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ABOUT THE CONTENTS OF THIS TRANSCRIPT: This telepathic channeling has been taken from transcriptions of the weekly study and meditation meetings of the Rock Creek Research & Development Laboratories and L/L Research. It is offered in the hope that it may be useful to you. As the Confederation entities always make a point of saying, please use your discrimination and judgment in assessing this material. If something rings true to you, fine. If something does not resonate, please leave it behind, for neither we nor those of the Confederation would wish to be a stumbling block for any.
CAVEAT: This transcript is being published by L/L Research in a not yet final form. It has, however, been edited and any obvious errors have been corrected. When it is in a final form, this caveat will be removed.
Sunday Meditation
December 2, 1990
Group question: The question this evening: what happens, from the metaphysical view, as a channel and supporting group begin to receive a positive contact? What happens in the way of attracting negative temptations and attention, and why do so many groups end up with such a strange mix of information?
(Carla channeling)
I am Q'uo, and I greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, whose name, though ever unspoken, and unrevealed [in] its nature, [is] the source and ending of all that is, all that has been, all that will be, all illusion, and all of that which we know not, yet hope [for], that lies beyond the mystery, unknowable by personality, words, consciousness or activity. We speak in the name of the unnamable, we speak in adoration and worship of a mystery we cannot plumb. We are humble, and we are also humble before you, that all of you are to us the beloved self that holds that mystery, as do we for you. Yet we cannot give it to ourselves, we must give it to others, and you give it a hundredfold and more to us. We are your brothers and sisters.
We have made a major concession to this instrument, for it has requested repeatedly that we assign ourselves more than the name we have given, and, indeed, less, for this instrument is not gazing and searching for new models. This instrument is provincial and archaic, and requests that we use the term "angels" as we greet you. It increases her ability to channel, and aids each of us in the other's polarization. We have found in this instrument no taint of personal bias in the worship of the Creator, but only in its usage of myth to focus upon the mystery. Consequently, we may say to you that we are those of the Confederation of Angels and Planets in the Service of the One Infinite Creator, and so we shall attempt to address ourselves to this instrument, but we do not ask you to accept either our angel status, or our extraterrestrial status. We care not. Think that we are of this instrument's mind alone, that would satisfy us, and it would satisfy this instrument.
And so we move, hopefully without breaking the seamless thought, into the question you have asked this evening. The first temptation to a channel is the temptation to channel before the creation of a mythical pathway that one holds personally sacred, that one holds to with passion, with dedication, and if necessary, with life effort, for all of you strive and age and die in your senses and your physical vehicle. Yet only those who know why they are living, and for whom, or for what undying principle they would stand firm, [can endure] against every temptation, every deceit, every anger, every grudge, every human emotion that rips the positive polarity from the soul of the minister of the word. It is essential to the achieving and the continuation of a contact which has a lifelong integrity, or any duration whatsoever on a stable basis, that the instrument be an instrument who is an advocate of the mystery, and is no longer struggling terribly with "why."
Those who must sail are sailors, and others would do well to stay upon land. Those who wish to use spiritual contacts such as this one with purity over a period of time must continually practice that which they focus upon as their mythical path, from the past and present and future to the timeless infinite, the spaceless everness of the One. The centrality of this cannot be overstated. We mind not by what end you choose to make your stand. We care only that you have chosen, and that your choice is made in utter blindness. Never, ever, make a choice because of someone else's path or someone else's truth, for all paths lead to but one place if they are efficacious. And one which you create knowing yourself will accomplish, if there is worship, adoration and the purification of emotion, the same end as this instrument's quite prolific, many-peopled, greatly-historied myth. Indeed, this instrument does not carry what many Christians would call the Christian myth, for many Christians do not realize that myths are created by those who know their importance, that Jesus the Christ intended ever, from the beginning of this entity's ministry, not to create understanding, but to create confusion and challenge and mystery.
And does any true spiritual path, proven efficacious to many, ever offer proof, or specificity, or any claim to know what lies beyond the veil of deity? Who claims to know the Creator in any but experience? That one you will watch carefully, for there is a personal bias, there is a limit, there is an intolerance. How great the difference between those who have the religion of fear and those who have the religion called love. That is not religion, but life itself.
Given that the instrument is prepared, has dedicated itself to a ministry in which it knows ahead of time that it shall be stripped of much of its humanity as it gains experience in joy and forsakes the glamour of happiness, then that instrument may listen further. But we imagine many would stop just now, and say, "Perhaps I have some work to do, perhaps I have a self to examine, a life choice to make, and perhaps there is too much at stake for me to choose now, for I do not know whither I go. I must be moving on for I have not found my path home." Let those who seek and yet feel a dedication to ministry move on blind faith, but not for any other reason but the feeling of vocation, the love of people one at a time, never humankind, but individuals such as yourself. That is who listens to you, not humankind.
That is the first and greatest temptation, to think that you can save the planet. My beloveds, there are many of us here, numbers you would not understand. They have not been able to do anything except talk to people who are all ready to awaken, and this is the season of the year in which, although all that grows in second density has buckled down into the earth to gain sustenance over a long sleep, you humans, yearning for the light and warmth that seems so reminiscent of the Creator, seek the hardest and look the hardest for the truth. This season of darkness is the perfect beginning place for faith. It is not possible to see, but then, since one cannot see or sense in any way the truth of the mystery, one needs one's heart, one's strength and one's life, and a dedication to serving in the name of love.
The first temptation is to be more than a servant, more than a foolish—we find this phrase in the instrument's use greatly—religiously preoccupied person, more than any hysteria could account for. Those who are not able to withstand being foolish shall never be able to offer others any description of Holy Ground that is provocative enough to create an area of thought in which people may begin to feel the concepts we cannot speak in words. Concepts are helpful, but they themselves give no understanding in this density.
Thus, anyone who comes to you with specific information that has been channeled may be carefully studied as to the source of this information and the history of the group, for it is not of the Confederation to move from the role of aide and helper, comforter and succorer of the lost and wandering, to speak of specific events. Would that not be to infringe upon the free will of many for nothing? Is there some reason that we should interrupt the Creator's harmony? Yes, it looks to those who live within the flesh. But there is a time of terrible trouble already in motion, and within your illusion this is so. But is it not clearly seen that it is in the dark ages, the dark times, the perilous situations, that one is minded of mortality and likelier to think upon the possibilities that their candle shall not be blown out when the flesh ceases viability? So then the channel must be ready, not to predict safety for the body, but safety to the soul.
Now why do instruments choose to ignore our simple refusal to answer from a Confederation channel? You who are not as precise in your terminology would call this an ego problem, but since that is only a jargon term used by a most biased healer, we would not choose that. We choose simply to offer what we can to those words, "ego problem," which are further made specific with our terminology as difficulties in the various energy centers of the lower body. That is ego, the blocked, overactive or otherwise imbalanced or obstructed lower energies. For only they can stop the full flow of love, energy, power, illumination, transformation and vitality to the heart, for the heart must bear the greater part of this incarnation for each of you. Each of you seeks to learn lessons concerned with love. There is an intellectual love, but it is a folly of the mind. The wisdom of the deep mind is an open heart, and love has never made any sense, nor can you make it make sense.
Consequently, any ego blockage will cause a new instrument, or even one who has much experience, to wish that it had an answer for this question or that, or perhaps the channel itself wishes to speak a concept, and when it perceives a refusal from us, decides that it would do no harm, since it is such good advice, to offer it, while not in the flow, not being the servant of love.
Those who do the best channeling make their requirements known as they make the connection, with fastidiousness and dedication, only to that which they call master, to that love of which they are the servant, and can be proud of being the servant. There is no energy except faith, call it hope, or love, or faith, or charity. The open heart is the protection against this single most telling detuning mechanism, and that is the interference of the channel itself.
Look at as suspect any prophesying, and as very suspect any prophesying which has to do with your numbering system, for we have always confessed to you each social memory complex that has moved through this instrument has expressed the difficulty, which approaches impossibility, of dealing with your local geometry, arithmetic and numbering system. It is, indeed, an artifact of human observation, quite relative and quite local, as you shall undoubtedly discover when, and if, you are able to plumb the deeper riches of space as you see it.
Think of it. How many among your peoples are not in some way bound by fear, or attachment, to this physical incarnation. It is understandable that people would come to you, the channel, with many, many questions, for they do not know where to begin. Each culture has chosen in its religious practice so to divide and multiply that unity is so far from being within even any one religious system, that each belief oddity vies with each other artifact of humanity and logic, and all fall by the wayside, with endless wrangling and division. Nothing could please what this instrument would call the loyal opposition more, for any leaving of the unity of nonjudgment in persons not immaterial leads to division in thinking processes more basic that a simple error caused by bias.
Examine the way you look at people. How do you judge them? For the terrible cultural penalty of being poor? Your culture seems to have abandoned most of the Ten Commandments, but that is the one commandment it does not seem to be able to do without, "Thou shalt not be poor." But those who are not poor in heart, as the one known as Jesus said, among you will find yourselves all too entranced by the human condition, all too full of desires, whimsies, fancies, needs, supposed or real. We judge not, but only note the incredible shortness of the time you have here, the incredible amount of work there is to do within, and as witness to love in whatever way each person feels is appropriate.
Where is love and service if all is wasted and spent upon vainglory, the feel-goods, position, power, ambition—what are these things but uses of ego, as you would call it, those to unbalance the self and to live through one's relationships and one's position. My friends, each of you is better than that, stronger than that, more single than that, less needy than that. Each of you has every basic qualification to be a living saint, as this instrument would put it, to be a servant of love that is not swayed. But, oh, the work that lies ahead of one that stands at that choice. Yet we say to you in each moment that is the choice: to do very hard work for eternity, or to be ambitious within this school. If things come to you, their value may be the richest person in gold or power or position, whatever there was. But if you have an attachment to it, insofar as that attachment lies, that deeply shall you be tested.
The testing is the second area. In testing, you are not yet tempted, you are simply offered ways that are difficult and ways that seem easy. Look out for the easy way, for the way that is glib, and simple, and short, and painless. Look out for the weekend that will change your life, or the seminar that will awaken your consciousness forever, for what you seek you shall get, and you must be ready to deal with that responsibility, for with each honor does come responsibility, with each learning does come the doing.
One who channels in dedication and quietness of heart is itself one who has abandoned much. Let those who are positive channels tell you individually their stories. We assure you they will not feel that they have given anything up. It has flowed into their lives and away from them, and the less they have resisted it the easier it is.
Pain is always there for one who follows what this instrument calls the Christ, and what we feel comfortable in calling Christ consciousness, for we would not be a stumbling block before any, nor seem to blaspheme, for we are lovers of the mystery, and honor Jesus, this master who opened the doors of perception to eternity for any who choose to take up the cross of life and live it as if it were the last three hours of your life. Burn that hot each day, and you will see various ways in which the humanity within has been burned away, not to be replaced by indifference, or a lack of perception, or care, or compassion, but rather purified somewhat, and able from that stance to have at least an idea of what it takes to tune the self to the highest that it can be tuned. It is this dedication and this realization that may keep you who wish to channel purely from testing. But each new realization, each new piece that is found in the strife within of humanity versus eternity, will be tested.
We do not deny humanity. It is precious, every moment of every life, precious beyond telling, for the Creator chooses here the nature of Its experience, and you are the spokesperson for that consciousness within you. You, light itself, love itself, carried about by an animal, a greatly sacrificial animal that has offered its pure, excellent, instinctual life of non-suffering and non-self-awareness and bliss, that it may serve that which it sees to be that which is closer to the infinite One. Love your body, bless your body, care for it, cherish it, but do not be attached to it one way or the other.
If an entity is hesitant, or troubled, or moves into negative emotion when it has polarized to the point at which it has attracted the loyal opposition, then it may experience the next level of detuning influence which is personal, and although clumsy, not unclever, and ever ready to use existing biases that separate, that destroy—either the self or others within the mind as perfectly acceptable—the temptation comes. These opportunities in a polarized being are precious to those who wish to offer a different view of the New Age that shall be and is now becoming so. They wish to focus the mind upon those things which people fear, because they identify themselves as those who look such and such a way, talk such and such a way, think such and such a way. If all this has not been considered, the temptations will be very easy. You will be tempted in weak moments to give opinions to those who are new to the path, opinions too strong for their fragile faith.
Any judgmental opinion of any spiritual work offered to a new soul, one newly aware of the choice and of the path, is creating a disservice to the one infinite Creator, for all information is placed there because someone desired it. The great preponderance of negative information is a cultural artifact of a lack of passion, a lack of belief, faith, dedication, hope or sense of destiny, that involves anything to do with eternity. (Inaudible). Many seek wisdoms which would make one feel special, elite, different. Well, each of you is different, each of you is unique, there is only one you in the entire creation. And when you say to the Creator, "Listen to me. I am—" and you name yourself, it does not matter what name you use; it is the way in which you use it.
If there is a desire within any to appear a better channel than another, to appear a cleverer or more advanced studier than another, to have a more advanced level of understanding, ah, those things make one ripe for the picking, for there is no message that has come before your people that has not been requested; even those of negativity cannot sell their wares where there are no buyers. Those who do not fear will not buy fear. Those who do not buy love will buy fear. Let those who fear pay attention to channels that have been taken over by fear and are causing fear.
We do not say that this or that channel is true or false in terms of this illusion. We say only that this illusion is very short, and that you are not attached, except by choice, to it. You came here by choice. You do not leave here by choice, but by destiny. You do not move from one moment to the next, from one heartbeat to the next, from one breath to the next. You cooperate with destiny, or you do not. And as you resist, so the forces of separation test and then tempt the faith that you have begun with. So make sure that you are standing upon a faith you can live with, and if necessary die for, because, and we do not say this lightly, there is the tendency of those who are fools for love to find their manner of living and their manner of dying unusual, so that it may be remarked that so and so gave one's life for love, for divine and sacred love. We do not speak only of martyrs, but of all those who have lived and died in faith and never remained, always to be forgotten by history, but always at home in their path that has opened to them the gate of eternity.
There is a chasm which cannot be crossed except by faith, and the stirring up of faith is that with which all ministers, lay or clerical, are concerned. Any other business is that of emptying the self to be an appropriate servant, for we must use the purest pipe we can, to …
(Side one of tape ends.)
I am Q'uo, and I speak again through this instrument in love and in light. We continue.
For we must use the purest instrument in order to offer the purest contact, and thus be of the service that we most humbly came to offer you, and for which we are so grateful.
We see by the clicking of your tape recording machine that we have once again spoken what this instrument has explained carefully is the limit this evening, for this instrument. We have been so, so glad, so blessed by your call and your beautiful company. We offer you the joy of communion in love, and in oneness, and we hope that you may go forth in joy, shining like the sun, ready to gaze with humor and a light touch, and always invoking merriment upon any occasion, as you wend your way through what would otherwise be rather jagged territory. This is third density, the density of choice. Have you made your choice, and having made it, are you a witness of your own truth? We do not just ask this of vocal channels, to whom this message has been dedicated, but to all, for all channel something, as this instrument has often said.
We now leave this instrument, and transfer to the one known as Jim, to close the meeting, for which we greatly thank you again. We are known to you as those of Q'uo.
(Jim channeling)
I am Q'uo, and greet each of you again in love and light through this instrument. We would close the meeting this evening by, as always, offering ourselves to any queries which those present may find helpful in their own seeking. May we ask if there is a query at this time?
Carla: Did you really let me say "angels," Q'uo? I want to make sure I didn't (inaudible).
I am Q'uo, and we did indeed, my sister.
Carla: That's the nicest Christmas present anybody ever gave me, Q'uo, thank you, (inaudible).
We are happy to offer a gift which is wrapped in a paper that is more joyful, and we thank you for your service. Is there another query at this time?
Questioner: (Inaudible).
I am Q'uo. We are also very grateful for this opportunity to welcome one who has been in your terms long absent from this circle of seeking, and we greet her in love and in light. We find that her journey has been one that has taken her a great distance from her normal surroundings, and we look upon her with joy and send our blessings as her journey continues, to move her both in the outward and in the inward sense to those places where light is needed and light grows ever more brightly. We thank each for offering us a means to which to speak thoughts which we offer freely.
At this time we shall leave this instrument and this group, leaving each, as always, in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as those of Q'uo. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.
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Sitting behind Phil on his big motorcycle on Highway 17 (mountains and curves) requires trust.
Hit me...through all the curves in life...who am I sitting behind?
Sitting behind Phil on his big motorcycle on Highway 17 (mountains and curves) requires trust.
Hit me...through all the curves in life...who am I sitting behind?
Since I last posted, I've left my apartment (homeless,) retired (jobless,) married and moved to California.
The process of name changes, document changes, new drivers' license, change of address...and unpacking...is daunting.
but I'm happy.
Phil asked me to marry him and I said yes!
It was perfect. We walked up (one of) to my favorite benches in my favorite park and sat to rest. He gave me a big kiss and I told him it went to my head. He said..."just wait."
They got a brand new dance (come on), you gotta move your muscle
Brand new dance, it's called the Cupid Shuffle
It don't matter if you're young or you're old (here we go)
We gone show you how it go (hey hey)
to the left, to the left, to the left....
("Cupid Shuffle" - Cupid)
politics, theology, life...many things can be aligned into liberal/conservative categories.
In my experienced, every single time (seriously, no exceptions) that I've encountered a person who says that they're neither liberal or conservative, they think like a liberal, vote like a liberal, talk like a liberal.
When I run across a person who says that in some ways they lean liberal, in other ways, conservative, they can point to some of those ways.
1) I've found that "evasion = liberal"
I've also found that only the liberal cause is helped by changing the center.
Pick a topic...gay marriage. The political gay lobby pick a point somewhat left of center and begin calling it "center." As the leftist continue their march to the left, that "left of center" point seems more reasonable, and it becomes accepted as "center."
At which point the leftists move further left, and those on the right, **WHO HAVE NOT CHANGED THEIR POSITIONS** are now labeled "far rights" and "fringe."
"Conservatives" now become "center," in order to be avoid being viewed as "extremists" but that "center" is where the left used to be.
I've been called some pretty foul names. Why? Because I dare to suggest that people of faith should not be forced by law to participate in ceremonies that violate their conscience.
If one thinks that a Christian should be able to opt out of catering a gay commitment ceremony, they are now "bigots"
2) Leftists don't want the right to compromise. They want capitulation.
I recently read a post about "New Wave Complementarianism" - looks like "old wave egalitarianism" to me. The author had made a move (and a good one, from one other of her posts I read) and adjusted her stand accordingly. But adjusting your position should mean adjusting the description you take. For instance, if a conservative begins leaning to the liberal, they should call themselves "liberal" and not try to call themselves "new wave conservative". Okay, this is a rehash of #2, only from an ethical viewpoint.
3) if you call yourself "new" anything, you're probably not. Check the "old" definitions and see which one fits.
I'm not going to play "Leftist says" and move "to the left, to the left"
From the beginning...
I was born into a Christian family. My earliest years were in a very small house close to my mother's parents. I remember very little, but remember the wallpaper in my bedroom (?)
My parents were married in a church down the street from my grandparent's house and that is the house I remember best.
When I was a year and a half old, my Grandpa Brown (my dad's dad) talked my parents into moving to the farm - where I grew up. We went to a church that my dad and grandpa helped to build. Our house was built on part of the family farm only a few hundred feet from my grandparent's house. I remember the farm animals, cats galore and always a dog or two.
I remember the best of my grandparents - Grandpa was quiet and content, Grandma was sad, but always took care of us. We were in a rural farming community in the Thumb of Michigan, which meant that we frequently lost power in the winter and we were the last to get plowed out. When the power went out, sometime we went to stay with Grandma and Grandpa (the gravity feed furnace didn't need electricity so they stayed warm) and I had my favorite place to sleep on the floor Eventually we figured out that "my spot" was right on top of the gravity feed furnace. Grandma had a chair next to the dining room table...we figured out that it was right next to the chimney, so she had the warmest chair in the house.
Upstairs at my grandma's house was "the porch" - built on a roof, unheated...there was even a space between the floor and the wall where you could see outdoors. But there were a couple of beds for summer sleepover and the walls were lined with bookcases. Lots of books, so I grew up reading. There were lost of cousins around, but no girls my age. My best friends were the Bobsey twins, Trixie Beldon, and Anne of Greene Gables.
My church memories are vague. I have glimpses of VBS, little memories of Wednesday evening prayer meetings. As a child, my dad prayed for me before an oral surgery to take a tumor off of my gum line. When we went to the hospital the next day, the tumor was gone. I sat next to him while he prayed for my mom when she was in the hospital.
My dad was a deacon in that small church for most of my years at home and it never grew beyond under 100 in number (not surprising in a very small town.) The pastors came and went, another came and went.
I never knew a time when my life wasn't grounded in family Christianity, but I don't think the faith was MINE until later on. My parents gave me the foundation, but it had to be the Holy Spirit who built it.
My pastor said this morning..."A church believes what it sings." And I grew up on "Amazing Grace,"
18 years ago, my daughter, Amanda, had a minor ear surgery. We brought her home and I had o rune out to get a prescription filled.
Our cat Blackie had gone missing and since the animal shelter was across the street com the pharmacy, I stopped there while I was waiting on the Rx. They were so short staffed that they weren't keeping animals that owners were dropping off, just putting them to sleep.
There was a couple there with a kid size shoe box, with a tiny tail hanging out. She was crying, but was so allergic...I said, "oh, I'll just take him."
The woman at the counter said, you can't do that IN HERE."
So we went outside and I took this tiny kitten home and he became Amanda's kitty...and we named him after her ear doctor...Henry.
Amanda doesn't remember a time without Henry. He held vigil with me when Amanda's daddy was dying, sitting in his lap for hours at a time.
He spent a little time with me here in the apartment, and was a great balcony cat.
Henry died today. He's had diabetes for 5 years, had eye problems, but Amanda, and her boyfriend, Mike, took good care of him.
Mike was crying, Amanda can't even talk, Tom's a mess and so am I.
Henry will be missed.
This is so pretty I wanted to post it.
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
I ran across my elementary school report cards. Memories, good and bad.
Ellen talks too much, Ellen doesn't talk enough.
Ellen should read more, Ellen needs to leave her books at home.
Ellen needs to participate in discussions, Ellen needs to leave the people around her alone.
Ellen needs to do her homework, Ellen needs to be more organized.
Somehow, shy little Ellen morphed into MzEllen
Few people who know me now would recognize the shy, quiet (and very skinny) girl who was too shy to talk, to participate in games, to have a discussion.
1st grade...I got a new best friend. On her first day, she told me that she was a "n-word" and that's why I told my dad. He spanked me and told me not to ever use that word. Then he asked me who told me that's what she was...well, *she* did. She happened to be Native American, but that's not what she told me.
In 2nd grade, every student took an IQ test. Mine was high enough that they made me take it again...and then once more. Nobody "got" that the shy little thing that wouldn't talk...could be that smart.
3rd grade...ah...this is where my organization (or lack thereof) got me into trouble. It's also the age where kids start seeing "differences" and separating into cliques. And I didn't have a clique. If I was shy before, it got way worse here.
Anyway, those old, yellow report cards represent where I was, WHAT I was...where I am now.
Those social cues I just didn't get, the ability to stay in the "inner circle" - wanting to at least be able to fit with "that crowd," if only for a little while. Maybe not even fit...just be worthy of having them say "hi;" just a little word.
Those report cards, with the hand-written teacher notes on the backs. What made me change? Maybe I'm still shy, I'm just determined to not let it beat me?
I don't know. What I know is that I'm not one of the "farm kids" anymore. I don't have to take an IQ test 3 times.
I still cry when I remember that
I remember the awkward
Kent County, MI
??? Where can I put a dead TV? How much does it cost?
TVs (and vacuum cleaners...and all sorts of other stuff!!!) can be dropped off at Best Buy stores.
??? Grand Rapids (and Kent County) doesn't recycle styrofoam. Where do I take it?
There are a few places, including a couple UPS stores.
??? Too much cardboard and my bin is full! I don't want to wait 2 more weeks...
All of your basic recycle stream stuff can be taken to a drop off center
??? The city stopped picking up yard waste or the winter and I have some.
Too bad...sneak it into a regular blue bag.
??? Is there a community composting program?
That would be cool...but no.

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Do You Have to Wait for Your House to Foreclose Before Filing Bankruptcy?
It's possible to pursue bankruptcy as a legal action to protect your assets, but it's wise to do so only as a last resort. Although you can obtain significant relief and protection through a bankruptcy case, you sacrifice your credit score and report in the process, according to "The Glannon Guide to Bankruptcy," by Nathalie Martin. A key consideration is determining precisely when you cross the threshold that makes filing for bankruptcy advisable. Some people use the payment status of their home mortgage loan, including facing foreclosure, as a benchmark regarding the necessity of filing a bankruptcy case.
A common misconception is that you must wait until your house is in the midst of a foreclosure case to file for bankruptcy. Although it is true that many individuals do delay seeking bankruptcy protection until their homes are in foreclosure, there is no legal requirement to wait until this occurs, according to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
Your primary consideration before filing for bankruptcy is not the payment status of any single debt, including your home mortgage loan. Rather, you must candidly analyze whether you realistically possess the income to address your total debts, after attempting to negotiate directly with creditors to reach compromises on your accounts. Compromises include such factors as eliminating accrued interest and the elimination of outstanding penalties.
Although you are not required to be in foreclosure to seek bankruptcy, certain benefits attach to the timing of filing for bankruptcy in light of the status of your mortgage loan. For example, if you wait to file for bankruptcy until the commencement of a foreclosure case, you leave the door open to working out a settlement of your loan situation with the lender. If you proceed with bankruptcy before a foreclosure action is filed, you prevent the lender from taking that case without the express permission of the bankruptcy court, according to Cornell University Law School.
Don't fail to respond to a petition served on you in a foreclosure case simply because you plan to file for bankruptcy. You need to file an answer to the petition and take all necessary steps to protect your interests in the foreclosure case. Ultimately, a legal reason for a ruling in your favor in the foreclosure case may exist, a decision that may allow you to forgo or at least put off filing for bankruptcy.
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Each consumer's situation is unique when deciding whether and when to file for bankruptcy. Both the foreclosure laws in the state of California and the U.S. Bankruptcy Code represent complicated legal matters. If a foreclosure is on the horizon and you find yourself debating about what steps to take, it makes sense to hire a lawyer. The State Bar of California maintains resources to assist you in finding a capable lawyer in your area.
- "The Glannon Guide to Bankruptcy"; Nathalie Martin; 2006
- U.S. Bankruptcy Code: Bankruptcy
- Cornell University Law School: Bankruptcy Overview
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I had a great day at The Tree and Vine http://www.thetreeandvine.com in Knoxville, TN on Saturday, the 20th of July. Terry Karlsson and I set the date back in May. I was excited to make a road trip for a signing! I had the pleasure to work with Paul Karlsson and their incredible staff on a sunny Saturday, as they educated their eager customers on the flavors of the specialty olive oils, vinegars and gourmet foods that is offered. They also carry cookware and gadgets that is must in every gourmet kitchen.
I was there with my husband, Paul, for a book-signing for Laurie Bakke's Cookbook. We arrived around 10:00 and the store was full of people. We quickly set up the Lavender Shortbread Cookies, the Smoked Trout Dip on Roots & Branches Artisan Crackers Olive Oil 7 oz (sold at the store) and the cookbooks. Both of the recipes are from the cookbook. The loved the samples and started purchasing the cookbook. I was busy signing and the day was off to a great start.
It was so interesting to hear Paul and his staff explain the complexities of all these different oils and vinegars and how to use them in everyday cooking. By the end of the day, I had narrowed down what I was going to purchase to bring home for my kitchen. It was a tough decision, but here is what I bought:
- Greek Herb Olive Oil – new!
- Laconiko Basil Olive Oil
- Theros Olive Oil
- Traditional Balsamic Vinegar
- Lemon Infused White Balsamic Vinegar
- Honey Ginger Infused White Balsamic Vinegar
I am having fun experimenting with these delightful products. On this site, you will find Black Pepper Steaks with Red-Wine Vinegar, Lemon and Feta Vinaigrette, which uses many of these tasty products. I highly recommend a trip to The Tree and Vine in Asheville, NC or Knoxville, TN. Terri and Paul Karlsson are wonderful proprietors and delightful to work with.


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Edited by Jacki PritchardThis is a practical and trans-disciplinary guide for professionals working with vulnerable adults, who include the frail elderly, those with mental health problems or physical disabilities, learning disabilities or serious physical illness. The contributors address key problems and dilemmas in working to protect these groups from abuse. Learn More2001, Paperback / softback, 9.33in x 6.10in / 237mm x 155mm, 320pp, £25.00ISBN: 978-1-85302-982-02001, Ebook, PDF, 320pp, £25.00ISBN: 978-1-84642-272-0
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Edited by Tony Ryan and Jacki PritchardThis text is a guide to good practice within adult mental health care, providing a comprehensive introduction to mental health and illness. It is designed to aid mental health professionals and workers, and any individuals coming in to contact with mental illness, in recognising a mental health need or problem and offering appropriate support. Learn More2004, Paperback / softback, 0.04in x 0.04in / 1mm x 1mm, 352pp, £22.99ISBN: 978-1-84310-217-52004, Ebook, ePUB, 352pp, £22.99ISBN: 978-1-84642-053-5
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Edited by Jacki PritchardGood Practice in Safeguarding Adults provides an up to date and topical overview of developments in policy, guidance, legislation and practice in the area of adult protection. The book aims to broaden thinking about adult abuse, assesses alternative models of practice such as criminal justice and welfare, and covers groups who may be overlooked. Learn More2008, Paperback / softback, 9.17in x 6.22in / 233mm x 158mm, 272pp, £19.99ISBN: 978-1-84310-699-92008, Ebook, ePUB, 272pp, £19.99ISBN: 978-1-84642-825-8
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The English Premier League is one of the biggest football competitions on the planet. It was founded in 1992 and has only grown since.
Today, it holds the crown as the most-watched sports league in the world and brings in staggering numbers as it is broadcasted in 212 territories with a potential audience of 4.7 billion people.
The league consists of 20 teams which face each other on two occasions, home and away, meaning that there is a total of 38 matches each team has to play. The Premier League season starts in August and ends in May. It represents the peak of the English football pyramid.
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Every year, the bottom three teams are relegated and replaced with teams from the second tier of English football called the Championship – where top two teams have a guaranteed promotion and the next four compete in the playoffs, with the winner gaining the third promotional spot into the elite rank.
UEFA Champions League and Europa League
Due to the success that their clubs have had in the recent years, four leading Premier League sides are automatically qualified for the UEFA Champions League, whereas the fifth-placed club competes in the Europa League. The sixth-placed Premier League side has to go through qualification rounds in order to play in Europe.
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Thanks to it being the largest, the Premier League is also considered one of the most lucrative competitions to bet on. Since the season extensive and usually closely-knit throughout, it can provide great opportunities for punters to benefit from fantastic odds.
The transfer deadline change
Over the years, the Premier League season would start before the transfer market even closes and, for that reason, it has been quite eventful and unpredictable straight from the off. Clubs from the top tier of English football have, however, voted to change the practice and since August 2018 a Premier League summer transfer window is to officially commence on the Thursday before the start of the season.
Such a rule is intended to stabilise the competition but is not expected to take away the excitement and anticipation. The early stages of a season would often spring plenty of surprises and see the underdogs benefit from high expectations and pressure sitting on the favourites' shoulders. As the season progresses, however, it the teams slowly start finding their rhythm and form which – in case of top English sides – makes betting on the favourites at home the way to go.
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Some teams are more attractive to watch and, as a result, tend to produce more goals. Betting on goals turned out to be quite a popular option with Liverpool and Manchester City in particular, in the season of 2018/19. Other teams, such as Stoke, for example, are no strangers to defending their ground.
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Today is St. Lucy's Day, one in a series of December celebrations of light.
Lucy is a Sicilian saint, the patroness of Syracuse where she was martyred in the reign of Diocletian. One story says that when a suitor admired her beautiful eyes she cut them out and sent them to him, asking to be left in peace thereafter (like most early Christian virgin martyrs, she refused marriage). Now she is the patron of eye diseases and the blind and is often depicted carrying her eyeballs on a plate….
Apparently untroubled by the gruesome imagery, Italians eat St. Lucy's eyes, cakes or biscotti shaped like eyeballs….The celebration of St Lucy spread over all of Europe. But the place where she is most beloved is Scandinavia, where light is especially welcome in the long hours of winter darkness. On her day, the eldest (or youngest) daughter rises before dawn and fixes a breakfast of special pastries and coffee for her family. She appears in their bedrooms, dressed in a white dress belted with a red sash, and wearing a wreath of greens and four (or seven or nine) lighted candles. Sometimes the wreath is made of green rue and decorated with red ribbons. She serves traditional pastries called lussekatter (or Lucy cats), x-shaped pastries, sometimes flavored with saffron. Other traditional foods served in her honor include saffron buns, ginger biscuits and glogg, a hot spiced wine with aquavit.
Here in central Pennsylvania, the weather gods are celebrating St. Lucy's Day with our first real snow of the season. And why not? A blanket of snow is the only real way to diminish the darkness this time of year.
UPDATE: Check out the great poem, and additional links, at Watermark.


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Mechanics Institutes
The first libraries in Victoria were Mechanics Institutes. Mechanics Institutes began in England in the early 1800s in an attempt to raise educational standards. They were the first Adult Education schools usually consisting of a library, lecture room and a hall. The word mechanic meant Artisan or Craftsman.
The Melbourne Mechanics Institute, founded in 1839, provided a library that displayed every leading journal from Britain and the Australian colonies. Gradually mechanics institutes and other subscription libraries were established in most suburbs and country towns. Although they were not free public lending libraries until 1856, the rapidly increasing population and the thirst for knowledge was so great that the Institutes and other subscription libraries did well for some years.
The establishment of the Melbourne Public Library in 1856
From 1852 Redmond Barry, the first chancellor of the University of Melbourne, began lobbying for the establishment of what was then unknown in the Australian colonies: a well-organised and well-stocked free library open to general readers.
The Legislative Council of 1853 agreed with him and granted a two acre site bounded by Swanston, LaTrobe, Russell and Little Lonsdale streets for the first free government public library. Barry became chairman of a board of five trustees. Augustus Tulk an Englishman who had arrived in Melbourne in 1854 was appointed the first Chief Librarian. He was appointed just in time to help unpack crates of nearly 4,000 new volumes that had just arrived from England.
The embryonic library was opened, after two years of construction work, by the Administrator of Victoria, Major-General Sir Edward Macarthur, in February 1856.
Nearly 24,000 visitors used the library during 1856. This increased to 50,000 in 1857; 78,000 in 1858; and 128,000 in 1859: more than the numbers that frequented the British Museum in London.
Administration of the Library (1856 1944)
From the period of its establishment in 1856 through to 1944, the library was administered by a Board of Trustees who were responsible for managing and controlling the Public Library. The Trustees were a body corporate with an official seal, capable of acquiring, holding and disposing of property, and of doing anything that a body corporate may by law do. The Trustees also acted as a supervisor of money and other property. In performing its functions the Board of Trustees represented the Crown. The Trustees were subject to the general direction and control of the Victorian Chief Secretarys Department (VA 475) and were appointed by the Governor in Council on the recommendation of the Minister.
From the period 1863 to 1869 the Melbourne Public Library along with the Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Art, was administered by the Trustees of the Melbourne Public Library and the Fine Arts Commission.
Under the provisions of the Library Museums and National Gallery Act 1869, the Melbourne Public Library became the Public Library of Victoria and was incorporated with the National Gallery and Museum. The Trustees subsequently were to have the management and control of the Public Library, the National Museum of Victoria (VA 431), the National Gallery of Victoria (VA 930) and the Industrial and Technological Museum (VA 1411). This arrangement lasted until 1944.
Travelling Libraries (1869 1920)
From the beginning the Library was financed by the Colonial Government, and the early trustees attempted to serve the whole of Victoria, not just the city area. Thus, in 1859 Victoria became a pioneer in the use of travelling libraries, whereby cases of books were sent to mechanics institutes and other centres on extended loans. This service was confined to institutions within ten miles of Melbourne until 1867 when this limit was abolished. In 1892 a separate lending library was opened for metropolitan residents and extended to country areas in 1920.
Administrative changes
In the 1920s professional organisations of librarians and later, persons such as the late Sir John Latham, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, began a campaign against deficiencies in the library services, and the Munn-Pitt Report in 1935 created enough interest for action to be taken.
In 1940 the Library Service Board was established and following its report in 1944 the State Library underwent some administrative changes. Under the provisions of the Public Library National Gallery and Museums Act, the Public Library was separated from its affiliated bodies and became subject to the management and control of the Trustees of the Public Library of Victoria.
By the 1940s less than 15% of Victorias population was served by free public libraries. The lack of library services within both metropolitan and regional districts of Victoria prompted the gradual establishment of municipal libraries. As a consequence State Library created the Library Training School in 1948.
State Library National Gallery National Museum and Institute of Applied Science Act 1960
Established in 1960 by the State Library National Gallery National Museum and Institute of Applied Science Act, the State Library (VA 2923) assumed responsibility for all functions previously undertaken by the Public Library of Victoria (VA 913) became the State Library of Victoria.
The establishment of the Library Council of Victoria 1965
In 1963 the Governor in Council appointed Sir John Jungwirth to sit as a Board of Inquiry to assess the library situation in Victoria and to make recommendations for future development. The subsequent report, published in 1964, stressed the need for cooperation and coordination to develop library services in Victoria. Accordingly the Library Council of Victoria Act 1965 created the Library Council of Victoria to carry out the functions of the State Library Trustees.
The Council was to consist of a president and eight members appointed by the Governor in Council. The Act provided that of the eight other members, six should meet certain qualifications. One should be a person distinguished in the field of education; one should represent municipalities within the Melbourne metropolitan area defined under the Act; another, the municipalities outside the metropolitan area; and one of the members should be a professional librarian appointed from a panel of names submitted by the Victorian Branch of the Library Association of Australia.
The principal functions of the Council regarding the State Library were to:
manage and control the State Library;
maintain and develop the State collection of library material
make library material within the State collection available to users as freely as possible, consistent with considerations of preservation;
carry out and make available such other services in relation to library matters and library material as the council sees fit;
publish and reproduce for sale material from the State Collection;
encourage library cooperation and coordination within and outside Victoria;
manage and control the Library Training School;
manage and control the preservation of public records.
The La Trobe Library, 1965
Under the legal deposit provisions of the Copyright Act of 1869 and subsequent legislation, one copy of all works published in the State must be deposited in the Library. This collection of books, newspapers, maps, pictures and objects of historical interest, together with other Australiana and material on New Guinea, the South Pacific, New Zealand, and the Antarctic, was housed in a special wing called the La Trobe Library which was opened in 1965.
Separation of the Public Record Office from the State Library in 1972
The responsibility originally vested in the Council to manage and control the preservation of public
records passed to the Public Record Office following the passage of the Public Records Act 1972.
Closure of the Lending Branch of the State Library
The Lending Branch of the State Library, established in 1892, was closed in 1971 because of the increasing numbers of municipal libraries being established around Victoria. However, persons not living in areas served by a municipal library were still able to borrow. To supplement the services of municipal libraries, the Library Council established a Municipal Support Service that began operating in March 1971.This service made available the stock of the State Library to persons throughout Victoria through local municipal libraries.
At the same time, the Library Training School was being phased out in 1971 when courses became available elsewhere.
Administrative restructuring
Under the provisions of the Ministry for the Arts Act 1972, the State Library became administered by Victorias first Ministry for the Arts. The Ministry was established in an effort to advise and cooperate with other bodies concerned with the promotion and practice of the arts in Victoria.
Libraries Act 1988
As part of a government initiative to bring greater efficiency to the library network by providing a more focussed approach to the development of library policies the Libraries Act 1988 established the Council of the State Library of Victoria.
The Council of the State Library of Victoria was established to be responsible for the development and operational matters of the State Library of Victoria including the custodianship of the State collection of library material ensuring that it was managed, preserved, accommodated, maintained and developed in an efficient and economic manner.
The functions of the Council were to:
ensure maintenance, preservation and development of the State Collection, with special attention to the collection of material relating to Victoria and its people;
make sure that the collection is available to users as freely as possible, consistent with considerations of preservation;
provide all necessary services and facilities to enhance the effectiveness of the Library;
publish and reproduce for sale material from the State Collection;
exhibit material from the collection for information, education and entertainment.
The Libraries (Amendment) Act 1992 added a further function:
manage the land and buildings on the Swanston Street site currently occupied by the Library and Museum of Victoria.
Arts Institutions (Amendment) Act 1996
In February 1997 the Victorian Government proclaimed the sections of the Arts Institutions (Amendment) Act 1996 that created the Library Board of Victoria, which replaced the former Libraries Board of Victoria and Council of the State Library of Victoria. The new Board was to combine the state-wide policy role of the Libraries Board with the State Library governance responsibility of the Council. The new act conferred greater responsibility and accountability on the Board, while also providing opportunities for the Library to play a more vital leadership role in the state-wide network of libraries and information providers.
The Board was subject to the direction and control of the Minister for the Arts.
The functions of the Board in relation to the State Library were to:
ensure the maintenance, preservation and development of a State collection of library material including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to a Victoria and the people of Victoria;
ensure that library material in the State collection is available to persons and institutions;
ensure the availability of such other services and facilities in relation to library matters and library material (including bibliographical services);
arrange the publication and sale of reproductions of any library material in the State collection;
oversee the exhibition of material from the State collection for information, education and entertainment;
oversee cooperation in programs with libraries and information organisations to promote access to library and information services and resources;
exercise leadership and promote high standards in the provision of library and information services;
Cannon, M., Melbourne after the Gold Rush, Loch Haven Books, Main Ridge, Victoria, 1993
Cannon, M., Old Melbourne Town Before the Gold Rush, Loch Haven Books, Main Ridge, Victoria, 1991
The Cyclopedia of Victoria, Volume 1, The Cyclopedia Company, Melbourne, 1903
Victorian Yearbook 1973, 1981
Victorian Parliamentary Debates, 1944 - 1996
Council of the State Library Victoria, Annual Reports, 1988 1996
Library Council of Victoria, Annual Reports, 1965 - 1988
Council of the State Library Victoria, Annual Reports, 1988-1996
Libraries Board of Victoria, Annual Reports, 1996 - 1998
Victorian Government Directory, 1983 - 1996
Library Museums and National Gallery Act 1869 (No.86) (22 Vic.)
Public Library National Gallery and Museums Act 1944 (No.5053) (Vic.)
Public Library National Gallery and Museum Act 1949 (No.5447) (Vic.)
State Library National Gallery National Museum and Institute of Applied Science Act 1960 (No.6688) (Vic.)
Library Council of Victoria Act 1965 (No.7364) (Vic.)
Ministry for the Arts 1972 (No.8357) (Vic.)
Libraries Act 1988 (No.80) (Vic.)
Arts Institutions (Amendment) Act 1996 (No. 61) (Vic.)
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This week's Ask the Expert is answered by Mathias Golombek, Chief Technology Officer of Exasol.
Ask the Expert: How can data analytics and big data improve the healthcare sector?
In most discussions, data analytics and big data in the healthcare sector is about becoming more efficient and reducing costs. I personally believe that this is the complete wrong discussion. Shouldn't the primary goal of advanced technology be about helping us humans? Big data and data analytics can play a huge role in making our world a bit better. Given the wealth of data points in healthcare, it is extremely helpful for improving diagnosis. The complexity of maladies, symptoms, pharmaceuticals, therapies and optimal dosage is extreme, and it is very difficult for doctors to take the right decisions. Data-driven approaches empower our fight against certain infections and diseases.
Reducing to Zero Harm
An example of how data analytics has reduced avoidable harm can be found within Piedmont Healthcare. Piedmont set itself the goal of inflicting zero harm – such as post-operative complications and clinical errors – from the time patients entered its facilities to their leave, seeking to protect them from any further infections and reduce the recidivism rate to as close to 0% as possible.
Within the first year of using data analytics Piedmont saw a 40 per cent reduction in incidents of harm. This was based on measuring 30 metrics, for example the percentage of patients being readmitted after 30 days and tracking the rates of sepsis.
Eradicating Diseases
Mosquito-borne disease kills more than 400,000 people a year. Zambia has set itself a target of 2021 to eradicate Malaria. However, in 2017 alone more than five million cases of malaria were reported.
With the help of data analytics, Zambia's Ministry of Health is set to break the deadly cycle. It is currently working with PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) and a consortium of eight technology companies to bring all its relevant data together for analysis under the Visualise No Malaria initiative.
Using existing data sources, the project is training health works to track, treat and report on disease, enabling real-time decisions that will outmanoeuvre the natural spread of infection. The dynamic model is already delivering better data management, analysis, reporting and feedback.
Data analytics has transformed the efficiency and response times of Zambia's National Malaria Elimination Centre. The project engages with technology providers to track and map the spread of the disease. It also enables coordinators to allocate resources across the country. It ultimately prevents outbreaks from cascading with the use of data-driven decisions on questions such as where to deploy lifesaving resources, ensuring bed nets reach the right places at the right times, while ensuring expensive, life-saving medications don't expire on the shelf through being located where they aren't needed.
These are real-world examples of how tech can help save lives. Vital actionable information can be gleaned from seemingly unimportant datasets. To harness the power of data, healthcare providers must ensure key decision-makers have access to information in a visually understandable manner while assuring that personal data protection is ensured. Data also needs to be as close to real-time as possible – every second is crucial in stopping an infection outbreak for example. Lastly, healthcare providers need to know how to use data. Without asking the right questions, how can we expect the right answers?


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Join in with celebrations as the Exbury Gardens Railway marks its 10th anniversary with visiting locomotives, triple-heading, models and miniatures in the Engine Shed and lots of entertainment.
It is planned to re-create the Railway's first "steaming", when Exbury's inaugural engine Rosemary pulled the carriages, but engines Naomi and Mariloo will also be in steam. Visiting engines including Lorna Doone from Exmoor are also expected to attend. There will be the rare opportunity for visitors to enter the Summer Lane Garden on escorted photographic trips, to view the triple-heading runs that will take place at intervals over the weekend. Free Rover upgrades will be available all-weekend, with rides subject to capacity.
Layouts in the Engine Shed will include a number from members of the New Forest Model Railway Society, and a special Thomas layout from the Hampton Court Model Railway Society.
About Exbury Garden Railway
The railway follows a one and a quarter mile circular route on a 12 ¼" gauge and is a wonderful and evocative way to see the gardens. The sights and sounds of the liveried blue engines are a draw for visitors of all ages. After leaving Exbury Central Station, the train enters the Summer Lane Garden with a bridge, tunnel, causeway and series of individual themed gardens based on character and texture. The collection of plants reflect the seasons and can only be seen from the train. Children will enjoy spotting a number of woodland moss animals, including deer, rabbits, a squirrel, fox and frog, together with contemporary metal sculptures. Passing out of the Summer Lane Garden, the train travels on through a wooded area, revealing glimpses of the Rock Garden. A steep gradient leads to a curving timber viaduct, with fine views over the Wildlife Ponds.
The train then passes a Plant Nursery and a Pumpkin / Exotic Fruit Patch and on to a second lake, home to "Hump-phrey, The Lake Moss Monster." Close by is a Sunflower Field, at its peak in summer, before the train loops around the oldest tree in the Gardens, the Domesday Yew.
Exbury North Halt in the American Garden, so called because it contains rhododendron hybrids from the USA, enables visitors to hop off the train and explore this area before returning to Exbury Central on foot or by train.
The railway track has a journey time of approximately twenty minutes. Rover tickets are available most days except during May and during the running of certain special events. The trains run according to colour timetables, indicated on our Garden Map and Railway Timetable (see link) which is given to visitors on arrival.
Except for March and September weekdays (12 noon) the first train departs Exbury Central at 11am, with the last train generally at 4pm (3pm March and September weekdays). During the summer holidays a 4.30pm train will run.
Please see our details on webpage www.exbury.co.uk


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10:30am PT by Lesley Goldberg
'Walking Dead': Is Enid a Remixed Version of Sophia?
[Warning: This story contains spoilers from The Walking Dead comic book series.]
Who is Enid (Katelyn Nacon)? That is perhaps one of the biggest unanswered questions from the first half of AMC's The Walking Dead sixth season.
While many diehards believe the teenager is a member of the Wolves — the killers who savaged their way through the community and who each have a bloody W carved into their foreheads — THR has another theory: She's a remixed version of Carol's daughter, Sophia.
As fans of the AMC zombie drama will recall, Madison Lintz's Sophia was killed during the season two midseason finale in an episode written by current Walking Dead showrunner Scott M. Gimple. The girl went missing at the start of season two, with the group's search for her taking up a ton of real estate before she was revealed to have been turned into a walker and held inside Hershel's barn before Rick had to shockingly put her down.
The events of that episode marked a major departure from Robert Kirkman's comic book series in which Sophia is still very much alive. Following Carol's suicide in the comic series on which the AMC drama is based, Sophia winds up being taken in and raised by Glenn and Maggie — and has repressed memories of her mother. In the current comics arc, Sophia becomes a force to be reckoned with and a close confidant to Carl.
On the AMC series, Enid forms a connection with Carl (Chandler Riggs) — which sets off her Alexandria boyfriend Ron (Austin Abrams) and fuels a clash with Rick's son — before bailing from the community and telling Carl to "Just Survive Somehow." Flashbacks also reveal that Enid watched as both of her parents were attacked by the undead and, as she tells Glenn, she was "orphaned by walkers."
Despite her objections, Glenn (Steven Yeun) insists that Enid return to Alexandria with him as they bond over both having lost their families in the apocalypse.
THR posed the Enid/Sophia theory to Gimple following the midseason finale and while he wouldn't confirm or deny it, he did seem to make clear what she wasn't.
"I can neither confirm nor deny that but I will say we've had a pretty good look at her forehead and that should say something to people," Gimple said with a nod to the Wolves' trademark forehead W.
It's worth noting that Gimple, a longtime fan of the comics, brings a "remix" approach to the AMC series. Should Enid be a remixed version of Sophia, the timing of her arrival and connection with Glenn could indicate what direction the zombie drama is going. In the comics, Sophia becomes Maggie's lone surviving family member following Glenn's death. The former pizza delivery guy is brutally beaten to death by Negan before Maggie gives birth to Glenn's child.
Given that Glenn told Enid that Maggie (Lauren Cohan) is pregnant, Enid could wind up serving as a key confidant should Glenn die at Negan's hands.
"There are a lot of direct moments from the comic coming up in the second half and panels that we're bringing to life — from very big comic moments to really tiny comic moments," Gimple told THR after the midseason finale. "Things that are not gigantic and dramatic but just little moments from the comic that all add up to some big moments."
For his part, Yeun said on Talking Dead that Maggie's pregnancy prompted him to go back for Enid after he survived the now infamous dumpster attack. "The looming idea of fatherhood has definitely changed him, especially in the way that he processes how much he wants to maintain his humanity," he said. "He's searching for a place to be able to pass on to his son or daughter and say, 'Listen, your dad tried doing everything he could to maintain the person that he was so we can live in this society we created up until this point. So to go back for Enid and to say that this is for Maggie is part of that."
What do you think of the theory? Sound off in the comments section, below. The Walking Dead returns Feb. 14 on AMC.
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