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"A lot of people, especially if they've stayed here at Picatinny, may work in one organization for a long time and don't have a broad view of what the Army or DOD is trying to do," Grassano said. "The curriculum allows students a much broader perspective of what's going on from a defense department perspective."
Ideal applicants are GS-14 or GS-15 (or equivalent) civilians who want to advance their careers and serve the Army at a more senior level. Particularly, persons who have not had the opportunity for broadening experiences, such as working at the Pentagon or other organizations outside of Picatinny.
Grassano said the course is also for those who aspire to be a member of the Senior Executive Service or a deputy project manager (PM). "While Senior Service College is not mandatory to advance to these positions, it would weigh heavily on the boards who are selecting people for these positions. So if applicants don't h...
The first Picatinny SSCF class, also called a cohort, will begin in July 2019. A Centralized Selection List board will select attendees and assign them to an SSCF, so no one at Picatinny will make the selections.
The board will select approximately 25 to 30 students to attend SSCF across all four sites. Each site will have from five to ten students.
"After an extensive review process, applicants will find out in April or May who gets selected. Then they'll get the materials ahead of time to begin studying for the college," Grassano said.
Once selected, the attendee's duty station will be Picatinny's Armament University.
"The students won't be tied to their old jobs so they can concentrate solely on their learning and growth," he said.
In addition to Army civilians, other government or industry-related employees in the local geographic region, such as reservists or Navy civilians, could apply to the SSCF, although the Army would not pay their tuition.
Such applicants would create a more diverse class, which Grassano believes is advantageous.
"Diversity is good because when you have discussions with your cohort, you get so many different perspectives. Most of the learning takes place from interaction with other people. You have instructors, but then when the students discuss topics amongst themselves, that is where the bulk of the learning occurs, from my p...
As proof of principle that the telepresence technology at the SSCF would work properly, the Picatinny SSCF held a Program Management Training-401 (PMT-401) course earlier this year. The 10-week course served as a training run for the upcoming 10-month SSCF.
"The PMT-401 course is an executive level course that prepares people to be PMs and deputy PMs at the 0-5 level," said Ben Corrigan, a recent PMT-401 graduate.
Corrigan is the Product Manager Combat Armaments and Protection Systems in the Joint Program Executive Office Armaments and Ammunition at Picatinny.
"Mostly, it is involved with problem-solving, and the majority of the focus is on stakeholder management and stakeholder communications, and how to be an effective communicator with the people you have to work with on a daily basis in program management," he said of the course.
Seven of the 10 weeks were taught via video telepresence at Picatinny. There were also three field trips, to Detroit, Huntsville and the District of Columbia.
"I'm a big proponent of VTC distance learning, so that part of it makes sense if you don't want to have to leave your house, leave your kids, leave your dog for 10 weeks," Corrigan said. "I only had to go TDY a couple of times, so it wasn't as painful."
Corrigan said the best part of the course was the peer feedback.
"As you were participating in conversations, peers would observe you and determine if you were being overly aggressive, if you were using effective listening skills, or if you were you talking past each other, not listening to the other person's point of view," he said. "You get feedback on that throughout the course, ...
Graduates from the PMT-401 course taught at Picatinny in November were Corrigan, Paul Manz, Pete Errante, and George Herc.
Zive's popular Kiwi software helps Google's G Suite applications make the leap from the browser to the desktop.
Zive, the New York City-based developer behind the popular Kiwi for Gmail app for Mac users, has made the leap to Windows to give Office a run for its money.
The company today launched Kiwi for Gmail 2.0 for Windows, providing users of G Suite a desktop-like alternative to Google's browser-based productivity applications, which includes Docs, Sheets, Slides, and of course, Gmail.
On the Mac, Kiwi for Gmail is already a hit, ranking not only as one of the most well-regarded apps on the Mac App Store, but "the highest-rated app" in the productivity category in the marketplace, Eric Shashoua, CEO of Zive, told eWEEK. Currently, Kiwi for Gmail has a 4.5-star rating for all versions on the Mac App S...
At the outset, Shashoua and his team's goal was "to build software that was really beautiful," and Kiwi for Gmail's uncluttered and sleek user interface reflects the efforts Zive made to achieve that aim. "We really believe in making the application blend with the aesthetic," he added.
As a bonus, G Suite users get more than a fresh coat of pixels. They also get a massive productivity upgrade.
Noting that the PC desktop remains the go-to platform for content-creation and business productivity, Shashoua said his company's software enables users to escape the constraints of browser applications and use G Suite's various tools to power through their workday much like they would using Microsoft's Office desktop ...
Compared to the browser-based G Suite experience, Kiwi for Gmail users are multitasking nearly three times as much versus juggling multiple browser tabs on Google's interface. The software also drives usage on other applications besides Gmail. For example, users are likelier to fire up Docs and Slides two-and-a-half ti...
Users can also expect the immediacy and responsiveness of a desktop app. Zive was able to "cut a lot of the fat that you have in a browser," Shashoua said.
In terms of security, the company's account isolation technology helps keep a lid on sensitive business information and prevents data leaks. For administrators, an assortment of controls help businesses tailor the software to their environments, including limiting the application to one G Suite account to keep workforc...
Also included is Zen Switch, a do not disturb feature akin to that found on smartphones and a notifications system that filter alerts, allowing users to focus on high-priority tasks. Also helping keeping users on-task is a global shortcuts feature that allows users to quickly create email drafts within the current appl...
These features, along with productivity-enhancing benefits of bringing G Suite to the desktop "opens the doors to enterprise," Shashoua said. In fact, much of corporate demand Zive is experiencing of late comes from businesses with "Kiwi users in their IT departments."
Editor's Note: This story was updated to correct all instances of Zive's corporate name.
China's steel mills, a target of U.S. President Donald Trump's ire, are their industry's 800-pound gorilla: They supply half of world output, so every move they make has a global impact.
The steel industry swelled over the past decade to support a history-making Chinese construction boom. Once that tailed off, the country was left with a glut of half-idle, money-losing mills.
Beijing has closed mills and eliminated 1 million jobs but is moving too gradually to defuse American and European anger at a flood of low-cost exports that is double the volume of second-place Japan.
Trump responded last week with a blanket tariff hike on steel and aluminum, another metal China's trading partners complain it oversupplies.
Despite reports of a delay, President Donald Trump says he'll impose controversial steel and aluminum tariffs Thursday afternoon.
Chinese authorities say they shut down 30 million tons of steel production capacity last year. That cut alone is equal in size to the annual output of the No. 9 producer, Brazil, but only a sliver of China's 800 million tons.
Beijing's goal is to make its industry more efficient and profitable, not just smaller. So while some mills close, bigger rivals step up production and could become even more formidable global competitors.
Total steel production rose 5.7 percent last year over 2016 to a record 831 million tons, according to the Chinese Cabinet's planning agency, the National Reform and Development Commission. That was on top of a 1.2 percent increase in 2016 and more than seven times Japan's output.
The industry is forecasting another 1 percent rise this year.
"Without the capacity cutting, there would have been much more production than there is now," said Wang Suzhen, an analyst for Mysteel, a news service that follows the Chinese industry.
Steel and heavy industry have long been a political touchstone for Chinese leaders, which led to economic disaster in the 1950s.
In 1958, then-leader Mao Zedong encouraged the public to produce steel in backyard furnaces for his Great Leap Forward, a short-lived attempt at overnight industrialization.
Villagers stripped hillsides for fuel and burned doors and furniture to melt pots and pans and whatever other metal they could find to produce useless pig iron. The diversion of resources into the Great Leap led to famine that killed tens of millions of people.
In the past two decades, production took off as Chinese cities were bulldozed and rebuilt with thousands of new office and apartment towers, shopping malls, bridges and expressways. Output rose from under 130 million tons in 2000 to more than 600 million in 2010.
China's voracious appetite for iron ore helped to drive economic booms in Australia, Brazil and other supplier countries. Mills bought Western and Japanese smelter technology.
Steel and aluminum, along with coal, glass and solar panels, are among many Chinese industries that mushroomed until supply vastly outstripped demand.
Once the building boom cooled, suppliers left with vast stockpiles of unsold goods resorted to price-cutting wars that threatened many with bankruptcy.
Beijing has announced plans to shrink steel and coal but has yet to outline plans for others.
China's aluminum output is a fraction of steel's size at about 36 million tons last year. But foreign competitors say the impact of low-cost Chinese exports on their industry has been even more devastating.
Last year's exports fell 30 percent from 2016 to 63 million tons, but that still was one-quarter of the global total and more than twice Japan's 30 million tons.
Beijing tried to defuse threats of trade sanctions by agreeing at a meeting of the Group of 20 major economies in 2016 to form a global panel to discuss how to shrink the industry. But it avoided any binding commitments.
In the U.S. market, sales of Chinese steel have plunged due to earlier tariffs of up to 522 percent imposed on some products to offset what Washington says are improper subsidies to producers.
That means that while Trump has singled out China for criticism, his latest tariff hike is likely to hit U.S. allies Japan and South Korea harder.
The United States bought just 1.1 percent of China's steel exports last year compared with 12 percent for South Korea and 5 percent for Japan, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission.
Steadily rising Chinese production increases pressure for mills to export, putting downward pressure on prices and undercutting exports from U.S., European, Japanese and Korean mills.
At the same time, Beijing is merging its biggest steelmakers into even bigger, more efficient competitors.
China created the world's second-largest steelmaker after Europe's ArcelorMittal with the 2016 merger of two state-owned producers, Baosteel Group and Wuhan Iron & Steel.
The merged company, Baowu Steel, wants to increase production capacity by two-thirds to 100 million tons by acquiring smaller mills, the company general manager told the official China News Service in September.
Farmers looking to reduce reliance on pesticides, herbicides and other pest management tools may want to heed the advice of Cornell agricultural scientists: Let nature be nature – to a degree.
“Managing crop pests without fully understanding the impacts of tactics – related to resistance and nontarget plants or insects – costs producers money,” said Antonio DiTommaso, professor of soil and crop science and lead author of a new study, “Integrating Insect, Resistance and Floral Resource Management in Weed Cont...
“We are taking a renewed look at a holistic, sustainable integrated pest management (IPM) approach,” DiTommaso said.
In corn production, for example, maintaining a few villainous milkweed plants in the middle of a cornfield may help minimize crop loss from the destructive European corn borer. The milkweed plants can harbor aphids (destructive sap-sucking flies) that produce a nectar food source for beneficial parasitic wasps Trichogr...
One additional side benefit for having a few milkweed plants in a field of corn is that it serves as a breeding place and food source for monarch butterflies. As of late, monarch numbers are down, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is evaluating a petition to have them protected under the Endangered Species Act.
While some growers elect not to use engineered crops, producers may see a return to IPM methods from two decades ago, as resistance could easily occur when relying on a single tactic.
With increasing no-till production, producers will inevitably see rebounds in perennial weeds – such as milkweed, the researchers said. Thus, some growers may be willing to tolerate a low milkweed population in favor of providing livable plant space for monarchs.
Integration of the weed costs and advantages will become important.
“The benefits of weeds have been neglected. They’re often seen as undesirable, unwanted. We’re now beginning to quantify their benefits,” said Kristine M. Averill, weed research associate.
Joining DiTommaso, Averill and Losey on the study were Michael Hoffmann, professor of entomology; and Jeffrey R. Fuchsberg, director of intellectual property at the Medical Center of the Americas Foundation.
Bogota Millonarios crushed their inter-city rivals and number one ranked, Santa Fe, in one of the highlight matches of Colombia’s premier Postobon soccer league.
The highly anticipated match known as the Capital Classic featured a strong Millonarios team that sat only a win behind Santa Fe, who was at the top of the standings.
After an evenly played start, Millonarios took a 1-0 lead before the half, following a score by their talented forward, Wason Renteria.
A 3-0 lead quickly ensued early in the second half after veteran midfielder Mayer Candelo reached a career milestone with the 100th goal of his career. The goal came after a quick pass from the recently added forward Fredy Montero, who spends most of the year playing soccer in the United States, which set him up for an...
Millonarios are now one of four teams tied for first place at 17 points and they will play Santa Fe again this coming weekend.
Another hotly contested classic took place in Colombia’s second largest city of Medellin between Atletico Nacional and Independiente Medellin. Tensions between these two teams often run high and, as a result, extra security measures were taken in order to establish a relatively safe environment both inside and outside ...
In somewhat of an anticlimax however, the match resulted in a scoreless draw, with no real security issues. Nacional played a stronger first half while Medellin stepped up in the second and prevented striker Juan Pablo Angel from becoming a threat.
Nacional remains without a loss on the season but has now tied six times and only won three. They currently have 15 points which is two points behind the leaders, Millonarios, Itagui, Santa Fe, and Pasto.
Deportivo Pasto, who has remained one of the top teams throughout the season, lost 1-2 to Deportivo Cali in the country’s southern regional showdown. Cali remains two points behind the leading teams, tied with Nacional and Once Caldas.
Itagui also achieved victory over their cross-river rivals, Envigado Futbol Club, to earn them a first place spot, but with one more game played then all the other top teams.
Prior to unveiling the new Ram 2500 and 3500 at the Detroit Auto Show on Jan. 14, Ram launched a web page that features the teaser image you see above. It is dark and smoky, and I think we’re all supposed to be scared that this thing will consume us whole. I kinda am. Heavy duty trucks aren’t messing around lately.
The teaser page is filled with a bunch of random “inspirational” images, most of which really have very little to do with the truck. But the image above, apparently meant to highlight the truck’s headlights, does give us a decent glimpse of the front end.
Why does there appear to be smoke or steam in the air? Does the truck vape? Is it overheating? To these, I have no answers.
But I can tell you that this front end—especially that stepped headlight with the four mini projectors, and also the oval-ish hole to the left of the RAM symbol—looks a lot like the front on a bunch of Rams that have been photographed around Michigan in the last few months. You can check out those spy shots on Truck Tr...
The new Ram 1500 debuted in Detroit last year, so it’s time for Ram to show a heavy duty version with styling a bit closer to that of the new half-ton. As for what’s going to be under the hood, we don’t known yet, but Chevy’s got 910 lb-ft of torque to compete with, so we’ll see what Cummins managed.
One area in which it doesn’t appear the Ram will compete with the Silverado is in front end styling wackiness. The Silverado HD’s face, at least in some trims, is just out there, whereas these Ram teasers and spy shots seem a lot more restrained.
We’ll see it in the flesh soon enough, and decide how true that is.
New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) Debutant director Sachin Gupta will shoot "Paranthe Wali Gali" in busy alleys of the walled city to get the right flavour and says his film will capture rich architecture of the city and that he is ready for the challenges.
"Paranthe Wali Gali", a romantic drama, revolves around a serious guy (Anuj Saxena) and what happens to him when he meets an outspoken Sikh girl essayed by Neha Pawar.
"We are trying to capture the rich architecture of old Delhi by shooting on real location. I think visually Delhi is very rich and we are trying to capture that aspect in the film," Gupta, who will start filming here from Feb 11, told IANS.
He was here Friday for a press conference and to talk about his shooting plans in the capital.
Shooting in the narrow lanes of the congested old Delhi won't be trouble, but Gupta, 30, is ready for challenges.
"There are challenges and that's fine. Because if you do something in your comfort zone, it reflects in your movie. So, we are trying to show our best. I am prepared for whatever happens. Let's hope for the best," said the director who has done three Broadway shows in New York and has been associated with theatre as we...
This is not the first time that a movie will highlight the culture of Old Delhi. Earlier Karan Johar, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Nikhil Advani and Shivam Nair tried to capture the old world charm of the place in "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham", "Delhi-6", "Chandni Chowk To China" and "Ahista Ahista" respectively.
What about comparisons with other movies?
"I think every movie is different because they have different stories. This not just for Delhi people. The characters are such that any Indian in the world can connect to them," said Gupta.
St. Cloud City Council approved Monday setting a public hearing for Nov. 9 on the rezoning of the Stone Gate development in south St. Cloud.
Ted Schmid, chief operating officer at Lumber One Development Co., is proposing to change part of the Stone Gate development plan from multiple family residential to commercial uses. Schmid wants to replace the planned apartments and townhouses fronting Stearns County Road 74 with a combination of big box retail, a str...
The development is near the intersection of 33rd Street South and County Road 74. Nearly half of the planned unit development has been divided into single family home lots.

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