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What's Wrong with Rebranding?
September 15, 2017 by Aesthetics for Birds | 2 Comments
Aesthetics for Birds has recently undergone two semi-rebrandings – first last year and again this year. As such, we thought it would be interesting to have a discussion about the nature of brand identities, what rebrandings really are, and how we should feel about them.
What follows is a conversation about these topics between AFB's Alex King and Thi Nguyen.
ALEX KING: So, I was thinking about rebranding… And I thought that I thought there wasn't anything wrong with it really. But then I received a piece of mail from Time Warner Cable (whom I desperately hate but who currently have a monopoly where I live) and they've rebranded under the name "Spectrum". They even have new/rebranded service vehicles around town! At first I thought they were an alternative to TWC and I was like, YES FINALLY I am going to call them immediately and switch. But then I discovered the sick truth. [ed. note: I later discovered that TWC was actually bought out by Charter who subsumed TWC under their Spectrum brand and rebranded TWC accordingly, so what I said here isn't quite right. But even so, you can see the spirit of it.]
THI NGUYEN: Yeah, rebranding is like a punchline these days. It's supposed be totally obvious that it's a Bad Wrong Thing. But it's totally not obvious why. Like: we like stories of personal transformation. We like when people have these great tumultuous soul-searching events about what their happiness is or what they're for, and then change their life.
So is it just suspicion about corporations and anything they do? I thought so, and then I remembered something: While we were doing a discussion of the Tao Te Ching, a student of mine told us about a friend of his who's kind of an Instagram star. "And I always keep asking him if he wants to do fun stuff, and he's always like, 'I can't, man. That's not my brand.'"
AK: Ewww that's so messed up…
TN: Right? That's instantly, gut-wrenchingly, nauseatingly gross. BUT WHY. I bet the answer is somewhere in the difference between what seems intuitively like a genuine personal transformation and identity, and that.
AK: Yeah, I think rebranding can be good sometimes – even personal "rebrandings" can help refocus or reorient someone's goals and cares in a way that sometimes the messiness and distractions of real life can screw with.
TN: Maybe it's the declaration to the outside? Maybe the problem with "rebranding" as we usually see it is that it's only the pantomime of a real change? Like the corporation is the same through and through and pretending to have gone through some transformative experience?
AK: Yeah, that's DEFINITELY my problem with the TWC/Spectrum thing. Like, I see through your bullshit and I know it's just a new skin on the same sack of shit…
TN: But, OK: what's the case where a rebranding could be used for good? Is this like when somebody has a profound personal change and then wants to signal that to themselves? To externalize it so they can stay the course?
AK: Sometimes, with companies, it feels like a rebranding is late – like the company itself has changed a lot, and the rebranding is a fitting accompaniment. Like check this list. Many of these "befores" just look really outdated, and the rebranding is largely to keep step with the times. What I'm starting to think is that sometimes a company needs to rebrand in certain ways in order to convey the same thing in different times.
TN: Maybe this is too fine a point, but those seem like updated logos, and not rebrands. The company's the same, they're just changing the logo with the times. The full bore rebrands are when they're supposed to commemorate some sort of deep shift, right? Commemorate, signify, usher in.
AK: So what is a brand/rebrand? Like, changing your name? Changing the conception of the company?
TN: Like showing that your company has pivoted in some way? I think of ones accompanied by a statement like, "We're changing to become faster, more open, more connected…" etc. etc. Although I kind of now wonder when we got the concept of a 'brand'?
AK: Didn't it start with branding cattle? I think the etymology has to do with burning. (Also, there's this.)
TN: You know, I'm usually against making too much out of etymologies, but OH MY GOD. Also, the question I'm still obsessed with is: What's so weird about having a personal brand?
AK: So if we're talking about personal brands (as in, my Alex King brand), I think part of what feels so messed up is that a brand in general sort of has to be simple and clear to be a marketable/sharable thing. And people just aren't flat and simple and one-dimensional like that.
TN: I read this draft – I guess I can't give away too many of the details, because it's not my paper – but it was basically about how it was impossible to lead a good life if you were constantly thinking about how that life looked from the outside – especially about how that life cohered. It's like: the brand is something that needs to be instantly comprehensible. And one thing is to summarize yourself after the fact. The EWWW factor of the personal brand dude is that what's going on is like, somebody has come up with a version of themselves that's simple enough to be shareable, and then they're living their lives using that thin brand as their guiding star. Do you live your life the way you want to, and then summarize and brand it in retrospect? Or do you come up with a brand and then force your life into it? Of course, that seems totally different from your disingenuous Spectrum thing. That's just faking it, 100%.
AK: Yeah, absolutely. There's no real change there. Just bad press and subsequent hectic rebranding. But, to your point, that externalization does seem like an important factor in the grossness (and seems similar to what's distasteful about Sartrean bad faith). On the other hand, I suspect that in some cases, you might come up with a "brand" that you want to live up to.
TN: Ah, OK: aspirational brand vs. the other thing. An aspirational brand is like an image of yourself that guides you. But the word "brand" seems weird there. I think of, like, guiding lights, or role models, or motivating self-images.
AK: I agree, but should it feel weird? Is it just because we're so cynical?
TN: I think the cynicism may emerge from experience with rebrandings. But I do think there's a reason people reach for that term, and that it indicates something a little off of the Real Thing. Although wanting to rebrand also totally makes sense. Like: hey, we had a conversation, our institution figured out we were doing something wrong.
AK: Yeah. Like imagine a company whose managers genuinely want the company to be (morally or otherwise) better than it is, and rebrands in the hopes that it will inspire everyone at the company to re-think their associations and to shake up what's going on.
TN: We've course-corrected and now we want to tell the world! Of course that totally makes sense. Or imagine: if philosophy somehow detoxified and diversified and wanted to tell the world?
AK: Right. I think those kinds of rebrands are probably just SO RARE that when we talk about rebrandings it's normally accompanied by the cynical response.
TN: Of course, it still feels weird to say: "We've solved the toxic social problems of our discipline. Now it's time for a REBRAND!"
AK: Oh yeah, no doubt.
TN: Alright, I'll buy it. There's nothing wrong with a sincere rebrand. We're just rebranding burnouts.
AK: A sincere rebrand is maybe like a public resolution a person makes. The alcoholic who rebrands as a Christian AA member. Or the chronically lazy person who rebrands as industrious (through like a public New Year's resolution). Or in 90's movie style, the 80-hrs-a-week banker who rebrands as a family-man.
TN: Yup: a sincere rebrand is definitely the institutional version of a public resolution. You know what you're really saying, right? You're saying that "rebranding" needs a rebranding.
So what do you all think? Is there something inherently wrong with seeing oneself as a brand? Or does rebranding just need a rebranding?
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Cool topic. I'm inclined to think that rebranding isn't in itself problematic. It's just that most instances of it are independently objectionable.
A few years back, Domino's Pizza did a series of ads showing people complaining about their pizza ("The sauce tastes like ketchup"; "The crust tastes like cardboard"). The ads said, pretty much, we hear you, and we promise to do better. Shortly after that, they put out more ads saying they changed their recipe + ingredients. As someone who grew up eating Domino's, it really did change, and it was a lot better. (Still not great…)
This doesn't rub me the wrong way, but most instances of rebranding do.
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Is there something inherently wrong with seeing oneself as a brand?
Well… is there a category difference between people and corporations as public actors? Do you want that category to collapse? Google "category collapse" and "neoliberal subjectivity".
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Oh no, not another diet for autism!
John Green MD > Diet > Oh no, not another diet for autism!
"Why consider a low glycemic diet for my child with autism? Simply getting him to eat daily is a struggle, and his food choices are so limited I'm afraid to remove any of the few foods he'll eat." Many of you parents have struggled mightily to remove gluten and casein from child's diet, and this may feel like all you can do. You somehow managed to make these changes, because you believed it could improve your little one's health; and he did survive. Now, I want to suggest that you may find many more benefits by going to a formal SCD or GAPS diet, or, more generally, to a low glycemic diet.
For some children, going to a GFCF diet produces remarkable improvements in appetite and food selections, with increased variety and elimination of "addictive" eating patterns. For these children, the low glycemic diet may be pretty easy to accomplish. However, many other children with autism remain restrictive, or even may further reduce food choices, in response to gluten and casein elimination. In these children, a healthy appetite is lacking, and it often seems as if their eating is obsessive. The effect of their self-restricted diet is nutrient deficiencies, and often sensitization to some of the foods they're choosing to eat. My purpose in presenting these suggestions, is to facilitate the transition to a healthier diet, aiming to make it easier for you to succeed with this difficult process.
The low or reduced glycemic diet has been presented in many versions over the past 150 years, each version touting its value in some particular human ailment. So it has been successfully prescribed, in many different versions with small differences, for obesity, diabetes/metabolic syndrome, inflammatory bowel problems, food allergies, mitochondrial disturbances, neurodegenerative disorders, vascular disease, seizures, certain brain tumors, psychological disorders, and recently, for general health ("paleo diet"). People using this dietary approach for all of these conditions have seen impressive improvements in their health. As children with autism share many findings with people with inflammatory bowel disease, neurodegenerative disorders, seizures, food allergies, mitochondrial disturbances, hypoglycemia/metabolic syndrome, and psychological disorders, it makes sense to offer them this rigorous approach to dietary treatment. The low glycemic diet contains the essential elements of all of these different diets, though requiring further modification in some cases, for example, SCD or GAPS require more stringent restrictions, as does the ketogenic or Atkins diet. Also, I recommend all children with autism continue to avoid gluten and casein when they move further into a low glycemic program.
The most common challenges to implementing a low glycemic diet with an autistic child, is getting him to eat more vegetables, and, in general, more variety of foods. Some children are particularly resistant to eating protein, which is a critical nutrient, as are essential fatty acids, which are found in nuts and seeds, fish, wild meats, avocadoes, and some beans. Carbohydrates are not required for health, although many important nutrients are co-passengers with carbs in fruits and vegetables.
Breakfast is thought to be the most important meal of the day, and is often the most hectic and difficult. In working with this diet, it's very desirable to get a protein and good amount of fat in each meal, particularly breakfast. First, be aware that it's perfectly ok to eat lunch or dinner foods for breakfast; many Polish kids have soup for breakfast. Or a hamburger patty or sausage or eggs with some fruit would be a good start for the day. A more novel breakfast could be a bowl of fresh fruit covered with nuts and coconut cream or other nut cream. (see photo below).
You can make a "cereal" with a few dates or other dried fruit (keep quantity low, to taste), 1/2 cup nuts, 2 cups water, dash salt, and tapioca or arrowroot starch thickener. Put the nuts and dates and boiling water into the blender, and spin until creamy. Then blend in a few tbsp. of the thickener, pour into a sauce pan and stir for a few minutes, simmering to thicken (or bake in the oven 20-30 minutes till thickened). You may have to whisk in additional starch when simmering, until you get the recipe right for your child, in which case you can do it all in the blender, and let it thicken as it cools. It's delicious, and could be modified to use figs or apricots or peaches or other fruits, with nuts and thickening to give the protein, fat, and texture. This is a fairly high glycemic food, partially counterbalanced by the nuts, and you can reduce the glycemic index by replacing a few of the dates with stevia. If you can't add an egg or some meat to the meal, using bone broth as half or even all of the liquid would make it a pretty well-balanced breakfast.
My breakfast for years has been a smoothie, with some fruit, herb tea, lots of nuts, berries, a carrot, some spinach, protein powder (or a soft boiled egg), and sometimes a half banana. The banana makes it pretty high glycemic, but the nuts and the protein help to balance it. I like to add chocolate powder or cinnamon, as these are both tasty and healthful seasonings.
Another breakfast treat our kids like is sweet potato pancakes, made with baked yams or sweet potatoes, scooped out after cooked. Add to the pulp tapioca starch and a little salt, and keep working more starch in, until you have a bread dough like consistency. Fry in oil (they're kind of sticky, so put a blob into the frying pan, cook a couple of minutes, then flip and smash with spatula to get it pretty thin. If you try to smash them before doing this, they'll just stick to the spatula and make a mess–it's a bit of a trick). They don't reheat well, but the dough refrigerates well. You can do the same with winter squash-the main reason for doing this is to "dilute" the squash or yam, as their flavor is often pretty strong for kids, and the added starch totally changes the texture and lightens the flavor. These are pretty high glycemic, and can be made less glycemic by adding lots of oil (to dough and the frying pan), and blending an egg into the dough. They should be cooked at very low temperature. Other pancake recipes are available at dailyburn.com/life/recipes/paleo-recipes-pancakes/. Some of these recipes are not low carbohydrate, so be sure to review the ingredients carefully, and be willing to make substitutions if needed.
In general, it is important to cook foods at low temperatures, and to avoid browning as much as possible. For example, caramelizing onions or carrots produces (by the Maillard reaction) toxic substances called "advanced glycation end products" (AGE's). Also, grilling and browning meat will greatly increase AGE production. These substances cause inflammation and oxidative stress, and contribute torisk of diabetes, vascular damage, neurodegenerative disease, and cancer. Cooking food at low heat with added water will greatly reduce formation of AGE's, and when possible, adding a little lemon juice or vinegar to the cooking water, will help further.We have found that burgers or chops can be simmered on the stove top with added water in a covered pan, with good results. Baking in a covered pan, with a little water and lemon added, makes excellent poultry or roasts.
One appropriate concern about a low glycemic diet, is the tendency to eat lots of animal products. While these meats are well utilized by humans, and are not subject to fermentation, as are carbohydrates, they are higher up the food chain than plants. As a result, animals are liable to accumulate fat soluble toxins, which are passed on to the consumer. This problem can be reduced by eating only organically grown meats and eggs. Also, we can lessen exposure by choosing low fat meats, by trimming the fat, and by cooking with added water and draining off the fat. If more oil is needed with low fat meats, coconut or olive oil may be added to the pan.
Try to stay away from concentrated carbs like fruit juice or dried fruit, and instead use whole fresh fruit. We make a delicious "ice cream" with frozen unsweetened fruit (mango is great) and coconut cream, only two ingredients. You pulverize the icy fruit by itself in the blender, then add a small amount of high fat canned coconut milk (about 1 cup of fruit with 2-3 ounces coco milk), gradually, while blending/creaming the mix. The blender won't do it without stopping and stirring repeatedly until it's creamy. I sometimes add some nuts or seeds at the first stage of pulverizing, to add more good fat and flavor. It needs to be eaten quickly, as it tends to melt and lose its ice cream quality. You can blend in a little stevia if it's not sweet enough (or a small amount of honey or xylitol or erythritol). Also, you can make this "ice cream" with any frozen fruit–peaches, blueberries, strawberries, etc.
Another challenge with the low glycemic diet (and autistic children in general) is snacks. You can make "jerky," a salted homemade meat with a little spice like garlic, honey, pepper, from any fresh meat. Slice thinly, and season the meat with a simple seasoning mix (only spices, nothing fancy), then dry in the oven at low temperature on a stainless cookie sheet or glass pan (our old cookie sheets turn the meat kind of black from rust or something, so use glass or stainless steel). Another easy snack is chicharrones (fried pork rinds), which you'll find in the Mexican food section. They're actually high protein, and pretty low fat (and the fat is healthier than the oils used to make chips-these oils oxidize readily with heat). Some kids like to eat dips, and guacamole, hummus, refried beans or salsa are excellent dips for chicharrones, vegetables, or "crackers" made from nuts and/or coconut flour. Also, sliced fruit with nut butter makes a good portable and balanced combination. "Sandwiches" with lettuce as a wrap for bread, filled with sliced home-made meat, pickle, tomato, mayo, mustard, or home made ketchup may work for some kids. There are multiple GAPS and SCD websites which offer good recipes for low carb bread.
It's a very good idea to soak nuts and seeds and beans overnight before using, to improve digestibility. You can dry them after soaking, in a dehydrator, or on a glass pan in the oven at lowest heat. It takes 4-5 hours at 170 degrees for nuts to get tasty and a little crisp (use the oven's time bake feature to improve your chances of having an edible product).
If he'll eat soup, you can easily cover lunch with a thermos of homemade stew, chili, lentil, etc.Interestingly, in our evaluation of over 100 families in Hungary and Poland, we found that almost every child with autism does consume soup. Conversely, in the US, almost every child with autism doesn't consume soup. Is this epigenetic or simply a reflection of family eating habits? I think the latter, and hope that your child will get more interested in soup when he experiences healthy hunger, and sees the rest of the family eating it. I encourage generous use of spices, but keep them simple, and read all labels (on everything except fresh produce).
While there is good evidence that all children may benefit from reducing the glycemic index of their diet, clearly some children have other problems with foods. These include food allergies, though most common food allergens are eliminated by removing grains, soy, dairy and sugar. Sometimes eggs or citrus or yeast or nuts or fish turn out to be allergens, so one must be observant when a diet change is made, watching for new or aggravated symptoms.
A diet high in nuts and eggs may unmask an unrecognized problem with oxalates, and, particularly if gut symptoms seem to worsen on the new diet, or if genitourinary complaints increase, investigating oxalate intolerance is recommended. Alternatively, if bloating or abnormal stools is ongoing, or worsened with the low glycemic diet, I recommend investigating the FODMAPS approach as another powerful approach to healing the gut. Finally, phenol/salicylate sensitivity is not well addressed by the above described low glycemic diet. These sensitivities may be causing volatile behavior, unexplained rashes/flushing, giggling/drunken behavior, hyperactivity, nighttime waking, and sometimes unexplained achiness. In this case, I recommend doing a trial with a low phenol diet for a few weeks to test the possibility that some of the healthy but high phenol foods on the low glycemic diet could be contributing to the problems.
In essence, we are following our traditional history as hunter gatherer people, also as primates, in choosing a diet of simple whole foods, which also happen to be low glycemic. This is a safe and reasonable way to begin building a sustainable life-long approach to eating. You will likely be rewarded with improvements in your child's symptoms, in addition to reducing his risk of developing degenerative diseases later in life. It's all food for thought!


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Guideline recommendations: The 2017 Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults recommends if monotherapy is warranted, in the absence of comorbidities (eg, cerebrovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, heart failure, ischemic heart disease, etc.), that thiazide-like diuretics or dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers may be preferred options due to improved cardiovascular endpoints (eg, prevention of heart failure and stroke). ACE inhibitors and ARBs are also acceptable for monotherapy. Combination therapy may be required to achieve blood pressure goals and is initially preferred in patients at high risk (stage 2 hypertension or atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease [ASCVD] risk ≥10%) (ACC/AHA [Whelton 2017]).
Myocardial infarction with left ventricular dysfunction: To improve survival following myocardial infarction in clinically stable patients with left ventricular dysfunction manifested as an ejection fraction of ≤40%, and to reduce the incidence of overt heart failure and subsequent hospitalizations for heart failure in these patients.
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Based on the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines for the management of patients with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE-ACS), an ACE inhibitor should be initiated and continued indefinitely after NSTE-ACS in patients with a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≤40% and in those with hypertension, diabetes mellitus, or stable CKD unless contraindicated. Use of an ACE inhibitor may also be useful in all other patients with cardiac or other vascular disease.
Initial data from limited trials indicate that captopril may provide minor benefit in patients with Raynaud phenomenon, but results regarding the effect of captopril on the frequency, severity, or duration of vasospasm attacks are conflicting. Larger, controlled trials are needed to establish the role of captopril in the management of Raynaud phenomenon.
Based on the ACC/AHA guideline for the diagnosis and management of patients with stable ischemic heart disease, an ACE inhibitor or ARB should be prescribed in all patients with stable ischemic heart disease who also have hypertension, diabetes mellitus, LVEF <40%, or CKD unless contraindicated.
Hypersensitivity to captopril, any other ACE inhibitor, or any component of the formulation; angioedema related to previous treatment with an ACE inhibitor; concomitant use with aliskiren in patients with diabetes mellitus; coadministration with or within 36 hours of switching to or from a neprilysin inhibitor (eg, sacubitril).
Canadian labeling: Additional contraindications (not in US labeling): Concomitant use with aliskiren in patients with moderate to severe renal impairment (GFR <60 mL/minute/1.73 m2).
Note: Titrate dose according to patient's response; use lowest effective dose.
Diabetic nephropathy: Oral: Initial: 25 mg 3 times daily. May be taken with other antihypertensive therapy if required to further lower blood pressure.
LV dysfunction following MI: Oral: Initial: 6.25 mg; if tolerated, follow with 12.5 mg 3 times daily; then increase to 25 mg 3 times daily during next several days and then gradually increase over next several weeks to target dose of 50 mg 3 times daily (some dose schedules are more aggressive to achieve an increased goal dose within the first few days of initiation). Note: In those patients with STE-ACS in the anterior location, heart failure, or LVEF ≤40%, an ACE inhibitor should be initiated within the first 24 hours after MI (ACC/AHA [O'Gara 2013]).
Acute hypertension (urgency/emergency) (off-label use): Oral, sublingual: 25 mg, may repeat as needed; consider alternative therapy if blood pressure is nonresponsive within 20 to 30 minutes (Angeli 1991; Castro del Castillo 1988; Ceyhan 1990; Damasceno 1997; Tschollar 1985). Note: May be given sublingually, but therapeutic advantage has not been demonstrated over oral administration (Karakilic 2012).
Raynaud phenomenon (off-label use): Oral: 12.5 mg twice daily; may gradually increase to 25 mg 3 times daily (Tosi 1987). Clinical trial evaluated patients for up to 3 months. Additional data is necessary to further define the role of captopril in the treatment of this condition.
A 1 mg/mL oral solution may be made by allowing two 50 mg tablets to dissolve in 50 mL of distilled water. Add the contents of one 500 mg sodium ascorbate injection ampul or one 500 mg ascorbic acid tablet and allow to dissolve. Add quantity of distilled water sufficient to make 100 mL. Label "shake well" and "refrigerate." Stable for 56 days refrigerated or 28 days (ascorbic acid tablet) or 14 days (sodium ascorbate injection) at room temperature.
Oral: Administer at least 1 hour before meals. Unstable in aqueous solutions; to prepare solution for oral administration, mix prior to administration and use within 10 minutes (Allen 1996).
Store at 20°C to 25°C (68°F to 77°F); protect from moisture.
When pregnancy is detected, discontinue captopril as soon as possible. Drugs that act directly on the renin-angiotensin system can cause injury and even death to the developing fetus.
• Angioedema: At any time during treatment (especially following first dose) angioedema may occur rarely with ACE inhibitors; it may involve the head and neck (potentially compromising airway) or the intestine (presenting with abdominal pain). African-Americans and patients with idiopathic or hereditary angioedema may be at an increased risk. Risk may also be increased with concomitant use of mTOR inhibitor (eg, everolimus) therapy or a neprilysin inhibitor (eg, sacubitril). Prolonged frequent monitoring may be required especially if tongue, glottis, or larynx are involved as they are associated with airway obstruction. Patients with a history of airway surgery may have a higher risk of airway obstruction. Aggressive early and appropriate management is critical. Use in patients with previous angioedema associated with ACE inhibitor therapy is contraindicated.
• Cough: An ACE inhibitor cough is a dry, hacking, nonproductive one that usually occurs within the first few months of treatment and should generally resolve within 1 to 4 weeks after discontinuation of the ACE inhibitor. Other causes of cough should be considered (eg, pulmonary congestion in patients with heart failure) and excluded prior to discontinuation.
• Hematologic effects: Captopril has been associated with neutropenia with myeloid hypoplasia and agranulocytosis; anemia and thrombocytopenia have also occurred. Patients with renal impairment are at high risk of developing neutropenia. Patients with both renal impairment and collagen vascular disease (eg, systemic lupus erythematosus) are at an even higher risk of developing neutropenia. Closely monitor CBC with differential for the first 3 months of therapy and periodically thereafter in these patients. Onset of neutropenia is usually within 3 months of captopril initiation. Neutrophil count generally returns to baseline within 2 weeks of discontinuation. If neutropenia develops (neutrophil count <1,000/mm3), discontinue therapy.
• Hyperkalemia: May occur with ACE inhibitors; risk factors include renal dysfunction, diabetes mellitus, concomitant use of potassium-sparing diuretics, potassium supplements, and/or potassium-containing salts. Use cautiously, if at all, with these agents and monitor potassium closely.
• Hypersensitivity reactions: Anaphylactic/anaphylactoid reactions can occur with ACE inhibitors. Severe anaphylactoid reactions may be seen during hemodialysis (eg, CVVHD) with high-flux dialysis membranes (eg, AN69), and rarely, during low density lipoprotein apheresis with dextran sulfate cellulose. Rare cases of anaphylactoid reactions have been reported in patients undergoing sensitization treatment with hymenoptera (bee, wasp) venom while receiving ACE inhibitors.
• Proteinuria: Total urinary proteins >1 g per day have been reported (<1%); nephrotic syndrome occurred in about one-fifth of proteinuric patients. In most cases, proteinuria subsided or cleared within six months (whether or not captopril was continued).
• Renal function deterioration: May be associated with deterioration of renal function and/or increases in BUN and serum creatinine, particularly in patients with low renal blood flow (eg, renal artery stenosis, heart failure) whose GFR is dependent on efferent arteriolar vasoconstriction by angiotensin II; deterioration may result in oliguria, acute renal failure, and progressive azotemia. Small benign increases in serum creatinine may occur following initiation; consider discontinuation only in patients with progressive and/or significant deterioration in renal function (Bakris 2000).
• Aortic stenosis: Use with caution in patients with aortic stenosis; may reduce coronary perfusion resulting in ischemia.
• Ascites: Avoid use in patients with ascites due to cirrhosis or refractory ascites; if use cannot be avoided in patients with ascites due to cirrhosis, monitor blood pressure and renal function carefully to avoid rapid development of renal failure (AASLD [Runyon 2012]).
• Collagen vascular disease: Use with caution in patients with collagen vascular disease especially with concomitant renal impairment; may be at increased risk for hematologic toxicity.
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with outflow tract obstruction: Use with caution in patients with HCM and outflow tract obstruction since reduction in afterload may worsen symptoms associated with this condition (ACC/AHA [Gersh 2011]).
• Renal artery stenosis: Use with caution in patients with unstented unilateral/bilateral renal artery stenosis. When unstented bilateral renal artery stenosis is present, use is generally avoided due to the elevated risk of deterioration in renal function unless possible benefits outweigh risks.
• Renal impairment: Use with caution in preexisting renal insufficiency; dosage adjustment may be needed. Avoid rapid dosage escalation which may lead to further renal impairment.
• Surgery: In patients on chronic ACE inhibitor therapy, intraoperative hypotension may occur with induction and maintenance of general anesthesia; use with caution before, during, or immediately after major surgery. Cardiopulmonary bypass, intraoperative blood loss, or vasodilating anesthesia increases endogenous renin release. Use of ACE inhibitors perioperatively will blunt angiotensin II formation and may result in hypotension. However, discontinuation of therapy prior to surgery is controversial. If continued preoperatively, avoidance of hypotensive agents during surgery is prudent (Hillis 2011). Based on current research and clinical guidelines in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery, continuing ACE inhibitors is reasonable in the perioperative period. If ACE inhibitors are held before surgery, it is reasonable to restart postoperatively as soon as clinically feasible (ACC/AHA [Fleisher 2014]).
• Extemporaneous oral solutions: Extemporaneous preparations of liquid formulations may vary; this may affect the rate and extent of absorption causing intrapatient variability regarding dosing and safety profile for the patient; use with caution and monitor closely if dosage formulations are changed (Bhatt 2011; Mulla 2007).
BUN, electrolytes, serum creatinine; blood pressure. In patients with renal impairment and/or collagen vascular disease, closely monitor CBC with differential for the first 3 months of therapy and periodically thereafter.
Heart Failure: Within 1 to 2 weeks after initiation and periodically thereafter, reassess renal function and serum potassium especially in patients with preexisting hypotension, hyponatremia, diabetes mellitus, azotemia, or those taking potassium supplements (ACC/AHA [Yancy 2013]).
[US Boxed Warning]: Drugs that act on the renin-angiotensin system can cause injury and death to the developing fetus. Discontinue as soon as possible once pregnancy is detected.
Captopril crosses the placenta (Hurault de Ligny 1987). Drugs that act on the renin-angiotensin system are associated with oligohydramnios. Oligohydramnios, due to decreased fetal renal function, may lead to fetal lung hypoplasia and skeletal malformations. Their use in pregnancy is also associated with anuria, hypotension, renal failure, skull hypoplasia, and death in the fetus/neonate. Teratogenic effects may occur following maternal use of an ACE inhibitor during the first trimester, although this finding may be confounded by maternal disease. Because adverse fetal events are well documented with exposure later in pregnancy, ACE inhibitor use in pregnant women is not recommended (Seely 2014; Weber 2014). Infants exposed to an ACE inhibitor in utero should be monitored for hyperkalemia, hypotension, and oliguria. Oligohydramnios may not appear until after irreversible fetal injury has occurred. Exchange transfusions or dialysis may be required to reverse hypotension or improve renal function, although data related to the effectiveness in neonates is limited.
Chronic maternal hypertension itself is also associated with adverse events in the fetus/infant and mother. ACE inhibitors are not recommended for the treatment of uncomplicated hypertension in pregnancy (ACOG 2013) and they are specifically contraindicated for the treatment of hypertension and chronic heart failure during pregnancy by some guidelines (Regitz-Zagrosek [ESC 2018]). In addition, ACE inhibitors should generally be avoided in women of reproductive age (ACOG 2013). If treatment for hypertension or chronic heart failure in pregnancy is needed, other agents should be used (ACOG 2013; Regitz-Zagrosek [ESC 2018]).
• Patient may experience change in taste. Have patient report immediately to prescriber signs of infection, signs of kidney problems (urinary retention, hematuria, change in amount of urine passed, or weight gain), signs of high potassium (abnormal heartbeat, confusion, dizziness, passing out, weakness, shortness of breath, or numbness or tingling feeling), signs of liver problems (dark urine, fatigue, lack of appetite, nausea, abdominal pain, light-colored stools, vomiting, or jaundice), severe dizziness, passing out, persistent cough, severe abdominal pain, severe nausea, vomiting, angina, tachycardia, bruising, bleeding, or severe loss of strength and energy (HCAHPS).


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OB38 Injector APK (Latest Version) v17 Download For Android
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1 What is an OB38 Injector?
2 The OB38 Injector has the following features:
2.1 Gloowall
2.2 Auto Headshot
2.3 Realistic physics
2.4 Smooth interface
2.5 AimBot
2.6 Unlock Characters
2.7 Unlock Maps
2.8 Endless diamonds
2.9 FF Unlock Skins
2.10 Unlock Weapons
2.11 Antenna Head
2.12 Crosshair
2.13 Lock Aim
2.14 Multiplayer Mode
If you are a lover of 3D shooting games and want to get more interesting features in FF games, then you are at the right place. OB38 Injector is a great Android app that lets you play free Fire games. It's a realistic and exciting sniper shooting game. You can enjoy the fun of firing in space, air, water, or in a jungle! Use it to get unlimited money, health, and ammo, and score big. It is an amazing application to unlock all the features of Free Fire. It's completely undetectable and safe. Moreover, it is the most powerful application that will allow you to play free-fire games without any cost.
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What is an OB38 Injector?
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The OB38 Injector has the following features:
This is a special OB38 Injector APK free-fire game. You can find your enemy and shoot him to kill him. Your mission is to kill your enemy and save yourself from being killed. You just have to know about all the features of the game; let's talk about its features!
Gloowall
OB38 Injector will help you catch the opponents; whenever an opponent hits the wall, the wall will shine.
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It is one of the most realistic games available and has been praised by millions of gamers around the world.
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The interface of the game is very simple to use, and this allows new users to experience the game quickly.
AimBot
Auto-aim is about to get even more exciting! The new update includes an "AimBot" mode that allows you to aim with precision.
Unlock Characters
OB38 Injector is a fast-paced action game. You are able to unlock different characters as you play the game.
Unlock Maps
You can now unlock maps by playing the game, which is perfect for those of you who want to try out some different settings.
Endless diamonds
The new game will give you lots of fun when you play in the free mode. You are always rewarded with unlimited diamonds.
FF Unlock Skins
OB38 Injector lets you unlock game skins, which are simply images that replace the default icon of your game.
Unlock Weapons
You'll get to use a wide variety of weapons like guns, machine guns, grenades, rocket launchers, and cannons to defend yourself from the hordes of enemies trying to kill you.
Antenna Head
The antenna head in the OB38 Injector will help you find out where your enemies are. It will make it easier for you to line up your shots.
When your target is a moving object, like a deer, the crosshair gives you a quick visual guide to help you shoot accurately.
Lock Aim
A feature in OB38 Injector called "Lock Aim" enables the user to "lock on" to a target and automatically track it as long as it is in the player's line of sight.
Multiplayer Mode
It also has an exciting new multiplayer mode, where players can play against each other to gain achievements and compete for high scores.
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Lois Moran
Photo: Albert Witzel (1879-1929)
The actress Lois Moran was born as Lois Darlington Dowling. Her father was killed in an accident when she was one year old. Her mother got remarried with Timothy Moran who adopted Lois. But only nine years later her stepfather also died because of influenza.
Her mother decided to move to Paris in 1919 in order to grant her daughter a cultural highbrow education. Lois Moran began in Paris a successful career as a dancer and photographers like Man Ray became aware of her. This fame attracted the attention of director Marcel l'Herbier, who engaged her for two movies.
Lois Moran made her film debut at the age of 15 in the French movie "La galerie des monstres" (24), it followed the great success "Feu Mathias Pascal" (25) at Ivan Mosjoukin's side.
Her mother encouraged her to send pictures of her to D.W. Griffith and Samuel Goldwyn. When Goldwin was in France in 1925 he visited Lois Moran and examined her first two roles. He was keen on her and offered her the leading role in "Romeo and Juliet". The movie didn't come off but Lois Moran was engaged as Laurel Dallas in the movie "Stella Dallas" (25) with which she had an unexpected success and she became famous in one go.
As a result it followed other demanding offers which led Lois Moran from a teenager to a young woman. To her other successful silent movies belong "The Reckless Lady" (26), "The Road to Mandalay" (26), "Padlockes" (26), "The Irresistible Lover" (27), "Love Hungry" (28), "Blindfold" (28) and "True Heaven" (29).
She continued her career at the beginning of the 30's with "Mammy" (30), "Under Suspicion" (30), "Transatlantic" (31) and "The Spider" (31) before she retired from the film business.
Lois Moran only took over a new role in 1954 for the TV serial "Waterfront" (54), her last movie was the German production "Alice in den Städten" (74).
Besides her film career she was also working for the Gershwin brothers, and F. Scott Fitzgerald was so fascinated by Lois Moran's personality the he used her as a model for his figure "Rosemary Hoyt" in the play "Tendes is the Night". His admiration to her was so intense that Fitzgerald's wife Zelda made a huge jealousy scene.
Other movies with Lois Moran:
Just Suppose (26) Prince of Tempters (26) God Gave Me Twenty Cents (26) The Music Master (27) The Whirlwind of Youth 827) Publicity Madness (27) Sharp Shooters (28) Don't Marry (28) The River Pirate (28) Making the Grade (29) Joy Street (29) Behind That Curtain (29) Words and Music (29) A Song of Kentucky (29) Not Damaged (30) The Dancers (30) West of Broadway (31) Men in Her Life (31)


A lovely old-fashioned family favorite! Procession participants travel slowly down Main Street Everson on tractors, floats, collector cars, horses, bicycles, and on foot. Families are invited to set up lawn chairs along the sidewalk of Main Street.
Parade Starts at 11 AM at Christ Fellowship Church - 1208 E Main St, Everson.
Participant information:The parade starts promptly at 11:00AM on the Saturday of the Everson-Nooksack Summer Festival. Judging will be done before the parade starts, about 10AM-10:30am. Awards will be announced from the reviewing stand during the parade. Please park and setup for the parade at Christ Fellowship Church located on Main Street. Parade volunteers will be available to assist you to your setup location. Please arrive early to allow time for check in, setup & judging. Parade Headquarters will be setup at 9:00AM in the front of the church to check in entries. Index cards will be available at check in to describe your entry or you may supply your own before. PLEASE be patient and have fun!!!!


I just picked up a FDHD. It works.....but it is extremely dirty. I have pulled apart the entire keyboard and mouse and cleaned them which helped. I was also able to retrobright them using some Salon 20 peroxide solution. This worked well. Id say it is a bit too strong for the job and i will dilute it back or try something different for the case when i get around to do that.
A word of warning. REMOVE the apple logos on the case and keyboard before trying this whitening process. The logs use metallic decals and will react with the H202. my keyboard has a very very small piece that lifted from this that i am pretty bummbed about but it still looks good. Also..........do no use the h202 at full strength. The keys and mouse was fine but the keyboard frame had some blotchy-ness to it. You cant really see it but if you look closely you can. Not a huge deal but just a word of warning. All items were out in the direct sunlight for 1 - 2 hours.....so it doesnt take long.
WHen i do the case, i will be much much more careful and probably use a different solution/mixture (with the logo removed).
I am looking for a recap service next? Someone in the states if possbile. Anyone have any recommendations? I am pretty handy with a soldering iron but would rather not screw it up.
Welcome aboard! I hear you about being hesitant to do your first recap, I'm in the same boat.
i already emailed him for pricing. I am not sure if he is in the USA or where he is but i emailed him for pricing if i pull the boards and ship them his way.
Yep, Chicago area, have you emailed admin over yonder?
i only emailed him at the link provided on his site. Awaiting response. He is in the midwest like me so that is a good sign.
IM approaching this cautiously for sure. I figure it survived 30+ years.........the least i could so is honor that with a bit of TLC. Neat little machine. One of the first i used in grade school for sure. I actually started out on the Apple II. I have a Apple II plus and now this one.
My dream is to play some Number Munchers on it just like i loved to do back in the day during open lab time in the 80s.
My case is apart finally. I got a LONG T15.
Main board is out. I show it having all 4 stick populated (4mb).
Now....trying to get the analog board out. Time for a break and then back at it.
Very clean inside.......no signatures but very clean.
quoted about $170 + shipping there and back......for the mainboard, analog board and the PSU.
Yeah, you need to have some disposable income (I don't) or the willingness to get with the "sweat equity" upkeep model to collect this stuff. Gotta order some connectors (for fun) and capacitors (for sweat) from DigiKey sometime soon.
id be willing to try and tackle it myself. It seems just a bit too delicate. I am used to restoring old radios and recaping them. I even put new caps in my samsung lcd tv when they blew up...but this seems alot more involved.
You could just do the logic board recap now, and defer the others until later, if the cost is more than you can comfortably afford.
The unit appeared to work fine prior to taking it apart.
Im still working on cleaning it. This thing was DIRTY. So far so good.


A couple of hours from now I'll be on my way to India for a couple of weeks, my first foreign trip since I went to New York in 2009. I don't think I'll be going on a tour of the major locations from Temple of Doom or anything, but you never know. In any case, a trip like this is long overdue.
And it better be good, considering how many injections, visa applications and unexpected expenses I suffered for this jaunt.
I'm doing without my computer and phone, so my connectivity will depend on Internet cafes and my ability to remember my 30-character gibberish logins without 1Password, so don't expect what updates I make to be particularly verbose. But I do plan to take a lot of photos and video, having finally replaced old faithful with another Lumix, and will post them here and on Twitter. I don't often test WordPress's gallery functionality, but when I do, I do it during altitude acclimatisation in the Himalayas.


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Harris and Dani joined Matt Law (Hoffman's lab at Cornell) and Prof. So-Yeon Yoon at the Design Computing and Cognition conference, where we presented 3 papers from our joint NSF sponsored research studying human-computer collaborative approaches to engineering design.
Bang, H., Shi, Y. L. Z., Yoon, S.-Y., Hoffman, G., & Selva, D. (2018). Exploring the Feature Space to Aid Learning in Design Space Exploration. In Design Computing and Cognition'18.
Law, M., Dhawan, N., Bang, H., Yoon, S.-Y., Selva, D., & Hoffman, G. (2018). Side-by-side Human-Computer Design using a Tangible User Interface. In Design Computing and Cognition '18.
Lily Shi, Bang, H., Hoffman, G., Selva, D., & Yoon, S.-Y. (2018). Cognitive style and field knowledge in complex design problem solving: A comparative case study of decision support systems. In Design Computing and Cognition '18.
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If you want the job done right, do it yourself
The campaign by people with disability (PWD) and supporters to pressure the ABC into re-animating ABC RampUp has failed. Despite official approaches to ABC management, an online petition (with more than 17,500 signatures), and in-person public protests, RampUp remains mothballed and a motionless online repository of old stories and commentary.
However, PWD have launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $80,000 to establish a new website to replace RampUp and again provide a space to 'feature news, discussion, debate and humour for everyone in Australia's disability communities'. The 'A Voice for People With Disabilities' campaign was launched two weeks ago. Its 'tipping point' is $20,000 – that is the stage where the campaign's proponents say they will be able to build the site and pay contributors for six months.
"During this time we will pursue commercial sponsors to sustain the project for the longer term," the campaign's Start Some Good page states.
Dr George Taleporos, the man behind Save ABC RampUp, is driving the crowdfunding campaign, and has embraced the saying: 'If you want it done right, do it yourself.'
"By supporting this project, you will be playing an important role in enabling people with disabilities to have their say on the issues that affect us the most," Dr Taleporos said.
"This project is designed to ensure that the important perspectives of people with disabilities and our families are heard and to make real the disability rights motto of 'Nothing About Us, Without Us'."
The campaign includes a video that features Rachel Croucher, a woman with disabilities, speaking from her bed at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne. In the video, Ms Croucher starts to explain the dire situation she faces in regard to personal care hours, pressure lifts and the lack of an air mattress when she is abruptly cut-off and gagged. Campaign proponents contend the video represents what has happened to PWD with the closure of RampUp, and it underlines the need for a new site.
The Save ABC RampUp campaign, particularly a sit-in protest at ABC headquarters in Melbourne in June, attracted national media coverage. The crowdfunding push has also drawn media attention. The coverage and a network of more than 1000 people in the Save ABC RampUP Facebook group has helped raise awareness and just over $7,000 so far.
Disability and media academics have explored self-representation by people with disability. One prominent study by Estelle Thoreau (2006) focused on the UK-based Ouch!, a blog and radio show embedded in the BBC's online presence. Ouch! says it " … goes behind the headlines of disability news, and also lifts the lid on the little details about being disabled that are not widely talked about."
Thoreau found Ouch! provided " … a different type of representation from that offered by the mainstream traditional media, which is argued to result from properties of the medium and the staffing of the site by disabled people."
She concluded:
"It produces a disability-centred, experience-based, active, and positive picture of disabled people. Within this, disabled people are represented as the majority, while nondisabled people are seen as an 'other'."
Proponents of the crowdfunding campaign and the push to establish a site to replace RampUp in Australia agree with Thoreau. Self-representation provides greater insight into the lives, priorities and passions of people with disabilities, and serves to broaden mainstream understanding of disability by forcing it into the unfamiliar space of being the 'minority'.
*Declaration: I am aligned with the crowdfunding campaign.
Thoreau, E., Ouch!: An Examination of the Self-Representation of Disabled People on the Internet, Journal of Computer‐Mediated Communication, ISSN 1083-6101, 01/2006, Volume 11, Issue 2, pp. 442 – 468
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Ex-Super Eagles Player, Wilson Oruma Finally Breaks Silence On Losing Over N1.5b To Fraudsters… Says His Relations Were Involved In The Deal!!!
Former Super Eagles midfielder, Wilson Oruma, has finally broken his silence on his sad experience with fraudsters who duped him close to N2b.
Recall that the ex-Super Eagles captain suffered a relapse of the emotional disorder that bugged him 6-years-ago after he was defrauded by a clergyman and some fake oil businessmen.
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Here is a Half-Hack of Super Metroid which has you play the normal maps in a different direction with some alterations to the rooms of the whole world. The total percentage is 111% and the items are super-secret. Nice for those who want to play the game with a twist. It is also more challenging that your normal Super Metroid playthough.


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FTSE 100 ends 2022 in the red as Wall Street opens lower
Pedro Goncalves
·Finance Reporter, Yahoo Finance UK
FTSE 100 finished the last trading session of the year in negative territory. Photo: Toby Melville/Reuters
The FTSE 100 and European stocks ended 2022 in the red after what has been a volatile year, in which global stocks have lost around a fifth of their value as the Ukraine war rocked markets.
The FTSE 100 (^FTSE) lost 0.81% to close at 7,451, while the CAC (^FCHI) in Paris slipped 0.72% to 6,526 points. In Germany, the DAX (^GDAXI) retreated 0.89% to 13,946.
For London's blue-chip index, that's a gain of 0.9% for 2022 as a whole, during a year in which global markets fell almost 20%.
The FTSE 100 was helped by oil companies BP (BP.L) and Shell (SHEL.L), both up over 40% in 2022, and defence firm BAE Systems (BA.L), up 56% this year.
Ahead of the New Year's celebrations this weekend, Friday was a shortened trading day with the London Stock Exchange closing at 12:30pm.
The biggest risers on the FTSE 100 were JD Sports (JD.L), up 2.44%, Coca-Cola HBC (CCH.L), up 2.25%, Fresnillo (FRES.L), up 1.85%, Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (SMT.L), up 0.98% and Next (NXT.L), up 0.94%, and Informa (INF.L), up 4.4%.
The biggest fallers were Barratt Developments (BDEV.L), down 3.05%, Persimmon (PSN.L), down 3.03%, BT Group (BT-A.L), down 2.73%, Ocado (OCDO.L) down 2.62% and Rightmove (RMV.L), down 2.48%.
"The most important take of the year is: the era of easy money ended, and ended for good. It means that the financial markets won't look like anything we knew since the subprime crisis," said Ipek Ozkardeskaya at Swissquote Bank
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"This is the beginning of a new era, when central banks will be playing a more subdued role in the markets, with less liquidity available to fix problems — a more than necessary move that came perhaps too late, and too painfully."
On Wall Street, stocks opened lower on the final trading day of a roller-coaster year marked by aggressive interest-rate hikes to curb inflation.
The Dow Jones (^DJI) lost 0.52% to 33,220. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) retreated 0.69% % to 3,822 points and the tech-heavy Nasdaq (^IXIC) slipped 1% to 10,372.
Each major US index is headed for a loss in December. Companies in the S&P 500 took in record profits in 2022 but the index will end the year down about 20%, which would be the benchmark's biggest annual decline since 2008.
Meanwhile, Brent crude (BZ=F) was hovering around $82 per barrel with oil prices set to end a volatile 2022 with a net gain of around 8% as Russia's war in Ukraine rattled global markets.
Victoria Scholar, head of investment at Interactive Investor, said: "Oil prices are trading higher and are on track to log their second consecutive annual gain. Brent crude hit a 14-year high of $137 a barrel in March following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. However since the 2022 peak, oil prices have been mostly trading lower shedding almost 40% across the rest of the year. Concerns about weaker global demand and a particular slowdown from China given its aggressive covid lockdowns have pushed oil prices lower.
"This year's dollar strength has also put pressure on oil markets. OPEC+ tried to offset this year's price decline by agreeing to cut production by 2 million barrels per day in October. In December, the cartel held off from cutting output further as it waits to assess the impact of slowing Chinese demand and the G7's price cap on Russian oil.
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Why Did Richard Duke of York Fight Henry VI at the Battle of St Albans?
@MattLewisAuthor
The First Battle of St Albans on 22 May 1455 is cited as the date the Wars of the Roses began.
Richard, Duke of York is often considered an ambitious war monger who dragged England into the Wars of the Roses in his relentless pursuit of the crown worn by his second cousin once removed, Henry VI.
The truth is very different.
York's early years
Born in 1411, York was orphaned in 1415. His mother Anne Mortimer died shortly after his birth and his father, Richard, Earl of Cambridge was executed by Henry V for treason as he prepared to leave for the Agincourt campaign.
After his father's death, York became a ward of the crown and was placed into the care of Robert Waterton.
Waterton also had custody of some of the most famous prisoners taken at the Battle of Agincourt, including Marshal Boucicaut, Charles Duke of Orleans, and Arthur, son of the Duke of Brittany.
A depiction of the imprisonment of Charles, Duke of Orléans, in the Tower of London from a 15th-century manuscript. The White Tower is visible, St Thomas' Tower (also known as Traitor's Gate) is in front of it, and in the foreground is the River Thames.
It is tempting to see these men, sat around a fire in the evening, telling an impressionable boy stories of what happens to a country cursed with a weak king, threatened with invasion, and torn apart by factions.
As he grew, York watched Henry's uncle Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester and his great-uncle Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester indulge in a rivalry that was a precursor to the Wars of the Roses as Henry VI showed himself weak and disinterested in ruling. It must have rung alarm bells.
Legend of popular history Mike Loades provides Dan a detailed run down of Henry V's famous victory at Agincourt on 25 October 1415 and how Henry V's 'band of brothers' were really more a band of brigands.
Richard's inheritances as a threat
Richard's uncle Edward, Duke of York was killed at Agincourt, his title passing to his young nephew, along with his crippling debts.
In 1425, Richard also acquired the rich inheritance of his maternal uncle Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March. The Mortimer family were problematical, since they arguably held a better claim to the throne than the Lancastrian kings.
Richard represented a convergence of inheritances that meant he was perceived as a threat even before he became politically active.
On 8 May 1436, aged 24, Richard was appointed lieutenant-general of France after the death the previous year of Henry VI's uncle John, Duke of Bedford. Bedford had been regent, and Richard held watered down powers, but performed the role well during his one-year commission.
He returned to England in November 1437, unpaid and having used his own money to fund efforts in France.
When York's successor died, he was reappointed to the office in July 1440. He served until 1445, when he was surprised to find himself replaced with Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset.
Henry VI (right) sitting while the Dukes of York (left) and Somerset (centre) have an argument.
Opposition to the House of Lancaster
It was the beginning of a bitter personal feud between the dukes. By now, York was owed more than £38,000 by the crown, equivalent to over £31 million in today's money.
Willingly or otherwise, York also became associated with Henry VI's last remaining uncle Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, who began to name York first amongst those he believed were being unfairly excluded from power.
In 1447, Humphrey fell victim to his nephew's paranoia. Henry became convinced his fifty-six-year-old childless uncle meant to steal his throne. Humphrey was arrested and suffered a stroke, dying in custody a few days later.
The face of a popular desire to pursue war with France, Humphrey's death caused his supporters to turn to York. For the first time, opposition to the increasingly unpopular government of Henry VI had a focus outside the House of Lancaster.
Thomas Penn talks Dan through the rise, zenith and fall of the House of York during the latter half of the 15th century.
York was sent to Ireland as lieutenant. His tenure was cut short by Cade's Rebellion in 1450, a populist revolt that saw London stormed by men of Kent. Rumours abounded that York was behind the uprising, but his return may well have been born of a sense of duty.
As the senior nobleman and heir presumptive to the king, his responsibility was to help keep law and order, but he was viewed with ever-increasing suspicion and excluded from power.
A failed attempt to force himself on the government in 1452 at Dartford led to an embarrassing arrest, more suspicion and deeper exclusion.
York as Lord Protector 1453
When Henry had a mental breakdown and became incapacitated in 1453, his wife Margaret of Anjou made a bid for power, but the misogynistic lords turned instead to York, appointing him Lord Protector.
York's rule was moderate and inclusive, though Somerset was imprisoned in the Tower. When Henry suddenly recovered at Christmas 1454, he immediately excluded York again, undid most of his work and freed Somerset.
If Henry's illness was a crisis for England, his recovery was to prove a disaster.
First Battle of St Albans
When Henry tried to move to the Midlands in 1455, York gathered an army and marched south. Despite writing letters each day explaining where he was and that he meant Henry no harm, York received no response.
He reached Henry at St Albans, with the king's army inside the town and the gates barred. York had around 6,000 men and the king's army only numbered about 2,000, but most of the nobility were firmly on Henry's side.
What caused the 30 year period of internecine violence in medieval England? Dan Snow narrates this animated short documentary on the events that led to 22 May 1455 - the First Battle of Saint Albans.
At 7 o'clock on the morning of 22 May, York's army arrayed on Key Fields outside St Albans. A parlay failed and hostilities began just after 11 o'clock.
Finding the gates heavily fortified, the Earl of Warwick eventually broke into some gardens and made his way to the market square, unleashing his archers on the king's unprepared forces. The distraction allowed York to breach the gates and a vicious slaughter ensued in the streets.
Edmund Beaufort, York's rival, was killed. Henry himself was wounded by an arrow in the neck. When York found the king, he fell to his knees and pledged his loyalty before seeing to it that Henry's wound was treated.
A modern day procession as people celebrate the Battle of St Albans.
Road to the Wars of the Roses
York took control of the government again for a time as Protector, but it was short-lived. His financial reforms threatened those who had prospered under Henry's slack rule.
The First Battle of St Albans is often seen as the violent birthing of the Wars of the Roses, but it was not a dynastic dispute at this point. The real rivalry was between York and Somerset over the right to advise the weak king.
York would not claim the throne until 1460, when he had been backed into a corner and left with nothing to lose.
York's second eldest son, Edmund, was killed at the Battle of Wakefield, 1460
It came after a decade of opposition to the regime which was less about his burning ambition and more about the responsibility he felt to help see the kingdom properly governed.
He had done all he could to avoid it before eventually igniting the Yorkist claim to the throne.
Matt Lewis is an author and historian of the middle ages with a focus on the Wars of the Roses. He has written books covering The Anarchy and the Wars of the Roses as well as biographies of Henry III, Richard, Duke of York, and Richard III.
His books also include The Survival of the Princes in the Tower. Matt can be found on Twitter (@MattLewisAuthor), Facebook (@MattLewisAuthor) and Instagram (@MattLewisHistory).
Richard Duke of York, by Matt Lewis, published by Amberley Publishing (2016)
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Q: SaaS application using stripe - charge customers card before completing signup? We are using Stripe subscriptions to handle payment for a SaaS application we are building
Currently, our development team has implemented the following logic:

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*User enters card details into Stripe elements UI as the final step of signup to our app.

*If the credit card is deemed valid by Stripe Elements, the signup process to our app completes successfully.

*A stripe customer & subscription is created.

*Our server processes the webhook from stripe to confirm if the initial payment succeeds/fails
The problem we have is that the customers card isn't being charged until after the signup process to our app is complete. In some cases this results in a poor user experience, where the user is told by our signup process that they have signed up successfully, then they receive a 'payment failed' email from our software if the stripe charge doesn't succeed.
What is the best way to handle this signup flow? Since we are relying on the stripe webhook to tell us if the charge has succeeded - a suggestion has been made that we could monitor for the webhook response (eg. every 1 second, in a loop) and confirm payment has succeeded before completing the user signup for our app. The flow would then become:

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*User enters card details into Stripe elements UI as the final step of signup to our app.

*If the credit card is deemed valid by Stripe Elements, we create the stripe customer / subscription

*Monitor (in a loop) for a response from the Stripe webhook to confirm if payment was successful

*The signup process to our app completes successfully (if charge is successful), or fails if the charge is unsuccessful.
This also seems like a bandaid solution - what is the best way to handle our issue?
I have noticed there is an option to use 'pre-authorisation' of a card, but I'd prefer not to go down this road if it leads to extra items on a customers bank statement.
This seems like something that would be very common - we would greatly appreciate any advice
Thanks

A: The most straightforward solution seems to be that your integration isn't waiting for the payment to complete.
With Subscription, you can wait synchronously on your backend for a status: active on your backend, before returning a response to your frontend. You don't even need to poll for the webhook response, cause your backend creates a Customer, creates a Subscription, and returns that response to your frontend, to show an error or success.
(waiting for webhooks is good but when your integration is manually starting the Subscription, you don't necessarily need webhooks)
From the frontend perspective, your user sees a loading spinner, until your backend is able to say "payment successful, you are signed up!"

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