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Our premium drain unblocking solutions, here at 247 Drainage, are comprehensive. From damaged sinks to blocked pipes, our kitchen drainage services are comprehensive and top quality. Kitchen drainages can be blocked by lots of items ranging from grease to food waste - you can count on us to handle the problem quickly and effectively. Drainage challenges also hit property owners with busy bathrooms, as there are many substances that cause blockages.
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package main

import (
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
	"net/http/httptest"
	"net/url"
	"reflect"
	"runtime"
	"testing"

	dto "github.com/prometheus/client_model/go"

	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
)

type pdns struct {
	*httptest.Server
	config []byte
}

func newPowerDNS(config []byte) *pdns {
	h := &pdns{config: config}
	h.Server = httptest.NewServer(handler(h))
	return h
}

func handler(h *pdns) http.HandlerFunc {
	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		w.Write(h.config)
	}
}

func handlerStale(exit chan bool) http.HandlerFunc {
	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		<-exit
	}
}

func readCounter(m prometheus.Counter) float64 {
	// TODO: Revisit this once client_golang offers better testing tools.
	pb := &dto.Metric{}
	m.Write(pb)
	return pb.GetCounter().GetValue()
}

func readGauge(m prometheus.Gauge) float64 {
	// TODO: Revisit this once client_golang offers better testing tools.
	pb := &dto.Metric{}
	m.Write(pb)
	return pb.GetGauge().GetValue()
}

func TestServerWithoutChecks(t *testing.T) {
	config, err := ioutil.ReadFile("test/recursor_stats.json")
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("could not read config file: %v", err.Error())
	}

	h := newPowerDNS(config)
	defer h.Close()

	hostURL, _ := url.Parse(h.URL)

	e := NewExporter("12345", "recursor", hostURL)

	ch := make(chan prometheus.Metric)

	go func() {
		defer close(ch)
		e.Collect(ch)
	}()

	if expect, got := 1., readGauge((<-ch).(prometheus.Gauge)); expect != got {
		// up
		t.Errorf("expected %f up, got %f", expect, got)
	}
	if expect, got := 1., readCounter((<-ch).(prometheus.Counter)); expect != got {
		// totalScrapes
		t.Errorf("expected %f recorded scrape, got %f", expect, got)
	}
	if expect, got := 0., readCounter((<-ch).(prometheus.Counter)); expect != got {
		// jsonParseFailures
		t.Errorf("expected %f csv parse failures, got %f", expect, got)
	}
	// Suck up the remaining metrics.
	for _ = range ch {
	}
}

func TestParseServerInfo(t *testing.T) {
	config, err := ioutil.ReadFile("test/recursor_info.json")
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("could not read config file: %v", err.Error())
	}

	h := newPowerDNS(config)
	defer h.Close()

	hostURL, _ := url.Parse(h.URL)

	got, err := getServerInfo(hostURL, "12345")
	if err != nil {
		t.Errorf("expected getServerInfo() to return no error, but got %v", err)
	}

	want := &ServerInfo{
		Kind:       "Server",
		ID:         "localhost",
		URL:        "/servers/localhost",
		DaemonType: "recursor",
		Version:    "3.7.3",
		ConfigUrl:  "/servers/localhost/config{/config_setting}",
		ZonesUrl:   "/servers/localhost/zones{/zone}",
	}

	if !reflect.DeepEqual(want, got) {
		t.Errorf("want serverInfo %#v but got %#v",
			want,
			got,
		)
	}
}

func BenchmarkExtract(b *testing.B) {
	config, err := ioutil.ReadFile("test/recursor_stats.json")
	if err != nil {
		b.Fatalf("could not read config file: %v", err.Error())
	}

	h := newPowerDNS(config)
	defer h.Close()

	hostURL, _ := url.Parse(h.URL)

	e := NewExporter("12345", "recursor", hostURL)

	var before, after runtime.MemStats
	runtime.GC()
	runtime.ReadMemStats(&before)
	b.ResetTimer()

	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		ch := make(chan prometheus.Metric)
		go func(ch chan prometheus.Metric) {
			for _ = range ch {
			}
		}(ch)

		e.Collect(ch)
		close(ch)
	}

	runtime.GC()
	runtime.ReadMemStats(&after)

	b.Logf("%d bytes used after %d runs", after.Alloc-before.Alloc, b.N)
}

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The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its only fly-by of Saturn's moon Dione on 11 October 2005. In the process, Cassini captured this image of Dione eclipsing Saturn's moon Rhea.
In the picture above, the distance between Dione and Rhea was roughly 330 000 kilometres. Dione is the second densest moon of Saturn, after Titan. It is probably composed of a rocky core making up one-third of the moon's mass, and the rest is composed of water ice. It is an icy body similar to Tethys and Rhea. Cassini will make a fly-by of Rhea on 26 November 2005.


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Q: CSS Invalid property value when trying to use the max function alongside min-content I'm trying to make my body element the height of the viewport, but expand if its content exceeds its height. I originally used min-height: 100vh to accomplish this.
However, as stated in this answer, an element with a percentage height will not work correctly inside my body because it uses min-height.
My next idea was to use the max function alongside min-content on my body:
body {
  height: max(100vh, min-content);
}

However this does not work. In Chrome devtools I get the following warning:

Invalid property value

Is there any solution to this problem?
More details

*

*There will be one element inside body.

*This element should be able to use percentage-based height values or auto.

*The height of the body should expand if the content inside does not fit.

*If the content inside body does fit, then any percentage-based height values would be based on the viewport height.

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Home NBA Portland Trail Blazers – Nicolas Batum and the Lucky Triple Double
Portland Trail Blazers – Nicolas Batum and the Lucky Triple Double
Gregory Cameron
The only people who tried to make a big deal from Nicolas Batum hitting a half court shot that didn't mean anything were the media, specifically ESPN. In professional sports, there's nothing wrong or disrespectful about playing until the final second, even if the Portland Trail Blazers had the win all sewn up by that time.
In a 115-105 win over the San Antonio Spurs, marking the team's third consecutive victory over the Spurs, Batum finished with 11 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists. With less then a second on the clock and a 7 point lead, Batum launched a half court shot and surprisingly hit it. Some tried to play an angle of disrespect, but Batum himself felt like he did the wrong thing by taking the shot while Gregg Popovich thought it doesn't mean anything, and asked for reporters to move on to more serious things.
Getting Tim Duncan back from his injury didn't help the Spurs against a team they usually struggle against. The Spurs did manage to pull within 4 (100-104) with 1:24 left on the clock, and got a bit closer after a Marco Belinelli 3, making it 105-108. However, Damian Lillard and Nicolas Batum were sent to the line, and the Spurs couldn't convert on the other end before Batum's prayer of a shot.
All the talk about a deeper bench hasn't materialized yet for the Blazers. Their starters combined for 92 points, as Damian Lillard had his best game this season, leading the way with 25 points, followed by LaMarcus Aldridge scoring 24 and Wesley Matthews with a second consecutive 20-point game, combining for six three-pointers along with Lillard, who also had 7 rebounds and 7 assists.
When their key players are that good, there's really no need for anyone but Mo Williams, who is likely to get his points no matter what, to rise and have big games off the bench. The backup point guard scored 13 points in 23 minutes, while the Blazers are still waiting for C.J. McCollum to get healthy enough to start his NBA career.
For once, however, Robin Lopez had a strong game for the team, making it an entire starting five in double figures, adding 12 points. Aldridge is able to pull either Duncan or Splitter away from the basket, stretching the Spurs' defense a bit too much for the finalist's taste, resulting in too many holes around the perimeter.
Duncan looked quite lively after a short rest, scoring 24 points to lead the Spurs, who also got 19 points from Marco Belinelli and 17 from Tony Parker. However, Kawhi Leonard is too important of a piece to finish with only 9 points, not to mention Tiago Splitter not scoring a single point on 18 minutes.
I didn't really think about it but I know it was a bad thing to do. I want to apologize to the Spurs organization. That didn't show a good side of myself or the Blazers organization. I did not want to disrespect this team. I don't mean to disrespect this team. I've got three triple-doubles in my career. This one didn't count.
Mo Williams
Nicolas Batum
Wesley Matthews
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Oh I love this shaker card!! Love the rectangle windows for the shaker!!!
A fabulous shaker, Shelly! Mine are typically the 'plain' style, so seeing yours with the stripes: quite the impact! That little anchor is charming!


The ISL6271A is a versatile power management IC (PMIC) designed for the Xscale type of processors. The device integrates three regulators, two fault indicators and an I2 C bus for communication with a host microprocessor. Two of the three regulators function as low power, low drop out regulators, designed to power SRAM and phase-lock loop circuitry internal to the Xscale processor. The third regulator uses a proprietary switch-mode topology to power the processor core and facilitate Dynamic Voltage Management (DVM), as defined by Intel.
Since power dissipation inside a microprocessor is proportional to the square of the core voltage, Intel XScale processors implement DVM as a means to more efficiently utilize battery capacity. To support this power saving architecture, the ISL6271A integrates an I2 C bus for communication with the host processor. The processor, acting as the bus master, transmits a "voltage level" and "voltage slew rate" to the ISL6271A appropriate to the processing requirements; higher core voltages support higher operating frequencies and code execution. The bus is fully compliant with the Phillips® I2 C protocol and supports both standard and fast data transmission modes. Alternatively, the output of the core regulator can be programmed in 50mV increments from 0.85V to 1.6V using the input Voltage ID (VID) pins. All three regulators share a common enable pin and are protected against overcurrent, over temperature and undervoltage conditions. When disabled via the enable pin, the ISL6271A enters a low power state that can be used to conserve battery life while maintaining the last programmed VID code and slew rate. An integrated soft-start circuit transitions the ISL6271A output voltages to their default values at a rate determined by an external soft-start capacitor.


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Fertility: Why We Need a Registry for the Long-Term Risks of Egg Donation
By Kristin Hugo On 10/14/17 at 7:30 AM EDT
Dr. Edward Sickles, right, and Larisa Gurilnik look at films of breast X-rays at the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center on August 18, 2005, in San Francisco. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Tech & Science Fertility Biology
The risks women face from becoming egg donors are unknown. And we can't know the risks because long-term studies with a large population of women who have donated eggs have not been done. Now, one woman is calling for a national registry to track these unrecognized risks.
"Egg donors are provided with informed consent forms and information," physician and pain-management expert Jennifer Schneider tells Newsweek. "And what they are typically told is that there are no known long-term risks of egg donation."
Schneider's daughter died of cancer at the age of 31 after donating eggs three times. Schneider believes there is a dire need for a registry to which egg donors could report cancers and other long-term health effects.
Egg donation agencies solicit young, fertile women to "donate" eggs to intended parents who would otherwise have trouble conceiving a child. Egg donors cite emotional satisfaction with helping others start a family as among their reasons for donating—and "compensation" is typically thousands of dollars. Whether or not the practice carries long-term health risks has not been studied.
The lack of such data on egg donation stands in stark contrast to in vitro fertilization (IVF). National reporting on IVF, including data on both mothers and babies, is required by law, explains Alan Penzias, chair of the practice committee at the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and a professor or OBGYN at Harvard Medical School. Penzias agrees that a similar tracker is needed for egg donation in order to understand the risks. "One of the challenging problems with long-term studies in any field of medicine is the general absence of data registries for outcomes," Penzias tells Newsweek.
Data accrued from the IVF registry gives some clues about what egg donors face. The donors go through a treatment in which they take hormone injections for weeks to stimulate more of their eggs to mature than the typical one or two per month. Then, a physician retrieves the eggs—ideally 10 to 15—in a minimally invasive trans-vaginal procedure.
And investigations of IVF have revealed a risk. The "Million Women Study" in the U.K. concluded that "[c]urrent use of hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) increases the incidence of breast cancer." Researchers found that, for every 10 total years's worth of HRT use, five in 1,000 people get breast cancer that would not have occurred otherwise. The hormones that egg donors and IVF patients receive stimulate growth in sexual characteristics, so it is biologically plausible that they could affect cancer rates.
Still, the risk may be very minimal. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine guidelines regarding the use of fertility drugs concludes that the "use of fertility drugs does not appear to increase [cancer] risk" among IVF patients that have been studied. ASRM suggests that people who have reproductive problems are also at an increased risk of reproductive cancers, and that could explain why an IVF patient may be more likely to ultimately get cancer. It wouldn't be practical to do a controlled study on humans, so they can only do observational studies.
Several former donors have reported their anecdotes of unexpected cancer post-donation. Ten-time egg donor Maggie Eastman, who had no family history of the disease, developed stage 4 breast cancer at 32. Schneider's daughter developed colon cancer four years after her three donations. Two years after that, when Schneider's daughter was 31, the cancer proved fatal.
After being galvanized to study cancer in former donors, Schneider found, interviewed, and studied the health records of five former egg donors who later developed breast cancer. The journal Reproductive BioMedicine Online published her study in May. None of the former donors she interviewed had a genetic predisposition to the disease. Four of those women were in their 30s.
But did the donation cause, or even contribute to those cancers? Or would they have happened anyway?
"I'm not saying that my daughter died for sure because she was an egg donor," Schneider says. "I'm saying that I'll never know that because there have never been studies to show whether that is indeed a risk."
With this long-term registry data, it would be easier to tell if donors are more susceptible to these illnesses, or if they tend to get them at a similar rate to the population at large. "And that is what is needed in order to find out what these risks are so they can make an informed decision," Schneider says.
Why Is IVF So Expensive in the United States?
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This international charming hotel is located on the boarders of Luxemburg and Germany and only 4 kilometres away from Grevenmacher and Potaschberg. Also within 20 minutes driving: you will find Luxemburg Airport and city centre as well as Trier, the oldest city of Germany.
All rooms are fully renovated, non-smoking, and have all private bathrooms, flat-screen TV, free wireless internet access and extra long comfort-beds.
Looking for some time to relax? Enjoy the Tapas & Wein bar with a vast selection of local wines, have dinner in the restaurant or just enjoy the fantastic location of this friendly hotel in the village of Nittel!
The awarded restaurant serves mouth-watering dishes from the wood burning grill. Enjoy the facilities such as wellness and sauna in the original wine cellars. For an alternative evening, the 13 local wineries will be delighted to welcome you to their beloved wine tastings!
For meetings, we are happy to organise your venues for up to 40 guests and we can provide all needed equipment. Have a party (for up to 140 guests) and a wine tasting afterwards for your meeting to be remembered as a very special one!


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Q: User is logged in, but not re-directed I have a login script written in PDO. When the user logs in, they're supposed to be re-directed to index.php. Instead though, they stay on the same page.
<?php

$db_username = "user";
$db_password = "pass";
$con = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=db", $db_username, $db_password);

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

$username = $_POST['username'];
$password = md5($_POST['password']);

$logincheck = $stmt = $con->prepare("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username=:username and password=:password");
$stmt->bindParam(':username', $username);
$stmt->bindParam(':password', $password);
$stmt->execute();
$rows = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_NUM);
if($rows > 0) {
header('Location: index.php');
}
}
?>

<form method="post">
<input type="text" name="username">
<input type="password" name="password">
<input type="submit" name="submit">
</form>

A: *

*Change if(isset($_POST['submit'])) to if(isset($_POST['username']) && isset($_POST['password']) )
because submit type can't be send by form

*Be sure about hashing algorithm

*change exit(header('Location: index.php')); to header('Location: http://
www.example.com/index.php');
Because exit(); is not suitable and here is the syntax error.

header must be sent separately and after that execution of that page already exited.

I am considering $con variable is pre set and there is no any error on SQL fetch. Also PDO database logging is missing in your code. And so many error may possible.
use error reporting on in php.ini file to track what actually happens

A: I've had this problem recently working on a project and the only thing that comes to my mind is:
"**Warning:** Cannot modify header information - headers already sent (output started at /htdocs/your_project_name/your_file.php:X, where X is the line number)."

Double check your errors; insert this somewhere on top in the script you are using to process the form submission:
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

I was able to get it to work by doing this:
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

if ((isset($_POST['username']) && !empty($_POST['username'])) &&
  (isset($_POST['password']) && !empty($_POST['password']))) {
  //echo $_POST['username'];
  //echo $_POST['password'];
  // these statements are commented out because they were
  // displaying information before the header('Location: index.php')
  // was called, uncomment this and try to see what I am talking about

  $username = $_POST['username'];
  $password = $_POST['password'];

  $db_username = 'root';
  $db_password = 'root';
  // always use try-catch when working with databases, api's, etc.
  try
  {
     $dbconn = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=db', $db_username, $db_password);

    $stmt = $dbconn->prepare('SELECT * FROM users WHERE username=:username AND
    password=:password LIMIT 1');
    $stmt->bindParam(':username', $username);
    $stmt->bindParam(':password', $password);

    $stmt->execute();

    if ($stmt->rowCount() > 0)
    {
      header('Location: index.php');
    }
  }
  catch (PDOException $e)
  {
    echo 'Database error: ' . $e->getMessage();
  }
}

Obviously, the form doesn't change, except that I added the action attribute:
<form method="post" action="submit.php">
<!--form fields-->
</form>

Obviously, make sure you are storing users passwords securely. I didn't hash my password before I checked the database but you should always sanitize any input that gets submitted from a form. Take a look here

*

*phpsec.org/projects/guide/1.html#1.4

and here

*

*php.net/manual/en/function.password-hash.php

And this in particular, as you would then use this function to check whether the password matches:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.password-verify.php
If you are still having problems and the headers already sent issue is the problem, check out this post:
How to fix "Headers already sent" error in PHP


Plot of land for sale, by the river in Sidari, north Corfu, just 455m from the sea.
The land is (approx) 11.190sq.m. And part of it comprises of a lovely olive grove.
This land could make an ideal business oportunity, or even a wonderful villa with abundance of space for the construction of a swimming pool and a lovely garden. Although the land is located in a quiet area, local amenities are only a short distance away.
Corfu town and the airport are (approx) 35km away.


The Geek Vape Aegis Legend 200W Starter Kit continues the legacy of the epic Aegis series, integrating an lattest chassis to accommodate dual 18650 batteries and increases maximum power output to 200W with the intelligent AS Chipest. For the Limited Edition featuring the ALPHA Tank, you must select the "LIMITED" in the dropdown menu.
The Aegis Legend is a stylish box mod designed to be water and shock resistance. It is compatible with dual 18650 batteries powered by the new AS chipset that releases up to 200W output. The mod uses up to six different materials to achieve style and strong durability.


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Ben Nicholson Reviews
Film Review: 'Only Lovers Left Alive'
Those cinemagoers concerned that the teenage adventures of Bella and Edward might have had a lasting negative impact on the movie vampire can rest easy. Last year, Neil Jordan's Byzantium (2013) showed more than just intent to thoughtfully engage with the matter of soucriants, even if it was not entirely successful in its execution. Now, Jim Jarmusch's latest, Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), takes up the mantle casting Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as a blood-sucking couple. It's a delightfully poetic take on eternal damnation filled with literary swagger and wry humour rather than gushing melodrama or teen angst.
Adam (Hiddleston) is an ageless musician who comes with a liberal splash of tortured depressive for every inch of achingly cool rock star. He lives a reclusive life in Detroit in a house brimming with all manner of old instruments where his human helper, Ian (Anton Yelchin), provides him not with his ungodly manna but with rare guitars or other obscure and desirable items. He lives with an eye firmly on an idealised past, as evidenced by his penchant for all things antiquated. When she learns of his malaise with modern society, his partner, Eve (Swinton) makes her way from her own bohemian home in Tangiers. She's an equally old soul, as reflective as Adam without spiralling into the same self-indulgent despair.
Seeing them together, this deadpan double-act of über-sophisticates, is the real joy of Only Lovers Left Alive and means that Jarmusch's trademark narrative meandering never frustrates as it might. Hiddleston and Swinton are both on fantastically droll form and it is only the arrival of Eve's troublesome younger sister, Ava (Mia Wasikowska), that threatens to inject any impetus at all. She's still got a taste for the kill and a lust for the world that has long since expired in her older, and statelier, companions. There's a possibility that the offbeat nature and glacial plot are masking a lack of depth, but if that is the case then they also serve a useful purpose.
The audience is given the opportunity to sit back and enjoy the in-jokes, the musical and literary references, and the central performances. Some will want the film to escalate in a way that it is never really likely to; instead it should just be enjoyed as a ride through the ghostly Detroit where one can luxuriate in the moody, chic milieu, not to mention the soundtrack. Only Lovers Left Alive is a film that slowly envelopes you and despite ultimately being somewhat slight, it has the potential to mature into a beloved favourite album years from now. At the very least, Jarmusch has managed one of the best vampire films in some time.


Students transferring to UHD may apply simultaneously to the BSW program. Transfer students follow the same admissions process as regular students.
Once admitted into the UHD and before being admitted in the Social Work Program, the student is advised in the Transfer Advising Center. The advisor will assist the student in determining the courses in which to enroll. The BSW program suggests the student enroll in SOCW 2361: Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare and/ or SOCW 2363: Introduction to Social Welfare Policy. Students wishing to enroll in 3000 or 4000-level Social Work courses, will need permission from the Social Work Program Director, Dr. Dawn McCarty, at mccartyd@uhd.edu.


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Author: Anna McGovern
Anna and the conference
In which Anna McGovern, the Chair of Medway Youth Council, talks about the organisation achieved at their recent Annual Conference..
In a recent national ballot for young people called "Make Your Mark", it was overwhelmingly highlighted that 40% of young people in Medway wanted "Protect The Environment" to be prioritised as a national campaign. This is our youth demographic, denied the vote – but longing for a say on their future. The timing of our Annual Conference couldn't have been more spot on.
On the 20th November 2019, the Medway Youth Council hosted their Annual Conference for 2019 – "Climate Change – A Real Threat To Our Future!". We invited young people from across Medway to partake in a series of workshops, have the opportunity to converse with climate change professionals, and to attend an afternoon Q&A panel focussing on the key themes within the climate crisis. We were particularly fortunate to have MidKent College in Gillingham host our event for the day.
The purpose of our Annual Conference was to educate and inform young people on the issues concerning climate change on a local and a national scale. Whether you join Extinction Rebellion, engage in a protest or even make small changes in your lifestyle – we wanted to impart onto our young people that there are so many ways in which they can contribute towards the reversal of climate change.
Continue reading "Anna and the conference"
Policies affecting young adults before an election
In which Anna McGovern, the Chair of Medway Youth Council, looks at the relevant issues for young people in this General Election..
Thursday 12th December will be a crucial day in the UK's political sphere. It is the General Election – a day in which the people vote for who they want to represent them in Parliament. A total of 650 candidates will be elected as Members of Parliament (MPs) to decide laws and policies governing the UK. Individuals vote for the candidate they wish to represent them within their constituency on a Parliamentary scale. Many of these candidates will belong to a political party, but some candidates do stand independently. Current polls suggest a Conservative lead, with the Electoral Calculus website outlining an 82% likelihood that there will be a Conservative majority. But I tend to take these polls with a slight pinch of salt, because you can never truly know what to expect until the election result is announced to the UK. Individuals will be voting for their preferred candidate (or, in some cases, the "best" out of a bad bunch) within their constituency for the General Election.
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Youth politics in a toxic atmosphere
In which Anna McGovern, the Chair of Medway Youth Council, looks at the challenges and abuse that have become all too common in our politics..
Politics has changed. It is not just about making a "difference" anymore; it is a slandering competition on who can score the most "party political" points. I have seen this myself, locally and nationally – and it only seems to be getting worse.
It is not only the "political activists" of Twitter subject to daily abuse, offline and online, for following a certain ideology. It is not only the local councillors who have to deal with being under permanent scrutiny for every action they make, whilst balancing full-time careers, family life and other personal affairs.
More than ever, young people are the demographic being subject to pertinent abuse. Young people being abused by young people. Young people being abused by adults, who surely should know better. There are so many cases of online (and offline) abuse I could name which could account to multiple articles in their own right. My point is that abuse in politics is so common nowadays that it overshadows what politics in itself should be about: making a difference locally and nationally.
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Meet your MYP for Medway
In which Anna McGovern, the new Member of the UK Youth Parliament for Medway, introduces herself..
Young people do not have the vote. But we do have a voice. More than ever, society is recognising the truly immense power of youth social action. Young people are the next generation of adults – and therefore we deserve a say in what our futures will be.
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September 25, 2013 Sentinel Tribune
SENTINEL TRIBUNE Inside Wednesday, September 25, 2013 Page 3 � Kates Kourage -- From page 1 Kate has had to learn a lot of new things that most of us take for granted. For instance, she uses an adaptive tool that aids her in opening jar lids for cooking. She uses a Dycem Pad, it is a pad she can put her pad on to keep it from moving while she writes. She has a special cutting board that is held in place with suction cups. It enables her to cut food or butter bread. She also has a special Rocking T knife to use to cut meat. In school Kate has some devices to help her. She has a special cart similar to a rolling suit case to carry her sup- plies from room to room. It appears there is not much she will not be able to do. Kate still plays bas- ketball before school and has a pretty good shot to boot. Kate still plays drums and takes piano lessons. She uses the peddles more but her teacher, Deb Warner, has her playing both the treble and bass clefs. There is music written for persons missing a limb. She has had a lot of inspiration from other people with similar disabilities. She was particularly inspired by a bas- ketball player named Zach who only has one arm. Zach got a scholarship to play basketball at the University of Florida. She said, "I hope I can meet him some day." Another goal of Kates is to be able to compete on the swim team next summer. Kate will be receiving a prosthesis after her arm heals and the arm shrinks down to firm it up before they can start the process. Jim said, "Every corner we turned we felt God's presence. As it turned out it was a blessing for our family. Her doctors will have to submit a plan for the procedure for fitting a pros- thetic limb. They will start out with a simple device for Kate for her to learn how to use it successfully before moving to a more advanced limb. The arm will have an electrical connection that will sense her muscle movement. She will have Targeted Muscle Reinervation surgery which will help to power the Myoelectric limb so Kate will have a lot more movement in the arm. It will be a hybrid combination mechani- cal and electric limb. Her lead doctor at Mayo, Dr. Carlson, is a plastic and hand surgeon who main- ly works with amputees. Kate was referred to Dr. Carlson of Mayo Clinic by advance Arm Dynamics Maple Grove. "We have seen many amazing things since we have been going to Mayo," Jim said. At the school staff picnic the kids were playing softball. "I cringed when Kate went up to bat, but she did just fine," Nikki said. "It really has not slowed her down at all." They are probably down to one or two more surgeries -- while she was in the hospital she had nine surgeries in 16 days. "It was really tough for Kate going to surgery every other day until the last Kate doing one of her favorite things, riding horseback. week. Once they amputated, the infec- tion cleared up very quickly," Nikki said. When Kate left the hospital she thought she had only been there for three or four days. The support they received from fami- ly, the doctors, and the community was overwhelming. The Caring Bridge site was a really great thing for them. Kate was really encouraged to see the comments from so many people. "I didn't know so many people cared," she said. Kate was able to read it on her ipod. When Kate found out the volleyball team was doing a benefit for her, she wanted to be involved. Kate came up with the slogans on the T-shirts that are already available. She wanted "Kate's Kourage" on the front, and a slogan on the back. "Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon. Live with what you have." She was still in the hospital when she came up with the slogan. Her parents asked her where she came up with the slogan. She replied, "oh I just read or heard it somewhere." The slogan actually is attributed to song writer Paul Bran& from the song "There's a World Out There." The whole ordeal has been a maturing experience for Kate and her family. Kate and her family are looking for- ward to the benefit. The Jorgensons feel so blessed for all the support they have received from so many people, and a lot of people they don't even know. Jim said, "all the fund raising people have done is an example of God's Love. It's not like we did anything to deserve it -- it's remarkable," Jim said. Kate's Kourage Benefit will be held October 10 at the WWG SWU volley- ball game. Whopper feed will start at 4:30. Raffle drawing will be held after the Varsity Volleyball game. The JO Volleyball and the WWG Volleyball team are sponsoring the event. Supplemental funding will be provided by the Cottonwood County Thrivent Chapter. � School board --- Frompage 1 A new math tech class is working out very well for special ed students -- it is working out quite well and it can help them to get into the main stream class. Dibble teaches the higher math cours- es --Algebra 2, and college classes. She has 10 students in College Algebra. She also has students taking on line courses in Calculus and Trigonometry. "I try to encourage students to take higher math courses in their senior year, she said, it also makes it easier for them in college." Spanish teacher Jenna Hafner asked the board to get on board as a sponsor of a Spanish trip to Costa Rica. Hafner showed the board a short video high- lighting trips to that country. The trip is a 9 day trip to central America, she said there are 8 students signed up for the trip. The $2,515 trip is paid for by the students and their fami- lies. There is no fund raising by stu- dents. The trip is scheduled for June so there will be no conflicts with school time. There also is an option to earn col- lege credit while there. The board asked questions about safety and liability for the school. She told them Costa Rica is a very safe coun- try for foreign visitors, and the company they are going with has a 15 million dol- lar liability policy for each student. The cost is very competitive and covers everything except one meal a day. She told the board she went on a similar trip to Spain, and it changed her life. Hafner said, "I feel it would defi- nitely impact students that take the trip." The board felt they needed more time to make a decision, and would consider it next month. They also suggested get- ting the community to be a sponsor. Class advisor Sheryl Woelber report- ed the senior class trip is scheduled for April 17 and will be a similar trip as last year with visits to New York, and Washington D.C. The trip will cost $1,450. There are 31 of 38 kids signed up to go. High school principal Bill Richards reported NWEA testing is almost com- plete. He noted, unlike the state tests, these show whether students are pro- gressing or not. Homecoming is scheduled for September 23 through 27. The fall Open House Conferences were well attended. Richards told the board, year book purchases are down and costs are not covered by sales and ad revenue. Richards told the board they are losing about $1,000 and are selling 55 books. We do get very good support from the community from the ads, we get about $2,000. Richards said he would keep trying to find cheaper alternatives. Richards also told the board they are getting a $2,000 grant from SMACH to help finance the Region 3 Visual Arts competition in April. Superintendent Loy Woelber told the board he is working on setting up a prin- cipal evaluation. He also said they have three people taking bus driving tests. 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Brian and I sort of had a plan when we moved into our new house. The plan was to redo the inside of the house during the cold winter months, and then give the outside an overhaul when it warms up in late spring and summer. As it turns out, we've mostly been able to accomplish that. Since, we have no idea what the coming months bring (as far as my health goes), we decided to really get a jump on these painting projects over the holidays.
I thought that I'd give you guys a peek at what we've been working on. Now, please know that I fully realize that these rooms are not complete. They still need lots of accessorizing, wall hangings, draperies, decor, etc. But, this is a realistic view of what they look like now.
You'll notice that it is rosy peach. EVERYWHERE! The floors, the walls, the ceiling, the cabinets. Everything is pretty much the same color.
We painted the walls a shade called thunder cloud. It's kind of a mixture of gray, light blue, and light green. It turned out well, I think. I also restained the cabinets in the bathroom.
Still to come: decor, window treatment, crown molding, a chandelier over the tub. I'd love to get rid of that huge mirror on the wall, but I don't really know how, short of hanging new drywall, and I'm just not willing to take that on at this point.
It has the same rosy peach as the bathroom. Also, it has a big mirror. The previous owners had an unusual affinity for mirrors.
We painted it a very light blue shade. I like it. It's fresh and relaxing. I wasn't sure at first, but it is growing on me.
Please pay no attention to the cup sitting on top of the bed. That's Brian's drink perch.
It's no surprise that this room also has peach walls and a huge mirror.
Brian is the designer of this room. Well, it was my idea to stripe, but he got the final say. I told him that this room was all his! But, I LOVE it, and I think that we'll spend an enormous amount of time in this room.
Wow--that is crazy about all those mirrors! I like what you did! You have great taste!
Everything looks great!!! I love all of your paint colors. Kinda weird they were so into mirrors.. ha ha!
Looks so cute! I love to paint rooms different colors. I think it's the most cost effective DIY project because if you hate it $25 will fix it and it has such a HUGE affect on the whole space. Good calm color choices. I think with everything else going on in your life that was a great choice!
Lindsey...you are a miracle worker!You have made that house into a warm, beautiful home! I love all the "before" and "after"!
It's beautiful Lindsey. I LOVE the stripes!
Everything looks fabulous, my dear!! I LOVE IT! You guys have done a great job!!
I love the thunder cloud color!! And the staining--I'm impressed!
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Der Parjadinkamm (häufig auch Paryadinkamm) ist ein Gebirgskamm nahe der Nordwestspitze Südgeorgiens. Er erstreckt sich vom Kap Alexandra bis zum Kap Parjadin.

Die Benennung geht auf den deutschen Forschungsreisenden Ludwig Kohl-Larsen bei seinem Besuch Südgeorgiens zwischen 1928 und 1929 zurück und ist an die Benennung des gleichnamigen Kaps angelehnt. Dessen Namensgeber ist der Steuermann der Wostok, eines der beiden Forschungsschiffe der ersten russischen Antarktisexpedition (1819–1821) unter der Leitung Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausens.

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Printer Orchestra Plays Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'"
Amazing! An orchestra of obsolete printers, modems, copiers, and other computer equipment performs Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'" in this Brother commercial directed by Chris Cairns. In order to make the orchestra, London-based studio Is This Good? modified 97 pieces of computer equipment to make sounds based on MIDI commands—see the making-of video:
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Finally, Instagram Hits the Web!
As a self-proclaimed Instagram addict, I was more than happy to see that finally, the masterminds behind Instagram have launched a way to access personal galleries with their new profile pages. Although this feature does not allow anyone to upload photos unless using the app from an Android or iOS device, it provides another link for Instagram users including those who use it as a business tool to spread their reach in the social realm. To access your profile, just attach your username to the instagram.com URL.
eg. instagram.com/amandalomas … followers welcome!
Benefits for Marketers? "A picture is worth a thousand words"
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Embracing Technology in School, a Higher Standard?
October 26, 2012 amandalomas	Leave a comment
I recently read an article, "English Teacher Rethinks Grammar Lessons" in which a teacher has created an app for students where they are asked a series of questions in quiz form and manipulate the text to correct grammatical errors. This got me thinking about my days in high school, and how much different the educational landscape is now than it was 10 years ago…
Mobile technology has grown exponentially within the past few years, and it seems more and more that we are hearing of ways in which traditional practices such as medicine or teaching have embraced these new ways of operating. At first I thought, it just seems wrong to have kids playing on phones or tablets in the classroom. Many conventionalists would agree, there is no room in the space of young minds for this kind of influence. As I've come to think more about it, we are in the era of technological transition. This is the time where the world is catching up with what science and technology provided us.
I think most people like to stick to traditional ways of doing things because let's face it, change is scary. Advancements in technology that would have seemed like foreign concepts just a few years ago are now a reality. But isn't this the way of evolution? That the very foundation of what we know slowly changes over time, only now it seems the speed of transition has been expedited. If we chose to embrace technology in classrooms and explore the ways in which it can make teaching more efficient or perhaps advanced, we may be able to revolutionize the way it is that we learn. Is this really such a bad thing?
It's alright
May 30, 2012 amandalomas	Leave a comment
I guess I'll let it slide.
I'm really not that sad.
I've just been here waiting
But still nothing
It's okay, I'll just resort to the usual
and forgive you because
and on that note,
Happy One Year Anniversary to Me!
Thanks to each of you for making it one to remember! xoxo


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Melissa Beck
Melissa is the president of Anonymous Philanthropy, an advisory firm located in Orange County, CA and Franklin, TN which helps individuals, families, private foundations, and corporations achieve the maximum possible impact with their philanthropic dollars. Prior to joining Anonymous Philanthropy in 2018, Melissa was the CEO for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire. In her nearly six years there, she grew revenue over 300%, was named a top place to work by the Orange County Business Journal, and reduced turnover to single digits, making it the second largest affiliate for Big Brothers Big Sisters in the country. Her tenure capped off with two $10+ million capital projects, and she was the first ever non-profit executive to be honored at the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.
"My job is to do the hard work of really learning the root cause of any issue, drafting a detailed and robust strategic plan to solve it and then working with the best people in the world to get that done," said Melissa. "I could be in a meeting about rebuilding Manhattan's Chinatown in the morning, talking about employment for the formerly incarcerated at lunch and then meeting with individuals about education reform after that. My brain is always stimulated and stretched."
Melissa currently serves as the president of the board of both the UCI Alumni Association and the Dean's Advisory Board at the UCI Paul Merage School of Business. She lives in San Juan Capistrano with her husband, Harry, and their three sons.
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HeartVista raises $8.65M to democratize MRI technology
Steven Loeb · April 28, 2020 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/501a
The company uses AI and machine learning to automate MRI scans, making them faster and more accurate
There are roughly 40 million MRI scans done every year in the United States and for good reason. As Itamar Kandel, CEO of AI-assisted MRI solution HeartVista, put it to me, they "have proven to be the gold standard of many diseases and health conditions," especially when it comes to diagnosing cardiac diseases such as ischemia and coronary artery disease.
The problem, though, is that these machines are still extremely complex and require highly trained technicians to operate them, and that "leads to MRI's notorious high costs and slow scan time, which means many people who could have benefited from this lifesaving diagnostic technology are not able to get it," Kandel explained.
HeartVista solves these problems by deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning that can not only guide a scan, but even replicate the job of the human, making scans go faster, and be more accurate.
The company's solution has caught the attention of investors, as the company announced on Tuesday that it raised an $8.65 million Series A round led by Khosla Ventures, Jeff Rothschild, Leslie Ventures, Open Field Capital, and additional investors. This brings the company's total funding to $16.35 million, which also includes several grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
HeartVista's software platform, called One Click, does two things: first, its software essentially take control of the machine by helping to guide the scan in real time, generate pulse sequences and reconstruct the images. Second, it uses machine learning algorithms to mimic the operation of the machine as if it were being run by a human technician.
"Combined, these two fundamental elements of the HeartVista solution are able to scan patients at a fraction of the time, and with only a single click of a button. By comparison, a standard manual scan could take up to 90 minutes, and require up to 300 complex decisions by the technicians," said Kandel.
HeartVista's AI-assisted scan makes the hospitals, cardiologists and radiologists who use the machine to be more efficient by allowing them to scan more patients with the same machine, without needing to hire more staff. The technology also improves the experience for the patient, as it allows them to spend less time in the machine.
"Our algorithms identify any corruption of the images, for example if the patient was breathing at the wrong time, and automatically reacquire the images, avoiding the need to call back a patient for scanning. And since the software controls the machine while the patient is in it, our algorithms can identify other potential health conditions and acquire more images, again avoiding the need to call patients back for more scans."
The company has so far received five FDA clearances, and has been able to prove the "non inferiority" of its scans compared to other methods.
"That means that the AI software creates diagnostic-level images just as good as humans. And since the software doesn't suffer from the variability of humans, the physicians are able to more frequently diagnose conditions," Kandel explained.
Unlike other companies in the space, which are "focused on analyzing images and trying to say something clinically significant." HeartVista, instead, focuses on the actual image acquisition, allowing it to do the same diagnostic support and post processing that those other companies do, but while the patient is still in the machine.
"Obviously that gives us a very sustainable competitive advantage," said Kandel. "Additionally, we are able to leverage existing protocols and CPT codes from CMS, which makes reimbursement by the insurance companies very simple. That is a critical problem in the post processing world, no one knows how to pay for this stuff."
The new funding will go, in part towards building HeartVista's AI-guided musculoskeletal and neural packages.
"One of the biggest challenges in scanning MSK and neuro is to localize the anatomy and set up the scanner for an efficient scan. For example, identifying all the intervertebral discs of the spine is highly time consuming and prone to user error. Our software is able to localize these discs quickly and accurately, saving expensive machine time and resulting in better images," said Kandel.
HeartVista also plans to expand its sales, marketing and regulatory operations worldwide, and deepening its strategic partnerships with cardiology centers. It will also use the funding to enhance its One-Click Cardiac Package.
"These are materials for future announcements, but suffice to say that enhancing our ability to cover more and more use cases and edge cases that still might require human intervention, and adding more diagnostic support reports to make the radiologist and cardiologist more efficient, are all high on the list."
The new funding will also allow the company to offer free usage of its software during the COVID-19 pandemic, so that hospitals can scan more patients with fewer technicians, freeing up resources. Additionally, the company will offer free remote cardiac scanning services to providers who lack the staff to run the MRI machines.
"If anyone who needs an MRI, gets an MRI, regardless of where they live, how much money they have, and who is providing the service, we will have achieved our MRI for All vision. The number of lives saved by superior MRI diagnostic technology that is affordable, consistent, and widely available will be incalculable," said Kandel.
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Khosla Ventures offers venture assistance, strategic advice and capital to entrepreneurs. The firm helps entrepreneurs extend the potential of their ideas in both traditional venture areas like the Internet, computing, mobile, and silicon technology arenas but also supports breakthrough scientific work in clean technology areas such as bio-refineries for energy and bioplastics, solar, battery and other environmentally friendly technologies. Vinod was formerly a General Partner at Kleiner Perkins and founder of Sun Microsystems. Vinod has been labeled the #1 VC by Forbes and Fortune recently labeled him as one the nation's most influential ethanol advocates, noting "there are venture capitalists, and there's Vinod Khosla." Vinod Khosla founded the firm in 2004.
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I had no intention of becoming an author.
I studied mechanical engineering (University of Houston, '89), received my MBA (UofH, '94) at night while working at a petrochemical plant just outside Houston and eventually found my way to New York and law school (NYU, '97).
I have spent most of the past 19 years working as a lawyer, with the typical big-law start for 4 years (which included a couple of years abroad, in London and Frankfurt) followed by various in-house lawyer positions. I was lured away from law to a tech start-up last year, but that ended poorly (and quickly) and I found myself in a bad job market in late 2015.
Luckily Hamilton came along. I saw the show with my family in January and we all absolutely loved it, listening to the cast album literally every day for three months. I read Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton shortly (but not too shortly, given the book's size) thereafter and then, since I had plenty of time on my hands, started visiting Hamilton-related sites around NYC and researching the history of each site. The idea for my book was born.
The technical writing skills that I developed as an engineer and a lawyer, as well as my research, layout and editing experience at NYU (I was an Executive Editor on the NYU Law Review), served me well in researching and compiling the info and presenting it in a book. And my ignorance let me get too far along to quit before I realized that there's more to writing a book than just writing a book.
I live on the Upper West Side in Manhattan with my wife of 24 years, my two kids and our Jack Russell terrier, and I serve on the board of the nearby Bloomingdale School of Music, which has been providing open access to music education for more than 50 years, and I'm now back to practicing law with a firm in NYC.


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In which I become a blogger because of Andrew Smith?
Be forewarned: I'm a fan of the seemingly unconnected introduction.
For most of my life, though I've always been an avid reader, authors have remained largely invisible to me. It was characters I fell in love with, bits of their snappy dialogue that my introverted self envied, their commitments to their own quirkiness that I admired, and their determination to solve mysteries and right the wrongs of the world that I hoped to emulate. And while I never came close to believing the characters were actually real, I also preferred to gently look away from the truth that they were just figments of a creator's imagination. Putting authors into a box (luxuriously satin-lined and completely comfortable, I assure you) in the closet was easy in the pre-internet days when real live authors had little opportunity to interact with me. My English teachers unwittingly reinforced the idea of authors as fragmented figures of fantasy by stressing that Shakespeare's most notable qualities involved combining a passion for language with an interest in precise math. I mean, who wants to spend time counting syllables, really? Answer: no one real.
Because old habits die hard, even after many analytical essays of author's purpose in my English major days, authors still seemed remote. More real, but still remote. There was certainly no way for me to know what one was having for breakfast, or to see that another liked to let her cats drink from her own water glass. And then– the magic of the internet. Suddenly my favorite characters had creators who were EVERYWHERE! And I could send them messages, photos, friend requests, invitations to my birthday parties!
Luckily for them by this point I had developed an understanding that these authors are big important people who aren't interested in my breakfast, my cats, my good and bad days, my birthday parties. Like celebrities, I believed they deserved privacy (I actually still do!). So no author would get pushy fan mail or messages from me. My dignity helped them preserve theirs.
And suddenly I became a tried-and-true AUTHOR fan. Oh, I still love my characters (Eleanor and Park, Cade Hernandez, please stand up) but now I love their creators too, for their ability to use their imaginations to form characters who speak to me so deeply about the human experience. Now I get it. Rainbow Rowell, Andrew Smith, and the rest of the many authors that I love are, somehow, magically speaking to me through their characters. Loving the characters means loving the authors.
In a perfect world, right? But sadly, many of us have experienced times when we've met a person we admired (famous author or not) and the person has been a dud. Maybe a jerk, maybe just tired and having a bad day, maybe super arrogant, or maybe just not the best at whatever type of social situation they've been thrust into by an event organizer. But in short, they somehow aren't as magical as you hoped they'd be.
So now that I'm not on an American Library Association book award committee I'm allowed to say whatever I want about any author that I want. I don't have to be impartial because I'm no longer officially judging anything! (Which is relief in many ways, it's not always fun being hard on books). So I can tell you that one author whose work I greatly admire is Andrew Smith. Because his characters are so big, so bold, and so perfect because of their many flaws. Because he tackles issues of sexuality, compassion, war, and education that I'm invested in due to my personality and my profession. Because, in short, he just seems like a badass.
But luckily for me I can sometimes keep my "enthusiasm" in check, and Andrew Smith survived the author event never knowing how close he was sitting to an emotional meltdown of admiration. My husband in the audience, having listened to my shameful moans about aforementioned Jonathan Maberry tears, must have been on pins and needles the whole time. He and Andrew Smith are really the ones who deserve to have sympathy drinks together.
And so after the interview ends I'm feeling all proud that maybe Andrew Smith didn't hate all my questions, and has no idea that in reality I'm a starstruck wordless wonder, and I'm basking in the glory of the thought that I'm going to get to expand my future book talks of all Andrew Smith books to include what a great guy he is. No fan disappointment here- he's great, articulate, kind, compliments his teen audience, everything you'd want your favorite author to be. I'm thinking how this story is going to help my students make the leap to author appreciation YEARS earlier than I did. Suddenly my musings are interrupted by a guy from the audience telling me, to my face, that I shouldn't have been the person to interview Andrew Smith. And my lightning fast neurons immediately reach the conclusion that I disappointed this (admittedly) rude guy– which doesn't so much bother me because of his rudeness, but bothers me because maybe I let down other audience members. And my happiness becomes self-doubt. And all this happens in an instant. And then he finishes his sentence. The reason that I shouldn't have been the interviewer? Because I'm a woman. What? And in the night of insomnia that followed (and an interesting Twitter exchange the following day) this blog was born. My next post is going to examine a lot of the complicated issues that this exchange raised for me– all while hopefully exploring WHY he might have felt comfortable expressing these views, and how I'm starting to suspect the publishing industry and the library world might accidentally be creating gender bias like this. All while not completely vilifying Mr. Audience Member– I mean, he did get me thinking, so that's good, right?
In the end, Andrew Smith isn't exactly culpable for whatever theories I attempt to work out on this blog. It's not his fault an audience member's intended compliment of Mr. Smith's writing happened to be so admittedly awful that it raised my ire and drove me to the internet. But I like to think that he'd like the idea of being a catalyst in helping someone find her voice.


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Book On GOOG Founders: Sergey Threatens To Douse Himself With Gasoline...
Did you know that key Google technology was born out of the Department of Defense funded Digital Libraries project?
Did you know that Google's founders believed search engines should be non-profit because commercialization would taint the results?
These are just a couple of items uncovered by Richard Brandt in his recently published book "Inside Larry & Sergey's Brain".
Although there are many books on Google, this one seeks to understand Google by understanding the motivations, and the ethical and moral thinking of its founders.
I spoke with Richard Brandt about the book. Although he didn't get to interview Messrs Page and Brin specifically, he has talked with them at various events, and he had access to many people who know them and who work with them.
From his research and conversations, Mr Brandt draws a picture of the founders as very moral and ethical -- and decidedly anti-capitalist in the early days.
During one early meeting with AOL, in which Sergey was told Google was stupid for not including paid placements in its search results, Sergey stormed out of the meeting then was heard by those inside the room saying, "Someone get me a can of gasoline -- I have to light myself on fire to get rid of the scum of those people."
Since they are both multi-billionaires, it would seem as if they have come to terms with making lots of money. But Mr Brandt says they are still very much concerned with doing the right thing.
"They recognize how powerful and important search is to lots of people and they deliberate a lot about the actions that Google makes and how it affects people. Sergey, for example, still has misgivings about China," says Mr Brandt.
"They consider the moral and ethical implications of Google much more than Microsoft ever did, and I should know because I used to report on Microsoft when I worked at BusinessWeek."
Because they own so much of Google they have tremendous amount of control. "They are very interested in energy and have hired dozens of engineers to work on solar, geothermal, and wind energy solutions. They are very keen in helping to jump start industries that need a helping hand."
At the heart of Google is its desire to index all the world's information, and part of that is the controversial Google books project that seeks to digitize as many books as it can, especially ones that have fallen out of copyright.
"They can't understand why there is so much opposition to the books project. It's more of a PR problem and that's why Sergey recently published an op-ed in the New York TImes trying to get their side across."
Messrs Page and Brin are very secretive and that doesn't help, he says.
"They don't trust the government, they don't trust the press and they don't trust Wall Street. They pretty much don't like anyone telling them what to do. And when they are convinced that they are right about something they can't understand why others would be against it."
Eric Schmidt, in many ways seems to be there to distract the outside world and to make it seem as if he is in charge. But Mr Brandt says Mr Schmidt has told him that even though he is the chief executive, "When you work at a company where the founders own the majority of the company , you work for them and not the other way around."
Messrs Page and Brin own the majority of the company and they own preferred shares with ten times the voting rights. This horrifies proponents of shareholder rights, says Mr Brandt, but that's the way they want it. "You don't have to buy Google shares if you don't like it is their response."
Mr Brandt's book makes a good case that the secret to understanding Google is understanding its founders.


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