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Website: www.TheEritreanExodus.com
Production Company: Tailor Made Media
Director: Chris Cotter
Co-directors: Scott Miller, Joe Acchione
Director of Photography: Scott Miller, Joe Acchione
Editor: Chris Cotter, Scott Miller, Joe Acchione
Finishing Editor: Josh Coyne
Written by: Evan R. Schullery & Chris Cotter
Music Supervisor: TribeSound Records
Original Music by: WaveRadio
There are plenty of humanitarian issues throughout the world, but what distinguishes the Eritrean refugee crisis is that much of the world is unaware of it. Until now.
Follow Chris Cotter, an American world traveler, as he searches for answers about this mysterious country's little-reported refugee crisis. Eritrea is a narrow strip of African land that borders the Red Sea and its people are leaving en masse to escape the brutality of Isaias Afwerki, the Eritrean president, who has retained power for over 20 years. The film brings the viewer on a common migration path that many Eritreans desperately undertake for the slim hope of freedom and security.
Chris and his crew tour never-before-seen refugee camps in Ethiopia including the desolate and dangerous Afar region. Hear the stories of Eritreans as they depict deplorable treatment in their homeland, the struggle to leave, and a vanishing hope for a better life. Back in Eritrea, they face indefinite military service that serves as slave labor, harsh imprisonment for speaking out, arbitrary killings, and an uncertain future. Some have been ripped from their homes in the middle of the night without cause and have never been heard from again.
Chris also speaks to many experts on the ground, including Amnesty International, Physicians for Human Rights, and the Assistant Secretary of State, Anne Richard. Richard confidently claims that, "Eritrea has one of the most oppressive governments in the world."
Despite the potential dangers of speaking ill of the regime, the surviving refugees bravely reveal the profound hardships they have endured. As the refugees explain, once they choose to leave, they face being shot at the border, kidnapped for ransom, and even having their organs harvested. Their stories are unimaginable and heartbreaking, yet told with a profound dignity.
The dire situation shocks Chris and his team as their search leads them to Israel where they interview many urban refugees and experts from leading NGOs. Searching to find a reason to hope, they are confronted by angry Israelis who are unsympathetic to the cause, labeling the Eritreans as "job-stealing infiltrators." The Israeli government has cast the refugees off to remote prisons near the Egyptian border.
Refugee challenges the audience to consider how such a large-scale injustice can exist in the 21st century, while the rest of the world remains either unaware or seemingly impotent. As depicted in the film, many Americans have not even heard of the country, let alone the atrocities committed there. Witnessing the refugees' bare humanity makes their sub-animal treatment at the hands of Afwerki that much harder to stomach.
But stomach it we must, the film demands. The stakes are too high. We must watch, listen, question, and act. Only then will the plight of the Eritrean people end. Only then will they attain hope. Only then, will they finally have a place to call "home."
Chris Cotter: Chris owns and operates Tailor Made Media and TribeSound Records where he spends his time producing music and managing film and commercial video projects. He produces for many award winning musical artists and works closely with several large organizations both in the US and abroad. His experience and ambition has led Chris around the world working in the United States, Africa, Europe, Central and South America. When Chris isn't traveling or found in the editing room you're likely to find him on stage drumming it up with his band WaveRadio.
Scott Miller: Scott has been writing and directing for film and video since 2009. He graduated in 2011 from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in Film Studies. During his time there he worked on numerous student films that have been featured at various film festivals. He has since been working in Philadelphia on local projects as camera operator and editor while continuously finding time to fine tune his skill on the etch-a-sketch.
Joe Acchione: Joe has been writing, shooting, editing and scoring films and videos for over ten years. While earning his film degree from Emerson College in Boston, MA he took part in long-term studies of film, literature and music throughout Europe and Los Angeles. He has also performed as a lead guitarist on many well-known stages including the Warped Tour, the TLA of Philadelphia and Lollapalooza.
Josh Coyne: Joshua is a nationally aired commercial and music video director who also specializes in high end visual effects, detail oriented editing, and color correction. He earned his BA in cinematography, and soon thereafter learned he also excelled in Directing. His broad work experiences are in every aspect of production.
Evan R. Schullery: Evan graduated with a B.S. in Cinema and Photography from Ithaca College in 2003. With a concentration in Screenwriting, his writing experience has been mostly fictional up until this project. He interned for the Emmy-winning television show Malcolm in the Middle, assisting writers and helping organize the show's "bible," as well as at Martin-Chase Productions where he wrote script coverage. He has written several screenplays that have performed well in contests and has most recently applied his writing skills to music, under the artist name "Skinny Cool Kid."
Luckily for me, I was born just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States of America. I spent my childhood as an optimistic, naive kid more interested in playing music than studying geography. Honestly, I didn't really put much thought into anything or anyone outside of my small bubble. My biggest issue as a child was deciding whether to watch Thundercats or He-Man.
Like most of us born in a truly democratic state, I have taken many of my basic rights and freedoms for granted. It wasn't until I began traveling outside of the U.S. that I started to understand how vastly different other countries could be. At first, I traveled mostly for the adventure of it, an achievement of some kind, or just out of sheer boredom. I did it because I could. I was hungry to see the world. My world.
It took quite a few trips before the actual world finally came into focus for me. I started to realize that not everyone was as sheltered and spoiled as I was here in the United States. Not every person had the freedom to question authority or to have their vote counted when something needed to be changed. Not every man, woman, or child had a voice. As it turned out, "my world" ended up including other people who were not born as lucky as I was.
I took on this project to tell the stories of people whose cries are falling on deaf ears and not reaching the public eye. These refugees are underdogs born into a severe situation and if things had gone another way, any of us could have been facing similar fates. After visiting the refugee camps and conducting interviews, I now understand that borders may put certain limits on our identity, but they do not need to define the limits of our humanity.
Refugee: The Eritrean Exodus is the story I felt needed to be told. It's a story of the struggle of humanity and the resilience of mankind. It's a story of suffering, triumph, bravery, and perseverance. It's a story that has been unfolding for years, unknown by most of our world. Until now.
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This is something Eritreans need to support. Stop the talk for a moment and help,https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/960049400/refugee-the-eritrean-exodus . it would be a wake-up call for millions who dont believe untill they see.Let them see and feel the plight and suffering of the Eritrean people. Hope is from thos who knew and act. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/960049400/refugee-the-eritrean-exodus
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At least vide such a report the world would be made aware that there is ambiguity about being politically right to support the Isayas's government and provide it with assistances that can be diverted or misused against the people.
Knowing what they know now from the Eritrean refugees, the world and the UN have ethical obligation to protect the Eritrean refugees from all harms and mistreatment by the host countries as well as to ensure that the Isayas's government should use part of the gold and other metals sales revenues towards improving the living conditions of the Eritrean people.
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The "Tailor Made Media" message can be encapsulated in the following sentences that explains the insurmountable hardship of the refugees but yet they are stoic, dignified, and resilient. And here is the message: "the surviving refugees bravely reveal the profound hardships they have endured…………..[and] their stories are unimaginable and heart breaking, yet told with a profound dignity."
Did he say which refugee camps he visited, and tell the life in the camps? Most i read is the film makers biography
Can't the following statement be enough to you to visualize the Eritrean refugee camps in Ethiopia? "Chris and his crew tour never-before-seen refugee camps in Ethiopia including the desolate and dangerous Afar region.Hear the stories of Eritreans as they depict deplorable treatment in their homeland, the struggle to leave, and a vanishing hope for a better life."
Merhaba Amanuel. I know of eritrean refugee camps around Shire in Tigrai Killil, kassala state in sudan and in djibouti. I dont know which camps he visited that were never known before, do those camps accomodate eritreans or somali refugees, was the presence of those never before seen eritrean refugee camps known to awate team or etitreans in diaspora?.how about the known camps in tigrai, kessela, djibouti? Did he get chance to visit them?
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The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain on its ongoing rolling world tour, has performed in Germany many times, generating enthusiastic responses, standing ovations and roaring, appreciative audience reactions.
Now it has a new CD, recorded LIVE in Germany (with 2 bonus studio tracks).
The foot-stomping, crowd-pleasing, genre-busting show which audiences love, is here in its latest incarnation. You'll hear the audience responses as the Ukes blaze their way through their toe-tapping, all-singing, all-plucking "obituary of rock & roll and melodious light entertainment".
There are cover songs in English, such as Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" given a rootsy rocking rendition, and "Rolling in the Deep" (Adele) in an intense uke-orchestral-arrangement tour-de-force, and songs in German, such as "Das Modell", (Kraftwerk) given the acousto-pop minimalist driving rhythm treatment, "Die Forelle", (Schubert) and "König von Deutschland", (Rio Reiser), which features electric ukulele.
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This CD will have plenty to interest every Ukulele Orchestra fan, while demonstrating significant German connections. Early on, the Ukes of GB played to sold out houses in Hamburg, just like the Beatles!

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Jakarta (Indonesia Window) – Indonesia's central bank, Bank Indonesia (BI), has noted that the performance of the country's Balance of Payments (BOP) in the first quarter of 2022 remained good, thus supporting the external resilience.
In the first quarter of 2022, the current account surplus continued despite the capital and financial account deficit, making the BOP experience a deficit of 1.8 billion U.S. dollars, Head of BI's Communications Department Erwin Haryono said in an official statement on Friday.
With such a condition, the position of foreign exchange reserves at the end of March 2022 was recorded at 139.1 billion dollars, equivalent to financing 7.0 months of imports and government foreign debt, and was above the international adequacy standard, Erwin explained.
According to him, the current account surplus continued in the first quarter of 2022, mainly supported by the surplus in the goods balance which remained high.
In the first quarter of 2022, the current account continued to have a surplus of 0.2 billion dollars (0.1 percent of the GDP), although it was lower than the surplus in the previous quarter of 1.5 billion dollars (0.5 percent of the GDP), he added.
He further said this positive performance was supported by the non-oil and non-gas trade balance surplus which remained strong in line with the still high prices of global export commodities, such as coal and CPO (crude palm oil), amid an increasing oil and gas trade balance deficit due to rising world oil prices.
He pointed out that the service account deficit increased in line with the continued improvement in economic activities and the increase in the number of national tourist visits abroad after the easing of policies on international travel restrictions and the reopening of the umrah (minor hajj) pilgrimage.
On the other hand, the primary income account deficit improved, thereby sustaining the current account surplus, he said, adding that the performance of the capital and financial account in the first quarter of 2022 was maintained, supported by an increase in the direct investment surplus, amid the high uncertainty in global financial markets, Erwin said.
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The Natchez Indians
The meaning of the name Natchez is unknown (the z should not be pronounced). Also called:
Ani'-Na'tsl, Cherokee name.
Sunset Indians, given by Swan (in Schoolcraft (1851-57)).
Theloel or Thecoel, name used by the Natchez but seemingly derived from that of a town.
The Natchez were the largest of three tribes speaking closely related dialects, the other two being Taensa and Avoyel, and this group was remotely related to the great Muskhogean family.
The historic seat of the Natchez Indians was along St. Catherines Creek, and a little east of the present city of Natchez, MS. Part of the Natchez Indians sought refuge with and Cherokee after their tribe had been broken up by the French and most of them appear to have lived along Hiwassee River in present-day North Carolina. They accompanied those Cherokee who moved to Oklahoma and settled on the western margin of the Cherokee Reservation, where a few of them retained their language long enough to have it recorded.
A band of Indians of this tribe lived for several years at a place called Four Hole Springs in South Carolina but left in 1744 fearing the vengeance of the Catawba because of seven of that tribe whom they had killed.
Iberville gives the following list of Natchez villages:
Natches,
Pochougoula,
Ousagoucoulas,
Cogoucoulas,
Yatanocas,
Ymacachas,
Thoucoue,
Tougoulas, and
Achougoulas.
This list was obtained through the medium of the Mobilian trade language and part of the names are undoubtedly translated into it. Thus we find the Mobilian and Choctaw word for people, okla, "ougoula," or "oucoula," in five of these. The term Tougoulas probably designates the town of the Tiou, an adopted tribe, and one of the others is perhaps a designation for the adopted tribe of Grigra.
Later writers usually speak of but five settlements, including that of the Grigra. One of these, the town of the "walnuts," is evidently the Ousagoucoulas of Iberville's informants, meaning, in reality, the town of the Hickories. The Great Village was probably the town called Naches or Natchez, and Pochougoula, the Flour Village, but the others mentioned, Jenzenaque or Jensenac and the White Apple or Apple Village cannot be identified. A White-earth village is mentioned by one writer, probably intended for the White Apple village. The Natchez among the Cherokee lived for a time at a town called Guhlaniyi.
Undoubtedly tribes of the Natchez group were encountered by Hernando De Soto and his companions in 1541-43, and it is highly probable that the chief Quigaltanqui, who figures so prominently in the pursuit of the Spaniards when they took to the Mississippi, was leader of the tribe in question or of one of its divisions.
The name Natchez appears first, however, in the narratives of La Salle's descent of the Mississippi in 1682.
Relations between the French and Natchez were at first hostile, but peace was soon made and in 1699 a missionary visited the latter with a view to permanent residence. The next year Iberville, who had stopped short of the Natchez in his earlier ascent of the Mississippi, opened negotiations with the Natchez chief. A missionary was left among them at this time and the mission was maintained until 1706.
In 1713, a trading post was established. The next year four Canadians, on their way north, were killed by some Natchez Indians and this resulted in a war which Bienville promptly ended. Immediately afterward a stockaded fort was built on a lofty bluff by the Mississippi and named Fort Rosalie. Several concessions were granted in the neighborhood and settlers flowed in until this was one of the most flourishing parts of the new colony.
Between 1722 and 1724, there were slight disturbances in the good relations which had prevailed between the settlers and Indians, but they were soon smoothed over and harmony prevailed until a new commandant named Chépart, who seems to have been utterly unfit for his position, was sent to take command of Fort Rosalie. In consequence of his mismanagement a conspiracy was formed against the French and on November 28, 1729, the Indians rose and destroyed both post and settlement, about 200 whites being slain.
Next year the French and their Choctaw allies attacked the forts into which the Natchez had retired and liberated most of their captives but accomplished little else, and one night their enemies escaped across the Mississippi, where they established themselves in other forts in the marshy regions of northeastern Louisiana. There they were again attacked and about 400 were induced to surrender, but the greater
part escaped during a stormy night and withdrew to the Chickasaw, who had been secretly aiding them.
Later they divided into two bands, one of which settled among the Upper Creeks while the other went to live with the Cherokee. Afterward each followed the fate of their hosts and moved west of the Mississippi with them. Those who had lived with the Creeks established themselves not far from Eufaula, OK, where the last who was able to speak the old tongue died about 1890. The Cherokee Natchez preserved their language longer, and a few are able to converse in it at the present day (1925).
Mooney's (1928) estimate of Natchez population in 1650 is 4,500; another estimate, as of 1698, 3,500.
In 1731, after the losses suffered by them during their war with the French, Perrier estimated that they had 300 warriors.
In 1735, 180 warriors were reported among the Chickasaw alone.
During the latter half of the eighteenth century estimates of the warriors in the Creek band of Natchez vary from 20 to 150, and in 1836 Gallatin conjectures that its numbers over all were 300, which is probably above the fact.
There are no figures whatever for the Cherokee band of Natchez.
The Natchez have become famous in a number of ways:
(1) because they were the largest and strongest tribe on the lower Mississippi when Louisiana was settled by the French,
(2) on account of their monarchical government and the peculiar institution of the Sun caste,
(3) on account of the custom of destroying relatives and companions of a dead member of the Sun caste to accompany him or her into the world of spirits,
(4) for the massacre of the French post at Natchez and the bitter war which succeeded it,
(5) from the name of the city of Natchez, MS, adopted from them. The name is also borne by post villages in Monroe County, AL; and Natchitoches Parish, LA; and a post hamlet in Martin County, IN.


While each nursing home possesses a unique culture and set of dining-related issues, the common nursing home dining experience seems to be intricately tied to the structure of systems that typically accommodate multiple dietary regulations and operational efficiencies. Nursing homes have established multi-disciplinary systems which intersect with a complex dining process. Over time the nursing home dining experience has become institutionalized, and in many instances dining is not a pleasurable experience for residents. The release of the June 12 2009 CMS Interpretive Guidelines reinforces the need for nursing homes to re-evaluate resident quality of life, including the methods by which providers honor resident dignity and choice in dining. By examining the complexity of the dietary and dining process, it is possible to understand how and why nursing homes became institutionalized.
The Resident is always at the core of multiple processes that affect the resident.
Before a resident meal can even be served, a clinical team (interdisciplinary care plan team) must properly assess each resident for food and dietary related risks, preferences, and then identify and order the correct diet. A number of indirect and direct care givers may provide input into this resident care planning process including but not limited to: the resident him/her self, the resident's legal decision-maker, and a host of team members such as a registered dietician, physician, speech or occupational or physical therapist, nursing assistant and dietary aide. At the center of this care planning process is the goal of correctly assessing the resident's clinical needs and food preferences upon admission and throughout his/her stay in the nursing home.
The following is an excerpt from Linda Bump's, "The Deep Seated Issue of Choice" from the 2010 Creating Home in the Nursing Home II: A National Online Symposium on Culture Change and the Food and Dining Requirements. Bump reflects how the institutional care planning process does not maximize the fundamental right of the resident to have control over the dining experience.
Click here to download the paper and view the entire webinar and background paper.
Resident choice in dining time is not a regulatory requirement.
An interdisciplinary team continuously must identify and update relevant resident needs and preferences, and constantly review new clinical and observational data intended to achieve the best outcome for each resident while minimizing resident risks. Significant attention is given to the "non-compliant resident" (e.g., the resident diagnosed with diabetes who likes and eats sugary foods whenever he/she wishes in spite of the fact that this may negatively affect his/her health), and to the clinical accuracy of each resident assessment (e.g., history and physical, weights, therapeutic diets). Assuming that a resident's medical record is accurate, and that the correct diet has been prescribed, the process of meal preparation and meal service concurrently begins.
Traditionally, it is typically the dietary department's responsibility to receive resident diet orders and then create diet cards, diet indexes, meal tickets and/or enter new information into a host of computer and/or paper-based resident diet recognition systems, which are directly linked to meal preparation and eventually to food ordering and inventory management. In a central kitchen, where most meals are traditionally prepared, the dietary staff must comply with a host of regulations. At the top of the compliance list are infection control and food handling requirements, food temperature and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) controls, food storage, and general environmental sanitation, to name a few. The desire to maintain strict control over meal production often links to the desire to ensure that only trained dietary staff control the food preparation process. As the meal is prepared, a series of dietary staff are engaged in various aspects of food preparation, all who have presumably been trained in many of the regulations mentioned above.
As the meal is prepared, a series of dietary staff are engaged in various aspects of food preparation, all who have presumably been trained in many of the regulations mentioned above. Traditionally, a cook may prepare several entrees and alternatives in accordance with a planned menu and any therapeutic diets that must be served. As food is prepared, it is typically maintained in a steam table where the plating of food on resident meal trays begins. One person may plate the food while another double checks that the plated items match the correct resident and diet (e.g., condiments, silverware, special likes and dislikes) and then covers the plated food to keep it hot. The entire meal, which has been plated on a meal tray, is then slipped into meal carts or other meal delivery systems designed to hold food temperatures. At this point, the meals are "transported" to various locations where residents will be served. Some nursing homes even use an overhead paging system to announce "Trays are up!" just to make sure that designated staff rush from ever corner of the nursing home to assist with the dining process.
Once meals carts and trucks are delivered to the various resident dining locations, nursing care givers are usually assigned to serve the meals to each resident. Since most meal trays are typically organized by resident room or wing or by residents who eat in a particular location, nursing staff can quickly remove meal trays from tray trucks and serve them to residents efficiently. Typically, at all meals, staff scramble to ensure residents are "ready" for meals. This may include the practice of awakening residents who are sleeping, interrupting resident activities, or otherwise imposing a rigid dining schedule. Residents are "transported" to and from various locations in order to eat. In some instances residents may choose to remain in their rooms to eat meals and in others they may be required to eat in a particular location.
Widespread meal tray use has been a huge part of the mainstream institutional nursing home environment, in the same fashion as other institutional environments such as hospitals, schools and prisons. Some providers have attempted to accommodate resident dignity and special diets by decorating meal trays with fancy tray liners (e.g., a red tray liner to indicate a person who has diabetes). The use of meal trays has proven to be especially efficient in serving residents who choose to eat or need to eat in their rooms. Some nursing homes place the meal tray on a resident's over bed table in their room, or use meal trays in a centralized dining room, and then remove the trays at the end of the meal service.
Regardless of their use, the CMS Interpretive Guidance F - 252 Safe, Clean, Comfortable and Homelike Environment requires homes to strive towards the elimination of meal trays.
Learn more about barriers and solutions to improving the resident dining experience.
Staff should not eat meals with residents.
Some institutional settings have not yet accommodated basic resident needs during meal times and may have a number of staff who do not fully engage with residents during a meal. Some staff may be speaking with each other rather than focusing solely on the resident and his or her needs during the meal. Additionally, some staff may also not be attuned to resident needs, such as the possibility that a resident may need to use a restroom before, during or after a meal. CMS, in its Interpretive Guidance F - 241 Dignity has identified these practices as undignified.
In short, the institutional nursing home meal experience has been all about a structured meal process which has been established to help providers deliver meals efficiently and to comply with existing regulations, but these regulations were not intended to limit resident choices or to reduce resident dignity. In an institutional setting residents are typically offered three meals per day at planned times, and some form of a substantial evening snack. Meal times are posted, rather rigidly enforced, and resident choices over meal and meal time are extremely limited based upon the resident's diet and alternate foods available at any particular meal service. With the release of CMS Interpretive Guidance F - 242 Self-Determination and Participation providers are required to honor residents choices over their schedule, including what time they wish to eat, as well as the presumption that their meal preferences will also be honored.
The following is an excerpt from Linda Bump's, "The Deep Seated Issue of Choice" from the 2010 Creating Home in the Nursing Home II: A National Online Symposium on Culture Change and the Food and Dining Requirements. It reflects how the institutional dining process does not maximize a resident's ability to have control over the dining experience.
Nursing homes cannot change their dining times to meet individual resident needs because of the existing '14-hour and 16' rules."
While some nursing homes have already made great strides towards improving the residents' dining experience, all nursing homes will be required by CMS to revisit dining practices. Fortunately, at the same time that dining practices are changing, providers and regulators are working together to help create an atmosphere where regulations and survey are not necessarily in the way of innovation. CMS and Pioneer Network recently collaborated on Creating Home in the Nursing Home II: A National Symposium on Culture Change and the Food and Dining Requirements. The online Symposium includes a downloadable background paper and a series of webinars, including papers authored by webinar presenters that can also be downloaded. An in-person invitational stakeholders workshop was also convened by CMS and Pioneer Network on May 14, 2010 to review the presenters' recommendations and add recommendations that will be used to further understanding of the food and dining side of the culture change movement and to identify solutions to furthering innovation in nursing homes.
As American citizens, we fight for our inalienable rights and most of us do not have an institutional hierarchy at the helm of our care. In a nursing home, resident "rights" are also sometimes perceived to conflict with a nursing home's fundamental need to protect resident safety. It can be difficult for providers to know how to balance resident autonomy and control over daily life while also meeting a multitude of regulations. At the center of the balancing act is the dining experience. Resident rights over food choices and meal schedules are beginning to be reinforced in regulatory guidance, as is examined in the quote below.
The following is an excerpt from Linda Handy, MS, RD, "Survey Interpretation of Regulations" from the 2010 Creating Home in the Nursing Home II: A National Online Symposium on Culture Change and the Food and Dining Requirements. It demonstrates how resident preferences must be considered as well as the resident's clinical condition.
"A very important change in the wording and intent addressing resident rights occurred with the revision of F 325 Surveyor Interpretive Guidance, implemented 9/1/08. This regulatory intent was changed to emphasis, as part of the assessment, not only the need but also the RESIDENT'S PREFERENCE. The new intent stated: "Provides a therapeutic diet that takes into account the resident's clinical condition, and preferences, when there is a nutritional indication."
This is the abstract of ADA's position: "It is the position of the American Dietetic Association (ADA) that the quality of life and nutritional status of older residents in long-term care facilities may be enhanced by liberalization of the diet prescription. In 2003, ADA designated aging as its second 'emerging' area. Nutrition care in long-term settings must meet two goals: maintenance of health and promotion of quality of life. The Nutrition Care Process includes assessment of nutritional status through development of an individualized nutrition intervention plan. Medical nutrition therapy must balance medical needs and individual desires and maintain quality of life. The recent paradigm shift from restrictive institutions to vibrant communities for older adults requires dietetics professionals to be open-minded when assessing risks versus benefits of therapeutic diets, especially for frail older adults. Food is an essential component of quality of life; an unacceptable or unpalatable diet can lead to poor food and fluid intake, resulting in weight loss and under nutrition and a spiral of negative health effects. Facilities are adopting new attitudes toward providing care. 'Person-centered' or 'resident-centered care' involves residents in decisions about schedules, menus, and dining locations. Allowing residents to participate in diet-related decisions can provide nutrient needs, allow alterations contingent on medical conditions, and simultaneously increase the desire to eat and enjoyment of food, thus decreasing the risks of weight loss, under nutrition, and other potential negative effects of poor nutrition and hydration."
Learn more about the balance between resident choice and regulations.
Cost of changing my dietary culture will always be prohibitive.
Providers are increasingly experimenting with strategies to advance their dining practices to be more dignified, pleasurable experiences and to comply with the new June 12 2009 CMS Interpretive Guidelines.
As part of our Creating Home: Promising Practices in Dining Series, we will explore ways that providers are changing their dining practices so that it is a more dignified, pleasurable experience, an intended outcome of the quality of life interpretive guidelines.


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New Android Malware Wreaks Havoc For Some Users
Posted by puryearit On November 12, 2021
There's a nasty new strain of malware you need to be aware of that targets Android devices. Don't let the funny name fool you because AbstractEmu is a serious threat. Not only will it root an infected device but it will allow the controller of the malware to take total control of the device. It will alter its settings and attempt to evade detection via a combination of anti-emulation checks and code abstraction.
The new strain was discovered by security researchers at Lookout Threat Labs. They discovered it bundled with a collection of legitimate utility apps distributed via the Google Play Store and other third-party app repositories.
Google has removed the malware from the Play Store at this point but not before several thousand people had already downloaded it. The malware remains available on a few different third-party repositories. If you're in the habit of picking up apps outside of the Play Store an extra measure of caution is prudent.
The team that discovered the new strain had this to say about it:
"AbstractEmu does not have any sophisticated zero-click remote exploit functionality used in advanced APT-style threats, it is activated simply by the user having opened the app. As the malware is disguised as functional apps, most users will likely interact with them shortly after downloading.
By using the rooting process to gain privileged access to the Android operating system, the threat actor can silently grant themselves dangerous permissions or install additional malware -- steps that would normally require user interaction."
Needless to say the group behind AbstractEmu has some skill and some serious coding chops. Although the malware strain's removal from the Google Play Store has limited the rate of its spread you can bet the threat group will be on the lookout for other opportunities.
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As the founder of Playtime PR, Singleton could lay claim to loving her job more than anyone has ever loved any job before.
It's been a mammoth year for Playtime and Singleton. Whether it's securing a client like Argos, helping a Radio One DJ launch his debut game into the market or sorting the first ever Esdevium takeover for her Board Game Club initiative, 2016 has already been one to remember.
"I've never worked with someone so brilliant, creative, professional, easygoing and kind and it is always an absolute pleasure to be around her," stated one nominee.


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The Process Behind Aviation Gin
The distillation process behind booze is always fascinating but the techniques used for Aviation Gin are downright unbelievable. From sunrise meditations to serenades by Sarah McLachlan, owner Ryan Reynolds reveals the extreme measures his distillers go through the ensure each bottle of Aviation Gin is impeccable.
Spending Christmas Around the Moon
When John F. Kennedy kicked off the space race by announcing the goal of landing on the moon by the end of the decade, it was one of the biggest crunch times in history. The newly-formed NASA faced the nearly-impossible task of not only getting there but designing and building the multitude of systems required to make the trip. On December 21, 1968, Apollo 8 launched and put three astronauts in orbit around the moon. Flying on largely untested equipment, the mission was a success as the crew spent Christmas watching the Earth rise over the horizon of the moon.
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This is it — the last installment in the Unbreakable trilogy. Glass finds all three characters from Unbreakable and Split together in a psych ward being studied as research subjects with delusions of grandeur until Samuel L. Jackson's Elijah Price unleashes The Beast and lets him loose on society, exposing the world of heroes and villains. Bruce Willis and James McAvoy also reprise their roles when the film comes to theaters January 18, 2019.
Making a 10-Foot Paper Airplane
So it isn't technically a paper airplane, being made from polystyrene, but the design is from a scaled-up paper airplane drawing. Measuring just over 10 feet from nose to tail, this massive glider traveled over 320 feet on its longest flight. Watch how The Q designed and built this behemoth and then launched it on its maiden voyage.
2018 Movie Trailer Mashup
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This Tiny Desk concert is 25 years in the making. To celebrate the anniversary of the release of their album "Enter The Wu-Tang," the original Clan members — with Young Dirty Bastard stepping in for his father — gather in the NPR offices to perform a 20-minute retrospective mashup of their classics.


Since its founding in 2005, the Atlantic Coast Media Group (ACMG) has grown dramatically by marketing and supplying innovative, high-quality health and beauty products to consumers in the U.S. and Canada. The company's own health has been enhanced by its ability to quickly and efficiently fulfill orders for products like Hydroxatone® AM/PM Anti-Wrinkle Complex and Hydrolyze Under Eye Treatment.
In the early days of the business, the company was filling about 8,000 packages per month via the U.S. Postal Service®, using a labor-intensive manual shipping system. As its print, television, online, radio and direct mail advertising channels blossomed, the company knew it would need to simplify and upgrade its shipping system in order to keep up with the demand for its popular nutraceutical and cosmeceutical products.
ACMG turned to Endicia. A key reason for choosing Endicia was its ability to easily integrate into the company's workflow system to generate shipping labels and print postage.
According to Surwilo, the Endicia system was very easy to implement. The company suffered no delays or disruptions during the simple transition as they were online in a matter of days. ACMG began to reap the benefits immediately, especially thanks to the automated delivery address verification system, which enables erroneous addresses to be corrected before the product ships.
Importantly, added Surwilo, the company has benefitted from Endicia's stellar customer service capabilities, which were especially appreciated during their rapid growth.
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What testimonies teach us: Reflections from 2019-2020 Shapiro Scholar Peter Hayes
By: Peter Hayes
I much enjoyed my stay at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research in early March, just before the pandemic turned all of our lives upside down. Meeting the wonderful members of the staff and seeing how much the operations of both the Foundation and the Center have grown since my last visit in 2014 were remarkable experiences. I especially valued the chance to reacquaint myself with the survivor testimonies of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive in a more focused way than when I helped students use them while teaching a research seminar just before I retired from teaching in 2016. Back then, my attention centered on testimonies relevant to each student's research topics, but this time I got to hone in on some matters more pertinent to my own interests.
I have written a lot about the German chemical industry in the Third Reich, in particular about its exploitation of slave labor, and have long been puzzled about one of the blank spots in that awful story, namely what happened at a vast, still largely unexamined synthetic fuel factory in Silesia called Blechhammer. Quite a few testimonies refer to this site, and they gave me new insights into who was sent there from Auschwitz, what they had to do, and what they knew and could not know about the place at which they were suffering.
Even more eye opening were the testimonies I discovered as I delved into an unusual aspect of the death camp at Treblinka, namely the surprisingly large number of people who passed through it somehow and survived. The accounts of Sol Liber and Runia Lunski helped me grasp the multiple ways in which this could happen, but the real stunner was the testimony of Richard Rozen, a doctor's son whom partisans smuggled off of the infamous unloading ramp in a hay wagon during a backup in the arrival of trains. That the Polish underground knew when the father, whose medical skills they needed, was arriving and could arrange an escape were amazing enough, but even more astounding to me was Rozen's account of how he survived in the forests of Eastern Europe for the next two years, while he grew from eight to ten years old. To earn his keep with the partisans, he became "the feather boy." They usually ambushed German patrols at night with knives, since shots would attract attention, and Rozen's job was to put a feather under the noses of soldiers whose throats had been slit to confirm that they were dead.
In all my years of studying the Holocaust, I never had heard of the existence of a "feather boy" and never listened so raptly as I did to Rozen's account of both his wartime experience and his difficult, complicated, and accomplished emergence from it. I will never forget his story, which is both extraordinary yet also emblematic of what, even after so much has been written, the video testimonies collected here can teach us.
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These handcrafted coconut shell bowls are handmade from coconuts, which sadly, many had been discarded on the streets, on the rivers as waste. Some husks are even burnt irresponsibly.
We currently have four unique designs for you to consider.


Bust of Admiral Arthur Phillip and two reliefs showing the landing in Australia now built into a small gabled structure.
White marble neoclassical memorial with anthemion acroteria. Brass plate placed below it.
Wall tablet of Vice-Admiral Arthur Phillip RN, d. 1814 in Bathampton, Bath.
Above the inscription table an urn with a length of rope, anchor, cannon, sponge and shot.
Sculpture in the form of a knot.
A globe on a plinth inset with an antique marble profile of a man, used as an ideal likeness of Cook. The memorial stands on a small island in a lake.
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UEFA Champions League draw creates intriguing groups
By Brant Parsons
Former FC Barcelona player Andoni Zubizarreta shows the name of Bayern Munich during the UEFA Champions League Group stage draw ceremony. (VALERY HACHE / AFPGetty Images)
There is nothing like the UEFA Champions League Draw for the Group Stage.
The simplicity of the draw combined with the huge implications make it a spectacle all on its own that needs no extra bells and whistles.
Thursday's draw certainly produced some fireworks with some groups looking remarkably tough.
If any group earned an early "Group of Death" tag, it's the loaded Group D.
Italian champions Juventus are joined by Manchester City, Sevilla and Borussia Mönchengladbach.
The UEFA Champions League holders Barcelona were drawn with Italy's Serie A runners-up Roma, Bayer Leverkusen and BATE Borisov in Group E.
German champions Bayern Munich were defeated in the semifinals by the Spanish champions and head up Group G.
They are joined by Arsenal, Olympiakos and Dinamo Zagreb in what should be a tight group.
It will be the third time in the last four seasons that Bayern Munich and Arsenal have met in the Champions League. The London side was eliminated in the Round of 16 in both 2013 and 2014 by Bayern.
The first matchday of the Champions League will be September 15-16. The schedule of matches has not been revealed yet.
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Close to 1 million diver certifications are issued worldwide each year. While completing your open water course is a good start to finning well, it's not the end. Like most things in life, practice makes perfect. Is this is the first time you've tried to learn to scuba dive? Are you are seasoned at scuba and wanting to take your skills to the next level? No matter your level, this guide on essential finning techniques is a must read. So let's get started and get you diving smarter!
People mistakenly think that form doesn't really matter much when taking up a sports activity. Need Proof? Ever seen a jogger with a weird stride? How about a gym-rat with a funky lifting technique? Form matters. Using the proper form helps with efficiency. Plus, it helps to reduce the risk of injury. Using the correct finning technique is especially important for divers. After all, it can greatly improve your air supply while lessening your impact on the underwater environment. This means fewer stray kicks to unassuming coral. Now that you know why finning well is important, let's talk technique.
Sure, it's an adaptation of the aforementioned flutter kick. However, it's a lot more powerful. When performed properly, it reduces your air consumption — meaning longer dive time. With no up-and-down motion to speak of, it is a great kick to use to wipe-out silting. It also allows for the best possible visibility.
You really can't be on your way to a better finning technique without adding this kick to your repertoire. This one-legged kick is more about maneuvering your self in the water than anything else. Need to check on a buddy? Make a quick change in direction? This is your kick. So, then how does it work? Well, one fin remains horizontal in the water while you use your other to frog-kick into the preferred direction.
Also known as the reverse-fin, this style of kick helps create backward movement in the water. There are multiple uses for this kick. They include holding your position in a particular place and gaining some distance for a photo opportunity. They even help you to halt a swim-through if you decide to. When you first learn to scuba dive, it's easy to forget about all of the great finning techniques and simply focus on moving in the direction you want to go. But learning these kicks will lead to a more pleasurable dive. They allow you greater control in the water, produce less muscle fatigue, and provide greater oxygen efficiency.
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Inom matematiken är en falsk modulär form  den analytiska delen av en harmonisk svag Maassform och en falsk thetafunktion är en falsk modulär form av vikt 1/2. De första exemplen av falska thetafunktioner beskrevs av Srinivasa Ramanujan i hans sista brev till G. H. Hardy, skickat 1920. Sander Zwegers upptäckte 2002 att genom att addera vissa icke-analytiska funktioner till dem förvandlar dem till harmoniska svaga Maassformer.

Definition
Fixera en vikt k, vanligen med 2k ett heltal. Fixera en delgrupp Γ av SL2(Z) (eller av metaplektiska gruppen om k är ett halvheltal) och en karäktär ρ av Γ. En modulär form f för denna karäktär och gruppen Γ transformerar under elementen av Γ enligt

En svag Maassform av vikt k är en kontinuerlig funktion i övre planhalvan som transformerar likt en modulär form av vikt 2 − k och är en egenfunktion av Laplaceoperatorn av vikt k och kallas harmonisk om dess egenvärde är (1 − k/2)k/2. Detta är egenvärdet av analytiska modulära former av vikt k, så dessa är alla exempel harmoniska svaga Maassformer. (En Maassform är en svag Maassform som minskar snabbt vid spetsarna.) Så en harmonisk svag Maassform annihileras av differentialoperatorn

Om F är en godtycklig harmonisk svag Maassform är funktionen g definierad som

analytisk och transformerar som en modulär form av vikt k. Om vi kan hitta en annan funktion g* med samma bild g, då kommer F − g* att vara analytisk. En sådan funktion fås genom att invertera differentialoperatorn genom integrering; exempelvis kan vi definiera

där

är en liten variation av ofullständiga gammafunktionen. Integralen konvergerar då g har ett nollställe vid i∞, och ofullständiga gammafunktionen kan utvidgas genom analytisk fortsättning, så denna formel kan användas till att definiera analytiska delen g* av F även i fallet då g är meromorfisk vid i∞, även om detta kräver viss noggrannhet om k är 1 eller inte ett heltal eller om n = 0. Inversen av differentialoperatorn är inte unik då vi kan addera en godtycklig analytisk funktion till g* utan att förändra resultatet, och som följd är funktionen g* inte nödvändigtvis invariant under gruppen Γ. Funktionen h = F − g* kallas för den analytiska delen av F.

En falsk modulär form definieras som den analytiska delen h av någon harmonisk svag Maassform F. Det finns alltså en isomorfism mellan rummet av falska modulära former och ett delrum av harmoniska svaga Maassformer.

Den falska modulära formen h är analytisk men inte modulär, medan h + g*är modulär men inte analytisk. Rummet av falska modulära former av vikt k innehåller rummet av nästan modulära former ("modulära former som kan vara meromorfiska vid spetsarna") av vikt k som ett delrum. Kvoten är (antilinjärt) isomorfiskt till rummet av analytiska modulära former av vikt 2 − k. Modulära formen g av vikt -(2 − k) kallas skuggan av h. Det är vanligt att olika falska thetafunktioner har samma skugga. Exempelvis faller alla 10 falska thetafunktioner av ordning 5 upptäckta av Ramanujan i två grupper av 5, där alla funktioner i båda grupperna har samma skugga (upp till multiplikation med en konstant).

Zagier (2007) definierar en falsk thetafunktion som en rationell potens av q = e2πiτ gånger en falsk modulär form av vikt 1/2 vars skugga är en thetaserie av formen

för ett positivt rationellt tal κ och en udda periodisk funktion ε.

De flesta falska modulära former och svaga Maassformer växer snabbt vid spetsarna. Det är vanligta att lägga till kravet att de växer högst exponentiellt vid spetsarna (vilket för falska modulära former betyder att de är "meromorfiska" vid spetsarna). Rummet av falska modulära former (med given vikt och grupp) vars tillväxt är begränsad av en fixerad exponentiell funktion vid spetsarna har ändlig dimension.

Appell–Lerchsummor
Appell–Lerchsummor studerades av Paul Appell 1884 och Matyáš Lerch 1892. Watson undersökte falska modulära formerna av ordning 3 genom att uttrycka dem med hjälp av Appell-Lerchsummor, och Zwegers använde dem till att bevisa att falska thetafunktioner är i själva verket falska moduära former.

Appell–Lerchserien är

där

och

Den modifierade serien

där

med y = Im(τ) och

satisfierar följande transformationsegenskaper:

I andra ord är den transformerar den modifierade Appell-Lerch-serien som en modulär form i förhållande till τ. Eftersom falska thetafunktioner kan uttryckas med hjälp av Appell-Lerch-serier följer det av detta att falska thetafunktioner transformerar likt modulära former om en viss icke-analytisk serie adderas till dem.

Meromorfiska Jacobiformer
Andrews (1988) observerade att några av Ramanujans falska modulära former av femte ordningen kan skrivas med hjälp av kvot av Jacobis thetafunktioner. Zwegers använde detta i att uttrycka falska modulära former som Fourierkoefficienterna av meromorfiska Jacobiformer.

Användningar
 Lawrence och Zagier (1999) relaterade falska modulära former till kvantinvarianter av 3-mångfalder.
 Semikhatov, Taormina och Tipunin relaterade falska modulära former till Liesuperalgebror med oändlig dimension och konform fältteori.

Exempel
 En godtycklig modulär form av vikt k är en falsk modulär form av vikt k med skugga 0.
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av vikt 2 och nivå 1 är en falsk modulär form av vikt 2 vars skugga är en konstant. Det här betyder att

transformerar som en modulär form av vikt 2 (där τ = x + iy).

 Funktionen undersökt av Zagier vars Fourierkoefficienter är Hurwitz klassantalen H(N) av imaginära kvadratiska kroppar är en falsk modulär form av vikt 3/2, nivå 4 och skugga ∑ q n2. Den relaterade svaga Maass vågformen är

där

och y = Im(τ) q = e2πiτ.

Följande exempel använder q-Pochhammersymbolen , definierad som

Ordning 2
Falska thetafunktionerna av ordning 2 är:

Dessa är relaterade till funktionerna av ordning 8 enligt

Ordning 3
Ramanujan nämnde fyra falska modulära former av ordning 3 i sitt sista brev till Hardy, och upptäckte senare tre andra funktioner, som upptäcktes oberoende av G.N. Watson. Watson (1936) bevisade relationerna mellan funktionerna som nämndes av Ramanujan  och upptäckte även deras transformationer under element av modulära gruppen genom att skriva dem som Appel–Lerch-summor. Dragonette (1952) beskrev den asymptotiska tillväxten av deras koefficienter. Zwegers (2000) relaterade dem till harmoniska svaga Maassformerms.

De sju falska modulära formerna som upptäcktes av Ramnuajan är

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De första fyra av dessa bildar en grupp med samma skugga (upp till en konstant), såsom även de tre andra. Mer precist satisfierar de följande relationer (upptäckta av Ramanujan och bevisade av Watson):

Ordning 5
Ramanujan nämnde tio falska modulära former av ordning 5 i hans brev till Hardy från 1920 samt några relationer mellan dem som senare bevisades av Watson (1937). Andrews (1986) upptäckte representationer av flera av dessa funktioner som kvoten av en odefinit thetaserie och en modulär form av vikt 1/2.

Ordning 6
Ramanujan upptäckte sju falska modulära former av ordning 6 och 11 identiteter mellan dem, som senare bevisades av Andrews och Hickerson 1991. Två av Ramnaujans identiteter relaterar φ och ψ vid flera olika argument, fyra av dem uttrycker φ och ψ med hjälp av Appell–Lerch-serier, och de fem sista uttrycker de övriga funktionerna av sjätte ordningen med hjälp av φ och ψ. Berndt och Chan (2007) upptäckte två andra funktioner av ordning 6.

Falska modulära formerna av ordning 6 är:

Ordning 7
Ramanujan definierade tre falska thetafunktioner av ordning 7 i sitt brev till Hardy från 1920. De studerades av Selberg 1938, som upptäckte asymptotiska expansioner för deras koefficienter, och av Andrews 1986. Zwegers (2001, 2002) beskrev deras modulära transformationsegenskaper.

Ordning 8
Gordon och McIntosh (2000) upptäckte åtta falska thetafunktioner av ordning 8. De bevisade fem linjära relationer mellan dem, uttryckte fyra av dem som Appell–Lerch-summor och beskrev deras transformationer under modulära gruppen.
Funktionerna V1 and U0 hade upptäckts tidigare av Ramanujan.

Ordning 10
Ramanujan upptäckte fyra falska modulära former av ordning 10, samt några relationer mellan dem, som senare bevisades av Choi (1999, 2000, 2002, 2007).

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For the first three months, the country's tourism grew by double digits at 13.17 percent in January, 20.42 percent in February and 11.86 percent in March. The total number of inbound visitors recorded from January – March 2016 already reached 1,391,836 or a 15.12% growth from the same period in 2015.
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This week, Sound Opinions explores the art of songwriting. Jim and Greg talk to some of the biggest pop hitmakers of the past and present. First, a conversation with the legendary songwriting duo Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. The husband and wife team were part of the Brill Building era of 1960s New York, and worked alongside writing powerhouses like Gerry Goffin and Carole King, and collaborated with producer Phil Spector. Mann and Weil wrote some of the biggest hits of all time, from "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" to "On Broadway" and even "We Gotta Get Out of This Place." In 2011, Mann and Weil received the Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and since 2013, have been depicted in the Tony Award-winning musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical about the early life and career of their friend and coworker. In this interview, the duo tell Jim and Greg the origins of their famous hits, tell stories and reflect on what could have been had Barry released "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" before The Animals.
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A build up of phlegm, thick mucus produced by your infant's lungs and upper airways, can cause significant distress for your infant. There are numerous causes of increased phlegm production, such as respiratory infection, irritation, lung disease and cystic fibrosis. Garlic preparations may assist in diminishing phlegm and promote faster healing, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center. Always consult your doctor before giving your infant an herbal remedy.
Garlic has a long history as a medicinal treatment, stemming back to its use in ancient Asia, Egypt and Greece. In Egypt and Greece it was most notably used among the working class to promote strength and energy in laborers. In Chinese medicine, garlic was used as a treatment to support digestion, including the treatment of worms and diarrhea. Chinese medical practitioners also prescribed this treatment to improve respiration. Garlic continued to be used in America during the 19th century as an expectorant, stimulant and tonic.
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