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Why do Kids
Fail Tests?
Article by Heather Chirtea
When a crash came from across the classroom teacher Bob Keddell suppressed
the instinctive reaction to discipline Doug, a student who was quite famous
for his suspensions and general lack of involvement in education. Doug was working on Test Factory while balancing precariously on the two back legs of
his chair, the first time he scored above 340, a passing grade on the
Maryland Functional Math Test. Doug was so excited to pass he inadvertently
flipped himself over backwards, crashed to the floor and screamed "Look!".
Prone and pointing wildly at the computer screen he exclaimed, "Oh
my God!" several times. "Ive never passed anything before!"
Its true, Doug was projected never to pass the Maryland Functional Math Test. But
he, like many of his lower-performing classmates at Wilde Lake Middle
School, did beat the odds and pass the test in May of 2003. These students
like many others, took part in a pilot project that spawned from a partnership
between Tool Factory and Howard County Public Schools in Maryland. The
project focused on raising test scores across the low performing student
population at Wilde Lake Middle School. As part of the project, Tool Factory
constructed a test-taking website where students could practice working
out the kinds of questions they might encounter on their standardized
tests. And even before it was finished, the Wilde
Lake students were using it in math class.
The Maryland Functional Math Test
was selected to be the basis for the pilot website because the test
had been administered for over 10 years.
There was a great deal of baseline data available from past testing
years, and schools could reliably predict student pass rates. There were also sample tests available, and writers could mimic
the often-tricky phrasing on various test questions. Armed with a few example tests, Tool Factory wrote 20 new Maryland Functional Math Tests and posted
them online at www.testfactory.net. The site was then posted freely to all schools
in the state of Maryland. There was immediate reaction with 10% of Maryland
schools requesting testing accounts within the first 60 days. At the peak
of the pilot, Test Factory was administering over 7,000 tests per
day to students across the state.
the same time the free statewide pilot was occurring, Wilde Lake Middle
School conducted research to track acceleration for its low performing
student population. Acceleration was measured against scores of peers
who were not taking part in the project. Wilde Lakes student body is
approximately half white, half African American, with over 25% of the
students coming from low-income families, and over 10% classified as special
ed. With just 8 weeks of intervention, Wilde Lake registered a 15% increase
in test scores amongst the study participants, a statistic which surprised
everyone working on the project. The
success wasnt just confined to Wilde Lake though.
During the
same pilot period, Kettering Middle school reported school wide score
increases of 10%. The Coordinator
of Assessment and Staff Development for Talbot County Public Schools explained
in an email,
their pass rate increased from 27% to 66% during the pilot.
Melissa Robbins, a math teacher in Carroll County reported a 100%
pass rate, up from 75%. The teachers, researchers, and developers who
worked on the project learned a lot about why kids fail tests.
Here is what they found.
A standardized test attempts to measure skills
across the entire curriculum at a single moment in time. Conversely, American textbooks are typically structured
to teach independent math skills in isolation.
Chapter-by-chapter students tackle one skill at a time: first addition,
then subtraction, then multiplication, then division, and so on. Students
repeatedly solve batches of like test questions.
The classic textbook structure that presents one skill per chapter, in
isolation, is not necessarily the best tool to prepare students to look
at random groups of questions from across the entire curriculum, and determine
which of those independent skills to apply in each instance.
Consider what this means from a practical perspective.
When students take their standardized tests, this may very well
be one of the first and only times they will ever be faced with answering
math questions across the entire curriculum in one sitting prior to high
school. Doing so requires a higher level of cognitive demand than repetitive
calculations. To pass a standardized
test, students need to be able to recognize when and where to apply the
independent concepts they have learned in their textbooks. Applying
concepts is a skill they need to learn, just like addition is a skill. And with a little
practice, students can master it just as readily.
Another pivotal attribute of a US textbook, is the
tendency to put one page of word problems at the end of each chapter. Word problems covering a single calculation
skill can be taught on different days or even in different units. When students switch from solving batches of
straight computational problems, to batches of word problems, they don't
always realize they are applying the same skill in a different way. They
dont always make the connection. Thus a student with perfectly adequate
calculation skills may often fail a test question thats phrased as a
word problem, out of context of the textbook chapter.
To solve questions out of context, students need to carefully read
every test question, then determine the proper calculative skill to apply. With a little practice carefully reading test
questions will also increase test scores.
There was a TIMSS study that tested students
in math and science from 38 countries, in order to compare proficiency
across all nations. Singapore students scored the highest worldwide in
mathematics, while the United States finished closer to the median of
all nations tested. So why did Singapore score so high? The answer begins in the textbooks. The Singapore textbooks focus on teaching the relationships between math
skills. They take the same
problem and solve it in multiple ways, thus presenting mathematics
as a system. Students may spend an entire 40-minute class period
on just one single math problem, converting addition sentences into subtraction,
changing numbers into decimals, fractions, percents, exponents, scientific
notation, and absolute values. By
solving the same problem in a myriad of different ways, students become
practiced at fluidly translating between different math skills. With this in mind, it becomes easier to see
why the Singapore students might score higher on a standardized test.
They are accustomed to bouncing back and forth between various concepts
across the curriculum, thus the standardized test more closely matches
their daily classroom activities. And that translates into higher test
Teacher Bob Keddell, who works mainly with lower performing middle school
students said, Singapore begins this strategy in second grade and earlier.
The one boy in my class who went through the Singapore system in
Hong Kong is now one of the top 5 students in Howard County at the secondary
level. Yes, he was stuck in my intervention class because he was foreign
and didn't speak English well...but after he brought me the Singapore
books that he finished in second grade (the same books I was using in
seventh grade) he tested-out of all math available everywhere in Howard
County, and now takes math on Saturdays with a professor from Johns Hopkins
Mr. Keddell has seen firsthand how Singapores systematic teaching methods
can help close the achievement gap, and allow students to leave behind
elementary math very quickly. He
said, Acceleration requires students to understand that every time they
look at problem, it can be solved in more than one way. Acceleration
for students who are labeled underachievers
often requires these kids to feel more powerful than the math that they
have already failed. Practice
testing lets them to build that confidence in private, where they are
allowed to make mistakes in a non-threatening environment.
It also fosters the development of skills in applying knowledge
across the curriculum, which is central to every students ability to
passing a standardized test.
Unexpected usage patterns cropped up during
the Test Factory pilot study
that surprised the entire team. We originally thought students would take
test #1, then move on to test #2, and continue until they achieved a passing
score. But when we reviewed the actual student data
we discovered that kids were taking the same tests over-and-over again. An active user with low test scores might take
the same test as many as 8 times in a row before moving on to the next
sequential test. Out of curiosity,
we consulted an assessment researcher for insight. He told us students could be trying to memorize the answers in order
to cheat a better score. But the
pattern was so pervasive we couldnt ignore it so we asked some classroom
teachers for their thoughts.
John Bridgeo,
math chair at Kettering Middle School had a different view.
He said,
because students can go back to a test and
complete it a second or third time they can gain confidence by beating
back old dragons. Once they have
gotten a 100% on a test the third time out, they seem to be able to take
an entirely new test and only require two tries to perfect the second
test, and soon they are doing tests getting perfect or near perfect scores
and self diagnosing their own problems.
The system was administering over 7,000 tests per day during the pilot
period. Researchers were shocked that over 20% of the tests were being
administered between the hours of 7:00 PM and 11:00 PM at night. Due to
equity issues, teachers couldnt assign Test Factory as homework,
because not all students have computers at home. That meant one in five
tests were taken voluntarily in the evening by students simply wanting
to pass the test.
Numerous teachers reported that the immediate
feedback was pivotal to student improvement. It was even changing their
teacher-student classroom dynamic. The immediate access to scoring data proved to give students the power
to understand where their skills were weak, thus they began to take personal
responsibility for their own progress, often for the first time. We found
students would challenge themselves and ask for help in areas where they
were weak, rather than the teacher always having to assign the next activity.
This changed the classroom dynamics in a very positive way.
Interpretation Matters
In order to figure out how to increase test scores, it's also useful to
dissect the process by which a test is written. A test writer begins with
a list of objectives that could appear on the states standardized test. A standard such as add three digit numbers might be transformed into a problem-solving test question as follows:
picked 122 peaches and Jose picked 272 peaches.
How many peaches did they pick in total?
Alternatively, it may also be interpreted as a computational test question
such as:
+ 272 = ?
Both methods shown above are perfectly valid ways to test addition of three digit numbers. However depending on which state you are standing
in, the standardized test will likely be biased towards either a problem
solving approach or a computational approach. The way in which individual
standards are tested, will be dependent on both the interpretation of
the states test writer, as well as the mandates of the state testing
Our educators are faced with the daunting task
of interpreting these state standards and converting them into meaningful
classroom activities. It's not
always clear-cut. No matter how
carefully state standards are worded, there will still be room for interpretation
on the part of the teacher.
In the classroom, the textbook will also favor one
approach or one style of phrasing, and teachers will be most likely to
teach the method presented by their textbook. If the textbook interpretation
matches the state's interpretation of a standard, then those students
will invariably score higher. However,
it is statistically impossible for any math textbook to match every states
interpretation of every objective across 50 states. Financially it's infeasible for the textbook publishers to print
a different textbook tailored for each state, so textbook writers frequently
take the middle ground.
is Tricky
Weve seen students who can achieve passing scores on their unit-based classroom
tests throughout the year, and still fail their state standardized test.
Consider this test question:
You and two friends go
to a restaurant and decide to split the bill evenly. If the total bill
is $60, then how much will each of you have to pay?
If you answered $30, then you've made a very common standardized test error.
It's easy to overlook the phrase, "You and two friends...",
thus dividing by 2 rather than 3. The
phrasing on standardized tests typically employs these devices, and it's
easy to see how a student with perfectly adequate skills in division,
might get this test question wrong. Once
students get caught by tricky phrasing, they will remember the experience
and be less likely to make the same mistake again. However if the
first time they encounter these types of questions is on the states standardized
test, they may just fail!
No matter how simple a concept this may seem, if we want to raise test
scores we have to allow our students to practice solving the types of
problems they will encounter on their standardized tests. Otherwise, what the state is testing is not what were learning
in the classroom. There is too often a disconnect between how the state
is testing standards, and how they are being taught in the classroom. Tools are needed to bridge that gap so that
our students are given the power to succeed.
Testing by Computer
Testing by computer is Manifest Destiny. The days of standardized test results arriving 8-12 months after
tests are taken, and when its too late to intervene
will soon be ending.
As the internet pervades the classroom, more and more states are actually
giving their standardized tests on computers.
For many students, particularly lower income students without computer
access, the first test they ever take on a computer may very well be their
state proficiency exams. If this
is the gauge by which we determine whether our schools are classified
as "Failing", then why not allow the kids to prepare?
Based on the success of the pilot project, Tool Factory has developed the
Test Factory system for the MSA tests at grades 3-5. Get
a free 30-day trial at http://www.testfactory.net Test
Factory is sold as an annual subscription for a single school building
site license. With a Test Factory site license, every member of
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or anywhere there is an internet connection.
Usage for a Single School:
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Middle School $1,999/year
High School $2,999/year
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Star trek Into Darkness. It isn't what Star Trek used to be but I really liked it. Minor spoilers below.
I loved:
The Klingon designs, especially the articulated scout ships like great, tattered carrion birds. The whole primitive and alien feel for the Klingons was a refreshing rethink on their species, with just enough nods to the originals.
The use of colour, and the bold decisions especially in lighting. Peter Weller's blue-lit eyes and Khan's blue cell are particularly clever - red is danger in this film (the Daystrom attack, the Section 31 bomb) but these guys are given just enough blue to make it ambiguous.
Benedict Cumberbatch is absolutely brilliant. but I loved what they did with his role as well - the malleability of their trust in him and especially Kirk's flip flopping on whether to believe him, which has strong dramatic irony from what the audience (and old Spock) knows.
Some of the set pieces were stunning, especially the space jump which was breathlessly intense.
Bruce Greenwood's sideburns. Yes.
I didn't love so much:
The send up of teh end of Star Trek II, as acted by children. 'You'd better get down here' and Spock sprinting off the bridge had none of the controlled urgency of Kirk in STII. I liked more what they changed about the dialogue than what they kept in. And the warp core interior itself looked bonkers silly, although I'm hardly coming to that scene with fresh eyes.
The unsatisfactory ending. Segue into a series?
Still, 9/10, a better film than its predecessor (and Pacific Rim).
LB, you really are a massive geek.
Interview with the Vampire
I'll confess that I went through an Anne Rice phase many years ago, it started of course with the first novel 'Interview with a Vampire', while many might blame her for the current trend of turning them into teen romances, at least she kept them as monsters. Charming monsters perhaps, but still monsters.
As with the book the film tells of Louis, a grieving and morose landowner from New Orleans centuries ago turned into a vampire by Lestat, it then tells the story of his life over the centuries. Brad Pitt does a reasonable job of the ever miserable Louis, as in Meet Joe Black he plays the urbane monster well.
Tom Cruise wouldn't have been my first choice to play Lestat, he lacks the stature for starters. However he does play the role well and gets across the devilish fun of the character. There's a few other well known names dotted throughout the film. I think it's fair to say that they all ham it up a bit with their performances, but in context it works.
In parts beautiful, in parts horrific, this is a decent vampire film and a lot of fun to watch.
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Guilty pleasure movie for me. Cheesy nonsense really but it's a nice sprawling epic, and I'd take it over Twilight any day.
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Nauseous weird or trouser weird?
Is that a similar thing to Jennifer Connelly in Labyrinth?
You are a factory of sadness.
Oh dear.
And Jodie Foster in Bugsy.
LB, you really are a massive geek.
Actually, worse than Labyrinth is Once Upon a Time in America as there's that whole scene where we end up watching her undress.
You are a factory of sadness.
This must be the place
Sean Penn is a retired rock star (looks like a cross between Ozzy and Robert Smith).
A deep character but depressed � he retired because some of his fans committed suicide to his music.
He goes to the USA to see his dying father but arrives too late. He decides to track down the Nazi who tormented his father in a WW2 concentration camp. Lot of strange adventures ensue.
I enjoyed it. The Sean Penn character is likeable and magnetic. Although he is ugly and softly spoken he is a �people person� and liked / loved by many.
Quite a sombre film as he attempts to �sort his life out� but ultimately satisfying. Recommended.
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Queen of the Damned
Although it is the sequel to Interview with the Vampire this is a very different beast to the first film. Nobody from the original is in this and it has a much younger, more goth music video feel to it. In a sense that's not necessarily a bad thing as I quite enjoyed the music in the film.
The story centres around Lestat who has woken after a century of slumber and decides to go public with who he really is. This angers the other vampires and makes him a target, meanwhile the queen of vampires has arisen and seeks to make Lestat her king.
It's a fun watch even though it does stray into romanticising vampires, although they do remain monsters. The music video feel keeps the pace quick and punchy. Unlike the first film it lacks quality, the cast do a reasonable job, but no-one really stands out, except for Marius, for some reason I enjoyed his character more than the others.
Overall it's entertaining enough, far from great but a fun watch.
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The film is rather weak, though I remember really liking the soundtrack back then.
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One thing I actually enjoyed about Star Trek was the storylines. Piss poor in the latest one.
Second the take on Klingons though. Thought it was good.
From Russia with Love (1963) 7.8/10
Not as good as say Dr. No or Thunderball. Blu-ray Picture quality is good, or as good as they could make it taking into account the source material. My biggest criticism would be the over use of the bond theme during the film, they really over do it. Something else, the opening sequence, plays the Bond Theme, not the theme From Russia with Love, which is unlike other Bond films. Instead they play From Russia with Love during the film. Sure the film is from 1963 and hasn't aged as well as either Dr.No or Thunderball (two other Bond Blu-rays i watched this week).
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Not as good as say Dr. No or Thunderball.
Something else, the opening sequence, plays the Bond Theme, not the theme From Russia with Love, which is unlike other Bond films. Instead they play From Russia with Love during the film.Also lies. It plays an instrumental of the Matt Monroe theme that segues into the Bond theme, which loads of the films do.
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The Collection - 5/10
Saw-alike torture porn/slasher film set in an abandoned hotel full of booby traps. And like the Saw films it's entertaining without actually being any good.
Despite a hilariously awesome start featuring a nightclub and a giant set of lawnmower blades it never really did anything that hasn't been seen before and isn't as gory as these type of films need to be.
The set up would make for a great survival horror game though.
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Elysium - 5/10
Pretty disappointing after District 9. Very formulaic, and shockingly boring for a sci fi action movie.
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Best comedy I have seen for a while.
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The Hunt.
Danish film about a man accused wrongly of abusing his best friends daughter.� We know he is innocent from the start as that is made very clear but the film shows how something like this can spiral out of control.
Some really blood boiling scenes.
Not an easy watch, but a cracking film with great acting and a tight script.
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It takes a slightly complex/subtle issue and portrays it with clarity.
For example, the scene with the teachers perched together and trying to portray themselves as unimpeachable and impartial, and only doing the right thing, when in fact they are insidious cretins who can't resist the righteous satisfaction of condemnation.
That could be a hard thing to portray, but because the protagonist is the accused and you're seeing it from his point of view it works really well. If they had chosen to make his innocence ambiguous throughout the film instead of clear from the start it would have ruined it.
The parents have a sort of Pascal's Wager in the sense they can't risk giving the accused the benefit of the doubt because of the hideousness of the allegation.
Reminds me a lot of the three kids from West Memphis who spent 20 years of their lives in jail for a crime they didn't commit (see the excellent Paradise Lost documentaries), in the sense that it shows the flaws of judgement we have when it comes to repulsive crimes.
The end is also a great reminder of another important point in these situations, which I won't spoil.
One of the most frustrating movies I've ever watched, and thrilling as well.
Annoying Kid Fucks Around In The Jungle Whilst Abusive Father Slowly Dies Of Boredom - 1/10.
It's ironic that a movie about controlling fear to the point it doesn't exist is utterly devoid of tension. But there we go. It's also patently obvious at this point that the only reason Jaden Smith even has a film career is solely because he has a famous dad.
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Let's start reviewing movies with the titles they should have had.
Billy Madison, but with rednecks and David Spade - 2/10
Also known as "How does David Spade get work? Oh, right, because he's friends with Adam Sandler"
This was randomly on TV in the background, and had pretty much everything you'd expect from those involved. Kind-hearted loser of a main character, hot woman who is head-over-heels in love with him for some reason. Cameos from Adam Sandler's friends and members of his family. Poo jokes. Christopher Walken. Racist caricatures.
Good if you like that sort of thing, I suppose. Apparently many people do.
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Four Lions
Probably one of the funniest and ballsy comedies I have ever seen. Also superb acting from almost everyone in the film. It's also got some great one-liners: Police spokesman: Yes I'd like to confirm that we shot the right man... but it was the wrong man who exploded
Hadn't seen this for years. It's still wonderful
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monty2k wrote:Sadly the events of the Boston marathon have somewhat ruined it slightly.
Four Lions
Probably one of the funniest and ballsy comedies I have ever seen. Also superb acting from almost everyone in the film. It's also got some great one-liners: Police spokesman: Yes I'd like to confirm that we shot the right man... but it was the wrong man who exploded
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�I would say 30,000 more or less, have died as a result of the initial incursion and the ongoing violence against Iraqis,� President George W. Bush said matter of factly last Monday in response to a question of how many Iraqis have died in the war. �We�ve lost about 2,140 of our own troops in Iraq.�
Bush was talking to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia. He wasn�t sure where he got the number 30,000. His handlers said it was a �credible� number. A John Hopkins study in the Lancet, the British medical journal, has put the number of Iraqi civilians killed in the war at more than 100,000. Another questioner challenged the administration�s linkage of the Iraq War to 9/11. Bush said, �I made a tough decision. And knowing what I know today, I�d make the same decision again. Removing Saddam Hussein makes the world a safer place and America a safer country.� Wow. This guy knows that more than 30,000 (or is it 100,000?) people have been killed and he would do it all over again. I suppose if God had told me to invade a country I too would feel as if I had some kind of divine immunity. Maybe God said, �George, don�t worry about the numbers.� Numbers do seem rather impersonal: �Yah, our group got 30 walleyes.� �We met our goal of 20,000 units in April and second quarter demand looks good.� �The movie King Kong took in 75 million dollars over the weekend.� Numerical details give meaning to what they refer to - as in the examples above - fishing, production and sales. Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, the authors of �Freakonomics - A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything,� apply economic principles to answering everyday questions. Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Which raises the question, how much is a human life worth? One American insurance company has a life value calculator, which asks several questions about age, income, etc., and assigns a life value quotient. It�s purpose is to sell life insurance based on the notion that a life has value in relation to other lives - spouse, children, etc. The economist Allan Feldman argues that the value of life is the amount you are willing to pay to extend life for a finite period. In Feldman�s model, the amount is roughly equal to what that person would spend on personal consumption during that time. Other economists argue that the value of life is the amount an individual is willing to pay to reduce the risk of death. The courts, however, use a human capital model to determine damages in wrongful death cases. The court looks at loss of income over time and other factors. So how much is a human life really worth? Is an Iraqi civilian�s life worth less than an American soldier�s? Is a Muslim life worth more or less than a Christian�s? According to an Israeli research firm, per capita income in Iraq has fallen from $3600 in 1980 to approximately $600 in 2003. Plugging into our American insurance calculator income of $600 for a 40 year old Iraqi male as well as $600 for his 40 year old wife, (and assuming that they have two kids and they will both retire at age 62), the value of the man�s life was 94 times his annual income of $600, or $56,183. Assuming this man is the standard Iraqi who has died in the war, then Bush�s 30,000 killed would total a value of $1,685,490,000 - more or less. While those numbers may reflect loss of life from a lost income perspective, what we don�t know in all those 30,000 more-or-less persons is whether the price of a brother or father�s life is worth more than that of a stranger�s? Or whether a mother�s life is worth more than that of her child�s? Is a poor person�s life of the same value as a wealthy person�s? What about an Iraqi and an American, are their lives of the same value? And is Saddam�s life worth more than 30,000 other lives? What about a 100,000? Saddam took countless lives trying to stay in power. And now we have done the same to oust him.


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NCIS Spoilers: Romance For Tony and Ziva?by Steve Marsi at . Comments
Any NCIS viewer knows that the chemistry between Tony and Ziva is palpable.
But does that mean the NCIS special agents played by Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo will the current will-they-or-won't-they tension to another level?
It's certainly possible, but don't hold your breath, says Weatherly.
"Look at it from a practical angle," Weatherly told Entertainment Weekly. "It's Kryptonite! She's an assassin! That's like marrying a hooker. You gotta be real comfortable with the fact she's gonna hook! Seriously, I don't see how, domestically, (a relationship) would work."
Still, he adds, "But that's me. Tony DiNozzo is completely unaware."
Would you want to see NCIS' Tony and Ziva form Tiva?
So far this season, NCIS fans have seen Ziva give Tony a peck on the cheek in the season premiere, when Tony and the team rescued Ziva in North Africa.
Whether things progress remains to be seen, Weatherly says whatever is going to happen between these combative personalities will not be at all cheesy.
"If I sense a beat coming up where I have to do something that feels forced and inauthentic," he teases, "Which I think would involve holding hands with Ziva, I will assume it's because some greater hand is at work that involves a terrible ending."
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YES!!!!!!!! I love these two together. The tension is completely there and amazing. And I dont understand how people cant tell these two dont have chemistry. Especially in season 10 which I feel is the pick up from where tiva left off cuz there wasnt much of it in season 9 at all. This season you can tell by the way Tony looks at Ziva when there having there special moments that it is complete love, same with Ziva. And to the two characters personalities changing, i feel like Tony has just matured and grown up more, same with Ziva. I do think though for this to happen they need to be in more intense situations together.
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I would love to see Ziva and Toney together but it also makes me think that if it does happen something would have to drasticly change or it would mean a perment end to NCIS, but thats just me.
First of all,I hate the fact that they are changing the ways of the character,like for example they are making ziva emotional it started when frank died,tony being a player to a serious lover boy,damned the two characters have changed drastically from the previous seasons,they are totally different characters now.
i want tony n ziva together they been flirtin for ages it dam obvious they both like eachother
teno poco viendo la serie, y me encanta, creo que, debria de seguir el coqueeo,entre ambos, porque si es un extra a la serie tan extraorinaria, pero creo que si sedeclararan como pareja abiertamente, perderia ese sabor de intriga, misterio, y emocion que nos hace estar al pendiente de que pasara ahora? y que creo se ha perdido en la temporada 8 y 9, QUISIERA QUE CONTINURA COMO EN 6 y 7....picante, emocionante,
i think that tony and ziva (tiva) rock and that they are my fav couple on tv and always will be. I LUV NCIS!!!
i will love 2 see tony and ziva together but there also perfect just the way they are.tiva ROCKZ!!!
i want ziva and tony together it can be like there little secret from the team just like abby and McGee! that would be cute
i would like to see ziva and tony together,i would even like to see a baby by the couple.one that is kept secret even from the father


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Wayne Stenehjem (/ˈstɛndʒəm/ STEN-jəm; born February 5, 1953) is a lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of North Dakota. He is the current Attorney General of the state, serving since January 1, 2001.
Wayne Stenehjem was born in Mohall, North Dakota, and he graduated from Bismarck High School in 1971 and Bismarck State College in 1972. He attended the University of North Dakota and the UND School of Law, graduating in 1977. Stenehjem was elected to the North Dakota House of Representatives in 1976, and served two terms there until 1980 when he was elected to the North Dakota Senate. He served in that capacity until 2000 when he became Attorney General of North Dakota.[1] While serving as the Attorney General of North Dakota, Stenehjem proposed legislation to curb methamphetamine use and addiction in the state, by restricting retail sales of certain products used in its manufacture, to provide mandatory treatment for first time drug offenders, and increase criminal penalties for drug offenders. Stenehjem was re-elected in 2004, 2006 and by wide margins. He is running for re-election in 2014.
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No one knows how many migrants have died trying to cross the desert into the United States. The US Border Patrol reports more than 5,500 deaths since 1998. Immigrant rights groups, like the Tucson-based Coalición de Derechos Humanos, estimate that the remains of at least 6,000 people have been recovered. These numbers certainly are just a fraction of the actual toll. The border is nearly 2,000 miles long, and as Kat Rodríguez, a spokeswoman for the Coalición, says, "The desert is a big place."
Exhausted migrants crawl into caves and die, their remains never recovered or their bones, picked clean by carrion birds and other animals, disappearing into the sand. A Texas rancher recently told a reporter that only one out of every four bodies is found, which would put the death toll at well over 20,000. Patrick Ball, a statistician who works with human rights groups to count the victims of mass atrocities—93,000 in Syria, 69,000 in Peru, 18,000 in Timor-Leste—says that in order to arrive at an accurate ratio of total dead migrants to known remains, one would need "several independent enumerations of people you can identify as having died in the way you're studying." Each list would have to survey roughly the same area of the desert and include the name of the victim and the approximate location and date of death.
But migrants often don't travel with identification, and the reliable data that do exist are spread out over California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, fragmented among morgues, hospitals, police departments and the Border Patrol. Some of those who perish during the trek don't do so until they are well into the United States or have staggered back into Mexico. Robin Reineke, an anthropologist who works with the Missing Migrant Project, part of the nonprofit Colibrí Center for Human Rights, reports that the Tucson morgue alone has a catalog of more than 800 bodies awaiting identification. The project itself has a database of more than 1,500 missing people who were known to have crossed the border. Just a day in the desert sun, Reineke says, can render a corpse unrecognizable. First it distends; then the skin cures and blackens, often disappearing altogether, leaving T-shirts, jeans and sneakers hanging off bones. Going through pockets and backpacks trying to identify remains, Reineke has found handwritten letters, sewing kits, English-Spanish dictionaries, faded photographs, prayer cards, children's drawings and slips of paper with an address and the words mi mamá. The Washington Post writes that the Brooks County sheriff's office in South Texas keeps three white binders containing photos of the remains of dead migrants: "They are a gallery of horrors."
Most die of dehydration, hyperthermia or hypothermia, but over the years migrants have testified to witnessing men wearing camouflage and driving civilian vehicles shooting and killing other migrants. Organized vigilantism started around 2000, when a group of ranchers in Cochise County, Arizona, began forming armed patrols of the border and issued a call for volunteers to join them. An anonymous flier was distributed among campgrounds in the Southwest inviting outsiders to bring their RVs, scopes, guns, signal flares and halogen spotlights to have some "fun in the sun" by joining a "Neighborhood Ranch Watch." The border became a magnet for white supremacists, Nazis, nativists and militia members, many of them from the diverse right-wing "patriot" groups that had gained strength in the United States throughout the 1990s, since the end of the Cold War. Mexican consuls in border cities began receiving reports from migrants that they were being "hunted," held at gunpoint, cursed and abused, and threatened with dogs. Others were shot, some killed. One unidentified male body was found in Cochise County with rope burns around the neck, as if lynched. Posses were capturing Mexicans and marching them by the score in coffles to be turned over to the Border Patrol. "Humans. That's the greatest prey there is on earth," said Roger Barnett, one of the Arizona ranchers often credited with starting the patrols.
The Mexican government filed complaints with the US State Department and the United Nations, demanding that the government rein in what it denounced as "paramilitarism." The problem, though, was that US policy had created the crisis. In 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement and Operation Gatekeeper, which began Washington's militarization of the border, went into effect, with the two initiatives working as a pincer movement: in Mexico, NAFTA shut down factories, devastated rural communities and bankrupted small family farms, producing a stream of economic refugees flowing north; Gatekeeper and subsequent programs choked off established and relatively safe urban crossing routes, like those around El Paso and San Diego, forcing migrants to try their luck on more treacherous ground, across either the mesquite flatlands of South Texas or the gulches and plateaus of the Arizona desert, where private border patrollers make the crossing even more dangerous.
Harel Shapira's Waiting for José is a sympathetic study of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, which at one point was the largest, best organized and most media-savvy of the border's many volunteer watch groups. Shapira clocked more than 300 hours patrolling with the MCDC, basing his research on extended conversations with a handful of grunts between 2005 and 2008. The book is a useful reminder that the right-wing populism associated with the Tea Party predates the election of Barack Obama and can be traced back to the anti-Latino activism that began during the administration of George W. Bush.
But Shapira says we shouldn't view the Minuteman movement as right-wing. To do so, he argues, does injustice to the complexity of its members' belief systems and overlooks the link between their disquiet and a deeper malaise shared by many ordinary Americans. True, they are all armed to the teeth, and they all criticize Mexicans, describing them as the "cancer of our society" and believing them to be, interchangeably, drug runners, foot soldiers of a stealth reconquest of the Southwest or the cat's paw of Islamic terrorism. But what brings members of the corps to the border, Shapira writes, "is less a set of beliefs about Mexicans than a sense of nostalgia for days long past when their lives had purpose and meaning and when they felt like they were participating in making this country." Tired of bowling alone, they come together to hunt Mexicans. But what matters is the coming together; the hunting is incidental.
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Date: November 25, 2009
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Longboat Key residents David Brenner and Lee Pokoik have become official Longboat Key Town Commission candidates, according to Town Clerk Trish Granger.
Islander Club resident and former Planning and Zoning Board Chairman David Brenner will run against District 3 Commissioner Peter O'Connor, who is seeking his third consecutive term in office.
The town will now have at least two contested commission races this March.
Bay Isles resident Phillip Younger already has qualified to run against At-large Commissioner Hal Lenobel.
Country Club Shores resident Lee Pokoik is running for the District 1 commission seat currently held by Mayor Lee Rothenberg. Country Club Shores resident Lynn Larson also has expressed an interest in running for the District 1 seat.
The only other potential candidate to take out papers in consideration of the District 1 commission seat is Islandside Property Owners Coalition Chairman Bob White.
The District 1 seat becomes available this March because Rothenberg will term limit out unless a resolution the commission considers next month is approved. That resolution would allow the mayor to run for an additional two-year term.
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