I can't find any record of having introduced myself and so I will do so here. If I find that I have already done so in my several years at this site, I'll delete the following post.-Ron Price, Australia -------------------------------------- EMPLOYMENT-SOCIAL-ROLE POSITIONS: 1943-2014 [SIZE=14pt]2010-2014-Retired and on a pension in George Town, Tasmania[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1999-2009-Writer & Author, Poet & Publisher, Editor & Researcher. Retired Teacher & Lecturer, Tutor & Adult Educator, Taxi-Driver & Ice-Cream Salesman, George Town Tasmania Australia[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]2002-2005-Program Presenter City Park Radio Launceston[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1999-2004-Tutor &/or President George Town School for Seniors Inc[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]---ABOVE THIS LINE ARE MY YEARS IN RETIREMENT---------[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1988-1999 -Lecturer in General Studies & Human Services West Australian Department of Training[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1986-1987 -Acting Lecturer in Management Studies & Co-ordinator of Further Education Unit at Hedland College in South Hedland WA [/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1982-1985 -Adult Educator Open College of Tafe Katherine NT[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1981 -Maintenance Scheduler Renison Bell Zeehan Tasmania[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1980-Unemployed due to illness and recovery[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1979-Editor External Studies Unit Tasmanian CAE; Youth Worker Resource Centre Association; Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour Tasmanian CAE; Radio Journalist ABC---all in Launceston Tasmania[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1976-1978 -Lecturer in Social Sciences & Humanities Ballarat CAE Ballarat, Victoria [/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1975 - Lecturer in Behavioural Studies Whitehorse Technical College, Box Hill Victoria[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1974 -Senior Tutor in Education Studies Tasmanian CAE Launceston, Tasmania[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1972-1973 -High School Teacher South Australian Education Dept.[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1971-Primary School Teacher Whyalla South Australia[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]----ABOVE THIS LINE ARE MY YEARS IN AUSTRALIA---- CANADA----BELOW----[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1969-1971 Primary School Teacher Prince Edward County Board of Education Picton Ontario Canada[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1969-Systems Analyst Bad Boy Co Ltd Toronto Ontario[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1967-68 -Community Teacher Department of Indian Affairs & Northern Development Frobisher Bay NWT Canada[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1959-67 -Summer jobs-1 to 4 months each- from grade 10 to end of university[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1949-1967 - Attended 2 primary schools, 2 high schools and 2 universities in Canada: McMaster Uni-1963-1966, Windsor Teachers’ College-1966/7[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1944-1963 -Childhood(1944-57) and adolescence(1957-63) in and around Hamilton Ontario[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]1943 to 1944-Conception in October 1943 to birth in July 1944 in Hamilton Ontario[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]2. SOME SOCIO-BIO-DATA TO 2014[/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]B.A., B. Ed., and M.A.(Qual); partly completed: 4 Graduate Diplomas, 1 Advanced Diploma, and 1 Diploma, and 1 completed Certificate. I have been married twice for a total of 47 years. My second wife is a Tasmanian, aged 67. We’ve had one child: age 37. I have two step-children: ages: 48 and 43, three step-grandchildren, ages 19, 18 and 3, as well as one grandchild age 2. All of the above applies in January 2014. I am 69, am a Canadian who moved to Australia in 1971 and have written several books--all available on the internet. [/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]I retired from full-time teaching in 1999, part-time teaching in 2003 and volunteer teaching/work in 2005 after 32 years in classrooms as a teacher and another 18 as a student. In addition, I have been a member of the Baha’i Faith for 53 years. Bio-data: 6ft, 235 lbs, eyes-brown/hair-grey, Caucasian. [/SIZE] [SIZE=14pt]My website is found at: You can also go to any search engine and type: Ron Price followed by any one of a number of words in addition to: poetry, forums, religion, literature, history, bipolar disorder, psychology, sociology, philosophy, inter alia, to access my writing________________________[/SIZE]
I see in 1969 you worked for mel lastman in Toronto....kind of a black mark on the ol resume haha.jk welcome ron.......no mention of drugs?....you a smoker?....some of that Tasmanian red?
Well well, rollingalong, you were at Bad Boy!. Were you my immediate supervisor? The year 1969 seems like another lifetime ago, indeed, another person. Since I have had to deal with bipolar disorder and its several medications, I've never got into drugs and that includes alcohol. They are all deadly mixtures for people like me who are bipolar 1, the heaviest of the bipolar disorders. If you want to read my story you can Google it at: RonPrice BPD. Good to hear from someone so long ago in my life-narrative.-Ron Price, George Town, Tasmania
i hate people that just talk about themselves welcome to here I didnt google anything by the way...not interested
I thank orison319 and SpaceMan Spiff for your responses sent on the autumnal equinox of the northern hemisphere. Sadly, or not-so-sadly, a writer & author can not please all readers all of the time. I've enjoyed cyberspace for the many honest responses from those who come across my work. I'll post a piece I wrote in relation to criticism in all its forms and, in posting it, I wish you both happy travelling through what I always found to be my favorite season back home in Canada. This post may be too long for you both but, with your more than 100 thousand posts at this site, I trust you may overlook its length. You might prefer to skim or scan it, or just stop reading now to save you getting literary indigestion since my post is clearly outside the convention of short posts at internet sites.-Ron Price, Tasmania, Australia ----------------------------------------------- INTERNET SITES: AN OVERVIEW Part 1: Internet communities are like micro-nations. Some are not governed at all; a sort of literary chaos reigns. The posts & images at these sites represent the worst features of contemporary literary society: loud, crass, illiterate and completely devoid of what you might call an etiquette of expression. Others are governed by tyrannical rule. This tyranny often leads to a whimsical enforcement of arbitrary rules and law. Personally and emotionally induced muscle flexing operates at such sites in the hands of moderators, administrators and site entrepreneurs. Still other site organizers try to hit a middle ground between these two extremes. I find, as a retired teacher, that the various modus operandi and modus vivendi at internet sites are very much like the different philosophies and styles that I used to see teachers using to cope with the increasing number of difficult students filling our modern society. Some teachers resort to the iron rod of verbal and assorted disciplinary forms available to them. Some of these teachers have success and others do not. Other teachers are too permissive and get walked all over by their charges. These authoritarian and democratic styles are also found at websites. As Gary Remer writes in 1966 in his Humanism and the Rhetoric of Toleration(University Park: University of Pennsylvania Press), beginning, perhaps, with [SIZE=14pt]Cicero[/SIZE] among the ancients, and continuing through early modern writers like Erasmus into our modern age, there have always been those who conclude that truth is furthered by a more harmonious relationship between interlocutors. Part 2: There is usually no way to know just how oppressive system operators are at internet sites as all access to the records of their decisions are hidden from public view. But a short stay at one of these authoritarian regimes will give the novice, the new comer, a quick feel of the atmosphere and usually a quick response from one of the interpreters of the rules. For these rules and guidelines are like some biblical text with literalist interpretations rampant. The more permissive sites are just the opposite and you are just as likely to be told in no uncertain terms where to get off with lots of “F” words, slang and a vocabulary that you will not find in any good dictionary. These site interpreters, moderators and administrators, like teachers, have a difficult job in our modern society. Traditional standards of excellence and agreed on definitions of the literary and grammatical canon on just about anything are all up for grabs, so to speak. Like the hundreds of teachers I knew in the half century(1949-1999)when I was a student and a teacher, these standard setters at internet sites have a tough job. It is not surprising that at many sites there are no standards at all. Part 3: The purpose of a nation or a community—or a website—is to support progress and interaction, to provide information and integrate ideas and actions into some harmonious and philosophical whole. This is a tough ask a goal that is difficult to achieve. To pick and choose posts, to accept some and deny others based on some fixed criteria, tests and patience of Job and the wisdom of Solomon—and there are few of these old wise men around these days. If people only follow strict traditions and the community banishes someone at the slightest hint of a heretic, does it not undermine it's own purpose for being, as if a man were to decide feet are bad because they are not like the hands, and cut them off. Societies exist to encourage progress as well as to maintain stability. It is a difficult balance to strike. If those in charge find a routine, a rule, that works, they do their best to stick to it. This is often called tradition, law, schedule, taboo. It is all about keeping the boat steady. Risk-taking is often difficult. Society’s systems and the systems at websites are not easy to keep running with some order and form. The places require effort and time on the part of those who have accepted the responsibilities for running the show. Storms and radical thinkers may throw them off course; they will resist with all their might, never giving up until the vessel has been overturned and they are forced to start anew. Change in this paradigm is bad and even if you tell the crew, "Look, we are headed for a cliff, we will crash to our death, if you don’t alter course!"--it will not change their steadfast position. They do not care about where they are going; they assume all is okay even if their ship is old and falling apart. Some fall apart from too many rules and others from too few; some from not enough money and others from not having people to do the jobs required to keep the sites in operation. Repetitive tasks are required to keep things going as they have been and often nothing will awaken the administrators except the ice-cold water as their ship sinks to the dark depths of the ocean floor. The iron cake of custom and tradition is difficult to alter. In our world of crises and the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune—you can’t really blame these internet site arbiters.-Ron Price, Tasmania. [SIZE=14pt]_____________________[/SIZE] end of story
I have enjoyed your intro, RonPrice, along with all the detail, being a bit Aspie myself. I like to know the particulars, enjoy depth. Liked the essay too, having been admin and moderator at another internet forum (still am, in fact), and you've said it well. Check out my own intro post for more about me. I do welcome you here and enjoy your maturity (being 73 myself). May your experience be blessed with a positive perspective! :sunny:
Thanks for all those responses, folks, especially from another septuagenarian. I'll post a link to my website which contains 90% of stuff that is not about me, FY possible I at: http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/index.html
Adult Educator? Fnarr Fnarr What do we want?! Tasmanian Independance! When do we want it? When we get electricity and give up our horses for these new automobile thingys
