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The Service Provider (SP) Lock menu is used to lock the cell phone to the SPs SIM card. Once the cell phone is locked to a specific operator, if one inserts a SIM card from a different operator the phone will refuse to accept it! The cell phone will however accept another SIM card from the same operator.
To activate/deactivate this lock one needs a special secret code that is not available to the end user. (not even to you or is it ? in case please let me know!)

Lock to Network? if pressing yes you have 5 attempts to enter NCK.

Lock to Network subset? if pressing yes you have 5 attempts to enter NSCK.
Warning: Your phone can be locked to a service provider FOREVER by doing this! If an invalid code is entered all five times, the menu will exit and be deactivated! Any further attempt to activate the NCK/NSCK lock Menu will result in the response Not allowed! However the NCK/NSCK lock can be recover through a direct clearing in the EEPROM.
Shortcut for Last Dialed call menu
If you for some reason dont want to enter the Last Dialed calls menu by using the key you can use the following key stroke instead: First then .
Access menu without Sim card
To access to the menu in your phone without having a card inside do the following: type **04*0000*0000*0000# When display say Wrong Pin press NO and you have access to the all menus: Info, Access, Settings, Calculator, Clock, Keylock On?, Mail, Phone book. NOTE if you try this on the GH688 your phone may stop at Keylock On? menu and you´ll have to take your battery out to turn the phone on again.

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Ive been waiting for this show to come out on DVD for quite some time. After a frantic, into-the-wee-hours viewing of the entire series, I have to say that, as a fan of both comic books and female-centric drama, I am truly disappointed that Birds of Prey was canceled during its initial 13-episode run. This was a show rife with potential and promise because it mixed together many interesting elements. It takes liberties with, but very much draws on, the DC universe and the Batman mythology specifically. It has essentially three leads, each with their own tragic backstory and complex motivations. And I think it was really trying to be satisfying for both comic fans and drama fans.
As you can imagine, writing an hour-long television show with this many elements can lead to pitfalls, and I think the first few episodes of the show are a case-in-point. Simply, there were many things in terms of storytelling that needed to be ironed out. In the first few episodes, there is just a little bit too much camp. Also, and this is partly because her character has the largest arc due to being the youngest and most guarded, but Dinah seems to be either lost, or just slightly annoying, early on. The action, while sometimes good, lacks a certain level of dynamism. Finally, the writing, largely following the Big Bad of the Week format, is inconsistent at times, with villains who are sometimes less-than-interesting and predictable plots.
So, youre probably asking why you should watch this show, and why I gave it four stars. The first, and probably biggest reason, is that the cast is mostly fantastic. Ashley Scott is pitch-perfect as Huntress: broody, complicated, complex, sexy. Really, shes everything Jessica Alba thought she was on Dark Angel. Dina Meyer, in addition to really being startlingly beautiful, showcases her acting chops by playing the often thankless mentor/information guru role of Oracle with presence and total ownership of the character. Shemar Moore is also great on this show, and I love how he breaks out of his usual role and turns in quite an interesting piece of acting as Reese (not to mention his steaming hot chemistry with Scott). Ian Abercrombie is probably the most archetypal actor ever to play Alfred, and his presence is delightful (though, and this is another problem, hes utilized more for voiceovers than anything else, which makes very little sense). Finally, Mia Sara, best known for playing Ferris Buellers girlfriend, gives a menacing reading of everyones favorite Joker sidekick, Harley Quinn. You might notice I didnt mention Rachel Skarsten, who plays Dinah. This is because, and I really dont mean to be harsh, but I feel that she was miscast. Perhaps this is due to the lack of focus on her characters development by the writers, but there were very few moments when I felt like the character of Dinah rang true. Dinah plays the role of the bratty little sister for awhile, and then a major change in her life about halfway through the series causes her to do a complete, and not-quite-believable, 180. Im sure Skarsten had trouble connecting to her character because of this lack of focus, but she is really overpowered by the rest of the cast.
Besides the (almost) perfect cast, the other reason I count myself a Birds of Prey fan is because the show gets exponentially better as it progresses. If you stick with it, you will see that the storytelling gets better and better as the stakes are raised for the characters. The themes and presentation become more defined, and the show finally settles into this really nice groove.
From what I understand, the show was doing quite well in terms of ratings, especially among the prized 18-34 demog. Besides the fact that maybe the show was just too expensive to produce, Im not really sure why it wasnt given more of a chance. The last third of these 13 episodes is, for my money, more interesting and well-acted than anything the graying has been able to churn out during its seemingly 35-year run on television. Thankfully, the producers were informed of the cancellation before the last 2-3 episodes were made, so they were able to at least wrap up the storyline as best they could given the time constraints.
So there you have it. Not a perfect show, but an interesting one worth watching. Take a chance. Give it time. Do what those evil television executives failed to do.

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http://space.com/missionlaunches/china_moon_030304.html
On March 3, 2003, in an article published by the Peoples Daily news outlet, Luan Enjie, vice-minister of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and director of the China National Aerospace Administration (CNAA), blueprinted his countrys lunar plans and use of Helium 3 as an energy resource for earth.
Chinese space officials view the Moon as a milestone effort in a multi-step space program, not only useful in strengthening its technological muscle, but also to out-distance other countries in utilizing the Moon in the 21st century.
The Moon has become the focal point wherein future aerospace powers contend for strategic resources. The Moon contains various special resources for humanity to develop and use, Luan said. In particular, the space official pointed to Helium-3, a resource unique to lunar soil. [It] is a clean, efficient, safe and cheap new-type nuclear fusion fuel
Under international law does the US landing on the moon confer mineral rights? How could the moon be declared a nation/territory? Does the Law of the Sea extend to space?

This article on Space.com from 2000 shows the Chunese werent the first to think of this,
Researchers and space enthusiasts see helium-3 as the perfect fuel source.
By Julie Wakefield
Special to SPACE.com
posted: 05:30 pm ET
30 June 2000
Researchers and space enthusiasts see helium 3 as the perfect fuel source: extremely potent, non polluting, with virtually no radioactive by-product. Proponents claim its the fuel of the 21st century. The trouble is, hardly any of it is found on Earth. But there is plenty of it on the moon.
Society is straining to keep pace with energy demands, expected to increase eightfold by 2050 as the world population swells toward 12 billion. The moon just may be the answer.
Helium 3 fusion energy may be the key to future space exploration and settlement, said Gerald Kulcinski, Director of the Fusion Technology Institute (FTI) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Scientists estimate there are about 1 million tons of helium 3 on the moon, enough to power the world for thousands of years. The equivalent of a single space shuttle load or roughly 25 tons could supply the entire United States energy needs for a year, according to Apollo 17 astronaut and FTI researcher Harrison Schmitt.
Cash crop of the moon
When the solar wind, the rapid stream of charged particles emitted by the sun, strikes the moon, helium 3 is deposited in the powdery soil. Over billions of years that adds up. Meteorite bombardment disperses the particles throughout the top several meters of the lunar surface.
Helium 3 could be the cash crop forthe moon, said Kulcinski, a longtime advocate and leading pioneer in the field, who envisions the moon becoming the Hudson Bay Store of Earth.Today helium 3 would have a cash value of $4 billion a ton in terms of its energy equivalent in oil, he estimates. When the moon becomes an independent country, it will have something to trade.
Fusion research began in 1951 in the United States under military auspices. After its declassification in 1957scientists began looking for a candidate fuel source that wouldnt produce neutrons. Although Louie Alvarez and Robert Cornog discovered helium 3 in 1939, only a few hundred pounds (kilograms) were known to exist on Earth, most the by-product of nuclear-weapon production.
Apollo astronauts found helium 3 on the moon in 1969, but the link between the isotope and lunar resources was not made until 1986. It took 15 years for us [lunar geologists and fusion pioneers] to stumble across each other, said Schmitt, the last astronaut to leave footprints on the moon.
For solving long-term energy needs, proponents contend helium 3 is a better choice than first generation nuclear fuels like deuterium and tritium (isotopes of hydrogen), which are now being tested on a large scale worldwide in tokamak thermonuclear reactors.Such approaches, which generally use strong magnetic fields to contain the tremendously hot, electrically charged gas or plasma in which fusion occurs, have cost billions and yielded little. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor or ITER tokamak, for example, wont produce a single watt of electricity for several years yet.
Increases production and safety costs
I dont doubt it will eventually work,Kulcinski said. But I have serious doubts it will ever provide an economic power source on Earth or in space. Thats because reactors that exploit the fusion of deuterium and tritium release 80 percent of their energyin the form of radioactive neutrons, which exponentially increase production and safety costs.
In contrast, helium 3 fusion would produce little residual radioactivity. Helium 3, an isotope of the familiarhelium used to inflate balloons and blimps, has a nucleus with two protonsand one neutron. A nuclear reactor based on the fusion of helium 3 and deuterium, which has a single nuclear proton and neutron, would produce very few neutrons about 1 percent of the number generated by the deuterium-tritium reaction. You could safely build a helium 3 plant in the middle of a big city, Kulcinski said.
Helium 3 fusion is also ideal for powering spacecraft and interstellar travel. While offering the high performance power of fusion a classic Buck Rogers propulsion system helium 3 rockets would require less radioactive shielding, lightening the load, said Robert Frisbee, an advanced propulsion engineer at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena California.
Recently Kulcinskis team reports progress toward making helium 3 fusion possible. Inside a lab chamber, the Wisconsin researchers have produced protons from a steady-state deuterium-helium3 plasma at a rate of 2.6 million reactions per second. Thats fast enough to produce fusion power but not churn out electricity. s proof of principle,but a long way from producing electricity or making a power source outof it, Kulcinski said. He will present the results in Amsterdam in mid July at the Fourth International Conference on Exploration and Utilizationof the Moon.
Size of a basketball
The chamber, which is roughly the sizeof a basketball, relies on the electrostatic focusing of ions into a dense core by using a spherical grid, explained Wisconsin colleague John Santarius,a study co-author. With some refinement, such Inertial Electrostatic Confinement(IEC) fusion systems could produce high-energy neutrons and protons usefulin industry and medicine. For example, the technology could generate short-lived PET (positron emission tomography) isotopes on site at hospitals, enabling safe brain scans of young children and even pregnant women. Portable IECdevices could bridge the gap between todays science-based research and the ultimate goal of generating electricity, Santarius said.
This fall, the University of Wisconsin team hopes to demonstrate a third-generation fusion reaction between helium 3 and helium 3 particles in the lab. The reaction would be completely void of radiation.
Although helium 3 would be very exciting,says Bryan Palaszewski, leader of advanced fuels at NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, first we have to go back to the moon and be capable of doing significant operations there.
Economically unfeasible
Indeed for now, the economics of extractingand transporting helium 3 from the moon are also problematic. Even if scientists solved the physics of helium 3 fusion, it would be economically unfeasible,asserted Jim Benson, chairman of SpaceDev in Poway, California, which strives to be one of the first commercial space-exploration companies. Unless Im mistaken, youd have to strip-mine large surfaces of the moon.
While its true that to produce roughly 70 tons of helium 3, for example, a million tons of lunar soil would need to be heated to 1,470 degrees Fahrenheit (800 degrees Celsius) to liberatethe gas, proponents say lunar strip mining is not the goal. s enough in the Mare Tranquillitatis alone to last for several hundred years, Schmittsaid. The moon would be a stepping stone to other helium 3-rich sources,such as the atmospheres of Saturn and Uranus.
Benson agreed that finding fuel sourcesin space is the way to go. But for him, H2O and not helium 3 is the ideal fuel source. His personal goal is to create gas stations in space by mining asteroids for water. The water can be electrolyzed into hydrogen or oxygen fuel or used straight as a propellant by superheating with solar arrays.Water is more practical and believable in the short run, he said.
But proponents believe only helium 3 can pay its own way.
Water just isnt that valuable, Schmitt said. Besides the helium, a mining process would produce water and oxygen as by-products, he says.

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One thing that regulars of cheap international calls notice is that every so often the prices by most such service providers tend to change. Of course change can sometimes be good, as no one would generally object to being charged less. The cases when the price per minute actually increases, however, is when problems arise as what may have once been the cheapest provider to a country like Columbia, may end up no longer being the cheapest.

What Makes the Price Change?

Price changes fluctuate constantly as providers change the routes that their calls use. These changes can sometimes be by choice, and sometimes by necessity, but both are generally dependent on a number of factors that govern the choice of route.

When a provider chooses to change the route, he may do so because he has found a better priced deal through a different routing option. During these times, the price may go down due to the newfound cheaper route usage. For example, the price of cheap calls to Columbia may change from 5 pence per minute to 3 pence per minute.

On the other hand, sometimes an existing route is found to have extremely bad line quality that borders on being atrocious. With these cases, providers are forced to change routes out of necessity, and may have to opt for a more expensive route instead. This in turn drives the charges up, but it is better than being unable to make out the voices during calls.

How to Deal With Changes?

Dealing with price fluctuations can really be exceedingly simple. Most providers generally announce their current rate as soon as their access number is dialled, thus enabling instant knowledge as to whether the price is the same, or has been changed. As a result, if the price has become higher, customers can simply search for another option online that offers something better.

An equally good idea would be to conduct such searches every few days anyway. Firstly, this would unearth any better options that may merit a trial, while at the same time allow for beforehand knowledge as to the price of your existing provider. A few simple clicks are all it takes, and it generally isn't too much hassle to perform.

Be on guard for dodgy deals when searching the internet. Services that require a large upfront payment, do not specify too many details, or sound like they are trying too hard to sell an unbelievably deal should normally be looked into deeply before committing.

Although price changes can be annoying to deal with at times, especially when a great deal suddenly is marked up in charges, it is not something that should cause too much worry. Nine times out of ten it would be possible to find an equally good deal, or even one that is better. Just stay on top of the charges for cheap calls to Columbia and other cheap international calls and there really should be no problem.

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By James Redder
Not everyone wants to be owners of an expensive phone as some people still crave for a cheap cell phone; knowing where and what to look for is the key to a successful search. cell phones have become an integral part of our lives; parents buy them for their children just so they can contact them at any time.
This technology has changed the way business is carried out and for our lives in general. Although they were once expensive toys, that has all changed and nearly everyone considers them a necessity these days. Although the basic cell phone is not as common as it once was it is still possible to buy them.
They may be extremely clever but I have only ever wanted a phone that made a call and could send a text message, perhaps you are the same and all you want is a cheap cell phone like me. Less costly versions will not be able to perform all those functions other phones can but that may be just right for you. Merely being able to send and receive calls may be enough for you and all that you expect from it.
Call only facilities would be very unusual on todays cheap cell phones, on even the most very basic but if that is all you need then you wont mind. I suppose if making calls is secondary to the reason you have a cell phone then signal reception wont matter but it will if the only reason for the phone is to make and receive calls.
You will probably find you will be able to send and receive text message but will not come equipped with all the new SMS functions. It will be hard to find a phone today that does not provide a decent text messaging service.
Sending and receiving emails may not be available but then you do not need it much anyway. If this is a function you need to have, it will probably be worth your while reconsidering as a cheap cell phone will not be the type you require.
However, you may find that you wont actually need to search for an inexpensive phone as a good call cell phone plan package which includes a decent cell phone, may become available. This is a viable option as cell phone plan deals happen all the time, especially when they want to make room for the latest models. This could be a good thing for you and it means all that searching and researching wont have to be carried out.
Even with something as simple as buying a phone, you need to research a little in order to get as much as you can from your meager budget, then you may not need to settle for a less costly model.
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