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Sharing isn’t caring When social media updates become too much

By BROOKE VANCLEAVE St. Joseph News-Press

“My baby is so adorable! Here are 600 pictures to prove it!”

“I can never please anyone, I guess I should stop trying ...”

“Just ate a grilled cheese sandwich. #Yummy.”

We’re all victims of it, and we’re all guilty of it. Oversharing has become the bane of the social media boom. But what is it, why do we do it and how can we avoid it?

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Shirley Cochran delivers food made by Larry Wright Friday afternoon during lunch at Shirley’s Dinner Bell in Wathena, Kan.

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By JENNIFER GORDON St. Joseph News-Press

Shirley’s Dinner Bell oozes nostalgia, and not the kind found at novelty shops or ‘50s-themed chain restaurants.

At the cash-only Wathena, Kan., establishment, customers linger after meals, sipping coffee from an assorted collection of mugs and gabbing.

They sit and read the newspaper, and the proprietress, Shirley Cochran, calls them by name. Wallace. Jimmy.

Joel.

The menus are simple, the specials the same every week. Fried chicken and roast beef on Sundays. Meatloaf and catfish on Fridays. When prices increased from the original menu, they were covered in Wite-Out and the new price handwritten in.

Matt Reid | St. Joseph News- Press Shirley cuts costs where she can.

A look at a to-go tenderloin (minus the bun) and fries from Shirley’s Dinner Bell in Wathena, Kan. Once upon a time she had uniform mugs with her name on them.

“You wouldn’t believe how they “Am I too late for breakfast?” the Tuesday through Saturday, and 6 broke cups around here,” she says. former postmaster asks, as he sits on a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sundays.

She had a guy that made them, but a stool at the lunch counter.

“I’m lucky to have that,” Shirley then he passed away. Catalog mugs “Nah,” Shirley says with a smile. “I says. are expensive, so she collects them know the cook.”

Finding staff for the Dinner Bell from other places.

At an age when most are retired, can be tricky because of the amount Shirley pours coffee into one of her Shirley runs, serves and sometimes of hours they have to work. Shircollected mugs as soon as she sees cooks for her restaurant. ley’s gone through a lot of waitJim McAnerney approach late one Five people, including Shirley, her resses in the past six months. Nicole Friday morning. She also gets him a husband, Frank, and their daughter, water.

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Man retires after 50 years in electronics

By JENNIFER HALL

18½ years.”

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An evolution

As electronics evolved, Mr. Beaman evolved along with it by taking classes in electronics.

“I didn’t ever feel I had any troubles keeping up,” he said. “But to me, the writing was on the wall.

I just couldn’t make a decent living at it. That’s why I got out of it, and that’s a hard thing.”

Up to his retirement in December as a GE technician, Mr. Beaman estimates he drove around 400,000 miles working on his old friend, electronics.

“It was a great job,” he said. “The Lord works in mysterious ways. Had I not worked for J.C. Penney and been trained in major appliances, that GE job would not have been available to me.”

Mrs. Beaman is happy her husband gets a break.

“He’s worked hard his whole life,” she said. “He gets to get up now and do what he wants to do. I think it’s neat.”

Ron Beaman has seen firsthand the evolution of electronics.

In the last 50 years, the St. Joseph man has repaired everything from black-and-white televisions and transistor radios to front-load washing machines and plasma screens. And he didn’t believe the guy who told him there would be televisions hanging from the wall one day.

He attributes the amazing progression to the offshoot of the military and the space program.

Even as a boy, Mr. Beaman was interested in electronics.

“I think that’s how you learn to repair things,” he said. “Assuming you get them back together. If you know how it operates, it’s a whole lot easier to repair it.”

An early start

He had two paper routes in New Hampton, Mo., and still found time to hang around the local television repair shop.

When the elderly owner closed the store, he gave Mr. Beaman some of the inventory. At just 13 years old, he lost his father to cancer and the family moved to Bethany, Mo. “I can remember, there was a fellow who kind of took me under his wing,” he said. “He bought me a soldering iron and a few other tools. I guess it was just something that was meant to be.”

At 16, he rented his first repair shop next to the local post office. It was nothing elaborate. He fixed toasters, mixers and some radios.

“It kind of reminded you of the repair shop, and Andy, of Mayberry,” he said.

Mr. Beaman moved to St. Joseph in 1965, had joined the Army Reserves and worked for Round Radio and TV. A year later, he helped set up and manage the electronic service department for J.C. Penney.

The company sent him all over the country to learn about appliance repair.

“They insisted on me learning that business,” he said. “And that was my first plane ride.”

Nearly 99 percent of the company’s appliances were General Electric, and there was a demand for major appliance repair.

The chain wanted employees versatile enough to know both small and large appliances. Yet he received a lot of his electronics training on the VCR.

Sait Serkan Gurbuz | St. Joseph News- Press

Ron Beaman poses for a portrait in front of the shop he used to own on St. Joseph Avenue. ‘(I) carried a lot of televisions in and out of this door,’ he said. The current owner did not take down Mr. Beaman’s sign.

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disposable item. It’s repair costs versus replacement costs. To Mr. Beaman, that was the real downhill part of the deal. He operated Beaman’s TV, Appliance and Video from 1982 to 2000. There was busywork to do, but no real repair jobs.

His own place “I really thought the reJ.C. Penney eventually pair of electronics, such as closed the department and I was doing, would just go employees were given the on and on,” he said. “I nevopportunity to work for er really saw it evolving to GE. Mr. Beaman went to the point that it was just work for St. Joseph Eleccost-prohibitive to repair tronics for a time, then something.” opted to open his own Instead of paying $30 to business with his wife, replace a broken, $60 DVD Laura. player, many consumers The electronics busiwill simply go to the store ness was a way of life and buy a new one.

Sait Serkan Gurbuz | St. Joseph News- Press for the Beamans. Three Emotional attachRon Beaman shows a picture of himself taken at Round Radio and TV on Frederick Avenue ‘probably in the weeks after the birth ment and his pride kept fall of 1966.’ Mr. Beaman worked at the store for a year before leaving for military service. of their fourth child, a him in business longer daughter, Mrs. Beaman than he should have. He CROSSWORD SOLUTION decade before, when the went back to work in the finally took a job as a department at J.C. Penney office at the repair shop. repair technician for GE, closed.

The baby went, too. and hindsight tells him “You can’t change those “I used an old J.C. Pen- he should have taken things,” he said. “But I did ney parts box and lined that job earlier, almost a have my own business for it with quilts for a bed for the baby,” she said.

But the business just kind of went away.

“I could stay busy,” Mr. Working with your physician Beaman said. “Hard to to keep you healthy! make a living at it.”

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“And, of course, that’s almost an obsolete thing anymore,” he said. “I always thought it was incredible that they could take magnetic tape and put a good color picture on it. It was very sophisticated.”

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

TV to watch this winter Catch up on must-see shows you may not be aware of

By ERIN WISDOM St. Joseph News-Press

Let’s face it: Winter isn’t going anywhere for a while.

So in lieu of going stir crazy, why not embrace the season as an excuse to spend hours on the couch, catching up on a great TV show you didn’t watch when it began? Karen Graves of St. Joseph can attest to the satisfaction that can come with this, having recently watched the first two seasons of the British period drama “Downton Abbey” in only about two days.

“When I heard all the terrific reviews and learned that there would be a third season, I decided to get with it,” Ms. Graves says.

“I ordered seasons one and two for Christmas. The week before season three (began on Jan. 6), we started a marathon of watching and catching up.”

While “Downton Abbey” is no longer any secret — The New York Times recently noted, in fact, that it has “improbably become one of America’s mostbuzzed-about shows” — it wasn’t initially met with such fanfare on this side of the Atlantic. Thus, many people have only recently gotten to know the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants, as well as the storyline depicting how key events of the early 20th century affect their lives and

the British social hierarchy in general.

“I think ‘Downton Abbey’ is kind of a sophisticated soap opera,” Ms. Graves says. “It has it all: Titanic, war, love, deceit and those incredible English manners!

Did the men really dress like that every night for dinner?”

She adds that from experiences she and her husband have had traveling in England, she can appreciate the authenticity that comes with the show being filmed in a real English castle — and from it dealing with the true-to-life scenario in which an impressive family estate isn’t necessarily paired with stability.

“The bottom line: Change happens, even when bloodlines run deep,” Ms. Graves notes.

So, if this has piqued your interest, here’s how to catch up: Seasons one and two of “Downton Abbey” can be purchased on DVD and Blu-ray or through iTunes, and they’re also available for streaming on Netflix (netflix.com) and for free through Hulu (hulu.com).

New episodes air at 8 p.m.

Sundays on PBS, and after airing, the most recent can be viewed at www.pbs.org and on the PBS app.

Following are a few more shows that haven’t yet received the recognition of “Downton Abbey” but, according to a number or

Associated Press

From left, Elizabeth McGovern as Lady Grantham, Hugh Bonneville as Lord Grantham, Dan Stevens as Matthew Crawley, Penelope Wilton as Isobel Crawley, Allen Leech as Tom Branson, Jim Carter as Mr. Carson and Phyllis Logan as Mrs. Hughes, star in the TV series, ‘Downton Abbey.’ sources, are very much worth watching. (Research for this article revealed how little consensus there is overall concerning what TV shows don’t have the viewership they deserve, but the list compiled below includes ones that were cited repeatedly as must-sees that many aren’t seeing.)

“Parenthood” (NBC). This comedy-drama now in its fourth season (and produced by the people who were behind “Friday Night Lights” and “Arrested Development”) focuses on the

lives of three generations of the Braverman family living in Berkeley, Calif. The AARP, in its article “The Best TV Shows You’re Not Watching,” describes it as “one of the finest grown-up dramas on television” and also notes that “The large Braverman family and its many joys and crises feel real ... and so do the intergenerational relationships and sibling rivalries.”

Yahoo’s “Most Underrated TV Shows of 2012” says the show “has it all: laughter, tears, crazy schemes, hilarious scrapes, serious issues.”

And Thought Catalog’s “12 Great (Yet Underappreciated) TV Shows You Should Start Watching” ranks “Parenthood” as No. 1 on this list — saying the show has a “dream cast” and is “sneakily becoming one of TV’s best shows.”

How to catch up: The first three seasons of “Parenthood” are available on DVD, and those seasons as well as individual episodes from season four are on iTunes, as well. The first three seasons can also be streamed on Netflix, and all of season four thus far is available for free on Hulu. In addition, some recent episodes can be viewed at www.nbc.com and on the NBC app. New episodes air at 9 p.m. on Tuesdays.

“Happy Endings” (ABC). Perhaps this sounds familiar: Six best friends living in a big city, dealing in various combinations with two plot lines per episode. It worked for “Friends,” and according to the Thought Catalog article mentioned above, it’s working even better for “Happy Endings.” The article describes this sitcom set

in Chicago as “the hardestworking show on TV, throwing hundreds of jokes, pop culture references and sight gags into every episode.”

Similarly, Screen Rant calls it one of ABC’s strongest comedies. (Evidently ABC agrees, since it’s opted to air two new episodes each week.)

How to catch up: The first and second seasons of “Happy Endings” are on DVD, and these as well as the episodes from season three that have aired thus far can also be purchased from iTunes. The show also is available from Netflix (DVD only), and some episodes from the current season are on Hulu, abc.go.com and ABC’s app. New episodes air both at 9 p.m. Sundays and 8 p.m. Tuesdays.

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Sharing isn’t caring CONTINUED FROM Page A1

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Shirley Cochran laughs with customer Jim McAnerney during lunch at Shirley’s Dinner Bell in Wathena, Kan.

Wathena woman keeps family-owned restaurant going CONTINUED FROM Page 1 Willmore’s been working there for a month. She works a split during the week. Shirley’s daughter waitresses on the weekend. Shirley covers the floor at night. Larry Wright cooks during the week. Shirley cooks Saturday night.

Other than Jim, the restaurant sits empty as lunchtime approaches.

“It’s going to be a quiet Friday,” Larry says.

Shirley checks the calendar. School doesn’t start until Monday, she says. People might still be off work from the New Year’s holiday.

She doesn’t advertise for the Dinner Bell. Her customers do.

“You’d be surprised what word of mouth does,” Frank says.

Shirley purchased the property 15 years ago. A clavicle injury had forced her to leave her waitressing job at Elwood, Kan.’s, Country Kitchen, and

she thought she was done serving for good. Then the opportunity came up for the space, and she jumped on it.

Her history with the building dates back more than 40 years. She worked as a server at the location when it was Hardy’s Cafe.

A painting of Hardy’s hangs on the back wall next to the eponymous dinner bell.

The décor of the Dinner Bell is Shirley’s idea of nostalgia.

She put a painted tile from Wathena High School into the Dinner Bell’s ceiling. Wathena’s schools consolidated into Riverside Unified School District 114 in fall 2011.

Images of American Indians, gifts from customers, decorate the walls.

Her granddaughter’s drawings line the display case, and Shirley hung up one of her charcoal drawings.

On three small pieces of corkboard, Shirley hung up pictures given to

her from the community.

Three of the multitude of faces belong to her family.

There’s a jar of pennies behind the counter that Shirley jokes is her retirement fund.

Lots of times she’s wondered why she keeps working. Then she moves past the thought.

“I just get up and come up and do it,” she says.

Business stays slow through dinnertime.

As the five o’clock hour ticks past, two couples eat their food. One pair operates the law firm Shirley’s daughter works for in Troy, Kan. The other pair Shirley knows, too.

“More coffee, Wallace?” she says to the whitehaired man.

He agrees.

Shirley fills up his cup.

She goes back, stands behind the counter and waits for the next order.

is “the act of sharing too much information, or TMI, with people who are not necessarily prepared or qualified to receive it” and is sometimes the result of “a poorly developed social filter or ‘shut up button.’”

While it is certainly possible to engage in oversharing in a face-to-face conversation, social media sites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have enabled people to post updates about their lives that they most likely wouldn’t discuss in person, often irritating or even offending their Internet friends.

Examples of oversharing include constantly informing others of mundane daily tasks, going into graphic detail about an illness or medical procedure, bragging about a personal accomplishment or complaining about someone else in a status update. Some people overshare details of their lives through pictures, such as posting photos of every meal they ate that week.

The consequences of Internet oversharing can range from minor annoyances to serious career or legal troubles. For instance, a disgruntled employee who complains about their boss or coworkers online could face fines or termination for violating their company’s social media policy.

So why do so many people feel the need to overshare? Sometimes it’s as simple as a new mom feeling so excited about her baby’s accomplishments that it seems normal to update her Facebook friends about potty training or

diaper rash.

However, some experts point to more serious issues that could drive the compulsion to overshare.

“One commonly shared opinion is that it is usually a form of obsession. The old adage about keeping up with the changes now has developed into a digital format,” says Dr. Ali Kamali, professor of sociology at Missouri Western State University.

“Updating information on social media turns into, sometimes, a magnification of one’s qualities, which, indirectly or directly, whether it is subconscious or not, is to increase popularity and the number of people you’re connected to. People want to create connections,” Dr. Kamali says.

He says some psychologists use the term “collective narcissism” to discuss the phenomenon of online oversharing, in which frequent status updates are actually a cry for help or attention.

“To me this is a little bit too much of an extreme. I would think of it more as a form of self-validation,” Dr. Kamali says. “ ... We always like, as human beings, to show off our qualities and qualifications.”

If you suspect yourself of oversharing from time to time, the best way to combat the symptoms is to be more mindful of what you are saying before posting an update. Take a moment to ask yourself: Would this post annoy or upset me if someone else was saying it?

A little self-editing can go a long way, and will spare your Facebook and Twitter peers a lot of eye-rolling.

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“Nurse Jackie” (Showtime).

Screen Rant notes that “Nurse Jackie” — which follows New York City emergency room nurse Jackie Peyton through her pain killer-fueled life of chaos and lies — has been receiving award nominations since it

started in 2009, which has made many familiar with its name yet hasn’t led to lots of viewers. Yahoo describes it as “one of the most intriguing and scathingly funny dramedies on TV.” How to catch up: The first four seasons are on DVD and Blu-ray, and the first three seasons can

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