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The SMS community 'Locust' no longer exists. 'Locust' was set up in 1996 as a University project by Jon Anderson, who at the time was a student and a keen linux hacker.
The SMS community 'Locust' no longer exists. 'Locust' was set up in 1996 as a University project by Jon Anderson, who at the time was a student and a keen linux hacker.


The service was initially only available to phones on the Orange network. In Q3 1998, the UK mobile phone operators (at the time: Cellnet, Orange, One2One and Vodafone) came to an agreement that allowed SMS messages to be sent from the home network to a phone on a different mobile operators network. This change rapidly increased the user-base of the Locust SMS community.
Subscribers could receive unlimited text messages, and over the years the community built up to over 600 users, who used his service for SMS-based games, news, email and instant messaging.

Subscribers could receive unlimited SMS text messages, and over the years the community built up to over 600 users, who used his service for SMS-based games, news, email and instant messaging.


Credits for subscription to the service could be bought for 2ukp/month or by running an RC5 (http://www.distributed.net) client for team 'The Locust Network'.
Credits for subscription to the service could be bought for 2ukp/month or by running an RC5 (http://www.distributed.net) client for team 'The Locust Network'.

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Per Schlingmann

Per Gerhard Schlingmann, born October 16 1970 in Borås, Sweden. He is today Secretary-general for the Moderate Party in Sweden.

Schlingmann got a bacelors degree in Economics from the university of Gothenburg. He has woeked with communication, and had sveral cheif positions in diffrent companies, like Spider Realations. His first higher post in the Moderate Party was as a press secretary in The Moderate Youth League or as it is offcial known i english, Swedish Young Conservatives. During 2004 he was in charge of the communications in The Moderate Partyand in 2006 he replaced Sven Otto Littorin as Secretary-general. He is considered to be one of the most important persons in the Moderate Party.

Schlingmann now lives in Nacka, Stockholm, and has two children.

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Locust SMS Community

Locust was the first SMS chat community in the UK.

The SMS community 'Locust' no longer exists. 'Locust' was set up in 1996 as a University project by Jon Anderson, who at the time was a student and a keen linux hacker.

The service was initially only available to phones on the Orange network. In Q3 1998, the UK mobile phone operators (at the time: Cellnet, Orange, One2One and Vodafone) came to an agreement that allowed SMS messages to be sent from the home network to a phone on a different mobile operators network. This change rapidly increased the user-base of the Locust SMS community.

Subscribers could receive unlimited SMS text messages, and over the years the community built up to over 600 users, who used his service for SMS-based games, news, email and instant messaging.

Credits for subscription to the service could be bought for 2ukp/month or by running an RC5 (http://www.distributed.net) client for team 'The Locust Network'.

Locust used a series of commands that could be sent by SMS, or via the website.

It all came to an end in 2002 when Orange, the mobile phone company stopped the tariff which allowed Locust to operate.

A huge community protest developed and Orange gave in initially by allowing Locust to work with a department within Orange called OrangeImagineering - Locust was granted a stay of execution. Finally Orange decided to pull the plug.

Some of the memorable users were sumi, jud, sammi, muppet, crollster, spyda, simbo, widget, nickp, roz, dlp, oink, jappitts, alfie, rapunzel to name but few.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/29/orange_kills_locust/

http://comment.silicon.com/0,39024711,11029850,00.htm

http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,11029990,00.htm

http://locust.net/cellular/savelocust.html

http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,11029846,00.htm



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Theodore Major

Theodore Major was a British artist born in 1908 in Wigan, Lancashire, settling there from 1950 with his painter wife, Kathleen at Appley Bridge. He attended the local art school between 1927-1932, and taught there between 1930-1950.Major was a fervent Lancastrian, he was against materialism, the commercial gallery system and the sale of his pictures to rich collectors. He retained about 3000 of his pictures which he said were painted for ordinary people, not money. Art critic John Berger called Major's pictures "among the best English paintings of our time" He painted in a wide range of styles "to disturb and extend consciousness in the mind of the viewer". He was president of the Wigan Art Club which he founded in 1952. He exhibited in Nottingham, Bolton, Manchester and had Arts Council sponsored solo exhibitions at Carlisle and Blackburn Art Galleries and in 1984 at Salford Art Gallery which holds his work. His paintings are now being discovered and admired by art collectors, particularly his vibrant flower pieces and his powerful industrial scenes. He died in 1999. David Duckman wrote of him in his obituary (The Independant, January 27th, 1999):

"THEODORE MAJOR was a great individualist in the British art world. He was an uncompromising Lancastrian, proud of his provinciality and working- class roots, who rejected the commercial gallery system, did not paint for money and hoped with his paintings, drawings and prints to win the attention of ordinary people, especially children. 'To disturb and extend consciousness in the mind of the viewer' was his declared aim. He declined to sell pictures, 'not to the people who want them, the rich people'.

Neither was Major interested in courting national fame. Nevertheless, periodically the press's spotlight picked him out, as in 1992, when he refused to pay a poll tax bill of almost pounds 1,900. Although he had already settled in full for the house he lived in near Wigan, he declined to pay three years' arrears for the one next door, which he used as a store. Having failed to seize goods in lieu of payment - Major told the bailiff to jump in the canal - the council applied to have him committed to prison."

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www.collectart.co.uk/art/artist.phtml?id=1

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16 Bit Lolita's

16 Bit Now

The Amsterdam DJ Duo, Ariaan Olieroock & Peter Kriek under the name of 16 Bit Lolita's in 2003. They have provided the world of dance and electronic music a series of tracks with a high rating. Working on labels such as Yohistoshi, Alternative Route, Sadie, Plastic Fantastic, Release, Armada, Shinichi, Renaissance, Nu Republic, LMR, Minimal and DK. 16 Bit now appears in festivals and clubs like Crobar, Space Terrace and Bedrock in London with high reputation in UK as well as countries in South America & Asia. Appearing in Deep Dish’s Sharam’s Global Underground, also Jimmy Van M’s Balance, Nick Warren's Global Underground and Hernan Cattaneo’s Master Series.

16 Bit Before

In the past both were chess grandmasters with a top ten worldwide rating. Rumors say that IBM called Peter & Ariaan before the Deep Blue vs. Kasparov chess fight begun, as Deep Blue had broken down. Peter & Ariaan took up the challenge of pretending to be a computer program and playing against the world champion of chess at the same time. Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine A Documentary Film was set because of this event, but Peter & Ariaan showed that being in the top 10 was good for a while, as they achieved everything in the world of chess they left it behind and started making dance music for the clubbing fans.

Discography

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