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Saffron Green is a 4 mast directional MF array near Barnet in North London which superceded Lots Road, a temporary site established earlier to allow Capital and LBC to get on air by their deadline in 1973. Saffron Green was constructed in 1975 to allow the station to radiate high powers towards London on 1548kHz and 1152kHz whilst radiating virtually no power at all towards Birmingham and Liverpool where the frequencies are used by other ILR stations.
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The original Capital installation at Saffron Green consisted of four 10kW linear amplifiers, Marconi if I remember correctly, one on standby and three in use to give the 27.5kW needed to achieve the licensed erp of 100kW maximum. Initially the transmitter failed to produce the expected power output. IBA staff traced this to the coaxial cables from the drive unit to the individual amplifiers each having been routed most conveniently so they were not equal lengths.
With the coordinated frequency changes in 1978 Saffron Green Capital's MF transmitter had to be changed from 1546kHz to 1548kHz. At first all seemed well, but driving around away from the main lobe there seemed to be audio distortion not there before the change. Apparently the initial changes had resulted in the directivity of the antenna array being frequency dependant across the 9kHz wide channel, resulting in incorrect sidebands to carrier relative levels. A complaint to the IBA resulted in an acceptable change.
I asked Ray Hills, former IBA Assistant Director of Engineering, what he remembered about the problems of finding a permanent London MF site and have the following reply which may be of interest.
"At that time I was not responsible for service planning and site finding so I don't know the details. As far as I recall, Brookmans Park was ruled out because of the high powers being used there and because, unlike TV, radio site sharing was not mandated by Government. I don't think we shared any radio sites with the BBC. Even the VHF ones were on existing IBA masts (or new sites of course). The incinerator site was, I believe, somewhere near Heathrow.
I don't know how we achieved the Saffron Green site but it is not beyond possibility that some pressure was applied at a high level."
As mentioned in the mb21 Transmission Gallery, on the evening of 1-Jul-1985 a serious fire occurred at Saffron Green. Originating in the transformers of a reserve transmitter for LBC, the fire spread and affected other parts of the building, and resulted in the loss of the AM service from Capital Radio. IBA maintenance staff worked throughout the night and had restored both services by 6.00am the following morning. The extensive damage to the building meant that transportable radio transmitters had to be brought to the site and special measures taken against chemical hazards. Permanent replacements for the LBC transmitters were due to be installed in April 1986.
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Directional Aerial Arrays for ILR

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Authorities say they had no choice but to arrest 33-year-old Mark Wayne Williams (not to be mistaken for Bruce Wayne), who upon arriving at the scene of the accident dressed in a cut-rate Batman costume, insisted that he lend officers a helping hand with their investigation.
However, according to State Police Sergeant Jeff Gorno, the knock-off super-hero was of no help at all. "He wouldn't clear the scene, and we had a canine out there and he kept screwing up the scent," said sergeant Gorno. "He said he wanted to help us look for the driver."
"We didn't want the dog to track Batman instead of the accident scene, and he was getting in the way of officers who had a job to do," said the sergeant.
Williams was taken into custody where he was stripped of his Batman costume, as well as charged with resisting arrest and obstructing a police investigation.
Incidentally, this was not the first time Williams was busted for attempting to fight crime disguised as the caped crusader. Last year, police arrested him on the roof of a Michigan business armed with a police baton, a spray can of chemical irritant and a pair of sand-filled gloves. For that incident, Williams was sentenced to six months probation and forbidden to wear costumes for the duration of his punishment.
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In his personal memorandum books, Jefferson recorded many purchases of glassware between 1767 and 1821. Among the few surviving pieces are two lead-glass flutes decorated at the rim with a band of sprig and oval wheel-cut engraving. The glasses were probably made in England in the late eighteenth century.
Monticello Stemware is developed from one of the wine glasses currently in the collection at Monticello. The cordial glass is a reproduction; the wine glass and champagne flute are adaptations of the original. All three glasses are full lead crystal. These mouth-blown glasses are cut and etched by hand in the same manner as the originals. The individual variations that appear in these pieces are the hallmarks of hand-blown glass.


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After the most recent update I'm getting
error: file not found
right after 'welcome to grub 2' on boot-up , font in grub menu changed to really tiny , but system boots up normally after that.
Any ideas ?
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RE: grub 2 error?
14.05.2013, 14:36
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Are you dual booting with more than one hard drive, if so, check in the bios on 'hard disk priority' or something like that, and make sure the drive aptosid is on is booting first, I had this problem before and thats how I fixed it
error: file not found -this is the exact message right, that is the one I had also
I tried reinstalling grub, dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc , nothing worked till I changed the order of the drive, I have no idea on how or why the order changes, this has happened several times to me in the past (doesn't matter what distro) but, it booted and worked fine
Also I was using AHCI instead of IDE (bios setting) when this happens
Mind you, this might not help in any way
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aptosid takes up my entire hard drive, no dual booting.I looked up Debian forums and found references to the missing locale files,but it's way too cryptic for me to figure it out. The language option in my grub.cfg is Eng_US, and grub.cfg is generated by etc/grub.d from what I understand.No matter what I try grub 2 error:file not found is persistent
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RE: grub 2 error?
16.05.2013, 12:05
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This is a stretch, but shouldn't it be en_US? That is the way I have always seen it listed, and the way it is listed in my grub.cfg.
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RE: grub 2 error?
17.05.2013, 00:40
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@ghstryder you are right, it's en_US in my grub.sfg too. My system boots all right but still getting error message.Grub as an application doesn't use that many files, what could be missing ?
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17.05.2013, 01:06
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You could try sprinkling your grub.cfg with echo statements to narrow it down to the offending statement. Without actually seeing your grub.cfg anything else is just wild guessing. grub does (or can) load plenty of things during boot: modules, config files, translations (ok not for en_US), font, grubenv, theme and background (at least, I could be forgetting more).
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17.05.2013, 23:24
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I forgot to mention that same upgrade that started 'grub error:file not found' changed the boot options screen from displaying available kernels to single line : Debian advanced options . Grub error doesn't affect the boot process, I guess I can live with it or just follow bfree advice
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RE: grub 2 error? just reset the order in BIOS
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I ran into some of the same issues with the new boot loader; GRUB 2, but additionally I was doing 3 new things as well so I had the opportunity to think about what was doing a lot.
1.. My 5 year old motherboard was beginning to fail from age. (lead-free solder fails in 3-5 years), so I was going to replace it with a gigabyte 970A-DS3. I was going to use the OLD processor, AMD 955 X4 and fast DDR3 RAM by corsair.
2. The Old aptosid 2012-1 was going to be replaced with the NEW aptosid 2013-1 (the old system ran fine with the new motherboard with out change by the way, I just felt like installing a new system since this system is a exploratory and frontier system anyway)
3. the BIOS on the motherboard is NEW, an UEFI from American Megatrends
The installation looked different than what I was use to... both the BIOS and the system were reacting in some new way so I was just going for a ride as it were... I expected some difficulties. Surprisingly few by the way, just some rethink on how I did it.
After the install the boot loader did not give a message but there was just a blinking prompt, no message.
My first reaction was to reboot and look at the Bios as to the order of drives and devices... just from experience with new ways and some notion that UEFI is different, as is grub 2 (My clue was the unusual CD aptosid installation disk start-up it was fast but I thought I noticed some reordering going on, it was fine, just different. I have done thousands of OS installs over the years so with all of the new things I just went with it.
Long story short, After looking at the BIOS with the new system I changed the Motherboard BIOS to not specifically try to boot from a CD/DVD ROM first but to go for booting the HDD with the new aptosid on it before anything else.
That cured the blinking curser and the new GRUB loaded fine. UEFI does work OK but it is very different. The BIOS does not look like anything from the past. No judgment here, just different.
Really like the new 2013-1 aptosid. many new things to find out about. KDE based system.
Of course stay away from the BIOS UEFI Windows 8 offerings, its well understood poison.
Sorry this was not very technical, I am not currently using that system described above for this message. I am using my main aptosid system which is a little bit more conservative in how I treat changes,(I run our company from it as the main computer, I have that much faith in aptosid's stability. Soon it too will be running 2013-1 aptosid since it runs great on the new hardware and the system rocks.
As usual I am a happy user. Expecting the unexpected is just a way of seeing the world.
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Interesting changes to Grub II.
Great in one case and annoying in another for me.
My desktop came with Windows and a boot menu that lasted 15 seconds for various Windows options in spite of the fact I wiped Windows out immediately and installed a 32 & 64 aptosid on two partitions.
The latest grub update now bypasses this option screen and goes straight to the grub menu. Outstanding!
Now the primary will auto boot but the others are listed under a sub-menu which adds another step to the boot process to choose my other partition, whereas before, they were all listed on the first screen.
Time to see if that sub-menu can be done away with.
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|Jade West
|General Information
|Hair Color:
| Brown w/ blue, blonde, pink, white, and red highlights (Season 1)
Dyed Black w/ blue and green highlights (Season 2)
Dark Brown with blue, green, and purple highlights (Season 3)
Dark Brown with purple and teal highlights (Season 4)
Brown with blue and purple highlights(iParty with Victorious and Sam & Cat)
|Eye Color:
|Teal (Blue-Green)
|July 26, 1994
|5'7" (170 cm)
|Hollywood, California
| Betty Sue Goldenheart(Sleepover at Sikowitz's)
Gank (by Sikowitz, André, Beck, and Tori) (Freak The Freak Out)
Crabby Kathy (by Sikowitz)(Locked Up!)
Tori Vega (Brain Squeezers)
|Family & Friends
| Mr. West (father)
Ms. West (mother)
Step-mother (unnamed)
Grandfather (unnamed)
Grandmother (unnamed)
Unnamed brother
| André Harris
Cat Valentine (best friend)
Robbie Shapiro
Beck Oliver (boyfriend)
Tori Vega (frenemy)
| Beck Oliver (boyfriend)
Sinjin Van Cleef (crush: one-sided his side)
| Trina Vega (frenemy)
Sinjin Van Cleef (one-sided)
Hayley Ferguson
Tara Ganz
Mrs. Lee
Rex Powers
|Other Information
| Acting
Script Writing
The Scissoring
|Hollywood Arts High School
| Singing
Script Writing
| Jealousy
Trust Issues with Beck
|Series Information
|First appearance:
|Last appearance:
|Portrayed By:
|Elizabeth Gillies
Jade West is one of the seven main characters in the Nickelodeon TV show Victorious. She often serves as an antagonist to Tori Vega on the show, but they are still members of the same friend group. She is Cat's best friend, Tori's former nemesis, and Beck's girlfriend.
Jade's childhood has been noted to be an unhappy one on a few occasions throughout the series. She says that the ice cream reminds her of it, and that her favorite toy was a hammer (Ice Cream for Ke$ha).
She was friends with André Harris, Robbie Shapiro, Cat Valentine, and Beck Oliver since at least 2008, where they formed an official ping pong team at Hollywood Arts High School. (The Great Ping Pong Scam) She and Beck also began dating at some point this year (Jade Dumps Beck).
- Eye Color: Blue-Green
- Hair Color: Brown (Season 1); black (Season 2); dark brown (Seasons 3 and 4)
- Trademark: Piercings, tattoos, and colored streaks in hair.
Jade started off as a brunette with blue-green eyes and stands at 5'7". Her skin is noticeably pale, but she got tanner and dyed her hair darker for the second season.
Jade has a Gothic sense of style, and aside from her dark, occasionally laced clothing she wears dark makeup and paints her nails black as well. The jewelry she wears is designed by real life artist Dre Swain, and she also wears dark red Doc Martens and black combat boots. She carries a Gears of War messenger bag. Jade also has multiple streaks in her hair that change color periodically. In season one her streaks in her brown hair are at first pink, blonde and light blue before going red for the rest of the season. In season two she dyed her hair black and her streaks are blue and green. In season three her hair is a dark brown and her streaks are mostly green, but also blue in a couple of episodes. In season four her hair is shorter and her streaks are purple for 10 of the 13 episodes. She also has two piercings, one in her left eyebrow and one on her nose. Jade has a rebel star tattoo on her right forearm and has since gotten another one that was never shown onscreen (Beck mentions that "Jade's getting her new tattoo" in a video on TheSlap.com, Tori Takes Requests #2).
Jade has a very prickly personality; she is known for being sassy, dark, grouchy, and sarcastic to those around her. She was described as "freaky" by the boy in Ice Cream for Ke$ha, to which she took offense to, but when she was described as "weird" by Moose in Three Girls and a Moose, she acknowledged and admitted it, nodding along (though that was because she was attracted to him). Jade has a 'thing' for scissors, first shown in Wi-Fi in the Sky as her username on TheSlap is 'ScissorLuv'. Her locker is also decorated with numerous scissors, her favorite (horror) movie is The Scissoring, and she even has a favorite pair as shown in her videos on The Slap and buys herself new pairs (Jade Gets Crushed). She also takes interest in pain (Cat's New Boyfriend), a lump of fat (Rex Dies), monkey fur, and blood (Freak the Freak Out) and (Tori Gets Stuck). She also enjoys breathing in the fumes of dead people (Car, Rain & Fire), and likes to pretend she's been captured by witches and is being made into human soup while in hot tubs (IParty with Victorious). She has a macabre sense of humor, usually saying things about people being hit by a bus at various episodes, as well as somewhat sadistic tendencies, such as enjoying people getting hurt, even her own boyfriend being slapped (in a scene).
Jade is defined by being being jealous, often irrationally so, insatiably mean, and rude to many people. She sometimes shows authority and control at Hollywood Arts, yelling at others and even using physical force at times. Although she does not usually fight directly, she often retaliates in way "that will make [someone] sad for a long time". She is very possessive of her Beck, protecting him from others, even those that seem interested in him only as friends. Jade is extremely proud of their relationship, often flaunting it in the face of others, which seems a factor in how unpopular it is among the gang and Beck's own family.
Despite her tough attitude, she can get freaked out by a few things, revealed by her horrified reaction to a dog attacking who she thought to be Beck (Jade Dumps Beck), freaking out when Sinjin broke into her house (Wi-Fi in the Sky), crying when she learned she was sweating for the first time (Survival of the Hottest), Sikowitz scaring her multiple times (iParty with Victorious), freaking out when Cat removed her eyebrows (Crazy Ponnie), holding onto Beck when soldiers invaded the gang's hotel in Yerba, and getting knocked down by Sheema in Locked Up!
Jade fits the stereotype of a "bad girl" much more than a "mean girl". She is very rebellious, as she doesn't like being told what to do and often points out that she's doing something because she wants to, not because someone told her to (for instance, she got her piercings 45 minutes after her mother said no to Jade), and often claims that she is only doing something because she wants to and not because someone tells her to (The Great Ping Pong Scam). However, she seems to obey Beck, and he is the only one able to calm her down and make her at least somewhat polite and nice to other people, for example in Beggin' on Your Knees.
Jade is a hardworking student at Hollywood Arts, where she dedicates her time to writing, acting, and singing. She seems to favor script writing, as she writes the play Well Wishes in Wok Star and manages to get it produced with the help of Tori. She seems to prefer to star in works she both writes and directs, and these works include: "Clowns Don't Bounce" (Prome Wrecker), an unnamed TV series where she plays the main character and her evil twin (only written; talked about in a post on The Slap), and her re-audition in Helen Back Again. All of these were dark and scary. She also seems to prefer film over stage, as her re-audition for Principal Helen Dubois was in the form of a short film while Beck's was a monologue on stage. Often, her performances are considered "weird" and "disturbing", but most people still enjoy them; an example of this is Well Wishes. That said, she displays several bouts of indifference towards performing at times, only rushing into action if she thinks she could usurp Tori.
She is a also very full of herself, being fully conscious of her talents in the performing arts and enjoys boasting about her accomplishments to the point that Beck accused her of making his profile video all about her.
It is shown throughout the series that deep down, Jade is insecure and her heart is broken, which is part of the reason she is so rude towards people. For example, she has often assumed that Beck was cheating on her; she was devastated when she briefly broke up with him and he wouldn't take her back, and didn't want anyone "cool" to see her crying (Jade Dumps Beck). It's pretty clear that Beck is very meaningful to her and she feels empty without him. She also seems to be worried about her father's opinion of her hopes and dreams and went to great lengths to make him enjoy her play "Well Wishes" in Wok Star, which nearly got butchered. She also competed with the rest of the gang to get the most followers on The Slap to maintain popularity and dominance. She gets very upset when a satellite catches a picture of her that makes it look like she is picking her nose in The Bad Roommate and doesn't want anyone to see.
While Jade has frequently been shown not to be as smart as Tori, she does sometimes help solve the group's challenges. For instance, in Ice Cream for Ke$ha, she thought of the idea that the "S" would be found in the least popular flavor of ice cream. In Terror on Cupcake Street, she mentioned that the confetti cannon would scare the thugs away and it did. Before Tori (and even Trina) joined the gang, she masterminded all the solutions to the gang's troubles as shown in The Great Ping Pong Scam, but the same episode showed that her plans do not always work out (Tori found out about the team, was let on by the others despite Jade's attempts to keep her out, and Jade failed to account for someone (Robbie in this case) ordering a more expensive meal). In her profile video on The Slap, she describes herself as smart and deep.
Jade hates many things for various reasons, as reflected in her TheSlap segment, What I Hate, but she also has two episodes of these segments titled "What I Love", because she does not want to be predictable.
Although Jade seems tough and scary at times, she has been proven to only be very intimidating and she lost her only physical altercation with someone other than Tori (The Wood) and Cat (Crazy Ponnie); Sheema quickly knocked her to the ground in Locked Up!. Despite acting as creepy as she does, she is disgusted by many things including Trina Vega's pimple in Victori-Yes. She can also be quite flirty and feminine even in her dark, blunt nature - for example, she wears a very nice dress to the Prome in Prome Wrecker even though she only attends for revenge.
Jade frequently displays signs of hypocrisy, the most prominent of which would be her hatred of anyone trying to censor her personality while constantly silencing others and forcing them to do things her way. On other occasions, such as in Locked Up! and Terror on Cupcake Street, she shows herself to be far less brave than she claims to be, being visibly terrified at things that only slightly unnerved Tori. She is also unwilling to take responsibility for her actions, such as inciting anger and jealousy within Tori in Cat's New Boyfriend or endorsing Tori lying on her resume in Beck Falls for Tori yet later saying she shouldn't have done that. Likewise, she is shown to take offence to anyone referring to her as mean and scary in spite of the persona she has built for herself and seemed to become depressed both times she and Beck broke up despite her frequent claims of not needing anyone. Perhaps the biggest display of this would be her asking one of the tots in her "Jade with Tots" videos, why she has no friends she can count on despite the other five gang members trying very hard to become genuine friends with her and frequently doing what she commands.
An unusually consistent aspect of Jade's personality seems to be that, while she is cruel and abrasive to everyone when the gang is together, she seems much kinder to them (even to Tori) when they are interacting individually. Despite this, the former trait seems to cement her as the least popular member of the gang (with the possible exceptions of Trina and Rex).
Despite her usual personality, she seems to have a bit of a soft side for young kids, as shown on her TheSlap.com segment, "Jade With Tots." In her conversations with preschoolers, although she is still herself, she seems more kind towards the kids. For example, when one of the kids talks too quietly, she loosely says "Gotta speak up, sweetheart." Also, when talking to another child, she smiles and says casually, "So I hear you're a little artist. You like art?" She also seems to be quite loving and motherly towards her best friend, Cat.
Relationships with Other Characters
Beck Oliver
(2008-present, Boyfriend, with brief break-ups in between)
"Jade: You love me again.
Beck has been Jade's boyfriend and the love of her life for over three years, and she is very possessive of him. She doesn't like him talking to or flirting with other girls who she does not know and has trust issues with him (which is quite common among most teen couples). This sometimes irritates Beck; he once deleted his account on TheSlap.com because Jade kept spamming him and "freaking out", but he rejoined after she promised to stop. She has not done this since he re-joined, showing she can make compromises and she truly does love and respect him.
Her obsession with Beck is first made apparent in the Pilot, when she sees Tori wiping coffee off of Beck's shirt and immediately misinterprets the action as flirting. Though Jade is usually the one to show love in the relationship, the couple are shown to be mutually in love on multiple occasions such as when Beck says "I never stopped loving you". She dumps Beck briefly in the episode Jade Dumps Beck, but has second thoughts about it and quickly wants him back. She goes through a short state of depression when Beck doesn't take her back, even resorting to asking for help from her frenemy, Tori. At the end of the same episode, they rekindled their relationship and continue dating.
Beck also clearly loves to tease and rile up Jade, either by making her jealous or letting her get carried away by her own theories. This is exemplified in Wi-Fi in the Sky when he doesn't tell her his cheerleader neighbor is only 9 years old. Jade later claims that he does this all the time. In Beck's Profile Video on TheSlap.com, Jade states that they've been dating for two years and been exclusive for a year and a half.
Jade seems to show a softer side when she and Beck are alone, which has been seen on some of their videos on TheSlap. Jade also seems to be meaner and gets into fights with Tori more often when Beck is not there with her. In the last "Jade With Tots" episode, Beck tells Jade that he loves her, which makes Jade's heart melt and she starts kissing him.
Their constant arguing and Jade's irrational jealousy came to a head in The Worst Couple where they broke up. After this, they rarely interacted, and when they did, they were bitter towards each other. For instance, in How Trina Got In, Jade mocks Beck and says (sarcastically) that he knows everything except how to keep a girlfriend happy. Additionally, both Jade and Beck acted very awkward around each other in André's Horrible Girl, both whispering to a friend that no one told them the other would be there, and they aren't happy about it. It was shown, however, that she still has lingering feelings for him as she was truly upset and hurt when she saw Beck hugging Tori and trying to kiss her in Tori Goes Platinum. Also, Beck seems to still care about her as shown in Opposite Date, when he wants to check if Jade is truly okay with him dating other girls, even though they were broken up at that point (it is quite possible he didn't want to hurt Jade's feelings).
In the episode, Tori Fixes Beck and Jade, after Beck realizes he still loves Jade, she coincidentally sings a song called "You Don't Know Me". They finally get back together and have remained that way for the rest of the show. They became more affectionate towards each other, no longer fight, and are much more physical. According to recent social media posts from Liz Gillies and Avan Jogia, Beck and Jade are still together, are currently living in Beck's trailer, and they even have a kid of their own. (See: Bade)
Tori Vega
(2010-present: Friend)
"Dude, why are you rubbing my boyfriend?"
Jade and Tori's friendship is complicated, and is full of insults and fighting, but it's also one of the closest relationships on Victorious. Jade appears to have had an open rivalry with Tori ever since the first episode (Pilot), where Tori spilled coffee on Beck and was wiping the coffee off him, then when Jade poured coffee on Tori, then Tori kissed Beck for revenge. As of Stage Fighting, they seem to be developing a possible friendship, though Jade still displays a dislike for Tori. In the fourth episode, The Birthweek Song, she gives Tori coffee she found in the garbage and says "Yeah, I'm not really her friend." Despite saying this, Jade comes to Tori when she breaks up with Beck in Jade Dumps Beck, and asks for her advice (though Jade claims this is because she wouldn't want anyone cool to see her in that state). In Freak the Freak Out, Jade tries to use Tori to defeat two stuck-up girls at the Karaoke Dokie after she and Cat were unfairly banned from performing there, indicating that regardless of her hostility toward her, she regards Tori as a worthy, perhaps even superior, performer. In Wok Star, Tori helps Jade produce a play she wrote herself to impress her dad. When her dad admits that Jade's play was excellent, Tori and Jade hug, signaling that the two are now considered friends. In Beck Falls for Tori, Jade helps Tori by forcing her to do the stunt and overcome her fear. In Tori Gets Stuck, Jade tries relentlessly to steal Tori's role in Steamboat Suzy and they seem to become enemies once again. In Prom Wrecker, Tori plans her prome on the same day as Jade's play "Clowns Don't Bounce" by accident, so Jade seeks revenge and tries to ruin Tori's prome. Eventually, Jade's plan backfires. They seem to be back on bad terms, as in Helen Back Again, Jade didn't help Tori get her spot in the school back, in Who Did It to Trina?, Jade blames Tori for her sister's injuries, and in Jade Gets Crushed, Tori states multiple times that Jade is evil. In Tori & Jade's Play Date they work together to revenge against two boys who are annoying them. They finally become friends in Tori Goes Platinum, when Jade sees Tori refuse to kiss Beck because she considers Jade to be her friend and she believes kissing a friend's ex-boyfriend would be wrong. Because of this, Jade gives Tori her spot in the Platinum Music Awards back and cheers her on in the audience showing thus the two becoming friends.
Jade's key issue with Tori is frequently implied to be jealousy as the two girls seem to be able to do anything the other can do, but Tori seems to always be regarded as more talented, better liked, and smarter despite Jade having been at Hollywood Arts for, at least, two years before Tori arrived, with Tori accomplishing very easily what Jade must struggle for. As a result, Jade seems to rely on Tori to provide her with the motivation necessary to perform. An example exists in Cell Block where Jade is disinterested in the play rehearsal, with this being the only time Tori is not shown to have competed with Jade for a lead role. All that said, Jade has shown herself to be reliant on Tori for aid and support in several instances such as Jade Dumps Beck and Wok Star.
Their relationship would be summarized as 'frenemies' with them constantly going back and forth between being friends and enemies. (See: Jori)
Cat Valentine
(2008-present: Best Friend)
"Cat: We're hanging out together!
Jade and Cat are best friends. While Cat is a textbook girly-girl, Jade is more of a tomboy. They usually expresses concern for each other when they're hurt and calls out the person who caused it. Jade is also less hostile and more patient towards Cat than towards most people (even though she did once say, "Is it a device that can beam you to another table? Because if it is, which button do I push?!" and tells her she's "screwed up"). Cat is not as easily offended by Jade (although in Rex Dies, Jade makes a death threat to Cat, saying, "If someone fell off this cat-walk and hit the floor really hard, do you think they'd live?" and in A Film by Dale Squires, she uses the fact that she's acting as an excuse to slap Cat's face) and actually seems to adore her. In the same episode, Jade also does not display her characteristic jealousy when Cat and Beck kiss for the film. Even though Cat unintentionally electrocuted Jade in Rex Dies, Jade is shown as not being extremely upset by it, while she has done far worse to others for doing far less. In the episode Survival of the Hottest, they hug and she spins her around, which implies that they're very good friends since Jade rarely hugs anyone willingly. They seem to love each other like sisters. In Freak the Freak Out, they sing the song Give It Up together. Jade and Cat often comment on each other's boards on TheSlap.
Jade seems to exercise a parental sort of control over Cat and seems to know her very well. Jade admittedly doesn't hate Cat's video profile, and Beck tells Cat how this is a big compliment from Jade. Jade has also been seen sleeping over at Cat Valentine house before in a video[Cat and Jades bedtime story] on TheSlap. It is also mentioned that Beck and Jade babysit Cat sometimes.It seems that Cat knows Jade rather well, as she managed to get Jade a Christmas present she liked. It should be noted that Jade's attitude towards Cat changes depending on the episode or her mood. (See: Cade)
André Harris(2008-present: Close Friend)
"And... that's for you."
Jade doesn't seem to have a problem with André. They have been friends for at least two years as revealed in The Great Ping Pong Scam. They eat at the same table and talk amongst the same group of people. She does get annoyed by André from time to time, as shown in Beck's Big Break when she is annoyed by him when he's playing music on his keyboard, so she knocks the batteries out of it. On the other hand they seem to be pretty nice to each other, as seen in The Diddly-Bops, where Jade was among the ones trying to console André about losing his record deal. She even pulls Rex's arm off for joking about the situation. In Jade Gets Crushed, André falls in love with Jade, but at the end of the episode, seems to get over her. Also, in The Worst Couple, Jade says something rude to every single character except André, which was pointed out by the others (indicating that he's the only one in the group besides Beck that she considers her friend). In the final season, they had been seen to have been hanging out a lot more and spending time together. André even laughed a little too loud whenever Jade insulted anyone, even Tori, his own best friend. Fans had noticed this too, and people were questioning whether or not André still had feelings for Jade. It appears that Dan Schneider had meant for this to happen, because he leaked a video of a future kiss between Jade and André uploaded it once more. (See: Jandré)
Robbie Shapiro
(2008-present: Frenemy)
"Robbie: I'll go get you some ice.
Jade tortured Robbie during the first season though it has been slowed down since then. She has insulted him and Rex a couple of times, even tearing off Rex's arm with a smirk. In Survival of the Hottest, Jade forces Robbie to give her his water because she is hot and thirsty. She was elated to have Rex die, even with the emotional trauma it would cause Robbie, in Rex Dies. However, her reason was so that Robbie could get over Rex and finally become normal, possibly meaning, in her own way, she cares about Robbie's mental health. They are seen to be at least friendly acquaintances in The Diddly-Bops when Jade compliments Robbie on his song about broken glass, the only character to agree with him on it by saying "I like it". In Wok Star, he shows some compassion for her regarding her play, and confusion at her ways of dealing with stress (i.e.: cutting up a trash can). Yet, he joins in on the plan to make Jade's play better for the opening act. On TheSlap.com, Jade once commented: "Caught myself singing along to Robbie/Rex's song, Forever Baby. What is wrong with me? I don't even know who I am anymore!" (See: Rade)
Trina Vega(2008-present: Enemy)
"No one likes you!"
Jade has barely interacted with Trina so far, but she appears to hate her. In Jade Dumps Beck, Trina gives her a flyer advertising her one-woman show. Jade responds by crumpling up the flier and stuffing it down Trina's shirtfront. In Survival of the Hottest, Jade yells bluntly to Trina twice that no one likes her. Also, when Tori asked Jade what she thought she should get Trina for her birthday, she replied wittily "talent", making it clear that she doesn't think Trina has any talent, which is probably what most people would say in the matter. She finds Trina's accident in Who Did it to Trina? hilarious, and even uploaded it online. However, in Wanko's Warehouse, she goes with the gang and Jade turns on Trina as usual. Atypically, Trina barely seems to acknowledge Jade as even existing which may be why Jade hates her more than anyone else. (See: Trade)
Erwin Sikowitz
(2008-present: Teacher)
"Ah, Jade... so sweet and feminine."
Jade claims that Sikowitz is her favorite teacher in her video profile on TheSlap, and mostly participates in his activities. During "Locked Up!" she is the first to react/run over to greet "their favorite teacher". Sikowitz doesn't really have a relationship with her, although he calls her to be in an improv scene in the "Pilot" and randomly calls on her to be in a Drive-By Acting Exercise, which annoyed her but she did it anyway. Jade was also part of the Diddly-Bops, a children's group that Sikowitz put together for his roommate's son's birthday party. Jade was also the first to comment about Sikowitz's TheSlap page. In "Sleepover at Sikowitz's", Jade is the first to volunteer to go to Sikowitz's house. Sikowitz always says phrases that start with "Ah, Jade..." giving her an advice or making a comment about her personality. (See: Jikowitz)
Sinjin Van Cleef
(2010-present; Enemy/Frenemy)
"Walk away."
Sinjin has a massive crush on Jade, but she dislikes him very much. In Jade Dumps Beck, when Sinjin heard that Jade dumped Beck, Sinjin told her, "Want one [boyfriend]?" Jade responded, "Walk away." and he did so quickly. Also, when the news of Jade and Beck splitting spread, Sinjin and his friend made an attempt to sit with her at lunch, until Jade merely (and loudly) said, NO and the two walked away. In "Tori the Zombie", Jade said his mother gave birth to the wrong thing. Sinjin was also shown to be in Jade's house, obviously without permission much to Jade's annoyance in "Wi-Fi in the Sky". On TheSlap, he talks about Jade and even writes her poems. This may show he has an unhealthy obsession with her. In Wok Star he helped her with set design. When he tried to talk to her about different kinds of moss to use for the set, she compared it with his hair. He then continued to speak to Jade, which annoyed her and she commanded him to "Go." Before she even finished the word he took off running, showing he always does what she says and greatly respects her (despite him breaking into her house). Tori said it made pee run down his leg. In a video on "The Slap" Sinjin made puppets of him and Jade. He acted as if Jade was in love with him and wanted to dump Beck so she could go out with him. Jade walks into the room to see Sinjin and calmly tells him that is not okay. (See: Sade)
Jade's relationships with her family are known to be terrible. According to her, her father "hates [her] guts", has called the cops on her, thinks that all of her creative desires are stupid, and she wants to show him that he is wrong. She seems to disrespect her mother and has called her "stupid" quite a few times, and claims that she loves the movie The Scissoring more than her mother (Three Girls and a Moose). Her grandma doesn't approve of her style, and Jade once told her to "get out of here" when asked about the kind of guy she wanted to marry. She once locked her cousin in a closet, she seems to think of her stepmother as annoying because she takes up all her father's attention, and she enjoys listening to her brother panic. (Most of these examples are from numerous posts and videos on TheSlap.com.)
Jade's PearProducts
- Red PearPhone XT
- Red PearBook 4
Season Four
Season One
Season Three
Solos in a Group Number
|Season 1
|Sing Also With:
|The Diddly-Bops
|Favorite Food
|Tori, Cat and Robbie
|Season 2
|Sing Also With:
|Locked Up!
|I Want You Back
|Season 3
|Sing Also With:
|A Christmas Tori
|It's Not Christmas Without You
|Tori, Cat and André
|April Fools' Blank
|Shut Up N' Dance
|Tori, Cat, Robbie and Trina
|Driving Tori Crazy
|Five Fingaz To the Face
|Dr. Rhapsody, Tori, Cat, André, Robbie, Beck and Trina
Unreleased Songs
Season One
Season Two
Season Three
Back Up Vocals
Season Two
- All I Want Is Everything in Locked Up!
- Robbie's Big Toe
- Strangers on a Bus
Jade's Quotes
- Dude! Why are you rubbing my boyfriend? (Pilot)
- 'X' marks the spot I'd like to punch! (Pilot)
- Please go run in front of a bus! (Pilot)
- Don't push me! (Pilot)
- Can't wait for our fight....scene. (Stage Fighting)
- But the most surprising part of the play happened at the end, when the monster gouged out Priscilla's eyes, which for whatever reason, I found really funny. Questions? (The Birthweek Song)
- And what does it say? Maybe, "Hi Beck! My daddy just got richer and I got prettier, let's make out!" (Jade Dumps Beck)
- Beck's always saying how he wants a dog. Uh, a rottenheimer! (Jade Dumps Beck)
- Because, I don't want anyone who's cool to see me like this! (Jade Dumps Beck)
- Walk away (Jade to Sinjin in Jade Dumps Beck)
- No! Fifteen years ago, your mother gave birth to the wrong thing! (Tori the Zombie)
- Is it a transporter from the future that can beam you to another table, because if it is, what button do I push?! (Robarazzi)
- No one likes you! (Jade to Trina in various episodes)
- Having fun there? (Survival of the Hottest)
- Okay, something's dripping on me. Something's dripping on me! What's going on, what's happening?! (Survival of the Hottest)
- "I'm not going away, and you can't just say no." "No, No, No, No, No, No, NO!" (Tori and Jade, The Great Ping Pong Scam)
- Read the phone Tori, read the phone! (The Great Ping Pong Scam)
- I'm bored now. (Cat's New Boyfriend)
- So, why did you dump her? (Cat's New Boyfriend)
- Tori, come out to plaaaay! (Cat's New Boyfriend)
- Enjoy my monkey fur! (Freak the Freak Out)
- Yeah! We're clapping because it's over! (Freak the Freak Out)
- If someone was pushed off this catwalk, and they landed on the floor really hard, do you think they'd live? (Rex Dies)
- We did this for money! (The Diddly-Bops)
- I write what I feel! (The Diddly-Bops)
- Here, I'll playfully punch your arm as if we were friends. (Wok Star)
- NOO!!! (various episodes)
- Ducks, man I hate ducks! (The Wood)
- Janitor's car, feel the wrath! (The Wood)
- And, he keeps deleting all my very creative negative comments! (A Film by Dale Squires)
- Even I feel bad! (A Film by Dale Squires)
- Well! Aren't you two having a fun time eating raisin bran together? Just be careful Mr. British Man, because who knows what terrible things might happen to you if that continues. (Sleepover at Sikowitz's)
- MOVE THIS CAR!!! (Sleepover at Sikowitz's)
- I'm just saying, any guy that hot and that perfect has to be hiding something. (Beggin' on Your Knees)
- You must feel pretty stupid right now. (Beggin' on Your Knees)
- My favorite toy was a hammer. You finish the puzzle. (Ice Cream for Ke$ha)
- NEVER touch me! (Ice Cream for Ke$ha)
- Yeah, if you get sick...or go missing...or get hit by a BUS! (Tori Gets Stuck)
- Where are the babies? (Tori Gets Stuck)
- Uh oh! Look's like Tori Vega's prome has turned in to one big boopity boo! (Prom Wrecker)
- Even I feel bad but... bye (smiles). (Jade to Tori in Helen Back Again)
- Yes, a terrible, hilarious accident. That now has seventeen hundred views! (Who Did It to Trina?)
- Maybe he locked himself in a dark closet because you forced him to go see a play that made his whole life seem like a big fat pile of garbage. (Tori Tortures Teacher)
- I can't remember a time when this wasn't happening! (Terror on Cupcake Street)
- I will pop your head like a zit. (Terror on Cupcake Street)
- Hey, Cat. Cat, Cat, Cat, Cat, Cat- YOU'RE KILLING ME!! (Terror on Cupcake Street)
- Starting with the pretty girl. (A Christmas Tori)
- Are you a vegan? (The Breakfast Bunch)
- When you get old, your butt sags. (The Breakfast Bunch)
- HAMMER TIME! (The Gorilla Club)
- Amen, let's go. (Jade to Tori and Cat in Car, Rain & Fire)
- How is it that I'm playing the dumb girl? (The Blonde Squad)
- Puppies wearing sunglasses. (Opposite Date)
- Enjoy her cupcakes. (Tori Fixes Beck and Jade)
- My name is Tori, but on game shows I go by the name "Jade"! (Brain Squeezers)
- Jade loves the sound of breaking glass.
- Jade has the words "ENNUI" and "REVENGE" on the walls of her room.
- Jade has broken the law many times, but hasn't gotten into trouble, such as in Sleepover at Sikowitz's and Tori Gets Stuck.
- Jade's locker is next to Robbie's locker.
- Jade and Tori are the only girls to have colored highlights.
- Jade also sometimes mixes her highlights (Purple and Blue on Pilot and iParty with Victorious, Green and Blue in Season 2).
- Jade is the only person to have a lot of dislikes (as mentioned on The Wood).
- Jade has a black purse made out of monkey fur (Freak the Freak Out). She also has a large black purse (The Worst Couple), (Andre's Horrible Girl) and a smaller leather black one that also has silver studs (Three Girls and a Moose). Her backpack for school is a Gears of War bag.
- Jade is possibly a masochist, as she was disappointed that the feet smoothing wouldn't hurt her, wanted Tori to slap her with a sausage (Cat's New Boyfriend), said she would love it if she exploded (Survival of the Hottest), and was disappointed that getting a haircut didn't hurt (post from TheSlap.com). She has posted "This is a crisis. My day's completely ruined. Just found out that song 'Killing Me Softly' is actually a really sweet song." (on TheSlap.com). Also, in Ice Cream for Ke$ha, she said "This is actually causing me pain, and not the good kind."
- Jade likes blood, as seen in Freak the Freak Out; Cat asked Tori what was on her arm, and when Tori said it was Trina's mouth blood, Jade said, "Cool," with fascination. Also, in Tori Gets Stuck Jade says to take a lot of blood from Tori and send whatever they don't use to her house.
- Jade was called a "gank" three times in the episode "Freak the Freak Out" by Tori, André, and Mr. Sikowitz.
- According to The Wood, it is shown that Jade (and Tori) know[s] how to speak and sing the song "Forever Baby" in Spanish when she and Tori push Festus home in a wheelbarrow.
- In Jade Dumps Beck, Jade says her favorite tropical fruit is the mango.
- She appears to have a liking for butterflies, based on the fact that she has a collection of dead butterflies in her room and has been shown to have a black notebook with pink butterflies on it. However, these could also be moths, which are thought to be much more dark than butterflies, as they are nocturnal and occasionally an omen of bad luck, which would fit much more with her personality.
- Jade loves to drink coffee and drinks it black with two sugars. She is often seen holding a cup of it at the beginning of an episode. Jade says she loves coffee so much that she wants to marry a man that is "like coffee", in her What I Love video on TheSlap.com.
- In Wok Star Jade shows a nice, respectful attitude towards Mrs. Lee until she tries to change Jade's play and ideas. This shows Jade can be completely hostile-free towards people until they tick her off.
- Jade likes scaring babies (mentioned in Tori Gets Stuck).
- She hates birthdays, except her own.
- Jade is a heavy sleeper, as seen in Locked Up!.
- It is mentioned in the TheSlap video "Jade With Tots 2" that her father has a "new wife".
- In Jade Gets Crushed, Tori shows that Jade likes scary, sad, or tragic movies. Also, she claims that "beef makes her puke", which may or may not be true.
- According to Jade Dumps Beck, Jade has her driver's license. This was also proven in Car, Rain & Fire, Driving Tori Crazy, Opposite Date, and Three Girls and a Moose.
- She dislikes the Sesame Street theme song (Terror on Cupcake Street).
- She has a neighbor whose house she eggs every Halloween.
- It can be assumed that she lives with her mother at least some of the time, as she says that her mother let Cat into her house (Cat Crashes Jade's House).
- Surprisingly, she doesn't seem to mind shopping, However according to Beck, she only likes to try on black clothing. However, she doesn't really like Black Friday.
- Jade is one of the four main characters (with Tori, Robbie, and André) who have never been absent for an episode. Of those four, she had the least screentime in an episode, The Birthweek Song, appearing for only two scenes in an utterly minor role with no actual impact on the plot.
- In Wi-Fi in the Sky, there is a shot of Jade's laptop. It has a spiderweb with a spider coming down from it as a decal. The wallpaper was a raven.
- She used to spend Thanksgiving with Beck and once made his family cry by saying grace before dinner.
- Even though Jade is assumed to be the toughest, she has cried twice on the show; once when Beck would not get back together with her (Jade Dumps Beck), and once when she realized she was sweating for the first time (Survival of the Hottest).
- She is able to compose song lyrics, as shown in Jade Gets Crushed.
- According to Beck's New Year's Eve status update of 2011, Jade calls New Year's Eve parties "Death of [insert number of the past years] parties".
- She doesn't go in the ocean because she is afraid of dolphins, due to a traumatic experience she had in 3rd grade that she refuses to talk about.
- According to a picture on TheSlap, she likes older guys.
- According to one of her Slap updates, she had to wear a pink dress for a role, and apparently quit because of it.
- She also does not like having hair cut. For her, it is such a waste of time. (Said so on TheSlap)
- Jade seems to be rather fond of licorice since she cuts off a pretty long piece of Cat's "bra-candy" for herself whilst not paying much attention to how long the others' (Beck and André) pieces are. In addition she smiles and pleasurably chews on it. In addition she seems to have a sweet tooth in general. As mentioned on the show she drinks her coffee with two sugars Tori offered her a muffin in Car, Rain & Fire, she didn't hesitate in accepting the offer opposing to her usually skeptical personality.
- Out of all the characters, she has the third most amount of fans on TheSlap, behind Cat and Tori. She has over a million fans.
- Her favorite Hollywood Arts teacher is Sikowitz according to TheSlap.
- In Stage Fighting, a girl who accidentally threw a cup of water at her begged her, "Please don´t destroy me socially!" This implies Jade is rather high on the social hierarchy of Hollywood Arts.
- In Survival of the Hottest, Jade claims she doesn't sweat. She sweats for the first time ever when they are all stuck in Beck´s RV with a temperature of 110 degrees. She denies it at first, but when Beck yells at her and tells her that she really is sweating, she starts to cry. It is assumed she hadn't sweated knowingly until this incident.
- In Wi-Fi in the Sky, it is shown she has several things in jars in her room. One may be the lump of fat she got from a doctor in Rex Dies.
- She likes locking herself in the bathroom, turning off the lights, and just sitting there.
- In the What Jade Loves! video, she says that she loves bunnies.
- She and Robbie appear in the Sam & Cat special The Killer Tuna Jump where she mentions to Cat's grandma that she and Beck are still a couple over a year after Victori-Yes, presumably while in their senior year of high school.
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We've all fantasized about making our exes pay for what they've done to us, but Nora Brank did us all one better and took her ex-boyfriend Nicolas Maier to The People's Court. It was the perfect venue for settling her claim that he stole her stand-up comedy set, word-for-word, after they broke up.
Of course, the fact that these two have since reconciled and host a variety show together makes for some strong evidence that perhaps they were, ahem, never exes to begin with. But that just makes this exercise in awkward legal theater all the more genius. Case dismissed. Everybody wins.
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Salvation Army Enters Digital World With SAVN.TV
Just when you thought you knew everything about The Salvation Army, someone comes along and completely changes that perception. Commissioner Jim Knaggs, with his wife Commissioner Carolyn Knaggs, lead The Salvation Army's work in the USA Western Territory, including 14 western states, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia. As Territorial Commander he reports directly to the General of The Salvation Army at International Headquarters in the United Kingdom. While The Salvation Army may be the largest nonprofit organization in the world, what drives Jim Knaggs is evangelism. That's part of the reason he's launched the army's first global digital initiative called The Salvation Army Vision Network (SAVN.TV). It's an online platform designed to share life-changing stories of the army's work around the world.
Recently, media consultant and producer Phil Cooke talked with Jim about his career in ministry, the challenges of leading in the digital age, and the future of The Salvation Army:
Phil Cooke: Over the last 34 years, you've filled a lot of roles for the Salvation Army. Did you start at the bottom? What was your introduction into the Army?
Jim Knaggs: My first job with The Salvation Army was selling Christmas "War Cry" magazines for 50 cents an hour. I imagine that was the bottom. My parents are Salvation Army officers, so I attended the SA church as a child. As a Commissioned Officer, my wife and I began by leading a summer evangelistic team throughout Eastern Pennsylvania, at a different location each week. With three street meetings a day and an indoor evangelistic meeting at night, I never repeated a message all summer, as I believed my team needed to hear a regular fresh message from the Word of God. From there we served in inner city Philadelphia as Corps Officers leading a church and urban ministry. The subsequent 12 appointments have shown us that God has led our lives in places we never dreamed about, constantly expanding our capacity to love others in the journey.
Cooke: You've also served internationally. Where were you posted, and how did that impact your leadership style?
Knaggs: We served in Melbourne, Australia for four years as the Territorial leaders for half of Australia. It taught us even more convincingly that there were many ways to win the world for Jesus, not solely the ones we had seen at home.
Cooke: There's a perception in some places that The Salvation Army is focused only on social causes. But a conversation with you is always about evangelism. Where's the balance? What are your priorities?
Knaggs: The Salvation Army is about winning the world for Jesus. The Lord's command to love Him and our neighbor has indelibly impacted the movement to where the bipartite effort is seamless. We commonly refer to "soup, soap, and salvation" as our plan. In it you can detect the most successful progression to bringing someone to faith in Christ. They'll never hear the voice of God if their empty stomach is growling. I see the prongs in unison, but always through the eyes of a loving God, who eternally cares for us.
Cooke: I understand that The Salvation Army is the largest nonprofit organization in the world, and you're one of the top level leaders. Does the organization have a program for developing the next generation of leaders?
Knaggs: The Salvation Army is very locally driven. The international program for leader development is very institutional, but fixed in the crucible of the daily, local effort. Our leaders come from within. It affords us the luxury of intimate observation over seasons of productivity.
Cooke: From your experience, what are the key elements that make a great leader?
Knaggs: Godly, visionary, hopeful, encourager, experienced, missionally committed.
Cooke: You have nearly 80,000 Twitter followers and a huge following on your blog at jimknaggs.com. What subjects do you like writing about the most?
Knaggs: I like mission, inspiration and challenge. I also love to tell others what great things God is doing among us.
Cooke: Thousands of people start ministry organizations, but when William Booth founded The Salvation Army, it spanned generations and developed a global impact. What was different about his vision, and why do you believe it impacted the world in such a powerful way?
Knaggs: I believe it was God's idea. As a teen, Booth knelt at a church altar and said, "God shall have all there is of William Booth." The global timing was right as the ministry expanded along the streams of the influence of the British Commonwealth. Poverty was rampant and people were in great need, physically, financially, and spiritually. Like a fire in a dry season, it flamed around the world. I do believe Booth had a great faith in God and was prepared to act upon it.
Cooke: The Salvation Army has entered the digital world through the website SAVN.TV. You were the driving force behind creating the site. Why is engaging today's culture through digital and social media so important?
Knaggs: Over 2.3 billion people are on the internet today. We must use every possible means to bring people to God's love. Social media is a natural way to do so. We can enter communities, neighborhoods, homes and hearts that have never been open to us before.
Cooke: Tell me about the future. What's on your radar over the next 5-10 years?
Knaggs: Next we're investing in different languages and the cultural realities of different faiths to identify opportunities to bring them to faith. The Salvation Army is also perfectly positioned to make a major impact in reducing human trafficking, poverty, hunger, and more. In terms of social media, I see connections that digitally blend our friendships with our passions and increasing interest in access to the troubles in our world and the excitements at the same time. Soon it won't matter what language you type or speak (mostly speak, less typing), the equipment will automatically translate depending upon your settings and we will have relationships with people simultaneously around the globe. It will redefine the borders and render them redundant as well as their local restrictions. We will have a better opportunity to understand different cultures and make better, more efficient decisions about our lives. The equipment we use will be more accessible and flexible with projection devices from a wristband or stylus that will give us a ready, interactive, image (screen) on many different surfaces including connections to fabric through fiber optics and ocular lens.
I see The Salvation Army right in the middle of it, keeping it all ethical, moral and wholesome. We are in 126 countries of the world officially, but many more by Salvationists who are faithfully serving God where they are without formal recognition. The tools are available to us now and in the future to engage more people, more efficiently and more effectively.
Cooke: If you could leave our readers with one thought about the work of The Salvation Army, what would it be?
Knaggs: The movement is God's idea. We belong to Him. We rejoice in His victorious leading and suffer in our own occasional failures. In the heart of a Salvationist, you'll find the heart of God.


text: Q: "Spanning tree algorithm?" A: I have found a good reference for ethernet is the O'Reilly book: "Ethernet: The Definitive Guide" by Charles E. Spurgeon, 2000. There is a standard method that ethernet switches use to detect loops, and will shut down one of the links in the loop. Essentially they form a tree by sending out special packets amongst themselves. I just did a google search on "spanning tree algorithm ethernet switch" and found this from Cisco: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/rtrmgmt/sw_ntman/cwsimain/cwsi2/cwsiug2/vlan2/stpapp.htm "Understanding Spanning-Tree Protocol" And this article from Network World Fusion: http://www.nwfusion.com/netresources/0524spanning.html "Spanning tree is still with us" On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Grenyer, Richard wrote: > Someone wrote: > > >And your N networks had to be isolated from each other, > >so that their tree-spanning algorithm, etc. would not get confused > > What is this tree-spanning algorithm. Is it detailed anywhere? What would I > need to search around under - keywords, acronyms, similar? > > Many thanks, > > Rich Grenyer -- Tim Mattox - tmattox at ieee.org - http://home.earthlink.net/~timattox http://aggregate.org/KAOS/ - http://advogato.org/person/tmattox/


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Only Ron Paul Can Defeat Hillary Clinton
Which is why the corporate elite that have already selected the New York senator are doing their best to blackball the Texas Congressman - including Yahoo! who lied by claiming Paul had not filed papers to officially run, and omitted him from their website coverage
There is only one Republican candidate that can prevent Hillary Clinton from walking into the Oval Office after the next election and that's Ron Paul - which is why the corporate interests that have already selected Hillary are busy trying to stem the tide of a populist onslaught to bring the Texas Congressman to the attention of the American people.
Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate to carry a message that resonates with the American people, his thoroughbred anti-war and anti-big government stance, but the establishment press have done their level best to keep Paul in the shadows while lying in claiming that every participant featured in last week's debate was pro-war .
Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate to have voted against the Iraq war.
Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate who will not seek to lead the U.S. into a military confrontation with Iran, something also that Democrats Obama, Clinton and Edwards have all vowed to keep "on the table."
Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate who is not compromised while the likes of Giuliani and Romney have more skeletons in their closet than a fancy dress boutique. He holds true conservative values unlike the vehemently pro-abortion Giuliani and Romney.
Ron Paul is the only candidate period who has promised to abolish to IRS and end the fraudulent fiat-based money system that is crippling America's economy while lining the pockets of the ultra-rich.
Every other Republican candidate besides Ron Paul stands no chance of coming out on top if they go up against Hillary Clinton for the 2008 presidency.
This is a message particularly directed at people who consider themselves conservatives despite voting for George W. Bush on two occasions - get behind Ron Paul or Hillary Clinton is guaranteed to be the next President of the United States.
For all the reasons mentioned above, we are witnessing a clear agenda to marginalize and discredit Ron Paul on behalf of the corporate media, while burying the fact that he won last Thursday's debate hands down.
Nowhere was this more evident than in a May 8th Washington Post editorial entitled 'Building a Better Debate' in which the Post exposed itself as perhaps the most prominent media organ for those who wish to control and suffocate the democratic process in America.
The editorial was basically a manifesto for restricting the debates to include only the establishment's most well groomed appointees and kicking Ron Paul off the podium.
The wider media plot to censor and sideline Ron Paul has been documented here all week and the latest example was Yahoo's decision to include Mike Huckabee and Duncan Hunter, whose combined support in the polls trails Ron Paul's, on their 2008 coverage page , yet omit the Texas Congressman altogether.
"Huh? Unannounced candidates are allowed into the debates? Can't possibly be true, I thought. So I simply went to the Federal Election Commission website, and after three seconds of searching I found Ron Paul's filing statement, dated March 12. (That's funny: I was told Yahoo had consulted "the latest FEC filings.") Well, here are Ron Paul's documents right here .
So Yahoo! are now stacking lies on top of their censorship in claiming that Ron Paul has not even officially entered the race, despite the fact that this was announced on CSPAN by Paul himself two months ago.
Yahoo! have made numerous promises to add Ron Paul to their list but it hasn't happened yet.
In addition, ABC News, who initially also scrubbed Ron Paul from their online poll , are deleting comments supportive of Paul from their messageboards.
Other large media organizations are deleting votes from Paul's tally on polls, citing multiple voting by the same people as the reason, despite the fact that the polls only allow one vote per IP address.
Though Ron Paul is still obviously a long shot for the Oval Office, purely because he's the only candidate besides Gravel that isn't completely bought and paid for, the fact that the corporate media have to go to these lengths to try and stem the wave of popular support for Paul only exposes their true agenda.
And for that we thank them and invite them to continue their tactics - because by acting like bullies, censors and hostile to the true democratic process, more people will be turned off by their lies and seek alternative avenues for the truth.
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Emma Green is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers politics, policy, and religion.
Like businesses and organizations everywhere, city governments are getting on board with big data. In particular, the New York City mayor's office has embraced analytical tools. According to The New York Times, the city's Office of Policy and Strategic Planning processes a terabyte of information (the equivalent of about 143 million pieces of paper) about its citizens every day, and the New York Police Department famously uses Compstat, an analytics software, to track and respond to crime. But cities have to be wary of how they use data, cautioned Chris Corcoran, the deputy in the Mayor's Office of Analytics, in a panel discussion at The Atlantic's CityLab summit.
I used to work for an energy efficiency company, and we had people input information about their energy use, and we had a participation of about 30 percent. There was a huge self-selection bias.
If you looked at Foursquare data for New York City, and you looked at day-to-day operations of where Foursquare operates, you would assume everyone lives in Midtown – you would never see anything in the outer boroughs.
As we talk about crowdsourcing information, at least from the cities perspective, we have to be cautious about the huge, silent majority of people who are not participating in all these platforms, and how we still make sure we're using data to serve their needs.
As cities figure out new ways to use data to their advantage, this warning – from a data scientist, no less! – is worth remembering: Although social media and digital platforms can be powerful tools for connecting with residents, geography and income can easily bias who is able to use those tools.
Given the affordable housing crisis, California cities should encourage single-family homeowners to convert garages into apartments and accessory dwelling units.
Manhattan's new luxury mega-project was partially bankrolled by an investor visa program called EB-5, which was meant to help poverty-stricken areas.
Sinkholes, winter-weary trains, and political upheaval have held the Confederation Line light-rail transit back from a seriously overdue opening.
With their long-dead inhabitants remembered only foggily, historic cemeteries like Mount Auburn and Green-Wood use art to connect to the living.
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How Much is Poorly Managed Supplier Information Costing Your Business?
"Inaccurate, inconsistent and disconnected supplier information prohibits us from doing accurate supplier spend analysis, leveraging discounts, comparing and choosing the best prices, and enforcing corporate standards."
This is quotation from a manufacturing company executive. It illustrates the negative impact that poorly managed supplier information can have on a company's ability to cut costs and achieve revenue targets.
Many supply chain and procurement teams at large companies struggle to see the total relationship they have with suppliers across product lines, business units and regions. Why? Supplier information is scattered across dozens or hundreds of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Accounts Payable (AP) applications. Too much valuable time is spent manually reconciling inaccurate, inconsistent and disconnected supplier information in an effort to see the big picture. All this manual effort results in back office administrative costs that are higher than they should be.
Do these quotations from supply chain leaders and their teams sound familiar?
"We have 500,000 suppliers. 15-20% of our supplier records are duplicates. 5% are inaccurate."
"I get 100 e-mails a day questioning which supplier to use."
"To consolidate vendor reporting for a single supplier between divisions is really just a guess."
"Every year 1099 tax mailings get returned to us because of invalid addresses, and we play a lot of Schedule B fines to the IRS."
"Two years ago we spent a significant amount of time and money cleansing supplier data. Now we are back where we started."
Please join me and Naveen Sharma, Director of the Master Data Management (MDM) Practice at Cognizant for a Webinar, Supercharge Your Supply Chain Applications with Better Supplier Information, on Tuesday, July 29th at 11 am PT.
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text: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 09:49 -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > Relative airflow can probably be measured with a kid's toy -- one of the > little pinwheels -- and counting revolutions with a stopwatch. > Normalizing that to absolute airflow in CFM is a bit tricky (since the > result depends to some extent on the resistance imposed by the measuring > apparatus) but somebody out there may have designed a version of this > with a real fan and magnets set so that the counting is done > electronically. In fact, I could build something to do this out of OTC > parts if I had any way to normalize the count. > Could you not use one of those cheapish wind speed devices that amateur weather folks use? That would give you a rating, presumably in miles per hour, and then figure backward based upon the area of the little fan thingy. That would likely be not too expensive and a great deal easier, and more accurate, to deal with than counting a pinwheel. ;-) -Dean


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How IT Can Be a Hero to the Disconnected Road Warrior Summary What is the cost of a lost opportunity to your organization? Where is it most likely to occur? Data shared and surfaced at the periphery of the company drives revenue growth, customer retention and high-margin upselling. Responsive organizations rely on a CIO and a sales organization that are in synch so road warriors and customer-facing mobile October 2014 workers are equipped to not only discover opportunities but also capture Clifford Sun sandisk.com/SSDsolutions them without miscues. Technologies such as solid state drives can be introduced into this equation easily, ensuring the performance boost and information access a mobile workforce needs, all at a lower TCO. The road to relevancy In a recent Wall Street Journal blog post1, Accenture's Robert Wollan and Saideep Raj suggest that while companies have tremendous potential to use technology as a competitive weapon, without a coordinated business and IT effort, technology can easily disappoint sales teams and channel partners who want quick delivery at the pace the market requires. "Businesses today must rapidly respond to new demands, drive more relevant products to market, share information to interact in real time with customers and partners and satisfy customers who want their specific needs met "now," Wollan and Raj emphasize. This efficient, growing mobile workforce relies on cloud-based applications and can become "immobilized" if they can't 1 2 How CIOs Can Support a More Agile Sales Organization, WSJ.com, July 25, '13 Forrester Research, Connected Mobile Workers Power Innovation To New Heights, 2012 get online. What is the cost to collaboration if you can't secure a signal? Does dependence on a shared cloud drive that you can't access jeopardize an important milestone? How does mobile benefit your organization if you can't service your customer onsite? Let's look at the four critical areas of sales-IT dependency: Mobile, Device, Connectivity and SaaS. Mobile dependency The clear benefits of mobility include improving productivity, enabling innovation to take place in real time and reducing cycle times by enabling access to information and expertise across the company. And now sales, supply chain operations and customer care personnel are often in the field much of the time as matter of job function and efficiency. Mobility has changed the workplace to such an extent that Forrester Research2 has identified a segment called the "mobile information worker" — highly skilled consultants or executives who travel frequently but must stay in touch with the office through e-mail and collaboration tools. Their work is more strategic than tactical, thus potentially more valuable if achieved and more vulnerable if interrupted. The goal of IT is to make things simple and seamless, so remote workers can easily engage in valuable communications and collaborative interactions that drive revenue and innovation. Leveraging tools and technologies that support redundancy and reliability (something as simple as solid state drives in laptops) helps a mobile workforce improve performance and reduce the risks of the "always on" business world, even when it isn't always "online." Device dependency The devices themselves limit the expected gains of mobility. It's been said that a mobile device never malfunctions between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., so there are the expenses that must be incurred to make up for the unreliability of hard-drive dependent laptops. Yet it goes beyond the personnel and capital costs to maintain a 24/7 help desk in anticipation of some percentage of failure. Operations can be crippled by a limited number of laptops out of commission. Can a company afford even one out-of-touch laptop to delay mission-critical product development, a service level agreement or a road show presentation for partners and analysts? Forrester found that 52% of these information workers use three or more devices and 63% of those devices are mobile — 25% are smartphones or tablets, 12% are netbooks and 26% are laptops3. Add to this complexity the work-life balance of sales teams and executives who drive business in multiple locations or on multiple continents simultaneously, with the expectation that they will be home and fully present for dinner, the baseball game or the school play. To limit device complexity from eroding productivity gains and cost savings, IT must lead by creating mobile capabilities that deploy across lines of business and device types. Mobile device synchronization and efficiency should now be at the core of the IT strategy, not merely a tactical response or a task sitting in isolation on the CIO's to-do list. It's about the performance consistency and reliability across all devices. In fact, Forrester's Consumer Technographics® data shows that more than one-half of US online adults who begin tasks on their mobile phone continue them on their laptop.4 Access dependency What is the cost of a rescheduled sales call? With numerous dependencies and partners in today's demand-driven supply chain, what are the implications when any one of the partners cannot join the conversation? 3 4 Forrester Research, Connected Mobile Workers Power Innovation To New Heights, 2012 http://blogs.forrester.com/category/laptops Yet IT can't always control Internet access for a company's mobile workforce. The road warriors and the hallway infantry are susceptible to any connectivity glitch or gap that puts them out of touch, if only for an instant. Access to decision makers, subject matter experts and cross-functional collaborators is at a premium. They not only lose time, they lose momentum and possibly the attention of the customer or prospect in front of them. Connectivity has moved beyond the simple link between the device and the web; it's now multi-faceted and even more critical to rapidly changing opportunities and issue resolution. It can be difficult to satisfy customers if the remote mobile task worker is unable to access the Wi-Fi signal at the customer's home or place of business. Higher productivity and faster go-to-market cycles will not happen if just one or two members of the team are unable to access a project timeline in the shared Google drive, or the videos needed to build the sales presentation in Dropbox. Responsive companies cannot afford protracted development or sales cycles, standard levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty or a culture that's not grounded in constant knowledge transfer. Winning organizations will leverage greater worker responsiveness and decision making, and that means speed and access without limitation. The mobile workforce's connectivity must be supplemented by access to offline tools and best practices around local storage and cloud-drive mirroring by utilizing ubiquitous access solutions like SSD in laptops. SaaS dependency It's safe to say that IT has accepted Software as a Service (SaaS) enterprise-wide, and now, those early sales adopters are primed for more sophisticated solutions and more customized, less out-of-the-box applications. Especially when those custom applications can be built quickly through agile development teams instead of on capital budget timelines. The proliferation and sophistication of these cloud apps and services cannot be denied, and increasingly businesses of all sizes are looking to leverage their substantial benefits to support their mission critical operations. The question for IT teams is how to manage and assure always-on service levels and data security when they don't have the same control over cloud-based services that they have over on-premise applications. Matthew Guay points out the obvious risk in his, "The Failure of the Cloud" blog: "As anyone who uses online storage enough knows, free online storage won't help anything…. Dropbox and Evernote – and most other apps that use cloud storage – store everything on your computer as well as in the cloud. Everything takes up space on your computer if you're using native apps." Given the number and complexity of dependencies, it's incumbent that the CIO not only support sales activities with mobile infrastructure but also furnish the sales organization with lower-cost, higher-value, faster-to-implement tools. These technologies must provide that broader sales ecosystem with faster access to more relevant information and allow all parties and partners to engage in more meaningful ways. The solution is a high-capacity SSD that mirrors the convenience of cloud storage while ensuring anytime, anywhere access, even without an Internet connection. Conclusion A responsive and technology-enabled sales organization must be collaborative, fast, rigorous and rich in key analytics. The CIO understands that the sales ecosystem is broad by definition, ever expanding and less tolerant of delays. 5 http://web.appstorm.net/general/opinion/the-failure-of-the-cloud/ Today, it is not the lab assistant in the next office whose assistance we need, it's the development team on a distant continent, the field service technician traveling through rural hinterlands or the executive jetting off to a global business center. There are also strategic partners and suppliers to consider. When the market problems are complex and staggering, your value proposition must scale to address it. The ability of an IT team to support a mobile workforce that uses multiple devices in multiple locations each day is the differentiator. Local laptop storage capabilities, fast reboots and best practices like the mirroring of shared drives, all accomplished by SSD, create the minute-by-minute consistency required to support connectivity and collaboration. Let's face it, there are going to be times when the Internet is not available or specific Cloud apps are down beyond your control. When you have reliable and high performance local storage such as SSDs in place, you're truly supporting the entire organization with a full cloud solution. The world of digital content grows exponentially every day and SanDisk is designing flash storage solutions so that your valued data is readily available and reliable, even in the most challenging environments. SanDisk solid state drives offer energy-efficient, compact and durable alternatives to traditional hard disk drives for desktops, laptops and ultra-thin PCs. ©2014 SanDisk Corporation. All rights reserved. SanDisk is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their holder(s).
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