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It appears that a major Swedish ISP is attempting to block connections to all BitTorrent trackers running the ‘xbt’ software used at UKNova, for unknown reasons.

If you are in Sweden and have been getting “Connection closed by peer” errors when you try to download from UKNova torrents, please try re-downloading the .torrent file from the site to get one that should, for now, be unaffected by the block.

This is something we rarely do, but this time it's justified.

The disaster on Haiti has, according to reports, killed 100 000 people and left countless others without a home.

These people need help urgently!

Please consider to donate to help the victims of the earthquake on Haiti!

Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org.uk
http://www.redcross.org

Doctors Without Borders
http://www.msf.org.uk/
http://www.msf.org/

Unicef
http://www.unicef.org.uk/
http://www.unicef.org/

Disasters Emergency Committee (UK)
http://www.dec.org.uk

Or please find your local equivalent!

The 75th Annual UKNova Awards are finally here!!!

Tune in to UKNova Radio at 6pm (UK Time) on Saturday Dec 12th for Deedeess Fabulous Pre-Show.. which will feature things about the nominees that may alarm and/or delight you. Including but not limited to their private things that they thought nobody knew about...

Then!!! Stay tuned at 8pm for the awards broadcast, brought to you by Eggnog and Stu: paragons of modern broadcasting and serious minded young men.

Find out who has won User of The Year, Most Helpful User, Best Drama, Best Sports and the coveted Best Soap of 2009. Be there or be annihilated in a nuclear death-ray.

(We have been informed that regrettably it has proved impossible to deploy the nuclear death ray in time for the UKNova Awards. Maybe next year then?)

It's that time again!!! The glitz, the glam, the glitter the...er other showbiz word starting with “g”..that is the 75th* Annual UKNova Awards is BACK!

That's right! You get to nominate and vote for your favourites in many categories including: Most famous Jam and Best use of dynamite in a children's programme.

Just kidding. The categories for nominations, the procedures for nominating, the deadline for nominations are all laid out in this thread in our NEW 'UKNova Awards 2009' forum !!!

So Click Here to read about how to nominate your favourite UKNova Duck, your TV Moment of the Year, or simply your favourite Oddity ... or Click Here to arrange your partner for the glittering Awards evening, discuss your latest evening gown or which pair of your Jimmy Choo's you will be sporting on the night in our fabulously exciting new forum.

You only have until 23rd November (that's just one week) to get those nominations in, so get the grey matter warmed up and make your nominations by sending a message to THIS MAILBOX

The categories in which you can nominate are:

UKNova Membership Awards:

1. UKNova Member of the Year
2. Newcomer Of The Year
3. Friendliest Member
4. Most Helpful Member
5. Best Avatar

Best TV Shows shared by a UKNova capper

6. Best Soap
7. Best Documentary (One-off or Series)
8. Best Reality/Talent Show
9. Best Radio Programme (Factual)
10. Best Radio Programme (Fiction)
11. Best Drama (One-off or Series)
12. Best Comedy (One-off or Series)
13. Best Sports Show
14. Best Children's Programme
15. Best Torrent Oddity or Classic
16. Best News/Factual Show
17. Best Sitting Duck

UKNova Site Awards:

18. Most Interesting Forum Thread Of The Year
19. Funniest Forum Thread Of The Year
20. Best TV Review Of The Year
21. UKNova TV Moment Of The Year

UKNova Radio Awards:

22. UKNR Radio DJ Of The Year
23. Favourite Single UKNova Radio Show Broadcast

REMEMBER

Nominations will close on Monday November 23rd.

Voting will open shortly afterwards and will close on Sunday December 6th.

The Awards Evening will be held on Saturday December 12th, and the awards themselves will be presented during an extremely special edition of the Eggnog and Stu show on UKNova Radio. They'll also be simultaneously revealed on the forums for those that prefer quiet reflection to radio madness.

There are also several other ways to get involved - see this thread for the details, and help make this the UKNova event of the year!!

*Actually it's the 6th.

1. Sports Torrents

All torrents in the 'Sports' category are now free of any 'wait time' due to low ratio/account age/data transfer totals. It was thought a little unfair to ask people to avoid the sports results longer than they have to in order to avoid spoiling the outcome. In return though, we expect people not to 'hit&run' on those (or any other !) torrents. Bittorrent is all about sharing, so please leave downloaded material to seed back so that others can get to see it that bit quicker too. Any member who continually immediately disconnects from a torrent once it has downloaded will face sanctions.

2. Forum Threads Tooltips
If you hover your mouse cursor over the title of a forum thread, you will now see the opening words of the first post in the thread, so you can get an idea what the thread is about. Neat huh?