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Brayden Wilson hit his first homerun of the season and Ryan Pachl was 3 for 4 in the Bulldogs' two-game sweep Saturday against Gunnison.
"That helps a lot," said head coach Jason Yantzer, whose team won 10-7, 10-5, despite being down two key players.
"Those were pretty important wins." The Bulldogs are now 7-2 and in third place in 3A Western Slope competition, behind 10-1 Cedaredge and 9-1 Rifle.
Pachl scored one of his two runs in game one after hitting a line drive deep into center field, said Yantzer. "He pretty much sprinted the whole way around," and beat the throw into home. "It was pretty impressive."
Pitcher Edgar Macias threw the opening six innings. With a comfortable lead, Devan Rupe stepped in to get some much-needed throws in. Jaime Rodriguez threw 13 Ks and pitched a complete game 2.
Macias, a senior, has opened for the Bulldogs the entire season.
"When Eddie's on the hill in that first game, I have a lot of confidence in him, the team has a lot of confidence," said Yantzer. "It's important to us to get that first win and have that momentum carry into the second game."
Macias follows in the footsteps of older brother Cesar, who was the Bulldogs' starting pitcher in 2011.
"He taught me how to pitch, and I've been learning it all these years," said Macias, who moved to Hotchkiss from Center, in 8th grade and was a starting player for the Hotchkiss soccer team.
"I love baseball," said Macias, who is also an outfielder. He plays on a summer adult traveling team and pitched and fielded last summer for the newly-formed North Fork American Legion team. He finds every opportunity to practice. "It helps quite a bit," said Macias, who has recorded 68 strikeouts, including 12 on Saturday against Gunnison, and has walked 11 for the season. He currently leads the 3A division in Ks.
He's a leftie, but says that doesn't give him any advantage. The command of the pitch is what helps, he said. He's never had his pitch clocked but would like to. He and his coach estimate it to be in the mid-to high-80s range.
At 145 pounds, the 5-foot 10-inch senior doesn't have much weight behind him, but he can throw a mean fast pitch, or any other pitch called for. And he has a favorite. "I like the slider," he says with a grin. The ball will arc outside and drop as it comes across the plate. The batter can tell its coming, "but they don't hit it," he said. "It's tricky." And it's a good two-strike pitch.
Offensively, Macias is batting .350. He's yet to hit a homerun, but he's hit two triples and seven RBIs, including four against Gunnison, and has struck out four times in 26 plate appearances.
Macias, a native of Mexico, hopes to continue playing, and perhaps return to Mexico after graduation, where he was born and still has family, to play professionally. For now, he's just enjoying his senior year and hoping to help his team get a little deeper into the playoffs this year. In 2011, the Bulldogs placed fourth.
Just seven games remain on the Bulldogs' schedule, and rescheduling of a cancelled April 4 set of games against Aspen is still in the works.
They travel to Grand Valley (2-8) Saturday for two games. Next Tuesday they host the second of two games against Cedaredge starting at 4 p.m. Yantzer said that after defeating the Bruins in extra innings in early April, he's confident his team will do well, but he's also cautious, because the Bruins seem to be at their best every time the two meet.
"I've got a lot of respect for Cedaredge," he said. "It's always a good game between the two of us."
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NEWARK, N.J. – A Georgia man who froze the operations of a New Jersey pharmaceutical company where he had worked by hacking into its computer network and deleting portions of it was sentenced today to 41 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
Jason Cornish, 37, of Smyrna, Ga., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler in Newark federal court. Cornish had previously admitted in court that he executed the attack, pleading guilty to an Information charging him with knowingly transmitting computer code with the intent to damage computers in interstate commerce.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
Cornish was an information technology employee at Shionogi Inc., a United States subsidiary of a Japanese pharmaceutical company with operations in New Jersey and Georgia. In late September 2010, shortly after Cornish had resigned from Shionogi, the company announced layoffs that would affect an individual identified in court documents as B.N., Cornish's close friend and former supervisor.
In the early morning hours of Feb. 3, 2011, Cornish gained unauthorized access to Shionogi's computer network. Cornish used a Shionogi user account to access a Shionogi server, then took control of a piece of software that he had secretly installed on the server several weeks earlier.
Cornish used the secretly installed software program to delete the contents of each of 15 "virtual hosts" on Shionogi's computer network. These 15 virtual hosts (subdivisions on a computer designed to make it function like several computers) housed the equivalent of 88 different computer servers. Cornish used his familiarity with Shionogi's network to identify each of these virtual hosts by name or by its corresponding Internet Protocol address.
The deleted servers housed most of Shionogi's American computer infrastructure, including the company's e-mail and Blackberry servers, its order tracking system, and its financial management software. The attack effectively froze Shionogi's operations for a number of days, leaving company employees unable to ship product, cut checks, or communicate by email. Shionogi sustained approximately $800,000 in losses responding to the attack, conducting damage assessments and restoring the company's network to its prior condition.
The investigation by the FBI's Cyber Crimes Task Force revealed that the attack originated from a computer connected to the wireless network of a McDonald's restaurant in Smyrna, where Cornish had used his credit card to make a purchase minutes before the attack. Cornish also gained unauthorized access to Shionogi's network from his home Internet connection using administrative passwords to which he had access as an employee.
In addition to the prison term, Judge Chesler sentenced Cornish to three years of supervised release and ordered him to make restitution of $812,567. The judge also prohibited Cornish from working in capacity that would give him access to computer network infrastructure.
U.S. Attorney Fishman thanked special agents of the FBI's Cyber Crimes Task Force, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Michael B. Ward in Newark; and in Atlanta, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Lamkin, with the investigation leading to today's sentence. He also thanked Shionogi Inc. officials for coming forward and cooperating with the investigation.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Seth B. Kosto of the U.S. Attorney's Office Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Section in the Office's Economic Crimes Unit in Newark.
Defense counsel: Richard V. Merritt Esq., Smyrna
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
Making it Happen: Tips on Writing Action Scenes
I like action in my entertainment. Books, movies, TV shows, even games. I enjoy a great story to go with it, but I want to see people in peril more than I want to see them examining their lives in a safe environment. I like the external forces that cause the true nature of a person to bubble to the surface. I want to see what people do. As you might guess, I write a lot of action scenes in my books.
At this point, action comes pretty easily to me, but that wasn't always the case. My early work was way too descriptive in how my fight scenes played out -- every detail explained, special names created for styles and whatnot. It took longer to read the action that it did to actually perform the action.
Before I dive in any further, I think it's important to clarify that today, I'm talking about action in the traditional "person in peril" way. The action you think of when you hear "action movie." It's not the "start with the action" type you hear in writing advice. (That's a topic for another day)
Action can be tough because it's easy to focus too much on the action and not enough on the character in peril. So long descriptions sneak in and what the character does takes center stage. What the character thinks and feels often gets shoved into the background.
And that's bad. Because those emotions are what make or break an action scene.
Get in Their Heads
I try not to let too many straight descriptive paragraphs go by without hearing from my POV character in some way. A line of dialog, some internalization, something that puts the reader back inside the POV's head. Readers care about the characters. They want to know how the characters feel about what's happening to them. They want to know what those characters are going to do next. Without that connection, the action is just details on a page.
From a purely structural standpoint, it also helps break up the text so you can better control the pacing. Description slows down the narrative. Dialog speeds up the narrative. Long chunks of text encourages skimming by the reader, especially if it's an exciting action sequence and they're eager to see how it turns out. But when readers skim, they stop on the dialog (spoken or internalized), because that's usually where characters make decisions. So breaking up the scene visually helps keep the reader reading and not jumping to the next set of dialog lines.
Make it Personal
Stakes are critical to an action scene. If the reader doesn't care, there will be no excitement. Think about those summer blockbuster action flicks where there was a ton of action, but you just kinda sat there and waited for it to be over, even though it was cool to see. Was there ever any fear that things wouldn't turn out fine for the hero? Was the outcome ever in doubt? You don't want to do the literary equivalent. Making sure your stakes are high and personal to your protag will help prevent that.
Stakes also help make whatever the problem is larger than life, because it matters to your protag. The opening of The Shifter works because readers care about Nya getting her breakfast. But all she's doing is trying to steal a few eggs. It's not earth-shattering, the world won't end, it won't even matter to anyone else but Nya. But that's the key. To her, it's a huge deal. It has major repercussions. And if readers like her, they'll care about how this problem turns out.
Add a Surprise or Revelation
Not every scene is going to lend itself to this, but the thing that keeps readers reading is the desire to know what happens next. If your action scene is one of those where the outcome really isn't in question, but it's a vital scene to the plot (and these are pretty common), add something to it so the reader gets information they weren't expecting. Share a secret, show a talent the character hadn't yet revealed, discover something that affects the plot.Give them an informational reward for watching your action scene. Discovering there are treasures in those scenes will also encourage them to read every word, because they'll never know what vital clue might be found.
Pace Yourself
Pacing is almost as critical to action scenes as stakes. The goal is to get the reader caught up in the action, heart beating, breath racing, turning the pages as fast as possible. Short sentences add speed. They create excitement. Long sentences slow things down and lessen the excitement. Action scenes are typically not where you're going to go into long descriptive passages or deep thoughts. (unless you're purposefully giving the reader a breather)
Narrative flow matters more here than probably anywhere else, because if you write something that trips up the reader, you pull them out of the story. You want your text to flow as smoothly as possible so it sucks in the reader and whisks then along like a leaf on the wind. So watch out for choppy sentences, which are common when you write action and are trying to keep this fast-paced. Keep an eye on your sentence structures and the rhythm of your words. Keep them varied, keep them moving.Read the scene out loud. There's no better way to catch bad narrative flow then to hear it spoken.
I started this post by saying this was all about traditional action-movie-style scenes, but honestly, they can also apply to any scene in the book. Because a good scene is all about something unfolding that the reader wants to see the resolution to. If you treat every scene like an action scene, there's a good chance you'll keep a tight hold on your reader and they won't be able to get away.
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Excellent advice! I don't really know if I write good action scenes or not. Nobody's complained, but . . . *shrug* This post is filled with great ideas, though. It makes sense and I can see it being effective. Next time I'm writing instead of revising*, I hope I remember where to find this. :)
*I'm feeling that hunger to be working on something new in a big way right now.Joe: I so know that "oo, new book" feeling :) I love my series, but after three years, I'm ready to be mean to new characters.
DJA: Most welcome!
Mary: Don't be afraid, just dive on in. Worst case the scene is bleh, and that's no big deal. You'll at least know how it plays out and that makes it easier to fix. :) And you may write a great scene and surprise yourself!As always, Janice, your posts are so helpful. Angie (adktd2bks) has always made suggestions for me in my work and she very often preempted her advice/crit with "I was reading on Janice's blog..." She's the one who turned me on to your site and to this day, you are my go to blog if I have any questions in the craft of writing. Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteThanks, I needed this blog! I wrote my first real "action" scene and it felt like I was in a movie, and that made me think I was writing it correct. It was a car chase/shooting scene which I had never done and writing it felt great. I described every movement, but at the same time, there was action and dialogue throughout.
ReplyDeleteI remember hearing about your first book shortly before it was published. It's really exciting to see you have grown into somewhat of a writing expert. I was "lurking" when you and your agent were on YALITCHAT.
I just discovered your blog and I'm glad I did. This post is such an affirming one for me as I complete final revisions on the work I'll be querying soon.
Based on what you've said, I seem to be on the right track, but this is a field in which one can always learn and grow. Thanks for the excellent advice. I look forward to being a regular visitor here.Welcome to the blog, June! Good to have you. I agree that you can always grow as a writer. I still attend conference and read other writing blogs and look for ways to strengthen my work. Even writing this blog reminds me about the things I should be doing. I really like that about writing. There's always something new to discover.
ReplyDeleteI've been using your advice to not fear adverbs in the first draft. My NaNo story uses adverbs and adjectives with a very liberal hand. I blatantly tell just about everything, because right now I'm telling myself everything I need to know to get the shape blocked out without bogging down in phrasing. Then I can go back later and figure out what needs to be shown and where for the best effect for the reader. It's really helped my progress.
ReplyDeleteSo true- if you don't care about the character, why should you care what happens in what's supposed to be an exciting scene.
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Romance with a Twist--of Mysteryim a young writer [talking about 12] and i hope the tips you have talked about help...
I have been having problems with action/fighting chapters if you can can you look at it and give my pointers?
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HERE: http://inkmagick.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=fullstories&action=display&thread=31
[its more of a action fighting story]Jaleh: That's great :)
Terry: I see this a lot in movies. Lots of action, excitement, stuff going on, but I can't remember which character is which or what their names. I leave the movie and say "I just didn't care."
Justin: You're off to a good start. I think you could really tighten up your action scenes if you used fewer dialog tags (the "he said" parts) parts. I noticed that almost every line of dialog uses them. As long as it's clear who is speaking, you don't need them. They just slow down the scene. Cutting out a lot of those will make the action scene read smoother because you'll be in the middle of the action and dialog and not reading the explanations of those.Good advice :) *points to self* HUNGER GAMES STORY IS HAPPENING RIT NOW SO THIS ADVICE IS GOOD! Thank you!


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When I start my new iPad 3 by pressing the button at the bottom I get a screen that asks me to enter my passcode. When I enter my passcode it says I've entered the wrong passcode. So I can't do anything with the iPad because I can't get past this opening screen. Before this problem occurred I used to be able to turn the iPad on and I'd get the normal screen with the various icons. Back then I set and reset at least four different passwords (which I guess is the same thing as a passcode?). The passcode/password would work the first time after I reset it, then when I tried to use it again for something I'd get the same message. Then I started getting this even worse problem, under which I can't do anything with the iPad because I can't get past this opening "wrong passcode" screen. Anyone have any suggestions for how I can get past this "wrong passcode" problem and actually use my iPad?
Update: After my five minute delay caused by all my "wrong" passwords, I tried again, this time not using the most recent password I created and instead using the one before it. That one seems to work, or at least it gets me into the normal opening screen. But clearly there's some kind of password problem with this machine since if anything works it should be the last password I created (which did work once and then not again) and not the one created before that.
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Record Commitment Will Deliver the Gift of Sight to More People Worldwide
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, Aug. 9, 2006 – FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) today announced it plans to donate $5.5 million over the next five years to ORBIS International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention of blindness worldwide. This pledge represents the largest contribution commitment FedEx has made to ORBIS since joining forces more than 20 years ago to save sight.
"Nearly 37 million men, women and children worldwide are blind – and 75 percent do not need to be," said Oliver Foot, president and executive director of ORBIS. "The vast majority of world blindness can be treated or prevented with existing therapies and eye care resources. That's where ORBIS and FedEx come in. By working together, we can deliver education, training and treatment where it is needed most."
Blindness has profound human and socioeconomic consequences in all societies, particularly in the developing world where lost productivity, rehabilitation and education of the blind are significant economic burdens.
"Leading health organizations estimate the direct economic cost of blindness to be about $42 billion, yet treatments to prevent and cure blindness are among the most successful and cost-effective of all health interventions," said David J Bronczek, president and chief executive officer of FedEx Express. "That's why FedEx has renewed and expanded its long-time commitment to working with ORBIS to help eradicate one of the world's most devastating, yet solvable, health challenges."
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According to the World Health Organization, one to two million people go blind every year. One adult loses their sight every five seconds, and another child goes blind every minute. The leading cause of blindness worldwide is cataract, followed by glaucoma and then age-related macular degeneration.
"The only sustainable solution to the problem of avoidable blindness is to provide medical communities in developing countries with skills, knowledge and resources to prevent and cure blindness on their own," explained Dr Eugene Helveston, ORBIS chief ophthalmologist. "The increased support from FedEx helps ensure that we give more people access to much-needed eye care services that industrialized societies often take for granted."
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The new, multi-million dollar commitment from FedEx runs from 2006 through 2011, and includes financial, logistical and operational support for ORBIS and its Flying Eye Hospital – the world's only DC-10 aircraft converted into a state-of-the-art teaching facility and ophthalmic surgical center.
The latest FedEx contribution is designed to enhance the signature Delivering Sight Worldwide initiative developed by FedEx and ORBIS several years ago. At no cost to ORBIS, FedEx has agreed to:
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More than three million people have received direct medical treatment since the inception of ORBIS in 1982. In addition, more than 120,000 healthcare professionals have enhanced their skills through ORBIS training programs in 85 countries.
It is through innovative programs and partnerships that ORBIS is able to produce long-term, sustainable solutions to preventable blindness that emphasize the training of medical personnel, strengthening of in-country eye care institutions, and expanding delivery of quality eye care and prevention strategies in the developing world.
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STOCKHOLM With the 2014 Olympics taking place in Sochi, Russia, its no stretch to say that this and next years World Championship represent a major opportunity for the Kontinental Hockey League.The 23-team circuit that kicked off in 2008-09 had the largest geographical reach of any pro hockey league last season, ranging from Poprad, Slovakia in the west to Khabarovsk, Russia a journey of more than 10,500 kilometres by car.However, despite the coordinated efforts of league head Alexander Medvedev and Russian hockey legends from Vladislav Tretiak to Vyacheslav Fetisov, the KHL is still clearly considered second-best in the world to the National Hockey League. What will it take to put the KHL in the drivers seat?That depends on your definition of drivers seat, but certainly an upsurge in the ability of KHL players to deliver gold medals at IIHF tournaments would boost the leagues prestige.Probably its peak achievement so far came at the 2009 Worlds in Switzerland. There, Russia iced a roster featuring 16 KHLers and won the gold medal against a star-laden Canadian team that was all-NHL with the exception of role defenceman Joel Kwiatkowski (Severstal Cherepovets).The primary objective in founding the KHL as a successor to the Russian Superleague was to create greater incentive for Russian players to stay home instead of migrating to North America. While KHL salary figures are not as widely reported as NHL ones, its easy to understand the attraction of making $4 million to $7 million US tax-free while playing closer to family and friends for the likes of Maxim Afinogenov, Alexander Radulov, or Jaromir Jagr. (Even for lesser lights, making, say, the NHL league minimum of $525,000 US goes a lot further in Russia.)All the aforementioned players have filled key roles for their national teams at recent IIHF World Championships. Of course, Jagr is a Czech, not a Russian. And that raises another interesting point about the KHLs pan-European aspirations the leagues intention is to feature new teams in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Ukraine for 2012-13 and how its incorporation of non-Russian talents has played out at recent Worlds.In 2011, for the first time, a KHL starting goalie backstopped his national team to a World Championship. Also for the first time, a KHL skater captured the tournament scoring title.However, neither of those players was Russian. Both were members of Team Finland.After starring with his hometown team, Lukko Rauma, since the mid-1990s, netminder Petri Vehanen made the leap to Ak Bars Kazan in 2009-10 and was named the KHLs best goalie that season. In 2011, his second stint at the Worlds (after 2008s bronze in Canada), Vehanen would edge out Swedens Viktor Fasth the tournament MVP and Best Goalie in all key statistical categories except shutouts. And of course, Finlands 6-1 thrashing of Sweden in the final sealed the deal.Forward Jarkko Immonen, Vehanens teammate with Kazan, earned his all-star berth with his tournament-leading nine goals and 12 points for the Finns.Vehanen and Immonen werent the only KHLers making their mark at that tournament. The Czech Republics Roman Cervenka and Jaromir Jagr placed fourth and sixth respectively in the scoring race.Interestingly, during the three World Championships where the KHL has been in existence, the league has placed four players on the tournament all-star teams, and none of them have been Russian.So the KHLs impact on Russias international hockey reputation so far has been a mixed bag. (It is, of course, worth noting that 14 Russia-based players also appeared on the 2008 World Championship-winning squad in Canada, but that predated the KHL.)Going forward, the biggest and most intriguing question is, how many KHL players will make the cut for Russias 2014 Olympic odyssey on home ice?The KHLers suffered a hit in credibility at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. When the host Canadians demolished Russia 7-3 in the quarter-finals, there were nine KHLers on the roster. Leading up to that moment in the tournament, head coach Slava Bykov often gave his KHLers priority in special teams situations over NHL superstars like Alexander Ovechkin. Yet at least versus Canada, go-to guys like Ilya Nikulin (-3), Danis Zaripov (-3), and captain Alexei Morozov (-3) were exposed as defensive liabilities.For 2014, the Russian lineup may be just as KHL-heavy as in 2010 not necessarily for political reasons, but because the number of Russian NHLers has been declining. A recent IIHF study indicates there were only 31 Russians in the NHL this season down from 71 in 1999-2000. And among the skaters, once you get past the top 10 or so elite NHL names, there are few absolute locks for Sochi.Looking at consensus medal contenders at this IIHF World Championship, there are currently 14 KHLers on Russia, 12 on Finland, and 11 on the Czech Republic. (A generous interpretation would include Slovakia on that list: it has 11 KHLers if you count clubs such as Lev Poprad or Slovan Bratislava that are either relocating or joining the league next year. However, the Slovaks havent earned a World Championship medal since 2003s bronze, and are thus far winless, so calling them a consensus medal contender would be iffy.)Accordingly, if the KHLs reputation as a talent provider for international events is going to rise or fall, it will depend on the performances of Russia, Finland, and the Czech Republic. 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By PAUL GROSS
04/30/2012 22:04
Although untested as a political leader, Mofaz could be an unlikely savior.
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I confess I have something of a soft spot for Tzipi Livni, for two principal reasons. Firstly, and it's worth remembering, she could and would have been prime minister had she given in to Shas's extortion and continued the government she inherited from Ehud Olmert on the back of increased funds for haredi (ultra-Orthodox) yeshivot and schools. That she preferred to stick to her principles was admirable, and a marked contrast to the man who did become prime minister.
Binyamin Netanyahu often acts as though being in power is the end rather than the means.
Secondly, she is the only leading Israeli politician in recent years to have made a point of speaking out on the need for Jewish pluralism in Israel and for really trying to ask questions about how to strengthen Jewish identity in Israel in a pluralistic way. In 2010 she even held a daylong conference in the Knesset on the subject.
However, it can't be denied that she has been politically cack-handed as leader of the opposition. She has been completely undiscriminating in her criticism of the government, even attacking Netanyahu for steps that she would almost certainly have taken herself in the same situation.
She has (rightly) condemned the government for its failure and/or unwillingness to act proactively or creatively to change the status quo with the Palestinians, but she's let Mahmoud Abbas completely off the hook, refusing to condemn his numerous evasions of negotiations and steps away from the peace process and towards rejectionism.
So what of her replacement? As defense minister under Ariel Sharon, Shaul Mofaz was one of the most uncompromising and hawkish figures in the cabinet (in an administration not lacking uncompromising hawks). He also embarrassed himself hugely by publicly pledging to stay in the Likud after Sharon had left to create Kadima, then jumping ship to join the new party only when it became clear he would have no chance of beating Netanyahu for the Likud leadership.
Despite all that, the labeling of him as a simple "right-winger," or the accusations from many that there is no significant ideological difference between him and Netanyahu, are wide of the mark.
On the contrary, the one thing that marks Mofaz out as different, not just from Netanyahu or Livni, but from any other senior member of Knesset, is that he has proposed a serious and thoughtful alternative to negotiations with the Palestinians.
(And I said serious and thoughtful, so I'm not including the "do nothing" option of much of the Likud or the "kick out the Arabs" ethnic cleansing of the far Right.) The plan he launched at the end of 2009 (which he discussed at length in an interview with this newspaper published at the end of Passover) was not dissimilar in essence to those of others who understand that there is an urgency to ending the occupation and separating from the Palestinians, and have been ready and able to think outside the box – such as leading Arab affairs journalist Ehud Ya'ari and the Tel Aviv think tank the Reut Institute.
Mofaz's proposal would see a gradual process of establishing a Palestinian state with temporary borders. Settlements in areas that would have to be given up in order for this state to be contiguous would be evacuated (with a comprehensive resettlement and compensation plan drawn up first) while the settlement blocs would be de facto incorporated into Israel with all restrictions on building lifted.
Mofaz has said: "My main idea is to start with a Palestinian state. The state is not temporary, the borders are temporary. The moment they have a state, they could build their economy, law and security apparatuses. They could build a better life for the Palestinian people."
There would be a Palestinian state and an end of Israeli occupation, but the final borders would be resolved in negotiations. The onus would be on Palestinians to return to the negotiating table to finalize the borders – the temporary borders would be dictated by Israel and its security concerns.
Let's be clear, the polls do not look good for Kadima and the chances of Mofaz being in a position to advance this plan are not high. In addition, he is completely untested as a political leader and the demands of Israeli coalition politics could well see him make concessions to right-wing partners.
However, whether or not he ends up as prime minister, I for one hope he can use his new prominence as leader of the opposition (and, currently – lest we forget – the largest single party in the Knesset) to get more support for his plan or something similar.
Shelly Yacimovich has had precisely nothing to say on the peace and security question since becoming leader of the Labor Party. There is no reason why she could not endorse Mofaz's plan as way to break the current diplomatic impasse.
Then there is Yair Lapid, the other main contender for center-left votes in the next election. It is clear that he sees the demographic, diplomatic and moral dangers of remaining in control of another people, but that he has little trust in the Palestinians as negotiating partners. At the very least, he should have something about to talk to the new Kadima leader.
Mofaz is an unlikely savior, and I did not write the above with a great deal of optimism. But for those of us tired of an Israeli government and a Palestinian Authority that seem equally unwilling to go that extra mile to end an occupation that is ruinous for both peoples, straw-clutching is preferable to imagining that Netanyahu and Abbas will remain co-captains of a sinking ship.
The writer worked in the Public Affairs department and as the ambassador's speechwriter, at the Israeli Embassy to the UK, and has been active in Israel advocacy and education in the UK and Israel.
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When we talk about the "STEM" crisis in our economy and schools, we are really talking about a computing crisis. In fact, according the Conference Board, demand for computing professionals is roughly four times higher than the average demand for all other occupations, with more than 580,000 jobs in computing open as of
Despite these facts, most K-12 schools do not offer computer science, and students are not expected to be exposed to it at any level. In fact, last year, only 1 percent of Advanced Placement (AP) students studied in computer science. And only a tiny fraction of that 1 percent are women and underrepresented minorities. n3 Computer science is simply not part of what we call the "core" curriculum in our schools. It is an afterthought. As a result, cohort after cohort of students are being denied the knowledge and skills they need in our increasingly digital world. Our K-12 schools teach students how to dissect a frog, or how electricity works -- it's time they also taught how to "dissect an app", or how the Internet works.
It's not easy to add a new, rapidly-evolving field to the K-12 curriculum, but it's a challenge our schools must meet. The
This committee has heard many times from organizations and leaders within the computing community about the challenges and need to improve K-12 computer science education. I want to echo those remarks and build on them by describing how Code.org is bringing community and corporate leaders together to give students access to computer science education.
Introducing Code.org
Code.org is a non-profit dedicated to expanding participation in computer science education by making it available in more schools, and increasing participation by women and underrepresented students of color. Our vision is that every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer programming.
I started Code.org in 2012 as a personal mission with my twin brother,
The Hour of Code
In the last few years, I often thought about how impactful it could be to introduce every American student to computer science for just one hour. Everywhere I went, I heard people express how important computer programming skills are for today's generation of students, so when Code.org grew into a staffed organization only months ago, we decided to immediately challenge Americans to get behind this cause.
The Hour of Code campaign aimed to demystify computer science, to encourage students to try it for just one hour through online tutorials hosted by Code.org and others. Code.org itself developed an introductory computer science activity -- in collaboration with engineers from
When Code.org announced the Hour of Code in October, the goal to teach 10 million students for 1 hour was an ambitious one. The vision proved to be an enormous success. Last month, 20 million students participated in computer science, including 1 in 4 students in kindergarten through 12th grade in the US. Perhaps even more astonishing was that half of these students were girls. As you can imagine, Code.org relies on statistics and analytics to measure progress, and the results of just this one week blew us away. In U.S. schools, more students participated in computer science during Computer Science Education Week 2013 than had ever taken computer science in the history of our K-12 system.
The results were widely covered by media. There were pieces in
Communities reported on local Hour of Code events everywhere from
What was even more stunning than the data on participation was the outpouring of support for the Hour of Code from educators. Too often our national narrative is how our schools, teachers and leaders are failing students. The Hour of Code story was much different. Teachers, principals and superintendents in every part of America took the initiative to bring this educational experience to their students. Over 12,000 U.S. schools signed up to host an Hour of Code event for the entire student body. We heard stories from teachers about students "working together for the first time to solve problems," or that they "didn't even know coding was something you could teach students", but that "it turned out to be one of the smoothest class periods we've ever had." Most importantly, teachers reported that students came back wanting more. In the past month, 10,000 teachers have signed up 500,000 students for our follow-on 20-hour, online Introduction to Computer Science course. This is a complete 20-hour curriculum that is in 10,000 classrooms today.
Parents also played a big part in the success of spreading this campaign. They have a deep sense of how important technology is today, but its creation is somewhat of a mystery. Every American feels that technology is moving so fast they can hardly keep up; technology is passing them by, and they don't want their children to fall behind too. The Hour of Code gave every parent the opportunity to open a window to the world of technology for their children and to better understand computer science themselves.
But one hour of code is only a first step. We have given 1 in 4 students in the U.S. a taste of computer science. But it raises the question: why isn't this a fixed part of our school system? Now local, state and national leaders need to come together to bring computer science into the core of our education system. Code.org, in collaboration with it partners both within and outside of the computing community, hope to work with our national leaders on this mission.
Bringing Computer Science to ALL Students
Code.org believes computer science should be part of the core curriculum in education, starting as early as elementary school. Our goals include: (1) Bringing Computer Science classes to every K-12 school in
Code.org's Programs
Our mission is carried out via three program pillars: educate, celebrate and advocate.
Our education pillar aims to create modern, engaging computer science curriculum for all levels of K-12 students and to partner with school districts to deliver instruction. We are bringing two high school computer science courses to scale -- Exploring Computer Science and AP Computer Science Principles:
. Exploring Computer Science n5 is a nationally recognized introductory college preparatory computer science course and includes curriculum, professional development, and assessments. ECS is composed of six foundational units with lessons that are designed to promote an inquiry-based approach to teaching and learning foundational concepts in computer science and highlighting the computational practices and problem solving associated with doing computer science.
. Computer Science Principles n6 is currently in a pilot phase that will inform the ultimate development of an AP[TM] exam in 2016-2017; this course is far more than a traditional introduction to programming and the fundamental concepts of computing. It is a rigorous, engaging, and approachable course designed so that each student will understand how these concepts are transforming the world we live in and how each student can use the concepts in their own lives, studies, and in collaborating to participate in the transformation.
Both of these courses are designed to broaden participation in secondary computer science and prepare students for post-secondary experiences related to computing or college majors in computer science. They are supported by top experts within the computer science education community and have been developed with the support of the
Our district partnerships encompass curriculum for elementary, middle and high schools and professional development for teachers. More information on our partnership program, including how you can help us bring computer science to the schools you represent, can be found at: http://code.org/educate/districts.
During Computer Science Education Week, we announced two of the largest of our partnerships -- agreements with
Our celebrate pillar works to neutralize negative stereotypes of the field, inform students of the benefits of studying computer science, and inspire them to do so. The focus of this area has been the Hour of Code effort noted in the previous section and our original video "What Most Schools Don't Teach." Today, the stereotype is that computer science is for genius nerds, often portrayed in the media as Asian or white teenage boys. Thanks to the Hour of Code campaign, 10 million girls learned an Hour of Code last month. We hope our continued efforts will break the stereotype permanently.
Our advocacy pillar works on policy issues at the federal and state level, through our sister effort Computing in the Core. More detail on proposed federal policy reforms and recommendations are noted below. Our main goal is either removing barriers that hinder computer science instruction or passing policies that will bolster its instruction.
At the state level, our headline goal has been to "make computer science count," which means allowing existing courses to satisfy an existing core math or science graduation requirement. Making computer science courses "count" would not require schools to offer computer science or students to study it; it would simply allow existing computer science courses to satisfy a requirement that already exists. Only 17 states allow computer science to satisfy a core high school graduation requirement at present.
Computer science courses often do not count towards a student's required coursework - they are treated as electives. Given the academic demands, college-bound students cannot afford to take computer science as an elective. AP Computer Science courses are about 50 percent larger in states that "count" AP CS compared to those that do not. n7 And a study from the
I should note that the Chairman's home state of
The support for this policy change is both bipartisan and growing. In 2013 six states --
We are now increasingly beginning to look toward states where statewide policies and programs can support the expansion of computer science in K-12 schools. State education authorities should be planning their computer science offerings across the state just as they do other core academic offerings. We will be working with states to put new policies in place to make statewide computer science adoption a reality.
The successes of Code.org in large part are due to a unique combination of both private and public partnerships. Code.org supporters include dozens of the best-known tech companies and their founders, as well as the
The Hour of Code campaign is an example of Code.org's ability to leverage a diverse partner network to execute a national awareness campaign. National student and teacher facing nonprofits like the
Additionally, the campaign had the backing of the computer science education community at large. We recruited other tutorial providers (both non and for-profit groups) such as
Moving forward, Code.org hopes to expand and formalize current partnerships as well as establish new ones to build on our education and advocacy goals. Code.org isn't the only organization in this space, but we have established an unprecedented scale in computer science education by partnering with leading organizations and individuals from the tech industry, education non-profits, and government.
We don't expect to do everything ourselves; we expect to provide an overall umbrella for dozens of organizations (public or private) to collectively bring computer science to the nation's schools. Our founding roots come from warring tech companies (
Federal Policy Reform to Strengthen Computer Science Education
When I started to educate myself on the reasons computer science isn't taught in our schools, I found what you all know--there are countless federal, state and local policies that determine what is ultimately taught in our schools. I have learned much about the No Child Left Behind Act, the Higher Education Act, Career and Technical Education programs, the
Computer science is not treated as a "core academic subject" in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It is not an element of the accountability rubric states put together as part of the improvement plans required by the federal government in return for Title I funds. Computer science teachers are not eligible for the same professional development supports as their math and science teacher colleagues. Getting certified to teach computer science is an ambiguous and confusing process in most states, and almost impossible in a few. A few changes to existing programs could make it much easier to give students the opportunity to learn computer science.
I am thankful that both the Chairman and Ranking Member and other members of this committee have supported modest, no-cost changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that are proposed in the Computer Science Education Act (H.R. 2536) by cosponsoring the bill. And while they aren't members of this panel, I'd like to also thank Congresswoman
The Computer Science Education Act makes simple changes to federal law to ensure computer science is at the table when local education decisions are being made. It is an important first step
More directly related to the purview of this Committee, I urge you to ensure that computer science is explicitly included as a focus of public investments and policy goals. Even the definition of "STEM" in existing statutes marginalizes public investments in computer science. "Science, technology, engineering and mathematics" doesn't explicitly include computer science, which is problematic in the regulatory process at certain agencies and in the award process at others. I hope that revisions to any laws that include a definition of STEM will explicitly include computer science. When it is not explicitly included, it is quite often implicitly excluded, because it is easier for school systems to focus only on the topics they already teach, such as biology, chemistry, physics, or calculus.
There is some good news on this front. Recently, the
The palpable interest in giving the country's young people access to computer science has buoyed the policy efforts of Code.org, Computing in the Core and the members and supporters of both organizations. We will work on a number of policies to broaden access to computer science. For example, in America COMPETEs, we will work to make sure that computer science teachers--prospective and practicing--are supported in the same way that math and science teachers are. In addition, we are hopeful that the
While I am encouraged by the response to the Hour of Code and Code.org to date, I know that much work lies ahead. We are building on years of work from so many people and organizations committed to the cause of expanding access to computer science, and we're busily developing curriculum and recruiting professional development facilitators to get high-quality computer science courses in as many schools as possible--as soon as possible. As I said earlier, I have learned that changing education requires working with stakeholders of every size and policymakers of every disposition at the local, state and federal levels. As a result, Code.org and our partners are collaborating with districts on agreements related to teacher supports and classroom resources; we are working to get computer science to count as a high school graduation credit is as many states as possible; and, we are sharing our arguments with you and your colleagues for changes to federal programs and policies that currently don't respect the importance of computer science in the educational landscape.
The modern day icons of the American Dream have gotten where they are through computer science. I truly believe that the availability of computer science to all kids is an issue that warrants immediate and aggressive action. And, thankfully, I'm not alone.
While the tech industry is known for many things, agreeing among themselves on big issues is not one of them. Except for this one. Apple,
With 17 million US students participating in the Hour of Code in December, I claim that our students have voted with their actions: that learning computer science is this generation's Sputnik moment, that it's part of the new American Dream, and that it should be available to every student, in every school, as part of the official curriculum.
I look forward to answering any questions you might have, and thank you again for the opportunity to testify today.
More information about Code.org, Computing in the Core and our partners, the Hour of Code tutorial, the inspirational videos that highlight the need for more computer science and the work of our talented team of engineers and education professionals is available on our website at www.code.org.
n1 Source -- US Conference Board Help Wanted Online Service
n2 Source -- Code.org analysis of BLS 2010-2020 employment projections (we have not yet analyzed the BLS 2012-2022 projections released at the end of December).
n3 Source:
n4 Based on Code.org analysis of Google analytics and geolocation data from Computer Science Education Week. Due to constraints on this analysis, there is a +/- 10% margin of error in the numbers.
n5 see, http://www.exploringcs.org/
n6 see, http://www.csprinciples.org/
n7 Code.org analysis of College Board AP data
n8 CSTA/My College Options, Annual Research Report 2013
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