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Goldman Sachs Group said on Monday that Harvey M. Schwartz would retire, likely clearing the way for his fellow president and co-chief operating officer, David M. Solomon, to become the company’s next chief executive.
The surprise announcement reflected a decision by Goldman’s board of directors in late February to anoint Mr. Solomon as the eventual successor to the bank’s current chief executive, Lloyd C. Blankfein, according to people briefed on the board’s decision.
Mr. Solomon and Mr. Schwartz are longtime managers of separate arms of the company. Mr. Solomon—who moonlights as D.J. D-Sol, spinning electronic dance music—is a veteran investment banker. Mr. Schwartz, who is a black belt in karate, is a finance whiz with a background in Goldman’s commodities business.
Zoiks! Online - The Very Best in Stand-Up And Music!: PBS TO RE-BROADCAST JOSH GROBAN: ALL THAT ECHOES IN AUGUST.
PBS TO RE-BROADCAST JOSH GROBAN: ALL THAT ECHOES IN AUGUST.
PBS will re-broadcast internationally renowned, multi-platinum recording artist Josh Groban's special, Josh Groban: All That Echoes, beginning the week of August 3rd in a host of local markets during its summer pledge drive. All cities and participating stations are listed below. Exact dates and times vary by station, ...
Josh Groban: All That Echoes, which first aired on PBS stations on April 12th, 2013, is a special Live From Lincoln Center concert that was taped at The Allen Room at Lincoln Center in February 2013. It features Groban performing songs from his Billboard #1 album All That Echoes, as well as other popular favorites.
Groban recently completed 3 sold out shows at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well as a special show with the Colorado Symphony at Red Rocks.
This fall, Groban launches his "In the Round" tour, which begins October 2nd in Boise, ID, and continues through mid-November. The "In The Round" tour will give fans a one-of-a-kind, 360-degree concert experience. By performing on a stage placed in the middle of the floor, Groban will interact with fans from all sides ...
All That Echoes debuted at #1 on the Billboard chart (Groban's first #1 debut album, his 3rd overall) and racked up a host of positive reviews from major media outlets, including Rolling Stone, which remarked that "Groban's vocal dexterity and soulful strength is as always remarkable" and USA Today, which said, "There'...
Now in its 38th season airing nationally on PBS, Live From Lincoln Center has received 13 Emmy Awards to date and is a cornerstone of arts broadcasting. The series has made the world's greatest artists on Lincoln Center's renowned stages accessible to millions of viewers in virtually every corner of the United States.
This episode is directed by Alex Coletti. The executive producer is Andrew C. Wilk. Lincoln Center's Chief Media and Digital Officer, Elizabeth W. Scott, is executive in charge of the series' production. Live From Lincoln Center is made possible by a major grant from MetLife. In addition to underwriting from MetLife, t...
Application development leaders are looking to adopt agile computing methods, says a Forrester survey of more than 200 IT executives.
Application development leaders are looking to adopt Agile development methods and expanding its use to help overcome the inertia of their monolithic applications and application development techniques.
How? As a recent Forrester survey of more than 200 IT executives explains, Agile speeds time-to-market and yields better quality results.
Moreover, Agile enables early detection of issues and mid-course corrections because it delivers artifacts much sooner and more often. Finally, Agile improves IT alignment with business goals and customer satisfaction.
The nature of Agile is to include business leaders in day-to-day decisions and progress meetings. That can't help but yield tighter alignment and better overall satisfaction.
IT organisations are shifting towards the business technology era, in which technology is embodied in the business – the historical dividing lines between business and technology are blurring.
In this new era, 52% of executives and technology budget decision-makers consider technology very important for their innovation and business models.
The social, political and business changes happening spell a golden age for software development over the coming years, with software the key engine that will enable business innovation.
To meet that challenge head-on requires a stronger relationship between business innovation and software development that allows organisations to explicitly link the value of software development with business development.
Break problems into smaller chunks to offer more opportunity for business impact. Splitting larger problems into smaller chunks and delivering minimum viable products puts results in the hands of the business sooner.
Measure feature delivery based on business value. For example, user stories can be prioritised on value and on cost. Application delivery focused around user stories provides the opportunity to measure delivery based on the scope, quality, cost and business value of the functioning user stories.
Take advantage of the disruption Agile brings to extirpate old behaviours. Agile provides better techniques that allow organisations to get closer to the solution of measuring business value, but the real opportunity is that it offers organisations the chance to eradicate all old, non-business-value-focused behaviours ...
Faster, more predictable ways of creating and changing application functionality are no longer a "nice to have" – they decide which firms will survive and which will not.
For AD&D professionals, that means it's not a question of whether your firm will adopt Lean and Agile techniques, but how soon and how broadly it will adopt them. Firms that charge into the transformation blindly will meet an untimely but fairly predictable end – they will fail to realise the benefits because they didn...
To avoid that fate, you should understand that adoption requires behavioural change. First-time teams need education, coaching and practice to understand how Agile differs from traditional development. It is also important to realise that you can lead a team to Agile, but culture can stop it dead in its tracks. Culture...
So beware of technical and business factions that don't want the change that Agile brings – for example, project managers who consider working as Scrum masters on projects to be a demotion, businesspeople who don't want to participate in Scrum projects because they are too busy, or even app development teams that are n...
Is Agile right for huge, monolithic applications that change semi-annually? Probably not. If requirements are stable, stick with what you have done for years if it's working and the business is not complaining.
Only advanced Agile organisations set up multiple Scrum within traditional teams to deal with large, monolithic apps if these can be broken into smaller chunks requiring innovative extensions. Remember, Agile techniques shine where innovation and changing requirements are part of the business model. Where stability is ...
Finally, use a framework to set your feet on the right path. Improvement of any kind requires that you understand where you are and where you want to be and that you muster the right human, financial and political resources to ensure success.
Make sure that you focus on value for the business first, establish how you will create value, and set proper goals. Then consider using a consolidated method such as the GQM (goal-question-metric) method to define metrics against those goals, and measure success accordingly.
Driven by business-value priorities, you will need to assess your application development teams using both qualitative and quantitative approaches, as suggested by Forrester's Application Development Assessment Methodology (ADAM). If management wants a quantitative benchmark, use methods such as QSM's Software Lifecycl...
Diego Lo Giudice is vice-president, principal analyst, at Forrester Research where he primarily contributes to and advises on Forrester's offerings for application development and delivery professionals. Diego blogs at: http://blogs.forrester.com/diego_lo_giudice.
A police order has been issued to stop ‘numbers of people gathering’ on a Leeds housing estate after a mob confronted officers.
Police were called to the Wellington Stores and Bruce Lane area of the Holdforths Estate in New Wortley on Wednesday evening to reports of a disturbance involving a group of young people and two residents.
The windows of one property had been broken and a growing number of people began to throw items at police cars and officers.
At its height more than 30 people – some as young as 12 – were involved.
Police issued a dispersal order following the disorder, which means people gathering in groups on the estate can be prosecuted.
The message said the order was designed to prevent ‘numbers of people gathering’ but did not detail how many people this meant or for how long the order would be in place.
A 17-year-old boy was charged with a public order offence and resisting arrest. Two men, aged 18 and 26, were charged with obstructing a police officer and the young of the two was also charged with resisting a police officer.
All three were released on bail to appear at Leeds Magistrates’ Court on August 12.
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger has always been a little schizophrenic about his relations with Congress. On the one hand, as chief administrative officer of the Federal courts, he found it necessary and proper to press for legislation affecting the judges and courts for which he was responsible.
On the other, as the Chief Justice of the United States, he reportedly felt it unseemly to be engaged in lobbying, or at least to be observed in such apparently political activity.
Now that Mr. Burger has submitted his resignation to devote full time to the Commission on the Bicentennial of the Constitution, however, this vexing conflict seems about to pass away. Capitol Hill sources predict that Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist will be confirmed as Chief Justice before Congress recesses in...
Which is a good thing for the Constitution's birthday celebration, which gets under way seriously next year, for Mr. Burger is going to have to go to work almost immediately for a $12 million additional appropriation, doubling the Congressional investment in the project. Officials note ruefully that the 1976 bicentenni...
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David Sullivan spent parts of World War II aboard aircraft carriers in the North Atlantic and South Pacific, but it’s the odd turns of fate and unusual situations that the former flight surgeon remembers more than the tales of battle.
For 18 months he was on an aircraft carrier that spent most of its time hunting Nazi U-boats, and he said the most grueling medical duty was a 25-hour stint treating German sailors from a sub sunk by his ship’s planes. He recalls when military doctors were issued a new wonder drug called penicillin that seemed to work ...
Like most Americans, he didn’t find out until later the California had been sunk in the attack.
When he reported to Bremerton, where the so-called “jeep” carriers were built and launched, the Navy assigned doctors alphabetically as the ships were ready. A doctor named Stuart was two spaces ahead of him and assigned to a carrier that was sunk in the Pacific.
“We didn’t get many at first,” he said. The carrier’s planes would spot a U-boat on the surface, but the sub would usually dive and get away. Then the Navy gave the Card and another carrier a new weapon, which was so secret only a few members on the ship were allowed to see or handle it.
To adjust, the Germans stopped diving when the planes arrived and tried to shoot them down with antiaircraft guns. That sometimes resulted in prolonged battles between the sub and the planes or destroyers that accompanied the carrier. In one battle, a destroyer wound up ramming a U-boat. That sunk the sub, but damaged ...
In another, a U-boat was so shot up by a plane that it sunk as the crew abandoned it. Destroyers picked up the wounded German sailors and transferred them to the carrier, where Sullivan, the ship’s other doctor and medical crew operated around the clock to save them. U.S. propaganda at the time said Germans were undern...
After 18 months in the North Atlantic, Sullivan was rotated to shore duty in California and later assigned to the U.S.S. Saratoga, a much bigger carrier, in the South Pacific in 1945. After the cold Atlantic, the Pacific was nice and warm, and he’s never seen so many stars in the night sky, he said.
One day a sailor in a unit heading home arrived with a monkey. The sailor was told he couldn’t bring a monkey aboard ship, but he pleaded with the crew and later the executive officer to keep a mascot that had been with his unit since the start of the war. It’d have to get shots and go into quarantine when it reached t...
“I said, ‘What good would that do? Do you know what a monkey’s temperature should be? I don’t.’ ” Sullivan repeated the monkey would have to go into quarantine for a month when they reached California, but the sailor didn’t care. They let the monkey on board.
Ford's revised Ranger (left) has been styled like an American muscle truck while new Hilux has a softer, almost car-like appearance.
The Hilux's ground clearance is listed at a more generous 286mm than the Ford's 237mm.
In practice the Ford Ranger is just as competent offroad.
We felt the Hilux's cabin was the smartest and most stylish of the two.
The Ranger's dashboard styling is more rugged.
Johannesburg: Bulls vs Sharks, Liverpool vs Manchester United, Apple vs Samsung. If you’re an acolyte of a particular sports team or brand there’s little chance of being swayed to the opposition. Much the same tends to apply in the bakkie market where the different brands have their strong adherents, particularly SA’s ...
Still, for those undecided neutrals who have not yet nailed their colours to the mast, here is our side-by-side evaluation of the luxury diesel double-cab versions of the Ranger and Hilux. The all-new Hilux was launched here in February as a more refined and sophisticated machine than its popular predecessor, while the...
In the Toyota corner is the diesel flagship of the new Hilux range, the 2.8GD-6 double-cab 4x4 Raider auto selling for R547 900.
From the Ford stable we have the 3.2 double-cab 4x4 XLT auto priced at R567 900, which is not the top-of-the-range model (that title goes to the Ranger 3.2 Wildtrak) but is closest to the Hilux in terms of specification and price.
The Ranger looks more butch and the recent facelift, which includes an aggressive trapezoidal grille, has given it a distinctly American muscle-truck appearance. The meaner new look comes with a more chip and scratch resistant paint job too.
The Hilux is styled somewhat softer, more of a labrador compared to the rottweiler Ranger, but with its big grille and sheer size the double-cab Toyota still carries a decent amount of road presence.
The Ranger has gnarlier, more offroad-oriented tyres while the Hilux rides on the same size (265/65/17) rubber but with a more passenger car-like tread pattern.
The load areas are similar in size and should swallow an assortment of toys or garden rubble, but officially the win goes to the Ranger with its 937kg payload capacity versus the Toyota’s 810kg.
A sense of style pervades these two cockpits, which have shed all workhorse pretensions and look and feel more like upmarket SUVs.
We feel the perceived quality and styling of the Hilux’s cabin are slightly better than the Ranger XLT, even though the Toyota comes with fabric seats compared to the Ford’s leather upholstery (leather is available for an extra R12 800 in the Hilux). However, the Ranger does also come in a more nattily dressed Wildtrak...
The gadget counts between our two contenders are basically equal, right down to their cooled gloveboxes, reverse cameras, auto headlights, cruise-control systems, touch screen infotainment systems, and twin 12v power sockets. However, rain-sensing wipers are standard in the Ranger and not available in the Hilux. Safety...
Remote-operated central locking comes standard in both, but the Hilux gives neighbourhood-waking toots each time you unlock the vehicle. It’s much too loud, startling passers-by and setting dogs barking.
Passenger space in the two cabins is on a par. There’s plenty of space in the back seats for a pair of adults, and the backrests seem to be angled comfortably. That said, we didn’t spend a long time in the rear and longer journeys might reveal different results. In terms of our two rivals’ ergonomics, most controls com...
We have some issues with the user-friendliness of their touch-screen infotainment systems. In the Hilux there’s no volume knob and you have to set the level using tiny icons on the touchscreen – try doing this while driving on anything but a glass-smooth road and you’ll see what we’re complaining about. There are auxil...
In the Ford the bugbear was having to navigate through the touchscreen menu to change the direction of air in the ventilation system; there was no button on the dash to do it quick and easy as in the Hilux.
The updated Ranger now runs quieter thanks to improved sound-deadening materials that reduce wind- and road noise. However, the Toyota runs even quieter, and feels more like an SUV than a bakkie in its noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) levels.
The new Hilux has improved ride quality with less bounciness than the old version particularly on corrugations, although with an empty load bay there is still choppiness which betrays the presence of rear leaf springs. The Ranger’s also a reasonably smooth rider for a one-ton bakkie but there was discord in our ranks a...
With its extra cubic capacity the Ranger’s 3.2 five-cylinder 147kW/470Nm turbodiesel engine outpowers the Toyota’s four-cylinder 2.8 with outputs of 130kW/450Nm. Both are paired with six-speed automatic transmissions that shift nice and smooth. The Hilux has three drive modes which affect the throttle response: Normal,...
The performance contest is a mixed bag. In our Gauteng tests the Ranger was quicker off the line and scooted from 0-100km/h in 11.7 seconds compared to the 12.5 seconds of the Hilux. But in overtaking acceleration the Hilux was slightly quicker with a 0.1 sec advantage from 60-120km/h.
Winning the economy battle by quite a margin is the Hilux, which averaged 9.3 litres per 100km compared to 11.3 litres for the Ford.
Both vehicles come with five-year service plans but you’ll have to visit the dealership more often if you own the Hilux, which has 10 000km service intervals versus the Ranger’s 20 000km.
Low-sulphur 50ppm diesel is recommended but both bakkies can also run on 500ppm.
Despite their SUV-like sophistication these are very rugged vehicles with bodies mounted on sturdy ladder-frame chassis – meaning they can take a beating offroad.
The Hilux’s ground clearance is listed at a more generous 286mm than the Ford’s 237mm but in practice the offroad contest was a tie. The bad old days of having to manhandle stiff-feeling secondary gear levers are thankfully gone; in both our contenders, selecting between two- and four-wheel-drive requires an easy twist...
They make child’s play of off-tar adventures, and around our Gerotek offroad course they matched each other on every obstacle.
Ranger 4x4 buyers get free 4x4 training at the Ford offroad training academy. With the Hilux an offroad course can be purchased extra.
Denis: I prefer the more masculine styling of the Ranger and I like the fact that you have to service it less often, but my vote goes to the Hilux for its superior refinement and fuel consumption. It also costs 20 grand less. That loud unlocking hoot is annoying but Toyota is said to be working on a fix.
Jesse: I also like the more aggro Ranger’s look, but I also prefer its on-road mannerisms over the Toyota’s. The suspension’s definitely firmer, but somehow its chassis soaks up road imperfections better and transmits less bump into the seats. I can’t deny that the Hilux is quieter and feels better built, but I’d choos...
CLAREMONT, Calif.—Disney sound technician Jim Adams was gripped by the production put on by Shen Yun Performing Arts, from the dance, to the sounds, to the creative use of the 3-D backdrop.
“It was fantastic!” Adams said.
Adams saw the performance with his mother, Sharon McFerran, retired from the risk management industry, at Bridges Auditorium in Pomona College, Claremont, California, on April 6.
New York-based Shen Yun is in the midst of its 2019 world tour, stopping at more than 130 cities over four continents to disseminate traditional Chinese culture through song and dance. Each of the six equally-sized touring companies perform with an orchestra, composed of both classical Western and Chinese instruments.
Adams has worked at Disney as a stage technician specializing in audio production for 26 years. Sitting from the balcony at the theater, he was able to get a good view of Shen Yun’s orchestra.
“I loved the orchestra. I’ve mixed orchestras at Disney, the [conductor] was fantastic,” he said.
He was also very impressed with the 3-D backdrop which was incorporated into the storytelling.
“I loved the creativeness, especially how they exited the staged and entered into the video wall,” Adams said.
The sound technician said the stories told by Shen Yun reminded him of studying Chinese history back in high school, which allowed him to have a greater appreciation of the performance. The emcees’ introduction to the stories, he said, also helped him with understanding what was unfolding on stage.
Ultimately, the stage technician was moved by the completeness of the entire production, which he understood was no simple feat.

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