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Restoring a sense of wellness following colorectal cancer: a grounded theory
Version of Record online: 5 SEP 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05820.x
© 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Volume 68, Issue 5, pages 1134–1144, May 2012
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How to Cite
Beech, N., Arber, A. and Faithfull, S. (2012), Restoring a sense of wellness following colorectal cancer: a grounded theory. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 68: 1134–1144. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05820.x
Publication History
- Issue online: 22 MAR 2012
- Version of Record online: 5 SEP 2011
- Accepted for publication 23 July 2011
- Abstract
- Article
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- colorectal cancer;
- grounded theory;
- nursing;
- recovery;
- surgery
beech n., arber a. & faithfull s. (2011) Restoring a sense of wellness following colorectal cancer: a grounded theory. Journal of Advanced Nursing 68(5), 1134–1144.
Aim. This paper reports a study to develop a grounded theory to explain the experience of recovery following surgery for colorectal cancer.
Background. Studies have adopted a biomedical framework to measure quality of life and symptom distress following surgery for colorectal cancer. These studies suggest that symptoms of pain, insomnia and fatigue, may persist for many months following treatment. Fewer studies have considered the individual's experiences and perspective of the emotional, social and cultural aspects of recovery.
Methods. A longitudinal study using grounded theory was conducted with 12 individuals, who had received surgery for colorectal cancer. Semi-structured interviews were conducted at four time points over 1 year following surgery, between 2007 and 2009. Grounded theory analysis was undertaken using Strauss and Corbin's framework.
Findings. Recovery is described in three phases: disrupting the self; repairing the self; restoring the self. The core category is Restoring a sense of wellness; fostered through awareness and enjoyment of the physical, emotional, spiritual and social aspects of life. A sense of wellness exists as a duality with a sense of illness, where both perspectives may co-exist but one usually takes precedence. A sense of illness pervades when the individual is preoccupied with illness and the illness continues to disrupt their daily life.
Conclusion. Recovery takes time and energy, particularly when the individual is at home and in relative isolation from health professionals. Opportunities exist for nurses to provide information and support to facilitate the individual in their progress towards achieving a sense of wellness.

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The effects of forestry on carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in boreal forests
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As compared to natural forests, managed boreal forests are younger, more homogeneous in terms of tree age and species composition, and consist of smaller fragments. Here we examine the effects of such characteristics caused by forestry on carabid beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the boreal region. The main results are the following. (1) Fragmentation of forests and the size of a fragment appear not to be crucial for the survival of the majority of forest carabids, as they tend to be distributed over various successional stages, but species requiring old-growth habitats suffer. (2) For carabids there appear to be no or very few edge specialist species, and forest-open land edges appear to be effective barriers for species associated with forest or open habitat. However, generalist species easily cross the edge, and edges of forest fragments may be invaded by species from the surrounding open habitat. (3) Habitat change following clear-cutting dramatically changes the composition of carabid assemblages: species restricted to mature forests disappear and open-habitat species invade, while habitat generalists survive at least in the short term. Carabid diversity can probably best be maintained if forest management mimics natural processes, maintains natural structures and includes the natural composition of vegetation and other structural elements (such as dead wood) within the stands, provided that these forest features can be maintained and recreated through forest management practices. At a larger scale, the whole spectrum of forest types and ages (especially old-growth forests), and different successional processes (especially fire) should be maintained. These require the development and use of innovative logging methods, and the planning, implementation, and assessment of landscape-scale ecological management strategies.
KeywordsCarabidae Forest management Boreal forests
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- The effects of forestry on carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in boreal forests
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Journal of Insect Conservation
Volume 11, Issue 1 , pp 5-18
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- Forest management
- Boreal forests
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- Jari Niemelä (1)
- Matti Koivula (2)
- D. Johan Kotze (1)
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- 1. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 65, Viikinkaari 1, FI-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland
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|1 Tablespoon
|Beef cubes
|1⁄2 Pound
|Canned whole tomatoes
|14 1⁄2 Ounce, undrained (1 Can)
|Mushroom soup mix
|1 Cup (16 tbs) (Lipton)
|3 Cup (48 tbs)
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|1 Medium, cut in to chunks
|Stalk celery
|1 Large, cut into pieces
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs), sliced
|Green beans
|1 Cup (16 tbs), sliced
|Canned chickpeas/Garbanzo
|20 Ounce, drained (1 Can)
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs), sliced
|Elbow macaroni
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs), uncooked
1. In a large Dutch oven or stock pot, heat the oil over a medium flame.
2. When the oil is hot but not smoking, add the beef cubes and sauté till well browned on all sides.
3. To the beef, add the tomatoes, soup mix, water and oregano. Stir to blend well.
4. Reduce the flame and simmer the soup for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
5. Further add diced onion, celery pieces, carrot and bean slices.
6. Continue simmering for another 30 minutes, stirring often until the vegetables are almost cooked.
7. Finally add the garbanzos, sliced zucchini and macaroni and simmer for 15 minutes till macaroni is cooked and vegetables are tender. Check meat for doneness as well.
8. Taste the soup for seasoning and adjust to your liking.
9. Dish the soup into a large tureen or ladle into individual deep dish soup plates.
10. Garnish the soup with grated Parmesan cheese if you like.
11. Serve the soup with ciabata or crusty bread if desired.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 291 Calories from Fat 48
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 7 g10.2%
Saturated Fat 1.9 g9.4%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 1.5 mg0.5%
Sodium 9464.7 mg394.4%
Total Carbohydrates 45 g15%
Dietary Fiber 7.5 g30.1%
Sugars 9.2 g
Protein 15 g29.5%
Vitamin A 47.3% Vitamin C 25.4%
Calcium 9.7% Iron 18.6%
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful:I'll Return Your Name. :3People say it has a slow pace, but thats not necessarily true. I find this one better than one of the Monster of the Week anime shows because it sometimes introduces new characters, goes through daily life problems, and the music that goes along with it matches. This anime really is relaxing, although the animation seems kind of weird in the beginning you'll get used to it. The character's ...Read more
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Israel's air strike on northern Syria earlier this month should be understood in the context of events unfolding since its assault last summer on neighbouring Lebanon. Although little more than rumours have been offered about what took place, one strategic forecasting group, Stratfor, still concluded: "Something important happened."
From the leaks so far, it seems that more than half a dozen Israeli warplanes violated Syrian airspace to drop munitions on a site close to the border with Turkey. We also know from the US media that the "something" occurred in close coordination with the White House. But what was the purpose and significance of the attack?
It is worth recalling that, in the wake of Israel's month-long war against Lebanon a year ago, a prominent American neoconservative, Meyrav Wurmser, wife of Vice-President Dick Cheney's recently departed Middle East adviser, explained that the war had dragged on because the White House delayed in imposing a ceasefire. The neocons, she said, wanted to give Israel the time and space to expand the attack to Damascus.
The reasoning was simple: before an attack on Iran could be countenanced, Hizbullah in Lebanon had to be destroyed and Syria at the very least cowed. The plan was to isolate Tehran on these two other hostile fronts before going in for the kill.
But faced with constant rocket fire from Hizbullah last summer, Israel's public and military nerves frayed at the first hurdle. Instead Israel and the US were forced to settle for a Security Council resolution rather than a decisive military victory.
The immediate fallout of the failed attack was an apparent waning of neocon influence. The group's programme of "creative destruction" in the Middle East — the encouragement of regional civil war and the partition of large states that threaten Israel — was at risk of being shunted aside.
Instead the "pragmatists" in the Bush Administration, led by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the new Defence Secretary Robert Gates, demanded a change of tack. The standoff reached a head in late 2006 when oilman James Baker and his Iraq Study Group began lobbying for a gradual withdrawal from Iraq — presumably only after a dictator, this one more reliable, had again been installed in Baghdad. It looked as if the neocons' day in the sun had finally passed.
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Israel's leadership understood the gravity of the moment. In January 2007 the Herzliya conference, an annual festival of strategy-making, invited no less than 40 Washington opinion-formers to join the usual throng of Israeli politicians, generals, journalists and academics. For a week the Israeli and American delegates spoke as one: Iran and its presumed proxy, Hizbullah, were bent on the genocidal destruction of Israel. Tehran's development of a nuclear programme — whether for civilian use, as Iran argues, or for military use, as the US and Israel claim — had to be stopped at all costs.
While the White House turned uncharacteristically quiet all spring and summer about what it planned to do next, rumours that Israel was pondering a go-it-alone strike against Iran grew noisier by the day. Ex-Mossad officers warned of an inevitable third world war, Israeli military intelligence advised that Iran was only months away from the point of no return on developing a nuclear warhead, prominent leaks in sympathetic media revealed bombing runs to Gibraltar, and Israel started upping the pressure on several tens of thousands of Jews in Tehran to flee their homes and come to Israel.
While Western analysts opined that an attack on Iran was growing unlikely, Israel's neighbours watched nervously through the first half of the year as the vague impression of a regional war came ever more sharply into focus. In particular Syria, after witnessing the whirlwind of savagery unleashed against Lebanon last summer, feared it was next in line in the US-Israeli campaign to break Tehran's network of regional alliances. It deduced, probably correctly, that neither the US nor Israel would dare attack Iran without first clobbering Hizbullah and Damascus.
For some time Syria had been left in no doubt of the mood in Washington. It failed to end its pariah status in the post-9/11 period, despite helping the CIA with intelligence on al-Qaeda and secretly trying to make peace with Israel over the running sore of the occupied Golan Heights. It was rebuffed at every turn.
So as the clouds of war grew darker in the spring, Syria responded as might be expected. It went to the arms market in Moscow and bought up the displays of anti-aircraft missiles as well as anti-tank weapons of the kind Hizbullah demonstrated last summer were so effective at repelling Israel's planned ground invasion of south Lebanon.
As the renowned Israeli military historian Martin van Creveld reluctantly conceded earlier this year, US policy was forcing Damascus to remain within Iran's uncomfortable embrace: "Syrian President Bashar al-Assad finds himself more dependent on his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, than perhaps he would like."
Israel, never missing an opportunity to wilfully misrepresent the behaviour of an enemy, called the Syrian military build-up proof of Damascus' appetite for war. Apparently fearful that Syria might initiate a war by mistaking the signals from Israel as evidence of aggressive intentions, the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, urged Syria to avoid a "miscalculation". The Israeli public spent the summer braced for a far more dangerous repeat of last summer's war along the northern border.
It was at this point — with tensions simmeringly hot — that Israel launched its strike, sending several fighter planes into Syria on a lightning mission to hit a site near Dayr a-Zawr. As Syria itself broke the news of the attack, Israeli generals were shown on TV toasting in the Jewish new year but refusing to comment.
Details have remained thin on the ground ever since: Israel imposed a news blackout that has been strictly enforced by the country's military censor. Instead it has been left to the Western media to speculate on what occurred.
One point that none of the pundits and analysts have noted was that, in attacking Syria, Israel committed a blatant act of aggression against its northern neighbour of the kind denounced as the "supreme international crime" by the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal.
Also, no one pointed out the obvious double standard applied to Israel's attack on Syria compared to the far less significant violation of Israeli sovereignty by Hizbullah a year earlier, when the Shia militia captured two Israel soldiers at a border post and killed three more. Hizbullah's act was widely accepted as justification for the bombardment and destruction of much of Lebanon, even if a few sensitive souls agonised over whether Israel's response was "disproportionate". Would these commentators now approve of similar retaliation by Syria?
The question was doubtless considered unimportant because it was clear from Western coverage that no one — including the Israeli leadership — believed Syria was in a position to respond militarily to Israel's attack. Olmert's fear of a Syrian "miscalculation" evaporated the moment Israel did the maths for Damascus.
So what did Israel hope to achieve with its aerial strike?
The stories emerging from the less gagged American media suggest two scenarios. The first is that Israel targeted Iranian supplies passing through Syria on their way to Hizbullah; the second that Israel struck at a fledgling Syrian nuclear plant where materials from North Korea were being offloaded, possibly as part of a joint nuclear effort by Damascus and Tehran.
(Speculation that Israel was testing Syria's anti-aircraft defences in preparation for an attack on Iran ignores the fact that the Israeli air force would almost certainly choose a flightpath through friendlier Jordanian airspace.)
How credible are these two scenarios?
The nuclear claims against Damascus were discounted so quickly by experts of the region that Washington was soon downgrading the accusation to claims that Syria was only hiding the material on North Korea's behalf. But why would Syria, already hounded by Israel and the US, provide such a readymade pretext for still harsher treatment? Why, equally, would North Korea undermine its hard-won disarmament deal with the US? And why, if Syria were covertly engaging in nuclear mischief, did it alert the world to the fact by revealing the Israeli air strike?
The other justification for the attack was at least based in a more credible reality: Damascus, Hizbullah and Iran undoubtedly do share some military resources. But their alliance should be seen as the kind of defensive pact needed by vulnerable actors in a Sunni-dominated region where the US wants unlimited control of Gulf oil and supports only those repressive regimes that cooperate on its terms. All three are keenly aware that it is Israel's job to threaten and punish any regimes that fail to toe the line.
Contrary to the impression being created in the West, genocidal hatred of Israel and Jews, however often Ahmadinejad's speeches are mistranslated, is not the engine of these countries' alliance.
Nonetheless, the political significance of the justifications for the the Israeli air strike is that both neatly tie together various strands of an argument needed by the neocons and Israel in making their case for an attack on Iran before Bush leaves office in early 2009. Each scenario suggests a Shia "axis of evil", coordinated by Iran, that is actively plotting Israel's destruction. And each story offers the pretext for an attack on Syria as a prelude to a pre-emptive strike against Tehran — launched either by Washington or Tel Aviv — to save Israel.
That these stories appear to have been planted in the American media by neocon masters of spin like John Bolton is warning enough — as is the admission that the only evidence for Syrian malfeasance is Israeli "intelligence", the basis of which cannot be questioned as Israel is not officially admitting the attack.
It should hardly need pointing out that we are again in a hall of mirrors, as we were during the period leading up to America's invasion of Iraq and have been during its subsequent occupation.
Bush's "war on terror" was originally justified with the convenient and manufactured links between Iraq and al-Qaeda, as well as, of course, those WMDs that, it later turned out, had been destroyed more than a decade earlier. But ever since Tehran has invariably been the ultimate target of these improbable confections.
There were the forged documents proving both that Iraq had imported enriched uranium from Niger to manufacture nuclear warheads and that it was sharing its nuclear know-how with Iran. And as Iraq fell apart, neocon ideologues like Michael Ledeen lost no time in spreading rumours that the missing nuclear arsenal could still be accounted for: Iranian agents had simply smuggled it out of Iraq during the chaos of the US invasion.
Since then our media have proved that they have no less of an appetite for such preposterous tales. If Iran's involvement in stirring up its fellow Shia in Iraq against the US occupation is at least possible, the same cannot be said of the regular White House claims that Tehran is behind the Sunni-led insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan. A few months ago the news media served up "revelations" that Iran was secretly conspiring with al-Qaeda and Iraq's Sunni militias to oust the US occupiers.
So what purpose does the constant innuendo against Tehran serve?
The latest accusations should be seen as an example of Israel and the neocons "creating their own reality", as one Bush adviser famously observed of the neocon philosophy of power. The more that Hizbullah, Syria and Iran are menaced by Israel, the more they are forced to huddle together and behave in ways to protect themselves — such as arming — that can be portrayed as a "genocidal" threat to Israel and world order.
Van Creveld once observed that Tehran would be "crazy" not to develop nuclear weapons given the clear trajectory of Israeli and US machinations to overthrow the regime. So equally Syria cannot afford to jettison its alliance with Iran or its involvement with Hizbullah. In the current reality, these connections are the only power it has to deter an attack or force the US and Israel to negotiate.
But they are also the evidence needed by Israel and the neocons to convict Syria and Iran in the court of Washington opinion. The attack on Syria is part of a clever hustle, one designed to vanquish or bypass the doubters in the Bush Administration, both by proving Syria's culpability and by provoking it to respond.
Condoleezza Rice, it emerged at the weekend, wants to invite Syria to attend the regional peace conference that has been called by President Bush for November. There can be no doubt that such an act of détente is deeply opposed by both Israel and the neocons. It reverses their strategy of implicating Damascus in the "Shia arc of extremism" and of paving the way to an attack on the real target: Iran.
Syria, meanwhile, is fighting back, as it has been for some time, with the only means available: the diplomatic offensive. For two years Bashar al-Assad has been offering a generous peace deal to Israel on the Golan Heights that Tel Aviv has refused to consider. This week, Syria made a further gesture towards peace with an offer on another piece of territory occupied by Israel, the Shebaa Farms. Under the plan, the Farms — which the United Nations now agrees belongs to Lebanon, but which Israel still claims is Syrian and cannot be returned until there is a deal on the Golan Heights — would be transferred to UN custody until the dispute over its sovereignty can be resolved.
Were either of Damascus' initiatives to be pursued, the region might be looking forward to a period of relative calm and security. Which is reason enough why Israel and the neocons are so bitterly opposed. Instead they must establish a new reality — one in which the forces of "creative destruction" so beloved of the neocons engulf yet more of the region. For the rest of us, a simpler vocabulary suffices. What is being sold is catastrophe.
Jonathan Cook is a journalist and writer based in Nazareth, Israel. He is the author of "Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State" (Pluto Press). His forthcoming book is "Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East". His website is www.jkcook.net
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a guest said:
Another Cook attempt to demonize Israel....
...contrary to the stated policy of this site. How can you honestly allow his continued, unsubstantiated invective against Israel, while limiting "playground" antics in your comments.
Just consider Mr Cook's other articles "Purging of Palestinian Christians"; "persecution of Azmi Bishara".All monotone, biased and laced with a personal hatred for Israel.
Cook's article under reply is riddled with a Nazification of Israel. What relevance is invoking a "Nuremburg" reference? Why not simply refer to a UN Charter violation?
With this kind of below the belt journalism, it is very hard indeed to take him seriously.
Israel has not rebuffed 'poor, happless' Syria in settlement efforts. Israel's strike has everything to do with attempting to preempt an act of aggression rather than, as Mr Cook suggests, an attempt to bring Syria into a conflict for which Syria has no choice but to re-arm herself.
Syria and her partner Iran actively now and for many years have supported and given shelter to groups whose main purpose is the destruction of Israel. Syria, like Iran, has no human rights or democratic record to speak of,actively stunts the development of its own people and remains steadfastly tied to a path of pariah statehood.
I earnestly hope that the region is not brought into further conflict. I pray for the day when one can travel freely from Tel-Aviv to Damascus to Tehran and where all countries in the region can respect each others right to exist. This, I honestly believe, is the will of the majority of the people in the region, but with articles and diatribe like this, it is little wonder that this wish has not yet been fulfilled.
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Richard Kastelein said:
Contrary to the stated policy?
The policy you must be referring too is for those making comments and has nothing to do with our editorial policy.
I am sorry if you don't like what author and well-known journalist Jonathan Cook has to say (who is actually is based in Israel - not South Africa).
But it's his opinion - it's not hard news. And my litmus test for publishing articles critical of Israel is simple... would the piece still stand if it were as critical as an article towards the U.S.?
If you want to talk about Human Rights records - Israel probably has one of the worst in the region with its devastating policies towards the Palestinians.
With more than 7000 Palestinians (including hundreds of children) in Israeli jails without formal charges - Israel has a lot to answer for. - they continuously violate both International Law and ignore U.N. Resolutions.
As for travelling freely between Tel Aviv and Tehran - that clearly won't happen until there is a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians. Right now, neither party is willing to talk peace. Both are guilty and both are selfish.
The mainstream media is guilty of unfair bias in favour of Israel over the Palestinians. We like to run articles that address the problem from another perspective. And that's what our policy is - to present other points of view.
We have not published quite a few articles we deemed to be clearly anti-Semitic - but this article is not as far as I am concerned.
Hard Truths for Hard Times is our slogan.
If you can't handle it - don't read it. Move on - read Haaretz for an unbiased (sic) opinion.
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Another interpretation of Israels airstrike
Let's recapitulate the sequence of incidents:
30.August: suspicious flight of B52. It is not clear whether 5 or 6 warheads were moved.
3.September: North Korean-flagged ship, Al Hamad, arrived in the Syrian port of Tartous. Owner of the ship is unknown.
5.September: flight of B52 with nuclear warheads becomes public.
At the same day two members of congress die.
6.September: Operation Orchard, Israels Air-Strike.
Let's assume there is one nuclear bomb missing at Barksdale Air Force Base. Let's further assume, the intended usage of this bomb was to bring it to Syria by ship, mount it on a Scud and send it to Israel. This would be an ideal pretext to start a nuclear war against Iran.
Fortunately at the 5. of September the story was made public. Proceeding with the original plan would be very suspicious, because (at least the military) knows that a bomb was missing. But what to do now with the bomb in Syria? The problem can be solved by an "Air Strike". The goal of the strike could have been just to destroy the bomb and remove all pieces of evidence. The only thing remaing is somewhere in the desert a site with unusual hight radioactive radiation. But this can be explained by the destroyed "nuclear facility delivered by North Korea and/or Iran".
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Stephen Curry was paired with Justin Timberlake at the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe this weekend, which at first led to mouthpiece throwing.
Then the Carlton. With Alfonso Ribeiro.
How could the NBA pull the All-Star game from Charlotte due to North Carolina's anti-LGBT law and move it to New Orleans, considering Louisiana is suing the Obama administration over its directive on sex discrimination?
This leak from the Board of Governors meeting proves illustrative.
In a poignant address, Golden State Warriors president and chief operating officer Rick Welts, 63, who is openly gay, explained his meaningful and lifelong affiliation with the NBA and told league owners he didn't feel comfortable attending the All-Star Game in Charlotte if the law remained as is.
He then said if the All-Star Game remained in Charlotte, he wouldn't feel comfortable attending, and he said he has spoken to employees in the LBGT community from half of the league's teams who didn't feel comfortable attending either.
Another influence on the NBA owners: A number of NBA sponsor/partner businesses have told the league they would not be involved if the game remained in North Carolina.
This isn't so much about a moral stance or punishing North Carolina. It obviously isn't about punishing Louisiana.
It's about treating employees and customers with respect.
Putting valued employees in uncomfortable positions is bad business. Holding All-Star Weekend in North Carolina would have done that. Maybe Welts and those he spoke with wouldn't immediately quit in protest, but why should the league put them in such harsh work conditions? Imagine being forced to choose between your job and traveling to a place you're denied fundamental protection under the law. Welts earned his position for a reason. The NBA should make reasonable efforts to retain him and other talent.
The same is true of potential customers, some of whom would have been reluctant to attend All-Star Weekend in North Carolina for the same reasons. Maybe the NBA still would have sold out every event, but it's not worth alienating a portion of the fanbase. (Though the league's decision inevitably alienated some fans on the other side of the issue. There is some moralism at play here.)
Maybe Louisiana will eventually succeed in its lawsuit and enact its own anti-LGBT laws. But right now, New Orleans doesn't legally discriminate against the LGBT community. That makes it an acceptable place to host the All-Star game.
This isn't about sending a message. It's about finding a location people like Welts — people the NBA value — feel comfortable.
The Celtics are slowly but surely taking care of their eight (!) 2016 draft picks.
They'll sign No. 3 pick Jaylen Brown. No. 16 pick Guerschon Yabusele and No. 23 pick Ante Zizic will remain overseas. The Nos. 31 and 35 picks were traded for a future first-rounder on draft night.
And Boston has reached terms with No. 45 pick Demetrius Jackson and No. 51 pick Ben Bentil.
Adam Himmelsbach of The Boston Globe:
As second-rounders, neither Jackson nor Bentil count against the cap until signed. So, the Celtics — with a little cap space plus the room exception and minimum-salary exceptions available — might wait a while to officially sign either player.
Jackson would give Boston 16 players — one more than the regular-season roster limit — with guaranteed salaries. Obviously, the Celtics will have to make a move — a big one, they surely hope.
Any deal could avoid a point guard, because Jackson makes four with Isaiah Thomas, Marcus Smart, Terry Rozier. Most teams carry just three.
With this roster crunch, Bentil will probably head to the D-League after training camp. The partial guarantee is likely just designed to entice him to stick in Boston's system rather than sign overseas.
This leaves just No. 58 pick Abdel Nader unaccounted for among the Celtics eight (!) 2016 draft picks.
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Due to the pregnancy? Only my seperated abs and twin skin but those aren't really heath problems.
I did discover a long term health problem after I stopped nursing but it has nothing to do with having twins.
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Nothing: apart from that, nix
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verbo[with object] chiefly North American
Put an end to; cancel: he nixed the deal just before it was to be signed
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- The UN and the Saudis had lined up several countries to contribute troops, and the interim Iraqi government was on board - but the deal was nixed at the last minute by the Americans.
- There were no quiet sighs of relief when the deal was nixed?
- Bell's regulatory guys told me it was not Texas that nixed the deal.
Late 18th century (as a noun): from German, colloquial variant of nichts 'nothing'.
Palabras que riman con nixadmix, affix, commix, fix, Hicks, intermix, MI6, mix, Nyx, pix, Pnyx, prix fixe, pyx, Ricks, six, Styx, transfix, Wicks
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sustantivo (feminine nixie /ˈnɪksi/)rare
A water sprite.
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- Langgaard, apparently was inspired by the legend of nixes, male sirens of the woodland, if you will, who lure travelers to a watery death with their violin-playing.
Mid 19th century: from German; related to the archaic English word nicker, denoting a water demon believed to live in the sea.
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exclamaciónBritish informal, dated
Used as a signal or warning that a person in authority is approaching.
Mid 19th century: perhaps from the phrase keep nix 'to watch, guard' (see nix1).
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Discussion in 'Warstory Archive' started by alphatron, Aug 8, 2011.
Can we just wait for this to be shiny luvdisc'd before archive?
How many luv does that take ?
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excellent. 10/10
10/10 Fav warstory ever! I love sun teams which make this warstory even more epic
all my luvdiscs
I will now use Scarf Darmanitan always.
Amazing read, Loved it... 10/10
why isn't this archived!? :0
Congrats on the Shiny Luvdisc! Greatly earned.
It's because Alph wrote this like two days after the archiving of his previous warstory, and the mods didn't want to clog up the archive with one (admittedly smexily perfect) writer.


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I myself prefer Black Inches.
Looks a little bit too much like pre-teen boy for my liking although i will admit that the first boner i ever got was from Christopher Atkins in the blue lagoon.
My taste is and always will be the best. I don't understand why people think it's weird that anyone would be attracted to mummy Republicans.
We who are about to go gray salute you, Mr. Poe.
I am afraid to look at the linked photos because I don't know if they are safe for work.
To each his own, but boyish men were a mid-90s blip in the fickle cycle of beauty standards. Once straight men started manscaping, the boy thing was kaput. So now you're retro.
Most everyone is back to lusting after men who look like men. The long, dry period of having to go practically underground for images of actual men is history and the mainstream is showing us males with secondary sexual characteristics once again. Thank God!
Awww, I know you're bummed about it and all, but it's nothing five minutes of Just For Men can't take care of. You'll be back to 36-years-old in no time!
So do you still prefer the Neighbors twink to the actual men of the Cuff Dan? Also what do you do with your body hair?
I prefer my actual man. And I haven't been to Neighbors for a decade. Thankfully as I age (34 and counting) my tastes seem to be keeping pace. There are hot & boysih 34 year-olds out there, you know, and 44 year-olds.
Funny that you ended up using Cosmo's pic of Burt Reynolds instead of a PlayGirl picture...
Yawn. I find your gayness boring. Why do you always have to talk about it? Is that the most interesting thing about you? Pity.
"O they shall know we are nellies..."
@ 4: no shit. I hope there is a Mr Poe in my neighborhood when I start going grey.
Incidentally, that will be in about 20 years. Word.
"34 and counting"... down.
@3, vive la difference! Although grampa Charlie has always reminded me a little of this fellow: http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j85/ladytwentysix/ToucheTurtle.jpg
As for the dominant aesthetic, the interwebs has pretty much eliminated a dominant aesthetic. Although Butt Magazine seems to have a powerful sway because it tells all of us we can let our gym memberships lapse, stay home and do cool crafts and drink beer. And bang each other.
Guys will be guys. Straight or gay. My story is almost the same as yours Dan, except for me it was the May 1973 issue of Penthouse (my friends Mom used to subscribe!). Every girl I have ever had a crush on since has looked like Miss May (Sandy Greco).
There is nothing more revolting than a boyish 44-year-old. It's almost murder-worthy when you unbutton that shirt only to find a smooth chest. And if that isn't enough, you have a 90% chance of running into a ridiculous boner-killing tattoo. "You don't like it?!" Hell no. What is a fucking butterfly doing on your back, you freak?
I guess my tastes are just... Retro
And @13 actually made me laugh out loud.
ps by the way, Burt Reynolds was HOT back in the day.
Playgirl should've failed a long time ago, it was a disappointment to me at an early age (Don Johnson, bygones...)
I prefer my men boyish in charm, and all man in looks.
Mustaches are revolting. Burt Reynolds is revolting. The first Playgirl I saw f#$%ing traumatized me, and is probably the reason all my early-adolescent sex fantasies were about girls. My guy is slender, fair, boyish, a knockout in bike shorts. He'll never go out of style.
My tastes have changed over the years. When I was 25, I had a very narrow definition of what was good looking. 20 years later, I find a much wider variety of men to be hot.
One thing that has never changed, however, is hair. I've always liked my men clean shaven and smooth chested. I think I have similar taste in men as Dan.
as a boyish man, it is saddening to be going out of style :P
@16, which leads us to the ultimate "boyish" 44-year old, who, when you pull down his pants, reveals a pube-less manscape.
It's enough to make you wish for the butterfly tattoo, Mr. Poe!
uh, no they didn't...the twink look is so 1992. It bit the dust about the same time that Leo Ford did the same...
And I think that After Dark picture might actually be a photo of a flat chested girl.
I guess my taste in men lies somewhere in between the scary hairy and the hairless boy wonders...
Daniel Craig melts my butter! (yum!)
Ugh. I officially came out in 1995. Right about the time that gay culture seemed to hit a fervored peak (pink triangles and rainbow flags fucking everywhere). And to me it all seemed to be dominated by the twink aesthetic.
My taste in men is generally all over the map, but one connecting thread would be indicators of masculinity. It's possible that I may occasionally find someone attractive who might technically qualify as a "twink," but such would be the exception.
But because for so many key years in my development I practically had nothing but twinks shoved in my face as the dominant aesthetic ideal and archetype when I wanted nothing to do with it, I still find that particular aesthetic not just unattractive and undesirable, but actually loathsome and iresome.
I longed for, if nothing else, the clones of the 70's at least, and it was a great relief when the bear aesthetic ushered in a renewed appreciation for unpretentious masculinity.
I will say thanks for the link to the After Dark pix; brings back fond memories...
BUT, flipping through them, I'm finding a surprising amount of chest hair...and waaaay too many pictures of James Coco.
This is funny. Currently there is a boy--blond, suntanned, shirtless--unloading bales of hay from a truck outside my office window. According to my office mate, "he looks about 14". He's damn yummy. I'm in heaven.
Eewww! That thing looks like McCauley Calkin with a Leif Garrett haircut.
@11: Please scroll through my archives. It's not all I talk about. If you want to see someone with a hard time *not* talking about his sexual preferences, scroll through Mudede's archives.
Dan-- thanks for posting that old pic of Burt. He is still my ideal for a guy--- probably because I would love to have that masculine uberness.As a kid, I remember watching him on Gunsmoke with those hairy forearms and being absolutely glued to the tube.
And the After Dark stuff was a great trip down the rabbit hole. I used to wonder if I could meet some of them homos if I ever got to leave my podunk town. "So that's what a gay guy looks like....."
I'm confused; is the idiot known as Snoooooze, a self-hating gay or a dumb as fuck straight?
Either way, he's a tool.
Umm, boyish men have been the standard for manly lust from the Greeks, through the Romans, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, etc. right up through the 60's and is still quite poular I believe. The manly-man look is largely a product of the post-Stonewall reinvention of the Gay Man as Everyman. The 70's clone being the first iteration.
Any man partially dressed was okay with me. I think my mother planted the copy with a naked Burt with some sort of trap. She must have noticed that page sticking together. It's funny to think about now but before I reached puberty I would love going to the public pool where I could ogle naked men. I didn't even know what sex was and I loved naked men. That should say something.
Dan, what you like is GIRLISH men. You should think about that a bit.
Yeah, people's tastes caught up to you in like 1985. And then moved on. Nobody's been into that look for at like ten years now.
@35: Them too, Max, and I've thought about it quite a bit, and arrived at this conclusion: Girly guys are a blast in and out of bed.
And you know... girly guys get the crap kicked out of them by dumbfuck insecure straight guys all the time. It's always a shame when gay men pile on too.
I share your taste. Continue posting links. :D
That isn't fair, Dan. There's a difference between beating the shit out of some harmless fag with a girly touch and beating the shit out of Chris Crocker. One is illegal, the other shouldn't be...and should be encouraged.
Jeez, I guess I'm the luckiest homo in the world: I like 'em all. :-)
(rolling eyes)
but, if it makes you feel better, I'll be happy to send my tax deductible donation to the Skinny, Alpecia-Stricken, Picked Upon, Waif-Man charity of your choice...
FYI, that poster of Burt is framed in the women's restroom at Zayda Buddy's. My 10-year-old niece was very interested in it.
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You might be a redneck if you go see the new NASCAR meets Disney/Pixar movie "Cars."
But you don't have to be.
My first exposure to NASCAR came only a few weeks ago at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte for the "Cars" world premiere. Before this, I had never been to a race track -- in fact I had never even watched a race on TV or wondered what Dale Earnhardt Jr. would do, or bothered to find out what a restrictor plate is.
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But that's just me. I can't stand NASCAR and have preconceived notions about people who can, but even with all my unleaded animosity I was still pretty excited about the left-turn-only hick flick and the stars of "Cars." As usual, Disney didn't skimp on the voice talent, landing a bunch of big names, one of which is bound to appeal to everybody, no matter what age or color your neck. The press junket was held in a skybox at the racetrack and each reporter seemed to have her or his prime target -- ladies were glossing their lips for Owen Wilson, 30-somethings readied their camera phones for a pic with Cliff Clavin (John Ratzenberger), the speedheads reverently introduced themselves to seven-time Nextel Cup champ Richard Petty, and even crusty old newsies were furtively thrilled at the chance to shake the cool hand of Paul Newman.
For me, the draw was Cheech Marin.
There he was: the guy who hung out with my buddies in tapestried basements and backseats of our parents' minivans through some of life's most amusing uhhh moments, man.
Surprisingly, Cheech doesn't play the role of Fillmore -- the 1960s relic VW van who jams to Hendrix and makes organic gasoline; that role went to George Carlin. Cheech plays Ramone, a 1959 Chevy Impala low-rider complete with fins, hydraulics, headers and gold-plated wire wheels. Hippie van or not, Cheech still was swarmed by several of us crunchies-gone-corporate. I chuckled as a guy from an online music mag recounted his after-school ritual of rolling joints on the 45 vinyl of "Greatest Hit." Cheech just nodded gratefully with a smirk that seemed to imply he could be rich had he a nickel every time he heard that from a guy in a suit.
For a moment, I thought it ironic that this was the topic of conversation at a G-rated car-toon flick promotion, but it occurred to me that those of us huddled around Cheech Marin were only seeking familiar ground. Without Cheech, we were fish out of water, flapping around on hot oval asphalt. We flocked to Cheech because he looked at auto racing like we did. When asked what he knew about NASCAR, he just shrugged and said, "I don't know," then with the twirl of a finger in the air, "What's it take to go around and around?"
And, he was honest in his strange attraction to the sport, saying simply, "I don't want them to get hurt, but I like it when they crash." Honestly, aren't we all a little guilty of rubbernecking at racing wreckage? So really, no matter what side of the stick shift you sit on, the idea behind "Cars" is easy to embrace. And so is the story -- especially if you liked Michael J. Fox circa 1991, since the tale of a hot-shot racer who accidentally lands in an old-fashioned Route 66 town feels like an animated version of "Doc Hollywood" with a southern drawl.
And speaking of drawls, if I might pigeonhole you real race fans for a minute, you'll probably be excited to hear Blue Collar Tour comedian Dan Whitney's y'allbonics behind the voice of Mater the Tow Truck.
Evidently, Dan goes by "Larry The Cable Guy" even though he's a wealthy actor/stand-up comic. In the movie, he's Mater -- first name Tow -- the manager of the town's impound lot who prides himself on driving backwards. That sounds about right for the guy Rolling Stone magazine described as "slightly dim, often racist, completely redneck, 100 percent Republican."
At the press premiere, Larry The Cable Guy waltzed in sporting his typical trailer-fabulous attire -- a camo John Deer hat (with what appeared to be a fish hook on the visor), a beige Chuck's Harley Davidson t-shirt (sleeves torn off, of course), jeans, old Nike high-tops and a bottle of water. (Easy good ol' boys. Larry hasn't been hit in the Achilles' heel of Hollywood; the bottle of water was emptied out for use as a spitter.) I don't care who you are, that's not funny. But hey, at least Disney/Pixar knows their audience. I might not think your spitter, farmer tan or tractor is sexy, but certainly a lot of people think NASCAR is. It's second only to the mighty NFL in sports viewership -- I can't argue with that. And the millions of Cable Guy/NASCAR fans surely will sink their dipsticks into this one, especially with voice cameos from Dale Earnhardt Jr., Michael Schumacher and Mario Andretti, and parodies like Darrell Waltrip as the retired racer turned announcer "Darrell Cartrip."
Truth be told, despite the all-cloth buffing of NASCAR fan bumpers, "Cars" still manages to appeal to a broader audience. For one thing, the graphics we've come to expect from the makers of "The Incredibles" and "Toy Story" dazzle us again with vivid imagery. This time, instead of monsters, bugs or fish, they've managed to anthropomorphically capture metallic, reflective surfaces that seem startlingly realistic, especially in the high-octane racetrack scenes with sweeping camera angles and speed-blurred drivebys. And if pole positioning doesn't rev your engine, take in the animators' astonishing ability to bring the desert vistas of the Southwest to life through several Sunday-drive-type scenes of Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and Sally Carrera (Bonnie Hunt).
While I'm certain I didn't catch all (OK, any) of the race puns or dig the twangy-pop soundtrack, there was still plenty to fill up on at the animation station of "Cars." Maybe it's because I -- we -- live in a car culture. As Petty told me, "Everybody -- whether they know it, or think it, or what -- everybody's got a love affair with cars." So I guess that's the common denominator here. Those of us in Southern California love our cars, as do do folks in Middle America, and New York City and Atlanta. So no matter if it's country, rap or public radio that makes your boot, or Birkenstock, or Gucci shoe tap, a trip to "Cars" makes for a nice drive.
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