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Dancing With the Stars is reported to return in the Fall, most likely in September 2016, with its 23rd season. There will be a whole new batch of celebrities taking on the ballroom with several of our favorite pro dancers returning to the show. Many fans are crossing their fingers that Derek Hough will return next season. If he does come back, we may have to wait a little longer as he is performing in “Singin’ In the Rain” on Broadway. On the other hand, “Singin’ In the Rain” doesn’t begin until early 2017. Could that leave enough time for Hough to return to the ballroom for next season?

Season 23 of the show was confirmed in March 2016. Weeks before the show premieres, a couple contestants are generally announced before the big reveal on Good Morning America.

As for the season 22 finale, Nyle DiMarco, Ginger Zee and Paige VanZant are competing for the mirrorball trophy. DiMarco has been paired with Pro Peta Murgatroyd, VanZant is with Mark Ballas and Ginger Zee has teamed up with Val Chmerkovskiy. This coming summer, Val and his brother Maksim are going on tour together.

KeepOnSinging wrote:

april6263 wrote:

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

 
HAHA, April!! That is hilarious the piglet slept with you!! Since a granddaughter broke her own finger recently by stepping on it while going for a soccer ball (!!), I figured that might be something you had done!!

I do have to ask: how have you had ANY time to read books? Unless you read while you and Niecey are in the hospital?!

I have to think up my truths and lie....give me a few minutes. I wasn't expecting to win!!! LOL

LOL....I have always been a reader and I read quickly.......I haven't had as much time to read since Niecey got sick but I still fit it in when I can ....my hubby and kids tease me though because I still prefer to carry and read  a "real" book to reading one electronically.....they tell me I could down load books on my tablet but to me its not the same...LOL

A woman after my own heart. And I'll bet that you are not alone in this on this board.  I too much prefer a "real" book to reading one electronically.  And I recently read that there is evidence that it is better for your eyes to read a "real" book, especially if you do a lot of reading.  If the students I had when I switched to requiring them to read a book a week to qualify for an A kept up that habit, which some of them have, they would have read over a 1000 books by now.  I made this a hallmark of my teaching when I got depressed over the research that showed time after time that we forget 70% of what we learned the year before within three months.  I still remember walking down our English corridor, and asking myself what I was doing when people were going to forget 70% of it in three months.  And I thought, I can teach a habit.  I never dreamed that the class that began it all would become the single most popular Literature Elective at our high school.   I firmly believe that a large part of the success is that students came to realize that they had control over the grade they earned.  In fact doing this did  transform my classrooms in that students began taking full ownership for the grade they earned:  18 books for an A, 14 for a B and 10 for a C; D's and F's became a thing of the past.  I was stunned.  It worked both with freshman and upperclassmen.  Cheating also became a thing of the past. That was, in part, because for every book a student read, he or she had to meet with me and two or three other students who were ready with a book, for a book conference.  It is much harder to look classmates and your teacher in the eye and lie than it is to lie in a book report.  I did this with Shakespeare, with American Lit, with world lit and with the class that began it all, Modern Mythology where we focused on some of the 19th nad 20th century writers of science fiction, myth and fairy tales: George MacDonald, Ursula Le Guin, C.S. Lewis, J.R,R. Tolkien, Madeleine L'Engle, Katherine Kurtz, etc., etc., etc.  New books got added as students recommended them from their own reading. I also realized after awhile that to make this a success the teacher had to keep up with the class as new books got added to the list. Students still had tests and still had writing but never the fear they had had before they learned that actually reading the book, then having an in depth discussion about it followed by a written assignment went a long way towards dispelling anxiety about tests which I called response reports.       

 I would have loved to have been in your class(es), KOS!!

View, unobstructed wrote:

So gabriele is correct.


Yah...well...my grandson called and said "we're in the emergency room.  Dad's in a lot of pain.  He thinks some kind of obstruction maybe."

My husband went up to the hospital right away so kid would have some company if dad needed surgery or something.  With instructions to keep me informed as I had pie in oven.  They did a cat scan and told him he has a 6 mm kidney stone trying to pass.  They offered pain pills.  He declined.  So everyone went home after a couple of hours.  

Son told me dr. said at 8 mm they do the lithotripsy.   So he is just toughing it out.  I reminded him that when my brother was experiencing same, a golfing doctor friend told him to stand up on the toilet seat and jump down landing - bang - hard on both feet!!

All's well that ends well.  Things are fine.  And far better than some conditions it could have been.

 
Glad he is only in serious pain and not seriously ill!  Not that pain is fun....but I'm not sure pain pills really do much for kidney stones.