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Department wildlife biologists sighted the lion at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, about an hour after area residents reported seeing the animal. The lion eluded capture by traveling along walls and through back yards in the quiet but densely populated neighborhood near Cordova Road and Don Gaspar Avenue. Based on many fresh and old tracks discovered while pursuing it, the biologists believe the lion is a resident of the area.
The Department continued to search for the lion Tuesday afternoon. If and when it is located, it will be tranquilized and removed from the area.
Residents and others who frequent the area surrounding Cordova Road and Don Gaspar Avenue are advised to be aware that a large predator may be around and to take precautions to protect themselves, their pets and their neighbors. Children should be closely supervised and not allowed to play outside during the hours before dusk until well after dawn. Pets should not be left outside at night, and all food and garbage should be securely stored inside a building.
Anyone who sees the mountain lion is urged to call Game and Fish dispatch at (505) 827-9376 at any time. Sightings also can be reported at Department offices in Santa Fe, (505) 476-8000, or Albuquerque, (505) 222-4700, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Although human-cougar encounters are relatively rare, the Department advises residents — especially those in outlying areas — to be aware of their surroundings and to take precautions to avoid encounters with large predators.
Lions generally are attracted to communities for food. They are most active from dusk to dawn, although they sometimes travel and hunt in daylight. Lions prefer to eat deer; however, they also kill elk, small mammals, livestock and a variety of domestic animals such as dogs and cats.
Here are some ways to protect yourself, your family and wildlife from unwanted encounters with mountain lions and other large predators:
- Do not feed wildlife. Use native plants in landscaping, not non-natives, so as to not attract deer, which are the primary prey of lions. Remember, predators follow prey.
- Do not let your pets roam around outside. Bring them in at night. If you keep pets outside, provide a kennel with a secure top. Do not feed pets outside where the food can attract lions or other smaller animals which lions prey upon. Store and dispose of all garbage securely.
- Closely supervise children. Make sure they are home before dusk and not outside before dawn. Make lots of noise if you come or go during times when mountain lions are most active — dusk to dawn. Teach your children about lions and what they should do if they encounter one.
- Landscape or remove vegetation to eliminate hiding cover for lions, especially around areas where children play. Make it difficult for a lion to approach unseen.
- Install outdoor lighting, especially in areas where you walk, so you can see a lion if one were present.
- Close off open spaces below porches or decks.
- Place all livestock in enclosed sheds or barns at night. Close the doors to all outbuildings so that an inquisitive lion is prevented from going inside to look around.
Mountain lion encounters and attacks are extremely rare, but if you do encounter a lion in the wild or in town, you should:
- Stop or back away slowly if you can do so safely.
- Stay calm when you come upon a lion talk calmly yet firmly to it and move slowly.
Immediately pick up all children off the ground and tell them to stay calm.
Do not run from a lion as fleeing behavior may trigger the instinct of the lion to attack.
Face the lion — do not turn your back — remain in an upright position and look as large as possible (raise your arms, open up your coat, if you're wearing one).
- Carry a walking stick and use it to defend yourself by keeping it between you and the lion. If the lion approaches closer or behaves aggressively, arm yourself with the stick, throw rocks or sticks at the lion, and speak louder and more firmly to the lion. Convince the lion you are dominant and a danger to it.
- Fight back if a lion attacks you. Use any possible object within reach as a weapon, such as rocks, sticks, jackets, a backpack or your bare hands. Lions have been driven away by prey that fights back. Stay standing and if you fall down try to get back up on your feet.
The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish is responsible for managing, conserving and protecting wildlife. If you have an encounter with a lion or an attack occurs, please contact the Department at (505) 476-8000 during regular business hours, or your local sheriff's or police department if you feel you are in danger.
For more information about mountain lions and living around large predators, please visit the Department Web site and check out the publication, Living with Large Predators in New Mexico.


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I'm so happy to have found this wonderful resource, I'm beside myself with GLEE. Speaking of which ... in this week's episode, I noticed an example of a writing strategy I'd just read about.
In her March 22, 2010 lesson, Plotting Advice from Sid Fleischman, Chris paid homage to Sid Fleischman, a great children's author who recently passed away. She shared several of Sid's writing tips, including what to do if there is a flaw in your story's logic ... apparently you simply point it out, and it will disappear! (Also see Sid Fleischman's tips for writers).
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Cholesterol has been under much media scrutiny of late as the medical establishment continues to argue over this issue. The still unresolved issue is whether or not saturated fat – which is high in cholesterol – is evil or not.
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Wrinkles, loss of collagen and aging skin on both the inside and outside, exacerbated by high sugar and insulin levels, result in glycation and the production of AGEs (advanced glycation end-products). The AGEs are now theorized to be as damaging as free radicals, and are believed to be responsible for many age-related degenerative health concerns. Amalaki has been shown in numerous studies to support healthy blood sugar. (8,9,11)
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"Go away," I'd stomp my foot and shout when I caught him terrorizing my little female kitties. He'd bolt like lightening, his black-bottomed feet disappearing through the trees. Then one day, he stopped running. "Go away," I'd stomp, but he'd just yawn and bathe himself. I'd walk closer, and he'd rise slowly, never taking his eyes off me, and then slink off when I got too close.
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In my mind, the big grey tabby was a mean, feral nuisance. That was the only side of himself that he'd shown since he appeared in my life on a cold winter day. Then, on a cool June morning, I walked outside to feed my cats, and there he was, at the dish. Just sitting.
He didn't run. He didn't hiss. Instead, he looked at me and meowed. Tentatively, so tentatively, I knelt down, slowly reached out, and touched his fur. Of course, he immediately pulled away, and so we began a dance that would go on for much of that week. By the end of it, he had a name – Lammy, short for Lamington Deer, and he had established himself firmly in not only our home, but our hearts.
He wasn't feral at all. He understood simple commands and responded to kitty talk. The second week he was 'tame'; I tricked him into the cat carrier and took him to be neutered. I worried this act would violate the trust I'd been working so hard to build; it didn't. During his convalescence, I attempted to make him an inside cat, but he wasn't having it. Amazingly, he was house-trained rather than litter-box trained. Each morning, he'd wake me before dawn to go outside. I would stand by the door and wait, and within a few minutes, he was back, ready for breakfast. When I pulled into my drive each afternoon, he was there by the door, waiting.
It was a beautiful thing. Each day we grew to love him more. My son called him his 'brother,' and I called him my 'soul kitty'. He had the freedom to go outside, where he loved to be, but spent much of his time indoors, with us. Although he never became too chummy with my other cats, he did mellow out considerably (neutering has that effect!) and they existed in a state of feline truce, giving each other considerable space.
We, however, did not give Lammy space. We enveloped him with love, and he ate it up. He had obviously had owners, once. But what had transpired to lead him to our door, we never questioned. "He could have gone to anyone, but he came to us," I'd tell my son. And we were so grateful. His role in our family was that of an equal member. When we went on vacations, I'd check in with my neighbor near continuously to make sure he was okay. My friends teased me about Lammy, how much I adored him. But they adored him as well; it was impossible not to.
My son would often tease me about taking Lammy with him when he grew up and moved out. "Oh no," I'd say, "Lammy stays here."
And in all honesty, I believed that he would stay here, forever.
But somehow, deep down inside, I knew that my father would not have taken such care to put the body in a safe spot and contact me at work unless he believed that it was Lammy. He knew how much I loved that cat, how much my son loved that cat. When school ended, I sat Eric down, and told him what had happened. Tough as it would be, I believed he deserved to know the truth. We drove home, praying ardently that my neighbor was right and that my father was wrong.
At home, we walked to the place where the body lay. For an instant, I thought it was a raccoon, or rather, had convinced my mind to see a raccoon (as if my woodsman father would confuse a raccoon with a cat!) but the black bottomed feet ruled out all doubt. And in that moment, our hearts broke wide open. I carried him to the back yard, my son in tears beside me. I did not try to hide my own. My only solace was that the injuries were 'clean', there was no external damage and death would have been instantaneous. Still, I'd rather someone else have been there to lift him up, carry him back across the road, to my yard, and dig the hole for burial. I wanted to be in the house, distancing myself from this reality, the way my mother used to do when we lost a family pet. My life, however, has been nothing like my mother's. With my son weeping beside me, I dug the hole, and then placed the body in the ground.
When our dog died two years before, my son took total part in the burial process, helping to dig the hole and cover the body with dirt. His tears came later, when we got home and the emptiness of the house was too much. But he is older now; he understands better now both the depths of loving another creature and the finality of death. His grief was overwhelming, as was mine. The house, again, seems empty.
Now an angel cat statue and a flower pot sit atop the spot of ground where Lammy rests. Nearly a week later, I still shed tears at some point every day. I miss him the most at night, and on lazy mornings. Lammy brought us so much joy, and so many lessons about the unexpected. His surly demeanor I discovered was merely a front for fear; it melted completely with a little love and affection, and he became one of the dearest animals I've ever had the privilege to love. His time with us was short, only a year and a half, but the memories we made will last a lifetime. He taught me to look beyond first impressions and surly demeanors, to be careful what assumptions I might make, to give something a chance to come around to kindness in it's own time, and to remember almost every creature simply needs to feel safe before it can feel loved. Lammy came to us, when he could have went to anyone. I'll not forget that blessing. Nothing happens without purpose.
"My heart is starting to heal back again," my son says to me this morning. "When I think of Lammy now, I can do it and not cry."
"Good," I say. "That's the place you want to be in."
I'm hoping I get there soon.
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Zen and the Art of...
Or should I say, living.
I think, after 39 years, I still know so little about the latter. I wake up to thunder showers, which I love. But they evoke a melancholy that I will likely struggle with for the remainder of the day.
It's okay; it's been a long time coming. I've allowed myself to be distracted from feelings I did not want to confront by immersing myself in the pleasure of beautiful whirls and swirls and words and promises and surprises and smiles and the warm, lovey-dovey dream-being-fulfilled feelings that events of the last few months have conjured. I cruised through August, September and October with a smile that could guide a ship to shore, so bright it was.
There is a funny thing about being hurt, though. When you don't acknowledge the pain, it festers like a neglected wound. You can distract yourself completely from the horrible way someone else made you feel, but it unless you finally confront it, acknowledge it, and accept that maybe, just maybe, everyone else was right about them and you were wrong, the hurt feelings are going to keep coming back again and again, rising up when you least expect it. Like the venomous snake on the floor of my home recently, waiting for me when I stepped through the door, catching me so off guard I almost made an impulsive decision that could have been quite costly, hurt feelings that catch us by surprise have the potential to bite. Hard.
But here is the thing about snakes - faster than the speed of light is their strike. We don't even know we've been bitten until we see the blood. The pain comes later, as the poison settles in, getting worse and worse as time progresses. It paralyzes the muscles, all the way from the site of the bite to the heart. It's not an easy thing to endure, and yet, knowing this, all of this, there is still, inside of me, some botched idea that if I approach from the right direction, move in the right way, if the snake knows that my intention is not to harm, that it won't bite me.
But it I am not the snake whisperer. I've got the scars to prove that snakes strike out in self-defense, even if your intentions are good.
I close my eyes, listening to the sound of rain hitting the windows. There is a sweet, sweet sadness to the start of this day. I've been running away from how I feel for a long time, and I'm not sure anymore about the direction I'm heading. The worst part is no one can show me, and I've lost confidence in my own ability to tell. Now I'm just riding the wave of it all, seeing what happens, and feeling numbness inside more than anything else. I flow through my morning asanas, reminding myself to breathe. Breath in your feelings, my mind says. Breathe through them, and let them go.
My friend Eddy tells Cherokee stories to children at school, and I listen with the same rapt attention that they give him. I've heard this one many times before, the tale of a young man fooled by a rattlesnake. It's a long story, but in short, the snake begs the boy to pick him up and put him in his shirt, because it is so cold and without warmth the snake will die. Because the boy wants to believe the snake is good, he picks it up and tucks it into the folds of his shirt. When he feels the sting of the snake's bite, he's startled. "You said you wouldn't hurt me," the boy cries.
"But you knew what I was when you picked me up," the snake says as it slithers off into the night.
The kids love the story. I wonder, however, if they really understand it. Probably not right now. In twenty years, maybe...
Yesterday evening, a friend came over, and we swifted some skeins of yarn in preparation for holiday projects. I enjoyed the friendly banter and the calming repetitiveness of the work, but it was the feel of natural fibers in my hands that I found the most soothing. This connection to the natural world evoked the same healing that spending time outdoors has always given me. There is some spectacular beauty to sitting at a kitchen table, as women 100 years ago or more might have done, swifting yarn while children played in the neighboring rooms. My friend's swifter was handmade for her by someone she knows. I cannot imagine a more beautiful gift than one like this, made by hand. Even though it isn't mine, I'm sad to see it go when she leaves. Something about using that simple instrument seemed to free me just a little from the heaviness that's been resting where it shouldn't. It seemed to make laughter a little easier, to make life a little better in some small way. My swifted skeins of yarn sit ready in the basket to be transformed into beautiful things. I am the alchemist of this fiber, I will make with it what I like, and it will simply form to my wishes. Perhaps this is what I love most about the craft; it is the one small area in life where I begin something with the end in mind. Knitting follows patterns; it actually makes sense. Life...not so much.
I've heard it said that we may forget what another person says or does, but we will never, ever forget how they made us feel. This is so true. The idealist in me wants to live in a way that lifts others up, but the realist in me has learned that this attitude will not keep others from bringing me down, or even knocking me down. Still, the dreamer in me wants to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, I am not a fool to care as much as I do, whether it is about people or snakes. Sometimes those lines get blurred anyway.
I'm ecstatic; my son has learned to tie his shoes. He'll soon be another year older. We plan the party. Time passes, mercifully healing all wounds as it marches on.
It is the only thing that does.
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
A World of Value
...my home, that is. It's been long overdue, and I was just in the mood for the mini-vacation that redecorating can sometimes be. I was ecstatic by the way the dry-brush technique looked, and inspired to take a bold leap of color with some red paint I had left over from another project. My son had a friend over and they sat at the table for hours, engaged in building a Lego city. Periodically, he came to check my progress. A lover of beauty, his eyes widened when he saw me painting the door red. "Oh, Mama, our house is the most beautiful of all," he said. I smiled.
When a friend called later, and asked what I was doing, I answered, "Painting."
"Oh I'm glad to hear that," she said. "It's about time you started a new painting." For a moment, I didn't respond. Then I simply said, "I'm painting my bathrooms and hallway, not a canvas." "Oh," she said, and shifted the conversation to the reason for her call.
The previous weekend, in a second hand store shopping for new reading material to have on hand for the upcoming Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks, I discovered a little gem called The Wisdom of the Elders, a collection of quotes by esteemed African American women and men compiled by Robert Fleming. The book's cover, featuring a linocut by artist Elizabeth Catlett, caught my eye, and I opened up to a random page to find a quote by Jean Toomer called, 'A World of Value."
"I must see my understandings produce results in human experience. Productivity is my first value. I must make and mold and build life. As an artist, I must shape human relationships. To me, life itself is the greatest material. I would far rather form a man than form a book. My whole being is devoted to making my small area of expertise a work of art. I am building a world."
To that, Fleming had added, "Novelist Jean Toomer, noted for his classic work Cane, wrote about the need to elevate the purpose of our lives above the usual pursuit of the dollar. Blind materialism rarely offers us the kind of positive outlets that allow us to tap into the totality of who we are. How many of us work for forty years without stopping to cultivate human relationships outside of the family or workplace?
It's not enough to fill our homes with pretty or costly things. We must be conscious of how we live, the colors we use on the canvases of our lives. We must open ourselves up to new experiences, new adventures, and new friendships. We must free ourselves from the prison of ego and habit and reshape our ideas of who we are.
The artful life begins when we take hidden dreams within us and bring them to life. Life as art affirms the best that is in us.
My life is a work of art."
Of course, I bought the book.
For months now, I've made it a point to do a variety of things that, for odd reasons, I've always wanted to do but hadn't. Small things. Visiting The Rock House, a local landmark that inspires much legend and lore. Wrapping my hair up in a beautiful scarf, gypsy style. Painting all of my doors red. Making Baba Ganoush from scratch. Going to the beach on my birthday weekend, staying at an ocean front hotel and diving into the sea on the morning of my birth. Seeing The Angel Oak Tree. Taking my son to a Renaissance Festival. Attending a knitting retreat, and mastering the most complicated pattern I've encountered since I first picked up my needles. The list goes on and on, but in order to do all of these new and wonderful things, I've had to lay down ego and habit and reshape my own ideas of who I am.
For years I spent my evenings alone with brushes and paint. I'm not sure what I was ultimately going for, but I was disciplined as hell. If I wasn't painting, I was writing. When I wasn't doing either of those things, I was thinking of what I could be painting or writing. What I wasn't always doing, however, was living. I'm sad to say there was a time when most of my friendships were maintained via email or text. I was just too busy to give any real, actual time to anyone...or was I? Truth is, I was no busier then than I am now. My priorities were simply skewed. I had, along the way, forgotten that it is pretty dang hard to paint about life, or write about life, if you aren't actually living your life. Whether it is big things or small, if you don't step away from time to time and allow yourself new friendships, new adventures, and new experiences, your subject matter becomes redundant...just like life.
This morning, as I went downstairs for coffee, I had to smile at the gazillion jillion coffee cups and wine glasses and tiny little saucers that were strewn all about my den and kitchen. It was a nice time, last night, as coffee gave way to wine and later back to coffee and there was laughter and friendship and my son, maturing by leaps and bounds every day, saying goodnight to everyone and putting himself to bed on his own, and the ones who left early and the ones who stayed later and the one who stayed longest and the talk we had as we tidied up the remnants of foods from the kitchen table. This was no Saturday evening alone, laboring over a canvas, trying to express the same idea in a new way while trying to keep alive a skeleton of a social life through texts and social networking. I've had enough evenings like that to do me for a long, long time. And while I'm still passionate about creating, I'm more passionate now about living. Fully. In the moment. I still have goals, but they are not the same as they were before. And that's okay.
I want to tell my friend, who for some reason needs to compartmentalize me as a painter only and is oddly bothered I'm not showing or making art right now, that change is the only thing in life that is a constant, no matter else what we try to hold on to. I want to tell her that writing is the only creative constant that I've never ebbed and flowed with, and that every experience I live becomes words in my head that I store for future reference, that even if I'm not talking about it, I'm working on the new story everyone's been asking about, only I'm doing it slowly, because I've got a life to live and child to raise and people to love and things to grow and make and mornings to spend on my patio with coffee listening to the birds sing and evenings to watch the sky turn dim, and then release its burst of stars, while I breath in deeply the night air and watch the foxes slip out of their hidden dens. I want to tell her that there is no hurry. That there is time. And that time is now. And it will all be as it's meant to be, so long as I remain strong and focused on what I know I want for my life. I do not buckle under what I've seen take down so many others - fear and the need to control. Or maybe fear of the loss of control. Or maybe just fear.
Gone now are the tiniest remnants of doubt that still lived in me. Life is nothing without risks, big or small. Sometimes the smallest risk takes the most courage. I write a lot about '20 seconds of insane courage,' a line I loved from movie I saw months ago. But in truth, courage isn't something that can be suddenly mustered up in a matter of seconds. It's simply something that is in us...or not. It took courage for me to step away from the habits, routine and ego associated with the way I'd lived for so long, to throw away familiarity and embrace new, untried ideas about living fully, in the moment. I want to tell my friend that living fully is a totally relevant thing, relevant to the person who is doing the living. In the end, only we know if our lives are what we want them to be. From the outside looking in, others see what they are conditioned to see. They interpret our lives based on their own experiences. This is not the gauge we should use to assess how we're doing; that mistake can be fatal to our spirits. Only we know what truths lay behind the words we write, the statuses we post, the pictures that can make even the most dysfunctional situation seem idyllic. Only we know if enough courage lies within us to seek our treasure, whatever and where ever it may be.
I want to tell my friend that I'm painting my house, not a canvas, because this is where I live right now, and it should be as beautiful as it can possibly be. That my red door makes me deliriously happy every time I see it, and that the piece of plant I found on the balcony of the hotel at the beach is growing just like I knew it would.
I want to tell her all of this and more, but I don't, because I know she won't understand. I'm not painting, haven't since late summer, and she's determined to find out why. But I can't tell her. I can only write this, hope she sees it, and understands.
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|That wee daisy just gives The Bear a certain je ne sais quoi, you know?
My cats would freak out … and then eat the flower.
I don't know how long I followed @mysadcat on Twitter before I realized there was a "proper person" behind it or that person was Tom Cox, columnist for the Guardian, but when I did I (of course) went hunting down his books. The Good, the Bad, and the Furry was the first one I stumbled across and the cover alone was enough to make me snatch it off the library shelf and start gobbling it down at lunch.
The Good, the Bad, and the Furry is a delightful episodic collection of misadventures in catpacity. Some of the episodes are poignant and sad (Janet!), but most are just absurdly funny. Indeed, I found myself laughing aloud quite often while reading this book and I took to reading it, a section at a time, just before bed (with one or two cats snoozing beside me) as mood-booster and guarantee against bad dreams.
Mind you, I currently have four cats and am, therefore, strongly inclined to enjoy feline-theme nonfiction like The Good, the Bad, and the Furry and James Herriot's Cat Stories. Obviously, if you aren't that keen on cats, then your level of enjoyment may vary. Which is not to say The Good, the Bad, and the Furry is 100% cat. No, it's just as much about parents (his weird-but-wonderful dad TALKS LIKE THIS and keeps a toad in his shoe), his falling-apart house in Norfolk, and love. But the cats knit it all together.
My only complaint about The Good, the Bad, and the Furry is that I wish the publisher had splashed out a bit for glossy, full color photos. The black-and-whites are, frequently, too small and grainy for good detail. Surely handsome, condescending Ralph deserves a high-quality fashion shot?
Cox has written two other books about his cats, Under the Paw: Confessions of a Cat Man and Talk to the Tail: Adventures in Cat Ownership and Beyond, but neither are available at a Connecticut public library... and they're already out of print in the US. You know what that means, right? My January 2016 end-of-the-no-book-buying-challenge Book Depository shopping binge just got that much bigger. Hooray.
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Old MacDonald Had a Farm
As a teacher there are many reasons to use puppets both inside and outside of the classroom. Some of these include attracting and capturing the attention of children. They help stimulate the imagination. Puppets are an excellent teaching method as they are both visual and interactive.
I decided that it would be fun to create Old MacDonald's farm out of finger puppets, and in honor of my friend Anna "Hillbilly" VonWart, I decided that a goat would be first.
I started with a sketch.
I cut out the sketch and traced onto the felt.
I cut out some of the basic shapes that made up the goats face out of contrasting felt. I used dark blue for the stripe down the forehead, the nose area, and the beard.
Next I cut out the goats horns from a golden color.
I used some extra colors (maroon) for the nostril area.
Then I began to stitch around the beard, nose, and stripe on the goats head. Also up along the sides.
To make the eyes I used 4 ply thickness of embroidery floss, made a knot and then sewed over to the left, over to the right and continued until the eye was as large as wanted it to be. Tied off.
I continued up and around the goat, inserting the horns, and continued down the other side.
All in all he turned out quite well.
My next animals will include sheep, chickens, and cows. Hopefully I will soon have a menagerie of animals (sheep finger puppet, goat finger puppet, chicken finger puppet, cow finger puppet) for my students to enjoy.


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Military Workout classes take place at Bellfields Green, in Hazel Avenue.
Sessions are taken by Personal Trainer, and Military Workout Trainer Donna White.
Bellfields Green is a great location for a Military Workout. The green is approximately 1/2 mile round, with hills, trees, logs and benches to ensure a great workout with variety.
Bellfields Green is on Hazel Avenue, Bellfields, Guildford. We meet by the moggy pond on the junction of Larch Avenue and Hazel Avenue.
Class Times
Wednesday: 1900 – 2000 (indoor bootcamp at St Peters Church, Hazel Avenue, Bellfields)
Saturday: 0900 – 1000
If you are attending Military Workout Bellfields, Guildford for the first time, please follow these steps…
- Download, print and complete this Health History form and bring it to your first workout. Please arrive 20 minutes before the start of your first class. If you answer yes to any of the questions this does not mean that you cannot take part, but please contact Donna White on 07901106191 to discus.
- Email your park instructor on email@example.com to book your first workout. She will respond with a confirmation email.
- If you are aged 45 or over or severly overweight. Please contact Donna prior to attending Military Workout to discus your suitability.
- If you have not had your blood pressure checked in the last 6 months (regardless of age) You must pre book an appointment to have it checked, prior to the commencement of the class. Please contact Donna if you have any questions regarding the classes.
If you are in any doubt regarding your suitability for exercise, or of your current level of fitness, please seek the advice of your GP in the first instance.
Free Parking
Petrol station around the corner with toilets
The Rowbridge pub about 1/2 mile down the road for possible post session socialising!
We have a variety of payment options which enable you to have total control over what you want, and when you want it.
Option 1 | PAYG.
Pay As You Go: only £5 per class.
Option 2 | Full Membership.
Unlimited access to both classes
Individual Membership: only £35 per month.
Plus there's NO JOINING FEE!


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Local disability activists lead Abilities Expo's community outreach efforts through ambassador program
For the Chicago event, Abilities Expo has appointed Ambassadors—members of the local community of people with disabilities—to spearhead community outreach initiatives. These individuals will meet face-to-face with rehab institutions, independent living centers, local manufacturers, service providers and local associations to generate excitement and increase attendance at each event.
Meet the impressive individuals who have chosen to represent Abilities Expo to the Community.
Mike Ervin
Mike Ervin is a writer and disability rights activist living in Chicago. His plays have been produced in theaters across America.
As a journalist, he has written extensively about the community of people with disabilities for several national newspapers and magazines. Currently, he is a columnist for New Mobility magazine and spinalcord.org. Mike is also a founding member of the Chicago chapter of the direct action disability rights organization ADAPT.
Vanessa Harris
Vanessa Harris, P.E. is an able-bodied/disabled licensed professional engineer and artist who creates short documentaries which can be seen at Fun 4 the Disabled to inspire joy for disabled and non-disabled persons alike about fun topics. She is constantly seeking new subjects around accessibility and aspires to make work that is both entertaining and educational. She documents and shares entertaining people, pastimes and products, because she wants people who are disabled and their friends and families to enjoy life with no one excluded for fun activities. Her short subjects are shown on her website, YouTube, and the Chicago Access Network Television Station.
As an artist and engineer, Harris has always worked to solve problems and is now focusing on how to provide solutions for topics as diverse as: buying an accessible car if you are a wheelchair user; interviewing disabled authors of comics; and discovering a ranch that has therapy equine animals. She covers each subject simply, clearly and with a sense of humor.
Harris has 30 years of experience in engineering and has won ten awards in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics arena. Her most recent honor was the Global Leadership Forum Superstar Award. She is an Ambassador for the Chicago Abilities Expo, and has been nominated to be a 2020 ADA25 Advancing Leadership Fellow. She not only loves film, but also music and dance and has featured several integrated dance companies and professional disabled dancers in her documentaries.
Karen Kain
National Parent Ambassador
Karen Kain—a parent of a medically fragile, vaccine-injured child named Lorrin for fifteen years—teaches parents how to enjoy their children no matter their abilities. She shares how she bridged the gap from special needs to mainstream experiences in all arenas of life: best friends, slumber parties, concerts, camping, beauty pageants, Girl Scouts, school dances, musicals and endless travels.
Karen is committed to helping children who are living a unique life experience by supporting their parents. In 1994, Lorrin was severely vaccine injured and at that time Karen's world fell apart. Life as she knew it was put "on hold" as she tried everything that she could to "heal" Lorrin and give her the best life possible.
Karen was forced to overcome massive rejection and isolation as she hurdled obstacles and adapted her life to find success as a parent of a unique child. What Karen did not expect on this journey was that she herself would learn, grow and even heal from her experiences. It turned out that Lorrin was always the teacher. She taught Karen that life is full of magic, how to love herself, not to pass judgment, to be present in the moment whether it be at the hospital or Disneyland, beauty comes from within, and that we are all one and each soul is important no matter their ability. Lorrin was totally comfortable with who she was, even though she was cortically blind, nonverbal and a quadriplegic who lived with uncontrolled seizures for her entire life.
When Lorrin was 3, Karen made a pivotal choice to embrace Lorrin's uniqueness and enjoy all areas of life, living without rules and boundaries. Karen overcame life's massive roadblocks as she raised Lorrin. Together they held their heads high as they paved the way to giving all parents permission to explore and enjoy life. Karen found that the solution to winning in this life of parenting a unique child started with being committed to having a great attitude and perspective regardless of their situation.
Through her keynotes sessions and workshops, Karen shares the principals that made her parenting experience a success. Her message is simple:
"It is my mission to share our life story in hopes it will support other children and their families who are living a unique life experience. It is my goal to raise awareness of the power and importance of all unique souls. I believe that Lorrin was here to pave the way to a grander attitude of love and acceptance for all. It is my honor as her parent to help spread her life's message of love and forgiveness."
Learn more about Karen at www.lorrinsworld.com
The Rossiter Family: Ainsley, Briley, Kamden, Rooster and Lori
As the first ever National Ambassador Family, the Rossiters are truly honored to represent Abilities Expo across the nation. Ten-year-old Ainsley is an amazing young girl living with INAD, an extremely rare, terminal, progressive disorder of the nervous system. Years ago, Ainsley participated in a marathon where her father, U.S. Marine Major Kim "Rooster" Rossiter, pushed her in her stroller. Ainsley's elation over the experience was the inspiration for Ainsley's Angels of America, an organization which helps people with disabilities participate in long distance events as a team. They are the "captains" in the wheelchairs pushed by "angels" through the races. Many of you might have met the Rossiter family during the 2014 Houston Abilities Expo, where they offered expo guests the unique opportunity to test drive the Ainsley's Angels athletic ride-along experience created for children, teens, adults and veterans with disabilities who normally would not be able to experience endurance events.
Rooster, currently in his 20th year of active duty service, serves as the President of Ainsley's Angels of America, the Vice President or Executive Director for more than a dozen independent Ainsley's Angels public charities, and as the Chairman of the Board for Team Hoyt New England. He and Lori, his wife of 16 years, hail from Lake Charles, Louisiana and are parents to Briley, Kamden and Ainsley. After serving tours in North Carolina, Washington DC, California, Okinawa, Africa, Korea, Norway and Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, the Marine Corps currently has the family stationed in Virginia. Over the last four years, 13-year-old Briley has pushed Ainsley in more than 30 road races as a way to ensure the two sisters share special moments together. When she was 11-years-old, Briley wrote the children's book Born an Angel to share their inspiring true story and to spread the message of inclusion in all walks of life. Published in 2013, the story of sibling love will warm your heart and encourage any reader to change someone's world for the better. For more information about the family and their efforts, visit www.AinsleysAngels.org.
Vincenzo Tufano
Chicago Ambassador
For some it would seem like an impossible situation being told that you would never walk again and not to bother, but for Vincenzo it was a challenge worth meeting head on. The former aspirations of becoming an EMT were a thing of the past as, after a fall and a diagnosis of Muscular Dystrophy, he was paralyzed on his whole right side. It would take around five years for Vincenzo to be able to gain enough function in his arm to use a manual wheelchair and begin his journey into a new life he never thought was possible.
In 2016, Vincenzo began adaptive rowing with the Chicago Rowing Foundation and competed in several races, even taking first place home twice. However, his love for rowing was overshadowed by his passion for dance. He yearned to perform again! In November 2016, his dream became a reality when the director of Momenta Dance Company saw him dance in a workshop and invited him to join the company. Since then, he has performed with Momenta, dancing a duet with another male able-bodied dancer, and with the Academy of Movement and Music, which is the school that Momenta calls home. He was also honored to choreograph and perform a solo piece of his own for the 2017 Chicago Disability Pride Parade.
In addition, Vincenzo competed in the 2017 Chicago Triathlon as a parathlete and took home first place in the Wheely Division! He continues to train with Dare2tri, a group that prepares athletes with physical, cognitive and visual disabilities to compete in triathlons.
It is his courage and determination that has brought him to Abilities Expo as a new ambassador. He believes anything is possible as long as you believe and wants to bring others with disabilities the chance to shine.
Stephanie Woodward
National Disability Law Ambassador
Stephanie Woodward is a passionate Disability Rights activist and proud disabled person. She is the Director of Advocacy at the Center for Disability Rights, Inc. (CDR) a disability led, not-for-profit Corporation that works for national, state, and local systemic change to advance the rights of people with disabilities. Stephanie is also a member of ADAPT, a national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom. Stephanie has been arrested multiple times while advocating for Disability Rights.
Prior to joining CDR Stephanie worked as a litigator in Miami, Florida focusing on Disability Rights. Stephanie attended Syracuse University College of Law where she earned her J.D. with a certificate in Disability Law and Policy and her M.S.Ed. in Disability Studies. Stephanie previously worked for Senator Tom Harkin (IA) and assisted his Disability Counsel on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions by researching, drafting legislation, and making recommendations for legislative action in regards to disability rights issues. Most recently, Stephanie, along with fellow members of ADAPT, assisted in drafting the Disability Integration Act (DIA) – a piece of legislation that, if passed, would affirm the rights of people with disabilities to receive long-term services in their homes, rather than nursing facilities and other institutions.
While Stephanie's work spans across all areas of Disability Rights, she is particularly interested in deinstitutionalization, community living, ending violence against people with disabilities, and improving access in the community. She loves talking about legislation that will impact the Disability Community and helping others to become activists for Disability Rights. When Stephanie is not doing Disability Rights work, she can be found playing with her adorable nieces, taking care of her four cats, and eating copious amounts of cheeseburgers and onion rings.Pre-Register


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Willie Harris was born in Carrollton, Georgia in 1965, the youngest child of four sibling. Most of his childhood was spent in rural West Georgia, where green pastures stretched for miles and farm animals roaming free were just as commonly seen as the family dog. On the outside looking in, life for Willie and his two brothers and sister seemed relatively normal, but that wasn't always the case.
Poverty and dysfunctional parents crippled the Harris household. His alcoholic father violently abused his mother almost killing her twice. Concerned about her four children, Willie's mom finally found the courage to leave her abusive husband. Willie's parents divorced when he was 10 years old. At 14, Willie's unstable relationship with his stepfather caused him to return to his father. Uninterested in being a full-time father, Willie's dad often left him home alone for days at a time. He preferred his girlfriends over his young son. With the absence of adult supervision, Willie began hanging out with some of the bad boys in his community. Their negative influence pushed Willie into drinking, smoking and partying all the time.
At the age of 18, Willie's life began to spiral out of control as drugs and alcohol began to dominate his existence. Life on the streets began eating at Willie's core. When Willie was propositioned with prostitution he knew he couldn't continue living his life the way he had been. It was at this point that he found the courage to live. Willie used the greatest challenge of his life to fight the addiction that plagued him for more than 10 years.
On October 26, 1996 Michele Moy and Willie Harris were married. They have two beautiful children. An entrepreneur at heart, Willie began a janitorial services business which he operates today.
Willie's inspiration for his current book, Whose Will came after reflecting on how he successfully overcame adversity. He believed that his life story could encourage others to command their destiny and take control of their lives. Willie is now actively involved in his church, Atlanta's Changing A Generation Ministries and a much sought after motivational speaker and community mentor.
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN, Aug 25, 2017 – BenQ, the global leading innovator in displays, today announced upgraded eye-care technologies, prioritizing utmost viewing comfort and user vision safety in all of its leading monitor products. As the industry leader in eye-care monitors, BenQ delivers exclusive preventive technologies including Brightness Intelligence Technology, Low Blue Light Technology, and Flicker-free, as well as newly updated Brightness Intelligence Plus Technology and Low Blue Light Plus Technology, to safeguard eye health in a wide range of display applications.
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True IT blooper #34: It's raining tech
Twelve years ago, Gary Moon made a big boo-boo while moving some important equipment. He still has a copy of the fire department's report to prove it.
Twelve years ago, Gary Moon made a big boo-boo while moving some important equipment. He still has a copy of the fire department's report to prove it! Now, Moon joins the ranks of the other IT managers who currently reside in Blooperville.
For various reasons, some users share their stories anonymously. In this case, Moon's mistake happened long ago, so he went on the record. Here is his tale.
Late one night, Moon was working late to finish up a project. At the time, he was the only IT support person at a small manufacturing firm that made printed circuit boards. "I was running new network cabling to replace the old and add new workstations in the front office," Moon explained. The office consisted of a large area separated by cubicles. Each cubicle had a PC, but the server and the hub were also in the same area, he said.
Moon's painstaking process took quite a while. "I had to climb up on a ladder, move ceiling tiles, run the cable in the ceiling to my next point, climb down, move the ladder, and repeat the whole process for the entire length of the building," he said.
Finishing the project efficiently was one of Moon's goals. Around 9 pm, however, he got careless. As he neared the server area where the cables converged with the hub, he placed the ladder down hard. CLINK! Something sharp and metallic sounded. "I looked up just in time to get a full-face blast of cold, filthy, high pressure water," said Moon.
Gasp! Moon had knocked loose the head of a sprinkler from the office's sprinkler system. As alarms sounded, said Moon, "gallons of water sprayed down from the ceiling all over the office area and over all of the live computer equipment." Moon frantically ran around the office pulling power cables out of the walls. He was soaking wet, but thankfully didn't get electrocuted.
Unfortunately, Moon didn't know where the power shut-off was. So, he made an interesting attempt to limit the water's damage. He hoisted a 50-gallon garbage drum on his shoulders until it was nearly full with water, then he dragged it to the front door of the office and threw it out. "It wasn't enough to keep up with the sheer volume, so I got another one. I dumped one, while the other filled," explained Moon.
Moon repeated the process over and over. "How long will it be before the water stops coming!?" he remembered thinking. Finally, the fire trucks arrived. "It probably took under four minutes (for the trucks to arrive), but it seemed like hours," he said.
After the fire department shut off the water, the manager of the building and the CEO of Moon's company arrived. "Somehow I kept my sense of humor, and my manager and the CEO seemed impressed by that." Because of his composure, both the CEO and building manager kept their cool, Moon said.
Defeat was not an option, said Moon. So, the three came up with a plan to salvage the waterlogged equipment. "In the plant, there was a large oven used for baking the circuit boards," he said. Brainstorming, they took the computers, put them in the oven and ran it at 190 degrees. While they waited, the flooded office was cleaned with a wet-dry vacuum.
By 4 am, all the computers were back in place, booted up and running, Moon said. By 8 am, workers began arriving. Amazingly, "the only evidence of the previous night's disaster was the funny smell of the just shampooed carpets, the ragged-looking CEO, plant manager, and IT person, and small puddles of water in people's desk drawers."
Moon walked away from this catastrophe with two valuable lessons. Number one: "To properly recover a computer from water damage, bake at 190 degrees for 3 hours." Number two: "Always keep your sense of humor and professionalism, even in the worst situations. It may help you keep your job."
Share your bloopers with us. E-mail them to email@example.com. Read more of our past IT Blooper Series, which originially appeared at SearchWin2000.com, part of the TechTarget network.


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22 Momme Pure Silk Pillowcase
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The Goodnight Co's silk pillowslips are a classic choice for all bedrooms. It's timeless and simple style exudes luxury without being overbearing. The pillowcase is made from 22 Momme silk fabric - providing everyday luxury for your skin and hair.
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Spring Soccer
2019 Spring Soccer for Girls & Boys Ages 4 - 14
Spring 2019 Division Placement Chart - 2019 PDF
- Online (see tabbed link below): Dec. 31, 2018 at 8:00 AM thru Jan. 12, 2019 at 11:00 PM
- In Person: Jan. 2 thru Jan. 11 - weekdays only from 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM at Alabaster Parks & Rec. Office located at Veterans Park, 7305 Hwy. 119.
Age Requirement:
- All those born in 2005 thru 2013 qualify.
- Those born in 2014 must have been born before July 16.
- For those born in 2004, please call our office to be placed on a Waiting List. If we have enough players sign up to make a team, you will be contacted to come in, register and pay.
- $90.00 for U6 and U8
- $110.00 for U9 and Up
- Multi child discount: 10% after oldest child is paid in full
- Non Resident fee: Additional 10% per child
- No Checks! We accept Cash, Debit, Visa, Master Card, and Discover
- NOTE: When paying with a debit/credit card, whether online or in person, there will be a 4.5% service fee assessed by Municipal Pay Services, AL. The City of Alabaster receives no additional revenue from this fee.
- Fees are subject to change.
Practices Begin:
- Monday, February 11
Games Begin:
- Friday, March 15
Recreational: Guaranteed Play Time - Your child is guaranteed to play at least 50% of each game.
Requirement: The player must attend all practices prior to that game to earn the guaranteed play time.
NOTE: The Registration Link is at the end of the steps.
- Create account.
a. Enter your name, address, email, etc.
b. Save
c. Scroll down.
2. Add Participant
a. Add your child.
b. Save.
c. Scroll down.
d. Go to Account.
3. Register Individual (located under "What would you like to do")
a. Enter participant information.
b. Process Registration. (If it doesn't take you to the "Pay" screen, please look for
a message explaining what needs to be completed on the Registration screen.)
c. Process Registration.
4. Payment Info and Options
a. Enter payment information
b. Process Payment.
VERY IMPORTANT: If you do not receive a "Registration Confirmation" by email, please call our office at 205-664-6840 as your registration did not process.
If you have any issue while registering, please call our office to make sure your registration processed!
Spring 2019 Division Placement Chart - 2019 PDF