Hailing from America’s heartland, Marissa Mayer was born in Wisconsin in 1975. Her family occupied rather bucolic careers; her mother an art instructor and her father an environmental engineer specialising in water. Though she suffered from intense shyness throughout her childhood, Mayer recognised this in herself and attempted to counteract it by participating in numerous sports, activities and academics. She credits ballet with helping to develop her fundamental social skills. It was after she had attended Stanford University for some time that Mayer changed her course of study from premed to symbolic systems, knowledge she would later compound with a masters degree in computer science. Earning her stripes at Google as the company’s first female engineer, Mayer was integral to the development of the backend of Google’s searchFar right leaders in Europe admired US President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration policy and promised to build a new Europe without any involvement of the EU as they assembled against Islam at a meeting in Prague.“For a Europe of sovereign nations,” read the banner upheld by the Populist politicians from France, Poland, Austria, the Netherlands and the UK on Sunday.The Czech Republic’s anti-Islam Freedom and Direct Democracy party, which won almost 11 percent of the vote in October, hosted the conference chaired by a Czech-Japanese politician, Tomio Okamura.Members of the Freedom Party of Austria present at the Prague meeting, were lauded for having entered the country’s new coalition government.Marine Le Pen, who lost on the French presidential election after reaching the final round of voting, said the development