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‘The best to ever do it’: How Bill Belichick out-coached Sean McVay in the Super Bowl
Adam Kilgore
Reporter covering national sports
Feb. 4, 2019 at 11:24 a.m. UTC
ATLANTA — Julian Edelman sat facing his locker inside the New England Patriots locker room, pulled on a pair of Jordans and chomped on an unlit cigar that had been aged for 50 years, a gift of gratitude from team owner Robert Kraft. The Super Bowl LIII MVP turned toward teammate Matthew Slater and softly captured the conclusion the rest of America had come to.
“I can’t believe they didn’t score a touchdown,” Edelman said to Slater.
The Los Angeles Rams’ offense had been dominant all season, so glorified it made Coach Sean McVay an exemplar of modern football, causing envious owners to trip over themselves trying to hire any coach who lifts weights and uses hair gel. The Rams had scored the second-most points and gained the second-most yards during the most offense-crazed season in league history.
Then came the Super Bowl. Then McVay confronted a football savant who had 33 years and five Lombardis on him. Then came a defensive throttling almost without precedent. Then came clarity at the top of football’s coaching hierarchy: Sean McVay may be a genius, but he’s no Bill Belichick.
One of Belichick’s defensive game plans already is on display in the Hall of Fame, from his days as a New York Giants defensive coordinator in Super Bowl XXV. The one he and defensive play caller Brian Flores designed for the Patriots’ 13-3 victory over the Rams on Sunday night may soon join it. One year after the Patriots allowed 41 points in a Super Bowl loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, they yielded the lowest output in a Super Bowl in 49 years.
The Patriots confused Jared Goff, dismantled the Rams’ offensive line, shut down their skill players and left McVay without answers. Belichick surprised the Rams by starting in zone defense after playing man-to-man all season. He produced havoc by changing the role of an unheralded defensive back. He unleashed a torrent of different pass rushes despite barely blitzing. He did nothing the Rams expected and everything to specially stifle a high-powered attack.
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Belichick made McVay his latest high-profile victim, a fact McVay lamented in both ornate vernacular and plain English. He talked about Belichick’s deployment of “single-high buzz structures” and “quarters principles” in the defensive strategy. And then he admitted what had been plainly obvious during four hours of brutal football.
“It was a great game plan,” McVay said. “There is no other way to say it but I got out-coached.”
Super Bowl LIII was a victory for wisdom over phenoms. The Rams were obliterated statistically, gaining just 260 yards, recording 14 first downs and punting nine times. The only reason the Rams had a chance in the fourth quarter was the defense of 71-year-old coordinator Wade Phillips, who had Tom Brady off-kilter all night. But one coach dwarfed the others, and it was the one who now has eight Super Bowl rings as either a coach or coordinator.
“Bill’s the best to ever do it,” Patriots cornerbacks coach Josh Boyer said.
The biggest spectacle in American culture staged Belichick’s opus, but it began two weeks ago on a quiet field in Foxborough, Mass. In their first practice after the Patriots beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC championship game, when other coaches might have rested players after an arduous, emotional game, Belichick put the Patriots in full pads and went full-bore. He added extra drills and additional practice periods. Mistakes were met with coaches demanding, “Do it again.” At the end, players toiled through an extra 12 sprints.
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“It felt like we were running forever,” Slater said. “It was like, what are we doing here? We knew Bill meant business. We better mean business. We had to play a great opponent. I think it prepared us for what we needed to do.”
“It was a practice that let us know, ‘Hey, look: Just because we won the AFC championship, that don’t mean we’re done here,’” defensive end Deatrich Wise Jr. said.
Patriots players knew to expect two weeks of intensive study. Belichick does not use a set system. He has a basic set of fundamental tenets, but he alters strategy weekly based on his opponent’s features and flaws.
“We switch every week,” Patriots safety Devin McCourty said in the locker room after the game. “We don’t just do something because that’s what we do.”
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In the next locker over, his brother Jason, a Patriots cornerback, overheard him and asked, “How about Kansas City vs. this game plan?”
“Totally different,” Devin said.
Belichick unveiled his defensive game plan to his team early during the off week. Belichick and his staff had deduced that the Rams specialized in “man beaters,” Boyer said — tactics meant to defeat man coverage. Their litany of shifts and bunch formations and frequent jet motion all thrive against man coverage, which is the style the Patriots played almost all season and used extensively in Kansas City.
Against the Rams, though, the Patriots would start the game in zone coverage. The Patriots believed that it would limit the effectiveness of how McVay dresses up his simple-yet-deadly scheme and that it would stagger Goff, a 24-year-old facing Belichick for only the second time.
“Our philosophy is always, we’re going to give them something a little bit different,” Boyer said. “Try to get good pressure up the middle and force Goff into some throws deep and try to have it protected deep.”
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The Patriots added a wrinkle within the wrinkle. Halfway through the first week of preparation, coaches switched Jonathan Jones’s primary role from cornerback to safety. Jones, an undrafted free agent the Patriots picked up out of Auburn in 2016, has toggled between the positions all season, and his versatility is one reason the Patriots value him.
“Whatever coaches need from me, I’m a baller,” Jones said. “I’m a game player.”
“We played him in a new position this whole game,” Boyer said.
All year, Jones had frequently blitzed as either an outside corner or a nickelback. When he crept close to the line, Goff would assume he might blitz. Then he would drop back — not to a corner’s position but to the center of the field, where he was responsible for a deep quarter of New England’s coverage. When Goff audibled, Boyer said, the Patriots could change their defensive call simply by moving around Jones.
“Early on,” Goff said, “they were able to keep us completely guessing.”
The Patriots also devised exotic pass rushes from an alignment meant to stifle the run and force Goff to beat them. The Patriots walked up two linebackers to the line of scrimmage, effectively employing a six-man defensive line. The alignment clogged running lanes on early downs. When the Rams passed, the Patriots would vary which defenders rushed and which dropped into coverage, frequently using pass-rush combinations they had never shown.
“Guys who had been rushers all year, different guys were rushing,” Rams left tackle Andrew Whitworth said.
Along with the mixed personnel, the Patriots used a vast array of stunts, with pass rushers crossing and twisting along the line. “You name it, we threw the bus at them,” defensive end Adrian Clayborn said. “We just tried to mix it up and tried to confuse them.”
From the start, the plan worked to perfection. On the Rams’ first third-down play, Clayborn burst inside on a stunt, rushed Goff into a throw and smashed him into the turf. (Clayborn admitted he had actually made a communication mistake with a linebacker on the play and would receive a film study demerit from Belichick.)
The Patriots entered the game prepared to switch back to man coverage. Once they saw how Goff reacted, they realized their plan, and their players’ execution, had unfolded precisely as they hoped.
“There were some changes to it along the way,” Boyer said. “As a staff, we went back every day and said, ‘Is this what we want to do? Is everybody comfortable with this? Is this what we’re going to get?’ When we started with the zone stuff and we saw it was all the man-beaters schemes, motions and shifts, we were like: ‘This is exactly what we wanted. This is why we wanted it.’ We just kind of stayed with that.”
Throughout the first half, the combination of the zone and Jones’s new role flummoxed Goff. “That was our goal, to try to rattle him,” Clayborn said. The zone prompted Goff to hold the ball longer trying to find an open receiver, and the pass rush punished him. Even though the Patriots blitzed only three or four times, Devin McCourty said, they sacked Goff four times and hurried him another 12.
“In order to be successful, we had to get him frustrated,” defensive end Trey Flowers said.
Belichick’s zone gambit was, in a way, a compliment to McVay. He believed McVay would be able to pinpoint deficiencies in any scheme given two weeks to prepare, so he needed something new. “McVay is like us,” McCourty said. “The Rams are like us.” But switching coverage put the Patriots’ defense a step ahead, and Belichick maintained the edge all night.
“We knew they would make some adjustments in the second half,” McCourty said. “But we were prepared for them.”
Goff led the Rams on their best drive late in the fourth quarter, when the Patriots led 10-3, taking them to the New England 27-yard line with less than five minutes remaining. Having hardly blitzed all night, Belichick and Flores called for a maximum blitz, leaving top cornerback Stephon Gilmore alone on the outside against Rams speedster Brandin Cooks. Safety Duron Harmon pressured Goff into an early throw. Goff floated the ball toward Cooks. Gilmore had drifted back, reading Goff more than covering Cooks. He leaped and snared the ball at its highest point before Cooks could turn around, all but sealing the game.
“It was an easy pick for me,” Gilmore said. “It was like playing throw-’em-up in your backyard.”
Patriots coaches can make so many tweaks and adjustments because they have the right players. Flores emphasized execution mattered more than scheme, but what enabled execution was intelligence and versatility. The Patriots’ roster lacks recognizable commodities, but Belichick does not prioritize qualities that equate to fame.
“We don’t have stars,” linebacker Kyle Van Noy said. “We have elite football players.”
It is not easy to become an elite football player, especially for Belichick. It means running in full pads in late January, or subjugating ego to learn a new, hybrid position on the eve of the biggest game, or worrying about what Belichick will think about a mistake made on a quarterback hit during a Super Bowl victory.
“Even when we win games, it feels like we lose sometimes,” Gilmore said. “It’s hard.”
But, he added quickly, it is worth it. As the final seconds ticked off, his players dumped Gatorade on Belichick. He smiled, hugged his daughter and felt a euphoric group of players whoosh past him. The Patriots had held the Rams without a touchdown, another crowning moment in an all-time career. The Patriots were champions again, and that was not hard to believe.
The New England Patriots beat the Los Angeles Rams, 13-3, on Feb. 3 for a record-tying sixth Super Bowl championship.
Note: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Jared Goff had not faced a Bill Belichick team before. Goff and the Rams had played against Belichick’s Patriots in a regular-season game in 2016.
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Analysis: The 10 best Super Bowl commercials
Maroon 5 Super Bowl halftime show: 5 important questions, from SpongeBob to shirtless Adam Levine
Saints fans stage huge Super Bowl protest in New Orleans
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Eddie Z Signs Mooresville Teen To A Management Contract
WCCB Charlotte,
A Moorseville Teen is making big noise in the music world!
Producer, engineer and guitarist Eddie Z of the Playroom in Charlotte has signed 16 year old Bassist and Vocalist Abby K to a management contract. Abby starting playing bass 3 years ago after going to a Kiss concert with her dad. Then she picked up singing after playing with a few bands!
Back in December, Abby K opened for Nita Strauss, the guitarist for Alice Cooper’s touring band. She says, her dream is to be a successful touring bassist and to inspire other young girls.
Eddie Z says a lot of exciting things are coming up for Abby K. She’s opening for some major touring artists as well as organizing a new band. Her first single will be released May 14th. To hear her music and find out more follow her on Twitter and Instagram @AbbyKOnBass.
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Würth Elektronik: Würth Elektronik Group
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The eMobility World looks to Hong Kong
Würth Elektronik eiSos: Formula E technology partnership with Audi and eMobility strategy
On March 10, 2019 the Formula E racing series started its fifth season with the first ePrix in Hong Kong, China. There, from the beginning, as a technology partner in this fascinating form of motor racing: Würth Elektronik eiSos. Europe's leading manufacturer of electronic components positions itself as a partner of the eMobility industry in Asia, because China is also particularly open to new mobility concepts beyond the sporting aspects of Formula E. For this reason, Würth Elektronik eiSos is rapidly expanding its sales and service network in the People's Republic and other Asian countries. The drivers of the Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler team were also fast, effective and successful at the opening race: they took 2nd and 4th place.
Not only is the Formula E race in Berlin (May 25, 2019) a "home game" for Würth Elektronik eiSos as a technology partner of the Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler racing team, but for some time now, the races in Asia too, because the company runs a large warehouse and logistics hub in Hong Kong. In neighboring Shenzhen, there is a large Quality Design Center (QDC), the spacious new building of which was only just opened in a ceremony in February by Prof. Dr. h. c. mult. Reinhold Würth, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Würth Group’s Family Trusts. The QDC assumes functions in the areas of Quality Assurance, R&D, Product Qualification, Material Monitoring and After-Sales Service. This illustrates that Würth Elektronik eiSos no longer sees itself merely as a manufacturer of components, but has grown into the role of a technology enabler whose research and development advances technologies such as power management, optoelectronics and eMobility.
Partnership part of an overall concept
Würth Elektronik eiSos is involved in numerous global technology partnerships to promote the innovation driver eMobility. The support for eRacing has been a key part of this strategic concept right from the start. The focus is on the technology partnership with the Formula E team, Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler. The electric speedsters not only prove the high and rapidly growing performance of electric vehicles, but also serve as a proving ground for electronic applications under extreme conditions. On board the racing car Audi e-tron FE05, there are REDCUBE terminals and a backup battery co-developed by Würth Elektronik eiSos. The electronics manufacturer is also a partner of various Formula Student teams and the University of Nottingham, which is chalking up success with an eMotorbike.
"The Formula E race in Hong Kong perfectly symbolizes our commitment in Asia: We are rapidly stepping up the expansion of our service network in the Chinese market. Here we meet a large, enthusiastic audience for our innovation field of eMobility off the race track as well. Asia now has a strong lead over Europe with its mobility concepts. Here we contribute the experience we have gained to projects and products throughout the world - so companies, the economy and society in other countries profit from our eMobility activities in Asia," says Alexander Gerfer, CTO of the Würth Elektronik eiSos Group.
The season opener in Hong Kong proved very successful for the Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler team: 2nd place for Lucas di Grassi and 4th place for Daniel Abt.
Download press release and pictures here: www.htcm.de/kk/wuerth
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In Memory of Flash: 1996-2020
By Ezequiel Bruni | Jul. 16, 2020
We are gathered here today….
Today I write in memory of Adobe Flash (née Macromedia), something that a bunch of people are actually too young to remember. I write this with love, longing, and a palpable sense of relief that it’s all over. I have come to praise Flash, to curse it, and finally to bury it.
We’ve been hearing about the death of Flash for a long time. We know it’s coming. December 2020 has been announced as the official timeframe for removal, but let’s be real about this: it’s dead. It’s super-dead. It’s people-are-selling-Flash-game-archives-on-Steam dead.
That last bit actually makes me happy, because Flash games were a huge part of my childhood, and the archives must be preserved. Before I’d ever heard of video cards, frames per second, and “git gud”, I was whiling away many an hour on disney.com, cartoonnetwork.com, MiniClip, Kongregate, and other sites, looking for games.
I think we’ve established in my previous work that even as a missionary kid, I did not have a social life.
The Internet itself gave me a way to reach out and see beyond my house, my city, and my world, and it was wonderful. Flash was a part of that era when the Internet felt new, fresh, and loaded with potential. Flash never sent anyone abuse, or death threats. Flash was for silly animations, and games that my parent’s computer could just barely handle, after half an hour of downloading.
I even built my first animated navigation menus in Flash, because I didn’t know any better. At all. But those menus looked exactly like the ones I’d designed in Photoshop, so that’s what mattered to me, young as I was.
That was a part of Flash’s charm, really.
What Flash Got Right
Flash Brought Online Multimedia into the Mainstream
Funny story, JavaScript was only about a year old when Flash was released. While HTML5 and JS are the de-facto technologies for getting things done now, Flash was, for many, the better option at launch. JS had inconsistent support across browsers, and didn’t come with a handy application that would let you draw and animate whatever you wanted.
It was (in part) Flash that opened up a world of online business possibilities, that made people realize the Internet had potential rivalling that of television. It brought a wave of financial and social investment that wouldn’t be seen again until the advent of mainstream social networks like MySpace.
The Internet was already big business, but Flash design became an industry unto itself.
Flash Was Responsive
Yeah, Flash websites could be reliably responsive (and still fancy!) before purely HTML-based sites pulled it off. Of course, it was called by other names back then, names like “Liquid Design”, or “Flex Design”. But you could reliably build a website in Flash, and you knew it would look good on everything from 800×600 monitors, to the devastatingly huge 1024×768 screens.
You know, before those darned kids with their “wide screens” took over. Even then, Flash still looked good, even if a bunch of people suddenly had to stop making their sites with a square-ish aspect ratio.
Flash Was Browser-Agnostic
On top of being pseudo-responsive, the plugin-based Flash player was almost guaranteed to work the same in every major browser. Back in a time when Netscape and Internet Explorer didn’t have anything that remotely resembled feature parity, the ability to guarantee a consistent website experience was to be treasured. When FireFox and Chrome came out, with IE lagging further behind, that didn’t change.
While the CSS Working Group and others fought long and hard for the web to become something usable, Flash skated by on its sheer convenience. If your site was built in Flash, you didn’t have to care which browsers supported the <marquee> tag, or whatever other ill-conceived gimmick was new and trendy.
Flash Popularized Streaming Video
Remember when YouTube had a Flash-based video player? Long before YouTube, pretty much every site with video was using Flash to play videos online. It started with some sites I probably shouldn’t mention around the kids, and then everyone was doing it.
Some of my fondest memories are of watching cartoon clips as a teenager. I’d never gotten to watch Gargoyles or Batman: The Animated Series as a young kid, those experience came via the Internet, and yes… Flash. Flash video players brought me Avatar: The Last Airbender, which never ever had a live action adaptation.
Anyway, my point: Flash made online video streaming happen. If you’ve ever loved a Netflix or Prime original show (bring back The Tick!), you can thank Macromedia.
What Flash Got Wrong
Obviously, not everything was rosy and golden. If it was, we’d have never moved on to bigger, better things. Flash had problems that ultimately killed it, giving me the chance, nay, the responsibility of eulogizing one of the Internet’s most important formative technologies.
Firstly, it was buggy and insecure: This is not necessarily a deal-breaker in the tech world, and Microsoft is doing just fine, thank you. Still, as Flash matured and the code-base expanded, the bugs became more pronounced. The fact that it was prone to myriad security issues made it a hard sell to any company that wanted to make money.
Which is, you know, all of them.
Secondly, it was SEO-unfriendly: Here was a more serious problem, sales-wise. While we’re mostly past the era when everyone and their dog was running a shady SEO company, search engines are still the lifeblood of most online businesses. Having a site that Google can’t index is just a no-go. By the time Google had managed to index SWF files, it was already too late.
Thirdly, its performance steadily got worse: With an expanding set of features and code, the Flash plugin just took more and more resources to run. Pair it with Chrome during that browser’s worst RAM-devouring days, and you have a problem.
Then, while desktops were getting more and more powerful just (I assume) to keep up with Flash, Apple went and introduced the iPhone. Flash. Sucked. On. Mobile. Even the vendors that went out of their way to include a Flash implementation on their smartphones almost never did it well.
It was so much of a hassle that when Apple officially dropped Flash support, the entire world said, “Okay, yeah, that’s fair.”
Side note: Flash always sucked on Linux. I’m just saying.
Flash was, for its time, a good thing for the Internet as a whole. We’ve outgrown it now, but it would be reckless of us to ignore the good things it brought to the world. Like the creativity of a million amateur animators, and especially that one cartoon called “End of Ze World”.
Goodbye Flash, you sucked. And you were great. Rest in peace. Rest in pieces. Good riddance. I’ll miss you.
Featured image via Fabio Ballasina and Daniel Korpai.
By Ezequiel Bruni
Ezequiel Bruni is a web/UX designer, blogger, and aspiring photographer living in Mexico. When he\'s not up to his finely-chiselled ears in wire-frames and front-end code, or ranting about the same, he indulges in beer, pizza, fantasy novels, and stand-up comedy. More articles by Ezequiel Bruni
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Chief: Police officer's boyfriend shot her to death as she prepared for work
Three men have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a rookie northwestern Louisiana police officer, including a man who was the officer's boyfriend and father of her child, authorities say.Treveon Anderson, 26, was arrested Tuesday in the January 9 death of his live-in girlfriend, Shreveport police Officer Chatéri Payne, who was shot dead in the driveway of their home while she was in uniform and preparing to leave for work, police said.Anderson was arrested after a cousin of his, Lawrence Pierre, told investigators he saw Anderson shoot Payne, police reports obtained by CNN affiliate KSLA say.Anderson; Pierre, 22; and a third man, Glenn Frierson, 38, were arrested on preliminary charges of second-degree murder, police said.Anderson lied to investigators last week about having chased away an unknown assailant and discovering his girlfriend wounded, police Chief Ben Raymond said."We believe Anderson shot and killed her, and concocted the false narrative of her being murdered by an unknown suspect," Raymond told reporters at a news conference Wednesday morning.The police chief has not revealed an alleged motive in the killing. He has called Pierre and Frierson "accomplices," but has not elaborated on what they're accused of doing.No attorneys have been assigned to the suspects and no appearances have been scheduled yet, said John Prime, spokesman for the Caddo Parish District Attorney's Office.The police reports reveal a little more about the allegations.Suspect's cousin claimed he saw shooting, police report saysAnderson called 911 on the night of January 9 to report that Payne had been shot, Raymond said.Officers who went to the home found Payne wounded and wearing her police uniform. She had graduated from a police academy two months ago and was headed to work that night.Payne was taken to a hospital, where she died about two hours after the call, Raymond said.The couple's 2-year-old child was at the home when Payne was shot. Raymond said he doesn't think the child witnessed the shooting.Police took Anderson to a detective's office that night and questioned him, but had released him by the next morning after hearing his account."He advised he was inside of the residence when he heard gunshots, and then went outside and shot at a person wearing all black clothing, whom he believed to be the suspect," Raymond said Wednesday. "He (claimed he) then noticed that Officer Payne had been shot."Raymond declined to say how investigators subsequently came to believe Anderson shot Payne.But police reports detailing probable cause for the arrests say Pierre told investigators in a videotaped interview "that he witnessed Treveon Anderson shoot Payne multiple times, resulting in her death."The police documents also say Pierre:• "Admitted to being present during the murder and admitted his participation." The documents do not elaborate on how Pierre allegedly participated.• "Led investigators to the location where he hid the weapon used in the murder."• Claimed that Frierson accompanied "him (Pierre) to the murder" and left with him afterward.The documents say nothing else about what Frierson is accused of doing. They also do not say what led investigators to question Pierre.When a reporter asked Raymond whether all three men were present when the shooting happened, the chief said: "I don't think that would be an accurate statement.""Certainly Anderson was present. I don't think it's accurate at this point to say all three were present during the shooting," the chief said.Investigators have confiscated a handgun they believe was the weapon used to kill Payne, Raymond said. The chief declined to say where it was found, other than it was at "a residence."
SHREVEPORT, La. —
Three men have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a rookie northwestern Louisiana police officer, including a man who was the officer's boyfriend and father of her child, authorities say.
Treveon Anderson, 26, was arrested Tuesday in the January 9 death of his live-in girlfriend, Shreveport police Officer Chatéri Payne, who was shot dead in the driveway of their home while she was in uniform and preparing to leave for work, police said.
Anderson was arrested after a cousin of his, Lawrence Pierre, told investigators he saw Anderson shoot Payne, police reports obtained by CNN affiliate KSLA say.
Anderson; Pierre, 22; and a third man, Glenn Frierson, 38, were arrested on preliminary charges of second-degree murder, police said.
Anderson lied to investigators last week about having chased away an unknown assailant and discovering his girlfriend wounded, police Chief Ben Raymond said.
"We believe Anderson shot and killed her, and concocted the false narrative of her being murdered by an unknown suspect," Raymond told reporters at a news conference Wednesday morning.
The police chief has not revealed an alleged motive in the killing. He has called Pierre and Frierson "accomplices," but has not elaborated on what they're accused of doing.
No attorneys have been assigned to the suspects and no appearances have been scheduled yet, said John Prime, spokesman for the Caddo Parish District Attorney's Office.
The police reports reveal a little more about the allegations.
Suspect's cousin claimed he saw shooting, police report says
Anderson called 911 on the night of January 9 to report that Payne had been shot, Raymond said.
Officers who went to the home found Payne wounded and wearing her police uniform. She had graduated from a police academy two months ago and was headed to work that night.
Payne was taken to a hospital, where she died about two hours after the call, Raymond said.
The couple's 2-year-old child was at the home when Payne was shot. Raymond said he doesn't think the child witnessed the shooting.
Police took Anderson to a detective's office that night and questioned him, but had released him by the next morning after hearing his account.
"He advised he was inside of the residence when he heard gunshots, and then went outside and shot at a person wearing all black clothing, whom he believed to be the suspect," Raymond said Wednesday. "He (claimed he) then noticed that Officer Payne had been shot."
Raymond declined to say how investigators subsequently came to believe Anderson shot Payne.
But police reports detailing probable cause for the arrests say Pierre told investigators in a videotaped interview "that he witnessed Treveon Anderson shoot Payne multiple times, resulting in her death."
The police documents also say Pierre:
• "Admitted to being present during the murder and admitted his participation." The documents do not elaborate on how Pierre allegedly participated.
• "Led investigators to the location where he hid the weapon used in the murder."
• Claimed that Frierson accompanied "him (Pierre) to the murder" and left with him afterward.
The documents say nothing else about what Frierson is accused of doing. They also do not say what led investigators to question Pierre.
When a reporter asked Raymond whether all three men were present when the shooting happened, the chief said: "I don't think that would be an accurate statement."
"Certainly Anderson was present. I don't think it's accurate at this point to say all three were present during the shooting," the chief said.
Investigators have confiscated a handgun they believe was the weapon used to kill Payne, Raymond said. The chief declined to say where it was found, other than it was at "a residence."
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Samsung Ultra HD F9000 4K TVs arrive in the UK
By Andy Clough 17 July 2013
The Samsung UE55F9000 and UE65F9000 are available this month for £4000 and £6000 respectively
Samsung has announced that its F9000 range of 55in and 65in Ultra HD 4K TVs will go on sale in the UK this month for £4000 and £6000 respectively. This follows the launch of the Samsung 85in S9 4K TV in April at a somewhat pricier £35,000.
Like Sony, Samsung entered the 4K TV market at the top end, and is now bringing 'more affordable' models to market.
Offering four times the resolution of standard high definition, the F9000 sets feature a Samsung Quadmatic Picture Engine, Quad Core processing and Precision Black/Micro Dimming LED technology for deeper blacks.
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Standard-definition and high-definition content is upscaled to 4K resolution, and as for sound the combined power of the built-in speakers is 70W.
The Samsung UE55F9000 and UE65F9000 also come equipped with Samsung's usual array of smart TV features including voice control.
By Andy Clough
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Teen missing for more than a month could be in Derbyshire, say cops
A 15-year-old boy who has been missing for more than a month could be in Derbyshire.
Hoang Nguyen, from North Hykeham in Lincolnshire, was reported missing on Sunday, July 26.
Lincolnshire Police had initially believed he had travelled to Leicestershire or the London area.
However, the force has now expanded its appeal for help finding Hoang to include the entire East Midlands, with people in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire now urged to help find him.
Officers say they are “extremely concerned” about his welfare given how long he has not been seen for and his young age.
Hoang Nguyen has been missing since July (Image: Lincolnshire Police)
In a statement, Lincolnshire Police said: “After 39 days, missing 15-year-old Hoang Nguyen has still not been found.
“We are renewing our appeal with an additional picture of the teenager from North Hykeham, in the hope that this will gain further attention for the appeal.
“We are asking anyone in our county and the surrounding counties of Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and the Metropolitan Police area to share our appeal.
“Please come to us with any sightings or information that might help us find Hoang. We are extremely concerned for Hoang especially given his young age and the length of time he has now been missing for.”
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Reminiscence Release Date: April 16, 2021
In the movie Reminiscence, Hugh Jackman plays a private eye who deals in recapturing vivid cherished memories for clients. He becomes vexed by one of those clients (Rebecca Ferguson). It is set slightly in the future in a Miami that has been changed by global warming, with much of the city submerged underwater.
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Zach James
The Spirit of Life
God Is Near the Brokenhearted
Hymns of Comfort
Worship in the Sound of Piano, Vol. 1
What A Beautiful Name (piano solo)
Whenever I Think
Wherever I Go
Centered Worship
Death Was Arrested
Lord I Need You
Reckless Love
This Is Amazing Grace
What A Beautiful Name
Who You Say I Am
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I’ve always loved hymns and felt that perhaps the most comforting thing about them, besides their lyrics and tunes, is the fact that many of them were written a long time ago in the “times like these” that their respective generations faced.
There’s nothing new about what we’re experiencing and there’s plenty of old to lean back on.
For example, “Be Thou My Vision,” the 6th track on the album, is a translation of a text that goes back, according to some sources, as far as the 6th century! It’s been comforting us for 1,500 years!
The 2nd track on the album, “This Is My Father’s World,” a too oft-neglected hymn and known almost exclusively for its first verse, ends with these lyrics:
This is my Father’s world:
Why should my heart be sad?
The Lord is King; let the heavens ring!
God reigns; let the earth be glad!
I hope these hymns, delivered in a simple, piano-only, improvisational style, much like a prelude before a service or in a living room after dinner, meet you where you are and fill you up with same degree of comfort and assurance they have for millions of others over many centuries.
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The Latest ► Press Releases ► Resource efficiency is top of East Renfrewshire's agenda
Resource efficiency is top of East Renfrewshire's agenda
East Renfrewshire Council has become the latest organisation to take part in the national Resource Efficiency Pledge scheme.
The Resource Efficiency Pledge is led by Resource Efficient Scotland, a programme of Zero Waste Scotland, and works with businesses to help them reduce their running costs and carbon emissions.
By making the pledge, businesses can demonstrate their environmental responsibility, choosing a number of actions that will help save money and reduce their use of energy, water and raw materials.
East Renfrewshire Council will be an official Ambassador of the Resource Efficiency Pledge.
As an ambassador, the council will work with businesses to promote the scheme and support them to make savings. In the doing so the council has committed to:
Begin a council-wide Green Campaign – ‘Think Green’
Engage staff with resource efficiency at work and at home, supported by the Green Campaign activity.
Adam Florence, Project Officer for Energy Efficiency and Carbon Reduction at East Renfrewshire Council said:
“We acknowledge our responsibility to balance social, economic and environmental objectives, and to ensure the wellbeing and sustainability of future generations.
“We also set out our approach to conserving and enhancing the natural environment, securing a sustainable future for East Renfrewshire and our drive to modernise the way we work by taking advantage of digital technology.
“By becoming an ambassador and developing our ‘Think Green’ campaign, we can help council employees and local people get involved with sustainability, to promote our green activities, to support the development of green work-practices across council services, and to inform people and SMEs on how to be greener.”
Marissa Lippiatt, Head of the Resource Efficient Scotland programme said:
“I’m delighted that East Renfrewshire Council is becoming an ambassador for the Resource Efficiency Pledge and supporting us to reach businesses across East Renfrewshire. The pledge helps businesses to save significant sums of money on their running costs, cut their carbon footprint and show off their green credentials all in one easy step.”
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Truckers Take on Trump Over Electronic Surveillance Rules
Nick Stockton
Drivers unhappy about electronic devices that track how much time they spend on the road are taking their grievances to Washington.
Some truckers are unhappy about new rules requiring they use electronic devices to record their time on the road—and they're blasting President Trump over the issue.Getty Images
Most years, country music and diesel engines make the most noise at the Mid-American Trucking Show. However, in the week since the freight industry’s largest annual event ended, top stories from trucking news sites were about a small Q&A session where a convoy of keyed-up truckers took turns griping at Ray Martinez, the man President Trump just put in charge of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the federal government’s trucking regulator.
“It’s amazing to me how many experts there are in trucking that have never set their butt in a truck,” said one irate driver, quoted in Transport Topics, a trade pub that covered the session. That speaker, and many others, were fed up over a new law requiring every driver digitally track the hours they spend on the road, so regulators can better ensure they’re not spending a minute longer behind the wheel than allowed.
This isn’t just hollering about the surveillance state: The contentious electronic logging device rule has become a focal sore for independent truckers irritated by a rash of related regulations. Chiefly, that the government controls when truckers can, and can’t, be on the road. Supporters of the law say this kind of rhetoric comes from midnight mavericks hoping to snag lucrative, but illegal, overtime hauling. Notably, American Trucking Associations, a trade group representing mostly big trucking conglomerates, supports the law. But some drivers are so fed up over the new ELD rule—which law officers began enforcing this week—they’re threatening to climb out of the cab and throw away the keys.
Big Rig Brother
For all the controversy, an electronic logging device, or ELD, is a fairly bland chunk of tech. Essentially, it’s a flash drive that plugs into a truck engine’s control module to track things like whether the engine is running, the odometer, GPS location, and so on. To inspect a trucker’s logs, a smokey just plugs into the ELD unit. Any trucker found in violation of their Hours of Service gets curbed for 10 hours—a serious penalty in a business where running late is bad news.
The core premise behind the ELD rule is that sleepy drivers cause accidents. Since 1934, the feds have used Hours of Service laws to limit time spent driving between rest periods. Current rules hold drivers to 14 on-duty hours (only 11 of which can be spent behind the wheel), followed by 10 hours off the clock. Before this week, drivers could keep their Hours of Service logs with pen and paper—a system that many liked because it gave them some wiggle room when the realities of the road made it hard to stay within the rules. Now, with the digital monitor in charge, that's gone.
We did cheat our logbooks. Because the Hours of Service rule doesn’t work.
What the truckers call wiggle room, regulators call cheating. “What’s happened throughout the whole industry for several decades is drivers falsifying their record of duty logbooks,” says Collin Mooney, executive director of the Commercial Vehicles Safety Alliance, a nonprofit that coordinates truck inspections across North America. Mooney says most of the complaints truckers have against ELDs are motivated by a desire to return to some sort of cowboy heyday of regulation-free trucking. “It really comes down to owner operators looking for anything to get this rule violated,” he says. “They’ll complain about cost, noncompliant devices, Big Brother, you name it.”
To which some truckers reply: yup. “We did cheat our logbooks,” says John Grosvenor, founder of Truckers United for Freedom, a group that argues for better conditions for drivers. “But that’s because the Hours of Service rule doesn’t work.”
Truckers, you see, have very little control over their schedules. Bad weather might force them off the road. Unexpected traffic jams can snarl carefully planned routes. Shippers and recipients often keep trucks idling for hours. Then there’s parking. “If you aren’t parked by 4 pm in New England, you’re not going to find a spot,” says Grosvenor, who lives in New Hampshire. Such scarcity means truckers often cut their work days short just to make sure they have a place to throttle down for the night. “You can’t pause the clock,” says Grosvenor. Which, he says, removes his ability to make reasoned calls about a variety of situations, including those above. “If there was a five mile backup traffic jam, and I see a rest area, why shouldn’t I be able to just pull in there and rest until road clear?”
Truckers also have valid complaints about the ELDs themselves. Norita Taylor, spokesperson for the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, says the government offers little quality assurance for devices on the market. “The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has allowed manufacturers to self-certify their devices,” she says. The agency published a functional spec for what these devices were supposed to do, and authorized a few hundred manufacturers to build the things. Predictably, a lot of them suck.
“When this mandate originally started rolling out back in December, there were a lot of technical problems,” says Taylor. Devices wouldn’t work with certain trucks, or with a police officer’s reader device. These, and other, issues led to the trucking enforcement community opting to push back ELD enforcement from December 18, 2017, to this month.
Critics of the ELDs would prefer if that deadline fell off a cliff. They contest the safety argument, noting that crashes involving trucks have increased since 2003, when the rules were updated to the current 14-hour on duty clock. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has filed two lawsuits against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which claimed ELDs violate a number of federal laws, notably the 4th and 5th amendments. Last summer, the Supreme Court declined to hear the second of those cases, after a lower court upheld the ELD mandate.
Honk If You're Angry
Outside the courts, ELD protesters aimed their ire at the president, who came to Washington promising to slash regulation. Last October, protesters gathered in front of the Department of Transportation. They blew air horns outside the White House to get Trump’s attention. A few months later, they began tweeting at the chief executive using the #ELDorMe hashtag—indicating they would quit trucking over the law. (Grosvenor says he knows many truckers who have followed through with that threat.)
“We were extremely hopeful for Trump,” says Grosvenor. “He was talking about removing regulations.” Grosvenor felt his hopes collapse when he saw Trump climb behind the wheel of a big rig on South Lawn. Those trucks were brought to the White House on behalf of the American Trucking Associations. The industry’s largest trade group supports the ELD rule (and did not reply to a request for comment). “I saw that and I thought, ‘Well, okay, I guess they just got Trump in their back pocket,’” Grosvenor says.
Even now that the ELD rule has gone into effect, Grosvenor hopes he can get the devices ejected from cabs. He plans to appeal to Elaine Chao, Trump’s transporation secretary, who could have the power to repeal the mandate. He has also reached out to Senator Ted Cruz, who he says seemed sympathetic to the small time trucker cause. In the interim, he and others are still working to get FMCSA head Ray Martinez to see their side of the issue.
Grosvenor didn’t approve of how things went down at the Mid-American Trucking Show, however. “Having a blowout like that defeats the purpose of the dialogues we’ve started,” he says, noting that since last October’s protests in Washington, FMCSA spokespeople have promised a meeting. However, last month’s confrontation may have forced some progress on the issue. A few days after the event, FMCSA administrator Martinez faced a different audience of truckers, and indicated that he might be open to changing some of the Hours of Service rules.
ELDs, however, are here to stay. “From where I sit, I can’t make law,” said Martinez. Drivers who can’t keep on truckin’ with that might just hang up their keys for good.
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Opinion: Labour's has no plan to protect our Green Belt
Friday, 24 November, 2017
As we know, Labour Councils love to collect their trophies, accolades, and awards. Last week in Wirral, Labour added another to put on the mantlepiece.
Wirral (north of Chester, over the Mersey from Liverpool) is a borough with 6,000 properties lying empty and a whopping 15,000 potential homes where permission has been granted but without a shovel in sight. We are also now one of the 15 councils that have failed to produce a Local Plan.
13 years since the Planning Act of 2004, and the Department for Communities and Local Government has, finally, lost patience with those councils who are not playing their part to build the homes our country needs.
The Planning Act of 2004 required local councils to have a clear plan for development, that would explicitly state those areas which were to be protected and conserved, such as our Green Belt, and those areas which would be considered for development for housing and commercial use.
Since 2004, various sites around this Borough (Council slogan: “a pleasant place to grow”) have been lost. Developers, “land bankers” and builders exploit the absence of a plan that could have been enforced by the Council’s Planning Committee. Instead, due to the lack of a plan, approvals are given, or refusals are overturned on appeal.
In his letter, the Secretary of State expresses concern at the lack of progress by the Council on making a plan, adding: “In the 13 years that have passed since the 2004 Act was introduced your council has failed to meet the deadlines set out in that timetable.” Harsh, but true.
Opposition councillors, green space campaigners, and residents have been asking for the protections that a Local Plan would give yet, every time, we have been met with waffle and inaction.
A Local Plan would unquestionably show which parts of Wirral could be developed, such as brownfield sites, and which should not, such as our Green Belt.
The review announced by the Chancellor in the budget this week into Land Banking is really good news, as well as the moves to tackle empty properties. Every one of the 6,000 empty properties in Wirral is a potential family home that is being wasted.
The Council Leader who, like most Labour leaders, never misses an opportunity to blame ‘cuts’, has, however, missed the bus on this one. Without a Local Plan, there can be no ‘Community Infrastructure Levy’ – that’s the charge the Council could have applied to landowners and developers working within a Local Plan and potentially raising millions for the local council.
Now, because of the failure to meet even the most basic timetables in coming up with a plan, the Labour-run Council is facing Government intervention to produce one.
For the Labour Leader here in Wirral, the clock is ticking. The formal process of Government intervention has begun, and he has until 31st January to explain 13 wasted years. That’s his Christmas ruined then.
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UW-Stout graduates find success in workplace at 97 percent pace
Menomonie, Wis. — Elected officials from President Obama to Gov. Scott Walker have called on U.S. colleges and universities to work harder to prepare graduates for careers upon graduation. A recent report shows University of Wisconsin-Stout continues to excel in workforce preparation.
The UW-Stout Career Services office new employment report showed that 97 percent of the graduates from 2011-2012 had either found positions or were furthering their education. The rate is similar to last year and continues a trend of more than a decade with an employment rate at or above 97 percent. The report also had a response rate of 91.5 percent, compared to 86 percent last year.
Chancellor Sorensen
“We keep hearing from state and federal officials how universities need to get serious about ensuring their graduates are prepared for fulfilling career and jobs are available for those graduates,” said Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen. “UW-Stout has been answering that challenge for decades.”
Sorensen said he was particularly pleased that 79.3 percent of the employed graduates were working within their field of study. That compares to 77 percent of 2010-11 graduates working in their field of study.
“This is a clear indication that our majors are aligned with the needs of employers,” Sorensen said. “We are offering majors that clearly are needed by business and industry because they snap up our graduates in these fields.”
Amy Lane, Career Services director
Another area that improved, Sorensen said, was the median starting salary that 2011-12 graduates reported. The median salary was $40,000 a year in the most recent report, compared to $37,000 last year and $35,000 the year before. Six majors had starting median annual salaries in excess of $50,000.
“These starting salaries show that an education at UW-Stout is still a great investment,” Sorensen said, adding,
“Furthermore, 28 of our majors reported 100 percent placement of their graduates.”
Amy Lane, Career Services director, attributed the continual success of UW-Stout graduates in the workplace to the fact that “employers know that UW-Stout students have an excellent work ethic and ability to contribute to the organization from their first day on the job.”
More than 925 students participated in the UW-Stout cooperative education program last year, Lane said, through which students get paid to work in a position related to their major at a company and earn college credit.
Tara Bartolomeo, a 2011-12 UW-Stout graduate
“Students who participate in a co-op have realistic expectations of the world of work and are able to apply their knowledge at an organization upon graduation,” Lane said. “The co-op advantage benefits all three partners: student, employer and the university. At UW-Stout we build strong partnerships with organizations to help them develop a strong talent pipeline of new hires each year. Many new hires are co-op students who have worked at these companies while taking the co-op course as part of their curriculum at UW-Stout.”
Other types of experience students have each year include student teaching and practicums.
One of the 2011-12 graduates was Tara Bartolomeo, a retail merchandising and management graduate from Pewaukee, who landed a position as product development coordinator for Kohl’s corporate office in Menomonee Falls.
“I first came to UW-Stout to visit my identical twin and fell in love with the campus,” Bartolomeo said. “From the unique and career-focused majors, to the industry experienced professors, I am very pleased that I transferred to UW-Stout.”
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Man Convicted In Crash That Killed NH Marine
Cpl. Edmund Vandecasteele Killed In California Crash In 2009
Updated: 9:41 AM EST Feb 10, 2012
The man charged in a 2009 car accident that killed a Marine from New Hampshire has been convicted.A jury in California found Andrew Stueber guilty of gross vehicular manslaughter.Stueber, a former Marine, hit a tree in San Clemente, Calif., with such force that it caused his 2003 Ford Mustang to split.Prosecutors said Stueber was above the legal blood alcohol level.Cpl. Edmund Vandecasteele, 22, of Salem, was in the car and was killed in the crash.Two others were injured.Sentencing is scheduled for May.
FULLERTON, Calif. —
The man charged in a 2009 car accident that killed a Marine from New Hampshire has been convicted.
A jury in California found Andrew Stueber guilty of gross vehicular manslaughter.
Stueber, a former Marine, hit a tree in San Clemente, Calif., with such force that it caused his 2003 Ford Mustang to split.
Prosecutors said Stueber was above the legal blood alcohol level.
Cpl. Edmund Vandecasteele, 22, of Salem, was in the car and was killed in the crash.
Two others were injured.
Sentencing is scheduled for May.
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Workday Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning & Analysis Solutions
Positioned as a Leader for Fourth Year in a Row Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute
PLEASANTON, Calif., Oct. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning & Analysis1 for the fourth year in a row.
Today’s business environment requires continuous planning to adapt to ever-changing economic, health, and geopolitical impacts. As a result, finance leaders are turning to Workday to help them model, forecast, and analyze their business with a proven planning solution. Workday Adaptive Planning delivers powerful modeling that’s easy to use, allowing customers to embrace enterprise-wide planning for greater agility. To date, it has been selected by more than 5,300 customers, including American Family Insurance, Denny’s, IBM, Microsoft, and South Shore Health, to manage their financial, sales, workforce, and/or operational planning in the cloud.
Choice and Flexibility to Accelerate Planning
Workday is committed to delivering best-in-class enterprise planning as both a standalone solution and as an integral part of the Workday suite, accelerating the adoption of planning in companies of all sizes by giving customers choice and flexibility for their digital finance transformation. For customers choosing standalone planning, Workday Adaptive Planning has proven integrations with hundreds of human capital management (HCM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and customer relationship management (CRM) systems, as well as commercial and proprietary data warehouses. This means that financial and operational data easily combine into a single source for truth for company-wide planning.
For customers choosing Workday Adaptive Planning as part of a larger finance transformation, Workday offers a broad portfolio of finance applications serving the office of the CFO, including Workday Financial Management, Workday Prism Analytics, Workday Accounting Center, and solutions for spend management. Together they deliver a deep and comprehensive system for enterprise planning and analysis, record to report, contract to cash, and source to pay, enabling customers to streamline financial processes and operate with agility in todays changing world.
Continuous Focus on Enterprise Planning Innovation
Workday is continually investing in enterprise planning to support customers as they face unprecedented challenges in planning for an uncertain future. Specific advances include:
Continuous product innovation. Over the past year, new Workday Adaptive Planning product features and capabilities have focused on machine learning, visualization, and integration. With feature releases automatically delivered twice annually along with weekly updates, these innovations continue the flagship ease of use of Workday Adaptive Planning, while delivering even more sophisticated modeling capabilities and new levels of visibility into enterprise performance. Customers can now automatically detect errors in planning assumptions, interactively see changes in charts and graphs with data changes, and easily deliver plans across the organization with the click of a button.
Enterprise scalability. Workday Adaptive Planning continues to scale to support large enterprise customers for company-wide modeling and planning. The solution’s in-memory engine supports virtually unlimited dimensions, ideal for customers with demanding, global operations, particularly in the current climate when detailed planning for a broad range of scenarios is required. Additionally, Workday has certified a number of large Partners on Workday Adaptive Planning, including Accenture, Deloitte, and KPMG, further expanding implementation options available for customers. These organizations offer support and services tailored for large enterprises transitioning to cloud infrastructure.
Return to work solutions. Finance and HR leaders are in a critical position to help assess the options and impacts associated with returning to work, including how the business can grow and react differently in the future. Workday is delivering return to work solutions, which include workforce planning, return to the workplace planning, and financial planning solutions that enable customers to operate with agility during this time of uncertainty.
Gartner Peer Insights documents customer experience through verified ratings and peer reviews. As of October 6, 2020, Workday customer reviews average a score of 4.9 out of 5 based on 22 reviews for the Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions market and include the following:
“Outstanding planning tool—best in class and ahead of competitors,” — senior finance director, healthcare industry [read full review]
“Adaptive Insights brings to the table a financial planning solution with many guardrails out of the box that streamlines implementation. Data integration with external sources proved to be straightforward and works without glitch.” — senior finance manager, services industry [read full review]
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“The role of planning seemingly changed overnight with the impact of the pandemic, turning enterprise planning processes into mission-critical functions,” said Kshitij Dayal, general manager, Planning Products, Workday. “Whether standalone or as part of the Workday suite, Workday Adaptive Planning scales with companies to help our customers achieve the business agility today’s environment demands. We believe being named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning & Analysis Solutions is based on our ability to deliver a powerful solution that supports a continuous planning process for the largest of enterprises.”
“When COVID struck, we saw a nearly 50 percent drop in patient revenue within one month’s time, due to plummeting ER volumes and cancellations of elective surgeries,” said Alex Dali, CFO, of ApolloMD, a leader in the clinical outsourcing services industry. “Fortunately, ApolloMD had already moved to a continuous planning process using Workday Adaptive Planning. Our team went from flat-footed to nimble in no time, moving into rapid-fire scenario planning to keep up with changing operational conditions, enabling ApolloMD to confidently make key business decisions.”
“COVID has accelerated the move to the cloud for many of our clients, with planning emerging as one of the top priorities for digital transformation,” said Jason Dess, national strategy and operations finance leader at Deloitte. “Companies recognize that having a single planning system in the cloud gives large organizations a level of visibility and agility that can’t be matched with legacy tools. Adding Workday Adaptive Planning to our practice allows us to offer clients a leading planning solution that can be expanded companywide, scaling both in size and across multiple functions.”
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1Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning & Analysis,” by Robert Anderson, Greg Leiter, John Van Decker, 6 October 2020. Previously listed as Adaptive Insights since Workday announced its acquisition of the company in June 2018.
2Adaptive Insights is now called Workday Adaptive Planning as of May 2020.
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The Halls of Transcendence
"And as the Hero ascended to Divinity, they took to their eternal place of rest and watch. In marbled stone they sculpted an entrance to the afterlife that would greet the good and bad alike; a place that would guide the mortal souls to their own eternal homes - and keep those of eternity locked out all the same." - The Book of Ascension, The Gospel of Aelfred, 21:5
The Halls of Transcendence are the rumored planar home of the deceased that die on Elendor. It was created following The Great Summit to control the flow of souls to to their various after-lives as well as stop extra planar beings from breaching the world of Elendor by force. It often acts as a Limbo with many souls wandering its hallowed galleries for longer than their lives on Elendor and is sometimes referred to as "The House of the Dead".
Travel To, From and Between the Planes
Of course, Mortals and Eternals alike have been able and are able to travel planarly despite the locks on the Gates of Ascension through magical means - however no one living has made it to the Halls. Likewise, magic has been resurrect people from the afterlife to live once more in Elendor. It is theorized theologically that either the magic involved is ratified by the King-That-Never-Was or is too inconsequential for them to notice. Therefore, the gates themselves do not stop the passage of the planes but in fact control the ebb and flow of power between them, which is why smaller interplanar transactions - such as travel, resurrections or summoning's can take place. There is no known magic that can transport someone or something to The Halls of Transcendence. For more info about the Cosmology and Planar travel to and from Elendor See The Cosmology of Elendor.
Purpose / Function
The Halls of Transcendence were formed following the The Great Summit to control the flow and distribution of souls into the various afterlives (And thereby control the power Deities have over and on the plane of Elendor). It is also the divine home of the King-That-Never-Was and his followers who reside in the Gardens of Halcyon at the Apse of the Cathedral.
The Halls of Transcendence are described to be structured like a cathedral in a majority of the Holy Texts surrounding Heroism. According to the Book of Ascension it is a multiroomed structure as well as its own plane of existence.
The Narthex
"The Narthex" or entrance to the The Halls of Transcendence is unknown. It is rumored that there is an entrance to the halls somewhere on the Plane of Elendor but no one has been able to work out where. Theologians and scholars have differing opinions of where it may lie - some saying it stands at the place the Hero became divine, others saying at the site of the Great Summit, others at the place of the Hero's birth. It is said to be protected by one of the Hero's most dedicated followers, A Knight who fought along side them in the War's for the Heaven and vowed to take up a life of undeath in order protect the entrance of the halls. (See The Eternal Knight )
The Nave of the halls only exist as a corporeal building so that mortal souls can comprehend it. For whatever reason, it is without exception always a building which you can never see outside of. It's style varies depending on features from the life of the soul gazing upon it as it wanders the endless structure. To most, it presents itself to be a great temple of brilliant white stone, gilded statues and stained glass. To others it might appear as a great longhouse with roaring fires and abundant feasting tables, others still; their childhood home. When the time comes for the soul to be assigned its eternity the structure of the Halls become more defined and a doorway appears before them.
The Transept
The Transept (Or the crossing) connects the soul from its limbo in the Nave to its Judgement in the Sanctuary. The Soul is met by an entity known as The Layman who leads them down a straight corridor towards the doors to the Sanctuary. The walls are adorned with pictures so lifelike one could step inside them and live again. Each picture depicts a pivotal moment in the Souls life, regaining these memories that may have once been lost as they pass and behold them. As they progress the corridor fades behind them, never letting them move backwards, only forward.
Finally Soul is met with yet another doorway which upon passage they enter a Great Sanctuary - the existence of which is why many liken the Halls to a cathedral. It is described in The Book of Ascension as being a circular chamber with steps leading to a central altar surrounded by nine pillars; one for each of the Nine Lights (See Pantheon of Albae ) On the central altar sits a set of gilded gates known to many as the Gates of Ascension - locked with the seals of Elendor. The Sanctum is surrounded by seats with representatives of the various Divine there to bare witness to the Judging. The ceiling of the structure is imperceptible as it is shrouded by divine light long before you see the top. In the Sanctuary the souls is judged by The Divines in a court presided over by Kelemvor. Once a soul has been judged, the King-That-Never-Was unlocks the seal that allows the soul passage to its final rest or its eternal torment.
The Apse
At the Apse of this planar cathedral sits the eternal episcopal palace of the King-That-Never-Was. It is often described as a paradise garden known as "Halcyon" filled with flora and fauna from across Elendor that the Hero saw on their travels before their Ascension. Very few souls inhabit the garden, Only the most dedicated followers and warriors of the faith make it to the garden. They dedicate themselves to the Hero and his army that guards the planar crossing; to serve as a force that would fight for mortality once more should the seals of Elendor be broken. In the heart of the garden is a location not even the souls of the worthy visit - a great house known as "The Acropolis" in which the Hero resides. It is whispered, but not formally recognized by Theologians that before their Ascension the Hero sired a family, who now live with them in the Acropolis as well as any of those descended of them. This idea however is seen as heretical by the The Church of Albae and not widely believed.
The Facade (or the outside) is the supposed section of the Halls which is passed through by those undertaking planar travel. There is no real description of the Facade other than a correlation of lights and sound that pass in a fraction of a blink of an eye as you are routed to your destination.
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Thoughts on a character with no backstory?
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Many of the stories I make have a long-ass backstory. At first I thought it was the main character that needed an indepth backstory, but that's...
Thread by: Stammis, Jul 21, 2020, 5 replies, in forum: Plot Development
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Weaving backstory into the first ?? chapters
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Mayor says Kemp’s calling in National Guard was ‘showmanship’
Mayor Bottoms says she was not told Kemp was calling in National Guard
By: Justin Farmer, WSB-TV
Updated: July 8, 2020 - 6:48 PM
ATLANTA — Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Wednesday that she and Gov. Brian Kemp are not seeing eye-to-eye when it comes to his response to COVID-19 -- or to violence during recent protests.
Bottoms spoke exclusively to Channel 2 Anchor Justin Farmer about Kemp’s decision to bring in the National Guard this weekend. Kemp deployed 1,000 troops after an 8-year-old girl was shot and killed near the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks died last weekend.
Secoriea Turner was in a car with her mother when the driver tried to get around an illegal barrier placed by people occupying the burnt-out Wendy's. Someone fired shots into the car, striking Turner.
"As of late, we have not been working together as closely as I would like for us too," Bottoms said. "We have very different opinions when it comes to our approach to COVID. Very different opinions about what the needs are in the city."
Police search for shooter who killed 8-year-old girl near burned Wendy’s
4 killed, 22 people injured in 6 different shootings on 4th of July weekend, police say
Governor declares State of Emergency, authorizes 1,000 National Guard troops to Atlanta
Bottoms said the the real needs in our city relate to how we are testing and how we coordinate to make sure that our cities are safe.
"But to announce that the National Guard was coming -- it was not discussed with me, it was not discussed with our police chief" Bottoms said. "To me, it speaks to showmanship and this need to show that there are tanks on the streets of Atlanta."
Bottoms said that if the state was really coordinating, there would be conversations between various public safety divisions in the state.
Bottoms said it's unfortunate that peaceful demonstrations over Rayshard Brooks' death were marred by violence.
"This is something we've never seen or experienced in the city at this rate over such a short period of time," Bottoms said. "I think it really speaks to how volatile our country is right now. This is not happening just in Atlanta. We're seeing it happen across America."
Farmer asked Bottoms how things were in regards to a sickout among Atlanta police last month after charges were filed against the officer who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks.
On the night of July 4th, five people were killed and dozens shot in at least six shootings across the city.
“It has improved,” Bottoms said. “Even on the night of all the shootings, we did not have a mass sickout that night. It wasn’t lack of personnel on the streets. It was just an unprecedented night in our city.”
Atlanta mayor says she opposes governor’s decision to call in National Guard
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The Backlash
In Asia, victims of capitalism are questioning the devotion to free markets
By Peter Stein
HONG KONG -- Market capitalism increasingly reigns triumphant around the world. But as with many victories, this one has left victims -- above all in Asia, which is struggling to recover from the financial crisis that leveled its economies two years ago.
Misguided lending, bad investments and poor corporate management all played a part in pushing Asia over the edge. But so did the increasingly powerful flow of global capital, which allowed panicking herds of foreign investors to suck funds from Asian stock, bond and currency markets in a panic. The result is a backlash in parts of Asia against the trend toward freer financial markets.
Malaysia a year ago announced sweeping controls on its currency, and has since declared them a success. China has all but dropped plans to make its currency convertible, and imposed tight new foreign-exchange regulations to prevent capital flight. Even comparatively laissez-faire Hong Kong is pushing for ways to regulate and curb the influence of global capital.
Asia isn't alone. The International Monetary Fund, once a major proponent of rapid financial liberalization in developing countries, admitted in a recent report "that the crisis does raise questions about...the desirability of completely free capital movement and full capital account convertibility."
It's a massive revision of what until recently was a key tenet of free-market philosophy: that money, free to travel the globe unhindered, would naturally seek out the most profitable and productive investments. Any move to block that process through restrictions on foreign investment in a country's stock market or overseas borrowing could only hurt that country's economic prospects.
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Bald eagle trapped in Alaska tree rescued on 4th of July
Unusual Stories
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A bird symbolizing America’s freedom had to be liberated on Independence Day after becoming stuck in a tree in Alaska, a wildlife official said.
An adult, female bald eagle was hurt but conscious Saturday after being untangled from a spruce tree in Juneau, The Juneau Empire reportedSaturday.
“She was up about 40 feet (12 meters) in a Sitka spruce tree,” said Kathy Benner, general manager of the Juneau Raptor Center.
The center received the report of the stranded eagle around 10 a.m. The bird was stuck in the tree near the historic Ernest Gruening Cabin in Ernest Gruening State Historical Park, Benner said.
Steve Lewis of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ascended the tree using climbing spikes on his shoes and carried the eagle down in a bag around 3 p.m.
Wildlife officials initially believed the eagle’s wing had become tethered to a tree branch by fishing line, but closer inspection revealed a cable or wire had restrained the bird, Benner said.
The eagle was taken by airplane to the Alaska Raptor Center in Sitka, which was expected to determine whether the bird suffered a broken bone.
The eagle appeared to be alert and “feisty” before the flight Saturday evening, Benner said.
While bald eagle rescues are not rare, Benner could not recall a previous instance of the U.S. national bird requiring assistance on the Fourth of July.
“We feel pretty good about the rescue, especially on Independence Day,” Benner said.
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But How Will It Affect Me? An Xconomy Forum on Consumers, Innovation, and Opportunities in Health IT
Bruce V. Bigelow
@bvbigelow
Xconomy San Diego —
These are days of tremendous changes in healthcare, as legislative reforms take effect over the next four years in an effort to make healthcare available to everyone—and at a cost they can afford. At the same time, technology advances in Web-based services, wireless communications, and other information technologies offer new possibilities to lower health costs. Still, amid all the talk about payers and providers, electronic medical records, and wireless health, a question lingers—what’s in it for the consumer?
We mean to address that question through our next Xconomy Forum in San Diego, an evening event called Healthcare in Transition—The Consumer Payoff, set for Wednesday, November 17.
I’m excited to announce the group of industry visionaries we’ve assembled from San Diego and beyond to explain the promise and the possibilities for consumers as innovations in health IT help shift the focus of medical care from healing and curing to prevention.
Kevin Patrick, director of the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems at UC San Diego, will be setting the stage with an overview of the prospects and potential of the kinds of innovations in health IT that will help consumers take charge of their health. Patrick, who also is the editor-in-chief of The American Journal of Preventive Medicine, oversees programs at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology that address obesity/diabetes, smoking, and other health issues by using mobile devices, social networking, and health IT technology to promote behavior change.
For our main event, we have assembled an outstanding panel of leaders in health IT for a highly interactive discussion: Nat Findlay, founder and CEO of Quebec-based Myca Health; Arlene Harris, co-founder and chairwoman of GreatCall/Jitterbug; Bill Spooner, CIO for Sharp HealthCare in San Diego; and Jean Balgrosky, the former CIO for Scripps Health in San Diego.
After the panel, we’ll hear brief 4-minute “burst” presentations from the CEOs of a couple of the most innovative healthcare startups in San Diego: MediPacs’ Mark McWilliams and Independa’s Kian Saneii. After that, there will be plenty of time for networking with the speakers and fellow attendees.
So if you’d like to join the conversation, which will be held at Johnson & Johnson’s offices in San Diego, mark your calendars for the evening of November 17 and register here now. I hope to see you there.
Bruce V. Bigelow was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here. Follow @bvbigelow
2 responses to “But How Will It Affect Me? An Xconomy Forum on Consumers, Innovation, and Opportunities in Health IT”
I have to chuckle at the first sentence. I’m a small business owner and my healthcare just went up for a second time this year. So much for Obamacare being affordable!
ChristineWithRegence says:
This sounds like a great discussion. For some ideas for how we can all help control health care costs, check out Whatstherealcost.org.
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For Zoom, $1.5B second IPO looms
Zoom announced a new $1.5 billion secondary share sale, taking advantage of a share price now ten times its value in the platform's 2019 IPO.
Zoom's share prices have dropped, though, by 41% since a mid-October peak at $568.34, as investors worry how the platform will adapt to expanding free users and a vaccine.
Eric Yuan's company is planning a secondary listing of about 5.15 million shares at a share price of $340, saying it could use some of the proceeds for "acquisitions or strategic investments."
The offering, which represents a 4.7% discount on the company's last closing price, is expected to close around the end of this week.
The sale is run by JP Morgan Chase, which has a 30-day option to buy up to 735,924 extra shares at the offering price, too.
The total market for Zoom "could exceed $47 billion by 2024, and that the market opportunity for Zoom Phone specifically could exceed $23 billion by 2024," the company said in an online prospectus filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
The company's full-year revenue was $622 million in 2020, with a net income of $25.3 million.
But the San Jose-based company also admitted it faces challenges.
The increased use of its services in the pandemic, while it has made Zoom a household name, has also increased its operating costs as the platform expands its own data centers and makes more use of third-party cloud hosting.
And "a significant portion" of the Zoom boom during coronavirus comes from free accounts and school usage (from which it has removed the 40-minute time limit), which don't generate the company any revenue.
All this "recent increase in usage of our platform has adversely impacted, and may continue to adversely impact, our gross margin," Zoom says in the prospectus.
IPO boom
With central banks keeping rates at historic low levels, it has been a boom season for public listings.
Companies also racing to offer shares to investors now include online greeting cards company Moonpig, which has launched a �1 billion IPO. Its sales figures during the pandemic have soared, as have those of Deliveroo, also eyeing a listing.
San Francisco-based online consumer lender Affirm, led by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, has raised $1.2 billion in its public listing this week, constituting an early, and encouraging, early test of investors' continued appetite this year for tech listings.
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E-commerce site Poshmark and mobile gaming company Playtika are also planning first listings in the coming days.
It extends a hot run of tech IPOs that began halfway through 2020.
More IPOs doubled in value during their opening days last year than any year since 1999.
AirBnB's December listing, which doubled from an IPO price of $68 to a first-day close of $144.71, brought in $3.5 billion.
A bit earlier, in September, Snowflake became the largest software IPO of all time, raising just a feather less at $3.4 billion.
Zoom after me
Zoom expects its own growth to moderate after its period of stratospheric growth.
But there is some chance that remote working and meetings will remain part of our lives even after coronavirus.
Eyeing this market are the London-based online events platform Hopin, valued at $2.1 billion in its Series B round in November.
And companies like Teamflow, which is trying to engineer virtual workspaces with some of the more fun and serendipitous bits of office life.
So, as happened previously with Uber, the race will also be on to find the "next Zoom."
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Down memory lane: Bishop Nyarko reveals his mother and a friend caused him to sleep with dead bodies
8 months ago read comments by Naa Ayeley Aryee
- Kumawood actor Bishop Bernard Nyarko died on Saturday, May 2, 2020
- He reportedly died of colon cancer
- Before his death, the actor once told how he had to sleep with dead bodies because of his mother
Before his sad demise, Kumawood actor Bishop Bernard Nyarko once told how he had no option than to sleep with dead bodies.
He said he had to share the same room with dead people every night until there was a way for him to move out.
Narrating how it all happened in an interview, Bishop said things became very hard for him at a point in time that he could not afford accommodation.
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Before then, he was living with his mother in her house, but something happened which got him packing out of the house.
In that story published earlier by YEN.com.gh, Bishop said he once offered help to someone he viewed as a brother and friend.
However, this person paid him back with evil by turning his own biological mother against him Bishop, causing him to be sacked from home.
Consequently, he became a street dweller, as many calls and pleas on his friends to help him proved futile.
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Bishop revealed that he eventually met another friend who was into corpse dressing for a livelihood.
This friend, he disclosed, introduced him to the job which he accepted with glee because apart from getting some money, he had somewhere to sleep – by the side of the corpses – before day broke.
He said he slept with the dead bodies for a long time until there was a breakthrough for him to get his own accommodation.
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Clearly, the late actor did not have life easy at all as an earlier report also shed light on how he endured harsh treatment from the wife.
In the video published by YEN.com.gh, Bishop confessed to nearly taking his own life as he could not stand his wife’s behaviour.
Meanwhile, the actor’s pastor, Prophet Rabbi, has disclosed that he was killed by someone in the movie industry.
He explained how the killer was able to achieve this.
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Details of private one-week observance for Bishop Bernard Nyarko released (video)
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