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The game should have been over, but an Auburn defender took the ball in a moment of foolish, premature celebration and began running down the field. The official had to stop the clock to get the ball back.
This allowed Georgia to line up, giving Bobo time to spike the ball and get off one final pass, which happened to be a gem of a 31-yarder to receiver Corey Allen just inside the goal line. Every now and then, Bobo will show that final series to his quarterbacks, reminding them that if the other team had not done something stupid, he would have never been the hero.
"I want them to understand what not to do," Bobo said. "I made a terrible mistake but got away with it."
The victory came about because Bobo, cool under fire, moved the Bulldogs from his own 18-yard line with 1:07 left in the game to the end zone. With no timeouts remaining, he worked the clock to perfection, throwing sideline passes to Hines Ward to stop the clock in masterly fashion. No Georgia quarterback has ever been more Johnny Unitas–like in moving a team to a critical touchdown.
The Georgia defense held on the home team's last possession to win the game, 56-49 in four overtimes.
Second-guessing the quarterback and the play caller — Bobo could write a book about each subject — is indelible in football fandom's unrelenting landscape, but how could anybody not take the time to review and factor in all the data? The cold, hard facts cause his associates to shake their heads in dismay when Bobo is criticized.
Don't ask the critic next door, ask people like Jon Gruden, the former Super Bowl-winning coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and now the analyst for ESPN's Monday Night Football.
"Mike Bobo is one of the sharpest young coaches I have ever met," Gruden said.
Georgia's offensive production in 2012 not only enabled the Bulldogs to win 12 games and the SEC East title, but registered high nationally on the stat sheet. How about long scrimmage plays for starters:
n Plays of 20-plus yards (90 of them), ranked No. 3 in the country.
n 30-plus yards (45), No. 3.
n 40-plus yards (28), No. 2.
n 50-plus yards (15), No. 2.
n 60-plus yards (9), No. 3.
The Bulldogs set 16 offensive team records a season ago, including most points for a season, 529, and highest average points scored per game, 37.8. Georgia also set five Capital One Bowl records, including passing yards (427) and touchown passes (five) against one of the toughest pass defenses in the country, defeating Nebraska — a much better team than advertised — 45-31.
Mark Richt brought the Florida State passing game to Georgia in 2001, and the Bulldogs' offensive production was a hit from the start. Richt's first team averaged 32.1 points, and his offenses were above 25 points per game every year thereafter.
Bobo took over as offensive coordinator in 2007 and increased production. His first offense averaged 32.6 and only one year — 2009, when Joe Cox began the season on the sick bed on the road at Oklahoma State — did the Bulldogs' offense drop below 30 points per game. Even so, that offense wasn't bad at 28.9 points per game.
The stat that jumps out at an observer from 2012 is that the Bulldogs averaged 7.1 yards per play. Never the self-promoter, Bobo had this to say about last year's glittering offensive performance,
"It means nothing. We all could get fired in January," he responded with a laugh.
Bobo could have left Athens lately for other coordinating positions with big raises, but he politely declined to interview. He could have had a head coach's job in a lower division by now but realizes that being Georgia's offensive coordinator is better than being a head coach at a lot of schools.
He grew up in the state, played high school football for his father, George, in Thomasville, and quarterbacked his favorite team in college. At Georgia, he had fun, made friends, and learned that there is fulfillment in a career if you can find a place to coach that is similar to where you played.
That it happened to be one and the same with Bobo is something he embraces with the greatest of affection and commitment. He loves Athens, he loves Georgia, and his family — parents and in-laws — are within reach, which means that down time is a grand old time with the family.
Golf and fishing are nice diversions for him, but when his coaching nose is not butting up against the grindstone, he treasures family time. With five kids aged 9 or younger, Bobo goes from one action-packed environment to another, loving every minute of it.
Even so, Bobo tries to stay on top of his game from one season to the next. He spent time in the spring of 2012 with Gruden. In those sessions, the conversation had to do with lead zone concepts, high-percentage pass plays, and no-huddle formations. Gruden gave him a play-action pass off the sprint zone, which Bobo filed away. Georgia practiced the play during the season but never used it in a game.
It would lead to a fortuitous moment, however.
Nebraska — which was a much better team than many forecasters realized despite losing 70-31 to Wisconsin in the Big Ten title game — went toe-to-toe with the Bulldogs.
"We knew we could not make any mistakes on offense to move the ball on them," Bobo said.
After Nebraska scored on an interception return and was leading 14-9 in the second quarter, Bobo decided that Nebraska, which emphasized quarters coverage, might be vulnerable to the play-action pass he had gotten from Gruden. Aaron Murray proceeded to connect with Tavarres King for a 75-yard touchdown pass.
Life is good, and nobody knows that better than Bobo.
"We live in a great town and community. We have a program which attracts the best players. I work for a great man who happens to be our head coach," Bobo said. "We are stable in an unstable profession. Coach Richt is so unemotional on the field, which is an asset many do not appreciate. He never panics, and as a result our team never panics."
Bobo has a similar personality except that he is more of a fiery type, giving to occasional outburst. If things don't go well, he can lose it, maybe given to shouting epithets in the coaches' booth in the press box, but he has a relaxed and even style for the most part.
His philosophy is to pressure the players in practice and create a relaxed atmosphere for the games.
"You do you work in practice — that is where you win games," he said.
On his wall there is framed piece of prose written by author T. Alan Armstrong, which underscores his last point: "Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their character."
That has become the essence of Mike Bobo's approach to running Georgia's offense. That he is running the offense well is not lost on those who count — from coach Mark Richt to Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity to true experts like Jon Gruden.
Don't forget, too, Bobo is a Georgia boy, with a Georgia degree, which motivates him to do his best for his alma mater.
Loran Smith is a contributing columnist for The Daily Citizen. You can write to him at email@example.com.


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Mary Margaret Silva, 88, died Wednesday, July 22, 2009 in Manteca. She was born Dec. 23, 1920 in Gustine. She was a long time resident of Manteca for 80 years.
Fred L Sullivan, 82, passed away peacefully at his residence in Manteca on July 14.
Arvel E. "Al" Colen III, 66, died Tuesday, July 21, 2009 in Manteca. He was born on December 13, 1942 in French Camp. He was a resident of Manteca for 32 years.
Ron McGee passed away at the age of 61. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he was a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and a descendant of Tuckabache, a well known Creek Tribe warrior and hunter. He was very proud of his Indian heritage.
Jose G. Ornelas, 77, died Monday, July 20, 2009 at Doctors Hospital of Manteca. He was born on April 15, 1932 in Mexico. He lived in Manteca for 30 years.
Delphine went home to be with her Lord, Tuesday July 21 at Vintage Faire Rehabilitation care center in Modesto, at the age of 73. Delphine was born in Pasadena CA; she moved to Modesto in 1981, then to Ripon in 1998. Delphine was loved by many; especially her family, friends and her two cats "Tuffy" & "Gabby". She adored her 10 great grandchildren who only knew her as "Granny". Her favorite hobby was collecting cats and going to garage sales. She was a CNA, Home Care Provider in Modesto for many years along with her co-worker & best friend Ena Turner. Delphine ...
Richard "Rick" Rocha, 39, entered into rest on July 13, 2009 in Lathrop California. He was born on May 10, 1970 in Hayward California. He is preceded in death by his father Ricardo Rocha.
Robert Tacosa, 62, born July 18, 1946 in Stockton, passed away on July 15, 2009. He is survived by brothers, James, John, Gerald and Jaime Tacosa; sisters, Hope Tacosa-Thomas and Dawn Bartholomew, and their families, and Bill and Rose Comasho.
Irene Kathrine Schneider, 85, entered into rest on Monday, July 13, 2009 in Ripon. She was born on May 12, 1924 in New York, New York and has been a resident of Ripon for over 42 years. She is preceded in death by her first husband of 19 years Bill Holloway, as well as her second husband Bill Schneider of 41 years, who just passed on October 28, 2008. She also joins her two children in heaven Ken Holloway and Gary Holloway and her siblings Michael Majersky, Anthony Majersky, Emily Henning, and Elise Majersky.
Mickey Neil Ardrey, 69, a 29 year resident of Manteca, died at his home on Monday, July 13, in Manteca.
Rodney "Bud" Benjamin Khan, age 58 was a devoted and giving husband, son, father, brother, uncle, grandfather, and fellow friend.
Jeremy James-Gong Lum, 29, entered into rest on July 9, 2009 in French Camp California. He was born on June 1, 1980 in Stockton.
Florence J. (Glascock) Papouschek passed away on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at the age of 90. Raised on a ranch in Montana and schooled at the now-famous one-room Huntley School of Saco, Mont., Flo pursued a career in nursing and served her country honorably as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army on the hospital ship USS St. Olaf in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters during World War II. Flo married Ralph "Bud" Papouschek and together they pursued many interests including traveling with a camper and spending summers on the river delta east of the San Francisco Bay Area ...
Godfrey Joseph Savard, 62, died Saturday, June 27, at Wine Country Care Center in Lodi. He was born on Dec. 31, 1946 in Hartford, Connecticut. He had lived in Manteca since 1982.
Irma Vegas, 59, passed away suddenly on Saturday, July 11, 2009 in Stanford, CA. She was born in San Jose, CA on July 7, 1950 to the late Ysidro & Natalia Barrera.
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Ellen R. LaGrone, age 67 of Huber Heights, Ohio, passed away Wednesday, May 21, 2014, at Miami Valley Hospital after a short illness.
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Beloved mother Dolores Chavez died May 30, in her daughter arms surrounded by her children at the age of 69, in their Lathrop home.
Rose Eusebio, 91, entered into rest on May 29, 2014, in Manteca, CA. She was born on February 22, 1923, to the late Emilo and Gemma Tagliabue. She is preceded in death by her parents as well as her loving husband Earnest Eusebio and brother Charlie Tagliabue.
Joseph Bishop, 51, entered into rest on May 28, 2014 in Manteca. He was born on February 15, 1963 in San Jose, CA. He is preceded in death by his loving mother Joyce Bishop.
Joe Gumm, 85, went home to be with his Lord on June 1, 2014 in Manteca. He was born on April 20, 1929 to the late William and Faye Gumm in Seminole, Oklahoma.
Mary died suddenly in her Stockton home on May 23, 2014, with her daughter, Christine at her side. Mary was born in Manteca on Dec. 26, 1927, to Cristina and Frank Marchitelli at the Manteca Hospital on Lincoln Street. A graduate of MUHS class of '45 and Humphrey's Business School in Stockton, she began her over 50 year career as a legal secretary with the firm of Neumiller, Dietz, Beardslee, & Shepherd at the age of 19. She worked with Dudley W. Shepherd until his career ended, then on to the other offices, ending with that of Irving M. Corren ...
Joan Mistlin, 92, of Ripon, CA passed away peacefully on May 31, 2014, in the loving care of Bethany Home, surrounded by most of her family. She was born on December 13, 1921 in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Wilma and Herbert Hildebrandt. She grew up in Normal, Illinois. During the war she worked on the Manhattan Project and then joined the U.S. Marines, serving as an aviation mechanic from 1943 to 1945.
Betti Fitzwater, 60, entered into rest May 29, 2014 Modesto, California. She was born the oldest of 18 children on April 14, 1954 in Arizona.
Margaret "Toddy" Smith, age 80, entered into rest on May 29, 2014, in Manteca. She was born on July 6, 1933, in Cascade, Iowa to the late Henry and Margaret Menster. She was also preceded in death by her first husband, Bob Fisher, two brothers and two sisters.

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Albert Marion Keim
Funeral service for Albert Marion Keim, 94, of Chickasha will be held at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 at the First Christian Church.
Albert Marion Keim was born to George H. and Alice Mary Marsh Keim on Feb. 6, 1918 in Walters, and died Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 in
Norman. He was 15 days shy of his 95th birthday.
Al graduated from Walters High School in 1936. He joined the U.S. Navy during World War II, studied at Iowa State University, and served as an Electrician's Mate First Class on destroyers and sub-chasers in the Pacific, during the war.
On Aug. 27, 1948, Al married Pauline Ross, in Norman. He worked for Parker and Big Chief Drilling Companies as a motor man and driller.
The family moved from Chickasha to the Pioneer Community in 1963, when Al purchased the first herd of Charolais cattle in Grady County.
Al loved gardening, growing vegetables and flowers (especially roses). It was his joy to share his bounty with friends.
Serving on the Pioneer School Board, Al served as clerk, and was instrumental in the building of the new school building.
In other capacities, Al spent many years serving his community. He and his daughter, Carolyn, delivered Mobile Meals for 16 years, and from 2002-2012, he worked monthly at the Emergency Food Pantry.
As a third-generation Disciple (Christian Church-Disciples of Christ), he and Polly were long-time members of the First Christian Church in Chickasha. Al served numerous terms as a Deacon and served on, and chaired several committees. Al was honored for his long service and dedication in 2003, and selected as Deacon Emeritus in 2010.
Al developed his own outreach, by visiting shut-in friends of the church on Sunday afternoons, and delivered them homemade treats for over seven years.
The love of poetry was evidenced both by him reciting poems learned throughout his childhood and by him penning his own poetry. Al won several district and state awards, from A.S.C.O.G., for his poems. His favorite poem: "A House by the Side of the Road", by Sam Walter Foss.
Al Keim was preceded in death by his wife of 48 years, Polly; his brothers: Sam, Herb, Bob, and Howard, a sister, Betty Garcia; brothers-in-law: Burnice Ross, Jewell Ross, Ray Berendzen and H.M. Paepke and sisters-in-law: Ruby Lee Keim, Doris Keim, Muryl Ross and Visa (Shorty) Ross.
Survivors include: sisters Ruby Nell Berendzen of Santa Fe, NM and Esther Paepke of Grand Rapids, MI, one brother: Dan Keim of Claremore; his children are Mary Ann Ward and husband, Clint of the home, Carolyn Spradlin and husband, Jay of Chickasha and George Keim and wife, Joelle of Trinity, FL; grandchildren: Karyann Wiseman and husband, Craig of Nashville, TN, Travis Ward and wife, Monica, of Demotte, IN, Trever Ward and wife, Liz of Bethany, Sally Wheeler and husband, John of Enid, Wendy Ward of Choctaw, Paul Spradlin and wife, Jeanene of Del City, Polly and Soloman Keim of Trinity, FL; great-grandchildren: Megan, Lilly, and Holly Ward, Lauren and Madalyn Ward, Luke and Chloe' Wheeler, and Garrick and Drake Ward-Sullivan.
Interment will be in the Pioneer Cemetery under the direction of Sevier Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, please make a memorial donation to First Christian Church Youth Camp.


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Life Cycle Gardening
Do your career and the demands of daily life leave you short on time? Do you have the time to do everything in the garden yourself or is your time spent in the garden limited? Life brings many changes and as your life evolves; your home and garden often reflect these changes.
Join members of the Sudbury Garden Club as Betty Sanders, a Lifetime Master Gardner and nationally accredited flower show judge, takes us through the stages of Life Cycle Gardening. She will provide you with a road map for a walk through the various stages of gardening and show you how to use your spare time to create your dream garden.
An avid vegetable, container and native plant gardener, Betty designed the Massachusetts Horticultural Society's 6,000 square foot vegetable garden and has lectured at the New England Flower Show and the Boston Flower and Garden Show. Her background as a chemist gives her a unique perspective from which to approach many gardening subjects.
The public is invited to attend free of charge. Refreshments will be served prior to the program which will be held on Wednesday, January 9th at 9:45 a.m. at the Goodnow Library, 21 Concord Road, Sudbury. For more information, please visit our website at www.sudburygardenclub.org.


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By CHRIS AGEE
Actress Patty Lotz is leading a campaign to help local non-profit Bat World Sanctuary establish a new home for bats currently residing in downtown Mineral Wells.
According to Bat World President Amanda Lollar, a social media contact suggested she enter the BiLLe Celeb Challenge.
"We have a pretty big Facebook following," she said, including "a couple of celebrities ... I wasn't aware of."
Lollar said she entered her organization in the contest about a week ago and almost immediately saw an outpouring of support.
"Within a week we went from a ranking of 300 to number four," she explained. As of Monday afternoon, Bat World remained at that position.
Though she hopes to finish this round of voting with the highest number of votes, Lollar said the contest is unique in allowing numerous charities to win.
After the current wave of voting ends at the end of January, she said all remaining charities advance one position and continue in the contest.
"At some point we will win this," she said.
The winning prize varies, she said, explaining most previous winners received between $13,000 and $25,000 and prizes can possibly grow much larger.
She said all money received through this contest will be added to the budget to construct the new rescue facility, adding Bat World is also involved in another contest with the same goal.
"The other contest is the Mozilla Firefox Challenge," she said. "We've been working on that since November and we're currently in first place."
She said the contest is based on amount of money raised, explaining Bat World will keep those donations even if the organization does not finish in first place.
"It will at least get us a really good start on the new facility so we can move the sanctuary out to the country."
Anyone interested in supporting Bat World Sanctuary can vote for the organization online by visiting www.thebille.com/bille-celeb-charity and searching for celebrity sponsor Patty Lotz.
Those wishing to donate to the Firefox Challenge contest can do so by visiting www.crowdrise.com/batworldsanctuary2012.
More information on Bat World Sanctuary and its services can be found on the group's website, www.batworld.org.


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Ottumwa Courier
---- — OTTUMWA — Galen Paul Cook, 90, of 127 Lynwood Ave., died at 9:21 p.m. May 18, 2013 at Ridgewood Nursing and Rehab Center.
He was born July 3, 1922 to Frank V. and Anna Beulah Rodabaugh Cook in Monroe County. He married Marlene Beth Altheide November 19, 1977.
Galen is a U.S. Army veteran, having served in Italy during World War II. He worked as an office machine serviceman at Bailey Office Equipment and also farmed.
He was a member of Faith Baptist Church.
Surviving is his wife, Marlene; two sons, Ronald (Jackie) Cook of Polk City, and Roger Cook of Ottumwa; a stepdaughter, Michelle (Barry) Grosvenor of Ottumwa; 10 grandchildren, Ronald (Jennifer) Cook and Lori (Todd) Devries, both of Newton, Paul (Leann) Cook of Grand Forks, N.D., Kristin Cook of Polk City, Tiffany Cook of Des Moines, Phillip Cook of Madison, Wis., James Cook, William Cook and Matthew Chandler, all of Ottumwa, Michael (Dallas) Chandler in Afghanistan; four great grandchildren, Sean and Sara Cook, Anna and Ellie Devries, all of Newton; a brother, Donald (Helen) Cook of Albia.
He was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Lawrence Cook.
Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at Faith Baptist Church with Rev. Phil Griffith officiating. Burial will be in I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Bloomfield with military services conducted by Walter B. Schafer Post #775 Veterans of Foreign Wars and O.B. Nelson Post #3 American Legion.
Visitation will begin 10 a.m. Tuesday at Reece Funeral Home with the family present from 6-8 this evening.
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Susan Adams, Forbes Staff
I cover careers, jobs and every aspect of leadership.
One of the most-read stories on Forbes.com in December was a piece called 10 Reasons Your Top Talent Will Leave You by Forbes Leadership contributor Mike Myatt. A corporate consultant and author of Leadership Matters . . . The CEO Survival Manual, Myatt laid out a list of mistakes executives make that can result in the costly, disruptive departure of valuable employees. Among the most common: failing to challenge your talent's intellect, engage their creativity, recognize their contributions and increase their responsibility.
After Myatt's piece ran, I talked to Tony Marzulli, vice president of talent management products at ADP, a 60-year-old company based in Roseland, N.J. that is now the world's largest provider of outsourcing services and human resource products and services. The company has some 600,000 clients, including multinationals and small businesses. Along with HR, ADP also handles outsourced payroll functions and cloud computing. After 30-plus years working in jobs related to talent management, Marzulli says Myatt's piece spurred him to think of a corollary: Reasons that top talent won't leave a company, and instead will stay committed to their jobs.
I debriefed Tony on his thoughts. Here are six reasons he believes top talent won't leave:
1. A company battles successfully in the war for skills. A catchphrase in the talent management field, the "war for skills" means training employees in a thoughtful way, with measurable outcomes. When a company needs workers who can perform a new function, instead of going on a firing and hiring binge, it should train its current employees to serve the need. Example: A company needs a team who can program in the Java computer language, but none of its 75 engineers have this skill. To win the war for skills, it trains its existing engineers in Java. "Some people won't make it," notes Marzulli, but most of them will and that can save a company from the costly process of laying off old employees and hiring new ones.
2. Economic uncertainty. Congress may have avoided the fiscal cliff, but there is still plenty of nervousness about the economic future. Unemployment continues to run high, at 7.7%. Companies are sitting on mounds of cash instead of creating new jobs. Even top talent worries that they won't find equally well-compensated positions. Though the U.S. is not officially in a recession, the characteristics of a recession—limited employment opportunities and curtailed recruiting–still apply in most fields. The shaky economic outlook prompts many talented people to stay where they are.
3. Health care reform. Though Obamacare has already passed a big test in the U.S. Supreme Court, many employees are still worried about their health care packages. Most understand that the Obama health reforms are good for unemployed people who don't have employee-provided health coverage. But if your company offers a good package with, for example, $1,000 in matching funds for initial expenses, a smoking cessation program that lowers employees' contributions and a health savings account, those perks can make it compelling for talent to stay put. "Well-run companies are using their own benefit programs as a retention mechanism," says Marzulli. One of the tricks is to explain health programs clearly and concisely, so that employees know exactly what they would give up if they left.
4. Better management. According to ADP's research, the prime reason people remain in their jobs is because they like the person for whom they work and they feel aligned with the manager's goals. Marzulli points out that this is especially crucial for new hires. If the initial experience for a new employee is bumpy, then they will often decide to exit before they get into a rhythm on the job. Coaching and feedback are incredibly important, says Marzulli. If someone on your team makes a great presentation, give them an immediate response. Say, you did these three things well, and you could improve on these two things. "Clarity on the job, knowing what I have to do to be successful, is important," says Marzulli.
5. Interview risk. Most managers don't consider this but when your top talent is interviewing for another job, they will probably be thinking of how risky it would be to change employers and to confront a sea of unknowns. This point is related to economic uncertainty but it is also specific to an individual employee's experience. Most prospective employers fail to communicate exactly what it will be like for new hires. This can operate in existing employers' favor.
6. Demographics. Among the largest segment of workers, Baby Boomers, staying in a job can be compelling because the end of their work life is in sight. Economic uncertainty, confusing health care packages and the risk of the new, all play into the feeling among many people in their 50s and 60s that it may be best to stay put rather than to try something completely new. Marzulli adds that for Millenials, those born between the early '80s and the early 2000s, there is much conflicting evidence about how many times they change jobs during their careers. He thinks that once this group finds a situation with good work/life balance, that allows them the flexibility to do what they want while enjoying their job, they are likely to stay put, especially given the tough economy. Millennials enjoy working in teams, they want immediate feedback and they care about good social networking policies, like the ability to use sites like LinkedIn and Facebook while they are at work. If those things are in place, they likely won't leave.
Marzulli agrees with Myatt's reasons that top talent heads for the exits. But he also believes there are compelling reasons that talent stays put.
Hi Susan:
Thanks for the mention in your piece. Addressing the flip-side of the coin is a great idea. I would only add that reading between the lines in the 10 points contained in my original article gave insight into what steps to take to correct the problem. Best wishes for a great 2013 Susan.
The article misses the mark. Phenomenal skilled people will not remain out of fear.
The Oregon State coach will not remain due to the economic scene, tax instability, or interview risks. He will go NFL with all the items present.
Phenomenally skilled people need their 'Why's satisfied in what they do, or they are onto the next adventure to create a Thumb Nail with a 132 Tara-bites of storage capacity. No company retains their best talent out of fear.
Discovering their motivators, creating an environment for their motivation to excel, so that they can satisfy their motivators, retains top quality people. Fear is an element that facilitates phenomenal skilled people to take risks.
Healthcare reform, economic uncertainty, and demographics are mute compared to fulfilling phenomenal skilled people's motivators.
I hate to disagree with a well-known business publication; however, the points made in this article are wrong as to why top talent will not leave a company. It has nothing to do with risk, demographics, the economy or health care benefits. Some employees might care deeply about these issues, but top talent couldn't give a darn. I'll focus on professionals, managers, and executives.
There are two primary reasons, top talent seeks greener pastures.
1. They no longer feel they are learning at a significant pace, they are not having a substantial impact on the group, department, function, or business. And they are not becoming something better in skills, capability, and knowledge for the time they have spent in their current role.
We call this the LIB curve (learning, impact, and becoming). It's pretty much a re-phrasing of what Maslow called self-actualization.
When this curve plateaus and begins to decline, top talent desperately attempts to find the exit door. Salary, benefits, the economy, and other temporary issues DO NOT set top talent back from realizing their dreams.
The problem is that most talented employees ALWAYS have plenty of options. They get calls all the time from recruiters, friends, and hr professionals, regardless of what's going on in the economy.
2. Many executives and managers are terrible at the skill of managing, developing, encouraging, and engaging their teams. Unfortunately, very few companies put any emphasis on this issue as a element of recognition, bonus, or training.
Many employees seek greener pastures because they think their boss is an idiot. Until companies invest in training those in a managerial capacity how to be great at managing, this will always be an issue of why your employees constantly have one foot out the door.
Barry Deutsch
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Apple's first new product in 2014 could be the Apple TV. We'll bring you the latest iPhone 6 news and rumors. And we pay tribute to Flappy Bird.
Apple is testing an iPhone 6 with a bezel-free design, the latest in a long line of rumors about an iPhone that puts more features behind the glass.
Over 77 percent of the device's face will be covered with display because of the thin bezel, according to the report.
The technology would bring sensors to the device's bezel, effectively adding more gestures and touch inputs to areas not typically in-use on current-generation slates.
The company's patent will hide portions of a device's display until it's actually needed.
That's the claim made by Vietnamese site Tinhte, which has produced a video showing what are claimed to be cases for the next iPad.
DigiTimes is still in the 7-inch iPad reporting business, today citing sources in the upstream supply chain. The rumored device is seen as a Kindle Fire competitor.
CNET compares the 2012 lineups of major TV makers based on their CES announcements. First up: LG.
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by ludwigvan, Wed Dec 16, 2009 at 06:34:01 PM EST
After a week where we watched Obama give away the public option (as Senator Feingold said he'd always intended),
pushing back health care reform for years,
a week where he also gave away billions and billions more of our tax dollars to the bailed out banks,
a week where he raised the debt ceiling to new obscene numbers (give aways to bankers and fake stimulus bills that benefit insiders are expensive!)
aint it good to know that so many Americams feel the same way that I do about a woman, who if she were our President, would have done NONE of those things...
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A new poll of avid news watchers shows that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a much higher approval rating than the man she once campaigned against and now works for, President Barack Obama.
In the poll of 800 registered voters who are self-identified "news watchers," Clinton had a 75 percent approval rating and a 21 percent disapproval rating overall. Obama, in contrast, had a 51 percent approval and a 45 percent disapproval rating.
The poll was conducted by the nonpartisan Clarus Research Group from December 7th to the 12th, and it asked for opinions of the top Cabinet secretaries and White House officials. Its finding on Obama and Clinton mirrors that of earlier polls - in October, for example, a Gallup poll found that Clinton had become more popular than the president.
Clarus president Ron Faucheux said one reason for Clinton's high poll numbers is her high approval among Republicans - numbers he said position her well to run for president again in the future, if she chooses. Clinton had 96 percent approval among Democrats, a healthy 57 percent approval among Republicans, and 65 percent approval among Independents. Obama was nearly as popular among Democrats - 93 percent - but his numbers among Republicans and Independents fell off dramatically, at 19 percent and 33 percent respectively.
Clinton's Republican numbers are striking, given how intensely disliked she has been in the past among GOP voters. In fact, part of Obama's appeal to Democratic primary voters in 2008 was that he was more likely to be able to bridge the partisan divide than Clinton, who was by then a well-known figure dating to her time as first lady in the 1990s.
Among other major administration officials, Vice President Joe Biden had a 50 percent approval and 41 percent disapproval rating; Attorney General Eric Holder and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius both posted 41 percent approval and 35 percent disapproval; Presidential Adviser David Axelrod scored 38 percent approval and 36 percent disapproval.
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In December 1952, the Great Smog that settled over the city of London for four deadly days claimed the lives of more than 4,000 people that winter. In 1948, a similar soot-filled cloud was responsible for dozens of deaths in Donora, Pennsylvania.
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There are two important caveats to keep in mind when reviewing this list. First, some cities do not collect information or report on its outdoor air quality, which means a few of the world's worst air-pollution offenders are likely missing from this list. Second, as the WHO emphasizes, "cities that collect and disseminate information on outdoor air quality need to be praised for their action, [which] is the first crucial step to identify if there is an outdoor air pollution problem and to begin to take corrective action."
2. Antanananrivo, Madagascar
I believe the headline meant to say "breathe" as in "to breathe." The word "breath" is a noun. Just a heads up!
Notice anything absent? Sao Paulo and Rio de Janaro used to be two of the most polluted places in the world. They are not even on the list now.
Brazil has a very aggressive biofuel program and has replaced over 50% of it's gasoline use with ethanol and natural gas. Both are very clean burning fuels.
I guess China, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and some other countries do not collect or else fail to report their air pollution.
Not only cities in Brazil are missing. All asians cities are missing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Manila, Jakatar, Sydney, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh and more.
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Q: Can you shoot pheasants and quail while drifting in a boat and jump shooting ducks?
A: Absolutely not, according to Idahos Upland Bird Regulations.
I checked with Fish and Game on this one because there continues to be confusion among hunters.
I get this question now and then because older hunters remember when it was OK to shoot uplands birds from a drifting boat with no motor operating.
But if you look on Page 14 of the upland game rule book under unlawful methods of take, its pretty clear: No persons shall take upland birds from any watercraft.
If I remember right, the regulation at first was a result of abuses shooting chukars from boats in Hells Canyon. That was one of the main issues.
Lets back up. It used to be legal to shoot upland birds from a boat up until the early 90s.
Back then you could drift for chukars, pheasants and quail and shoot at the birds from a boat as long as the motor wasnt running.
Then the Fish and Game Commission started getting complaints about abuses during the chukar hunt in Hells Canyon.
Motorized boaters would spot a covey of chukars on the banks of Snake River, zoom toward the birds, cut the engine on the boat, beach it, and then start shooting at the birds from the boat.
In the fall of 1994, for the first time, hunters were not allowed to shoot at upland game birds from any kind of boat on certain sections of the Snake, Salmon and Clearwater rivers.
At the time, Fish and Game said the ruling was made for safety. Jump-shooting chukars from rafts and jet boats had been a popular method of hunting in the river canyons, but with increased hunters and boats, the lead was flying in all directions.
The regulation continued to be refined over the years, with it finally saying that hunters are not allowed to take upland game birds from any watercraft statewide.
As old as the law is, every time a covey of quail or a rooster ringneck flushes as were drifting river islands for ducks, Ive got to remember to hold my shot.
I, like many hunters, remember the days when you could drift for chukars, quail and pheasants.
NOTE: If youre heading out to hunt ducks, remember, the last day of pheasant season was Tuesday, Dec. 31. Quail and chukar seasons remain open through Jan. 31.
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Let me throw out an idea to you. Have you considered that your family is perhaps aware of you situation and thought that a romantic weekend might be good for you to be away from your usual surroundings?
By the way, tears are normal even if you're in therapy for something a lot less intimate than this. Don't set not crying as a goal. Your tears need to be let out. Accept it. Let them flow. When you're ready you'll find that you won't cry or that you won't cry so readily.
Wishing you well,
I think it's possible that there's a part of you that is screaming inside of you, wanting to 'spill the beans' with them and get it out of your system that is fighting the other part of you that may be feeling shame, as well as caring not to burden them in their current situation. Like you're all alone, not having anyone to share this with, bounce things off of, or a support system. I'm understanding that you are very close with this part of the family, and maybe you are feeling somewhat guilty for 'not' sharing this with them(although for the right reason).
As wonderful and thoughtful of a gift that they gave you, I can understand your mixed feelings surrounding it. As quickly as we would like to get past or get through something like this, it still takes some time to process and heal. Believe it or not even for some couples that have seperated from the same issue.
Just a thought, how is your health in general otherwise? Are there other possible variants that maybe intensifying or adding things to this for you? Do you exercise? What are you doing for you personally, get that good feeling about you sort of things?
I don't think we went into counseling too soon, I just think it will be tough no matter what.
Unbelievable happening the other day. The OW sent me a text last Thurs, saying she was probably the last person I wanted to hear from, but she was in LasVegas and remembering what a wonderful time we had last year when we went on our last girls trip, that she was sorry I got hurt, and hoped my heart was healing. Can you believe that one!!! No ownership of her part in this, and obviously no understanding of the depth of damage the two of them caused. I swear she believes our friendship will survive this!! Man that sent me into a tailspin. It has been a rough week, but I must say my husband stepped up to the plate with supporting me. After that text, I had a weird episode of bad flashes of images of the 2 of them, like I was in a room while they were together. It was like it was really happening, which makes you think you are going crazy, and sends you back to square one. I told him I don't think I can do this, and felt maybe we should try a separation, and he really talked to me and worked us thru it. Very out of his normal character. We saw the counselor today, and talked in depth about everything that happened. It was very helpful, and she really put some things in perspective for me. I cannot let that woman get me to that place again.
My health is normally very good, but I am really battling HBP issues that I cannot get a handle on, and stomach ailments, probably neither one a surprise! I am working on finding a calm place, and some balance, but those quiet times are when the demons really hit you, so a bit of a catch 22. I love to read, but cannot seem to find the focus to get back to that either. What a mess. We are getting busy on the farm again, which is my happy place, so we will see if that will work its magic, along with my beautiful granddaughter. Thanks for listening to my rambling.
I'm guessing the OW sent such a text to put feelers out to see where you are or stand so far in this. That's sometimes how people do it, to see where and how you are without accepting responsibility. Or I could read it as somewhat of an apology when she texted stating that she was probably the last person you want hear from, and she was remembering a happy event with you which may be tearing her up with some guilt. It's anybodys guess, I don't know anything about her. Is there any way you can block her texts or calls, even temporarily? I don't think you need to concern yourself with that end of this any time soon.
Do you find yourself reaching out for reassureance in some ways to your husband? Like the moments that you feel a need for a hug and some closeness, that he's there for you by your side where he feels your pain and wishes or wants to take it all away. Comfort. Has something similar to this come up during your sessions/appts, even showing care and concern by reaching out and hold the others hand? Or maybe nows not the time for that.
Another thought I'd like to share, I just recently got a membership at a therapy center, it's set up like a gym and the Curves facilities, yet it has physical therapists on staff and the atmosphere is unlike that of a gym or Curves, more serene in nature. I can't wait to get started, it'll be my me time, to feel good about myself and life in general and take care of my health.
We are a cow-calf and dry land farming operation, so going into our busy birthing season. It will be a good distraction and keep us working together. I am also an office manager in a busy medical office, so the plate is full. A good full though. I have been going to bed every nite with soothing musical therapy, and I think it helps my husband too!! The warm bath is where my bad flashback blew up on me last week, so it may be awhile before that happens again. I do much better when we are joined at the hip, strangely enough. This is such a surreal situation. My husband seems to have come out of the bizarre fog he was in during this affair, and is really trying to reconnect and work thru this. I am the one dragging my feet at this point. I just cannot see very far into future and believe that I can get over this situation and forgive. Weirdly not so much the affair itself, but the choice of OW he made and the emotional commitment they gave each other, and took away from me.It just cuts too deep from both directions. I know I need alot more time, as you guys have mentioned, but you sure feel stuck in quicksand alot. Guess I just have to lean on our history and the good years to carry me thru, and try to remember we are all human.
That therapy center sounds really interesting. I have been thinking about getting into a Yoga class but I may be alittle too raw emotionally right now for that setting. You will have to let me know how that goes.
I thank you again for your support and very helpful insight. I have a great team of family and friends helping me thru things, but we have so much emotional junk to deal with!! I am so glad you don't know any of the players in this ordeal, and can just give me the info & advice you have shared.
It's sort of like my DS. He sees a neurologist twice a year and he sees great improvement since he sees him so infrequently while we don't really see it because we see DS every day.
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In 1981, Rock and Roll Hall of Famers David Bowie and Queen teamed up to record the hit record "Under Pressure."
Thirty-three years later, Independence girls basketball coach Richard Meece could have been singing the same song.
Thursday night, the River View Lady Raiders came to Coal City and walked away with their bounty, a 63-36 victory over Independence, to improve to 4-6 on the season.
River View utilized tight full-court pressure for all four quarters, squashing the Patriots' offensive hopes before they could even reach the basket.
"The problem with pressure is we can't really simulate it in practice," Meece said. "We don't have enough players capable of doing it at game speed. The thing about it was, we get past the first line. If we're giving it up, we're giving it up at half-court and not giving them 2-foot layups."
River View opened up the game on a 9-0 run and went several minutes into the first quarter before allowing the Patriots to get their first field goal of the game.
It's that type of defensive performance River View coach Gehrig Justice hopes will be his team's trademark.
"In the past, we've been known for that," he said. "We start two freshmen and play four. We're young right now, and we're still learning stuff. We're not real big, but we're all decent speed.
"Skill wise, we're not bad," he continued. "Youth wise, we're struggling. We have 15- and 16-year-olds playing with 17- and 18-year-olds. That's a big difference. I think we'll continue to get better, we've just got to grow. They were all great middle school players. They've just got to get used to the high school game."
It wasn't all defense for the Lady Raiders, however, as they worked the ball around, finishing the game with three girls in double-figures, led by 5-4 junior Kiersten Dority, who had 23 points.
"Dority has been one of our leading scorers all year," River View coach Justice said. "If we can get her to make her lay-ups, she's going to be good for us."
Sophomore Rebeckah Christian had 16, which came as a surprise to Justice.
"That's the first scoring game Christian's ever had," he said. "I'm pleased she's finally started scoring a bit."
Independence had a sophomore of its own making an impact. Chloe Layne, who moved to Coal City from Mooresville, N.C. this school year, scored 15 of the Lady Patriots' 36 points.
"She's still trying to get used to everybody," Meece said. "She's doing really well. She's getting a little more comfortable and improved as the year's gone on."
While the Lady Patriots are quickly falling behind with a 1-9 record, Meece is pleased with his team's growth, given the lack of practices it's had.
"The snow really killed us," he said. "It was Christmas and then it came at the weekend. We had the snow at the wrong time. It backed us up. Everybody else has the same problem we do, it just seems like its hurt us a little more."
But even though his team fell to River View, he did have something to praise.
"They gave good effort and played hard," he said. "They didn't give up."
River View will welcome James Monroe on Saturday, while Independence will travel to Clear Fork to take on Class AA No. 1 Westside Monday.
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River View 63, Independence 36
River View (4-6)
Savannah Anglin 0 0-0 0, Lindsey Meade 3 0-0 6, Kiersten Dority 8 7-8 23, Summer Bailey 0 0-0 0, Gabi Blevins 0 0-0 0, Ellamae Johnson 2 0-0 4, Rebeckah Christian 7 2-5 16, Raven Kennedy 0 0-0 0, Paige Cooper 0 0-0 0, Kaitlyn Dobbs 5 3-9 14, Kaitlin Hunley 0 0-0 0. Totals: 25 12-22 63.
Independence (1-9)
Jordan Hall 2 0-0 4, Leanne Aliff 1 1-2 3, Brittany Wrenn 1 0-2 2, Chloe Layne 5 2-2 15, Kaitlyn Stowers 1 0-2 2, Jessica Lilly 2 1-3 5, Faith Fortner 0 5-8 5, Kasey Hart 0 0-0 0.. Totals: 12 9-19 36.
3-point goals — RV: 1 (Dobbs). ; I: 3 (Layne 3). Fouled out — None.ꆱ


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This past December, during a fancy all-duded-up Governors Awards ceremony at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles, Hal Needham, the legendary stuntman and director of Smokey and the Bandit and The Cannonball Run, stepped up to the podium to claim his honorary Oscar. The daredevil, square-jawed veteran of hair-raising stunts in more than 300 feature films—in which he broke 56 bones, twice broke his back, fractured a collarbone, punctured a lung and lost several teeth—Needham, 81, has earned the slight hitch in his giddyup that now dents his famed swagger. Besides, he probably never expected the film industry to salute him for his life's work—particularly if he flashed back to May 19, 1977, the Thursday night his debut movie turned America's grandest, most popular movie showplace, New York City's 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall, into an outsize art deco ghost town.
On that white-knuckle night, not even the allure of 100 leggy Rockettes high-kicking in slinky military precision managed to draw flies to the world premiere of Needham's directing debut, Smokey and the Bandit. For the uninitiated or those who may need a reminder, the twangy barnstormer is 96 minutes of pedal-to-the-metal, Southern-fried, grinning-ear-to-ear car chases and badassery featuring a runaway bride, a scene-stealing hound and the even bigger scene-stealing Jackie Gleason as a short-fused, potty-mouthed sheriff—not to mention the plot: To win an $80,000 bet, ultracool outlaw Burt Reynolds, driving a black Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, and ace trucker Jerry Reed, behind the wheel of a souped-up semi, have to haul 400 cases of contraband Coors 1,800 miles in under 28 hours.
But back in 1977, Manhattan wasn't cottoning to Needham's raucous, randy good-old-boy salute to hot cars, 18-wheelers, open throttles and two-lane blacktops. The release of Smokey and the Bandit wasn't trumpeted in high-profile Burt Reynolds interviews, there was no red-carpet opening, and Needham hadn't been flown out to publicize the flick. Not surprisingly, the New York film critics were short on Northern hospitality. The New York Times deemed the movie fit only for "audiences capable of slavering all over a Pontiac Trans Am, 18-wheel tractor-trailer rigs and dismembered police cruisers and motorcycles." Other reviewers found it "thoroughly unimaginative" and an "unfortunate waste of talent." Nobody involved in the making of Smokey was naive enough to think they had created another Lawrence of Arabia, but what really got the suits sweating at Universal Pictures, the studio newly cash-rich from nervy, small-risk movies like American Graffiti and Jaws, was the opening-night view from the rear of the theater: aisles of posh velvet seats, mostly empty.
At Radio City Music Hall, where hit movies might be held over for months, Smokey and the Bandit got the boot after one short week.
From the vantage point of more than 30 years, Needham—who had been Hollywood's highest-paid stuntman, working in signature films directed by Roman Polanski (Chinatown) and Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles) and as an action double for John Wayne, James Stewart, Kirk Douglas, Steve McQueen and Burt Reynolds—says, "I'd warned Universal about opening the movie at the Music Hall: 'We won't make enough money to pay the damn Rockettes.'" The studio should have listened. Needham not only knew his audience, he also never forgot where he came from. The charismatic Memphis-born sharecropper's son, ex-logger, Korean War paratrooper, billboard cigarette model and sometime actor had cemented his hairy-chested gonzo rep by leaping off a runaway stagecoach and jumping from horse to horse for Little Big Man, driving a car off a dock and landing on a moving ferry 80 feet away for White Lightning and scoring a world record by jumping a boat 138 feet over a swamp for Gator.
Famed also for his four-letter vocabulary and for having lived with his buddy Burt Reynolds for well over a decade, Needham was summoned by the Universal brass to a post–Music Hall postmortem. Recalls Needham, "They started saying stuff like 'Should we cut the movie? Is it too this, too that?' It got drastic. It got heated. I said, 'Wait a minute, folks. I didn't make Smokey for big-city audiences. I made it for the South, the Midwest and Northwest. Those are my people.'"
As a sop to Needham's people, the same people who composed Reynolds's fan base, Universal booked the flick in a handful of Southern theaters and drive-ins. Needham, Reynolds, country music favorite Reed, Reynolds's friend and protégé Alfie Wise and other celebrities rode tractor-trailers through downtown Atlanta for a down-home-style second "premiere." Says Reynolds, "If you want to know if something's going to be a hit, ask a kid. There were lines of kids around the block. It looked like a riot was going on." Universal played up the movie's huge success in Southern states and reopened it in New York, the rest of the East and the Midwest. Says Needham, "Everywhere it played, it went bananas. All the bad reviews I got, the ones saying Burt walked through the movie and Jackie Gleason was a buffoon? Didn't matter. People told each other how funny the movie was, and word of mouth spread. I finally had to think, Maybe it is a movie for everybody."
By late June the flick had hauled in an impressive $12 million. By year's end, only Star Wars topped it as 1977's biggest moneymaker. Today, Smokey and the Bandit is estimated to have grossed in the neighborhood of $365 million worldwide.
In hindsight, the signposts for the movie's big breakthrough look as big and broad as a barn door. Four months before the film stormed theaters, newly sworn-in president Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn had begun to bring a touch of the New South to the Beltway. The CB-radio craze had millions zooming the highways, swapping tips on ways to outfox cops enforcing the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit imposed in 1974. C.W. McCall's 1975 ditty "Convoy"—about a cross-country trucker rebellion—held the number one position on the country charts for six weeks. Truckers were celebrated as modern-day cowboys. Country artists had plucked and twanged their way into the mainstream thanks to million-selling hits from Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, George Jones and Willie Nelson, among others. Movies came down with a case of country fever too, with such low-budget, high-octane material as Macon County Line, The Great Texas Dynamite Chase and Eat My Dust flexing blue-collar muscle at the box office. But Smokey and the Bandit put an openhearted, irreverent, multiracial face on the emerging South. As actor-director Billy Bob Thornton put it, "To the rest of the country, Smokey and the Bandit was just a movie. Here in Arkansas, it was a documentary."
Fittingly, the movie's origins were of the "just plain folks" variety. Needham, at the age of 45 in 1976, was becoming tired after two decades of stunting. On location he was fascinated that a maid kept raiding his hotel minibar for bottles of Coors. "It shocked me that it was illegal at the time to sell Coors east of the Mississippi River," he remembers. "When I heard that, my mind went crazy. Everything in Smokey came from the simple idea of cases of Coors everyone east of the Mississippi wanted to get their hands on. I liked that it wasn't about killing or hurting people, but it was action and about doing something illegal. I thought, What if someone were driving a truck full of beer and there were lots of fast cars and a lot of cops chasing him? My idea was to make it funny for anybody who has ever driven fast, gotten a ticket and driven away saying, 'Goddamn cops.'"
Needham figured his best shot at getting to direct the movie himself was to pitch it as a quick and dirty Roger Corman–style project costing $1 million or less. He tapped his wild-man friend Jerry Reed to star as an ace driver and ladies' man nicknamed the Bandit. Reed, then 39, a ferocious guitar player, session musician and songwriter for Elvis Presley and Dean Martin, was also known for warbling toe-tapping hits such as "When You're Hot, You're Hot." Invited to appear in movies in 1975 by his friend Burt Reynolds, Reed expanded his audience via Reynolds vehicles, playing a musician in 1975's W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings and a vicious crime boss in 1976's Gator.


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