Steven Hayes

Each of us compares our insides to others’ outsides . . . But what if everyone has a secret? And what if the joke is that we all have the same one? The plain fact is that almost all people are in pain somewhere in their lives much of the time. It is hard to be fully human. Almost all of us struggle and suffer, and we all find that so-called easy methods of feeling good bear little relationship to living a meaningful, valued, vital life.
Steven Hayes

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Fishing in Toronto

—–Original Message—–
From: Verge, Shawn (MNR)
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:43 PM
To: ron@ronforeman.com
Subject: Picture on your website

Hi Ron,
I found your picture of a youth fishing the Toronto Islands and was hoping I could use it…long story short I sit on a committee whose objective is to promote fishing in urban areas (its also my job) and this committee will have a booth at the sportsmen’s show next week. With your permission I’d like to add that photo to a slide presentation showing people fishing around the City. If you have any questions please contact me at the numbers below.
Thanks
Shawn Verge
Urban Fisheries Extension Biologist
Ministry of Natural Resources
50 Bloomington Road
Aurora ON, L4G 3G8
ph: 905 713 7412
cell: 416-845-2173
fax: 905 713 7361

—–Reply—–
From: Ron Foreman
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 4:00 PM
To: ‘Verge, Shawn (MNR)’
Subject: RE: Picture on your website

Hi Shawn,
Please go ahead; thanks for asking; if you need a higher resolution just ask and I’ll send it.
Best wishes!!
Ron

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Fishing in Toronto

“Fishing in Toronto” taken by Ron Foreman, July 10, 2004

Prostate cancer

My PSA test results rose from the 2’s and 3’s four and five years ago to 7 & 8 last fall. In January I had a TRUS Biopsy and cancer was detected. The stage was T1C. More about the stage. My Gleason scale is 6.

One of the treatments I am considering is brachytherapy. Some famous prostate cancer patients. And more.

MyProstateCancer.ca

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Douglas MacArthur

People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.

Douglas MacArthur

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Wikipedia Workshop

Wikipedia Beginners’ Workshop
St. Christopher House
Friday, February 24, 2006, 5-6pm
Presented by Ron Foreman

Outline:

What’s a Wiki?
Where to find Wikipedia?
Some Wikipedia statistics
How it works?
Quality Standards
Some criticism
Wikipedia tightens rules after Kennedy flap
About the Founder
The Wikipedia Mission: Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.
Community Portal
Wikimedia Foundation

Wikipedia’s sister projects
Wiktionary, Dictionary and thesaurus
Wikibooks, Free textbooks and manuals
Wikiquote, Collection of quotations
Wikisource, The free library
Wikispecies, Directory of species
Wikinews, Free content news source
Commons, Shared media repository
MetaWiki, Wikimedia project coordination