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November 6

Sea Foam Storm in Uruguay

I saw a video of it on TruTV's Most Shocking. But there's no mention of it on the Article. --Arima (talk) 00:20, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

If you have a WP:RS for that, Arima, you could put it in the article yourself... WikiDao ☯ (talk) 13:21, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Aliens and the U. S. Military

A month or more ago I heard a radio news report about a group of American air force personnel who were going public about having evidence that aliens have visited earth. I have never heard anything more about it. Did I imagine this? If not, where can I find the follow-up? Bielle (talk) 05:28, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

[1], [2] - here are a couple of refs, Bielle. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 06:09, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, Jack of Oz. The reporting of the incident seems curiously flat considering the calibre of the men involved. Has there been no follow-up? Bielle (talk) 21:47, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Men? According to Jack's references, only Salas came forward claiming to be a witness. The other two officers mentioned just passed along what others had told them. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:13, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

At least two named officers commented on what they had seen. The others were senior officers receiving formal shift reports. I am not looking to support (or attack) what they have to say; I am merely curious to find, given the ranks and seniority of those standing up in public, there wasn't more press either at the time, or later. This is just the sort of story that normally get U.S. journalists all wound up. Bielle (talk) 23:51, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

If you google [air force ufo] you'll find a number of entries, including one at the CBS News site. Maybe there was something else going on that day, or maybe it wasn't taken seriously enough to be considered newsworthy. I was half-expecting to see a followup declaring it was a hoax, but I didn't find anything at a quick glance. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 08:43, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Dying

Situation handled. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 21:31, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

whats the best way to die without commiting suicide? I dont want to go to @#!*% and I've had enough of my life. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rewtp123 (talk • contribs) 07:59, 6 November 2010 (UTC) First, I should advise you to seek professional help, as we cannot offer medical advice. Beyond that, I will share this: For many years, I frequently felt as you do. I know how mental anguish can destroy the desire to live. I don't know your circumstances, but I would urge you not to give up hope. In time, you can move beyond painful experiences and regain happiness. My problem was depression, which I overcame by reading a book called Feeling Good and by practicing the techniques the book teaches with rigorous discipline. After a while, the techniques became habit rather than discipline, and my depression has largely disappeared. This is a book that literally changed my life. Now I am basically a happy person, even though, for the first 35 or so years of my life, I was very unhappy. If, on the other hand, you are suffering from incurable and debilitating physical pain, there are jurisdictions where euthanasia is an option. 76.118.122.191 (talk) 08:40, 6 November 2010 (UTC) Logotherapy is worth having a look at. Do something useful rather than moping. Everyone goes through some misery in their lives. 92.24.190.150 (talk) 20:40, 6 November 2010 (UTC) The best way to die is to fake your own death, and start a new life somewhere better. But don't claim on your insurance, or if anyone does find you that will cause all sorts of problems. Best to just disappear in a suspicious way, that doesn't implicate anyone else, such that you can claim not to have done anything wrong later. Or, write books, then you can shut yourself away from the world for days at a time and make up as many new lives as you want. 148.197.121.205 (talk) 10:15, 6 November 2010 (UTC) You might also want to talk to a priest, minister, or spiritual adviser. But the best way to die without killing yourself is to just wait for it to happen – it's one thing you can be sure will eventually happen! In the meantime, just do the best you can. Life is worth living, even at its worst. Regards, WikiDao ☯ (talk) 13:27, 6 November 2010 (UTC) Don't be too negative about going to @#!*% because it will have its good points. In @#!*% you will meet interesting people, it will not be difficult to bribe the boss or His his minions (hint: bring Pornography) and Paradise is somewhere in the neighbourhood. God knows how to get in there but look for a thermally insulated wall and the sound of hymn singing. If you need a lawyer, shop around because there is a lot of competion. Cuddlyable3 (talk) 13:56, 6 November 2010 (UTC) In addition to that, you'll probably meet a lot of cool rock stars, and Heaven is overrated, anyways. 24.189.87.160 (talk) 19:00, 6 November 2010 (UTC) Enough with the speculation. Back to work. ;) WikiDao ☯ (talk) 21:25, 6 November 2010 (UTC) Do not fear @#!*% ; it is a wide-spread teaching that inspires fear and blind faith. John 5:28,29 tells us that the dead will be resurrected to either everlasting life or judgment. Torment in Hellfire IS an everlasting life; besides, a loving God would not condone torture. Gehenna is the actual term in the scriptures and refers to a place where we wait in a sleep-like death for the resurrection. I cannot answer your question because it is making the presupposition that there is any good way to die; "the wages sin pays is death (Romans 6:23)." As a matter of advice, I'd see a thorough study of The Bible and a more complete understanding of its Truths would be advantageous, as well as the above comments. 71.21.143.33 (talk) 20:29, 6 November 2010 (UTC) (schyler IP) Try lots of different stuff, soccer, basketball, building robotics, swimming, working on a really difficult problem like Fermat's enigma, making/flying model airplanes, programming games; find something you enjoy. Failing that, see a psychiatrist. Jds500 (talk) 23:09, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

An educationist

I want to know about an expert on education (educationist)whose name I vaguely remember as Adolf Huxley. However, I am unable to locate the details. Can you please help me? S P Rajhans comment added by 59.95.68.157 (talk) 17:23, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

See Aldous Huxley--Shantavira|^{feed me} 17:43, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Or perhaps the OP is thinking of Aldous's grandfather Thomas Henry Huxley - see the section Thomas Henry Huxley#Educational influence. Karenjc 21:53, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Just to be clear, it was Shantavira who added the heading Aldous Huxley, to replace the unhelpful Question which 59.95 wrote when asking the question. [3] Presumably Shantavira assumed their answer was definitely right? Anyway, that's why the title appears to contain different information from the original question. 86.166.42.171 (talk) 00:52, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

I changed the title so that it doesn't anticipate Shantavira's answer. Cuddlyable3 (talk) 03:26, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Nokia phone questions

I recently thought I'd better upgrade my mobile phone at least twice per decade and thus replaced my Nokia 6100 with a Nokia C5-00. Now I have some questions:

• I transferred all my mobile phone contacts by first typing them on my computer on a text editor by hand, and then added them to the new phone also by hand. Is there an easier way to do this? Can I somehow transfer the contacts either directly from one Nokia phone to another, or via a computer? The Nokia 6100 doesn't have a USB port but the Nokia C5-00 does. Does this help?
• The Nokia C5-00 stubbornly insists on making the entire display completely dark if the phone hasn't been used in one minute. It offers a variety of screensavers, including a clock, but the screensavers are useless if I can't actually see them. Is there any way to make the display stay lit up? Also, the default clock screensaver doesn't take up the entire screen. Where could I find a screensaver that includes an analog clock that takes up the entire screen? I googled for "Nokia C5 clock screensaver" but did not find any trustworthy sites - other than Nokia's own Ovi store, but it's still difficult to find a suitable theme, also I couldn't find any free ones.

JIP | Talk 20:54, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

My Verizon phone has a free app where you can transfer your contacts onto their server, and then put it on any phone you want. I'm guessing there is a setting for when the screen turns off. That's all I got. Allmightyduck  What did I do wrong? 21:31, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

There are at least three ways to move data from the Nokia 6100 to a newer Nokia phone:

• It does have USB connectivity - the manual says it has a Nokia Pop-Port connector on the bottom end (beside the charge adapter. You'd install Nokia PC Suite on a Microsoft Windows PC, connect the 6100 to the PC with a Nokia DKU-5 cable (or one of the very cheap copies of it), copy the address book etc. from the 6100 to the PC, and thence (via another cable) to the newer phone.
• The 6100 also has IrDA, so if you have a PC with an IrDA port (which are frequently found on laptops) then you can do the same connection with that instead.
• In the worst case, you can tell a phone to copy contacts from its own memory to the SIM, then you transplant the SIM to the new phone and tell it to copy the contacts back from the SIM to the new phone's memory.

Now that you've got the new phone, it's a good idea to get the PC Suite program and use it to backup the phone every few months. That way if your new phone is lost or stolen, or has to be reset due to some technical issue, you don't lose all your contacts (or texts, photos, etc.) -- Finlay McWalter ☻ Talk 21:53, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Schools of former school boards in Toronto

Which schools were part of York District School Board in Toronto? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.29.35.55 (talk) 23:16, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

If you mean the York Region District School Board, then there is a list here; the York Catholic District School Board list is here. (Neither of those are literally in Toronto, of course.) I don't know of a former York District School Board that no longer exists, if that's what you mean. Adam Bishop (talk) 03:01, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

I think the user is referring to the pre-1998 York (City) school board. -- Mwalcoff (talk) 03:03, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

I found a document on the Toronto District School Board web site that says the City of York's school board was called the York Board of Education. However, web searches on this phrase are useless as they just produce hits on other similarly named bodies elsewhere, or on the York Region bodies mentioned above. If I wanted a list of the former City of York's schools, I'd go to a public library where they keep old telephone directories (I'm sure the Toronto Reference Library does, and there may be others) and look under "York Board of Education" in the business white pages for 1997 (the last year the City of York existed). Of course, that would not produce an all-time list. If that was what I wanted, I'd write to the Toronto District School Board (and explain why I needed it, so they'd know I wasn't wasting their time with silly questions). --Anonymous, 05:22 UTC, November 7, 2010, link added later.