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Sci-Fi Sufi: The art of Saks Afridi
New York-based Pakistani artist Saks Afridi's work explores the paradox of being an insider/outsider, looking at notions of belonging and temporary permanence, and our search for happiness within these states. Through a multidisciplinary practice that includes sculptural and site-specific installation work, he re-contextualizes existing historical and cultural narratives in order to raise questions about human rights, Islamophobia, war and social justice. Sophie Breitsameter speaks to him about his most recent series, SpaceMosque, in which he brings together mysticism and technology
Imagine an alien invasion – but not as you know it. In the near fictional past, a strange spacecraft enters the earth's atmosphere, with the power to grant the prayers of every single resident on this earth. What are the ramifications of such an act of benevolence? In SpaceMosque, New York-based Pakistani artist Saks Afridi's new work, the worlds of mysticism and technology collide. Riffing on the concept of Afrofuturism, Afridi's 'Sci-Fi Sufism' approach envisages a "multi-room, multimedia exhibition", SpaceMosque raises questions about folklore, mythology, and how we understand ourselves. We spoke to Afridi to find out more.
Tell us about your work. What is your process like?
For me, an idea or concept is the beginning of everything. Depending on the idea, I start most of my work on the computer in 2D or 3D. It helps me work in multiple mediums. So whether I'm making sculptures, lenticular pieces, rugs, miniature paintings or videos, they all start on the computer. I also studied sculpture, and I love the process. This has translated into working with digital clay in programmes like ZBrush and model and render in Cinema 4D, Photoshop or After Effects. I work with talented fabricators and collaborators who help materialize the work. The nature of the collaboration is different in every project and SpaceMosque is a culmination of all my processes, mediums and skills.
How did you become an artist?
I entered the world of art after 15 years in the world of advertising. I had a lot brewing inside me that I needed to create and get out there. So, with the support of my wife, I quit my job and started my art journey. It's been an interesting one, with its share of financial hurdles and disappointments, but overall it's been extremely rewarding. Struggle can really bring out creativity too.
Saks Afridi
What have been some of those struggles?
After three years of working as a full-time artist, the money unfortunately ran out. I admit I was quite delusional to think I could 'make it' in a year or two. Art is a marathon, not a sprint. So I went back into advertising. Fortunately I got my old job back, with the understanding that I can manage both careers. I'd like to say though, that I actually really enjoy advertising. I get to make creative things with my team every day. I'm lucky to be in a situation where I'm working full time, but with the flexibility to maintain an art practice. I'm constantly in the hustle of the juggle but I find it's made me more resourceful and a better time manager. While going back to work has kept me away from the studio, I have adapted by simply changing studios from a physical space to the digital space. Now my laptop is my studio.
I also happen to be married to a very talented and analytical person. My wife, Suzie Afridi is a Palestinian American Standup Comedian and Storyteller. When we talk, we always analyze everything to find the insight in things. She has been a big influence on my work.
And what about highlights?
The NotaBugSplat project has been one of my career highlights: I was awarded a UN Award for Peace and Understanding. This project came about in 2013 and is probably the most viewed of my body of work. This collaboration would not have been possible without the equal efforts of my fellow collaborators Ali Rez, Assam Khalid, Akash Goel, JR, Insiya Syed, Noor Behram, Jamil Akhtar and the InsideOut project.
So tell us about SpaceMosque…
The SpaceMosque project marks a new direction in my work. It's the most multi-disciplinary project I've ever undertaken. It's essentially creating a new genre of art that fuses Science Fiction with Islamic Design, Architecture and Mythology. I call it Sci-fi Sufism under the umbrella of IslamoFuturism.
The SpaceMosque exhibit serves as a memorial and exploration of a parafictional phenomenon that occurred here on Earth in the near past. Due to the arrival of a strange vessel from outer space (which looks a bit like a mosque), every human being on the planet got their prayers answered. Somehow this phenomenon has been erased from our memories and the exhibit explores this lost moment in time.
This will be a multimedia exhibit including sculpture, VR, storytelling, digital and social media art and more. The work explores very current elements like fake news and age-old elements such as the human ego and greed, and puts it all together in a unique experience through a language we all speak today. Think of it as an immersive experience such as 'Sleep No More' meets the 9/11 Memorial in NYC. I have the majority of this multi-room experience planned out both conceptually and on paper. I confess I also have long term TV show aspirations for it, but that's much later.
Biot Praying ANGELS (Anthropomorphic Neo-Generative Energy Living Systems) and their prayers are what keep the spaceship running
How are you creating all the different elements?
I'm working on this with a team of collaborators comprising architects, fabricators, 3D modelers and digital visualizers. We're excited to bring it all together. I personally have seen nothing like it before and it tackles one of life's biggest 'what if's'. I hope people will walk through this immersive experience, putting the pieces of this parafictional lost history together and connect deeply with it.
Where did the idea come from?
The project has several influences, ranging from Arthur C. Clarke's 'Childhood's End', 'Childhood's End' to Hiroshi Sugimoto's 'Lost Human Genetic Archive' to Islamic mythological stories like 'Isra and Mi'raj – The Night Journey' and more. I found Damien Hirst's 'Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable' to be fascinating and it falls into the same parafictional genre that SpaceMosque occupies.
Advertising has a big influence on this project. In advertising, when creatives come up with an idea, they always ask themselves "What's the news headline this idea will this make?". Sadly, fake news is a reality these days and so I apply that practice by creating a fake forgotten reality of the near past. Everything from how the news is shown, to individual people's accounts of their experiences will be done in a very 'real' way. The illusion of reality is very important in a parafictional narrative like this.
Tell us more about this idea of spiritual machines, of mysticism-meets-technology…
The fusion of mysticism and technology has always been a part of my work in some form. Spiritual machines are a big part of the narrative and visual aesthetic of the project. I believe this work can be the beginning of a new genre in art and culture. I'm collaborating with an amazing architect. Ferda Kolatan, on creating sculptures of hybridized spiritual machines and other visual designers and writers who are building content for the project.
A hybridized spiritual machine from SpaceMosque. In collaboration with Brandon Wetzel, Kolatan Seminar, Pratt Institute Graduate Architecture and Design
How has your culture and community influenced your art?
Well, I'm from a village in Pakistan and I now live in NYC. Everything in-between has been, and continues to be, an influence. I grew up moving countries every two to three years because of my father's job at Pakistan Airlines. This cultural education shaped me into becoming comfortable as an 'Insider Outsider'. This is the practice of achieving a sense of belonging while being out of place, finding happiness in a state of temporary permanence, and re-contextualizing existing historical and cultural narratives into the everyday.
Where do find inspiration?
Being open and curious, looking at things from multiple perspectives and putting myself out of my comfort zone. I try to absorb a lot of visuals and information online, and Instagram is a big inspiration. I purposefully only like images that inspire me and I use my likes as a mood board of inspiration.
My wife is also huge inspiration. As a comedian, she's a words person so we talk about concepts and ideas a lot. She's also been great moral support throughout this journey. I couldn't have pursued art without her.
UFOs are a recurring theme in your work, why do you gravitate towards the supernatural, does it hold a personal significance?
When I was nine, I was in my grandmother's house in Kohat, Pakistan – the house is over 200 years old. My cousins took pleasure in repeating (or creating) myths about our ancestor's spirits still occupying the house. This really freaked me out, and twice, I really did see something, or I thought I did. I even had a one-sided conversation with this ghost. If I had to analyze it, I guess my curiosity for the supernatural started there. Later, when I was 14, I was abducted by aliens. Just kidding.
Insider Outsider 1 by Saks Afridi
As I am sure you know, carpets are a huge part of Azerbaijani culture. Tell us about your projects Insider Outsider Series and Space Time Continuum, which worked in this medium.
Rugs are also a big part of Pakistani culture. As I mentioned, the practice of being an insider outsider is being able to live in and be of two worlds at once. I started thinking about how that would look visually. The symbol of the ultimate outsider is an alien, whether legal, illegal and other-worldly. So the UFO made perfect sense to be the icon of aliens to replace the crescent of a traditional Persian rug. This odd juxtaposition kickstarted my discovery into the play of pattern and dimensionality. The Space Time Continuum rug takes a traditional Afghan rug and transforms it into a door into another dimension. The Gravity rug deconstructs a Persian rug where everything falls to the ground, ready for rebirth. I'm also a big fan of Faig Ahmed's work. He's done so many amazing things with rugs, there's very little for the rest of us to do!
Your work comments on current social and political issues, what messages are you trying to communicate to the global community?
For me it's more about creating awareness and asking questions. People can take their own interpretations from the work. I've done work about drone warfare, corruption, violence and Islamophobia. Overall, with each social issue I work on, there's a self-reflective component to it as well as a general 'be open to others' message. One issue that I would say is very important to me is immigration in America. The Muslim Ban is deeply concerning. My Code-Switching series of lenticular works tackles this by celebrating the rigor of the immigrant work ethic. Other relevant works include Carousel, in collaboration with Qinza Najm, questioning the duplicity of rhetoric in dictatorships and democracies, as well as We the People, a bronze sculpture through which I explore the space immigrants occupy in the fabric of the US.
We the People, Saks Afridi, 2018
The near future is all about SpaceMosque and is a world I could explore for years. I'mcurrently seeking two things for it: Funding for the project and an institution to partner with. I'm looking for small or large patrons to help with production and fabrication. It's a multi-faceted exhibit and my collaborators and fabricators are great but after a while, they still need to get paid. When it comes to institutions, I want it to be with a museum. I'm currently in talks with two institutions. Let's see how it goes…
Images courtesy of the artist
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Like Mother Like Daughter? Say It Isn't So…
New survey reveals majority of women underestimate their influence on children in combating the cycle of obesity
Red Bank, N.J. – New research released today by HealthyWomen (HW) sheds intriguing light on women's understanding of their role and influence in America's growing obesity epidemic. The survey showed that while the majority of women believe a parent's obesity has an influence on a child's risk of becoming obese (87%), surprisingly only one-quarter (28%) of women surveyed assign the responsibility to themselves. In reality, studies have shown stronger correlation over time for mother-child obesity compared with father-child obesity.
And the influence starts early. Only 11% of women in HealthyWomen's WomenTALK survey realized that a child's risk of becoming obese more than doubles if the mother is obese during her first trimester of pregnancy. According to recent research, this impacts roughly one in five women that are obese when they become pregnant. Forty-six percent of respondents were unsure of the effect of maternal obesity on the risk of a child becoming obese. Yet, studies show the risk for newborn complications, including long-term complications like obesity, is higher for obese women with a BMI of 35 or more.
BMI (body mass index) is an established measure used by physicians and health experts to determine weight status and is calculated from a person's height and weight. Obesity is defined as having a BMI of 30 or greater, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Because a mother's influence is so strong, some see the survey findings as an opportunity to reverse bad behaviors and a call to action for breaking the cycle once and for all.
"While the statistics are disconcerting, we know that mothers are commonly viewed as role models for eating behavior and serve as gatekeepers of food," says Elizabeth Battaglino Cahill, RN, executive director of HealthyWomen. "From an early age, children tend to eat the same foods as their parents, especially mothers, so exposure to nutritious foods like fruits and vegetables is not only setting a good example, but also positioning your child on a lifelong course of good health."
The sixth annual WomenTALK survey sought to understand obesity and its impact on women and their families in addition to the influences and relationships that affect obesity in women. The survey of 1,037 women was conducted online by Harris Interactive to determine women's level of awareness regarding select research findings provided by the STOP Obesity Alliance of which HW is a member.
Knowing the Personal Risks of Obesity
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"Women need to be their own advocates in the fight against all of these diseases," says Battaglino Cahill, "and understanding the influence that friends and family have on the likelihood that they will become obese is part of what's slowing them down. We need to help women understand that they have the opportunity to positively wield their influence by taking charge of their own nutrition and physical activity habits."
While a majority of the women surveyed acknowledge other people's obesity can influence their own likelihood of becoming obese (80%), only 28% recognize the impact of a friend. In fact, studies show that a person has a much greater chance (57%) of becoming obese if he or she had a friend who became obese than if he/she had a sibling (40%) or spouse (37%) who became obese.
Best-selling author and chief medical correspondent for Discovery Health TV Pamela Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP, says the survey findings bring new light to prior conceptions and emphasize the importance of personal responsibility. "Battling obesity is a matter of making smart decisions," she says. "In understanding the significance that our relationships can have on our lifestyle choices, we see an opportunity for women to play supportive roles in weight loss and best living practices."
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HW has created an online resource center with tips and tools specific to the WomenTALK survey including BMI and target heart rate calculators, family-friendly recipes and exercise videos at www.HealthyWomen.org/womenTALK. In addition to educational content, the site features advice from Dr. Peeke and motivational articles including a personal perspective from boxer Muhammad Ali's daughter and obesity advocate Khaliah Ali.
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Common Name: pussy willow
Type: Tree
Family: Salicaceae
Native Range: Eurasia
Height: 12.00 to 25.00 feet
Spread: 12.00 to 15.00 feet
Bloom Time: March to April
Bloom Description: Pinkish gray (male); green (female)
Water: Medium to wet
Maintenance: Medium
Suggested Use: Hedge, Rain Garden
Other: Winter Interest
Tolerate: Deer, Wet Soil, Black Walnut
Grow in average, medium to wet, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Prefers full sun. Thrives in moist soils, but tolerates somewhat drier soils better than most other willows. Prune as needed in late winter to early spring. Plants may be cut to the ground every 3-5 years to maintain a smaller shrub shape.
Salix caprea, commonly called pussy willow or goat willow, is native to Europe and Asia. It is a large shrub or small tree that typically grows to 12-25' tall and to 15' wide. It also may be trained as a smaller hedge. It has escaped cultivation and naturalized in parts of Eastern North America. This is a dioecious species (male and female catkins appearing on separate trees) that many consider to be the best of the "pussy willows". Before the foliage emerges in late winter, male trees produce a showy display of catkins (1-2" long) that are pinkish gray and woolly. These catkins are larger than the pearl gray male catkins that appear on the American native plant most commonly called pussy willow (Salix discolor). Female trees produce smaller greenish catkins. Broad elliptic to oblong leaves (to 6" long) are dark green above and gray-hairy beneath. Variable fall color is usually an undistinguished greenish-yellow.
Genus name is the Latin name for this plant.
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If growing this plant as an ornamental, make sure to purchase a male plant which will produce the showy late winter catkins. Goat willow may be grown in moist soils along streams, ponds or in low spots in the landscape where other shrubs or small trees may falter. It will also grow in average garden soils. Plants may be regularly cut back for use as a hedge.


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What Happens When You Read Your Parents' Love Letters?
Lessons for children from their parents' past
My sisters and I struggled through piles of clothes, boxes and boxes of books, old dishes, pots and pans, a basement full of the detritus from two lives joined for more than 60 years in marriage. Cleaning out the house where we'd lived since 1963 was hard. It hurt.
We packed. We sorted. We threw away old magazines, discolored paperwork, and faded photographs. We hauled carloads of stuff to Goodwill. We gave items to each grandchild and great-grandchild and took what mementos were important to us.
But opening Mother's special box and reading her love letters was altogether different. It was dusty, tied with an old white satin ribbon, and stashed on the top shelf of her closet. It probably hadn't been opened since 1952. Why did I feel compelled to open Mother's box now and read the letters she had kept so long?
Because they were both gone and I missed them. Because I wanted to know about our family history. Because I was curious as to how two such different people could have fallen in love six decades ago. The only way I would get those answers now was to read those letters.
Would you read your parents' love letters?
Did I really want to see intimate passages that cast our parents as young lovers?
Ugh. What child — of any age — wants to think about their parents being passionate? Would reading love letters be nasty? Surely Daddy wouldn't write to Mother about sex? Would I find out things I didn't want to know about my parents when they were young, in their early 20s, and in love?
I remembered all too clearly when my ex-husband and I had been young and "in love." We wrote letters while he was at college taking summer school and I was home working as I dreamed of our upcoming wedding, a future, a family. Would I want anyone else to read the letters we had written in that love-struck stage of life? No way.
Were Daddy's letters to Mother a treasure trove or a Pandora's box?
What happened when I read my dad's love letters to my mom?
My curiosity got the best of me. My hands may have trembled as I opened the crimson box that Mother had kept for as long as I could remember, but nerves didn't stop me. The earth didn't move. Secrets didn't spill out. Intimate details weren't mentioned and no steamy passages besmirched my memory of my parents.
Every day for four months, Daddy wrote to Mother when they were just Mel and Molly, not yet our parents. They were two young people in love and planning for a future together. Daddy was working in Southern Indiana, building a little house for them while Mother was finishing up at IU.
I decided to transcribe those letters for my sisters and me. In the process, I got a deeper understanding of Daddy as a young, unmarried man. Down-to-earth. Honest. Sweet. Yes, they're "love letters' of a sort, but they're also family history, filled with humor, hope, and love.
Lessons from a consummate letter-writer
An unknown baby cousin must have died and not been mentioned again, but as a baby, he was mentioned in a letter. I learned that Daddy's family lived on the same lane and that he was very close to his siblings.
"Well, Molly, guess I'll stay home tonight and read my new "Life." See why Al Capp let poor ole 'lil Abner get caught by Daisy Mae."
Al Capp wrote the comic strip "Lil' Abner." Life was a popular magazine known for its great photos and general interest stories.
"I feel kind of lost tonight. No Molly. It would have seemed like the most natural thing in the world tonight to keep going down the lane to our "blue Heaven."
For the rest of his life, Daddy would occasionally hum a stanza from the song "Blue Heaven," a popular song that eventually was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
"You find a cozy place, fireplace, cozy room A little nest that nests where the roses bloom Just Molly and me, and the baby makes three We're happy in my blue heaven."
"Pardon the envelope. It's all I could find. There's nothing like polka dots for a casual effect. Absolutely nothing."
Daddy's sense of humor never faltered.
"Dad and I went back to our house and cut the grass, mowed the high weeds, and cleaned out the fence row. It's beginning to look real neat. Honey, I'll be so glad when we get settled in that little white house. How could anyone help but be happy?"
Children can never appreciate their parents for who their parents are as individuals. My sisters and I had seen them through most stages of their lives, building careers, making a home, raising us, scraping together the funds to send us to college, working every day at demanding jobs, vacationing, retiring. We never pictured them as a love-struck young couple. Through these letters, I realized how intensely Daddy had loved my mother, calling her "my dearest darling."
"I keep telling myself, 'Are you sure this is happening to you? Are you sure you didn't just dream it?" No man can be so much in love with one woman, but, oh, Molly, it's happened, and I love you so very much and miss you so terribly. I'm the luckiest guy in the world."
One more thing came through in reading those letters
Daddy was a writer. He may not have claimed to be, but his authenticity vibrates in every word. Daddy's words were preserved in pen and pencil strokes from 1952, and you can "hear" him as clearly as if he were standing right next to you talking about swimming, tennis, the weather, gardening, yard work, but most of all, of the hope he has for their future.
It was a powerful lesson: when you write like yourself, you sound like yourself, and your voice is preserved — like a dinosaur DNA in amber — for ages to come.
Reading those letters just emphasized that people don't change. Daddy's personality was the same at the age of 25 as it was at 85. The nature of true love doesn't change either.
What I had feared would be "icky" reading, turned out to be uplifting and enlightening, an intimate glimpse into the start of a love that lasted 62 years.
My Parents' Love Letters Book Cover
My dad was a lovable guy. Read more about him in "My Father's Life-Long Secret to a Good Attitude."
For other stories about the beauty of human nature, check out "Heartfelt Stories."
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Sunday Morning (as made famous by The Velvet Underground)
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In late 1966, "Sunday Morning" was the final song to be recorded for The Velvet Underground & Nico. It was requested by Tom Wilson, who thought the album needed another song with lead vocals by Nico with the potential to be a successful single. The final master tape of side one of the album shows "Sunday Morning" only penciled in before "I'm Waiting for the Man".
In November 1966, Wilson brought the band into Mayfair Recording Studios in Manhattan. The song was written with Nico's voice in mind by Lou Reed and John Cale on a Sunday morning. The band previously performed it live with Nico singing lead, but when it came time to record it, Lou Reed sang the lead vocal. Nico would instead sing backing vocals on the song.[3]
Aiming to create a hit for the album, "Sunday Morning" features noticeably more lush and professional production than the rest of the songs on the album. The song's prominent use of celesta was the idea of John Cale, who noticed the instrument in the studio and decided to use it for the song. He also played viola and piano via overdubs and Sterling Morrison, normally the secondary guitarist, played bass, despite his dislike of the instrument.[4][5]
According to Reed, the song's theme was suggested by Andy Warhol. "Andy said, 'Why don't you just make it a song about paranoia?' I thought that was great so I came up with 'Watch out, the world's behind you, there's always someone watching you,' which I feel is the ultimate paranoid statement in that the world cares enough to watch you."[6]
Lou Reed – lead vocals, lead guitar
John Cale – celesta, viola, piano
Sterling Morrison – bass guitar
Maureen Tucker – percussion
Nico – backing vocals
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Being one of the most rapidly growing IT companies in Eastern Europe, we actively hire IT specialists of different specializations. Together with Luxoft's expansion, every employee and potential candidate gains more opportunities for personal and professional growth.
Established in 2010, Luxoft Poland office, located in Krakow, offers a comprehensive mix of application and product development services and specializes in solutions for the finance, travel and logistics industries and currently serves global financial services and large multinational logistics corporations.
In November 2011 Luxoft's Poland's operation was honored with the Outsourcing Destination of the Year Award by the National Outsourcing Association.
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Hays Poland jest firmą doradztwa personalnego należącą do międzynarodowej grupy Hays plc, która jest największą na świecie firmą zajmującą się rekrutacją specjalistyczną. Działając na rynku rekrutacyjnym od ponad 40 lat, Hays posiada 237 biur w 32 krajach. Łącznie pracuje w nich blisko 7800 ekspertów w 20 specjalizacjach. Na rynku polskim działamy od 2002 roku mając 8 biur w największych miastach kraju.
Z naszych usług korzystają zarówno globalne korporacje, jak i polskie przedsiębiorstwa. Realizujemy projekty do pracy stałej, tymczasowej oraz na kontrakt na terenie całej Polski. Z pasją wspieramy rozwój zawodowy profesjonalistów, kierując się naszym motto "Powering the world of work".
IT & Telecom współpracuje z globalnymi liderami rynku IT & ICT, jak również wspiera mniejsze organizacje poprzez prowadzenie i rekomendowanie najlepszych specjalistów do pracy stałej. Naszymi partnerami są vendorzy, integratorzy, telekomy, softwarehousy oraz firmy świadczące usługi w zakresie IT & ICT. Wspieramy również wewnętrzne działy IT w firmach inwestujących w zaawansowane technologie.
IT Contracting specjalizuje się w dostarczaniu usług IT poprzez zewnętrznych specjalistów i konsultantów. Staramy się pracować z najlepszymi i realizujemy coraz bardziej złożone i zaawansowane projekty. Z usług IT Contracting korzystają zwłaszcza firmy, które potrzebują w szybki sposób pozyskać wiedzę i doświadczenie w zakresie projektów IT.
IT Delivery odpowiada za rekrutacje wolumenowe w obszarze IT & Telco. To dzięki naszemu wsparciu na rynku polskim wyrastają kolene R&D centres, softwarehousy czy outsourcing IT i data centres dla dużych rozpoznawalnych marek. Poszukujemy osób, które chcą pracować z największymi i realizować najbardziej zaawansowane technologicznie projekty na potrzeby całego świata.
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Established in 1993, EPAM Systems (NYSE: EPAM) provides software engineering solutions through its leading Central and Eastern European service delivery platform. Headquartered in the United States, EPAM employs over 8,100 IT professionals and serves clients worldwide from its locations in the United States, Canada, UK, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Belarus, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Poland.
EPAM is recognized among the top companies in IAOP's "The 2012 Global Outsourcing 100″, featuring EPAM in a variety of sub-lists, including "Leaders – Companies in Eastern Europe". The company is also ranked among the best global service providers on "The 2012 Global Services 100″ by Global Services Magazine and Neogroup, which names EPAM "Leaders – Global Product Development" category.
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We offer an inspiring range of career opportunities and great jobs in Germany. If you are looking for a place where you can spark something that reverberates around the world, a company that's leading in a global commerce environment is certainly a good place to do it. We invite you to discover your place at eBay Inc.: http://jobs.ebaycareers.com/articles/companies.
e-point SA is the leading internet software house in Poland. For more than 16 years we build custom internet systems for international corporations. We deliver technology products for developers of internet applications.
We call ourselves an internet software house, because system architects, engineers and programmers are the core of our team. For well over a decade we have been involved in the Java Enterprise environment (previously J2EE, J2E), in which we have become experts. We create dedicated internet systems for our Clients, and in parallel we develop our own programming platforms, based on which we build those solutions. For several years, we have been working on the productization of our technologies, so that, apart from ourselves, they can also serve other developers.
Others call us an interactive agency, because we attach great importance to the user interface and the ergonomics of the systems we create as well as project success in marketing and business terms.
Clients treat us as a business partner and work with us for years. We seek to understand in depth the Client's business model to then create a system that supports and develops that model. These are often systems which play a critical role in our Clients' business.
OneWebSQL – is a tool written completely by e-point SA programmers for the purposes of large applications for the company's corporate Clients. It is the first wholly-Polish O/R mapping tool, which significantly simplifies the use of relational databases in Java applications.
ActiveForms – is a product that allows highly advanced WWW forms to be created in visual mode, published and combined with any third-party system.
eWnioski.pl – is a service for quick and easy completion of official forms, and their subsequent downloading in the universal PDF format for printing and submission to the office.
IT Kontrakt specializes in outsourcing of IT personnel. We have many years of experience in creating IT expert teams for the most prestigious IT projects in the key sectors of economy. Thanks to the high effectiveness of operating and partner approach towards the Customers, we gained the confidence of the largest banks, financial, insurance, computer and telecommunication companies.
Tell us about your expectations. We will meet them and offer you an interesting job and an opportunity for continuous professional development.
IT Kontrakt team consists of more than 410 IT professionals implementing IT projects throughout the country and abroad. We perform a role of Manager for our IT experts in the labour market, we offer them the best projects, and thus – we offer satisfying financial and social conditions. We put emphasis on assurance of continuous development for our associates, by organizing conferences and trainings. The company policy is the patronage over each of the specialists. A patron from IT Kontrakt introduces the new specialist to work and takes care of all formal issues connected with cooperation.
If you are interested in cooperation with IT Kontrakt, please send us your application documents to: rekrutacja@itkontrakt.pl or fill in the application form on our website www.itkontrakt.pl.
Kilka tysięcy przedsiębiorstw oraz placówek medycznych korzystających z takich systemów, jak: finanse, kadry i płace, środki trwałe, gospodarka magazynowa, CRM, itp.
Do CV dołącz oświadczenie ze zgodą na przetwarzanie danych osobowych, a w temacie wiadomości wpisz nazwę stanowiska pracy i Twoje imię i nazwisko.
W sytuacjach "podbramkowych" możesz liczyć na nasze wsparcie finansowe w różnych formach.
Schibsted Tech Polska is a technological center for innovation and software development. We are part of an international media group with over 7,000 employees in 27 countries worldwide. We deliver high-quality solutions based on the latest web, mobile and smart TV technologies, employing lightweight software development methodologies. Our main area of operations involves the media – a highly dynamic industry, subject to constant changes and rapid transformations. Therefore, we aim not only to react immediately to fluctuations in the market, but also to shape tomorrow's media today.
Here at Schibsted Tech Polska we are creating a new quality in media communications. We operate in the sphere of information, business and widely understood R&D. Our main activities involve developing websites and mobile applications used for spreading content belonging to the largest Scandinavian media groups. We also work in mobile ecosystems, focusing primarily on Android, iOS and Windows environments. We want the recipients of the provided content to have access to news on every platform – ranging from traditional PCs to tablets, smartphones, smart TVs and other solutions.
With over 1200 Power People, Sii is The Top IT & Engineering services provider in Poland. We support our clients within the scope of testing, software development, infrastructure management as well as system integration and system maintenance. We execute various projects for leading worldwide companies from such sectors like banking and finance, insurance, telecommunications, Hi-Tech, utilities, industry, FMCG and many others.
The company was established in January 2006 in Warsaw. The founder was Gregoire Nitot, CEO of Sii Poland. The dynamic development of Sii in Poland as well as the growing demand of our clients have all resulted in the opening of new branches. Currently, after seven years of market presence we employ over 1200 people in delivery centers located in Warsaw, Gdańsk, Wrocław, Poznań, Kraków, Łódź and Lublin. We also execute projects in Olsztyn Szczecin, Płock and other cities. Our mission is to identify and promote our best employees.
All services and platforms aim at supporting Internet trade at every stage- from selecting the goods, through price comparison, purchase to safe online payment.
Join us – our values are: curiosity, impact, openness, passion, speed, joy, respect, selflessness and honesty. These values make our company successful and, to us, unlike any other. Every day we seek to open new horizons, creating technologies that make a difference. We draw on the creative energy of over 3000 young specialists. Working together, we are the leader in e-commerce, but the success has not changed us – we are still who we were.
Ericpol Sp. z o.o. is an engineering company that has been operating on international ICT market since 1991. The company provides outsourcing and consulting services as well as dedicated solutions in telecommunications, M2M (machine to machine), UX (user experience) communications, healthcare, finances&banking and business solutions area. Ericpol consists of 3 offices in Poland and 3 subsidiaries in Ukraine, Belarus and Sweden, employing over 1700 people: mainly software developers, testers, documentation specialist, IT and telecommunications engineers.
At VirtusLab we create lean business software aligned with client's needs and with the use of technology that allows to cut maintenance costs right from the beginning. We specialize also in development of distributed systems, scalable systems as well as R&D projects from the edge of science and business. We share our knowledge by providing consulting services, trainings or software development outsourcing. We try hard to support IT community in Kraków too.
Experience and passion of our team, state-of-the-art technology and challenging projects makes everyday interesting at VirtusLab.
A few keywords: Business Apps, Web Apps, Mobile Apps, BI, Workflow, Scala, Akka, Play, Typesafe Stack, Java, JVM, Distributed Systems, Scalable systems, R&D, Outsourcing, Consulting, Lean-Kanban.
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Senior Fellow Rick Zenn was invited to provide the closing keynote address at the 2017 Taiwan Forestry Bureau Nature Center 10th Anniversary Conference at the Taipei City Youth Development Center this past May.
Zenn was introduced by Emeritus Professor Dr. Wang Xin from National Taiwan University and followed new TFB Director General Dr. Hwa-Ching Lin, formerly deputy director of the National Taiwan Museum and the Taipei Zoo, who outlined TFB's impressive "Learn from Nature, Learn with Delight" initiative. Zenn spoke about the Oregon Forestry Literacy Plan and the work of the World Forestry Center. He also participated in the TFB Community Fair at the Taipei Peace Park and was a special guest at the Nature Center staff reunion.
Many thanks to Dr. Chin-ying Lee of the Chinese Society for Environmental Education, Drs. Yi-Hsuan Hsu and Li-Hsin Weng, of the TFB leadership team, and Dr. Chou Ju of NTNU, among others for being great hosts and hard-working, inspirational colleagues.


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Student Discovers Green Thumb Growing Plants without Water
By Amy Cowen on October 7, 2019 12:00 PM
A hydroponics experiment gave this student more than just the chance to learn more about growing plants. She also cultivated strong problem-solving skills as she moved her experiment to the garage.
Above: Madeline at the science fair with her hydroponics project.
No matter where you live, fall and winter months are not necessarily the best months for doing plant biology projects, but at Science Buddies, we know that picking a project of interest can make a big difference in a student's experience with an independent science project. As an 8th-grade student, Madeline loved to garden. When she spotted the Hydroponics: Gardening Without Soil project at Science Buddies, she thought she had found a great project for her first science fair. What Madeline did not count on was the fact that living in Alaska might prove to be a real challenge for a plant growing experiment!
Winter in Alaska
Madeline and her family had just recently moved to J-BER (Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson), Alaska and were still adjusting to differences in seasons and light when Madeline picked her project. The science fair was in January, which meant that Madeline needed to conduct her experiment in November and December, months in which there is limited daylight in Alaska. With sunrise as late as 10 A.M. and sunset sometimes before 4 P.M., there wasn't necessarily enough sunlight outside to grow plants, and average temperatures during these months are below freezing.
Weather and daylight conditions were far from ideal for a plant biology project, but Madeline did not let this dampen her enthusiasm. Since growing her plants outdoors posed a problem, Madeline moved her science project into the garage. She used a grow lamp to ensure enough light and watered her plants using a watering can.
Madeline says that tending the plants and the grow lamp for the month-long project was a challenge, but she carefully monitored her plants and even got her siblings involved in helping her record and measure data. At the end of the experiment, Madeline says that her results comparing soil-based and hydroponic plant growth supported her hypothesis. "I definitely learned that hydroponics is the best way to go. Thank you Science Buddies for helping me find this project!"
"The project was fun. I learned a lot about hydroponics, gardening, and how to properly measure and collect data." Madeline, 8th-grade student
A Science Fair Success
Participation in the science fair was required, but Madeline says she really enjoyed the experience. "I thought that the science fair itself was really cool, and I would do it again," she says. Plus, she won first place in the 8th grade division!
Madeline says that her teachers recommendeded that students use Science Buddies, and she is glad she did. "I loved using it to see different projects that matched my criteria, and it is safe to say that I would not have found my project, or had such a good time with the science fair, if I did not have Science Buddies!"
After the science fair, Madeline continued to grow lettuce in some of her pots and registered for a spot at a community garden. "I am starting herb pots, and I have a new love for science!" When she isn't taking care of her plants, Madeline says she enjoys basketball and is learning how to ski. She also enjoys building with LEGO, crafting, and gardening.
Explore Hydroponics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87A06gzcZZ0
Students inspired by Madeline's project can explore growing plants without soil with their own hydroponics activity or project. The video above provides an overview of how the project works.
Share Your Science Buddies Story!
Have you used a science project, STEM activity, or Lesson Plan from Science Buddies in your class or program? We would love to hear your story! Email us at scibuddy@sciencebuddies.org and tell us how you use Science Buddies with students.
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You can find this page online at: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/blog/success-story-hydroponics


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Life on the Amazon (BAR)
Dr Mark Harris, Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, uses two forms of ethnographic writing to explore the historical and social identity of a village of fisherpeople who live in Parú on the banks of the Amazon. He intersperses analytical chapters with narrative sections that describe more freely what people do and how they do it. In these edited extracts, he considers the importance of kinship.
• Mark Harris
The whole article can be downloaded as a PDF file.
Published in Review, July-December 2000.
Life on the Amazon (BAR 4)
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'Life on the Amazon: The Anthropology of a Brazilian Peasant Village', by Mark Harris
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Borderline Citizens: Women, Gender, and Political Culture in Britain, 1815–1867
A new British Academy book provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of women's involvement in British political culture in the first half of the 19th century. In these extracts, Dr Kathryn Gleadle describes how women often engaged with politics issues through a prominent male relative – in this case, the leading anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Foxwell Buxton.
'It really changed my life completely': Thirty years of British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
Five personal accounts of this 'early career' support.
Endangered whales, endangered humans: Wildlife management in the Canadian Arctic
Dr Martina Tyrrell reveals the tensions that exist when conservation policies conflict with traditional ways of life on Hudson Bay. Dr Tyrrell was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow 2005–2008. She gave a presentation on her research at the 2008 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium.


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On Food and History
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The Carolina House-wife. The First Charitable Cook Book?
It has long been held to be true that the appearance of charitable or community cook books came about as an adjunct to raising funds during the Civil War for veterans, widows and orphans through Sanitary Fairs, the first held in Philadelphia in 1864. The Poetical Cook-Book by Maria J. Moss appeared at their Fair published by The Caxton Press of C. Sherman, Son & Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This slim volume was groundbreaking in the history of women, book publishing, and the uniquely American fund-raising tradition.
In America's Charitable Cooks: A Bibliography by Margaret Cook (1971) the author notes in the Pennsylvania entry The Poetical Cook-Book, "Apparently the first cook book published and sold in the United States to benefit a charitable cause."
Under the New York entries, Ms. Cook says of The Economist (1847) by the New-York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, "Apparently not a fund raising book for charity," but instructions to the poor living on limited incomes.
While researching the history of South Carolina cook books, I read in the introduction to The Carolina House-wife 1847 by Sarah Rutledge (1991, USC Press, Introduction by Anna Wells Rutledge) about Mrs. Elizabeth A. Poyas who "described what old time cooking was . . . long before Miss Sally Rutledge had favored us with that excellent volume 'The Carolina House-wife or Cookery Book, 'which she published for charitable purposes." (The Olden Time of Carolina. By the Octogenarian Lady of Charleston, S.C., 1855.)
Well, it really struck me that the reference to The Carolina House-wife as a charitable cook book is pretty impossible to have been overlooked! The impeccable introduction by Anna Wells Rutledge was first published in 1979 and has been reprinted at least twice by different publishers. There is no indication what charity would have benefited from the various printings of The Carolina House-wife, but I think a historian could look into the literature about her famous family and come to some conclusions about her activities.
So perhaps we have a new first community cookbook!!!
The Carolina Receipt Book; or Housekeeper's Assistant in Cookery Medicine and Other Subjects, Connected with the Management of a Family. By a Lady of Charleston. Charleston S.C. Printed by James S. Burges 1832. In the preface the author states, "...the profits of the work, it may be remarked, are destined to objects of public usefulness, which she hopes will secure for it a still larger extent of patronage. Charleston, S.C., May 17, 1832.
This volume, published anonymously, may have been written by Ms. Rutledge (1782-1855), but it does not match either in the preface or receipts in the The Carolina House-wife. There is some thought it may have been written by Sarah Rutledge's first cousin, Harriott Pinckney (1776-1866), with whom Ms. Rutledge lived in 1849. Harriott's mother had a manuscript book of family receipts several which appeared in Sarah's book (Karen Hess discusses this in The Carolina Rice Kitchen, 1992).
So, perhaps in Mrs. Poyas' comments she erroneously believed 1. The Carolina House-wife 1847 was written by Sarah Rutledge as a charitable cook book, or, 2. She confused Ms. Rutledge's book with The Carolina Receipt Book 1832 that has the charitable attribution in the introduction, or, 3. Perhaps Sarah Rutledge was indeed the author of the earlier work, The Carolina Receipt Book which made her comments as a charitable offering.
Sarah Rutledge gathered not only her own family recipes into this book, but also from the wealthy families of Charleston kitchens thus making it a "community" cook book.
COOKING IN OLD CREOLE DAYS


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Q: form submit twice when dropzone integrated in form I'm using dropzone in a form. The form already contains fields. When user submits the form, the action (in my case the controller) pointed to the form is called twice: the first with the dropzone files and one second time without the files, why? How can I prevent to re-post the same form the second time?
Here is what I've did:
HTML:
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{
... some fields...
<div class="fallback">
                    <!-- this is the fallback if JS isn't working -->
                    <input name="files" type="file" multiple />
                </div>
... submit button ...
}

JS:
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        Dropzone.autoDiscover = false;

        var myDropzone = new Dropzone('#myForm', {
            paramName: 'files',
            autoProcessQueue: false,
            uploadMultiple: true,
            parallelUploads: 25,
            maxFiles: 25
        });

        $("form").on("submit", function (event) {
            myDropzone.processQueue(); // Tell Dropzone to process all queued files.
        });

Thanks to read and maybe help me :-)

A: Try jQuery .one() This ensures the form is submitted only once.
$("form").one("submit", function (event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    myDropzone.processQueue(); // Tell Dropzone to process all queued files.
    window.location.href = "Index.aspx"; //Specify the file name and path
});

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Tag Archives: Los Angeles Department of Arts and Culture
Post-Show Blues
by Melina Young
Post-show blues. It's a common phrase among theatre folk.
As we close the final performance of the Fountain Theatre's arts education program, Walking the Beat Hollywood, as panels are struck and lights come down, as kids head safely home to their families, and cops return to patrolling the streets, the phrase takes on new meaning. In the context of Walking the Beat Hollywood, the phrase alludes not only to the malaise that accompanies the end of an affecting production, but also to the image of an LAPD uniform.
Post-show blues.
Walking the Beat Hollywood is a theatrical residency for high school students across Los Angeles and the police officers who patrol their neighborhoods. Together, students and officers devised a piece of theatre they titled "A Wall is Just Another Door," about community policing informed by their personal experiences. During the show, performers begged the question in a rap battle, "When you see me in my uniform what do you see?" The question asks us all to challenge the assumptions we make and to acknowledge our biases, disadvantages, and privileges.
I have often been told that if I want to make a change in the world, I'm in the wrong business. I've heard that political theatre preaches to an audience that is already in agreement. This assumes that the audience attending theatre is of the same ilk. And yet, after Walking the Beat Hollywood I have never been more convinced that theatre changes lives.
Perhaps that is because the theatrical community that created and witnessed Walking the Beat Hollywood was not typical. (Walking the Beat Hollywood challenged convention as soon as the doors opened.) Development offices at theatres all over the world work hard to gather demographic information about their audiences. As a result, we know that theatrical audiences are largely white, liberal, affluent, and over 50. Working for a theatre festival during college, I was tasked with reviewing and digitizing hard-copies of audience surveys. One respondent answered the race and ethnicity question: "Really white."
This respondent's answer still makes me laugh. However, it's also true and has far-reaching and troubling consequences. The ambition to democratize theatre can paradoxically become pretentious and self-serving. This is when theatre-makers become white-saviors. "Democratizing" can often look more like condescending to a group of people those in power ostensibly want to "uplift." This is tokenism. The antidote to this kind of practice is recognizing that individuals are individuals and not representatives of a group. They are people of worth and power. Walking the Beat Hollywood succeeded in democratizing theatre precisely by self-consciously circumventing that goal.
It would be untrue to claim that the regular homogeneity of most theatrical audiences was unrepresented at Walking the Beat Hollywood. But largely this audience and this cast were unconventional. In fact, the ensemble worked hard to disrupt and challenge convention. Their tools in dismantling systems of oppression were their own stories. The ensemble gave generously of themselves and as a result moved their audience.
Melina Young and Barbara Goodhill welcome guests to "Walking the Beat" at LACC.
Angela Kariotis, a visionary theatre-maker, teaching artist, and WTBH playwright writes, "Telling a story is simple, but not easy. Easy and simple are not the same thing… We never think we have any stories. But then all of a sudden, they come tumbling out because we cracked open the door a little. And here they are all demanding, demanding to be told." That demand imbued Walking the Beat Hollywood with honest urgency. Sitting inside the Caminito Theatre, the call for truth was palpable and stirring. My father wept as he listened to each student's identity poem and so did I. I already knew and loved these kids and by the end of the performance I think he did too.
When I handed one of the students her final pay check, she looked at me with a telling pout and said, "I don't want this one." When I asked her why, she said "because it means it's the end. And I don't want to say goodbye to everyone." Her reluctance was evidence of love. Sixteen strangers—ten kids and six cops—became friends.
Theatre. Changes. Lives.
I saw these kids change. I saw them grow. Many students started this process shy. Many didn't. Some are still shy and some still aren't. But I know that they know their worth. I know that they proclaimed their worth in front of an audience eager to bear witness to it. That is genuinely important.
Sure, this was a production focused on cops and kids coming together to discuss the problems of community policing. But the final performance did not offer a solution. Rather, it highlighted human beings of different experience coming together to listen to one another.
I return to the idea of post-show blues. How did Walking the Beat Hollywood change our proverbial uniforms? If only for an evening, we have been armed with an open mind and with the impulse to listen.
I want to challenge theatre-going audiences to continue the legacy of this performance. Be silent and be moved. Listen. After all, "Listening is an act of love."
Melina Young is the 2019 summer intern at the Fountain Theatre. We thanks the LA Department of Arts and Culture for the support of its Arts Internship Program.
Posted in Arts, Arts education, arts organizations, Drama, Education, Fountain Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, new plays, non-profit organization, Outreach Program, performing arts, plays, race, racism, Social justice, Theater, theatre
Tagged Angela Kariotis, arts, Arts Internship Program, Barbara Goodhill, Caminito Theatre, educational outreach, intern, LAPD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Department of Arts and Culture, Los Angeles Police Department, Melina Young, outreach, students, Walking the Beat


This tablescape by Nook Flowers is themed Chinoiserie Chic - a melding of old world charm and an eclectic, modern, blooming colour palette. Chinoiserie or the fanciful, whimsical, and flamboyant European interpretation of the Chinese style of deco, presents beautifully as a wedding theme.
The cool hues of the vintage blue and white porcelain - the French call it Blanc de Chine͟ - is unusually paired with flamboyant, exotic textures of flowers with bold colours. The choices of flowers utilised were roses, hydrangea, pincushion protea, snapdragons, chrysanthemums, hypericum berries, rice flower, alstromeria and anthuriums.
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Australia is a long way from gender equality in tech and other STEM fields
The best UK universities for computer science and IT degrees
Code First: Girls is on a mission to fight for every young woman's right to...
Battling IT's gender bias
What this year's A-level results mean for the UK tech industry
Record numbers of students are choosing to study computer science, but is enough being done to address the gender imbalance that exists in STEM subjects?
By Charlotte Trueman
Staff Writer, Computerworld |
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This year's A-level results show that a record number of students have been placed on Computer Science degree courses in the UK, according to the latest UCAS data. The data also show that the number of students placed on Computer Science degree is up 5% since last year 60% higher than 10 years ago.
Notably, the number of female students studying Computer Science at A-level has also risen, up 13% from 2020. In fact, the number of female students studying Computer Science A-level this year has increased by more than 350% since 2015.
[ Further reading: Diversity and inclusion make IT stronger ]
Computer Science is the fastest growing STEM (Science, Technology, Maths and Engineering) A-level subject, with the number of students opting to study it growing at almost double the rate of all other subjects in the category. (Maths, Biology, and Chemistry remain three of the most popular subjects with students overall.)
Amy Sharif, head of data science operations at decision intelligence and AI firm Peak.
Amy Sharif, head of data science operations at Peak, a decision intelligence and AI company, said that while this year's results are "an amazing testament to all of the work which has been done over the last few years to encourage girls to study core STEM subjects," more work remains.
Male students are still more likely to study physics, mathematics, and computer science than their female counterparts, which Sharif said presents a problem: "Many degree courses specify these subjects as a requirement for entry and provide a career pathway into higher paid industry roles."
What more can be done?
Across the UK, numerous charities and organisations have been working hard to reduce the gender gap in STEM subjects and encourage female students to pursue a tech careers. In 2020, the UK government published a report exploring the use of behavioural science to help girls engage with computing. The report found that despite outperforming boys in most GCSE STEM subjects, girls are less likely to choose certain STEM A level options.
"As our society becomes increasingly dependent on technology, girls' under-representation in these STEM options is problematic on two fronts: the ever-widening national STEM skills shortage and increasing gender inequality in access to well-paid, high-status, influential careers," the report said.
Sharif said that narrowing the gender gap in computer science is important because it will lead to better technology.
"Technology needs to be future proofed by ensuring the underlying design and algorithms used are not biased against certain groups of people," she said. "I think it's vital to empower women to be part of this change, so they can, quite literally, build a better future for themselves and other women across all of the touchpoints that tech affects."
Sharif argues that a shortage of female role models remains a major barrier for some girls, as is a lack of understanding of how technology can bring about change.
"These are things we need to bring to life earlier in schools. Showing role models to young women as early as possible helps both counteract the societal norms and expectations for young women but can also give them confidence to pursue education where there is a bigger gender gap, since of course it's not a question of competency," she said.
Sharif also said that having a closer link between schools and industry would make a big difference, allowing female students to see clear connections between what they study and the STEM careers they could take up. And given the current pace of technological change, Sharif said it's never been more important for employers to work with schools.
Are qualifications the only route into the industry?
While data from the 2021 A-levels showed that efforts to address the gender imbalance in STEM subjects is paying off, research has also shown that many young people avoid a career in technology due to misconceptions around entry requirements to the industry.
Digital and tech skills organisation QA surveyed 2,005 16–24-year-olds and found that 77% of respondents believe being good at maths and science is essential for a tech career. The research also found that 42% believe students need straight As to work in technology; 60% think a university education is necessary; 40% think that not studying computing at school or college is a barrier; 32% don't think they are clever enough to work in technology.
While some tech careers do require more education — Sharif notes that anyone wanting to become a data scientist like her needs a university degree or a technical certificate — there are many jobs in tech that capitalise on different skill sets.
"Data science can oftentimes feel like an intimidating industry because everyone is super smart. All that means in practice is that there are a lot of people to learn from and to collaborate with," Sharif said. "There is a lot of pressure placed on technical skill sets within the role, which end up creating barriers for entry that don't need to exist."
Charlotte Trueman is a staff writer at Computerworld. She joined IDG in 2016 after graduating with a degree in English and American Literature from the University of Kent. Trueman covers collaboration, focusing on videoconferencing, productivity software, AR/VR and issues around sustainability.