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Rick Baker - President/CEO
Rick has been with the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association for thirty years. He became Director of Marketing in 1988 before becoming President in 1992. Rick received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Scranton in 1977 and his Masters of Education from Ohio University in 1979. Rick is a native of Millerton, Pennsylvania and first came to Dallas in 1979 to work for SMU. In 1986, he was named the Director of the NCAA Men's Final Four Basketball Tournament. He is married to Patti and they have a dog named Winston.
Carly Engel
Carly graduated with a degree in hospitality from the University of Florida. She was a volunteer with the Gator Football team as a Gator Football Ambassador and was also the Gator Football Administrative Intern under the Director of Football Administration. She worked two years for the University of Florida Athletic Association as an Operations Assistant for various sports. Carly is a native to San Diego, CA. This will be her second Classic.
Charlie Fiss - VP of Communications
Charlie's first Cotton Bowl was in 1985 when he served as the Assistant Director of Media Relations for the Southwest Conference from 1984-1993. In July 1993, Charlie was hired by the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association to serve as its fulltime VP of Communications. Through his 33 years, he has worked with six Heisman Trophy winners. Charlie is a graduate of the University of Arkansas where he served as a Men's Media Assistant from 1976-1980, and then as the Women's Director of Media Relations from 1980-1984. As an avid racehorse fan, Charlie has volunteered at Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby for the past 31 years. Charlie is a native of Springdale, Arkansas.
Lisa Fortenberry - Pageantry Director
Lisa will celebrate her 32nd Cotton Bowl Classic this year. She became the Pageantry Director in 2007. Lisa was a member of the Kilgore College Rangerettes and then completed college at North Texas State where she received her Bachelor of Science in Business and Communications. Lisa's prior employment includes Mike Miller & Associates SPECIAL EVENTS and NCA SUPERSTAR. She currently co-owns a summer dance company Encore Creative Productions. Lisa is a native of Dallas, TX where she lives with her Yorkie, Dixie Belle.
Kelly Hembree - VP of Creative & Guest Services
Kelly is a 2008 University of Texas graduate with a degree in Kinesiology and Sport Management. During her undergraduate studies, she worked as a Student Assistant for Football Operations and Recruiting. As part of her studies in Sport Management, she was an intern for the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association in the fall of 2007. This will be Kelly's twelfth year with the Cotton Bowl. She is a native of Carrollton, Texas.
Michael Konradi - CMO
Michael graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism in 1999. He started his career with the Big 12 Conference as the Assistant Media Relations Director from 1999-2001. When he started with the Cotton Bowl in 2002, he was the Director of Marketing and Communications and in 2006 he was promoted to the position of Vice President of External Affairs. He became the Classic's CMO in the spring of 2015. Michael is a native of Dallas, Texas. He is married to Wendy and they have two children, Camden and Carrigan.
Cherise Lee
Cherise graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 2017 with degrees in Journalism and Sport Management. While in school, she worked for the women's basketball team as a student assistant. This will be Cherise's second Cotton Bowl. She is a native of Fort Worth, Texas.
Cathy Luetje - Media Operations Manager
Cathy volunteered at her first Cotton Bowl game in 1992 and officially joined the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association staff in May 2016. In addition to her years of volunteering at sporting events, Cathy has extensive experience as an event coordinator and producer in corporate business meetings and satellite communications industries. She also spent 17 years as producer/director for the Jumbotron video crew at Texas Stadium. Cathy grew up in Springdale, Arkansas. She is married to Paul and they have a chocolate lab named Carob.
Marty MacInnis - COO/CFO
Marty joined the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association in 1989 as the Ticket Manager and in 1991 he was promoted to his current position. He attended Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, for his undergrad and earned his Masters of Sports Administration from Ohio University in 1984. Marty started his professional career, holding several positions within the SMU ticket office from 1984-1989. His is a native of Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia Canada. This will be Marty's 29th Cotton Bowl game. He is married to Paula and they have two sons, Matthew and Alex.
Nancy Mills - VP of Executive Services
Nancy joined the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association in 1998 as the Assistant Director of Ticket Operations. During her time with the Cotton Bowl, she has held many positions and most recently was promoted to Vice President of Executive Services. Before joining the Cotton Bowl, she was a legal secretary for eleven years in Texas, Wisconsin and California. Nancy is a native of Dallas. She is married to John and they have four daughters, Alicia, Jennifer, Megan and Hannah and two grandchildren.
Amy Scott - VP of Ticket Sales and Services
Amy received her bachelor's and master's degree from Texas Tech University. During her undergrad, Amy worked as a Media Relations Assistant for the Texas Tech Athletic Department. Amy is from Llano, Texas and is married to Landry. They have a son, Mason.
David Hooks Waller - Director of Digital Marketing and Communications
David graduated from Texas Tech University in 2012 with degrees in business management and mass communications. He joined the Cotton Bowl staff in 2012 as the ticket operations manager. David is a native of Albany, Texas. He is married to Courtney and they have a son, Graham.


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Working to clean up the environment and help the community live drug-free
Scientologists Dick and Diane Hilly, Tahoe Truckee Future Without Drug Dependence Volunteers of the Year
Scientologists Dick and Diane Hilly were honored in January 2013 as Volunteers of the Year by the Tahoe Truckee Future Without Drug Dependence coalition for their work to counter prescription drug abuse.
"Disposing of prescription drugs is a serious problem," says Diane, "because although you can get prescription drugs from a pharmacy or hospital, you can't return them—if you try to bring unused portions of prescriptions back to the drug store, they cannot accept them."
The Hillys' concerns are twofold. To begin with, they know that prescription drug abuse has spiraled out of control in the United States, and many teens who abuse these drugs began with pills found in family medicine cabinets. And, ironically, the housing crisis has added to this problem.
"Many foreclosed homes were abandoned with full medicine chests," says Dick. Their second concern is environmental.
"If people try flushing their unused meds down the toilet, the drugs go right into the ground and water system," says Diane. "It is ingested by the fish; it contaminates our fruits and vegetables."
"Until the Drug Enforcement Administration created the Rx Takeback Day initiative, there was no legal or environmentally-correct way to dispose of old prescriptions," says Dick. "What is worse, no one is filtering our water for drugs. This is a big problem. There have been studies showing that folks and animals are consuming this stuff."
Through the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Rx Takeback Day, twice a year, people can bring their prescriptions in to a designated location to have them safely incinerated.
"Diane and I organized, promoted and ran two Rx Take Back Days in Truckee resulting in 340 pounds of prescription drugs being collected," says Dick.
The Hillys are active members of the Tahoe Truckee Future Without Drug Dependence (TT-FWDD), established to counter the destructive effects of drugs on local residents and the environment.
"Dick and I decided to survey people on their attitudes toward drugs, to make sure we were addressing the issues that are most important to the community." says Diane. "We set up a booth at public events and did 500 surveys."
"Diane and Dick have been a force of action in our community," says the Tahoe- Truckee Future Without Drug Dependence program director. "They are really passionate about preventing abuse and put that into action. They are role models on how to be involved in your community and make things happen."
The Hillys also volunteer for the Truth About Drugs education and prevention program supported by the Church of Scientology. They distribute The Truth About Drugs booklets and videos whenever and wherever they can.
"We organized and paid for a booth and enlisted the help of seven volunteers to help at the Tahoe-Truckee Airfair last summer," says Diane. "We surveyed 260 people and contacted hundreds more with our drug prevention message. I also appeared on a local TV show to educate people about prescription drugs. The people in our area are very environmentally concerned. They just don't know what to do. So Dick and I will continue to work on this issue. I love doing what I'm doing, and I have the satisfaction of knowing that I have changed the course of people's lives—people I don't even know."
The Church of Scientology has published a new brochure, Scientology: How We Help—The Truth About Drugs, Creating a Drug-Free World, to meet requests for more information about the drug education and prevention initiative it supports. To learn more or to read a copy of the brochure, visit http://www.Scientology.org/antidrug.
Some through 340 pounds of prescription drugs were collected in Truckee, California, Rx Take Back Days organized and promoted by Dick and Dianne Hilly.
Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote, "The planet has hit a barrier which prevents any widespread social progress—drugs and other biochemical substances. These can put people into a condition which not only prohibits and destroys physical health but which can prevent any stable advancement in mental or spiritual well-being."
The Church of Scientology supports the Truth About Drugs, one of the world's largest nongovernmental drug education and prevention campaigns, and Scientologists on five continents volunteer year-round to make this program broadly available. It has been conclusively proven that when young people are provided with the truth about drugs—factual information on what drugs are and what they do—usage rates drop commensurately.
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and when running from cops, it is better to make lefts then rights. I had a cop tell me that most people make right turns when they lost sight of the cop.
Although there is no definitive proof that God exists, there is also no definitive proof that he doesn't.
Ohh..I would also like to point out this. If this moron really wants to bring religion into it, then he should not be a hypocrite and go full force with it.
""What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."
The body is a temple and defiling it is a sin. That includes obesity (which he is), masturbation (which I am sure he does) and smoking (which he does).
So, Mr. Guy Garvey, you too sir are a sinner and therefore going straight to hell.
I think AC/DC wrote a song for you.
never heard of this asshole...so I youtubed the band, and as I suspected, they suck.
That asshat should be thankful that anyone would DL his crummy music, in hopes the downloader has an ignorant friend willing to shell out money for elbows attempt at music.
1.a person who purchases goods or services from another; buyer; patron.
2.a person who buys
3.a person or business that purchases a commodity or service
Using free services or goods does not make you a customer, period. If every business ran without payment, there would be no businesses and therefore no customers.
you do know that anal sex and oral sex is against the law in some states. So by your reasoning we should have cameras documenting 100% of the things people do, so that the unlawful cab be caught.
You mean Tesla Motors can make cars without polluting the environment...??!!!?///!11!!!!!???
Prince sucks anyway...nothing good nor creative since Raspberry Beret.
no the POINT is...the RICH who can copyright anything they want, even with no intention to use it all do it FOR THE SAKE OF PROFIT by the lil guy who wants to use the idea.
It is the same thing...both abusing for profit, but the moral dilemma is should we continue to let the rich get richer and keep the poor man down?
here is the question: Should the rich be allowed to copyright anything imaginable, have no intention of using, promoting or "saving" that copyright indefinitely?
Same with patents. A patent should require a working model, with full details on how the device works. The laws are to simple and allow the rich to horde up anything they can think of for use a a much much later date...forcing the lil guy that actually wants to use the idea to pay royalties.
THAT is the real issue.
I didn't vote for him. The dude is a smooth talking sleezbag, akin to the used, used car salesman.
I was thinking the same thing...if that cyclist had been quick to react, that cop would have been disarmed, and beaten to a bloody pulp...the way he came out with the gun it really looks like the dude is gonna be assaulted.
A cop with no badge, no car, no markings, no uniform is not a cop. ANYONE can walk up with a gun and say "Police", until you prove that, I am not listening...it is called self preservation.
sheep much?
Do you have kitchen cabinets? Bathroom cabinets? What about the framing around your sink and counter tops? Do you receive ZERO mail...last time I checked all mail that ships is made of dead trees. What about your shampoo and detergents, a lot of that stuff comes from organic compounds, most likely small trees or GASP dead plants.
I have to say your dead tree statement has to be the most retarded comment and belief on the internet...
none of which he follows through with
And this is why the government does not want you to have guns.
This is scary...very very scary.
gold diggers imo.


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Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?FrankGebhardt Mar 4, 2012 12:51 PM (in response to ted.hopton)
interesting that you raise that question. For us, it's more can Chatter and Google Chat co-exist.
I believe Jive has a slightly different tune to chatter. Chatter is more immediate and it is not a repository of past discussions. There is no search. It's more like Twitter. Jive on the other hand is a searchable repository, it's using structural components and it supports time lags.
For example, I can write an article or discussion in Jive and to get the attention of our Sales staff I post the subject and the link into the chatter stream. Sometimes I get replies within chatter - mostly people use Jive and add their knowledge / opinion directly.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?jim.buck01 Mar 4, 2012 3:57 PM (in response to FrankGebhardt)
So, do your sales teams primarily use Chatter to communicate and collaborate with one another, or are they using Jive? I'm still not sure I understand why an organization would want to use both. It seems to me that having both could simply segregate and silo the sales org form the rest of the organization unless it is specifically engaged in a topic.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?FrankGebhardt Mar 4, 2012 7:47 PM (in response to jim.buck01)
you are correct some information gets duplicated. Although that's mainly due to the respective audience.
The Sales people "live" in Salesforce. That's their main tool next to email. Jive is a resource to exchange information with the engineering and marketing team as well as to provide the rest of the organisation with some information about certain customer projects.
The rest of the organisation doesn't use chatter. They "live" in their respective environment (CAD, ERP, Develeopment, ..) to achieve their objectives. They use Jive to collaborate, exchange ideas, inform others and ask for feedback or help.
Jive forms the "glue" binding the different ways together.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?ted.hopton Mar 5, 2012 5:31 AM (in response to ted.hopton)
Frank, I raise the question because Salesforce positions itself as the technology to create a social business. Chatter is presented as comparable to Jive, not just an internal Twitter stream.
Jim, I'm not sure why an organization would want to use both, either -- hence my question. Looking for anyone with experience successfully using both.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?srivers Mar 5, 2012 6:17 AM (in response to ted.hopton)
We have Chatter as well and have a very very hard time getting employees to use it for anything meaningful. Google Talk is way to embedded in our culture. We IM someone just see if they are available to take a call, we IM people to see if they are going to make a meeting when in doubt we IM. We have tried to use Chatter as a kind of Group Chat, since Google does not do that, but it does not alert like Google Talk and often gets ignored.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?ted.hopton Mar 5, 2012 7:15 AM (in response to srivers)
Thanks for the input, Sean. Would you say you are using Jive successfully, in contrast to how Chatter is (not) working out?
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?Janine Mar 5, 2012 8:36 AM (in response to ted.hopton)
Great question... we have just deployed Salesforce.com a month ago to our US sales team and they love Chatter. We are also in the middle of deploying Jive to the global P&L including that team.
While we don't have much experience yet I'd agree with Frank's coments above. The feedback we received from the sales team so far has been "tell us what we need to do where now... if we can do the same in Jive let's just turn that funciton off in Salesforce.com." We'll evaluate that option in another couple of months after they get a better feel for jive, too.
In general...Chatter is very limited in terms of collaboration across an org. And in our case cannot be used by more than just the Sales team. We are planning to connect the two maybe later this year or early next.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?ted.hopton Mar 8, 2012 3:22 PM (in response to Janine)
Thanks, Janine. You raised a good point: what if Chatter is only or primarily used by the sales teams while Jive is available to all employees? Does that make it even harder to engage the sales teams in your Jive community? Or does it awaken them to the power of social business and lead them to try Jive, too? (Yeah, I don't really think the latter will happen!)
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?dshimberg Mar 8, 2012 3:01 PM (in response to ted.hopton)
The question is the same one that I have been asking for months. At BMC, we are in a unique position with both Chatter and Jive. Our use cases for Jive are (right or wrong) distinctly different for Chatter. Jive is the external facing "community" engine, while Chatter is the internal sales, marketing and product lead communication engine. Since we were an early adopter of Jive, my theory is we did not expand the use cases as the product matured. There is minimal integration currently in place between the two environments.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?ted.hopton Mar 8, 2012 3:24 PM (in response to dshimberg)
So, is Chatter sufficient for your internal social business needs? Do you find limitations with it that your experience with Jive leads you to think might be overcome if you were using Jive internally?
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?czaino Mar 27, 2012 7:51 AM (in response to ted.hopton)
Jive and Chatter can absolutely co-exist - how you approach the implementation comes down to several factors: what your users need, how they work and exchange information with each other, and what tools they currently use to work together; as well as what your requirements are around things like visibility and access to information, security, control and flexibility of the platform, and integration to existing systems and tools.
I've seen Chatter used successfully when it's tightly integrated into the existing CRM data - it's great at supporting activities like swarming around deals to help make the sale, updating account teams on particular events (wins, challenges, risks, opportunities, etc with the account), or providing more context/documentation on particular products that your team works with. I find Jive very useful for collaborative and team-based interactions, as well as managing corporate knowledge and information - working across departments to support ideation/creation of a new product or service, managing communications and deliverables for a project, or housing, organizing, and collaborating on all sorts of collateral and assets for the organization (sales decks, marketing campaigns, templates, etc).
Jive is also much more feature-rich than Chatter since it's been around much longer than Chatter has - I've seen several projects where it was important to have a lot of control over visibility, permissions and access to data was important and Jive was able to accommodate those requirements. In other projects, simplicity was important - they had only a few use cases and didn't want to over-complicate the approach - and additionally they needed it to tie into their existing CRM, so Chatter was their choice.
The good thing is that both platforms are rather open and have great eco-systems of 3rd party developers and apps to make integration and customization relatively easy.
Hope this (long) answer helps - good luck!
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?ted.hopton Mar 27, 2012 3:45 PM (in response to czaino)
Thanks, Cyndi. Are you able to clarify what you mean when you say "I've seen"? In other words, where does your experience with Jive and Chatter co-existing come from?
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?czaino Mar 28, 2012 1:09 PM (in response to ted.hopton)
Sure - I work as a Sr Consultant specializing in Social and so I help organizations with their Social Enterprise strategy and approach to technology. My experience comes from implementations that I've lead with a variety of our clients; as well as how we use these technologies internally at our own company.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?RichardRashty Mar 28, 2012 8:24 AM (in response to ted.hopton)
I think you can have them co-exist, but only if you integrate the collaboration at both the account and opportunity levels to ensure all participants within the CRM process are involved. Chatter works well for the sales and marketing folks, but the social collaboration needs of the other stakeholders make chatter a much weaker platform. Chatter as part of the full SFDC license can be expensive. The integration of JIVE and SFDC incurs additional cost and effort, so SFDC would tell you not to bother and just purchase Chatter licenses for everyone in the enterprise.
I personally have extensive experience within social collaboration on both platforms, and while JIVE is more capable to engage with employees across the entire enterprise, Chatter is very simple to use, as its feature functionality need not be so expansive for the type of social collaboration necessary in the sales cycle.
I have seen deep integration of the 2 platforms, and the use-case functionality is fantastic if the integration is done properly, and the usage is clearly articulated to the users.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?tmaurer Mar 30, 2012 10:21 AM (in response to RichardRashty)
Great to hear, Richard. I foresee further discussions with you, me and Ted on this topic in the future.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?kim.nelson Aug 7, 2012 4:31 PM (in response to RichardRashty)
Great thread! I too have been asking this same question. We are rolling out Salesforce and Chatter at our Sales Kickoff in October and we are working to determine what are best practices for using Jive, Salesforce and Chatter to make sure we are clear in our communication of the usage for each. Our issue is that our sales team has been the slowest adopter of Jive, and mostly using it for document repository, information gathering and one-directional communication of policy, procedures, etc. They have not fully utilized the collaborative functionality of Jive, I think in anticipation of the rollout of salesforce. We want to be clear at the time of rollout, what are the best practices for each. We also saw a demo of the Appirio app and I was curious if anyone has tested that out in their community or engaged professional services to help with integration between the two platforms.
Richard Rashty wrote:
I have seen deep integration of the 2 platforms, and the use-case functionality is fantastic if the integration is done properly, and the usage is clearly articulated to the users.
Do you happen to have any examples of clearly articulated usage between the two?
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?ted.hopton Aug 8, 2012 8:46 AM (in response to ted.hopton)
Related to this thread, I will attend Dreamforce this September in SF so I can learn more about Chatter. Any other Jive customers going to be there?
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?FrankGebhardt Aug 8, 2012 3:56 PM (in response to ted.hopton)
I have 2 colleagues going to Dreamforce (Wendy and Aaron) who look after our SFDC implementation from a strategic and operational point of view. They also users of our Jive implementation. I introduce you directly.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?GinoRossi Aug 30, 2012 10:33 AM (in response to ted.hopton)
I love everything I've read here. Keep them coming.
I might be looking at a Chatter/Jive situation as well very soon.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?rob_narejko Nov 29, 2012 7:19 AM (in response to ted.hopton)
Hi Ted,
I am late to this post and would be curious as to what you decided and why.
From what I have read from the Gartner 2011 Social software in the workplace doc (download is here, click on hyper link in middle of the page)
- "no track record yet of Chatter for structured tasks, ongoing projects or formal communities" (p 26)
- so if that is what you are trying to do, I would look else where
- pricing is high for Chatter (well, free to $15/seat/month depending on version)
- and if you do want to integrate Chatter with Jive, my understanding is that is an additional monthly fee as well
- additional fees apply to integrating MS OCS, Lync & IBM SameTime
You can get Spark OpenFire for free and all the products (Chatter, OCS, Lync, ST, Spark) have similar functionality
- it is a Jive lead open source product / platform so it must be integrated well!
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?tmaurer Nov 29, 2012 7:46 AM (in response to rob_narejko)
Hi Rob,
Not so much a decision as grappling with how to move forward. We have several divisions who already use Salesforce.com, and with it comes the Chatter licenses. The sales folks love it, and we're trying to understand better how to advise/corral them so that conversations don't get fragmented, as well as to educate people about how to use the right tool for the job. We don't have one central IT group, so we have to meet people where they are and help guide them to intelligent solutions. We're looking for tools to help us meet them where they are now, and also to help integrate where possible to give them an easier-to-understand future.
Thanks for your feedback!
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?rob_narejko Nov 29, 2012 9:03 AM (in response to tmaurer)
Hi Tracey,
Would an educational grid help guide your users?
ie you would have headers of Feature /Function, Chatter, Jive along the top.
- on the left hand side, under Feature/Function you would have the feature/function listed
- you may want to add a clear definition to explain the value of the feature to their roles and the value added to the client & company knowledge base
- in the same row as the feature, under Chatter or Jive, put an 'X' or 'check' in the box
- your organization needs to know what it wants to accomplish with each
- if there is a check in the column, add a few words about how Chatter or Jive enables the individual and company goals
- if there is an X in the column, explain what they and the company are losing if they continue to use that software for that feature
You would not need to list all features, just the ones where there is potential overlap, gaps, misuse (according to what is in the best interest of the company) or which platform you definitely want to use for certain features. Will this catch everything? Probably not, but at least there is a stated direction.
A summary (rule of thumb) should be developed once you have the above grid completed to guide people to the proper tool.
As you know, it is easier to remember summaries than all the fine details for most people.
I hope that helps!
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?tmaurer Nov 29, 2012 10:18 AM (in response to rob_narejko)
So then do you and others on this thread have suggestions for use cases for Salesforce? One of the hard things for me is that I haven't been in sales since long before SFDC came into play, and so I don't really have the context at this point. I can see how it IS being used, but it would help to get some suggestions as to the "best" ways to use it when you also have a Jive instance used by the company at large. I can of course make some educated guesses, but would love to have some validation from others.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?rob_narejko Nov 29, 2012 10:50 AM (in response to tmaurer)
Don't under estimate your insight. Your knowledge of your company's objectives and what benefits the tools are providing are guideposts. If the two are aligned, you are good. Going forward, your educated guesses can become a trial for a select few.
The search for 'best' follows the 80/20 rule (or even 90 / 10). I understand your pursuit of 'best' - not knocking it - but sometimes the reward isn't worth the effort.
Unfortunately I can't help you with Salesforce / Chatter use cases as we don't use either of them.
Can your contacts at Salesforce help out? They most likely won't have the Jive expertise, but you know your company's objectives and can sift the wheat from the chaff.
You probably have some very clever people using SalesForce / Chatter, so gather info from them. Start a Jive 'place' for Chatter and encourage the Chatter gurus to contribute their 'best practices' and just in general, how they are using it. You can then see what they are doing and see if it aligns with corporate objectives. (You stated you already knew this, but you may be surprised at what some people are doing..)
Looking forward to what other have to say...
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?tmaurer Nov 29, 2012 12:26 PM (in response to rob_narejko)
Salesforce contacts - hahaha. They would be happy for us to ditch Jive and just use Chatter.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?aaronjuliuskim Nov 29, 2012 8:57 PM (in response to tmaurer)
Have you considered using Jive Anywhere? It comes with a few cartridges built for SalesForce.com. It's not an apples-to-apples competitor to Chatter, but it does have some interesting advantages, such as the ability to persist content on the Jive side, meaning that, if the organization moves away from SalesForce as their CRM, the content will still be there.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?tmaurer Nov 30, 2012 9:18 AM (in response to aaronjuliuskim)
We are trying to do this, but there are errors that Jive is trying to work through for our specific set-up. But the real issue is that we aren't in a position to dictate what people do use. What we can do is provide guidance as to best practices. I do think having Jive Anywhere in place will help, but I don't think it will stop usage of Chatter. The combination of Jive 6 and Jive Anywhere will get us closer to that (since you can have multiple streams). As it is in Jive 5, we don't have the ability to carve off steams of information specific to departments or divisions. Chatter does give them that ability if only because they are on separate instances of Chatter.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?kljoyce Jul 25, 2013 3:48 PM (in response to ted.hopton)
It's now been more than 16-mos since this discussion started & ~8-mos since the last comment was posted. So, has there been any new insights gained based on experience/research that can expose addl details regarding this topic.
The comments thus far have been really relevant & invaluable in an exercise I am doing internally. However, I'd like to have some more recent thoughts or affirmation on the previous thoughts in this thread.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?ted.hopton Jul 25, 2013 7:59 PM (in response to kljoyce)
Funny you should ask, Kevin. We're about to put this to the test in our company, as there are plans to deploy Chatter across a large division and we'll see how it goes
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?kljoyce Jul 26, 2013 6:47 AM (in response to ted.hopton)
Ted, thanks for the status. Out of curiosity, is the large division a Sales or non-Sales organization?
What approach are you taking to ensure it does not cause a splinter or adverse impact on your currently active Jive community?
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?ted.hopton Jul 26, 2013 9:23 AM (in response to kljoyce)
It's a division where sales are important, for sure, but it is not solely a sales organization. Our approach is to inform and educate, especially as consultants come in to guide the Chatter implementation -- they don't "get" our culture and have not experienced our history as we have grown to use Jive across the entire company.
I'm also trying to put myself in their shoes, by remembering how excited I was to bring Jive to the organization, and recognize that they have similar intentions with Chatter. I don't want to be perceived as against change or new tools, so it's a tricky balance. But I don't intend to let Chatter undermine the success we have had with, and envision for the future, with Jive.
So, we're looking at the ways Jive can integrate with Chatter and making sure the Chatter implementation team understands those capabilities as we work together to define how the two tools can successfully co-exist.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?RichardRashty Jul 26, 2013 6:56 PM (in response to ted.hopton)
All Too Often Chatter Is Positioned By Sfd As The Only Platform The Enterprise Needs For Social Collaboration, Building Powerful And Business Community......Which IsNot True Imho. They Can Coexist, But It Takes BalancE, Compelling Use cases,And Strong Program mgmt
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?jim.buck01 Jul 26, 2013 6:36 AM (in response to kljoyce)
Hi Kevin,
It might be worth asking Jive for a demo of StreamOnce. This seems to be the way to go if you want to start co-mingling all of your other enterprise apps and have a single place to track the communications. Not sure if it meets your specific use case, but it's definitely cool.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?kljoyce Jul 26, 2013 6:55 AM (in response to jim.buck01)
Jim: It is rather ironic you mention this feature/module. I just registered for a Jive Monthly Customer Webcast, 31-jul, that will cover the StreamOnce topic.
I'll take a look at the blogs you posted above. I don't have a specific use-case, per se, at this point in time. What I am hoping to do is accurately capture the form-fit-function similarities & differences between these two solutions.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?kljoyce Jul 27, 2013 5:38 AM (in response to ted.hopton)
Ted et al, does anyone know of a Public Chatter community in which this topic is being discussed? If so, please share links/details. Do you know someone who's lived in Sfdc/Chatter & are now ramping up on a Jive instance? I'd like to garner their perspective as well.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?ted.hopton Jul 27, 2013 11:01 AM (in response to kljoyce)
I don't know of a community where this is being discussed, Kevin. That's why I asked my question here a year ago. I even went to Dreamforce last year hoping to meet other Jive & Salesforce customers to learn what they were doing, but I only found one or two, and in neither case did they have situations that were relevant.
I'd suggest asking your Jive sales rep for other customers they know of dealing with this.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?roguen Jul 27, 2013 3:44 PM (in response to ted.hopton)
Hey Ted,
I can't provide a terrible amount of insight on the topic other than to say our organization uses both Jive cloud as well as Chatter for our sales staff and client management. Rob Murray or Lukas Sparks perhaps you can add more to this conversation as to how we're doing this ourselves.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?ted.hopton Oct 10, 2013 12:10 PM (in response to ted.hopton)
I'm still looking for answers and to learn from other Jive customers who have also deployed Chatter, so I started a group where we can share experiences and ideas: Chatter and Salesforce.com and Jive. If you're interested, go there and ask to join and I'm happy to let you in.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?shirlin Mar 17, 2014 9:36 PM (in response to ted.hopton)
Ted - can I join the party? I have Agee instances of sales using Chatter right now where our Jive is our global social intranet.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive firstname.lastname@example.com Feb 25, 2014 11:43 AM (in response to ted.hopton)
Jive 7 and JiveX seems to addressed this need.
In our org, we use both and so far they have been totally separate. I am experimenting the integration and ran into a problem but once it is fixed, I will post the result.
Here is their write up Deal Room.
Jive 7
Interesting use case is that SFDC (Salesforce) user choose to create a group to discuss in Jive for a specific opportunity in SFDC. Conceptually, this could create large number of groups in Jive. Chatter feeds and Jive discussion suppose to go bi-directional as should.
This integration is far better than prior integration features in Jive 5 and 6.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive email@example.com Mar 18, 2014 5:01 AM (in response to email@example.com)
OK. This is a follow up on PoC of integrating JiveX (Cloud version) and SFDC (Sandboxes).
Here are some major findings.
1. If you get a "Trial" or "Marketing" version of JiveX, be sure to get an instance of full version with StreamOnce enabled.
2. Underlying component that integrates two environment is StreamOnce and Chatter. So if you did not enabled Chatter, it will not work.
3. One instance of JiveX can connect to multiple instances of SFDC which is good for companies with multiple SFDC Orgs.
4. Unfortunately SFDC instance can only connect to one Jive. If you have multiple Jive instances, you got a problem. I think the design in SFDC app for Jive has intention of supporting multiple connections but it is not built that way yet. (Or I couldn't make it work)
5. Out of box integration of Deal room will give you Chatter feed and limited data pulled from SFDC Opportunity and account associated with into a Jive Place (Group) that the SFDC user create.
6. Setting up a connection between them are fairly straight forward. (Be sure to pay attention to Deal Room Settings) - Special Thanks to Ryan Raynis
7. If you need more deeper integration, you need Jive development and possibly SFDC development too.
So, I got a question to this branch of discussion.
We have high number of opportunities hence will create large number Deal Room (places). How do we manage them?
Here is what would look like in Jive.
And, this is how it looks in SFDC.
Re: Can Chatter and Jive email@example.com Mar 18, 2015 5:06 PM (in response to ted.hopton)
I would love to hear some updated comments on this topic for 2015! Anyone out there currently using BOTH Jive and Salesforce Chatter? If yes, what are the guidelines you give users as to when to use which, and what's working vs not?
Re: Can Chatter and Jive Co-Exist?judicardinal Mar 19, 2015 9:27 AM (in response to email@example.com)
Nora Chen - We do have StreamOnce on our external community and would love to test this - I believe you can also use JIVE Anywhere - but I have not tested either. I would be happy to coordinate a call with anyone who would like to attend to discuss and perhaps someone can demo how they are doing this?
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After obtaining a tube chassis from Mid America, it took Weiner two years to find an unmolested Corvette body tub which he discovered at the Bloomington Gold Corvette show. He shipped the central structure to the factory in Milan, Illinois, and Leech began constructing the body.
"Mid America had almost all the parts to build the Grand Sport body," Weiner recalls, "and the rest I secured from Corvette suppliers. I'd sit up at night making lists of all the parts I'd need. This was my hobby, my relaxation," he laughs, realizing his Grand Sport project took on the dimensions of an obsession.
While Leech built the body, Weiner labored over the drivetrain and chassis. The engine he installed is a 427ci built to L88 specs by Racing Head Service, cranked up to 550 hp. To that he added a Richmond five-speed with a Centerforce clutch. Most of the suspension parts were '84-'85 vintage, taking advantage of newer technology. By a stroke of luck, Weiner found a complete Corvette suspension in an advertising throw-away. "Some guy was rebuilding an Opel GT and figured out the Corvette's suspension was too big for the car. I gave him $400 and spent a lot of evenings cleaning up the aluminum so it looked like brand new."
In 1992, Weiner trailered the now-complete rolling chassis to Milan for the body drop. He found the springs for the coilovers to be a bit too soft, which the manufacturer Aldan corrected with a new set. There were other much larger hurdles to overcome, however.
A close friend of Weiner's had been working on the wiring harness, but he "fell off the face of the earth," Weiner remembers. "A year later I got a phone call. The guy needed me to help him prepare several years' worth of uncompleted tax returns. I told him I'd start his returns as soon as the wiring harness was finished." A few weeks later, Weiner gets a call from the wiring wizard, instructing him to go out to his garage and turn the ignition. The Grand Sport kicked over and Weiner turned his attention to the tax forms.
Weiner's Grand Sport re-creation made its debut at the '94 Joliet, Illinois, Corvettes Unlimited Show. In addition to car shows, he and the Grand Sport did some vintage racing at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. "I didn't do it to win," Weiner says. "It was for me. I just wanted to see what it was like to drive on one of the great road courses in a Grand Sport."
That glorious experience almost ended abruptly in a moment of inattention. "I lost concentration at that sharp, first right-hander and came in way too hot," he says with a wince. "But the car drove itself right around the corner-it's way more capable than I. It's the most rewarding car I've ever driven. Lean on the throttle in Second gear, and you can feel the front end lift just like a dragster, unlike a road-course racer. The originals always ran light on the front end."
On the street, Weiner is not above baiting other cars. "At 80 or 90 mph, the car is just starting to wake up. I drop a gear and drive right away from them," he smiles. "It's a wolf in wolf's clothing."


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Miley Cyrus loves a good barely-there body suit, so who better to design her 2014 Bangerz tour costumes than NYC corset and bodysuit masters, The Blonds? Phillipe and David Blond are known for their over-the-top, flesh-baring, crystal-encrusted corsetry and have designed costumes for everyone from Beyoncé and Rihanna to Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. They first worked with Miley in 2010 when they designed a silver corset for her "Can't Be Tamed" music video, and just last month they dressed her in an acid green crop top and matching booty shorts for her performance at the 2013 Bambi Awards.
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COSMO: How did you get hooked up with Miley?
David: We initially met her through her stylist, Simone Harouche, but we've been working with her for a couple years now.
COSMO: You and Miley seem to really like a skimpy leotard look. Is there anything special you're planning to do to make sure she doesn't end up flashing her fans on stage?
David: If you're asking about tricks to keep everything in, of course there is always tape and dance pants, and stockings, but once we build the piece it's really up to the stylist and the artist how they want to handle that.
Phillipe: Luckily we haven't had a malfunction yet.
David: Yeah, no nip slips. Except for intentional nip slips… with diamonds.
COSMO: Why do you think Miley and other celebrities are drawn to you?
David: I think we are working with these people at pivotal moments in their careers when they are looking to change and grow as artists. Things really started to take off when Beyoncé wore our diamond corset [in her 2007 video "Upgrade U"] and we've been really lucky to have all these people really respond to what we are doing.
Phillipe: We started out making clothes for each other to wear when we would go out dancing and it sort of turned into a business, but celebrities and performers were never a target for us. Most of our inspiration comes from music though, so it makes sense.
David: We just sent in the initial sketches. Nothing is confirmed yet, but when Miley tweeted how much she loved the costumes, in that way that only Miley can… it makes you feel like you've really accomplished something.
COSMO: What was the process like for those initial sketches?
Phillipe: Designing for her was kind of a no-brainer. We were already so immersed in her world from listing to her album and seeing her perform. Her style is really the same as my style.
David: We just really love her style. It's fresh and young and loud. We love loud.
COSMO: How long will you have to work on the costumes?
David: One corset can take anywhere from two to 12 weeks to make, depending on how intricate it is. For a show like this it could take anywhere from three to six months to get it all done depending on how many sections we are doing and how involved we are. At the same time though, in fashion it's like everything needs to be done yesterday. We're sort of known as get-it-done people and we have a lot of helpers.
Phillipe: With a big tour like this, you can spend a whole year working on it even after you've turned everything in — building on things, redoing them, and revising them as the tour goes on.
David: Even if you're only wearing a costume for three minutes, if you're dancing your ass off, it's going to wear out, so every outfit needs duplicates and then there's a whole maintenance team to keep the costumes looking fresh and clean. I think people don't realize that — the second a costume comes off stage all this other work begins.
COSMO: Do you design costumes for the backup dancers as well?
David: It depends on the artist and how much time there is. Sometimes we just focus on the artist, but we like to be involved with every aspect of whatever part of the show we are doing so that it all looks cohesive.
COSMO: How involved is Miley in the design process?
David: Every artist is very different but they all have very strong opinions about their looks and we just try to give them what they want. Sometimes they will give us their albums before they are released so we can get inspired. Sometimes they look at our runway shows and that's what inspires them and we go from there. Hopefully we will get to have a few fittings with Miley before everything is done, but it all depends on her schedule.
COSMO: Have you ever had a fitting go wrong?
Phillipe: Not yet! We've always had really positive interactions with clients. Usually they looks like they are bout to explode with excitement.
David: But a glamorous explosion.
COSMO: Who would you like to work with next?
Phillipe: Madonna.
David: Madonna. Madonna. Madonna.
Photo Credit: RCA/Getty Images


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In a time where the future of this country is unknown, there is something to celebrate. In North Carolina, thousands of people have connected their lives to the disparity of others. There is a rising awareness that our lives are linked to that of our neighbors, our friends, our families, and even people we disagree with. We face, together, trials and tribulations that will create for us a need to ask the question, �What can I do, what should I do to make this world I live in a more safe, healthy, and just community?�
We feel the effects of poverty all around us. Our jobs have been lost, we are seeing people around us suffer from inadequate access to healthcare, education is being privatized and public funding put on a back burner to the whims of the wealthy few who would see to it that we are nothing but worker bees.
The time has come in North Carolina to no longer stand for this inequality and injustice.
You have the opportunity to stand with your neighbors who have been silenced by private, well-funded agendas and skewed legislation. On Feb. 8, on Jones Street in Raleigh, thousands will be speaking out against the policies of our elected state officials. Those same elected officials who put their hands on the Bible, swearing to uphold the constitution of this state, to protect and serve the good of the people. They have passed laws that do the exact opposite.
Over 160 social justice organizations and over 125 chapters of the NAACP will gather in Raleigh to challenge attacks on voting rights, economic equality, public education, and equal protection under the law. We will demonstrate our right to stand together in peaceful dissent, a right that our forefathers fought to protect, and our right to confront inequality, which is dividing our country when we need a more inclusive and loving community to survive.
This is expected to be one of the largest civil rights demonstrations in the South since the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965. Join us at 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 8 at Shaw University on South Street in downtown Raleigh. Or take a bus from Burlington. The Alamance NAACP is sponsoring several buses to attend. The buses will leave Burlington at 8 a.m. from the parking lot across from Sharpe Funeral Home, 520 Rosenwald St.
To reserve a bus seat, please contact Noah Read, at 336-260-4399,or at email@example.com.


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The iPhone 3G is available without a contract in a handful of countries, but iPhone owners in France have been tied to Orange under Apple's current exclusivity contract. Until now, that is. MacNN has pointed out that French store FNAC is now selling the iPhone 3G without a contract.
France's Competition Council ruled earlier this month that any French carrier should be able to offer the iPhone 3G, and the fact that FNAC is now selling the devices without a contract seems to be a direct result of the decision. Although all three iPhone 3G models are available contract-free, the prices are quite steep. The 8GB model will run you €799, or $1,122 at current exchange rates, while the 16GB models cost €899, or $1,262. It's unclear if the FNAC units are fully unlocked, or if they're somehow limited to Orange or French carriers.
As we noted in our previous coverage of the issue, the exclusivity injunction is only temporary, so there will be a final decision coming at some point. The government hasn't exactly taken Orange's side thus far, and halting iPhone sales in the future will be pretty difficult as more stores offer the device; we suspect that Orange's exclusivity is done for.


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TitleColorado and industry working to assess damage in flooded oil fields
BodyColorado's richest oil field — the Denver-Julesburg Basin — is buried in floodwaters, raising operational and environmental concerns, as state and industry officials work to get a handle on the problem. Thousands of wells and operating sites have been affected — some remain in rushing waters, officials said. "The scale is unprecedented," said Mike King, executive director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources. "We will have to deal with environmental contamination from whatever source." Any pollution from oil fields likely will be mixed with a stew of agricultural pesticides, sewage, gasoline from service stations and other contaminants, King said. "As far as we know, all wells affected by flooding have been shut," said Tisha Schuller, president of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, a trade group. The basin, one of the most promising onshore oil plays, has been the target of an estimated $4 billion of oil industry investment, with about 48 rigs operating when the flood hit. Companies are using boats and helicopters to check sites not accessible by road, Schuller said. "As water levels recede, operators are assessing any damage and addressing it," she said. The major public health risks will come from contaminated water and sediments, said Miriam Rotkin-Ellman, a Natural Resources Defense Council staff scientist. "The aim is to find where there may be significant pollutants and where they are heading," said Rotkin-Ellman, who studied industrial contamination in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is setting up a clearinghouse to log the status of every well and operation, said Matt Lepore, the commission's executive director. The commission also is using its mapping technology to identify well sites along the South Platte River for inspection. "Mapping is a really good first step — it locates where the problem could be," said NRDC's Rotkin-Ellman. The commission is forming teams — including inspectors, engineers and environmental specialists — to focus on locations north and south of the South Platte. Still, the specter of pollution has raised concerns among environmentalist and community groups. "With the Texas Gulf Coast, they know in advance a hurricane is coming," said Irene Fortune, a retired chemist who worked for British Petroleum and is now running the Loveland City Council. "To have something this inland, this level of flooding in an area with high oil and gas development, it's new territory," Fortune said. Gary Wockner, executive director of Save Our Colorado, said, "Every flooded well needs to get inspected. "The COGCC needs to pass new regulations for drilling in floodplains to better protect people and the environment." There are more than 20,000 wells in th e DJ-Basin and surrounding areas and 3,200 permits for open pits in Weld County, according to state data. A review of the pit permits, however, found a significant number are old permits that may not be operating — most were to hold produced water that contains salts and metals from wells. Major operators in the basin said they were able to shut all the wells hit by the flood. Encana Oil & Gas (USA) has shut about one-third of its 1,241 wells, the company said. "We have plans in place to inspect all of our facilities," Doug Hock, an Encana spokesman, said in an e-mail. "We're using (geographic information systems) to help prioritize lower-lying facilities that may likely have greater impacts." Anadarko Petroleum Corp., the second-largest operator in the basin, shut wells and stopped drilling activity. "The majority of our drilling, completions and workover activities in the affected areas of the field have been shut down," the company said on its website. "Restarting the activities is expected to be significantly delayed due to road and location conditions," the company said. The well sites are designed to withstand harsh weather, said William Fleckenstein, a professor of petroleum engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. "The actual wells are meant to hold pressure on the inside. They're designed to be fluid-tight," Fleckenstein said. Concern arises when tanks are knocked over or damaged, Fleckenstein said. The "worst-case scenario," however, would be damage to a high-pressure gas line, which would leak hydrocarbons in the air and be "very explosive," Fleckenstein said. The impact of the flood waters has been uneven in the basin, said the oil and gas association's Schuller. Some areas are untouched, and some facilities are still surrounded by flowing water, Schuller said. "It may take some operations a week to get back up," Schuller said. "It may take a year for others." Pictures of flooded well and drilling sites and damaged or floating tanks have been appearing on several social-media sites. "We've seen the pictures but don't know the locations," Schuller said. "If people provide the locations, we will check them."
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When you have been ripping music CDs since the last millennium and buying digital ever since the iTunes store opened, it gets pretty much impossible to list all the artists or albums you have, let alone those stray songs.
In fact, the need to list a bunch of files comes up quite often. On past occasions, I've needed a file stored on my PC at home and couldn't remember what it was called or where it was saved. Asking my wife to read out every file over the phone would've probably resulted in a call from a divorce lawyer. Is there a better way out? Sure there is!


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Guitarist Dan Toler, who played in the Allman Brothers Band in the late 1970s and 1980s, has died of Lou Gehrig's disease at his home in Sarasota, Florida, his manager said.
Toler died on Monday and was in his early 60s, the manager, Glen Halverson, said.
oler and his late brother, drummer David "Frankie" Toler, played in several groups, including Dickey Betts & Great Southern. Dan Toler was part of the Allman Brothers Band from 1979 to 1982 and was featured on the group's albums "Enlightened Rogues," "Reach for the Sky" and "Brothers of the Road."
"His ability to make people laugh and feel good and happy was amazing," the Sarasota Herald Tribune quoted his friend and former bandmate Chaz Trippy as saying. "That smile of his is just a force of life and, God, how he loved playing that guitar."
Dicky Betts, in a 2002 interview with Jambands.com, said of Toler: "When we were together with Great Southern back in the 70s and 80s and in the Allman Brothers, we played a lot the same. Now we don't play so much the same. He has really developed kind of what I would call a Western Swing style. It's got a lot of chord movements. It's not New York jazz it's got more of a Western influence. Anyway, it's working out nice. We are having a lot of fun and we fit like a glove."
Condolences and tributes roled in on his Facebook page, and a memorial service announcement:
"CELEBRATION OF LIFE for Dan Toler will be held on March 9th, 1pm at Faith Presbyterian Church/ Faith Sarasota. Event page to come soon.
The family is overwhelmed by the amount of love and support for Dangerous Dan Toler and family. God Bless you all!!"
(Editing by Martin Golan)


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Location: Lynn, MA
Job ID: 148797-1A
Date Posted: May 31, 2019
Scheduled Hours
32 hours, evenings, Fri-Mon, Second shift, 2:30PM-11PM
1. Observes and supervises buildings and grounds and reports anything unusual to supervisor/nurse on duty.
2. Completes all necessary checklists and paperwork in a timely manner. Responsible for all shift documentation and record keeping in accordance with agency policies and procedures as directed.
3. Interfaces in a professional manner with other agency units and agencies.
4. Attends daily rounds, monthly staff meetings, and Bi-weekly supervision, if directed.
5. Shares supervision of client programming and recreational activities, facilitates community meetings, and mediates client disputes as directed.
6. Inventories laundry and/or other supplies as needed.
7. Responsible for remaining on unit/campus until replacement coverage arrives.
8. Searches client belongings on admission and at discharge and/or as otherwise directed by supervisor.
9. Other related duties as assigned.
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Primary responsibilities include ensuring the safety and structure of the program milieu by monitoring client activities, enforcing the schedule for groups, meal breaks, and meetings, and assisting clients with their personal needs.
High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Must have experience working with substance abuse population.
Must be able to complete on-site CPR training/certification.
Must demonstrate ability to relate to a substance abuse treatment population in a sensitive manner, an interest and willingness to work in a multicultural setting and must share a customer service orientation. Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Uses reason even when dealing with emotional topics.
Manages difficult or emotional client situations; Responds promptly to client needs and maintains confidentiality.
Valid MA Driver?s License in good standing.
Physical Requirements
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.


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If you live in the Midwest or New England now is the time to start thinking about picking up your Super Bowl XLV party supplies since the blizzard of the century is preparing to shock and awe residents in those regions.
As you know, the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers will be squaring off on the gridiron this Sunday in a defensive match-up that promises lots of chaos of another kind (watch CSMonitor.com/USA/Sports for more on that later this week).
Chili – and its chaos of flavors and ingredients – is a perfect metaphor for this game: It ain't pretty but it packs a punch. Give it an extra kick with Heinz chili sauce (Heinz is headquartered in Pittsburgh) and top it off with Wisconsin cheddar cheese. There you have it. A culinary mash-up going on right in your own bowl. May the best flavor win.
And once you get home from the grocery store, test your Super Bowl knowledge with these Steelers and Packers quizzes and let the blizzard rage without you.
(See next page for recipe)
Super Bowl chili
Serves 6
1 tablespoon olive oil
1-2 onions, chopped
1-2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 carrot, cut into coins
1 green pepper, chopped
1 can of corn, undrained
1 can of kidney beans, undrained
1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
2 15-ounce cans of tomatoes (crushed or peeled)
6 ounces Heinz chili sauce
2-4 tablespoons of chili powder
Tabasco sauce, to taste
Meat (if you want it)
1/4 lb. ground hamburger
1/2 teaspoon salt
For the garnish:
2 cups grated sharp Wisconsin Cheddar cheese
Sour cream, to taste
Parsley, to taste
4 tablespoons green onions, diced
In a pot, heat up the olive oil over medium heat. Add the onions and garlic and stir until they are soft, about 3 minutes. Add carrot coins, pepper chunks, corn, kidney beans, tomatoes, and cilantro. Stir. Add chili powder, to taste. In a separate pan, brown meat and add salt. Drain and add to pot. Simmer for 45 minutes or so, stirring occasionally. Add Tabasco sauce, to taste. Serve hot with shredded sharp cheddar, sour cream, parsley, sprinkle each with green onions.
Kendra Nordin blogs at Kitchen Report.
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