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backdoor dialing

Template:Afc r Backdoor dialing is a service available for communication between phone providers. It bypasses tradionally means of making phone calls, by making it possible to skip a phone providers internal communication system, and deliver directly to a customer. This can greatly reduce the cost of making phone calls, by using cheap teknologi like voip to call directly to the customer.

Carriers that provide backdoor dialing include the following: Access One, Airadigm, Allegiance, Alltel, Cablevision Lightpath, Cat Communications, Cbeyond, Cellcom, Cellular Properties, Centennial Wireless, Choice One, Cincinnati Bell Wireless, Cinergy Communications, Cingular, CityNet, Cleveland Unlimited, Comcast Digital Voice, Commpartners, Conversent Communications, Cox Communications, CP Telecom, CTC Communications, Dobson Cell, Eureka, Globalcom, Heartland Communications, Illinois Valley, ITC Deltacom, LDMI, McLeod, Metro PCS, Mpower, Nationsline, Nextel, Nextera Communications, Paetec, RCN, Sprint PCS, Talk America, Telnet Worldwide, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Verizon Wireless, XO.

It is not all phones or phone numbers that support backdoor dialing.

Sources

http://www.gizmo5.com/pc/backdoor

195.249.172.62 (talk) 13:47, 24 January 2008 (UTC) Category:Articles for creation templates

Declined. The proposed article is not suitable for Wikipedia. . This just seems to be another term for VoIP, and it is only called such by this one company Gizmo5 (according to Google hits). Therefore I will create a redirect to VoIP. I feel an article is not worthwhile. MSGJ (talk) 15:43, 24 January 2008 (UTC) Template:Afc b

David Patchen, Artist (glass)

Biography

Patterns of cane and murrine picked up on a bubble of molten glass.

Patterns of cane and murrine picked up on a bubble of molten glass.

David Patchen (b. New Rochelle, NY, resides in San Francisco, CA, U.S.) is an American glass artist glass artist who is receiving increasing attention for his works utilizing the technically advanced Italian techniques of cane and murrine in a uniquely American style. (Cane are colored and patterned glass rods, murrine are highly patterned cross-sections of glass 'tiles'.) Patchen's work is known primarily for a combination of complexity and scale in some of the most intricately patterned work currently being created. His work is in many private collections, featured in publications, juried shows and galleries internationally.

Originally from New York, David Patchen studied at Public Glassin San Francisco, at the studio of Afro Celotto, maestro and former assistant to Lino Tagliapietra (internationally-known contemporary master) in Murano, Italy, and at Pilchuck Glass School on an artistic merit scholarship. He has assisted world-reknowned artists including Afro Celotto and Marvin Lipofskly in creating their work.

About his work

Patchen's series include forms titled Resistenza, Foglio and Parabola, which are created in either complex murrine or the simpler mixed cane and murrine.

Patchen is actively involved in the glass arts community in San Francisco as Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors at Public Glass and is a former member of the Board of Directors, Glass Alliance of Northern California.

Work utilizing murrine and complex cane from the "Resistenza" series. Pieces by David Patchen are often over three feet in height.

File:Davidpatchen murrine resistenza detail.jpg

Glass created from complex murrine and zanfirico cane can possess a great deal of detail.

File:Glass art by David Patchen.jpg

Multi-layered murrine with zanfirico cane.

See also

• Caneworking
• glassblowing
• glass art
• glass artists

Sources

• Pismo Fine Art
• Murrine Mystique Show
• Glass Art Society
• Coda Gallery
• Sandra Ainsley Gallery
• Micaela Gallery
• Park Place Sculptures
• Hallmark Gallery
• San Francisco ArtSpan
• SF Station Announcement
• Liberty Museum

69.181.107.134 (talk) 16:21, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Article created. You can find it at David Patchen. Thank you for your contribution to Wikipedia! MSGJ (talk) 21:03, 24 January 2008 (UTC) Template:Afc b

(Unnamed request)

Template:Afc r The dictionary says reality is the fact of being real, existing or actual. If you put an A in front of a word, it means the opposite: not reality or without. Going to the web, the dictionary of the 21st Century, (as well as being many other things in life today) and looking up areality yielded fascinating results including numerous websites, "shared quirks & ancient arealities". With the advent of "The Reality Show" phenomena on television, the concept of reality has begun to resemble a Luis Borges or Gabriel Marquis surreal novel more than it does everyday life and like areality, begins to embody two senses. To believe something to be real, if we weren’t there to see it, requires some kind of evidence and even then, it still might not be real or true. Even before electronic media that was true, but now, even more so. No longer is a photograph, or a document necessarily proof. Neither is the re-telling by an eye-witness necessarily proof, since each witness might, and usually does, see a different reality. Movies & politics have made reality even more ambiguous than existential philosophers once thought it to be. Consider the "Spin" on news and reportage as it today. Artists now, more than ever, have the power to change their interpretation of or the appearance of reality. In the 19th century it was trompe l'oeil painters, in the 20th century, photo-realists. Now, digital photography can make a painting a photo and vise versa.

Sources

68.175.108.65 (talk) 16:44, 24 January 2008 (UTC) Category:Articles for creation templates

Declined. The proposed article is not suitable for Wikipedia. . You haven't even named this article. There's no sources. It's just original research. MSGJ (talk) 20:08, 24 January 2008 (UTC) Template:Afc b

Foinikounda

Template:Afc a Foinikounda or Foinikouda is a small town located 10km east of Methoni.

History

Finikounda is mentioned for the first time in Pausanias Messiniaka (4, 34, 12) as a port after Cape Akritas. It is believed that it was a small commercial port where the fishers of murex frunculus (a porphyry shell from where the known dye is produced) could trade their product. The origin of the name also has to do with the ancient Phoenicians whose trade routes came through this natural port. The contemporary village appears at about 1840-1850, from the inhabitants of Lahanada, immigrants from Crete, who started building their houses on this location. It was also called Taverna, from a small tavern that someone kept there. Officially, it got its contemporary name in 1930. Today it is part of the Municipality of Methoni. The main resources of the inhabitants are agriculture and tourism, whish has flourished in the last few years

Rivalries

Foinikounta has a big rivalry with the neighbor village called Lachanada. This rivalry is mainly expressed in the local football (soccer) games. Lachanda has not lost from Foinikounta during the last 10 years , with their biggest victory being 10-0 .

Culture

Even though Finikunda is mainly thought of as a place to relax by the sea and be part of the joyous night life, it also has noted cultural activity. The cultural club always hosts a theatrical play or other event in the small open amphitheatre by the port, and during the whole summer, there is a book exhibition with a variety of books to choose from.

Sources

http://www.finikunda.com/eng/location.htm

70.49.52.33 (talk) 17:50, 24 January 2008 (UTC) Category:Articles for creation templates

Comment: How is the name spelled? The source has two different spellings? The Greek may help! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 02:28, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
Article created. You can find it at Foinikounda. Thank you for your contribution to Wikipedia! I'll also create a redirect at Finikounda. MSGJ (talk) 10:25, 25 January 2008 (UTC) Template:Afc b

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Template:Afc r OBS IS THE DEADLIEST GANG IN SAN DIEGO AND LOCATES IN THE DANGEROUS LOCATION IN EAST SAN DIEGO. OBS IS A GANG THAT DO MURDERS AND ROBBERY AND THEY RIVAL WITH OKB,OMC,TOC,TRG,TEC, AND MANY MORE WEAK ASIAN GANGS.

Sources

68.8.241.254 (talk) 19:29, 24 January 2008 (UTC) Category:Articles for creation templates

Declined. The proposed article is not suitable for Wikipedia. MSGJ (talk) 20:29, 24 January 2008 (UTC) Template:Afc b

ComLynx

The ComLynx is an accessory for the Atari Lynx and it is used to connect the system to up to 18 other consoles. Both most games have a maximum of consoles. At first plans were to use infrared but later on they decided to use a cable. One of the games to use the ComLynx was Malibu Bikini Volleyball, it allows you to play a match of volleyball simultaneously with up to 4 friends.

List of ComLynx enabled games:

- Awesome Golf - Baseball Heroes - Basketbrawl - BattleWheels - Battlezone 2000 - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - California Games - Championship Rally - Checkered Flag - Double Dragon - European Soccer Challenge - Gauntlet: The Third Encounter - Hockey - Hyperdrome - Jimmy Connors' Tennis - Joust - Lynx Othello - Malibu Bikini Volleyball - NFL Football - Pit-Fighter - Raiden - Rampage - Rampart - Robo-Squash - Shanghai - Super Off-Road - Super Skweek - Todd's Adventures in Slime World - Tournament Cyberball - Turbo Sub - Warbirds - World Class Fussball/Soccer - Xybots - Zarlor Mercenary

Sources

Atariage - Comlynx
Malibu Bikini Volleyball

77.251.254.149 (talk) 19:31, 24 January 2008 (UTC) Category:Articles for creation templates

Declined. I'm sorry, but your article appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. If you still feel that this subject is appropriate for Wikipedia, please rewrite your proposed article in the form of an encyclopedia entry. Encyclopedia entries should be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of published, verifiable sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the item being discussed. Tiptoety ^talk 23:39, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

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MagicDisc_(software)

MagicDisc is a freeware CD/DVD-ROM emulation software. As of this writing, January 2008, it is the only non-SPTD (link to Wikipedia article on SCSI Pass Through Direct) tool of its kind available for Windows XP x64 Edition (link to the corresponding Wikipedia article). Similar tools that support Windows XP x64 Edition are Alcohol 100%, Alcohol 52%, and Daemon-Tools (links to respective articles) which depend on the SCSI Pass Through Direct driver, sptd.sys, provided by Duplex Secure (link to Wikipedia article on the company), notorious for causing various problems and being particularly hard to remove, due to unusual permissions on Windows Registry (link to article) keys.

MagicDisc supports up to 15 virtual drives, compared to Alcohol 52% Free Edition's 31. Its main points of strength are independence of the notorious third-party SPTD driver, rather small memory and download (1.24 MB download) footprint, (zero) price, simple installation (WISE installer system), and availability for x64 Windows systems.

MagicDisc works through its own virtual SCSI Host Controller (mcdbus.sys). The installation does not require a reboot and the virtual drive will be functioning straight after the process. User interface is minimal and comprised of a tray icon in the notification area of Windows taskbar and the associated pop-up menu.

MagicDisc is currently in version 2.5 (Build 79) released on on 12/08/2007 according to the vendor MagicISO, Inc.

The sofware's website is http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm.

Sources

MagicISO, Inc's Website: http://www.magiciso.com

Plus, the package can be simply downloaded and tried. I did the same and was surprised by the quality and simplicity of this product compared to the problem-bound competitors.

Any web search will provide you with enough evidence of the problems of Duplex Secure's SPTD driver.

By the way, if Daemon-Tools or Alcohol or Nero deserve their respective articles, this one does, too. It MagicDisc (being a piece of software) does not deserve a Wikipedia article, then so do other software of the same genre.

83.147.204.105 (talk) 20:18, 24 January 2008 (UTC) Category:Articles for creation templates

Declined. This suggestion doesn't sufficiently explain the importance or significance of the subject. See the speedy deletion criteria (A7) and/or guidelines on notability. Please provide more information on why the subject is worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Tiptoety ^talk 00:28, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

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