Each year since 1996, The Daily Record takes the time to find and recognize the accomplishments of Maryland’s Top 100 Women. These women are selected based upon their roles as leaders, their involvement in the community and their personal achievements. Receiving this award is an immense honor, one that brings its recipients great satisfaction.

Our alums never cease to amaze us with their successes. UMBC celebrates the fact that three of our alumnae, Kaliope Parthemos ‘93, psychology and Debora Fajer-Smith ’81, political science, were given the Maryland’s Top 100 Women award. Their influential roles as women leaders in their environment has led them to receive this honorable award, and for their contributions to society, we are truly grateful and extremely proud.

Learn more about Maryland’s Top 100 Women.

Hello!

Final exams are quickly approaching.  Enjoy some brain food to fuel a study session ON ME!!  

All iCubed Team Study Group participants in a study group are eligible to enter. Please fill out the study group registration form (attached) and return to me by FRIDAY, May 9th, to be entered into a raffle to win 2 PIZZAS for you and your study group on UMBC Study Day (May 14th).   

For those of you not in a study group yet, it is not too late!  If you need assistance, I can help you find one.  For more information or if you have questions, please feel free to contact me,  stop by during my office hours (this week on Friday and next Monday), or stop in my office in University Center 116.

Thanks!

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Tashauna Felix, M.S., Ph.D.

iCubed Study Group Coordinator

University Center 116

tfelix1@umbc.edu

410.455.3173

Who decides how you wear your hair?

If you happen to be a member of the United States Military, the answer to that question is Uncle Sam. 

Now some people think Sam needs a new coiffure.

Currently, the Army states that: 

“Many hairstyles are acceptable, as long as they are neat and conservative.“

“Neat” and “conservative,” however, are pretty subjective.

The new army regulations specifically ban dreadlocks, twists, and some types of braids. The women of the Congressional Black Caucus took issue with this rule, as well as the language used to express it, in a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. In their letter, they state that: 

“African American women have often been required to meet unreasonable norms as it relates to acceptable standards of grooming in the workplace.” 

They go on to posit that the amount of time and even money African American women must contribute to maintaining Army-appropriate hairstyles is unfair.

Several thousand signers of a WhiteHouse.gov petition agree, and the Department of Defense is currently reviewing the issue. 

The issue of appropriate hairstyles and race extends beyond the military, however. Last fall, twelve-year-old Vanessa VanDyke and seven-year-old Tiana Parker were threatened with expulsion from their schools  for wearing an afro and dreadlocks, respectively. Public outcry followed both cases. 

Are the army hair regulations racially biased? Or are people getting themselves in a twist over nothing? 

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of DOM Parsing and Serialization. This specification defines various APIs for programmatic access to HTML and generic XML parsers by web applications for use in parsing and serializing DOM nodes. Comments are welcome through 22 May. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

Today the Timed Text Working Group (TT WG) published a First Public Working Draft of TTML Text and Image Profiles for Internet Media Subtitles and Captions 1.0. This document specifies two profiles of Timed Text Markup Language 1: a text-only profile and an image-only profile. These profiles are intended to be used across subtitle and caption delivery applications worldwide, thereby simplifying interoperability, consistent rendering and conversion to other subtitling and captioning formats. The text profile is a superset of TTML Simple Delivery Profile for Closed Captions (US). Learn more about Video on the Web.

If you recall the incredibly popular Thirsty and Thirsty Rough typefaces, you’ll be excited as us that our sister site, MightyDeals.com, has arranged another fantastic deal; this time it’s an exclusive on the hotly anticipated Thirsty Soft Font Family.

Thirsty Soft is the latest, and we think greatest, incarnation of the Thirsty typeface by Yellow Design Studio.

Its vintage charm will be a winner with designers and clients alike, and the rounded terminals in this latest version serve to heighten the friendliness that the typeface exudes.

Thirsty Soft features 6 different weights, extensive language support, and a choice of numerals. But what really sets Thirsty Soft apart from the competition are the awesome alternatives and carefully selected ligatures, which offer great variation—essential when you’re setting text to appear hand-drawn.

There are so many uses for Thirsty Soft it’s hard to know where to start. Certainly, the 1950s feel is perfect for companies with old-fashioned values such as farmers markets, breweries and quality work clothing. You could also feature the face in hipster branding, cigar packaging, adverts for vacation resorts, in fact just about anywhere you want to evoke the spirit of americana.

As well as the desktop version—which is comaptible with MacOS and Windows—Thirsty Soft is available in a specially optimized webfont set, delivered as .eot, .svg, .ttf and .woff formats.

Once widely available, this font family will retail at $49 for the desktop version, but through the exclusive deal available only through MightyDeals, you can get priority access for just $9, an incredible 80% discount! Alternately, purchase the desktop and web versions for just $14. If you’d like to use Thirsty Soft in a mobile app, you can buy a license for just $90, saving yourself $300 off the full price.

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