Coach

The new feedback and survey function gives users the opportunity to play a central role in the further development of the app.Over 200,000 people are already using the Mercedes me Eco Coach app to optimise their driving behaviour. As a digital personal trainer, the app offers useful tips and motivates users of electric cars and plug-in hybrids to drive their vehicles more efficiently.The app also uses exciting competitions to playfully encourage more environmentally…

Debra Byrd, who had a long and varied career in music, mostly behind the scenes, died on Tuesday, March 5, in Los Angeles. She was 72. No cause of death was given. Highlights of her career include a top 30 hit on the Billboard Hot 100; singing behind such stars as Barry Manilow, Bob Dylan and Mary J. Blige; and a long run as a vocal coach on such talent shows as American Idol and The Voice. Byrd’s career is a reminder that someone can achieve sustained success in the music business even if they…

The music community is mourning the death of influential figure Debra Byrd, who died on March 5 at the age of 72. Throughout her decades-long career, the singer performed alongside Barry Manilow and Bob Dylan before helping to shape generational talents as a vocal coach on American Idol, including Kelly Clarkson, Fantasia, and Jennifer Hudson. “She encouraged and supported us from the very beginning,” Hudson wrote on Instagram. “I am so grateful for everything she taught us. She will be dearly missed, but her…

For the past month, I’ve been letting an AI app called Rize analyze everything I do on my work computer.It sees every app I open, every website I visit, and every appointment on my calendar. It knows, down to the minute, how much time I spend writing and how often I’m checking email, and it’s well-aware of when I’m wasting time on social media. I’m reminded of these things every time Rize encourages me to focus or blocks my biggest distractions.All of this is in service of making me more productive, or at least it’s…

The tears started before the rookie coach said his first word. They flowed again only 35 seconds into his opening remarks.“Being the head coach here at UCLA,” DeShaun Foster said Tuesday morning, trying to hold it together, “you guys have no idea, just …”Foster paused in a losing battle to compose himself, his gentle sobbing drowned out by the roaring applause from a few hundred donors, family members, players and alumni inside Pauley Pavilion’s pavilion club.From star running back on UCLA’s last team to play in a Rose…

The football drama at UCLA took a wild turn Monday when a desperate Martin Jarmond threw a Hail Mary pass through a torrential downpour.He just hired a head coach who is not a head coach.He just entrusted the Bruins to a guy who has never called a play, never run a practice, never commanded the sidelines, never dominated a meeting room and never bossed more than a handful of players at one time.Welcome home, DeShaun Foster.Now what exactly are you doing here?The former Bruins running back and running backs coach was…

UCLA went with a familiar, beloved name in selecting the football coach to lead it into a new era. The Bruins hired DeShaun Foster.The former star running back for the school who appeared in its last Rose Bowl game will replace Chip Kelly, the school announced Monday after completing a warp-speed search that lasted less than 72 hours and included 11 interviews and correspondence with more than 20 potential candidates.While galvanizing a large swath of the fanbase, not to mention current players loyal to Foster as the…

“He loves to play the game, and he loves to help his team win. It’s not a selfish thing," the Kansas City Chiefs head coach shared about Kelce's apparent criticism of a bad call during the big game Super Bowl LVIII ended with a triumph for the Kansas City Chiefs, a feat that colored all of the moments leading up to the big win with rose-colored glasses. The team played with a passion that at one point escalated to the height of Travis Kelce almost knocking over head coach Andy Reid, who the tight end…

A tumultuous moment where Travis Kelce bumped into The Kansas City Chiefs’ head coach sparked concerns about his aggression, while Taylor Swift‘s presence at the Super Bowl brought more attention to their relationship.After the Chiefs’ tight end forcefully collided with his coach, Andy Reid, on the sidelines during his Super Bowl game against The San Francisco 49ers, people flooded social media with concerns, labeling him a “red flag” to his girlfriend.Travis had been temporarily removed from the game because of an…

UCLA has cast a wide net in its hopes of reeling in the big one for its next football coach.Athletics officials have corresponded with more than a dozen potential candidates for the vacancy created by the departure of Chip Kelly to become Ohio State’s offensive coordinator, according to one person familiar with the search process who was not authorized to discuss the details publicly.Among those UCLA is believed to have had contact with who remain possible candidates are Nebraska defensive coordinator Tony White, Las…