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The Double-Edged Helix
In the delicate realm of biomedical research, those vigorous cervical cells from Baltimore are creating confusion and, possibly, disaster
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On a mild, rainy Thursday, early in February of 1951, an energetic young black woman, just 31, appeared for examination at the outpatient gynecologic clinic of Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital – a massive, copper-spired castle of brick, ten minutes' walk east of downtown. That same day, 21 German war criminals, sentenced to die on the gallows, were spared in the most sweeping American clemency move since the cessation of hostilities.
At just about the same time the Germans received their clemency, the young woman received her death sentence, phrased in the precise language of the pathology lab: a tiny purplish lesion on her cervix, less than an inch in diameter, was cancer.
Her malignancy diagnosed, the patient would spend the remaining eight months of her life shuttling in and out of Johns Hopkins for treatment, to die there, finally, during the long humid days of late summer, leaving behind a soft-spoken husband, five children, a handful of photographs – and a tiny piece of her own flesh that by now, a quarter-century later, thrives and conquers in laboratories around the world.
The first time I heard about Helen Lane was the spring of 1974 in the men's room of a San Francisco medical school library, where an odd, felt-pen scrawl over the urinal read "Helen Lane Lives!"
The observation was meaningless to me then, and I likely would have forgotten it altogether – except less than two months later I ran across Helen Lane again. This time it was in the prestigious pages of Science. Helen Lane was the topic of a brief, highly technical paper that immediately sent tremors through the whole structure of international medical research.
According to the paper, the oldest and most dependable line of human cells, dubbed HeLa, had suddenly been found to be not only old and dependable, but positively aggressive. These tiny human cells had surreptitiously spread from their own glass containers to infiltrate and subvert whole sets of other cell lines – altogether unbeknownst to the countless medical researchers who based their work on them.
HeLa, according to Science, is cell culture shorthand for Helen Lane, and Helen Lane is a big name in that arcane pursuit. Human tissue culture is essentially the art of convincing a glass-bound set of cells that it is in fact still safely ensconced within some warm body and thereby prompting its continued reproduction. That's not an easy trick, but over the past 20 years, tissue culture has become a critical tool in medical research, allowing the scientist to observe all sorts of cellular processes – from virus infections to nutrition – without actually having to fool around with a whole live human being. And it started, really, with Helen Lane–a Baltimore woman now long dead, whose cancerous cervical cells performed so spectacularly in laboratory glassware that they became, almost overnight, one of the hottest items in experimental biomedicine.
Now, a quarter of a century later, HeLa also looks like a major problem. For, it develops, even a single HeLa cell transferred on a glass pipette by a careless technician can overgrow an entire precisely labeled colony of different cells and settle in, right at home. At that point, of course, that precise label becomes meaningless and thus, by now, some number of researchers who had thought all along that they were experimenting with kidney cells from Los Angeles or breast tumors from Vladivostok were in fact all working with identical versions of those vigorous cervical cells from Baltimore.
In the delicate realms of biomedical research that's not exactly a minor error. It is closer, all in all, to disaster.
Just how disastrous, the Science paper wouldn't even hint. How, I wondered, does this tissue culture business work? How did this HeLa cell become a monster amidst the Pyrex? What are the implications for research – and most of all, who was this Helen Lane?
That wet Baltimore February day when the young black woman first appeared at the Johns Hopkins clinic, a physician/researcher named George Gey and his wife, Margaret, in a small laboratory in the same building, were rapidly approaching the culmination of a quarter-century's work in the techniques of growing human cells in glass. Gey – who died in 1970 – will likely be recognized someday as a significant figure in the medical history of the early 20th century. "Biology and medicine," said one journal, a few months after his death, "are greatly indebted to George Gey, whose skill with the tissue culture technique made so much possible."
Back in 1951, however, Gey was less lionized; he blew his own glassware, employed his wife and worked long hours to support his laboratory. His research had little funding – during most of Gey's career the great war on cancer, which would put living human cells at a premium, was still well in the future.
In 1933 – after eight years of shoestring research–Gey had invented the "roller tube" – a device for cell culture which, by means of slow rotation, offers the developing cells more nutrition than was possible in the traditional hollow-ground depression of a glass microscope slide. While human cells had been cultured before Gey's roller tube, it was a major step forward in simplifying what had previously been a spectacularly delicate, erratic operation.
Gey's wife, Margaret, still has the first roller tube. "He blew the glass for it himself," she says, "put the cells in and rolled it in an incubator overnight. And that was the breakthrough. Pretty soon bacteriologists were using it, and then . . . Oh my!"
But even the roller tube didn't mark smooth sailing for the Geys. "We were lucky," says Margaret Gey, "during the Depression to have $5000 a year to work with. We had to do everything from scratch. I painted our lab myself. These days people waste so much money."
Almost 20 years after the first roller tube, the young Baltimore black woman walked into Johns Hopkins and eight days after that, the resident gynecologist passed onto the Geys a tiny bit of her ultimately fatal lesion – rescued, as it were, just before the first round of her radium treatments. Gey grew that tissue in his roller tube and after several weeks of mounting excitement, he realized that this time he had cultured something very special. Historical, even. "HeLa," noted one journal, "with a generation time of about 24 hours, if allowed to grow uninhibited under optimum culture conditions, would have taken over the world by this time."
HeLa's contribution to modern medicine began immediately. The day before the young woman first visited the Baltimore clinic, 10,000 mothers marched against polio in New York City; three years later, the HeLa strain would take those mothers off the street permanently. Polio is caused by a virus and viruses require cells in which to grow. These indefatigable, undeflatable HeLa cells proved to be ideal hosts for polio virus – a pivotal development in the creation of a successful vaccine. And that was only the beginning. Within a few years, HeLa was in laboratories around the world. Why, one wonders, did the Geys keep at their tissue culturing for all those years when no one was paying any attention?
"Well," says Margaret Gey, "that's what everybody asked us. Why do you do it? It won't get anyplace. But I believed in George and George kept saying that there's a field in this – he could feel it coming!"
Dr. Gey was right. Ask, for example, Walter Nelson-Rees, the ebullient California cell geneticist whose terse Science paper, coauthored with colleagues Robert Flandermeyer and Paula Hawthorne, produced the first hard data that triggered the HeLa controversy. Nelson-Rees's sole business is, in fact, the maintenance and distribution of life in glass. The business is, however, still sufficiently new that some mysteries remain. "I don't think," says Nelson-Rees, "that anyone really knows why one cell grows and another doesn't."
HeLa – while it is still human, reflecting the genetic makeup of its donor – is also cancerous, as are many other popular cell lines in the tissue culture business. Might this explain HeLa's laboratory longevity? Nelson-Rees considers the possibility for a moment. "It's really not that easy," he shrugs finally, "even to grow tumor cells."
Nelson-Rees, almost certainly, should know: in a small laboratory tucked away on Navy property just south of Berkeley, he runs a thorough reference library of human and other vertebrate cell lines for the National Cancer Institute.
Everyone on Nelson-Rees's mailing list receives, annually, a thick computer-generated catalog that may well be one of the more exclusive mail-order services on the planet. The catalog describes, for example, the conditions surrounding the early demise of a 16-year-old Los Angeles male, and then offers, by number, a variety of cultured samples of those deceased teenaged tissues: lung, liver, heart or kidney.
Walter Nelson-Rees's laboratory is the address where some 5000 of these cell lines reside: either deep frozen or still growing in three-man-high, stainlesssteel incubators, maintained just at body temperature and filled with chrome racks of culture bottles. Each culture bottle is about the shape of an old-fashioned cough syrup container, half-filled with a clear red solution, derived from calf fetuses, the color of weak cherry Kool-Aid. In some bottles, a faint whitish haze of human cells clings to the plastic sides; in others, the material has begun to peel, like dead skin, in wispy pale patches. Each bottle, regardless of appearance, contains the living cellular remnant of some more-or-less recently deceased medical J. Doe and a few from individuals still living.
"You can do with cells of humans," Nelson-Rees explains, "what you cannot do with humans themselves. While you can work with the whole animals in the laboratory, you really cannot work with humans that way." Good manners, at the very least, considering that most of the cells that leave Nelson-Rees's laboratory are bound for service in the National Cancer Institute's intense hunt for human cancer virus. Last year, in fact, Nelson-Rees sent out more than 2000 individual cultures, in a shipping process that is now as streamlined as that of frozen Kansas City fillets.
When shipped, cells can be sent either as living cells or as frozen samples. In the first instance, cells are transferred from their warm incubators to two broad stainless-steel cauldrons, the approximate size and shape of a tub washing machine. Each contains, halfhidden in the steamy, frigid vapors of liquid nitrogen, multiple stacks of tiny glass ampules, smaller than the last segment of a little finger, each numbered, each flame sealed and each containing a minute smear of flash-frozen human cells.
When its number is called, one of these ampules will be extracted from the nitrogen fog with tongs and placed into a styrofoam container the size of a shoebox, packed with dry ice, for airmail dispatch – along with a set of mimeographed instructions, reminiscent of those that arrive with mail-order rose bushes, recommending the nutrient mixture to prod one's newly thawed sample into maximum activity. While the recommended medium may vary slightly from culture to culture, it is always some blend of vitamins, amino acids, salts and related nutrients. "Basically," explains Walter Nelson-Rees, "body fluids."
One day in Walter Nelson-Rees's laboratory is enough to make clear just how easy it was for the young mother from Baltimore to travel the globe. Cancerous cells in the body show one notably lethal turn called metastasis, wherein a malignant cell detaches itself from the original tumor to travel, pell-mell, through the rest of the organism. Cancer cells cultured in the laboratory, by now, show a similar tendency toward propagation: cell lines are swapped, traded, forwarded, begged and borrowed among research institutions around the world.
The Tissue Culture Association has grown, since the Fifties, from less than 100 to 2000 members. The institutional sources of cells now range from NCI-supported facilities like Nelson-Rees's to commercial outfits with toll-free 800 numbers, from whom one can order, for about $25, a tiny glass vial of HeLa cells guaranteed to contain 100 square centimeters of cell surface area.
"But it's a very difficult business," sighs Walter Nelson-Rees, "to have things that are growing all the time. I'm not sending someone a dead product; it's an item that grows from day to day – even our frozen ampules, as soon as they are opened and placed into cultures, are dividing, and the potential for contamination is instant."
Even a single HeLa cell, accidentally introduced into another kind of culture, can conquer it altogether. And that is why, in lighter moments, Nelson-Rees refers to himself as the Ralph Nader of cell culture: his job is to insure the purity of any given cell line.
Each cell, cancerous or not, still contains specific genetic information – within the gene-packed chromosomes – that described the original organism. With certain exceedingly delicate biochemical techniques, Nelson-Rees can analyze that information and then surmise, rather exactly, what sort and sex of organism the cell might have come from in the first place – even if the original donor had been dead for decades.
Sometimes that news can be a surprise. A team of Russians, for example, shipped their American colleagues a set of assorted human tissue cultures thought to contain that golden fleece object of much recent cancer research: a human cancer virus. Not only, however, did the virus appear to be suspiciously like an already known virus, but the cell lines themselves turned out to be, one and all, HeLa – descendants, likely, of HeLa cells shipped to Russia years ago.
While less complacent researchers might have tossed themselves off the roof of their medical building, the Russians took the news gracefully. And Nelson-Rees, suspecting that an increasing number of cell lines were no longer what they were supposed to be, redoubled his efforts at cell culture investigation. In life, the HeLa source had been black and female. Even as a single layer of cells in a tissue culture laboratory, she remains so. Nelson-Rees concentrated on, identifying the chromosomal markers peculiar to those two traits and, quite quickly, found enough of those markers–in cell cultures where they should not have been – to complete his Science paper.
Almost overnight, HeLa contamination became notorious. One lab, which had widely distributed a line of now-suspect human breast tumor cells, sent out a letter warning that their HBT-3 might, in truth, be HeLa. And even labs that had never worked with HeLa at all could not be certain that HeLa hadn't already visited under another name.
The question was not just academic curiosity. Careers had been built on the basis of human tissue culture research, papers written and published, grants and fellowships received – and now, abruptly, arose the possibility that the fundamental unit of study might not have been even vaguely what it was supposed to be. For some researcher, pushing 40, who had devoted ten years of his life to a series of lengthy and delicate experiments, each step built upon the results of the last, such news could be disaster.
And no one could really be certain. In the months that followed Nelson-Rees's paper, for example, it develops that at one prestigious American tissue culture depository, almost half of the established human cell lines now look suspiciously like HeLa. A curious paranoia spreads through laboratories worldwide: "HeLa," as Nelson-Rees points out, "by many other names can spell trouble."
Helen Lane left her marker chromosomes all over the laboratory, but in life, her trail was not so well blazed. I ask Margaret Gey if I could come to Baltimore to talk about the early days, and she demurs immediately. It's not, she says, really such a good idea.
"Oh," she says, "you know. There are always those who are jealous, of what you are and what you did, and so I want to be very, very careful…"
Dead end. And then, quite by chance, the next day I learn Helen Lane's real name. "You know," Walter Nelson-Rees is telling me, "that polio was defeated, primarily, because of the techniques that allowed one to study virus within the individual human cell – and much of that was due, initially, to the strain derived from Henrietta Lacks."
Beg pardon?
"Henrietta Lacks," he says. "That was her real name. I don't think anyone is quite sure how everybody got to calling her Helen Lane."
That afternoon I call Margaret Gey again. "Oh," she says, "I don't know. It was confused, by a publisher in Minneapolis. The name wasn't supposed to be revealed at all. It was just that somebody got confused."
A week later I am sitting on the seventh floor of the downtown Baltimore Holiday Inn. Through the thermopane picture window is a huge public clock in which the numerals have been replaced by the characters b-r-o-m-o-s-e-l-t-z-e-r; in my lap is a telephone, and the Baltimore White Pages. Halfway through the "Lacks" listings it becomes clear that just about everybody had known Henrietta. But over the two and a half decades of her laboratory existence, there have been separations, divorces, people have moved South, moved North, changed addresses, lost their telephones, and no one, finally, has really kept in touch.
"Henrietta Lacks?" one young male voice replies. "You mean Helen Lane?"
My God, I say, yes. This Lacks sounds unmistakably white. How, I wonder, did he know about Helen Lane?
"Well," he says, "I'm a medical student and we've just finished a course in medical genetics and…"
By afternoon, my luck takes a turn. And by dark, I am at the two-story brick house of Henrietta's oldest son, Lawrence. And across a narrow dining room table sits David Lacks – Henrietta's husband, still a widower, a medium-sized black man, for 20 years employed in the Baltimore shipyards. When, I wonder, did he learn about his wife's role in medical science?
"I don't know," he says slowly, touching one hand to his short graying hair and staring at the table. "Did they take it from her before she died or after she died?"
Before, I say, is what I read in the medical journals.
"Well then," he says, "the first I knowed about it was, she had that cancer, and they called me to come up there, 'cause she died. And they asked me to let them take samples and I decided not to let them do it. But then my cousins said it wouldn't hurt none, so I let them do it.
"They said it wouldn't disfigure her none, because it was all down in her womb, to begin with." He nods. "They said it was the fastest growing cancer they'd ever known, and they was suppose to tell me about it, to let me know, but I never did hear."
His son, Lawrence – a brawny railroad engineer, with a short Afro and a sleeveless undershirt – nods also. "First we heard," he says, "was about a month ago, a person called us on the phone and asked if we'd like to take a blood test. That's the first time we heard about it."
David Lacks agrees. "And I said, gonna be just like the last time, say they call and they don't. Then they sent me a book, sent me some letters, said it might be good for my children and grandchildren."
What book did they send?
Lacks looks at his son. "Where's that book?"
Lawrence sends his wife, Bobbette, up the stairs to find the book. "They said," says Lawrence, "they wanted to find out why it been living so long."
"Doctors all over the world," says Mr. Lacks, "is trying to figure out why these cells is living so long."
"This chromosome thing," Lawrence says. "They want to find out whether we inherited it."
Are the Lacks a healthy family?
"None of us slippin'," says Mr. Lacks, "far as I know."
"One baby girl died," Lawrence says. "Natural causes."
Bobbette appears at the foot of the stairs, bearing a thick medical textbook, and gives it to Lawrence.
Lawrence begins to page through. It is a text on medical genetics, authored by a professor at Johns Hopkins. "What page she's on?" asks Lawrence. Bobbette doesn't hear. Lawrence shakes his head, continues browsing. "Should be in this section," he says. After a moment, he calls again, more loudly: "Hey, Bobbette, you know what page she's on?"
"She's upstairs," says one of the kids.
"Go ask her what page Grandma's on."
"Page 15," Bobbette yells down the stairs.
Lawrence flips pages."There it is," he says.
"There she is," says Mr. Lacks. "That's her, right there."
A fuzzy photograph of Henrietta Lacks appears as a numbered plate. She is posed against a brick wall: stocky, well-dressed, hand on hip, smiling broadly into the camera. She looks like a very healthy woman.
"Well," says her husband, "you're right. Didn't have a sick day in her life until she went to the hospital. Then she came home, but she'd always be getting worse, and she'd go back to the hospital."
Was Mrs. Lacks a religious woman?
"She was Catholic," says Mr. Lacks. "About like any other. She had ups and downs – everybody's got ups and downs."
"What I was wondering," says Lawrence, "was about these cells. Is there something different about these cells? They say they're stronger, they're taking over – is that bad or good? Does that mean, if we get sick, we'll live longer? I mean," he says, "they say only the strong survive…."
Did the doctors ever take the blood?
Lawrence nods. "A couple tubes from each of us," he says. Blood was even taken by special arrangement from one relation housed at the Maryland State Correctional Institute.
That, Lawrence says, was only a few weeks before. And they haven't been back in touch?
"They sent me a book, they sent me a letter," says Mr. Lacks, "but that's all. The only time the doctors call is when they want something."
Did Mr. Lacks ever meet George Gey, I wonder?
"I met him at the hospital," Mr. Lacks says. "He told me, these things take time, he told me he'd let me know what happened. But it's been so long now, he's died!"
We talk a bit more and then, on the way out to the icy sidewalk, we pause in the living room, where Mr. Lacks takes a picture from an end table. It is a photograph of himself and Henrietta, both in Sunday best, and shot, he says, just when they arrived in Baltimore from Virginia, in 1943. The young couple gaze sedately into the camera, but something about the picture looks exceedingly unnatural.
"I said send it back," says Lawrence, looking over my shoulder. The picture, he explains, has been restored and tinted, from a tattered 2×3 original. The process cost $50, says Lawrence, "and you only get one print, in a little cardboard folder."
David Lacks is still studying the photo. "The legs are okay," he says. "But it's the face." He shakes his head. "They didn't get the face right at all."
Just about exactly a year after I left the Lacks house, I heard about Henrietta one last time. She was in Science again, in another paper authored by Nelson-Rees and Flandermeyer. "HeLa Cultures Defined," read the title, and accompanying the brief text was a two-page table describing a whole spectrum of established cell lines – from breast cancer to the marrow of a human sternum, originated everywhere from Maryland to the Soviet Union – all of which looked, rather distinctly, to be HeLa.
I telephone Walter Nelson-Rees once again. "I said at one time," he sighs, "that I hoped I'd never have to look another HeLa in the face, but I'm afraid now that as long as cell culture continues, there will be chances for contamination."
No one, Nelson-Rees says, really knows how much the cell line mixup will affect existing research. If only the general process of cancer is one's interest, then the change may not be significant. But if one's work is tied to some specific type of cell – and the subject cells turn out to be HeLa – then chances are that one is in trouble.
"Many recent publications," says Nelson-Rees, "now include statements like, 'The patient from whom such-and-such a cell was derived is Caucasian, a male…' and so on. These are things that did not happen two years ago. But it will take time for everybody to make sense out of the methods."
Nelson-Rees's private worry, he confides, is that other human cell cultures – younger than HeLa – may one day grow so adapted to the laboratory that they will become contaminators too. And so his task is unending. "This morning," he says, "I've just been presented with a huge big box of cells from another laboratory, which need to be looked at. Sometimes people think that such work must be very routine. But somehow each and every one seems to be a whole new entity."
We hang up and I call the Lackses, to tell them that Henrietta is in the journals again. Bobbette answers. "Those doctors," she says, "never did get in touch. We haven't heard a thing."
I tell her about Nelson-Rees's new paper, and that I've also learned what the doctors finally did with the Lacks blood. Each sample was minutely analyzed, in order to backtrack genetically from the chromosomes of Henrietta's husband and children and thus determine Henrietta's own genetics.
"An elegant piece of work," Walter Nelson-Rees had called it. "By simple Aristotelian class logic and pure applied genetics, you can speculate, to a remarkable extent, as to what Henrietta Lacks was."
The results – an intricate and almost incomprehensible chart listing the genetic markers of the whole Lacks family – will be used worldwide in something of a laboratory manhunt to track down renegade HeLa cultures. The cell that helped beat polio and has since figured in everything from drug research to cancer work is on the wanted list, and the charge is interfering with the orderly progress of science. Just how much interference no one can still quite say. Those most affected, certainly, are also the most quiet. One recent book on cancer speculated with the single word "catastrophic." "An elegant piece of work," Nelson-Rees had called the elaborate genetic fingerprinting of the Lacks blood, a piece that, a week later, would appear in Science.
"Can you buy that on the newsstand?" Bobbette asks.
I say I'm not sure, but I could send a copy. And then I ask to talk to David Lacks, for one more question.
"No," Mr. Lacks says, after a moment's silence. "If it had all happened at first, I would have felt bad. But by now," he says, "you know, I've pretty much forgot about it."
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Dancy Pants Revolution is a dance video game that appears in "The Inconveniencing," inside the abandoned Dusk 2 Dawn. Dipper refers to it as "the game that tricks people into exercising."
In "The Inconveniencing," Thompson plays the game during the teens' visit to the Dusk 2 Dawn. When Ma and Pa Duskerton appear, they trap him inside the game, where he is buried by the falling arrows. While playing, the machine would say encouraging things to make you keep on playing the game. When Thompson is trapped inside it says, "You're a dance machine!" which he replies, "No, you're a dance machine!." Thompson seemed to enjoy the game before he got trapped inside of it.
In "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls," the control panel for the game is used as part of the Shacktron.
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Read this if you've ever taken Addy without a prescription.
Addy and I had a nice run back in the college. As a freshman, my roommate — a fresh-out-of-private-school anorexic — suggested I take the drug to help me study. Now, I'm 27 years old — and though I've never been clinically diagnosed with a hyperactivity disorder — I can't help but wonder if my life on Adderall might be more successful.
My experience with Adderall was amateur at best. I only took it for long study sessions, term papers and during finals. I'd pop the little orange pill and my heart would flutter like a butterfly. My productivity soared along with my mood.
When I was on Adderall, my negativity was totally neutralized. Once, after flying through a Philosophy final, I bounced like the Energizer bunny and drafted a "grateful list." While my peers hopelessly searched their memories for Kant's theory of morality, I planned to make amends with old foes (which I did, on Facebook, as soon as the test was over). Adderall had cut through grudges I'd been harboring for years like a knife through warm butter.
But experts say there were flaws in my studying tactic. (Shocking, I know.) In an interview with Business Insider, psychiatrist and psychopharmacologist Samoon Ahmad says taking the drug recreationally takes a serious toll on a person's health.
According to him, people who don't have ADD and take Adderall experience a cocaine-like effect. That feeling comes from the dopamine Adderall releases. Eventually, though, it runs out and you're left with the desire to replenish it. The nagging need to regain the feeling of dopamine is why the stuff is so addictive, Ahmad says.
Those who have a legit need for the drug can usually function without adverse side effects. But when you abuse Adderall, you open yourself up to long-term effects like irritability, depression, dysphoria, despondency and agitation.
Adderall abuse can hurt your body, too: It can lead to cardiovascular problems like increased blood pressure or heart rate. It's also known to cause cardiac arrhythmias, stroke and heart attacks.
For those of you reading Ahmad's conclusions thinking, "Yeah, NEWSFLASH — drug addiction is bad for you," consider this: I didn't know that. At least, I didn't consider Adderall to be a drug. You could say I was a little green, but when I was 18, I thought of drugs as filthy things that required pipes and fire to use. Drug users were scummy losers living in their grandmas' basements. They had scratchy voices and dirty teeth.
After college, I never took Adderall again. Learning that I'd taken speed in medicinal packaging shocked my inner DARE advocate.
I have 17 tabs open atm.
The idea of taking up a hobby sounds exhausting and impossible.
As far as temperament goes, I consider numbness a good day.
I can only bring myself to complete the bare minimum of any necessary task.
I think we can all agree that what I should actually be entertaining is a prescription for Zoloft, but that's not the drug I'm writing about.
My experience with Adderall was positive; it wasn't harmful or scary. If I'd kept taking it though, things might not have gone so smoothly. What I would say to anyone entertaining the idea of taking Adderall recreationally — and what I wish someone had said to me — is this: It is a drug. Like lots of things, it can be dangerous if you abuse it. Balance and moderation is key. Don't be stupid.


I personally think it isn't worth the bother. To fit an ARB, you need the actual ARB itself, the cross member, the clamps, the drop links, and the arms with the additional mounting bracket. ARB were fitted to later 2500's, but these models also had softer front springs, which were also longer.
I have previously fitted an ARB set up to a 1973 PI, but didn't change the original firmer front springs, and I didn't notice any benefit in its handling, although I do tend to drive my Triumphs quite sedately. If you tend to hook it around corners or use it on a track, then you may possibly feel some benefit, but otherwise, I think I'd leave on its standard set up.
I recently fitted the ARB setup to the front of my '77 TC and thought it made a big difference in reducing body roll. I also have Witor's fast road springs installed, and the whole setup is poly bushed.
i have full anti roll bar kits here, if have not already got what you need, all blasted and powder coated.


In an effort to open its new state of the art campus building, Mount Allison University and exp Architects engaged us to help them realize the user experience of the building through design. Working in collaboration with the university and architecture team, we developed, designed and implemented wayfinding and signage, commemorative elements and a donor recognition program that inspires and brings the building to life. The Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts is now enjoyed by faculty, students, and alumni, parents, visitors and the community at large.


Astoria travel aims to organize the most enjoyable tours in Greece.
The only way one realizes the magnificence of the ancient Greek civilization is by visiting the actual sites and exploring the beautiful monuments. We believe that there must be no student that would miss the chance to visit the Acropolis Hill, admire the beauty of the Parthenon and become a time traveler. It is a strange feeling when you imagine the glory of the persons that were walking on those same stones 2,000 and 3,000 years before you. We are in Athens to make things easy for you and organize everything. Go ahead now, visit our site, see the basic 8 days classical program in the student tours section and using it as your guideline add or deduct days and places and plan the "study tour to Greece" that suits your needs and budget. We offer the students: a centrally located 3 stars hotel with a fantastic view of Acropolis from the roof garden, a good breakfast to keep them for the day, a friendly and knowledgeable tour guide, a careful driver with an air conditioned coach and someone to answer to questions about the daily life in Greece. We offer all these at a low price ...and something more...our personal service and friendship. This is a chance at the best time of their lifetime together with their fellow students to discover the beginning of the civilization and follow the steps of the giants of philosophy, logic and learning. Consider the idea of the tour and LET US BE YOUR HOST and organize the rest. Have in mind that the price of the tour depends on the size of the group and the time you choose to visit Greece. We shall meet you in Athens and show you why we call Greece a "beautiful country" and the Greeks as "gifted people". A study tour to Greece is educational, recreational and an experience that your students will remember for the rest of their lives. The climate, the ancient monuments and their history, the blue sky, the clear sea waters, the sandy beaches, the Greek hospitality and what we call the different attitude to everyday life of the Greek people are some of the charming pictures that come to everybody's mind, associated with a visit to Greece but there is plenty more. We shall be next to you all the time and try and show you everything that we can. If you combine this tour to Greece with a similar tour of Italy - visiting Rome, Florence and Venice you have organized the perfect "study tour" for the History of Art and Classical students.


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Consequences of Kabul
Recent events in Afghanistan have profound implications. The defeat of US/NATO/UK and the victory of the Taliban is akin to the humiliation of the Soviet Union in 1989. It is being depicted as a triumph of the Salafi-Jihadist ideology over foreign invaders, murderers of civilians, oppressors and torturers. It is an encouragement to celebrate and replicate this achievement elsewhere. Cash, coverage and recruits will flow to terrorists.
In the UK, the threat level could be raised to SEVERE or higher at short notice. This could surprise many except the most alert CSOs of major companies. This could occur at a time when counter-terrorism structures are in transition.
Speaking before the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, Ken McCallum, the Director General of the Security Service (MI5), warned that the Taliban takeover is likely to embolden extremists in Afghanistan and elsewhere. He highlighted the number of late-stage attacks that have been recently disrupted in the UK. Raffi Gregorian, Deputy Head of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), drew attention to the growing threat in Africa and warned that local terrorists may seek to emulate the Taliban success as they see it. Gregorian also mentions the unresolved issue of foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) and women and children linked to them who are in camps in Syria and Iraq, often in dire conditions. Western governments have been persistently inactive in addressing these challenges. The result is that venues continue to exist where deep resentment festers and human suffering is exploited for terrorist propaganda.
Countering the threat
Against these cruel realities, the 'use by date' for the UK CONTEST strategy has expired. It was introduced in June 2018 with a '3-year horizon' (Paragraph 22) and sets out plans and objectives up to 2021 (Paragraph 32). Previous CONTEST revisions have been no strangers to slippage.
UK CT resources remain static with Polyanna promises by government for reinforcement as needed. Oddly, there is no public information campaign to further the warning of Ken McCallum and to enhance public vigilance and preparedness.
The proposed PROTECT DUTY entered a consultation period of 18 weeks on 26 February 2021. The DUTY applies to specified owners and operators of public venues, large organisations and those responsible for public spaces. Many concerned bodies, including Resilience First, have submitted timely and constructive comments in response to the government invitation. Developments are awaited.
This may be connected with the gap in the post of Minister of State (Minister of Security) this year. The much-respected James Brokenshire stood down on 7 July for health reasons. No timely replacement was appointed. At one stage, the Home Office reportedly claimed that the Home Secretary would herself personally subsume this ministerial role. This prompted the Shadow Security Minister, Conor McGinn, to say: "Getting rid of a specific day-to-day senior government minister responsible for security and CT when Britain's national security is under threat 24 hours a day, seven days a week, is an abdication of responsibility." Damian Hinds was appointed Minister of State (Minister for Security) on 13 August. By ill fortune, this was two days before the fall of Kabul. He had been Education Secretary until 24 July 2019 but lost this job when Boris Johnson became PM. Hinds had campaigned to remain in the EU. Hinds was replaced by Gavin Williamson. In the cabinet reshuffle of 15 September, Damian Hinds' new ministerial duties were extended to include borders as well as security. In present political circumstances, this does not bode well for a laser like focus on security.
In April 2021, the Home Office announced a new Head of the Office of Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT), now the Office of Homeland Security. Chloe Squires replaced Tom Hurd who had held the post of DG OSCT since 2016 and had gained respect from both public and private sectors for his innovation. The new post holder is labelled as DG for Homeland Security. The ever-wise Sir David Omand has argued against the use of the homeland security concept in the UK context. He wrote: 'That was a term not much liked in UK security circles who saw the creation of the giant US Department of Homeland Security as a precedent not to follow'. Twenty years of post-9/11 experience have vindicated Sir David's wisdom.
The continuing dangers
In conclusion, it may be helpful to explain more fully why recent events in Afghanistan matter to the safety of UK citizens.
First, persons of malign intent all over the world who are the devotees of Salafi-Jihadist ideology and probably fervent on-line followers will be inspired to acts of violence in support of the cause. Fortunately, their attacks will be relatively ineffective, although even one casualty is a tragedy. Unfortunately, this has already started e.g. Auckland, New Zealand.
Secondly, the defeat in Afghanistan recreates a lawless zone where terrorists can plot mass casualty attacks. Al Qaeda and ISIS-K are prominent examples but Afghanistan is home to a panoply of unpleasant entities.
Thirdly, AQ and ISIS are established in many other lands and have the evil resources to attack at home and abroad. The clarion call of US defeat and retreat will be heard and acted upon.
Fourthly, there is the danger that terrorist groups of diverse labels will wish to make their mark on this new landscape and secure prominence in terms of reputation, support and, perhaps, novel attack methodology.
The most likely immediate danger to the UK is in the first category. This menace is underlined by the fact that the pandemic has had a limiting effect on terrorist travel, reconnaissance, preparation and targeting but all this activity is no longer suppressed. Indeed, the pandemic era has probably increased the time spent by malevolent actors perusing provocative terrorist material.


For one fun afternoon this August the Picture House is proud to host Comics Central in conjunction with Thought Bubble Festival. With invaluable support from Arts Council England Thought Bubble are on a mission and they want YOU to get involved!
Thought Bubble Festival (18th – 24th September) is a magnificent celebration of comics and sequential art in all its forms. The marquees which house the festival in Leeds City Centre will be chock-a-block with comic artists and writers from all over the world, but at the moment the walls are looking a little plain. That's where Comics Central comes in!
Join us to on Thursday 24th August from 12noon to create artwork which will be blown up in scale and used to decorate the entire festival site! To inspire budding comic creators we'll be including a screening of The LEGO Batman movie as part of this great afternoon of making...and, what's more, this event is totally free! Simply turn up at 12 noon to join in.
In the irreverent spirit of fun that made "The LEGO® Movie" a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble - LEGO Batman – stars in his own big-screen adventure. But there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants to save the city from The Joker's hostile takeover, Batman may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up.


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Pictorial on Life in China's Inner Mongolia
Category: Explore China Tags: China / Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia is located on the northern frontier of China, spanning across the northeast, north, and northwest of China. (Image courtesy of Gwanhae Seong)
By VISION TIMES, June 23, 2017
Inner Mongolia is located on the northern frontier of China, spanning across the northeast, north, and northwest of China. The Inner Mongolia Plateau is broad and open, with an altitude of 2000-4500 feet. The terrain is higher in the west and south than it is in the east and north. The plateau and the basin are separated from each other, creating a vast area of grasslands.
There are 18,470,000 people of Han nationality, accounting for 79 percent of the total population; 4,000,000 more are Mongolian, accounting for 17 percent of the total population. There are other minorities as well, and a total of 49 nationalities live there.
Inner Mongolia has diverse industries: energy, chemicals, metallurgy, equipment manufacturing, agricultural and livestock products, and high-tech. Inner Mongolia has a wide variety of regional climates. The winters are very long, cold, and dry, with frequent blizzards, although snowfall is light .
The spring is short, mild, and arid, with large, dangerous sandstorms, while the summer is very warm to hot, and relatively humid, except in the west.
The grasslands, forests, and per capita cultivated land area in Inner Mongolia rank No.1 in China, with its reserves of rare earth metals ranking No. 1 in the world. Inner Mongolia has China's largest area of grasslands. Local residents mainly work in the livestock industry for a living.
Inner Mongolia has China's largest area of grasslands. Local residents mainly work in the livestock industry for a living. (Image courtesy of Gwanhae Seong)
Inner Mongolia has diverse industries: energy, chemicals, metallurgy, equipment manufacturing, agricultural and livestock products, and high-tech. (Image courtesy of Gwanhae Seong)
Inner Mongolia has a wide variety of regional climates. The winters are very long, cold, and dry, with frequent blizzards, although snowfall is light.The spring is short, mild, and arid, with large, dangerous sandstorms, while the summer is very warm to hot, and relatively humid, except in the west. (Image courtesy of Gwanhae Seong)
The Inner Mongolia Plateau is broad and open, with an altitude of 2000-4500 feet. The terrain is higher in the west and south than it is in the east and north. (Image courtesy of Gwanhae Seong)
The plateau and the basin are separated from each other, creating a vast area of grasslands. (Image courtesy of Gwanhae Seong)
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THERE once was a teacher who promised he would turn into a fairy princess and paddle out on Lake Wendouree with his sparkle wand should pupils get jumping. A lot. Pleasant Street primary raised $14,000 in Jump Rope for Heart. Physical education coordinator Steve Eichler had thought $10,000 – the magical amount to turn him fairy princess – would be a big ask. The school raised $7000 last year. And so, on what Mr Eichler was relieved to be a still and warm afternoon, he got in his wings on the water. "At the start of the challenge, we were doing Eye of the Tiger as a bit of a warm up and most kids couldn't make it through to the lyrics. By the end we had classes making it through to the end and every play at lunch we're seeing all the kids out there skipping," Mr Eichler said. "It's been amazing." Pupils have already been asking if the ropes can stay for more playtimes so they can continue to master their new skills like the bell, the skiier, the criss cross and, a school favourite, the wounded duck. Old schoolyard challenge double-Dutch it seems still causes some challenges. Seven-year-old Lewis raised $1015 by jumping for children like his brother Harry, who was born with a hole in his heart. Harry, now in grade prep, says his heart is all better now. He had an operation at the Royal Children's Hospital when he was one and he can now run and jump rope like all the other children. Lewis said his uncles were good sponsors, but lots of family and friends chipped in and it all added up. Jump Rope for Heart is a six-week school program to promote physical activity and heart disease awareness. Money raised supports the Heart Foundation in its work to fight heart disease. QUICK JUMP ROPE FACTS Have you signed up to The Courier's daily newsletter and breaking news emails? You can register below and make sure you are up to date with everything that's happening in Ballarat.
THERE once was a teacher who promised he would turn into a fairy princess and paddle out on Lake Wendouree with his sparkle wand should pupils get jumping. A lot.
Pleasant Street primary raised $14,000 in Jump Rope for Heart. Physical education coordinator Steve Eichler had thought $10,000 – the magical amount to turn him fairy princess – would be a big ask. The school raised $7000 last year.
And so, on what Mr Eichler was relieved to be a still and warm afternoon, he got in his wings on the water.
Pupils have already been asking if the ropes can stay for more playtimes so they can continue to master their new skills like the bell, the skiier, the criss cross and, a school favourite, the wounded duck.
Old schoolyard challenge double-Dutch it seems still causes some challenges.
Seven-year-old Lewis raised $1015 by jumping for children like his brother Harry, who was born with a hole in his heart. Harry, now in grade prep, says his heart is all better now. He had an operation at the Royal Children's Hospital when he was one and he can now run and jump rope like all the other children.
Lewis said his uncles were good sponsors, but lots of family and friends chipped in and it all added up.
Jump Rope for Heart is a six-week school program to promote physical activity and heart disease awareness.
Money raised supports the Heart Foundation in its work to fight heart disease.


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– General Terms and Conditions (download PDF)
– Privacy Policy (download PDF)
– SDD B2B (for Business users)
– SDD Core (for Private Users)
– Tax data request letter
– Service Charter (download PDF)
OPPOSITION REGISTER
(Presidential Decree No. 178/2010)
On Feb. 2, 2011, new legislation regarding telemarketing, which legitimizes contacting all subscribers in telephone directories, went into effect. Those who may not wish to receive any kind of promotional calls or be involved in market research via telephone can request that their telephone number be entered in the Register of Oppositions, managed by the Ugo Bordoni Foundation. Registration can be done free of charge via web, e-mail, fax, registered mail or telephone.
Information on how to register, update and unsubscribe is available at www.registrodelleopposizioni.it.
To make the new Telephone Marketing rules even more effective, the Data Protection Authority, in Order No. 073 of Feb. 24, 2011, prepared two models:
– Subscriber List Form: sent to new Customers upon contract conclusion or Number Portability request
– Register of Oppositions disclosures: sent to Customers already in telephone directories
Resolution No. 252/16/CONS
– Internet services rate transparency (download PDF)
– Tariff transparency of Phony services (download PDF)
In accordance with AGCOM Resolution 244/08/CSP Quality service performance of Internet access from fixed location: for the purpose of transparency and correctness of information provided to end users, we publish the address of the site www.misurainternet.it Concerning the Italian project of monitoring the Quality of Internet Access Service from Fixed Locations, in accordance with AGCOM Resolution 244/08/CSP on "Quality of Internet Access Services from Fixed Locations."
– Table detailing the services provided with the ADSL offer
Measures of the performance of individual operators' networks, surveyed by the project throughout the country and published on each operator's website, are reference values against which to compare different offerings in the market.


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Devault, Pennsylvania, August 15, 2017	(Newswire.com) - Devault Foods is pleased to announce a new partnership with Dot Foods, a national re-distributor serving the food service industry. Dot Foods services distributors in all food channels, including food service, supermarket, convenience, drug, and all alternate channels. Since 1960, Dot Foods has been helping manufacturers by providing products to distributors in less-than-truckload quantities. In doing so, Devault Foods can now provide America's favorite burgers, meatballs, sausages and Philly-style steaks to the specific and unique needs of businesses nationwide.
As the nation's first and largest food industry re-distributor, Dot Foods' nine distribution centers serve all 50 states and over 25 countries. Family-owned and operated for more than 55 years, Dot takes pride in developing innovative solutions. Dot sells to approximately 4,100 distributors in the food industry that can now provide Devault Foods quality products with a one-case minimum and two-day lead-time. This eliminates the majority of the operational hurdles occasionally encountered when trying to bring on new customers and placing new items. Dot provides efficiencies to a less than truckload supply chain that will save costs and improve efficiency.
Devault Foods is excited to offer clients and future clients another option to source America's greatest tasting foods.
Devault Foods is built upon seven decades of the Fillippo family's experience. The heritage includes cattle farmers, butchers, Veterans of Armed Service and recently, leaders in the food service industry. Devault Foods is unrivaled in operational excellence and a market leader in portion-controlled meat packaging. Today, Devault Foods is focused on current trends and the future needs of the marketplace. Commitment to quality and excellence goes beyond industry standards and provides a platform to deliver exceptional products well into the future.


War of the Rebellion: Serial 008 Page 0560 OPERATIONS IN MO., ARK., KANS., AND IND. T. Chapter XVIII.
SAINT LOUIS, February 18, 1862.
The flag of the Union is floating in Arkansas. General Curtis has driven Price from Missouri, and is several miles across the Arkansas line, cutting up Price's rear and hourly capturing prisoners and stores. The Army of the Southwest is doing its duty nobly.
HDQRS. SOUTHWESTERN DIST. OF MO., Numbers 90.
Sugar Creek, Ark., February 18, 1862.
The general commanding directs me to announce to the soldiers of this district tidings of success, which he has received through Major-General Halleck, by our comrades elsewhere.
Our gunboats have triumphantly penetrated Florence, Ala. A great victory has been won by the Army and Navy in taking Roanoke Island, in North Carolina, where 300 of the enemy were killed, 1,000 wounded, and 2,500 taken prisoners.
The general also expresses his great satisfaction to the troops of this command for their courage, fidelity, and endurance manifested in this campaign.
You have moved in the most inclement weather, over the worst of roads, making extraordinary long marches, subsisting mainly on meat without salt, and for the past six days you have been under the fire of the fleeing enemy. You have driven him out of Missouri, restored the Union flag to the virgin soil of Arkansas, and triumphed in two contests, the last with a portion of the combined forces of Price and McCulloch in their stronghold, and I trust you will receive the gratified thanks of your friends and your country.
In your rapid pursuit of the foe and the cravings of actual hunger, the peaceable citizens through whose country we have passed should forgive some acts of spoliation which are incident to war under such pressing circumstances, but the commanding general will again call the attention of his officers and men to his General Orders, Numbers 3, and express him hopes that soldiers that have done themselves much honor will not soil it by acts of folly, cruelty, or dissipation.
Let us show the people everywhere that our tents and knapsacks are not disgraced with plunder, and that the old flag of the Union is the only emblem of power, peace, and safety to society, and the only flag that deserves their regard and affection.
And let the people of Arkansas rally to a banner raised by our fathers as the emblem of civil and religious liberty, and restore to our whole country that peace and prosperity which have so long distinguished us among the nations of the earth.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Saint Louis, February 20, 1862.


Sultan 5th Week Collection Update. Juggernaut Continues after 300.
Sultan is still unstoppable even after crossing 300 at box office. Juggernaut is still marching ahead although collection is in limited level now. Plus, collection will come to more or less halt as big releases are coming in Mohenjo Daro and Rustom.
Sultan has posted nearly similar collection in 5th weekdays starting from Monday to Wednesday. Film is rock steady. Sultan has collected nearly 2 crore nett in 6 days of week five and 5th week collection is heading towards 2.1 crore nett. Film total collection currently stands at approx 300.2 crore nett.
Sultan lifetime collection is heading towards 301 crore nett mark. Film is hugely profitable for all associated with it and is easily one of the biggest Hits of all time.
4th Week - 4.45 crore nett.
5th Weekend - 1.5 crore nett.
5th Monday-Wednesday - 0.45 crore nett.
Total - 300.2 crore nett.
Because of piracy GGM came one week b4 dam scheduled ..I.e. second week of Sultan ....N ate screens unfortunately.
So GGM ate screens n flopped too.
Anyways ...every1 isn't lucky like pk ..3 open weeks dat too in December.
Just check 300 cr on 18th day & lifetime 339 cr ? How come ?.


The key to TOGAF remains a reliable, practical method - the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) - for defining business needs and developing an architecture that meets those needs, applying the elements of TOGAF and other architectural assets available to the organization.
TOGAF embodies the concept of the Enterprise Continuum to reflect different levels of abstraction in an architecture development process. In this way TOGAF facilitates understanding and co-operation between actors at different levels. It provides a context for the use of multiple frameworks, models, and architecture assets in conjunction with the TOGAF ADM. By means of the Enterprise Continuum, architects are encouraged to leverage all other relevant architectural resources and assets, in addition to the TOGAF Foundation Architecture, in developing an organization-specific IT architecture.
These decisions must be made on the basis of a practical assessment of resource and competence availability, and the value that can realistically be expected to accrue to the enterprise from the chosen scope of the architecture work.


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package com.deleidos.rtws.commons.model.dimension;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;

public class DimensionColumn {
	private List<String> VALID_TYPES = Arrays.asList("STRING", "NUMBER", "DATETIME");
	private List<String> REQUIRED_FORMAT_MASK_TYPES = Arrays.asList("DATETIME");

	private Long id;
	private String name;
	private DimensionColumnRole role;
	private String defaultValue;
	private String mappingFieldName;
	private String mappingFieldType;
	private String formatMask;

	public Long getId() {
		return id;
	}
	public void setId(Long id) {
		this.id = id;
	}
	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}
	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}
	public DimensionColumnRole getRole() {
		return role;
	}
	public void setRole(DimensionColumnRole role) {
		this.role = role;
	}
	public String getDefaultValue() {
		return defaultValue;
	}
	public void setDefaultValue(String defaultValue) {
		this.defaultValue = defaultValue;
	}
	public String getMappingFieldName() {
		return mappingFieldName;
	}
	public void setMappingFieldName(String mappingFieldName) {
		this.mappingFieldName = mappingFieldName;
	}
	public String getMappingFieldType() {
		return mappingFieldType;
	}
	public void setMappingFieldType(String mappingFieldType) {
		this.mappingFieldType = mappingFieldType;
	}

	public String getFormatMask(){
		return formatMask;
	}

	public void setFormatMask(String formatMask){
		this.formatMask = formatMask;
	}

	public List<String> validate()
	{
		List<String> errors = new ArrayList<String>();

		if(StringUtils.isBlank(name))
		{
			errors.add("A Column Name cannot be empty");
		}
		if(role == null)
		{
			errors.add((StringUtils.isNotBlank(name) ? (name + ": ") : "" ) + "Role cannot be empty");
		}
		if(StringUtils.isBlank(mappingFieldName))
		{
			errors.add((StringUtils.isNotBlank(name) ? (name + ": ") : "" ) + "Field Variable Name cannot be empty");
		}
		errors.addAll(validateFieldType());

		return errors;
	}

	private List<String> validateFieldType()
	{
		List<String> errors = new ArrayList<String>();

		if(StringUtils.isBlank(mappingFieldType))
		{
			errors.add((StringUtils.isNotBlank(name) ? (name + ": ") : "" ) + "Field Type cannot be empty");
		}
		else if(VALID_TYPES.contains(mappingFieldType) == false)
		{
			errors.add((StringUtils.isNotBlank(name) ? (name + ": ") : "" ) + "unsupported Field Type");
		}
		else if(REQUIRED_FORMAT_MASK_TYPES.contains(mappingFieldType) && StringUtils.isBlank(formatMask))
		{
			errors.add((StringUtils.isNotBlank(name) ? (name + ": ") : "" ) + "A Format Mask is required for this Field Type");
		}

		return errors;
	}
}


Three tenors share the famous Verdi aria La donna e mobile, at startlin (miked) volume, at the top of this musical entertainment. No wonder they exit stage left with an amusing swagger and a cocky wink.
True, maybe that's the subtext of all tenor-hood — witness centuries of opera ego jokes about the possessors of impossibly high voices, male or female. But the moves are a tiny, silent annotation, too. Marion J. Caffey's inspiration, in his original Mo' show of 2000, is to defy, rather spectacularly, the odds-against racial slant built into opera, with a trio of talent-heavy, classically trained black tenors.
More than that, after an assortment of operatic solos — including Handel, notoriously difficult, and an aria from Manon famous for its extended notes — the three mo' tenors will, separately and together, apply their pipes to a hodge-podge of 10 musical styles, some more unexpected than others, from Broadway to blues, Motown to white-guy rock (OK, OK, no English music-hall ditties). "High brow, low brow, they all agree/ we're the best in harmony," they borrow from Five Guys Named Moe.
You get to spend an evening with three personalities, excellent singers who demonstrably love occupying a stage and engaging an audience. Not to mention a first-rate, five-member band, led by Fabiola Leon from the piano.
If the idea is to showcase versatility, the extreme outer reaches traditionally being opera, Three Mo' Tenors actually works in reverse. It's like Three Mo' Divas (seen here a couple of seasons ago) that way. Kenneth Alston Jr., Ramone Diggs and Phumzile Sojola do a creditable job of their opera assignments. And why wouldn't they? They have opera training and credits.
What's more remarkable, arguably, is that they don't let these credentials stop them from delivering blues, Broadway, soul, gospel and killer spirituals with such thrilling command and style. Think of those embarrassing encores (sometimes, shudder, whole albums) where big opera stars like Pavarotti condescend to start their full over-heated operatic engines on spirituals or The Impossible Dream, and reduce them to roadkill.
Three Mo' Tenors isn't like that at all. It's tuned to style, and presented with charm. The most unexpected offering, for a trio of African-American tenors, is the Queen medley. We Are the Champions is pure processed (white) cheese by now, here presented with a sly hint of knowingness. But there's also a homage to Ray Charles, along with the odd Gladys Knight chestnut (Midnight Train To Georgia). And Sojola mines his South African background for an appealing, crowd-embracing medley.
For some members of the audience — me, for example — the mere intro sequence of Bring Him Home, the big teary Jean Valjean showstopper from Les Miz, is enough to induce a spasm of fear and stress. Sojola, the most puckish of the three, and Diggs, the most naturally wistful, manage to erase bad memories of several generations of quivery over-extended "actor-ly" performances. Nothing, probably, can redeem the dreck-y This is the Moment from Jekyll & Hyde, but Alston has a go.


There has been a lot of new lately about an increase in cases of the measles in America. Most of Americans think just because they got vaccinated that diseases like measles isn't something they need to prepare for, but they couldn't be more wrong. First of all the measles vaccine is only about 93% effective when somebody is only given one dose, which is the case for most people. This means that you have a little under 10% change of getting measles even with the vaccine, for those who aren't very good with numbers means one in ten people. Count the 10 people closest to you and count on one of them getting measles if they were all expose, or maybe you would be the one.
It still not a big threat since antibiotics work against the disease and it's really fatal. True but let's say a terrorist organization found a good way to spread the disease and millions were exposed, lets use New York City as an example. There are about 9 million people in NYC, of them only about 90% are vaccinated against the measles meaning there are 900,000 people who aren't vaccinated. In addition with only a 93% effective rate of the vaccine this means there are another 567,000 people who can contract the disease for a total of 1,377,000 potential victims.
If an outbreak of even 10% or 140,000 cases happened over a period of a month than the psychological effect on the general population could cause major distribution in public utilities and good and services resulting in rioting and marauders looking for food and water.


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Q: Remove space from mount point name Hi in my ubuntu I have partioned my hard drive. and now I see the my mount point names contains space. please tell me how to remove the spaces from the name.
now it is like Local Disk 1, Local Disk 2 etc.  I just want to remove the space. Please see the image
I want to do it for /dev/sda5 , /dev/sda6, /dev/sda7.
Please help me, due to this non of my web apps are working when I do image and video uploads.

A: You can manually edit your /etc/fstab. It defines all your mount points. There are some GUIs for this, but I don't know any. You may find one yourself.
The syntax is: FILE_SYSTEM MOUNT_POINT TYPE OPTIONS DUMP PASS
Example for your /dev/sda5, append this line to your /etc/fstab and reboot:
/dev/sda5 /media/logan/LocalDisk1 ntfs-3g defaults,rw  0  0

If it's not mounted correctly create the folder first:
mkdir /media/logan/LocalDisk1

If it's working repeat it for your other partitions.
I sometimes have permission problems with NTFS partitions after mounting. I hope you will not.

A: Please try below steps.
sudo umount /dev/sda5
sudo mkdir /media/logan/LocalDisk1
sudo mount /dev/sda5/ /media/logan/LocalDisk1

For persistent, you can make fstab entry. Repeat this for all volumes.

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My son has been working on self-portraits this year at his school. Here is one of his versions of himself. You can see what features are important to him: his curly hair, his long eyelashes and his teeth!
A peach and coconut pie with a cobbler topping. This was taken before it went into the oven. Thank you, Martha!
Impulse purchase....what was I thinking???
Fresh mint and chamomile from the garden.....the perfect afternoon tea blend!
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WannaCry 'Hero' Marcus Hutchins Pleads Guilty to Creating Malware
By Ionut Arghire on April 22, 2019
British cybersecurity researcher Marcus Hutchins, known for his actions that helped stop the WannaCry ransomware attack, admitted in a U.S. court to aiding in the development and distribution of a banking Trojan.
Known online as MalwareTech, Hutchins was called a "hero" after stopping the WannaCry ransomware attack in May 2017 by registering a domain that acted as a kill switch for the malware.
On August 2, 2017, however, he was arrested when getting ready to return to the U.K. from Las Vegas, where the Black Hat and Def Con security conferences had taken place.
Hutchins was accused of being involved in the development, distribution and advertising of Kronos, a well-known banking Trojan. In August of 2017, the security expert pleaded not guilty to the charges related to the building of Kronos.
Last week, Hutchins posted a statement on both his blog and his Twitter account, revealing that he pleaded guilty to two of the ten charges brought to him by the U.S. authorities.
"As you may be aware, I've pleaded guilty to two charges related to writing malware in the years prior to my career in security. I regret these actions and accept full responsibility for my mistakes," he said.
"Having grown up, I've since been using the same skills that I misused several years ago for constructive purposes. I will continue to devote my time to keeping people safe from malware attacks," Hutchins continued.
On Twitter, the researcher thanked those who expressed support to him and pointed out that wearing a black hat to become a security expert is not necessary and that the community should work toward sharing knowledge to help people in the right direction.
"There's misconception that to be a security expert you must dabble in the dark side. It's not true. You can learn everything you need to know legally. Stick to the good side," he said.
In "Attachment A" of the plea agreement (PDF), U.S. authorities explain that the researcher was involved in the development of two pieces of banking malware, namely UPAS-Kit and Kronos.
The document continues to explain that both UPAS and Kronos use form grabbers, key loggers, and web injects to steal user names, passwords, email addresses, and financial data from victim computers. Hutchins, the document states, built both pieces of malware and provided them to a partner to be sold for profit.
Each of the charges he pleaded guilty to include carry a maximum up to 5 years in prison, up to $250,000 in fines, up to 1 year of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
It is currently unclear when Hutchins is scheduled for sentencing.
Related: Code Linked to MalwareTech and Kronos Published in 2009
Related: British Researcher Pleads Not Guilty to Creating Malware


While you can buy bags of premixed pig food at most farm supply stores, you might want to make your own pig food mix. Many people believe that you can feed pigs anything, such as your table scraps and whatever else you can get your hands on. While it's true that pigs will eat just about anything, they should be fed a balanced diet just like any other animal. This is especially true if you are raising your pigs commercially, as you want them to be as healthy as possible.
Feed your weaners, or pigs that are being weaned off of their mother's milk, a special mix of food until they are about 10 to 12 weeks old. Create a feed mix that is comprised of about 76 percent corn or wheat, 12 percent skim milk powder, 6 percent soybean meal, 6 percent calcium and protein supplement, and 0.2 percent salt.
Begin feeding your pigs a grower diet when they are about 12 weeks old. Create a feed mix that is 79 percent sorghum, 10 percent soybean meal, 7 percent calcium and protein supplement, 4 percent sunflower or peanut meal, and 0.25 percent salt.
Feed your breeder pigs a different mix than the rest of your pigs. Make a feed mix that is 80 percent sorghum, 10 percent sunflower meal, 10 percent calcium and protein supplement, and 0.25 percent salt.
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11 Best Things to Do in San Sebastian
What is San Sebastian Most Famous For?
The best things to do in San Sebastian showcase the city's famous beaches, quaint Old Town and first-class restaurants. Known as Donostia in Basque, you'll find a great choice of cultural events and a strong regional character in this coastal city.
The Old Town hosts a great scene of local eateries, markets and shops, as well as many landmarks around an impressive cathedral. From San Sebastian Cathedral to La Concha Beach, there is plenty to see and do in San Sebastian.
What are the best things to do in San Sebastian?
Plaza de la Constitución
Take the pulse of San Sebastian in this lively square
Plaza de la Constitución is a 2,000 sq m square in the heart of San Sebastian Old Town. Rectangular in shape and framed by 4-storey arcaded buildings, this former bull fighting arena is now a pleasant open-air space amid the maze of narrow lanes that is the Old Town. As an interesting little detail, you can still see the former arena's seat numbers written above each of the balconies that surround the square. Take a table at the terrace of one of the restaurants and tapas bars lined around the plaza and take the pulse of the city.
Location: In the center of San Sebastian Old Town, Spain
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San Sebastian Old Town
It's a bit of a maze!
Locally known as La Parte Vieja, the Old Town is the most popular district of San Sebastian. Most of the buildings there date back to the mid-19th century. It's a real maze of small streets lined with Pintxos bars (pronounced "pinchos", it means 'tapas' in Basque) and shops. Emblematic edifices such as the church of San Vicente and the basilica of Saint Mary of Coro are also worth a visit.
Location: At the foot of Mount Urgull, between Concha Bay and the River Urumea, in the north of San Sebastian, Spain
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La Concha Beach
Sunbathe on one of the most beautiful urban beaches in Europe
La Concha Beach is a 1,350-meter strip of sand named after the shell-shaped bay it's in (concha means shell in Spanish). Often considered one of the most beautiful urban beaches in Europe, it's sheltered from the assaults of the Atlantic Ocean by Mount Urgull and Mount Igueldo, that flank its sides, and by Santa Clara Island which lies in the center of the bay. Sunbathing, swimming, and sea kayaking are the main activities available. The beach also features facilities like toilets, showers, lockers, beach guards and Red Cross Emergency Services (in summer).
Location: Just west of the Old Town, San Sebastian, Spain
Mount Igueldo
Get a breathtaking view of San Sebastian
Take the vintage funicular, first opened in 1912, and get to the top of Mount Igueldo to see a breathtaking panorama of Concha Bay and San Sebastian. A popular destination right next to the city, Mount Igueldo features cool landmarks and attractions like a lighthouse and an old-school amusement park. Don't miss a ride on the rollercoaster. Looking for an eagle's-nest kind of place to stay in San Sebastian? Hotel Mercure San Sebastian Monte Igueldo is right next to the park, at the top of the mount.
Location: Western end of Concha Bay and San Sebastian, Spain
Mercado de La Bretxa
Browse through a top-notch fresh market
Located in the basement of a mall, Mercado de La Bretxa is a picturesque fresh market at which, according to the vendors, the top Spanish chefs source their ingredients. Olives, oil, wine, Iberia ham, and many more transportation-friendly goods can be purchased. As in most Spanish markets, you'll find a corner with a few stalls selling ready-to-eat local specialties, including tapas.
Location: 3, Boulevard Zumardia, 20003 San Sebastian, Spain
San Sebastian Cathedral
Admire a monumental religious edifice
San Sebastian Cathedral was built at the end of the 19th century in a revival Neo-Gothic style. Locally called Catedral del Buen Pastor de San Sebastián, it's a monumental edifice just south of the Old Town. The austere interior is dimly but beautifully lit by stained glass windows, which make the atmosphere serene and reverential. The highlight of the cathedral is its huge pipe organ, one of the largest in Europe.
Location: 12, Urdaneta Kalea, 20006 San Sebastian, Spain
Restaurants in San Sebastian
Enjoy the best eats in the city
Restaurants in San Sebastian range from fine-dining options in elaborate venues to quaint al fresco eateries. With a dining scene that revolves around comfort food, local ingredients, and fresh fish, there are plenty of places for you to enjoy a romantic date night or lively family dinner.
One of San Sebastian's most popular restaurants is Antonio, which serves coal-grilled meats and traditional Basque seafood dishes. Another great dinner option is Narru, a modern restaurant with a charming terrace and wine cellar. Arenales serves plant-based dishes in an intimate setting.
Aquarium de San Sebastián
Aquarium on the sea
The Aquarium de San Sebastián sits in the perfect spot on the harbor and right next to Old Town, making it an essential stop for your family vacation. This aquarium features dozens of exhibits broken up by region and houses more than 200 species of ocean life.
Like any aquarium, you'll find the usual creatures like sharks, jellyfish, and turtles. Things get a little more interesting with the 360-degree underwater tunnel going straight through one of the tanks. There are often deals available for children, so bring the whole family.
Location: 1 Plaza de Carlos Blasco Imaz, 20003 Donostia, Gipuzkoa, Spain
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A vibrant neighbourhood with bars, surf and festivals
Gros stretches from the slopes of Monte Ulia to the mouth of the River Urumea and back to the Egia neighbourhood in San Sebastian. The youthful and vibrant oceanfront district is known for its lively nightlife and surf culture. Zurriola Beach is a magnet for hardcore surfers, while the bustling streets are where you'll find pintxo bars hosting live music virtually every night of the week.
The streets of Gros are also filled with world-class restaurants and unique shops. It especially draws a younger crowd, thanks to the thriving surf culture in the neighbourhood. For music lovers, it's also home to the Heineken Jazzaldia festival, held every year in July.
Location: Tomás Gros Kalea, Donostia, Gipuzkoa, Spain
Victoria Eugenia Antzokia
A performing arts center overlooking the River Urumea
Victoria Eugenia Antzokia is a performing arts center within the De Okendo Plaza in San Sebastian, overlooking the Urumea River. The sandstone building was created by architect Francisco de Urcola in intricate Spanish Renaissance style. It has been the main hub of performing arts in the city since 1912, with various events and performances throughout the year.
The 20th-century building is as beautiful on the outside as it is on the inside. It's worth visiting for a show or performance depending on the current program. Victoria Eugenia Antzokia is also the main venue for the annual International Movie Festival that takes place every September in San Sebastian.
Location: Argentinar Errepublika, 2, 20004 Donostia-San Sebastian, Gipuzkoa, Spain
San Sebastián International Film Festival
Spot international stars at this major film festival
The San Sebastián International Film Festival is one of the 14 major film festivals in the world. It presented the European premier of Star Wars in 1977 and hosts world-famous actors and directors every year. Held toward the end of September, the festival tends to focus on Latin American productions and films in the less widely spoken European languages, but not exclusively so.
When: Annually, end of September
Location: At Edificio Tabakalera on Plaza de las Cigarreras, San Sebastian, Spain
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Jessica Graham Appointed as Children's Literacy Initiative's National Director of Development
Children's Literacy Initiative announced today the appointment of Jessica Graham as National Director of Development. Ms. Graham, based in Houston, TX, brings over 15 years of experience helping non-profit organizations successfully increase revenue by connecting and building relationships with donors.
"I am thrilled to officially welcome Jessica Graham as CLI's new National Director of Development," said Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Joel Zarrow. "As Interim Director (and before), Jessica exhibited incredibly sharp strategic thinking, deep expertise, and a tremendous work ethic. Jessica brings with her years of development experience and a deep connection to CLI's purpose."
Ms. Graham joined CLI as a Regional Development Officer in January 2017 and assumed the role of Interim Director of Development in July 2018. During her time at CLI, she has helped secure over $15 million in revenue, including the highly competitive U.S. Department of Education's Early-Phase Education Innovation and Research grant to expand CLI's prekindergarten services. Ms. Graham will oversee the Development team and all national and local fundraising efforts, with a focus on reaching more individual donors in the communities where CLI works. Ms. Graham has worked with numerous non-profit organizations, beginning her fundraising career in New York City at St. Mary's Child and Family Services in 2003 and most recently serving as Director of Philanthropy Marketing at Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.
"As the daughter of an educator, I am grateful for the opportunity to serve as CLI's National Director of Development. I look forward to continuing to work with Joel and the team to secure the funds needed to bring CLI's important work to more teachers and students in under-resourced schools across the country."
Ms. Graham received her BS in Communication Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and her Certificate in Fundraising from New York University, and she is an American Express Non-Profit Leadership Academy alumna.
Established in 1988, Children's Literacy Initiative (CLI) is a national 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, headquartered in Philadelphia, that is focused on improving literacy instruction in public, charter, and parochial schools to ensure that students can read on grade level. CLI's program provides personalized coaching for teachers and principals, research-based literacy training, and the books and materials classrooms need so that students can become powerful readers, writers, and thinkers. Third-party research has shown that the CLI professional development model can improve both educators' early literacy instruction and also student reading achievement. Connect with CLI on Twitter @CLIupdates, on Facebook and via cli.org.


Authorities outside Atlanta said Saturday that they had arrested one man and were looking for another in connection with the shooting death of a Gwinnett County police officer who was fired upon while responding to the scene of "a suspicious vehicle" hours earlier.
A suspect identified as Isaiah Pretlow, 19, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service and was charged with aggravated assault in the death of Officer Antwan Toney, 30, police said at a news conference.
Authorities said Pretlow was in the car when the shooting occurred, then sped away before the vehicle crashed. He fled on foot and pointed a gun at officers, who fired at him. No one was hit in the exchange, authorities said.
A manhunt was still underway for another suspect, identified as Tafahree Maynard.
Authorities said Maynard fled the scene of the shooting on foot.
No details were released on where Pretlow was arrested or how authorities found him.
Maynard is charged with aggravated assault and murder, authorities said in a news conference.
"He needs to turn himself in," police said.
Toney, along with other officers, arrived near Shiloh Middle School in Snellville about 2:30 p.m. in response to a report of "a suspicious vehicle," police said.
Upon finding and nearing the vehicle, "shots were fired from inside the suspect vehicle," and one of them hit Toney, a news release said.
Toney was taken to a hospital, where he died, police said.
Officers discovered that the involved vehicle had crashed nearby, which involved Pretlow, police said. Initially, authorities were searching for four suspects, but that number was dwindled down to two, police said upon announcing Pretlow's arrest.
Authorities stationed at multiple locations were investigating "buildings and wooded areas," police said.
Police Chief Butch Ayers said Toney was known as "very jovial, very dedicated to his job and to serving his community." Authorities said Toney had family members in California, though the exact location wasn't immediately known.
The slain officer was the first killed in the line of duty since 1993, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported. The department lost three other officers in 1964 who were investigating a "suspicious activity call."
Fellow Georgia law enforcement agencies expressed their sympathy over the fallen officer, who had been on the force since 2015 and was just days away from marking his three-year anniversary, police said.
"Please keep the family of Gwinnett County Police Officer A. Toney in your thoughts and prayers as they mourn his loss," the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office wrote on Facebook.
Toney's death comes after three separate officer-involved shootings across Georgia on Thursday that left two men dead, none of whom were officers.


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Seressia Glass has always been a voracious reader, cutting her teeth on comics, cereal boxes, and anything else at hand. Writing her own stories soon followed. After winning the national "Living the Dream" essay contest for the inaugural Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday celebration in her hometown of Atlanta, Seressia realized her ability to move people with her words. Today, her fiction features diverse people realizing the universal dreams of love and acceptance. Stories have appeared recently in Vegas Bites: A Werewolf Romance Anthology edited by by bestselling author L. A. Banks and its sequels Vegas Bites and Vegas Bits Back. She's also published four romance novels, once of which, Through the Fire, was chosen for Black Expressions Book Club. Shadowblade is her fantasy debut. When not writing, Seressia is an instructional designer for an international home improvement company who loves to belly dance and watch anime.
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UCLA Health Ethics Center - Enlightened by Ethics
The UCLA Health Ethics Center seeks to promote dialogue, inquiry and values clarification to address the many complex and compelling ethical concerns in healthcare today. By fostering the integration of ethical discussion and education as foundational practices, the Center hopes to sustain and cultivate an environment committed to respect, caring and fairness amongst all UCLA Health's endeavors. UCLA Health Ethics Center's primary commitment is to the promotion of excellence in patient care and to be a resource for ethical reflection.
Why is Ethics Important in Healthcare?
Ethical concerns challenge patients, their families and healthcare professionals in unprecedented ways. Medical advancements and technology provide new possibilities for good, yet also the potential for harm. Carefully weighing choices about treatment combines a need for comprehensible informed consent, a full appreciation of the benefits and burdens and an integration of one's goals and values. Moral uncertainty and/or conflict can arise in many situations, such as, when a patient can no longer make decisions for themselves, when their wishes are unknown, when they have no one to represent them or when health care professionals feel a moral obligation to not offer a treatment that will be non-beneficial or even harmful. Often these choices have to be made at critical intersections of life. Many decisions will have profound consequences and some, by their very nature, may require a value to be sacrificed for a greater good. Practical resolution of such questions requires melding theoretical constructs with clinical sensibilities, an appreciation of the goals of healthcare and individual expectations and values. The issues are complex -patients, their families, communities and healthcare professionals need guidance and support. The Ethics Center invites those with a commitment to ethics in healthcare, to ask the hard questions and craft responses that foster moral and humanistic care, to do the right thing, to protect from harm, to balance the demands of many and to support the most vulnerable requires insight, sensitivity and acts of conscience.
The Ethics Center is committed to addressing ethical concerns through clinical ethics consultation, policy development, education and research. Ethics consultation attempts to facilitate the principled resolution of ethical conflicts through a process of respectful listening and constructive dialogue. Consultation is available to healthcare professionals, patients and their families. The Center actively develops and reviews policies dealing with ethical issues which help to guide clinicians and the hospitals in providing consistent and well-reflected direction in resolving ethical conflict. Education for healthcare professionals and staff and the community is accomplished through partnering with the many schools at UCLA, an Ethics Lecture Series, conferences and innovative programs. The Ethics Center is dedicated to educating future ethicists by providing a clinical fellowship for those with advance degrees in bioethics. Research and publishing strengthen the field; the Center's wealth of clinical experience provides guidance to others and, incorporated with research, helps to inform new avenues for resolving conflicts and supporting best practices. The Center supports the three UCLA Health Ethics Committees: their memberships are interdisciplinary (social workers, physicians, nurses, chaplains etc.) and incorporate members from the wider community to promote a broader representation.
The center is committed to:
Promoting the care of patients in an environment that is humanistic and compassionate.
Drawing on the perspectives of patients, their families and healthcare professionals.
Addressing the challenges of rapid socioeconomic, cultural and technological changes in health care.
Utilizing the rich and diverse UCLA academic resources to reach out to the community and combine the strengths and perspectives of various disciplines and professions.
Carrying out innovative research to advance ethical aspects of healthcare and health policy.
Hosting community lectures on healthcare ethics.
Utilizing resources and experts in the fields of social work, spiritual care, nursing, public health and law, among others, the UCLA Health Ethics Center focuses the efforts of the university and UCLA Health on developing innovative, humanistic solutions to ethical issues in patient care.
The History of the Center
The Ethics Center was founded in 2002 with the goal of strengthening the UCLA Medical Center's ethical environment and commitment and improving the humanistic aspects of health care provided for patients and their families. At the time, two members of the UCLA Medical Center's Board of Advisors, Buzz McCoy and Arny Porath had an interest in ethics and expressed a desire to explore the manner in which ethics was integrated in the Medical Center. Their curiosity and vision led to a fuller appreciation of the needs and the development of resources for a comprehensive program. Their interviews shaped a report and then the mobilizing of key leaders and stakeholders/supporters to develop a plan that would address the widespread demands that were emerging. With the support of the leadership at the Medical Center, the chair and co-chair of the Medical Ethics Committee, Neil Wenger, MD, MPH and Katherine Brown-Saltzman, MA, RN, along with the Medical Center's at the time ethicist, Les Rothenberg, Marge Cunningham, a retired associate director of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center became founding members of the Center. Initial funding for the UCLA Health Ethics Center was provided by Partnership for Care, a fund supported by friends and grateful patients of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and by gifts from members of the medical center's board of advisors. In addition, a gift given to the medical center in honor of one of its board members enabled the UCLA Health Ethics Center to offer public lectures in healthcare ethics.