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Tubby Smith out as U of M basketball coach
Tubby Smith is out at the U of M, although as of shortly after 1 p.m., the basketball coach was saying that no one had told him. Mila Koumpilova and Charley Walters at the PiPress report: The University of Minnesota has fired basketball coach Tubby Smith, Board of Regents chair Linda Cohen told the Pioneer Press on Monday, March 25 —although Smith says nobody has told him that. Cohen said she received a voice message at 8 a.m. from the university's president, Eric Kaler, saying Smith was being replaced. "With the very up-and-down season we've had — sometimes spectacular and sometimes disappointing — the regents were aware that might be an issue," she said. "I don't think it would come as a surprise to any of the regents."
And you have to be amused at Sid Hartman's explanations for Gopher coach Tubby Smith's disappointing season. In his Strib column this morning, Sid said: "[S]ome in the media and some of the boosters who don't know all the handicaps a coach operates under at Minnesota are calling for Tubby Smith to be bought out. Yes, the Gophers basketball coach plays his games in an 82-year-old arena, by far the oldest in the Big Ten, an arena the local fans love but which doesn't impress out-of-state recruits. Unlike most major-conference schools, the university doesn't have a practice facility to help recruiting, and it has one of the lowest basketball budgets in the conference." Personally, I think it's a disgrace that the Women's Hockey team — national champs — have to play in an arena with a piddly 3,400 capacity.
In the PiPress, Marcus Fuller wrote before the Smith news: "As for Smith's job being in jeopardy, he said he's not even thinking about that. 'That's the last thing on my mind', he said. 'I always sit down with (the athletic director) after the season. I don't care if it was with Joel (Maturi) or at Kentucky, Tulsa or Georgia. You've sit down and discuss the program, whether it's good or bad. You've got to talk about what you do next or what went wrong or how can we help you.' Smith received a contract extension through 2016-17 last July. He could have earned a $200,000 bonus and another year by reaching the Sweet 16. But he still receives $100,000 for reaching the NCAA tournament and $150,000 for winning a tournament game. One thing that didn't change with the Gophers' one NCAA tournament win was the $2.5 million buyout in his amended contract."
As part of their solemn religious observances, the state's legislators will be talking up (or down) the budget with the folks back in the district. Tim Pugmire at MPR says: "Gov. Mark Dayton will also be talking about the budget during town hall meetings scheduled in Moorhead and St. Cloud. … House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, said Republicans will be spending the week talking about the problems they see in the DFL budget proposals. He plans to travel throughout the state pointing out the problems he sees with the DFL budget proposals. 'Minnesota's economy is [recovering] and Minnesota's economy is creating jobs, and it's happening because we didn't raise taxes over the last couple of years,' Daudt asserted. 'Our case is, if we raise taxes, we're going to stop that from happening, and it's going to be bad for Minnesota's economy and it's bad for hard working Minnesota families.' "
Richard Schulze's Best Buy … buy-back ... may have jumped the tracks. But there are other ways to drive a train. The AP says: "Schulze is returning to the Best Buy fold as chairman emeritus. The move comes after Schulze considered making a buyout bid for the electronics retailer but never made a formal offer. Schulze is also nominating two former Best Buy executives to the board: former CEO Brad Anderson and former Chief Operating Officer Al Lenzmeier to the board."
A slight twist on "suicide by police" … Paul Walsh of the Strib writes: "A violent and armed felon sped his Harley head-on into a parked State Patrol cruiser on a southwestern Minnesota highway and was thrown to his death, authorities said Monday. The crash on Cottonwood County Rd. 10, about 25 miles northwest of Windom, killed Chad R. Danneman, 33, of Slayton, Minn., according to the State Patrol. According to the patrol: Danneman, armed with a knife, had eluded separate pursuits by deputies from the Cottonwood and Murray County sheriff's offices. Soon after, Trooper Stearns was heading east on County Rd. 10 near County Rd. 5 and spotted Danneman on his motorcycle ahead of him. Stearns came to a stop and activated his emergency lights. Danneman raced toward the squad car and struck it head-on. Danneman flew off his motorcycle and was dead at the scene."
I know I feel better … . Laurie Blake of the Strib tells us authorities are getting tough with … thrift stores: "Three months after halting ARC Greater Twin Cities' from opening in Burnsville until it could study city policy on thrift stores, the City Council has a new staff report showing the city has 17 second-hand stores — more than any neighboring community. The question for council members now is whether they want to regulate thrift stores more closely. … Common perception is that thrift stores locate in marginal retail areas and contribute to their decline, the study found. But thrift stores are growing in popularity, and their appeal extends beyond low-income households to more affluent ones, according to the study." There is no truth to the rumor that ARC is opening a store in the Galleria.
Lorna Benson at MPR has a story about Mayo's data mining: "It's not unusual for a health care provider to mine the medical records of its patients for research. But gaining access to the medical records of virtually an entire county is a far greater challenge. Since 1966, the Mayo Clinic has collected as many medical records as possible in Minnesota's Olmsted County to generate powerful studies that help save lives. The Rochester Epidemiology Project has a treasure trove of close to 600,000 medical records. The health data have generated more than 2,000 studies and provided groundbreaking information on a variety of conditions, including heart disease and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). After nearly 50 years of success, the project is expanding to include patients from seven other southeastern Minnesota counties, which will help researchers broaden its database."
Also at MPR, Tim Nelson reacts to Jean Hopfensperger's Strib story on who predicted an easy windfall from e-pulltabs: "[T]he only people who would hazard a guess were the suppliers of the games themselves, and now that guess is proving distressingly off — a $100 million per month industry is looking more like a $2 million a month industry for now. That's despite state assurances about the projections last year. The revenue department even put out a charity-by-charity estimate of the likely gains for gambling operators. 'They're reasonable, they're actually conservative in some ways,' said revenue commissioner Myron Frans at the time. 'But they are a projection.' " Actually, more like a mirage.
Next door, Gov. Scott Walker is still pushing school vouchers. Scott Bauer of the AP says: " … Walker is proposing an expansion of the state's school voucher program to nine additional cities, causing a deep [di]vision over education funding. Walker's plan to expand vouchers, in which taxpayers are paid a subsidy to send their children to private school, has been a lightning rod of criticism since the governor proposed it last month. Even Senate Republicans, who say they support growing the program, have said it won't happen as Walker proposed. But a new statewide poll shows the public can be swayed in its opinion of the program."
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Thank goodness we have
2.5 million dollars to pay for Tubby's buyout.
As long as it doesn't come directly from the state, that's OK, right?
Bill Gleason, U of M faculty and alum
tubby smith
What a wonderful place to work . $2,500,000 plus $250,000 NCAA
money for failure.
if the U of M stopped spending so much on coaches, they could afford a practice facility.
Better yet, maybe the legislature should stop micromanaging the U of M, put a half million cap on all salaries, and then let professional educators make these decisions instead of the usual unholy conflagration of overpaid administrators, wealthy alumni and rabid sports fans who just happen to be legislators.
The U of M has proven time and again that spending a ton of money doesn't get you a winning coach. Maybe instead they should create a degree program in coaching, and only hire their own grads for coaching positions. I seriously doubt they'd do worse than they've done with this brilliant scheme of throwing buckets of money at people who don't actually take any shots or grab any rebounds.
I'd say something about Tubby Smith being paid hundreds of times more than the athletes who work for him, except the actual figure requires you to multiply by infinity since the athletes get paid zero.
The Leg has very little control over the U, since the U was chartered while Minnesota was still a territory, so its charter predates the state's constitution. Basically, the U gets a lump sum appropriation; the Leg can cut it, but not tell the U where to make its cuts.
And much of the funding for major sports comes from revenues and alumni, which are beyond the control of both the State and the U. Basically, football, basketball and hockey are independent businesses nominally connected to the U.
A better proposal would be to completely separate major college sports from educational institutions and allow them to be in name what they are in fact: monor league teams feeding the major sports league teams.
And finally, athletes on these teams are in fact well paid.
Almost all of them have full 'scholarships' which in fact have little to do with scholarship since (with some notable exceptions) few would be admitted to the U based on their academic credentials, and few earn meaningful degrees.
Odd way of paying them
Something you cannot use or resell has no value, and that's what that scholarship is worth to most athletes, a frightening number of whom did not get an adequate prep education and cannot take advantage of college classes.
It's like recruiting young people with severe physical defects to work in your office, then refusing to pay them any money, instead telling them they're welcome to use the gym in the basement.
College sports are a travesty yet we lionize the old men who profit from the hard work of young men who put themselves at risk of permanent injury just for a long shot at cashing in as a pro. They're already professional athletes in every sense but getting the paycheck.
Let's finance Tubby's buyout with e-pulltabs...
...because they are such a good deal for us taxpayers.
I'm sure the Star-Trib will not report any meaningful facts about this until well after the ink has dried.
Just curious
Just wondering how many U of M women's hockey games Brian Lambert went to this season, since he inserted his personal opinion into the "high-quality journalism" MinnPost proudly proclaims it produces.
rewarding failure
Why when the extension was signed did the buyout go from 1.5 million to 2.5 million? Rewarding failure sticks in my craw
As long as there are de-facto
As long as there are de-facto minor league sports operating as university teams, we're going to have this strange situation of the two highest paid state employees being the football coach and the men's basketball coach.
Since many of these "students" have little interest in the traditional things offered by universities (i.e., a degree), why keep this charade going? Make them true minor league teams, and let college athletics go back to what they used to be (and still are at the division III level)-- students who play a game in their spare time.
When the buyout for the coach is multiples of the President Kaler's salary, you know priorities have been misplaced.
And a good start
would be applying the same admissions requirements that other students must meet.
Bar Stool Coaches....
Ah....time once again for the Bar Stool Coaches to vent their rath. Go back as far as you want and there will be a Minnesota coach who needed to be axed because they didn't do what the know-it-alls wanted them to do.
Brewster, Monson, Childress, Tubby, all of the past Wolves coaches, etc., and don't forget to throw in the Borton and Frazier haters who rise up each season.
Is there a Jesus coach out there who can come to Minnesota and save it's sports teams.. ....just one sport is all we ask......anyone? anyone?
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Hi, and welcome to JustAnswer! My name is XXXXX XXXXX I am excited to get started with you.From what you are describing, it sounds like you are interested in deleting your search history? Is that correct?
Click on History in the menu bar within safari. Choose Clear history at the bottom
I have done that, and that does not delete the files in the untitled file, just the files when you choose clear history. It also does not delete old sites.
Oh ok so you would like to delete all website data. I will direct you however we will be disconnected. Do you know how to get back to our chat?
no i dont know how to get reconnected to you,, but when you say all website, does that include my pictures and files in other areas and my ability to use safari, emails etc...i am not really that versed on all of this...?
It will not erase actual data stored onto your computer, it will clear your download list, website data, preview images etc
This will not effect the ability to use safari
am i able to do this manually and select files from the downloadlist...are there not pictures on the download list?
You are able to select files from the download list manually. To do this, open finder (click on the happy face icon on the dock) In the left column, you will see your downloads folder
You can also manually remove website data
I apologize it is documents list? and i cannot find a happy face?
The happy face icon is the first icon in the dock
The documents folder should also be in the left column
I found it...
Ok do you see the document you are looking to in that folder?
no, i do know how to delete form this list...the document appears when i go to my email and wnat to attach a file and i click on attach and than go to the file and they are there throughout other sites...?
Ok it does not sounds like they are on other sites, it sounds like it is just on your computer. It can be in the documents folder or the download folder. Do you know the name if the file?
Is this file a list of items?
I go to the email compose, click on attach file, a drop dwn screen comes up, lists on the left
Devices,Places (documents is under here)
If you wish to delete it, you can simply drag it into the trash
when i click on documents put a word in search and a whole list of todays and previous items, sites come up...
I am a little confused. Are we referring to a singe document or browser history within safari? When you said that you put a word search in, where are you entering this word search into?
the file drags but when i get to the trash can at the bottom it does not deposit?
Ok, try to select it and press command+delete key
When I put a word in search, like I am looking for reunion...i plug that in and it gives me a whole load of files which have reunion in it that i have visited or whatever?
i will try the command delete key
Ok, let me know if that works
command delete just makes a sound...
It should make a trash movement sound. Try to control click then. To do this press and hold the control key and click on the file. Choose Move to trash
Were you able to control click on the file?
You can also select the document and choose file<Move to trash
I will try ths again but maybe this will help: when the box comes down with devices places documents media, to the right when you put something in the search bar and the files come up when you select a file at the bottom it tells you where the file eminates from?for instance one of the files at the bottom had icons that when you touched them said in order: Library,Caches, metadate.history
oh ok I see. It sounds like you are searching within finder that will bring up all files which include system and library files. Since those are system files, it is not advisable to delete or alter them. If you were to open them, they will not be legible since they are system files.You can only delete files that you create.
In this case, cache are files that you can delete, but you can delete them within safari
The control delete takes the fiel to the trash and when i trash it...it still stays on the list...it is like moving a picture from one place to the other but it never leaves its hom?
You may be attempting to delete a system file which you should not alter
I have done deleting cahce but they are still on this list, i wnat to get them off the list?
The list in finder correct?
I think you are correct...so how do we get rid of the system? files
You can not. System files are what you need for your computer to function. To make sure, can you tell me the title of these files?
World Bicycles is on my system file and i want to delete it...how is this done?
Ok that is not a system file so you should be able to delete that. Select Word Bicycle, choose File from the top menu bar and then choose Move to trash
I have one more place that I want you to look at within safari when you are done
I cannot find anywhere on the menu bar move to trash
Here is the screen shot
File is right next to the apple logo in the upper left corner
My drop down does not have all of these choices?
Did you select the files first? A
Ok, go back to safari. Click on Safari in the top menu bar and choose preferences
ok i did that
Click on Privacy
there is nno privacy..i checked all the drop downs
there is a private browsind by itself?
Ok, click on that. You may be running an earlier version of safari. So I can better navigate you, can you click on Safari in the top menu and choose About safari. What is your version numbers?
Its an '03 version...5.0.6 5533.22.3
Yes, you will need to choose privacy
So you see remove data
Remove all website data
where is remove data?
Try this instead. Click on Safari again, this time choose reset safari
Only check Clear History and Remove website data
i have done that before and than i will loose you...
unless i minimalize you?? the whole screen will change and comeback to the beginning...if you want me to do that i will but i dont thinnk it will help
Not if you only check 2 boxes. Clear history and website data
Uncheck everything els
I am still confused on what you are trying to delete. I think it is safe to rule out safari. It seems we started out thinking it was safari history but It seems more like a confusion on system files Vs data cache. Can you go back to finder and search for what you were searching before
Ok I reset safari...went back and the finder seems to be the same ok...but the drop down for the email attachment...still has the sites we dont want
Where do you see the drop down for the email sites?
When you attach a file?
When I have an email to send out there is a sight on the email to click for any attachments...: when the box comes down it has on the left selections: devices places (this is where I click on documents) and media, than to the right when you put something in the search bar and the files come up when you select a file that then becomes attached to your e-mail. At the bottom of this box, it tells you where the file eminates from?for instance one of the files at the bottom had icons that when you touched them said in order: Library,Caches, metadate.history down box, l
The box taht comes down comes from the ceneter top of the screen under the bar.
Ok lets navigate to that path. Do you see your home folder in the left column within finder. It will say you account name
Or do you see Macintosh HD
account name, applications, documents, drop box
Click on your account name
When you click on your account name, do you see a library folder?
yes and i followed it as i would with the others and got it into the trash...i gues i have to look up each item and find what path it took and than trash it?
Yup! You got it!
So you will need to delete it in safari first and then manually track down the left overs
can i save this for further instructions...
You can always get back to it after rating and closing the chat. Click on bookmarks in the top menu and then choose Bookmark this page
Here is a quick summary
Delete Files manually
Open finder (click on happy face icon)
Click on your account name in the left column
Choose Library
Follow the path
To reset Safari
Click on safari in the upper menu
Choose reset safari
Uncheck everything except Clear History and Remove Website Data
Was there anything els I can assist you with today?
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The body of a man believed to be The Missing TV presenter Mark Speight has been found dead at London's Paddington station.
British Transport Police (BTP) released a statement confirming officers were contacted at around 10:00 BST today after reports a body had been found in a remote area of the railway station.
Police said the circumstances surrounding the man's death were subject to an ongoing investigation but confirmed he had not been not by a train and that the death was currently being treated as "unexplained".
The BTP statement did say however: "Officers believe the deceased to be that of reported missing person, 42-year-old Mark Speight."
Police said that they had notified next-of kin and a formal identification of the body would be made tomorrow.
CCTV footage from the train station has been removed by police officers as has the body.
Speight was believed to have been in a considerably fragile state following the death of his fiancée Natasha Collins in January.
Ms Collins was found dead at the couple's north London flat and a subsequent post mortem found she had ingested cocaine, sleeping pills and alcohol before her death. She was discovered in a bath tub suffering from burns on 60 per cent of her body.
Speight had been missing since April 7th after failing to meet up with Ms Collins' mother in central London.
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IN THE MIDST of the seething mass of humanity that is the holiday rush I stood still for a second — a second that went unnoticed by anyone else, but during which I reminisced on all the decisions of my life that had led me to that moment.
Dozens and dozens of people shouting at you nonstop for several hours and you might reconsider some of your decisions, too. The sweat dripped down the raised hairs on my back. Stress can make you feel alive all over, literally tingling with a combination of adrenaline and excitement. But, then again, stress can kill you, too.
A man waved his wine glass directly in front of my face. To his right a petite brunette kept shouting in a big voice, "Hey! Hey! Hey!" Two seats down a little old lady cussed like a truck driver and in the seat next to her a middle-aged woman openly wept. All around them people laughed and some even sang.
A virtual mosaic of the range of human experience all crammed into one little bar. The only constant was that they all wanted something, and they all wanted it from me.
"I want a martini."
"Gimme two Manhattans."
"I need a beer."
Everybody but one little old man. In his outdated hat, he waited patiently, too. He was jostled a little by the two overly made-up blondes with gigantic purses pushing their way through. The guy in the yacht club sweater simply cut in front of him without a second thought.
If it weren't for the Christmas music playing on the speakers one might easily have forgotten it was the season for giving. Underneath that wishful musical message everyone seemed more interested in the getting. Everyone but me, because it's my job to do the giving, and I was giving it all I got.
I was busy mixing up pisco sours, old fashioneds and Vieux Carres like they were going out of style — again. Odd how one generation's hot new thing is the next generation's bore, only to be rediscovered by the subsequent generation. It is said that talent skips a generation; I humbly submit that originality does, too.
At any rate I kept noticing the little old man. For some reason I was reminded of Hans Christian Andersen's short story about the little match girl who freezes to death surrounded by people too busy to notice.
That little old man never ordered a thing. He just hung around on the periphery. He watched with fascination as the threesome opened presents at the bar. He observed the well-dressed family force their way through an unrelaxing evening, the mother constantly adjusting her young sons' ties, hair and attitudes. Some hours later the crowd thinned, as crowds do, and the little old man finally sat down. He doffed his hat, straightening out the crease in its top.
"Can I get you something?" I asked.
"No," he said quietly.
Usually people taking up barstools but not ordering can be a bother. Nature may abhor a vacuum but bartenders abhor dead spaces, especially ones that could easily be filled with income-generating holiday goers. It is one of the reasons why bars often forbid the practice of the saving seats, one seated customer generates far more revenue than three or four "on their way."
Tonight I felt differently.
Maybe it was because the little old man reminded me of my grandfathers, both now deceased. Or perhaps it was because I also noticed the battered wedding ring on the old man's hand. A ring that he kept turning round and round.
I don't know if it was the first or the second or even the third holiday season that the wife whom that ring symbolized wasn't with us. I just know that it didn't matter. Like the little match girl's matches, each turn probably represented a memory.
"You miss her, don't you?" I asked after some time had passed.
He looked up with tears in his eyes.
"I'm sure she misses you, too."
"Do you really think so?" he asked.
"I'm sure of it."
In a room full of people, one man so utterly alone finally smiled.
Reminding me that sometimes the cure for loneliness is as simple as someone else noticing. Just ask Hans Christian Andersen, or one little old man.
Jeff Burkhart is the author of "Twenty Years Behind Bars: The Spirited Adventures of a Real Bartender" as well as an award-winning bartender at a local restaurant. Follow him at www.jeffburkhart.net and contact him at jeffb@thebarfly online.com