Today was one of those meetings where you do not think this is necessary but it is mandated by the federal government so you do it. I am in charge of the committee and try to make the meetings move along - if we have to be there I will make it as meaningful as I can. The problem is I am old enough to remember the time when the federal government did not regulate these matters. The vast majority of people of course did things in a moral manner but just enough bad things happened that we now have all kinds of regulations. Some of these are necessitated because the type of reasearch we a capable of doing puts things in a very different realm.