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Release your inner Victorian and be a glutton for mutton in Birmingham
January 17, 2016 | Filed under: Food Features	and tagged with: Birmingham, butcher, Harborne, Mrs Beeton, Mutton, Roger Brown
When Roger Brown rings late at night, you know it is something special.
In hushed tones, the butcher tells me he has pulled off a coup. After years' of negotiation, he has convinced a local farmer to let him have his prized possession: a quartet of four-year-old Dorset Poll. This, Roger assures me, will deliver a unique culinary experience – Victorian-era mutton.
The carcasses are currently hanging in Roger's shop in Harborne, Birmingham, and will be offered for sale from Friday (January 22).
I pop along to Northfield Road for a sneak preview. Two sides are hanging in the shop next to the game birds. The colour, a milky red flesh with incredible fat coverage, and the size – these are big beasts – are a surprise.
Roger Brown with his prized purchases hanging in the shop
The biggest animal weighs in at 51.6 kilograms. Roger explains that an average lamb (he sources Welsh salt marsh lamb) might weigh 18-20 kilos.
The large hind quarters of the mutton
Dorset ewes, medium-sized white sheep, are good milk producers and their offspring have well muscled carcasses. They are also valued for their high-quality wool.
Roger spotted these Dorset Polls (no horns) at a farm near Alcester in Warwickshire, and was forced to play the long game.
The butcher explains: "The farmer had them as show ewes as part of his herd. He kept them on for lambing. They make big, spectacular lambs.
"I have been pestering him for two years to get them and he finally 'Yes.' It was time for them to go."
On the rare occasions I have had mutton in the past, it has been a slightly chewy experience with an accompanying "high" taste. Roger is quick to disabuse me of my view.
"Good mutton is more digestible than beef. It is softer in the mouth. It will have a fairly sweet taste, like salt marsh lamb. It will not be coarse, harsh or bitter," he says.
"It will be smooth on the palate with a deep flavour – like a good red wine."
Three sides of mutton maturing
Cooking will be crucial to get the best eating quality, and to avoid wrecking this meat treat. In the modern parlance, think "low and slow." Roger says it is vital to respect the age of the meat: it is from a mature animal, so it needs time, and plenty of it.
"It needs slow and gentle cooking. Cooking traditionally was slow, on a range. This meat needs that kind of treatment, Victorian style. We are stepping back in time with this mutton."
Don't just take Roger's word for the quality, and scarcity, of this product. Mrs Beeton extols the wonders of mutton in her "Household Management" (1896):
"It is said to be in perfection at three to five years old, but it is the rarest thing to taste any such English mutton; for no one can afford to feed a sheep for two years to improve its flavour when wholesome mutton can be produced from sheep a year old or even less."
Mrs Beeton attests to the rarity of older mutton
Mrs B believes legs are "more advantageous" to the cook than shoulder or loin due to the lower proportion of fat and bones and the fact it "wastes less in cooking owing to it being covered throughout with a skin."
So get in the mutton queue in Harborne. Like they say, when it's gone, it's gone.
But don't panic too much. There's always Roger's longhorn beef.
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While in India during the early summer of 2014, they started their blog, Two Monkeys Travel. At first, they didn't devote much energy to the site, as they were training eight to 10 hours per day for their certifications.
"Usually we take our time and find somewhere to stop for a while, to learn about the place and enjoy it, and set up some kind of income," Howe explains. "In Peru we had the massage business, and I was teaching donation-only yoga." In Costa Rica, Medina worked in a hostel.
"Wherever we are, we're trying to figure out which business is best to focus on," Medina explains. "Before blogging I spent most of my time doing massage. I usually had five clients a day for 60 minutes each, so I'd work all day and be free at night. Now with the blogging and the massage, I massage in the afternoon and blog at night. But when we tried to start blogging in December, we worked like 16 hours because I didn't know how to set up the system — it's quite technical. Now we're trying to work four to five hours per day."
Medina manages their finances and has instituted an Excel spreadsheet and an envelope system for cash (popularized by personal-finance expert Dave Ramsey), since that's how they receive most of their income. "Once they pay us, I put one-quarter of the money into our business, one-quarter to savings, and half to bills. The blog money goes to our PayPal, which is connected to Jon's savings, then I write for some magazines in the Philippines and that goes to my account there."
Between their various income streams, Medina and Howe typically earn $4,000-$5,000 a month. For the past few months, they've been earning about $4,500.
They recently left Brazil for Ecuador.
They're saving money to set up their own traveling massage business with a camper van in the Philippines next year.
Medina emphasizes that people who want to travel long-term need a plan to generate income as they go. "If you want to sustain your travels, you really need to invest in your skills. Jon was already invested in his certification to teach English before quitting his job — aside from savings, you need to invest in skills."


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Oakland, California's Catholic Diocese has revealed the names of 45 deacons, religious brothers and priests who officials have said are credibly accused of the sexual abuse of minors.
On Monday, The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the Oakland list dates back to 1962, the year the diocese had been founded. The accused men are not currently in the ministry. 20 of the accused were priests out of the 45 persons who were named.
Oakland is the most recent in a wave of dioceses across the United States releasing names in this scandal that involves pedophile priests and church cover-ups that go back decades.
The abuse mainly occurred in-between the 1960's and 1980's. Officials of the diocese claim there has not been any credible abuse accusations since the year 1988, but have affirmed the list may increase over the next months.
"I pray the public acknowledgment of the sinful actions on the part of some priests will help many of us to find healing and hope, to restore our trust in the Church, and to repair the damage caused to the reputation of so many good priests," wrote Oakland Bishop Michael Barber in a letter.
A majority of the names list have been identified in the past by news articles and court filings. However, five of those names were not made public up until now, said the chancellor of the Oakland diocese, Stephan Wilcox.
The diocese considers it a "living list" according to Wilcox.
"This isn't, 'Oh, thank God we've got the list out. We're done.' This is now part of our process. And we know we have more work to do," he said to The San Francisco Chronicle.
According to Wilcox, the information and list of names has been handed over to the Alameda County district attorney who will be determining if they warrant prosecution. However, Wilcox states that many of the accused have since died, and that there may be an issue with statutes of limitation.
Wilcox reached out to survivors over the past several weeks, but has not yet talked to them all.
"Survivors in general were pleased with the step but still think the church needs to do more," said Wilcox.
Some victims demanded a direct apology from the church, while others say the Diocese of Oakland must offer additional services to the victims.
During last October, a law firm sued bishops to obtain records on abuse and released its own list of alleged abuser names. The list totaled in over 200 clergy located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The list released by The Jeff Anderson & Associates contained more names of clergy than what the Diocese of San Jose released, 95 of the names were tied to the Diocese of Oakland, which was over double of the diocese's list of its own.
According to Wilcox, the "discrepancy lies in the standard used to qualify for a credible allegation."
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We all want to stay looking young, right? I'm in my mid-to late thirties, and I constantly get comments on how much younger than that I look. I think I've done a great job of taking care of myself and staying healthy (or maybe people are just being nice, who knows). I've put together a list of the top things I do to maintain young looking, healthy skin. Most of them are free (and save you money!), but I found frugal solutions to the ones that aren't. So without any further ado, here are my top tips for healthy skin.
Smoking is also crazy expensive. People spend five bucks a day on a pack of cigarettes! That's insane! Five dollars a day every year is $1825. That can buy you a trip to Europe, or it can be invested for your future. Quitting smoking will save your skin and be better for your wallet.
All the fun things are outdoors. But unfortunately, the sun's rays can have disastrous effects on our skin. According to WebMD, exposure to the sun is the leading cause of wrinkles and sunspots. It can also lead to serious health problems such as skin cancer!
However, being outside is sometimes unavoidable. I like to wear a fun sun hat when I'm outside to shield my face from the most dangerous rays (They are also quite fashionable! So I've been told. I don't understand fashion). It's also essential that you wear sunscreen whenever you are going to be outside for extended periods.
Sure, I have a tasty drink every now and again. There's nothing wrong with indulging in a delicious adult beverage, in moderation. But I have seen the affects that prolonged alcohol use can have on someone's skin, and it's not pretty. I used to date a serious alcoholic, and after a night of heavy drinking my thirty-year-old boyfriend would look like he was in his sixties. That's just from being drunk one night! it wasn't that drastic over the course of many years, but it was still noticeable. Drinking heavily is definitely not good for your skin or for your overall health.
When I was little, my dad told me that wearing make up would destroy my face. He said women don't need to wear make up to be beautiful, and if you wear too much you end up needing it. That may very well have been the case in the eighties and early nineties, but today there are lots of make-up options that are neutral or even beneficial for your skin.
I don't wear a lot of make-up and I think my skin looks pretty good. However, I'm not going to tell anyone not to wear make-up. You should do what makes you happy. If wearing make up makes you feel beautiful, wear all the make-up you want. My best advice is to use the good products that hydrate your skin while you wear it.
Yeah, I hate exercise too. But it's one of the best ways to stay healthy and young looking, and not just in the face! It keeps your entire body fit and healthy.
It is really good for your skin though. According to WebMD(I like Web MD because I know it's reputable!), increasing your blood flow (like when you work out) helps nourish skin cells and keeps them healthy. The increased blood flow also helps remove waste products. The end result is clean, glowing skin. So get your sweat on!
A lot of aging issues are caused by dehydration. If you don't drink enough water, your body will take it from the organs that don't need it to survive. One of the first organs on the chopping block: your skin. So make sure you are drinking a few glasses of water throughout the day. It will keep your body hydrated and your skin glowing.
Not So Free, but Frugal!
These first six tips are all very easy, and some of them actually save you money! How much more frugal can you get? These next three tips are facial products that I personally use which I think have really helped me keep young, healthy looking skin. You can get them all at Amazon, or you can pick them up on your next Target run! You can also ignore them and tell me what your favorite products are in the comments.
(because alcohol can dry you out!) This stuff is also super cheap, it's only six bucks on Amazon! And one bottle generally lasts me about a year.
Another huge barrier to healthy skin is acne. I am thirty-five freaking years old, I should not be having to deal with acne at my age! But unfortunately, I am. I've tried so many different over the counter cleaners, lotions, pastes, and scrubs to control my acne, but I finally found one that works for me.
every morning after I wash and tone my face. It's a 10% benzoyl peroxide formula and it has worked wonders on my acne! I still get the occasional blemish, but it's not nearly as bad as it has been. This is the most expensive skin care product that I use, it can cost up to twenty bucks for four 1 ounce tubes on Amazon. But, I only use a small amount each day, so each tube lasts for about six months. My cleaner, clearer skin is definitely worth that.
Moisturizing goes hand in hand with staying hydrated. A good facial moisturizer will freshen your skin and won't leave it greasy. I never used to use it because every single moisturizer I ever tried to use either caused more problem with acne or left my skin dry and itchy.
My best friend in the whole world on the other hand, always has the freshest, healthiest skin of anyone I've ever known. I caught her moisturizing one day and asked what she used. As it turns out, she uses a very common brand that can be found at Target and Amazon, Alba Botanica Hawaiian Oil-Free Moisturizer, Aloe & Green Tea, 3 oz.
. I always use the oil free, because my skin is prone to acne. It's only 11 bucks for a small jar, which lasts me about a year. Talk about a frugal win!
So there you have it folks, my nine frugal tips to healthy skin. I am by no means a dermatologist, but these are the products and tips that have worked for me. I am not being sponsored by any of these products/companies; however the Amazon links are affiliate links. These are the products that have worked for me, and that is why I am recommending them. I would love to hear about what you use to maintain healthy skin as well!
And since we are on the subject of skin care, I need some help! The one thing that I still haven't been able to figure out is how to minimize the dark circles under my eyes. If anyone has a frugal product they recommend on how to best deal with these, I'd love to hear it!
Thanks for visiting Dragon Gal! I agree that a healthy diet is helpful as well. Chocolate sometimes makes me break out…but who wants to give up chocolate??


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Q: Trying to move an image in the x and y field in swift I'm trying to animate a wave moving across the screen from left to right, and at the same time i want it to move up and down slightly. Heres the code:
UIView.animateWithDuration(2.5, delay: 0,
        options: .Repeat | .Autoreverse, animations: {
            self.wavesImg.center.y += 50
            self.wavesImg.center.x -= self.wavesImg.image!.size.width/7
        }, completion: nil)

Currently, it just executes the last animation, so it only moves left to right. How can I make it move up and down as well?

A: Why not just apply sin to y to give it a natural wave feel
UIView.animateWithDuration(2.5, delay: 0,
    options: .Repeat | .Autoreverse, animations: {
        self.wavesImg.center.y += 50 * sin(self.wavesImg.center.x)
        self.wavesImg.center.x -= self.wavesImg.image!.size.width/7
    }, completion: nil)

I am not sure how you want to handle the the value to go in sin, right now I am treating each x value as 1 radian, because the sin function takes in radian,  but you may want to alter that to fit your needs.  (That is, if you want the wave to start at 0 then go up and back down to 0 in when x is 10,  you would do something like sin((x/10) * PI)

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Corey Lewandowski stands with President Donald Trump during a "Make America Great Again" rally in Washington, Mich., April 28, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
How you come out on the question about the scope of obstruction should determine how you come out on the question of executive privilege.
President Trump's former campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski is scheduled to testify this afternoon before the House Judiciary Committee. The White House is not objecting to his appearance but has reportedly instructed him not to answer questions about his communications with the president. (See the letter of White House counsel Pat Cipollone to House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler.) This raises an interesting question: May the president assert executive privilege to shield disclosure of his communications with people who are not part of the White House staff and the broader executive branch?
Lewandowski was not a government official in June and July 2017, when, according the Mueller Report, the president instructed him to convey a directive to then–attorney general Jeff Sessions. The directive was for Sessions to narrow his recusal from the Russia investigation so that he could limit then–special counsel Robert Mueller's jurisdiction — such that Mueller could investigate only to prevent Russian meddling in future elections. That is, Mueller would end his probe of Kremlin interference in the 2016 campaign, on the rationale that Trump had done nothing wrong. Sessions was to add that he had been with Trump for nine months on the campaign and therefore knew that "there were no Russians involved with him."
The last claim was an overstatement. We now know that the Trump organization was involved in negotiations for Trump Tower Moscow throughout the 2016 campaign. Moreover, while there is no evidence that candidate Trump himself was informed about the matter, his top campaign officials (his son Don Jr., his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and his then–campaign manager Paul Manafort) met in June 2016 with a lawyer they understood to be a Kremlin emissary (Natalia Veselnitskaya, with an entourage of Russians in tow) in the expectation (unfulfilled) of receiving campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton. (Ironically, as I further detail in Ball of Collusion, Veselnitskaya obtained the materials she presented from Fusion GPS, the same outfit that was working for Clinton to scrounge up campaign dirt on Donald Trump from Russian sources.)
My purpose here, though, is to focus not on questions about the president's credibility, which congressional Democrats have every right to highlight. Let's stick with executive privilege.
Some knee-jerk Trump opponents urge that any privilege claim is invalid because Lewandowski was not a government official, much less a member of the president's staff. That is not the right way to look at it. The privilege attached to presidential communications, which the Supreme Court recognized in United States v. Nixon, is rooted in separation of powers and the weighty responsibilities of the presidency.
Let's take Trump out of the equation (since he seems to have a strange effect on the analytical powers of usually sensible people). If some future Democratic president phoned Henry Kissinger to consult on China policy or the most efficient structure of the State Department, I believe those communications would be covered by executive privilege even though Dr. Kissinger is not a government official.
This is an issue of substance, not form: the nature of the communication, not the status of the presidential adviser. We want the president to be able to have candid conversations with worthy advisers in and out of government in order to make the best decisions for the country. Moreover, our system is based on separation of powers, so Congress should not intrude on communications the president has in furtherance of exercising his legitimate authority.
Separation of powers implies reciprocity. Members of Congress do a great deal of consulting with non-government experts and lay people in the course of legislating. It would be wrong, for example, for the Justice Department (the executive branch's law-enforcement arm) to subpoena a member of Chairman Nadler's staff or, hypothetically, a law professor Nadler has consulted on the ins and outs of impeachment. The political branches are supposed to respect each other's duties, including the benefit to the country of their being able to consult knowledgeable people in carrying those duties out.
Of course, the salient issue is the ambit of the president's duties. If a president used the presumed confidentiality of his communications with advisers for something other than the execution of his duties — specifically, for some illegitimate or criminal purpose — then executive privilege should not apply.
Here, we come to a continuing controversy in the Russia investigation: What is the proper application of obstruction principles to the president?
As we've noted repeatedly, there was a divergence of views between the Mueller team and Attorney General Barr regarding whether a president may be criminally liable for obstruction of justice based on his exercise of Article II powers. The attorney general, who obviously runs the Justice Department (and was, some years back, the head of DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel), believes that if a president is carrying out his official duties he must be presumed by federal prosecutors (including special counsels) to be carrying them out for a legitimate purpose — i.e., it is not the place of subordinate executive officials to second-guess the chief executive. This does not mean there is no check on the president; it means the constitutional check is Congress (e.g., the impeachment power), not the Justice Department (which works for the president). By contrast, Mueller's team claimed that ostensibly legitimate exercises of presidential power may subject a president to criminal liability under the obstruction statutes if a federal prosecutor decides they were undertaken for a corrupt purpose — i.e., no action of the chief executive is above second-guessing by subordinates.
I am with Barr on this one (and would be regardless of who the president was). But however you come out, you can see why it's important. Most of us can agree that it was foolish for the president to consult with Lewandowski for the purpose of pressuring Sessions to take actions that would have been politically disastrous even if they were legally defensible. But for constitutional purposes, the president had the power to shut down the Mueller investigation entirely, and thus to direct his subordinates to limit it. (The fact that Trump's directives were never carried out is a separate issue.)
To the contrary, if you subscribe to the Mueller team's obstruction theory, Trump could be liable, even though the president has authority over the special counsel, if his purpose in seeking to limit Mueller was corrupt.
How you come out on the question about the scope of obstruction should determine how you come out on the question of executive privilege. If Trump was acting within his legitimate powers, even if he was doing so wrongheadedly, his communications are privileged. If the legitimacy of his actions is deemed vitiated by a potentially corrupt intent to impede the investigation, then his communications facilitate a crime and are not privileged.
Another important point: executive privilege is different in the context of a congressional investigation than in a legal case. The jurisprudence deriving from the Nixon case involves judicial subpoenas for evidence in criminal investigations conducted by the executive branch. A congressional investigation is significantly different.
On the one hand, Congress does not need a penal crime in order to impeach or to conduct legitimate examinations of executive-branch conduct. On the other hand, Congress also does not need the courts in order to pressure executive-branch compliance with legislative demands for information — Congress, for example, can impeach the president (regardless of whether the president believes he is in the right in withholding information), or it could refuse to fund government operations the president wants to conduct, or refuse to confirm presidential appointees (though the House would need the Senate's cooperation for that), and so on.
Naturally, Congress would prefer to have a judicial determination that a president's privilege claim is legally invalid. But courts wisely tend to stay out of disputes between the political branches that do not implicate judicial process (such as judicial subpoenas in criminal investigations). The Framers gave Congress and the president the arsenals necessary to pressure each other and work out their own disputes. And almost invariably, underneath all the noise, they do work things out: Note, for example, that the White House has not tried to block Lewandowski from appearing, nor has it made a blanket refusal to cooperate with congressional demands for information.
Finally, this all may be a tempest in a teapot, more interesting as an academic exercise than as it will play out in the hearing. That is because, as the Mueller report relates, Lewandowski wrote down the instructions he got from the president. He gave them to the special counsel, and prosecutors have published them in their report (see pages 90–94 of the Mueller Report, Vol. II).
This is less about high constitutional principle than low political theater. We all know what President Trump told Corey Lewandowski to do. We also know the Democrats are not going to impeach the president over it — regardless of where we come out on whether it comes close to an impeachable offense. To be sure, Democrats who control the House are entitled to use their power this way. But let's be clear that today's hearing is about the 2020 campaign. It is not a serious impeachment inquiry.
If Democrats were serious about impeaching Trump, the House would vote to convene an impeachment inquiry. Instead, Nadler's committee, on a party-line vote, has approved "investigative procedures offered by Chairman Jerrold Nadler." The chairman is not a real impeacher . . . he is just playing one on TV.
Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. @AndrewCMcCarthy
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«The sea has no country, not even he,
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Third appointment with the prestigious tourist-literary review Sea Landscapes, the traveling project in the name of literature, music and theater, exploring Sicily through five cultural encounters and five itineraries, starting from the seaside town, from the suggestions of great writers and the multiple cultural influences from the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and Normans.
Following authors such as Tahar Ben Jelloun, Marco Aime, Santo Piazzese, Gaetano Savatteri and Giovanni Brizzi, the third meeting of Landscapes Sea, Saturday, November 5, 2016 starring in Syracuse (International Institute of Criminal Sciences, at 5 p.m.): the writer and journalist Matteo Collura, biographer of Leonardo Sciascia of which he was a close friend; the art critic Vittorio Sgarbi, opinionist and writer with more than sixty books devoted to art;the pianist and trumpeter Dino Rubino, from early career; the movie and theater actor Pippo Pattavina. Moderates the meeting Rosario Castelli, literary scholar at the University of Catania.
The appointment will open in the name of the look on the world of Giovanni Verga, in his own words «The sea has no country, not even he, it is of all those who know how to listen it», and exploration proposed by book. "Unknown Sicily. Unusual and curious itineraries", written by Matteo Collura (Rizzoli, 2009). Different languages once again cross paths to tell the spirit of Sicily and for a confrontation with the public on current issues and always at the center of the island identity: the welcome, the exchange of cultures and experiences, openness to new peoples and traditions, sensitivity to integration.
The event will be an opportunity to present the third route of Landscapes Sea: Places of memory. Salt flats, tuna fishery, watch towers. Salt flats, tuna fishery and coastal towers in Sicily and in the Mediterranean have always been essential references for understanding the relationship between man and sea. Traces of ancient stories but witnesses Sicilian identity. The salt flats are concentrated on the western tip of Sicily, between Trapani and Mozia, where Phoenicians and Carthaginians developed the extraction of salt from the sea. The whiteness of the landscape reflects the sunlight that blinds and dazzles. Wherever the watch towers, built in the time of Charles V and Philip II, 119 silent guardians of the Sicilian coast. Finally tuna fishery scattered around the island (there were 80 in the Seventeenth Century), the memory of a past that is also contemporary, as in the case of the Museum on the island of Favignana in Ancient Tonnara Florio.
Sea Landscapes is sponsored by Department of Tourism Sports and Entertainment of Sicily Region, chaired by Anthony Emanuele Barbagallo who has strongly backed the initiative, in the context of the interregional project Sea and sea mines that will harness the natural excellence linked to coastal resources with their hinterland. The art direction is entrusted to Antonella Ferrara, President of Taobuk-Taormina International Book Festival.
The identification of the routes is the responsibility of the Phoenicians' Route – Cultural Route of the Council of Europe and the World Tourism Organization, directed by Antonio Barone.
The five routes offer an experience journey, imbued with suggestions and sensations, through the many places of historical, artistic, landscape and culinary relevance, related to the sea, with tourism potential not yet explored. Cultural events, develop a basic theme that characterizes the works of the Italian and international guests present, by binding with the territory and culture of Sicily, to create moments of reflection on current affairs and pay tribute to the emblematic places that inspired many pages of literature. The authors expected to upcoming events: the writer Dacia Maraini, the journalist Felice Cavallaro, the Nello Toscano Quintet, the actress and film director Lucia Sardo (Sunday, November 6, Agrigento); the Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda, the journalist Alberto Bilà, the saxophonist Francesco Cafiso, the actor Mariano Rigillo (Thursday, November 17, Catania).
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Why attempts to use antiviral drugs to fight COVID-19 are so different from the early days of HIV | CBC News
This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly roundup of eclectic and under-the-radar health and medical science news emailed to subscribers every Saturday morning. If you haven't subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here.
Doctors are exploring how to attack COVID-19 with antiviral treatments repurposed from HIV and Ebola.
COVID-19 is often mild. But it continues to kill and hospitalize so many that physicians hope repurposing existing antivirals could improve survival and reduce the time people are seriously ill.
No treatments for COVID-19 have been approved for use in Canada outside of clinical trials.
Doctors and scientists are exploring three main ways to mitigate SARS-CoV2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19, so more patients recover. The strategies are based on how the virus enters our cells and makes copies of itself — a process known as replication.
The experimental antiviral medication remdesivir could be the most high profile example. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in late April that remdesivir shortened recovery time from 15 days without specific treatment, compared with 11 days on average with the drug.
The hope is if remdesivir succeeds in shortening recovery from COVID-19, it will reduce the burden on health-care systems — the goal of broader efforts to flatten the curve.
Viral engine stalls
Matthias Gotte, a professor of medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Alberta, discovered why remedesvir seems to be such a potent antiviral.
He compared the way the virus copies itself to the engine of a car.
"The engine needs gas," he said, in reference to how COVID-19 infection transmits. With remdesivir, the engine gets diesel and stalls. "The virus stops to replicate and stops to propagate."
An ampule of the Ebola drug remdesivir is pictured during a news conference at University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany in April. An advantage of repurposing drugs for COVID-19 is more is known about their safety. (Ulrich Perrey/Reuters)
Alan Bernstein, a trained virologist and president and CEO of the non-profit CIFAR, a Canadian-based, global research organization that brings together top researchers to address important questions, previously led a major HIV vaccine effort.
"That's the attraction of repurposing," Bernstein said of remdesivir and other antiviral trials. "You already have a drug; you know it's safe at a certain dose."
But the remdesivir data Fauci read out hasn't yet been published. And Canadian doctors await key details such as if the drug in fact improves survival, when it works best, if it will be available in clinical trials in Canada and what it will cost.
The three main antiviral strategies doctors and scientists are exploring are:
Stop the virus' raison d'etre of copying or replicating its RNA genetic material. These drugs, called polymerase inhibitors, include remdesivir, which has shown antiviral activity against this coronavirus.
Stop the virus from properly building the proteins it needs by blocking the snipping tool it uses to do it. These drugs are called protease inhibitors and include lopinavir and ritonavir, used to treat HIV.
Prevent the virus from entering our cells in the first place.
Using the car analogy, Gotte likened the viral copying enzyme, called polymerase, to a vehicle's engine.
Bernstein said remdesivir throws a monkey wrench into the virus's ability to incorporate the RNA building blocks it needs to copy itself.
Remdesivir was intended to treat Ebola, but other treatments worked better for that viral infection.
Dr. Ilan Schwartz is an infectious disease physician at the University of Alberta who is not involved in clinical trials of potential antivirals to fight COVID-19. He's following their progress.
"We're cautiously optimistic," Schwartz said. "We're certainly not talking about something that is going to have a benefit for everyone."
Remdesivir and other potential treatments should not be prescribed outside of a clinical trial, he said. More needs to be known about the benefits and risks.
Since remdesivir is given to patients by intravenous infusion, doctors say it's unlikely to gain widespread use outside of hospitals. Favipiravir, another polymerase inhibitor, that's given orally, is expected to start testing in a Phase 2 clinical trial in long-term care homes in Ontario this month.
Dr. Ken Milne, chief of staff at South Huron Hospital Association in Exeter, Ont., co-hosted a town hall on potential antivirals for the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians.
Milne said he's still looking for high-quality evidence that remdesivir and other potential antivirals to fight COVID-19 offer benefits that are important to patients, such as survival without disability.
"I'm skeptical because the evidence that's been published so far doesn't support its routine use," said Milne, creator of the Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine, a podcast and blog geared to those involved in patient care.
Milne said in HIV, antivirals are taken long term to improve quality of life. In contrast, COVID-19 is a short-term illness and most recover. That means the bar for safety and effectiveness differ.
AI meets drug design
Two HIV antivirals called lopinavir and ritonavir are protease inhibitors that are used in combination with other anti-HIV treatments to suppress the virus.
When HIV or SARS-CoV-2 enter a human cell, the virus hijacks the cell's machinery into making more copies of the virus by co-opting certain polyproteins or chains of proteins.
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Bernstein, the virologist, said to think of polyproteins as two or three sentences fused together without a period between them.
"The protease inhibitor comes along and snips at the period or snips the polyprotein into three or four smaller proteins. A protease inhibitor blocks the protein that does that snipping," Bernstein said.
Eric Arts, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Western University in London, Ont., said scientists are better off at this stage of the COVID-19 epidemic than at the start of the HIV epidemic, before the advent of protease inhibitors.
"The field of virology and drug development has advanced so much," said Arts, who holds a Canada Research Chair in HIV. "It's day and night. When we were trying to find a drug for HIV 30 years ago, it was a guessing game."
Patience will pay off
With SARS CoV2, researchers know the structure of the viral proteins down to basically the atom level, Arts said. This knowledge also includes the key protein on the surface of our cells that the virus uses to enter, called the ACE2 receptor.
Some antivirals throw a monkey wrench into how a virus replicates, says Alan Bernstein. (CIFAR)
"We can design molecules that would disrupt that interaction," Arts said. "Or, and this gets really kind of sci-fi, we can take existing drugs, knowing their structures and then do what we call a computer-aided, AI kind of study and see how those existing drugs may dock and block that interaction."
Pharmaceutical companies have compound libraries of these molecules that scientists, aided by AI, can sift through for candidates that look like they may work effectively against SARS CoV2.
"It's a very effective way to find something that works," Arts said, compared with the conventional drug screening approach of conducting tests in the lab followed by animal models and then a decade of clinical trials in humans.
Che Colpitts, an assistant professor in biomedical and molecular sciences at Queen's University, is working to find new antiviral strategies against RNA viruses. She uses models that resemble the deadly pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2 and another coronavirus disease, MERS.
Colpitts previously looked at how natural compounds produced by plants and fungi to protect themselves could interfere with viral attachment.
"Everybody is definitely jumping on," to research SARS-CoV-2, she said. "It's just a really exciting time."
Colpitts and physicians who've treated COVID-19 say a critical factor for prescribing antivirals is to give them to patients before too much damage has set in.
Until effective treatments exist, people need to continue physical distancing, hand hygiene, cough etiquette and to stay home when sick, public health officials, physicians and researchers say.
"With treatment or something that could be effective and good screening, we can control this disease pretty effectively until we have a vaccine," Arts said. "It's just we have to be a little more patient for a little while longer and we will have relief."
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A Chat With Foodborne Illness Injury Lawyer Bill Marler
In the June issue of NWLawyer, we spoke with attorney Bill Marler, widely recognized as an expert in plaintiffs' litigation for foodborne illness injuries and, perhaps most famously, the attorney who represented children injured during the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak.
That interview resulted in far too much to fit in a print magazine. NWSidebar has published some of what was left on the cutting-room floor: Everything from Marler's unique relationship with Jack in the Box to his teenage years when he ran away from home to become a migrant farmworker and later ran for city council as a goof—except he won.
NWS: The trend is usually you become a lawyer, and then you go into politics, and you did the exact opposite. What lessons did you learn from your time on the Pullman City Council?
MARLER: The great thing about being 62 is I can look back on life a little bit now and pontificate about seminal moments in my life—but I have the two young seminal moments. One, when I ran away from home when I was 16 to become a migrant farmworker and had to live on my own trying to make my way….
NWS: So you just took off?
MARLER: I just was anxious. I wanted to try something different … but a friend of a friend said you can make money picking apples in Eastern Washington so I went, "I'll go do that." It was a very interesting experience. That certainly was a seminal moment in my perception of how I was going to live my life and my thoughts about people—rich and poor.
Then I ran for City Council in Pullman and it literally was as a joke. The student body president [of the college Marler attended] at the time happened to live in the same apartment complex that I lived in and he got three of us to file for the Pullman City Council, essentially just to stick it to the city that they didn't pay attention to the students. I got interviewed by the media and I started going door to door talking to people; I really got into it. I started figuring out what the issues were, so I didn't look like an idiot.…
Between the end of September, when the students came back, and the November election, we registered about 1,000 students to vote and they voted in the election and I won by 53 votes. And all of a sudden, here I was essentially a sophomore in college, just turned 19, and I was serving a four-year city council [term].
I look back at that point in time and it changed my entire life…. People expected more out of me because I was an elected official. All of a sudden I became an adult, at a very young age, and had to get serious.
NWS: That time as a teenage city councilmember, do you think it informed how you practice law at all?
MARLER: Absolutely. I practice law more like a politician trying to get a bill passed and less like a litigator.…
That's part of how I do things in my practice. I'm super open about how I'm going to do something; to be really transparent. Tell people exactly how I am going to approach stuff. And I have to admit I do expect people to respond in that way, but just like in politics, people don't necessarily respond the way you hope they would, or expect that they should. I continue to act exactly the same way I did as a city councilmember, of being open and learning and trying to be collaborative. I'm always continually somewhat disappointed that things don't work out exactly the way I planned. But you still have to keep pushing it.
NWS: If you ever listen to Radiolab [it was actually This American Life]… I think there was an episode on Jack in the Box. I had no idea the mascot "Jack" resulted as a response to that outbreak. Is it strange to see that this mascot has lived on, to see that result from these cases?
MARLER: I obviously, at first blush, would have an odd relationship with Jack in the Box, but one of my best friends was the vice president of Jack in the Box, became [a friend] after the outbreak, a guy named Dave Theno. He and I and our wives became close, and Dave unfortunately died. But I gave his eulogy in San Diego with a gigantic room of Jack in the Box people. You had to recognize the fact that, it was an odd relationship, but I think that said so much about what Dave was trying to accomplish and really what Jack in the Box was trying to accomplish.
Everything that Jack in the Box learned about testing and cooking and handling, they didn't keep it to themselves, they shared it with everybody. They shared it with all fast food outlets, everybody. They set up processes that changed the way the fast food industry [handled food].
[Marler explains how the type of E. coli that led to the more notable recent public health outbreaks was likely an unforeseen consequence of changes in modern farming practices, specifically when many farms switched their cattle feed from grass, which cows eat naturally, to grain.]
MARLER: That's the one thing about humans I'm always fascinated about: Our inability to look around a corner…. I always find it just amazing, how we have to be hit in the head with a 2-by-4 three or four times before you go "Oh, I get it."
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by Jim Spitze, March 22, 2015
Harnessing technology isn't good enough any more. IT departments need to move beyond reliable but basic support for a company and into business leadership roles by creating competitive advantage. IT departments must be a fulcrum upon which a company can gain leverage in the marketplace.
One reason for this shift is the growth of Big Data in which data mining, personalization, and segmentation of customer demographics and behaviors can drive consumer-company relationships. This puts IT at the heart of identifying and creating possibilities for the company. That, in turn, requires top-tier, cross-functional teams that know and understand the company, the industry and the competition.
Likewise, this calls for an IT leader who plays both a deeper and broader role within the company. Some will say that CIO no longer stands for just chief information officer, but perhaps also chief innovation officer, chief imagination officer or chief integration officer. The goal of the new CIO is to raise the performance of company employees and enhance the strategic position of the company.
Of course, IT departments also must face such basic changes as the growth of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings in the cloud. This is pushing IT toward being more of a commodity and a procurement option. In such an environment, IT departments run the risk of losing drive and relevance. Departments that drift into complacency or inefficiency will find that the old pieces don't fit together as well any more. SaaS offerings will require reorganization and rationalization of IT departments under new expectations.
Both experience and research have shown that only 5 percent of IT officers are prepared for this new role. But there are things every IT department and company can do to move in this direction.
Create department and project transparency so that IT projects can obtain and retain upper management support and gain success through ongoing user involvement.
Build teams that excel in both business understanding and technical knowledge. Research has shown that in any industry or endeavor, the top 10 percent produce as much as the other 90 percent combined.
Develop leaders who empower rather than control, lead rather than manage, who create integrated visions, are collaborative, are knowledgeable and are both trusting and trustworthy.
Establish the habit and policy of treating team members fairly rather than equally.
Adopt agile planning and execution strategies with adequate up-front planning to create clear, complete and compelling projects that don't rely on rigid processes to succeed.
Successful IT departments in the new business and technology environment that is growing today will leave behind the days of insular, rigid departments and become instigators of change who solve problems while being prepared for the next set of problems. And they will expand their function within companies to include essential, collaborative roles in creating competitive advantages in the marketplace.
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