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What are the aspects of jealousy?
Time - I get more than my share and feel like the time Redpepper spends with other people takes nothing away from me. I love my alone time almost as much as I love my time with her.
Sex- I seriously have more sex than ever in my life. I almost worry we take it for granted because it is almost always available...I am not missing out on sex when she is with PN, Derby or Leo or anyone else. I'm more than satisfied.
Insecurity - I'm fully confident in my ability to have sex LOL!
Loss of love - not an issue with Redpepper. I know her love is constant and unwaivering. I even believe it would increase for me if she was able to be more free with other male relationships like she is with women.
Frankly all of the above don't even register. Unless some one can come up with an aspect of jealousy that applies to me...I don't see it applying.
One of the things that does register is the mental imagery. The image of her kissing another guy besides PN shuts down my intimate connection and sex drive. I still love her presence and cuddles but feel asexual and my body follows suit. And that is just kissing Leo is a great looking guy so it has nothing to do with that LOL! That is why distance from him and them together even in our regular social gatherings might help to enable them to share in this way. Would that lead to more and more distance? Who knows but at least it's trying to give her some more freedom.
Maybe if I got hypnotized to block the sudden onset of images I would be better ...but that is tantamount to medication...and I will never medicate to be in a relationship.
But again this is just one aspect of things that register.
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Monogamy might just be in my genes
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In poly we spend a crap load of time looking for the root cause of jealousy...like you just did...
maybe...it is just that jealousy. Something to be accepted...period.
Doesn't sound like jealousy, but it is interesting, to me anyway. I used to feel sad when I thought of Z with J, so I stopped thinking about it as much as I could. It was more the fact that he was away for days at a time I think. She has come to us lately and knowing they're upstairs together isn't a problem for me at all. I even wrote a real-time post right in the middle of it. I actually feel really happy for them.
The closest thing I've heard of to what Mono says he feels is "the ew" feeling. This has been discussed a lot on the polymono board at yahoo.
Lots of the women have to go through quite interesting rituals to kind of cleanse(not literally) their men before they can feel sexual towards them again. It usually happens to live-in loves whose men go off to be with another love and then come back.
They want to re-connect with their partner but they can't be sexual. I'll have to check out the thread which I didn't really read because it isn't an issue for me. Off the top of my head there's spooning with pajamas on. (the mono gets to wear the pjs)
I don't remember a situation where it isn't temporary though.
M has the "ew" feeling.
We have an agreement that I won't come back to him after having been sexually involved with GG before taking a FULL shower.
"Love As Thou Wilt"
from Mono's thread.
This is from a thread that Mono started... http://www.polyamory.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6504
"Thank you for this post NYCindie. No doubt it was a hard one for Mono to hear. Your thoughts are valid and are useful. All of which have gone through my head also... the thing is that I chose at this point to back away from anything with Leo because I believe it is worth trying first. This isn't giving Mono control so much as doing what I need to do for me.
Indeed it is possible that he needs to feel some control over the situation in a way that is not negative but more comfortable. I have given him that comfort by making the decision I have.... I didn't make the decision to make him feel comfortable. It was an added bonus. One day I might ask him to be uncomfortable because I need to decide that I can not live with the compromise of not being able to express myself in a healthy way. I don't know. I might be just fine in what I have already, all will be revealed in time, when I have done my own work around some stuff.
It isn't so much what I did that is the issue here. It is that I did not act in a way that was in keeping with the boundaries we had set up from the beginning. I should of asked him to tell me again what he is okay with in terms of non-sexual, I have asked him to write it down now as a document for me to read and remember that way. It is more to do with my nature/way of being/own issues that get me into a position where sex comes up where friendship would of been just fine... I have a need to see if there is something more deep rooted behind that.
Mono has said that if I find I cannot step away from something developing with Leo that he will see how he feels and will step back from socializing with them (he and his wife). He will work on being close to me in other ways and see if anything changes. He is willing, it seems, to see if it is a temporary feeling to be disconnected. He is willing to take that chance that it might be. I am not.
I do not want a full on sexual, everyday, another partner relationship with Leo in the way that is thought. I want to see him once a month, be able to be close to him and not feel as if I am over stepping the boundaries I have with the others in my life. If that should turn sexual one day then I guess that would be a bridge that is crossed when we come to it.
I don't think it would be helpful in my life to take on another lover at this point... I have some deep rooted issues to work on around my own self love first. This is what I intend to work on and leave the Leo thing alone. At least until I have a better grasp on what is going on for me that I seem to need to have more people to be close to... I am not satisfied somehow and it has something to do with myself... not lack of love, sex, closeness or people to be so with... does that make sense. It doesn't entirely to me and it is a work in process... I might be full of shit, I just don't know yet.. more exploring needs to be done and I am on it. It takes time and I intend to take time. All I can say is that there is something going on for me and I don't know what it is... it has nothing to do with Mono. He just brought it out of me by the situation we are in."
Then this too:
I refused because I was afraid, hurt, in pain and not ready. I am ready now to hear what others say. Please feel free to say what you feel is best for me on my blog. This is Mono's thread. I would prefer to take thoughts about what I do elsewhere.
Please understand by my previous post that I am looking at all other options as to what is going on for me in my life first. I am looking at the "why" I feel I would like to have more with Leo rather than just pushing the issue. I feel disgust with myself that is deep rooted in something to do with my self worth and nothing to do with Mono. I have spent much time separating the two, me and Mono... and have decided that there is things for me to look at before taking Mono's compromise and seeing if it will work for me... his talk of his compromise is his own... nothing to do with me. Staying on the original topic would be great... everything else can be directed to my blog.
Last edited by redpepper; 02-10-2011 at 07:59 AM.
I keep having to pinch myself to make sure what I am reading is real. Not meaning that in a facetious way RP; I think you and Mono are great people , it is your level of honesty about the nuts and bolts that I am finding amazing.
I am sure you are helping a lot of people. Nycindie and magdelyn (sorry if I misspelt anything girls) are indeed hitting you with words of steel there, many good hard questions. I struggle to understand your internal conflict RP, although your words and processing steps make a lot of sense to me ,while I can totally understand Mono's reaction to withdraw; I do believe it is not jealousy; there may be something in the control question though.
Any way I want to thank you both for being so honest and open.
"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times but to get up eight times"
"poly is more about openness and honest communication with full knowledge and consent of all parties involved." how often have I heard this and yet it sits differently with me tonight. "Consent." What if there is no concensus on consent? We can't seem to come up with what is consensual... I feel as if I have lost my poly sometimes and am swimming in a sea of I don't know what.
"If poly is something you need in your life more than you need that person, then you and that person are not compatible to be in a relationship." I saw this on a thread tonight and had to ask myself... do I need poly in my life more than I need Mono to be right now? Are we not compatible then? I realized that I am still in poly regardless of the fact that I am poly fi and don't want to be. I am compatible with him in so many ways. Just not with how we feel most comfortable doing relationships.
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Seriously, thanks for saying what you do. I am finding that this is all way past my vulnerable safe spot lately and I am throwing total caution to the wind as I really need help. I appreciate that I am being challenged and given to in such a huge way. No one knows but me how meaningful that is to me.
I had my astrological chart done again the other day by a friend who told me that I really need to look at a few things... the biggest thing that stood out was that I don't spend enough time loving and getting to know myself.
I am good at lots of things and have the ability to help many, but if I don't work on the relationship I have with myself I will always be stumped. I decided that was a noble path to investigate further and have decided that when I get pangs of "needing" others to fulfil me that I am going to consciously look inward and try and find it within.
Not an easy task for someone who is surrounded by people easily and readily. I have no trouble finding friends and loves... I have a hard time finding the friend and love in me... I end up sabbotaging good friendships and love relationships because I don't look inward and put stuff on others.
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I am a Newbie here, but not to pokemon or forums. Heh. I just wanted introduce myself formally! :cer_nod:
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Hello and welcome to PC!
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Australia's richest and poorest suburbs named
- From: news.com.au
- March 25, 2010
- Nation's wealthiest suburbs named
- Measured by taxable income
- Earn $151K more than poorest
THE Sydney suburb of Edgecliff and surrounding area is the nation's richest with an average income of more than $186,000 a year.
That's more than $20,000 ahead of Toorak in Victoria, which is Australia's second wealthiest suburb with a mean income of more than $165,000.
Victoria's Portsea is the third richest, with an average income of just over $160,000 but down nearly 30 per cent on the previous tax year. Portsea topped the nation's wealthiest suburbs in 2006-07 with an average income of $219,345.
Tax office data released yesterday revealed the country's wealthiest and poorest areas for the 2007-08 tax year, as well as how much tax we're paying and how much we're deducting.
The data also provides an insight into the disparity between the nation's richest and poorest workers.
The residents of Sydney's 2027 postcode – which include Westfield's Frank Lowy with an estimated worth of $4.2 billion - earn $159,000 more than the country's poorest area, which the ATO names as Callaghan.
Callaghan is the area covering the student halls of residence at NSW's University of Newcastle. The average income is just over $27,000.
State breakdown
Western Australia's Peppermint Grove and Cottesloe tops the mining state with $130,057.
In Queensland, Ascot and Hamilton top their state with an average income of $101,000.
While QLD, WA, New South Wales and Victoria's richest have an average income of more than $100,000, South Australia's wealthiest suburb, North Adelaide, has an average of $84,790.
The Northern Territory's 880 postcode, which includes the suburbs of Gapuwiyak, Gove, Gunyangara, Nhulunbuy and Yirrkala, is the state's best earner with an average of $76, 427.
In the ACT, the suburbs of Forrest, Griffith, Manuka and Red Hill claim the top spot with an average income of $91,209.
Tasmania's 7005 postcode, capturing the suburbs of Dynnyrne, Lower Sandy Bay and the University of Tasmania is the state's wealthiest with an average income of $65,174.
Analysing the nation's tax returns, the data revealed Australian workers paid more than $583 billion in tax in 2007-08, an increase of more than 9 per cent on the previous year.
And an additional 840,000 people lodged tax returns, with workers eager to grab a slice of Kevin Rudd's stimulus package which paid a $900 cash bonus to those earning under $80,000.
The Australian reported while the number of people filing returns rose 7.1 per cent, the total value of tax deductions claimed leapt 19.1 per cent.
Nation's wealthiest suburbs (state, suburb, mean taxable income)
NSW Darling Point, Edgecliff, HMAS Rushcutters, Point Piper $186,202
VIC Hawksburn, Toorak $165,714
VIC Portsea $160,592
NSW Mosman, Spit Junction $156,063
NSW Dover Heights, HMAS Watson, Rose Bay North, Vaucluse, Watsons Bay $146,996
NSW Bellevue Hill $142,858
NSW Northbridge $141,645
NSW Woollahra $139,573
WA Cottesloe, Peppermint Grove $130,057
NSW Hunters Hill, Woolwich $127,141
Nation's poorest suburbs (state, suburb, mean taxable income)
NSW Callaghan, Newcastle University $27,388
VIC Glenaire, Hordern Vale, Johanna, Lavers Hill $31,023
VIC Tresco 32,910
NSW Cunninyeuk, Dilpurra, Kyalite, Mellool, Moolpa, Stony Crossing, Tooranie, Wetuppa $33,726
VIC Nyah West $33,793
QLD Glen Aplin $33,806
WA Karlgarin $34,054
NSW Bland, Quandialla $34,211
VIC Barmah, Lower Moira, Picola, Picola West $34,247
VIC Lake Tyers, Nowa Nowa, Waiwera $34,359
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Miles of Adelaide Posted at 4:11 PM March 25, 2010
Sam of Melbourne, actually it's US who will be paying for retirement - that's what the Superannuation Guarantee is for. It's time people stopped using that tired old line. Taxpayer is 100% correct.
Confused of Perth Posted at 4:07 PM March 25, 2010
WHy are all you fools whining about ACT not being included?It clearly IS in the articele....it just doesn't make the top richest or top poorest....
gibbros of Darling Point Posted at 3:58 PM March 25, 2010
to all those low income earners out there this is an oppertunity to thank the people paying for your centrelink!


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Live Blog: PGA Championship Final Round
The Journal provides analysis of the final round of the PGA Championship. Stu Woo is at Oak Hill Country Club, while Tim Carroll provides analysis on the television coverage.
There are many bad things about the PGA Championship.
First, of course, is that it's the last major of the year. When we play this every August, it means summer is nearing its end. School starts soon, the cold days of winter are coming, I haven't practiced as much as I vowed when the Masters was being played in April and I am not quite ready to quit my day job and turn pro.
As for the PGA Championship itself, the worst thing about it is that it is not the Masters, the U.S. Open, nor the Open Championship.
There are many good things about the championship, of course. It is a major; the sadists in the golf crowd (and you know who you are) will get to watch some world-class player choke his guts out. The course setup is generally fairly good and has been over the years. That setup allowed the best players in the world to shine–something that the quirky setup of the club championship called the Masters, the penal setup of the U.S. Open, and the windy and bouncy setup of the Open Championship sometimes don't allow. Kerry Haigh, the PGA setup man, has done a consistently good job for years.
So as the leaders' tee times pass, we've heard the last major "Hello, friends" from Jim Nance this year (another good thing), and it's time to settle back and watch.
Who will you root for from the leaders: Jim Furyk, the Pennsylvania kid with the unique swing not taught to him by his professional golfer dad, Jason Dufner, who, if he wins, will likely show all the emotion inherent in "Dufnering," Jason Day, who is six under through 13 holes, the Swedes Jonas Blixt and Henrik Stenson (no Swede man has won a major), Scott Piercy, who is five under today through 12 holes, or Adam Scott, the long-putter who won the Masters this year. If Scott wins, he would be the first golfer to win two majors in a calendar year since you-know-who.
You do know who, right? It's a golfer who won in 2008 and we won't mention today.
Padraig Harrington. He missed the cut. Who did you think I meant?
We'd like to welcome everybody who's missing the PGA Championship because of the CBS-Time Warner dispute, or for those who just prefer live blogs to HD television.
I wish I were following the leaders at Oak Hill Country Club, but cellular service is terrible out on the course, so I'm in the media tent for now. I'll try to sneak out to watch the 9th and 10th holes, which are nearby.
It's been a ho hum start for Jim Furyk and Jason Dufner, who are playing in the last group. Furyk is the tournament leader, leading Dufner by one. Both have made par on their first three holes, though Dufner needed a nifty par save on the second hole after whacking his drive into the gallery and barely missing a bunker on his approach shot.
Henrik Stenson is making a move, though. Starting the day two strokes behind Furyk, he bogeyed the first hole but eagled the par-5 fourth to move into a tie for second with Dufner.
We now have two co-leaders: After a nifty chip from the rough, Dufner birdied the par-5 fourth hole, while Furyk just missed a long putt and settled for par. Furyk has to be disappointed. This hole has been by far the easiest today, with golfers making more birdies (33) than pars (31) on it today.
There is no doubt this course is yielding birdies today. Like the Masters on Sunday, where the officials have put the roars back, the PGA officials know how to set up a course where birdied and eagles are possible.
But it's different in the final group or groups, and from the pack. There's a mathematical law, I'm sure, that describes it, but I was a journalism major. When you have a large number of people trying to do one thing–in this case, shoot a low number, many are going to fail, but one or two will be successful. So all the guys at minus one or two are looking to join the birdiefest, and maybe one or two will. Today, that's Jason Day at 6 under overall with seven birdies today.
In the final group, it's more of a "fire away from trouble" try to birdie the two par fives, and maybe one or two others, and shoot 68 and hope to kiss the trophy.
So I'd take 10 under and run to the Tudor clubhouse. 11 under and I'm telling my pilot to fire up the G4. We got this thing wrapped up.
Dufner hits a beautiful approach on the fifth hole! His shot landed about two or three feet from the hole and just died there. He'll have an easy birdie shot, while Furyk will need to sink his putt from maybe 30 feet away. We should see a new leader here.
Good effort by Furyk, but he's about a foot short and taps in for par. Dufner taps his putt in for bidie and the one-stroke lead. Kudos to Dufner: The par-4 fifth hole has been tough. That's only the 10th birdie on the hole today.
Tim, would you say that Dufner and Furyk have approached today differently? Furyk seems to be playing much more conservatively. He was laying up on the first hole and seems to be content with just getting his approach shots on the green and avoiding hazards, while Dufner's going for the hole. Is that going to change how that Dufner's the leader?
Meanwhile, Stenson is now eight-under two strokes behind Dufner. Following his eagle — which came on a curling 25-foot putt — he has made par his next two days. And Jason Day is no longer on fire. After starting the day at even, he birdied six out of eight holes, but just bogeyed on hole 16. He's at five-under, tied for fourth place and five strokes behind Dufner.
Before we get too far, may I tell my stories about the leaders?
When the U.S. Open was at Merion, Jason Dufner came to play that week at the course where my golfing-mad son is a member. He wasn't there, but the story is that Dufner was only two under par on the short, tight layout. There are members who routinely beat that score. (Not my son. Yet.) How can that guy be the same guy who is leading the year's last major.
And after Furyk, who is now a stroke back, won the 2003 U.S. Open, he had a sponsor's day set a week or so later at a New Jersey course. The day, set up months before, was a fundraiser for an inner-city (really inner-inner-city) school in Trenton. The fundraiser folks figured there was no way Furyk was going to show up, not after he won the Open.
Not only did he show up, but he came early, stayed late, and signed everything anyone asked him to sign, took every picture he was asked to smile in. I'm not an autograph guy, but my golfing-mad son wanted one. So I went out and bought a sleeve of balls that Furyk was playing then, and asked him to sign all three. (I have two other sons who don't play golf, but trying to be the fair dad, I didn't want to leave them out.) I'm sure Furyk thought all three balls were on eBay before the night was out. (There weren't; they're are still upstairs, one displayed on a golf-ball rack, two still in the sleeve's box.)
What a nice guy. But, of course, he's a Steelers fan. Aren't they all nice guys?
Both Dufner and Furyk have golfing scar tissue. Furyk had last year's U.S. Open won, until he was forced to think on the 16th tee on Sunday and his mind locked. He's had many more where he didn't perform as he would have liked, including last year's Ryder Cup when he went bogey-bogey to lose this singles match.
Dufner, the inscrutable one, had a four-stroke lead late two years ago in the PGA Championship, and didn't win. But other than that, he doesn't have as much baggage to carry.
Their approaches today have to be formed by their histories.
Oh, my! Jim Furyk just sunk a 30-foot putt on the par-3 sixth hole to tie Dufner, who two-putts for par.
Heading to the seventh hole, Furyk and Dufner are tied at 10-under, leading third-place Stenson by two strokes.
I like your stories about Dufner and Furyk, Tim. I haven't met Dufner, but I spoke to Furyk for about 15 minutes at the Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio, last week. I can tell why he's a favorite of golf writers. He was funny, thoughtful and good humored, especially given that the topic of our conversation was about what golfers do for dinner.
Folks on Twitter don't seem to like him so much. Here's a sample of tweets about Furyk from the last five minutes. "Nobody should learn to swing a club from Furyk #ugly". And, in reference to his corporate sponsor, Five Hour Energy, and his U.S. Open choke last year: "hope furyk is on the 5hr energy and not the 4hr energy he was drinking last year #wewillsee".
Whatever mojo Stenson earned from that early eagle is gone. He badly missed a five-foot putt for par. It rolled about five feet past the hole, but he made his bogey shot. He's now at seven-under, behind the co-leaders by three strokes.
Furyk's dad is a teaching pro. He famously didn't change Jim's swing, letting him, as Arnold Palmer says in that ad, "Swing your swing."
The one thing he did do, is the dad approached a couple of touring pros when Jim was young. The dad asked the pros if they could do one thing differently, what would it be? The pros both said they putt left-hand low. It levels the shoulders and allows for a freer stroke, one that takes out the right hand. (Furyk has an odd driver grip, as well, one where he wraps two fingers of the right hand over the left, better to keep his right hand from overtaking the left in his driver swing.)
And for those parents who are tossing and turning at night thinking their five-year-old children didn't make the travel squad and won't be professional athletes. Jim Furyk's dad, the golf pro, wouldn't let his son play until he was 12, having him play all sports. It was like a dam building up his joy in the sport, so when he got to be 12, Jim loved his chosen game.
Both Dufner and Furyk save par with high-pressure putts on the seventh hole, Dufner from about 10 feet and Furyk from eight.
If you're wondering what happened to the top three golfers in the world, by the way, two of them are gone. Another sports writer showed me a picture of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson's empty parking spaces here at Oak Hill Country Club. And Rory McIlroy is at two-under, eight strokes behind the co-leaders after triple bogeying the fifth hole, where he found the water hazard.
This is turning into a three-man race.
Piercy's about to post at six under and if there was just one guy in front of him, that could put some more pressure on the one leader. But with three guys in front, it's unlikely all three are going to blow up, that much on the back nine.
In 2005, when Phil Mickelson won his PGA, rain (and the TV demand to have the tournament end as close to primetime as possible) meant the tournament wasn't over until early Monday. The golfer who won't be named today was fourth and even though theoretically the tournament wasn't over, he flew home to Florida, not waiting for some potential playoff. He took some grief from golf writers–like he cares what the media think about him–but the decision was proved correct.
Same thing here. There is a whole back nine to play. But as we approach the turn, for Furyk and Dufner to play four over and Stenson two over … that's a tall order.
Dufner is putting great. He has now saved par from 10 feet (on No. 7), six feet (on No. 6) and five feet (on No. 2), and made biride putts of two feet (on No. 5) and six feet (on No. 4). Most significantly, he hasn't missed any putt in that range—yet.
Dufner is putting great. He has now saved par from 10 feet (on No. 7), six feet (on No. 6) and five feet (on No. 2), and made biride putts of two feet (on No. 5) and six feet (on No. 4). Most significantly, he hasn't missed any putt in that range—yet.
Dufner is basically showboating right now. After Furyk's approach shot on the eighth hole lands about 10 feet from the pin, Dufner takes his — and puts it less than a foot away. Birdie opportunities for both co-leaders.
But Furyk just misses his and two-putts for par. Dufner makes his gimme and is now the sole leader at 11-under, leading Furyk by a stroke.
And with the Stenson birdie to three back, it might be time to mention–but please, not post–Stenson stripping down to his Bjorn Borg underwear a few years back to hit out of a water hazard where the ball hung up on a bank.
Please, I'm begging you, don't post the photo.
Of the four leaders, Dufner is minus three today. The next three are minus one.
And Piercy bogeyed 18, so the "post-a-number-early" strategy is even less threatening this time.
That was an ugly lie on Furyk's chip on 9.
But he's starting to show nerves. From his first fairway of the day, he is short and right. That's like hitting the front of the rim on the possible game-winning free throw in basketball. And that short on the chip, even from the ugly lie, doesn't give me hope for his nerves for the back.
Furyk just blew a great chance to make up ground on Dufner, whose drive landed in the rough and whose approach shot was well short of the green. Furyk had hit his first fairway, but that approach shot was terrible.
Dufner saves par and now leads Furyk by two. Tim, will this free up Furyk and allow him to play looser?
Hot dog? Gatorade? Tea?
Anyone need anything as we make the turn? I'm buying …
As we talked about with the guys way back, being behind makes your decisions easier. You go for everything. Whether you can pull it off … well, many times that's a different story.
Another clutch par save by Dufner, six feet again. That's six one-putt greens in a row. May I point out that he ranks 178th on Tour, near the bottom, in putting from three to five feet. And he's 152nd in putting from five to 10 feet. But not today.
Dufner also has been other-worldly on his approach shots. This one on hole 10 lands about six feet from the pin. It'll be an easy birdie attempt, while Furyk will try his from across the entire green.
CBS hasn't gone to one of those lower-right scoreboards with only three players. Probably wise, strange things have happened in golf. (Jean van de Velde, anyone?)
But Dufner just stuffed it in tight, while Furyk is a county away. Well, if Dufner makes that, the hill becomes that much tougher to climb.
It seems to be shaping up as a two man battle, with advantage currently Dufner over Furyk. But double bogeys can strike at any time. Stenson is only one behind Furyk, and let's not forget Adam Scott and Jonas Blixt lurking at six under. Just saying. And a volatile part of the course is coming up. They've moved the tees up at the par-five 13th, and there have already been eagles there today. Fourteen is a birdie hole. If Scott or Blixt puts up a number, it will turn up the pressure.
And you asked if being two back frees up Furyk. It seems that being two ahead is freeing up Dufner.
The hole is 4 and a quarter inches wide. Dufner loves that quarter.
Dufner almost botches the short clean up two-footer on No. 10. Did I mention that Dufner ranks 158th in putts under three feet?
Ah, the stats prove true. Dufner missed about a six-foot birdie shot and then barely averted disaster on a one-foot gimme. It rolled around the right side of the rim and in. Furyk also made par to stay two behind Dufner.
And Furyk likes the other quarter inch of that hole on 10.
Wow. I can't believe Dufner has never won a major. His tee drive on hole 11 lands about eight feet from the hole.
Furyk's drive isn't too bad either, perhaps 20 feet away. This is been a tough par-3 hole today, with 10 birdies compared with 19 bogeys.
Oftentimes when I talk to people, they marvel at how far the pros hit it. I try to tell them that what's more impressive is their short-game skills. The pros can hit it, say, 78 yards with three trajectories and just as many spin rates. There are lots of folks who can hit the ball into tomorrow.
That said, Adam Scott just launched one on 13. Wow.
Oftentimes when I talk to people, they marvel at how far the pros hit it. I try to tell them that what's more impressive is their short-game skills. The pros can hit it, say, 78 yards with three trajectories and just as many spin rates. There are lots of folks who can hit the ball into tomorrow.
That said, Adam Scott just launched one on 13. Wow.
Scott's at seven-under, and 13 is a kind par 5, so he can make up ground.
Both Furyk and Dufner just miss their birdie putts, so Dufner will maintain his two-stroke lead heading to hole 12.
Stu, golf is such a hard game. Dufner didn't get to the PGA Tour to stay until 2007, when he was 30 years old.
And Scott just dumped his third shot, from the rough-rough, into the even rougher-rough around the green. He's going to struggle to make par on that lone par five on the back.
Golf is such a tough game.
Here are our five leaders:
Jason Dufner, -11 (through 11)
Jim Furyk, -9 (through 11)
Henrik Stenson, -8 (through 12)
Adam Scott, -6 (through 13)
Jonas Blixt, -6 (through 12
And that's the scoreboard that CBS is showing, too. Anyone else, and even listing five is probably generous, is too far back.
Dufner needed a hole that is 4 and a half inches wide on that putt. But par is his friend for the next 90 minutes or so.
Both Dufner and Furyk miss birdie chances from less than 10 feet on hole 12. Both settle for par. As Tim said, Furyk is running out of chances to make up ground.
And Stenson needed a hole about 6 or 7 inches wide for his eagle try. He's two back.
I have one, by the way, a rubber thing that effectively makes the hole about 8 inches wide. It is a lot of fun to putt to.
Are you saying your handicap is artificially low, Tim?
I'm saying I'm a golfer, so I have pretty much every contraption known to man. I also have rings that make the hole smaller, barely able to fit a ball in. I spend most of my very limited practice time on my short game, which at my age is the only hope I have of keeping up with my golfing teenager.
Stu, you'll need both if you're going to make it to the PGA Tour.
I'll hit up the gift shop before I leave.
Furyk and Stenson are both short on their approach shots on 13, with Stenson about 10 feet closer. Looks like Furyk will putt uphill for birdie.
Stenson, by the way, did birdie 13, so he is tied with Furyk in second place now. Both trail Dufner by two.
Furyk missed just left, while Dufner was even closer but left it short. They make par. Going into hole 14, Dufner is at 11-under and holds a two-stroke lead over Furyk and Stenson.
I heard some fellow reporters murmur as Jonas Blixt birdied on 14. He's now in fourth place, three behind Dufner.
I ran into Blixt at the Akron, Ohio, Chipotle.
Thinking of golfing contraptions …
Has anyone called the USGA to note that Mickelson at the British, and Dufner here, use the fat grips. Super Stroke is the most famous maker, and it's possible both use that brand, but I don't know.
But the USGA, fresh off banning the anchored stroke, might want to ban the fat grips, if they give such an advantage.
Oh, and for the record: a) I am in favor of the anchor ban and b) I have never tried the fat grips, other than in a golf store.
But I might …
Stenson bogeys at 14, leaving Furyk alone in second place. Dufner and Furyk both hit the fairway on 14. It's straight and only 310 yards, but that's deceptive since the green is well elevated.
Tim, when I take up golf, I'm going to use only anchor putters, fat grips and your hole-enlarging contraption.
If you include using a foot wedge, you'll fit right into my group.
I just Googled that, Tim, and I'm still not quite sure what that is.
Would it have helped Stenson make par on 14? Because he definitely just bogeyed that to fall three strokes behind the leader.
Nice two-putt by Furyk, who I notice is also using the fat putter grip.
Let's hope Dufner doesn't have access to a TV; CBS is noting it was the 15th hole two years ago, a par three with water next to the green, where Dufner started to gag away the PGA in Atlanta.
Both Dufner and Furyk hit average approach shots on 14 and two putt for par. Yet again, Dufner takes a two-stroke lead into the next hole.
That would be hole 15, maybe my favorite on the course. It's a 186-yard par 3 with a beautiful pond protecting the right side of the green. It is tough: There have been only seven birdies on it today, versus 15 bogeys and four double bogeys.
And, Stu, if you don't know what a foot wedge is, my group really wants to play with you.
Bring lots of money.
Uhhh, for those who don't know, it's cheating.
Furyk has been a half-club to almost a full-club short all day. One birdie, one bogey. He's playing as if he's the guy two strokes ahead.
Safe shot on 15. But he doesn't need safe.
Ok, all these gag "Foot Wedge" gifts I'm finding online make sense now.
As Tim pointed out, Furyk played it safely to the green's left, avoiding the water on the right. He needs go to for the pin, especially since holes 17 and 18 have *combined* for just 10 birdies total today.
If Dufner hangs on to win, the two three woods he hit from just off the green on the back nine are going to be huge.
Todd Hamilton beat Ernie Els at the British by using a hybrid from off the green to putt. Dufner's shots might even be more impressive, like the one at 15, with the water behind.
Again, par for both Dufner and Furyk on 15. Hole 16 is the best birdie hole remaining, a-straight-as-an-arrow, 428-yard par 4.
Dufner, at 11-under, leads Furyk by two strokes and both Blixt and Stenson by three.
There are eight golfers on the course. Dufner, three under today with seven straight pars and not a bogey since mid-round yesterday, has a two-stroke lead.
Is now the time to note that A-Rod hit an HR today?
Ok, is it premature to call this for Dufner? On his approach shot on 16, he again put it within two feet of the hole! The fans are on their feet.
On a related note, people are calling him "Duffman" on Twitter, in reference to the Duff beer pitchman from the Simpsons, and I think the nickname suits his everyman look.
WAR EAGLE!!!! What a shot on 16 by Dufner.
(Dufner is an Auburn alum.)
But I don't think it'd be fair to say that Furyk played poorly today, would you, Tim? He's played the slow-and-steady Furyk game, shooting even for the day. Still, even if he finishes at an even 70, that'd be his worst round of the tournament. He shot 65 Thursday and 68 on both Friday and Saturday.
Whoa! Here's some life from Furyk, who just made about a 12-foot putt for birdie. Of course, Dufner just taps in for birdie. Here we go: Dufner takes a two-stroke lead into the final two holes, which, fittingly, are the course's two toughest holes.
Furyk will undoubtedly question himself all winter. As someone who had lots of falls as a kid, you can't help yourself at picking at scar tissue. He'll pick and pick and pick some more.
But no, two pars now gives him 69. If these scores hold, he lost to a guy who shot 66. (Again, assuming two pars. But with 1,000 yards left on 17 and 18, that's a lot of assuming.)
As John Paul wrote about this weekend, hole 17 is the hardest on the course. Rory McIlroy, who finished the tournament three-under and tied for eighth, said a birdie on 17 is like an eagle on any other hole.
Here's why: It's a 504-yard par four that doglegs to the right. Even in the practice rounds, golfers had trouble figuring out what to do. Hit it too far to the left, and you're in the rough with about 250 yards left to the pin. Hit it too far right and some gigantic trees are blocking you from the green. It is a fun, treacherous hole.
Dufner's drive on 17 was perfect. It's on the left side of the fairway, giving him a clear shot at the green. Furyk's was OK. It's on the fairway's right side, but I can't tell whether he has a clear view of the green. There's an overhanging tree that might impede him, but he might be able to shoot over it.
The tree is not a factor, but Furyk pulled his shot to the left of the green and into what appears to be some very thick rough. Dufner, leading Furyk by two strokes, played it safe and onto the back of the green. He should be able to two putt this for par, while Furyk has a tough save ahead.
That long approach to 17, that buried in the rough on the short side of the green, won't help Furyk sleep this winter. But that is the kind of chance you have to take, especially on the 71st hole.
Dufner, with the two-stroke lead, could play to the middle of the green.
Furyk needs a Tom Watson-type miracle (on the 71st hole of the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach in 1982).
Dufner needs a ho-hum two-putt.
This one is over, barring a miracle. From the deep rough, Furyk hits his third shot way short, maybe just 15 feet in front of him. It lands in the slightly less deep rough, short of the green. He will be lucky to bogey.
But wait! Dufner will make this interesting by three putting for bogey! Furyk still has a slim, slim, slim chance.
A two-stroke lead still. But that wasn't how we expected it, was it?
That was a horrible stroke by Dufner. But the necessary, and failed, chance that Furyk took still gives Dufner two strokes to play with on 18.
So both Dufner and Furyk bogey 17. Dufner goes back to 11-under, leading Furyk by two. Both Blixt and Stenson appear to be out of the running now. They both also bogeyed 17 and are at seven-under.
It will take an absolutely disaster on 18 for Dufner to blow a two-stroke lead.
Baring a disaster/miracle 200 yards left in the majors this year. Sorry if I start to tear up.
Both seem to have acceptable lies in the rough.
Dufner and Furyk hit the virtually the same drive, both to the right into what looks like the second cut. Furyk's approach is to left and well short of the well-elevated green. Dufner's approach is also short.
Maybe this will turn into a choking contest.
And both come up short. No Shaun Micheel shots here. (He hit his approach to two inches to win here 10 years ago.)
Blixt bogeyed 18, so he will finish the day in fourth, at six-under. Stenson headed into the clubhouse in third, at seven-under.
Dufner and Furyk are now approaching the 18th green.
Furyk's third shot isn't great. He rolls it far past the hole and he'll have about a 25-foot putt to save par.
Dufner is lining up for his third shot, which is stuck in the steep incline in front of the green. He rolls it about eight feet short. He might be able to take three putts and still win this.
Cue the music.
And I start the golfing year by NOT watching the green jacket ceremony at Augusta. Sorry, Jason, but I'm going to end the year by also not watching any interview, even with funnyman David Feherty.
Furyk's par putt is two feet wide to the right. He will tap in for bogey and let Dufner take the last shot of the PGA Championship.
Dufner's par putt misses by inches. He will tap in for bogey and the PGA Championship, his first major. He celebrates — I am not kidding — by hugging his wife and squeezing her rear end.
That little squeeze at the end elicited big laughs from everyone here in the media tent. But seriously, congratulations to Jason Dufner, who at age 36 wins his first major tournament.
Tim, any last thoughts? The trophy seemed destined to be Dufner's today, with the way he was hitting his approach shots.
So we started the year with Adam Scott at the Masters, the first Australian to win a Green Jacket. (Sorry, Greg.)
Justin Rose, the first Englishman to win the U.S. Open in decades, prevailed at Merion.
Phil Mickelson took the third leg of a career Grand Slam by winning the British. He still needs that one from the tournament that he's been runner-up six times.
And now Jason Dufner, most famous for being photographed sitting, bored, in a classroom, takes the PGA.
Americans didn't hold any of the four trophies four weeks ago, and now hold two. Although the world's No. 1 golfer has gone five years, since the one-legged win at the 2008 U.S. Open, without hoisting one of the major trophies.
All in all, a memorable year. Next year the majors are at Augusta, Pinehurst No. 2, Liverpool and Valhalla. Probably not as star-studded a lineup for the majors, but let's hope they give us as much entertainment.
And now that the men's majors are over, I promise I'm going to start practicing. Next year is my year …


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Skip to comments.US Ambassador secretly meets with Syrian rebels
Posted on 05/10/2013 4:07:06 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford yesterday sneaked into northern Syria to meet with Syrian opposition leaders. A US official confirmed the visit and said that the meeting took place along the Turkey-Syria border and that the Ambassador did not go deep into Syria.
As the official said: (The meeting) was literally just across the border. However, he refused to provide additional details for security reasons. Obviously, this is a dangerous area so we dont want to get into the movement of diplomatic personnel, he said.
A Syrian activist reportedly said Ford met with a rebel leader from Aleppo who thanked him for the delivery of some food aid being provided by the US.
Ford was recalled from Syria in late 2011 following the outbreak of violence to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Since then, he has become the Obama administrations point man on Syria and the Syrian opposition.
On Wednesday, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said Fords meetings aim to maintain relations with the Syrian opposition and to talk with them not only about our increasing support and their needs, but also about the opportunities for a political transition.
Kerry today formally announced an additional $100 million (77million) in humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees.
This dovetails perfectly with Obama/Soetoro`s muslim caliphate foreign policy story :
"What difference does it make?"
Why of course ~ that's who he would be
What foreign policy objective was the Ambassador working on? What was being done that was in the National Interests of the United States?
Those a**holes are dead-set on emplacing al-Qaida and the MB in power wherever they can.
this is a dangerous area so we dont want to get into the movement of diplomatic personnel, he said.
i guess they only worry about the security of diplomats who are out doing obamas dirty work. Obama gives aide to Syrian brotherhood members but did not do a thing for the 4 dead Americans in Benghazi. I can't say more or I'll have to go to confession!
Now I know why the military took those 17 officers out of the LCF's. These heroes were going to nuke the place from orbit and someone found out.
This whole stupid report had the simple political goal of claiming that the aid is FOOD.
And it's a lie.
And it's the only thing we ever get from Morocco Bomber --lies.
US aid to the rebels was MANPADS, and one day they will shock us the depths of their ingratitude, by shooting down a US airliner.
Remember and watch.
That has sunk in to CIA employees and others who may be sent into harm's way on behalf of Obama. Other Governments may have also taken note that personnel they might lend to assist Obama might be in great peril in difficulties arise. Hillary unknowingly articulated a cold blooded Obama principle: Ok they died. They were expendable!
I don't to EVER hear another Democrat say a word about the GOP "nation-building" or "interfering in another nation's business".
But, MUCH worse, Obama is HELPING Islamist rebels overthrow standing governments. Egypt, Libya and Syria are long-standing countries. Obama is willing to overthrow them at will and use Islamist extemists to do it.
How I*N*C*R*E*D*I*B*L*Y stupid.
Obama end game?
Create a muslim caliphate.
Arm it to the teeth.
The caliphate then turns all those weapons on Israel.
Obama pulls the rug out on Israel and turns his back on them.
Final solution achieved.
I think you're right. The only thing stopping it is Mohammedan infighting.
As far-getched as that would seem, it is hard to argue against. All signs point to it.
I bet he was packin heat!
Or hoping his life was worth 100mil!
Fear not, it will be reported as a "center fuel tank" explosion... not terrorism...
Perhaps we should ask Obama about all those damn Muslims who are part of the American experience/fabric/beginning?
Tell us all about Muslim war heroes who served in the US military Obama? Hell, I find ZERO.
Tell, us all about those Muslim signers of the Declaration of Independence?
Show us these great Muslim Americans president JACKASS.
Well, why not? They're Al Qaeda.
Those are, of course, the primary questions if we were operating a constitutionally directed government. But we're not, so what are the real motives?
The Central Bank of Syria and opening up the Syrian Central Bank to buying US Treasury debt, becoming a member of BIS, opening up to control by IMF, etc., is the top priority.
Syria's remaining national gold reserves would be turned over to the international banking system.
Puppets from international banking would be installed as the Prime Minister and Central Bank head.
The bank would be set up probably before the revolution even ends, and Western companies would come piling in to the new "open" economy.
This is what happened in Libya; there's no reason to think that Syria would be any different.
US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford... the meeting took place along the Turkey-Syria border... "(The meeting) was literally just across the border." ... met with a rebel leader from Aleppo who thanked him for the delivery of some food aid being provided by the US. Ford was recalled from Syria in late 2011 ... aim to maintain relations with the Syrian opposition and "to talk with them not only about our increasing support and their needs, but also about the opportunities for a political transition."
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Columbus, Ohio (AP) -- American Electric Power wants to trim its work force by as much as 10 percent and has offered buyouts to nearly 22,000 employees in each of the 11 states where it has operations.
Spokeswoman Melissa McHenry says the utility, based in Columbus, Ohio, has given workers until the end of the month to make a decision.
AEP says it will resort to layoffs if there are too few takers.
The economic downturn has hurt power providers because demand for electricity has slumped.
AEP's sales dropped 6 percent in 2009, including a decline of nearly 16 percent for industrial customers.
AEP employees learned of the buyout offer Wednesday morning in a letter from CEO Michael Morris.
AEP is one of the nation's largest power generators, with more than 5 million customers.
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THE CREATIVE MIND; The Examined Life, Without Punctuation
By DINITIA SMITH
Published: September 9, 1999
''Look at this,'' Sharon Olds said while flipping through her new poetry collection, ''Blood, Tin, Straw,'' to be published next month by Alfred A. Knopf.
''This is so awful,'' she said. ''Omigod, it's all stories. I just can't believe it.''
''Oh, I wish I were better,'' Ms. Olds said of her poems, which chronicle the daily life of a wife and mother not unlike herself. ''Why not just keep a diary?'' she asked, repeating a question from her critics.
''Why does this woman think anyone wants to read about her private life?'' Ms. Olds asked. ''I have a prejudice that narrative poetry is not as high an art as dense, mysterious, imagistic poetry.'' But then, she points out, one always admires the things one can't do oneself.
There is almost no major American poet whose work is as sexually explicit, and as intimately evocative of a distinct father, husband and children as Ms. Olds, who is the New York State Poet Laureate and who won a National Book Critics Circle Award for 1984 for her collection ''The Dead and the Living.'' The critic Helen Vendler famously referred to her poems as pornographic. Ms. Olds has written poems about a son urinating, about a daughter on the brink of puberty. She is particularly known for her 1992 collection ''The Father,'' which chronicles in pitiless detail the death of an abusive, alcoholic father from cancer.
She has also written many poems about making love to a husband. In her new collection, ''The Spouses Waking Up in the Hotel Mirror,'' one poem reads:
The man looked like himself, only more so,
his face lucent, his silence deep as if
inevitable, but the woman looked
like a different species from an hour before,
a sandhill crane or a heron, her eyes
skinned back, she looked insane with happiness.
Yet for all the autobiographical flavor of her work, to interview Sharon Olds is to play a wispy kind of cat and mouse game. She has agreed to cooperate, and yet she refuses to discuss her personal life. She will not discuss her children; she has a son and a daughter. She will not discuss the ending of her 32-year marriage to a psychiatrist.
''It's such a pain,'' said Mrs. Olds, 56, apologizing when she refused to say even what her father's occupation was. ''It makes me seem like such a sensitive person.''
''I never thought anyone would read anything I'd written,'' she said. ''If I'd known the number of readers I would have, I would have used a pseudonym.''
One reason for the privacy is to protect her family, she said. ''I promised I'd keep them out of this.'' She made a vow, she said, many years ago, not to talk about them: ''Outing them is morally wicked.'' But in a way, the wall she forms around herself also enables her to continue to mine domestic life for the material of her art.
And besides, even though her poems have been called diaries, ''I don't think of it as personal,'' she said.
''These are not messages in a bottle about me,'' said Ms. Olds. ''No!''
She is often called a confessional poet, in the tradition of Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton. Her work has a robust sensuality, a delight in the physical that is almost Whitmanesque. She has made the minutiae of a woman's everyday life as valid a subject for poetry as the grand abstract themes that have preoccupied other poets.
Ms. Olds has also been praised for her technique, her superb attention to detail, for the pulse of her fast moving verse. ''Her autobiographical material strikes, shines, deepens, spreads,'' Glyn Maxwell wrote in The Times Literary Supplement.
''There's a boldness in her poetry,'' said the poet Galway Kinnell, a teaching colleague in the graduate writing program at New York University. ''She seems to speak where others are silent.''
''In a very direct way she is using herself as subject matter,'' Mr. Kinnell said, comparing her to Emily Dickinson, a poet for whom ''inner experience is primary.''
''There is no attempt to portray the outer world without one's self in it,'' he added.
Ms. Olds is believed to be one of the best-selling literary poets. She estimates that her collection ''The Dead and the Living,'' published in 1984, has sold 50,000 copies, an enormous amount for a serious poet. She is also a dedicated teacher. For the last 15 years she has run poetry workshops for the severely disabled at the Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York. Audiences flock to her readings.
She and Mr. Kinnell are known for giving riveting readings, including one about sex, in which they stood side by side onstage, reciting bits of poetry in counterpoint. Ms. Olds: ''In the middle of the night, when we get up/after making love, we look at each other in/complete friendship, we know so fully/what the other has been doing.'' Mr. Kinnell: ''Now we lie together,/after making love, quiet, touching along the length of our bodies,/familiar touch of the long-married.''
Sitting for an interview full of feints and indirections recently in a restaurant on the Upper West Side, Ms. Olds conceded that she was born in San Francisco and that her background was ''middle class.'' She was reared in Berkeley, Calif., in a ''medium-high Episcopalian'' family, she said, going to church twice a week.
''I was hearing about hell and God,'' she said. ''I was bringing my own poor sick little head to it.'' Consequently, said Ms. Olds, ''I'm haunted by the fear of doing evil.''
With her delicate features free of makeup and her straight, gray hair, there is a Calvinist look about her, something of the strict school mistress, in marked contrast to the sensuality of her poetry.


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The first gap to 25 is already underway. As we cross 25, the gap to 30 will be achieved in quick manner as a short squeeze kicks in. SLW will be bullish as precious metals stabilize their oversold position. Hang tight longs.
Don't know where you get your figures, but I think you are off on this call. This is the worst performing stock I have seen for a long time. Down 30% in a month is quite impressive IMO. I wish it would go to 30$ but at this rate SLW will be worthless at the rate it's going. Look at this morning, it was up almost 2% in pre market and now it's trading down 2% even with Gold and silver prices rising. I don't know what to think about this POS anymore.
Well, all this daytrading talk is kind of funny. If you write covered calls and like collecting dividends, this has been a great stock to own (from a buy and hold perspective), Naturally, I am not a day trader with a big short position, so my input does not count for the likes of you, Marty.
Here is a piece of advice, don't waste your time on a Yahoo MB - you are not changing anyone's opinion and you only reveal yourself to either be an #$%$ or a person with an agenda.
So much for filling the gap. This is a PIECE OF #$%$ stock. Silver is up along with gold and this POS is down.
Agreed, this company moves quickly up and down.
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Mixed media by Heatherly Wakefield.
"Wrapped Up In You" focuses on creating connections through the use of multiple media to create individual pieces. Wakefield and Bisanti-Wall use text and quotes in their mixed media work. Linda Smith creates abstract images using fabric, and Cheri Lesauskis uses metal and stone to create beautiful, handmade jewelry.
"The idea of this show is to give a feeling of comfort," Wakefield said. "With it being wintertime, people can come and get wrapped up in the show."
Mixed media by David Raderstorf.
"Color & Form" at The 567 also focuses on mixed media work. From Norcross, Ga., David Raderstorf is an abstract artist working on plastic. He mixes watercolor, ink and other materials in his work to evoke movement using color and form.
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Residents of a Telford retirement scheme have been getting arty and using their new-found digital skills in a competition to design and create a poster advertising their annual Spring Fair.
The residents of Hartshorne Court, a Sanctuary Housing managed scheme, produced the posters using skills they have learnt over the last three months from computer classes delivered through Sanctuary's Gigs and Megs project.
The interactive sessions, which are being run successfully at a number of Sanctuary Housing schemes across the country, are designed to teach residents how to use computers and see the benefits that digital technology can bring, such as communicating with friends and family or using online banking services.
The sessions are not just restricted to residents of the scheme – they are also open to members of the local community who can join in, learn new skills and make friends in the process.
Hartshorne Court scheme manager Viv Chalmers set and judged the poster design competition, with the winning entry a joint effort by residents Keith Homer, Chris Peake and community member Norma Topping. The poster will now be displayed around the scheme and local neighbourhood, giving details of the Spring Fair which will take place at Hartshorne Court on Saturday 27 April from 10am - 4pm.
Viv was very impressed with the standard of the artwork. She said: "The posters were all really nice, and it was great that the winning entry ended up being such a joint effort – it was started by Keith, finished by Norma and prepared for printing by Chris!
"The computer classes at the scheme have really been going from strength-to-strength and it's hard to believe that some of the posters were designed by people who had no IT experience at all three months ago.
"We're really looking forward to seeing where else the digital training takes the residents – it's opening up a whole world of new opportunities for them."
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