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BALTIMORE CREATIVES ACCELERATION NETWORK (B/CAN)

Executive Director

B/CAN, a new initiative spearheaded by the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), seeks an entrepreneurial, creative, skillful, passionate, and resourceful leader to develop, pilot, launch, and build a 10-year, multi-sector project to strengthen the city of Baltimore by fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and equitable creative economy.

The UMBC cycling club’s competition season began at the 12^th annual Tidewater Winter Classic in Williamsburg, Va., hosted by The College of William and Mary cycling club. The 8:00 a.m. race for their Collegiate D category, set within York River State Park, was 20 miles total (10 miles per lap) on a mostly flat loop with two uphill climbs in their season’s debut on March 4.

The United States Naval Academy, University of Maryland, College Park and Drexel University were among the schools in attendance. Vice president Matthew Cherian, a sophomore computer science major, crossed the finish line in third place and president Kurt Hamblin, sophomore physics major, placed fifth.

“This was actually my first race ever.” Hamblin began. He explained further that while he had never participated in neither fast nor group rides before, he has cycled long distances of up to 100 miles. Hamblin said he’d been riding pretty actively for the past couple of months now to prepare for the race.

“In the beginning of February, I started riding harder and got some more dedicated training sessions in” Hamblin said. “All in all, I was really ready for it.”

The competitive cycling life is more familiar to Cherian, as he said that he “raced last season. I did a criterium (a one day bike race on a circuit road course) at the Naval Academy and I used to lead group rides at where I work, which is performance bike.” He often rode with Hamblin to prepare for this race.

Despite Cherian possessing competitive experience over Hamblin, both men began cycling and riding road bikes around the same time, just over two years ago. Cherian began when he did not possess his drivers license and wanted freedom. Hamblin began cycling as a way to commute during his senior year of high school.

Their category in the Tidewater Winter Classic had approximately 45 other male cyclists. In a cycling race, everyone starts off together in a big pack going relatively the same speed. Throughout the race, the goal of a cyclist is to make a move and try to break away from the pack with a few other stronger bikers to pull ahead. This was a big goal of Hamblin’s during this competition, who ended up setting the whole pace of the race for the other cyclists. He was also consistently one of the primary leaders of the pack.

“In this race, no one really tried anything. And when anyone tried anything, it didn’t really work, the whole pack kind of just sped up,” said Hamblin. “For instance, there was one point at which I tried to break away. I managed to go past the front and I wanted a handful of the strong guys in the front to come with me. But I ended up getting way down the road. The guys in the front sped up, they didn’t really chase… I ended up speeding the whole pace of the pack. For the second half of the last lap, I sped the pace a couple of miles an hour.”

Cherian managed to stay relatively close to Hamblin during the race. He did not have time to fill his water bottle before the beginning of the race, and stayed close to Hamblin to get water from him when needed. At the final descent before the finish line, he used his remaining energy, directed Hamblin to move over to the left and was able to pass him at the last second.

While the race went well for the Retrievers, there were challenges to face. First was the harsh weather. It was under 27 degrees that morning and hard for them to feel their hands and toes. The second challenge was the possibility of crashing. Six UMBC cyclists competed in the Tidewater Winter Classic in the past and every single one of them crashed. In this year’s race, there was one crash, which Cherian nearly fell victim to.

“There was a junior racer, and he crashed right in front of me to my right” Cherian recalled. “He took out the guy to the right side, he took out the guy to the left side. The kid actually washed-out, so he hit the ground and his bike went out under him to the left side where I was, so I actually ran over his bike. And yeah, I did lose contact with the ground there for a few seconds.”

Cherian and Hamblin consider the race to be a huge success and will bring their cycling passions to other competitions this season with other members of the UMBC cycling club, including those being held at Virginia Tech, the Naval Academy and Johns Hopkins University.

Reflecting on UMBC cycling, Cherian explained that he would like to see more people get into cycling on campus. He would like to see the community flourish in that way since he and Hamblin see so many bikes around campus and know many people around UMBC love riding.

“When I’m out on my bike, nothing else in my life matters,” said Hamblin.

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Luke 18:9 (NIV) - “To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable:”

The parable that Jesus will go on to tell is a warning to those who are confident of their own righteousness and the other side of that coin, looked down on everyone else. We too can get caught up in the do’s and don’t’s, checklists of religious duties performed and wrongly assess we’re right with God when we’re just right with ourselves compared to those we deem as less. In the following passage, the Apostle Paul explains his own journey from self-deemed, self-won, self-approved righteousness to embracing what he describes as a robust kind of righteousness.

Philippians 3:2-9 (MSG) - “Steer clear of the barking dogs, those religious busybodies, all bark and no bite. All they’re interested in is appearances-knife-happy circumcisers, I call them. The real believers are the ones the Spirit of God leads to work away at this ministry, filling the air with Christ’s praise as we do it. We couldn’t carry this off by our own efforts, and we know it-even though we can list what many might think are impressive credentials. You know my pedigree: a legitimate birth, circumcised on the eighth day; an Israelite from the elite tribe of Benjamin; a strict and devout adherent to God’s law; a fiery defender of the purity of my religion, even to the point of persecuting the church; a meticulous observer of everything set down in God’s law Book. The very credentials these people are waving around as something special, I’m tearing up and throwing out with the trash-along with everything else I used to take credit for. And why? Because of Christ. Yes, all the things I once thought were so important are gone from my life. Compared to the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as my Master, firsthand, everything I once thought I had going for me is insignificant-dog dung. I’ve dumped it all in the trash so that I could embrace Christ and be embraced by him. I didn’t want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ-God’s righteousness.”

We may have a lot going for us in a Christian perspective - very dutiful, serving well, matured in the spiritual disciplines - but basing our righteousness on qualities that go up and down based on how our day is going is described as petty and inferior. We are to have a robust kind of righteousness, a righteousness that is given to us by God on the basis of us trusting in Christ. There’s nothing more we can add to it, but the beauty of that is there’s also nothing we can do to make it less.

Make a mental note of your list of credentials - what possible reasons do you think gave you a right to be a child of God? My list is not as impressive as Paul’s; the first would be had Christian parents, had a praying grandmother, went to church in the womb, and perhaps yours begins similarly. With each credential, cross it out, scratch a big X over it, that’s not what God tallies. God sees Christ’s work on the cross and our lives now righteous through faith in Christ. As we pray over personal and church concerns today, do so humbly and confidently because of the robust righteousness we have in Christ.

-AK

Fresh off of their first winning season in eight years, five UMBC men’s basketball players received various all conference honors. Five players were voted to receive the honors by the America East Conference coaching staffs – the most the men’s basketball program has had in 14 seasons.

Senior forward Will Darley and junior guard Jairus Lyles earned AEC second team All-Conference honors. Both men aided in the Retrievers basketball renaissance. Lyles, in his first full season since transferring from Virginia Commonwealth University, averaged 19 points, good for second in the AEC and 6.4 rebounds per game, both team highs. In addition, Lyles also led the team in usage rate and posted the highest player efficiency rating on the team.

Darley enjoyed the best season of his UMBC career. The Timonium native averaged 15.7 points and 3.9 boards with a .484/.447/.887 shooting line. Darley ranked ninth in the AEC in scoring and the team leaned on his production heavily as he finished second on the team in usage. Both Lyles and Darley led the team with 3.4 win shares, while both also managed to hit a milestone and record their 1,000th career points.

Sophomore guard K.J. Maura also recieved end of the season honors. The junior college transfer made the AEC All-Defense team. In his first season as a Retriever, Maura averaged 1.9 steals per game, the best in the conference, and finished second on the team in defensive rating and defensive win shares. On the offensive side of the ball, Maura also ranked fourth in the AEC in assists per game.

Freshman guard/forward Arkel Lamar often brought good energy coming off the bench for the Retrievers. The AEC recognized his efforts with an All-Rookie team selection. Lamar averaged 4.9 points and 3.7 rebounds in nearly 15 minutes per game. Lamar’s 20.3 percent rebounding rate was the highest for any Retriever who logged at least 416 minutes.

Sophomore forward Joe Sherburne rounded out the honored Retrievers. Sherburne was named to the AEC All-Academic team. The 6’6″ sharpshooter averaged 11.2 points and led the AEC in three point field goal percentage. Sherburne also got done in the classroom with a pristine 4.0 GPA. The honor comes to Sherburne from UMBC, as each the AEC All-Academic team is picked by each player’s school.

The squad of all-stars will continue to impress on the court this year as they get ready to compete in the College-Insider Postseason Tournament. The Retrievers will open the tourney on March 15 against Fairfield University at 7 p.m. in the RAC.

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Hello Everyone!

Interested in learning more about Google? Come hear it from two Googlers and UMBC alums!

On March 29th,Google will be hosting an informal information table on campus for you to learn more about Google and the opportunities we offer to students. We will have food, swag and many job opportunities for students. We hope to meet you there!

Check out the details below and register for the eventHERE. If you’re interested in Google opportunities make sure to include a soft copy of your resume.

THE DEETS:

What: Google @ UMBC

When/Where:

• Wednesday March 29th

• 10 AM - 2 PM: Information Table in the Engineering Atrium

• Drop by and chat with two Googlers! Feel free to bring all your questions!

Who: All Computer Science and Engineering students, but anyone with an interest in software development is welcome!

Why: Learn more about Google’s hiring process, culture, job and/ internship opportunities, and more! - directly from Googlers!

What to do next?: Register for the eventHERE! Make sure your resume and LinkedIn profiles are up to date (feel free to link both in the form above) and of course come with lots of good questions!

Hope to see you there!

Google University Programs

Code Jam is here!

Registration is now open for Google’s 14th annual algorithmic, global coding competition. And back for the third year is the Distributed Code Jam track, giving contestants even more ways to test their programming skills. This year, the competition is bigger than ever…

Join us for your chance to:

• Compete at the World Finals held in Dublin, Ireland in August

• Take home up to $15,000, and the title of Code Jam and Distributed Code Jam World Champion

• Win a limited edition Code Jam t-shirt

Do you have what it takes? Register today at g.co/codejam. The Online Qualification Round begins on April 7 @ 23:00 UTC; registration will be open until the round closes.

Help us spread the word. Be sure to watch our trailer, share the flyer, and join our community on social media by following us @CodeJam and #CodeJam2017. Visit g.co/codejam to register and learn more.

Hope to see you in the competition.