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<Title>Rob Magin: The Profound Impact of the Quiet</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">UMBC's Annual Homecoming 5K Chase has been named in memory of former cross country and track standout Rob Magin ('92). Current head coach Matt Gittermann paints the portrait of a quiet but endlessly active man who left a lasting mark on everyone he met.</div>
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<Summary>UMBC's Annual Homecoming 5K Chase has been named in memory of former cross country and track standout Rob Magin ('92). Current head coach Matt Gittermann paints the portrait of a quiet but...</Summary>
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<Title>Softball Notebook: Softball's Alumni Game Moved to 1 p.m., Bull Roast Date Announced</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">UMBC's softball team alumni game, originally scheduled for noon, has been moved to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13. A cookout is still scheduled to follow the contest, which will be played at the UMBC Softball Stadium.</div>
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<Title>The Second Set is Ready to Start</Title>
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    <p>The Vice Presidential candidates spar in a televised debate this Thursday. The Democrats are<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/07/biden-vice-presidential-debate-ryan?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"> looking to make a comeback</a> after a disastrous opening match last week. Who are you picking in this round, Rookie Ryan or Blabbermouth Biden?</p>
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    <p>We realize Mondays are less fun than a root canal so start your week off with a smile (unless you actually have to get a root canal).</p>
    <p>Here are some fun sites to make the day a little less painful.</p>
    <p><a href="http://mashable.com/2012/09/28/useless-facts-on-reddit/#91733Elephant" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Check out ten bits of trivia</a>. For example,</p>
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    <p>Captain Crunch’s first name is Horatio.</p>
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    <div>How often do you check your phone? <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/cell-phone-habit-hard-break-nomophobia-article-1.1169900" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Check to see if you have nomophobia</a>: the fear of being without your cell phone. </div>
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    <div>I will risk missing a flight if I feel like I’ve potentially left one of my phones at home,” [Christiana Ike] said. “I definitely wish that I was not so attached because that attachment has caused me problems.</div>
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    <div>We would think this is a scam by psychiatrists to soak people dry if <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/addicted-phones-84-worldwide-a-single-day-mobile-device-hand-article-1.1137811" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">85 percent of us</a> weren’t so addicted to our phones. You kind of have to chuckle right? Good, because you would cry if you didn’t.</div>
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    <div>Awesome sweeping time-lapse, or hyper-lapse (to be accurate)</div>
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<Title>Day #1 - Real Comfort Food</Title>
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    <p><strong>Romans 5:6-11 (NIV)</strong></p>
    <p><em>You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.  Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.</em></p>
    <p><em>Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.</em></p>
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    <p>There are certain foods that we grew up eating that hold a sense of nostalgia or sentimental appeal, and there are also foods that we would go to whenever we were sick. These types of food are commonly call, comfort foods. However our true and real “food’ and true and real “comfort” is what God has done for us in Christ Jesus: that while we still sinners, Christ died for us, and we have now been reconciled to God through Christ.  Our ultimate need and therefore heart comfort was to be reconciled with God.  That is exactly what He did when He came and rescued us, and made the way for us to know Him and find our deepest need satisfied in Him.  This is the real “food” and the real “comfort” that we are invited to experience and receive in Him.</p>
    <p><strong>Responding to the Transmission</strong></p>
    <p>Today let’s remember this truth:<em> “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”</em> He has satisfied our deepest need and our most needed comfort in life.  In this truth and therefore reality for our lives, let’s live as those who have received God’s reconciliation and rescue, really loving God and freely loving others. Spend some time praying and asking for the Spirit’s presence and empowering to live this out in tangible ways. With each step and with each decision let’s trust in how God is leading our lives, being satisfied in Him and all that he has done for us.</p>
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<Title>Being Homesick</Title>
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    <span>During my freshman year of college, I got homesick. It happened in February, though, instead of September or October. Things piled on: my great-grandpa died once I returned from winter break; an off-campus fire took the life of a student a week or so later, making me realize how fragile life is; the gloomy weather, with more snow and colder temperatures than I was used to (Meadville, Pennsylvania, a.k.a. the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Belt" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Snow Belt</a>"), had no apparent end in sight; and then I caught the flu. Having been used to the attention of my mom every other time I was sick, her absence became quite apparent at that point. Finally, in switching schedules at the start of the new semester, many of the people I had grown used to seeing every day disappeared. All of these things combined to form an intense longing for familiarity, for home.</span><br>
    
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    <span>Throughout this time, I spent many mornings and nights on the phone with my mom. Those conversations helped me realize that what was truly bothering me was the guilt and loneliness I felt from being away from everyone who, to that point, had been important in my life. I kept visualizing my parents and brother sitting in the living room, watching TV together following dinner, and wanting to be there. I felt like I was doing something that was abnormal--borderline "wrong"--by being away from them. After these conversations, though, I realized that I missed my family and friends so much <em>because</em> they had invested their love, time, and energy to see me succeed and grow, and their support for me was going to be most helpful in times like what I was experiencing by fueling engagement with my new environment, not serving as a crutch for remaining withdrawn. I was going to have to move forward, not only because I recognized that I owed it to everyone who had given me this support, but because I owed it to myself and my future goals and aspirations. The thought of trying to connect myself with this new world was scary, but I knew I needed to stick with it.</span><br>
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    <span>In moving forward, weeks away from the comfort of home, I used a trick my mom had suggested (I still use it):  I learned to view time from the other side. For instance, instead of thinking about how long twelve weeks seemed to be, I went back in time twelve weeks to see how fast time passed. Twelve weeks before that middle of February, the point when I was feeling the most stressed, was Thanksgiving. Suddenly, twelve weeks wasn't so menacing. </span><span>While I initially was using this trick to wish time away, it ultimately helped me to realize just how precious time is and how much I needed to treasure who I was becoming, the new community in which I had found myself, and the family and old friends who were supporting me from afar. </span><br>
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    <span>What about you? Have you experienced homesickness at UMBC? If going home immediately wasn't an option, how'd you deal with it?</span><br>
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