The project Appropriations and resignifications of the image of the Virgin of Montserrat in Catalonia and around the world seeks to perform an in-depth analysis of the image of the Mother of God of Montserrat from a previously unexplored perspective, which goes beyond the usual studies of a religious or artistic nature. Its aim is to explore, from a historical and anthropological perspective, the resignifications that this icon has experienced both in Catalonia and abroad according to different political, historical and cultural contexts. The study focuses on the contemporary era and takes into consideration three specific ethnographic cases belonging to three different continents –beyond Catalonia– where the image of La Moreneta is present: Puerto Rico, Equatorial Guinea, Alghero. In all three areas the image of the Mother of God of Montserrat has generated unique cults, myths and discourses. Our aim is to relate these responses with the uses and meanings that have been given and continue to be given to it today in Catalonia in order to gain a greater understanding of the diversity of meanings and functions that one same image can acquire over time and space.


Rain patters on the roof on a Saturday morning. The comforting, homey sounds of pouring cereal and my seven-year-old's chatter lull me.
My nine-year-old daughter cruises around the room, poking at objects, shifting things around randomly, dropping things, babbling in the toddler syllables that take over at home from her fairly normal speech in public.
After a few minutes, she disappears outside. I will need to corral her soon and ensure that she takes her supplements, brushes her hair and eats something, preferably something with protein, but I put it off for a few more minutes. We almost never have a relaxed weekend morning at home.
The seven-year-old starts his piano practice and homework. The nine-year-old has been in and out several times. I manage to get her to swallow the supplements and she only screams a little when she has to sit and brush her hair. They have been really good this morning and I remember that there is the last of a cobbler in the oven.
I talk my daughter into an egg for breakfast, as brain ballast, and then tell them we'll have a morning treat—cobbler with some spray whipped cream from the can that Papa got yesterday.
I know this is one of my daughter's favorites. With its contents of sugar and preservatives, canned whipped cream isn't great for her and it could cause a bit of chaos and mental fragility today, but she'll be able to blow off steam outside.
The kids both cheer, united for once, and I go to the fridge to get the coveted can.
know it was there last night and I know my husband doesn't like it. I ask my daughter, who is most invested in it to come and look. She scours the fridge and sounds completely baffled by the missing whipped cream, though not upset.
"I'm going outside," she says with a resigned shrug. "I give up." No baby talk in that at least.
I notice when she's at the door. She's headed out the door away from the trampoline and the swing. "Where are you going? " I ask absently, my head still in the fridge.
"To see the chickens," she says and slams the door.
Then she says she's going to visit the chickens again.
"What are you doing with the chickens? " A jolt of alarm goes into me. Our chickens are large, tough and utilitarian. I am only a little concerned for their safety, but she has never shown any interest in the chickens before, except for the one day when we brought home somewhat cute, half-grown chicks.
"I just really like the chickens. I really really like them," she calls back as she slams the door again.
Suspicion blooms inside me. I meet my seven-year-old's gaze. He doesn't say a word but slides off his chair and dashes to the door. Not a word has passed between us on the subject but I know he is going to spy out what she is doing at the chicken coop. It will no doubt result in conflict and very possibly a fist fight.
I'm too exhausted to stop him though. The past few days have been a whirlwind—an endless string of work, her meltdowns, doctor's appointments and school problems. The relative calm of cooking while dealing with kids has me groggy. And anyway it's seventy yards up a steep hill to the chicken coop and I have onions frying in a pan for soup and a dishpan full of soapy dishes.
Someone needs to check on what is going on at the chicken coop, so I let the seven-year-old do it.
In two minutes, he's back, the empty whipped cream can held up demonstratively. "Yup, she was squirting it into her mouth," he says, confirming both of our unspoken suspicions.
I am grateful that he doesn't care that much about canned whipped cream. One less bickering fight between siblings. I'm also impressed to see that he managed to get custody of the canister without physical injury… hopefully to either of them. The can is entirely empty, so she probably abandoned it to the chickens.
I'm going to write about life and parenting with a neuro-diverse child. There will be people who judge me for even mentioning children in my writing. The new thinking is that one should wait until they are adults and then ask for their consent before writing about them.
There will also be those who curse me for telling the harder side of living with a neuro-diverse person. There is a heavy push for parents to gush about how privileged and honored we are to parent this specific child. It comes after several decades in which parents of neuro-diverse kids were sainted and considered to be charitable saviors of mental invalids. Now the pendulum has swung the other direction, and we are required to abase ourselves in gratitude for a life that is in most cases still both physically and psychologically exhausting but also just part of life.
As usual, I am not much influenced by the trends. I am writing about this because there is a crisis in judgment of and pressure on families with neuro-diverse members. Services and educational adaptation are minimal and the vast majority of the blame for any difficulties is shunted onto families, who are almost always struggling as hard as they can to help those with neuro-diverse conditions survive and thrive in a brutally neuro-typical world.
Another reason is that once the years have passed, it is unlikely that I or anyone else will remember what these years were like. Middle childhood can be a very difficult period for many neuro-diverse children and their families. Most outsiders have no clue and are quick to jump to judgment when they see the outward manifestations. Even neuro-diverse adults often forget what the day-to-day reality was like. This is a world that rarely gets a detailed accounting.
For that reason as well, I will write.
My nine-year-old daughter shrieks as my husband and I pull her out of the mall by gripping her upper arms on either side, careful not to injure her but firm in our refusal to let her topple displays or persist in a demand-based tantrum.
This was meant to be a quick stop for groceries but things have derailed. She is twisting between us, kicking at our legs with her sharp little princess heels, interspersed with frantic promises to be perfect and manic screeches of hatred. She turns to sink her teeth into my hands, but I am still stronger and quicker than her. I shift my grip and deftly avoid the bite.
The meltdown was most directly sparked because she saw the round pink globes of LOL dolls in a toy store window and insisted that she must have one. These collector's dolls come in opaque round packages. You cannot tell which one you're getting. That apparently is the fun in it or maybe just the profit in it for the manufacturer. They are only a tad more complex than the toys in a Happy Meal but they cost a solid $25 per secret package where we live.
My husband and I aren't impressed by the dolls in the first place and we generally don't buy toys for the kids during random shopping trips, let alone anything that expensive. Her name day is coming up in a few weeks and I suggested that she could ask for one of these dolls for her name-day gift. That started the whining, yelling and kicking, though it was still at a somewhat subdued wheedling level and was mostly directed at Papa, who is more amenable to impulsive purchases than I am.
But he has been practicing sticking to his statements with her and he had already said no. He repeated himself more firmly and that sparked the all-out revolt.
We finally pass through the automatic doors of the mall and my husband releases her arm, apparently assuming that she'll stamp her feet, sulk and eventually recover. But instead she wrenches her other arm out of my grip and spins toward the doors with lightning speed. I catch her round the middle, glad that I'm still relatively agile. My husband turns, slower to react and stares. Then she tears herself away from me and sprints into the parking lot, across lanes of traffic, heading in a straight line away from us.
"Get the car!" I yell over my shoulder and dash after her.
I'm very nearsighted and I dare not let her get too far away, but I know that the only way we'll contain this situation is if we can get her in the car. She reaches the end of the parking lot without slowing down and disappears through a line of shrubs still a hundred feet in front of me. I break through the shrubbery and find myself on the exit ramp of a gas station.
I don't see my nine-year-old as I dash across it and come around the pillars of a giant gas station sign. There is another line of denser shrubbery behind it. I run past it but then turn, real fear hitting my breathless body as I survey the gas pumps and cars. There are now many directions she could have gone and I can't see any sign of her purple shirt and turquoise mini-skirt.
Fortunately, I'm seriously winded by this time though and my feet don't carry me far beyond the shrubs. I hear a tiny noise and spin to see her crouching low under the branches. She stares for a split second before she leaps away and that's all it takes. I grab and latch onto her arm with an iron grip. I pull her back around to the exit ramp and my husband drives up in our car, which is something between a hatch back and a mini-van with sliding doors in the back. He opens a door from the inside and I wrestle our struggling, screaming daughter inside.
No one appears to have noticed and I'm momentarily torn between relief and cynicism, considering that to any bystander the scene just played out looked exactly like the classic Hollywood portrayal of a child kidnapping.
She is still screaming and kicking in the back seat. We can't stay on the exit ramp with cars behind us, so my husband drives two blocks to find a place to pull over, so that we can wrestle her into her seat belt. She seems moderately calmer and we reiterate that she can ask for a toy for her name day but she will not get this toy today or anytime soon, due to her current behavior.
We have to keep going. We've had dinner and it's nearly bedtime. If she doesn't get into bed at the right time, she will meltdown in the morning and not get to school and then someone won't get to work. "Just wait them out" is almost universal parenting advice. It's meant well but it often doesn't work in the real world.
We get back into the front and my husband pulls the car onto the freeway. It seems unlikely that she could actually plan this, but as soon as we're in heavy traffic she starts up again, kicking my seat and hitting her brother, yelling insults at him. I reach back and seize her hands, keeping her from physically tormenting the seven-year-old.
By this time we're on a freeway bridge and there is nothing more to do. I meet his eyes and talk in a low, calm voice under the screeching.
"I know this isn't fair. I'm sorry. I need you to be a big kid and be calm," I tell him. I explain that the nine-year-old is having a really hard time and has a problem in her brain that makes it very hard for her to regain control. She screams insults and bullying names at him and starts to cry a bit. I hold him with my gaze and he keeps his hands away from her.
By the time we reach the next exit, she is a bit calmer. We discuss stopping in low tones but it won't help. She will see it as power if the whole family has to stop and wait. Both my husband and I are still relatively calm and this alone is a major victory. We have managed to keep our cool despite a pretty extreme scene.
I lay out the consequences of further physical attacks to the nine-year-old, while still containing her hands. I don't kid myself that this will have much effect. When she's in this kind of state, her ability to process cause and effect is nearly nonexistent.
Even so, she is quiet enough that I release her hands, which turns out to be a mistake. She seizes the nearest hard object, her large plastic doll and throws it at my husband's head. Since he didn't take that exit, he's wrestling with a snarl of fast, big-city traffic. I mange to knock the doll aside so that it hits the headrest instead of his head and falls onto the seven-year-old.
I give him a quick apology and make a left-handed sweep of the back seat, removing every hard object I can reach that she could throw and piling them at my feet in the front. She's screeching at top volume again, hurling most of her insults at me and Papa. The seven-year-old has flattened himself against the door on his side.
I turn back to the front and check to make sure that my husband is undisturbed while driving. The small shocks of her feet slamming into the back of my seat irritate me, but it is mostly the greediness of her demand for immediate toys that makes me seethe with anger inside. I am hanging onto my calm by a ragged thread.
I spare a moment to think about parents with other types of disabilities and single parents. What if my husband was driving alone with them when this happened? What if I didn't have above-average physical strength and speed for a woman or what if my eyes were just a bit worse? The thought of the judgement of people who would see us and think we were being overly harsh and that we should somehow magically find a way to handle the situation with grace and sweetness fill me with disgust.
Then the seven-year-old cries out a warning and I turn just in time to fling up a hand as the nine-year-old launches her booster seat, which she has managed to get out from under her, at my husband's head.
I don't catch it and she seizes it again when it falls. She draws back for another throw.
"Don't!" My husband's strangled voice indicates that he's struggling with a major freeway interpass and he can't even have me twisting in my seat and waving my arms around. I hold my hand up grimly, ready to take whatever she has got to keep it from hitting the driver in the head.
Every day is exhausting and hard. Some days I feel like I'm in a war zone.
I don't say that lightly because I worked in war zones years ago. At the end of the day my ears are ringing, my vision is fading in and out and I am staggering on my feet. Every inch of my body aches and my shoulders and cheeks are bruised from blows. My husband's face is blank and his eyes are glazed after only being in it for a few hours after work. My son lies in bed in a fetal position.
The screaming hurricane is finally down at nine in the evening but we don't have a glass of wine and watch TV. I don't write on evenings like this. We just totter off to bed, separately, sometimes without even a word or a touch.
It isn't every day but it is like this most days.
I recently read The Little Monster: Growing up with ADHD by Robert Jergen. The author, a man with severe ADHD and auditory processing disorder (the same categories of disability as our daughter), describes growing up in a fog, unaware of many of his actions, unable to remember what happened, what he said, what others said, moment to moment. He wasn't just in trouble. His parents, even used to four rambunctious boys before him, were desperate.
I listened to it as an audio book on a rare day at home alone while my husband was out with the kids. During the portion of the book focused on Jergen's childhood, I gritted my teeth and muttered angry words at him and sympathy for his parents. The book does a good job of helping the reader understand his experience and he didn't describe his parents nicely, but I knew what it was like for them.
He did accurately describe the endless hurricane of chaos, destruction, obliviousness and carelessness with which he filled their home. He was the youngest of five boys, so it is possible that his presence wasn't as all consuming as this hurricane is in our home.
Here there is often only one person who is allowed to be human on many days, only one person who is allowed to have needs. Nothing and no one can exist beyond her when she's in meltdown. And yet it isn't her fault any more than my bad eyesight is my fault. And in rare quiet times, she promises to try not to be a hurricane.
Jergen writes that he believes everyone in the future will hope their children have ADHD. That is the only thing in the book that is truly wrong and infuriating. I have great sympathy for him and honor his experience and his admirable truth telling about having these disabilities, but the truth is also that he has never parented a child, let alone a child with his type of disabilities.
I am glad for the hope that at least someone with these types of disabilities has found a measure of happiness and independence as an adult, though it is clearly noted that Jergen tested as highly intelligent on standardized tests even as a child and many children with these disabilities do not.
As a person with a significant visual disability, I know all too well that adaptation can be done and yet that it takes a great deal of mental resources. I have watched the vast majority of blind and visually impaired adults sink in to poverty and isolation, while I battled my way to a life with a family and a middle class lifestyle.
Some kids with ADHD are also very intelligent, just as there are people with autism who are high functioning with genius-level intelligence. That has, in fact, become a kind of stereotype for ADHD, but it isn't actually the norm.
Those people with disabilities who get a voice to speak about their experiences are those with abnormally high intelligence who manage to find coping mechanisms. They are not the ones who are destroyed and sentenced to failure. poverty and the astronomical ADHD-in-prison statistics. Coping mechanisms may be beyond the reach of many.
The house is a disaster. There are toys and clothes scattered all over the kitchen and hall floors. The kitchen is piled high with dishes. I'm cooking two major meals at once because the next day is jammed with doctor's appointments and school events for kids.
My seven-year-old gets up from the early lunch I heated for him and goes to get his own backpack ready for a soccer tournament. I call out items he shouldn't forget and I manage to fill his water bottle in between stirring veggies on the stove and putting breakfast things back in the fridge.
I put a kiss on the top of his head. I know there are benefits to hardship and having to be moderately capable at almost eight will put him ahead of his peers in many ways. But it still makes me sad that he gets no more than this hurried send off for the first soccer tournament of the season. All the other kids have devoted parents cheering from the sidelines at every game.
But it isn't going to happen for us. For now I'm just grateful that the nine-year-old is letting me cook very briefly. She is actually doing something nice for once. I put the box of washable kid-safe paints where she can access it near the drawing supplies, and she has the contents spread out by the fireplace. Hopefully she'll paint and I'll get thirty minutes of cooking done.
On my way to the freezer I walk by and notice that she has opened every single color of the washable paints, which are used not just by her and her brother but also by my ESL students. I stop to make a quick check and find to my dismay that the damage has already been done.
Every single color has been squeezed out of the bottles into a plastic large container and she now has a half gallon of dark gray paint. There are dregs in the bottoms of a few bottles, which she didn't squeeze hard enough but mostly the paint supply—at least $50 worth—is gone. That is the price paid for the last twenty minutes of uninterrupted cooking.
The nine-year-old is throwing a tantrum because she momentarily cannot remember the sound made by the letter A. She can actually read, though dyslexia makes it a struggle. But her short-term memory issues, a common part of ADHD, makes it so sometimes she truly cannot remember the sound of a letter.
The bigger problem is that she knows this happens and she is not above pretending to have such a memory attack in order to get out of homework. My husband is close to tears and this has only been going on for one hour.
The day is yet young at 5:00 pm.
By 6;00 pm they have switched to math, giving up on today's reading assignment. Dinner is ready and I take over from my husband.
"How in the world am I supposed to explain algebra to her?" he fumes at the textbook. The problem reads 42 - ? = 14.
Our nine-year-old can—on a good day--just barely work out 42 - 14 = ? with help. But my husband never needed to work at math as a kid, so he doesn't remember how you get from that to the real problem. I wasn't as good in math and I still remember the agonizing steps.
I spend the next two hours trying to coax her into the basics needed to get to where her classmates are, while she screams and thrashes around on the floor.
I have to get to physical therapy as soon as I get the kids off to school in the morning. I prepared extra well the night before, so all I have to do is slip snacks and water bottles into their backpacks.
The nine-year-old insists on wearing leggings with half a dozen holes in them and a halter top even though it froze last night and the forecast is chilly. I know the judgement I'll get and I force a long-sleeved shirt on over her halter top, even though I know she'll just take it off. I can't physically get the halter top off of her with out injury to one or both of us.
She starts screaming ten minutes before it is time to leave for school and she continues well past the time they usually leave. I let the seven-year-old go on his own. She seizes a log off of the woodpile and hurls it against the glass back door of the house. The glass doesn't break but I doubt it can take much more.
I open the door a crack and tell her to stop hitting the glass and go to school. She grabs a longer piece and tries to strike me with it. I close the door and it lands against the door jamb. I open it a crack again and tell her that every time she hits the door she will lose a day of television privileges. We've been through this before.
I count fifteen strikes of logs against the glass before I leave by the other door, locking it behind me. She comes raging around the house, screaming at me.
She still has some nervousness about getting in trouble with her teacher. I tell her that she will be late for school at this point but if she goes right away she will not get in big trouble. It makes no difference. She continues to rage and scream, her face covered with snot and her hair stringy at the sides.
There is no waiting it out. I either have to leave or I will miss an appointment that took six months to get. The irritated doctor, who didn't believe me the last time I postponed an appointment, might not even allow me to get another.
I whisper "Good morning" into the children's ears as the first streaks of dawn make silver in the east. They need time to get up slowly. Given that they have to walk to school because I can't drive, we rise pretty early here.
I turn on lights, scratch and rub backs, exchange a few words with the seven-year-old and smile noncommittally at the pretend baby talk of the nine-year-old while I give her a reassuring hug and kiss. Then I go down stairs to get snacks and vitamin supplements ready.
"She's in Papa's room messing with his office!" the seven-year-old calls down a few minutes later.
Yesterday, she climbed up on the stove to get candy out of the stash on the shelf just below the ceiling and then refused to eat any dinner because she already had her sugar fix. She took non-washable dye and hid it in her room when I did an art project with her and then lied when I was looking for it. She got into my room and made off with my phone and my scissors.
I have to go to physical therapy again this morning. In a flash, I am so angry I can't think straight.
I run up the stairs and pull her away from my husband's desk, where she is rummaging. I take her downstairs and my voice cracks with strain as I demand that she tell me what she was doing, what she had taken or what she was looking to take. I am pretty sure it is either sweets, money to buy sweets or something electronic she wants to distract with at school.
She refuses to say, as usual. She doesn't tell the truth anymore the way she once did. It is hard to blame her, since she often gets in trouble and now is often accused of fibbing.
My voice cracks and I start yelling, shattering the peace of the pink-tinged morning. My voice is hoarse and scratchy for the rest of the day and I feel like a bad parent for ruining the morning for everyone.
I am too tired, too worn out. I am sick and tired of lies and commercial demands and unkindness.
These are all real statements that people have said to me in just the past month. Neuro-diversity is terribly complex and you'll never find another child exactly like mine. Some neuro-diverse children are exactly the opposite. There is no way that most people can truly understand people with hidden disabilities.
But there is one thing that everyone should know that would actually help neuro-diverse people and their families. That is that hidden disabilities are real and they are very difficult to deal with. Assume you don't know.
It's a disability. It exists and it appears from the outside like a very bad, very spoiled child. Our walls are covered with more reward charts than any household I've ever seen. I have studied and tried dozens of strategies and parenting styles.
Most work fine with my seven-year-old. He is known for being a very active and even a "wild" boy but he doesn't have ADHD. None of the parenting techniques actually "work" with my nine-year-old. A few help a little.
i used to think I could tell if a child was being parented well by observation. I now know that I can't. I wish I had been able to learn to be less judgmental in an easier fashion.


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Councillor hits new heights with skydive
A Cardiff councillor has hit new heights with a tandem skydive, in memory of his grandfather.
Councillor Ashley Lister represents the Grangetown area of Cardiff. In February 2018, he took the plunge from 12,000 feet above Swansea Airport.
He pledged to take on the challenge at a fundraising dinner last October, to raise funds in memory of his grandfather, Chris Lomax.
Mr Lomax had Type 1 diabetes and had held the Grangetown seat for four years until he passed away in 2016. So far, his grandson's adrenaline-fuelled efforts have raised £2500.
"I wanted to do something amazing"
Ashley, who is 25, said "My family has a huge amount of experience of the impact of diabetes. My grandfather had Type 1 for over 10 years, and my nan also had it for around 20 years. My niece, Scarlett, is only 9 and was diagnosed with Type 1 in 2016. My other grandmother has Type 2 diabetes.
"I wanted to challenge myself to do something amazing for Diabetes UK Cymru to support other families who are affected by the condition.
"I decided on a skydive rather than running a half marathon, as I wouldn't need to train! My dad did one a few years ago and told me what an incredible experience it was.
"It felt like my grandfather was smiling down on us"
"The scary part was shuffling towards the edge, getting ready to drop. I was freefalling for 40 seconds and then it took 4 minutes to descend to earth, enjoying the stunning views and beautiful weather. It felt like my grandfather was smiling down on us. It was such an adrenaline rush and I'd love to do it again one day."
Congratulations Ashley for being such a fearless fundraiser, and thank you for your incredible support. We look forward to hearing about your next challenge!
Feel inspired to take the plunge? Find out how you can fundraise to help us make a difference in Wales.
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The Electronics and communication Engineering is harbinger of the institution. The department of Electronics and communication Engineering was started in the year of 2006. The department offers B.E and M.E programmes with a vision to produce globally competent professionals. Keeping in line with fast changing technology, the department has a well designed, constantly reviewed syllabus of Anna University to incorporate all advancements in existing and emerging technologies. The department has well equipped laboratories to meet the requirements of university standards.
The Electronics and communication Engineering has organized a number of seminars, workshops. About more than 12 seminars, 2 symposium, 4workshops were conducted on different topics like Mobile Train Radio Communication, Face Recognition Using Neural Network, Bluetooth Network Security, Embedded System in Automobiles, PCB Designing, etc., Various industrial visits are organized by the department to various establishments enable the students to have a feel of real life situations in industry and the usage of technologies in industry at present.
To nurture the students towards practical knowledge of the subjects, research and development besides inducing them to publish papers in an international journals and mini projects. The department has highly qualified and experienced faculties.
To develop competencies of students with good value system to face challenges of the continuously changing electronics world.
Provide in depth knowledge in electronics and programming field with some basic knowledge of other fields.
Provide good communication skill which is needed in the present world.
Provide students a industrial based knowledge.
The lab facilitates effective implementation of various electronics circuits, thereby providing a resourceful platform for their further study and understanding. This laboratory has an excellent collection of all basic components in available ranges for conducting practical classes. It also consists of Dual Trace Oscilloscope, Function Generators, Power Supplies, Bread boards etc. All basic Electronic devices and their characteristics, applications can be studied. Using these devices the small electronic circuits can be constructed and can be checked.
It is fun to play with 0 and 1 which is the heart beat of all modern digital equipments. Number of Digital ICs is available to get the knowledge about logical circuits and their components for the students. Digital Trainer Kits are used to built combinational and sequential circuits. In this lab various digital circuits like gates, digital converters, flip-flops and registers etc are being studied.
Communication is one of the basic of all Mobile, Radio and TV. In this lab, the students learn about how the various modulation and demodulation techniques actually happen with the help of CRO and various kits. The lab is using advanced kits with which the learning and implementation is very easy.
Automation rules the world but we rules over the automation by the usage of Microprocessor and Microcontroller. The Microprocessor and Microcontroller Laboratory aims in inculcating the knowledge of programming skills by executing various programs like arithmetic operations, code conversions, searching and sorting algorithms studied in the Microprocessor and Microcontroller course. The lab is also used by the students to interface the microprocessor and microcontroller to various peripheral devices to generate waveforms, perform A/D and D/A conversions, Displays, Digital clock.
Processing and generating digital and analog signals are done in this lab. The detailed study of the digital electronics & signal processing concept based experiments can be performed. This lab has more than 31 numbers of Dual Core CPU with 2 GB personnel computer along with required software like MATLAB and other softwares.
Designing a Microprocessor and Controller are very much complicated and thus they are designed through VLSI techniques. A well established computer lab with higher configuration systems. Practiced program in VLSI using Xilinx software and FPGA kit.
Modern mobile, satellite communication completely depends on Microwave frequency. The Communication Lab has been equipped with Function generator, and many other experimental kits. Microwave Lab comprises of bench setup with Klystron, Gunn diode, Isolators, Circulators, directional couplers and all other accessories. Optical lab has different trainer kits, Power sources and Power Meters.
The Embedded systems lab has been equipped with ARM which is backbone of current mobile and hand held device. It also has PIC and some simulation software with high configuration computers.
The Embedded systems lab has been equipped latest FPGA's with supporting software. It also has PIC and some simulation software with high configuration computers. DSP kits give signal processing and generation.


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Updated at 6:05 p.m.: Revised to include details about the grand jury ending the day without voting.
A Dallas County grand jury went home Wednesday without deciding whether to indict a former Dallas police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed 26-year-old in his apartment.
Grand jurors heard testimony all day about whether Amber Guyger should be charged with murder, manslaughter or nothing for killing Botham Jean in his Dallas apartment. They won't return until Friday to either hear additional testimony or vote on an indictment.
Jean was watching a football game when Guyger fatally shot him Sept. 6. She told authorities she mistook his apartment for hers and thought Jean was a burglar.
Guyger, 30, was off-duty but still in uniform when she entered Jean's apartment at the South Side Flats complex in the Cedars, a few blocks from police headquarters. She told authorities the door was ajar and unlocked, which Jean's family disputed, saying he was a meticulous person who wouldn't have left his door open.
Guyger was arrested and charged with manslaughter three days after the shooting. She was booked into the Kaufman County Jail and released on bond within an hour.
Dallas defense attorneys have said murder is the more appropriate charge for Guyger because, in Texas, manslaughter charges are reserved for reckless acts. If Guyger intended to shoot Jean, even if she wrongly assumed he was a burglar, murder would be the charge that fits best, they said.
Guyger's attorney, Robert Rogers, has not returned phone calls seeking comment.
The Jean family's attorneys said they were hopeful that a murder indictment would be handed up.
"Anything less, we feel, would be a miscarriage of justice," attorney Lee Merritt said.
Merritt said Allison Jean, Botham's mother, took the stand before the grand jury Monday. Botham's sister, Allisa Charles-Findley, was on the stand Wednesday afternoon, Merritt said.
If Guyger is indicted on the more severe charge, she could be re-arrested. If that happens, it's possible she could turn herself in at a jail outside Dallas County, as she did previously. It's also possible the grand jury could decide not to charge Guyger.
A charge of murder is punishable by up to life in prison. A charge of manslaughter could come with a penalty of up to 20 years.
Jurors will return Friday because no decision was reached Wednesday. This grand jury meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Another Dallas County grand jury meets Tuesdays and Thursdays. The same grand jury must hear all the evidence before voting whether to indict.
The attorneys were unsure why the grand jury proceedings had stretched over multiple days, but they took it as a sign that the district attorney's office was handling the case with "professionalism and seriousness," Merritt said.
"This has taken much longer than even the Jordan Edwards case, where there were more live witnesses," said Daryl Washington, another attorney for the family. "We don't know why it's taken this long, but the one thing that we hope that happens is the right decision comes out of this grand jury room."
Jordan, 15, was shot and killed by a police officer as he left a house party in Balch Springs. Roy Oliver was convicted of murder and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
For weeks after Jean's death, protesters rallied in Dallas, calling for Guyger to be charged with murder.
Guyger was fired from the Dallas Police Department on Sept. 24, the same day Jean was buried in a cemetery by the sea in St. Lucia, the Caribbean nation where he grew up.
Jean had come to the U.S. to attend Harding University in Arkansas and later moved to Dallas for a job as an accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He had hoped to one day return to St. Lucia to run for prime minister.
Grand jurors began hearing evidence in the case against Guyger on Monday.
Washington said Monday that the world had its eyes and ears on Dallas as the grand jury proceedings were underway.
"The fact that there is even a possibility that this officer may not be charged with murder is something that the whole world is looking at," he said.
Jean family attorneys Daryl K. Washington (left) and Lee Merritt spoke to the media at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas on Monday.
Bertrum Jean, the father of Botham Jean, spoke next to his wife, Allison, and attorneys Lee Merritt (far left) and Daryl Washington during a media interview in Dallas on Oct. 16.
Washington and Merritt are representing the family in the federal lawsuit they filed against Guyger and the city of Dallas. In the lawsuit, they argued that Guyger used excessive force and violated Jean's civil rights and said the city could have prevented Jean's death by providing better training to its police officers.
The Jeans met with Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson in October, and staff filled the family in on how the investigation had been going. At that point, Johnson said the DA's office had brought in more than 200 witnesses and planned to interview more.
During the meeting, Johnson said she asked Allison Jean, Botham's mother, whether she wanted the DA's office to stop and go to the grand jury. But Jean said to keep going, Johnson said.
DA-elect John Creuzot has said he believes Guyger should be charged with murder. He will take office in January after defeating Johnson in this month's elections.


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For the longest time, I was really ashamed of how my makeup storage looked because it was spread out everywhere and I had essentially lost half of my desk space. The last few weeks I've been actively seeking out alternate storage options on a budget and I have found something that I'm really happy with and I'm excited to share with you! I hope that you enjoy!
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Scholastic has revealed it has signed the "dazzling" feminist retelling of The Little Mermaid by Asking for It author Louise O'Neill.
The publisher has described the new interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale seen "through a searing feminist lens" as the "stand-out YA release of spring 2018".
Lauren Fortune, editorial director for Scholastic UK, made the deal for world rights for The Surfance Breaks with Rachel Conway at Georgina Capel Associates. David Levithan, v.p and publisher and editorial director of Scholastic Press in the US, will publish it for Scholastic US.
It will be published in the UK in hardback in May 2018 with the US publication date still to be confirmed.
Exclusive samplers including the first two chapters of the story will be available on the Scholastic stand at Young Adult Literary Convention 2017 (YALC) in London this weekend (28th to 30th July).
The book is set beneath the sea, off the Irish coast, featuring a young mermaid, Gaia, who dreams of being human but could face a heavy price for her aspirations.
O'Neill's previous two YA novels have been published by Quercus. However, she revealed she has wanted to be published by Scholastic since working in the US.
Fortune described O'Neill's new version of the fairy tale, which was first published in 1837, as "storytelling at its most spellbinding".
O' Neill is a freelance journalist who grew up in Clonakilty, a small town in West Cork, Ireland and her first novel, Only Ever Yours (Quercus, 2014), won the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year at the 2014 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards, the Children's Books Ireland Eilís Dillon Award for a First Children's Book and The Bookseller's inaugural YA Book Prize 2015.
Her second novel, Asking for It (Quercus, 2015), about sexual assault, won various prizes including the Specsavers Senior Children's Book of the Year at the 2015 Irish Book Awards.
According to Nielsen BookScan, she's sold 36,219 copies in the UK amounting to £257,255, with Asking for It her bestseller with 17,532 copies sold.
It was revealed last month that the book will be adapted into a "large-scale, technically ambitious" stage production. Anne Clarke, producer at Dublin-based Landmark Productions, acquired world stage rights from Rachel Conway at Georgina Capel Associates Ltd.
Landmark Productions and the Everyman theatre, Cork, will co-produce the world premiere of the stage version of O'Neill's novel in June 2018. The production is co-commissioned by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, which will present the production on its main stage in November 2018. The production is one of 11 projects supported by the Arts Council under its Open Call funding round.
The TV rights for Asking for It were bought by Bandit, Endemol Shine UK's scripted production label, in 2015, to be developed as a three-part series.


Two construction companies whose top executives bribed city inspectors may contract with the District again, now that the D.C. Council has changed suspension policies for contractors.
The D.C. Office of Contracting and Procurement is drafting letters to C&F; Construction Co. and Granja Contracting Inc. stating that the District-based companies may resume contracting with the city.
Granja President Carlos Granja and C&F; President Florentino Gregorio pleaded guilty last year to bribing D.C. highway inspectors to falsify records about how much materials their companies delivered to job sites. Mr. Gregorio was sentenced in February last year to probation for a year, and Granja was sentenced to three years' probation.
The firms had been barred from doing business with the District while formal sanctions were being considered.
The D.C. Council Sept. 16 enacted emergency legislation to overhaul rules on contractors' suspensions. Suspended contractors now may resume competing for business with the District until a panel of city government executives reconsiders the sanctions against the firms.
The legislation had been aimed at reinstating D.C.-based Fort Myer Construction Corp., which had received a three-year suspension in April after two employees were convicted of bribing city highway inspectors. Fort Myer is the District's largest road paver, with more than $60 million in active projects.
Several council members who voted for the legislation said Fort Myer's suspension was too severe. They also cited concerns that hundreds of workers would lose their jobs and health benefits if the company no longer could compete for government contracts.
But the legislation — which did not identify Fort Myer by name — was broad enough to apply to C&F; Construction and Granja Contracting, said the city's chief procurement officer, Jacques Abadie III.
Mr. Abadie said he had no choice but to reinstate the two firms.
Fort Myer's suspension sparked disagreement between Mr. Abadie and several council members about the extent of the company's involvement in a four-year scheme to bribe city engineers and road inspectors beginning in 1995.
Company executives said they knew nothing of the scheme and blamed the crimes on employees of District Paving, a company that was acquired by Fort Myer in 1995.
Fort Myer officials said they do not deserve to be suspended because of the actions of "rogue employees," and that their company has undertaken reforms.
A city government source said D.C. political fund-raiser Kerry Pearson lobbied the council on behalf of the company.
Mr. Pearson, who also owns D.C.-based A-1 Construction, has not lobbied on behalf of Fort Myer in the past, according to D.C. Office of Campaign Finance records.
Council member Carol Schwartz, at-large Republican, opposed the legislation, resulting in an amendment that kept in place the suspension against Fort Myer's asphalt division until the new panel reviewed Mr. Abadie's ruling against the firm.
Mr. Abadie's suspension of Fort Myer also applied to company President Jose Rodriguez and Vice President Lewis Shrensky.
They founded the company in 1972, and neither was charged in the federal bribery investigation.
In recently unsealed court documents, federal prosecutors identify Granja and Mr. Gregorio as presidents of companies that authorities believe formed as offshoots of Fort Myer.


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Land Institute är en amerikansk icke-vinstdrivande privat forskningsinstitution för grödor i Kansas i USA.
Land Institute har utvecklat ett nytt flerårigt veteliknande sädesslag, vilket registrerats med varumärket Kernza.

Land Institute grundades på 14 hektar mark 1976 av växtgenetikern Wes Jackson och Dana Jackson. År 2014 förfogade institutet över mer än 440 hektar.

Det fleråriga sädesslaget kernza har utvecklats av institutet ur thinopyrum intermedium, som är besläktat med vete. Det utvecklar ett rotsystem, som är avsevärt större än vetets och anses därför mer uthålligt vid torka. Bland annat på grund av att marken inte plöjs varje år binds kolet i marken hårdare och urlakningen av ämnen som kväve och fosfor är mindre. Den minskade markbearbetning kan också leda till minskad störning av mikroorganismer som bakterier och mikrosvampar i jorden. Försök i Sverige med kernza sker sedan 2015 av Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet.

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But Myanmar rejected the Council position, saying it would further escalate tensions. On August 25, a Rohingya militia allegedly attacked three police posts in the state and sparked the government's return of attacks against the local villages.
The post contained a photo of bullets loaded in what appeared to be a gun magazine and text that included a racial slur. Investigators say they found that the teen did not intend to carry out the threat and was not a danger to the school.


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Q: Python in-place swapping The following code block does not work.
a = [2,1,3]
i = 1
a[i], a[a[i]-1] = a[a[i]-1], a[i]

Whereas this does.
a = [2,1,3]
i = 1
j = a[i]-1
a[i], a[j] = a[j], a[i]

Does anyone know?

A: The left side of the equals is assigned from left to right, and each term is only evaluated as it's reached. This means that:
a[i], a[a[i]-1] = a[a[i]-1], a[i]

is equivalent to:
tmp = a[a[i]-1], a[i]
a[i] = tmp[0]       # Changes a[i]
a[a[i]-1] = tmp[1]  # USES new a[i] to determine assignment index!!!

which makes it clear that the assignment to a[i] finishes, then the new value of a[i] is used to compute the index of the second assignment.
Your working code works because it caches the old value of a[i], so reassigning a[i] doesn't change where the second value goes; the equivalent code there making that clear:
j = a[i]-1           # Caches old a[i]
tmp = a[j], a[i]
a[i] = tmp[0]        # Changes a[i]
a[j] = tmp[1]        # Changes using original a[i] as intended

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Q: How can I share a class definition over multiple server instances? The solution I am working on consists of modules that are decoupled across multiple virtual server instances. All of the modules require the exact same DTO (Data transfer object) classes. Currently I am packaging the DTOs into a library and deploying it to all server modules, when a change is made to the DTOs I have to redeploy the library to all the modules to ensure they are using the latest update.
Are there any technologies or concepts available to share class definitions across multiple server instances without having to redeploy the library manually each time a change occurs?

A: The only way to share modules across servers without redeploying would be some sort of shared filesystem (NFS, Samba/CIFS, etc...).  One thing to explore is whether SaltStack might work for you. It would require deploying, but it would make such deployments a snap -- http://www.saltstack.com/


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HomeIt's Raining In Israel. So Why Am I Not Relieved?
It's Raining In Israel. So Why Am I Not Relieved?
Marcy OsterJune 14, 2018Image by Getty Images
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(JTA) — It rained Tuesday.
While this may not seem like an unusual occurrence, let me remind you that I am writing from Israel and it is June.
It never rains in June. Oh sure, a couple "tip-tipot" (drops) here and there and certainly some dew, but never puddle-forming, windshield-wiper swishing rain. Not in June.
Stranger things have happened, like the president of the United States meeting with the leader of North Korea.
It – the rain again – caught me totally by surprise. It shouldn't have because I saw the little cloud icon and lightning bolt on the weather app on my iPhone. But I chuckled knowing it must be a mistake and left the laundry outside on the line to dry when I left the house in the morning.
As I drove, however, the drops started coming. Just a few at first, and I reasoned that my laundry would be OK. Then came the deluge that made me realize this was serious rain — and I would have to wash my laundry again.
Israelis should be thankful for the rain. It comes in the midst of a severe drought. We haven't felt this drought as much as the last one, when every other commercial on the radio and television was a plea to save water and people came door to door — sent by some government ministry — to put water-saving discs in our faucets. This time around we have lots of desalinated water, but after five years even that is not enough.
The rain has come the same week as the government approved a $30 million plan to deal with the country's drought problem, including pumping desalinated water directly into the Sea of Galilee and rehabilitating seven streams in northern Israel.
It began raining again in the middle of the night and into Wednesday morning. Huge drops of rain pelting the house and soaking my garden. It woke me up because it's a strange sound in June. And because I began to worry about the roof leaking.
The unseasonable rainfall caused flooding and power outages in northern cities and towns. Flash floods are expected in the Negev Desert — the same kind of floods that in April carried away 10 teenage hikers about to enter a pre-military academy program.
You have to be careful when you wish for rain.
We said the traditional prayer for rain that begins the first week in December, at the start of the fifth year of the drought — the worst drought season in 40 years, according to the experts. We recited the other traditional prayer for rain said between the autumn holiday of Shemini Atzeret and Passover. We have held special prayers at the Western Wall in four of the past eight years.
But even the Talmud says there's a limit, a least for the Land of Israel.
In the Tractate Taanit, rain after Passover or the corresponding month of Nissan is called a bad omen. And, in fact, it is only in recent years that I remember there being any rain — usually one last halfhearted drizzle after Passover.
There are agricultural reasons why rain over the summer is bad in Israel involving fruit and other crops ripening too quick or getting moldy. But it is the spiritual significance that has me tossing in bed — along with the leaky roof concerns.
It rained on Tuesday in the Etzion Bloc of the West Bank as thousands of Border Police officers removed hundreds of mostly teenage protesters from 15 homes in the Netiv Haavot outpost slated for demolition. One protester told The Jerusalem Post that the rain was God's tears.
Or perhaps God is crying for the thousands of acres of agricultural land and wooded areas that have been destroyed by fires set from incendiary kites and balloons flown from Gaza into southern Israel. Or for the Palestinians killed in the two months' worth of protests on the Gaza border.
Or maybe it's just climate change.
The post It's raining in Israel. So why aren't I relieved? appeared first on Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Marcy Oster


Application programming interfaces (APIs) have gone from the new tech kid on the block to an industry standard for building software applications. As the key means for sharing data among disparate applications, the practical applications of APIs are everywhere – from online restaurant reservations to electronic payments to real-time inventory management for online retailers.
Yet despite that wide API usage, some CIOs remain reluctant about the development approach. Let's examine some common misconceptions that may be holding them back.
APIs can be applied to different areas of a company without the need to build from scratch. With pre-built integration templates and workflows, a business unit or department can use the same data from an existing API and repurpose it based on their specific requirements. Using the same inputs, these API libraries become the framework for producing different outputs.
For example, a company may build an API to manage online marketing strategy using consumer behavior data gathered from its marketing analytics system. The assets stored in this API library can then be reused or fragmented to produce different information needed for the purchasing department. In other words, the API library may be broken down in for marketing purposes as 3+2, while the same data may be reused for the needs of the purchasing department as 1+1+1+1+1.
In first-generation APIs, web services would provide or pipeline the data based on a single application requirement. Today, the same API can be used again and again for multiple functions without having to modify the application and without burdening the application team. These modern APIs can produce different data styles and formats based on customer needs.
We can think of this in the same way we think of color printer technology. We do not need separate printers to print a document in varying colors. Rather, a standard color printer will combine proportions of three standard ink colors – cyan, magenta, and yellow – to produce a wide range of colors from the same printer. Likewise, a single API can facilitate different application needs by pulling different assets from server-side repositories.
In the past, APIs that were developed to run continuously did not allow other users to touch any code. Users were able to unlock data, but access and management of the data were limited to the specific data teams.
That changed with the introduction of Anypoint Exchange, which promotes user interaction and modifications and allows a single API to be used by multiple users. With an API key, users no longer need to wait for the API developer to make application changes. Instead, Anypoint Exchange allows users to access proven assets – connectors, templates, examples, and RAMLs – from the repository center and add to or reuse them without harming or altering the application.
Imagine being able to change your car's oil while the vehicle is in motion. Although not a reality for cars (yet), this is the standard for APIs. Unlike legacy APIs, which required hard-coding development and thus significant downtime with every modification, modern APIs do not keep hard-coded features. Rather than building new API stored procedures, SQL syntax, or other formatting every time there is an application change, modern APIs can pull stored procedures or stored templates from different repositories without stopping the application.
Zeeshan joined Prime TSR in 2018 to amplify the consultancy's work in AWS, Azure, and SaaS. Described by colleagues as a diplomat who excels at conflict resolution, Zeeshan has spent over a decade managing complex projects and providing best-in-class service for blue-chip companies including McDonald's, Allstate, Verizon, Motorola Solutions and Siemens. At Prime TSR, Zeeshan collaborates with cross-functional teams to develop and integrate mobile and web-based APIs with existing management systems.


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