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TORONTO — Dustin Hoffman could be saying anything right now. He could be talking about his acting career, an astonishing body of stage and screen work that spans more than half a century; or "Quartet," which marks his film directing debut; or his suit — the suit is sharp. The point is, it wouldn't matter. If you're a woman of a certain age, sharing a hotel sofa with the star of "The Graduate," all you hear is "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me." You're only human.
Hoffman may be 75 now, silver-haired and miles past vaulting into an Alfa Romeo convertible, but he still looks enough like Benjamin Braddock, the tortured lover-stalker who won a generation of hearts when he pleaded "Elaine!," for you to be transported straight back to 1967 every time he speaks. He's perpetually captured in the A-frame of Anne Bancroft's stockinged leg, though that hasn't stopped him from immortalizing a host of other memorable characters: Ratso Rizzo in "Midnight Cowboy," Carl Bernstein in "All the President's Men," Dorothy Michaels in "Tootsie," even Chuck Clarke in "Ishtar." He has seven Oscar nominations under his belt, with two wins (best actor, "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "Rain Man").
Now Hoffman has finally ventured behind the camera. "Quartet" is Ronald Harwood's adaptation of his stage play about an idyllic retirement home for opera singers and musicians. The cast includes Maggie Smith, Pauline Collins, Tom Courtenay, and Billy Connolly as performers who struggle to recapture the magic of their once-exemplary "Rigoletto." The film is a sweet geriatric tonic that should play in theaters for months, if "Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" is any barometer, and there's one question that Hoffman is constantly being asked about his job change.
"I can't tell you why it took so long because I'm still working that out with my therapist. It goes under the heading of Demons," he said during a post-screening Q&A last fall in Toronto.
"I decided a long time ago [to direct]," he told a gathering of press at the London Film Festival in December. "Sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something."
However he finally got here, it's clear that this is Hoffman's time both to reinvent the present and celebrate the past. Recently he was a Kennedy Center Honoree, sitting next to the Obamas and receiving shout-outs from esteemed friends and colleagues such as Robert De Niro. And when he sat down to be interviewed the morning after "Quartet" premiered to a thunderous ovation at the Toronto International Film Festival, he was as giddy as a debutante.
Talk about seductive . . .
Q. So, do you plan on unveiling any other talents at 75?
A. You want to know the truth? As much as I've loved this experience and want to do it again, I originally wanted to be a jazz pianist. I studied classical and jazz — wasn't very good, that's why I didn't become that (I didn't have a good ear, I couldn't pick stuff up quickly) — and if God were to tap me on the shoulder and say, "OK, you're a jazz pianist, but you can never do any more directing, acting, or anything," I'd still say yes in a second.
Q. About that house that was featured in the movie, what I want to know is: When can I move in?
A. Here's the thing: Ron Harwood was inspired by a documentary called "Tosca's Kiss." Verdi was extremely successful toward the end of his life, he had amassed a fortune, and he built this mansion, of which he actually said, "This is the best thing I've ever done in my life." Not the operas; this was the best thing he did. And he put it in his will that after he passed, all these singers and musicians who no longer have work can live there. And we tried to replicate the fact that, no, this is not a nursing home, this is an exceptional place. We changed it from the Verdi House, which still exists in Milan, to the Beecham House.
Q. The idea of making such a place for talented people to live out their days still practicing their craft . . . it's inspired.
A. [Nodding] Once we decided to use real opera singers and retired musicians, it became for everyone an extraordinary experience because the spine of the movie was in the making of it, because no one had knocked on these people's doors. They had been first-rate and suddenly they're just invisible.
Q. The movie promotes this beautiful idea that art has a way of prolonging life. Is it safe to say that's something you believe in?
A. Yes. And I would say art in the broadest sense, because you can make an art out of anything, and it deepens the more that you work at it.
Q. With the success of "Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," does it feel like there's a renewed appreciation for veteran talents like the ones in your cast?
A. My father once told me that when he was born, in the early 1900s, the average lifespan was 47 years old. We're almost double that now. So medicine and health and figuring out what not to do — you know in all those black-and-white movies they smoked constantly, they drank all day long — that's part of it. The other part of it is that for the first time, I'm told, the [moviegoing] demographic is over 40, because the kids are only going to see selected movies.
Q. Were you thinking of your own mortality, your own third act, during filming? Did it resonate on a personal level?
A. Unfortunately or fortunately, it's resonated with me all my life. My wife and I have been together 35 years, and she says, "From the first day I met you you've said, 'I'm old. I'm old. I'm gonna be 40. I'm old.' " So, you know, maybe that's a defense. But I won't even say third act at the moment. If it's a four-act play I'll say third act. Or a five-act — opera is five acts; to me, if you're still, God willing, basically healthy, you're still in your second act. The third act is when something catches us. And I've often felt that, when you get sick and have a cold or a flu that prolongs itself, by the sixth or seventh day, you can't remember what it feels like before you got sick. And that's what I fear the third act is for many people. It becomes their reality.
Q. What is your "Rigoletto" — the moment that, when you look back over your career, you think, "Man, I was really good right there"?
A. I would say today, after last night. It was surreal. I've never had an experience like that in my life. Not only did [the screening audience] like it and go with it and seem to get the changes in it — because that was purposeful; Arthur Miller taught me that.
He said, "The more you can get the audience to laugh at Willy Loman, that's the jab — you're setting them up, and then you knock 'em out when they least expect it." And also in the pace that the editor [Barney Pilling] and I agreed on — I told him, I said, Arthur Miller used to stand backstage when I did "[Death of a] Salesman" and I'd come off after a first act where it really had gone well, I thought, and they'd gotten all the comic nuances of the character, and I'd come offstage and I'd say, "Great first act, right, Arthur?" And he'd shake his head, he looked depressed, he'd tap his watch. I said, "What's the matter?" He says, "You ran 2½ minutes longer than you should." I said, "But they were laughing. You can't talk through the laughs." He says, "Yes, you do." I said, "Why? They're going to miss it." "I don't care." And then he said something I'll never forget. He said, "I want 'em here [Hoffman shifts to the edge of the sofa and leans forward], I don't want 'em here [he moves back, relaxing into the cushions]."
Q. You've obviously been preparing to direct, in terms of accumulated knowledge, for a long time. Is it a good thing that you're just directing for the first time now?
A. It ain't a bad thing because of what's come out of it, I guess. You're speaking from a kind of feminist point of view. In other words, process is so important. And the male thing is always, "No! I should have done a better [job]! I've got to be this! I've got to do that!"
Q. That goes back to my "Rigoletto" question: A lot of people still see you as The Graduate or Ratso. . . . Your film is about this idea that it can be scary — paralyzing, even — to think the apex is behind you.
A. Right. Steven Spielberg said to me — because at one point he was going to direct "Rain Man" and we worked together on it for a long time — he said, "To this day there isn't a film that I do where, on the way to work on the first day, I don't throw up."
Q. That's comforting to the rest of us.
A. But it's true. I played tennis with Sugar Ray Leonard one time. He was an athlete but he didn't really know how to play tennis and he served in a very namby-pamby way. I said, "Why are you serving like that?" He says, "Well, I was injured when I was about 4 or 5 and I can't put my arm back further than this [Hoffman cocks a pretend punch, positioning his elbow in line with his shoulder]." I said, "But you've got five [championship] belts!" He says, "Yeah, but in boxing it's all from here [clutches his biceps]." So he found the thing that worked. But he said that with every single fight he ever had, he had diarrhea.
Same thing with Alan Arkin. Alan Arkin became successful before any of us actors of our generation in New York, and he did a play called "Enter Laughing." Remember? He would get diarrhea a few times a week, onstage. And he would grab the phone — it wasn't ringing — put it to his ear and say, "Yeah?" then give it to [another actor] saying, "It's for you." Then he'd go offstage and [the actor] had to improvise.
Q. Do you ever have that kind of nervousness? Does it get any easier with experience?
A. Beckett said, "Fail, fail, fail, fail better." In other words, you recognize that if you're going for it, you're probably going to fail. And that's the best experience that you can have, if you can weather it. It's tough in this business 'cause you can't get a job sometimes. But risk that. Otherwise, it's "Ooh, I'm The Graduate. I'm going to give them that, because that worked." And there are actors that do that. One other thing, and you must look it up if you can: There's a play written by E.E. Cummings called "Him" and it's about a starving artist in a garret with his girlfriend and — God, I wish I had it with me — he says, you're on a trapeze and you're juggling all these things in the air and you're sitting on a chair that's sitting on the top of another chair when you're trying to do good work, and you swing and you swing and you swing and you swing and you ultimately . . . fall. And he says — what's the line? — he says, "And you fail. But an artist must survive." You have to survive, not the thing itself. That's the game. If you can do that, then it's possible to continue.Interview was condensed and edited. Janice Page can be reached at email@example.com.


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Christine Benz: Hi, I'm Christine Benz for Morningstar.com.
The average American who retires at age 65 can be expected to live 20 more years, and many people will live much longer than that.
Joining me to discuss some of the key products to help hedge against longevity risk is David Blanchett. He is head of retirement research for Morningstar.
David, thank you so much for being here.
David Blanchett: Thank you for having me.
Benz: So, David, one of the key products to hedge against longevity risk is the whole suite of annuities, but first let's discuss exactly what is longevity risk. On the surface it seems like a really good thing to be able to live as long as you possibly can, but there are certainly some financial risks there?
Blanchett: So, longevity risk is a good thing in some ways; it's the risk of living too long. We all want to live long lives, but people don't plan for 30 or 40 years in retirement. If we go back 30 or 40 years ago, people had defined benefit plans. You had investment types that provided income for life.
Well, today's generation of savers, they have 401(k)s and IRAs, and there is no guarantee component of lifetime income. So, the risk for them, the longevity risk, is the risk that they're going to not have enough money to live or pay for their retiree expenses for their lifetimes.
Benz: You have noted that there is research out there showing that this is a hugely pressing concern for today's crop of retirees.
Blanchett: There was a study done by Allianz Life, and they asked retirees, which are you more afraid of: death or outliving your resources. And 61% said outliving their resources. So, clearly the idea of outliving your available spending is significant for many retirees.
Benz: Certainly the volatile financial markets have contributed to that sense of uncertainty.
So, let's outline some of the key products that are out there. Annuities in general do provide some hedge against longevity risk. Let's start with the most vanilla, oldest product out there: the single premium immediate annuity, whereby you fork over your money and you get a stream of income through the rest of your life. What is the key advantage to such a product?
Blanchett: So, immediate annuities have been around for, I think, thousands of years. They are the simplest, and like you said, you're just trading $100,000 for income for life. So, there is no worry about monitoring the money. Once you've done it, you receive this paycheck, so to speak, for the rest of your life. So, it makes it very easy to transfer these funds, and there is no worry about can I outlive it. So I think that's the simplest and easiest way to kind of create income for life.
Benz: Also generally speaking the cheapest type of [annuity].
Blanchett: It is. There are all different kinds of insurance now to hedge against longevity risk, and this tends to be the cheapest because it is the most plain-vanilla. There are underlying sub-account fees, and there is going to be a commission probably when the insurance agent sells the product, but there are not that ongoing kind of fees involved to other types of products.
Benz: A lot of transparency there for the consumer...
Blanchett: Yes. It's really easy to compare. It's the easiest product to compare. It's like life insurance, because you know what you're going to get for a given price. There are no underlying hidden fees that would affect the benefit at all.
Benz: So let's talk about the disadvantages to SPIA...
Blanchett: The one main disadvantage in my opinion is that it's an irrevocable decision. So, once you go out and you purchase a SPIA, you've traded that income or that cash flow for a guaranteed income amount for life. And why that's difficult is because right now, interest rates are very low--they're new historic lows--and so if you go out today, for example, and you buy a SPIA, then you're trading in a sum of cash for a fixed, relatively low, guaranteed income for life.
Benz: Let's talk about another type of product. It's the fixed deferred annuity, often called and marketed as longevity insurance. Let's talk about how that works, because that may be somewhat less familiar to people than the SPIA.
Blanchett: I call this reverse term insurance. So term life insurance, you only receive the benefit if you die. With longevity insurance, you get the benefit if you survive to a certain point. So, for example, I would say I want $100,000 of income if I live to age 90, and I'm currently age 65. So, I would give an insurance company some money today, and if I lived age 90, I'll receive that amount of income as long as I would have lived. So, the obvious risk there is that if you don't live to age 90, you've lost that potential income.
Benz: But the big benefit, it seems, is that as an investor it allows me to plan for a knowable time horizon, so I can plan through 85, or whatever my normal life expectancy is. If I happen to exceed that, I'll have my hedge built in.
Blanchett: I think that's why it's so great, because it really helps you kind of hedge against that "if you live too long" scenario. Annuities work in different ways, but this type of product works in a way that allows you to say, OK, I want to go ahead and enjoy the next 20 years, and I'm going to know for certain at that 20-year mark, or 25, whenever it is, that I'm set for the rest of my life.
Benz: OK. So, another type of product is a variable annuity with what's called a GMWB. Let's talk about what that is. I think a lot of people when they hear variable annuity, they think "expensive," they think "complicated," and that's often the case, but let's talk about this product in relation to longevity protection. What does it do for you?
Blanchett: So these products are usually both expensive and complex, but the idea is … so think about the way an immediate annuity works. You trade a sum of money for income for life. People have a hard time doing that, because what if I buy it and I die the next day. Well, with the VA+GMWB, that stands for Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefit, you … give the insurance company your money, and then they guarantee you some kind of income for life. So, then you have this contract value, and if the rate goes to zero, they keep paying you. So the positive aspect of that is you still have this benefit you can pull out if you want to you; you've also got guaranteed income for life.
Benz: So how about the cost piece, because on a surface that sounds pretty good, but overall an expensive proposition?
Blanchett: They can be incredibly expensive. You don't usually see the wide range of cost with SPIAs, for example, because they are very simple. These can be mind-numbing complex, and it's often hard to figure out, what are costs involved. Vanguard has a very low-cost product; there are other kind of no-load providers like Ameritas, and then you have the other spectrum where there are contracts that cost over 4% per year.
Benz: OK, so really the consumer has to be on his or her [toes]--beware--and do their due diligence before pulling the trigger.
So let's discuss the current environment for some of these products. I think one headwind for the fixed-type products is that they are very beholden to what their current interest rate environment is. Let's talk about how that works and why that's a risk for annuity buyers right now?
Blanchett: So, if you think about the payout rate for an immediate annuity or longevity insurance, it's based mostly on two factors. The first is the amount the company can earn, the interest they could earn on your monies over your life expectancy. So they are going to invest your monies in something, and so if interest rates are low, they can't earn as much money on their investments. The other main component is how long you are expected to live.
So, if you think about those two components, that would suggest that the immediate annuities right now are relatively expensive given the coverage, because they can't invest the money themselves, the insurance companies, and make a high rate of return. So there is a large cost right now with immediate annuities or longevity insurance because of the low-interest-rate environment.
Benz: You think it's important to point out that no matter what product type you choose, you may not end up a winner; in fact, people on average do not end up winners?
Blanchett: It's a great point, because people think about annuities, and you shouldn't expect on average to make money. Now I know that some people have bought them and they have lived for 30 or 40 or 50 years, and they have come out ahead. Other folks haven't done as well. You buy an annuity for the same reason you buy car insurance or life insurance or homeowners insurance--because you don't want the risk of outliving your resources. So the key question is, what is the cost of that insurance, and is that cost worth it to me. And the cost can vary significantly across different types of insurance.
Benz: So I guess a big question is, if I am surveying these products and knowledgeable about what each one entails, how do I figure out which is the right type of product for me, given my particular situation?
Blanchett: Honestly, my best recommendation is to talk to a fee-only financial planner that doesn't recommend them, because they can't sell you one.
Benz: Right.
Blanchett: Right now, given where rates are, I kind of like the VA+GMWBs, because they have that variable component that could actually pay off down the road, but on the flipside they are very expensive, and they are hard to understand. So you really need someone to explain them to you as the average investor to understand what you are buying and why it makes sense.
Benz: So the fee-only piece buys you someone who will look at these things at arm's length, help you evaluate the different riders and the costs, and help you make a good decision?
Blanchett: Yes, and a lot of financial planners don't like annuities, because they are expensive. … I like knowing someone has guaranteed income for life. You should never annuitized all your money, but I think it's good to have a lot of your income as guaranteed for life. Most people have Social Security, and for a lot of folks that's going to be enough, but if you are worried about outliving your resources, I don't think that the cost is worth of benefit to not buying them for a lot of people.
Benz: Okay. Well, David, thank you for this overview. It's been very helpful.
Blanchett: Thank you.
Benz: Thanks for watching. I'm Christine Benz for Morningstar.com.

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Kansas Press Association's Awards of Excellence
The Augusta Gazette received 15 awards in the annual Kansas Press Association Awards of Excellence.
• Belinda Larsen and Kent Bush were recognized for the third consecutive year for first place in Editorial Pages.
• Jeremy Costello took first place for Best On-line Video (News).
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Elk Grove and Rolling Meadows each had its own motivation for their Mid-Suburban East boys basketball game Friday on the Mustangs' court.
The Grens had just snapped a 5-game losing streak earlier in the week against Streamwood but were still hoping to get back in the MSL East title picture. Meadows was trying to put a 17-point offensive performance against Prospect last week in the rearview mirror.
And both teams played with the effort and focus needed to accomplish those goals.
In the end, Elk Grove (10-10, 5-2) was able to ride the 16-point fourth quarter outburst by Austin Amann and 8 points from Joell Melendez and escape with a 51-48 victory. Coupled with Hersey's win at Prospect, the Grens trail Prospect by just 1 game.
"We were trying to come out with more energy," Amann said. "The last two games put us over that bump."
It took Amann (24 points) a while to get his offense revved up. He sat out the opening minutes of the game (for arriving late for a team meeting) and didn't score his first points until 2:05 remained in the first quarter.
"We're not at a point where we're playing our best ball right now," Elk Grove coach Anthony Furman said. "This was a confidence builder."
Meadows, led by a pair of baskets by Matt Dolan (16 points) and a long 3-pointer by Austin Reed (12 points), stretched its lead from 31-29 to 40-33 with 4:37 left in the game.
That's when Amann and Melendez (12 points) went to work. Amann hit back-to-back 3 pointers cutting the margin to 40-39. Melendez converted 6 of 6 from the foul line, and Amann scored on a putback in a 14-1 run that gave the Grens a 47-41 lead with 1:17 left.
"That was a huge turning point," Furman said. "We knew Rolling Meadows would run a methodical offense. They're big and tough."
Another long 3 by Reed and a pair of driving layups by A.J. Aluquin sandwiched around 2 free throws by Amann pulled the Mustangs (5-13, 2-5) to within 1, 49-48. Amann closed out the scoring with 2 free throws with 16.1 seconds left. Aluquin's game-tying attempt off the glass bounced off the rim as time expired.
"We bounced back from last game," Meadows coach Kevin Katovich said. "It's a step in the right direction.
"This week, the focus was on us, and we put the emphasis on what we need to do and get back to basics and fundamentals."


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Through some 30 works this exhibition seeks to analyse the development of Velázquez's court portraits from his second trip to Rome in 1649 to his death in Madrid in 1660, a period that saw the creation of some of the greatest of all masterpieces within this genre, such as Las Meninas.
In addition to 14 works by the artist himself, the exhibition includes portraits produced in his circle with the aim of focusing on the complex process behind the creation of the royal image.
The exhibition also traces the subsequent development of the Spanish court portrait after Velázquez's death when artists such as Mazo and Carreńo reinterpreted his ideas, resulting in innovative contributions to the genre in their depictions of Margarita of Austria, Mariana of Austria and Charles II.


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On Friday afternoon, Dr. Judy Palfrey was doing her rounds at Children's Hospital, above Longwood Avenue. Two miles away, on the other side of town, her husband, Sean, like her a pediatrician, was doing the same at Boston Medical Center.
The news about what had happened 150 miles away in Connecticut seeped out slowly along the corridors where sick children are cared for. The adults — the nurses, the parents, doctors like the Palfreys — gradually realized the extent of the horror in Newtown but did their best not to betray that knowledge to the kids.
Silence was imperative as the Palfreys finished their rounds. But when they got home to Cambridge, and compared their days, they knew that away from their patients, it was time to be anything but silent.
It may be that the violent deaths of 20 innocent children will finally force this country to have an extended, rational debate about limiting the access to high-powered weapons and ammunition. Judy Palfrey was ready for that debate 21 years ago after the death of just one.
His name was Charles Copney, he was 11 years old, and when he was killed in 1991, caught in the crossfire of rival gangs, he was the youngest child in Boston to die of a gunshot. In those intervening years, the dubious title of being the youngest victim kept dropping and now a jury in Boston is deliberating the fate of a man charged with shooting a 2-year-old boy to death in a drug rip in Mattapan.
"Charles Copney was my patient since he was 2 years old," Judy Palfrey was saying. "We were able to treat his asthma. We were able to treat a cancer, a tumor that required the amputation of his toe. And then he goes out for a bottle of milk and is dead."
His death changed the way Judy Palfrey looked at her responsibility as a physician, as a pediatrician. Guns were killing children as surely as any malignant tumor, as any virulent virus. She felt as ethically and medically obligated to remove guns from the lives of her patients as she was to remove Charles Copney's toe.
The organization of which she later served as president, the American Academy of Pediatrics, issued guidelines requiring pediatricians to ask children's parents or caregivers whether there were guns in their house.
A reasonable requirement, aimed at reducing the number of accidental discharges that kill and injure children. Except that in Florida, legislators passed a law in response to those guidelines that exposed doctors who had the temerity to ask such a question to sanctions by the state board of medicine.
"It was ludicrous," Judy Palfrey said.
The pediatrician's group went to court and, last year, prevailed, but the fact that safeguarding children could somehow be construed as overzealous, intrusive meddling into the lives of gun owners underscores the difficulty of injecting common sense into the debate on how to lower the incidence of gun violence.
"People have got to overcome the fear of discussing this rationally," Sean Palfrey said. "There has to be a graded response. But you've got to start somewhere and you've got to start now."
Start, for example, with reinstituting the assault rifle ban that was allowed to expire in 2004, a decade after it was introduced. Start, for example, with limiting access to large-capacity magazines that, among other things, make it easier to kill a lot of people in a short period of time. Start, for example, with requiring background checks of buyers at gun shows and private sales.
Like so many school shooters before him, Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who shot and killed 20 children and six teachers and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School after, police believe, killing his mother, appeared to have had serious mental health issues. And the reality is that it is easier for people like Adam Lanza to access legally purchased guns, from a gun shop or, in his case, his mother's house, than quality mental health care. More evidence that, as Judy Palfrey has long argued, approaching gun policy as public health policy will save lives.
An outright ban on guns is as unrealistic as the lack of any limits on sales of weapons is unthinkable. It won't happen. But as Judy Palfrey concluded 21 years ago, as she stared at the lifeless body of a little boy she had saved from everything but bullets, the carnage can be reduced, the number of children and adults killed and wounded by guns in America can be lowered.
"But it can't be if we don't talk about it," Judy Palfrey said. "What are we afraid of?"
The killing of six people, including a young girl, and the wounding of a congresswoman in Arizona wasn't enough. The killing of 12 people in a movie theater in Colorado wasn't enough. Maybe the killing of 20 children in a school in Connecticut will force a serious conversation.
Earlier this week, before Newtown lost its children and its innocence, a young resident physician Judy Palfrey didn't know knocked on the door of her office and handed her a note. It was from Pat Copney, Charles Copney's mother, saying she hadn't heard from her in a while. She just wanted to talk.Kevin Cullen is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeCullen.


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Joseph Bussman takes pride in being a family man, a veteran, a hard worker.
But Google his name and words like criminal and robber might pop up.
The 47-year-old native New Yorker spent nearly five months behind bars last year, charged with robbing a North Charleston Walgreens of almost 800 Oxycontin pills.
The allegation tarnished his name, Bussman said, and it's nearly impossible for him to move forward or find work without his arrest swaying potential employers.
Bussman said he is paying for that robbery every day — all for a crime that he insists, and prosecutors agree, he isn't guilty of committing.
"They locked me up and didn't give a damn," Bussman said, reflecting on the last year of his life.
On the evening of May 19, 2012, North Charleston police officers were on the lookout for a redhead with a medium build.
A man had walked into Walgreens on Dorchester Road near the Ladson Road intersection, wearing a green baseball cap and a long black jacket, an incident report states.
A piece of paper dangled from a pair of tweezers he held in his hand, police said. The paper contained a message: "Pain killers now or get hurt."
The robber escaped into the night carrying a bag filled with his drug of choice.
Officers said they lost his track at a vacant home in the Indigo Fields subdivision off Dorchester Road near Ashley Phosphate Road.
Bussman, a former National Guardsmen with red hair, said he was hanging out with friends, roaming the streets of North Charleston, when the robbery occurred.
He bid farewell to the group and was walking toward a Lil' Cricket gas station on Dorchester Road when officers stopped him about 2 miles from the crime scene, he said.
There were slight discrepancies between Bussman and the description provided by witnesses.
The Walgreens pharmacist told officers that the robber appeared to be in his 30s and was 6 feet to 6 feet, 2 inches tall.
Bussman, who was 46 at the time, stands 5 feet 10 inches tall and was dressed in a sweatshirt, khaki pants and Crocs.
Bussman said officers briefly questioned him, then let him go.
He had put the incident out of his mind by the time he took a bus trip back to New York to visit family a few days later.
It was there, on the streets of Peekskill, that officers approached him with guns drawn.
"I was walking out of a bar at a restaurant, just out with friends, and the next thing I knew I had guns at my head," Bussman said. "I didn't know what was going on, because I hadn't done anything wrong."
Bussman was charged with armed robbery on May 25 and placed under arrest.
Bussman was in a state of shock as police led him back to North Charleston on July 2 to face prosecution. But unknown to him at the time, a chance to clear his name was about to come along in the form of a second robbery.
Bussman was sitting in jail on July 26 when a man wearing a baseball cap entered the Walgreens store at Dorchester and Ashley Phosphate roads with a note demanding Oxycontin.
North Charleston police officers responded to a home on Signal Island Lane shortly afterward in reference to a possible Oxycontin overdose. David Burkhead Abbott, 33, was found there unresponsive, and paramedics took him to Trident Medical Center for treatment, police said.
Evidence at the home tied Abbott to the robbery, police said. They announced shortly after his arrest that investigators were working to determine if he was linked to any other robberies in the area.
Abbott pleaded guilty to strong-arm robbery in a Dorchester County court on Oct. 16, court records show.
First Circuit Solicitor David Pascoe said attorney Russell Hilton, a prosecutor for the Bussman case, happened to be in the courtroom during that hearing.
Bussman had maintained his innocence through his defense attorney for months, Hilton said.
"As a prosecutor, that's not uncommon. A lot of people profess their innocence right to the end," he said.
But Hilton saw Abbott, saw that he looked almost identical to Bussman, and recognized the similarities in the robberies, Pascoe said.
"It wasn't a bad case against (Bussman). This one just brought up enough doubt in my mind as a prosecutor to feel like a conviction wasn't proper," Hilton said.
The charge against Bussman was dismissed that same day, Pascoe said. Bussman's freedom was restored more than two months after Abbott's arrest, and almost five months after his own.
"A prosecutor's duty is to protect the innocent as well as to get convictions on the guilty," Pascoe said. "If someone has charges hanging over their head and you don't believe that they've done the crime, then you have to do something about that. Your job's not to get convictions. Your job is to ensure that justice is done. I take just as much pride in that."
North Charleston Deputy Police Chief Scott Deckard said a warrant had been put out for Bussman's arrest after a witness identified him in a photo lineup.
A mug shot had been taken of Bussman after North Charleston police in August of 2010 charged him with public drunkenness and drinking alcohol in a public conveyance, State Law Enforcement Division Records show.
Deckard did not elaborate further on what other circumstances triggered the arrest.
While eyewitness testimony can be useful, it can also be unreliable at times, Innocence Project spokesman Paul Cates said.
Innocence Project is a national nonprofit that works to exonerate accused prisoners through DNA testing and other means.
DNA test results have helped exonerate 308 people in the past 20 years, Cates said. Of those people, about 75 percent of them were misidentified by witnesses, he said.
"Memory is subject to suggestion more than is largely perceived. People just aren't that great at being able to remember and later identify who and what they see," Cates said. "There are certain factors in criminal situations that can make someone's memory even worse. The presence of a weapon, fear and anxiety tend to make people's memories poorer than if they were in a calm or relaxed environment."
Bussman found joy in being a free man again, but he said the damage had been done the moment his arrest made headlines.
Bussman has struggled since 2010 to find steady employment. He said his most recent arrest has made his search even more challenging.
Employers don't want to hire someone who they believe to be a robber and a drug addict, he said.
Bussman said he holds an associate's degree in business, but that he can't get hired at any job.
He finds himself stuck bouncing between hotel rooms and the couches of loved ones, unable to move forward with his life, he said.
Bussman's lawyer, Bradford Andrews, said the arrest has left Bussman's reputation "severely besmirched."
"The damage to his name has caused extreme hardship, and has affected his ability to become employed," he said. "At this point, we are investigating the circumstances of his arrest and subsequent detention. Should we find that those circumstances amount to a violation of Mr. Bussman's fundamental civil rights, we will exhaust every remedy available to him, including civil litigation."
Bussman said he doesn't want much in return for what he has endured, just answers.
"I'm not a bad person. I just want my life back. I'm not asking for a fortune. I'm not asking for anything. I just want my life back," Bussman said. "I don't understand why this had to happen to me. Everything's meant for a reason, I guess."
Reach Christina Elmore at 937-5908 or at Twitter.com/celmorePC.


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Transfer news: English clubs keen on Belgian starlet Julien Ngoy
Belgian starlet Julien Ngoy is believed to be attracting English interest, but no decision has been taken on his future.
Last Updated: 03/07/13 10:07am
The 15-year-old has emerged as one of Europe's hottest properties, despite not being attached to a club.
Instead, any side keen on snapping up the talented youngster will have to negotiate with the famous Brussels academy where he has honed his skills.
Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City are all believed to be keen on discussing a deal.
Real Madrid, Barcelona and Paris St Germain are also closely monitoring a player who saw his profile rise considerably on the back of two impressive outings for Belgium's U16 side in March.
Already 6ft tall and boasting blistering pace, Ngoy is considered to be ready to join the ranks at one of the continent's top clubs.
His father has suggested that a switch to the Premier League would be his preferred choice, but all avenues are being explored at present.
Brussels academy director Nkandu Ntondo said on Ngoy: "Julien is a big talent, one of the biggest I have seen in my academy.
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I thought he was going to enrol early?
Erik Magnuson had also mentioned it as well.
9/17/2011 – Michigan 31, Eastern Michigan 3 – 3-0
The first quarter is a stupid quarter. It eats American cheese still in the wrapper and sits down for reality TV marathons. I suggest that in the future all first quarters will be abolished in favor of other, better quarters, like the second, third, and fourth.
That is the future, though, when Michigan's depth on both lines isn't horrifying and the quarterbacks have returned to their baseline state—enormous, ponderous, NFLerous. Right now we have to endure first quarters and run Denard Robinson 26 times for 198 yards against Eastern Michigan because first quarters are stupid.
They leave us so spooked that Borges sends Denard out to add three carries to his total in a 28-3 game with ten minutes left, and in doing so explodes the idea that this offense is not Denard, Denard, Denard. Next Saturday the real lyrics to Varsity* will be
"Robinson… Robinson. Robinson, oh Robinson /
Robinson Robinson oh Robinson!"
The Saturday after that he will take all 110,000 tickets. By October he will have evolved an organic superstructure that slowly replaces the metal and concrete of Michigan Stadium with rainbow rows and gently whinnying unicorn hand-warmers.
Is this sustainable? Almost certainly not. Will an exhausted Denard evaporate mid-season as the demands on his existence become too much to even contemplate, let alone bear? Almost definitely.
Does Michigan have a choice? No.
We may be reading way too much into these two drives:
One of those started at the Michigan one and the other was a victim of Denard's early-season inability to throw. But they did not move the ball against Eastern. This blog's prediction that Michigan would manage to exceed Eastern's terrible YPC yielded from under center was nowhere close to true. Combined with a bunch of two-yard runs against Notre Dame the overall effect is to look at a run out of the I-form as a wasted down.
Michigan ditched any semblance of a pro-style offense at that point, whereupon the drives ended like so: TD, three and out, TD, TD, TD, 21-yard field goal. That is what life is supposed to look like against Eastern Michigan, and if we have to wear Denard Robinson into a beaming nub by God that's what we'll do.
Maybe those two drives are flukes. That would be odd since it seems pretty hard to go from five years of primarily zone blocking to primarily power, from an offense that is based on being faster and smarter than an opponent to one based on being bigger and stronger. Remember the theory that stated Michigan's linemen not adding any weight over the offseason was clever gamesmanship? Yeah, not so much: that's just how big they are. That's big for humans, but not beef machines.
Once you add the above into the two-yards-and-cloud-of-despair ND under center runs you've found a dataset nearing significance. It says Shotgun Forever, for the next two years.
Borges flipped his script immediately after, and that's great. Long term projections that these coordinators are the best in a long time remain on track. Getting Denard on a similar track is a lot more pressing, unfortunately.
I keep bringing this up in the UFRs but it's worth repeating: this is a regression. Why it's a regression is unknown, but the legions of people declaring Denard a "terrible" passer are reacting to the most recent data only. Before that he was not Chad Henne but he was not awful, either. I mean, sweet hotpants in a pickle bun, I have him for 15 good throws downfield, 2 meh ones, and 2 poor ones against Wisconsin(!) last year. These are throws past the LOS, not screens. Wisconsin! I take these numbers specifically to reduce the noise you get from drops and completion percentage and the numbers say he's not Chad Henne but when you put him in last year's offense he's not that far off.
So… last year's offense. Borges's next step is trying out the snag, all-hitch, and curl/flat routes that Denard had gotten comfortable with last year to see if his persistent inaccuracy is purely mechanical or an artifact of nerves that come with unfamiliarity with the offense. (Also, can we get bubble screen action up in here?)
If he's not the relentlessly accurate guy it seemed in the first half of last year, neither is he the guy who can't seem to complete anything this year. There is a ridiculously good offense lurking somewhere in Michigan's personnel. It's up to Borges to find it. Declaring the offensive line average and blaming Denard Robinson is faintly ridiculous. They managed to muddle through with those anchors last year.
Michigan wins games down the road by making Denard the focus and exploiting how opponents react to that.
If it doesn't work, okay. It's all you've got, for a given, incredibly sexy version of "all you've got."
*[Do not be fooled by the words on the video board. The only words in "Varsity" are "oh" and "Varsity." Try it.]
Edge issues. I'm not enormously concerned about the defense because most of the issues seemed to have one very obvious cause: freshman DE/SLB types losing the edge on jet sweeps. Jake Ryan in particular was exploited to the point where they threw Brennen Beyer on the field, who we've seen have major edge issues. I'd rather have one obvious coaching point to work on than a wholesale breakdown. Michigan seemed to adjust in-game and showed better edge contain before the day was over.
BONUS: Frank Clark had one of the day's most impressive plays on a late jet sweep where he set up in a good spot, baited the WR inside, popped outside his blocker, and forced the guy back into pursuit. Mental +2 there.
Changes. Thomas Gordon got an entire game as a deep safety and made a spectacular interception; in his stead the nickelback was Raymon Taylor. Taylor's main contribution was picking up a personal foul on EMU's long drive that got stuffed at the one; after that Michigan realized EMU was about as likely to throw as they were and took him off the field. The non Black/Roh DE spot was a jumble of Clark, Beyer, and Ryan.
Q: was the Gordon move a permanent thing or a reflection of EMU's non-spread offense? I'm hoping it's the former. I've been high on him since early last year and the coverage on his INT was another tick in a positive direction.
Annual exposure to Vincent Smith zealots. Man, I'm all like… yeah. No offense to Vincent Smith's quality day against the Eagles, but it's still Toussaint. There is a common theme in the long Smith runs against Eastern: the ability for grandma shotgunning a beer to run about that far.
He's a great guy to have on your team and he's going to be a major part of the offense because he's a B+ in many aspects and an A+ at blitz pickups, but Toussaint is faster, more agile, and has at least equal vision.
Meanwhile, Rawls looked exactly like Kevin Grady on two short runs. First impressions there are meh. This is surprising to people named Fred Jackson but not many others.
Redshirt status. A game against Eastern that manages to get a couple of garbage time drives in gives us some hints as to who's getting a redshirt and who isn't:
Pick a random day three weeks into any football season and you'll probably find me railing against inexplicably burned redshirts, but I don't have an issues with the guys above getting in the game. All the guys on defense save Countess could develop into starters as early as this year, and Rawls is another option at a tailback spot that needs them.
Recruiting numbers. It's three weeks into the season and we haven't seen Mike Cox even get his ceremonial long run against crappy competition. Terrance Robinson made a brief cameo at the end of the EMU game. Neither should be expecting fifth years at this point; if they don't receive them Michigan will be at the 26 number they've been projecting for a while. That's if they don't lose anyone between now and Signing Day, which is possible but unlikely. With four stars knocking down the door I can see this class getting to 28.
The main issue getting there won't be the scholarship limit but the cap on enrolled signees. That's 25, but you can dodge it by enrolling kids early. Michigan has just one EE committed right now. That's not something they can change since early enrollees acquire the status by taking a lot of summer school. I haven't heard that anyone Michigan is pursuing is planning on an early enrollment, so they might end up with a couple empty slots on Signing Day.
The early enrollee exception is OSU commit-type substance Bri'onte Dunn. The rumblings on him have oscillated between 100% OSU and 100% undecided, and of late it's pushed more towards the latter. He took a visit to Penn State last weekend and declared himself "confused," and after that Miami game it looks like he'll have a very brief window to get acquainted with whoever OSU's new coach is before he's on campus somewhere. Dunn is a touted player at a major position of need who Michigan would yank away from OSU; he would also allow them to take a 27th player. He's kind of important.
StephenRKass asks if defense and special teams are "becoming a positive." D is wait until later. Special teams do seem better but they aren't championship level yet. Kickoffs both ways are terrible, punt coverage has been weak, and I'd like to see the kickers hit an actual field goal instead of a glorified extra point before I stop panicking about them. Once Hagerup gets back the punting and Jeremy Gallon's sudden ability to field and return punts probably make it average.
ST3 goes inside the box score, and Lordfoul provides his weekly Einstein quote recap.
Media: I should have been linking these all along, but Mike DeSimone's database is always key. Mikoyan shot from the sidelines. He's got pregame, in-game and postgame posts plus a bonus shot of an MGoBlue barn.
Hype video:
There is also a torrent of saner size up.
Newspaper stuff: SDSU's Rocky Long says Hoke has "huge advantage" since he was just SDSU's coach. AnnArbor.com's Kyle Meinke points out the squib guh:
The Wolverines' special teams, at times, looked ugly in the 31-3 rout. Michigan's squib kick with 39 seconds left in the first half is a perfect example. The stratagem can work sometimes, but this was not one of them.
The call was especially egregious against a team such as the Eagles, who passed just six times the whole game. Could they have traversed a long field in such a short time?
Likely not.
But the squib gave the Eagles the ball at their own 47-yard line, and they needed just four plays — all runs — to get into position for a 50-yard field goal. That's just too easy.
Squibs are way over-used. Unless there are fewer than 20 seconds left in a half they're a bad idea, but coaches tend to prioritize risk aversion over expected value.
Meinke also suggests Vincent Smith is not the right guy for kick returns due to his lack of speed. I agree with that, too. If Shaw is third-string-ish on the tailback depth chart wouldn't this be a spot for him?
Rothstein says Smith makes a case to start. Minnesota is a noon BTN game, which is cool by me: I actually get to watch some college football this year.
Blog stuff: BWS has his frown on:
After a 7/18, 95 yard (5.3 YPA) day against a MAC bottom dweller, it's difficult to see Denard Robinson as a sustainable option at quarterback in Borges' offense. It may sound reactionary, but after another game riddled with poor decisions (chucking the ball into double coverage) and spotty accuracy, and against competition that shouldn't be able to compete with Michigan's athletes, it's clear that Denard's struggles in the passing game last year, his uninspiring spring game, and his poor passing performances against Notre Dame and Western Michigan are no flukes. He locks onto receivers, struggles with his accuracy, and frequently makes near backbreaking decisions.
This is true so far and made up for by Denard's other talents. We are almost an old-school option offense that needs to stay in front of the chains. He's real mad about burning Rawls's redshirt, though. I'm all like whatever: Rawls may be needed this year since Hopkins is full of doghouse and the starters are fragile. And I'm betting that by the time Rawls would have been a fifth year senior there's someone better on the roster anyway.
Is it just me or does our offense look like the one that that one friend--the friend that everybody has--always runs against you in Madden/NCAA...you know the friend. He's usually the guy who says things like "watch these 4 verts bro" before throwing a bomb on first, second, and third down (he also goes for it on fourth down regardless of field position). Another hallmark of this friend's offensive strategy is a running game that involves picking a team with a fast quarterback and running outside every time that he doesn't throw deep (which is every pass).
TTB provides awards, is amongst the legions saying "26 carries for Denard against EMU?" Maize Pages updates just as I post.
UPDATE: So I wondered which 80s-era estrogen rock band was responsible for the title reference and googled it. The result: REO Speedwagon. REO Speedwagon's mindblowing video for the thing, which has almost as many ridiculous haircuts as profiles of me do and obviates the need to actually do LSD:
Good Lord. I'm just going to float off into the sky now.
I thought he was going to enrol early?
Erik Magnuson had also mentioned it as well.
Wilson is the only confirmed guy right now.
I read Magnuson wanted to EE, but than said he won't, considering the odds of him red-shirting, but with how our OL looks, with very little depth, it might do him good to EE.
Do you agree that if we had played the first half in the "spread" offense, that it would have been a 28 point much quicker? We would have all had a different feeling about this game if this were the case. Remember that this coaching staff is still learning what they have here, and that they have shown the flexibility to adapt to it. If they figure out the correct balance of "spread" and "pro" (which I believe that the pro set is an important part of our attack-especially in the red zone), this offense can indeed become ridiculously dangerous.
"this offense can indeed become ridiculously dangerous".
I believe for that to happen, the correct balance would need to be 100% Spread and 0% Pro Set.
You must not have been paying attention during our highest scoring game of the year, against Notre Dame. I believe 4 out of the 5 touchdowns were scored from the I-formation.
Considering the quality of most CFB defensive backs, the jump-ball based offense is actually a surprisingly good option.
I advocate for offenses that work.
On FEI?
the offense that worked was not the I-formation. Based on your metric, 3 of 4 TDs were scored from the spread formation (and the fourth was a jump-the-pile on 3rd and goal from the one).
I understand.
All I'm saying is that the whole "100% spread, 0% pro set" suggestion is silly. I'm not advocating for us to go to the I-formation permanently. The mix of the two has been working well. In the last two games, Michigan has scored 9 touchdowns - 5 from under center, and 4 from the shotgun. So...why go to 100% spread?
I find your points interesting at minimum even if I disagree, but your statement is both factually incorrect and snarky. You are well aware that plays under center in that game averaged far fewer yards than spread plays. The jump balls that worked were mostly heaves with no plan, not clever throw behinds the receiver so only he can get it.
Especially since Magnus has been telling us all how inaccurate Denard is, I'd think he would know best those jump balls weren't back shoulder throws or anything resembling a touch pass. It was a chucked ball with hopes our receiver caught it.
you think it has proven completely ineffective early in games? It seems to me that Borges is in an argument with himself. The commentators made a lot of Borges saying that Denard is intoxicating as an offensive coordinator. While much was made of the transition to Man Ball, it does not seem that Borges is going all in with at any point for any duration. Brian's commentary on the EMU game raises the issue of bubble screens. Why are we not bubbling these fools to death. We are having difficulty running the ball from the I, Denard is struggling with accuracy and confidence with his throws. The bubble is like an extended hand-off where there will be room to run and is also a confidence building completion. It is like three birds with one stone. How about some sweeps, an end around, a diamond formation here and there. Those are not complicated plays, those are getting your feet wet plays, and Borges is employing none of them. He is then quick to go shotgun spread Denard Run Fast for the rest of the game after really making a concerted effort to make the offense functional in any other way.
I am not complaining, a win is a win, but I want to see functional progress and I don't really think I am seeing it on offense.
Because maybe Michigan was playing against Eastern? A team that has won four games in Ron English's tenure? Let's maybe not throw in some wrinkles that Borges is saving for the conference slate right now.
Also, Borges never said he was going to go all in to "Manball." That was an invention of this blog.
a real wrinkle, twin brother to the double reverse pass, It is like the most common first and ten play from a pro-set that you can run.
And if the coach's primary concern is to limit Denard's exposure, why would he be running him 26 times vs. Eastern Michigan. If Eastern Michigan was so lowly, why were using our best and most fragile asset on every play. That is the wrinkle we want to save, not a bubble screen.
So why run it when we eventually got other things going? Remember what Hoke said about Eastern coming out and running Jet Sweeps throwing the defense off? Because Eastern hadn't run that play before, throwing the defense off what they had prepared for. I imagine we'll do the same thing in one of these games that looks to be a bigger fight than Eastern.
You must not have been paying attention during our highest scoring game of the year, against Notre Dame.
Ridiculously small sample sizes ftw!
We've played 2.75 games. At this point the whole sample is pretty tiny.
is that you can play 500 from any formation. We're just lucky that Gary Gray's mom didn't let him out of the house much as a kid.
Hopefully the coaches were simply giving the under center stuff one last shot to see if it wasmaking any progress. Since they hopefully realized that it won't work even against EMU, maybe they'll read the writing on the wall and entirely abandon it for the rest of the year.
I believe that Magnuson has previously stated that he was definitely not going to enroll early due in part that he knows that he's going to redshirt.
Just posted this above, sorry.
With the numbers and depth, he might not red-shirt if he does enrol early. I am searching for the info now, cause I thought Allen Gant's name was mentioned as possible EE too.
I'll take the W, but it was hard to watch early. Offense was stale and I'm not sure what's going on with Denard.
Granted, he calmed down and played well in the second half but the concern about his slow starts and accuracy looms.
We need to jump out to an early lead this week.
You'd think they'd let the kids get a few snaps and finish out the game at that point. I mean it seems reasonable that you would want your backup to have some sort of game experience in the likely event that we actually need him for an important snap or longer during the big ten campaign. Its not like we have an experienced Tate who can hop into a tight game and negotiate the situation with experience. Am I totally missing something about Devin? Is he not coming along or are the coaches just that concerned with getting 16 going?
I found that somewhat disappointing as well. We are going to need him this year at some point, and I thought the coaches would have put him in the game earlier.
I think the BTN announcer brought up a good point that this offense has not had that many snaps (the shortenend WMU game and the lack of long drives against ND). So maybe they wanted to get Denard some additional reps but I still think Devin should have gotten at least one real drive.
sooner or later you are going to need your back up QB. It would be nice if he had a little game experience under his belt when that occures. Am I the only one not buying Hoke's explanation about not being comfortable with the lead? If that is true, what kind of a message does that send to your back up QB? (Sorry, Devin, but I don't think that you are good enough to hold a 25 point lead against EMU for the final 10 minutes.
This is exactly my concern, as soon as they got 28 I kept waiting for them to put Dev in, and I believe we had two more offensive drives before Devin came in and what...handed off twice and ran once? I was really hoping to see his arm out there/watch him manage a drive. Im not buying this whole blowing a 25 point lead to Eastern thing.
Hoke was asked about that in a press conference and he stated that he wasn't comfortable with the score at 28-3 to put his backups in yet. This sounds odd if not a flat out lie. I'm not sure what his hesitancy was in putting in Gardner. What made the decision even more grievous is that Denard ran the ball inside several times on that drive.
The only two possible answers to no Gardner is the offense started deep in their own territory or Denard needs more repetitions. Because we called a game in the third quarter two weeks ago where we were only up 24. Since we were up 25 on a weaker opponent in the 4th quarter, the whole not comfortable line is total BS.
I'm pretty sure that I saw #35 Greg Brown on a late kickoff.
According to the participation reports Gregg Brown has been playing on ST.
This was discussed in the play-calling thread but deserves mention here based upon Brian's discussion here of Denard and his regression. A parade of posters state that Denard is always inaccurate and always has been inaccurate and always will be inaccurate-- and that is why we must trust in I-Form and make this happen so that we have other options. Buried within that grain of truth is a far larger truth that should in fact have the coaches reach the opposite conclusion--that the I-form is a waste of time with Denard Robinson as our quarterback. Denard is not hopelessly inaccurate-- IF given a passing design that maximizes his limited passing strengths and minimizes his weaknesses. Bubbles, slants, snags, one read-throw, out of shotgun work with him, backing up while focusing on footwork, going through progressions and throwing precise outs from under center do not.
I think that parade of posters worry about his accuracy because, as we have seen, we need some deeper routes to back big 10 defenses off of the line of scrimmage. If we aren't able to do this than we will struggle against the better defenses we face because there will be 8-9 in the box all the time.
As bad as his accuracy has been at times, he has also put a few perfect passes in to receivers over the last two years. I am in the camp that thinks Denard will never live off his accuracy but that he can really improve. If he gets better with his footwork, I think he can become an above average QB from an accuracy standpoint.
I think the much much bigger problem and the one that takes longer to fix is his reading of coverages and timing. He is not finding open receivers. If he just could survey the field better, he wouldn't need to be super accurate because he would find wide open people to throw to. He is throwing too many interceptions because he chooses to lock in on a guy and throw it when he should check down. That is his biggest problem imhe.
why not help him by running plays that allow him to have only 1 or two easy reads? This is what RR did and Denard put up decent numbers passing. To me, all you need to look at is the Dileo (whats the dillio?) touchdown. Denard takes one step forward, makes a quick read, and either fires the ball to a wide open receiver or runs. IMO this is where he is best - quick reads with the option to run. How many big gains did UM have last year on these plays? I seem to remember quite a few (passes to Roy v. ND & Ill.; bomb to Stonum agaisnt Miami; pass to Jr. against IU to name a few) - i realize these are option plays....BUT THEY WORK. Obviously you can't do this on every pass play and I understand that you want to implement parts of Borges offense but these seem like the pass plays that Denard is most effective at - simple reads, short throws, and lots and lots of YAC. Denard will never be Drew Brees throwing the deep ball so to ask him to do it over and over again isn't productive (no matter how many jump balls Jr. snags). Take ur shots downfield to keep the defense honest but use what has worked in the past with basically the same personnel - make Denard's life easier. Seems like you could even do this out of the I - run a QB Power but then step back make a quick read and fire...or run. Either way the passing game needs to be more effecient. Why not use something Denard has proven he can do well?
There are several observations I have come to from watching Denard throw the ball. First there are throws that he is comfortable with and throws that he just struggles with. Denard is what he is, and thats someone who is more comfortable with his feet moving that trying to set them in a pocket. He seems more accurate on the run than in the pocket and is better throwing to the sidelines than to the middle of the field. If Borgess is the genius some think he is, it seems like he has to play to those strengths.Rolling him out whether from under center or shotgun would be a plus. Also more throws toward the sidelines would be a plus and could eliminate some turnovers as bad throws probably just land out of bounds or in the hands of tacopants. We can have an even mix of runs and passes from Denard with success, its just that those passes have to be the ones he is comfortable with.
Also, why did Borgess wait until the EMU game to break out the QB draw/step back and hit the wide open guy running down the middle of the field throw. I sat watching the ND game thinking how that pass would have been wide open to help a struggling Denard in the first half. Was it a play that wasn't ready yet? I would think not, since the offense was alread familiar with it. If that is the case and you don't run it against ND why not wait until you get into the Big Ten schedule to run that play, so that the teams think you have forgotten about it?
Terrence Robinson has also played as a gunner on punts and he was the one who grabbed the fumbled kickoff last week against Notre Dame. Not that he's a major contributor, but it looks like he's playing a fair amount on specials.
That's not enough of a reason to keep him on scholarship though. Raymon Taylor or Greg Brown or Tamani Carter could play that role next year in his place.
pretty disappointed Terrance robinson never developed into much. I know rankings coming out of hs don't mean much, but he was ranked higher than lamichael james. Yet he has caught 1 or 2 passes since he has been at michigan.
I'm not saying he should remain on scholarship. I'm just saying that he's made more than the cameo appearance Brian mentioned.
How has Smith NOT earned the right to start? He was the only RB to show any sign of life vs ND, and was more impressive in the EMU game (13.1 YPC) than Fitz was (4.2 YPC).
What sample? The rich rod offense? That doesn't matter now. Jeremy Gallon was a nothing in the Rich Rod offense and look at him now. Thru 3 games, Smith looks like the better back to me. But I'll give Fitz a chance to show more too.
Jeremy Gallon was a true freshman and a redshirt freshman in RichRod's offense. I highly doubt it was RichRod's offense vs Hoke's offense that gave Gallon a chance to break out. But yeah, I guess it is a good idea to judge a player on his performance in a year he doesn't play and then his redshirt freshman year. Sometimes I wonder if people understand football.
He also had some huge gains through gaping holes, something that Shaw and Toussaint didn't have the opportunity to do.
I agree. So what? Toussaint still put up decent numbers without that giant hole.
Or maybe he found the holes or waited for them. There were definitely a couple plays where he slowed down, waiting for the hole to open, rather than just run straight into the pile like Fitz.
Hard to shake the feeling that Toussaint or Shaw turns those long gains that Smith had into even longer ones just because they are faster. The only way you get to be a full time back with his size and speed is if you also pick up the tough yards like Mike Hart used to do by moving piles. He's never shown that ability, I still think he's the 3rd down back due to his blocking and a good reciever out of the backfield but that is the extent of his skills, IMO.
#1 Fitz
#2 Smith
#3 Shaw
#4 Hopkins
#5 Rawls
...I haven't seen Cox or Hayes to add them. But to me through 3 games that's your order.
Fitz seems like the most complete back, he has the vision and the speed the position needs. Smith is tough and wiggles his way for yards other guys don't, he also blocks. IMO he's the CLEAR 3rd down back, but he's also my backup RB on 1st and 2nd if Fitz is out.
Shaw has no vision and little balance, just speed. I'd use him out of the spread only and I'd definitely like to see him used more in the passing game. In fact, I'd make him more of a Reggie Bush type 50/50 RB/WR...and I'd have Hayes "back him up" and learn that role for future years.
Hopkins seemed like the short yardage guy, but he fumbled. Fitz has some "pop" to him and Smith might be the toughest guy on the team...I'm not sure you need him.
Rawls only got a couple runs...so he's #5 by defauly. However, in those 2 runs he did look very Kevin Grady-eqse.
He was the only RB to show any sign of life vs ND
He had one carry for three yards in that game. He made an awesome play in the passing game, but as a runner the jury's still out on him.


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PEARL CITY, Oʻahu — At a special meeting held today at Leeward Community College, the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents authorized the university administration to enter into a real estate development agreement with privately held real estate investment firm Townsend Capital, LLC (Townsend), for the development of the Cancer Research Center of Hawaiʻi project on the Kakaʻako waterfront.
Townsend's team includes the design and technical team of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership and Architects Hawaiʻi Ltd, and the general contractor, McCarthy Building Companies, Ltd.
UH Interim President David McClain stated, "The selection of Townsend Capital LLC is an important milestone toward the university's goal of improving the quality of cancer care, and the volume of cancer research, in our state. I look forward to a timely and successful conclusion of our negotiations for a comprehensive real estate development agreement for the Cancer Research Center of Hawaiʻi's new facilities."
Dr. Carl-Wilhelm Vogel, director of the Cancer Research Center of Hawaiʻi, added, "I am impressed with the qualifications and experience of the Townsend team. The team includes nationally recognized architectural firms and general contractors with pertinent experience in designing and building cancer centers across the country."
Townsend is a privately held real estate investment firm headquartered in Baltimore, Md., with offices in Missouri, Colorado and New Jersey. The firm has provided custom solutions to the real estate needs and issues of universities, university research parks, health care systems, and corporate clients for more than 30 years.
Representative clients of the firm include the University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Washington University in St. Louis, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Tyco International.
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca (ZGF) Partnership is a 350-person full-service architectural firm headquartered in Portland, Ore., with offices in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., with a diverse range of public and private projects located in urban markets. Representative clients include the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the National Institutes of Health, John Hopkins University, Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the University of California. It is the architect for the Moores University of California at San Diego (UCSD) Cancer Center, which opens next month, and the Bishop Museum Science Learning Center, which is currently under construction.
Architects Hawaiʻi has provided architecture services in Hawaiʻi for more than three generations. The firm has a range of experience in institutional projects, including the new John A. Burns School of Medicine, The Queen's Medical Center, Kuakini Medical Center and the Spark M. Matsunaga Veterans Medical and Regional Center.
Townsend's general contractor, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., was founded in 1864 and is one of Americaʻs oldest privately held construction firms. Headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., McCarthy also has seven full service offices located across the country. It recently completed construction of the Moores UCSD Cancer Center, which was designed by ZGF, a project that is closely comparable to the Cancer Research Center of Hawaiʻi project. As a joint venture partner with Kiewit Pacific, McCarthy will commence construction of a new facility for Kaiser Moanalua Medical Center in mid-2005.
Approval of a developer is the first in a series of steps toward the development of the Cancer Research Center of Hawaiʻi project in Kakaʻako. Townsend will now enter into negotiations with the university for a comprehensive real estate development agreement that will cover planning, design, financing, construction and management of the project.
The university received 15 responses to its Request for Qualifications (RFQ) issued in December 2004 from an impressive slate of companies and development teams across the country interested in developing the new facility for the Cancer Research Center of Hawaiʻi. The facility, which could be about 360,000 square feet in size, is proposed to be developed on a vacant 5.5 acre site owned by the Hawaiʻi Community Development Authority, the state agency responsible for the redevelopment of Kakaʻako.
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ARMSTRONG - Mass of Christian Burial for Alice M. Sorensen, 97, of Estherville will be held 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Armstrong with Father Sunny Dominic as Celebrant. Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Thursday at Henry-Olson Funeral Chapel in Estherville with Vigil Prayer Service at 7 p.m. Interment will be at Ringsted Memorial Cemetery.
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On July 17, 1950, Alice was united in marriage to James A. Sorensen in Northwood. The couple made their home in the Ringsted area where Jim farmed and they also owned and operated Sorensen Trucking Business. Alice taught school for many years in Iowa and Minnesota. She taught school for 27 years in Ringsted Town School, retiring in 1976. Alice took great pride in her teaching career and was honored as an outstanding educator at the Ringsted Centennial. Alice also worked as bookkeeper for Nevill Brothers Implement in Estherville. Besides teaching, Alice was active in her community including: being a judge for Little Miss Iowa Pageants for 10 years; serving on advisory boards at Valley Vue Care Center for three years; volunteering 10 years as receptionist at Fairmont Community Hospital; serving on the Fairmont Hospital Foundation Board for three years and serving on the advisory board for Emmet County Historical Society for five years. The couple also traveled extensively in the United States, Canada and Denmark. One of their most memorable trips was spending their Silver Wedding observance on the Baltic Sea with friends from Ringsted. Jim died Feb. 21, 1997.
Alice was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church; Ringsted American Legion Auxiliary; Catholic Daughters of America; St. Mary's Altar Society; Avera Holy Family Hospital Auxiliary and the Danish American Fellowship. She was a lifetime member of National Education Association; Iowa State Education Association; National Association of English Teachers; National Association of Teachers for Social Studies; Fairmont Community Hospital and the Emmet County Historical Society.
Left to cherish Alice's memory are her siblings, Margaret Kelly of Clovis, Calif., Eileen Lark of Santa Rosa, Calif., Helen Rose (Rosie) Mulvihill of Aitken, Minn. and John Ulrich of Des Moines; special friend, Helle Jorvad-Lund, of Ringsted, Denmark and also many nieces, nephews and friends.
Preceding Alice in death were her husband; parents; brother, James, and sister, Mary.
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Chile ayer hoy (Chile Yesterday Today). Editora Nacional Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, 1975. 100 pp. Small quarto (9 1/2 x 9 1/2 in./24 x 24.5 cm). First edition. Stiff photo-illustrated wrappers. 119 black-and-white photographs (& 1 color) photographs. NOTE: Images at right show copy on offer; page spreads below are images from a previous copy in our archive.
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(Chile Yesterday Today) was published by the official publishing wing of the Chilean government, which before the military coup of 1973 had been called Quimantu, known for its large print runs of low-cost publications, aimed at 'putting books in the hands of the people' and conceived as 'an element for freeing consciences in the new Chile'....Following the coup [1973], Quimantu was taken over by the army and later reconstituted as the Editora Nacional Gabriela Mistral.... Chile ayer hoy (Chile Yesterday Today) has no credits, but its authors functioned within the orbit of the DINAC, the military dictatorship's National Directorate of Social Communications...The authors of Chile ayer hoy made use of the Quimantu archives, whose photographs occupy half the book, which is designed in an alternating structure. On the even numbered pages there are photos, framed in black, of the years of the Unidad Popular [pre-coup government]: scenes of disorder and violence, constant demonstrations by hostile extremists, shops with empty shelves, foreigners in important positions, students on the streets, and communist graffiti. The photographs on the odd-numbered pages, mostly taken at the same places as the others, show peaceful, empty streets; sell-stocked markets; students sitting at their desks; clean walls, etc. The scenes attest to the post-coup tranquility, which resulted from the imposition of a curfew, and from the efficiency of the DINACOS photography department. On the cover, in the colors of the Chilean flag, "yesterday" is printed in red and "today" in white. The schematized before/after organization of the book is a genuine manifesto of militarized graphic design, so clearly Manichean that it is not possible to doubt who the good guys are, nor what the bad guys may expect."--The Latin American Photobook
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