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|Coppin State Eagles
|Wednesday, November 28, 2012
|7:30 p.m.
|Baltimore, Md. | Physical Education Center
Game Data
Loyola University Maryland plays its second in three days against a team that is located within five miles of the Evergreen campus when it travels across Baltimore to face Coppin State University on Wednesday, November 28. Tip-off is slated for 7:30 p.m. at the Eagles' Physical Education Center.
The game is one of four the Greyhounds will play during the regular season against teams for the State of Maryland. Loyola has defeated UMBC (86-70) and Towson (65-33) and will also host Mount St. Mary's on December 15.
Series History
Loyola and Coppin State will meet for the ninth time when they take the court on Wednesday night with the Eagles holding a 5-3 advantage in the previous eight contests.
In the last three contests between the schools (2008, 2010 and 2011), the home team has won each time with Loyola settling last year's contest with a 78-68 victory in Reitz Arena.
Dylon Cormier scored 20 for the Greyhounds in that game, and Erik Etherly had a double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds as five Loyola players scored in double figures. The Greyhounds held a 47-25 advantage in rebounding as four players, in addition to Etherly, had six or more boards.
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Last Time Out
Towson scored the first four points of the game, but an 8-0 run after that sparked by two Robert Olson threes put Loyola in front for the remainder of the game, as the Greyhounds defeated Towson, 65-53, on Monday night in Reitz Arena.
Olson finished with five 3-pointers, scoring all of his 15 points from behind the arc, and Dylon Cormier led all players with 19. Olson scored 12 in the first half, while Cormier deposited 12 of his 19 in the second.
Cormier also led all players in rebounding with eight, while the Greyhounds matched Towson's rebounding total, 41-41. Entering the game, Towson had outrebounded its opponents by a margin of 11.6 per game.
Guards In Charge
Dylon Cormier and Robert Olson teamed for 34 points on Monday night against Towson, and they filled the box score in other ways. The duo combined for 14 rebounds, seven assists and three steals while not committing a single turnover in 75 combined minutes of action.
Each had a half with 12 points, Olson knocking down four 3-pointers in the first half and Cormier scoring 12 in the second.
Cormier All-Around
In addition to leading all players with 19 points on Monday night against Towson, Dylon Cormier paced the game with eight rebounds and four assists.
His eight rebounds were one short of his career-high set last year at George Washington, and it marked the second time in his career he has led the Greyhounds in rebounding. He also had eight to lead the team as a freshman on November 21, 2010, in a 73-59 win over Dartmouth.
This season, Cormier is leading the team in scoring (17.1 points per game) and steals (1.7) and is second in assists per game (2.3) and third in rebounding (4.7).
Shooting Start
Robert Olson came out of the gate firing on Monday night, scoring six the Greyhound's first eight points on his first two 3-point attempts of the game. He hit two more threes during the first half and was 4-of-6 from behind the arc at the break.
After Towson cut Loyola's 10-point halftime lead to six just over 90 seconds into the second period, Olson hit a three from the right side to push the Greyhounds' advantage back to nine.
In the last two games, Olson has averaged 17.5 points and made nine 3-pointers.
Taking Care Of The Ball
Loyola has committed just 13 turnovers in its last two games after having seven against Towson and six at Rhode Island on November 23.. The six were the fewest the Greyhounds have committed since they had only five in the 2010-2011 season-opener on November 12, 2010, at Drexel.
As a team, the Greyhounds are averaging 10.7 miscues per game this season through seven games.
Olson Comes Up Big
Robert Olson scored 20 points last Friday night at Rhode Island, coming up one shy of his career-high in scoring (21 at Iona in January 2012 and at Marist in January 2011).
The senior guard made eight field goals, tying his career-high, and his 16 field-goal attempts represented a career-high. He was good from 4-of-9 behind the arc, also the most 3-pointers he's attempted in a game, and his 39 minutes were the most he's played since coming to Loyola.
Olson has now scored 20 or more five times as a Greyhound, the last coming when he recorded 21 at Iona on January 13, 2012. He tallied 20 on two occasions and 21 once as a sophomore in 2010-2011. All four of his previous 20 or 21 point games came in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference action, and all but one of his five have come on the road.
His game-tying three at Rhode Island was the second of his Loyola career that sent a game to overtime. He nailed a three, also from the left side, against Iona on January 30, 2011, to tie the game a 78-78 with 7.2 seconds on the clock in a game the Greyhounds would win, 88-85, in overtime.
Back To The Boards
After the first three games of the season, Loyola was outrebounding teams by an average of nine per game thanks to +14 and +17 performances against Binghamton and UMBC, respectively.
However, the Greyhounds have been outrebounded in each of their last three games by seven (Norfolk State), four (Albany) and five (Rhode Island), an average of 5.5 per game.
Loyola turned it around against Towson, a team that was outrebounding its opponents by nearly 12 boards per game in its first five contests. The Greyhounds and Tigers both had 41 rebounds, as four Loyola players – Dylon Cormier (8), Anthony Winbush (7), Jarred Jones and Robert Olson (both 5) – had five or more in the game.
Latham Looms Large
Jordan Latham had one of his better games as a collegian last Friday night at Rhode Island, playing a career-high 27 minutes off the bench before fouling out midway through overtime.
Latham scored a career-best nine points and also had five rebounds, an assist and a block, and he was at his best late in the tight game.
He scored the first three Loyola points of overtime, on a layup and a free throw, after the Rams had jumped out to a 53-50 lead in the extra frame.
Doubling Up
Erik Etherly had his first double-double of the 2012-2013 season, the 14th of his career at Loyola. The Preseason MAAC Player of the Year scored 11 points and had 10 rebounds at Rhode Island.
He leads the team with an 8.0 rebounds per game mark and is second with 15.7 points per game. He is also tops on the team with 10 blocks and 10 steals so far this season.
Late Game Heroics
Loyola's games against Albany and Rhode Island, both wins, have each come down to the last four seconds of regulation (and then some).
On November 18, Albany tied the game with 3.1 ticks on the clock, Loyola Head Coach Jimmy Patsos set up an inbound play in a timeout. Graduate student Anthony Winbush threw a baseball pass 80 feet to Dylon Cormier who was inside the opposite foul line. Cormier caught the pass, laid it in with his right hand and was fouled in the process by Albany's D.J. Evans with 1.5 seconds left.
Cormier made the free throw to provide the final margin, and Albany's inbound pass went off the hands of Evans and out-of-bounds to secure the win.
Robert Olson then sank a 3-pointer with 3.7 on the clock at Rhode Island to force overtime where the Greyhounds would win by four.
Winbush Distributing
In his first four games back this season, graduate student Anthony Winbush has already leading the team in assists per game (3.5).
His five assists against both Albany and Rhode Island both tied his career-high, a number he previously reached just once (in a January 22, 2012, win over Saint Peter's at home).
Steady Performance
Erik Etherly turned in another 20-point game, his second of the season, against Albany, scoring 23 points on 7-of-12 from the floor and 9-of-12 at the line. He also tied Anthony Winbush for team-high honors with seven rebounds.
Etherly had his second 20-plus point game of the week and the young season after recording 22 in Loyola's Wednesday-night win over UMBC on November 14.
He has now scored 20 or more six times during his tenure at Loyola – hitting or eclipsing the plateau four times last year – and the Greyhounds are 6-0 in those games.
In Loyola's three wins that week, including a Saturday victory over Norfolk State in which he scored 12 and had nine rebounds, Etherly averaged 19.0 points and 8.0 rebounds. He made 22-of-28 (.786) free throws, as well, during the stretch.
Slowing Scorers
Albany guards Mike Black and Jacob Iati entered the November 18 game averaging a combined 34.75 points per game, but Loyola held the duo to just 18, including three on Iati's desperate heave to tie the game with 3.1 seconds left.
Black, who was averaging 18.25 points in four games was 3-of-8 from the field and scored seven points, while Iati went 3-of-7 after averaging 16.5 prior. They also committed eight turnovers in the game.
In the game following Albany's contest against Loyola – Tuesday at South Carolina State – Black went off for 23 points, making 9-of-11 shots. As a team, the Great Danes set a NCAA Division I record in that game by making 15 3-pointers, although they hit just five versus Loyola.
The Greyhounds did it again against Towson, limiting the then-reigning Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Week Jerrelle Benimon to seven. Benimon entered the game averaging 16.2 per contest.
Hubbard Honored
Redshirt freshman guard Tyler Hubbard was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Rookie of the Week last Monday after averaging 10.3 points in three Loyola wins last week.
Hubbard scored a career-high 17 on Wednesday night against UMBC and followed with 11 versus Norfolk State. While he scored just three in the Albany game, he was involved in several key defensive possessions for the Greyhounds at the end of the game.
This season, Hubbard is fourth on the team with a 9.0 points per game average. He is shooting .500 from both 3-point range (12-of-24) and the field at large (15-of-30).
Defensive Stance
Loyola used a strong defensive presence in its win over Norfolk State. The Greyhounds forced 19 turnovers, 11 coming via Greyhounds' steals, a season-high. Loyola also held Norfolk State to 35.8-percent from the field, 33.3-percent in the second half.
Anthony Winbush and Robert Olson each had three steals, and Dylon Cormier came up with a pair.
The Greyhounds also matched their season-high with eight blocked shots. Jordan Latham and Erik Etherly each swatted three, while Jarred Jones had the other two.
Freshmen Produce
A trio of Loyola freshmen combined for 34 points and 15 rebounds against UMBC, as Tyler Hubbard (a redshirt freshman) scored 17, while Jarred Jones and Franz Rassman had eight and nine.
The group also had five assists, six blocked shots and four steals in the win.
Combined the three played 70 minutes against the Retrievers.
Jones Making Early Impact
Freshman Jarred Jones has started the first five games of his collegiate career and made a difference on the court for the Greyhounds. A two-time All-Metro honoree by The Baltimore Sun at John Carroll High School, Jones scored nine points and had six rebounds on Sunday evening at Washington. He followed that with a box-score filling nine points, five rebounds, three blocks, three steals and two assists versus UMBC.
In his first game, he debuted with just one point, but he filled several box-score categories in his effort. Jones tallied three rebounds and two each of blocked shots, steals and assists.
Hubbard From Behind The Line
Tyler Hubbard knocked down all but one of his 3-point attempts against UMBC and has made 8-of-17 this season from long distance. He scored a career-best 17 points against the Retrievers and also had two assists and a steal.
His 12 3-pointers made lead the team, and he is fourth on the squad in scoring with a 9.0 points per game average.
In his collegiate debut against Binghamton, he made 4-of-9 shots, 3-of-7 from 3-point range, and finished the night with 11 points in his collegiate debut. In the process, he became the first player to reach double figures in his first collegiate game since Jawaan Wright came off the bench to score 10 on November 19, 2005, against Towson University.
Brooks' Big Game
Julius Brooks provided 20 solid minutes in the post off the bench for the Greyhounds, recording eight points and a game-high seven rebounds versus Binghamton. Those numbers were not career-highs for the senior, but they were the best he's put up in some time.
Brooks saw limited action in 29 games last season, averaging just 4.7 minutes per game, but matched his career-high with 28 minutes. His eight points were his most since scoring a career-best 10 on January 31, 2010, as a freshman, and his seven boards were his high since February 25, 2011, when he had eight. Both of those games came against Niagara University.
At Washington, he scored five, had a pair of rebounds, an assist and a blocked shot against the Huskies.
He made his first start since February 2010, his freshman season, on Wednesday night against UMBC.
MAAC Preseason Poll & Player of the Year
The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference unveiled its preseason coaches' poll and the league's Preseason Player of the Year on Friday night in a live Preseason Awards Show on ESPN3. Loyola was named the team to beat in 2012-2013, and Erik Etherly was tabbed the Preseason Player of the Year by the coaches. (Complete poll and All-MAAC teams at left).
This is the first time Loyola has been selected No. 1 in the MAAC preseason poll in 24 years in the league, nor had a Greyhound player been named Preseason Player of the Year prior to Etherly.
Three Loyola players were named to the various Preseason All-MAAC teams as voted on by the coaches of the league.
Erik Etherly earned an All-MAAC First Team nod, while Dylon Cormier and Robert Olson were named to the Second Team.
Classy Senior
Senior guard Robert Olson was named one of 30 candidates for the prestigious Senior CLASS Award last week. An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School®, the Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.
Olson was the Greyhounds' third-leading scorer last season with 11.1 points per game and enters this season Loyola ranked fourth at Loyola in 3-point percentage (138-of-336, .4107) sixth in career 3-pointers made (138) and eighth in 3-pointers attempted (336). Last season, Olson was one of four Loyola players to earn All-MAAC honors, picking up Third Team mention and later All-Tournament honors.
High Marks
The Loyola men's basketball team scored the highest amongst squads in the State of Maryland in the most recent NCAA Graduation Success Rate report. The Greyhounds checked in with a 91-percent GSR, tops among the state's nine Division I schools, for players who entered the school between 2002-2005.
Saint Peter's Game At The Meadowlands
The Loyola-Saint Peter's Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference game slated for Saturday, December 8, has been moved from the Peacocks' Jersey City campus to the IZOD Center in East Rutherford, N.J., at the Meadowlands complex.
The Greyhounds and Peacocks will tip-off at 12 noon prior to the second game of the doubleheader between Duke and Temple.
Loyola completed the turnaround from finishing the 2003-2004 season with the lowest RPI in NCAA Division I basketball. The Greyhounds finished that season with a 1-27 record the season before Jimmy Patsos took over as head coach.
Since then, Loyola has gone 122-123 and culminated the turnaround by winning a school Division I record 24 games in 2011-2012.
Patsos is one of only three coaches at the Division I level in the last 20 years to take over a program that had won zero or one game the year prior to then win 100 games at the school. He joins Steve Cleveland (BYU) and Pat Douglass (UC-Irvine) as the others.
Patsos Named Coach & Man Of The Year
Jimmy Patsos became the first Loyola coach to earn The Rock/Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors by a vote of his peers in the league.
Patsos guided the Greyhounds to a school Division I high 24 wins and a program MAAC record 13 victories. He earned his 100th career coaching victory in November 2012 and led the Greyhounds to the No. 2 seed in the MAAC Championships.
Later in March, Patsos was named the Skip Prosser Man of the Year award for his work on and off the court, an honor presented by CollegeInsider.com.
2012 All-MAAC Honors
For the first time since the league expanded to three All-MAAC teams in 1998, four Greyhounds received all-league honors, topping all teams in the conference. Erik Etherly was named to the All-MAAC First Team, Dylon Cormier to the Second, and Justin Drummond and Robert Olson to the Third.
Loyola led all teams in the MAAC with its four selections, just in front of Iona's three.
The Greyhounds' previous high was at the end of the 1997-1998 season when Mike Powell (1st), Jason Rowe (2nd) and Roderick Platt (3rd) earned All-MAAC honors.
Etherly led Loyola in scoring (13.7), rebounding (7.5) and blocked shots (50), while finishing second on the team with 63 assists. He shot .530 from the field, good for third in the conference
Cormier was second on the team in scoring, just back of Etherly, with a 13.4 points per game average while improving his field-goal percentage nearly 10 points from his freshman season to .461 as a sophomore.
Drummond has come off the bench in 29 of the Greyhounds' 33 games last year and is fourth on the team with 11.1 points per game. The guard as also third in rebounding (3.9), and he has scored in double figures 17 times this year.
Olson was one of the top 3-point shooters in the conference last year. He shot .431 from behind the arc, third-best in the MAAC, and averaged 11.1 points per game. The guard entered the month of January averaging less than nine points per game, but from that point forward, he was the team's second-leading scorer at nearly 13 a contest.
Century Mark
Head Coach Jimmy Patsos became the third coach in Loyola history to win 100 games when the Greyhounds defeated UMBC, 73-63, on the road last season. Patsos, who is now in his ninth season, took over a team that finished 1-27 during the 2002-2003 season. He won his 100th game in his 215th career game.
Last season, Patsos moved into third-place all time at Loyola in victories, trailing only Lefty Reitz (349 wins, 1937-44, 1945-61) and Nap Doherty (165, 1961-74).
|Loyola All-Time Coaching Wins List
|Lefty Reitz
|1937-1944, 1945-1961
|Nap Doherty
|Jimmy Patsos
|Mark Amatucci
|Gary Dicovitsky
Baltimore Bred And More From Nearby
Since taking over as head coach in 2004, Jimmy Patsos has put an emphasis on recruiting locally, and it has never shown as much as on this year's roster. Four players – junior guard Dylon Cormier (Cardinal Gibbons), junior forward Jordan Latham (City) and sophomore guard R.J. Williams and freshman forward Josh Forney (St. Frances) are products of schools within the city limits.
Six more players played in high school within 50 miles of Loyola, as the crow flies (thanks daftlogic.com): Jarred Jones, John Carroll, 20.5; Tyler Hubbard, Montrose Christian, 32.6 miles; Robert Olson, Georgetown Prep, 33.9; Anthony Winbush, T.C. Williams, 43.7; and Erik Etherly, Annandale, 47.9.
What's Next
Loyola opens the month of December with a game in the Sunshine State on Saturday, December 1. The Greyhounds travel to Fort Myers, Fla., to take on Florida Gulf Coast Unviersity at 7:05 p.m.


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YUKON, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say more than 100 people were injured during a burst of severe storms and tornadoes on Friday night.
The Oklahoma State Department of Health reported Saturday that Oklahoma City-area hospitals treated 104 people. More than half of those were people who had been cut or pierced.
Nine people died during the storm, which struck the Oklahoma City area during rush hour, trapping many people in their cars along Interstate 40.
The National Weather Service reported Friday evening that "several" tornadoes rolled across the prairie. The official number of tornadoes has not yet been determined.

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I'm a Dutch guy who moved from Amsterdam to San Francisco 4 years ago to work in the Internet Industry. For my personal blog I need a logo that can represent me to some extent. Keywords would be:
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Virtual teams look like a great idea. After all, they allow an organisation to bring together its best minds to work on a project, regardless of where they are located.
With globalisation running rampant, virtual teams can cross the boundaries of company, culture and country. What's more, they can be managed from anywhere. And they rarely work.
A growing body of industry research shows few organisations proactively adopt virtual teams as a means of creating a competitive advantage. Most organisations that operate virtual teams do so reactively, as a means of coping with an organisational structure that has grown through acquisition or rapid global expansion. As the organisation becomes more distended, key team members become scattered throughout its operation, communication falters and collaboration grinds to a halt.
Dr John Gundry has been preaching the art of managing virtual teams since almost before the term was invented. His exposure to the concept commenced in the UK in the early 1990s at Digital Equipment Corporation, a company whose own expertise in managing remote workers had led it to develop a number of revolutionary electronic team management tools. Through a project applying these tools to the working lives of fisherman in Western Ireland, Gundry was able to see their usefulness first hand.
Now a globetrotting consultant on the topic, Gundry is passionate about the benefits that correct usage of virtual teams can deliver to an organisation's effectiveness. His enthusiasm is tempered by his belief that most organisations manage their virtual teams poorly. Gundry says most of the work of virtual teams today is on short, tactical projects. Very few organisations adopt virtual teaming as an organisational capability.
"What I'm talking about is equipping organisations with big teams, doing very collaborative work, across difficult cultural situations, for six months – running whole departments or working across mergers or partnerships or alliances," he says. "The business drivers, or globalisation, integration and lean operating, are unstoppable. This has to happen – it is a question of whether it moves well or badly."
Blind assumptions
In most instances, Gundry says organisations have grown at a rapid rate, only to find themselves working at a remote distance from their staff and partners. In many instances, these relationships are managed badly but the organisation has no frame of reference to realise they can be managed better. Organisations that fail to realise this may view their current activity in virtual teams as an endorsement of their capabilities, and launch more equally flawed team-based projects.
The dangers of getting it wrong are real. For the employees, working in a badly managed virtual team can leave team members feeling ambiguous about their role, reducing their level of commitment. This can lead to workers delivering sub-par performances and, eventually, to absenteeism.
Two issues stand in the way of managers successfully operating virtual teams. The first is the level of politics resident within the organisation and management fearing they need to be close to people lest they suffer if they are not. The second issue is the maturity of managers themselves, and their ability to manage by objective rather than by headcount.
Cultural trends can exacerbate the latter issue. While objective-based management is growing in popularity in Western Europe and North America, in Latin American countries, having their people gathered around them enhances a manager's importance.
Cultural clash
Indeed, cultural mismatch is a significant reason behind the failure of many virtual teams. Gundry says that in virtual teams that operate beyond a company's boarders – and even more so across multiple countries – managers fail to spend sufficient time upfront assessing the expectations of the parties involved. Recent difficulties reported between offshore outsourcers and their clients can be attributed to this problem, where different groups do not share basic assumptions about how things will be done.
"Mismatched assumptions can jump up and bite you," says Gundry. "It is assumed that who ever the outsourcer is, because they speak English and wear a tie, they do things the same way that you do. Virtual teams bring together people who are ripe with the possibility of unmatched assumptions – people from different professions, different companies and different countries. It's a blueprint for all sorts of misunderstandings, but [managers] don't talk about them."
Gundry applies the change formula developed in the 1980s by former Sloan School adjunct professor and change management expert Richard Beckhard to determine how well a shift to a virtual team environment will work. The Beckhard formula relates dissatisfaction with the current state to the benefits of the future or changed state and the nature of the immediate first steps that are needed to get to there.
"You can arm wave as much as you like about how greener the grass will be if you make this change. What gets people going is to know what the immediate first step is," says Gundry. "And I set up to equip people with not only the broad picture, but early simple steps they can do to move to this environment."
Empowering people
The next step to empowering a virtual team is for management to make a top down assessment of the various tools available to that team. It can then decide when and how they are best applied. These include traditional tools such as the telephone and e-mail, and also audio and video conferencing, online discussion forums, and collaborative file sharing. Gundry likens them to the tools in a gardener's shed. "Each one does a different job well."
While none of these tools are especially new and, in many cases, are resident within the applications available to most workers in knowledge-related industries, rarely are those workers ever trained in their effective use. The prevalence to manage virtual teams by e-mail alone leads Gundry to have to 'detox' managers and get them to change over to mature team-based tools such as online forums.
Somewhat paradoxically, he does not discount the value of face-to-face contact.
"The trick to understanding when to use these tools is to regard face-to-face meetings as just one of the tools we can use. It's been around the longest, but it doesn't mean it is the best of every type of communication. So what I ask people to do is put the face-to-face meeting in the mix with all the other tools, and then let me tell them which does the best for various tasks."
Raising resources
With some 50 offices and 4,500 staff spread across locations as far flung as Trinidad, Ireland and the Middle East, for the Australian engineering company Worley, the effective use of virtual teams has become a necessity.
According to Worley's team leader for virtual teams, Bangkok-based operations manager Greg Conlon, his company faces an ongoing challenge in rarely having all the personnel that it requires in any specific location.
"So as soon as you have larger or technology specific opportunities, you face two choices," says Conlon. "You either relocate resources to suit the job, or you bring the resources in virtually."
To support its virtual teams, Worley has installed a strong technology backbone across which it deploys numerous collaborative applications. It has also established protocols for their usage.
"What we have really tried to put together is a virtual tool box for people to access. The core of it is Microsoft's SharePoint. We use that as the basis for our worldwide electronic management system for communications, and that quite readily enables us to create project-specific sites, where we can centralise data."
Rather than just use its virtual teaming skills reactively, Worley is proactively working on projects across multiple locations. Additional advantages come through being able to switch resources from one job to another with minimal downtime and cost.
Virtual teaming also means Worley is not reliant on constantly relocating its staff, meaning it can keep staff longer as is it is not disrupting their family life.
"It's a real vehicle for us going forward," says Conlon. "Worley recognises there are market pressures to centralise expertise. The market pushes during the past few years have always been about contracting to areas of expertise. But we recognise that to get good project performance you need to be interfacing with your client locally. So we've recognised those two market drivers.
"But the thing that makes Worley truly unique is that we have a flat management structure, and there are not a lot of tiers in our organisation. And that enables quite a lot of flexibility and responsiveness."
Patching the social fabric Quality and maturity of management is a key factor in the success of virtual teams. Conlon says Worley is highly capable of managing its staff by objective, a factor that Gundry says is essential in managing remote workers.
Likewise, he says it is important to understand that while vast distances may separate the team members, there is still a social aspect to virtual teamwork, and this needs to be encouraged and nurtured, by allowing the team to use the tools for social purposes, and through sponsoring events.
"The social aspects of relationships and trust get more attention in my workshop than anything else. We know that teams are social entities as well as work units, but most of the time we don't think about it. Relationships at work are much like air – you don't notice it until it's gone. "When you get to the virtual workplace, you need to compensate for the fact that you are not having relationships with people – and I mean respect and rapport – that they don't come free any more," explains Gundry.
"You don't have time at the coffee machine any more; you don't talk about the footy when you come into work. So a lot of my teaching is reminding people that those things happen, and saying here are tools and techniques for recreating that social fabric when we are apart from each other. And that means explicitly using tools in a social fashion as well as for a work role."
Agile approach Despite his best efforts to raise awareness of the difference between good and bad implementations, Gundry says the concept of virtual teams has received far less attention than other technology-driven concepts, such as customer relationship management and knowledge management.
"It has been around for longer than knowledge management, but it has not achieved that prominence. I think there is an assumption that there is no special techniques and no special tools, no special understanding, in virtual teams. It is not uniquely defined enough in people's minds. But there is a growing body of research and knowledge."
What has assisted his cause is the marketing efforts of companies such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard around the concept of 'on-demand' and 'agile' computing, which almost demand an organisation be able to switch virtual teams on and off to cope with new opportunities and challenges.
"This work on agility is about: 'How do we rapidly meet opportunities and threats and crisis?' And virtual teaming is one of the ways of doing that, because you can rapidly mobilise resources and rewire the organisation to create new products and do new things," says Gundry. "Now a company that wasn't agile wouldn't be interested in virtual teaming."


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Google saw widespread disruptions to its Web services in China on Friday, according to the company's "transparency report" website. Amir Efrati has details on The News Hub. Photo: AFP/Getty Images.
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Last week, I asked for recommendations for books that will wow me. One of the commenters, Mary Anne, mentioned a title that stood out to me: Thorn by Intisar Khanani. This is the first time I've heard of this title or this author but I was immediately curious because Thorn is a retelling of the Brothers Grimm Goose Girl fairy tale. It doesn't hurt that the book has a pretty cover. I'm a big fan of fairy tales retold and the only Goose Girl retelling that I've read so far is Shannon Hale's. Definitely planning to check this out. I've had a sample sent to my Kindle and if I end up liking it, I'll probably grab the whole novel. I'm trying to be better about buying ebooks because I have so many unread titles in my TBR pile. I keep telling myself that I should only buy books that I'll read right away (it doesn't always work).
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You know exactly why Tomlin got hired. You know exactly why we were good and won the Superbowl last year. And you all know what we need to do to be good again. Let's just hope it happens next season
it sad cuz i know we are way better then what we have been playing
Sh!t happens.
You can either get over it, or dwell in it. And be honest, who wants to dwell in sh!t?
Exactly... some of these people posting negatively in these other threads are just out to lunch. We won the SB last year. We have an exceptional team that greatly underachieved this year probably for a number of reasons. But we still have a good core of guys and that included Mike Tomlin.... We will just have to wait and see if he can right the ship, because this season was truly pathetic. I would suggest start with letting go Bruce Arians for sure.
Firing is a good start,but will do nothing to fix the defense or special teams.
Our receivers were embarrassing last night,they couldn't get separation from the worse defense in the NFL. Our o'line couldn't protect Ben or open a hole for the running backs.
Homles, Ward, Mendenhall and Miller all tried their best to imitate Sweed.
Woodley showed up for one series to make up for a stupid facemask penalty,other than that our defense was invisible.
We got Anthony Madison back,now you know why he was let go in the first place. On the other hand Arnold Harrison made the same number of plays (except Arnolds counter for something)
It's no fun when the rabbit has the gun
Yeah, it's not Arians fault that the defense forgot how to tackle and that the special teams apparently just goes out there to get warmed up.
I like Tomlin, but Arians has to go, and as much as I like Lebeau, we must start looking for his replacement as well, because of his age.
On defense we got old quickly, Hampton, and Farrior need replaced. We weed two corners, Ike is even sad. We also need a replacement for Clark. We have ZERO depth on defense.
On Offense, The Line, lets start there. The pass that Mendenhal dropped, was in excusable, but Moore should have been in there anyway, he was the passing down, 3rd down back all year, where was he when we needed him?
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Koster presided over a hearing on a protest brought by resident Jon Hydeman on the basis that the petition to place the oil and gas ban on the city's November ballot did not include a summary of the measure for signers to read.
Koster said Friday the petition complied with state laws governing home-rule cities.
Doug Flanders, Colorado Oil & Gas Association director of policy and external affairs, said the ruling was disappointing because the proposed amendment wasn't clear enough for those who signed the petition to understand.
"A ballot summary is important because the Lafayette ballot language is very confusing and could have incredibly damaging unintended consequences," Flanders wrote in a statement. "For example, signatories were probably unaware that approval of this ballot could stop the transportation of all natural gas through pipes, which means disallowing natural gas to your homes."
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Koster supported that argument in her decision.
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Dr. Michael T. Harris is the Chief of Surgery and Surgical Services at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, in Englewood, NJ. Dr. Harris is a nationally recognized expert in the field of gastrointestinal surgery, particularly in advanced reconstructive surgical techniques for inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis). He has helped pioneer the use of minimally invasive (laparoscopic) surgical techniques for both diseases and has one of the largest IBD practices in the nation.
Dr. Harris also served as vice chairman of the Department of Surgery at Mount Sinai, responsible for the management of Surgical Associates, a 45-surgeon faculty practice. He was recruited to this position and charged with helping create the premier patient-centered multispecialty surgical group in the nation. His own practice consistently scored in the 99th percentile nationally in patient satisfaction surveys. In 2009, Dr. Harris was awarded the National Leadership in Medicine Award by the Studer Group® and a Gold Doc Award from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for humanism in medicine.
Dr. Harris has been very active in support of The Mount Sinai Medical Center. He served as the President of the Hospital Medical Board and its Executive Committee, and served on the Board of Governors of Faculty Practice Associates, the 840-physician multispecialty group of The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. As past president of the Association of Attending Staff, comprised of over 2,000 active clinicians at Mount Sinai, Dr. Harris served as a strong advocate for patients and their physicians. In 2007, Dr. Harris was awarded with the Mount Sinai Department of Nursing's highest honor for physicians, the Physician of the Year Special Recognition Award, given for outstanding collaboration with Mount Sinai nurses.
Dr. Harris received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1984, studying Russian literature. He went on to earn his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1988. He completed his general surgery residency at Mount Sinai and then was managing partner of a large private surgical practice for over 10 years.
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- Colorectal Cancer
- Colorectal Resection
- Crohn's Disease
- Familial Adenomatous Polyposis
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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Gold Doc Award for Humanism in Medicine
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Oh C, Divino CM, Steinhagen RM. Anal fissure: 20-year experience. Dis Colon Rectum 1995; 38: 378-382.
Harris MT. Colorectal Carcinoma. In: Primary Care. Philadelphia, Lippincott-Raven; 1994.
Harris MT, Lewis BS. Systematic disease affecting the mesenteric circulation. Surgical Clinics of North America 1992; 72: 13-15.
Harris MT, Drew M, Cohen LB, Tenenbaum M. Esophageal obstruction in malignant mesothelioma. Diseases of the Esophagus 1994; 1: 212-214.
Bauer JJ, Harris MT, Grumbach NM, Gorfine SR. Laparoscopic-assisted intestinal resection for Crohn's disease. Diseases of the Colon and Rectum 1995; 38: 712-715.
Gorfine SR, Gelernt IM, Bauer JJ, Harris MT, Kreel I. Restorative proctocolectomy without diverting ileostomy. Diseases of the Colon and Rectum 1995; 38: 188-194.
Bauer JJ, Gorfine SR, Gelerrnt IM, Harris MT, Kreel I. Restorative proctocolectomy in patients older than fifty years. Diseases of the Colon and Rectum 1997; 40: 562-565.
Hearn K, Daily M, Harris MT, Bodian C. Reduce costs and improve patient satisfaction with home preoperative bowel preparations. Nursing Case Management 2000; 5: 13-25.
Ellozy S, Harris MT, Bauer J, Gorfine SR, Kreel I. Early postoperative small bowel obstruction: a prospective evaluation in 242 consecutive abdominal operations. Diseases of the Colon and Rectum 2002 Sept; 45(9): 1214-1217.
Gorfine SR, Harris MT, Bub DS, Bauer JJ. Restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis complicated by colorectal cancer. Dis Colon Rectum 2004; 47: 1377-1385.
Edden Y, Benkov K, Harris MT. Percutaneous Liver Biopsy Complicated by Hemobilia-Associated Acute Cholecystitis. World J Gastroenterol 2006 July; 12(27): 4435-4436.
Latzman GS, Kornbluth A, Murphy SJ, Legnani P, George J, Guller J, Carroccio A, Lewin S, Harris MT. Use of an intravascular thrombectomy device to treat life-threatening venous thrombosis in a patient with crohn's disease and G20210A prothrombin gene mutation.. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2007; 13(4): 505-508.
Divino C, Shapiro M, Greenstein AJ, Byrn J, Corona J, Greenstein A, Salky B, Harris MT. Surgical Management and Outcome of Patients with Duodenal Crohn's Disease. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2008; 207(1): 36-42.
Steinlauf A, Marion J, Sachar D, Sandler A, Greenstein A, Harris MT. Ileouterine Fistulae: Possible Predisposing Factors to this Rare Complication of Crohn's Disease. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2010;.
Telem DA, Vine AJ, Swain G, Divino CM, Salky B, Greenstein AJ, Harris MT, Katz LB. Laparoscopic subtotal colectomy for medically refractory ulcerative colitis: the time has come. Surgical Endoscopy 2010; 24(7): 1616-1620.
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device and biotechnology companies to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their relationships with such companies.
Dr. Harris is not currently required to report Industry relationships.
Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.
Physicians who provide services at hospitals and facilities in the Mount Sinai Health System might not participate in the same health plans as those Mount Sinai hospitals and facilities (even if the physicians are employed or contracted by those hospitals or facilities).
Information regarding insurance participation and billing by this physician may be found on this page, and can also be obtained by contacting this provider directly. Because physicians insurance participation can change, the insurance information on this page may not always be up-to-date. Please contact this physician directly to obtain the most up-to-date insurance information.
Insurance and health plan networks that the various Mount Sinai Health System hospitals and facilities participate in can be found on the Mount Sinai Health System website.


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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright used to send out his poetic Christmas message every year. So I do too.
He called it "Man the Enlightened Being." "The herd disappears and reappears," says Wright's message, "but the sovereignty of the individual persists." What better time of year to take time out to reflect on that.*
Literature tells about man. Architecture presents him. The Architecture that our man of Democracy needs and prophecies is bound to be different from that of the common or conditioned man of any other socialized system of belief. As never before, this new Free-Man's Architecture will present him by being true to his own nature in all such expressions. . .
With renewed vision, the modern man will use the new tools Science lavishes upon him (even before he is ready for them) to enlarge his field of action by reducing his fetters to exterior controls, especially those of organized Authority, publicity, or political expediency. He will use his new tools to develop his own Art and Religion as the means to keep him free, as himself. Therefore this democratic man's environment, like his mind, will never be style-ized. When and wherever he builds he will not consent to be boxed. He will himself have his style.
The Democratic man demands conscientious liberty for himself no more nor less than he demands liberty for his neighbor. . .
Whenever organic justice is denied him he will not believe he can get it by murder but must obtain it by continuing fair dealing and enlightenment at whatever cost. He will never force upon others his own beliefs nor his own ways. He will display his social methods to others as best advantage as critic or missionary only when sought by them.
His neighbor will be to him (as he is to himself) free to choose his own way according to his own light, their common cause being the vision of the uncommon-man wherein every man is free to grow to the stature his freedom in America under the Constitution of these United States grants him.
Exterior compulsion absent in him, no man need be inimical to him. Conscience, thus indispensable to his own freedom, becomes normal to every man. . .
Remember the men who gave us our [American] Nation. We have 'the Declaration' and our Constitution because they were individualist. Great Art is still living for us only because of Individualists like Beethoven. We have creative men on earth today only as they are free to continually arise as individuals from obscurity to demonstrate their dignity and worth above the confusion raised by the herding of the common-man by aid of the scribes and Pharisees of his time—quantity ignoring or overwhelming quality. The herd disappears and reappears but the sovereignty of the individual persists. . .
Read on here for Frank Lloyd Wright's full message: "Man, the Enlightened Being," and have a great individualistic holiday season.
And remember this useful advice about responsible holiday drinking: Don't underestimate when you're at the bottle store. When there's serious celebrating to be done, it would be irresponsible to run out.
See you next year!!
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Scratchbuilt Star Wars ground combat miniatures
Another crazy project of mine. Some days I think I have time for everything, and I try to do everything... I was preparing ground combat rules for very small scale Star Wars miniatures, but I never got them finished. I've got a bunch of scratchbuilt or modified small miniatures though, and now that I've found Savage Worlds and it's mass combat rules, I can create battles using miniatures as counters! If you're a Savage Worlds fan, you might want to read my post about starship battles.
Scratchbuilt Victory -class Star Destroyer
Victory-class Star Destroyer is another vessel not seen in movies. It is predecessor of Imperial Star Destroyer, is 900 m long and has seen it's best years during the old republic. Although it's too slow to be too effective in ship-to-ship -combat, it still excels in one area: It is still the largest ship able to enter a planet's atmosphere. Combined with it's heavy weaponry, this attribute makes it excellent ground assault craft.
Self-made dragon decoration
While originally designed to be a self-made miniature, arrival of D&D minis retired this fun experiment; The scales are made of glossy glitter pieces, which makes it look really special :)
The dragon is built on a wire frame, using a sort of modelling clay for body and paper meant for those super-light balsa-wood airplanes for wings.
Star Wars exterior gaming terrain + Lambda -class shuttle
Rebels sneaking towards landed Lambda -class shuttle
Scratchbuilt Lambda -class shuttle is being loaded, when the rebels attack
Steampunk diorama created from scratchbuilt gaming terrain
Here's a diorama I made for a competiton earlier, with some customized steampunk miniatures & scratchbuilt terrain.
Steampunk interior models - a closer look
In my earlier post ( Steampunk diorama ), I promised to introduce these steampunk terrain items to you, so here we go.
Tatooine -like rpg/miniatures gaming terrain
"If there's a center to the universe, then you're on the planet that it's farthest from!"
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Today's bake was Hamelman's Pain au Levain with Whole Wheat Flour. This is one of a series of versions of Pain au Levain in Bread. I have baked all of them - several, like this one, many times. My favorite is whichever one just cooled enough to eat. This one was pretty yummy. Crunchy crust, chewy crumb. Complex wheaty flavor.
Pretty loaves, too, if I do say so myself.
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For Architecture's Sake: A $164 Million Fantasyland
A Nanjing family is about to unveil the $164 million Sifang Art Museum and architecture park, a design fantasyland featuring buildings by world-renowned architects including David Adjaye, Steven Holl and Wang Shu. To explore the park goto http://www.wsj.com/sifang
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Rodney Scott Harrison (born December 15, 1972 in Markham, Illinois) is a retired American football safety. He was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the fifth round of the 1994 NFL Draft. He played college football at Western Illinois.
A two-time Pro Bowl selection, Harrison is the only player in NFL history to record both 30 sacks and 30 interceptions. He earned two Super Bowl rings with the Patriots.
Harrison went to high school at Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois. In March 2006, Marian Catholic retired Harrison's #37 jersey. Harrison actually never wore #37 while in High School. Harrison's varsity numbers were #26 as a sophomore, #11 as a junior and #3 as a senior. Harrison graduated from high school in 1991.


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"[The politicians] should all be fired, that's what I think" ... adding, "You know we could all fire ALL of them."
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Inbox: Will Cards consider six-man rotation?
ST. LOUIS -- First off, I want to wish you and your family a Happy New Year and a blessed 2014. I am thankful that you have made cardinals.com one of your regular stops in 2013, and I hope you continue to enjoy the coverage of what looks to be another exciting season ahead for the Cardinals.
In the meantime, as you begin a countdown to Spring Training, here are a few more of your offseason questions answered.
ST. LOUIS -- First off, I want to wish you and your family a Happy New Year and a blessed 2014. I am thankful that you have made cardinals.com one of your regular stops in 2013, and I hope you continue to enjoy the coverage of what looks to be another exciting season ahead for the Cardinals.
In the meantime, as you begin a countdown to Spring Training, here are a few more of your offseason questions answered.
From my count, there are seven pitchers vying for a spot in the rotation next year: Adam Wainwright, Lance Lynn, Shelby Miller, Michael Wacha, Jaime Garcia (if healthy), Joe Kelly, and Carlos Martinez. Would the Cardinals consider a six-man rotation going into the season? If not, would those on the outside of the rotation be put in the bullpen or be sent down?
-- Joel C., Mesa, Ariz.
Asked about the possibility of using a six-man rotation last April, manager Mike Matheny put the likelihood of such a setup as "not very high." If the Cardinals want to monitor the workload for some of their young pitchers, a modified six-man rotation could always be implemented later in the year. But don't plan on seeing it in April.
Those seven pitchers you listed all have proven themselves in the Major Leagues, so it's likely all seven will dent the team's Opening Day roster. Five would fill the rotation; the other two would take on bullpen roles. One of the reasons the Cardinals did not feel it necessary to pursue pitching this offseason was because they intended to backfill the bullpen with pitchers who don't crack the rotation. The only one of the seven that I think could start in Triple-A would be Martinez, and that would only be if the Cardinals wanted to keep him stretched out in case a need arose in the big league rotation.
Beyond adding a right-handed-hitting infielder (Mark Ellis) to provide insurance for Kolten Wong, Matt Carpenter, etc., do the Cards have any intention of adding a power bat to the bench? With Matt Adams slated to start, they have no one who can provide pinch-hit power. I'd like to see the Redbirds sign a low-risk/high-reward power guy, although Ty Wiggington didn't work out so well last year.
-- Josh C., S.C.
The Cardinals are likely done reconstructing their bench, so what you see now is what you're going to get. The bench does project to offer little in the way of power, but the quality of at-bats should improve. Tony Cruz will return as the backup catcher. Ellis will take an infield spot, as will Daniel Descalso or Pete Kozma. In the outfield, two of Jon Jay, Oscar Taveras and Shane Robinson are likely to be on the roster.
Whenever it is that Taveras is ready, his placement on the big league roster will boost the power potential. He could start out as a part-time player, or he could push Adams back into a reserve role and take an everyday spot in the outfield. Either way, the Cardinals' offense would seemingly improve.
With Kevin Siegrist and Randy Choate holding down the left side of the bullpen, do you think Sam Freeman and Tyler Lyons will be sent back to [Triple-A] Memphis?
-- Ira M., Affton, Mo.
Triple-A would seem the likely placement for both Freeman and Lyons, though the Cardinals are not opposed to keeping three lefties in the bullpen if all three are deserving. The dilemma, though, is finding room. Trevor Rosenthal, Jason Motte and Seth Maness all have bullpen spots waiting. Two of the starting candidates who don't crack the rotation could fall to the 'pen, too. Already, that's a corps of seven relievers.
The benefit in sending Lyons back down to Triple-A (should the Cardinals chose to do so) would be that he could continue pitching as a starter. Then, if the Cardinals have a starting need in St. Louis, they would have someone stretched out and ready.
I saw that the Cardinals named Zach Petrick their Minor League Pitcher of the Year. There are many high-prospect pitchers in the organization that could have been given the award, yet an undrafted/unknown pitcher was named. What are the Cardinals' thoughts on Petrick's future?
-- Dave B. Morris, Ill.
It's important to note that this award goes to the Minor League pitcher who had the best season, not the one with the most promising future. It is not a prospect award. Petrick, though an unknown coming into the season, had a sensational 2013. He posted a 0.83 ERA in Class A (32 2/3 innings), 0.27 ERA in Class A-Advanced (33 1/3 innings) and 3.99 ERA in Double-A (47 1/3 innings).
The Cardinals are pleased to have taken a chance on a pitcher who went undrafted in 2012, but they also have tempered expectations for his continued trajectory. Petrick is not considered one of the Cardinals' top pitching prospects -- remember, that distinction takes into account long-term projection -- but that doesn't mean he isn't someone worth continuing to watch. It would seem likely that Petrick begins 2014 back in the Double-A rotation.
Are the Cardinals looking to upgrade their backup catcher? I know Cruz is a fairly solid defensive catcher, but he just doesn't contribute much at the plate. And I would like to see Yadier Molina get a few more days off this season.
-- Bob K., Chicago
The Cardinals are pleased with Cruz's job as a backup to Molina, so he will remain in that role. The Cardinals are not looking to add to their catching depth anymore this winter. They did already sign Ed Easley to a Minor League deal much in the same way they brought Rob Johnson into camp a year ago.
I often hear folks question Cruz's offensive production. First off, the Cardinals don't keep Cruz for what he does at the plate, and second, he get at-bats so sparingly that he is given little opportunity to succeed. The Cardinals value defense and rapport with the pitching staff much more than batting average or on-base percentage in that backup role. Cruz was a decent hitter when playing regularly in the Minors, so it's not that the bat is not there. But limited playing time likely will always stifle it.
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB.


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OCCA strengthens the arts by ensuring that the Oregon coast has a rich and vibrant arts community through support and promotion of arts organizations and individual artists.
This directory represents the coastal areas of Oregon, which include Clatsop, Tillamook, Lincoln, Coos, and Curry counties and the coastal towns of Lane and Douglas counties. OCCA is the regional arts council for this area. Learn more about OCCA's regional arts activities.
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Central Coast Chorale (CCC) was formed in 1997 by local residents to provide chorale experiences to the community. The chorale is comprised of members of the greater coastal communities in and around Lincoln County, and performs several times a year, mainly the Christmas "Wishes and Candles" concert and the spring " Anything Goes" concert. Winter and spring concerts also include participation by additional invited instrumentalists and guests.
Clatsop Community College presents original art exhibits in its Art Center Gallery and a versatile menu of arts and cultural activities on campus and at other locations in Clatsop County. The college's Arts & Ideas series of events can be found at https://www.clatsopcc.edu/community/arts-ideas.
Coastal Act Productions is a non-profit organization created to foster, promote and increase public knowledge and appreciation of the arts and cultural activities in Lincoln County through youth theatre.
CDABA - Coastal Douglas Arts & Business Alliance is a 501(c)(3) non-profit located in Reedsport, Oregon.
The Coastalaires Barbershop Chorus is the performing arm of the Oregon Mid-Coast Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society. We meet each Thursday evening, from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 227 NE 12th St., Newport, Oregon. Drop in just to listen, or join us in song.
The Columbia River Maritime Museum is one of the finest maritime museums on the West Coast. Six Galleries, the Great Hall, and the Lightship Columbia interpret the Pacific Northwest's rich maritime history.
Coos Art Museum has been a cultural focal point of Oregon's scenic Southern Coast since 1966. It occupies the historic 1936 Art Deco US Federal Building in downtown Coos Bay. The Museum offers a wide range of arts activities including exhibitions, art classes and lectures.
Covering the North Oregon and Southwest Washington coast with local news, public affairs and an eccletic mix of music
Coos Sand 'n Sea Quilters was founded in 1991 with the mission "Dedicated to educate, and to share, and to perpetuate the art of quilting." Meetings are held the first Thursday of the month September through June at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Coos Bay from 7-9 PM, with social time starting at 6:15 PM.
New members are welcome. Annual dues are $20.00. An annual quilt show is held the third weekend in September in conjunction with the Bay Area Fun Festival.
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