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Middlefield resident starts Powder Ridge petition
MIDDLEFIELD -- A resident who recently started a petition against the sale of Powder Ridge says it should be leased -- not sold.
Middlefield resident, Laura Williams, created a petition on change.org titled "Saving our Ski Area."
"Powder Ridge is Middlefield," the petition reads. "In this small town of about 4,500 people, the ski area has always been the heart of our community."
In the petition, Williams says she has evaluated the agreement between Sean Hayes, managing director of Brownstone Exploration & Discovery Park, and the town of Portland, suggesting Middlefield follow in their footsteps. William said First Selectwoman Susan Bransfield told her that she decided to lease the property because she felt the Quarry was a "vital part" of the town's history.
Brownstone has a minimum 25-year lease with the town, which includes automatic renewals, Hayes said. According to Bransfield, the lease agreement also includes four successful terms of five years, following its initial five years, which started Nov. 4, 2005.
"Portland had paid $1,050,000 for the area in the early 1990s and Susan was convinced that the town should hold onto the landmark," the petition reads, which Williams said is "one of the smartest municipal business deals ever."
According to the petition, Brownstone agreed to rent the Quarry from Portland in exchange for a percentage of their gate fees and for the first year paid nothing.
"This allowed the company to get off the ground, and is very similar to the odds facing Brownstone's management team if they were to clean up Powder Ridge," the petition reads.
Bransfield said every business transaction has its own "unique" circumstances.
"I can go on and on about how pleased we are with our relationship with Brownstone, but Middlefield has to look at what's appropriate for Powder Ridge," she said.
On Monday, Hayes, who offered to buy Powder Ridge for $700,000, said Brownstone and his investor wouldn't be interested in leasing the property. He said comparing the dilapidated ski area to the adventure sports park in Portland is like comparing "apples and oranges."
"Powder Ridge is a large parcel of land and substantial improvements need to occur on the land, buildings and equipment," Bransfield said.
Brownstone, Hayes said, didn't need as much infrastructure that Powder Ridge will require in order to open. He said Brownstone has buildings and docks but they're all removable and the "reality" with Powder Ridge is that everything will be "permanent fixtures and assets associated with the land."
"You can't ask an investor to lease a property that will require $4 million to make it useful without owning the asset after it's done," Hayes said, noting that it's obvious that Williams doesn't understand finances.
Williams, who is an insurance professional, said she doesn't doubt that a ski area is wanted, "but emotional pleas carry that sentiment to an illogical conclusion that a ski area requires the town to sell the land."
"This issue is important to me and worthy of my petition because I want to help support a viable business venture up there," Williams said, adding that it will cost the town lots of money if the business fails. "But I don't agree with corporate welfare and in my opinion we are giving this land away."
One resident said the petition is "ridiculous" and Williams and those who support it are just trying to "sabotage" the deal.
"It's a political thing," she said.
Although citizens have every right to petition, First Selectman Jon Brayshaw said, the town is not governed by surveys, but instead operates as a town meeting form of government. The "ultimate survey," Brayshaw said, is the one in which people raise their hands and vote at a town meeting.
And though 12 residents have signed the petition, he said, both of the previous sales agreements that the town voted on involved selling the property not leasing it.
Even this past weekend at a "Meet and Greet," where about 80 members of the public came out to tour the ski area property and talk to Hayes and Bransfield, not one person suggested leasing the Powder Ridge, Brayshaw said.
"Everyone at the event Saturday thought the sale was the way to go," he said. "The deal in Portland had very little capital outlay.It's totally opposite in Middlefield. The financial needs are diametrically opposite."
Brayshaw joked that Brownstone won't be attracting checker players at the property, but instead those who want to participate in extreme sports, and "people will get hurt." There will be law suits, he added.
"We don't want to be in the line of ownership," he said.
Brayshaw also added that when someone owns something he takes much greater pride in it and is "more apt to give it his soul and put every penny into it."
"No enterprise wants the government involved in its business," a town document reads.
The document, which is available to the public, states that with a lease, "Brownstone will constantly be dealing with the whims and nitpicking of the landlord (town) as the terms of the lease are subject to interpreting by an ever changing town leadership and politics."
Financing would be more difficult and the town would not be able to use the property as collateral, the document continues.
Hayes said those petitioning the sale of Powder Ridge want him to sign off on a short-term lease, which he calls "absurd," reiterating that the ski area will need at least a $3-5 million investment before it can open its gates.
Hayes said in a lease agreement, he would restore the property and eventually, turn over all his customers only to receive no benefits.
"No one will do that," he said. "There's no one out there that will lease Powder Ridge."
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Hayward Gallery, London, 16th February-17th April 2011
What does 'In the Days of the Comet' mean? There is a waffling, bullshit explanation by exhibition curators/perpetrators Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton, but in typical artbollocks style it leaves us none the wiser. Some drivel about H.G. Wells and going around the same sun. Whatever planet these people learn to write English on, it's not orbiting the same sun as the Earth I live on or the one that Wells lived on. Essentially it's just a cool and/or ominous-sounding strap-line that bears no palpable relation to the content of the the show whatsoever. I should imagine one of them just had the startling(ly obvious) insight that the BAS comes back every five years, like some kind of… duh… comet. Not that all the work in it should have been about comets, obviously; just leave out the pretentious justifications altogether and we'll decide for ourselves what we think and what conclusions to draw, OK?
One thing the curators should be complimented on is recognising that many of the most interesting artists in Britain are working in video, in performance or exploring history and narrative, often all of the above. Admittedly, BAS7 is at least five years and possibly even ten years behind the actual practice of working artists, but the majority of other institutions and curators appear not to have noticed this fact at all. Either that or they're pointedly ignoring it because it doesn't fit with their arid, dated, Modernist take on what contemporary art is, or should be. So, yes, +1 Curator Points each to Tom and Lisa for actually having some semblance of a clue about what contemporary artists are really doing and what they're really interested in.
Unfortunately you immediately both get a -1 demerit because the selection here is so skewed. None of the aforementioned interesting artists working with narrative are represented at BAS7. I haven't done a detailed statistical analysis, but anecdotally (based on visiting the exhibition and my knowledge of the artists and galleries involved) I would say that at least 50% of the artists whose work is in the show are part of a very particular, specific age group and East End/Hoxton clique, and that there is little or no representation here of galleries or artists working anywhere in England except for London. A lot of interesting London artists don't get a look in either, because they're not lucky or sucky enough to be part of this cosy little closed shop. This is an egregious injustice for an exhibition that's intended for touring throughout the country over the next year or so. The clue for which artists should really be in this show is in the title: British Art Show. Not London Art Show. BAS7 is a catalogue masquerading as a survey.
Further demerits accrue because many of the artists shown here are playing with narrative without having any apparent understanding of what it is or how it works. If an artist is going to move into the world of narrative, directing actors and so forth, it would probably behove them to learn how to tell a story, how to write convincing dialogue, how to get good performances out of actors, when and what to cut, and everything else that goes with the territory. I'm talking to you, Nathaniel Mellors, although you're not the only culprit or the worst, just the one with the biggest budget. The Mellors work shown here condescendingly apes that 'Eastenders' soap opera the proles adore and plays out at tedious length with all the finesse of a sixth form drama class, without being as interesting or intelligent as either. The acting is absolutely bloody horrendous, although this may be deliberate because demonstrating any kind of skill or craftsmanship is bourgeois or something.
As if to specifically prove this point, Emily Wardill's films are woefully amateurish and dull. Elizabeth Price's 'User Group Disco' is one step up from a teenage girl sitting in her bedroom of an evening and videotaping her feet because it seems wacky and creative. 'User Group Disco' is actually a video of junk on a turntable, accompanied by a bad MIDI of 'Take on Me' by A-Ha- it's 1985, teenage Elizabeth gets stoned for the first time and puts random things on her record player. She stares at them, drooling, until dad comes up to ask what that smell is. This was one of the BAS7 offerings that actually made me so angry I had to walk away.
Christian Marclay's 'The Clock' is currently one of the most celebrated works in the exhibition, although I don't really know why. A large number of people appeared to be making a pilgrimage to it and sitting reverently but slightly awkwardly with it because whatever was supposed to happen wasn't happening to them. Incidentally, the room showing 'The Clock' is one of the few video rooms where it's even possible to sit comfortably and watch for any significant period.
In most other cases it's that old art gallery standby: the pitch black hole where three lucky people get a plywood box to sit on and everyone else has to either squat on the floor where they get trodden on, or hover nervously by the entrance where new new visitors inevitably crash into them. I don't know why galleries can't get it into their thick heads that showing video work means you need to provide proper seating and viewing facilities, especially in cases such as BAS7 where the duration of some works is an hour or more. Lisa, Tom, Hayward people, would you like it if the next time you went to the cinema, all the seats had been ripped out and they made you sit on the floor in the dark?
'The Clock' collates thousands of clips pertaining to the telling and passing of time in Hollywood films. It's conceptually interesting, a great feat of clever editing/research and it's fun but (apart from the fact that it's being shown with undue pomp in an art gallery) I really don't see how it's at all different from any of the equally witty, obsessive, slyly satirical and usually anonymous or pseudonymous Supercuts that regularly pop up on YouTube. Nobody's selling artificially scarcified "editions" of these, which is what Marclay has apparently done with 'The Clock'. No major art gallery is clamouring to show them. One can only assume that people who run galleries in this country never look at YouTube and have no idea what's happening in international mainstream culture.
Examples of Supercuts (none of which are being exhibited in an art gallery, all available as free, infinite editions on YouTube):
'Not in Kansas anymore'
'We've got company'
'It's Showtime'
These edits compile numerous instances of clichéd stock phrases that we obviously hear in movies more often than we consciously realise. Even though to the best of my knowledge they were all made for the idle amusement of fickle strangers on YouTube and the makers have no pretensions of being capital A Artists (as far as I can tell, anyway) they actually have more artistic merit and intellectual sophistication than most of the video work in BAS7.
They draw attention to Hollywood's lazy reliance on cliché with an economical and subtle wit. The more or less context-free repetition of these phrases quite rapidly makes them lose all meaning or relevance, almost to the point of becoming radically empty, zen-like mantras if you really want to take the high road. This truly artistic and thought provoking effect is even admiringly attested to by numerous YouTube commenters, who aren't noted for their perspicacity.
'Mirror Scare': This one is probably the most similar to what Marclay, or rather Marclay's large number of employees, did with 'The Clock'. There are many, many more including several cell/mobile/telephone's dead variations, other dialogue clichés including "it's gonna blow" and "I could tell you but I'd have to kill you", Arnold Schwarzenegger screaming and Shia La Beouf saying "no no no no" in every single film he's in.
As for the rest of BAS7, pfft, whatever. There's a token smattering of paintings that are so dull they may as well not be there at all. I've spent longer contemplating the art work screwed to the wall at Travelodge than I was inclined to do with any of the painting or assemblage work on show at BAS7. There's a zero-effort, random and pointless collection of newspaper and magazine clippings under glass on wallpapering tables by Wolfgang Tillmans. His gigantic 'Freischwimmer 155' is quite nice, though. It's not great, but it's one of the few genuinely abstract and unpretentious things in the whole building.
I was "lucky" enough to see Roger Hiorns' publicity-baiting "naked man on a bench watching something burn" thing with an actual naked man and a fire in situ. It was a total bore. A nearby placard pompously announces that the metal bench on which the man occasionally sits is not to be sat on by anyone else because it's not a bench, it's a work of art. Out of respect for Marcel Duchamp I'll concede that the concept is sound, but whoever wrote that sign really needs to get over themselves.
The best that can be said of Charles Avery's works is that they're impressively big. As with most of the so-called narratives in BAS7, the breadth and ambition of Avery's imaginary worlds are on a par with what I'd expect from a ten year old after they'd been watching telly all day and drinking too much pop. Sarah Lucas' wormy tights sculptures are the most engaging and artistically heavyweight things in the whole show. I'm talking about Sarah Lucas. Sarah Lucas. I've always hated her work, but her contribution is the best thing in the whole exhibition.
Poor H.G. Wells, being used as an excuse for this farrago. Come, comet of doom, destroy the Hayward Gallery.


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Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA) Ahmadu Giade, disclosed yesterday that a cartel comprising some court clerks and prison warders aided 197 convicted drug traffickers to evade serving their sentences".
The NDLEA boss who disclosed this while supervising the destruction of illicit drugs valued at N3.5 billion at Ibereko area of Badagry Lagos revealed how the convicted drug traffickers manipulated their way out of lawful custody.
Giade, who accused prison officials and court clerks of criminally aiding the release of notorious drug traffickers added men of NDLEA uncovered this plot when a drug convict who ought to be in prison was re-arrested while attempting to smuggle drugs at the Kano airport. According to him, "a cartel that aided 197 convicted drug traffickers to evade serving their sentences was detected by my men.
"The Police investigated the case and confirmed my findings that 197 drug convicts were left off the hook with the connivance of some court clerks and prison warders," Giade explained that "statutory, NDLEA has no business taking care of an accused once the person had been arraigned and remanded in prison custody. The Agency discovered that the criminal act took place between the court and the prison after an accused had been sentenced.
"This is a wake-up call for stakeholders to remain sensitive and prevent any act capable of undermining the criminal justice system. We must continue to discharge our responsibilities without compromise from the time a case is reported to when a convict completes serving the prescribed punishment by the court".
Meanwhile, the destroyed drugs weighing 18,791.5953kg were seized by the NDLEA Lagos State Command, Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Command, Seme Border Special Area Command and the National Headquarters.
All cases relating to the destroyed drugs have been heard and disposed by the Federal High Court. The drugs include 18,420.71kg of cannabis, 268.9533kg of cocaine/heroin and 101.932kg of methamphetamine/ephedrine.
Drug trafficking according to the NDLEA boss is a crime that must be fought by all.
"Drug trafficking is a transnational organised crime capable of undermining global security. This has degenerated in some regions of the world into political and social instability with negative impact on the rule of law, human rights and economic development. In some cases, illicit proceeds of opium and cocaine smuggling are used in funding acts of terrorism and insurgency," he said.
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MIT Technology Review, a global technology magazine, named Huawei as one of the 50 smartest companies that show the company's effect business model around the globe.
Huawei will remain in U.S. blacklist with additional licenses to access technologies: Report
According to MIT Technology Review, the evaluators pick the 50 smartest companies based on what the companies did over the last year, what methods they used, and what achievements they made.
The evaluators also check the companies' core competence with emerging technologies and any breakthroughs and innovation the companies have achieved for themselves, their industries, or even the world.
"Over the past 30 years, Huawei mainly made technical and engineering innovations as well as innovations in solutions based on customer needs. We call that Innovation 1.0. In the future, Huawei will pursue Innovation 2.0, which refers to theoretical breakthroughs and inventions driven by vision" said William Xu, Huawei's Director of the Board and President of the Institute of Strategic Research.
"Huawei sticks to open innovation and inclusive development. Open innovation means innovating together with global experts. In this process, resources and capabilities are shared. Inclusive development means the fruits of any innovation should be shared and used by all humanity and industries. This can lighten the future of the world and industries." he added.


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'Stranger Things 2' Premiere Reportedly Drew 15.8 Million Viewers
This past weekend saw the debut of the second season of Stranger Things, with reports claiming that the first episode was streamed by nearly 16 million viewers within three days of its premiere. Additionally, data points out that the entire nine-episode season was binge-watched by 4.6 million viewers, per The Hollywood Reporter.
Netflix has always been quite secretive about its data related to viewership, but given the rise of the service and it
Another interesting data point that Nielsen released was that, within 24 hours of its debut, nearly 361,000 subscribers viewed the entire season. These statistics, however, don't include mobile devices.
The viewing statistics of the subsequent eight episodes are as follows:
- "Chapter Two" — 13.7 million viewers; 9.6 million people 18-49
- "Chapter Three" — 11.6 million viewers; 8.1 million viewers 18-49
- "Chapter Four" — 9.3 million viewers; 6.6 million viewers 18-49
- "Chapter Five" — 8 million viewers; 5.6 million viewers 18-49
- "Chapter Six" — 6.4 million viewers; 4.5 million viewers 18-49
- "Chapter Seven" — 5.3 million viewers; 3.7 million viewers 18-49
- "Chapter Eight" — 4.9 million viewers; 3.4 million viewers 18-49
- "Chapter Nine" — 4.6 million viewers; 3.2 million viewers 18-49
One interpretation of the decrease in numbers as each episode went by is that fans weren't impressed and stopped watching, but another interpretation is that fans intentionally limited themselves to how many episodes they watched in order to savor the experience.
"Our approach is using the exact same framework and methodology that we do for all of
As a comparison, the Season 8 premiere of The Walking Dead scored only 15 million viewers in the three-day window, giving Stranger Things 2 the bigger audience. This achievement by Netflix is significant, given how the AMC series has dominated the world of genre television in recent years.
We shouldn't expect to see The Walking Dead shaking in their undead boots, but this is a significant win for Netflix and could signal the beginning of the end for the Robert Kirkman-created zombie drama.
[H/T The Hollywood Reporter]


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Women's basketball: The Terriers look to make it two in a row with a win tonight over the Knights.
After a blowout win over the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils, the Terriers will look to get on a little roll as they take on the last place Fairleigh Dickinson Knights.
The Terriers put together a very nice performance their last time out, knocking off the Blue Devils 71-50. They were led by Junior forward Sarah Benedetti who scored a team high 17 points off the bench. It was nice to see Bennedetti get going after she struggled in the previous three games.
These two teams last met on January, 6th, where the Terriers squeaked away with a 57-55 victory. On that night the Terriers were led by Junior forward Jessica Kaufman who scored 14 points and grabbed 8 rebounds. Sophomore guard Leah Fechko also put together a nice game scoring 11 points and pulling down 8 rebounds of her own.
The Terriers must contain two players that hurt them in their last meeting. Sophomore forward Brianna Thomas went for a game high 18 points. She is a dyamic scorer that the Terriers must shut down tonight.
For the season Thomas averages 13.0 points per game and 4.8 rebounds per game. Another player who hurt the Terriers in the last meeting was Senior forward Desiree Crawford. Crawford scored 13 points and grabbed a game high 12 rebounds. She proved to be a beast in the paint, grabbing a plethora of rebounds and finishing off some easy layups.
Tonight the Terriers must play their game of ball if they want to come out with the win tonight. They must play their style of lockdown defense which, they have all season long.
Including tonight the Terriers have nine games remaining, with their recent three game slide each of the games will be just as important as the last. They come into tonight's game with a (14-6, 5-4 NEC) record. In order to keep pace with the rest of the conference they must take care of busniess night in and night out.
This should be an exciting game despite the Knights (1-19) overall record, they are a gritty team. The Terriers should not take them lightly especially since they almost lost the last meeting. The Terriers must play hard and smart, limit their turnovers and convert on easy opportunities.


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Call of the Wild: In Fall, Tiny Benezette Becomes the Destination to View Elk During 'the Rut'
October is the perfect time to take a day trip to Benezette, "The Elk Capital of Pennsylvania."
Situated deep within the densely forested Pennsylvania Wilds, the tiny town of Benezette (sometimes simply spelled "Benezett"), with a full-time population of only 200 or so souls, sleeps for much of the year. But when autumn arrives and with it "the rut," or mating season, Benezette becomes the destination for would-be elk viewers.
"It's a big change," says John Holjencin, a Benezette resident. "It gets hectic for close to two months. It's like night and day. I sit on the porch and just watch it."
"Traffic's bumper-to-bumper," says fellow Benezette local Kevin Gallagher. "Every year it seems like we get a few more [tourists]."
Victoria Challingsworth, conservation education specialist at the Elk Country Visitor Center, the epicenter of elk viewing activity, says that during the rut, "It gets so busy, we can see 5,000 people a day."
Carol Delp, who works at the Benezett Store & Restaurant (which serves an elk burger), says that in September and October, "It's a totally different town. This place gets packed. They're waiting on the porch for a table on the weekends."
Elk history in Pennsylvania
Benezette, about a 90 minute drive from State College, can feel like a mini-Yellowstone National Park during the rut – in more ways than one.
There are traffic jams of tourists stopping in the middle of the road to view wildlife and take pictures (a habit that irks the locals and isn't safe). There's also a Yellowstone connection to Benezette. Between 1913 and 1926, the Pennsylvania Game Commission transferred 177 Rocky Mountain elk from Yellowstone to central and northeastern PA to replace the eastern woodland elk that had been annihilated.
Today, Pennsylvania has 1,000 to 1,200 elk inhabiting 10 counties. There's even a hunting season for elk now, which is very competitive. The highly coveted tags are awarded through a lottery system, and last year 37,000 people applied for 125 tags.
"Benezette has the largest sub-concentration of elk in the state, which is why this area has the most tourism for elk," says Challingsworth. "We have about 300 elk that live in the area full-time, and [their numbers] go up during the mating season."
'It's very raw'
"The mating season is by far the most exciting part of the year," Challingsworth says. "The elk are visible here year-round, but the exciting thing about the rut is the bulls start to gravitate back to this area."
The bull elk's goal during mating season is to be the dominant elk, to establish a group of females, called a "harem," and to defend his harem so he has the breeding rights to as many females as possible.
"You'll see bulls challenge one another," Challingsworth says. "The bulls have a unique sound called a bugle, which can be heard up to a mile away if conditions are right, and it's really impressive and almost haunting. You may hear a bull bugle, and another bull bugle back. It's kind of them issuing a challenge. Then, if both bulls come together around a harem, they may fight one another.
"They may pace alongside one another back and forth, eyeing each other up," Challingsworth continues. "If they both decide they want to challenge one another, they'll just suddenly turn toward one another and clash antlers and fight. It doesn't last very long – a long fight might be a minute – but it's a lot of energy; it's very raw. Their testosterone is a thousand times the normal level during the mating season. It's crazy!"
"You'll see bulls challenge one another … they'll just suddenly turn toward one another and clash antlers and fight," says Victoria Challingsworth of the Elk Country Visitor Center. Photo courtesy of Keystone Elk Country Alliance.
'Not just elk'
Benezette is known primarily for its elk, but there are many other attractions to make a day trip worthwhile.
"[Benezette] has been a nice place to live all my life," says Kitty Dudley. "It sometimes gets too busy, because we're not used to all these people, but it's been good for businesses. It's really been good for the area. Everyone who comes, they all want to come back. Everybody enjoys it."
"It's a beautiful place," says Robert Crouse, who travelled from Williamsport and stopped for lunch with his daughter, Michelle, at the Benezette Hotel in early September. "And it was an absolutely gorgeous drive. The only way it could be a little bit better is if it were later in the year and the leaves were colored. We are actually going to use this trip to sort of learn the place, and then we're going to come up again. I want to bring my grandkids up, probably within the next month."
"Benezette has a lot to offer," Challingsworth says. "It's a really unique community with lots of local businesses, lots of local entrepreneurs, and then, of course, the elk add their own element of intrigue. There are two really great state parks within about 30 minutes of here. There are also other viewing areas nearby for elk, and then all of those small businesses – gift shops, wineries, distilleries, lots of neat little places to stop. There's definitely enough here to fill a full day; it's not just elk."
The Elk Country Visitor Center draws crowds of spectators for up-close views of elk in the fields. Photo by Darren Andrew Weimert.
Know before you go
Cell service: Benezette is remote, and that's a big part of what makes it great. But remember that the allure of the wilderness is what makes getting lost an easy thing to do, too.
The Crouses were relying on their cellphones' GPS to guide them back home through State College – with a stop at The Creamery along the way – but they had trouble finding a cell signal in the backwoods. Their advice is to know your route before you hit the road.
Mornings and evenings: The Crouses also arrived too late in the day to see any elk. To view the elk, heed Challingsworth's advice.
"The first two hours after dawn and the first two hours before dusk are the best times to view elk," she says. "That's when they're going to be most active. There's definitely enough to do in town or around this general area to fill the day, if you want to go and come back."
Take a hike: Challingsworth says there are plenty of trails in the region, so, "If you want the quiet elk experience, go for a hike."
Informational programs: The Elk Country Visitors Center offers free, public informational programs on the weekends. There are interactive touchscreens and a sensory, 4-D movie theater. The center also offers wagon rides, but there is no set schedule for rides, and visitors are asked to call for availability and to make reservations no more than 24 hours in advance.
While at the visitors center, check out the live elk cam.
The top priority of the Keystone Elk Country Alliance, which operates the visitors center, is conservation education, says operations manager Carla A. Wehler.
"We educate thousands of youth and adults each year both in person at the visitor center through our education programs and virtually through our distance learning programs," she says. "We are able to take Elk Country anywhere in the state or country!
Plan ahead: "If you want to stay local," Delp advises, "call six months in advance, because everywhere is booked."
"You've really got to pre-plan," says Holjencin, echoing Delp. "If you're coming here to stay, get reservations ahead of time. The campground starts taking reservations the first of the year, and it's booked solid now for the next three months."
Be safe and respectful: Listen to the locals.
"Be respectful of private property," Delp says. "People will just walk right through your yard to get a picture of an elk, and you might have a dog that's not too happy about that."
"Stay in your vehicle," Holjencin says. "People take for granted these animals are wild; they're not meant to be walked up to. View them from your vehicle and move on."
"Don't park on the road," Gallagher says. "Obey the signs."
Resources: For more information on Benezette and elk country, visit experienceelkcountry.com.
Teresa Mull is a freelance writer in Philipsburg.
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Did you ever stop to think about how amazing certain aspects of evolution came to be? Have you thought about how or why it might matter to you right now?
Imagine the early days of history when the first people thought of making holes in a reed to make the first flutes. Or when the first people thought to make a drum. Imagine the progress, or process they went through making the first music with their inventions. From all indications, these instruments first had ritual uses, and making music just for fun came later. Who was the first person to make this transition? No one knows the answer to that, of course, but try and imagine what that process might have been like.
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Consider, for example that Newgrange in Ireland, which was build thousands of years before the pyramids, is made from stones fitted together, and the roof of the inner chamber, which is vaulted, and has no mortar, has never had a roof leak. Can any builder today claim such success? Another feature that was built in was an opening over the front entry that allows the inner chamber to be illuminated by the rising sun only and exactly on the Winter Solstice every year.
Or how about all the various ancient people, all the way back to caveman days, who somehow just knew that when a person dies that the invisible part of them that kept them alive has left the body that the person was going on to some other level of reality, and so they developed rituals to recognize the death and somehow through their symbolic acts help the person transition into whatever is next. Imagine the thought processes of the first people who began to grasp this.
If we can begin to grasp these concepts, among others, it may offer us other ways to see our own evolution. It is often the far out thoughts that can create results close to home.
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July 27, 2016 by Lyn
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Aunt Anna picked her up from school. She was sitting, calmly, or at least quietly, in the principal's office, an icepack held to her eye, two seats from the sniffling, whimpering, horrible bully Matt Littles.
Aunt Anna sat down in a flurry of peasant skirts, ignoring the disapproving glare of the secretary. "What happened?" she asked in a conspiratorial whisper.
"Miss," the secretary interrupted, "school policy dictates…"
"Anemone Laskaris," Aunt Anna snapped. "Look it up. I'm Shahin's aunt and am responsible for picking her up from school and these inevitable parent-principal conferences."
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"So what happened? Come on, kiddo, dish."
"He hit me," Shahin said. She'd had half an hour to think of the best way to tell the story. "He likes to do things like that. So I told him about the hammer story… and he hit me again. Then he started crying." She shrugged, doing her best little-miss-innocent impression.
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She lowered the ice pack, not sure what the numbed place on her face looked like. The growing frown on her aunt's face told her it was going to be a wide, nasty bruise though. "The little sh… shenanigans." She glanced over at the crying bully. "That's him?"
"Din' do anything," Matt sobbed. "I'm not a hammer."
"That's him all right. What's this hammer story, Shahin?"
She smirked. "You know that saying 'if all you have is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail?'"
"I do. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised anymore that you know it."
"I read it somewhere." She shrugged nonchalantly, but inside she was thrilled. The phrase had had the feeling of too-grown-up-for your-own-good, and she loved that sort of thing. "So anyway, I told him about that. And I told him, if he kept acting like a hammer, eventually it would be the only thing he could do. He'd just keep hitting and hitting everything until they locked him up and threw away the key." She liked the way that sounded, and said it with delicious glee.
"So he hit you again." Aunt Anna's eyes had a dangerous gleam to them, but Shahin didn't think it was aimed at her.
"Yeah." She touched the side of her face gingerly. "Hard. So I said," she grinned, despite the pain, proud of herself, "'see? It's starting already!'"
The moronic little bully sobbed even louder.
"That's my girl! Were there witnesses?" That was one of Aunt Anna's lessons: If you're going to do something which people might, if they don't know the whole story, think is your fault, do it in front of witnesses. Lots of witnesses.
"The whole class, and Mrs. Lovell, too."
"Good." She stood up as the principal, Mr. Switek, stepped into the room, and Shahin followed her lead. "Let's get this straightened out."
"Ah." Mr. Switek looked, Shahin thought, particularly unhappy to see Aunt Anna. "Miss Laskaris. Shahin's…"
"Her aunt." There was a lovely crispness to Aunt Anna's voice that she only took with people she found unpleasant. Shahin wasn't quite sure how she did it; when she tried to imitate it, people said she sounded "snippy" or "bratty."
"Ah, yes. Come on in, and we can discuss this."
"I don't see that there's anything to discuss, is there? That boy punched our Shahin."
"Ah. Well, while that is technically true, Shahin did provoke him, and such things…" He trailed off at the expression on Aunt Anna's face, and then started again, sounding guilty. "You have to admit that it seems a little odd, if Matthew was at fault, that he is the one in tears and Shahin seems calm and in no distress."
Shahin lowered the ice pack from her face again to grace the man with her most disdainful look. "I don't cry in the face of my enemies," she told him with injured pride.
The principal didn't seem to know what to say to that. "Ah, oh. Well, that's remarkably self-possessed for someone so young."
"You're new," she said pertly. "You'll get used to that in time."
"Ah, well, the question remains of what to do about this situation."
Shahin frowned at him. She didn't like the way this was going. "He punched me. Twice. In front of a lot of witnesses." She glared up at the principal. "He. Hit me. I don't hit people."
He frowned all the more. "Yes, but you made him cry, Shahin. Do you think that he liked that? Do you think you'd like it if someone made you cry?"
She glared right back at him, quickly growing impatient with this silliness. "I don't care what he likes! I didn't like being punched!"
"I'm sure you didn't. I know I wouldn't enjoy it. But Matthew has some special problems, and we need to be a little patient with him."
She bit back, with what she thought was remarkable presence of mind, the nasty comment she wanted to make. "Yes, sir."
"I can't see that you did anything actually punishable, but I'd like you to keep in mind other people's feelings in the future."
She bit her lip again, but Aunt Anna was nodding a warning. "I'll be sure to keep other people's feelings in mind in the future, sir," she said carefully. Aunt Anna had been teaching her what she called "the art of creative honesty," and she was finding that it solved a lot of problems.
"Good. Well, I think it would be good to send you home for the day. If you're not feeling well tomorrow, don't worry about coming in." He nodded at Aunt Anna. "Miss Laskaris. A pleasure to meet you." He was lying; he looked like he needed to pee. That wasn't, in her experience, something that meant "pleasure."
"Likewise, Mr. Switek. I wish you luck in dealing with Matthew's parents." Aunt Anna was much better at lying than Mr. Switek was – and better at a dramatic exit than Shahin. Maybe the skirts helped; they swished beautifully as she turned and left.
Not until they were in her VW Rabbit, driving to the home Shahin shared with two aunts and her mother, did Aunt Anna turn to Shahin, smirking that private smile that meant she was proud of her niece. "He just gave you permission to skip school tomorrow, didn't he?"
Shahin nodded. "He doesn't like me, I don't think," she frowned. "It doesn't seem fair. I don't break any of the rules, and he still yells at me all the time."
"He's not a very bright man, and you're far more clever than he is. I wouldn't take it too seriously, honey."
"He's in charge, though. People in charge aren't supposed to be like that."
"No, they're not. They have a responsibility to be fair with everyone under them. But when they're not, well…"
"I know. I still have to do what they say, but I'm free to politely point out how unfair things are."
"Good girl."
"Aunt Anna? What if they're telling me to do something horrible?"
Her aunt leveled a narrowed-eye look at her. "Nobody is, are they?"
"No, but… Mr. Switek seems like he might."
"All right. Honey, if anyone ever tells you to do something you think is wrong, you tell them you need to check with your parents, and you come find me, or your mother or your Aunt Stazia – call us if you're at school. "Okay?"
Shahin nodded, content that her aunts would take care of any problems, and Aunt Anna smiled again. "Good. So… are you going to take your principal up on that offer to skip classes?"
"Really? Mrs. Lovell is that interesting?"
"Well, sometimes. But tomorrow is Halloween."
"Ah, that it is. Aunt Stazia made you a costume?"
"Yeah!" Shahin grinned. "It's the White Rabbit, Aunt Anna!"
"The White Rabbit? Aren't Halloween costumes supposed to be scary?"
"Rabbits can be very frightening," she said solemnly. She held out her arm to remind her aunt of what had happened with her pet bunny Jonas last year; the angry red claw marks had faded to thin white scars, but they were still visible.
"Yes, yes they can," Aunt Anna agreed indulgently. "And the White Rabbit in specific?"
She shrugged, feeling a little silly. "I like the White Rabbit. He's a sign that things are going to go all weird."
"A harbinger of change." She nodded. "I can see that."
"Harbinger of change." Shahin tested the words. "I like it."
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Communication Services Contract - Colorado - 2018 (Lincoln County Sheriff's Office)
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From: Beryl Lipton
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Colorado Public Records Law, I hereby request the following records:
Contracts and invoices related to the use of communication services at any and all county correctional or detention facility locations under the jurisdiction of this agency. This may encompass telecommunication, kiosk, and mobile tablet services.
Please provide the following relevant materials.
• Any and all open or active Requests for Proposal or similar solicitations regarding the provision, installation, maintenance, or use of communication services. If available or applicable, please also provide equivalent materials for video conferencing equipment and other electronic communication and telecommunication services.
• Any and all active contracts regarding the provision, installation, maintenance, financial requirements, associated commissions, or use of communication services. Please include all associated supplemental materials, including any and all attachments, amendments, and exhibits. Please provide any other materials regarding the terms of service, including the term and expiration date of the current contract, as well as any optional contract extensions. Please include the name of the current telecommunication provider, as well as the services currently being provided pursuant to the agreement. Relevant companies include, but are not limited to, CenturyLink, City Tele Coin, ICSolutions, JPay, and Securus Technologies.
• Any and all financial reports, commission reports, revenue reports, and invoices related to the provision, installation, maintenance, or use of communication services. Please include all usage and fee reports, providing as much segregable data as possible, including, but not limited to, the rate at which the funds were generated, the revenue generated for each service, the timeframe during which the funds were generated, the nature of the communication's payment (collect, prepaid, inmate account), etc. If available, please also provide equivalent materials for video conferencing equipment and other electronic communication and telecommunication services.
Please provide all current contract materials and invoices for the period January 1, 2015 through the date this request is processed.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 3 business days, as the statute requires.
Beryl Lipton
From: Lincoln County Sheriff's Office
I have recently received your CORA Request. Please complete and sign our record request form, which can be found on our website at www.lincolnsheriff.net. This helps us maintain accurate and timely responses to requests.
There will be a fee for your request, I cannot provide an
estimated cost at this time, as I will be attempting to collect records from our archives, which unfortunately are not digitized and it will take substantial amounts of time to locate and copy. Furthermore, can you please provide some clarity as to "communication services." This is broad and could include a large number of contracts and invoices. Can you narrow this down for us?
As soon as I receive the signed form, we will furnish you the estimated cost and fees associated with your request to see if you would like to proceed.
Michael L. Yowell
Lincoln County Sheriff's Office
103 3rd Avenue / P.O. Box 10
Hugo, Colorado 80821
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Improve Flexibility With 5 Simple Exercises
Ashwini Kulkarni Sule
Mar 16, 2020
Flexibility is required for supple movements of the body. While some people are naturally flexible, others can always improve their flexibility with certain exercises.
Stiff muscles and rigid body often lead to several injuries. Inflexible body puts a lot of restrictions on your movements and can result in muscle pain if you stretch it too much.
However, having a flexible body is very important, since we need to stretch our body in several ways while doing daily activities. If you don't have a naturally flexible body, then exercises can be done for improving flexibility of the body.
How to Improve Flexibility
You can perform certain activities that improve flexibility of the body. These activities can be performed in the confinement of your home and won't take more than 10 minutes.
Since these exercises to improve flexibility can be performed at any time during the day, you won't have to alter your schedule. Just make sure you leave a gap of at least an hour between your last meal and the workout.
Here's what you can do...
Forward Bending
Stand in an upright position with your legs together. Now, slowly raise you hands forward and try to touch your toes. Stretch your hands only as long as you are comfortable. Maintain the position as long as you can. Repeat this exercise 3 - 4 times in each session. Over the time, you'll find that you can bend down with more ease.
Sideways Bending
Stand upright with your legs apart, keep one hand on the waist, raising the other hand and try to bend it sideways.
Stretch your body sideways as far as possible. Then, reverse the position of the hands and repeat the exercise, now, with your body bending in the opposite direction. Repeat the exercise 3 - 4 times on each side.
Hamstring Stretch
This is similar to forward bending, with only difference that it is performed while sitting. Sit on a floor with legs flat in front of you. Hold your hands straight in front of you. Try leaning towards your toes as much as you can.
Calf Stretch
Stand upright with your feet shoulder width apart. Place the toes of one foot on a slightly raised platform (as shown in image) while keeping the heel of that same foot on the floor. Repeat with the other foot.
Calf compression is performed by elevating your body by standing on your toes. Hold the position for a few minutes. Repeat it several times a day.
Quadriceps Stretch
Stand upright with your legs apart. Bend one leg at knee and grasp your foot with one hand. Press it against your buttocks. Now perform the same exercise with the opposite leg and hand. Repeat 4 - 5 times, every session.
Tips for Stretching Exercises
Do not begin stretching exercises before warming up your muscles. Brisk walking, jogging, cardiovascular exercises etc., help warming up your muscles. Exerting cold muscles may invite an injury.
Gradually increase the frequency of stretching exercises as well as the holding time for each stretch.
Make sure you are not dehydrating yourself during these exercises. Drink ample water before you begin with the stretching exercises.
Breathe deeply and evenly throughout the session. Many people inadvertently hold their breath while stretching. Remember, the oxygen that you breathe while stretching, directly goes to your muscles.
Know your limits. Do not stretch your body to the point that it becomes very uncomfortable or painful.
Besides the mentioned exercises, you can also opt for dancing or yoga exercises. Dancing, in fact, is the best way to improve flexibility of the body. Aerobics, is yet another way of improving flexibility of the body.
Diet for Improving Flexibility
Any exercise yields desirable results only when you accompany it with appropriate diet. Thus, diet also plays a significant role in improving your flexibility. There are certain foods which assist in improving your agility, while some others impede your suppleness.
Green vegetables such as green beans, artichokes, broccoli, asparagus, zucchini are great for improving flexibility. Similarly, nuts and seeds such as almonds, walnuts, Brazil nuts, cashews, avocado, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, hemp seeds, flax seeds, pumpkin seeds also improve your agility.
Cold-pressed oils such as coconut, olive provide the body with required amount of saturated fat so that the joints are well-lubricated. This results in better agility and reduction in injuries.
Thus, with the blend of stretching exercises and healthy diet, you can certainly improve your flexibility to a great extent. It is best to work upon your flexibility from a younger age itself, so that you do not face problems as you age.
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Council still at odds but wanting to "move forward"
Belleville councillors say they're optimistic about doing good work despite concerns raised by reports from the city's integrity commissioner.
Tony Fleming provided council with both public and confidential reports in response to a complaint about members' conduct. He ruled Mayor Mitch Panciuk breached council's code of conduct three times by exerting pressure on staff involved in hiring other employees.
Fleming also found Panciuk did not, despite the complaint, breach the code in another hiring. He cleared Couns. Pat Culhane of Kelly McCaw of wrongdoing in the only incident in which they'd been accused.
While councillors differ in their views of the report and its handling by Fleming and council, there's widespread agreement among the politicians about the need to work together and not linger on the subject.
Council in effect ignored the commissioner's rulings on breaches of the code and discipline he recommended be taken against the mayor. Members accepted only those findings which cleared the mayor and two councillors. Council also directed staff to report in-camera to council on a possible breach of Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act with regard to a senior employee's reported fear of reprisal.
Couns. Culhane and McCaw, along with Panciuk, have said they did nothing wrong. Panciuk apologized for his involvement and promised to learn from the situation.
Coun. Ryan Williams, revealed during Monday's meeting as the complainant, maintained the report's validity. Anyone can complain, he said, but the commissioner won't investigate unless it's merited. When the first issue arose last spring, he said, he and Coun. Paul Carr tried to deal with it at the committee level. That motion failed and eventually the complaint to the commissioner was a last resort, Williams said.
He said he and Carr had little information at the time apart from messages from staff indicating council members were involved in pressuring staff during the hiring process.
Williams said he often, though not always, votes in favour of Panciuk and the intent of the complaint is to "work through hard stuff in order to be a better council and to be a better city."
He said Coun. McCaw's charge that he's "settling scores" is "ridiculous" and he doesn't fault others when council doesn't endorse his proposals.
"We all look good when we're all working and we're getting things done," he said. "Hopefully we can all get back on the same page."
He said staff who speak out against councillors' actions must be protected.
"It should never be about punishing the people that take the risk to put this forward."
Though he could not get anyone to second his proposed amendment to implement all the commissioner's recommendations, including disciplining the mayor, Williams said he was pleased by Panciuk's apology.
Coun. Paul Carr said he accepted Fleming's findings and recommendations but did not second Williams' motion because "I was sticking with the process" and the motion had been made by a council majority. He and others also said they had to abide by rules not to discuss in-camera talks which may have led to the vote in open session.
He said citizens who have since called him are "disappointed."
"We need to ensure we have an organization that is sound and that there is a clear line between elected officials and public servants," he said, echoing the commissioner's report.
Other councillors also said little about their collective lack of action on most of the report.
"Maybe in their eyes having the report become public was sufficient to show there was an investigation; there were some things going on that maybe were 100 per cent right. They've pointed them out," Coun. Garnet Thompson said. "I don't know how all councillors think.
"I felt there was enough there for the public to make their own judgment."
He said it wasn't clear whether more discussion would be worthwhile.
"A lot of us struggled with how far we wanted this to go," added Coun. Chris Malette. "The report is certainly a damning report on the actions of the mayor and he's apologized for it. We all want to move forward.
"There's an abundance of acrimony right now. Some of us just felt, 'Let the report speak for itself and move on from there.'"
Like Couns. McCaw and Bill Sandison on Monday, Coun. Pat Culhane on Tuesday was emphatic the report was flawed, in part because nothing she and McCaw said was included.
"It's all based on he-said-she-said. It's a mess," said Culhane.
She said councillors couldn't answer questions about council's refusal to accept key findings and recommendations because "there is more information" not contained in the public report. It cannot be discussed because of rules on in-camera meetings, Culhane said.
"Yes, I want honesty at the table. I campaigned on it. I mean it," she said.
"Some people don't understand there's much more to the picture and I don't disparage them."
She said activity and improvements around the city are proof residents can have faith in council. She also defended the mayor.
"He's made the greatest effort that I recall in my lifetime to be involved with the community at every level," Culhane said.
Chief administrative officer Rod Bovay said it "will be up to council" whether to disclose anything from the staff report on a possible health and safety breach.
"The employer has to provide a safe and harassment-free workplace," he said. He acknowledged he was aware of the employee concerns cited in the commissioner's report but not aware of any other staff who were concerned for their jobs.
"I think the citizens of Belleville can be assured that the city is a well-run corporation," he said, but council changes every four years.
"There's a learning curve that is associated with people being on council and how municipal organizations work that may be different than how private enterprises work.
"Sometimes people cross a line or a boundary that they would have otherwise in the past that they can't do now," he said. "It takes a while to figure out where the line is.
"I think we're in good shape."
Coun. Malette, though, in remarks made in council and on Tuesday said he's "troubled" council put trust in the commissioner only to have several members attack Fleming, his first report, and its preparation.
"Now we have people going after the integrity commissioner, the employee, the former CAO," he said.
"We're all feeling the weight of the disappointment of the public," he said, especially since many voters had high expectations and praise for the group upon its inauguration late last year.
He said comments made Monday about the report process are "vilification that really serves no purpose when we voted to put this in place."


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God Of History
by Rebecca Bynum
(Dec. 2008)
ne of the most confusing aspects of modern Judeo-Christian thought lies in the attempt to reconcile two opposing concepts of God. One is of God as the loving and merciful Father of the individual, who is concerned primarily with individual salvation and survival after death. The other is of God as an actor in history, who controls and shapes the historical drama for his purpose, disregarding the individual, as is often depicted in the Bible. Richard L. Rubenstein in his book,
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Caroline Flack and dance partner Pasha Kovalev made history with three perfect scores in the final
Television presenter Caroline Flack and partner Pasha Kovalev have been voted winners of Strictly Come Dancing.
Pop stars Frankie Bridge and Simon Webbe were runners-up in the ballroom contest, while TV host Mark Wright was eliminated at an earlier stage.
Flack was also the judges' favourite with three perfect scores of 40, a first for a Strictly final.
After lifting the glitterball trophy, she said that it was "the best experience of my whole life".
Flack added after her victory: "I still can't believe it's happening. It doesn't feel real in any way."
Her professional dance partner Kovalev said of their journey: "I think we became real friends and I hope we will stay real friends
All four competitors had the chance to perform their freestyle "showstopping" dance, with Flack and Kovalev's ambitious and theatrical routine winning high praise from the judging panel.
They also excelled in a Cha Cha Cha routine reprised from an earlier performance in the series, and chose to repeat a cheeky Turkish-themed Charleston which won them top marks.
Singer Simon Webbe and partner Kristina Rihanoff also gained high scores for both their initial performances, and were awarded a perfect 40 for their Argentine Tango.
Mark Wright and Karen Hauer did not have the chance to perform their favourite dance
Simon Webbe had the biggest Strictly journey, surviving three eliminations during the competition
TV presenter Caroline Flack's contemporary, theatrical freestyle dance wowed the judges
Saturdays star Frankie Bridge and her partner Kevin Clifton were asked by the judges to reprise a Samba
All four couples performed a routine from the early stage of the competition picked by judges Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, Darcey Bussell and Craig Revel Horwood in the first part of the live final.
Each couple were able improve the scores of routines first showcased in the initial weeks of the contest.
At the beginning of Saturday's second show, former The Only Way is Essex star Wright was announced as the contestant with the fewest viewer votes.
He was also the least highly-regarded by the judges, scoring 35 for both of his performances.
On leaving the show, he said that Strictly Come Dancing was "the best thing that anyone can ever do".
"I'm never going to forget it, ever," he added.
Flack, who has spin-off shows for The X Factor and I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! was consistently a high scorer throughout the series, but was faced with one elimination dance-off but survived.
She is also hit the headlines for reportedly being romantically attached to One Direction singer Harry Styles.
Despite losing out on the title, pop star Frankie Bridge's professional dance partner Kevin Clifton said that he was "insanely proud" of her achievements.
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