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RonPrice

RonPrice

Draftee
Mar 4, 2015
13
20
George Town Tasmania Australia
AFL Club
Geelong
EMPLOYMENT-SOCIAL-ROLE POSITIONS: 1943-2015

2010-2015-Retired and on a pension in George Town, Tasmania

1999-2009-Writer & Author, Poet & Publisher, Editor & Researcher. Retired Teacher & Lecturer, Tutor & Adult Educator, Taxi-Driver & Ice-Cream Salesman, George Town Tasmania Australia

2002-2005-Program Presenter City Park Radio Launceston

1999-2004-Tutor &/or President George Town School for Seniors Inc

---ABOVE THIS LINE ARE MY YEARS IN RETIREMENT---------

1988-1999 -Lecturer in General Studies & Human Services West Australian Department of Training

1986-1987 -Acting Lecturer in Management Studies & Co-ordinator of Further Education Unit at Hedland College in South Hedland WA

1982-1985 -Adult Educator Open College of Tafe Katherine NT

1981 -Maintenance Scheduler Renison Bell Zeehan Tasmania

1980-Unemployed due to illness and recovery

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

1976-1978 -Lecturer in Social Sciences & Humanities Ballarat CAE Ballarat, Victoria

1975 - Lecturer in Behavioural Studies Whitehorse Technical College, Box Hill Victoria

1974 -Senior Tutor in Education Studies Tasmanian CAE Launceston, Tasmania

1972-1973 -High School Teacher South Australian Education Dept.

1971-Primary School Teacher Whyalla South Australia

----ABOVE THIS LINE ARE MY YEARS IN AUSTRALIA---- CANADA----BELOW----

1969-1971 Primary School Teacher Prince Edward County Board of Education Picton Ontario Canada

1969-Systems Analyst Bad Boy Co Ltd Toronto Ontario

1967-68 -Community Teacher Department of Indian Affairs & Northern Development Frobisher Bay NWT Canada

1950-67 -Summer jobs-1 to 4 months each- from grade 1 to the end of university

1949-1967 - Attended 2 primary schools, 2 high schools and 2 universities in Canada: McMaster Uni-1963-1966, Windsor Teachers’ College-1966/7

1944-1963 -Childhood(1944-57) and adolescence(1957-63) in and around Hamilton Ontario

1943 to 1944-Conception in October 1943 to birth in July 1944 in Hamilton Ontario


2. SOME SOCIO-BIO-DATA TO 2015


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 48 years. My second wife is a Tasmanian, aged 68. We’ve had one child: age 38. I have two step-children: ages: 49 and 44, three step-grandchildren, ages 21, 19 and 4, as well as one grandchild age 3. All of the above applies in January 2015. I am 70, am a Canadian who moved to Australia in 1971 and have written several books--all available on the internet.


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 56 years. Bio-data: 6ft, 235 lbs, eyes-brown/hair-grey, Caucasian.


My website is found at: http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/ 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________________________
 

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Always good to have another Tasmanian on here, even if you are from G Town. ;)
 
Engimal said:
Always good to have another Tasmanian on here, even if you are from G Town. ;)
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Clearly you really have far too much experience to be here on BF. We like to discuss & argue issues from a position of mutual ignorance. Bringing real world experience will take the fun out or any argument & disagreement. We are not here to solve any issues, only to bitch & whinge about the world & footy, as we see it!

So I will ask you to dumb it down when engaging with the rest of us.

Oh, & welcome to to BF from a fellow Tasmaniac, albeit from the other end.:p
 
Most people when introducing themselves say very little, things like: "nice to be here" and "how are ya?" Others say too much; I'm in that category. I'll only be dropping in here occasionally as I head into old-age so don't worry about me trying to solve issues, etc.
 
RonPrice said:
Most people when introducing themselves say very little, things like: "nice to be here" and "how are ya?" Others say too much; I'm in that category. I'll only be dropping in here occasionally as I head into old-age so don't worry about me trying to solve issues, etc.
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Hi Ron,

Good to have you on board bigfooty. One piece of advice for a gentleman as educated as yourself, stay away from Bay 13.

Happy posting
 

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For those who are wondering where Tasmania is, it's on the end of Jane's thumb.
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THE DEATH OF TWO SINGER-QUASARS

Part 1:

When a person gets into their 70s, as I did in 2014, celebrities from the worlds of the movies and television, from the music world, indeed, from many worlds of popular culture, begin to die like flies. That metaphor may be a bit too strong, but their deaths are periodic occurrences which begin to dot the landscape of one’s life-narrative. I write below about the lives and deaths of two famous people in the last four months, people from popular culture, people who were out on the distant periphery of my life experience, my life-narrative.

Part 1.1:

Percy Sledge, who recorded the classic 1966 soul ballad When a Man Loves a Woman, died aged 73, at his home in Baton Rouge Louisiana. I remember that song which was released in April 1966. That was the last month of my three year B.A. degree in sociology. I was 21, a member of the Baha’i community of Dundas Ontario, and about to get married and pioneer to the Canadian Arctic for the Baha’i community of Canada.

Sledge died early on 14/4/’15. He had been diagnosed with liver cancer in early 2014. Sledge’s first recording took him from being a hospital orderly to a long touring career averaging 100 performances a year. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. Between 1966 and 1968, Sledge used his forlorn, crying vocal style to record a series of southern soul standards. While his first hit When a Man Loves a Woman was by far his most famous song, other popular singles included Take Time to Know Her and It Tears Me Up.

By 1968 he had largely fallen from commercial favour, though songs like Take Time to Know Her continued to be revered by soul fans. By 1968, I was living on the 5th biggest island in the world, Baffin Island, and teaching Inuit children. Sledge, who had been only a faint light on my event horizon, had completely disappeared into one of the many black holes into which so much of popular culture disappeared during my lifespan. In later years, Sledge continued to be in demand as a performer in the US and Europe. When a Man Loves a Woman has continued to pop up in movies, including The Big Chill and The Crying Game. But Sledge had gone, until a news-event in April 2015 brought him back onto my event horizon.

Part 2:

Cilla Black, a 1960s pop star championed by The Beatles, became one of Britain's best-loved television presenters. She died yesterday, as I write these words, on Sunday 2 August 2015, in Spain. The 72-year-old was found at her home near Marbella Spain. The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mirror newspapers reported the event quoting Spanish police.

Big hearted and full of laughs, this working-class redhead from Liverpool was a fixture on British television screens for more than 50 years, known just by her first name. She started out working in the cloakroom at the Cavern club, where fellow Liverpudlians The Beatles were first spotted, before taking to the stage as a singer herself. The band championed Black and introduced her to their manager Brian Epstein, who signed her.

Black released her first single in 1963 and the following year had two Number One hits, "You're My World" and "Anyone Who Had a Heart". The former Song was number 1 in the UK at the end of May 1964. I was just completing the first year of my B.A. degree at McMaster university in the lunch-pail city of Hamilton Ontario.

She went on to release 14 albums. In 1968 she began hosting her own television talk show, beginning a broadcasting career that saw her present some of Britain's most popular programmes over half a century.I knew little to nothing about TV in the U.K. and little about TV in Canada since these were the years in which I had no TV.

Part 2.1:

Actress Joan Collins was one of the first to pay tribute, saying on Twitter that she was "sad and shocked" and adding: "She was a resplendent and rare talent." Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described her as "one of my childhood idols". "My earliest memory of having a tantrum was over Cilla. I wanted her album. My mum and dad said no — my grandad said yes. I was 4," the Scottish nationalist leader said.

Black was made an OBE in 1997 and last year was given a special award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), which called her an "icon". In its citation, BAFTA said she had hosted more than 500 television shows and made around 400 guest appearances on others, regularly drawing audiences of 18 million people. Black was married to Bobby Willis, who became her manager and who died in 1999. They had three sons as well as a daughter who died in infancy.

These two names were completely

unknown to me until their deaths

were announced in the print and

electronic media: 4/’15 to 8/’15.


There are so many names now from

popular culture & academic culture,

people who have come into my life

like distant stars in a far-off galaxy,

or exploding quasars1 of immense

luminosity, but here today & gone

tomorrow into a hole for those who

speak no more or even sing no more.


Perhaps, though, like quasars, they

will go on emitting light for billions

of years in a world beyond this world

only to merge over time into one of the

black holes in, say, 3 to 5 billion years.

Ron Price

3/8/’15.

1 Quasars, or quasi-stellar radio sources, are the most energetic and distant members of a class of objects calledactive galactic nuclei(AGN). Quasars are extremely luminous and were first identified as being high redshiftsources ofelectromagnetic energy, includingradio wavesandvisible light, that appeared to be similar tostars, rather than extended sources similar togalaxies. Their spectra contain very broademission lines, unlike any known from stars, hence the name "quasi-stellar." Their luminosity can be 100 times greater than that of the Milky Way. Most quasars were formed approximately 12 billion years ago caused by collisions of galaxies and their central black holes merging to form a supermassive black hole.


Ron Price

3/8/’15.
 
RonPrice said:
THE DEATH OF TWO SINGER-QUASARS

Part 1:

When a person gets into their 70s, as I did in 2014, celebrities from the worlds of the movies and television, from the music world, indeed, from many worlds of popular culture, begin to die like flies. That metaphor may be a bit too strong, but their deaths are periodic occurrences which begin to dot the landscape of one’s life-narrative. I write below about the lives and deaths of two famous people in the last four months, people from popular culture, people who were out on the distant periphery of my life experience, my life-narrative.

Part 1.1:

Percy Sledge, who recorded the classic 1966 soul ballad When a Man Loves a Woman, died aged 73, at his home in Baton Rouge Louisiana. I remember that song which was released in April 1966. That was the last month of my three year B.A. degree in sociology. I was 21, a member of the Baha’i community of Dundas Ontario, and about to get married and pioneer to the Canadian Arctic for the Baha’i community of Canada.

Sledge died early on 14/4/’15. He had been diagnosed with liver cancer in early 2014. Sledge’s first recording took him from being a hospital orderly to a long touring career averaging 100 performances a year. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. Between 1966 and 1968, Sledge used his forlorn, crying vocal style to record a series of southern soul standards. While his first hit When a Man Loves a Woman was by far his most famous song, other popular singles included Take Time to Know Her and It Tears Me Up.

By 1968 he had largely fallen from commercial favour, though songs like Take Time to Know Her continued to be revered by soul fans. By 1968, I was living on the 5th biggest island in the world, Baffin Island, and teaching Inuit children. Sledge, who had been only a faint light on my event horizon, had completely disappeared into one of the many black holes into which so much of popular culture disappeared during my lifespan. In later years, Sledge continued to be in demand as a performer in the US and Europe. When a Man Loves a Woman has continued to pop up in movies, including The Big Chill and The Crying Game. But Sledge had gone, until a news-event in April 2015 brought him back onto my event horizon.

Part 2:

Cilla Black, a 1960s pop star championed by The Beatles, became one of Britain's best-loved television presenters. She died yesterday, as I write these words, on Sunday 2 August 2015, in Spain. The 72-year-old was found at her home near Marbella Spain. The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mirror newspapers reported the event quoting Spanish police.

Big hearted and full of laughs, this working-class redhead from Liverpool was a fixture on British television screens for more than 50 years, known just by her first name. She started out working in the cloakroom at the Cavern club, where fellow Liverpudlians The Beatles were first spotted, before taking to the stage as a singer herself. The band championed Black and introduced her to their manager Brian Epstein, who signed her.

Black released her first single in 1963 and the following year had two Number One hits, "You're My World" and "Anyone Who Had a Heart". The former Song was number 1 in the UK at the end of May 1964. I was just completing the first year of my B.A. degree at McMaster university in the lunch-pail city of Hamilton Ontario.

She went on to release 14 albums. In 1968 she began hosting her own television talk show, beginning a broadcasting career that saw her present some of Britain's most popular programmes over half a century.I knew little to nothing about TV in the U.K. and little about TV in Canada since these were the years in which I had no TV.

Part 2.1:

Actress Joan Collins was one of the first to pay tribute, saying on Twitter that she was "sad and shocked" and adding: "She was a resplendent and rare talent." Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described her as "one of my childhood idols". "My earliest memory of having a tantrum was over Cilla. I wanted her album. My mum and dad said no — my grandad said yes. I was 4," the Scottish nationalist leader said.

Black was made an OBE in 1997 and last year was given a special award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), which called her an "icon". In its citation, BAFTA said she had hosted more than 500 television shows and made around 400 guest appearances on others, regularly drawing audiences of 18 million people. Black was married to Bobby Willis, who became her manager and who died in 1999. They had three sons as well as a daughter who died in infancy.

These two names were completely

unknown to me until their deaths

were announced in the print and

electronic media: 4/’15 to 8/’15.


There are so many names now from

popular culture & academic culture,

people who have come into my life

like distant stars in a far-off galaxy,

or exploding quasars1 of immense

luminosity, but here today & gone

tomorrow into a hole for those who

speak no more or even sing no more.


Perhaps, though, like quasars, they

will go on emitting light for billions

of years in a world beyond this world

only to merge over time into one of the

black holes in, say, 3 to 5 billion years.

Ron Price

3/8/’15.

1 Quasars, or quasi-stellar radio sources, are the most energetic and distant members of a class of objects calledactive galactic nuclei(AGN). Quasars are extremely luminous and were first identified as being high redshiftsources ofelectromagnetic energy, includingradio wavesandvisible light, that appeared to be similar tostars, rather than extended sources similar togalaxies. Their spectra contain very broademission lines, unlike any known from stars, hence the name "quasi-stellar." Their luminosity can be 100 times greater than that of the Milky Way. Most quasars were formed approximately 12 billion years ago caused by collisions of galaxies and their central black holes merging to form a supermassive black hole.


Ron Price

3/8/’15.
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:eek:

Well, that was depressing. Want to join the bigfooty song contest? :$
 
Thanks, Jazny, for your honest response. I played the guitar and wrote songs for over 50 years but, now in my 70s I no longer play the guitar or write songs. Take care of yourself as you, too, go through your lifespan on your way to old-age, if you last that long.-Ron Price, George Town, Tasmania
 
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