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What is one truth about an Indian living abroad ?
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By Arun Prabhudesai Last updated Jun 14, 2016
The heart of an Indian living abroad is never far from his homeland !
I witnessed it first hand last weekend when I was visiting a mandir. We met up with a couple who have been living in US since 1976, for nearly 31 years. It was very interesting to hear his experiences. The first thing he mentioned was- If you want better standard of living and comforts in life, there is no better place than America. I don't think many people will defer with that opinion. However, he mentioned in same breath that he still misses India the way he did 31 years back.
So, what was the reason ?
He narrated his experience of 2004 visit to Mumbai (he had lived in Mumbai in early part of his life), where he bought chanas from gaadiwalla or Thela and walked endlessly for hours on Mumbai roads. He used to do that 30 years back and he did it during his recent visit, the only difference, earlier chanaas cost him couple of anas and now it cost hime 10 rupees :). He said- that walk was priceless for him because all his earlier memories came back flooding to him- his university days, his chai wala Irani hotel….
At the end of our conversation he mentioned that he could not go back to India and live there but he has put a clause in his will that his ashes should go back to India !
So even though large Indian Diaspora may be spread across the globe, their heart is never really far from the roots. Most of them have a consitent feeling to go back – but very few succeed in returning !
Actually I started writing this post to share with my readers the statistics of NRIs (Non-Resident Indians) across the globe, but it seems post has taken a different direction. I will write another post giving details of statistics, but here are some of the Interesting facts about Indian diaspora that you should know.
1) Except US, more than 80% of Indian people staying abroad are on temporary work visa.
2) In US, 50% or more Indians have green cards/ citizenship. 26% are on H1B work visas and remaining are in US on other visas like dependent, student visa etc.
3) Souther Indian community dominates the NRI world. More than 54% NRIs are from South Indian origin, 23% from North, 19% from West followed by 5% from the East.
I will be writing a post in couple of days sharing some other interesting statistics. Stay tuned !
Update: One of the commentators for this post Shubham suggested and excellent tag line, which really sums up this whole post .
"You can take a man out of India but you cannot take India out of a man!"
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Vijay says 9 years ago
Interesting post. By the way, was it a Raymond's ad or Siyaram's ad?
Dharmesh Desai says 9 years ago
he is a chut!
suraj says 10 years ago
its very true irespective of how many years we spend away from our country we will always be attached to our roots in india…and i m really proud of that fact..
No doubt we have seen such a good life in US..but still its a foreign land and cold strange people but we are here for the best well i have also written for indian life in USA in http://thekapils.com/2012/03/12/life-of-software-engineers-in-usa/
Amit Faujdar says 11 years ago
interesting post…. thanks
Madhav Shivpuri says 12 years ago
Interesting stuff.
I am from Bangalore but have lived in Tokyo, Japan for the last 10 years (a third of my life). From the time I land in Bangalore till the time I depart from the airport, I live and enjoy every moment of it. But when I come and experience the infrastructure in Bangalore, I can't wait to get back to Tokyo. Landing in the Narita feels like 'home', for reasons including cleaniness, transportation, electricity/water – 24 hrs etc.
For my children, where we live in Tokyo is their home and going to Bangalore is vacation. So, probably their childhood and memories will be shaped based on their experiences here.
I think in summary, I would like to say that our hearts belong to the places where we grow up and have a good time. It is probably where we had our best friends, where we ate something so common place but we don't the get same or the same feeling abroad etc. which make us love the place. If we have had really bad or tragic experiences, it doesn't matter where one grows up or goes to college, the city or country may not be dear to one's heart. Any thoughts?
Nikhil Advani says 10 years ago
Ya.. bro i agree with you .. its associated with ones good days and feeling
Mandrake says 14 years ago
Well, isn't nostalgia the word for this feeling. People who leave India still see it in the same light as they left it and have fond memories. More like, after a person has left us ;)
When you live here, you yearn to go to US,UK,Europe, Australia to have that "quality of living". When you are there, you think about India. :D
trakin says 15 years ago
Indian Blogger…These statistics are based on survey released by India based "JuxtConsultant". You can visit there site http://juxtconsultant.com and register to download snapshots of various reports. This particular statistic is from one the reports that gives details on NRIs. The survey was based on a audience of around 1700 people spread across globe. This was a online survey based on which they have compiled the figures.
Thanks for asking…
Indian Blogger says 15 years ago
You provide an interesting perspective. You have provided some stats " Except US, more than 80% of Indian people staying abroad are on temporary work visa." etc.
Could you please provide me the source of these stats..Just curious?
Wingco: Thak you for letting us know your opinion. I beg to differ.
I lived in Kanpur for most part of my school days and then moved to Pune where I lived for nearly 16 years before I moved to US. I never once missed Kanpur, even though my school days were some of the best days of my life. But when I am in US, it is very different. Every time I land in Mumbai- I have the same very delightful feeling (although, Mumbai is not where I have lived) and I love everything at that time, the pollution, the typical- not so pleasant Mumbai smell, the traffic..you name it…I just like everything !
About the money factor- I do tend to agree that things have changed- you get almost everything in India that you get in US – however, the difference of eating a MCDonalds/Pizza Hut in India an eating it here cannot even be compared. I am just not talking about taste- I am also talking about the feeling.
Also, well said Mesmerized and I second your opinion completely.
WoW SHubham,
This raymod tag line really matches…I will mention this in my post !
Shubham says 15 years ago
Reminds me of the Raymonds ad "You can take a man out of India but you cannot take India out of a man!"
wingco says 15 years ago
thats got nothing to do with NRIs really… its basic human tendency. You'd feel the same way about mumbai if you were brought up there but were living in Delhi for the rest of your life without getting a chance to get back to your hometown. It's not really about India – it's just attachment to the earlier part of your life. I also disagree with the comfort and standard of living thing. If you have money in India – and a whole lot of people do – you can achieve the same if not higher levels of comfort here. This feelings mentioned by you are from people who've been living abroad for more than three years… India's changing so fast that's the time it takes for NRIs to lose track of this country.
Mesmerized says 15 years ago
@Shubham : :) Yes it does.
@wingco: Well id like to think otherwise. Hmm if you lived in Delhi in your early years and move lets say to Mumbai. Your yet in India. You still will get Bhel Puri, Chaat, People spitting on the road, and super sensationalized news. But that i think you will never get anywhere else but India. Abroad you might find other Indians or Asians but you wont find the experience INDIA but still one is an Indian, either by nationality or by heart. thats my opinions :P


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Ideally I'd like to be able to have the speech bubbles be separate images that are positioned correctly when scaled so I can manipulate the speech bubbles easier.
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Middlesex CC
Union, Mabry meet to resolve issues
By Elizabeth Dobbins, edobbins@lowellsun.com
Middlesex Community College President James Mabry, right, speaks during a meeting of the MCC Board of Trustees Ad-Hoc Subcommittee. From left are Union President Joanna DelMonaco, Trustee Linda Banks-Santilli, Trustee Annie O'Connor, Trustee Kathleen Plath, Trustee James Campbell, Trustee Bopha Malone and Trustee Cheryl Howard.
BEDFORD -- A month after Middlesex Community College stakeholders took two back-to-back opposing votes regarding embattled President James Mabry, the parties met to discuss the issue again, during an Ad-Hoc Committee Friday morning.
This time, the meeting expanded on the faculty union's concerns with Mabry, provided the president a chance to respond and began to broach next steps.
Communicating in part through prepared statements, the three members of the Middlesex Community College Board of Trustees Ad-Hoc Committee discussed the issue with Mabry, faculty union President Joanna DelMonaco and other members of the trustees present, including Chair James Campbell.
On Feb. 28, the union took a vote of no-confidence in both Mabry and Campbell, just hours after Campbell pushed forward a Board of Trustees motion to "support the leadership" of Mabry. The eventful day followed the release of a survey where the majority of faculty and staff who responded said they do not have confidence in Mabry's ability to effectively lead the institution.
At the meeting on Friday, DelMonaco said she believes this sentiment is shared among administrators, who are unwilling to speak up for fear of retaliation.
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In mid-March, DelMonaco and other union leaders met with two of the Ad-Hoc Subcommittee members -- Cheryl Howard and Linda Banks-Santilli -- in an informal meeting to discuss the union's concerns.
The parties recapped this conversation at the meeting Friday.
DelMonaco broke the faculty and staff's concerns with Mabry into four parts.
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DelMonaco said the union believes there needs to be more emphasis on "areas with high growth potential," particularly STEM fields, through funding and publicity.
"There is concern over lack of activity over the past years to make a case for a needed STEM building, which could help outreach and enrollments," she said.
Finally, she raised concern regarding increased in fees -- costs levied by the college, as opposed to the state for classes. She said faculty understood these fees would increase by 9 percent beginning this school year, but other sources list this increase as much higher, with anecdotal stories of over 50 percent fee hikes.
Efforts to clarify this amount with the administration have been unsuccessful, she said.
"To date those details have not been forthcoming," she said. "We went from an $800,000 deficit to a $5 million overage before any of the fees were collected which raised concerns about financial reported and related decision making."
Responding to the first concern, Howard and Mabry said the five-year strategic plan, which was developed by a 23-person committee and took effect in 2016 should guide the college's long-term goals.
Mabry said he believes vision for the college should come through a collaborative process rather than a "top-down" approach.
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He said when he started at the college in 2015, his administration reviewed systems and implemented new technology and training to improve efficiencies.
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He also discussed work his office has done to support STEM fields like renovating labs, securing a National Science Foundation Grant and recent equipment donations for a medical program.
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Campbell said he is "deeply disappointed" by the union's position and supports Mabry.
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Q: How can I include an image that is tied to a user's database information? I've been coding PHP for 2 weeks (it's not pretty) and I have not been able to find the answer to my question. I want an admin type user to be able to fill a form and post it to a page where base level users can view the content. I've gotten all of this to work like a charm, but my dilemma is to allow the admin user to include an image as well. Maybe I just don't know what to search for.
Here is the php code and the form for the admin user page:
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
session_start();

include_once("connection.php");

if (isset($_SESSION['adminid'])) {
$adminid = $_SESSION['adminid'];
$adminemail = $_SESSION['adminemail'];

if ($_POST['submit']) {
    $title = $_POST['title'];
    $deadline = $_POST['deadline'];
    $content = $_POST['content'];

        $sql_blog = "INSERT INTO blog (title, deadline, content, logoname)     VALUES    ('$title', '$deadline', '$content', '$logoname')";

        $query_blog =  mysqli_query($dbcon, $sql_blog);
        echo "";
    }

} else {
    header('Location: index.php');
    die();
}

$sql = "SELECT adminid, adminemail, adminpassword, adminname FROM admin WHERE     adminemail = '$adminemail' LIMIT 1";

$query = mysqli_query($dbcon, $sql);

if ($query) {
    $row = mysqli_fetch_row($query);
    $adminname = $row[3];
}

?>

and here is the code for the base level user page: (i commented out the image block where I want the admin's image to be shown.

business inquiries

        <?php
        include_once('connection.php');

        $sql = "SELECT * FROM blog ORDER BY id DESC";
        $result = mysqli_query($dbcon, $sql);

        while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
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            $content = $row['content'];
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All of this works perfectly, I just can't figure out how to have an image display in the same way as the title, deadline, and content. Youtube wont help either, too much outdated php + I haven't been coding long enough to really work things out on my own.

A: You can save all user images under a folder (let's call /images/user) and record the file name into database.
if ($_POST['submit']) {
    $title = $_POST['title'];
    $deadline = $_POST['deadline'];
    $content = $_POST['content'];
    $logoname = basename($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["logoname"]; // <-- Make sure your form is ready to submit an file
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   $target = 'images/users/' . $logoname;
   move_uploaded_file($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["tmp_name"], $target);

   $sql_blog = "INSERT INTO blog (title, deadline, content, logoname)     VALUES    ('$title', '$deadline', '$content', '$logoname')";

   $query_blog =  mysqli_query($dbcon, $sql_blog);
   echo "";
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You can then display the image your page

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        include_once('connection.php');

        $sql = "SELECT * FROM blog ORDER BY id DESC";
        $result = mysqli_query($dbcon, $sql);

        while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
            $title = $row['title'];
            $content = $row['content'];
            $date = strtotime($row['deadline']);
            $logoname = 'images/user/' . $row['logoname'];

        ?>

                    <img src="<?php echo $logoname; ?>">

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Richard Joseph Daley as Mayor of Chicago Essays
Richard Joseph Daley as Mayor of Chicago
Richard Joseph Daley, the grandson of Irish immigrants, was born in the Bridgeport area of Chicago on May 15, 1902 less than a block from where he later lived as mayor. An only child born to first and second-generation Irish immigrants, Richard J Daley graduated from De La Salle Institute in 1919. As a member of the Hamburg Social and Athletic Club, a local social club/street gang, Daley began his political career with the help of former members Tommy Doyle and Joe McDonough. At twenty-one, he was a precinct captain in McDonough's ward organization and a member of the Hamburgs. Then he became McDonough's personal ward secretary and protege. Daley supposedly worked in the stockyards before …show more content…
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10 Nov 2016 by Thomas Day
Major challenges ahead for Paris Agreement to meet its 1.5°C warming limit
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Marrakech—10 November 2016 – The rapid entry into force of the Paris Agreement has created the legal basis for countries to increase their level of action and ambition to meet the 1.5°C warming limit over the next two years in the lead-up to 2018. The Climate Action Tracker (CAT) has evaluated the starting point for this process and found there has been little progress on national climate policies in the eleven months since the Paris Agreement was adopted.
Government pledges and climate action commitments made under the now-ratified Paris Agreement will lead to a warming of 2.8°C, with a likely chance of holding warming below 3.1°C (1). The CAT has also assessed current government policies and found little change from Paris. Policies still lead to a warming of 3.6°C, now even further from the globally agreed warming limit of 1.5°C.
Assessments have been updated for 25 countries, amounting to 69% of global emissions, and no government has gained an upgraded rating.
The CAT scientists warned that even without the increased uncertainty over US policy precipitated by the election results, the task of improving climate action would require a renewal of the political support and energy that led to the adoption and rapid entry into force of the ambitious Paris Agreement.
"The strong tailwinds for climate action we see today in many parts of the world, with the incredibly rapid growth of renewable technologies worldwide, the rapid acceleration of the markets for electric vehicles and plummeting battery storage costs, fundamentally change the geopolitical forces working on climate policy," said Climate Analytics CEO and Senior Scientist Bill Hare.
"Provided political leaders globally maintain their commitment to action, these tailwinds mean we should be able to ride through the turbulence that a climate sceptic in the White House could bring," said Hare.
"The US is unlikely to meet its nationally determined contribution made under the Paris Agreement and, if the President-elect Trump abandons current policies as he has threatened to, we estimate that in 2030, US emissions will be similar to what they are today," said Prof Niklas Höhne, of NewClimate Institute.
"In contrast, the most recent data show China's coal use has reduced for the third year in a row, and its CO2 emissions are likely to peak between 2025 and 2030, as it states in its climate plan. The position of a global climate leader is open – also to China."
Meanwhile, the CAT analysis found that developments in India were among the most important underway globally.
"India may have been expected to increase its coal-fired power use for decades. Instead, there appears to be a transition underway with an extremely rapid growth in renewable energy installations, which has begun to displace planned coal at a scale that has surprised many analysts," said Niklas Höhne.
Bill Hare noted the opportunity now existed for the European Union to re-establish its leadership on climate change.
"With US policy currently up in the air, there's even more reason now for the European Union to lift its game. At a time when it needs to triple its climate efforts to decarbonise by 2050, the EU is slowing down, and instead needs to move forward faster," he said.
The full analysis can be found here, and the updated country assessments can be found on the Climate Action Tracker website here.
(1) The change from the CAT's 2.7°C estimate made before the Paris talks last year is down to changes in emissions projections data rather than government action.
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TD Bank: Hope & Possibility Reflects What Could Be – A World That Values All People
Originally published on newscenter.td.com.
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SIGN UP NOW: It's much more than a race, it's an event to celebrate life
Hope inspires the belief that there is a possibility to overcome challenges, no matter how big or small.
That's what Achilles Virtual Hope & Possibility is – a race founded on the conviction that athletic competition unites people of all abilities, all colors and all backgrounds. This message is more important than ever before, as our society comes face to face with the growing demands for racial justice and more equity in health care as COVID-19 has significantly impacted our underprivileged population.
This year's race will be a virtual event due to social distancing recommendations to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The event will take place from July 18-26, giving participants across the country the flexibility of running, walking or wheeling the race where they live and around their schedules. This way no matter where you are, you can join this special event.
TD Bank and Achilles International – a worldwide organization established to encourage people with disabilities to participate in sports – are partnering for this year's Achilles Virtual Hope & Possibility. The event concludes on July 26, coinciding with the 30th Anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Meet some of the participants in the first-ever virtual Hope & Possibility below. For more information and to register click here
A para-athlete who went from learning how to swim to triathlons
Evelyn Rodriguez never competed in sports growing up. But now the Bronx resident – who was bullied as a child for being born with one arm – is a triathlon competitor with Achilles International.
"I was never into athletics as a child, my mother tried to shelter me," she explained. "But there are so many possibilities out there, no one should be limited."
For Evelyn, her athletic career all started with the Hope & Possibility, which she's been running the race since 2014.
"It was amazing, powerful, empowering," she said. "I've never been in a group where I've seen so many people like me, everyone was so kind and loving. All the people, they were so motivating."
Hope & Possibility is a party to celebrate overcoming challenges
Running distances can be incredibly tough for most of us – but Sarah Heller is known among her teammates for leading sing-a-longs during the toughest stretches of any long training run.
"I think all races are like a party with family, they are so much fun," said Sarah.
While she immensely enjoys all events, including her triathlon competitions, – the one closest to her heart is Hope & Possibility. Sarah plans to do the virtual run in Central Park with Herb Pinder, her Achilles Guide for many events. The two have been a team since 2014 when Herb first joined Achilles.
Sarah suffered brain damage at the age of nine as the result of a car accident. Life hasn't been always easy for Sarah, but her strength and determination inspire every person who interacts with her through Achilles.
"It started out as a guide and athlete, but it's grown into a very special friendship," Herb said. "It isn't just about sports, it's about helping someone navigate through this world. I am always excited to be a part of seeing people grow into their best selves."
You just have to reach the finish line
Kathleen Adinolfi never thought of herself as a runner before 2014, when she joined Achilles International.
"I was inspired by athletes with disabilities, I saw them doing multiple marathons a year," said Kathleen who works as a speech pathologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital, " These athletes make us hold a mirror to ourselves, which made me get off the couch and start running."
Kathleen did more than get off the couch. She was so inspired that she became a guide to help athletes with disabilities compete in events. That reinforced the most important lesson she's learned from her experiences as a guide.
"Before I thought you had to be fast to be a runner, now I realize you just have to reach the finish line," she said.
Kathleen will be participating in this year's virtual Hope & Possibility as a volunteer guide with Jenny Hwang who is a visually impaired Achilles runner. They plan to run the event in Queen in Fort Totten Park along the Cross-Island Parkway. She encourages all to participate in this virtual event, whether this will be your first running event or you're an experienced marathoner.
'Just move along with life'
It would have been so easy for Maurcio Blandino to give into his feelings of despair and wanting to hide from everything after he suffered a traumatic brain injury from a fall in 2011 while caring for his elderly mother.
But somehow a voice inside him pushed him to try to make things better. That's when he decided to attend a meeting at a group targeted for those with traumatic brain injuries. He learned it was possible to feel a sense of control and joy again when he heard a participant speak about Achilles International.
"I was hiding from everything, but I heard and saw they took control of their lives by running," Mauricio said. "Before I had only known about runners on TV, I never ran in my life. But what gravitated me to join the group was the energy, where one's disability was not looked at or thought of – just move along with life."
He started his physical therapy with a renewed vigor to gain control of his walk and both sides of his body. After a 1 ½ years, he was able to run around Central Park. That's when he knew he was ready for Hope & Possibility. Mauricio has subsequently participated in the event five times.
"There was so much joy when I did my first (Hope & Possibility event)," he said. "My whole body just lit up. Any pain was overshadowed by a sense of accomplishment."


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Simon Watt is a biologist, writer, science communicator, comedian and TV presenter - best known for his work on the BAFTA winning documentary series Inside Nature's Giants and the Channel 4 special The Elephant: Life After Death.
He founded "Ready Steady Science", a science communication company committed to making information interesting and takes science based performances into schools, museums, theatres and festivals.
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Simon also runs the "Ugly Animal Preservation Society" which is a comedy night with a conservation twist. It went on to find global fame/notoriety when it teamed up with the National Science and Engineering Competition to host an online campaign resulting in the election of the blobfish as the ugliest animal on the planet.
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2016 journal Impact Factors: Ornithology
Listing into the future
Tracking is 90% catching
To track small birds you need to catch them; twice…
Will Cresswell
Centre of Biological Diversity, University of St Andrews, U.K.
Cyprus Wheatears Oenanthe cypriaca likely reach sub-Saharan African wintering grounds in a single migratory flight. Xenophontos, M., Blackburn, E. & Cresswell, W. 2017. Journal of Avian Biology. DOI: 10.1111/jav.01119 VIEW
The success of any geolocator study rests on the ability to recatch the tagged bird. If you can't get your tag back with all its location data for you to download, then there are no data. And to do that you need to recatch the same individual you tagged, one year or so later. That's obvious, yet the fascination with the whole process of tagging seems to revolve around the tag design, its weight, its attachment to the bird, its technical capacity and so on, yet the real craft and skill of the study – catching and re-catching the same bird – is often neglected.
Figure 1 Pink white pink white. An adult female Cyprus Wheatear we first caught in May 2014 in a spring trap; we fitted a geolocator and she returned the next year. But we couldn't catch her again that year and her nest failed before we found it. She returned the next year in 2016, but again we failed to catch her. At last in May 2017 we recaught her – very easily – with a single mist net in front of her nest hole among some rocks. But the geolocator had been lost! A good thing that they do drop off if a bird is not recaptured (the elastic on the harnesses will perish eventually) but a shame that we didn't eventually recover the geolocator data. We fitted her with a new geolocator so hopefully next year we will finally find out about her migration and wintering strategy © Will Cresswell
We have been tagging Cyprus Wheatears, Oenanthe cypriaca, in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus: a pilot study in 2014-15 to get proof of principle and now a much larger intensive study involving hundreds of geolocators fitted to adult and juvenile birds, with our primary aim to look at the development of migration with age. So we need to catch and recatch hundreds of birds. And when we track a juvenile again as an adult, then we will need to catch that individual at least three separate times. It's a daunting task, particularly because the limiting factor in the pilot study was our ability to recatch the returning birds, not their survival or lack of return.
Figure 2 Pink black pink black just after being recaptured by its nest in May 2015 and just prior to removing its geolocator, fitted the previous spring. This bird wintered in a single site in northern Ethiopia, which it reached in a single direct flight from Cyprus over 2,600 km away. It was still alive in May 2017 returning to exactly the same breeding territory as all years. When we find this year's nest we will catch it again to put another geolocator on it to see whether the same applies to the wintering territory
© Will Cresswell
Of 24 birds tagged, 14 returned (58%) – a great survival rate for a small trans-Saharan migrant and more or less exactly the same as our control group of 81 colour-ringed only birds. But then we were only able to recatch 6 of them. A success in terms of finding out the wintering range of the species (South Sudan to Eritrea), their winter movements (or not) and their ability to get from Cyprus to their wintering ground in a single flight. But a failure in terms of a sample size of 6 only – when there were another 8 to be had, if we could only recapture them. This failure has focused us on the real challenge of geolocator studies – the recapture. And this is, of course, old school ornithology: the art of trapping.
Figure 3 Pink orange pink orange. A male tagged in May 2014 photographed in May 2016, in its second glorious year of not being recaptured. It would perch high above our playback and mist nets but we were never close to catching it again. Note the little tuft of grey on the back to show that it still had its geolocator © Will Cresswell
We catch Cyprus Wheatears predominantly with spring traps. It's a very effective method. Playback a male singing, bait your trap with a maggot, place in a territory before nest building gets started and expect to catch the male within a few minutes and the female a few minutes later. But the problem is that once caught in a spring trap, they will never take the bait again.
Figure 4 A male Cyprus Wheatear with a newly fitted geolocator tag. The back feathers are soon preened over the tag apart from the light stalk which just protrudes above the feathers. The tags weigh < 4% of the bird's mass and we have not been able to detect any negative effects on survival of fitting them to date © Will Cresswell
We have now spring trapped hundreds of Cyprus Wheatears over the 8 years of the study and we have only ever recaught two individuals in a spring trap. Some individuals in the study were trapped over 5 years ago now and they still remember how they were caught by us. A previously caught and now colour-ringed individual will happily come to look at a trap, approaching close to it, but it never goes for the maggot in the trap again (although it will happily take a free-ranging maggot). It's admirable but so frustrating, and means we need another method to recatch the tagged bird. The obvious alternative is to mist-net, but in an often windy, montane environment covered with Berberis cretica (imagine Velcro for mistnets that will attach permanently with just one touch…), this is very difficult. Targeted mist-netting for birds visiting the nest has been our most successful approach so far, but then we need an even more basic ornithological skill – nest finding.
Figure 5 Tricks to catch a Cyprus Wheatear. It helps that males early on in the season cannot resist playback of another male's song in their territory. After eventually disregarding the wheatear equivalent of R2D2, this male then turned its attention to the nearby maggot in a spring trap and joined our colour-ringed population © Will Cresswell
Hindsight is a wonderful thing when you do have the opportunity to continue a study. We are now catching our Cyprus Wheatears first with mist nets – we are less worried about who we catch then so we can site our nets to suit us. Then, the following year we have the easy option to recatch with spring traps – our best and most reliable method saved for the very high value returning birds with geolocators – and if we need to repeat tag a bird, we have the final fall-back option of catching the bird at the nest in the following year (very high effort but we will only have a small number of these very, high value birds).
Figure 6 Red yellow black white. A female Cyprus Wheatear colour-ringed in 2012 © Will Cresswell
So, tagging small birds sounds high-tech but actually its success is entirely to do with fundamental ornithological skills.
Xenophontos, M., Blackburn, E. & Cresswell, W. 2017. Cyprus Wheatears Oenanthe cypriaca likely reach sub-Saharan African wintering grounds in a single migratory flight. Journal of Avian Biology 48: 529-535. VIEW
Will Cresswell is Professor of Biology at St Andrews University and has been studying predator-prey interactions, and the ecology of migrant birds for the last 25 years. Current research priorities are to understand the factors determining the density and distribution of Palearctic migrants wintering in West Africa, and the ecology of their migration, so that we can address their continuing declines in the face of anthropogenic habitat and climate change. As part of the solution he is also involved with capacity building in the region through helping to run the AP Leventis Ornithological Research Institute that trains future African ornithologists.
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Top right: Black white orange white – a male Cyprus Wheatear Oenanthe cypriaca © Will Cresswell


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Him and Me – ein Gastbeitrag von unserem Lernpaten Bert Vandecasteele – elhana Lernpaten e.V.
elhana steht für Eltern-Hausaufgaben-Nachhilfe. Vor einigen Jahren, als elhana noch HANA hieß, war unser Gastautor Bert Vandecasteele Lernpate und schrieb eine berührende Geschichte über sich und seinen Schützling Yussuf. HANA wurde um das el- erweitert, weil wir immer wieder merken, wie sehr unser Erfolg von der Unterstützung der Eltern abhängt. Auch Berts Geschichte zeigt, dass sie das nötige Bindeglied in unserem Lernpatenmodell sind.
I am sitting at their coffee table, an empty soup plate in front of me. He is sitting next to me, playing Mario on his Nintendo DS. He is stuck on the first boss. "You have to grab him by the tail and swing him into a bomb", I say. " I know this, I've played this as a kid." And that's when it hits me. That's when I understand. Sorry. Let's take a step back. Me – that's me, yours truly, and him, that's Yussuf, my seven year old "god child". I got hooked up with him through the HANA project – his mother was looking for someone to help him with his reading. As a foreigner, I see this as the only thing I can help him with. My German simply isn't good enough for anything else. He's seven years old and in the second grade. He's already sporting the tiniest of mustaches. He's Kurdish. And every Monday and Thursday evening, as I sit next to him, he loudly prays that Allah will come and turn me into a frog.
Today, he's reading fine, though. He's improved – just by a bit, but every bit matters. "Baurufrisch", he now reads, though, in stead of Bauernfrau. Hm. "Read this again", I say. I circle the mistake. Because I'm a teacher, and I have to do something.
He sighs, then lays his head on the table. "This is unfair", he says. A ritual that always makes me think. Is it unfair? It is unfair that this kid missed about three months of first grade because his teacher was sick and they didn't find a substitute. But, on the other hand, it's not unfair that I'm here to help him out. It's unpleasant, yes. Not unfair. I never tell him this, though. Tomatoes-tomàtoes.
"We're almost done", I tell him. It's true – an hour really does fly by. For me, at least. For him, it's a whole different story. We're proving Einstein, right here, right now. Time is relative. He looks at the sheet and then back at me. "No, we're not almost done", he says. "Look. Just two more sentences on this page and then we quit for today", I respond.
Reluctantly, he reads the sentences, slowly and with more mistakes than he usually makes. Then, he looks up at me, wiggling in his seat. "Is something wrong?" I jokingly ask him. "I need to go to the toilet", he replies nervously. I nod my head and tell him to hurry, thinking whether there are actually teachers out there who deny a seven year old the right to go to the toilet without worrying about the consequences.
I sit alone in his room for a while. It looks like it came straight out of a Domäne-kaufhaus flyer. He has a bed shaped like a race car and Pixar Cars on his rug. He has a desk (which is a godsent luxury for a tutor). The drawers have little wheels for knobs. He once asked me whether I liked cars. I told him I did not. Like a mirror, I projected the question back at him. He just shrugged. I then asked him what he did like. He shrugged again.
I look at a picture of him and his mother, standing on his desk. I think it's the only photograph I've seen in the entire flat. In it, he's one year old and is giving the camera his patented frown. His mother is holding him. She doesn't really look younger as much as she looks more awake. Happier. I wonder if this was taken before or after they became this thing called "immigrants". It looks like before. But I obviously don't know.
He runs back inside the room, a look of glee in his eyes. This is where the fun bit starts. He sits down expectantly as I pull an old, battered book out of my bag. It's "Der Räuber Hotzenplotz" by Otfried Preußler. In today's episode, Hotzenplotz, who is a cunning thief, is going to take the two kids, Kasperl und Seppel, prisoner using his trusty pepper pistol. Yussuf reminds me that Hotzenplotz is the stupid one.
I try to convince him that, in this episode, Hotzenplotz is actually the smart one – seeing how he foiled the kids' plans to get him captured – but to no avail. He's a robber. He simply has to be stupid.
I read. He's on the edge of his seat as Seppel gets captured. Then, the villain threatens our poor hero: if Seppel lies one more time, Hotzenplotz will hit him with a "Schürhaken". "A what?" my little buddy asks. Later, in my room, I would look it up on Beolingus and it would spit out that "Schürhaken" means "fire place poker". But in his room, I shrug. I don't know either. I don't know many things. But I'm good at improvising, I say, so I tell him I think it's some sort of hook – like a meat hook, on which they hang dead animals. Immediately, every muscle on the little kid's face is contracted as his imagination goes hog wild. "We can look it up later", I try to reassure him. "In what dictionary?", I ask myself.
I read more Preußler, my head still with the Schürhaken. Somehow, for reasons unknown to me, it's got me in my grip. I mechanically drag myself through the remaining pages.
I close the book, dazed and confused. As I'm on my way out, his mother says she has made soup. In a nonquestioning tone, I am asked whether I want some. It's impolite to refuse. And that soup looks damn great. So I have some – before we know it, we're sitting on the floor around the coffee table eating, Turkish television playing from the huge plasma in the background. The soup is hot, so Yussuf needs a bit of motherly help. I try to convince him that he doesn't need his mom for that, that he's old enough. No avail. He enjoys being served. And he wants to finish his meal so he can show me his new video game.
Mario on Nintendo DS. As he shows me the game and I comment on it (not sure whether I should tell him that he's got good taste in video games and that I've played this one to death as a kid), I notice his mother smiling at us. So this is what it must be like, huh, I tell myself. This is what an atomic family could be. Only his dad is never there. And nothing of this is actually mine. But, sitting there, in the strangeness of that moment, of that smile, I can't help but feel happy.
And that's when I say it: "You have to grab him by the tail and swing him into a bomb. I know this, I've played this as a kid." And it hits me.
This kid is just like me. He's lazy. He feels victimized way too fast. He feels that he'll never be as good at being a German as a German kid, and can't quite accept that. So he's paralyzed. But he's full of energy, and he should be trying his best at being him. Which is "Yussuf": a seven year old Kurdish kid, creative, talkative and witty. Different and awesomely so.
And what am I doing? What is this? I'm teaching this kid German. I'm reading him a German book. I'm showing him German culture. In two years, he might be reading Krabat and I might teach him how it is an analogy for Preußler's experience with Fascism. And when his testosterone levels hit, I'll be showing him Schlink's The Reader and explaining him about the Eichmann trial. About Hannah Arendt, Art Spiegelman and Anne Frank. About the burning of the Reichstag. Kristallnacht. I'll teach him what it's like to be a German, to be responsible for both Volkswagen and the holocaust.
And it's all stuff I don't want to know. It's all stuff I think I don't have to know. Or is it? How can I teach this kid how to be a German, when I don't want to be a German myself? I can't show him Goethe. Or Schiller. Or Brecht. I don't know anything about them, nor do I want to.
Neues Jahr, neues Glück und auch gleich ein neues Büro!
Mach einen Unterschied – mit einer Spende, die Bildungschancen schafft!
In 20 Jahren werde ich Ärztin oder Archäologin sein.


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Q: Cognos Report Studio: CASE and IF Statements I'm very new in using Cognos report studio and trying to filter some of the values and replace them into others.
I currently have values that are coming out as blanks and want to replace them as string "Property Claims"
what i'm trying to use in my main query is
CASE WHEN [Portfolio] is null
then 'Property Claims'
ELSE [Portfolio]
which is giving me an error. Also have a different filter i want to put in to replace windscreen flags to a string value rather than a number. For example if the flag is 1 i want to place it as 'Windscreen Claims'.
if [Claim Windscreen Flag] = 1
then ('Windscreen')
Else [Claim Windscreen Flag]
None of this works with the same error....can someone give me a hand?

A: Your first CASE statement is missing the END.  The error message should be pretty clear.  But there is a simpler way to do that:
coalesce([Portfolio], 'Property Claims')

The second problem is similar:  Your IF...THEN...ELSE statement is missing a bunch of parentheses.  But after correcting that you may have problems with incompatible data types.  You may need to cast the numbers to strings:
case
  when [Claim Windscreen Flag] = 1 then ('Windscreen')
  else cast([Claim Windscreen Flag], varchar(50))
end

In future, please include the error messages.

A: it might be syntax

*

*IS NULL  (instead of = null)

*NULL is not blank.  You might also want = ' '

*case might need an else and END at the bottom

*referring to a data type as something else can cause errors.  For example a numeric like [Sales] = 'Jane Doe'

For example (assuming the result is a string and data item 2 is also a string),
case
when([data item 1] IS NULL)Then('X')
when([data item 1] = ' ')Then('X')
else([data item 2])
end

Also, if you want to show a data item as a different type, you can use CAST


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Romo Wears Same Monkey LeBron Did
LeBron James may never win the eight championships he promised Miami Heat fans two summers ago, but at least for his sake, it's good that he's got No. 1.
Maybe it's just sports culture, but we all kind of assume there's a lot of pressure on the multi-multi-multi-million dollar athlete who may be one of the best at his respective position, but has yet to lead his team to a title. It's that monkey on their back, we say.
Because of the microscope surround LBJ, he was the classic case of this until Thursday night. Whether it's fair or not in a sport that has 22 starters as opposed to five, Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is held to the same standard. Until he wins a Super Bowl, there will always be the "Yeah, but . . . " hanging over his head.
Romo knows this. It comes with the territory. Not only is the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, but he happens to be pretty good. No one ever had a "Yeah, but . . . " with Quincy Carter.
At the adults table that is NFL.com, the panel of 10 instant debaters have reached a something of a consensus in declaring Romo the one player with the most pressure to win a Super Bowl.
Six of the nine contributors polled say Romo is the guy who most needs a world title as validation of his greatness.
Others answered Brian Urlacher, Joe Flacco and Philip Rivers, but those responses just seem like reaches for originality.
Romo is the face of the Cowboys. The Cowboys are America's Team. America's Team hasn't won a Super Bowl in 16 years and counting. It doesn't matter than Romo rose from undrafted obscurity, far and exceeding any scout's expectations for him.
LeBron, meanwhile, was heralded as "The Chosen One" before he was even a senior in high school.
Is it really fair to compare the two?


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## Evento de carga

El evento `onload` se utiliza para ejecutar una función de JavaScript inmediatamente después de que se haya cargado una página.

### Ejemplo:

```javascript
<body onload="myFunction()">

 <script>
  function myFunction() {
    alert('Page finished loading');
  }
 </script>
```

En el ejemplo anterior, tan pronto como la página web se haya cargado, se `myFunction` función `myFunction` , que muestra la alerta de `Page finished loading` la `Page finished loading` para el usuario.

El evento `onload` se usa con más frecuencia dentro del elemento `<body>` para ejecutar el script. Si se adjunta al `<body>` , el script se ejecutará una vez que la página web haya cargado completamente todo el contenido (imágenes, archivos de script, archivos CSS, etc.).

#### Más información:

[MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GlobalEventHandlers/onload)

#### Otros recursos

[jQuery .on () Adjunto al controlador de eventos](https://api.jquery.com/on/) [Desbordamiento de pila: window.onload vs. document.onload](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/588040/window-onload-vs-document-onload)

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