What's new with Sociable Cider Werks?
We've seen an uptick in ciders and sour beers in the local market in the last couple of years which is a welcome addition to beverage selections in pubs, restaurants, and liquor stores. With perfect timing, Sociable Cider Werks opened up in Northeast as the first cider-house in Minneapolis. Based on my latest visit to the taproom, the Twin Cities is loving it as it was overflowing with bocce-ball-yielding patrons, and has been, since they opened in November of last year.
I sat down with Jim Watkins for lunch last month and we got to chatting about cider and beer. You've most likely heard his story, about leaving finance and opening a taproom in NE Minneapolis with his long-time friend and business partner, Wade Thompson. I am so glad the finance world was not entertaining enough that we got some entrepreneurial cider-makers to bring their dream to fruition and open up shop in our neck of the woods. Sociable is legally considered a brewery because of the use of sorghum, and hops used to bitter their cider due to a lack of local bitter apples, which makes it a graff for licensing purposes. Call it what you will, the recipes that they have developed are based on old world-style ciders which are drier and crisper. When you head to Sociable expect them to be labeled as cider when ordering.
Business is booming and Sociable has expanded at a better than expected rate with a waitlist for kegs at this time, at least until the fall. Not surprising, since they are bringing a great local product that goes so well with food and is "decidedly different," as their motto states. The Freewheeler is a dry cider which is tart and crisp. Spoke Wrench, also known as Stout Apple, is malty and smooth as it's made with stout wort and English ale yeast. Hop-a-Wheelie comes in as the driest of the bunch, reminiscent of a sour beer – and my favorite. Though their standard selection is the aforementioned three, Sociable has plenty of other ciders and beers that rotate through, including infusions. Their offerings really do appeal to a wide range of consumers from the devoted craft beer fan to the beer or wine drinker may not be as familiar with the range of flavors that can be had with cider.
So, what about the beer? Jim and Wade just hired Mike Willaford, most recently from Surly, to head up the beer brewing at Sociable, so expect some cask aging and sour fruit beers along with what's been brewing in the last couple of weeks: a wheat lager with apricots, Figgy Sour, Oatmeal Coffee Stout, German Golden IPA, and Belgian Dark Session Ale. Though the ciders are gluten-free or gluten-removed, Sociable does not brew gluten-free beers.
Sourcing their apples is a challenge, but an acceptable one as they are dedicated to getting quality apples from our region. Canning of the ciders is the next step, no beers. Expect to see four-packs in liquor stores in late summer or fall. So for now, keep filling up those growlers which make an excellent contribution to a cabin weekend or a dinner party.
Sociable has some exciting events lined up this summer. They are organizing the first ever NE Brewer's Block Party on July 27, featuring live music, lots of beer from neighboring breweries, cider, and food trucks which will feature special pairings. I envision a caravan of beer-folk returning from All Pints North and landing here for, well, more beer and cider. What a perfect way to spend a Sunday! Speaking of Sundays, this will be day one of Sunday hours for them in the taproom too.
The following week, Sociable will be a part of In Cahoots!, Red Stag Supperclub and The Growler's block party on August 3 which will feature collaborations by local breweries. Sociable Cider Werks is paired up with Schell's for a smoked apple beer, which pretty much sounds like the best collaboration ever.
Thanks to Jim for a great lunch and for sharing his passion for cider. Cheers!
Veronica is a lover of food, beer, and events in the Twin Cities. You can read her other musings at vinminneapolis.com or on twitter at @VinMpls.


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(-) House Committee on Agriculture (12)
(-) House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (4)
(-) Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (4)
H.R. 5509, Chesapeake Bay Program Reauthorization and Improvement Act
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on July 28, 2010
H.R. 5866, Nuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 2010
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Science and Technology on September 23, 2010
H.R. 4785, Rural Energy Savings Program Act
H.R. 5852, Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 2010
Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on July 28, 2010
H.R. 3519, Veterinary Services Investment Act
H.R. 5414, A bill to provide for the conveyance of a small parcel of National Forest System land in the Francis Marion National Forest in South Carolina, and for other purposes
Pay-as-you-go table for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on June, 30, 2010, with an amendment provided by the House Committee on Agriculture on July 29, 2010
H.R. 2476, Ski Area Recreational Opportunity Enhancement Act of 2010
Pay-as-you-go table for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on June 30, 2010, with an amendment provided by the House Committee on Agriculture on July 29, 2010
H.R. 4658, Benton MacKaye Cherokee National Forest Land Consolidation Act of 2010
Pay-as-you-go table for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on June 30, 2010, with an amendment provided by the House Committee on the Budget on July 28, 2010
H.R. 3534, Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2010
Cost estimate for the amendment in the nature of a substitute for the bill as posted on the Web site of the House Committee on Rules on July 26, 2010
H.R. 5716, Safer Oil and Natural Gas Drilling Technology Research and Development Act
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Science and Technology on July 14, 2010

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This is a step-by-step guide on how to take advantage of a unique, mad scientist method to generating money in a simple, yet effective way. Nothing to do with any SEO, creating sites or any of that complicated mumbo-jumbo. It does have to do with making serious money and starting your very own empire.


It's that time of the year…your houseplants need to come back inside!
Spray insecticidal soap or use a granular systemic to protect from bugs like aphids, whiteflies, mealybugs, and scale. Having been outside for a while, bugs have taken a liking to your plants and have probably made it their new home (I know, gross!). But it's true! Even if you don't see them, they're still there. That's why we recommend spraying all of your plants before you bring them inside. It's better to be safe than sorry! According to the University of Vermont, you can also soak the pot in a tub of lukewarm water for about 15 minutes, which will force insects out of the soil.
Below, we've listed just a few of our favorite houseplant products to help keep the bugs at bay so you don't have to worry. And, they're organic!
Take time to love and care for your houseplant before it comes inside. Prune off any yellowing or dead leaves as this will give the plant more energy to shoot up new growth. And don't be afraid to prune the plant back to a more manageable size for inside. If they have gotten leggy, take the plant out of its container and prune the top and roots in equal proportions. Be sure to clean the pot and add fresh potting soil before putting the pant back in.
This also may be a good time to re-pot your plants! We here at Barlow's recommend re-potting your houseplants every 6 months to keep them healthy and happy. If you do so, be sure to choose a pot that is a few inches larger, so the roots have space to keep growing. We can always help re-pot your plants too at our indoor potting bench.
Typically, most houseplants thrive in high to medium light areas (southern or western facing windows). To prevent houseplant shock, you'll want to expose the plant gradually to it's new location. Usually, if they've been in bright light and you move them into much lower light, you may notice some leaves fall off. As it acclimates to its new environment, the plant should start pushing out new growth.
It's best to try and mirror the same lighting situation inside as they've faced outside. For instance, if they've been outside in high light you'll want to make sure they are near a southern-facing window or under plant lights to get that same exposure. Always avoid placing near any drafts or heat sources (heaters). And remember, hold off on feeding them until March.
If you are unsure about what type of lighting your plants need, click here to read our Houseplant Lighting Guide!
Once the plant is inside, you'll want to monitor it's watering for the first few weeks as it acclimates to its new environment. The amount of times you watered it outside will vary while it's inside due to the change in climate. It's always best to underwater than overwater! Let the soils surface be dry to the touch before watering again. If it's cloudy or raining outside, hold off on watering as the plants won't get enough light to dry out and this can lead to symptoms of overwatering.
If you have houseplants that require high humidity, like Ferns, then you might want to place the pots on a shallow tray (or saucer) that is filled with pebbles and water. This will keep the plant's roots from sitting in water. As the water gradually evaporates, this will boost the humidity around the plant. You can also try putting your houseplants next to one another to increase the humidity, or try misting them!
We hope this helps make the transition back inside a breeze!


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Arnold Trachtman: On the Town
See works from this exhibition
Arnold Trachtman's (1930-2019) vibrant Expressionist views of Boston, Cambridge, and surrounding cities are on view in On the Town, a new exhibition of work by the prolific, though somewhat overlooked artist. Born in Lynn, Trachtman spent most of his life in the Greater Boston area, eschewing the artistic hub of New York for his roots in New England. After serving overseas in the aftermath of World War II and receiving his Masters degree from the Art Institute of Chicago, Trachtman returned to the East Coast to begin a long career of teaching, painting, and activism. Though much of his art was political in nature, Trachtman also continually produced scenes of his immediate world: the bridges, buildings, parks, and squares of Metro Boston. Each of these paintings brim with life, Trachtmans' keen observations detailing both the notable architecture and colorful characters inhabiting familiar locales, capturing a more personal view of the "town" he called home.
As a child, Trachtman didn't excel academically, but was painting and drawing constantly. He would eventually graduate from esteemed art schools including the aforementioned Art Institute of Chicago and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where he would also later teach. Artistically, Trachtman straddled many genres and movements. Though not a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, as a Jewish artist working in representational figuration in the Boston area during the mid-twentieth century, he is linked to the Boston Expressionists. His commitment to depicting urban life – especially the working-class cities and denizens of Greater Boston - also firmly associates Trachtman with social realism. A dedicated Marxist, he is frequently referred to as a 'protest artist' – his works were often politically motivated and confronted social justice issues.
While spanning genres and defying easy categorization, Trachtman's artwork finds its focus through visual storytelling, whether political or personal. The paintings in On the Town are of the latter sort, expressively documenting the sites Trachtman would have seen, the streets he would have walked, daily. Mostly dating from the 1960s, they are historical snapshots, recordings on canvas of specific times and places deeply personal to the artist. The exhibition is reminiscent of a walking tour through various cities and towns, with Trachtman as a guide, pointing out interesting details that may have gone otherwise unnoticed. Viewing the world through Trachtman's eyes, his joyfulness in the familiar is apparent – his paintings revel in the color and movement of city life, particularly when depicting the comings and goings of local residents. Trachtman loved his community, and the feeling was reciprocated - when a house fire destroyed much of his early work, local businesses chipped in to help the artist start over.
The works in On the Town celebrate city life and community, illuminating a Boston area of the past through the vision of one of its more unique residents. Trachtman's paintings tell stories and reveal an artist as deeply invested in his neighborhood as it was in him. On the Town is on view at Childs Gallery January 12 through March 11, 2023.
On exhibit until March 11th, 2023
Included Works
Boston University Bridge


With a trip to Turkey on our summer docket we had been spending a lot of time at North Park Produce lately. One of our new favorite Turkish dishes is called Hünkar Beğendi (which variously translates into English as "The Sultan Approves" or "Sultan's Delight") and is traditionally a lamb stew served over creamed eggplant. We wanted to take the classic flavors and present them in accord with our culture's obsession with the tender cuts such as the lamb chops used here.
Marinate the Lamb Chops. Combine all of the lamb chops ingredients except for the meat and half the olive oil in the bowl of a food processor and work to a puree. Marinate the lamb chops in the puree for at least half an hour (overnight would be better).
Cook the Eggplant Cream. In a saucepan melt the butter over medium-high heat, then stir in the flour to form a roux and cook for two to three minutes, stirring regularly. Remove the saucepan from the heat and whisk in the cream slowly until a thick white sauce without lumps has formed. Return the saucepan to the burner and stir in the pureed eggplant, reduce the heat to low and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in the cheese and whisk regularly for four minutes. Place the eggplant cream in the bowl of a Vitamix (or other high speed blender) and puree to a fine, sauce-like texture. Adjust the seasoning.
Roast the Lamb Chops. Remove the lamb chops from the marinade. Heat the remaining two tablespoons of olive oil in a sauté pan until just short of the smoking point. Add the lamb chops and cook until browned, approximately three minutes per side. Transfer the sauté pan to the oven and cook to the desired level of doneness. Medium rare should take about ten minutes. Transfer to a platter and allow the chops to rest. Arrange two lamb chops around the cream placed at the center of a dish. Garnish with the parsley oil and pomegranate reduction.


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Ten years of Piqué at FC Barcelona
We celebrate the centre back's ten years in the FC Barcelona first team with a test of the blaugrana's memory
04:00PM Tuesday 14 Aug
Gerard Piqué made his debut for Barça 10 years ago, and, after a glorious decade for the first team, he has certainly fulfilled his dream of success. After leaving at 16 years of age to go to Manchester United, and then playing on loan for a year at Zaragoza, he rejoined the Blaugrana in 2008. And this August 13th, it was the 10th anniversary of his first match against Wisla Krakow, coming just a day after FC Barcelona won the Spanish Super Cup that included a goal, coincidentally, from Piqué.
To celebrate this milestone, the No.3 was given an interactive test. Piqué had to try and remember who made the first pass to him, his first goal, his first card... How do you think he did? Don't miss the next video!


The red rocks of Virgin, Utah once again hosted the biggest test of guts, skill and creativity in mountain biking. An elite group of 21 riders presented their best manmade lines at the 13th edition of Red Bull Rampage.
Here's the full event coverage, sit back and relive the madness!


i gtta ask u ....isn't that a largemouth ????....how was he in the same waters with stripers unless you were way upstream during the spawn ?!
Really?...year round ?.....whereabouts do you fish?
Your in south jersey. Same can be said about many of rivers around you.
Thats a huge exclusion lol.


Somewhere in Africa, a civil war is raging. It hasn't reached Agu (Abraham Attah) yet, or his family---father, mother, sister, brother---but they are living in a supposedly safe zone where the protection breaks down very quickly. His father, a teacher, doesn't want to separate the family, but has no choice when the last jammed car is leaving, and there is only room for his wife and their baby girl. He pays them all his money, and then tries to flee from the erupting violence, unsuccessfully. Big brother is gone, and suddenly Agu is all alone in the jungle.
He is captured by the rebel forces, who at first use him as a servant, but later, begin to brainwash him about the righteousness of their cause. The Commandant (Idris Elba) takes a personal interest in young Agu, and pairs him with "Striker," a veteran boy soldier, and soon young Agu learns to shoot, and travels with the rebel battalion as one of them. His initiation is stark and brutal: kill a captured enemy soldier. After that, Agu is ready to kill in battle.
At first, there is some semblance of sense to this war, as the Commandant is in radio communication with his superiors. The ragged battalion is forced to live off the land, and make no money, and are prevented from enjoying the "spoils" normally associated with marauders. But they dutifully ambush an enemy convoy when ordered to, and take a bridge leading to the capitol, with heavy losses. But they remain a terror of a fighting unit, mostly because of the strong leadership of the Commandant, who not only takes the time to know his troops, he gives them pep talks before battle. He even prays with them. He is mentor, captain, spiritual advisor, and father figure all rolled into one. But he has a dark side, as well, as Agu finds out one night when they have captured a barracks, and the Commandant invites Agu to his room for some comfort. This bothers Agu so much that he becomes a participant in the troop's increasing drug usage. When they finally arrive at the capital, they are a depleted, weary, and compromised group, which their "Supreme Commander" recognizes immediately. So he orders the Commandant to stand down, and gives the troop to his second in command, demoting the Commandant to a desk job. And all this time he thought he was angling for General.
The Commandant asks for one more night with his men, which he utilizes as an excuse to get them back out in the field, under his command once more, but now they are merely an unattached vigilante group, rapacious and lawless, and eventually the remaining battalion members grow weary of the dark façade, and they all leave at once, including Agu.
But now what? Can a mere child overcome all the trauma of war that he has seen and done? PTSD is hardly the word for a boy in an orphanage who can't seem to connect with the other boys, or his teachers, either. Yes, war is Hell, as General Sherman famously said. But for Agu, it was a special kind of Inferno that not even Dante's could adequately define.
Both Idris Elba and Abraham Attah deliver powerful performances, and their characters will haunt you long after you've left the theater.
What should be the minimum age for combat? How about a maximum? And should women be allowed into every combat situation along with the men?
Have you ever come across a leader so charismatic that you wanted to follow him everywhere? Did that person wind up disappointing you?
Should we involve ourselves in the civil wars of other nations? And at what level?


Take part with friends and family on Mandela Day in building the largest food can mosaic ever in South Africa. Bring a can of food and volunteer 67 minutes on the day to add your can together with those from our sponsors. Special LEAP live music and dancing to honour Madiba will accompany their efforts.
Online registration is closed but we will welcome walk-in registrations on a first-come basis.
← LEAP ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Released in Celebration of Youth Day 2016.


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What is productivity?
by Petra
Although the concept of productivity has been generalized and is used in relation to any type of activity in order to measure its effectiveness, productivity, in origin, is linked to production. That is to say, we speak of productivity taking into account the variations in products produced or services performed, and the variations in the means used to achieve it. The means of productionAs we know, they are land, labor and capital, and productivity is closely related to an efficient association of means, as well as, with the time it takes for production to take place.
Ultimately, it is about producing as much as possible, making the most of available resources, and therefore wasting as little as possible. In this way, there is also greater profitability for the company. Understood in a broad sense, the productivity of a company is not only related to the production process itself, but also to the rest of the functions and departments of the company, although they are transversal in nature.
The reason is that said apartments They also constitute means and resources whose costs must be attributed to the products or services produced in their proportional part. Therefore, if there are inefficiencies in any department of the company, such inefficiencies translate into an increase in the fixed or variable costs of the company, which, in turn, leads to an increase in the costs of the products. And, unless the company is willing to assume the difference, also in an increase in the prices of the products.
Keeping track of the productivity of the company also allows making improvements and changes, in order to make it more profitable and productive. As far as possible, it may also be useful to take into account the productivity of competitors. In this case, to determine whether it is necessary to make any important changes in the company, in its market positioning, or simply to apply ideas that improve or make the production process more effective.
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What is austerity?
What is the tax address?
What is intermediate consumption?
What is offshoring?
What is the absolute advantage?
What is cross marketing?
What are direct costs?
What are expenses?
What is economy of scope?
What is supplying?
What is Okun's law?
What is a goal?


Students learn and communicate in different ways, so tutors at GSM London use a variety of teaching styles and media to help students gain the best possible results. This includes making the assessment process more interactive – for example, our IT and marketing departments are piloting the use of video to explain assessments.
You can view a couple of video pilots delivered by Babawande Sheba and Zach Thompson below to see what you think of this new study aid.


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Eukanuba have launched Eukanuba Daily Care a range of dog foods for dogs with various problems such as sensitive skin or sensitive joints.
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The Sensitive Joints dog food is a complete and balanced everyday diet for dogs with a predisposition to stiff joints. The diet also contains the Vital Health Formula and FOS prebiotics.
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The Ohio University Soccer Camps, celebrating their 18th season in 2019, are designed to promote learning through a fun challenging curriculum. Participants have the chance to train and learn with college players under the direction of college coaches. The week will be an opportunity to meet new challenges and provide each player with the knowledge and skills necessary to improve individual and team play. Ohio Soccer Camps are run by the Ohio University Coaching Staff with a combined 25+ years of collegiate coaching experience. We strive to produce a fun, challenging environment that will help each player grow technically, emotionally, and physically during camp.
Equipment Needs: Any footwear is acceptable. If player has cleats and shin guards they are recommended, a ball (size 3 or 4) & water.
Cancellation Policy: If cancellation of your registration is necessary, you will receive 75% of the cost of registration in return if we are notified 15 days before the start date of camp. If cancellation occurs with less than 15 days notification, you will not receive a refund for the cost of registration.


I came across a message I received some years ago and stuck in my Commonplace Book Vol.VIII. It is handwritten and I found it in the bottom of a desk drawer I was emptying. The words came today to comfort me yet again as I seem to be evaluating all my failures at the end of this life. And I think they are worth sharing because all of you who receive these CREDOS, I intuit, are trying to grow, to become wiser, better, and of greater service to others. It seems to be a message for any one of us who tries so hard! These are seeds that may not grow for a while if not needed, but just know that if you read this, you have them now in your Unconscious!
as a freshet in the sunlight.
you are bathed in Love.
The Catena Aurae is the Golden Chain often referred to as the succession of Socrates-Plato-Aristotle-Alexander the Great, but it has other implications as well. In generation after generation there have been great Teachers, hidden and revealed, who have passed down esoteric truths for the enlightenment of those ready to learn from them.
The image of the chain links not only these great and wise masters in every culture throughout history but can also be applied to all those wise men and women who have influenced you and me, either formally or informally, in person or in print or any of the many new ways of communication. It is like a slowly moving river of invisible love offering itself to all that thirst.
We need to pause and reflect on the influence such may have had on our lives, to realize that each was born a child and had to grow up, often under difficult circumstances, and had to learn and realize and grow and benefit from learning the hard way. For this we need to be profoundly grateful; to pause and think how we, in turn, can pass on the good we have received.
When we think of teachers, our first thought goes to education and school. As I went to several different schools in different countries, I was exposed to a great many different teachers. I was blessed to encounter four great educators. They all had something in common and I will try to explain this in Jungian terms.
2) By extension, of course, the Golden Chain involves more than one way of teaching, the most important aspect of all: teaching by example. Looking back 65 years to my spiritual Teacher M, he personified that. For all the years I knew him, I never saw him angry or depressed or careless. He had the knack of being totally present to each of us, of being kind and even fun. Yet there was always a transpersonal dignity and implicit knowing about him. A steady Light and source of Love.
In writing this, now that I am 86 years old, I realize how short I fall in living up to that example! I was 21 when I first met him, and looking back I realize the only gift I had to give him was my ability to make him laugh. As this was in the midst of WWII, he had few occasions for laughter but calling him fondly "Dr. Gumblegurk" helped. I think I was a granddaughter of sorts for him and there was that kind of love between us. He was the inspiration for Gezeebius in my The Beejum Book.
angels that were demon wise.
Love it is that tries and tries.
My granddaughter Rowan gave me a copy of a workbook with the title above. It is extremely compelling, containing short articles by different authors and topics for discussion. I was especially struck by the following excerpts and think they are worth all of us considering, given the state of the planet.
Since 1957, the number of Americans who say they are "very happy" has declined slightly, from 35 to 30 percent. We are twice as rich and no happier. Meanwhile, the divorce rate has doubled, the teen suicide rate has more than doubled, and increasingly our teens and young adults are plagued by depression.
• What are ALL the costs over its lifetime?
• Are the resources that go into it renewable?
• How long will it probably last?
• Do I have one already that could be fixed or repaired?
• How many hours or months will I have to work to pay for it?
• Am I prepared to maintain it for its entire lifetime?
Go for a walk; talk with friends. Fact: There are more malls than high schools in America.
Don't be sucked in by efforts to make you feel inadequate so you'll buy more stuff you don't need.
A few luxuries can be delightful, and they don't have to be expensive.
As a result, I am busy clearing my house of much stuff that is no longer being used but might be useful to someone else. This is not a noble gesture on my part but in truth a necessity, as I am old, handicapped, and with greatly diminished need for "stuff"! As I once remarked in my wiser teens: Virtue is really enlightened self-interest! A sensible observation, if I do say so, as it cleanses one of pride.
I will keep this short today because it recommends multum in parvum, or there is much to be found in little! Granted, on a national if not a global level, this points to a different economy, not one based on spending so much on acquiring material but in paying more attention to things that matter more. Note the word matter has more than one meaning! But that is another matter for a future Credo!


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'Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream' Competition Set At ITV
ABBA musical Mamma Mia! is seeking its next lead via an ITV entertainment show from The X Factor producer Thames and Littlestar. Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream will see contestants whittled down to two to be leads Sophie and Sky, who were played by Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper in the movie version. The show will be filmed in the Greek Islands and final will take place in London's West End. Contestants will be mentored by guest industry stars through unique workshops and judged by a panel of well-known industry experts in both music and theater. The show has shades of BBC series Any Dream Will Do, which found the next Joseph star, and I'd Do Anything, which did the same for Oliver towards the end of the Noughties. ITV Head of Entertainment Commissioning Katie Rawcliffe said Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream is "everything we could want in an entertainment show." Rawcliffe is commissioner alongside Lily Wilson and Louise Major. Amelia Brown, Charlie Irwin and Ashley Whitehouse are exec producers for Thames and Judy Craymer for co-producer Littlestar.
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Seven ways to help get you through your birth child's first birthday.
I was dreading that day, the day my handsome birth son turned 1. Looking back, the anxiety that had been building up to that day was far worse than the actual day itself. It wasn't that he was turning 1. It was all the memories and feelings that were flooding back that I thought I'd never have to feel again. What got me through it, though, was allowing myself to feel every single detail of the day he was born and letting the tears flow. I let myself feel the sadness, the anger, the hurt. There were so many tears I thought I'd never stop, but those tears dried, and a smile had crept upon my face. At that moment, I found myself at peace. It was the first time I had felt so at peace since the moment I found out I was pregnant. It was the first time I really, truly let myself feel.
1. Don't be afraid to take a personal day.
Keeping busy can certainly help to keep our mind off of things. Instead of spending the day working and putting on a brave face, take a personal day. Surround yourself with people you choose to be around and doing the things that you choose to do.
2. Do something for yourself.
Go get a pedicure, go buy those new shoes, go take a walk around your favorite park, treat yourself to your favorite restaurant. Find something that puts a smile on your face, and go do it!
3. Indulge in your favorite dessert!
A cupcake, a doughnut, a package of your favorite cookies. Whatever the sweet is that makes your mouth water, go get it for yourself. While you're at it, stick a candle in it and sing Happy Birthday. Remember, this day not only honors your birth child, but honors you as well. The day you brought a perfect little human into the world.
4. Relive the moments leading up to your child's birth, and let the tears fall.
This will be one of the hardest things to do, but the feeling of relief that washes over you as you do a play-by-play and cry is quite honestly one of the greatest feelings ever. Hands down, this is what got me through. I was trying so hard to forget. I was trying so hard to shove the emotions deep down for fear of the pain that came with them. Truth be told, that was causing more pain and heartache than just allowing myself to feel. Look at all of the pictures you have. Any maternity photos, photos from the hospital, any mementos you may have. The first step towards healing is feeling. I was induced nine days past my due date. I remember tossing and turning all night, so ready for the aches and pains to go away but not ready for my little boy to no longer be in my belly. I remember every detail from crying when my alarm went off that Wednesday morning to the burger I ate with tears streaming down my face after leaving the hospital–details I didn't want to think about but felt so good releasing. Feel it. Feel it all and let the tears flow.
My birth son and me minutes after he was born.
5. Make a list of the positives.
Now that you've had a good cry session, focus on the positive. It is so hard to look past the pain, the sadness, and the what ifs that we forget to take a step back and look at all the positive that has come from it. My birth son has absolutely incredible parents, who were ready and patiently waiting for him to come and complete their family. My family and I are so blessed to still be a part of his life. Make a list and keep it tucked away or even display it on your mirror as a daily reminder.
My birth son and his parents.
If you're able to, give them a phone call. Send them an email. Mail your little one a package. Perhaps you can spend the afternoon together. Don't be afraid to reach out, but know and respect any boundaries.
My birth son, his parents, and me at his first birthday party that I held for him.
A birth mom friend of mine told me how she had started a charm bracelet in honor of her birth daughter. Each year she finds a charm that represents what is going on in her birth daughter's life around her birthday. I fell in love with this idea. He had started walking around his birthday this year, so I started my bracelet off with a baby shoe charm. Perhaps you are into photography. Take a picture of whatever it is that reminds you of your birth child, and create a photo album just for you. The beauty of this is how creative and unique you can get in honor of you and your birth child's special day.
Practice self-care, letting yourself feel, and honoring yourself and your birth child each and year-round, not just their their birthday. This is what can help get you through the darker days and into the sunshine. If you can make it through the year of firsts, you can surely accomplish anything.


Opportunity, they say, lies in adversity. Manoj Sinha, CEO of Husk Power Systems, could well vouch for this adage when he recalls how he abruptly had to quit his plush job in New York to take over the reins of the company he cofounded in 2008.
Gyanesh, the cofounder and the main protagonist in Husk's formation, resigned in 2013, shortly after they had raised money in 2012. Sinha, working in S&P Global in New York at that time, decided on shifting back to India soon after his departure.
He looks back at the time with a mix of relief and trepidation. "Investors pulled back the money since they were not getting the confidence. There were a lot of things that I had to figure out in just 6 months. We were losing close to Rs 5060 lakh per month," he avers.
But it was also, in his words, "the best learning experience" of his life. From 2016 onwards, the company's revenues started seeing a steady 2530% yearonyear growth.
Husk aims to roll out 400500 minigrid sites in rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in the next five years as this will enable them to serve more than 100,000 households and businesses.
friends, Manoj, Gyanesh and Ratnesh got together in 2007 to solve the issue that they had been home to since forever: access to electricity. The idea essentially being to provide electricity by using 100% renewable power with the help of decentralised minigrids.
"Gyanesh and I pursued our Masters in Electrical Engineering in US and after working there for 67 years, we discussed solving some of the tough issues that people in Bihar faced every day. Lack of access to reliable electricity was pervasive and impacted 70 million people in Bihar. Therefore, it only seemed logical to embark on addressing this problem," he reminisces.
Sinha was joined by another of his classmates, Chip Ransler, when he was enrolled at the Darden School of Business in the US to write a business plan for rural electrification. The four of them came together as a team in 2008 to form a company  Husk Power Systems  because the first minigrid installed was powered by rice husk based biomass gasification power plant.
The entire concept of solar PV minigrids in India dates back to the '90s in the Sunderban delta region of West Bengal and in the forested province of Chhattisgarh.
India has committed that by 2030, 40% of installed power generation capacity is to be based on clean sources. It was also determined that 175 GW of RE capacity will be installed by 2022. This includes 100 GW from solar, 60 GW from wind, 10 GW from biopower and 5 GW from small hydro power, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) observed in its 2018 yearend review.
"Large power providers focused on building 100MW1GW scale Solar farm, which is great for the country, but it catered mainly to wealthier states. We filled that gap by providing 100% renewable power through the Hybrid minigrid system. Combining Solar PV, biomass gasification and battery banks, rural households and businesses got access to 24/7 renewable power," he affirms.
"We set our tariff scheme to serve customers as per their most critical requirements. For example, if a commercial customer uses power during daytime, we offer them a discount as solar PV is cheaper than battery. We tell them the various ways in which they can use electricity to maximize the benefits. Our commercial customers have reported increasing their net profit by 3040% within twelve months of connecting to Husk minigrid," adds Sinha, the confidence palpable in his tenor.
"When we started our company with the idea of generating power using minipower plant of size 30 KW and run a local distribution network up to 2km to serve only rural customers, most people thought of it as a "charity/welfare" project. Nobody believed that customers will actually pay for the electricity service, let alone the company generate any profit," he states emphatically.
Sinha is clear that this is a path that he now wants to lead on his own. "Efficiency and professionalism is much easier if it is one person at the helm. Dealing with a cofounder is almost like dealing with a spouse. I did not want to deal with more spouses to fix the problems that we were facing," jokes Sinha.
The road ahead has been mapped out. Husk aims to roll out 400500 minigrid sites in rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in the next five years as this will enable them to serve more than 100,000 households and businesses. Sinha says that this will also help them to eliminate 250,000 tons of CO2 starting 2021. "We aim to impact lives of 10 million people in Asia and Africa over the next 10 years," he adds confidently.


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Florida State Hands No. 16 Tennessee First Loss Of Season; Advances To Emerald Coast Classic Championship
Florida State junior swingman M.J. Walker
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NICEVILLE, FLA. — Marking the first meeting on the basketball court since 1989 Florida State held No. 16 ranked Tennessee to a season-low 33.3 percent shooting en route to a 60-57 victory Friday that advanced the Seminoles into the championship of the sixth annual Emerald Coast Classic held at Northwest Florida State.
Florida State, winning its sixth straight game, moved to 6-1 and will play the winner of the Purdue/VCU semifinal game for the championship which will tip off at 7 p.m Eastern time Saturday.
Guard Lamonte Turner scored a game-high 20 points for Tennessee which its suffered its first loss of the season falling to 5-1.
"The atmosphere was like an NCAA or ACC tournament feel," said Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton. "We expected it. Tennessee is very good and very well-coached. We knew that we were going to have to step it up to be successful against a team of this caliber. "
Tennessee committed a season-high 21 turnovers with Florida State scoring 23 points off those miscues.
"We're disappointed that we didn't play how we are capable of but that's what this time of year and these types of tournaments are for, " said Tennessee coach Rick Barnes.
"I have so much respect for Leonard Hamilton and the job he's done at Florida State. I don't believe he's ever got the credit he deserves on how he coaches the game. I think it's a typical Leonard Hamilton team that likes to pressure and get in the passing lanes.
Sophomore guard Devin Vassell led Florida State with 13 points, while MJ Walker collected 10 points.
"We need these types of games early in the year to see where we are," Hamilton added. "I thought our guys were extremely focused. Defensively, I thought we did some nice things. Offensively, we had our moments where we made the extra pass and created some opportunities.
"But with Tennessee being the type of defensive team as they are, it was challenging for us. We feel very fortunate to come away with the victory against a team that's seasoned. It was obvious that those guys have been in that position before, they were ranked number one for six or seven weeks last season."
The Seminoles held on to the victory despite going the last 6 minutes 37 seconds without a basket. After a three-point basket by Walker had given Florida State a 51-41 advantage with 6:38 left, the Seminoles scored their last nine points at the free throw line including four free throws from Vassell.
"They (Tennessee) showed their poise, kept coming back, and didn't go away," said Hamilton. "We made enough stops at the end to come away with the victory against a very good basketball team. I think we found more out about our guys tonight."
The Seminoles came out firing to open the game, making six of their first eight shots to race to a 10-2 lead forcing Tennessee coach Rick Barnes to call time out. The Volunteers dug themselves in a hole early, missing four shots and committed five turnovers in their first 10 possessions.
"The turnovers at the start of the game dug ourselves into a big hole. A number of those early were just unforced turnovers. But you have to give them credit with that," Barnes added.
Junior forward Yves Pons collected his first career double-double for Tennessee with 13 points and 10 rebounds.
Tennessee, which shot just 31.8 percent in the first half, could only cut the deficit to five points on three occasions, trailing 29-24 at half, following a three-point basket from Jordan Bowden with 45 seconds left in the period
The Seminoles extended their lead to 46-33 following a three-point play by Trent Forrest with 10:42 left. But Tennessee took advantage of Florida State's shooting drought to claw within 57-54 with 1:03 left following two free throws by Davonte Gaines.
After a free throw by Forrest pushed Florida State's lead to 58-54 with 31 seconds left, Tennessee committed a turnover on its next possession and Vassell sealed the victory by making two free throws with 15 seconds left to push the Seminoles lead to 60-54.


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When a young woman in high school frets about the folks in Mogadishu–when, for that matter, she can spell "Mogadishu"–American moviegoers know she needs a fashion makeover, a boyfriend and an eventful night at the prom. She's All That fully meets these expectations for its heroine, and exceeds them in ways that make me fear for the picture's tender viewers.
These are likely to be in the 12-to-20 range. The 12-year-olds look ahead to the dangers and opportunities they will soon taste in high school. The 20-year-olds, if bored at the mall, will consent to glance back at embarrassments only recently escaped. Yes, our children are our future (I think Bill Clinton said that); but the future looks grim indeed if the makers of She's All That have guessed right about their audience. Not only does the girl who can spell "Mogadishu" go to the prom–now she even learns to care about being elected prom queen.
I call these matters to your attention because high school is America's great engine of normalization. Children in all their variety get dumped into its hopper, undergo processing and come out at the other end packaged as socioeconomic types. Acting as a safety valve for this machinery is the high school movie, which (among its other functions) vents the steam that can build up in the raw material. All that normalization can make kids feel odd. Pretty soon, they need to spend money at the multiplex, to watch other odd-feeling kids make peace with the social order. That's what worries me. How meager is the pressure that builds up nowadays, if it can be relieved by She's All That!
The symbolic oddball here is one Laney Boggs, played by a young actress whose parents certainly couldn't handle "Mogadishu," to judge from what they did to her name. (It's Rachael Leigh Cook.) But, to resume: Our Laney suffers from being the middle-class kid in a rich kids' school. Of course, she's not so deprived as to lack a swimming pool; but since her father cleans pools for a living, we understand that she dwells in relative misery–a state aggravated by the absence of her mother, who died many years ago. Apparently, single-parent households are rare in the more affluent neighborhoods of Southern California, so Laney feels like a freak. She therefore shuns all contact with other students and spends her time painting dark, brooding canvases, in which she merges her own agony with a cry of pain for the victims of planned famines, or the ocean life killed off by waste disposal at sea.
In short, Laney has ideas and ambitions beyond those that are conventional for a young woman of her time and place. These needs, which cannot be understood by others or even expressed to them, compel her to put aside party dresses (though she looks fetching in them) and disguise herself in mannish clothes. But then, while giving a performance at a local theater, she is accosted by Zack Siler, a brilliant and sociable young man with a long face and dark, narrow-set eyes–someone who has "winner" written all over him and yet seems vulnerable, someone who holds forth the prospect of a love she longs for, while knowing it to be impossible.
But now that I re-read the last paragraph, it suddenly occurs to me that I've summed up Shakespeare in Love.
Can that, too, be a high school movie, slyly marketed to grown-ups? Perhaps that's the source of its high reputation, which I would otherwise find inexplicable. Strip away the aura of prestige that comes with the name of Shakespeare–ignore the period setting, as the droll anachronisms encourage you to do–and Joseph Fiennes in Shakespeare in Love begins to look a lot like Freddie Prinze Jr. in She's All That. Why not think of our latest movie Shakespeare as a senior class president and soccer team captain who (recently thwarted in love) now questions the talent that once flowed so amply through him? Only by seizing upon a woman and transforming her does this darling of the gods reassure himself of his right to greatness, and the rightnesss of the social order.
And so, in one film, Shakespeare converts Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow) into his mistress, stage interpreter and fictional heroine, thereby growing into the writer he was meant to be. In the other, Zack remakes Laney as his prom queen and girlfriend, and so gets up the nerve to accept an invitation to attend Harvard or Yale, rather than his father's alma mater of Dartmouth. Either way, it's a tough business, being history's greatest playwright, or a handsome rich boy who can take his pick of the Ivy League. Either way, it's a necessary business for a young woman to accept her place in the world, as unhappy wife (Viola) or young chick who looks fetching in a party dress and no longer worries about Mogadishu (Laney).
I suppose Laney gets the better deal; 400 years have brought us a little improvement. I also suppose that an undisguised high school movie may proceed with a liberty that is denied when the genre goes incognito. Although Shakespeare in Love benefits from a delightful screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard–and a flattering one, for viewers who can congratulate themselves on recognizing this or that tatter of the Bard–the film's virtues peter out beyond the level of verbal wit. The camera direction seems to have been bought by the yard; the supporting performances (for the most part) purchased off the shelf at some storehouse of British character actors. As for the leads: Although they catch the light beautifully, they may have something to do with my impression that Shakespeare in Love delivers everything it promises, except for the last two words.
But with She's All That, we see how true garbage may nevertheless teem with a life of its own. The director, Robert Iscove, is a former choreographer who also has tried his hand at Shakespeare, with the televised extravaganza Romeo and Juliet on Ice. Although he has not imported from this background all the fluidity you might hope for, his training does seem to have contributed to two or three genuinely cinematic ideas in She's All That. These are two or three more than you get with Shakespeare in Love: moments when two scenes glide effortlessly together, or when the camera loses itself in the pleasure of watching some outburst of physical energy. Matthew Lillard (known to the children who are America's future as a bad guy from Scream) provides the funniest, most raucous of the latter moments in his role as a very minor TV star who hangs out around the high school. And as the leads, you have the lanky Freddie Prinze Jr. (who is so loose that his mouth sometimes wanders to the left while the rest of his face goes right) and Rachael Leigh Cook, who seems about nine inches too short to look like a star and turns it to her advantage. When Laney is supposed to be infuriated, her little frame quakes with rage. When Laney hopes to be kissed, she spills over with dark intensity.
I liked these people well enough that I left She's All That wishing they had something better to do. Why shouldn't Zack become independent from his father in a much bigger way–say, by taking up one of those causes that inspire Laney? (He could begin by protesting against the movie he's in. Surely he did notice that the high school's black kids are like figures in a Venetian painting, dancing attendance upon the whites.) And Laney, instead of dropping her causes (as she now does) could keep up with them, all the while plunging into the social whirl that Zack has revealed–maybe even getting together with more than one boy, for more than a single kiss. Artists do that sort of thing.
But having put up only the mildest revolt, Laney and Zack wind up settling for a mild resolution. Will it settle the 12-to-20-year-olds who go to watch? Maybe they'll file out of the multiplex in full docility–their dissatisfactions, though unassuaged, rankling so slightly as to be unfelt. And someday, when needs left unmet since high school threaten to rise again, our citizens of the future will pass two hours with Shakespeare in Love, then comfort themselves by telling each other it was grand.
Screening Schedule: Grown-ups who don't mind being challenged, and who happen to be in the New York area, might keep an eye out for the series "Empire and Memory" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. On view from February 17 through March 13, the series brings together films and videos that recall, evoke or carry on in some metaphorical way the 1899 war between the Philippines and its new possessor, the United States. The American side of the exhibition features everything from Thomas Edison's filmed re-enactments of the Philippine-American War (made in 1899 with African-Americans substituting for Filipinos) to Peter Davis's This Bloody, Blundering Business (1975), a satirical excursion through US intervention in the Philippines. The Filipino side includes Lino Brocka's Dalawa (1976), a drama about a teenage mestiza in Manila and the ex-GI who is her father, and White Christmas (1993), Michael Magnaye's highly personal reflection on the tackiness of Philippine popular culture and everything he loves about it. For information: (212) 360-4321.
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This series introduces us to the Illuminati – a group of heroes who have formed a secret coalition in order to deal with extremely big events in secret. It introduces some characters that aren't currently known from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Black Panther, Black Bolt, Dr Strange and Namor) and does a very good job of showcasing who they are and their morals. Whereas the Avengers has a full roster of characters – so many that you can struggle to keep up – this nicely limits it. The characters involved are all interesting and have independent thoughts and experiences that you can grasp almost straight away without knowing any of their history – cinematic universe or otherwise.
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Somali Muslims finding a place in Fort Morgan
10 year old Halimo Yussuf Matau talking with her mother Faduma Aziz in the living room of their Fort Morgan apartment. Joe Amon, The Denver Post
Workers including Somalis trim beef in manufacturing at Cargill Meat Solutions in Fort Morgan. Joe Amon, The Denver Post
Amina Barkhadel, 27, fled Somalia alone and made her way though Guatemala and Mexico, showing up at the U.S. border in Southern California seeking asylum. She worked as a housekeeper at a hotel before relocating to Fort Morgan to seek work at the Cargill meatpacking plant. Joe Amon, The Denver Post
Amina Barkhadel, 27, having dinner in the kitchen of the house she shares with 3 other male refugees. Amina fled Somalia alone and made her way though Guatemala and Mexico, showing up at the U.S. border in Southern California seeking asylum. She worked as a housekeeper at a hotel before relocating to Fort Morgan to seek work at the Cargill meatpacking plant. Joe Amon, The Denver Post
Amina Barkhadel, 27, praying in the bedroom of the house she shares with 3 other male refugees. Amina fled Somalia alone and made her way though Guatemala and Mexico, showing up at the U.S. border in Southern California seeking asylum. She worked as a housekeeper at a hotel before relocating to Fort Morgan to seek work at the Cargill meatpacking plant. Joe Amon, The Denver Post
14 year old Nasro Aden recites the Qur'an to Imam Amino Dakat during class in the rented back rooms of a main street business in Fort Morgan. During classes at the Mosque the children are taught not only Somali and the Qur'an, but also life lessons. Don't smoke or drink alcohol, contribute to your community and how to live in America. Joe Amon, The Denver Post
Yussuf Matau Jumale in his Fort Morgan apartment. Joe Amon, The Denver Post
4 year old Sadlo Yussuf Matau makes a snow angel on the bed of her oldest brother when she and 6 year old Ali and 3 year old Ahmed sneak in. Joe Amon, The Denver Post
Refugees from Somalia fill their place of worship on Friday afternoons for prayer in the rented back rooms of a main street business in Fort Morgan. Joe Amon, The Denver Post
By Eric Gorski | egorski@denverpost.com and Joe Amon | jamon@denverpost.com | Chalkbeat Colorado
PUBLISHED: August 16, 2011 at 6:15 am | UPDATED: June 13, 2016 at 12:05 pm
FORT MORGAN — There is no sign, nothing to indicate this is a place of worship, just an open door in an alley near the Goodwill store and the sound of Arabic crackling over a tinny sound system.
The mosque is behind a real estate agency on Main Street. On Fridays, the Somali men come — standing, kneeling and pressing their foreheads to the floor in the rhythms of Islamic prayer.
The imam, or spiritual leader, does not have time to talk after his sermon. He has to hurry off to work second shift at the Cargill meatpacking plant.
The latest wave of immigrants to remake the face of this rural agricultural community of 12,000 is black, Muslim and scarred from experiences in a failed state.
An estimated 1,000 to 1,200 Somalis — most of them refugees — now live here, drawn by employment at Cargill in the last six years.
Their arrival has provided a test for both them and the town in an era of economic uncertainty and raised tensions after 9/11.
The police chief, school superintendent and other community leaders have smoothed the waters by attempting to counter fears with facts and build bridges with a Somali community that is fragmented.
Still, difficulties have arisen over the accommodation of Muslim prayer at school and in the workplace, the support they get from the government, their loitering and poor driving — and a murder.
The Somali people are steadily finding their way. They are learning English — if they can find the time — and the meaning of a one-way street. They are catering to needs for halal meat and hijabs in a budding business district.
They are attempting to balance the demands of their faith with the expectations of America.
AT WORK AND AT HOME Yussuf Matau Jumale and his wife, Faduma, both work at the Cargill meatpacking plant in Fort Morgan. Their 10-year-old daughter, Halimo, talks with her mother in the living room of the family's apartment. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post)
One day in 1991, Yussuf Matau Jumale went for a walk and came home to find his wife dead of a gunshot wound.
She had been caught in the crossfire of clan warfare in Somalia's civil war, cut down by a stray bullet.
The couple's infant son was at her breast, unhurt and still trying to feed, when Jumale discovered her.
Shortly thereafter, he took the boy and fled to a refugee camp in Kenya.
After 13 years of waiting — and security screening, medical tests and other paperwork — the U.S. State Department signed off on relocating Jumale, his new wife and their growing family to the United States.
Yussuf Matau Jumale
One of the private resettlement agencies working with the government determined Colorado was the best match.
The spread of Islam in the U.S. is very much a story of immigration. College students, doctors and engineers came decades ago. The latest migration from poorer African nations is different, creating a new Muslim underclass of plant workers and cabdrivers.
Back in the camp, Jumale envisioned America as a place of vast riches where children came home from school with pockets overflowing with money. What he found was that working two part-time jobs — on a Coors Field cleanup crew and at a rental-car agency washing vehicles — was not enough to pay the rent.
Word had been spreading in the Somali expatriate community about work at the Cargill plant in Fort Morgan, where wages that start at $13.25 an hour, plus benefits, beckoned — and no English or experience was required.
So in 2007 Jumale started work on the fabrication floor, basically a giant butcher shop. The employees wear mesh metal vests that resemble medieval armor and cut-resistant gloves. The room is 38 degrees and loud.
The jobs can be dangerous. Some Cargill workers have tattoos of wedding rings instead of actual ones because of the risk of hands getting caught in equipment.
Jumale, 55, is proud to say he has never called in sick or come back late from a break.
"America wants someone who works," he said through an interpreter. "I don't like to sit idle. From Day One, I have been working and don't want to stop."
His wife, Faduma, 20 years his junior, also works at the plant. One of them works first shift and the other second so that someone can watch their four children, all 10 or younger.
Sitting in the living room of their apartment on a recent Sunday, Jumale asks his oldest daughter to retrieve the family Koran and a notebook filled with her handwritten Arabic.
She reads a page in a soft voice. The movie "The Matrix" is playing on TV.
"I want them to continue the religion and learn the culture of America," said Jumale, who sends his children to Islamic school at the mosque each weekend. "It is my obligation to teach them my religion. But it is up to them. They can learn Christianity, and if they leave for Christianity, it's up to them."
Jumale said he wants to learn English and become a citizen. He wants to build a house, maybe see his children become doctors or "big guys in the U.S.A."
Maybe it will be the boy who was too young to remember seeing his mother killed in front of him.
His given name is Abdi. He is 20 now, living with family in Denver and hoping to get a GED certificate because he never graduated from high school.
His teacher in Fort Morgan remembers him as a class clown whose command of speaking English masked an inability to read or write.
In the U.S., he goes by Tony.
UNITED IN PRAYER Somali men gather for Friday prayers inside the makeshift mosque behind a real estate agency on Main Street in Fort Morgan. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post)
The first Somalis arrived in Fort Morgan in 2005 — young men at first, there to feel the place out.
The meatpacking industry was struggling to find workers at the time, said Nicole Johnson-Hoffman, the manager of the Cargill plant in Fort Morgan. So company representatives fanned out to workforce centers across the country offering relocation packages, temporary lodging and food vouchers.
The company, which employs 2,000 in Fort Morgan, does not target particular ethnic groups, Johnson-Hoffman said.
But Somalis, like others before them, were willing to do work others would not. As the first wave of men contacted friends and relatives, families began arriving.
"It was like, all of a sudden, boom, here they are," said Steve Dunn, the owner of a downtown shoe store.
Police Chief Keith Kuretich started to field complaints: Groups of 30 Somali men were loitering and littering outside a store. Somalis were haggling over price at Walmart and holding up checkout lines. Their driving was dangerously bad.
The police department historically hasn't taken a leadership role integrating immigrants, instead reacting to problems, Kuretich said. He has sought to change that through outreach and partnerships with other agencies while trying to break through Somali mistrust of law enforcement.
"You don't have to look like the people you police," Kuretich said. "You just have to care."
Kuretich has been at the forefront of refuting falsehoods about the newcomers. He recently discredited an e-mail that claimed two Somali men had attempted to abduct a child from the Walmart parking lot.
Real problems, however, do exist, including two or three domestic violence cases. Abdinasser Ahmed, a college-educated Somali who works at the middle school, said beating one's wife is accepted in Somalia and the community here must discourage it.
"We still have our culture, but there are a lot of things we have to follow," he said. "We have to know the law. We have to know American culture. We discuss these things at the mosque, at home."
On Nov. 3, 2009, a Somali man from Greeley fatally stabbed his 27-year-old Somali ex-girlfriend in a Fort Morgan apartment hallway — the eighth homicide in the city since 2000 at that time.
An out-of-town website that is critical of refugee resettlement spun tales of an honor killing. Kuretich dismissed that characterization, describing it as a domestic incident unrelated to religion or ethnicity.
The killing, however, provided fuel to those already unhappy about their new neighbors.
If there is a go-to voice for anti-refugee sentiment in Fort Morgan, it is Candice Loomis.
She owns Frankie's Coffee House, where Christmas lights dangle from the ceiling and Fox News is always on.
In 2009, Loomis crafted a petition that chided the government for giving refugees financial support and portrayed Somali refugees as lazy freeloaders who refuse to learn English and talk rudely on cellphones.
She said about 630 people signed it. It was a symbolic gesture.
"It scares me that it only took a few radical Muslims to bring down two buildings, and we've brought hundreds of thousands of them here (to the United States)," Loomis said in a recent interview.
She still has complaints. She criticizes refugees for fleeing their country's problems and blames them for driving up car-insurance rates.
But when Somalis come in to buy lattés, Loomis said she starts conversations about U.S. citizenship. She avoids touching men's hands when giving change out of respect for the Muslim prohibition on physical contact between the sexes outside of marriage or family.
"I've come to the realization that they're here and we're going to have to do the best we can," Loomis said.
When the new faces started arriving at Fort Morgan High School, Karen Liston found herself teaching kids how to hold pencils, form letters and raise their hands.
The simple task of opening a locker turned into a 20-minute tutorial on numbers, the sequence of turning left and right, and combinations.
The sudden influx of Somali families — and, later, other East Africans — tested a rural public school system with limited resources. Some students had been schooled in Kenyan refugee camps. Others, especially older ones, were illiterate in their own language and had little formal school background.
Most, if not all, Somali students are struggling to find an identity and fit in — a trial for any teenager, let alone a refugee coping with dislocation, a strange language, racial divisions and a religion not well understood by their classmates.
At age 17, Yahaye Haret is about to begin his sophomore year. He already behaves like a typical American teenager, giving fist bumps and swearing.
In an interview at his family's apartment, Yahaye said he likes school and some teachers but not others. Some Mexican and white guys at school, he said, once told him to "go back to your (expletive) country."
"This is the United States," he said when asked how that felt. "Everyone can come."
Yahaye has struggled with adjustment, said Liston, who taught him last year. The tough-guy routine, she said, is a defense mechanism for a boy who eventually was earning A's and B's in vocabulary class.
"He can cuss like a sailor, cuss like any rapper in a rap song," Liston said. "But I have really seen growth in him, from speaking out in class and being blatantly rude to really buckling down."
Morgan County schools Superintendent Greg Wagers said the district has sought "a proactive and reasoned approach" to an African-refugee population that continues to grow.
By the end of the 2010-11 school year, the district counted 62 students who spoke Somali, 13 who spoke Swahili, six who spoke Tigrigna (an Eritrean language), two who spoke Amharic (predominantly Ethiopian) and one who spoke Kinyarwanda (Rwandan).
This year, the district shifted around resources to start a "newcomers center" with accelerated English courses and remediation for "over-age and under-credited" middle and high school students.
Like other school districts with large numbers of Muslim students, Morgan County also sought to strike a balance accommodating midday prayer.
The high school set aside auditorium balcony space, segregated by gender, during lunch to ensure the school schedule was not disrupted, Wagers said.
Some citizens complained that the district was endorsing Muslim practice or giving Muslims special treatment. That prompted Wagers to write a three-page memo to the board of education and the community that included a primer on Islam and the legal framework for the district's approach.
The scrutiny revealed that some teachers were wrongly letting students out of class to pray, Wagers said. Since then, he said, "it's been quiet. We just had to find the middle ground."
EARNING A Somali worker trims beef at the Cargill meatpacking plant in town. An estimated 900 to 1,100 Somalis – most of them refugees – live in Fort Morgan, drawn by employment at Cargill in the past six years. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post)
Amina Barkhadel, 27, lives in a one-story, red-brick apartment building near the post office.
A pot of rice and beans sits on the stove. Every lighting fixture is a bare bulb and a string.
She splits the $550 monthly rent with three male roommates, also Somalis.
This is where Barkhadel wakes up at 4 a.m. each day to prepare for study and work.
Back in Somalia, she worked in a little shop. In 2008, men in masks with guns came in and killed her 25-year-old brother and hit her.
Her grieving mother gave her $8,500 to pay an English-speaking man to pose as her husband and get her out of the country — to Dubai, Guatemala and Mexico.
She ultimately made her way to the U.S. border. After spending time in Mexican and U.S. immigration jails, she won asylum status in a court hearing.
She worked as a hotel maid in Southern California until friends told her about work at Cargill in Fort Morgan.
Barkhadel, shy and quiet, rises early to attend classes through a workplace-education program largely paid for by Cargill and run by Morgan County Community College. There, students are taught English, basic math and computer skills, as well as the mysteries of tax preparation and direct deposit.
The head of the program, Shirley Penn, said her goal is to one day produce a plant manager. So far, not a single Somali has risen into management even though Somalis make up one-fourth of the workforce.
Barkhadel hopes to be a nurse one day. She saves money to send home to Somalia, where a devastating famine brought on by drought has caused a humanitarian crisis.
One of her beneficiaries is her husband, who hauls goods on his back and in a wheelbarrow for a living. He could not afford to flee Somalia with her.
Living with three men is not a problem, Barkhadel said. They do not enter her bedroom. When it is time to pray, she closes her door and prays alone.
What does America mean to her? She was asked a similar question when she showed up at the U.S. border: Of all the countries in the world, why the United States?
"It is good," she said. "Safe."
The leadership of the local Somali community is in constant flux. A request to visit the mosque or speak to someone will invariably get back to "The Committee," a group of about a dozen self-appointed elders.
Others are trying to wrest control from that group and hold a meeting of all Somalis to elect leaders. There is competition to be in charge and to control information, complicated by the same clan divisions roiling Somalia. It can make life difficult for everyone.
"The truism 'Wherever you go, there you are' kind of applies," said Paul Stein, the director of the Colorado Refugee Services Program, part of the state Department of Human Services. "People bring some of the dynamics of the failed state here."
It falls on Brenda Zion, a 37-year-old former child-protection worker and substitute teacher who grew up on a dairy farm, to make sense of it all.
Zion heads OneMorgan County, a nonprofit that coordinates driver's education classes, community forums and other programs to help immigrants integrate.
"I have faith," Zion said. "But sometimes, in the middle of it all, you wonder if you're making progress or moving backwards."
Zion has watched well-educated Somalis with good English burn out and leave town, unable to balance their own lives with demands from both their countrymen and the broader community to translate and fix problems.
She wonders whether it is happening with Abdinasser Ahmed, who spent the summer helping Somalis with doctor appointments and workplace disputes but isn't picking up his cellphone anymore.
"He is like so many people who get access to education," she said. "They are very much torn."
Slowly, other Somalis are putting down roots.
The handful of Somali-run businesses on Kiowa Street near the post office and a couple blocks away on Railroad Street are visible examples.
There's Luul Ahmed, a tall, elegant mother of eight who runs The African Grocery Store, which is much more than that, with ornate upholstered couches from Saudi Arabia and vases of silk flowers. Her family operates outposts of the business in Denver, as well as Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.
There's Asha Abuukar, 41, who was a medical assistant in Somalia. She runs her own market in the morning and relies on out-of-work Somalis to mind the store in the afternoon when she works at Cargill.
Her shelves are stacked with adzuki beans, sesame oil, Kenyan-made butter, dates wrapped in plastic, perfume from the Emirates and spaghetti, a legacy of Somalia's status as a former Italian colony.
There's Abdiwahabi Salah, the 26-year-old owner of a halal meat market who drives his van to Somali markets in Minneapolis twice a month to restock his shelves.
"As long as the company is here," said Salah, referring to Cargill, "we will be here."
At the end of the month, hundreds of Somalis will gather for Eid ul-Fitr, a celebration marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The city allows them to use Riverside Park on the banks of the South Platte. There, refugees in robes and head scarves will spread rugs on the grass and, following custom, pray for God's forgiveness, mercy and peace.
Reporter Eric Gorski: 303-954-1971 or egorski@denverpost.com
Photographer Joe Amon: 303-954-1321 or jamon@denverpost.com
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Early Films (Including One by Thomas Edison) Made Yoga Look Like Magic
The Sackler Gallery exhibit shows how yoga went from fakery to fitness in the West
Vicky Gan
In this still from Hindoo Fakir (1902), the magician levitates his assistant. Image courtesy of Sackler Gallery
To Americans living in the late 19th century, yoga looked an awful lot like magic. The ancient discipline appeared to Western observers primarily in the form of ethnographic images of "fakirs"—a blanket term encompassing Sufi dervishes, Hindu ascetics and, most importantly, stage and street performers of death-defying stunts, such as the bed-of-nails and Indian rope tricks. In 1902, the "fakir-yogi" made his big screen debut in a "trick film" produced by Thomas Edison, Hindoo Fakir, one of three motion pictures in the Sackler Gallery's pioneering exhibition, "Yoga: The Art of Transformation."
Hindoo Fakir, said to be the first film ever made about India, depicts the stage act of an Indian magician who makes his assistant disappear and reappear, as a butterfly emerging from a flower. To a modern eye, the special effects may leave something to be desired. But Edison's audiences, in nickelodeons and vaudeville houses, would have marveled at the magic on screen as well as the magic of the moving image itself. Cinema was still new at the time and dominated by "actuality films" of exotic destinations and "trick films," like Hindoo Fakir, which featured dissolves, superimpositions and other seemingly magical techniques. Indeed, some of the most important early filmmakers were magicians, including George Melies and Dadasaheb Phalke, director of India's first feature film. "The early days of cinema were about wonder and showing off this technology," says Tom Vick, curator of film at the Freer and Sackler galleries.
Early cinema was certainly not about cultural sensitivity. The similarity between "fakir" and "faker" is no coincidence; these words became synonyms in the American imagination, as performers in circuses and magic shows invoked supernatural powers commonly attributed to the fakir-yogi. Howard Thurston, a stage magician from Ohio, appropriated the Indian rope trick for his popular 1920s traveling show. In the 1930s, the French magician Koringa, billed as the "only female fakir in the world," baffled audiences with hypnosis and crocodile wrestling. Her assumed Indian identity was an "understandable idea by that time," says Sita Reddy, a Smithsonian Folklife research associate and "Yoga" curator. "The fakir became something that didn't have to be explained anew; it was already circulating." Fakir was, if not a household name, a part of popular parlance—pervasive enough that in 1931, Winston Churchill used it as a slur against Gandhi.
The self-described fakir Koringa confronts a crocodile in this 1937 Look magazine cover. Image courtesy of Sackler Gallery
Yet Western taste for fakir-style huckstering appears to have waned by 1941, when the musical You're the One presented the yogi as an object of ridicule. In a big band number called "The Yogi Who Lost His Will Power," the eponymous yogi runs through all of the typical "Indian" cliches, wearing the obligatory turban and robes, gazing into a crystal ball, lying on a bed of nails and more. But the lyrics by Johnny Mercer cast him as a hapless romantic who "couldn't concentrate or lie on broken glass" after falling for the "Maharajah's turtle dove"; for all his yogic powers, this yogi is powerless when it comes to love. Arriving at the tail end of the fakir phenomenon, You're the One encouraged audiences to laugh, rather than marvel, at the stock character.
How did yoga make the leap from the circus ring to the American mainstream? Reddy traces yoga's current popularity to the loosening of Indian immigration restrictions in 1965, which brought droves of yogis into the U.S.—and into the confidence of celebrities like the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe. But the transformation began much earlier, she says, with the teachings of Swami Vivekananda, the Hindu spiritual leader whose 1896 book, Raja Yoga, inaugurated the modern era of yoga. Vivekananda denounced the conjurers and contortionists he felt had hijacked the practice and instead proposed a yoga of the mind that would serve as an "emblem of authentic Hinduism." Vivekananda's vision of rational spirituality contended with the fakir trope in the early decades of the 20th century, but after the 1940s, yoga was increasingly linked to medicine and fitness culture, gaining a new kind of cultural legitimacy in the West.
The physicality of yoga is revived in the third and final film of the exhibit, in which master practitioner T. Krishnamacharya demonstrates a series of linked asanas, or postures, which form the backbone of yoga practice today. This 1938 silent film introduced yoga to new audiences across the whole of India, expanding the practice beyond the traditionally private teacher-student relationship for the first time in history. Unlike Hindoo Fakir and You're the One, the Krishnamacharya film was made by and for Indians. But like them, it affirms the power of the moving image to communicate the dynamism of yoga.
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Vicky Gan, a former editorial intern at Smithsonian Magazine, currently works for the Washingtonian.