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RonPrice 
1. EMPLOYMENT-SOCIAL-ROLE POSITIONS: 1943-2010
1999-2010-Writer & Poet, Publisher & Journalist, Editor & Independent Scholar.
Retired from the following roles: 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 and/or President George Town School for Seniors Inc
1988-1999 -Lecturer in General Studies and Human Services
West Australian Department of Training
1986-1987 -Acting Lecturer in Management Studies and 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 Bi-Polar Disability
1979 -Editor External Studies Unit Tasmanian CAE
Youth Worker Resource Centre Association Launceston
Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour Tasmanian CAE
Radio Journalist ABC Launceston
1976-1978 -Lecturer in Social Sciences & Humanities Ballarat CAE Ballarat
1975 - Lecturer in Behavioural Studies Whitehorse Technical College,
Box Hill Victoria
1974 -Senior Tutor in Education Studies Tasmanian CAE Launceston
1972-1973 -High School Teacher South Australian Education Department
1971 Primary School Teacher Whyalla SA Australia
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 and Northern
Development Frobisher Bay NWT Canada
1959-67 -Summer jobs-1 to 4 months each- from grade 10 to 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
October 1943 to July 1944-Conception to Birth in Hamilton Ontario
2. SOME SOCIO-BIO-DATA TO 2010
I have been married twice: 8 and 35 years, respectively. As of 2010 my Tasmanian wife is aged 64. We’ve had one child: age 33. I have two step-children ages: 43 and 40 and two step-grandchildren ages: 17 and 14. I am 66, 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 voluneeer teaching/work in 2005 after 35 years in classrooms. In addition, I have been a member of the Baha’i Faith for 51 years. Bio-data: 6ft, 230 lbs, eyes-brown/hair-grey, Caucasian. See my website for 450,000 words at: http://www.users.on.net/~ronprice/ or go to any search engine and type: Ron Price followed by any one of a number of words: poetry, Bahá'í, literature, history, BPD, psychology, sociology, culture, philosophy, inter alia for more of my subject/topic-related writing.
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1999-2010-Writer & Poet, Publisher & Journalist, Editor & Independent Scholar.
Retired from the following roles: 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 and/or President George Town School for Seniors Inc
1988-1999 -Lecturer in General Studies and Human Services
West Australian Department of Training
1986-1987 -Acting Lecturer in Management Studies and 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 Bi-Polar Disability
1979 -Editor External Studies Unit Tasmanian CAE
Youth Worker Resource Centre Association Launceston
Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour Tasmanian CAE
Radio Journalist ABC Launceston
1976-1978 -Lecturer in Social Sciences & Humanities Ballarat CAE Ballarat
1975 - Lecturer in Behavioural Studies Whitehorse Technical College,
Box Hill Victoria
1974 -Senior Tutor in Education Studies Tasmanian CAE Launceston
1972-1973 -High School Teacher South Australian Education Department
1971 Primary School Teacher Whyalla SA Australia
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 and Northern
Development Frobisher Bay NWT Canada
1959-67 -Summer jobs-1 to 4 months each- from grade 10 to 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
October 1943 to July 1944-Conception to Birth in Hamilton Ontario
2. SOME SOCIO-BIO-DATA TO 2010
I have been married twice: 8 and 35 years, respectively. As of 2010 my Tasmanian wife is aged 64. We’ve had one child: age 33. I have two step-children ages: 43 and 40 and two step-grandchildren ages: 17 and 14. I am 66, 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 voluneeer teaching/work in 2005 after 35 years in classrooms. In addition, I have been a member of the Baha’i Faith for 51 years. Bio-data: 6ft, 230 lbs, eyes-brown/hair-grey, Caucasian. See my website for 450,000 words at: http://www.users.on.net/~ronprice/ or go to any search engine and type: Ron Price followed by any one of a number of words: poetry, Bahá'í, literature, history, BPD, psychology, sociology, culture, philosophy, inter alia for more of my subject/topic-related writing.
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Good point. I hadn't thuohgt about it quite that way. 
Guest,
03 July 2011 - 02:14 AM
Good point. I hadn't thuohgt about it quite that way.
Guest,
03 July 2011 - 02:14 AM
Good point. I hadn't thuohgt about it quite that way.
Guest,
03 July 2011 - 02:14 AM
I doubt you have any hard evidence for cnalmiig that staff in the one stop shop libraries are running less events etc. Firstly because when the Lib Dems set up one stop shops they gave these libraries extra staff. Secondly and more importantly the number and quality of events in any library is most closely linked to the enthusiasm and skill and of its manager. The managers of the one stop shop libraries are amongst the best in the county and I would be astonished if they under-perform in comparison to other libraries. But if you can prove me wrong from an analysis of numbers taking part in something like the Summer Reading Challenge then please do.I see you are a great enthusiast for library activity that promotes literacy. I am more sceptical and would welcome real evidence that it's really centered on the parts of the population that most need it and is properly co-ordinated with work done elsewhere in the council.It's good that you recognise that libraries are high performing and value for money. Unfortunately this is appreciated by a small minority of councillors and an even smaller minority of officials in County Hall who guide the spending decisions. As a Liberal Democrat you are in a weak position because their administration cut library services when they were in control of the council and made little or no effort to preserve the budget in any way. One of your portfolio holders even had the desire to slash libraries above and beyond the norm by looking for cuts of 1 million. Fortunately he backed off.Managers of the library service like everyone else have probably been asked to investigate cuts amounting to about a third of their budget. This is probably around 1.5 million.You probably can't get there by doing the less painful stuff: sharing buildings with other council services, sharing resources with libraries in Devon and Plymouth, implementing technology to reduce work, deploying staff in libraries to match workloads or stripping out administrative and back-office functions.If councillors like you oppose the easy stuff then more cuts in an already inadequate book fund, scrapping mobile libraries and closing small libraries like Camelford will come into play.If you are to have credibility in the real world rather than taking the Ed Balls position that cuts are unnecessary then you will have to identify where else you save 1.5 million. That will have to be above and beyond the impact of cuts in government grant and growth in the cost of waste collection and social care. If you could do that your blog would really be worthy of winning an award.
Guest,
14 September 2012 - 09:48 AM
I doubt you have any hard evidence for cnalmiig that staff in the one stop shop libraries are running less events etc. Firstly because when the Lib Dems set up one stop shops they gave these libraries extra staff. Secondly and more importantly the number and quality of events in any library is most closely linked to the enthusiasm and skill and of its manager. The managers of the one stop shop libraries are amongst the best in the county and I would be astonished if they under-perform in comparison to other libraries. But if you can prove me wrong from an analysis of numbers taking part in something like the Summer Reading Challenge then please do.I see you are a great enthusiast for library activity that promotes literacy. I am more sceptical and would welcome real evidence that it's really centered on the parts of the population that most need it and is properly co-ordinated with work done elsewhere in the council.It's good that you recognise that libraries are high performing and value for money. Unfortunately this is appreciated by a small minority of councillors and an even smaller minority of officials in County Hall who guide the spending decisions. As a Liberal Democrat you are in a weak position because their administration cut library services when they were in control of the council and made little or no effort to preserve the budget in any way. One of your portfolio holders even had the desire to slash libraries above and beyond the norm by looking for cuts of 1 million. Fortunately he backed off.Managers of the library service like everyone else have probably been asked to investigate cuts amounting to about a third of their budget. This is probably around 1.5 million.You probably can't get there by doing the less painful stuff: sharing buildings with other council services, sharing resources with libraries in Devon and Plymouth, implementing technology to reduce work, deploying staff in libraries to match workloads or stripping out administrative and back-office functions.If councillors like you oppose the easy stuff then more cuts in an already inadequate book fund, scrapping mobile libraries and closing small libraries like Camelford will come into play.If you are to have credibility in the real world rather than taking the Ed Balls position that cuts are unnecessary then you will have to identify where else you save 1.5 million. That will have to be above and beyond the impact of cuts in government grant and growth in the cost of waste collection and social care. If you could do that your blog would really be worthy of winning an award.
Guest,
14 September 2012 - 09:48 AM
I doubt you have any hard evidence for cnalmiig that staff in the one stop shop libraries are running less events etc. Firstly because when the Lib Dems set up one stop shops they gave these libraries extra staff. Secondly and more importantly the number and quality of events in any library is most closely linked to the enthusiasm and skill and of its manager. The managers of the one stop shop libraries are amongst the best in the county and I would be astonished if they under-perform in comparison to other libraries. But if you can prove me wrong from an analysis of numbers taking part in something like the Summer Reading Challenge then please do.I see you are a great enthusiast for library activity that promotes literacy. I am more sceptical and would welcome real evidence that it's really centered on the parts of the population that most need it and is properly co-ordinated with work done elsewhere in the council.It's good that you recognise that libraries are high performing and value for money. Unfortunately this is appreciated by a small minority of councillors and an even smaller minority of officials in County Hall who guide the spending decisions. As a Liberal Democrat you are in a weak position because their administration cut library services when they were in control of the council and made little or no effort to preserve the budget in any way. One of your portfolio holders even had the desire to slash libraries above and beyond the norm by looking for cuts of 1 million. Fortunately he backed off.Managers of the library service like everyone else have probably been asked to investigate cuts amounting to about a third of their budget. This is probably around 1.5 million.You probably can't get there by doing the less painful stuff: sharing buildings with other council services, sharing resources with libraries in Devon and Plymouth, implementing technology to reduce work, deploying staff in libraries to match workloads or stripping out administrative and back-office functions.If councillors like you oppose the easy stuff then more cuts in an already inadequate book fund, scrapping mobile libraries and closing small libraries like Camelford will come into play.If you are to have credibility in the real world rather than taking the Ed Balls position that cuts are unnecessary then you will have to identify where else you save 1.5 million. That will have to be above and beyond the impact of cuts in government grant and growth in the cost of waste collection and social care. If you could do that your blog would really be worthy of winning an award.
Guest,
14 September 2012 - 09:48 AM
"The Council's data quality arntngemeras were weak during 2009/10 and performance management and reporting systems were not fully in place across the whole of the organisation".What reliance can therefore be placed on the data given to PwC when it conducted its benchmarking exercise? If the data is not reliable are PwC's comparisons accurate? " Hopefully the accuracy of identifying the 100 million savings is better than the accuracy of the Council's 2009/10 draft accounts which the Audit Commission were unable to audit by the 30 September 2010 deadline because of amongst other things " a significant number of errors and ommissions in the Council's financial statements".
Guest,
15 September 2012 - 09:14 PM
"The Council's data quality arntngemeras were weak during 2009/10 and performance management and reporting systems were not fully in place across the whole of the organisation".What reliance can therefore be placed on the data given to PwC when it conducted its benchmarking exercise? If the data is not reliable are PwC's comparisons accurate? " Hopefully the accuracy of identifying the 100 million savings is better than the accuracy of the Council's 2009/10 draft accounts which the Audit Commission were unable to audit by the 30 September 2010 deadline because of amongst other things " a significant number of errors and ommissions in the Council's financial statements".
Guest,
15 September 2012 - 09:14 PM
"The Council's data quality arntngemeras were weak during 2009/10 and performance management and reporting systems were not fully in place across the whole of the organisation".What reliance can therefore be placed on the data given to PwC when it conducted its benchmarking exercise? If the data is not reliable are PwC's comparisons accurate? " Hopefully the accuracy of identifying the 100 million savings is better than the accuracy of the Council's 2009/10 draft accounts which the Audit Commission were unable to audit by the 30 September 2010 deadline because of amongst other things " a significant number of errors and ommissions in the Council's financial statements".
Guest,
15 September 2012 - 09:15 PM
Hi, I want to say save our Librarians' jobs not just our Libraries. Their expertise is imnotrapt. Say No to turning it into a voluntary community; why should our labour be free? Do the Banks use volunteers? Does Parliament function on volunteers? No! So keep our Libraries as they are and make the Council find other ways to save money. Libraries bring communities together in many ways. They stop people feeling isolated; children get to experience Books and Art which they can't always get at home. People go there to read the papers. Those without open spaces can enjoy The Turrill gardens at the back of the Library. Perhaps we could have a coffee shop to help support it. Please see the bigger picture, our Library helps everyone.Best wishes,Kate
Guest,
14 November 2012 - 11:37 PM
Hi, I want to say save our Librarians' jobs not just our Libraries. Their expertise is imnotrapt. Say No to turning it into a voluntary community; why should our labour be free? Do the Banks use volunteers? Does Parliament function on volunteers? No! So keep our Libraries as they are and make the Council find other ways to save money. Libraries bring communities together in many ways. They stop people feeling isolated; children get to experience Books and Art which they can't always get at home. People go there to read the papers. Those without open spaces can enjoy The Turrill gardens at the back of the Library. Perhaps we could have a coffee shop to help support it. Please see the bigger picture, our Library helps everyone.Best wishes,Kate
Guest,
14 November 2012 - 11:37 PM
Hi, I want to say save our Librarians' jobs not just our Libraries. Their expertise is imnotrapt. Say No to turning it into a voluntary community; why should our labour be free? Do the Banks use volunteers? Does Parliament function on volunteers? No! So keep our Libraries as they are and make the Council find other ways to save money. Libraries bring communities together in many ways. They stop people feeling isolated; children get to experience Books and Art which they can't always get at home. People go there to read the papers. Those without open spaces can enjoy The Turrill gardens at the back of the Library. Perhaps we could have a coffee shop to help support it. Please see the bigger picture, our Library helps everyone.Best wishes,Kate
Guest,
14 November 2012 - 11:37 PM
Save Our Services fully support you in tiryng to protect your youth centre. They shouldn't be shutting it down, as it is a desperately needed public service for young people. It's not your fault the economy collapsed, so why should you pay for it?
Guest,
15 November 2012 - 12:04 AM
Save Our Services fully support you in tiryng to protect your youth centre. They shouldn't be shutting it down, as it is a desperately needed public service for young people. It's not your fault the economy collapsed, so why should you pay for it?
Guest,
15 November 2012 - 12:04 AM
Save Our Services fully support you in tiryng to protect your youth centre. They shouldn't be shutting it down, as it is a desperately needed public service for young people. It's not your fault the economy collapsed, so why should you pay for it?
Guest,
15 November 2012 - 12:04 AM
"The Council's data quality aeatngemrnrs were weak during 2009/10 and performance management and reporting systems were not fully in place across the whole of the organisation".What reliance can therefore be placed on the data given to PwC when it conducted its benchmarking exercise? If the data is not reliable are PwC's comparisons accurate? " Hopefully the accuracy of identifying the 100 million savings is better than the accuracy of the Council's 2009/10 draft accounts which the Audit Commission were unable to audit by the 30 September 2010 deadline because of amongst other things " a significant number of errors and ommissions in the Council's financial statements".
Guest,
15 November 2012 - 11:05 AM
"The Council's data quality aeatngemrnrs were weak during 2009/10 and performance management and reporting systems were not fully in place across the whole of the organisation".What reliance can therefore be placed on the data given to PwC when it conducted its benchmarking exercise? If the data is not reliable are PwC's comparisons accurate? " Hopefully the accuracy of identifying the 100 million savings is better than the accuracy of the Council's 2009/10 draft accounts which the Audit Commission were unable to audit by the 30 September 2010 deadline because of amongst other things " a significant number of errors and ommissions in the Council's financial statements".
Guest,
15 November 2012 - 11:05 AM
Thank you Joanne for all of the help that you are giving us, your sropput has meant a lot, we will be having a community meeting this Monday the 1st August, hopefully it will go well, and on 6th a protest/information/photo shoot, if any of your members are in Byron Shire that weekend, please come along and make yourself known, we would love to have you.RegardsGeraldineBARCO Inc
Guest,
16 November 2012 - 10:30 PM
Thank you Joanne for all of the help that you are giving us, your sropput has meant a lot, we will be having a community meeting this Monday the 1st August, hopefully it will go well, and on 6th a protest/information/photo shoot, if any of your members are in Byron Shire that weekend, please come along and make yourself known, we would love to have you.RegardsGeraldineBARCO Inc
Guest,
16 November 2012 - 10:30 PM
Thank you Joanne for all of the help that you are giving us, your sropput has meant a lot, we will be having a community meeting this Monday the 1st August, hopefully it will go well, and on 6th a protest/information/photo shoot, if any of your members are in Byron Shire that weekend, please come along and make yourself known, we would love to have you.RegardsGeraldineBARCO Inc
Guest,
16 November 2012 - 10:30 PM
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