let me show you how probability enters the system.You walk past a store window and you see an image of yourself in the store window, you straighten the part, not so bad you know, for a man of my age. The guy in the store window who’s fooling around with mannequins he sees you and you see yourself. What does that mean? A streamof photons from sunlight leaves your face, heads for the store window – let’s consider one of them. It has a choice: it can go right through, so that the guy behind the window can see you, or it can be reflected from the store window. Some fractionsof them are reflected, and some of them go through. What determines that? What determines the future of that photon? And countlesssuch examples teach us that it’s random, that it’s a throwof the dice, and that’s where Einstein made his famous statement “God plays dice with the universe.” That every instant of that single object, that quantum object we have probability, we do not have certainty.

Well there… there… there’s a positive obligation on the bank to ensure that the people who are signing a loan guarantee, knowwhat they’re doing. Loan guarantees are a kind of uniquein that… in that someone is giving security or a guarantee and placing themselves at risk for someone else, and they receive nothing materialin return. So you’ve got to ask yourself why is this person doing this, do they know what they’re doing? They’re risking a lot, and not really getting anything back for it. So the imperative is that the bank must ensurethat these people know what they’re doing, and that they fully understand the implicationsof what they’re doing, and they know that their propertiesmay be sold if another person doesn’t meet their obligations.

For some people, this propositionmay seem far fetched, but ending poverty is both morallynecessary and actually feasible. All of us must play a role in making it happen. All human beings want, and have a rightto live in dignity, to determine our own destinies, and to be respected by other, by other people. Despite the universality of theserights, our capacities to fulfill them vary enormously, and no dividingline is more profound in influencing the quality of our lives than the gulf between poverty and prosperity.

You know that the incredible thing about quantum mechanics were many incredible things, but one of them, at least to me, is that it really works. It is the theoryof the universe. It describes what's going on here on Earth, that it describes what happens in the universe. That Andre's studies. And so when we think about how those building blocks that Leon was just describingfit together to make the world around us are we use quantum mechanics to describe atoms, nuclei, molecules, light. It is the theory of the world. And so it's not surprising that we see it in many everyday occurrencesand many everyday applications. An example might be the lasers that you see in a compact disc playeror the supermarket scanner.

The UN Charter comprises a preamble and 19 chapters divided into 111 articles. The Charter sets forththe purposes of the United Nations as: the maintenance of international peace and security.the development of friendly relations between states, and the achievement of cooperation in solving international economic,social, cultural, and humanitarian problems. It expresses a strong hope for the equalityof all people and the expansion of basic freedoms. The principal organs of the United Nations, as specified in the Charter, are the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council, the International Court of Justice, and the Secretariat.

French, on the other hand, is a highly centralizedlanguage, with the Parisian accent setting the standard for the world. If other French-speaking political entitieshad risen to rival France, the situation might be different.If for instance, Quebec had remained a separate country,or if Haiti had been a larger country, then perhaps other French dialects might have become more accepted.

By way of introduction, Joseph Heller, the author who introduced the phrase "Catch-22” into the English language, died on December 12th at the age of 76 in his home in East Hampton, New York. In 1961, Heller published his first novel, Catch-22, a surrealanti-war story set in World War Il. Heller's protagonist, a fighter pilot, comes to understand that a man deemed insane by the military bureaucracymay be released from duty. The "Catch-22" of Heller's title is that when a man recognizes his condition,he is no longer insane, Heller spoke at numerous college campuses throughout the 60s, and Catch-22 seemed to capturethe anti-war sentiment of many protesters during the Vietnam War.

Heritage is what the present chooses to make of the past. That means that heritage is dynamic. It’s a changingconcept. And it also means that it tends to be definedin opposition to much that is going on in the present. It’s endangered. Where there is heritage, there is often a sense of threat,you know, whether it's a building that's about to be bull-dozed, or a way of life that is dying out because of economicchange. The heritage that we speak about in this country in terms of conservation tends to be a term that becomes very central - or more central in new ways - as the state becomes involvedin this field of administering conservation.

The idea is that we divide the ward - the patients if you like - and the nurses into three different teams, which we call primarynursing teams. And in those teams we then have the primary nurse which is myself, associate nurses which generallytend to be D grade nurses, and health care assistant,and you're all in one team together. The idea is that you would hopefully work as a team in co-ordinating the care for the patients who come in under your care as in the red team. In our teams we have eight patients each. The idea would be that I would normallyprescribe the care or plan the care, for those patients. In reality, it doesn't always work like that and besides which the associate nurses that are in the teams have those skills anyway from their training.

"No news is good news" may be true for most of us most of the time - after all, we don' t look forward to unpleasant things happening to us - but "Bad news is good news" is true for those who work in the news media, and, I suspect, for the rest of us, at least some of the time. It is tied up with stories and our seemingly insatiableneed for stories. Have you ever been grippedby a story where nothing goes wrong for the characters? There's an incidentin a Kingsley Amis novel that nicely illustratesthis: the main character Jake comes home to find his wife chatting to a friend about a hairdresser both women know who has moved with his family to somewhere in Africa. Jake listens in, expecting tales of cannibalism and such like, but no, the friend has just received a letter saying they love the place and are settling in nicely. Jake leaves the room in disgust.We demand to be entertained, and while we don’t object to a happy ending, the characters have to have experienced loss, pain and hardship in one form or another along the way to have deservedit.

Archery, the practice or arts of shooting with a bow and arrow, has played an important part in English history, being the mainweapon of the foot-soldier and instrumental in winning many battles in wars with the French - with whom we seemed to be constantlyat war during the Middle Ages. The English favouredthe longbow over the short bow and the crossbow, the latter being the main firearm of militarieson the European continent. The crossbow fired a metal bolt released by a trigger, rather like a gun, and had the longestrange of any of the bows, but the main advantage of the longbow was its accuracy. The importance placed on archery is illustrated by the fact that medieval kings in England encouraged the practice and one of them, Edward Ill, went so far as to banall sports on Sundays and holidays except archery. Because there were no standing armies in those days, and in the event of war rulers had to call on the populace, everything was done to make sure there were large numbers of competent, if not expert archers, to recruit.

Many species of birds cover long distancesduring their seasonal migration to warmer climates. But how successful are they, and do birds that get lost on their route ever manageto find their way back? Much research has been conductedinto how birds navigate and the results show that age is a significant factor.Young birds usually just carry on, if they lose their migratory path, and thus fail to reachtheir destination, whereas older, more experienced birds will generally be able to find their originalroute and continue successfully on their journey.

Researchers at the University of California claim to have discovered that people who eat chocolate regularly tend to be lighter than those who rarelyeat it. The findings may seem surprisingin that chocolate has a great many calories and, in general, the more calories people consume,the more likely they are to put on weight. The recent studies emphasizethat it is more the regularity with which people eat chocolate that is significantrather than the amount they consume. Whether they eat a little or a lot seems to make no difference, whereas eating it frequentlyappears to reduce weight more than only having it occasionally.

It's basically all the same thing. A complicatedplan to cut back Australia's greenhouse gases. And we are, per capita the biggest carbon polluters on the planet.But it's not carbon trading that will make the first big cuts in our emissions. The first big cuts will come from the Government's renewableenergy target. Melbourne based analystsCarbon Market Economics says the Government's 20% targetwill not only cut pollution, it'll help the economy as well.

There have been various definitions of happiness throughout history and the history of philosophy,the ones which interest me are approachesto happiness that follow the Enlightenment, particularly in the work of Jeremy Bentham, for whom happiness was really a combination of physical feelings,pleasures as different combinations and aggregations of pleasure and pain occur over time. They generatethese psychological experiences that Bentham called happiness. But underlying them for Bentham were physical triggers and dimensions.

Dramatic changes in human life support systems took place in the modern world over the last 500 years. Human populationsduring this time period reached unprecedented sizes and growth rates. Global migrations introduced exotic plants, animals, diseases,technologies and cultural beliefs throughout the world. The Industrial Revolution and its aftermath transformed ecosystemson an unparalleled scale and intensity. Urban placesexploded in number and size during the period and large scale social systems emerged that were tied together by networks of economic exchange, productionand communication.

One of the concernsabout working with genetically modifiedcrops has been that vegetation growing in agricultural fields might escape out into the world. Now, for the first time in the U.S., researchers report a large population of GM crops beyond the farm. Transgenic canola plants in North Dakota had receivedgenes making them resistant to herbicides, such as the weed killer Roundup. Researchers collected and tested 406 canola plants along thousands of miles of state roads. They found 347 carrying at least one resistance gene. There were also indications that the inserted genes were being passed on to new generations, producing some plants in the wild with multiple transgenes. The findings were presented on August 6th at the annual meeting of the EcologicalSociety of America in Pittsburgh. The transgeniccanola plants are not about to take over the world. But researchers are obviouslycurious about how these particular plants managed to make it in places like the edges of parking lots rather than pampered fields. Any answers they find will likely affect future biotechnology regulation.