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Hydration, like nutrition, is a very personal matter when it come to types, quantity and the timing of intake. What works for one person is not necessarily going to be the magic bullet for another. There are charts that will estimate your intake based on a "sweat rate" test, while others might go about it from a body weight standpoint based on so many ounces per hour. Whatever method you wish to employ, it's only going to work if you apply it in real world situations and know that your method is on track. Training and racing can present similar litmus tests regarding what works, but they can also be complete opposites. Let's look at some areas to consider regarding hydration and at least give you options to make knowledgeable choices.
Hydration Types
I believe the act of hydrating should be considered separately from fueling and electrolyte replacement. That's not to say that there aren't solutions out there that can do all three. In fact there are specific "drinks" that combine all three qualities, but more often than not, your hydration needs will require the use of plain water to supplement the administering of the fueling and electrolyte components. This sounds pretty basic, but there are many a tale of woe out there where a race takes a nasty turn, and the only thing consumed to that point was some sort of "sports" or "power" drink. Again, separate your hydration from your fueling and electrolytes.
As mentioned above, the sweat rate test can be used to determine hydration requirements. Check out Sweat Rate Test for the Runner's World explanation. Required hydration means keeping the body from going into a dehydrated state. Weather, clothing, body structure and fitness level are just a few of the things that contribute to how fast you lose hydration either through sweating, respiration or bladder/bowel elimination. Keeping hydrated without over- or under-hydrating is sometimes a delicate balance, and the stakes go up the longer the event takes to complete. Mild dehydration occurs at about 3% or less of lost bodyweight. Moderate dehydration occurs in the range of 3% to 6% weight loss, and anything above that can be considered serious which may lead to cramping, coma and even death. If attempts are not made to consistently replace fluid loss, at a rate that keeps body water in balance, dehydration will occur.
The Thirst Mechanism
During the day, our thirst mechanism tells us when we need to drink. We feel the urge to quench our thirst and we do so. Under more vigorous conditions, our thirst mechanism tends to get dulled or sidelined by the activity at hand. "If I can just pass the next two aid stations, and not waste time to drink, I'll beat that many more people to the finish line!" Do you know someone like that? I sure do! So knowing that the thirst may be dulled, toned down or shut off on your next event, what are you going to do to stay hydrated? My advice is to drink early, and drink consistently. Consistently might mean a few swallows at each aid station. If you come in slightly dehydrated at the finish, you've obviously done a good job of hydrating. From that point it would be wise to slowly intake fluids to bring your levels back up.
The Urine Test
If you're in an event for anything over two to three hours, and you haven't urinated or even had the urge to visit the "Blue Room", chances are you're behind in hydration. One fairly good indicator of your hydrated state is the color of your urine. Anything darker than everyday light-yellow is a sign that you're behind, and you should be consuming regularly over the next several hours to bring it back to near-clear. I myself have been in a dehydrated state such that it took well into the evening to get my urine color back to normal. And in the hours leading up to that point, I couldn't seem to consume enough fluids. Not a good thing to put your body through. So when I ask my athletes, "What color is your urine?" the snickers are gone and it's as if I was asking them what they ate for lunch. And they better know too!
Methods of Hydrating
How you choose to consume fluids is another personal choice.
On the Bike: On bike systems include the standard bottle cages that are easy to use in all conditions, to the more complex and aerodynamic systems that strive to shave precious seconds off your finish time. I do like the aerodynamic drinking tube systems as the fluid is always right near my lips. It's not an "out of sight, out of mind" thing, and because my wrist and watch is right there in the vicinity (on the aerobars), it's easy to time my drinks too. The added advantage to this type of systems is being able to refill it on the fly for longer events. As with any new piece of equipment, train with it first before racing with it.
On the Run: In my years of coaching first-time marathoners through a 26 week program, at week 6 we took away all the paper cups at home base. The distance had climbed to 8 – 9 miles and it was getting critical for them to have fluids with them. From that point on, they were responsible for carrying their own hydration system out on the routes. There are a number of methods available now, from hydration packs, to belts, to handheld systems. They come in varying sizes and capacities and it's a good idea to have at least two types in your stash of equipment.
A smaller system or handheld bottle will suit you well on those shorter runs when a back pack is too much, and going without is questionable. Handhelds can be filled halfway, and they also have the advantage of easy refills. If you're new to drinking from paper cups on course, it helps to close the top of the cup while drinking on the run. That way your sinuses don't get a bath. You'll thank me for that tip later.
Anxious Dehydration
Well, I didn't know what else to call it. Anxiety runs moderate to high in triathlons. "Did I bring everything for any circumstance? Will I have enough time to get my bike ready and transitions set up? Will there even be enough room? Man, he looks fast! Is he in my age group? Why does my wetsuit feel two sizes too small now?" The Porta Potty lines are long and growing, there's 15 minutes to my wave and I'm standing in line for the second…no wait…third time, because I gotta pee again. You can already be on the road to dehydration, and you still have the swim ahead of you. If you don't think you sweat on the swim, I've got some news for you. Not much to drink out there. Well, there is if you're a fish. The point is, somehow you're going to have to replace those fluids. The bike is the best time to do it. You can ease up if you have to, and your stomach isn't bouncing around like it will be on the run. Get into to your rhythm, drink when you can, and continue with your intake.
Dehydration can have very serious consequences. No need to go there!


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Madson to make additional rehab stop at Triple-A
ANAHEIM -- Ryan Madson was hopeful of being activated by the end of this week, but the Angels have called an audible. Instead of bringing him back after two rehab outings in the California League, they'll send him out on a rehab assignment at Triple-A Salt Lake -- probably before the end of the week -- so he can get more outings under his belt and iron out his mechanics after his yearlong recovery from Tommy John surgery.
"Last couple times he's been on the mound, on any given day that he's pitched in his rehab, he's had enough stuff to pitch in the Major Leagues," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "Now he just needs to work on fine-tuning some things, the command, having some guys on base -- just finish off a couple things that he's going to face in a Major League game and seeing how he bounces back."
Madson got really aggressive in his rehab recently, throwing off a mound with high intensity every other day leading up to his first rehab appearance for Class A Inland Empire on Monday, when he pitched a clean ninth inning and recorded a strikeout. The 32-year-old planned on making one more appearance there, either Wednesday or Thursday, before being activated.
But the Angels decided to play it safe, even though Madson's arm only feels "normal soreness" at this point.
"I respect that," Madson said. "They want to make sure the experience here is not too much on my arm too early. It shows they care. They don't want me going out too early and getting hurt. I totally get it. I respect the decision."
With the Salt Lake Bees, Madson will pitch in what he described as "normal-use situations" rather than every other day. Neither he nor the Angels feels he needs to pitch in back-to-back games before being deemed ready.
As for how long he'll pitch in Triple-A, Madson mentioned "a couple weeks," but Scioscia -- who reiterated that Madson is "very close" -- was hesitant to put a timeline on it.
"If everything goes the way we anticipate," Scioscia said, "not very long at all."
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Gonzo and "The Show", and follow him on Twitter @Alden_Gonzalez. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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2013 will mark the 12th anniversary of The Academy of Interactive Arts & Science's esteemed D.I.C.E. Summit, one of the most well-respected and prestigious video game conference in the industry.
A combination of speaker panels and awards ceremonies honour interactive entertainment culture and all creative culture in a celebration of great ideas and great entertainment.
Themes pay homage to the pillars for which this conference was founded - Design, Innovate, Communicate and Entertain.
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Les Misérables is the motion-picture adaptation of the beloved global stage sensation seen by more than 60 million people in 42 countries and in 21 languages around the globe and still breaking box-office records everywhere in its 27th year. Helmed by The King's Speech's Academy Award-winning director, Tom Hooper, the Working Title/Cameron Mackintosh production stars Hugh Jackman, Oscar® winner Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Aaron Tveit, Samantha Barks, with Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen.
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Northern Ballet, one of the UK's best-loved ballet companies, is launching a search for a new Chair to lead the Company.
David Forbes has stepped down as Chair of Northern Ballet after eight years with the Company, the last two as its Chair, in order to commit more time to his other business interests. He said: 'I am proud to have been a part of Northern Ballet's extraordinary success and remain a fan and supporter. My successor will join a company in good shape with exciting prospects.'
Mark Skipper, Chief Executive, said: 'Northern Ballet continues to go from strength to strength. We have fulfilled the dream of moving to purpose built facilities in the heart of Leeds; we have risen to the challenge of finding new income streams following funding cuts; we have made profitable acquisitions to diversify; we have attracted prestigious new corporate sponsors and been recognised nationally with numerous awards.'
The new Chair will be Northern Ballet's senior ambassador and develop relationships with its Royal Patron, current funders and sponsors as well as potential new funders. They will have expertise in business and a passion for the arts along with a solid knowledge of the Yorkshire region and the national arts agenda.
Northern Ballet is led by an accomplished team combining robust business practices with a clear artistic vision. Northern Ballet's Artistic Director David Nixon received an OBE in the 2009 New Year's Honours list and Chief Executive Mark Skipper was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of West Yorkshire in 2010. The Company has attracted a strong board with non-executives drawn from business, the arts, local government and education.
Northern Ballet is one of Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations through which it receives regular funding. With recent cuts in public funding for the arts, Northern Ballet launched an innovative fundraising campaign to secure the future of its dancers. Sponsor a Dancer generated £150k since October 2011. Combined with other initiatives Northern Ballet has increased its fundraising income levels by more than 75% in the past year.
For further information interested parties should contact Mark Skipper, Chief Executive, Northern Ballet, 0113 220 8000.
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AUSTIN — Dry conditions don't necessarily equate to bad dove hunting, wildlife biologists with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department suggest. An extended drought across much of Texas could be beneficial for dove hunters as birds will have to rely upon limited resources.
Water, especially in close proximity to dove feeding areas, should be at a premium heading into the Sept. 1 dove season opener.
"Dove hunting over a water source should be excellent," said Corey Mason, TPWD dove program leader. "Additionally, dove may be concentrated on food sources, so if you can find a stand of sunflower, goat weed, etc., hunting should be productive. Native food sources are going to be more important this year because agricultural crops aren't as good as years past."
Biologists say the drought will have some impacts on dove populations, with the greatest being on juveniles. However, they do not expect significant impacts to what hunters will see this fall. Texas boasts fall dove populations in excess of 40 million birds and its 300,000 dove hunters harvest about 6 million birds annually or roughly 30 percent of all doves taken in the United States.
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LAKE COUNTY -- The obituary said that Albertine Cordella Vandine was born on March 2, 1919 in the California town of Imperial, but it didn't mention anything about growing up in rural Texas, and it didn't say a word about Bonnie and Clyde.
The obituary dutifully noted that Abbie, who lived in Lake County for the past 68 years, was survived by her two children, Billy Hail and Halian Hail, but it didn't mention their father (and Abbie's first husband), William Hail, so it didn't get into the part about his childhood friend, Howard Hughes, and how Abbie went to work for him during World War II.
It didn't say anything about Abbie's incredible will to live, and how the accumulation of years and infirmities ravaged her body but showed great mercy on her mind, which was sharp until the very end.
There wasn't any mention of how tall she was (5-foot-8) and didn't say anything about Abbie's beautiful red hair, though it's easy to imagine it blowing in the wind when, as a grade-schooler, she rode her horse up and down the dirt roads of rural Texas, visiting farmers and ranchers and asking them if they would attend services at a new church if she started one.
They told her they surely would and soon they were all praying together each Sunday in a school auditorium.
A few years later, when Abbie's family moved to the Houston area, there wasn't a Church of Christ in the neighborhood, so Abbie went door-to-door this time, recruiting a congregation that started meeting in someone's home until they got around to building a nice brick church downtown.
You cannot squeeze the life and times of Abbie Vandine into 200 or 300 words, but her family and friends who gathered at the Odd Fellows Hall in Upper Lake following her burial on March 7, had no such restraints as they remembered Abbie's life, shared her stories, laughed and cried.
And few days later, her friends at the Church of Christ in Kelseyville -- the third church that Abbie helped start ? had their own gathering, remembering "Sister Abbie" and her years of pain and suffering, her love of God and country, and her unorthodox theories on how to live for 94 years ? about 50 years longer than her doctors said she would after diagnosing her with
thyroid cancer and leukemia in the early '60s.
The doctors put her on some experimental drugs and radical treatments and told her she might have a year left if she was lucky. Abbie was living on her two-acre spread in Upper Lake, and she took the bus to San Francisco for her regular cancer treatments that included a new type of chemotherapy which the doctors said would drain the life out of her and make her hair fall out.
But Abbie's beautiful red hair never fell out.
Abbie was 15 or 16 and living with her folks on the family ranch outside of Houston when one day Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow showed up on their doorstep. Abbie and her parents were scared to death.
Abbie had just made some baby clothes for a pregnant woman in her church, and Bonnie took a liking to the clothes and that's the only thing the notorious outlaws took, which didn't make sense to Abbie and her family. At least not until weeks later when Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed and killed by Texas lawmen in Louisiana, and it was reported that Bonnie was pregnant at the time.
Minister Eric Stone pulled out the church's old guest registry and turned to the first page dated Oct. 2, 1955, and the signature on top of the page was Abbie's, who also left her mark on the cross beams of the small church. Still vivid in Halian Hail's mind is the image of her mother atop a stepladder, carving decorative notches on the beams with a butcher knife.
But her friends and family had a hard time remembering when Abbie was happy and healthy. They had precious few memories of her before she battled cancer, before she broke her back in a car crash, before the arthritis that eventually put her in a wheelchair started gnawing at her bones.
There are no photos of Abbie working in a couple of Howard Hughes' factories in Texas during World War II, but she knew Hughes because her husband William grew up with him in the same Houston neighborhood.
And Abbie used to retell her husband's story of how he and Howard were building some kind of bicycle when Hughes' mother, who was uppity and rudely proud of her royal British blood, chastised her son for hanging out with low-class kids like William.
"They'll give you germies," she reportedly told Howard, the future billionaire who, later in life, developed some severe hang-ups of his own about germs.
Abbie was fiercely independent, partly because her husband William was a Merchant Marine engineer and was hardly ever home.
She wore a lot of hats. She was a nurse. She was a den mother for her son's Cub Scout troop and her daughter's Brownie group. She was a rancher and a farmer. For six years in the 1950s she and the children lived on 56 acres in Kelseyville that had a distinct Noah's Ark feel to the place, with sets of chickens, rabbits, geese and peacocks.
Abbie had great faith in the healing properties of fresh vegetables. She always had an organic vegetable garden. One time when she was old and frail she collapsed in front of her house in Upper Lake and didn't have the strength to get up. So she proceeded to crawl over to her garden, where she munched on whatever fresh vegetables she thought would help get her back on her feet.
Her home remedies for her ailments in her latter years were not exactly mainstream. Once she came to church and told her friend Dave Bosserman she no longer had the bone spurs that were hurting so much. Dave asked how she got rid of them.
"I took a pair of pliers and broke them off," she said.
Once she came to church and members of the congregation soon detected a strong, strange odor. Abbie confessed that she had resorted to horse liniment to relieve the arthritic pain.
The obituary didn't explain that in recent months her heart was getting weaker and weaker and doctors decided to try a pacemaker, and she was recuperating from the procedure at a nursing facility in Lakeport, and she was nearly ready to return to her home in Upper Lake when her family and friends visited her on her birthday.
She didn't want a party but her friends sang "Happy Birthday" to her anyway.
She died the next day.
Her obituary didn't mention what Bosserman, who knew her for 32 years, remembers most about Abbie Vandine.
"I remember her beautiful hair and her wonderful spirit."
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Topic: Radiation for R0?
My wife was resected for Intrahepatic CC on 9/12 with great results. 72% of the liver with a 6.4 cm. tumor and a single hilar lymph node with metastatic carcinoma was removed. The results were great, margins clear, and 6 other lymph nodes benign, classified R0.
We met with the Ochsner oncologist Monday and she recommended the GemCis regiment, which we expected, but she also stated that radiation may be used after around 4 months of chemo. We did not expect this since my wife's surgeon said that radiation would not be necessary.
Is radiation normal for this type of CC with these resection results and if so, what do they radiate?
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The Royal Ramble: Top Ten Hell in a Cell Matches!
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The Royal Ramble has returned as promised! It's been a nice two weeks since the last blog I did and I have some big news coming soon in the next few weeks involving me so stay tuned to that. Since Halloween and Hell in a Cell is right around the corner, I decided to make a top ten Hell in a Cell matches. Of course we are going to see a lot of Triple H and Undertaker in this blog! The Hell in a Cell matches were the end of the rivalry matches for many wrestlers and they were more fights than anything! Let's get this blood bath under way
10. Undertaker vs Edge - SummerSlam, 2008
For the better part of 2008, we saw the Undertaker and Edge have a great rivalry for the World Heavyweight Championship. In a match at WWE's One Night Stand, Undertaker lost to Edge in a TLC match for the title but the stipulation was if Edge won then the Undertaker would be banished from the WWE. Undertaker went away for only to return a few months later to finish the rivalry with Edge inside the sadistic Hell in a Cell. This match was the last great and brutal Hell in a Cell in my eyes (exception WM 28). The match was just more of a brawl than a wrestling match. My favorite part was when Edge speared Undertaker through the cell wall and then speared him through the announcer's table. Undertaker would get the win but he wasn't done yet as he choke-slammed Edge from the top of a ladder threw the ring mat. Undertaker then posed while flames came up threw the hole where Edge was choke-slammed. Edge was sent to hell...
9. Undertaker vs Randy Orton - Armageddon, 2005
Hell in a Cell matches are the best place to end a very long rivalry and that's exactly what happened here. Undertaker and Randy Orton were bitter rivals for almost the entire year of 2005. So, a Hell in a Cell match was easily the best choice to end a great rivalry. The match was a bloody fight to the end and Orton had a little help from his father, Cowboy Bob Orton. For as good as this match was, their WrestleMania 21 match was still the best. Orton's cross body onto Undertaker through the table was awesome but the best was when Orton gave Undertaker a Tombstone. The move actually looked like Undertaker hit his head but he was fine. Undertaker would eventually go on to win and the rivalry was done.
8. Undertaker vs Brock Lesnar - WWE Championship, No Mercy, 2002
Brock Lesnar was becoming the next big thing in the WWE at the time and what better to become the next big thing by taking out the dead man! This bloody fight was a epic tale telling the WWE is in for a world of pain! Lesnar made the Undertaker a bloody mess and took him out for awhile. After the match was over, Lesnar climbed to the top and posed with belt as if he was on top of the world as the next big thing was here to stay!
7. Triple H vs Shawn Michaels - Badd Blood, 2004
This was rivalry that lasted for about two years but it was seven years in the making! This would be the final time we saw Triple H and Shawn Michaels face each other in a high profiled one on one match! Like always these two don't disappoint! A classic match for two classic stars! HBK of course doing what he does best by stealing the show. The elbow drop off the ladder to Triple H through the table was a highlight of many. But it was the ending that was amazing. With both stars trading off with their finishers, it would be Triple H to pull out two more Pedigrees for the win!
6. Kurt Angle vs Stone Cold vs Triple H vs Undertaker vs The Rock vs Rikishi - WWE Championship, Armageddon, 2000
What a way to end the year of 2000 than by having a 6-way Hell in a Cell match for the WWE Championship involving arguably the six biggest stars of the Attitude Era! Kurt Angle would get the cheap win after Stone Cold was the one that gave a Stunner to the Rock! But the moment that stole the match was Rikishi getting choke-slammed off the cell to the well placed truck with hay in it's bed. The Undertaker's facial expression after he did it was priceless with simply rolling the eyes into the back of the head and sticking his tongue out
5. Triple H vs Cactus Jack - WWE Championship, No Way Out, 2000
For Cactus Jack this was the do or die! If Cactus lost he would be fired from the WWE, just one month away from WrestleMania 16! Cactus of course gave it his all. The two brawled for a while until they broke through the cell wall and they brawled onto the announcer's table. They then fought to the top of cell where they had 2x4 wrapped in barbwire with them. They would lit the 2x4 on fire and use it as a weapon. But in the end Triple H would flip Cactus through the cell roof, crashing through the mat below. Triple H would pull him out of the hole and give him a Pedigree to win the match! This would go on record as Mick Foley's retirement match!
4. Triple H vs Chris Jericho - Judgement Day, 2002
I love the way this match started with two wrestlers trading lefts and rights, that's really something you don't see anymore. This match was just a straight fight, they looked like they wanted to hurt one another. Tim White, the referee, got injured due to Triple H throwing Y2J into White, who was then launched into the cell wall. The two would then fight to outside breaking through the cell door. Triple H would then DDT Y2J through one of the announcer tables. The two would fight to the top of the cell bringing a 2x4 wrapped in barbwire with them. Y2J use it on Triple H at first, then applied the Walls of Jericho on top of the Cell. Triple H would get out of it and hit Y2J with a Pedigree for the win. Still to this day, this is the most underrated Hell in a Cell match of all time!
3. Shawn Michaels vs Undertaker - WWE Championship, Badd Blood, 1997 (From my Shawn Michaels blog)
One month before this match, HBK and the Undertaker wrestled at the Ground Zero PPV to a no contest. This match was a #1 contender's match for the WWE Championship and was the be all, end all match, as it was the first ever Hell in a Cell match. This would turn out to be a violent and brutal match. Undertaker would control the first half of the match as HBK looked scared of him at first. Then, HBK turned it up and took over control. HBK was thrown to the outside and hit a cameraman on his way down. Officials tried to get the cameraman out but in doing so, HBK & Undertaker started to fight there way to the outside of the cell. Undertaker would then slam HBK into the cell and HBK got busted wide open. The two then continued to fight to the top of the cell. HBK look like he was running away from and tried to climb down on the announcer's table side. As HBK was climbing down, Taker stomped on his hands and HBK fell through one of the announce tables. HBK looked to be done and they both go back into the ring. Undertaker looked like he was in line to become the #1 contender but then the lights go out. Kane makes his debut and tombstones Undertaker, thus HBK crawls over and covers Taker for the win! The following month would be infamous Montreal Screwjob and change the WWE forever!
2. Triple H vs Undertaker III - End of a Era, WrestleMania 28, 2012
The final two remaining stars of an era that defined the WWE for it is today! It was time to put an end to that era! With special referee Shawn Michaels, Triple H looked to finally put an end to the streak! The match started and it was a fight to the end! This match stole the show and was quite possibly the best match in Triple H's career. There were numerous near falls and close calls but the match kept going on. Triple H would even hit Undertaker multiple times with a sledge hammer but still couldn't get the job done. HBK almost called the match several times but when he went to check on the Undertaker, he was put in Hell's Gate. Triple H saved HBK by hitting Undertaker with a sledge hammer again but HBK rolled out of the ring. Undertaker got up and look to Tombstone Triple H but Triple H countered and pushed Undertaker into a Sweet Chin Music from HBK to a Pedigree from Triple H! I actually thought the match was over but Undertaker kicked out! Undertaker then finally beat Triple H down until he could barely stand up. Triple H gave him a crotch chop then Undertaker hit him with the sledge hammer and gave him a Tombstone for the win. After the match, all three superstars help each other out of the ring as the era was over.
1. Undertaker vs Mankind - King of the Ring, 1998
Without a question, before anyone started reading this blog, you had to have known that this match was going to be number one! This is match is sole reason why the Hell in a Cell match is so damn popular today! Mankind put his body and life on the line in this match! This probably the most violent and most brutal match in the history of the WWE. To watch Mankind get thrown from off the cell to the Spanish announce table was the unbelievable thing I have ever seen in pro wrestling! And to hear J.R.'s call "Good God almighty they killed him! As God as my witness he is broken in half!" That call still gives me goose-bumps! Then to watch him get choke-slammed threw the cell to the ring below is the hardest part to watch. Mankind actually getting knocked out for a couple minutes from it. It still amazes me to this day that when he was choke-slammed through the cell is what hurt Mankind the most and not the fall through the table! To kill time they had the Undertaker choke-slam Terry Funk right out of his shoes. But I will never forget the face of Mankind, when looks at the camera and looks like he is smiling only to find out that he bit a hole around his mouth and was just putting his tongue in place to feel where the hole was. Just when you think the match couldn't get any more violent, Mankind pulls out a bag of thumbtacks and pores them out to the king. They fight for awhile and Mankind gets the Mandible Claw on the Undertaker from behind. Undertaker then stands up with Mankind on his back and slams him down the tacks! Mankind starts to roll around on the tacks, screaming in pain. Undertaker then choke-slams him down the tacks! Then finally, the Undertaker Tombstones Mankind for the win. This match is easily a fan favorite for many of the Attitude Era fans like myself! To this day this match stands out in my mind as one the most brutal and violent matches in history of the WWE!
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Washington State University announced Friday that it will be naming a building at The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication in honor of KOMO 4 News anchor Kathi Goertzen.
"It is fitting that we honor Kathi's devotion to preparing the next generation of journalists with the rededication of a building in which so many future journalists will learn the trade," University President Elson S. Floyd said in a news release.
"In this way, we recognize the unique perseverance, hard work and dedication that Kathi demonstrated throughout her professional career and in her personal life. Kathi will forever be remembered as the truest of Cougs whose life is an inspiration to WSU's alumni, friends and students for years to come."
Kathi joined KOMO after graduating from the college in 1980 and was always a loyal Coug. She sat on the University Foundation Board of Trustees and received the university's Alumni Achievement Award and Lifetime Achievement Award. Every year during Apple Cup week she and Steve Pool, a University of Washington grad, would try to one-up each other on the news.
Kathi died last year at age 54 after a long battle with brain tumors.
The building will be known as the Kathi Goertzen Communication Addition. The university said the building currently houses the Murrow College dean's suite, faculty offices and teaching and research labs.
A round of a planned fund-raising effort will create a "state-of-the-art multimedia convergence complex," according to the university, combining a working digital lab and television studio. A "Hall of Excellence" will display some of Kathi's work and that of alumni.
University officials said the complex will also become the new home of the Murrow College's nightly newscast, the same program on which Goertzen first honed her skills.
Every Murrow student will spend time in the complex during his or her WSU career, according to the university.
"This initiative is about what Kathi would have wanted," WSU Foundation President and Board of Governors Chair Dan Harmon said. "She loved helping students, and this effort will help further her legacy at WSU by completing the work along the same path she once traveled."


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Here at nameberry, we've been known to scrutinize trends down to a single letter (are V names in?) or syllable (la-beginnings) or sound (oo), as in Talllulah. The other day, thinking about the names that are emerging as as among the hottest for girls right now, I suddenly realized that several of them have something in common–and that is that they are all three-syllable names ending in the suffix ine:
This is a pattern that hasn't been seen in the US for a long time–if you don't count classics like Caroline and Madeline. The ones that are feminizations of boys' names, such as Geraldine and Ernestine, fell out of favor at a time when a) women didn't want to be thought of as appendages of men even in their names, and b) the particular male names they derived from were sounding particularly fusty.
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Johnson could find home again with Orioles
SEATTLE -- Could Jim Johnson make a return to Baltimore?
"That's completely in Oakland's hands now," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said of Johnson, who was designated for assignment by the A's on Thursday afternoon. "They have nine or 10 days to trade him, and I'm sure there will be some people that have interest in Jimmy. See what it takes. I'm sure that will play out most of the time unless [A's general manager] Billy [Beane] gets a deal he likes."
If they don't find a suitable deal, the A's could also place the struggling Johnson on waivers or release him during that 10-day time frame. Relieved of his ninth-inning duties just two weeks into the season, Johnson has a Major League-worst 6.92 ERA -- along with a $10 million salary -- and should clear waivers easily, which would likely result in his release. He has enough service time to decline a Minor League assignment, which could make him a free agent. And the O's were heavily rumored recently to have interest in a Johnson reunion, engaging in talks with the A's while the right-hander was still on their roster.
Showalter, who has kept in contact with Johnson this season, said he considers him a friend and it was tough to witness Johnson's struggles from afar.
"It was painful to watch because we all think so much of Jimmy as a person," Showalter said of Johnson, who saved 101 games for Baltimore in the previous two seasons. "He did some good things for us."
Johnson was an All-Star for the O's in 2012 and a huge part of the organization making the playoffs that year. Showalter believes he can still turn things around despite the disappointing start to 2014.
"It's such a snowball, at this level, at any sports. Things snowball," he said. "You are never quite as good as periods are and you are never as bad as periods are. He will end up in a good place and it will work out. He's got too much ability."
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) slammed Congressman Peter King (R-NY) on Fox News Sunday for trying to link the Boston bombers, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to Islamic extremists without any evidence. (Related story: CAPTURED: Second Boston Bombing Suspect in Police Custody)
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace interviewed the two politicians on the news show where the New York politician justified targeting Muslim communities for investigations. "Listen, the threat is coming from within the Muslim community in these cases," King said. "In New York, that's why Commissioner (Raymond) Kelly has 1,000 police officers out in the community. Unfortunately, he gets smeared by the New York Times and the Associated Press (AP), but the fact is we've stopped 16 plots in New York because we know that al-Qaeda is shifting its tactics…If you know where the threat is coming from that's where you have to look."
Feinstein argued in favor of allowing the investigation to do its work. "Well, that's exactly where they will look. I don't think all of this is very helpful. I think the important thing is to get the facts. Let the investigation proceed. The FBI has very good interrogators. They know what they are doing and I believe that they will put a case together that will be very strong," Feinstein said. "With respect to whether we are doing enough in the Muslim community, I think we should take a look at that, but I don't think we need to go and develop some real disdain and hatred on television about it."
Wallace stepped in at that point and told Feinstein, "I don't think that's what Congressman King was saying. He was saying that's where the threat is coming from and we have to address the threat."
But Feinstein pointed out that there was no evidence establishing the involvement of a Muslim community. "Well, this came at this point from two individuals. That's what we really do know. We do not know what their connections are so I think we ought to find out before we begin to charge them with all kinds of associations."
Wallace then asked Feinstein, who is one of the strongest advocates for a ban on assault weapons, about people's access to guns. "There are some conservatives who say – some conservatives who say that, when a million people in Boston were forced to stay in their homes, that a lot of those people – particularly in Watertown where they (the police) were going door to door and there was a real concern that this fellow might be on the loose, might break into their house, might take hostages – would people like to have guns?"
"Oh, some may have, yes," Feinstein replied without skipping a beat. "But if where you're going is do they need an assault weapon? I don't think so. As the vice president said …"
Wallace interrupted with another question. "Shouldn't they have the right to decide whatever weapon they feel they need to protect themselves?"
"Well, how about a machine gun then?" Feinstein retorted. "We did away with machine guns because of how they're used. I think we should do away with assault weapons because of how they're used."
While King supports increased surveillance of Muslim communities, the New York Police Department's (NYPD) targeting of Muslim communities by its "Demographics Unit" stirred a huge controversy in 2011 when the Associated Press released a report on its investigation of the undercover project. The investigation found that the NYPD put American citizens under surveillance and scrutinized where they ate, shopped, prayed and worked, infiltrated Muslim student groups and put informants everywhere, not because of charges of wrongdoing but because of their religion. The detailed descriptions in documents the news agency collected undercut the NYPD's claim that its officers only follow leads when investigating terrorism.
In a lawsuit following the release of the report, the NYPD acknowledged in court testimony that its spying on Muslim neighborhoods for more than six years did not generate a lead or trigger a terrorism investigation.
This is not the first time King has targeted Muslims – or other minority groups – without evidence. In his enthusiasm to collect taxes on cigarettes sold by Indian nations on their sovereign lands, King joined a chorus of Republican legislators in 2008 in broad unsubstantiated allegations linking Indian nations' cigarettes sales to groups listed as terrorist organizations by the U.S. The allegations were based largely on a report of an "investigation" prepared by the Republican staff of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security. But King, the ranking member of the committee, had launched the investigation making its outcome questionable from the start. (Related story: Politician's Unsubstantiated Indian Tobacco-Terrorist Link Targets Oneida)


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Two juveniles from Oroville and a third from Redding kidnapped a Marysville teen at gunpoint on Saturday, as part of a plot to help one of the boys date the victim's girlfriend, authorities said Monday.
Although the gun used in the kidnapping was later found to be an Airsoft pistol, "all three suspects admit they believed that the victim was not going to make it out alive," said Yuba County Undersheriff Jerry Read.
The three male suspects, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old from the Oroville area, and a 17-year-old from Redding, were arrested for kidnapping, conspiracy and brandishing an imitation firearm in a threatening manner. They were booked into juvenile hall on Saturday. Authorities are not releasing the names of the suspects or the victim because they are juveniles.
While the three were in Yuba County as part of a falsely arranged marijuana deal with the victim, the boys' motive was not drugs or money.
Investigators learned the boys' plan was to kidnap the victim and steal his cellphone so the Redding boy could pose as the victim and break up with his girlfriend. Then the Redding boy planned to call the girl, console her and ultimately try to date her, Read said.
After being apprehended by Yuba County deputies, the teenagers gave different accounts of what they intended to do to the victim, Read said.
The plans ranged from wanting to scare the victim, to breaking his ankles, slicing the bottoms of his feet with a razor blade, cutting his Achilles tendon, to sexually assaulting him, hanging him upside down and slicing his throat, or murdering him.
The boys created a fake Facebook profile and set up a meeting with the Marysville boy on Spring Valley Road for a marijuana transaction, according to Read.
As the victim waited on the road on Saturday afternoon, three males with bandanas around their faces arrived in a Chevy Blazer. The victim called his aunt and asked her to pick him up, Read said.
The vehicle turned around, and the front passenger got out and pointed the gun at the victim and ordered him into the vehicle. The aunt arrived as this occurred and confronted the boys, who then pushed the victim down in the back seat.
The aunt called the police around 1:30 p.m. and said her nephew was being held against his will in a vehicle by someone wearing a mask. She followed the Blazer and provided dispatchers with their location.
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I'm enrolled in a study to determine if acupuncture helps with neuropathy in the hands and feet. It's a 10 week study and I get free treatments through the course of the study.
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I'm enrolled in a study to determine if acupuncture helps with neuropathy in the hands and feet. It's a 10 week study and I get free treatments through the course of the study.
I'll let you know how it goes.
Very interesting Lisa. Hope it works and then you can be the first in our "family" to have tried it. We look forward to your success!
That is great news, Lisa. I can't wait to hear about the "positive" results. Is this a study in your area only?
I watched a documentary on alternative medicine and it was amazing. In some Chinese hospitals, they give acupuncture during surgery instead of drugs so you are awake during the whole surgery! And people dont feel pain and literally sit there while they are being cut open. It hurt me just to watch. So if it can do that, I am sure accupuncture can help you.
Looking forward to hear about your experience Lisa! I'm new here and I thank people for sharing their thoughts and experiences on cholangiocarcinoma.
Lisa, I'm also looking forward to hearing of the treatments. As one who does have neuropathy, I am anxious for anything that can help. Kudos to you for enrolling in the study!
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Good Luck with the acupuncture, Lisa. I look forward to reading your updates.
Have you finished the study yet? I've always been curious about acupuncture. It looks interesting and I would think it would be somewhat effective for different ailments since it's been used for so many hundreds of years.
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Alex Shear's Obsession with consumerism Has Created a Mirror of Modern America
"Something went off in my head," he says emphatically, remembering his favorite childhood pastime--sneaking up on girls and smashing into them in bumper cars. "I'm going to graduate from hat pin holders! I saw the beauty of nostalgia here in front of me. I saw culture in everything I did, and it was all out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania." For Shear, bumper cars embodied both America's mania for cars and its love affair with amusement parks and roadside attractions. Bumper cars from the 1940s symbolized postwar prosperity, when the emerging Levittowns and new highways placed the American Dream within the grasp of the middle class. What's more, these bumper cars were from Lancaster County, where Shear was born and raised, and they evoked his childhood in such a visceral way that they could be likened to Charles Foster Kane's Rosebud sled. "Stuff" was fast becoming "iconography." Shear recalls, "My entire life went past me. I had this calling to chronicle the America I knew in the twentieth century. This was the beginning of my dream to someday build the Museum for Regular People."
It takes a certain audacity to make the leap from collecting hat pin holders to chronicling twentieth-century American popular culture, but Shear is an intense kind of guy. At the time--the early 1970s--he was working as a housewares buyer for JC Penney, building what he says was the store's first kitchen shop, although Penney's had developed a full-fledged kitchen department as early as the 1950s. Finding no suitable reference materials with which to study consumer trends, Shear began cultivating his own reference base, not with a camera but with a checkbook, obsessively buying the best examples of the twentieth-century American kitchen. Soon he had acquired a collection of the most stylish and innovative toasters, mixers and coffeepots ever produced in this country. He knew that he was building what he claims is the only kitchen archive in the country, but he saw no connection between his work as a buyer and the bumper cars.
Since Shear had no room in his Manhattan apartment for a bumper car, he couldn't buy one, but in his mind a collection had begun. Of course, it would take another 25 years of amassing tens of thousands of artifacts, or as Shear says, "building lines," for the housewares buyer to evolve into a product designer with his own firm, Alex Designs, and then into his present profession. But who becomes a nostalgia consultant overnight?
On a humid July morning at Shear's apartment, the bearded 57-year-old nostalgia consultant sits in his living room, reclining in a futuristic yellow chair from the 1962 Seattle World's Fair that was originally designed for the Space Needle's restaurant. He wears a short-sleeved denim shirt, pleated khaki trousers and large tortoise-shell eyeglasses. Suddenly, he looks up from his datebook and says matter-of-factly, "This is not about accumulating stuff." His expression shows no irony, no hint that he is in what was once a six-room home and is now a six-room museum with a bed and a sink. His kitchen is too cluttered with diner memorabilia, newspapers and old juicers to be of use. His study contains shelves filled not with books but with industrial paperweights, model cars and old food tins. The long entryway has so many promotional thermometers, rocket-inspired sleds, work shirts, wooden manhole covers and chest-high stacks of board games, such as "Capital Punishment--for 2 to 4 Adults" and "What Shall I Be? The Exciting Game of Career Girls," that you almost have to wade through it sideways.
Although Shear is serious, his roommates are all smiles. A life-sized cardboard Coppertone woman in a white string bikini grins seductively. A bust of Farrah Fawcett with a string that can be pulled out of her head to make her hair grow stares blissfully from a pink plastic pedestal. Seven-foot-tall tin men, once used as trade signs at auto-repair shops from the 1920s through the 1950s, line the living-room wall. There are men made of galvanized steel and men made of plumbing pipes. Men made of radiators and men made of baked-bean cans. Men with air ducts for hands, electrical-outlet boxes for stomachs, taillights for eyes, upside-down funnels for hats, motor oil cans for necks and gutter pipes for arms. "This is a certain love affair, a passion," Shear says, sharing a smile with a tin man.
Nearby, on a streamlined 1960s Boomerang sofa, Shear's son, a 15-year-old wearing a Mobil Oil work shirt and green army shorts, thumbs through an issue of Popular Mechanics. He leans on what appears to be a grocery shelf of pillows--Chef Boy-ar-dee, Aqua Net Professional Hairspray, Tootsie Rolls and Oreos--and orders catalogues from the back of the magazine that he has no intention of buying anything from. "I just like to look at stuff," he says. What kind of stuff? Phone-tapping equipment, government surplus, beer-making supplies and tools.
When I ask the teenager what has invariably been an awkward question for the Shear family to answer ever since Shear's collection overtook his 9-to-5 job--namely, what his father does for a living--he pauses for a long time before blurting out, "He's a corporate exhibit designer who has thousands and thousands and hundreds of thousands of items. He also has a marketing business."
In fact, Shear has one of the most extensive private collections of American popular culture in the United States. With more than 55,000 artifacts that document the twentieth century (including more than 10,000 postcards), his holdings are more numerous than those found in many museums. Two-thirds of the items reflect postwar consumer culture, including everything from classics of industrial design by Raymond Loewy to Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dolls.
The collection is Shear's passion and his art, and he has managed to combine his eye as a buyer, his background in marketing and his penchant for interpreting American history through material goods into what is perhaps the only marketing company that boasts a museum-quality collection as one of its credentials. His company, Shear America, uses his vast resources to help other companies package the American Dream through traveling exhibits, displays and advertisements.
Shear's unique take manifests itself in a variety of job descriptions that are well suited to the upcoming fin de siècle celebrations. He calls himself a retro marketer, a millennium planner, a corporate curator, an exhibit designer, an armchair anthropologist, a fad forecaster and, of course, a nostalgia consultant. His long-term vision is to establish his own museum, The Museum for Regular People, but he'd gladly host PBS' "Chubb Antiques Roadshow."
Ever since he contributed items to "Great Stuff," a 1992 exhibit at the Children's Museum of Manhattan, Shear's collection has been in demand. He has exhibited his tin men--actually, steel-dipped-in-zinc men--at a congressional meeting of the American Zinc Institute in Washington, D.C., and his industrial paperweights at an American Iron and Steel Institute meeting. He's been featured in The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor. The History Channel filmed a segment on 100 years of the American home, using many objects from Shear's kitchen archive. (He had 24 hours to rummage through his five cluttered storage facilities outside the city for the best of his 60 coffeepots, 60 toasters and 25 vacuums.) And if he has his way, Good Housekeeping magazine will launch an exhibition of items that didn't get their seal of approval, such as a 1980s-era .357 Magnum Hand Gun Blow Dryer.
Still, Shear's high point in terms of credibility was when the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, which is the National Museum of Design of the Smithsonian Institution, included objects from his collection for its 1993 exhibition, "Mechanical Brides." The show featured household objects specifically designed to make housework alluring to women, to show the gender-based division of labor from 1920 to 1960. Many of the items were lent by Shear: miniature 1950s AT&T phones in pastel colors; "just-like-mommy" electric washing machines for girls; five rare Corning "Silver Streak" Pyrex glass irons that took Shear 20 years to collect, at around $800 each. Today, the jewel-like irons, made mostly of glass during the Second World War because of the metals shortage, are nearly impossible to find due to a fatal manufacturing oversight. Use them too often and the gem-like colors--ruby, emerald, cobalt--turn as brown as a Sylvia Plath mood ring.
Unlike a museum curator, who must adhere to certain directives and social obligations, not to mention established organizing principles, Shear serendipitously buys from instinct. "You see, this is so personal from my eyes," he says. "A curator in a museum setting is given an assignment to cull, to develop a whole collection. That is different from building an arcade of products from the heart." To bolster his claim, he produces a letter that Rodris Roth, curator of the Division of Social History Domestic Life Collection at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution, wrote to him in 1993: "None of us has or can gather objects to the extent that you have or display them in quite the way you do. As you know from having lent to 'Material World,' our exhibits provide an index of sorts to our collection--as well as what we may lack!"
By collecting everyday consumer artifacts such as hair dryers and coffeepots, Shear has built a time capsule that reflects and records daily American life. While curators and auction-house buyers were acquiring exceptional, one-of-a-kind artifacts from the past--such as paintings and fine furniture--that reflected a limited segment of the population, Shear was building an archive of mainstream Americana for mainstream America. As such, his collection offers broader insights into the average American's life during the twentieth century, from Depression-era ingenuity to postwar materialism to 1970s disco culture.
As we cross into the next century, Shear's collection provides us with a fantastic window into who we are as a culture. "Alex has created an invaluable resource for serious scholars by seeking the things that people did not value, which is what great collectors do," says Ellen Lupton, a curator of Contemporary Design at the Cooper-Hewitt. "As a museum curator, I'm interested in the social and aesthetic value of material culture, but you can't study that without the objects. Alex has the actual stuff."
It seems that as we near the millennium, nostalgia has never been more cutting-edge. Everyone, particularly baby boomers, is buying items from the 1950s, '60s and '70s; the word "retro" has replaced "cool"; and Shear America is fielding calls from museum curators, television producers, corporations and trade associations, discussing possibilities ranging from traveling exhibitions to a television series. It seems that everyone wants a hand in documenting the twentieth century. "There's no question this is overwhelming," Shear says, referring to the immense scope of his ambitions versus the two years until the millennium. "I see myself as a pilot with an overloaded 747 trying to lift off a short runway."
Shear believes he has a patriotic mission to communicate through his stuff, which for him means focusing on the struggles and the triumphs of the common man. This is why he won't buy, say, one of Andy Warhol's Little Red Riding Hood cookie jars--or any cookie jar, for that matter, unless, of course, it is in the shape of Famous Amos. (The self-made cookie entrepreneur is one of Shear's heroes.) Or why he'd pass up the ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in The Wizard of Oz , which are now behind glass at the Smithsonian Institution. Shear yearns to understand and celebrate the regular guy, the working stiff who had to put milk on the table, not the celebrity. "Through these artifacts I might better define who we are as a people," he says. "This is about this country's social mosaic, its problems, its hopes, its desires, its unfairness. I celebrate America. I'm a patriot who does not wave a flag."
To demonstrate the point, Shear reaches two shelves below "Brook Shields: The Most Glamorous Teenage Doll" and the "Music for Washing and Ironing" record album and grabs a foot-tall ceramic ashtray in the shape of a nuclear cooling tower. The ashtray, which was mass-produced, has a thin brown-and-white glaze like a coffee mug that you might find at a tourist-trap gift shop. The tower says "Three Mile Island" in brown block letters and has turret-like cutouts on top. Rest a lit cigar in one of them and the plumes of smoke suggest a nuclear meltdown. Although highbrow collectors would dismiss the ashtray as mere kitsch, the piece is the equivalent of a Rembrandt to Shear. It forms part of his Duck-and-Cover/Fallout Memorabilia, which comes under the heading of Atomic Bomb Memorabilia. He owns 62 items in this category, from a low-budget board game called "Reactor: A Radiating Experience" to a first-run fallout shelter sign.
"There's a collective response from average folks that I'm interested in hearing," he says. "You have The New York Times and then you have this, the popular response." When Shear gets going it's hard to cool him down. "This is America at its best," he goes on. "This is the Three Mile Island disaster that they are covering up. This is our Chernobyl. They don't know what they are doing! This is scary. This ashtray is, in a sense, the middle finger to the whole thing."
Conversely, when you browse through Shear's collection you are, in a sense, looking at his life. During the 1979 Three Mile Island accident, he had to evacuate his mother, who lived 15 miles from the reactor, a task that, incidentally, he has some training in. During his military service he was trained in decontamination techniques with the U.S. Army 318 Chemical Corp. By the same token, his collection of miniature brides and grooms began during his divorce eight years ago. And in the 1980s, after a line of drinking glasses he was mass-producing was copied by competitors, Shear entered into a seven-year copyright infringement lawsuit that inspired him to collect knockoffs. He owns 40 bottles of 7UP-like derivatives with names like 7-Down, Upper-Ten and Upside Down.
The longer it took the court case to be resolved (he eventually won), the more Shear began to see business as a type of warfare. Not only did he show up for court dressed from head to toe in khakis, but he expanded his collection into trench art--items crafted by soldiers out of spent artillery shells and cartridge casings during lulls in the fighting. He bought sleek coffeepots, a hurricane lamp, a rug-hooking kit, a 1942 field officer's mug and dozens of other items, all made by soldiers during wartime. He refuses to buy guns or other weapons.
Shear grabs a wooden swagger stick from a shelf of trench art and becomes a squadron commander on an aircraft carrier stationed in the South Pacific in 1945. "We are going to take a run into Iwo Jima at night. Now MacArthur is going to send in Jimmy Doolittle. They're going to drop the big bomb here," he says, cracking the swagger stick on an imaginary wall map and finishing the briefing.
Shear's off-the-cuff, anecdotal style has been compared to that of Sister Wendy Beckett, the bucktoothed nun who hosts a series of art programs on the BBC. He speaks in long tangents, linking items to legends, history to billboards, fathers to basement workshops. During the course of the interview, he often asks himself the questions, answers them and comes back with his own follow-ups. One way in which he engages people in his collection is by spinning stories about what he wishes had happened, a distinct advantage that a nostalgia consultant enjoys over a museum curator.
Although Shear craves recognition for his efforts, he's reluctant to invite people whom, as he says, might not "get it," to see his collection. Especially women he is dating. They may not understand his enthusiasm for, say, hair spray or bathing caps. Take Collection 159: Vanity in America. On a high shelf is a stack of 1960s plastic bouffant wigs for little girls who wanted to look "just like mommy." Next to the wigs are several bathing caps (he owns 50) that appear to have grown out of a coral reef--one, an "Aqua Original Exclusive Mermaid Millinery Creation," has a platinum-blonde wig attached. Soon he's strutting around the living room in a Buck Rogersesque aluminum welder's helmet that is actually an E. Fredericks Hair and Scalp Treatment Vaporizer from a 1930s beauty parlor or, as Shear calls it, a compression chamber for an Art Deco lady.
The subject of hair inevitably triggers Shear's childhood regret of never having had the perfect 1950s flattop haircut. Flattops were as popular in the 1950s as jeans with rolled-up cuffs. "I wanted my hair to be as flat as an aircraft carrier. I used to jump around to barbers who had steady hands. I liked my flattop flat, not listing, and I'd tilt my head three degrees to compensate," he says with a laugh, waving a 1950s Miller "Level Head" flattop comb, complete with an attached carpenter's level. "It would have changed my life if I were the lucky user!"
Shear is a baseball card collector who actually chews the bubblegum. He buys from the gut, using his own criteria of value rather than consulting collecting guides or experts. (Ironically, it's the curators who often come to him for items.) He avoids auctions, preferring the thrill of the hunt. His collection comes largely from flea markets, garage sales and regional antiques stores. Although he once had to dip into his pension fund to buy an eight-foot-tall wooden roller skate for $4,000, most of the items are not costly. On the other hand, the uninitiated may find it odd to spend $10 on a 13-year-old box of Wheaties. But then again, not all collectors have a thing for gymnast Mary Lou Retton. "I like her perkiness. I like her can-do. I like her gold medal," Shear says, beaming. "She's an icon of the '80s." Shear's approach involves anywhere from 230 to 500 overlapping categories, depending on which day you ask. One category is electric lunch boxes (they worked like toaster ovens to make hot meals). Another is five-and-dime-store toys. Still another is roadside memorabilia.
When asked if his collection has ever been appraised, he seems a bit put off and responds, "Can you appraise Andy Warhol's eye?" Ever considered selling the collection to a collector or a museum? "Would the Smithsonian sell its archive?" he retorts.
Shear would never buy a repainted object or a reproduction. The surface must have integrity. It must be well designed, too, exhibiting common-sense ingenuity over technological prowess. Novelty items inspired by fads (such as 1950s vacuum cleaners in the shape of rockets) and products resulting from planned obsolescence give him a thrill. Humor, spontaneity, honesty and his sense of can-do are key. His shelves of Shaker-quality Depression art (funnels, lunch boxes, toys and musical instruments soldered out of used tin cans) reflect American resourcefulness in the face of poverty. His boutique "line" of obsession art handbags and wallets meticulously woven out of thousands of cigarette wrappers by prison inmates shows how the wastebasket, and lots of free time, can inspire art.
Shear never buys just a label, whether it's a designer shirt or a status car. He bought a 1972 Frank Gehry Easy Edges chair because it was constructed of corrugated cardboard, not because it was designed by a famous architect. He prefers what he calls factory folk art and finds standard folk art, such as weathervanes and quilts, respectable when they aren't "art directed," but boring. Nearly all of Shear's items are consumer-oriented and useful, even if they are absurd and silly.
"There's a gallery in everybody's home that displays this popular art," Shear says, referring specifically to a shelf of 500 popular brand radios that mirror grocery products. The transistor radios were promotional giveaways in the 1960s, '70s and '80s and turn his study into a virtual 7-Eleven. There are radio replicas of Hunt's Manwich sauce, Diamond Crystal Salt, Pepperidge Farm Stuffing, ScotTowels, Avon's Skin-So-Soft bath gel and Adolph's Meat Tenderizer, not to mention generic cheeseburgers, hot dogs and bananas. Then there are Heinz Ketchup flashlights and Hershey's Chocolate Milk telephones. "It's on the television set, it's in the pantry, at sporting events and picnics. You can't get away from this onslaught of consumer brands," he says.
When Shear kneels and opens a 1959 salesman's sample suitcase with a miniature Plexiglas-enclosed above-ground swimming pool, post-Levittown suburban life emerges. Here, in dollhouse size, is the swimming pool, the inflatable raft, the lawn, the topiary. A second case has a pull-down aluminum awning for a car port. A third one contains eight 1950s miniature AT&T phones in "new-fangled" colors. As Americans filled their suburban homes with gadgets, labor-saving appliances and convenience products, the door-to-door salesman, while inefficient, was not yet obsolete. The 50 salesman's sample cases in Shear's collection--13 of which feature above-ground swimming pools--reflect this golden age of consumerism.
Shear's mind wanders from the backyard pool parties to the frontyard aluminum car port, where there's a turquoise '57 Chevy convertible parked next to a 1950s ranch house. Without pausing for air, he dashes into his study and fumbles in the dark for a turquoise vinyl dinette chair. He drags the chair into the living room, plops into it and demonstrates how the kitchen became an extension of the automobile. "You went right from your Chevy into the kitchen and had dinner at the wheel," he explains. "All of your appliances enabled you to never leave your '57 Chevy. Mom was all dolled up to sit in the shotgun seat. Dad began to look like Elvis. Your entire life was ''57 Chevy'."
In the year 2000, Shear will turn 60. He was born in 1940 into a conservative Jewish home in rural Lancaster. His grandparents were Eastern European trade merchants who had immigrated through Ellis Island and instilled in the family a love for merchandising. As seven-year-olds, Shear and his twin brother, Ted, spent every Thursday night at the Lancaster city auctions, watching their mother, Sarah, buy china, glassware, and, of course, hat pin holders, and their father, Paul, buy old tools. However, Shear's early passion for Americana actually began in what was once an old brick cigar factory. (At the turn of the century, Lancaster was a major cigar-tobacco growing region.) Here, Paul Shear, a true fad forecaster, ran a wholesale warehouse that distributed toys and seasonal goods. Shear credits his passion for pop culture to growing up in a warehouse full of the latest crazes, such as the slender polyethylene tube that was all the rage in 1958--the Hula Hoop. A steady stream of yo-yos, early Shmoos from Lil' Abner, Betty Boop dolls and Flexible Flyer sleds fascinated the young Alex.
Aside from his baseball cards, Shear was never much of a collector as a child. His desire to collect would later come from a yen to recapture the thrill he felt as a teenager delivering The Lancaster New Era to the surrounding new suburbs on his Schwinn Panther. "I used to go into these suburban ranches and see this 'world of tomorrow,' " he says, referring to the excitement that he experienced as an outsider.
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Hello there, I just have a quick suggestion regarding the Dana recommendations thread.
The Dana recommendations thread currently sits in the announcements section, where comparatively fewer people visit. I think it would be a very positive change to perhaps move it to the Theravada for the Modern World section - in fact, I think a sub-forum in that section for Dana and other compassionate Buddhist activities would be a great addition. An "Engaged Buddhism" section so to speak, although that's a more Mahayana term. As it is, I don't know if there exists a good place for many of those topics; creating a section for them might be an idea to look into.
Perhaps reorienting Theravada for the Modern World into a more "Buddhism in Action" forum would be a good idea. I only recommend this because as of now I don't see a huge division between that forum and the General Theravada discussion forum in terms of what is discussed. I think this forum lacks a clear spot currently for discussions and threads regarding these issues. In my opinion, bringing some of the general Theravada stuff out from the Modern World section and dedicating the Modern World section to a more "Practicing Buddhism in Today's World" section with a subforum for Dana would really help differentiate the two, reduce the vagueness that afflicts the two sections now, and allow for a richer discussion area for Dana and other compassionate Buddhist activities.
This is just a collection of my thoughts. I'd be interested to see what other members or admins think. I hope I have not come off as demanding or overstepping my boundaries. Thank you!


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It was the battle of the divas on the American Idol season 12 finale in LA last night, and we're not just talking about contestants Candice Glover and Kree Harrison facing off for the final time. Jennifer Lopez and Mariah Carey both took the stage to sing during the finale, with Mariah singing a medley of her biggest hits in a formfitting white gown and J Lo energetically performing "Live It Up" alongside Pitbull. Judges Keith Urban and Randy Jackson also got in on the action on stage, making Nicki Minaj the only judge who didn't do a performance of some kind. This all came hot on the heels of persistent rumors that Nicki won't return to Idol next year.
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Who was fired: Norv Turner (56-40 in six seasons, 3-3 in playoffs) and general manager A.J. Smith.
What happened: Turner was lucky to get another season, but when he couldn't deliver a playoff berth for the third straight year, his fate was sealed. Turner took the Chargers to the AFC championship game in his first season, but it's been downhill ever since. There were several seasons when the Chargers were favored to win the AFC West and failed. Slowly, the Chargers' talent based eroded and in recent years, Turner's teams had a damaging habit of blowing leads and giving up huge plays. The Chargers were just 24-24 over the past three seasons. Smith was also fired Monday. He earned a reputation as a tough negotiator who often took a hard line with players. Turner, on the other hand, was popular with his players and had a close relationship with quarterback Philip Rivers. But in the end, Turner simply didn't win enough, and his third chance as a head coach may have been his last.
What's being said: Turner said he was leaving with his head held high, despite not being very popular in San Diego in recent years. "I think the coach who comes in here will be impressed with the work ethic," Turner said. "I'm proud of what we've done."
What's next: With two hires to make, the Chargers will have former Packers general manager Ron Wolf to help their search for a G.M. and coach. The plan is to hire a general manager first, then the coach. Under Smith's tenure, the Chargers lost a number of players in free agency who enjoyed continued success after leaving San Diego, including Vincent Jackson, Darren Sproles, Drew Brees, LaDainian Tomlinson, Antonio Cromartie and Michael Turner. That talent wasn't replenished enough through the draft and free agency.
What they need: The Chargers need more balance offensively, and more consistent plays on special teams.
Who would fit: U-T San Diego's Kevin Acee identifies Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians, Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, Falcons offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter and Saints offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael among the candidates who would all love to work with Rivers, as would Bengals assistant coach Hue Jackson.
How good is the job? One of the best available openings, largely because Rivers has proven he can be one of the NFL's best quarterbacks. If the next coach can get Rivers back to playing his best, this team could make a quick move.