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My bests by varietal
Arras Brut Elite NV – Beautiful, bright colour with an entrancingly bright mousse. Filled with creamy, nutty brilliance, and a teasing mineral edge. Based mostly on the 2006 base, I thought this far outshone the other sparklings at the event. 94 points
Honourable mention – Kreglinger Vintage Brut 2006 – warm, smooth and a gorgeous goldish-yellow colour. A really find blend of pinot noir/chardonnay, and quite a fine texture to this too.
A very, very close call between two of the sweeter Rieslings in the spectrum. The dry Rieslings seemed to be a little closed for me, lacking the varietal zest and fruit that I would have expected, but all showed the beautiful Tasmanian acid line.
Frogmore Creek FGR Riesling 2013 – mouth-filling tropical goodness, extremely sweet from the forty grams residual sugar (as the name suggests). A luxurious mix of fruits that would make many a meal sing over the next few months. 92 points.
Honourable mention – Darlington TGR Riesling 2014 – Half the residual sugar of the Frogmore Creek, but not lacking in varietal punch, and really went pound for pound in the fruit stakes. Just as complex as the Frogmore, but not quite the explosive fruit finish.
Spring Vale Gewurztraminer 2014 – Nothing much stood out about the wine until the long, fruit-filled finish. Not as sweet as you would expect, actually on the drier end of the Gewurz spectrum. The finish keeps at you! 89 points.
Pinot Grigio/Gris
Pipers Brook Estate Pinot Gris 2013 – Gorgeously generous fruit on the clean, crisp and fruited style. Minerally edge to the wine, but easily the best fruited and the best balanced of this varietal. 91 points.
Honourable mention - Bay of Fires Pinot Gris 2013, 42S Pinot Grigio 2014. Equally fighting it out for a close-run thing, both these wines showed great texture on a style traditionally seen as less complex.
Sauvignon Blanc
Winter Brook Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2013 – mixed reports on this vintage, but this wine stood out for me with its fine acid line, generous lychees and herbaceous notes, and some very ample tropical fruits. 89 points.
Moores Hill Chardonnay 2013 – Extremely interesting fruit, yeast and biscuit notes, and quite warm on the nose. Persistently, hammeringly long, keep hitting me. Minerals, brioche and everything scrummy and yummy about Chardonnay, with a clean wrapping. 94+ points.
Honourable mentions – Tamar Ridge Chardonnay 2012 (93+ points), Bay of Fires Chardonnay 2013 (93 points)– Both wines duked it out for a close race to the finish, and both are hugely impressive. Such a wide open race for my Chardonnay preference! Tas Chardonnay is really becoming quite the king of this varietal – look out everyone else!
Sweet wines
Bream Creek Late Picked Schönburger 2010 – Extremely luscious Turkish delight, I could gobble this down all day with a block of Turkish delight chocolate. Beautifully expressive, with a balanced finish. Treads a tight-rope of flavour and sweetness. 93+ points.
Honourable mention – Milton Estate Iced Riesling 2013 – I was literally swimming in figs and dried figs here. Such a generous amount of fruit, but not so sweet as to give you a headrush. A fantastic accompaniment to quince paste and cheese, please!
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I have noticed over the years that each domain [of culture] seems to have its own distinct "strands of DNA", which reveal unique components of the character of God and His ways. I've identified five strands common to the domains. Defining these for each domain helps determine their unique value and function, and results in improved goods or services produced, which in turn betters the lives of others. These strands are part of the thumbprint of God. Not only is He glorified through them, but people can also be honored (treated with value) and well served (real needs met) through them.
First, each domain contains a God-given capacity that can be used to serve others. Of course, abilities, skills, and gifts overlap the domains. Yet, each domain has a certain contribution through which it can specifically serve others.
Secondly, each domain develops and/or makes available distinct products and/or special services to meet the needs of others. Each domain shares with its community of the rest of the world and their work for the betterment of society.
Third, each domain has a unique sphere of influence that it shapes and leads. With some domains, the influence is broad and expansive. With others, it may be narrow and focused.
Fourth, each domain contains relationships that we can team together with and enjoy. The like-heartedness that comes from working together allows for lifelong friendships to be built. It also allows people to get to know each other so well that they intuitively join together to accomplish tasks.
Fifth, each domain has a specialized mission(s) to be accomplished on behalf of others. The aims of each domain may be different yet each one is used to meet the real needs of people. Like everything else in the Kingdom of God, as each one serves the other, every need is met.
Measures of Capacity and Influence
God apportions measures of capacity and influence to His servants. He gives us a measure of capacity, which are God-given abilities, skills, and gifts that He puts in our lives to serve and bless others. He also gives each of us a measure of influence, which relates to who and how many the Lord graces us to shape, oversee, impact, and help.
God is the source of both capacity and influence, and according to the Scriptures, He is the author of how they flow through our lives. As He combines our measures of capacity and influence with our various heritages, upbringings, personalities, and experiences, He makes us into effective servants in our domain(s).
Let me illustrate from Scripture this concept of measures of capacity and influence, so that you can get a little better handle on what I mean.
- Abraham had a God-given capacity for stewarding property and wealth, and God continued to add both to him. His measure of influence: be a blessing to all families of the earth (Genesis 12:1-3)
- Moses had the capacity to be a deliverer and Joshua had a capacity to conquer. The primary measure of influence for both was the children of Israel (although Moses also significantly influenced Egypt, and Joshua the people he drove out of the land).
- David had been given the capacity by God to be king. His first measure of influence was over his sheep in preparation for leading people.
- Jonah had a capacity to bring the Word of the Lord. His place of influence was the people of Nineveh.
- Mary had the capacity by the Holy Spirit to be the mother of the Son of God. Her measure of influence was Jesus and her other children.
- Paul had an apostolic capacity and his measure of influence was Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel (Acts 9:15)
Note that each one had a specific measure of capacity—abilities, skills, and gifts given by God. Each also had a measure of influence, decided by God. Once you understand the measures of capacity and influence assigned to you, it helps you work within the context of what Jesus wants to do through you. It also keeps you from drifting outside the areas where God has graced you to serve.
Reflection Points
- At this stage of your life, what Measure of Capacity (abilities, skills, and gifts) has the Lord given you?
- What is your present Measure of Influence?
- How can you align your life in a greater way to your Measure of Capacity?
- What ways can you increase your Measure of Influence?
- Spend some time this week praying over these areas. Ask God to grant you revelation from His perspective over your Measure of Capacity and Influence.

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Today, Associate Editor Erico Guizzo offers us a special blog on what has happened to the Norwegian glacier he reported on a year ago.
Erico Guizzo
You might have heard that Earth's warming climate is disturbing the lives of a wide range of animals, from Arctic polar bears to Scottish seabirds to tiny zooplankton organisms called pteropods. Now, a new species can be added to that list: British researchers.
The specialists in question are a group of engineers and scientists from the University of Southampton that for several years have been studying a glacier in southwestern Norway. Just recently, the group was forced to abandon the glacier, because it's rapidly disappearing—the crumbling ice gulping with it the monitoring equipment the researchers had set up there.
In the summer of 2005, I accompanied the group on one of their trips to the Norwegian glacier called Briksdalsbreen, part of the largest ice field in continental Europe (and reported on it in "Into Deep Ice"). The group, led by Kirk Martinez, a professor of computer science, and Jane K. Hart, a professor of geography, uses custom-built sensors that, embedded deep within the ice, send temperature, pressure, and other measurements to a base station at the surface of the glacier.
Photo: ERICO GUIZZO
Late last year, the group was contacted by a person who visited Briksdalsbreen and had some bad news: the group's base station had fallen down a deep crack that had opened in the glacier.
The researchers knew the glacier was shrinking, but the pace of its melting surprised them. In one year, it retreated nearly 100 meters. To see a 2001-2006 sequence of photos showing how the glacier has changed, see this example.
"The glacier is gone," Martinez told me in an email. "Lost a lot of gear in the lake. And the crash and splash [of the base station] killed the hardware before we could get any new data from the summer's new probes. So quite sad, really." He added that working on Briksdalsbreen is now too dangerous, and so the project will have to move to another glacier.
It won't be easy.
This week, the World Glacier Monitoring Service, in Zurich, released a preliminary report that says that mountain glaciers around the world are melting at an accelerated pace, confirming a trend already observed in previous studies.
According to the United Nations-backed report, from 2000 to 2005, the average ice loss rate was 1.6 times that of the 1990s and three times that of the 1980s. "The recent increase in rates of ice loss over reducing glacier surface areas leaves no doubt about the accelerated change in climatic conditions," Michael Zemp, a research associate at the World Glacier Monitoring Service, said in a statement.
Photo: ERICO GUIZZO
This past November, the Southampton group set out on a "rescue mission" of their glacier-swallowed equipment. They found their base station half submerged in the icy lake at the bottom of the glacier. The good news was that the compact flash card that stores the glacial measurements was intact, and the group will try to recover the data.
But even if that information is lost, they believe they have gathered enough evidence to probe into the dramatic melting of the Briksdalsbreen, and they're confident their findings will help understand what may happen to other rapidly melting glaciers worldwide.
Of particular concern are: the outlet glaciers of Greenland, which play an important role in controlling ocean circulation patterns affecting the climate of Northwest Europe; and also the massive West Antarctica ice sheet, which holds a volume of water equivalent to a sea-level rise of 6 meters and, if it collapsed, as some scientists speculate, would have catastrophic consequences.
The Southampton group's study is important because, despite decades of glacial research, scientists still don't know much about what takes place at the bottom of a glacier, where the ice meets a slope of bedrock or water-soaked sediment. As one researcher puts it, "Sub-glacial dynamics is an area with a gaping hole in knowledge."
So while researchers understand some of the basic glacier-shrinking processes, they still can't create accurate computer simulations, which in turn are key to know what the future holds for Earth's ice masses. It's this piece of the puzzle that the British team hopes to supply—if they find another glacier to continue their work.


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Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] The Mark of Man
- This painting is very reminiscent of Da Vinci's Last Supper. William Blake has a manner of Da Vinci. Notice what is in the neck of this Being that is in front of the duals at the bottom....these are the exact figures found in Da Vinci's Last Supper.I don't know who else could have come to this sort of painting other than Da Vinci. Judas must have met the alpha and the omega in his deed at Golgotha. d"Hence only by means of love can we give real help for karma to work out in the right way." Rudolf Steiner
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Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] The Mark of Man
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Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 12:01 PMSo th is battle for the soul is that it is encapsulated and must with all its might, LOVE, to overcome that which it is being told. It wasn't always like this in the manner it is as the stakes are now tit for tat in a simplistic way of saying it. The angelic realm is able to meet the challenge each time but man must do his work by being his brothers keeper in freedom of love.We must recognize that we are indeed battling it out and must not be divided by the adversary as then the soul that has been divided is more likely to succumb to the adversarial view of things. This is a love hard fought and won and damn the tests are all about. This is the rock the mountain that must be moved at all costs. We must overcome this isolating of others that we do. It is in the social and every word we use and every feeling we send out and every opinion and judgement we do helps the adversary. We must be about ideas and not the persons. It is crucial that we understand this and that we work that the other will understand it is not about them but about the idea, the thoughts that are being spoken. We must put the onus on the adversarial being and not the human being.And it seems to me that this is the 'image' being built, its not luciferic nor is it ahrimanic it is of Sordat. This image is one built from the mark of man implanted ...bad word....image that has infiltrated man just as Lucifer and Ahriman did back then.....this infiltration is of a light force of the demonic kind and is a precursor for what is to come.I believe that those who understand they already have the mark of man within them and have found Steiner's work are blessed. They are blessed to be the men of the future who will lead. For what they will have to overcome is almost insurmountable. Even our exercises are not enough when we fail in the social. The last two commandments about Love God with all your heart mind and soul and the final about loving your neighbor as yourself are the requirements to mee the challenge of the time.All good things,Dottie"Hence only by means of love can we give real help for karma to work out in the right way." Rudolf Steiner
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Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 9:16 AMHey Friends,Well, Elderberries, whew, well we have a young man now working there and if I had not had my jeep taken away he would not be working here. So blessed be the powers that brought this about is what I am always thinking in all things even though it has been so frieken excruciating.This young man spoke on the Mark of Man today and I had to ask him, while laughing my behind off, if he was on any medication that I should be aware of first....he then said to me 'no I am not, how bout you'? :) should be at this point probably!In any case he spoke to something that sort of just shocked me in its simplicity and depth....and it has to do with a body of works of the adversarial beings. And how in a sort of laser like force crowns itself over the head of man as one would see the halo around the saints in paintings. and this laser like force has a 'body of works' in the sense that it seeks to imprison man in his destitution by imprinting the worst atrocities man has used to bring man to his knees and ultimately against his own holy spirit, his own angel, and therefor the good beings and ulitmately Christ who gave his life forces to this world. Well, he spoke of the laser and the body of works and the rest is my interpretation of what he was saying, or what it had cause to rise in me in my thinking.Now, consider that. Consider this laser like force as the mark of man. And this force is what he is working to overcome. And it must be the depth of Rudolf Steiner's exercises that keeps him free or move towards freedom as he battles what has been input upon him. Consider that the ones designated as schizophrenics are in the direct line of battle. They have been given this mark of man and were not prepared. People like my companion E can fight through this mark and mostly probably because they were brought in the bible hard core so it stays with them while they battle these forces that they see and hear and experience in the world. And it is people like him and a few others who are carving the course of how man can and does overcome this mark in the most destitute of situations. And he knew. And he was right that something did happen to him but it wasn't a physical human government it was the adversarial forces from afar yet very close and directly through technoligy.So this young man who works with me has embraced Steiner's work immediately. He is a young black man from the community and he stutters, his name begins with an M and his brothers name is Aaron. How's that? He has a tatoo on one arm that says 'Gods Gift' and on the other it has The Lords Prayer and his shoulder has the Tree of Life. He is doing the daily exercises and keeps us on track conscious of what it is today and also brings his own part to it that I am putting up on Elderberries face page.He shares it occurs around the age of 22 when the mark is physically set and in the month of June. And it is through the radio and electronical waves. He shares that it seeks to control what mans sees thinks and hears through his ears....He remembers the exact moment it occurred and the date. And although I am not sharing it right now because I do not want a j udgement that he is in error off of how it occurred and to just let sit with us what he is leading to. I also asked him to remain open to the possibility that he is incorrect and/or that there is a deeper meaning. He agreed.I want us to think about this crown of thorns that Christ wore and what that was saying.I asked this young man to stay open to his being in error.He asked me if I noticed that there was now light in the room, it had suddenly grew lighter in the room directly where we were and above our heads. I did note it.All good things,Dottie
"Hence only by means of love can we give real help for karma to work out in the right way." Rudolf Steiner
MessageHi Reid,A little late, but yes it does, that is also what is meant by the accumulated wisdom of old Saturn, Sun, and Moon period, and not the Earth period, that he receives from Zarathustra.Kim-----Original Message-----
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perhaps i'm missing something -- especially since i've just re-begun my studies -- but i had always thought this soul was the Nathan Soul. if held back from the luciferic influence, would it not then possess all memory in pristine form?
light and love -- reid
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It's a good text with many interesting informations, fe:
Must we then say that we must unconditionally give up maya now that we recognise that it seems to be given us through our own fault? No, for that would be blaspheming the spirit in the world; that would be assigning to matter properties which we ourselves have imposed upon it with the veil of maya. Let us rather hope that when we have overcome in ourselves that which caused matter to become maya, we may again be reconciled with the world.
And what does this mean:
it had all the Wisdom that could have been attained through the Saturn, Sun, and Moon periods,
Your wisdom attained on old Saturn is your physical body as it was before the fall, but he have all the wisdom attained on these planets.
> --- Den ons 23/6/10 skrev dottie zold <dottie_z@...>:
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> Emne: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Krishna and Jesus
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> Dato: onsdag 23. juni 2010 05.55
> Hey Friends, I found myself with The Gita and the Epistles of Saint Paul and I was kinda astounded by this part of the passage....this sister soul, this part of 'man' as Steiner says that was held back....time and time again I come back this as Anthroposophia. ....a connection to the Bat Kol that was found by the initiates but by the time Christ arrived had all but been silent...... ..but then ascended as the Christ descended... .anyhow, here is the passage from rudolf steiner archives, thank you James. d
> "It is rather difficult to form a right conception of this but we must just try to think how, so to speak, the soul that was incarnated in Adam, he who may be described as Adam in the sense of my Occult Science, succumbed to Lucifer's temptation, symbolically describe in the Bible as the Fall of Man in Paradise. We must picture this. Then we must picture further, that side by side with that human soul-nature which incarnated in Adam's body, there was a human part, a human being, that remained behind and did not then incarnate, that did not enter a physical body, but remained "pure soul.†You need only now picture how, before a physical man arose in the evolution of humanity, there was one soul, which then divided itself into two parts. The one part, the one descendant of the common soul, incarnated in Adam and thus entered into the line of incarnations, succumbed to Lucifer, and so on. As to the
> other soul, the sister-soul, as it were, the wise rulers of the world saw beforehand that it would not be good that this too should be embodied; it was kept back in the soul world; it did not therefore take part in the incarnations of humanity, but was kept back. With this soul none but the Initiates of the Mysteries had intercourse. During the evolution preceding the Mystery of Golgotha this soul did not, therefore, take into itself the experience of an ego, for this can only be obtained by incarnating in a human body. None the less, it had all the Wisdom that could have been attained through the Saturn, Sun, and Moon periods, it possessed all the love of which a human soul is capable. This soul remained blameless, as it were, of all the guilt that a man can acquire in the course of his incarnations in human evolution. It could not be met with as a human being externally; but it could be perceived by the old clairvoyants, and was recognised by them:
> they encountered it, so to say, in the mysteries Thus, here we have a soul, one might say, that was within, but yet above, the evolution of mankind, that could at first only be perceived in the spirit; a pre-man, a true super-man.
> It was this soul which, instead of an ego, was incarnated in the Jesus-child of St. Luke's Gospel. You will remember the lectures at Bale; this fact was already given out there. We have therefore to do with a soul that is only ego-like, one that naturally acts as an ego when it permeates the body of Jesus: but which in all it displays is yet quite different from an ordinary ego. I have already mentioned the fact that the boy of St. Luke's Gospel spoke a language understood by his mother as soon as he came into the world, and other facts of similar nature were to he observed in him. Then we know that the Matthew-Jesus, in whom lived the Zarathustra ego, grew up until his twelfth year, and the Luke-child also grew up, possessing no particular human knowledge or science, but bearing the divine wisdom and the divine power of sacrifice within him. Thus the Luke-Jesus grew up not being particularly gifted for
> what can be learnt externally. We know further that the body of the Matthew-Jesus was forsaken by the Zarathustra ego, and that in the twelfth year of the Luke-Jesus his body was taken possession of by that same Zarathustra- ego. That is the moment referred to when it is related of the twelve-year- old Jesus of Luke's Gospel, that when his parents lost him he stood teaching before the wise men of the Temple. We know further that this Luke-Jesus bore the Zarathustra ego within him up to his thirtieth year; that the Zarathustra ego then left the body of the Luke-Jesus, and all its sheaths were taken possession of by Christ, a superhuman Being of the higher Hierarchies, Who only could live in a human body at all inasmuch as a body was offered Him which had first been permeated up to its twelfth year with the pre-human Wisdom-forces, and the pre-human divine Love-forces, and was then permeated through and through by all that the Zarathustra ego had acquired
> through many incarnations by means of initiation. In no other way, perhaps, could one so well obtain the right respect, the right reverence, in short, the right feeling altogether for the Christ-Being, as by trying to understand what sort of a body was needed for this Christ-Ego to be able to enter humanity at all. Many people consider that in this presentation, given out of the holy mysteries of the newer age about the Christ-Being, He is thus made to appear less intimate and human than the Christ-Jesus so many have honoured in the way in which He is generally represented- familiar, near to man, incarnate in an ordinary human body in which nothing like a Zarathustra ego lived. It is brought as a reproach against our teaching that Christ-Jesus is here represented as composed of forces drawn from all regions of the cosmos. Such reproaches proceed only from the indolence of human perception and human feeling which is unwilling to raise itself to the true
> heights of perception and feeling. The greatest of all must be so grasped by us that our souls have to make the supremest possible efforts to attain the inner intensity of perception and feeling necessary to bring the Greatest, the Highest, at all near to our soul. Our first feelings will thus be raised higher still, if we do but consider them in this light. We know one other thing besides. We know how we have to understand the words of the Gospel: "Divine forces are being revealed in the Heights, and peace will spread among men of goodwill.†We know that this message of peace and love resounded when the Luke-Jesus appeared, because Buddha intermingled with the astral body of the Luke-Jesus; Buddha, who had already lived in a being who went through his last incarnation as Gautama Buddha and had risen to complete spirituality. So that in the astral body of the Luke-Jesus, Buddha revealed himself, as he had progressed up to the occurrence of the
> Mystery of Golgotha on earth.
> Thus we have the Being of Christ Jesus presented before us in a way only now possible to mankind from the basis of occult science. St. Paul, although an Initiate, was compelled to speak in concepts more easily understood at that time; he could not then have assumed a humanity able to understand such concepts as we have brought before your hearts today. His inspiration, however, was derived from his initiation, which came about as an act of grace. Because he did not attain this through regular schooling in the old mysteries, but by grace on the road to Damascus when the risen Christ appeared to him, therefore I call this initiation one brought about by grace. But he experienced this Damascus Vision in such a way that by means of it he knew that He Who arose in the Mystery of Golgotha lives in the sphere of this earth and has been attached to it since that Event. He recognised the risen Christ. From that
> time on he proclaimed Him. Why was he able to see Him in the particular way he did? At this point we must enter somewhat into the nature of such a vision, such a manifestation as that of Damascus: for it was a vision, a manifestation of a quite peculiar kind. Only those people who never wish to learn anything of occult facts consider all visions as being of one kind. They will not distinguish such an occurrence as the vision of St. Paul from many other visions such as appeared to the saints later. What really was the reason that St. Paul could recognise Christ as he did when He appeared to him on the way to Damascus? Why did the certain conviction come to him that this was the risen Christ? This question leads us back to another one: What was necessary in order that the whole Christ-Being should be able completely to enter into Jesus of Nazareth, at the baptism by John in the Jordan? Now, we have just said what was necessary to prepare the body into
> which the Christ-Being could descend. But what was necessary in order that the Arisen One could appear in such a densified soul-form as he appeared in to St. Paul? What, then, so to speak, was that halo of light in which Christ appeared to St. Paul before Damascus? What was it? Whence was it taken?
> If we wish to answer these questions, my dear friends, we must add a few finishing touches to what I have already said. I have told you that there was, as it were, a sister-soul to the Adam-soul, to that soul which entered into the sequence of human generations. This sister-soul remained in the soul world. It was this sister-soul that was incarnated in the Luke-Jesus. But it was not then incarnated for the first time in a human body in the strictest sense of the words, it had already been once incarnated prophetically. This soul had already been made use of formerly as a messenger of the holy mysteries; it was, so to say, cherished and cultivated in the mysteries, and was sent whenever anything specially important to man was taking place; but it could only appear as a vision in the etheric body, and could only be perceived, strictly speaking, as long as the old clairvoyance remained. In earlier ages that
> still existed. Therefore this old sister-soul of Adam had no need at that time to descend as far as the physical body in order to be seen. So it actually appeared on earth repeatedly in human evolution: sent forth by the impulses of the mysteries, at all times when important things were to take place in the evolution of the earth; but it did not require to incarnate, in ancient times, because clairvoyance was there. The first time it needed to incarnate was when the old clairvoyance was to be overcome through the transition of human evolution from the third to the fourth Post-Atlantean age, of which we spoke yesterday. Then, by way of compensation, it took on an incarnation, in order to be able to express itself at the time when clairvoyance no longer existed. The only time this sister-soul of Adam was compelled to appear and to become physically visible, it was incorporated, so to speak, in Krishna; and then it was incorporated again in the Luke-Jesus.
> So now we can understand how it was that Krishna spoke in such a superhuman manner, why he is the best teacher for the human ego, why he represents, so to speak, a victory over the ego, why he appears so psychically sublime. It is because he appears as human being at that sublime moment which we brought before our souls in the lecture before last, as Man not yet descended into human incarnations. He then appears again to be embodied in the Luke-Jesus. Hence that perfection that came about when the most significant world-conceptions of Asia, the ego of Zarathustra and the spirit of Krishna, were united in the twelve-year- old Jesus described by St. Luke. He who spoke to the learned men in the Temple was therefore not only Zarathustra speaking as an ego, but one who spoke from those sources from which Krishna at one time drew Yoga; he spoke of Yoga raised a stage higher; he united himself with the Krishna force, with Krishna himself, in order to continue
> to grow until his thirtieth year. Then only have we that complete, perfected body which could be taken possession of by the Christ. Thus do the spiritual currents of humanity flow together. So that in what happened at the Mystery of Golgotha, we really have a co-operation of the most important leaders of mankind, a synthesis of spirit-life. When St. Paul had his vision before Damascus, He Who appeared to him then was the Christ. The halo of light in which Christ was enveloped was Krishna. And because Christ has taken Krishna for His own soul-covering through which He then works on further, therefore in the light which shone there, in Christ Himself, there is all that was once upon a time contained in the sublime Gita. We find much of that old Krishna-teaching, although scattered about, in the New Testament revelations. This old Krishna-teaching has on that account become a personal matter to the whole of mankind, because Christ is not as such a human
> ego belonging to mankind, but to the Higher Hierarchies, Thus Christ belongs also to those times when man was not yet separated from that which now surrounds him as material existence, and which is veiled to him in maya through his own Luciferic temptation. If we glance back over the whole of evolution, we shall find that in those olden times there was not yet that strict division between the spiritual and the material; material was then still spiritual, and the spiritual â€" if we may say so â€" still manifested itself externally. Thus because, in the Christ-Impulse, something entered into mankind which completely prevented such a strict separation as we find in Sankhya philosophy between Purusha and Prakriti, Christ becomes the Leader of men out of themselves and towards the divine creation. Must we then say that we must unconditionally give up maya now that we recognise that it seems to be given us through our own fault? No, for that would be
> blaspheming the spirit in the world; that would be assigning to matter properties which we ourselves have imposed upon it with the veil of maya. Let us rather hope that when we have overcome in ourselves that which caused matter to become maya, we may again be reconciled with the world.
> http://wn.rsarchive .org/Lectures/ GA/GA0142/ 19130101p01. html
> "Hence only by means of love can we give real help for karma to work out in the right way." Rudolf Steiner


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|Jul 20, 1976
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|Feb 4, 1975
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|Apr 18, 1974
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|Wolfgang Hepp, Alexander Wirtzfeld
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|Dornier System Gmbh
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The present invention relates to a heart stimulator adapted to be employed from without, wherein the heart is induced to systoles in a non-bloody fashion through the chest.
The stimulation of the healthy heart starts from the sinus node in the antechamber in the form of electric signals. The latter propagate at a velocity of several m/s over the heart chamber walls and cause the contraction of the heart muscle tissue.
Each excitation formation (and excitation conduction) in the heart is based on the fact that the rest potential of one cell is reduced to a so-called threshold potential. The further depolarization of the cell which ultimately will produce the contraction, as well as the spreading of the exciting wave on to other cells, progresses independently from then on. The maintenance of the normal cell membrane depolarization is an active operation which constantly consumes energy. This process may be disturbed by different outside influences (for example by injury to the cell membrane) so that likewise a potential loss of the cell membrane is produced.
In the case of a disturbance of the natural heart stimulation it is known to maintain the heart activity by means of artificial pacemakers even over very long periods of time. It is not necessary in this connection to provide the pacemaker electrodes in proximity to the natural stimulation center in the ante-chamber. Rather it suffices to introduce the voltage impulses, at any desired point of the chamber, into the myocardium of the heart. The energy of a voltage impulse is within the range of 10- 5 Ws. It is further known from cardiological practice that even a slight touch of the heart chamber walls by non-conductive heart catheters, or the pressure head alone of a contrast fluid injected into the heart chamber will suffice to induce a contraction of the heart.
An electrical stimulation introduced from outside the body and not being directed to any specific part of the heart requires high energy and is not as effective and harmless by far as direct heart stimulation by means of electrodes introduced intravenously or sutured upon the heart (myocardial electrodes).
In acute cases, the time required for the initiation of an intravenous myocardial electrical stimulation often is not available. An added factor is that these processes are relatively expensive and can be performed only by trained physicians.
In rare cases success has been achieved in stimulating a new heart activity which had either come to a standstill or become attenuated, by striking the chest of the patient. In this regard, only coincidental successes are recorded, however; a definite connection between cause and effect could not be ascertained.
Attempts to obtain an electrical stimulation of the heart by means of electrodes placed upon the chest above the heart have met with only very unsatisfactory results, for which reason such measures are hardly ever employed today.
It is the object of the present invention to provide an apparatus for heart stimulation from without in a non-bloody fashion through the chest, which apparatus is usable particularly in emergency medicinal procedures. To be electrically and mechanically stimulated is a heart chamber which is either standing still, or is beating too slowly (so-called asystoly). Causes thereof are a lack of excitation formation, or lack of ante-court/chamber conduction.
This object is obtained, in accordance with the present invention, by means of a pressure wave generator and a coupling device which is adapted to be placed upon the surface of the body in the area of the heart and without an air gap.
Pressure waves emanating from the pressure wave generator exert mechanical stimuli onto the chamber wall of the heart which lead to heart stimulation. By means of the pressure wave generator, impulses may be periodically produced without danger to the patient and personnel until either the heart activity is maintained spontaneously, or stimulation can be undertaken with an artificial pacemaker.
In an advantageous embodiment of the present invention, the pressure waves are produced by means of a spark discharge. Pressure waves also may be produced by means of a projectile which strikes upon a reflecting plate; by means of a drop of water discharging from a water cannon at high velocity and striking upon a liquid, and by means of wire explosion and an explosive charge. If, however, a portable apparatus is required for the heart stimulation for use in an emergency, the generation by means of a spark discharge is preferred because of the improved transportability of the apparatus.
Also in an advantageous embodiment of the present invention, the side of the coupling device facing the body of the patient has an elastic membrane which is provided with a metallic layer by vaporization. The metallic layer and the coupling device that also preferably is of metal prevent the emergence of electromagnetic waves and thus act like a Faraday cage.
Furthermore it is advantageous, according to the present invention, that the edge of the coupling device facing the body is elastic and that the coupling device is adapted to be attached to the body by means of a band. Such elastic bands, which are approximately as wide as a hand, are employed, for example, for recording electrocardiograms.
In a further advantageous embodiment of the present invention, the coupling device focuses the pressure waves at the sine node of the heart. For this purpose, the coupling device may be so designed, for example, as to be circular in cross-section and elliptical in longitudinal cross-section, whereby the pressure wave generator is located in one focal point of the ellipse, and the sine node of the heart is located in the other focal point of the ellipse. The energy density of the pressure waves may be kept small by the focusing on the chamber wall within the area of biological boundary surfaces (lungs, bronchi, veins, ribs). Examinations concerning the effect of high energy shock waves on biological tissues have shown that a shock wave charge does not necessarily produce damage to the organism. It results therefrom that the pressure waves being weak as compared to the shock waves do not have any undesirable side effects. The energy density at the locus of the stimulatable tissue need not be very high, thereby precluding any danger to the aforementioned boundary surfaces. Reflections at the ribs lead to a decrease of the usable pressure wave energy but otherwise have no adverse effect.
Moreover, it is advantageous that the coupling device is filled with water or the like and comprises at least one water inlet and water outlet. The use of water as a coupling medium is advantageous since the passage of the pressure waves from the water bath into the body tissue takes place nearly reflection-free because of the equality of the acoustic impedances. Due to the inflow and outflow of the water, the water bath is kept at a constant temperature. During water circulation, the spark path operates continuously at constant electrical conditions. Grounding electrodes in immediate or direct proximity to the spark path eliminate any danger to patients and personnel. Even a slight excess pressure of the water in the coupling device will suffice to place the membrane against the surface of the body without an air gap.
In yet another advantageous embodiment of the present invention, the spark path in the coupling device is provided for by means of a ball-and-socket joint and a sliding bearing. By means thereof it is possible to locally change the starting point of the pressure waves within certain limits so that a single coupling device is usable for patients with different anatomical conditions.
Additionally it is advantageous, according to the present invention, that the spark path is surrounded by an elastic membrane filled with an inert gas. Thereby shock waves will be reflected at the phase border and will not penetrate into the water bath. In order that the spark discharge can take place at constant electrical conditions, feed lines and discharge lines for the exchange of the inert gas are provided.
Further advantages, features and possibilities of use of the present invention will become more apparent from the following description of the accompanying drawings, in which
FIG. 1 is a view in cross-section of an apparatus according to the present invention, and
FIG. 2 is a bottom view of the apparatus of FIG. 1.
FIG. 1 illustrates an inventive apparatus for the heart stimulation in a cross-sectional view thereof. Shown in the figure is a human body identified with reference numeral 1, the body surface being represented by reference numeral 2, and the heart being identified with reference numeral 3. At the heart is the heart muscle 4. On the body surface 2 within the area of the heart 3 is a coupling device 5 which is closed off with respect to the body 1 by means of an elastic membrane 6. The coupling device 5 has a circular configuration in cross-section as shown in FIG. 2, and in the longitudinal cross-section shown it has an elliptical shape. In its spatial form, the coupling device 5 is thus part of a rotational ellipsoid. In the coupling device 5 is a pressure wave generator 7 which is constructed as a spark path and which is supplied by a current source 9 via a control unit 8. The coupling device 5 is filled with a liquid medium 10 (for example water). Provided for the inflow of the water 10 is an inflow line 11, and for the discharge thereof a discharge line 12. Regulating means (not shown) in the inlet and outlet of the water assure that the water in the coupling device 5 will remain at a constant temperature which corresponds approximately to the body temperature of the patient to be treated, and will be constantly available under pressure so that the membrane 6 is pressed without an air gap against the body surface 2.
In order to prevent pressure waves from penetrating into the water bath 10 and from there into the body, the spark path 7 is within an elastic membrane 13 which is filled with an inert gas 14. For purposes of constant circulation of the inert gas, the lines 15 and 16 are provided. The circulation of the inert gas is advantageous since it assures that the spark discharge takes place at all times under the same physical conditions. A head 17 connected with the spark path 7 forms -- together with a recess in the coupling device 5 -- a ball-and-socket joint 18, which renders possible an angular movement of the spark path 7. Further provided in the head 17 is a sliding bearing 19 so that the spark path 7 can be brought to other points in the coupling device 5. By varying the position of the spark path 7 in the coupling device 5, it is possible that the pressure waves impinge upon the heart muscle in a focused manner. The effectiveness is greatest when the spark path 7 is positioned in one focal point of the coupling device 5 forming an ellipse, and when the heart muscle is in the other focal point of the ellipse. An optimal focusing is thereby obtained.
The edge 20 of the coupling device 5 is an elastic ring. Further attached to the coupling device 5 is a band 21 which is approximately as wide as a hand and which surrounds the body of the patient to be treated.
During use of the device, the spark path 7 is periodically supplied (at the frequency of the natural pulse) with electric energy from the current source 9. The electric energy is transformed to the required voltage (about 1 kV), rectified, and stored in a capacitor. These capacitors are discharged within the required periodic time of approximately 1 second via the spark path. The duration of the impulse is about 0.5 to 2 ms.
It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that many modifications may be made within the scope of the present invention without departing from the spirit thereof, and the invention includes all such modifications.
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A rights group said migrants employed to work as farmers and domestic staff are stuck in Saudi Arabia after their Qatari bosses were ordered out of the kingdom amid a major regional crisis. He attended a dinner at the Kuwait Embassy and met al-Jubeir on Tuesday, before joining Tillerson on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Qatar said that its Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani will be addressing the media tomorrow (June 29) at the JW Marriott Washington DC on this issue.
They include: shutting down Qatar's multinational news network, Al Jazeera; cutting back ties with Iran; ending support for the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and other Islamist groups; and closing a Turkish military base.
Saudi Arabia's ongoing war in Yemen has been ramped up with the purchase of new USA weapons, and now, seeking to deflect attention from increasing evidence that members of the Saudi royal family have supported terrorist actions on U.S. soil in the past, Riyadh has demanded that tiny Doha end its diplomatic alliance with Iran. "But if they don't, they will remain isolated", al-Jubeir said.
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The public divisions in Washington over the United States stance toward the Gulf dispute highlight the reckless, incoherent and crisis-ridden character of American foreign policy in the Middle East and internationally. Much has been made of the distance between President Trump's enthusiastic support for the Saudi position and Tillerson's preference for a speedy negotiated end to the embargo.
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I haven't blogged since April but I've been posting over on the forum, I'll carry on from this thread I started over on Challenges and Battlegrounds. The World Series of Bloggers games will be coming around in March so I'm hoping from a few free tickets like last year which made me around $200 in added cash
As an update I've been pretty stagnant this year. I've turned over a profit but I'm nowhere at the level I should be. I withdrew some cash and left myself with a bankroll to cope with micro stakes. I stupidly played both Storms last Sunday without cashing but as I'm a mostly limit player I can take the swings and I won't go broke.
I specialised in 6 max STT in Limit form. I find players not just bad at these but really terrible and I cranked over a nice 13% ROI in 6,000 games which made got me leaderboard prizes and a few other bonuses. I did find however there were a few decent players at higher stakes and as the amounts of players in these are limited, it was always -ev me playing against them.
My Laptop is messed up atm, it's overheating, disconnects from the network and sometimes gets a black or blue screen of death. I've cleared the dust from underneath it with no success so I'll have to stick with it until after XMas to get a new one.
As a result, only yesterday I moved to 10c/20c limit cash, at least that way if I get disconnected I won't lose any more only a blind at most.
I started my thread on C&B to motivate myself to go for Supernova next year. I know it will be a hard push but since my move to Limit cash I'm finding VPP accumulating easier and I'm running at 6BB/hr. I'm hoping at some stage to 4+ tables and make a decent enough bankroll to move through the ranks where at $1/$2 I should clear SN. I've played $2/$4 on another site although it was at a loss but I was comfortable at 50c/$1 and $1/$2 so it's not scared money. I'm certain most of the regs will kick in at $1/$2 so it's vital I work on my game but also on my opponents game.
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I made a profit yesterday but today was a small loss. I'm not concerned, I think I'm playing well and below is 2 hands that typifies my play and also my opponents.
My opponent is calling a 3 bet out of position with rags. He flops the nuts, I'm happy with his play but it makes a dent in my balance and can turn a winning session into a losing one.
Here, the shoe is on the other foot but again it was his mistake. I was ahead in every street but he didn't know the nuts and was prepared to risk too many bets with a hand that is very likely behind on the flop and definitely behind on the river with my raising. I'm happy, it's clowns like these that make the game pay.
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Before the Scene is where we all start. In a small town with our families. In front of a mirror with our friends. The days spent sleeping on a couch. The nights working at a bar. Living with the unknown and surrounded by uncertainty. It's about the times that define us. It's about the darkness just before the limelight.
Hill Harper is a veteran actor best known as Dr. Sheldon Hawkes on CBS's CSI:NY. He has also appeared in Get On The Bus, He Got Game, The Skulls and The Visit. He has also written four New York Times bestsellers, Letters to a Younger Brother, Letters to a Younger Sister, The Conversation and The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place.
What made you want to become an actor?
I played high school football and went to college to play football. During my freshman year, I took a theatre class because it fit my schedule, and I absolutely loved it. Later, I went to Harvard Law School, and I expected to graduate and take a job as a lawyer and pay off my student loans. But I had already fallen in love with acting.
What was your biggest fear?
I was afraid of not accomplishing something. I didn't know where to start, and there was a lot of fear around all that uncertainty. I think a lot of us out there, we love something, but then we're not sure, "Well, how can I actually make a living out of that? Can I make a living at this thing that I love? And if so, in what way can I do that?" It's good to have mentors and guides. But in my case in the beginning of my career, I didn't have anybody like that.
What was your lowest point?
When I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I was shooting a movie in Atlanta called For Colored Girls with Tyler Perry. I have a friend who is a surgeon in Atlanta. I shadowed him when he was a resident in L.A. because I was going to play a resident surgeon on a new series for CBS called City of Angels.
I woke up one morning and I couldn't swallow. I knew something was wrong. So I called him. He walked me around, and he took me to the oncology department, they did a fine needle biopsy that was ultrasound guided. They stuck my neck sixteen times with the needles and put it on slides and said, "Come back in a week."
I was able to get my voice back and able to shoot, and went back to the hospital a week later. And I immediately knew that something was really wrong. The week before, we were laughing and joking with the nurses. This time, they were all very serious. And I knew at that second from the way that they greeted me, the level of seriousness, I knew something was really wrong.
I was diagnosed with cancer. We ended up sending out to pathology to get a second opinion, and the second opinion was even worse. They were like, "You need to have surgery even quicker than they recommended." And the reason why it was very scary for me was because my father had died of cancer in 2000.
Thinking about my own mortality, I hadn't achieved some of the goals that I set out for. I think about my goals in life, and I think there's four things: I want to have a positive impact, I want to leave a positive legacy that goes beyond me. And then while I'm here, love and serve. And if I can do those four things then I know that I've done it, and I don't think that I've done those four things enough. So it really was scary for me and it really was something that was a low moment, but, in a way, an empowering moment.
What kept you from walking away?
I was very scared because what happens is your vocal nerves wrap around your thyroid, and one of the potential complications of the surgery is if they accidentally damage your vocal nerves then you're hoarse. Or worse still, you can't speak, which would end my career. And I was very afraid about that, and that's why I was very careful to pick the best surgeon and talk it through.
One of the things that I love has come out of my non-profit foundation and my books are my speaking engagements across the country. I get to speak to young people and I get to hopefully empower and motivate them. My motivational speaking tours are something that I've come to love, and I was so afraid that if I had lost my voice that my career would be over, but also my speaking engagements would be over as well. I didn't want that to happen.
What did you have to walk away from?
There was a time in my career that I made a mistake by walking away. I was doing a successful play in New York, and I had been nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, a best acting award for a movie called The Visit. And I had been told that I was going to be the lead in this movie with Eminem that went on to become 8 Mile. But in doing that, I had to go to Detroit to do my screen test with Eminem. But when you do a play in New York, it's eight shows a week and you can't just leave.
I got caught up in this idea. People were saying, "Oh, if you do this, you're going to be a movie star. You'll be this." You start to believe the hype around you, and I made the mistake of leaving the play. I thought for my career, and I believed some advice my representatives gave me. I left the show and I shouldn't have left the show. I should have stayed with the show through the end of the run. An understudy took over the role and didn't have a lot of preparation. So all those people that paid for tickets after I left probably didn't see the quality of show that they deserved to see.
What's crazy is that the first day I was supposed to work with Eminem, 9/11 happened. And obviously, everything got topsy-turvy. I ended up not being in that movie and I've always looked back on that. If you make a commitment to something, even though what seems to be a better opportunity may present itself, don't walk away. Fulfill your commitment and then you can leave with your head high. And it took that lesson – and it was a pretty heartbreaking lesson in my career – to learn that. And it's something that I regret walking away from.
Who has been your closest ally?
My grandfathers, on both sides. Even though they aren't alive anymore, I still attempt to live my life in a way that honors their legacy. My grandfather on my mother's side, his name was Harold Hill. He was a pharmacist in small town Seneca, South Carolina, who served the black community during segregation and the Civil Rights Movement. African Americans couldn't go to Walgreens and Rexall. They'd go to his pharmacy. And I would hear stories from him about how if they needed prescription drugs but couldn't afford them – if they were sick and needed medicine – he would trade potatoes or chickens for his prescription medicine. And he really was in service of the community.
My grandfather on my father's side, Harry Harper, Sr., was a doctor in a small town in Iowa. I remember there would always be different people at our breakfast table or dinner table, people that may not have a place to go. One morning, there was a strange man who looked a little gruff at the breakfast table. This was when I was very young. I asked my grandmother, "Who is that guy?" And she said, "He just got out of prison. He didn't have a place to go, so your grandfather is letting him stay here and do some work."
In 2007, it was the Iowa Caucuses for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. And President Obama and I have been friends for over twenty years. We went to Harvard Law School together. I was asked to go work Iowa for the campaign. Since I was born there, they knew I had a lot of roots there. At one of the events, they advertised that I would be there speaking. An older gentleman who had to be in his eighties came up to me. His hands were full of calluses. You could tell he was a man who had worked his entire life. He shook my hand and said, "Hey do you remember me? My name's Henry." I said, "Hi Henry." He said, "I came down to see you." I said, "Ok, hello." He said, "You don't remember me, do you?" I said, "Sir, I don't. Have we met?" He said, "Your grandfather took me in after I got out of prison and gave me a job, and I'll always be indebted to him and your family. We met those summers when you would visit the farm, before he died. I saw your name in the paper that you were going to be here, and I wanted to come and say hello."
And I tell you, man, I get emotional just talking about it now. When you treat people well, you create legacy of your behavior, it's transferred generation to generation and people's lives can really be changed. I'm flawed, I make a lot of mistakes myself, I mess up and I probably don't live up to everything they expected, but I am attempting to do my best at that.
What were you doing the morning before the audition that changed your life?
Spike Lee hired me for the film Get on the Bus. I was an actor who didn't have a lot of credits, and there was no real reason for him to put me in his film. I went in to do the audition, and I was acting my heart out and I could kind of see Spike Lee in my peripheral vision and he kinda looked at his watch, and then at his phone. I was thinking in my head, "Oh God, he must hate me." And then it was over. And I got the job. Being in Get on the Bus was such a life changer not just for the credit, but the fact that for most of the movie, I sat next to and listened to Ossie Davis and Spike Lee.
What were some words that kept you going?
Two big words I go back to all the time are "believe" and "destiny." I also put up big words like promise, faith, hope, dreams, goals, happiness, possibility. But believe and destiny have always been really big for me.
How have you changed?
Hopefully, I've learned that, artistically, we build bodies of work, and hopefully I can take it easy on myself. I used to really beat myself up a lot about a scene if it didn't go right. As actors, we don't have control over the way it's edited, or whether it ends up in the movie. I've just learned to hopefully take it easy on myself a little bit more, say, "It's ok," and then relax a little bit more in my work.
What words do you have to inspire others?
There is nothing that you cannot do. The people who have created impact and legacy in this world in a positive way are people that believed that they could achieve anything. And that's what we need. Follow your heart, no matter what.
A partner in Scene Magazine and the president of Louisiana Entertainment Publishers, AJ has starred for the last eight years as Adam Ross on the hit TV show CSI:NY, now on Friday nights at 8pm on CBS. Originally from Dublin and raised in Vancouver, he has spent the past twelve years in Los Angeles acting, writing and directing. He is currently in pre-production in Louisiana on North of Hell, in which he will star and produce. Find out more on Twitter at @AJohnBuckley and at www.ajbuckley.net.


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"The real story is Drew's intelligence connections and the widespread corruption of the Lexington police force and their ties to larger dope and arms smuggling conducted by the CIA from the 1950's
through today...."
The CIA & Lexington's "Company," Arms Smuggling, Dope, Danny Casolaro, Phyllis George ......
Continuing a descent into Lexington's CIA-based criminal underground ...
Drew Thornton...
Drew, as he liked to be called, was a former police officer from Fayette County (Lexington's County) on the narcotics task force. Drew was not someone that I tended to gravitate around for many reasons, chief among them his law enforcement background. Turns out Drew had been high society Lexington, his family was in the Blue Book that listed only the top names, and he had gone to Sayre School, the private school for those of a certain class. How he ended up in law enforcement, I do not know. But what came clear a few years later, was that Drew did not leave his narc background behind. He started dealing in drugs at some point, probably during his law school career and used his connections to help his career.
Several years after graduation from law school he had a huge network built up where he and those who worked for him were regularly importing huge amounts of cocaine up from Mexico and/or South America. There's a badly written book out there about his story titled The Bluegrass Conspiracy. Although, the writing is execrable, the gist of the story is true. Drew was able to convert or subvert law enforcement through out the Commonwealth of Kentucky so that he could run his drug business.
However, this being Kentucky, things can and do have a tendency to go badly wrong. As they did for Drew. Seems that Drew's preferred mo was to fly a plane up from S. America or Mexico w/ large bales of cocaine, each with a parachute and transponder attached for ease of recovery. Then at pre-arranged locations, the bales were pushed out of the plane, the parachutes opened and voila, instant mega cash. Drew would jump out at the last minute, put the plane on automatic pilot directed into the Appalachian or Smoky mountains, the plane would crash in wilderness presumably, and Drew would be laughing all the way to the bank.
Until his last flight, when Drew jumped out strapped to a bale of cocaine. Turns out that the combination was too much for the parachute, which couldn't take the excess weight and collapsed. Drew 'bought the farm' so to speak on someone's driveway in eastern Tennessee or western Carolina. The plane crashed into the mountains further east. The authorities, finally driven to investigate after the homeowner put in a complaint, found the plane and located some of the cocaine bales. Well at least one. It was also up in the woods. It had been opened by a bear, who had engorged himself on the contents and died nearby shortly afterward.
Drew Thornton, a sterling example of Lexington's finest in law and in law enforcement.
Sep. 23, 1985 ?Fred Myers, 84, got up to shave last week in his Knoxville home, looked out the window and saw a body in his backyard. Police found the remains of Andrew Carter Thornton II, 40, snarled in a parachute. Along with 79 lbs. of cocaine, two pistols, knives and $4,500 in cash, Thornton carried night-vision goggles and wore a bulletproof vest. Police believe he had smuggled the drugs, with a value of $15 million, in a twin-engine Cessna. He put the plane on * automatic pilot and bailed out. At treetop level, his chute became fouled. Instead of landing upright, he hit the ground headfirst. The wrecked plane was found 70 miles away in North Carolina.
A member of a well-to-do Kentucky family, Thornton went to Sewanee Military Academy, then joined the Army and trained as a paratrooper. Back home in Lexington, he became a narcotics officer, then went on to earn a law degree from the University of Kentucky and worked as an attorney. But he soon strayed to the other side of the law. He had been implicated in marijuana smuggling, and he was on probation from a drug-possession conviction.
The real story is Drew's intelligence connections and the widespread corruption of the Lexington police force and their ties to larger dope and arms smuggling conducted by the CIA from the 1950's through today.
Gov. Brown, the owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken who brought his Miss America wife, Phyllis George, to town, was investigated by a federal grand jury about a $1.3 million cash withdrawal from a Miami bank. He testified it was to pay gambling debts. He swore in 1983 never to gamble again.
Mr. Brown, one-time co-owner of Trumps nightclub in Cincinnati, and his partners were included in law enforcement and surveillance reports in connection with "The Company," a 1970s and 1980s cocaine and gun-smuggling ring that operated out of Lexington.
The Company's criminal activity included the spectacular death of former Lexington police officer Drew Thornton, who jumped out of a plane with $75 million in cocaine and a bad parachute strapped to his back, landing in a Knoxville driveway.
The Company came dangerously close to Mr. Brown's circle of friends and business and political associates. It is the topic of The Bluegrass Conspiracy, Sally Denton's 1990 true-crime classic.
The Last Circle
Brian Leighton had been instrumental in prosecuting 29 members of a drug/arms organization called "The Company." The Company had been written up in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 28, 1982 under the heading "Story of Spies, Stolen Arms and Drugs." According to reporter Bill Wallace, The Company consisted of (quote) "about 300 members, many of them former military men or expolice officers with nearly $30 million worth of assets, including planes, ships and real estate."
The article went on to say that
Federal agents said some of the stolen equipment was going to be used to make electronic equipment for drug smugglers and some was traded to drug suppliers in Columbia. Twentynine members of the Company were indicted by the Fresno federal grand jury in 1981. Amongst those indicated was Andrew "Drew" Thornton, 40, a former narcotics officer.
On September 13, 1985, the Los Angeles Times published the story of Thornton's death, entitled,
Thornton's mysterious death was discussed at length in a book written by Sally Denton entitled, "The Bluegrass Conspiracy." Part of The Company was headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky. Prosecutors in Lexington, Fresno, California (Brian Leighton), and Miami, Florida were working together in a joint effort to bring down The Company....
The San Francisco Chronicle noted that in January, 1982, Gene Berry, a state prosecutor in Charlotte Harbor, Florida, was shot in the face as he answered his door. Police subsequently arrested Bonnie Kelly as Berry's murderer. Bonnie's husband, Mike McClure Kelly, was a suspected member of The Company who later pleaded guilty in the Fresno, California case. ....
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