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Christopher Nash Elliott (born May 31, 1960) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He has appeared in comedic sketches on Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1988), created and starred in the comedy series Get a Life (1990–1992) on Fox, and wrote and starred in the film Cabin Boy (1994). His writing has won four consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards. His other television appearances include recurring roles on Everybody Loves Raymond (2003–2005) and How I Met Your Mother (2009–2014), starring as Chris Monsanto in Adult Swim's Eagleheart (2011–2014) and starring as Roland Schitt in Schitt's Creek (2015–2020).[1] He also appeared in the films Groundhog Day (1993), There's Something About Mary (1998), and Scary Movie 2 (2001).
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It's been two weeks since the A2 team had the pleasure of sponsoring and attending WordCamp Boston for the very first time, and we thought it was about time to share some pictures from the event! WordCamp Boston just wrapped up it's 8th year and everything went very smoothly. Those folks know how to run a WordCamp!
Most of us had never been to Boston before, so we were excited about the opportunity to attend a such well-known WordCamp in a city we'd never been too. We were not disappointed! Boston now ranks pretty high on my list of favorite cities. We're already looking forward to next year. In the meantime, check out our photos from the event!
We started our day bright and early! Sponsor set-up began at 6:30am.
All set up and ready to roll. Free t-shirt, anyone?
Someone stole the camera! Adam Silver and Adam Warner from SiteLock sneak in a selfie while snapping a photo of the A2 team.
Congrats to our Raspberry Pi winners, K.Adam White and Morgan Jassen!
Day 1 was a success! Headed to the after party!
Lots of great sessions on Day 2!
The team did a little site-seeing after WordCamp wrapped up. What a Beautiful city!
Thanks Boston! See you next year!
Next up for us is WordCamp Grand Rapids on August 26th, followed by WordCamp Pittsburgh on September 9th. Will we see you there?


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Congratulations to Brendan and Heidi Bainbridge for glamorously tying the knot on the pristine coastline of the Cobourg Peninsula (Garig Gunak Barlu National Park). Perhaps one of the more remote and logistically challenging destinations you could ever choose to hold a wedding, never the less everyone made the long journey across Arnhem Land arriving by any means possible; boat, light aircraft and four wheel drive.
Brendan (the lucky groom) established 'Venture North' back in 2000 with one vehicle and one trailer. His tours departed Darwin, visiting Kakadu before travelling into Arnhem Land and spending a couple of days on the Cobourg Peninsula at his newly built safari camp. Ten years later, after dedicating endless time, energy and passion into the business Brendan decided to sell it all to Hugh and Aaron Gange and move to central Arnhem Land (Maningrida) to pursue interests in land management (he is now Chief Executive Officer of Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation). With Cobourg always holding a close place in his heart and with ongoing relationships with the traditional owners of the area, it was no surprise to hear where the big day was going to be held.
Set on the sand dunes overlooking Port Essington at a favourite hangout called 'yachties', there were oysters on the shuck, bubbles on the pop, kids playing in the sand and plenty of beers and tears. Not only did the sunset produce a pretty amazing backdrop but a pod of roughly 50 false killer whales made their way down the bay in the background, nice timing! All in all a great afternoon and evening of partying. Cheer, cheer to the happy couple!
Hats off to everyone who made it happen.


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Navigating Polarizing Times: Seeking a Center that Holds
Saturday, February 1, 2020 from 9:00 a.m. ~ 1:00 p.m. in the sanctuary of the Freeman Center for Jewish Life, Durham
We live in turbulent times, where conflicting voices often create a sense of bewilderment. How do we engage in discernment for our own lives, seeking clear guidance from God? And how do we practice discernment in and for the organizations for which we work and care? Can we discover a center that holds, a centering in Christ? We will explore these themes together, including scriptural reflections, specific practices and relationships that can help foster such discernment.
Our retreat leaders for this Saturday morning, February 1, will be The Reverend Susan Pendleton Jones and L. Gregory Jones. Susan and Greg have co-authored several books together for Adult Bible Studies and are both United Methodist ministers. They are the parents of three children, and they have two granddaughters.
The Reverend Susan Pendleton Jones is currently a Ministry Associate for Church Transformation Ministries of the NC Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. For 17 years Susan served as an administrator at Duke Divinity School and most recently was Associate Dean for Ministerial Formation. Her teaching responsibilities there have included courses on Leadership, Forgiveness and Reconciliation, and the Pastor's Vocation. In addition, she was the project coordinator for the design and construction of the Divinity's School's $22 million Westbrook Building that has won several architectural awards. She is a frequent retreat leader for lay and clergy groups.
L. Gregory Jones is the Dean of Duke Divinity School, a position he also held from 1997-2010. Greg is the A. Morris and Ruth W. Williams Professor of Christian Theology and Ministry, senior fellow at the Fuqua-Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics, and senior fellow at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity. He is the author or editor of 17 books, including Christian Social Innovation, the co-authored Forgiving As We've Been Forgiven: Community Practices for Making Peace (with Celestin Musekura, in 2010), Resurrecting Excellence: Shaping Faithful Christian Ministry (with Kevin R. Armstrong, in 2006) and Embodying Forgiveness (1995).
The retreat will be held on Saturday, February 1, from 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. in the sanctuary of the Freeman Center for Jewish Life, 1415 Faber Street (in the Central Campus of Duke University), Durham. Childcare will be provided. Please contact the Congregation Office to make a reservation for childcare. The $10 participation fee will cover the cost of a catered lunch. Please email the Congregation office or call 919-684-3917 to RSVP by Monday, January 27.

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Home » Modified ultrafiltration removes serum interleukin-8 in adult cardiac surgery
Modified ultrafiltration removes serum interleukin-8 in adult cardiac surgery
Onoe, M.; Magara, T.; Yamamoto, Y.; Nojima, T.
Perfusion;Jan2001, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p37
Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) causes an increase in serum cytokine levels and systemic inflamatory responses, which may trigger the onset of various types of postoperative organ failure. In the present study, modified ultrafiltration (MUF) was applied in cases of adult cardiac surgery and an attempt was made to determine whether MUF reduces serum interleukin-8 (IL-8) levels. Nine patients who underwent cardiovascular surgery with CPB and MUF between June 1996 and June 1997 were compared with nine control patients who underwent cardiovascular surgery without MUF in the same period. Modified ultrafiltration was performed, based on a method proposed elsewhere. Serum IL-8 was measured by enzyme immunoassay at the start of CPB, immediately after CPB, immediately after MUF and 3 h after MUF. The mean filtrated volume was 1550.0 ± 173.2 ml. In the MUF group, haematocrit increased significantly from 21.2 ± 2.0 to 24.9 ± 3.3% (p = 0.0008), while systolic blood pressure increased from 97.5 ± 16.7 to 116.5 ± 23.9 mmHg (p = 0.0024) after MUF. In contrast, there were no changes in either haematocrit or blood pressure in the control group. In the MUF group, serum IL-8 was reduced from 69.5 ± 33.5 to 58.9 ± 32.4 pg/ml after MUF (p = 0.0029), whereas it was not reduced in the control group. The results of the present study suggest that MUF has beneficial effects on postoperative haemodynamics, and can reduce serum IL-8 levels in adult cardiac surgery.
IL-8 Serum Levels are not Associated with Pelvic Pain. // Fertility Weekly;8/16/2010, p11
The article discusses a study which examines the relationship between the pelvic pain and the level of interleukin-8 (IL-8) in serum among women with ovarian endometriomas. Researchers in Spain have used visual analogue scale to evaluate pain in 56 recruited premenopausal women. The results...
Suppression of elevated plasma interleukin-8 levels due to total ischemia and reperfusion of the small intestine by luminal perfusion with fetal bovine serum. Chen, Yun; Hung, Wen-Tsung; Chen, Shih-Ming; Tseng, Sheng-Hong // Pediatric Surgery International;Mar2002, Vol. 18 Issue 2/3, p107
A previous study demonstrated that continuous enteric luminal perfusion of fetal bovine serum (FBS) protects the small intestine from total ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) and increases the intestinal mass. In this study, we further investigated the changes in plasma interleukin-8 (IL-8) level...
Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Surgery for Congenital Heart Repair. Merchant, Sanah; Nadaraj, Sumekala; Chowdhury, Devyani; Parnell, Vincent A.; Sison, Cristina; Miller, Edmund J.; Ojamaa, Kaie // Molecular Medicine;Mar/Apr2008, Vol. 14 Issue 3/4, p124
Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), a proinflammatory mediator, has been shown to be elevated following heart surgery in adults and may be associated with several postoperative complications, including cardiac and pulmonary dysfunction. In this study, we aimed to measure perioperative...
Značaj odreÄ'ivanja proinflamatornih citokina u serumu politraumatizovanih bolesnika sa sepsom. Šurbatović, Maja; Jovanović, Krsta; Vojvodić, Danilo; Filipović, Nikola; Babić, Dragan // Vojnosanitetski Pregled: Military Medical & Pharmaceutical Journ;Mar/Apr2004, Vol. 61 Issue 2, p137
This article focuses on the significance of determination of proinflammatory cytokines in the serum of polytraumatized patients with sepsis. Severe sepsis and trauma complicated with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) are among the leading causes of death in intensive therapy units, with...
Abstracts of Current Literature. Nolan, Karen E.; Kuehl, Damon R. // Wilderness & Environmental Medicine;Winter2003, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p277
Presents abstracts of several medical literature. "Is Elevated Plasma Lactate a Useful Marker in the Evaluation of Pure Carbon Monoxide Poisoning," by M. Benaissa, B. Megarbane, S. Borron and F. Buad; "African Tick Bite Fever in Travelers to Rural Sub-Equatorial Africa," by M. Jensenius and P....
Increased serum levels of interleukin-8 in polyarteritis nodosa and Behçet's disease. de Lira Freire, Alzírton; Bertolo, Manoel Barros; de Pinho, Antônio José; Samara, Adil Muhib; Muchinechi Fernandes, Sandra Regina // Clinical Rheumatology;Jun2004, Vol. 23 Issue 3, p203
The pathogenesis of Behçet's disease (BD) and polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is not yet well established. Endothelial cells have been shown to express chemokines that are involved in inflammatory processes. Interleukin-8 (IL-8) is a potent chemoattractant and activator of neutrophils. We...
Examination of Angiogenesis and Interleukin 8. // Fertility Weekly;3/17/2003, p9
Focuses on the peritoneal fluid and sera of the patients with endometriosis characterized by more intense angiogenic activity in experiments conducted in an in vivo model of angiogenesis. Role of angiogenesis in the pathogenesis of endometriosis; Function of interleukin-8 in neovascularization;...
Glutamine for childhood diarrhea. Gaby, Alan R. // Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients;Apr2005, Issue 261, p24
Comments on the results of a study conducted in children aged 6 to 24 months with acute diarrhea to assess the effects of glutamine. Absence of an effect of glutamine on serum interleukin-8 and salivary immunogloblulin A levels; Effects of glutamine on gastrointestinal mucosa rather than on...
Serum Amyloid A Induces NLRP-3-Mediated IL-1β Secretion in Neutrophils. Migita, Kiyoshi; Izumi, Yasumori; Jiuchi, Yuka; Kozuru, Hideko; Kawahara, Chieko; Nakamura, Minoru; Nakamura, Tadashi; Agematsu, Kazunaga; Masumoto, Junya; Yasunami, Michio; Kawakami, Atsushi; Eguchi, Katsumi // PLoS ONE;May2014, Vol. 9 Issue 5, p1
Background/Aims: Serum amyloid A (SAA) is an acute phase reactant with significant immunological activities, including effects on cytokine synthesis and neutrophil chemotaxis. Neutrophils can also release cytokines with proinflammatory properties. IL-1β is a key proinflammatory cytokine, the...


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The life and death of a Frankenfish
EVOLUTION, THE INTERNET, AND THE MONSTERS WE CREATE
2019-07-01 - BY MIRANDA COLLINGE
on what was to become the momentous day in February 2017 when he visited One Fish, Two Fish, his local aquatics store in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, though it was in fact an hour away from his home in Truro, Joey Mullen had sworn off making any impulse purchases. He'd gone to take a look around, pick up a few nerite snails and some otocinclus catfish and a pearl stingray he'd had his eye on, and to film a tour of the store for his YouTube channel on which Mullen goes by the name "The King of DIY". But something about this particular fish, in a tank by himself, made him stop. It was a young flowerhorn cichlid, around six months old and three inches long. It seemed to be looking right at him. When he put his finger to the glass the fish followed it, looping and doubling back, even doing back-flips. "He's just loving you," said the store manager. "I think he wants to come home," said Mullen.
Mullen knew better than most what he was letting himself in for. The flowerhorn cichlid is one of the most divisive fish in the aquarist hobby today. It is a man-made carnivore, a hybrid, created around 20 years ago in Southeast Asia, whose popularity, thanks to the internet, and social media in particular, is now growing around the world. It is notoriously aggressive, even towards potential mates and is, to some eyes, unspeakably ugly. Where climates are tropical, it can be a threat to native cichlid species, not to mention to other, meeker fish. But it is also a highly sought-after breed, with prices for the finest specimens rumoured to reach many thousands of dollars. In Asia and America, and even in Britain, they are considered a sign of status, a luxury item.
There are several different breeds of flowerhorn, but the most iconic, if not the most highly prized, is the red dragon (the male; female flowerhorn tend to be less flamboyant). It is a bright red fish with a stripe of black markings, or "flowers", down its side and a preposterous bulge above its head: this nuchal hump, also known as a "kok", on which the black flowers sometimes appear, gives the breed its name. It has red eyes, tiny sharp teeth, a protruding lower lip and Churchillian folds beneath its chin. Given that it is a mix of species that would never meet in the wild it is, technically speaking, a genetic abomination.
The fish in the tank at One Fish, Two Fish was a red dragon, but Mullen had kept flowerhorn years before and knew enough about them to recognise that this was not a particularly fine example. Flowerhorn develop fast and change considerably before reaching maturity and, for males, a size of roughly 12 to 14 inches at around 10 months, and though this fish was a juvenile he could see its colour was wan, it had a distended belly, a small nuchal hump and the line of black flowers along its side was jagged and patchy. Really, it was lucky to have survived the cull that its breeder would have carried out to ensure that only the best quality fish make it to market. Mullen felt a surprising protective urge. Here was a fish that someone needed to stick up for.
After he'd paid the asking price — Can$150, around £80 — he put the flowerhorn in his car, buckling it up in the back seat in its plastic bag. When he got home he took the fish to what he calls his gallery, a 35ft, purpose-built, atmosphere-controlled building that he constructed where a garage once stood, a few steps from the house he shares with his wife, Tanya, and their two children. He keeps between 300 and 500 freshwater fish in the gallery at any one time, in multiple tanks that he builds himself. He placed the fish, still in its bag, in his stingray tank to let it acclimatise to temperature, while he prepared it its own 15-gallon tank and thought about what to do. He knew that going public with a flowerhorn to his 300,000 or so subscribers would bring him into a debate that could get nasty; he would be seen to be taking a side.
On 23 February, Mullen made a video in which he revealed the flowerhorn to his viewers. He called the video "I HAD TO GET THIS FISH!!!" and invited them to give it a name by leaving suggestions in the comments section below. They came in thick and fast, from the grandiloquent: Titan, Genghis, Quasimodo, Ajax; to the cutesy: Bumpy, Plucky, Bubbles, Fruit Loop. Then Mullen's nine-year-old son, Darrius, asked him about the funny looking fish in the tank by itself. What kind was it? Why did it look that way? Mullen explained to him about the flowerhorn cichlid, that it is a living creature that has been designed by humans. "Oh, like Frankenstein?" said Darrius. "We should call him Frank."
it is not known exactly when humans started inventing animals, but the origins of the practice are certainly ancient. A painting on the tomb of the wealthy Egyptian official Nebamun, dating from 1350BC, once in Thebes and now in The British Museum, seems to show a chariot drawn by two mules: a cross between a male donkey and a female horse (although they might also be examples of the unsurprisingly lesser-known hinny: a female donkey mated with a male horse). In 1548, the Ming dynasty scholar Lang Ying described the people of Hangzhou exploiting a natural colour mutation in the crucian carp to breed dazzling "fire fish", or goldfish, for profit. Charles Darwin, in On the Origin of Species, quotes an historian from the court of Akbar the Great in India in the 17th century, where the pigeon-fancying monarch, "by crossing the breeds,
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Later in his book, Darwin makes a pointed note. "One of the most remarkable features in our domesticated races," he writes, "is that we see in them adaptation, not indeed to the animal's or plant's own good, but to man's use or fancy". Fish in particular have a history of being tinkered with for our viewing pleasure. Koi carp are descended from the black carp that were originally brought from China to Japan in 200BC, where by the 19th century rice farmers were selectively breeding and cross-breeding specimens with particularly colourful scales. The Siamese fighting fish, which appears in the wild as dull greenish-brown with short fins, has been selectively bred in captivity in astonishing varieties of purple, red, blue, orange and green, with tails that billow around them like matadors' capes.
Yet something about the flowerhorn is different. Its exact genetic origins are unclear, but it is thought to derive from cross-breeding multiple Central American cichlid species, including trimac, red devil, redhead, midas and parrot cichlids — the last already a man-made hybrid of disputed ancestry. Because the flowerhorn is artificially created, it is not treated with the zoological rigour of naturally occurring species: there are no text books about flowerhorn, and their names and classifications are invented by the people who breed and sell them. Nor are these individuals keen to share the precise lineage of their wares: if you create something spectacular you can sell it for more, so you keep the formula to yourself.
"Some of the features that they're breeding flowerhorn for are bizarre," says George Turner, professor of aquatic zoology at the University of Bangor and president of the British Cichlid Association. "Like the huge gelatinous head bulge they've got: it's a thing that's cropped up in natural wild cichlids from time to time, and it seems to be something that males develop to attract females. It's to show off that they can produce this extra ornament, a bit like a peacock's tail; that a particular male has got lots of spare nutrition, spare energy resources to burn, basically. It's like a flash car. It's a natural display characteristic of the male which has been exaggerated by line-breeding because some people think it looks attractive."
The flowerhorn trend has "exploded", says Turner, because it is "quite a conspicuous and flamboyant one. By hybridising them, by artificially selecting them, you produce things that are a one-of-a-kind. People have done this to other types of fish over the years. But you look at fancy goldfish: many of these things can hardly swim properly, they can't see where their food is, they probably don't have very happy lives."
In November last year, Practical Fishkeeping, "the UK's best-selling aquatics magazine", featured an eye-catching cover story. "Flowerhorns: Are you a LOVER or a HATER?" ran the headline, next to a picture of a red dragon, its one visible eye glaring, its huge nuchal hump partially obscuring the magazine's masthead. "It's the most contentious cichlid in the world," claimed the story that followed inside. "Mention the name in the wrong company and you'll prompt a hostile response."
"I had stick off the back of that from readers," says editor Nathan Hill. "You've got the purists who are very much about conserving blood lines and conserving species; the idea that these tainted bloodlines are floating around within the hobby is a real hazard for them. People said I shouldn't have run that feature and shouldn't have been putting that fish on a pedestal." (A last-minute intervention by his superiors spared Hill's more sensitive readers from his first choice of coverline: "Flowerhorns: Big KOK, even bigger ATTITUDE".)
The success of the flowerhorn, says Hill, is due to the characteristics of the cichlids from which they are derived. "Cichlids are incredibly diverse fish, and part of their success from an evolutionary point of view is that they are just genetic Plasticine: they will adapt so damn quickly." Even though they are freshwater fish, and therefore tend to evolve as distinct geographical varieties (unlike marine fish which can travel and mix across huge interlinked bodies of water), they are also sexually open-minded. "Cichlids will try and hump anything," says Hill. "You put an African cichlid and an American cichlid together and they'll probably try and have sex."
Hill wrote the story he says, because "it was taboo", and because he feels his duty is "literally just holding a mirror up to what's going on" in the fishkeeping world. Although exact numbers are hard to come by, on their regular visits to British fish stores, Hill and his team had started to see "flowerhorn appearing everywhere," even in shops that had previously refused to sell them. "When you return five or six years on, there are flowerhorn in stock: 'The general public are interested, they're not that bad…'"
The high-street aquatics stores, according to Hill, is where you can find "mainstream flowerhorn, not exactly premium lines. If you want the expensive flowerhorn you need to be connected, and you need the social media groups." When it comes to the good stuff, the flowerhorn trade, he says, "is a wholly online phenomenon".
after frank's arrival, joey mullen continued making his regular videos for his channel. In one he talked about breeding stingrays; in
another he visited a fellow YouTuber in Florida who has a channel devoted to goldfish. In a third, he unboxed the huge pump he'd bought for a 2,000-gallon tank he was constructing in his gallery. On 9 July, he uploaded a video in which he put Frank the flowerhorn into the now-completed 2,000-gallon tank alongside his most treasured fish, a blue base crossback Asian arowana. To his delight, the video started trending on YouTube. Before he knew it, it had become the number one trending video on the site – the first time Mullen had hit the trending page, and the first time an aquarium video had ever trended at all. It stayed at number one for two days.
When he read the comments below his videos, he started to notice something of a pattern. "I LOVE Frank so much. He's my favourite in the tank"; "I absolutely LOVE Frank! He's so charismatic and he brings so much personality to the tank"; "The flowerhorn is so cute and friendly"; "For some reason when you say Frank the flowerhorn it makes me so incredibly happy." Mullen's subscribers were into Frank in a big way. He had a hit on his hands.
Mullen is not tall, around 5ft 9ins, but he is powerfully built, with close-cropped hair and impressive biceps, which are shown to good advantage by the tight T-shirts he often models from the range of "King of DIY" or "DIY Fishkeeper" merchandise he designs and sells. His route to YouTube was circuitous, although given he is 36 years old and YouTube is 14, it could hardly have been a life-long dream.
He grew up in Ontario, in east-central Canada, but when he was nine his mother moved him and his two sisters back to her home province of Nova Scotia when her relationship with Mullen's father fell apart (his sisters both have different fathers, as does another sister, born 11 years later). There she fell into what Mullen calls "a wild lifestyle"; the family was forced to depend on welfare, and moved home whenever the rent was due.
Mullen didn't have nice clothes to wear to school, sometimes he wouldn't have lunch, and other kids would notice. Playground confrontations escalated into violence outside of school, then to arson, and even a home invasion (specifically, Mullen says, he broke a window of a house at 4am in a bid to coax the occupant outside to fight him). He enjoyed the adrenaline, the attention. It was like a sickness.
Because Mullen was under-age, the Canadian criminal justice system was relatively lenient. At first, he received just slaps on the wrist and fines, though after a while he was sentenced to spells of incarceration at juvenile detention centres. The charges started to get more serious: after one incident, in which he cut a man across the neck with a knife at a wedding reception, he felt relieved to have a potential attempted murder charge reduced to assault with a weapon. He also served two years of a four-year sentence for another charge, which he declines to detail and says he took for a friend.
He started to feel that this was the way his life would always be. He accepted it. He didn't care. In fact, he began to think, he might as well embrace it. Then one day in 2002, his thengirlfriend Tanya gave him some news. She'd noticed how calm Mullen seemed when he looked in the fish store, how it fascinated him that they were able to live that way, under the water. She'd bought him a fish tank.
That first 10 -gallon tank gave way to a bigger one, and a bigger one, and then more tanks. At the same time, something in Mullen, his internal moral compass perhaps, was slowly beginning to shift. He started to do regular jobs — at a gym, at an ice-cream factory; he pumped gas and packed groceries — to keep him from falling back into his old habits. He passed, with an 85 per cent average, his General Educational Development test, the equivalent of the high school diploma he hadn't attained as a teenager.
Six years later, he started to make videos of his fish. Just little updates, though at first he was scared to talk. He started to realise there was a community of people on YouTube just like him, and decided he should take it more seriously. He'd spend between 20 and 40 hours a week putting his videos together, and though his delivery was a little stilted, and he wouldn't necessarily get a lot of views, every time he posted a video of himself building a new tank he'd get validating comments: "Man, you're the DIY king!" or "You're the king of DIY at this!" He liked the name, so he ran with it.
When he got Frank the flowerhorn, another shift in the evolution of the King of DIY occurred. Talking about Frank for the first time, Mullen had been unable to hide his excitement. He'd smiled. He'd kidded around. He'd let his guard down. He'd shown a side of himself to his subscribers that they hadn't seen before. They seemed to like it: within two years his channel went from a few hundred thousand to 1.2m subscribers, making him the most popular fishkeeping hobbyist channel on YouTube.
Mullen and Frank became something of a cranky double act. Why, Mullen, wanted to know, were people so nuts about Frank? What about his other cool fish, like his beloved Asian arowana (who, in an attempt to win it more fans, Mullen also gave an anthropomorphic name: Buddy)? But no, it was always Frank, Frank, Frank, or, as it said in big blue letters on the specialedition T-shirt Mullen had made, "FRANK!"
Eventually, Mullen quit resisting. Why not give the people what they wanted? He bought Frank a girlfriend, a female red dragon flowerhorn, a nicer example of the breed than Frank himself. He named her Francine. He joked that if Frank and Francine had babies he'd sell them for Can$20,000 [£11,450] each, though he knew he never would. He set Frank up with his own Instagram account, @frank7chin, which accrued nearly 14,000 followers despite Frank not making a single post (Frank mostly used his account to troll Mullen).
There were other flowerhorn on Instagram: sometimes breeders advertising young fish to sell, sometimes people posting pictures of their particularly splendid-looking pets, or videos of them putting their hands in the tanks and stroking their flowerhorn's nuchal hump, as though they were tickling a puppy behind the ears. There were even a few celebrity flowerhorn (including two fake "Frank the Flowerhorn" accounts): there was Ripper in Missouri, Bango in Wisconsin, Silverado in Abu Dhabi and Junior in Mumbai. There was one in an aquarium shop in Morden, South London, called Psycho, whom people were encouraged to visit and pose with on "Psycho Saturdays". Another in Thailand made it onto the Mail Online after it was deemed to resemble a popular American rapper and given the nickname "Fishi Minaj".
Even though he didn't post anything on Instagram, Frank did use the platform to make a request to his fans. He asked that they respond to any other fish picture, anywhere online, with a simple comment: "#notfrank". Soon it was all over Instagram. #notfrank, #notfrank, #notfrank.
lisa bradshaw runs lbj aquatics from her family home in Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk, which she shares with her husband and three children and several dogs. LBJ Aquatics is a transhipping service that arranges the import of flowerhorn and Siamese fighting fish from breeders predominantly in Thailand and Indonesia. Every month or so, Bradshaw drives to Heathrow airport to collect around 200 flowerhorn, with a starting price of £160 for an AAA-grade fish, which she dispatches around the country. Before she does so she brings them to her house for a week or two to rest. She has a single-storey building in the back garden full of flowerhorn in tanks and Siamese fighting fish in clear-plastic cups and plastic bags, and 10 tanks stacked against the back wall of her small kitchen-cum-dining room, the pumps of which make a constant hum.
Initially, Siamese fighting fish attracted Bradshaw to the hobby. "I just had fish tanks with
the normal stuff you could get at the pet shop. But researching on Google, as you do, I'd seen amazing different varieties, half-moon ones, that were at the time very, very new. I didn't want your bog standard one at the pet shop, I wanted one of them." She found a woman who arranged transhipping and paid the requisite fee, but when the fish arrived they were different from the pictures, worse quality, and about half of them were dead. "So, I thought," says Bradshaw, "'I can do that.'"
She got an import licence and began arranging the sale of Siamese fighting fish (hybrid fish are subject to less stringent rules than many wild fish, which come under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). But one day, six years ago, a customer asked her to import him a flowerhorn. "He said they needed to rest for a couple of days in a tank; I said, 'I'll give it a go for you'. I'd never housed these before, it was a very new thing at the time. When they came in they were so beautiful to look at, so much personality, that I fell in love with them."
Bradshaw says she is "probably classed as the biggest importer of high-quality flowerhorn" in the UK, and she runs her business almost exclusively through Facebook. This, she says, concurring with Nathan Hill from Practical Fishkeeping, is where the bulk of flowerhorn trade happens. The biggest Facebook group, run by an organisation called the United Flowerhorn Association, has nearly 54,000 members, and it is through this that many sales take place (and, like so many closed Facebook groups, it's where shared opinions are reinforced and dissenters are unwelcome). Breeders predominantly in Southeast Asia post pictures or videos of available fish, which group members can then buy in private transactions, with a trans-shipper like Bradshaw arranging delivery if necessary. She used to have a website, "But you get five per cent of interest compared to what you get on Facebook or Instagram, so there's just no point, you know?"
Like Joey "The King of DIY" Mullen, Bradshaw is a flowerhorn autodidact and, like him, she had no choice. Because there are no text books, she has learned what she has needed to through the internet, and the proliferating varieties of flowerhorn are overwhelming: there are some with big nuchal humps, some with small; some with hard nuchal humps, some with soft; some fish that turn black when they're juvenile, and then change again into bright reds and yellows; some that are covered in iridescent pearls; some that are completely blue. There are tricks to making your flowerhorn look more impressive: showing them a mirror twice a day to increase their testosterone is said to increase the size of their nuchal humps, as is a high-protein diet. Some breeders are thought to feed the fish steroids to improve their colour.
There are plenty of low and average-grade flowerhorn in circulation, but there is also a higher-grade market for "masterpiece" or "VIP" fish, though it may take an expert to know the difference. "It's almost like a point-scoring system," says Bradshaw. "There's points for pearl, points for colour, points for shape, points for the head, points for the fin shape or tail shape." She mentions, as do others, one particularly rare fish, a "golden monkey", that was reputed to have sold at a Malaysian exhibition for $600,000 [£462,000], though it seems to be yet another tale drifting around the internet without any clear factual anchorage.
There are also endless new trends for Bradshaw to keep up with. Though the red dragon is still popular in China, she says, especially those whose "flowers" seem to resemble Chinese characters, for many of her customers it's all about pearling, particularly the new fine-pearled varieties emerging from Indonesia, or the hardy king kamfas, which are less playful than some other varieties but have a longer lifespan. There are now short-bodied varieties of flowerhorn, and even, though she doesn't have any in stock when I visit, a yet smaller type known as "bonsai". A new fish variety can thrive or fail according to the online community's response: "They developed a long-fin flowerhorn but no one liked it," says Bradshaw. "It was odd-looking."
Charles Darwin had his own ideas about the rate at which selective breeding could occur. "It seems clear," he wrote in On the Origin of Species, "that organic beings must be exposed during several generations to new conditions to cause any great amount of variation." But Darwin had not imagined what the evolution of inorganic computer software could do. The flowerhorn has been made popular by the internet but it has also been made by it, and in record time.
"It's played a huge role," says Bradshaw, "because if it wasn't for the internet, for Facebook and Instagram showing you these fish and promoting these fish, there wouldn't be the interest there, and the interest is what pushes the breeders to breed something even more amazing, even more colourful. The more amazing the fish becomes, the higher the price. The difference now to a flowerhorn five years ago, it's not comparable. From a very plain, basic, red fish, to what's now covered in pearls and bright yellows and reds and oranges, with thick pearls and thin pearls and square-block patterns… It's crazy how much they've come on in that short space of time, and that is from social media."
Then, of course, there is Darwin's other point, his underlying concern about "animals bred for man's use or fancy": what's in it for the fish?
"By definition, they have compressed vertebrae," says Hill. "Some of them are missing or lacking vertebrae because they come from parrot cichlids, and parrot cichlids are very stunted fish. Straightaway that would normally lead to difficulties with the swim bladder, balance issues can be rife and intestinal blockages, I understand, are quite a big problem because the whole gut area is compressed down. The jaw structure is out of kilter so they'll have real respirational difficulties on the back of that, because the mouth doesn't open and close properly. You'll also find other issues like the gill cover, which may be undersized or missing altogether, so the gills may be over-exposed and unable to transport oxygen over them. I'll be honest, they're a bit of a screw-up as fish go."
Professor George Turner has further concerns. Due to their fierce tendencies, flowerhorn usually have to be kept in tanks by themselves. "These sort of conditions that they're in are like solitary confinement in a glass box for the whole of your life, with nothing to do and no one to talk to," he says. "For goldfish, that probably doesn't matter because all they do is swim around and feed in a school, but for a cichlid, that has a complicated social behaviour, it's probably pretty bad."
Letting them roam free is certainly not a preferable option. There are unsubstantiated internet rumours of flowerhorn let loose into the Florida canals that have gone on to thrive, but there is also at least one scientifically rigorous example. In 2012, Aquatic Invasions, "the international journal of research on biological invasions in aquatic systems," published a study about flowerhorn in part of the Malili Lakes system in Indonesia; known as Wallace's Dreamponds, they take their name from Alfred Wallace, the British naturalist who did extensive fieldwork in the area and conceived of natural selection concurrently with, and independently of, Darwin. The study found that "hybridogenic 'flowerhorn' cichlids… were present all around the lake"; analysis of their stomach content proved them to be a danger to other native inhabitants. "We conclude that alien fish species pose both serious and diverse threats to the fauna of the Malili Lakes system," the study concluded. In a literal manifestation of their symbolic malevolence, flowerhorn were attacking one of the actual birthplaces of evolutionary biology.
Lisa Bradshaw knows that this risk is not one that her business poses. As a tropical fish, used to temperatures in the high 20s–30°C,
'THE MORE AMAZING THE FISH, THE HIGHER THE PRICE,' SAYS LISA BRADSHAW. 'THE DIFFERENCE
NOW TO A FLOWERHORN FIVE YEARS AGO,
IT'S NOT COMPARABLE'
a flowerhorn would not be able to survive in British waterways. Nor is she convinced that the demands of breeding are leading to shorter life spans. "I don't believe that for one minute," she says. "OK, I could go with that with the bonsai because you're shortening their body, you're squishing everything into a shorter package, so I could see that shortening their life, but with the standard body that is not the case."
Arguing is pointless anyway, Bradshaw knows. People who disapprove of flowerhorn are not going to be swayed easily. "Cichlid purists absolutely hate flowerhorn," she says. "They hate them. But then fish naturally hybridise in the wild as well. It's not necessarily unnatural. Not to this extent, because there are three or four different species in the different types of flowerhorn, rather than just two. But they're here now. They're not going anywhere."
it was on 15 september 2018 when Mullen noticed some unusual behaviour in Frank: he wouldn't eat. This wasn't unheard of in fish of his size, who can survive for a month or even six weeks without food; in a flowerhorn's case the nuchal hump is a fat reserve, like the hump of a camel. Mullen checked the temperature and chemical balance of the water but nothing seemed amiss.
Two weeks later, Frank started to appear listless. Mullen began changing his water daily, and offered him any suitable foods he could think of. He treated the tank for bacterial infection and parasites, and even bought a microscope to analyse Frank's faeces. Nothing made any difference.
The more things Mullen tried, the more he felt sure that his fears were coming true. One of the characteristics of Frank's breeding, his abnormal belly, his compacted gut, was catching up with him. Frank was only two years old and Mullen was pretty sure of his prognosis: he was terminal.
One day in late October when Mullen came into his gallery, Frank was facing head down with his lips touching the bottom of the tank. Mullen grabbed him and started running him through a stream of air bubbles to oxygenate his gills and continued doing so on and off for the whole day. But the next morning, 23 October 2018, Mullen came in to his gallery and found Frank floating at the top of the water, completely still. He buried him in the backyard.
At first he didn't feel that different, he was just worried about what his viewers would think. Anytime he announced the death of fish, certain commenters would accuse him of making mistakes, or not taking enough care; and this was Frank, for goodness sake. Finally, he worked up the courage to make a video. He called it "What Happened to Frank". He told his viewers what he had seen, what he had done, and what he thought they should know about flowerhorn: how they are created, and what can go wrong. After he posted that video, Frank's death finally hit him. Coming out to visit the gallery didn't feel the same. Making videos didn't feel the same. Nothing felt the same.
Being a YouTuber hadn't worked out quite the way Mullen expected. When he first started he was spending Can$2,000 [£1,150] a month and working all hours making videos that only a few thousand people watched. A few years in, Tanya got so sick of it that she took the kids and moved out temporarily, prompting Mullen to fall into a deep depression. She came back a few months later, and soon after Mullen took the plunge and became a YouTuber full-time. He also started making proper money: from ad revenue and sales of his book, The Ultimate DIY Handbook; for the DIY Aquarist, and by making live appearances at aquaria shows in North America. The travelling, however, took its toll. The moment he got on a plane he'd have anxiety attacks; it felt like his chest was collapsing. He'd smile and pose for photos with fans but inside he'd be saying, over and over, "I want to go home".
Life in the post-Frank era would be different, certainly. His popularity had taken everyone by surprise, not least Mullen himself. Mullen had never had a particular purpose or reason for doing what he was doing on YouTube; just like flowerhorn, he kept evolving with what everybody wanted. One day, not long after Frank's death, Mullen found himself in One Fish, Two Fish again, looking at a male red dragon that caught his attention. He bought it, brought it home, and introduced it to Francine. He posted a video of the new fish, pondering what he should name it. His viewers responded with suggestions right away – Fronk, Tank, Franklin, Frank Jr, Frank 2 – and finally Mullen understood.
A couple of months later, he took Francine and her new boyfriend back to One Fish, Two Fish, his not-so-local fish store, and left them there. The store was pleased to have them: as Frank's ex, Francine was something of a celebrity in her own right and would attract customers. She had also by now reached sexual maturity and, happily, the pair had not killed each other; not long after, Mullen heard that Francine had laid eggs and the male flowerhorn had fertilised them. Soon there would be 200, maybe 300, flowerhorn fry at the store to be raised and sold and shipped off around the country. Mullen was pleased, but he was not tempted to take any of them home himself. The tiny new fish were a part of his story, a coda perhaps, but they were #notfrank.
A male 'red dragon' flowerhorn cichlid, with enlarged nuchal hump and distinctive markings
A 'golden monkey' variant was rumoured to have fetched hundreds of thousands at auction


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Q: Trying to center a page with images that bleed off the page on either side I am an HTML/CSS novice and am trying to build a website for my wedding next year. On the main page here I have identical ribbon images on either side of my main div. What I want to happen is that the site remains centered no matter the screen resolution (showing more or less of the ribbons on either side depending on the resolution). It seems to work for the left ribbon but the right does not want to cooperate. The issue is particularly bad on iPads where the entire site appears left justified and the entire right ribbon is visible.
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The UK investigation into the tragic holiday deaths of popular Burnley couple John and Susan Cooper could take several months, a senior coroner has warned.
Post mortems were carried out in this country on Thursday.
The well-known and devoted pair died on August 21st while staying at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada.
Dr James Adeley, senior coroner for Lancashire, said: "In view of the concerns raised by this case, analysis and evaluation of the findings at post-mortem and the associated samples may take some weeks or possibly several months to analyse.
"These results will need to be compared with the findings from the Egyptian investigation, when these are available to the Home Office pathologist and the coroner."
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Rafał Łukaszyk (ur. 2 grudnia 1988 r. w Zamościu) – polski strzelec specjalizujący się w strzelaniu z karabinu, srebrny medalista mistrzostw Europy juniorów.

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Rafał pochodzi z Zamościa. Skończył tam II Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Marii Konopnickiej, po czym zaczął studiować w Uniwersytecie Technologiczno-Przyrodniczym w Bydgoszczy.

W 2007 roku zdobył srebrny medal mistrzostw Europy rozegranych w Deauville w konkurencji karabinu pneumatycznego juniorów.

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Polscy strzelcy
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Thanks for filling me in on how Sam's doing at school. I'm glad he's enjoying it and making friends. I wouldn't worry too much at this stage that he takes a while to get round to things and that he has to be encouraged to be more verbose in his responses - there's every chance he'll come into his own soon. Hopefully it won't always take him a day and a half to think of something to report about his weekend, especially if all he can eventually manage is, 'I watched TV.' (That can't reflect well on your parenting style...) Although, since I only received your Christmas card this morning and it was signed 'Dave, Liz, etc.', I should probably point out that sometimes we get the kids we deserve.
For myself, I can't really complain too much that my boys don't want to leave the house, are allergic to new experiences and love to talk about computer games at length. Given my own inclinations, I shouldn't have expected much else. Whether it's nature or nurture, they've got it from me.
In The Little Mermaid 2 roles get reversed. Ariel goes from being an adventurous teenage mermaid who wants to explore the shore, despite being forbidden by her protective dad, to being a protective mum who forbids her own adventurous teenager from exploring the sea. You can almost hear grandparents everywhere chortling at the poetic justice.
By looking at ourselves, we can understand our children better.
We'd had a secondhand three-seater sofa delivered that day to replace our old bed-settee because, since we don't need the bed anymore, we thought it would be nice to have something a little firmer to actually sit on. (We're getting old.) The people were supposed to deliver the sofa and take the settee to sell.
Except it turned out that the settee didn't have a fire-safety label on the mattress. I'm sure it had one originally but it must have fallen off back in the mists of time. The upshot was that they refused to take the settee away. As Lewis was rather attached to it, I suppose this was ultimately for the best but it did leave us with a three-seater sofa, a two-seater sofa, an armchair and a three-seater settee in our not awfully large lounge. As things stood, drawing the curtains would have involved airborne gymnastics.
I spent half an hour shuffling furniture and children to make everything kind of fit. It was like one of those tile-sliding puzzles but much heavier and more argumentative.
After tea, Marie wanted to watch Little Mermaid 2 in the lounge.
"Lewis is playing the Wii in there," I said. "You can watch the film in Fraser's room."
We went upstairs, I put the film into the flickery portable TV/video combi and she sat down in front of it. Then she insisted I stayed to cuddle her during the scary bits. I sat down next to her.
A minute later, Lewis came through and started to watch.
"I thought you were playing the Wii," I said.
"Nah, I was building a tower with sofa cushions. It's very tall."
"I bet," I sighed. "Are you wanting to watch the film too? If you're not playing the Wii, we can put the film on in the lounge."
"But it's Fraser's turn to play the Wii."
"He'll want to play the Wii when he's finished," said Lewis, mesmerised by mermaids, and sat down next to me.
Five minutes after that, Fraser came to find us. "Why aren't you playing the Wii, Lewis?" he grumbled. "I was giving you extra time."
"It's your turn," Lewis replied, eyes remaining glued to the TV.
"You could have still played."
Fraser started to say something else but got distracted by animated fish. He stood there for a bit, then sat down next to Lewis.
So, to recap, despite having three sofas between the four of us in the lounge and the potential to create our own cinema, we were all sitting on the floor in Fraser's room, watching a 14-inch telly showing a picture from a VHS player with dodgy tracking.
I considered suggesting we go through to the other room but I knew my kids would only moan and complain. They're resistant to change and can't be bothered to move if they don't have to.
Then I decided that thinking about it was too much effort and it would be far easier simply to lie back and think of Mrs Incredible.
PS I thought Marie was immune to the computer games, preferring to jump about and do craftwork (sometimes at the same time). She's got into the educational games on her Leapster recently, though, and keeps squeaking excitedly about the new levels she's unlocked. Worse, she's not content with merely talking about her achievements - every so often she demands to make a greetings card about them to give to Mummy when she gets home.
Adding glitter to the witter is taking things to a whole new level that I'm not sure even I deserve.
The other day, Marie also demanded that I stand by the front door with the card in hand. I complied until I discovered she wanted me to stay there, waiting to present it to Mummy as soon as she arrived. Since Sarah wasn't due in for another couple of hours, I wasn't hugely impressed and suggested that leaving the card on the kitchen table would be a better plan.
"No, Daddy. I'll stand behind you and tell you when you're standing wrong."
Two hours of being criticised about my posture by a four-year-old definitely wasn't on. I handed her the card and told her to give it to Mummy herself. She whined about it, then took up watch, waiting eagerly for the return of her favourite parent.
I went and made myself a coffee.
Two minutes later Marie came through to the kitchen and put the card down. "Maybe your idea to leave it on the table was a good idea," she said. "I'm going to go play on my Leapster."
Hee! That card is the funniest thing I've seen in a while.
Jen - If you liked that, you'll love Swansea Council's Welsh roadsigns.
HaHahaha! LOVE the welsh road signs. I had to read the article to the Husband, I was so tickled by it.


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The collection of the museum housed in Vila Verde de Ficalho's Old São Jorge Church - a building from the second half of the sixteenth century - is divided into three main groups: archaeology, ethnography and sacred art.
THE ENTRANCE IS THROUGH LARGO DA IGREJA
down a path that leads to the gate. Once inside, we find a set of archaeological remains that, although apparently modest, is of the greatest historical relevance, for what it allows us to learn about the archaic settlements in this territory and the evolution of the beliefs and habits of the populations.
This archaeological centre includes materials that range from the Palaeolithic to the beginning of the twentieth century, coming from excavations and superficial finds made in the parish. The space surrounding the museum-church comprises vestiges from various times, from the late Neolithic to the fifteenth century. The remains of a Paleo-Christian basilica, with its baptistery and several in situ graves (on the pavement of the naves and annexes), are especially significant.
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The ethnographic collection integrates objects and agricultural tools related to the activities of the people of Ficalho, a collection put together with the specific intention of preserving those items and that may be the starting point for other spaces and types of exhibition.
The sacred art collection includes objects and religious implements from the São Jorge church (a neoclassical building located a few meters away from this centre and the locality's mother church) and the Nossa Senhora das Pazes chapel (a small chapel about two kilometres out of town, in the direction of the Chança river), as well as other pieces donated by private individuals. In the church building are especially interesting the vestiges of the fresco vegetal patterns decoration in the east façade, from the eighteenth century, and the reuse of Roman marble stones, both in the pulpit and in the church's pavement.
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Q: Get request.params via an html form? This question title was edited. The original title was "How can I submit a string in a form and have it applied as a request parameter in the url?".

Think of a simple server where a string is received as a route parameter, e.g. with localhost:3000/hello it serves a page containing 'hello'.
This is easily implemented, here is a simple express server doing that:
var express = require("express");
var app = express();

app.get("/:string", function(req, res) {
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app.listen(3000);

Is it possible to supply the string via a form?

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*Assigning a value to req.params via an html form is not inherently feasible.
Forms assign values easily to req.query instead.

*Definitions for req,params and req.query described in Express 4.x API Reference:

req.params
This property is an object containing properties mapped to the named route "parameters". For example, if you have the route /user/:name, then the "name" property is available as req.params.name. This object defaults to {}.
req.query
This property is an object containing a property for each query string parameter in the route. If there is no query string, it is the empty object, {}.

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*Arjan's answer in this question cites hidden type inputs which could be helpful in certain use cases.


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Guide to Wrist Pain After a Car Accident: Causes, Symptoms, and Your Options
If you experience wrist pain after a car accident that was of little or no fault of your own, you have legal options in the state of West Virginia. With the help of a trusted auto accident attorney, drivers and passengers who have suffered wrist injuries in a motor vehicle collision can file a personal injury claim against the at-fault driver's insurance company.
An attorney may also work with accident victims to file a lawsuit against a negligent driver. Taking legal action is the most efficient way to ensure you receive fair compensation for your collision injuries. If wrist pain has begun to negatively impact the mental, physical, and financial well-being of yourself or your passengers, do not hesitate to contact a car accident attorney at The Miley Legal Group.
If you are suffering from wrist pain after a car accident, first, you must learn about the source of your discomfort. Then, look at the required medical care for your wrist injury and how a personal injury attorney can help fight for the compensation necessary for medical expenses and pain and suffering.
Common Causes of Hand Injuries
After a car accident, hand and wrist pain are very common for both drivers and passengers. For drivers, hand injuries are typically caused by tightly gripping the steering wheel when bracing for impact. When the hand clenches onto the steering wheel, the energy of the car crash is directed straight into the hand and wrist on impact.
Another common cause of hand injuries for drivers and passengers is blunt force trauma from striking something inside the vehicle. The force of impact during an accident can shift an occupant forward, backward, or sideways. The hand and wrist may forcefully come into contact with part of the automobile, including the:
Side door or window
Hand and Wrist Anatomy: Figuring Out What's Actually Hurting
There are 27 bones in the hand and wrist. With 14 finger bones, 13 bones that extend from the palm to the wrist, and a network of soft tissue and joints that connect them, it can be challenging to tell the exact cause of wrist pain after a car accident. Consider the anatomy of both structures to better understand where your injury might be located, and visit a medical professional to know for sure.
Anatomy of the Hand
The hand is primarily composed of 14 finger bones, medically known as phalanges. Phalanges are connected to the inside of the palm by five bones called metacarpals. There are eight other bones inside the palm called carpals, which connect the hand to the wrist.
There are 27 joints in the hand connected by bands of soft tissue called ligaments. In addition to ligaments, soft tissues called tendons keep the rest of the hand bones together and connect muscles to bones. The hand is also home to a web of nerves, which communicate with the brain to dictate movement.
Anatomy of the Wrist
The eight carpal bones of the hand are joined by two arm bones, the radius and ulna, to form the wrist. There are three wrist joints: the radiocarpal joint, ulnocarpal joint, and distal radioulnar joint. Thick bands of ligament support these joints, protecting the flow of nerve communication between the brain, arm, and hand.
The location where ligaments, bones, and nerves meet at the base of the wrist is called the carpal tunnel. This narrow space houses a crucial nerve called the median nerve. The median nerve communicates with the brain to directly control the movement of the hand and forearm.
Symptoms Associated with Hand Injuries
If you believe your hand or wrist pain after a car accident is a sign of an injury, be mindful of the following symptoms:
Limited grip strength
Inability to form a fist
Discoloration or bruising
Warmth in the fingers, hands, or wrist
Burning or tingling in the hand or wrist
Trouble moving, flexing, or straightening the fingers or wrist
Hand and wrist injuries may not always present symptoms immediately after a car crash. If you're experiencing pain, soreness, or swelling, seek immediate medical attention to learn if you've sustained one of the below hand and wrist injuries.
Common Hand and Wrist Injuries After a Car Accident
The blunt trauma of a car accident can crush or damage any of the structures in the hand and wrist. To better understand the kind of damage you've sustained in a car crash, hand and wrist injuries are categorized as either soft tissue injuries or bone injuries.
Soft-Tissue Injuries
The hand and wrist anatomy are primarily composed of soft tissues, including ligaments, tendons, and muscles. A car crash can cause puncture wounds, abrasions, and lacerations to the skin, creating a deep cut into the soft tissues. These punctures can be visibly noticed after an accident; however, a medical professional must diagnose the following soft tissue injuries.
Wrist Sprains
A wrist sprain occurs when the ligaments connecting two bones at a joint are stretched or torn. When the wrist is thrown against a hard object or bent at an unnatural angle, it can destabilize the wrist and cause loss of function, swelling, and pain at the injury site. After an auto accident, wrist sprains are categorized as Grade Three, Two, or One based on the severity.
Grade Three: The most severe sprain resulting from a completely torn ligament. This degree of a sprain may pull away small pieces of bone, causing an avulsion fracture. Medical or surgical intervention is necessary to heal this degree of damage.
Grade Two: A moderate sprain resulting from partial ligament tears. Possible loss of function may occur at this degree of damage.
Grade One: A mild sprain resulting from ligaments that stretch but do not tear. The injury site may experience stiffness and swelling but will not suffer any loss of function.
Inflamed Ligaments
The trauma caused by a car accident can damage the carpal tunnel where ligaments, bones, and nerves meet. Both severe inflammation and scar tissue from wrist injuries can press against the median nerve. When the median nerve is compressed, it may cause carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). CTS can create symptoms of tingling or numbness in the fingers and hands and drastically reduce grip strength and overall function.
Damage to Tendons
Tendons are responsible for connecting bone to muscle. The trauma of a motor vehicle collision can damage the tendons in the hand and wrist, causing tendonitis. Tendonitis is a painful inflammation of the tendons that causes swelling, stiffness, and reduced range of motion.
Fractures & Bone Injuries
A motor vehicle accident can partially or entirely break any bone in the hand and wrist. For example, a broken phalanx is a type of hand fracture in a finger bone. A carpal bone fracture is a wrist fracture in the bone that connects the hand to the wrist.
Also common after car accidents is a broken wrist, medically known as a scaphoid fracture. A distal radius fracture, which is a break in the larger bone of the forearm, is another common blunt trauma injury.
Dislocated Joints and Bones
Any of the 27 bones and joints in the hand and wrist can become dislocated from the force of impact in a car accident. When a bone is dislocated, it moves out of its respective place within the anatomy. A dislocated bone or joint can cause severe pain at the injury site, numbness, and loss of function.
Treating Hand & Wrist Injuries
Treatment for hand and wrist injuries after a car accident begins with an accurate diagnosis. A medical professional can complete X-rays or an MRI scan to diagnose the injury. Once accurately diagnosed, a few common treatments for a hand and wrist injury include:
Resting the area for 72 hours or more
Using a hot compress to soothe irritated nerves
Applying ice to the injury to reduce inflammation
Beginning a regimen of anti-inflammatory and pain medication
Wearing a medical brace, cast, or splint to restabilize bones
Receiving surgery to repair torn tissue or shattered bone
After an accident, one of the most important steps to take is to visit a doctor, even if you don't think you've been seriously injured. Some injuries may be delayed and put you at risk of permanent damage if they aren't caught early. If you're experiencing hand or wrist pain after a car accident, visit a hospital or your primary physician to discover if you've been injured and begin a treatment protocol.
What Can Hiring an Injury Lawyer Do For You
After sustaining a hand or wrist injury in a collision, West Virginia allows victims to file a personal injury lawsuit against the at-fault driver. However, dealing with the insurance company and calculating the total from an accident can be daunting.
A personal injury attorney works alongside car accident victims to quantify damages like past and future medical bills, lost wages, and property damage to ensure the injured party receives fair compensation. An attorney can negotiate with the insurance company on your behalf and file a lawsuit against the negligent driver when necessary. Do not face the weight of medical expenses, lost wages, and pain and suffering alone. If you've been injured in a car accident, contact the attorneys at The Miley Legal Group today. We are ready to fight for your right to compensation, so you can focus on what's most important, your healing.
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