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Women in Engineering: How to Break into Avionics | Part 1
Posted on August 27, 2014 by Matt Rivera
Diversity in technology and engineering companies has become a sticking point for many critics of these industries, where women are traditionally underrepresented. Aerospace is no exception. Even just a few years ago, only 11.3 percent of aerospace engineers were female. Just last year women accounted for only 19 percent of the new college graduates with engineering degrees.
But with more than 3,500 open jobs in the field of aviation and defense, and nearly a third of those in aerospace engineering, opportunities abound for women in STEM to step in and become the future of aviation.
To get an idea of what the future of engineering jobs might look like, we spoke with Amy, an avionics integration engineer at a major international aerospace company. Our conversation ranged from the skills most needed in the industry to her experience in a male-dominated field to the leaders that have had the biggest impact on her career, encompassing enough that we've split our conversation into two posts.
In Part 1 of Amy's in-depth interview, she dives head first into what it's like for a female working in this male-dominated industry. Don't forget to come back for Part 2 where she discusses her take on the future of engineering and divulges not-to-miss advice for other female engineers.
Q&A with a top female avionics engineer
Q: First, can you tell us about your current role and what a typical work day is like for you?
A: I integrate avionics systems on military aircraft. A typical day for me really varies. I could either be traveling somewhere and working with a flight test team on flight tests, or I could be working on documents sitting at a computer. I could have a day full of meetings, or I might not have any meetings.
Things really change around because you go from a development stage of the project lifecycle to a test stage where you have to validate all of the requirements. So, the beginning is always a lot of paperwork, then you get into testing the hardware and software, and then you get into testing all the aircraft. Once the cycle comes to an end, you'll start working on a report and then you go back to documentation again. So it changes daily, but it also varies a lot year in and year out, and month in and month out with project cycles.
Q: How did you get your start in the aviation industry?
A: I was a manager at a rapid prototyping company and I wanted to do something new. So I started out with my company as an industrial engineer supporting manufacturing, but I moved to electrical engineering after receiving a layoff notice my first year and I've been working in electrical engineering doing avionics integration for the past 10 years.
Q: What excites you about going to work every day? What's the most rewarding part of your job?
A: Being an engineer, I really enjoy fixing things, and I enjoy the pressure of finding solutions for customers. Our customers expect perfection and what I enjoy the most is the challenge of identifying potential issues and solutions for our products, so that in the end what we deliver meets or exceeds that expectation. It's the challenge of making everything work smoothly. Sometimes when something is very difficult, just like software coding, you feel like you're never going to find the solution; then, when you do, it's the big "aha" moment and it's really fantastic. That's what I do it all for.
I also really enjoy getting to fly simulation in order to either integrate the avionic hardware and software, or evaluate that hardware and software. That can be a lot of fun, though I admit, it does sound a lot better than it is. A lot of times you're sitting around for a complicated system to be brought together, or you're bringing it together yourself, so you tend to do a lot of effort for only a little testing. But that's what needs to be done before it goes on the aircraft!
For that testing, I am sitting in a mock cockpit and I'm using some of what's real and what's simulated hardware to do a virtual flight -- and during that time you're testing if the avionics are working as designed.
Q: What do you find to be your biggest challenge in working in aviation?
A: I think over the past couple of years the biggest challenge has been to translate engineer speak to pilot speak, to really understand where the pilots are coming from. I understand the nuts and bolts about how avionics works; however, pilots understand -- very, very well -- how to fly the aircraft. So sometimes something that I'm looking for may or may not seem important to them and you really have to share your knowledge and explain to them why it's important. The situation can also be flipped. There are times when there's something that's very important to pilots, but engineers aren't as tuned into the design -- we aren't in their seats so we don't realize it could be a potential issue.
It takes time to figure that out. It takes time when you're talking to them. It just hit me one day that I really have to try adjust to understand where they are coming from. So, for example, I need to recognize and adjust when I'm working on a team and someone else on my team doesn't understand what I'm saying, why it's important, or how it could relate to them. Or the other person on the team doesn't want to spend time on something that I know is important and that I think is very interesting.
People always say you have to 'look at something from another person's point of view'. But that's just a catchphrase until you are really challenged to do it. It's very different to recognize another person's perspective before you actually put yourself in their shoes.
Q: What skills do you think are critical to success in aviation today?
A: I think keeping lines of communication across different engineering teams is essential. Engineers don't always communicate frequently, and it can be even harder in large companies because you can be very separated both physically and organizationally. Trying to keep lines of communication open, feeling comfortable asking questions, and trying to communicate with the other groups around you is really important in order to find issues before they leave the company and go out to the customer.
I've always been pretty confident in my technical skills as an engineer and learning new technical aspects of my job. It's always in the people skills that I've worked hardest.
Continue to read Part 2 here.
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Matt Rivera serves as Vice President, Marketing and Communications and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Yoh's marketing and brand communications. Matt holds a degree in Journalism/Public Relations and has been working in the staffing industry for more than 25 years. Prior to this role, Matt held many different roles from branch recruiting and proposal writing to technology management and online marketing.
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Even as a little girl growing up in Terre Haute, IN, Jill Bolte Taylor, PhD, was fascinated by the human mind—drawn, she says, by observing her older brother, who had schizophrenia. "I became intrigued by who we are as people and what we are as people, as biological creatures," she recalls, "and how he was different in the way he perceived experiences and then chose to behave."
By age 37, Dr. Taylor had become a brain scientist and hotshot researcher in Harvard Medical School's department of neuroscience, and she felt pretty smart about the workings of the cerebral world—until one December morning in 1996, when she discovered a few things she didn't know.
At 7 AM that December 10, Dr. Taylor awoke with a piercing headache behind her left eye. Weird, she thought. I never get sick. She rolled out of her water bed with "the ambivalence of a wounded soldier," she says, and made her way to her cardio glider, thinking she'd sweat it out to the twangy strains of Shania Twain. Her movements felt jerky, not fluid, and she found it hard to keep her balance, so she got off the machine and went to take a shower.
The usually soothing stream of warm water exploded like a massive assault of noise and motion. Her brain chatter suddenly went silent, as if someone hit a mute button. Then the boundaries of her own body began to fade, and Dr. Taylor experienced the feeling that she was "part of the energy of the universe." It was, she says, "like being enveloped by a blanket of tranquil euphoria."
The moment her right arm dropped paralyzed to her side, she knew: Oh my gosh, I'm having a stroke! In the next instant, another thought flashed through her neuroanatomist mind: Whoa, this is so-o-o cool! And really, it was: How many brain scientists get to witness their own mental deterioration from the inside out?
The massive hemorrhage from a rare congenital malformation occurred in the left hemisphere of Dr. Taylor's brain, the seat of language, the ego, and all cognitive information processing. Following the stroke, she couldn't walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her own life. She also lost the ability to critically judge or feel fear, also functions of the brain's left side. The right side of her brain (where information is absorbed through the sensory system, a collage of what this present moment looks, smells, tastes, feels, and sounds like), however, remained intact; as she writes in her best-selling book, My Stroke of Insight: "I was not capable of deliberating about past or future-related ideas because those cells were incapacitated. All I could perceive was right now, and it was beautiful."
Within the depths of a silent mind, she says, she was able to experience "a feeling of deep inner peace, a blissful state free of 37 years of emotional baggage. I think the Buddhists would say I entered the mode of existence they call nirvana."
Following surgery, it took eight grueling years of therapy for Dr. Taylor to fully recover. What kept her going was the unconditional love of her mom, whose constant questions awakened her ability to retrieve concepts, words, and memories, and the support of her close friends and colleagues at NAMI, (the National Alliance on Mental Illness), where she'd served on the board of directors. She was motivated, she says, because she "witnessed a few things about my brain that I would never have imagined to be true" and wanted to share them with the world, "not just those recovering from a brain trauma, but everyone with a brain!"
The insights she gained as a result of her stroke have given her a new purpose. "It's my goal," says Dr. Taylor, who is the poster child for stroke recovery, "to help you have more say about how you want to be in this world and take a more balanced brain approach to how you lead your life." Here's what she learned.
Inner peace is just a thought away.
This was the blessing I received from my experience: that nirvana is just a thought away—or, in my language [of science], deep inner peace exists in the consciousness of our right hemisphere. And at any given moment, you can choose to hook into that part of your brain, into a peaceful state, if you are willing to stop the cognitive loops of thought, worry, [anger]—any ideas that distract you from the experience of being in the here and now. What my stroke did was shut out all those moments; it silenced the dominating, judging voice of my left mind. And when that happened, my consciousness dwelled in a flow of sweet tranquillity.
The mind has multiple personalities.
We each experience ourselves as a single person with a single consciousness. But the two sides of the brain have different ways of looking at the world. As a result of my stroke, I gained a clear delineation of two very distinct characters cohabiting my cranium who don't just perceive and think in different ways at a neurological level—they also demonstrate different values based on the type of information they perceive and thus have different "personalities." By recognizing this, you can have more say about which character dominates your perspective at any given moment.
Many of us make judgments with the left hemisphere and then are not willing to "step to the right" for an update. Once we've made a decision, we're attached to that decision. Your right mind is the wise woman, the observer, your intuition and higher consciousness. One of its natural functions is to bring new insight into this moment so you can update [your outdated beliefs]. For example, as a child I wouldn't eat squash. Thanks to my right hemisphere, I was willing to give squash a second chance, and now I love it. The clearer you are about which side of your brain is processing what types of information, the more choice you have in how you think, feel, and behave.
The brain is just circuitry.
Because we're biological, we think of ourselves as these mushy, biological things. But if we look at ourselves as circuit boards, as computers, things become simple to understand. The brain is circuitry, and with circuitry, you can choose to run it—or not. I can run a program, whether it's my emotional programming or my intellectual programming, because I have cells that perform those functions. When you allow yourself to step outside the circuitry, then you're no longer consumed by it, and you're no longer forced to [do what it wants you to do].
We can consciously influence the neural circuitry underlying what we think, how we feel, and how we react to life's circumstances. Before my stroke, I thought I was a product of my brain. I had no idea that I had some say in how I responded to the emotions surging through me. "Fear" is just circuitry—False Expectations Appearing Real. You can choose to hook into it or not. It's a story that [your] left brain chatter circuitry is running—what if, what if, what if—but if you know that your brain chatter is just a tiny little group of cells, then they have no power. You can choose not to listen to them, and tune in to the present moment.


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Home Analysis Player Analysis 5.58 recoveries per 90: Performances of key man have cost City this...
5.58 recoveries per 90: Performances of key man have cost City this season
Chris Darwen
Bernardo Silva was one of the Premier League's best players last season. His transformation as a player was hailed by many. The Portuguese acquired completeness in his style of play, as he went about not just scoring but also doing a lot of dirty. But he is one of the key reasons for Man City are nowhere close to winning the Premier League this season, despite starting the season as favourites according to bettingsites.ng, the leading Nigerian bookmaker.
Last season, he racked up seven goals and seven assists in the Premier League. This season, his goals and assists tally stand at five each. While that is less, he could easily reach that same point as last season when the campaign ends. But it isn't the goals that City have been lacking.
The overrunning of the midfield has been a constant problem for Pep Guardiola's men this season. They do still score a lot of goals, but they get exposed on the break against quick attacks. It was evident against Manchester United, Wolves and Tottenham. Playing Fernandinho deeper and having Aymeric Laporte out has been a reason. But Bernardo's numbers in terms of winning the ball back have reduced.
Last season, Bernardo's recoveries stood at 5.17 per 90 minutes. He would constantly hussle and harry the opposition to create an intense press from that flank or wherever he played. It made sure that the ball didn't go past the City midfield as often and made the team reliable out of possession.
This season, the recoveries stand at 5.58- higher than last season. But it isn't about just that. Bernardo has won 1.50 tackles per 90 minutes this season so far. This stood at 1.64 last season. And more so, he had an accuracy of 75 percent. It was the best of his career, including Monaco and Benfica.
Last season, he had was ruthless in running and covering a big amount of distance. This hasn't exactly been a full reflection of him having those sort of qualities. In possession, he has completed 2.2 dribbles per 90 minutes and that is much higher than last season. The chances created are very much the same too. He has won 40 percent of his aerial duels when it stood at a little over 20 percent last season.
Not just that, but his dribbling accuracy has come up from 55 percent last season to around 70 percent this term. Even in that regard, he has improved. Attacking wise, his true abilities are coming to the fore as Guardiola has often been playing a more transition-oriented style than a possession-based system. That helped City beat Real Madrid in the Champions League and allowed them to beat United in the first leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final.
That has been working to Bernardo's strengths. he is getting on the ball in situations where he can use his dribbling than just possession.
It is anyone's guess if City could have been closer to the title-race if Bernardo's tackling was better. Their problems do lie elsewhere too. But it has been a generation observation this season that their press isn't as intense as it used to be. This could be because of some staleness amongst players. But Bernardo isn't exactly that tackling machine and it is costing City in some regard.
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BS: Bush's *Big Stick* Foriegn Policy...
Bobert 15 Jul 06 - 10:16 AM
Sorcha 15 Jul 06 - 10:21 AM
dianavan 15 Jul 06 - 11:52 AM
Amos 15 Jul 06 - 12:31 PM
282RA 15 Jul 06 - 12:45 PM
Don Firth 15 Jul 06 - 12:49 PM
Greg F. 15 Jul 06 - 12:50 PM
Arne 15 Jul 06 - 01:12 PM
Donuel 15 Jul 06 - 01:14 PM
Barry Finn 15 Jul 06 - 01:37 PM
harpmolly 15 Jul 06 - 01:44 PM
katlaughing 15 Jul 06 - 02:14 PM
Little Hawk 15 Jul 06 - 03:23 PM
Peace 15 Jul 06 - 03:35 PM
CarolC 15 Jul 06 - 06:10 PM
GUEST 15 Jul 06 - 06:28 PM
Ebbie 15 Jul 06 - 07:27 PM
Peace 16 Jul 06 - 02:04 AM
CarolC 16 Jul 06 - 02:06 AM
Rapparee 16 Jul 06 - 11:49 AM
Susu's Hubby 16 Jul 06 - 03:34 PM
Ron Davies 16 Jul 06 - 04:54 PM
Rapparee 16 Jul 06 - 05:23 PM
Troll 16 Jul 06 - 06:47 PM
Bobert 16 Jul 06 - 08:59 PM
Subject: BS: Bush's *Big Stick* Foriegn Policy...
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Jul 06 - 10:16 AM
How do you Bushites like Bush's "threat and whack" foriegn policy now???
I didn't much like Clinton but I'd sho nuff would like to return to an "engege and contain" foriegn policy 'cause this one simply ain't workin' for anyone other than defense contractors...
Bobert
Subject: RE: BS: Bush's *Big Stick* Foriegn Policy...
Just go vote, Bobert...it's about all we can do now. And it's all the little weenie knows how to do.
From: dianavan
Sorcha, with all due respect, I don't think your advice to, "Just go vote," is going to make one little bit of difference. We now have an alliance of Britain, the U.S. and Canada (headed by Harper).
Combined with the fact that nobody believes in honest election results anymore, doesn't give me much hope for defeating these guys in an election.
If Canadians elect politicians like Harper, what chance do we have of overturning the so-called 'will of the people'?
Sooo, tell me what we CAN do! Nobody is listening!!!
From: Amos
Date: 15 Jul 06 - 12:31 PM
It does make a difference to go vote; dianavan is mistaken.
And communicating often and widely, again and again, and keeping the truth in plain view, are good things to invest your time in.
From: 282RA
Regardless, voting is all we have to affect peaceful change. So we either use it or we take to the streets or we sit back and do nothing and just "stay the course."
Boy has Bush ever turned into a wimpy weenie all the sudden. Now he's "asking" Lebanon to stop the rocket attacks and he's backing off in his argument with Putin.
Now he's is saying that he merely wants to "promote" institutional change in Iraq. Jesus Christ, he INVADED it! And he was SO proud of that. Now it was merely "promoting" change.
All the warhawks have to be scratching their heads. Who took their swaggering tough-talking chief and replaced him with a liberal democratic peace-loving tree-hugging weenie?
From: Don Firth
Go vote! Absolutely! But people are going to have to do more that just go vote
Like I keep saying. I've posted links to this article by Thom Hartmann about a dozen times now and apparently nobody reads it or they completely discount it—or they suddenly realize that it's going to take a little work on their part, and that's too much to ask.
But short of a bloody revolution, it's the only way out of this mess.
Okay, I'll try it again, not that it will do any good (sigh).
FER CRISSAKE READ IT AND HEED IT!
Not that I have much hope. . . .
Don Firth
From: Greg F.
The Weenie is only doing what his handlers tell him to do. Dumbya is NOT the problem here: he's just the public face of the problem.
Dubya telling Putin that Russia ought to emulate Iraq's "democracy". Putin says, diplomatically: "Thanks but no thanks."
"Diplomacy is hard work. Its much faster when you act alone"
From: Barry Finn
Thanks Arne for the link. I just can't believe how many times our village idiot puts his foot in his mouth, can't they just gag him when he goes out. It's truly embrassing.
From: harpmolly
Arne--
LOL!!! "Just wait..."
(Or should we say, "Just you wait, 'Enry 'Iggins, just you wait...")
Oh, yeah, Bush, that's just terrific. Walk it to him! Kick his ass with your dazzling comeback!
On second thought, I just stopped laughing. How sad is it that Vladimir Freaking Putin sounds more reasonable than our own president?
Sigh...suddenly feeling very Marvin-esque. And I've got this terrible pain in the diodes all down my left side...
Only after letting the situation between Israel and Lebanon deteriorate because we're so wrapped up in our own deteriorating situations do we suddenly think of this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060715/pl_afp/mideastunrestlebanon_060715171142;_ylt=Ar1fGytsumoyCaS.XY3FsyMUvioA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW0
From: katlaughing
Thanks, Don. I had missed that one. I like Hartman's writing, too. His Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight was very good.
Saying that voting won't make any difference is just a cop-out imo and exactly what those in control want folks to think/feel. It's that kind of apathy which has helped put them in charge. IF everyone who is eligible got out and voted wouldn't that be a wonder?!
Putin sounds more reasonable, because he IS more reasonable... ;-D
I wrote this a few days back. (Not trying to 'push' the song because I didn't write it with that end in mind, BTW.) IMO, three things have to happen, ASAP.
1) The US has to turn its Iraq stuff over to an International Peacekeeping Force
2) Bush has to be impeached
3) Congress has to grow some, uh, has to find its purpose, which is to represent the American people (not just the American rich people and corporations) and preserve The Constitution (given that the Executive branch of government seems to want to use it in ways never intended by the writers of the original document)
4) Americans have to use their collective voice, because protest ain't dead, but it has been on one helluva long vacation
I seek the voice of honesty,
Tell me where you are tonight;
Seven children killed today,
Who never should have gone to play,
Fathers hold their tears at bay,
A mother's son is on his way,
In Arlington they'll dig the grave,
And Mr Bush has this to say:
"We're here to set things right!"
I seek the voice of honesty tonight.
Neo-cons make cauldrons roil,
They light the fires and watch them boil,
Mr Bush sends troops to toil,
To kill, to die on foreign soil,
In a phony war, the perfect foil,
For friends of his who want the oil:
Machines of death take to the sky,
Civilians have no place to hide,
From weapons held by either side,
The sunset brings tears to my eye,
In words so crass, so smug, so snide,
Mr Bush with the age-old lie:
The television screens so clear,
Put lots of spin on what we hear,
With platitudes we hold so dear,
Truth really never does appear,
George Orwell got it right I fear,
And Mr Bush can't hide the sneer:
"three things have to happen"
Oops. Musta thought I was counting Democrat votes in Florida or somethin'. That should read 'four', not three.
From: CarolC
Which "threat and whack" scenario are we discussing today, Bobert?
From: GUEST
Back in April, the president said this:
"America will continue the fight for freedom until no vestige of resistance remains. We are deeply conscious of the fact that much hard fighting is still ahead of us. Having to pay such a heavy price to make complete victory certain, America will never become a party to any plan for partial victory. To settle for merely another temporary respite would surely jeopardize the future security of the world. Our demand has been, and it remains, unconditional surrender."
What's wrong with this foreign policy? Absolutely nothing.
Now Israel has been sitting idle while Hamas blows up civilian markets and buses and Hezbollah has continuously fired rockets into Israel until now.
What is the problem with fighting for freedom? Do you not believe that people want to be free from having to walk or drive down the street terrified that they'll be caught up in the next suicide bombing?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with his policy.
Another quote is this:
"Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated."
" … We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."
Terrorists supporting nations?
No thanks, I'd rather see them dead or at least.....no....dead. Along with all the rest of the world that wants freedom.
What's wrong with all that? Heh! It's ridiculously naive, and it has nothing to do with anything that major powers actually fight for.
They don't fight for anyone's freedom.
The only people who ever truly fight for freedom are a few revolutionaries who take on the major powers of their day....like
Emiliano Zapata in Mexico in the early 1900's, like Simon Bolivar, like Fidel Castro when he was a young man fighting the Batista regime in the 1950's, like George Washington and his men when they fought the British Empire, people like that.
Major established national powers do NOT fight for freedom. They fight for dominance and control of markets and resources, and political control of strategic regions.
All that stuff Bush blathers on about is pure propaganda designed to fool people who are stupid enough to believe it. If he believes it himself, then he is as naive as the people who support him, and he's just a tool of the major interests who financed his campaigns and got him into office.
He also IS a terrorist himself. But I'm sure he's quite unaware of it, not being on the receiving end of the terrorism he sponsors.
Peace, I hear just a single drum supporting that song. Do you have a tune for it?
All that stuff Bush blathers on about is pure propaganda designed to fool people who are stupid enough to believe it
Bubby apparently not only believes it, he revels in it.
God Help Amerika.
Right, Amos, "It does make a difference to go vote."
Tell that to the people of Florida and Ohio or Palestine or Lebanon or Iraq.
You'll never convince me of that, ever again. I came to Canada because I wanted a voice but in the last election my vote didn't count here, either. I watched a politician take my vote and give it to the opposing party.
The only difference it's going to make is that when Jeb is elected, everyone will stand around with their fingers up their noses and ask, 'What happened?"
No, Amos, North American's are soft. Their values have changed. It used to be we supported freedom and equality. Now we support big business and crooked politicians. Only you and a handful of people even care. The rest of N. America is dumbed-down and over-fed.
Maybe so, Dianavan. But you at least have the satisfaction of knowing you weren't stupid enough to give your vote to Harper's party. That DOES count for something in the grand scheme of things. What it counts for is that people like you help preserve what we have left of democracy. And IMO that counts for everything.
What is the problem with fighting for freedom??
None that I can think of. But that is not what they are doing. They are fighting for control. There is a huge difference between these two things.
Well, Peace, thanks for thinking that I am helping to preserve democracy by voting against Harper but in the grand scheme of things my vote was stolen. If it can happen in Canada, it can happen (and does) anywhere.
Just ask the Mexicans.
...but don't talk about revolution,
That's going a little too far,
Love me, love me, love me,
I'm a liberal."
--Phil Ochs
We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war
No, no!
I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
Don't get fooled again
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Same as the old boss
Fighting In The Streets
You're walking along quietly
There's the sound of running feet
You turn around the corner
There's fighting on the street
See all the kids they wanna good time
They all wanna get stuck in
Don't know, don't care
if they're fighting for a cause
AS long as they get one in
We're fighting in the streets
You all look for solutions
But you can rack your brains
No matter what the gov't do
Its never ever gonna change
Wankers hand hand out leaflets
They'll never ever let it be
I don't care what they do
But they better not come near me
Don't know, dont care
We're always fighting in the streets
Street Fighting Man
Evrywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy
cause summers here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy
But what can a poor boy do
Except to sing for a rock n roll band
cause in sleepy london town
Theres just no place for a street fighting man
Hey! think the time is right for a palace revolution
But where I live the game to play is compromise solution
Well, then what can a poor boy do
Theres no place for a street fighting man
Hey! said my name is called disturbance
Ill shout and scream, Ill kill the king, Ill rail at all his servants
Well, what can a poor boy do
I don't think the measures outlined in the "How to take back America" essay will accomplish what needs to be done. I think they will just create new strong-arm majorities.
I think the only way the voters in the US will have a voter-friendly Democracy will be to establish a voter-initiated movement (independent of any party affiliations or considerations) to get legislation passed in all states to make vote counting proportional, as some states have already done.
It isn't either / or. Thom Hartmann's recommendations in the Take Back America article, plus proportional representation, plus preferential voting. One doesn't need to be limited to a single approach. If you can get one of them passed, things should improve.
Well, let's get busy then.
From: Susu's Hubby
"Back in April, the president said this:
"America will continue the fight for freedom until no vestige of resistance remains. We are deeply conscious of the fact that much hard fighting is still ahead of us. Having to pay such a heavy price to make complete victory certain, America will never become a party to any plan for partial victory. To settle for merely another temporary respite would surely jeopardize the future security of the world. Our demand has been, and it remains, unconditional surrender.""
This was the quote from the post above.
This was said by the president on April 16.........1945 and the president then was Truman. But I think the thing that bothers left wingers about it the most is that is sounds exactly like what Bush has been saying and doing.
What is different today that was not the case back then? Then it was the Nazi's and the Japanese imperialists joined by the Italian Fascist. Now it's the Islamic Fundamentalists. World War 2 was, by no means, a "clean war". Even after victory was acheived, there were still pockets of resistance driven by the hard liners or "guerillas". Those people were eventually outed and taken care of.
But now, what we're looking at is people not in uniform clothing but wacko's in uniform thinking. But they're being backed by the same style governments as what was the problem in the late thirties and early to mid forties. Fascist dictatorships.
But recently, all the left in the country is offering their cut-and-run strategy because we're suffering losses. It's as if you're saying, "Ooh....we've lost 3000+ people in a terrorist attack on one day so we better not do anything else to piss them off or we might lose more." Or better yet, "If we were just nice to them and offered them food and medicine and technology to better themselves then they won't attack us."
That is a very flawed line of thinking. I'm not saying that it's bad but at the very least, flawed. In fact, it's a very noble thing to wish and hope for but if it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, you can bet that it's going to be a duck. That's been proven by what's going on in North Korea.
In the mid to late nineties, the US government met with NK and offered to share our nuclear technology with them to help them better themselves. Now, the idiot over there is flinging missiles towards Japan and Hawaii and threatening us with the same technology that we gave him so that he could help his people. Talk about a bad idea!
I'd like to offer another scenario. This time it involves you and your family.
Suppose that on the same block you live on, there is a family of gangsters. The police won't do anything because the family has yet to do anything that will get them in trouble. But since you know that for them to be charged with something such as murder or stealing, that means that they have to commit the crime first. You value your family and the things that you have amassed for your family. You do not want anything to happen to either one of them. But you start to hear through your neighbors that the gangster family is making preparations to either steal something or is threatening you or one of your children with their life just because you have something that they don't and they want it. What do you do?
1. You could go to the authorities but again, if they have not done anything that is against the law, nothing can be done. You can't say, "well my neighbor said this". That would be hearsay.
2. You could move. But then you'd have to sell your house and buy another one, move all your stuff, move your kids to another school and all the crap that goes on with that.
3. You could approach the family and ask them what their intensions are. They could say "no...of course not. We would never dream of doing that". And you could believe them if it wasn't for the fact that they're gangsters. Or they could say....yeah sure....we're just waiting for the right moment to make our move". But they've still done nothing wrong.
Where does that leave you? With no choice but either number 2 until the next gangster family comes along or the option of number 4. What's number 4?
4. Start preparing for the incident. Buy guns, locks, knives or whatever you have to to make sure that you have the upper hand. When you see them coming, let them have it. Don't let anything happen to your family or your possessions. Take care of the problem so the courts won't have to.
I know what I'd do. I know what I have done to prepare for that moment. #4
This is what the policy is. When you know that they're coming for you, hit them hard and hit them first.
Unfortunately, Israel hasn't had the option to hit first. They've already been hit. But the thing is that they're hitting back hard and decisive. They're forcing the issue of "You're either with us or with the terrorists". Lebanon has stated that they will send their military to the south to protect the Lebanese-Israeli border.
The same with us. We were hit over and over again in the 80's and 90's. Then came 2001. We were hit again. But that time we hit back hard and decisive. Then we kept going. We will keep going. And each time that the gangster family gears up and comes at us again, we will be there and hit them hard and decisive again and again.
Afterall, we've got to protect our family.
Hard at it here. . . .
The point I disagree with, SH, is this: The terror networks have still to be hit hard. They are still operating.
SH, you are suffering from the same blind spot as the Islamic fundamentalists that you detest. You can't understand the other guy's point of view or even consider it. You are apparently unaware that the other guy has also been attacked repeatedly in the past by your friends and leaders...and that figuring out who did what "first" is at this point almost impossible...because if you won't pay any attention to bad things that are done to the other guy, then you won't have any idea why the other guy wants to fight you and feels justified. Just like you feel justified.
It's sad. Tunnel vision. Osama's got it. Bush has got it. N. Korea's got it. And you've got it.
Everyone is under the impression that they got attacked first!
Can't you grasp that concept?
America will continue the fight for freedom until no vestige of resistance remains.
Once again, the Hubster does a beautiful job of illustrating my point for me.
Resistance is an important part of any free and democratic society. It is only when resistance is suppressed, and not given its rightful place in the political process that it turns violent.
A lot of people have been suppressing legitimate resistance for quite a long time, and because of this, it has turned violent.
The solution is not more suppression. The solution is true democracy and real freedom. The solution is to give resistance back its legitimate place in the democratic process.
" The solution is to give resistance back its legitimate place in the democratic process. "
IMO, it has to be TAKEN back. The Bush admin ain't about to give nothin' to no one.
( ...resistance.....is.....USLESS!!!!!)
From: Ron Davies
"We hit back hard and decisive (sic)
1) "Decisive". Uh, not exactly. Decisive(ly) enough for a dandy photo op. But for some unexplained reason, the war continues even in Iraq. Must be the opponents couldn't read English.
2) Another slight problem--we didn't hit back (in Iraq) at the people responsible for 9-11.
3) We'll keep on hitting back--until "Terror" signs the peace treaty, right? After all, it's the "War on Terror".
Use your head, for once--even though your illustrious leader, Mr. Bush, only rarely seems capable of using his..
Do you have any idea, SH, how very much like the people who amass ammunition and ready their caves you sound? There are a lot of those people in Oregon and I imagine elsewhere. People like that have actively planned what to do when the 'day' comes and neighbors ask for shelter and sustenance. The Surivalists are not hesitant to say that they will shoot to kill. What a way to live.
After seeing 'An Incovenient Truth' it strikes me as ridiculous that humankind is more focused on power and greed than we are on cooperating to take back the Earth. If we don't roll back the effects we as a race have put in motion, life on this earth will- in our lifetime - become chaotic and unpredictable to the extreme.
If I may paraphrase the Bible, SH, "What will it avail a man to gain the world (survive), though he lose his soul (in the process)?"
This is a notion that seems to evade the survivalists' mentality, despite the fact that many of them claim to be Christians.
It's already happening, Ebbie, in "less favored" areas. Warlords are appearing all over, their weapons supplied (for the best of intentions) by the late USSR, the United States, Britain, even Canada. Weapons do not self-destruct, they can be used over and over and over -- I have a rifle in my gun safe made in mid-May, 1918, and it shoots as accurately and as well as ever. Made for World War I, I use it for target shooting and (perhaps someday!) hunting.
Getting rid of the weapons won't do it either, as they are actually rather simple to make. To make your own gunpowder, for instance, you need look no farther than Foxfire 5 or any of several other books that are out there (or the Internet). The sloppy part is making KNO3, after that it's just dangerous and, with elementary precautions, quite doable at home.
Besides, you can kill someone with a spear, an arrow, or a rock and take what weapons they might have.
The trick is, I think, to re-orient the thinking of people and nations away from violence and toward cooperation and negotiation.
I'm not up to world-saving at the moment, though. I'm knee-deep in a roof replacement at work.
From: Troll
To understand the mindset of the Islamic terrorists, we must study the history of the spread of Islam. It has always been done by the sword.
The spread of Islam into Europe was halted in Provence and the Moors were driven back into Spain. In 1492, they were driven out of Spain into North Africa.
In Eastern Europe, the armies of Sulieman the Great broke on the walls of Vienna and the spread of Islam by the sword was stopped in Europe.
In Africa and Asia this was not the case and today Islam is the major religion in many countries - Indonesia, the Philippines, all of the 'Stans - and in India, the Moghuls ruled right up until the British Empire took over and even now, there is continual violence between Muslim and Hindu.
The point is, that the desire to spread Islam throughout the world, while it has waxed and waned over the centuries, has never died. bin Laden and crew are simply the latest group to fan the embers into flame.
The goal, as it has always been, is to bring the world under Islamic law.
Unless people understand this and realize that we in the west have not caused this latest effort by the radical Islamists, the west is lost.
You cannot negotiate with a fanatic and that's what everyone seems to want to do.
It has never worked in the past, and it won't work now.
You cannot negotiate with a fanatic...
Absolutely right! There's no dealing with Bush/Cheney/"Mad Dog" Wolfowitz/Rove et. al.
Something to keep in mind . . . .
Just replace the word "Islam" with "Christianity" in your little historical diatribe, Troll, and you've got basically the same scenario. ;-) Then replace it with a number of other powerful "isms" (religious or otherwise), and again...same scenario. They have all spread themselves by "the sword". The American Way has been spread in that same fashion...and they called it "Manifest Destiny" (as if it were a noble thing to rob other people of their lands and their self-rule).
I find it fascinating that you use the same rationale to justify ceaseless warfare with Islam as is used by radical Islamic firebrands to justify ceaseless warfare with Christendom.
No wonder you hate them so. You see yourself clearly in the mirror.
Rap is entirely correct... We need a new model to follow and that involves popularizing peace and coexhistence...
Give peace a chance...
Yes. A new model would be: World disarmament, peaceful coexistence, tolerance toward diversity of cultures, wordwide minimum wage laws, etc...
All stuff that is impossible under the present $ySStem, because it's run by warlords and robber barons, and the last thing on Earth they want is equality and freedom for all humankind.
Get your guns and get your bullets,
Lock and load! Into the streets!
Make your bombs and gas and napalm,
For The Man a load of treats!
Gotta make Peace, make it happen,
In this here and every other land.
Make the blood run down the gutters,
Ain't no Peace like a dead man.
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Today we're seeing "perfect storm" conditions, with the move online combining with an increasingly tech-savvy generation, continuing economic uncertainty and a lack of controls. All these trends are creating fertile ground for fraud.
The move online is positive for both the banks and their customers, as online payments can be used to help build that important holistic view of a customer. With customers' growing preferences for mobile devices, opportunities for enhancing customer service delivery, by offering new services such as faster payments, are clear. However, digital channels are more vulnerable to fraud. While the speed and openness of the approach makes banking more convenient, it can also make it easier for fraudsters to access money, and transfer it quickly, without being detected.
The increasing capability of fraudsters is reflected in the variety of schemes they use. Among the most prevalent are phishing, where fraudsters send emails impersonating legitimate companies, and vishing, a form of voice phishing requiring the intended victim to respond by telephone to an email or phone message. Malware is also ubiquitous – with schemes becoming so well executed that it can be almost impossible for a user to recognise that their devices have been infected. Money mules, people recruited by the fraudsters to transfer money acquired illegally, also contribute to the success of many online banking frauds.
The lack of a consistent pattern to this activity makes it even more challenging for the authorities to analyse. Banks can be attacked repeatedly for a period and react by putting new controls in place. This causes activity to then typically drop away, only to return months later once the fraudsters have developed new modus operandi to bypass the controls.
While offering a diverse portfolio of financial products in an environment where fraud is fast paced and forever changing, most banks have little in the way of viable technology to provide the much-needed protection. Indeed, they can be overly reliant on authentication systems that provide unambiguous identification of users through a combination of components known only to that user - such as user names or PINs.
With new fraud types emerging constantly, banks must take a more sophisticated approach to online fraud detection and be in a state of constant readiness. Careful data monitoring and management is critical from the outset. Banks must enhance their data quality and collate and link different data types coming into the organization.
Because fraud methods are evolving, systems must allow users to quickly configure new scenarios, and modify existing behavioral patterns. However, the impact on fraud levels, and the false positives they'll generate, must always be understood. To gain this knowledge, systems must allow users to effectively simulate their changes across large volumes of historical data and deploy results into production environments instantly.


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Kurt Moritz Weißker (* 8. November 1814 in Schleiz; † 22. Juni 1860 ebenda) war ein deutscher Gerbermeister und Abgeordneter.

Familie
Weißker war ein Sohn des Amtmanns in Schleiz Friedrich Christian Weißker (1781–1852) und dessen Ehefrau Renate Karoline geborene Geldern. Seine Brüder Albrecht (1817–1898) und Otto (1808–1865) wurden ebenfalls Abgeordnete. Weißker, der evangelisch-lutherischer Konfession war, heiratete am 17. September 1844 in Schleiz Auguste Karoline Pass(ß)olt (* 4. August 1817 in Schleiz; † 4. Juli 1895 ebenda), die Tochter des Lohgerbers Johann Christian Pass(ß)olt in Schleiz. Heinrich Weißker (* 1854) ist ein Neffe. Der Abgeordnete Gustav Behr und Gustav Passolt waren Schwäger.

Leben
Weißker machte eine kaufmännische Lehre und arbeitete danach in der Buchführung bei seinem Onkel, dem Kaufmann August Gottfried Weißker in Schleiz. Ab Ostern 1830 machte er eine Lehre als Gerber bei Kommerzienrat Heinrich Philipp Knoch in Hirschberg (Saale). 1833 wurde er zum Militärdienst einberufen, stellte jedoch für 69 Taler einen Stellvertreter und musste nicht dienen. Stattdessen war er in Deutschland, Österreich, Oberitalien und der Schweiz auf Wanderschaft.

1839 machte er sich als Gerber in Schleiz selbstständig. 1845 erwarb er zusätzlich eine Handelskonzession für Zigarren. 1856 wurde die Gerberei durch einen Großbrand zerstört und bis 1857 an anderer Stelle wieder aufgebaut.

Vom 25. Januar bis zum 6. September 1860 war er Mitglied im Landtag Reuß jüngerer Linie. Im Landtag war er stellvertretender Schriftführer.

Literatur
 Reyk Seela: Landtage und Gebietsvertretungen in den reußischen Staaten 1848/67–1923. Biographisches Handbuch (= Parlamente in Thüringen 1809–1952. Tl. 2). G. Fischer, Jena u. a. 1996, ISBN 3-437-35046-3, S. 327.

Landtagsabgeordneter (Reuß jüngerer Linie)
Deutscher
Geboren 1814
Gestorben 1860
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AC/DC and Highway to Hell
A.O.	S2Ep4: Road Trip to Harvard	 August 13, 2018 August 9, 2018
LORELAI: Never been in this car for any extended period of time without playing AC/DC … I need my Highway to Hell.
AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. They have sometimes been identified as heavy metal, hence the heavy metal-loving Lorelai being a fan, but they see themselves as rock and roll, and are classified as a hard rock/blues rock band. Their first internationally released album was High Voltage in 1976, while For Those About to Rock We Salute You (1981) was their first #1 album in the US. Their most recent album from Lorelai's perspective is Stiff Upper Lip, released in 2000 and well received commercially and critically. AC/DC have sold more than 200 million records worldwide, making them one of the biggest-selling music artists. Their 1980 album Back in Black is the best-selling album by any band in the world. Regarded as one of the best hard rock bands of all time, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003.
Highway to Hell is the lead single and title track from AC/DC's 1979 album, written to reflect the hardships of constant touring and life on the road. Lead singer Bon Scott, his talent at its peak, was found dead just six months after the song was released, as if to underscore the toll that such a life takes on one. Highway to Hell went to #47 in the US, and #24 in the UK; it went to #1 in the US on re-release in 1992, and in 2012 was the #1 song on digital download. It is regarded as a classic rock song.
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Scientist develop camera tech to take images at 'speed of light'
The new method improves the resolution and quality of images captured with CUP.
Scientists have improved upon a new camera technology that can click at speeds about 100 times faster than today's commercial cameras. (Representational image)
Washington: Scientists have improved upon a new camera technology that can click at speeds about 100 times faster than today's commercial cameras and could enable imaging of ultra-fast processes involving neurons, combustion and stars.
The new technology also opens a host of new possibilities for studying extremely fast processes such as neurons firing, chemical reactions, fuel burning or chemicals exploding.
Researchers led by Lihong V Wang, from Washington University, previously developed a single-shot compressed ultrafast photography (CUP) camera that can image at speeds of 100 billion frames per second in a single camera exposure - fast enough to capture travelling light pulses.
It is the world's fastest receive-only camera, meaning that it can use available light for imaging and does not need additional illumination from a laser or other light source.
The new method improves the resolution and quality of images captured with CUP. They demonstrate the CUP upgrades by capturing a movie of a picosecond laser pulse travelling through the air and also by pointing laser light onto a printout of a toy car to create a movie of the light reaching different portions of the car at different times.
Researchers are particularly interested in understanding how the brain's neural networks operate. Using the new camera with a microscope could allow them to watch neurons fire by capturing extremely fast chemical processes called action potentials that travel through an axon at speeds that can reach more than 100 metres per second.
"We want to use our new camera to study a living animal's neural network in action. This would reveal how the neural network functions, not just how the neurons are connected," Wang said.
The improved image resolution and quality means that the camera could better capture entire action potential events, including the initiation of the action potentials, propagation with varying speeds, and the termination of signalling.
"Biological reactions can occur very fast, faster than standard cameras can image," said Wang. "When people study events like that now, they use a pump-probe method, which requires them to repeat the event many times," he said.
"Our camera can be used for real-time imaging of a single event, capturing it all in one shot at extremely high speeds," he said.
Since the camera can image with just the light available it could be used with telescopes to record activities of a supernova occurring light years away. Wang said that the CUP camera could, for example, add high-speed imaging to space telescopes such as the NASA's Hubble Telescope that have high spatial resolution unperturbed by the atmosphere.
The camera would also be very useful for other applications such as imaging explosions. The study was published in the journal Optica.
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Q: Plotting aggregated values from specific column of multiple dataframe indexed by timedate I have three dataframe as below:
import pandas as pd
labels=['1','2','3','Aggregated']
df1 = {'date_time': ["2022-10-06 17:23:11","2022-10-06 17:23:12","2022-10-06 17:23:13","2022-10-06 17:23:14","2022-10-06 17:23:15","2022-10-06 17:23:16"],
        'value': [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]}

df2 = {'date_time': ["2022-10-06 17:23:13","2022-10-06 17:23:14","2022-10-06 17:23:15","2022-10-06 17:23:16","2022-10-06 17:23:17","2022-10-06 17:23:18"],
        'value': [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]}

df3 = {'date_time': ["2022-10-06 17:23:16","2022-10-06 17:23:17","2022-10-06 17:23:18","2022-10-06 17:23:19","2022-10-06 17:23:20","2022-10-06 17:23:21"],
        'value': [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]}

I need to create another dataframe df that contains all the datetime elements from all three df1,df2,df3 such that the common valued are summed up in-terms of common timestamps (excluding the millisecond parts) as shown below.
df=

{'date_time': ["2022-10-06 17:23:11","2022-10-06 17:23:12","2022-10-06 17:23:13","2022-10-06 17:23:14","2022-10-06 17:23:15","2022-10-06 17:23:16","2022-10-06 17:23:17","2022-10-06 17:23:18","2022-10-06 17:23:19","2022-10-06 17:23:20","2022-10-06 17:23:21"],
        'value': [4, 5, 6+4, 7+5, 8+6, 9+7+4, 8+5, 9+6, 7, 8, 9]}

For adding the columns I used following:
df = (pd.concat([df1,df2,df3],axis=0)).groupby('date_time')['value'].sum().reset_index()

For plotting I used following which results in df2 and df3 to time shift towards df1.
for dataFrame,number in zip([df1,df2,df3,df],labels):
    dataFrame["value"].plot(label=number)

How can I plot the three df1,df2,df3 without time shifting and also plot the aggregated df on the same plot for dataframe column 'value'?

A: IIUC you search for something like this:
labels=["Aggregated","1","2","3"]
color_dict = {"Aggregated": "orange", "1": "darkred", "2": "green", "3": "blue"}

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
for i, (d, label) in enumerate(zip([df, df1, df2, df3], labels),1):
    ax.plot(d["date_time"], d["value"], lw=3/i, color=color_dict[label], label=label)
plt.setp(ax.get_xticklabels(), ha="right", rotation=45)
plt.legend()
plt.show()

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WATCH: David Tennant's mystery 'Broadchurch' debuts first TV trailer
David Tennant returns to our telly screens in March in a brand new 8-part ITV drama. Broadchurch tells the tale of a small community, trying to cope with the mysterious death of an 11-year-old boy.
Wriiten and created by Chris Chibnall (an alum of both Law and Order: UK and Doctor Who), the series follows the series of events that transpire after young Danny's body is found at the bottom of a picturesque cliff face. Both the town and Danny's family struggle to cope under the glare of the media spotlight.
Tennant stars as DI Alec Hardy; a newly promoted police detective who has recently moved to the town to take the job, while Olivia Colman is DS Ellie Miller, the local lass who believes that the case should have been hers.To say that the two clash is an understatement, but as the series progresses, they both have their own secrets to come to terms with.
Catch Broadchurch on UTV from Monday March 4th.


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Mum's photos capture impact of brain tumour on two-year-old son
Jessica Mitchell's pictures of her son Dylan during his battle with a brain tumour. Her story features in a new report 'Losing My Place: The Reality of Childhood with a Brain Tumour'.
Kevin McRoberts
The stark impact of a childhood brain tumour diagnosis has been captured by a mother who photographed her young son every month as he was treated for the disease.
Jessica Mitchell began to record the changing appearance of her son Dylan in May 2014, soon after he was diagnosed with medulloblastoma – the most common form of malignant brain tumour in children – at the age of just two.
He is never going to do the normal things that boys do ... but he is still here and we hold on to that fact
Dylan's mum Jessica
Dylan and his family are among those whose experiences feature in a report out today (June 13) from The Brain Tumour Charity called 'Losing My Place: The Reality of Childhood with a Brain Tumour'.
Dylan's first round of chemotherapy ended in December 2014 but within two months the tumour had recurred, spreading so aggressively throughout his brain and spine that the only treatment option was a course of intensive radiotherapy alongside further chemotherapy.
Last month, after a total of four operations, 90 rounds of chemotherapy, 31 sessions of radiotherapy and 66 general anaesthetics (necessary in order to deliver some of his treatments), Dylan's parents were told he has 'no active disease'.
But the tumour has not been cured. Whether or not it recurs, four-year-old Dylan faces long-term health problems and reduced life-expectancy because of the disease and its treatment.
Jessica's photos show Dylan losing his hair as the chemotherapy and radiotherapy take effect, while the steroids he was given caused his face to swell significantly.
Jessica said: "I started taking the photos to show how brave Dylan was. One day I want to make a book of them for him to have when he's older.
"But I also wanted to show why we need more research into brain tumours and more understanding of the harm caused by the disease, which is so clear from The Brain Tumour Charity's report.
"We were told by doctors that the only treatment available to save Dylan's life would do this awful damage to our little boy. That's not a decision any parent should have to make."
'Losing My Place: The Reality of Childhood with a Brain Tumour' is based on a unique survey of almost 300 young people and their parents following a childhood brain tumour diagnosis.
Among the children and young people who responded to the survey:
• More than eight out of 10 (84 per cent) said their brain tumour had made them feel lonely;
• Seven out of ten (70 per cent) said they had difficulty doing things outside the house;
• Three out of ten of those with symptoms reported changes to their personality
Among parents and carers:
• Almost three quarters said their child's brain tumour had had a moderate or severe impact on their own mental health;
• 90 per cent said they felt lonely or isolated as a result of their child's brain tumour diagnosis;
• 95 per cent of those with more than one child said siblings' lives had been affected by the diagnosis
In the report, Jessica Mitchell – who lives with her husband, Ed, and their three sons – speaks about the impact of Dylan's illness on her whole family.
She says: "Our youngest son was only 10 weeks old when Dylan was diagnosed, so he knows no different.
"But my oldest son, who is six, has become more and more withdrawn because Dylan takes all of our attention. He is suffering at school."
One of the most difficult aspects of Dylan's diagnosis at such a young age was his inability to communicate or comprehend what was happening to him, says Jessica.
"He could tell us 'ow' and point to where it hurt but we could never be certain what was causing him pain.
"When a child is older, you can explain to them: 'You have to take this medication because it will make you feel better.'
"With Dylan, it got to the stage where we had to pin him down to give him his medication. Sometimes he would stop fighting and lie there sobbing. It was just awful."
Now the family faces anxiety and uncertainty about Dylan's future.
"He is never going to do the normal things that boys do," Jessica says. "He is never going to have the energy to go running and jumping and climbing. He will not be able to have the kind of relationships that other young men have.
"But he is still here, and we hold on to that fact."
Sarah Lindsell, chief executive of The Brain Tumour Charity, said: "Our report shows the devastating impact of childhood brain tumours – not only for those who are diagnosed but in many cases for the whole family.
"We hope our findings will help to improve understanding of the effects of the disease as well as reducing the isolation felt by so many of those who shared their experiences with us.
"We will use the evidence in this report as we continue to press for the best possible care and services for all of those affected by a brain tumour."
Among the other young people whose stories are shared in the report are:
• Hannah (16), who talks about her frustration at the effect her tumour has had on her performance at school and her ongoing difficulties with language;
• Amber (10) whose symptoms prompted her to tell her cousins that she wanted to die;
• Josh (16) whose vision has been permanently damaged by a brain tumour.
Every year, around 400 children from birth to the age of 14 are diagnosed with a brain or central nervous system tumour.
The disease claims more lives than any other childhood cancer and is the largest cause of preventable or treatable blindness in children.
Childhood brain tumour survivors are 10 times more likely to suffer long-term disability than well children. This accounts for 20,000 additional disabled life years for all the children who are diagnosed each year.
For more from The Brain Tumour Charity visit the charity's website.


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package lsp

import (
	"context"

	"golang.org/x/tools/internal/lsp/diff"
	"golang.org/x/tools/internal/lsp/protocol"
	"golang.org/x/tools/internal/lsp/source"
	"golang.org/x/tools/internal/span"
)

func (s *Server) formatting(ctx context.Context, params *protocol.DocumentFormattingParams) ([]protocol.TextEdit, error) {
	uri := span.NewURI(params.TextDocument.URI)
	view := s.session.ViewOf(uri)
	spn := span.New(uri, span.Point{}, span.Point{})
	f, m, rng, err := spanToRange(ctx, view, spn)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	edits, err := source.Format(ctx, f, rng)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	return source.ToProtocolEdits(m, edits)
}

func spanToRange(ctx context.Context, view source.View, spn span.Span) (source.GoFile, *protocol.ColumnMapper, span.Range, error) {
	f, err := getGoFile(ctx, view, spn.URI())
	if err != nil {
		return nil, nil, span.Range{}, err
	}
	m, err := getMapper(ctx, f)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, nil, span.Range{}, err
	}
	rng, err := spn.Range(m.Converter)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, nil, span.Range{}, err
	}
	if rng.Start == rng.End {
		// If we have a single point, assume we want the whole file.
		tok, err := f.GetToken(ctx)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, nil, span.Range{}, err
		}
		rng.End = tok.Pos(tok.Size())
	}
	return f, m, rng, nil
}

func FromProtocolEdits(m *protocol.ColumnMapper, edits []protocol.TextEdit) ([]diff.TextEdit, error) {
	if edits == nil {
		return nil, nil
	}
	result := make([]diff.TextEdit, len(edits))
	for i, edit := range edits {
		spn, err := m.RangeSpan(edit.Range)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		result[i] = diff.TextEdit{
			Span:    spn,
			NewText: edit.NewText,
		}
	}
	return result, nil
}