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Judges: Len says it was well done but there were a few awkward moments. He is a fighter though! Bruno says it was like a blend of Cirque du Soleil and A Clockwork Orange. Edgy and surreal. It would have been a ten except for some lost steps in the start. Carrie Ann says she loved the whole concept but it was very disjointed, out of sync, sloppy and didn’t come together so well.
Judges: Len says he liked the concept, the energy and the whole package. Well done! Bruno says it was a Looney Tunes version of James Bond a totally fun performance. Carrie Ann says it was Emmitt’s most animated performance ever.
Judges: Len says if this dance was a poker game, she went all in. The energy was fantastic. Bruno says he thinks Kelly was upstaged by the Speedos. The Flamenco is a dance of very exact placements and it was lacking that. Carrie Ann says it was all Paso and didn’t really have the Flamenco in there at all. The surfer side was well done though.
Now we’re moving on to the Michael Jackson tribute half of the performances.
Judges: Len says he would be extremely dissapointed if for some reason Melissa was not back next week. Bruno says she was possessed on the dance floor tonight and the lift sequence was extraordinary tonight. She exceeded all expectations and deserves to be in the finals. Carrie Ann says she would like Dirty Diana to meet Magnificent Melissa. The lifts were out of this freaking world! That was more than anything she could have imagined for her to do.
Judges: Len says part one is learning the routine and part tow is selling it and she nailed both parts. Bruno says it was very interesting, breathtaking and pure Argentine Tango, brilliant! Stylistically perfect. Carrie Ann says her movements were excellent and every line was perfect but the dance was lacking drama and a little passion and intimacy. It was still beautiful though.
Judges: Len says it was like the ocean, wave after wave of excitement and effortless motion. Fabulous! Bruno says it was perfect pitch and he nailed it. Get down on it Apolo! Carrie Ann says this is what she is talking about. You don’t have to over dance to win in this competition. He reached into her heart and melted it.
Judges: Len says he thought they had the biggest challenge to bring ease and elegance and they coped very well. Bruno says he loved the criminal intent but the footwork could have been more exact. Carrie Ann says Emmitt brought his A game, but she has to judge him on technique.
Judges: Len says it was wonderful. He loves it when she speeds in and then slows it down. The dance had control and the lines were fantastic. Well done! Bruno says it was smoldering and she performed like she never had before. Driven by desire and consumed by lust! She was so into it. It was great to see. Carrie Ann says it was beautiful and she showed such honest vulnerability. Breathtaking. She thought the movements were a little clipped in parts, but that’s her style.
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The judges have couples they like and are not scoring right. I did not watch this show last year because of the judges and I will not be watching it every again.
Yes, that would be an error, LOL. No favoritism here! I will try to find the right one!
Will Unai Emery get his wish?
Who is catching your eye this year?
Will Liverpool sign a centre-back in January?
Khan seems to have made his mind up.
Ben Davison can hardly keep up with him!
United will have to wait until the summer.
United are on a warm-weather training camp in Dubai.
Will Chelsea sign the striker?
The Reds are facing a defensive crisis.
Brilliant news for Arsenal fans!
Fury returned to training this week.
Will Bayern lure Hudson-Odoi away?
Will Barella move to the Premier League this month?
Bayern have made three bids for the youngster.
Will Pogba play against Tottenham?
Last summer, Andy Cayon set out in search of a cure for his brain tumor, a cure that would allow him to raise his baby daughter into adulthood.
Now, his journey of hope has brought him home to Windsor Locks, a little angrier, a lot poorer and ready to put his faith in the more conventional forces of God and mainstream medicine.
Andy had just turned 31 and had just become a father last April when a sudden, bone-rattling seizure led doctors to diagnose his rapidly growing brain tumor.
The worst-case scenario gave him three years to live. The best, maybe six. That would barely give him enough time to put his little girl, Rachel -- born 11 days before the diagnosis -- on a school bus for the first time.
Andy and his wife, Allison, went shopping for time. Afraid that radiation -- the conventional treatment -- would ruin the time they had left together, the Cayons went looking for hope on the backroads of medicine and holistic healing.
The search took them from the shadows of homeopathic healing in Pennsylvania to the glare of the national spotlight in Texas, where they staked their future on a controversial cancer doctor whom supporters called a miracle worker and the U.S. government indicted as a fraud.
"I was so concerned about existing in the future that I was missing the present," Andy said, reflecting on the circuitous search.
His dream of a miracle ended a few days before Thanksgiving, when he asked his neurosurgeon at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford to confirm the Texas doctor's spectacular results.
Since July, the Cayons had spent $30,000 at the Houston clinic of Stanislaw Burzynski, a doctor whose professed cancer cure has lured thousands of desperate patients from across the country.
The price -- scraped together from retirement savings, borrowed from family and donated by strangers -- seemed small compared with the treatment's value.
Every month for six months, Burzynski showed Andy pictures of his brain and told him the tumor was shrinking. In October, Burzynski shook his hand and pronounced that the tumor had decreased by 84 percent. Andy was elated.
A month later, with a Hartford television news program documenting his story, Andy returned to Houston, where Burzynski noted more progress.
Andy was suspicious. In the waiting room, he had seen a report from the independent lab that interpreted his brain scans. All it said was the tumor was stable, no recurrence. But Andy still wanted to believe.
Back home, Andy had set up an appointment with St. Francis neurosurgeon Howard Lantner, who had removed part of the egg-sized mass from his head in April.
"I wanted to show him all of my [records] and he was going to confirm my great progress for the news crew," Andy said.
But Lantner could not keep to the script. Around dinnertime on the evening the news story was scheduled for broadcast, Lantner called Andy for some advice. He said he saw no reduction in the tumor; if anything it had grown a little. "What would you like me to tell the news people?" he asked.
In his office the next day, Lantner explained that Burzynski's staff had read the scans wrong. They were not measuring the tumor, they were measuring the hole where a portion of the tumor had been removed. What they saw as a shrinking mass was actually the healing from the surgery. The remaining tumor cells were just where Lantner had left them.
Andy and Allison were devastated. It was a day before Thanksgiving. "It was like we were back in May, it was like six months wasted," Andy said.
First, they felt betrayed. Burzynski had offered hope. Now, they realized it had all been an illusion.
He started calling the clinic demanding answers and a refund. Burzynski and other clinic doctors told him to get a second opinion. They have since stopped taking his phone calls.
Dean Mouscher, director of clinical trials for the clinic, said Saturday that Burzynski still contends that Andy was doing well on the treatment and should have continued it.
But even if it turns out that the treatment failed, Mouscher said, Andy went into it knowing there were no guarantees.
"I'm sympathetic, but he signed an informed consent stating that [the treatment] was experimental," Mouscher said.
Andy contacted several lawyers in Texas, hoping to get his money back. But none were very optimistic.
The only satisfaction he may derive from the judicial system may be in federal district court in Houston, where Burzynski is on trial on a 75- count indictment charging him with selling an unapproved drug across state lines, trying to defraud insurance companies into paying for the drug, and criminal contempt for ignoring past orders to stop treating patients outside Texas. The trial could last more than a month.If convicted, Burzynski faces a sentence of up to 290 years in prison.
But that is cold comfort to Andy, who now is beginning to come to grips with the fact that his life may end too soon.
"I've changed my relationship with God," said Andy, who until recently did not have much use for religion. "You have to believe in the concept of a higher power, which I was always too smart to be fooled by."
He's also changed his view of the medical establishment, although he said he has become painfully aware that medicine is much more an art than a science.
Though he still sees value in healthy eating and avoiding environmental dangers -- strategies that he initially thought might cure him -- he is ready to try radiation therapy, a treatment that doctors expect will give him three to six good years with his family.
He accepts responsibility for trying Burzynski's treatment but blames the Polish-trained doctor for seducing him with what he now sees as false hope.
For all his disillusionment, the experience also has renewed his faith in the goodness of the world in which Rachel will grow up.
After Andy's story was published in The Courant, he received hundreds of letters and contributions. One woman sent him a religious medal, which Andy now wears around his neck, along with a gold cross he got for Christmas. Somebody sent Rachel a package of children's books. One envelope contained a check for $1,000. Another, with no return address, contained a few crinkled $1 bills.
Guilt over the contributions sometimes overwhelms him, he said. He stopped cashing checks when he learned the Burzynski treatment was not working, and now wonders what his benefactors would want him to do with the money.
He always thought his recovery would be repayment enough for the debt. If the treatment worked, the government might finally recognize that Burzynski had unlocked a cure for cancer. Many people might benefit, he hoped.
Instead, he worries that his story has enticed another desperate patient to seek the treatment.
"Every day I think about whether someone has gone down to the clinic based on what I have done or said," Andy said. "It really bothers me."
But in some ways, Andy said, he's looking forward again. He still feels healthy. He has sold his business. And if the radiation treatment leaves him strong enough, he's thinking about looking for a job. His fight has turned to philosophy.
"I have this baby girl that changes my place here, and two weeks later I get a brain tumor. Could it be fate?" he asks. "Could it be someone telling me, 'You've got to wake up and enjoy what you have?' "
Officials say that hundreds of additional US troops are to be deployed to Afghanistan early next year, and that when that deployment is finished, the US may have roughly 16,00 troops in the nation, a substantial escalation since President Trump announced a buildup in August.
Exact figures are tough to come by, of course. It is believed the US has since about 3,800 troops to Afghanistan since the announced buildup, but Trump’s interest in keeping troop levels secret has meant specifics are not released to the media, something that had always been the case in the war’s first 15 years.
Even then, though, the official figures were often lies, as President Trump announced the escalation at a time when the Pentagon said there were 8,448 troops in Afghanistan, but officials later admitted they thought the real figure was closer to 11,000 or 12,000. At this point it’s not wholly certain even the Pentagon keeps track of exact figures.
The new “hundreds more” troops are being described by officials as “trainers,” though it’s not clear that’s whast they’re actually doing, as officially almost all US troops deployed overseas are referred to as training forces on “advisory” missions.
That reminds me of Clemenceau’s daily mantra: “les Boches sont toujours at Soissons”. Except that we have been much longer in A. than the Boches at S.
When the USA decides to do ANYTHING other than create wars, wake me up. Until then, just more of the same old, same old. Gets old after so many decades.
This is a permanent presence. You know, security and all that..
16000 more of America’s youth put in harms way so that corporations can benefit from a pipeline?
This doesn’t count the thousands of CIA mercenaries in Afghanistan to protect the opium crop.
When we deny students from our schools the chance to pursue a better life we deny children hope. We discourage students from taking their education seriously when our society decides who deserves more opportunity, access and hope than others because of their unchosen history.
For the past 18 years we have failed to provide a pathway for childhood arrivals to participate in the American dream. I see students year after year lose hope as they approach working age and graduation only to find out that their options are limited even after they come up with the fees needed to gain legal status under a program known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals).
This seeps into the consciousness of their younger siblings and peers who show up to high school already defeated by the lack of hope in a future in the only place they will ever call home. It is time that we fully accept these childhood arrivals and give them the hope they deserve.
As a high school teacher, what do I tell students who have done everything that has been asked of them? How do I respond when a college-ready student who has been willing to do whatever it takes asks for college and career advice? How do I explain that access to the same resources and opportunities as their peers will be restricted, not because of anything they have done here, but because over and over again they have been asked to do these things — work hard, be prepared, be present, follow the rules - in the wrong place?
When we deny students from our schools the chance to pursue a better life we deny children hope. We discourage students from taking their education seriously when our society decides who deserves more opportunity, access and hope than others because of their unchosen history. How can I explain that the American dream, the only dream they have known — that they can make a difference, pursue happiness and be a contributing part of their community — is only for those who somehow were lucky enough to not have been brought here as a child?
We all must remember, these young people did not choose this journey. For the past few years childhood arrivals have had to pay a significant fee and entrust all of their information to the government to plan their lives two years at a time. During this time they have complied with every deadline and expectation required of them. They should not be punished for this by having to return to a place they do not know.
I have these difficult conversations more often with students who have done nothing but everything we ask of them. They need a pathway to hope and safety that legal residency can provide. Our DACA students have waited too long and sacrificed so much to continue to live their lives in frightening political limbo. We can do the right thing by providing a pathway to citizenship for our students to become a full member of our society. We can do the right thing by replacing a child’s fear and anxiety with the hope of a future unrestricted by choices they did not make. Every child deserves this hope.
James Campbell is a Spanish teacher at Greenville's Carolina High School.
In a newly release Monmouth University poll, Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone holds a small lead over Democratic candidate Conor Lamb.
With the deadline for Governor Wolf to approve of a map ahead of the state Supreme Court’s deadline state Democrats are submitting proposed maps to the Supreme Court.
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Clare Putnam Pozos announced she is entering the Republican primary to replace retiring Congressman Pat Meehan.
The state Democratic Party gets into the Valentine’s Day spirit with a video, state Rep. Mike Hanna retires, and third parties will have an easier time getting on the ballot. Good morning politicos, here’s the Playbook!
The Pennsylvania Democratic Party got in the Valentine’s Day spirit with a new web video on the “bromance” between Barletta and Trump.
In a settlement approved by the federal courts, third parties will have easier time getting on Pennsylvania’s ballots.
Former Senior Deputy Attorney General thinks about running to replace Meehan, Denlinger exits the race for LG while Mango names a LG candidate, Wolf rejects the GOP Congressional maps, and Trump to come back to PA on Feb. 21st. Good morning politicos, here’s the Playbook!
Former Senior Deputy Attorney General Pearl Kim is considering a run to replace retiring Congressman Pat Meehan in the 7th Congressional district.
Former State Rep. Gordon Denlinger announced he is exiting the race for Lieutenant Governor after not receiving the endorsement of the PA GOP.
Paul Mango’s Gubernatorial campaign announced that Washington County Commissioner Diana Irey Vaughan would be joining his campaign as the Lieutenant Governor Candidate.
Today the government announced it will be legislating to strip dual citizens involved in terrorism of their Australian citizenship. This comes after the creation of a new anti-terrorism co-ordinator yesterday. Leading barrister and former Independent Monitor of National Security Legislation, Bret Walker SC, spoke to Steve Cannane about the implications of the proposed laws.
STEVE CANNANE, PRESENTER: Well, today we saw another major announcement on national security. Yesterday was the creation of a new anti-terrorism coordinator: today, proposed changes to citizenship laws.
TONY ABBOTT, PRIME MINISTER: We will be legislating within a few weeks to strip dual citizens involved in terrorism of their Australian citizenship.
The Prime Minister says at least 100 Australians are currently fighting for extremist groups in the Middle East and his Government is committed to tackling the threat from terrorism.
TONY ABBOTT: We had an excellent discussion in the party room about this this morning; a very full discussion in the party room this morning. Everyone who spoke supported the Government's intentions.
STEVE CANNANE: But it was a different story in the Cabinet room last night, when six senior ministers reportedly spoke out against a plan to strip some Australian sole nationals of their citizenship.
A leak in the Fairfax press claimed Julie Bishop, Malcolm Turnbull, Christopher Pyne, Kevin Andrews, Barnaby Joyce and George Brandis all opposed the plan.
Senator Brandis reportedly said, "I am the Attorney-General. It is my job to stand for the rule of law."