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Posted Mar 24, 2017, 3:19 AM
NYguy
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Location: Borough of Jersey
Speaking on the 425 Park proposal...
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Posted Mar 27, 2017, 4:04 PM
http://archidose.blogspot.com/2017/0...es-nouvel.html
Where's Nouvel?
Today a rendering of Zaha Hadid Architects' design for the redesign/extension of Kushner Companies' 666 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan has been making its rounds in many of the usual places. The 1,400-foot-tall tower, if built, would sit prominently on Fifth Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets, about a half-block from the Museum of Modern Art.
Which made me wonder: Where is Jean Nouvel's 53W53 in the rendering? Now under construction, the 1,050-foot-tall skyscraper will tower over Cesar Pelli's Museum Tower, which is visible to the right of ZHA's tower. So in the interest of seeing how these two supertalls designed by celebrity architects would interact, I Photoshopped a side elevation of Nouvel's tower into ZHA's rendering:
Anyone know the square footage of the new tower. Are they keeping the same square footage. Fooking NYC zoning...
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Originally Posted by CIA
Likely the same.
Current zoning allows them to build a 1.45 million-square-foot tower as-of-right.
....Kushner Companies plans to take the opportunity to shed the building's devil-tinged 666 address for a new one — 660 Fifth Avenue.
Assuming all goes according to plan, the building would be home to ultra-luxury condos (going for as much as $6,000 per square foot), along with a hotel and nearly 500,000 square feet of retail.
Roughly a third would be for the retail.
About 660 Fifth Avenue, which used to stand on site, a look at the mansion...
http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.co...nsion-660.html
http://nypost.com/2017/03/28/chinese...panies-project
"Kushner Companies is no longer in discussions with Anbang about 666 Fifth Ave.'s potential redevelopment, and our firms have mutually agreed to end talks regarding the property," a spokesman said.
But the visionary plan is by no means dead.
While the Chinese insurance company, Anbang, is no longer part of the redevelopment, other money partners are stepping forward, sources say. "Kushner Companies remains in active, advanced negotiations around 666 Fifth Ave. with a number of potential investors," the spokesman added.
Originally Posted by NYguy
Thanks for the pictures!!
It's being played off as no big deal, but I wonder if there are some serious issues behind the scene?
The issues are they need a financial backer. If you look at the big deals recently, I'm sure they will get one. But there was speculation that the reports of talks with Anbang was to attract other interests, which Given how much this has been reported in the news could also be a play.
Skyguy_7
^ Top brass at Kushner Companies have obviously read The Art of the Deal. Deal-making of this scale is truly an art
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NY Post has additional details about the planned tower:
Sitting on the full blockfront between West 52nd and 53rd streets, Kushner will in five to seven years offer residences with unimpeded views.
Pricing would be around $6,000 per square foot, comparable to the mid-top of the current market.
A 94-key, seven-star hotel with banquet rooms would sit above a nine-level retail podium designed for small shops and topped by a food hall.
http://nypost.com/2017/03/28/chinese...anies-project/
To me, the biggest takeaway is the planned nine levels of retail. Wow!
Originally Posted by Crawford
Thanks for this! It sounds really exciting. They might as well take a page from Art of the Deal and commit the lobby for public open park space in exchange for higher densities.
Yes, a third of the development will be the retail.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/2...ww.google.com/
Last edited by NYguy; Mar 30, 2017 at 3:01 AM.
More from that NY Times article...
"Fifth Avenue is synonymous with luxury and opulence of the highest standards in the world," Mr. Kushner wrote in a brochure for the project. "This design will transform Fifth Avenue in a city that is continuously reinventing itself."
.....Mr. Kushner and his father Charles began showing potential investors a "white book," which laid out their vision for tearing down the blocky building to make way for the much taller, glassier skyscraper designed by Ms. Hadid.
The book portrayed a tower made up of a 9-story retail base, an 8-story, 150-room hotel, 55 stories of ultra-luxury condominiums, topped by a sky deck.
The Kushners also renamed the tower 660 Fifth, casting aside the "666" reference that some people may connect with the number for Satan in the Bible's Book of Revelations.
I'm a bit confused about the shape of this tower. Is the top flat? Or a kind of hipped-roof shape?
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Originally Posted by Zerton
It's not flat. The Times describes it as bullet shaped. The closest thing in NY that comes to mind is the top of the Empire State.
Posted Mar 29, 2017, 11:34 PM
ILNY
Anbang backs out of negotiations to redevelop 666 Fifth
"Kushner Companies is no longer in discussions with Anbang about 666 Fifth Ave.'s potential redevelopment, and our firms have mutually agreed to end talks regarding the property," a Kushner spokesperson told the New York Post.
https://therealdeal.com/2017/03/29/a...lop-666-fifth/
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The longer I look at this proposal, the less I like it. It's just not elegant. To me it's weird for the sake of being weird. This location deserves something more along the lines of 9 DeKallb.
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Originally Posted by tdawg
I think we're getting that with 111 W. 57th Street. This tower is ok as is, but when you look at it and consider its 5th Ave address, its actually closer to the ESB in massing. I think it could support a spire, though I doubt they would go that route. But as with 432 Park Avenue, I think the skyline can absorb something new and different. By the time the likes of Central Park Tower, Steinway, 30 Hudson, One Vanderbilt, maybe even 2 WTC are built, this could be even more welcome.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/29/kushn...ks-emerge.html
Kushner, Anbang end Manhattan tower talks, other talks emerge
......Talks had centered on Anbang providing as much as half of $2.5 billion in equity for the planned redevelopment of 666 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, a media report said last week.
....."Kushner Companies is no longer in discussions with Anbang about 666 Fifth Avenue's potential redevelopment, and our firms have mutually agreed to end talks regarding the property," a spokesman said in a statement.
.....The Kushner spokesman said advanced talks are ongoing with other investors to redevelop the 39-story building, valued for its proximity to St. Patrick's Cathedral and Rockefeller Center.
Any plan could be hampered by the cost of buying out tenants with long-term leases or Spanish retailer Zara's store on the corner of 52nd Street.
Zara is controlled by Amancio Ortega, the world's fourth-richest man according to Forbes magazine, who has no intention to sell, said a broker who represented the billionaire when one of his companies paid $324 million for the locale in 2011.
Place it on this model, and the height and spacing seems right...
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Posted Apr 3, 2017, 9:17 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/n...enue.html?_r=0
At Kushners' Flagship Building, Mounting Debt and a Foundered Deal
By CHARLES V. BAGLI
.....On Wednesday, the Kushners announced that talks had broken off with a Chinese financial conglomerate for a deal worth billions to redevelop the 41-story tower, at 666 Fifth Avenue, into a flashy 80-story ultraluxury skyscraper comprising a chic retail mall, a hotel and high-priced condominiums.
The official announcement said the company remained "in active, advanced negotiations" with a number of investors, whom it declined to name.
There is no question that the Kushner Companies — Jared has moved to Washington to serve as an adviser to his father-in-law, President Trump — needs to reach a deal soon, either to bring in a fresh infusion of cash or a well-heeled partner willing to foot the bill, if it wants to hold on to the building. Whomever it brings on as an investor would also have to buy out Vornado Realty Trust, the family's partner in the tower.
More than a quarter of the office space in the building sits vacant. According to an analysis by Trepp L.L.C., a data and analytics firm that tracks bank lending, 666 Fifth Avenue has not generated enough money to pay its debts for several years, forcing the owners to cover the shortfall — at least $10 million in 2015. And that gap is growing. The interest-only $1.2 billion mortgage comes due in less than two years.
"This building has had financial issues for years now," said Joe McBride, a senior associate at Trepp. "How much longer can they sustain it? Occupancy is at 70 percent, more leases are expiring, and they're going into their own pocket to pay the debt."
.....But the spokesman, James Yolles, said Charles Kushner remained optimistic that he would secure fresh investors who would not only pay off the existing debt on the building but also finance the demolition of the current structure and the construction of a 1,400-foot tower designed by Zaha Hadid. Jared Kushner sold his stake in the building to a family trust in January when he moved to Washington.
"We are well on our way to lining up the $2.5 billion in equity needed to get this deal done," Mr. Yolles said, "and we're confident that we'll get there."
.....The Kushners have not filled space as it opens up because they plan to demolish the aluminum-clad building. More than two years ago, when the market for superluxury condominiums and high-end retail was hot, they commissioned Ms. Hadid, a star architect who died last year, to design a residential and hotel tower sitting atop a base of high-end shopping to replace it.
The demolition and construction is projected to cost $7.5 billion. The Kushners are looking for a partner or partners to invest $3.3 billion, including $500 million from the Kushner family and others, who would own a 20 percent stake, according to Mr. Yolles, the company spokesman. Then they would need to borrow a staggering $4.2 billion.
To attract investors, developers typically put together an offering plan. The Kushners' version is lavishly illustrated with renderings of the building by Ms. Hadid's firm and rosy financial projections that show the retail and residential spaces commanding spectacular prices that, seven years from now, when the building is completed, would total more than $12 billion.
.....A year ago, a developer who owned the nearby Sony Building abandoned his very similar plan to convert that Madison Avenue office tower into a luxury mall, hotel and condominiums and sold it.
The Kushners' spokesman said they were working with other potential investors to raise $2.5 billion. But Charles Kushner must offer a high enough price to also persuade Vornado to sell its stake in the building, buy out the remaining tenants and get Zara to vacate its space until the new tower is completed.


January 17th-Rookie show in Tokyo!
The first Dangan show of the year takes place on January 17th and sees a the company putting on a Rookie tournament show.
The fighters on this card are mostly unknown fighters however the card will feature former world title challenger Kayoko Ebata (9-7, 5), who is likely to be chasing another world title fight before the end of 2017. Her opponent will be an un-named Thai who will be expected to pad Ebata's record. Sadly for Ebata bouts like this, in the middle of the card as well, will do little to prepare her for another world title and given her advanced age there is little point in really padding up her record whilst waiting for a shot.
The rookies on the card are all unknown, though there are some interesting bouts. One of which will be a contest between the unbeaten pairing of Retsu Matsuda (1-0) and Ryuhei Arakawa (1-0-1) which we suspect will be very competitive.
As well as the two bouts mentioned there will be 9 more bouts on this show and the card is expected to find it's way on to Boxingraise.com int he near future.


The shock jock is speaking out in the activist's favour.
Kyle Sandilands is siding with Yassmin Abdel-Magied.
The shock jock came to the defence of the outspoken activist after she came under fire for posting an ANZAC Day Facebook status that read, "Lest We Forget (Manus. Nauru. Syria. Palestine)."
"I don't agree with what she said, but there's no way on earth I would want her fired for saying it," Kyle reportedly said on Thursday's Kyle and Jackie O Show.
"Making a statement like this about something you believe in personally - I don't believe people should be fired over it."
Still, Kyle thinks the 26-year-old author and engineer needs to be "educated" on "the facts".
"Maybe reprimanded, maybe educated into the facts why it wasn't the perfect day to write that," he said.
"You can push your own agenda, but if it's trumping and stomping all over someone else's opinion maybe that's not the best time or place to do it."
After her ANZAC Day post received swift criticism, Yassmin apologised and updated her status to simply read, "Lest. We. Forget."
"It was brought to my attention that my last post was disrespectful," she wrote on Tuesday. "And for that, I apologise unreservedly."
Kyle's radio remarks come on the same day that One Nation leader Pauline Hanson called for Yassmin to be fired from her part-time presenter gig at the ABC.
But the ABC is standing by Yassmin and said they will not take action against her.
"Her views and opinions in that capacity are her own and do not represent those of the ABC," the broadcaster said in a statement.
Yassmin has yet to publicly speak out following her initial apology.


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From Tools To Therapies: Stem Cell Maker CDI Takes One Small Step
Jeff Bauter Engel
Xconomy Wisconsin —
Cellular Dynamics International CEO Bob Palay envisions a world where the eyes of a person going blind from macular degeneration can be healed by implanting healthy retinal cells that were engineered from the patient's own blood or skin.
That scenario will still require at least several years and untold millions of research dollars, but it's not as far-fetched as it might at first sound. Indeed, Palay believes science is finally on the verge of unlocking the door to regenerative medicine—and he thinks his company's manufactured cells hold the key.
Until now, Cellular Dynamics (NASDAQ: ICEL) has been solely a provider of cells to use as research tools, but it recently took a small step toward creating a therapy with its first development deal. The emphasis is on "small," however: the conservative company still prefers to play backup to its research partners—not lead the charge into regenerative medicine. "Our model is to make great cells and put them in the hands of great researchers to do great science," Palay tells Xconomy.
On this frontier, it's not surprising CDI is moving deliberately. There are plenty of regulatory hurdles, including a number of "safety pitfalls" that CDI "will have to avoid in their march to clinical application," says Willy Lensch, executive director of Harvard University's department of stem cell and regenerative biology.
And there are still many unknowns about what will happen when these cells are implanted in humans, no matter how "cleanly" they're grown in the lab. (More on that later.)
Madison, WI-based Cellular Dynamics, co-founded in 2004 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and stem cell pioneer James Thomson, can manufacture huge batches of a variety of human cells—including heart, liver, and retinal cells—from so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. The company says it can make pure cells that meet precise quality standards. "And that's what opens the door to new biology," Palay says.
Cellular Dynamics, aka CDI, went public last year and has focused its business on making cells that drug companies and other researchers use to test the toxicity of drugs and other compounds. CDI has also won grants to manufacture stem cells derived from donor tissue samples and amassed in biobanks for researchers worldwide to use.
Many biotech firms start by providing technologies and research tools to others, as CDI does. The big question inevitably arises: Will they graduate into drug developers themselves, a far riskier but potentially more lucrative business? For cell-based regenerative medicine, that business would mean transplanting living cells into humans to treat diseases or regrow missing parts, for example.
CDI's answer to that question has always been conservative: Its 2013 prospectus for taking the company public, for example, made it clear that it wanted to get into the cell therapy market "on a collaborative basis"—meaning it would make the cells that its partners would try to turn into treatments.
This year, Palay started saying publicly that CDI within a couple of years would have its first deal with a partner to co-develop a cellular therapy.
It came sooner, with a late October announcement of a $1.2 million contract from the National Eye Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health. Taking blood samples from 10 patients, CDI will make stem cells and retinal pigment epithelial cells that a team of federal researchers will use to develop early-stage treatments for dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a common cause of blindness.
The deal is a watershed moment for CDI, but it should be noted that the contract is a small one that only covers pre-clinical safety studies, after which NEI researchers would file an investigational new drug application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. From there, a drug company would probably be needed to move the research through clinical trials.
If the research makes it to human testing, CDI believes it would be the first U.S. Phase 1 clinical trial using patients' own cells that have first been coaxed into an embryonic-like state and then re-directed into a specific tissue type. And if those trials lead to an approved product, it would mark the first cell transplant treatment for dry AMD, CDI says.
Palay says it's "not clear" what a potential agreement would look like if another company took the therapy forward. Theoretically, CDI would earn manufacturing fees, development milestone payments, and royalties if a product reached the market, but that's all deal making for the future.
For now, Palay says, the NEI deal is "very exciting, and it's the first of what we hope are many examples of how we're going to help clinicians, help doctors speed new therapies to people."
Palay equates it to a software company providing an open-source platform upon which engineers can develop Web and mobile apps, but in this case it's CDI providing the cells that are the "building blocks" for "everybody else's innovation." "This is the beginning of apps for human biology," he says.
CDI's competitors include Japan-based Reprocell, but that publicly traded company hasn't pushed much outside of Japan, says Tycho Peterson, a JPMorgan financial analyst who covers CDI. At this point, Peterson considers CDI the market leader for human cell manufacturing.
But will CDI ever develop its own cell therapies in-house? "There's more upside potentially, but there's also more development and regulatory risk," Peterson says.
Palay doesn't rule it out, but he says it's not in the plans for the next few years. Such a move would potentially require a hefty investment—Palay declined to speculate how much—because CDI would need to equip its Madison facility to meet FDA standards for conducting clinical trials, Palay says. "It's a different set of core competencies than [what] we've built," he says.
Cellular Dynamics's scientific advisors. From left to right: George Church of Harvard, James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Leroy Hood of the Institute for Systems Biology. Photo courtesy of Cellular Dynamics.
Lee Hood, the president of the Seattle-based Institute for Systems Biology and a scientific advisor to CDI, thinks the company "can never say never" when it comes to developing cell therapies on its own. For example, Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN) executives "swore on a stack of Bibles they were just going to be an instrument company," Hood says, but the San Diego-based maker of genome sequencing machines has since branched out into other areas, like molecular diagnostics and bioinformatics.
Hood thinks CDI could "very easily move" into the regenerative medicine field "in a big way," but the company is taking the prudent approach by getting a foot in the door through joint development deals.
"I think they have to be cautious now," Hood says. "A lot of this is long term. It costs money."
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Home  News  Dave Hughes Elected to Vice Chair of World Sailing's Athletes' Commission
Dave Hughes Elected to Vice Chair of World Sailing's Athletes' Commission
Posted on September 24, 2021 at 6:47 pm by Allison Chenard
BRISTOL, RI (September 24, 2021) – Men's 470 Tokyo 2020 Olympian David Hughes (Miami, Fla.) was recently elected to the role of Vice Chair of World Sailing's Athletes' Commission, a term he will serve through 2024. Hughes was one of 19 candidates who ran for positions and is among the five newly appointed members to the total nine-person Commission. Over 200 athletes voted during the Olympic and Paralympic periods to choose a strong group of representatives to act as the link between active Olympic sailors and World Sailing.
Dave's history with the Olympics extends back to just after his college graduation from the University of Maine when he teamed up with Mikee Anderson-Mitterling in the Men's 470 class to campaign for the Beijing 2008 Olympics. While his first campaign came up just short, it kicked off an impressive involvement with the Olympic world including a coaching role in the London 2012 Games and a presence in the USA Men's 470 with skipper Stu McNay in both the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Games.
Outside of the Olympics, Dave is a four-time National Champion and six-time North American Champion in the 470 class. He has won five World Cup gold medals and three European Championship medals (2018, 2016, 2015), as well as many other podium finishes. In 2018, Dave was signed by the New York Yacht Club's American Magic team, which challenged for the 36th America's Cup. Hughes holds both bachelor and master's degrees and was a US Senate, US House, and White House West Wing intern during 1996-1998.
Read Dave's full bio HERE
"It is a true honor to have received the vote of my Olympic peers from around the globe," said Hughes. "These are my friends and competitors; their confidence in me is a responsibility I don't take lightly."
World Sailing Vice President and US Sailing Board President, Cory Sertl, joined the US Sailing Team in celebrating the good news: "We're delighted that Dave Hughes was voted in by his athlete peers to be on World Sailing's Athletes' Commission," said Sertl. "It's a huge honor and we're pleased to have someone of his breadth of experience in the room. He'll be a wonderful advocate for a wide range of athletes. He articulates points of view very well and he'll be a great spokesperson for the sport and for the athletes. We all look forward to working with him in this capacity."
"Our sport is in a wonderful moment of transition," said Hughes. "There are many stakeholders and some massive decisions on the table. My priority is to act as the transmission between athletes and their own governance. The more we make those connections, the healthier sailing will be in the future."
World Sailing Athletes' Commission:
Jo Aleh (NZL), current Chair – 470 Women
David Hughes (USA), Vice Chair – Men's 470
Mathilde De Kerangat (FRA) – Laser Radial
Pawel Kolodzinski (POL) – 49er
Pavlos Kontides (CYP) – Laser Standard
Heiko Kroger (GER) – Para Sailing
Facundo Olezza (ARG) – Finn
Sofia Bekatorou (GRE) – Nacra 17
Mayaan Davidovich (ISR) – RS:X Women
According to World Sailing, the Athletes' Commission shall:
be a non-political consultative body to offer advice and assistance to World Sailing on matters and issues of relevance to athletes and act as a link between the Olympic athletes and World Sailing;
present the Olympic athletes' points of view to the Executive Committee through recommendations and proposals;
promote respect of the rights of the athletes within the sport and draw up recommendations to that effect;
promote high standards of sportsmanship and ethical performance when competing and participating.
reflect the views of the Olympic athletes competing and participating at the highest level and establish relationships to promote feedback to the Executive Committee on matters concerning Olympic athletes; and
liaise with the Executive Committee on World Sailing Events to help World Sailing respond to the needs of the Olympic athletes.


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EXCLUSIVE: Native American Voter Bribe Efforts Were Partially Funded By Soros and Government Agencies — Powered By Act Blue
Originally posted to The Gateway Pundit by Cassandra Fairbanks
Efforts to bribe Native Americans to vote in states crucial for the Democrats were partially funded by George Soros' Open Society Foundation and government agencies.
Vote Native is an initiative of the National Congress of American Indians.
As the Gateway Pundit reported on Sunday evening, Native Americans in Arizona, Nevada and a slew of other states were given gift cards, televisions, electronics, and even resort stays in exchange for voting. These efforts were largely coordinated by the NCAI.
According to their website, the NCAI is partnered with the controversial Open Society Foundation, which was founded by Soros. The group also lists the Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of the Interior, […]
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I Challenge You
I challenge you to make a glass of 100% pure orange juice... without using oranges to help you.
And you can't squeeze the orange or use a machine.
Rather, you have to blow up the orange and then somehow glass it, for those of you who are keen.
...Even if that's something incomprehensible and unseen.
Challenge accepted or rejected?
Even before you accept the challenge I have indeed already won!
Because without physically squeezing the orange juice into a glass, it can't be done.
Similarly sit in a car all day long without fuel,
it's not going to move an inch because that's the rule!
A car cannot move without external intervention -
so how can the universe exist by itself, without being a part of the creation.
How can anything be made by itself so new?
The human is so weak, he can't produce a baby by himself, it takes two.
In fact, the One Creator just says 'Be', and then it's in full view.
You deny God, so who created the sun and the moon... and you.
The fish began swimming, the kangaroo hopped, the man walked, and the bird flew.
1400 years ago in a desert, the Qur'aan was revealed to an Unlettered Prophet.
He who had no access to microscopes, universities, and other technology, not even a rocket.
Revelation came to him regarding the sun, the moon and the stars.
That's why he knew about the creation of the universe and things unseen.
For example, centuries back they did not know that the earth was round;
Read the Quran, in it this scientific fact can be found (79:30).
Back in those days who could have carried out such an inspection?
Science today says it's right, that the light of the moon is from the sun, it's a reflection.
All this was revealed in the Qur'aan, the book of perfection.
Furthermore, much money and plenty of detailed research informed scientists: "One primary nebula and one explosion."
If they had read the Qur'aan, the unchanged word of God, it had already informed:
"The heavens and the earth were one, together
Then they were told to asunder" (Chapter 21)
A primary nebula and an explosion.
So we see that the big bang theory and the Almighty have a connection.
It happened by God's Will!
Without His Will there would be nothing,
indeed there would be nil!
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An Aspect of the Qur'aan's Miraculous Nature: The KING of Egypt 25 Apr 2012
Bible, Qur'an and Science (7/7) 22 Apr 2012
Embryology in the Qur'an (6/7) 22 Apr 2012
Biology in the Qur'an (5/7) 22 Apr 2012
Geology in the Qur'an (4/7) 22 Apr 2012
Astronomy in the Qur'an (3/7) 22 Apr 2012
Creation of the Universe (2/7) 22 Apr 2012
The Qur'an And Science (1/7) 22 Apr 2012
The Scientific Precision of the Qur'an by Dr Zaghloul Mohammad Al Najjar 27 Jan 2011
The Preservation of Pharaoh's Body 22 Aug 2010
The Victory of the Romans and the Lowest Point on Earth 19 Aug 2010
The Miracle of Iron 19 Aug 2010
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Is Getting High a Fast Way to Enlightenment?
By	Conscious Owl | Inner Power
When Alan Watts, the foremost American exponent of Zen asked a Roshi, "How long will it take to reach Satori?" He replied, "It may take three minutes. It may take 30 years. I mean that!"
Taking pot for personal or recreational use is now legal in the State of California, due to a recent ballot box initiative. This is the first time such a proposal has passed here in decades, reversing the illegalization of marijuana that took place in the late 1960's.
We don't yet know how this will all shake out. Will a higher court overturn it? It is most intriguing that California has moved far left while most of the rest of the nation has moved far right.
To what degree will federal law override this initiative? Are citizens actually free to make their own decisions on how to use their bodies and how they consume substances? The major political parties have us believe otherwise.
Given the political clout and influence of California, along with several other states having decriminalized pot, we might wonder about the implications. Even Timothy Leary, the high priest and prophet of the psychedelic revolution, was all for having the use of substances like LSD registered and controlled, even though they might be legally dispensed and ingested.
Why Everybody "Must Get Stoned"
The world has never been in more need of a consciousness revolution, now that we face rampant religious terrorism, environmental and climate disruption and financial instability at a global level.
Business as usual has stopped working for a number of years, and people are beginning to think deeper and lean toward institutional change, as witnessed by the recent Presidential election. Two different candidates, one on the right, one on the left, reminded us that our system is broken.
At the base of the disconnect in politics, economy and the environment is what Dr. Fritjof Capra, in his Tao of Physics, labeled "a crisis in perception." This crisis is both at the individual and collective level.
Dr. Capra arrived at his breakthrough insights around physics after having taken LSD by the ocean. He directly experienced the intricate interrelationships the new physics and ecology revealed as the divine dance of Shiva.
We all must alter our consciousness, one way or another, if we are going to have the cosmic perspective we are going to need to create a sustainable economy and reinvent both our mindstyle and our lifestyle the world over. Only within a profoundly empowering context can we then bring our new vision into reality.
Getting High as a Door Opener
In the late 1960's, Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Richard Alpert (now Baba Ram Dass) challenged the youth culture to "tune in, turn on and drop out." They had already been thrown out of Harvard for publically advocating the use of psychedelics.
During the long "Summer of Love" in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, they felt they had nothing to lose. However, they had altogether different interpretations on how to execute on that vision.
Dr. Leary pressed for a worldwide revolution where people took responsibility for their lives, opened up their minds and began to work for profound institutional change, much as was later seen in the communes of the 1970's. He literally wanted to bring on a new age through collective action, using the new mind-opening tools.
Baba Ram Dass, however, in an attempt to arrive at a new cognitive map that might explain his profound experiences, went to India and found a Mahasiddhi, a great master with supreme powers in the person of Neem Karoli Baba, or Maharaji.
Ram Dass saw it that there were people "who knew," and all the rest of us who didn't. Ram Dass had zero faith in his former Harvard colleagues ability to arrive at the truth.
In the decade that ensued, the vast majority of Americans who went to India seeking enlightenment were powered by a psychedelic encounter of one kind or another, usually through illegal pot, hashish, mushrooms or LSD.
They all sensed there was something profoundly missing in how they held reality, and were determined to do anything, literally anything to find out.
Related article: Can The Human Brain Create Consciousness?
Getting High as a Way of Life
How then should we look at psychedelics today? Should we take the newly legalized ones on a routine basis?
Ram Dass counseled the youth after returning from India with his classic, Be Here Now: A Cookbook for a Sacred Life, that these kinds of drugs could be very helpful in shaking people from their unconscious assumptions about reality, but they were hopelessly limited in their ability to convey a person to the other shore.
The problem Ram Dass encountered after several hundred LSD trips is that he always came down. No matter how glorious the experience, after a few hours it dissipated.
Until going to India, he had very little context for integrating it into his life and self-identity. His guru, Maharaji, was amused and annoyed by Ram Dass's dependency on psychedelics. Maharaji ingested a couple of very large doses in front of Ram Dass, which did absolutely nothing to him. Ram Dass had to conclude that it was because his master was already there.
I have found in my youth that taking marijuana and hashish always took a toll on my energy. I enjoyed wonderful insights, but it was difficult, if not impossible, to share them with anyone.
The one LSD trip I had with a trusted friend who worked as a guide was wonderful. However, I didn't feel I needed any more. After I had taken the est training, transformation became my focus. I couldn't see the point of an artificial high, as I had a way to get high "just in the process of life, itself," as the seminar had originally promised.
Getting High as a Religious Sacrament
In 2016, a remarkable study by Douglas Osto, a university lecturer, was published by Columbia University Press, Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America.
Doug has grown up practicing Buddhism and is still relatively young. He also managed to take some psychedelics along the way, and was impressed with their potential to open up consciousness.
Doug is close enough to the age of the millennials to be interesting. He maintains there is a new attitude in Eastern religious circles that taking psychedelics carefully and judiciously can be very helpful in having a direct experience of enlightenment.
He conducted in-depth interviews with well over a hundred practitioners of all ages and found that most of them had ingested psychedelics at some point, and that this experience was very helpful to them in making the most of the Dharma.
He found that a significant percentage of interviewees maintained that sustained use was an integral part of their practice, and that psychedelics revealed insights beyond the classical tradition.
A few of them had found that they were dangerous and others that they were primarily helpful as door-openers, but useless, thereafter.
It would seem that we need to consider every possibility in awakening humanity in time.
Perhaps the new legalization of Marijuana in California is a harbinger of a consciousness revelation that can go global in record time, thanks to the pervasiveness of the Internet, social networks and media and mobile devices. For the first time ever, we have a global brain that can talk instantly with virtually anyone, anywhere.
Your Own Creative Response
With new possibilities opening up so dramatically, you may want to re-assess what you do with your head and heart. Getting high comes in many forms, including climbing the Himalayan mountains.
We all can undergo sudden illumination, including falling head over heels backward in love or undergoing a near death experience. Digital media, themselves, are now a powerful way to get high, perhaps even more promising than hallucinogenics.
If you love our Planet and would like to contribute is some way, the first step is to get high, yourself, and then help others get high. While this poem may be entirely tongue-in-check, the great Romantic French poet, Charles Baudelaire, wrote a tribute to getting high:
You must get drunk without stopping.
When someone asks you, "What time is it?", tell him, "It's time to get drunk."
Get drunk always… with wine, with religion, with poetry, according to your taste.
Just go get drunk.
One conscious owl to another... sharing what we learned over the years, and from many wise owls before us.
How to Forgive Yourself for Blowing It
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How to Create Your Own Sacred Space
Violence: A Conscious Response
Isn't It About Time for Evolution to Evolve?
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Copyright 2017 by Conscious Owl. All rights reserved.


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Kokcydiostatyki – antybiotyki lub chemioterapeutyki dozwolone do stosowania u zwierząt, głównie drobiu, w profilaktyce lub leczeniu choroby zwanej kokcydiozą, wywoływanej przez pierwotniaki Eimeria. Mogą działać kokcydiostatycznie (wstrzymywać rozwój pierwotniaków) lub kokcydiobójczo (zabijać pierwotniaki). Nie są wykorzystywane w leczeniu ludzi.

Rodzaje kokcydiostatyków
Wyróżniamy dwa rodzaje kokcydiostatyków:
 kokcydiostatyki jonoforowe (antybiotyki jonoforowe) – produkty fermentacji promieniowców z rodzaju Streptomyces, działają kokcydiostatycznie na Eimeria, poprzez zaburzenie transportu błonowego Na+, K+, Ca2+ i Mg2+
 kokcydiostatyki chemiczne – związki syntetyczne kokcydiostatyczne lub kokcydiobójcze, o różnym mechanizmie działania

Poszczególne antybiotyki jonoforowe różnią się między sobą wchłanianiem, dostępnością biologiczną, dystrybucją i metabolizmem u zwierząt, np. salinomycyna ulega bardzo szybko wydaleniu, podczas gdy kwas lasalowy (lasalocid) ma okres półtrwania wynoszący 36 godzin.

Zastosowanie

Dodatki paszowe (prewencyjnie)
Kokcydiostatyki są stosowane w przemysłowej hodowli zwierząt w formie dodatku do pasz, w celu zapobiegania kokcydiozie przez prawie cały okres tuczu. W intensywnej hodowli drobiu (głównie kurcząt rzeźnych i indyków rzeźnych) podaje się powszechnie kokcydiostatyki jonoforowe (antybiotyki jonoforowe).  Okres karencji w przypadku drobiu i królików rzeźnych waha się od 0 do 5 dni w zależności od gatunku zwierząt, ich przeznaczenia konsumpcyjnego i użytego kokcydiostatyku.

Leki weterynaryjne (interwencyjnie)
W klinicznych przypadkach choroby stosuje się wyłącznie kokcydiostatyki chemiczne, czyli środki kokcydiobójcze (pierwotniakobójcze). Kokcydiostatyki chemiczne są stosowane znacznie rzadziej.

Lista kokcydiostatyków dopuszczonych w krajach UE jako leki weterynaryjne:
 dekokwinat u bydła i owiec
 diklazuril u owiec
 halofuginon u bydła
 klazuril u gołębi
 toltrazuril u kurcząt, indyków, świń i bydła

Wszystkie wyżej wymienione kokcydiostatyki chemiczne są związkami syntetycznymi i wykazują aktywność kokcydiobójczą przeciw Eimeria.

Dopuszczenie kokcydiostatyków  i sposób ich stosowania w hodowli zwierząt regulują przepisy prawne krajowe i unijne. W 2006 w państwach UE wyprodukowano szacunkowo 17 340 tysięcy ton paszy dla brojlerów (wersje starter i grower/finiszer), z czego 86% stanowiły pasze z kokcydiostatykami i 14% bez kokcydiostatyku, w końcowej fazie tuczu 100% pasz teoretycznie nie zawierało kokcydioststyku).

Zagrożenie i ochrona konsumentów
Istnieje możliwość pozostawania kokcydiostatyków w mięsie i jajach ze względu na ich powszechne dodawanie do pasz, co z kolei stwarza zagrożenie dla zdrowia konsumentów.
EMEA i Komitet do spraw Leków Weterynaryjnych nie opracowały jeszcze dla wszystkich kokcydiostatyków najwyższych, dopuszczalnych wartości ich pozostałości (ang. Maximum Residue Limit, skrót MRL) w żywności pochodzenia zwierzęcego, np. MRL dla kwasu lasalowego wynosi 20 μg/kg w mięśniach, 100 μg/kg w wątrobie i 150 μg/kg w jajach (dotyczy drobiu, według EMEA). Brakuje też jednolitych regulacji w tym zakresie dla wszystkich państw UE.

Zakłady wytwarzające lub wprowadzające do obrotu kokcydiostatyki oraz premiksy i mieszanki paszowe je zawierające muszą zostać uprzednio zatwierdzone przez organ właściwy dla tego typu działalności, zgodnie z rozporządzeniem Parlamentu Europejskiego nr 183/2005 z 12 stycznia 2005, dotyczącym higieny pasz. Dzięki temu zabezpieczeniu hodowcy otrzymują gotowe do użycia mieszanki paszowe z kokcydiostatykami.

Problem stanowi również wyprodukowanie pasz niezanieczyszczonych kokcydiostatykami dla kur niosek i brojlerów tuż przed ubojem, gdyż dochodzi do kontaminacji podczas mieszania w tych samych urządzeniach. W związku z tym postuluje się rozdzielenie linii produkcyjnych dla pasz czystych i pasz z kokcydiostatykiem.

W Polsce od 2003 są regularnie przeprowadzane badania kontrolne zgodnie z przepisami UE. Średnio kontroluje się od 706 do 883 próbek rocznie. W 2003 wartości MRL przekroczyło 8 próbek (1,13%), a w 2004 – 3 próbki (0,34%). Od 2004 prowadzony jest też w Polsce urzędowy monitoring pasz pod kątem obecności kokcydiostatyków, ale nie opracowano ustaleń co do metod analitycznych. Proponuje się przeniesienie pasz z kokcydiostatykami do grupy tzw. pasz leczniczych, których produkcja podlega bardziej rygorystycznym przepisom.

Zagrożenia medyczno-weterynaryjne wynikające ze stosowania kokcydiostatyków u zwierząt:
 rozwój oporności na kokcydiostatyki (antybiotyki)
 toksyczność w wyższych stężeniach (np. LD50 monenzyny dla kurcząt wynosi 200 mg/kg masy ciała)
 narazyna i salinomycyna są niedozwolone do stosowania u indyków, gdyż prowadzą do silnego zatrucia
Objawy zatrucia kokcydiostatykami jonoforowymi u drobiu:
 spadek spożycia paszy
 obniżenie wzrostu
 biegunka
 wychudzenie
 senność
 brak koordynacji ruchowej

Zanieczyszczenie żywności
Pozostałości kokcydiostatyków w tkankach zwierząt i jajach mogą stanowić zagrożenie toksykologiczne dla konsumentów. W związku z tym kokcydiostatyków nie podaje się kurom nioskom, a w przypadku brojlerów należy zachować odpowiedni okres karencji. Kokcydiostatyki – antybiotyki jonoforowe wykazują duże powinowactwo do tłuszczu i mogą kumulować się w żółtkach jaj, osiągając wysokie i długo utrzymujące się stężenia. Ze względu na lipofilowy charakter kokcydiostatyków analiza mięsa czy jaj przeznaczonych do spożycia pod względem zawartości tych związków nie jest łatwa. Mimo tych trudności zostały opracowane skuteczne metody badania zawartości kokcydiostatyków głównie przy użyciu spektrometrii mas.

 Główne przyczyny skażenia jaj antybiotykami jonoforowymi:
 przedłużenie okresu podawania paszy z kokcydiostatykami kurczętom przeznaczonym na nioski ponad zalecany okres od 12 do 16 tygodni
 podawanie nioskom paszy zanieczyszczonej nawet niewielkimi ilościami kokcydiostatyków

 Główne przyczyny zanieczyszczenia żywności kokcydiostatykami:
 pomyłki ludzkie przy produkcji pasz lub podawaniu leków
 zanieczyszczenie pasz podczas produkcji
 nieprzestrzeganie okresu karencji
 obieg wtórny substancji lub jej metabolitów z odchodów (głównie dotyczy hodowli ściółkowej)
 interakcje z innymi lekami wydłużające okres półtrwania
 indywidualne uwarunkowania biologiczne zwierząt, tj. wiek, płeć, różnice metaboliczne, choroba

Metody alternatywne
Od 1 stycznia 2013 roku rozporządzeniem 1831/203/EC podjęto decyzję o zakazie dalszego dodawania kokcydioststyków do pasz dla zwierząt. Nie opracowano innych metod zapobiegania i zwalczania kokcydiozy. Postuluje się dopuszczenie stosowania kokcydioststyków jako leków weterynaryjnych.

Możliwe alternatywne metody dla stosowania kokcydiostatyków, o niepotwierdzonej do tej pory dostateczną ilością danych skuteczności, obejmują:
 szczepionki – są specyficzne dla danego gatunku i nie są dostępne dla wszystkich zwierząt; na terenie wszystkich krajów UE jest dopuszczona jedna szczepionka dla młodych kur rozpoczynających okres nieśności (od 1992) oraz dla kurcząt rzeźnych w stadach hodowlanych (od 2000); w 2004 przeprowadzono doświadczenia ze szczepionką Livacox T, podawaną kurczętom w wodzie do picia po uprzednim rozcieńczeniu
 leki weterynaryjne wydawane na receptę – stosowane są w leczeniu ognisk kokcydiozy, np. toltrazuril, amprolium oraz sulfonamidy; nie nadają się do powszechnego stosowania w programach profilaktyki kokcydiozy ze względu na rozwój oporności oraz włączanie leczenia w zaawansowanym stadium klinicznym, gdy oocysty zostaną w znacznym stopniu wydalone, zarażając inne zwierzęta
 genetyczną selekcję zwierząt pod kątem oporności na oocysty w celu uzyskania opornych ras (w trakcie badań)
 stosowanie specjalistycznych środków dezynfekujących (oocysty są oporne na środki najczęściej używane)
 próby z utworzeniem barier chroniących wejście do przewodu pokarmowego ptaków za pomocą zakwaszaczy i enzymów lub zawiesin prebiotyków albo mikroorganizmów probiotycznych
 zioła – obejmują ekstrakty roślinne oraz preparaty na bazie olejków eterycznych (brak wniosków o rejestrację)

W zapobieganiu kokcydiozie odgrywają rolę także takie czynniki, jak:
 właściwe usuwanie i dezynfekcja zakażonych odpadów i odchodów chorych zwierząt z kurników w celu usunięcia pierwotniaków ze środowiska
 dostarczanie zwierzętom czystej wody i pożywienia
 unikanie zatłoczenia w przemysłowej hodowli

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 M. Olejnik, T. Szprengier-Juszkiewicz Pozostałości kokcydiostatyków w tkankach drobiu i jajach, Zakład Farmakologii i Toksykologii Państwowego Instytutu Weterynaryjnego w Puławach, "Medycyna Weterynaryjna", 2007, 63(12)

Leki weterynaryjne


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Title Monarch Food Products, Vernon
Historical Data Central Manufacturing District is an industrial tract of approximately 2800 acres, partly located within the cities of Commerce, Bell, and Vernon. In 1923, the tract comprised 300 acres of the old Rancho San Antonio, one of the original Spanish land grants. Railroad lines and utilities were laid and the Terminal Building became the first structure erected at 4814 Loma Vista Avenue, and serves as its landmark. In 1928 the assets were purchased by the Santa Fe for further development. The district added new areas in 1930, 1932, 1947 and 1948 - to provide for new and expanding industries and services. Thus it has grown from its original 300 acres to more than 2800 acres. More than 60 food companies are located in the CDM, which also houses automobiles, furniture, household items, machinery, paints, paper, plastics, steel, trucks, wood, cosmetics and also the benefits provided by service and processing companies of all types. CMD, which has been called the largest development of its kind in the world, is located eastward from Soto Street to Garfield Avenue; the southern edge is bordered partly by Fruitland Avenue and Randolph Street; on the northern edge are Washington Boulevard and the Santa Ana Freeway route, partially extending north beyond the freeway line.
Description The sign can be seen in brass letters across the brick facade of the 1927 Monarch Food Products factory, located at 4500 District Boulevard in Vernon, which was the first West Coast manufacturing and distribution arm of the Chicago based Reid, Murdoch Company. They roasted coffee and packed spices, pickles, olives and salad dressings at this location.
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Le végétarisme bouddhique est une pratique alimentaire, qui, au-delà du simple végétarisme excluant la consommation de chair animale, a une histoire et des bases philosophiques précises, spécifiques au bouddhisme.

Bouddha historique

D'après le vinaya, le Bouddha indique qu'il existe trois sortes de viandes pures () et dix sortes de viandes impures et il demande de s'abstenir de ces dernières. Il ne s'agissait donc pas d'interdire la viande mais de réguler sa consommation. D'après A. Waley, cet interdit se fit plus rigoureux en Inde aux environs du .

Il est peu probable que le Bouddha (historique) ait considéré l'ensemble de ses enseignements philosophiques comme une religion proprement dite. Bien qu'il ait créé un ashram, comme n'importe quel guru brahmane qui accepte d'offrir ses enseignements, le dernier message qu'il adressa à ses disciples fut de « rechercher avec diligence leur Salut ».

À l'époque du Bouddha, comme d'ailleurs dans le reste du monde antique (en Grèce par exemple), manger de la viande découlait exclusivement d'un processus rituel selon lequel on sacrifie à une divinité une créature (l'homme figurant en tête de la liste des animaux dignes d'être offerts dans un sacrifice védique) : jamais la viande n'était consommée en dehors de la sphère sacrée: ce faisant, comme le Bouddha s'oppose absolument aux sacrifices sanglants, en s'adressant à des brâhmanes qui le pratiquaient, on peut comprendre que sa vision de l'alimentation était végétarienne, du fait même qu'il était inimaginable pour l'époque de tuer une créature pour se nourrir seulement (il serait spécieux de voir que, dans son refus du sacrifice sanglant, le Bouddha historique autorise ainsi l'alimentation carnée sur un plan profane, comme c'est le cas généralement dans le monde chrétien), la consommation de viande correspondant dans l'Antiquité (hindoue ou non) à un sacrifice sanglant, un rituel, non à un désir personnel (profane) :

Il faut préciser que, selon la maxime védique, « sacrifier n'est pas tuer », et que l'Ahimsâ est le devoir premier du brâhmane (du sacrificateur-enseignant donc) ; de plus, selon certaines interprétations du Véda, le sacrifice sanglant peut être considéré comme un rite nécessaire au fonctionnement du cosmos, si bien qu'il n'est pas vu comme une violence (himsâ), un meurtre, mais uniquement comme un sacrifice (le sacrifice sanglant est ainsi considéré comme respectueux de l'Ahimsâ, de la non-violence universelle). Cependant, avec le Bouddha, considéré par les Hindous comme un Dieu incarné, le Dieu Vishnou, un Avatâr, le sacrifice sanglant perd cette valeur rituelle, et il est vu aussi comme une violence, si ce n'est une hypocrisie. Ce qui fait que la pratique du sacrifice sanglant est absente en presque totalité chez les brâhmanes aujourd'hui, en Inde.

Le Bouddha historique est donc un des personnages majeurs de la diffusion (ou consolidation) du végétarisme en Inde, tout comme son quasi-contemporain  jaïn Mahavira, et un millénaire plus tard, l'hindou Shankara :

Beaucoup de brâhmanes, sans adhérer à la philosophie du Bouddha, apprécièrent cette doctrine qui consolidait leur principe de vie majeur, – l'Ahimsâ. Cela est confirmé par la politique menée par l'empereur Ashoka, qui fut un siècle plus tard un fervent admirateur du Bouddha et de sa philosophie, et qui, en plus d'envoyer des missionnaires jusqu'à l'île de Ceylan (Sri Lanka), fut aussi un grand propagateur de l'Ahimsâ (donc du végétarisme) sur tout le territoire indien : « Ce don (le dharma) consiste à traiter équitablement esclaves et serviteurs, à obéir à la mère et au père, à user de libéralité envers les amis, connaissances, parents, brâhmanes et ascètes et à ne pas tuer les animaux. » (Ashoka, édit 10).

Point de vue des différentes écoles

Theravada
Dans le Theravada, comme dans d'autres traditions bouddhistes, le végétarisme n'est pas obligatoire, mais est souvent recommandé. Dans les règles monastiques du Vinaya, tuer intentionnellement un animal constitue une faute (pacittiya 61). Selon l'interprétation la plus répandue des textes (notamment du Vinaya), la viande est permise si l'animal n'a pas été « tué spécifiquement pour le moine », bien que le texte original ne précise pas ce dernier point (« tué spécifiquement pour le moine » est un rajout supposé nécessaire pour la compréhension) :

Par ailleurs, la tentative de schisme de Devadatta, rapportée par le canon pali, expose clairement le refus du Bouddha de rendre obligatoire le végétarisme pour les moines, une des cinq règles que voulait précisément imposer Devadatta à la communauté monastique (résultant en un schisme, décrit dans le Vinaya, Sanghadisesa 10).

Le commerce de viande n'est cependant pas conforme au Noble Chemin Octuple, il fait partie des cinq métiers qui ne sont pas des « moyens d'existence justes ». De plus, l'empereur Ashoka, après sa conversion, fit une loi à respecter de ne point tuer volontairement des animaux (ce qui sous-entend l'ordre d'un végétarisme général).

Mahayana

Dans certains sûtra du Mahâyâna, le Bouddha dénonce vigoureusement la consommation de viande. Dans le Mahayana Mahaparinirvana sutra, le Bouddha déclare que « la consommation de viande éteint le germe de la suprême compassion », ajoutant que toutes les sortes de viandes et la consommation de poisson (même d'animaux déjà trouvés morts) est interdite pour ses disciples. Le Bouddha souligne ensuite que la consommation de viande ne peut pas coexister avec une réelle compassion et demande non seulement d'être végétarien, mais de suivre un mode de vie végan. Dans ces sûtras, le Bouddha annonce également que dans le futur les moines « réaliseront des écrits faux face à l'authentique Dharma » et concocteront leurs propres sûtra pour pouvoir créer le mensonge selon lequel le Bouddha a permis de manger de la viande, alors qu'en fait l'Éveillé ne le fit jamais.

Le Lankavatara Sutra (un texte du Mahâyâna), en particulier, consacre un chapitre entier à la réponse du Bouddha à la demande d'un disciple nommé Mahamati, qui lui demande : « apprends-nous le mérite et le vice au sujet de la consommation de viande. » Un long passage dans le Lankavatara Sutra montre le Bouddha argumentant fortement en faveur du végétarisme, puisque la consommation de la chair des êtres vivants est selon lui incompatible avec la compassion qu'un Bodhisattva cultive. Plusieurs autres sûtra mahâyâna interdisent aussi catégoriquement la consommation de viande.

Au Japon

Dans ce pays, principalement de tradition mahāyāna, en 675, l'empereur Tenmu promulgue les premières lois visant à interdire la consommation de viande d'animaux (bovins, chevaux, chiens, poulets et singes). Cette interdiction reste en vigueur pendant près de . En 1872, l'empereur Meiji signe un édit annulant formellement l'interdiction de consommer de la viande, consommation qui était déjà admise à l'époque Edo (1600-1868). Aujourd'hui, certaines écoles bouddhiques - notamment zen - sont exclusivement végétaliennes et recommandent la pratique du shōjin-ryōri.

Vajrayana

Bouddhisme tibétain
Dans Le Livre tibétain de la vie et de la mort (), on voit le fait d'éviter aux animaux une fin violente comme une haute vertu à cultiver ; de plus, le monde des morts obtient des bienfaits par ces actes de compassion envers les bêtes :

Dans toutes les communautés monastiques où il enseigna, Dagpo Lama Rinpoché (1845-1919) incitait au  végétarisme par respect pour la vie.

Geshe Thupten Phelgye, alors enfant, a vu l'intérieur d'un abattoir, ce qui l'a mené à devenir un ardent défenseur du végétarisme. En tant que premier président de la Société internationale gelugpa, il a aidé à passer la résolution en faveur du végétarisme pour tous les résidents gelugpa de monastères et couvents. Il a aidé à passer un projet de loi 2003, au Parlement tibétain en exil, où il est un représentant de la tradition gelugpa, qui a encouragé les Tibétains à devenir végétarien, en déclarant 2004 « année tibétaine végétarienne ».

Le  Dalaï-Lama et le  Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje, ont donné en 2007 et 2008 des instructions sur les bienfaits de ne pas manger de viande afin de ne pas faire souffrir les animaux. Suivant ces conseils, les Tibétains modifient profondément leurs habitudes alimentaires et deviennent de plus en plus végétariens, et dans la Région autonome du Tibet, ainsi que dans le Kham, et l'Amdo, des restaurants végétariens s'ouvrent.

Entre 2004 et 2005, la croissance du tourisme chinois a augmenté de 46 % à Lhassa. L'ouverture de la Ligne ferroviaire Qing-Zang et surnommé le « Dragon de fer » joignant Pékin à Lhassa en mars 2006. Cette nouvelle ligne a permis d'acheminer entre juillet 2006 et mai 2007,  de marchandises dont 94,4 % à destination du Tibet, dont majoritairement des produits de base. Le tourisme Han et notamment le tourisme religieux s'est développé à destination de Lhassa. La conversion des populations au bouddhisme tibétain est devenue importante. En 2013, grâce à cette ligne, 13 millions de touristes, essentiellement chinois, ont visité le Tibet, soit quatre fois plus que la population de la région, et le végétarisme y est devenu populaire. En 2008, il y a deux restaurants végétariens à Lhassa , en août 2015, il en existait environ dix.

Vues bouddhistes actuelles

Bien que non unanimes dans les détails, toutes les écoles bouddhiques estiment qu'il n'est en aucune manière digne d'un être humain, et de son intelligence, d'exploiter ou d'opprimer les autres êtres : la « nature de Bouddha » est en chaque être et l'humain doit la réaliser pleinement en ayant de la compassion pour les êtres plus ignorants que lui afin de leur épargner le maximum de souffrances dans leur vie respective.

Le bouddhisme, de manière générale, « estime que tous les êtres ont le droit fondamental d'exister et de ne pas souffrir ». Quand un bouddhiste adopte sa voie spirituelle, il doit déclarer : « En prenant le Dharma pour refuge, je promets de ne plus nuire aux êtres », ce qui s'applique bien sûr aussi aux animaux.

Ainsi, dans le Soutra de l'entrée à Lanka, l'un des sermons prononcés par le Bouddha Shakyamuni il y a  et repris par les écoles bouddhiques défendant le végétarisme, on peut lire :

Consommation carnée dans les pays à majorité bouddhiste

À l'exception des moines du bouddhisme chinois, qui adhèrent au bouddhisme mahayana et sont végétariens, les autres fidèles du bouddhisme sont des consommateurs de chair animale : les moines du bouddhisme theravada acceptent les offrandes de chair animale pour se nourrir ; ainsi, les moines et laïcs bouddhistes du Sri Lanka, de Birmanie, du Laos, du Cambodge ou de Thaïlande sont en grande majorité des non-végétariens. Cette tolérance du bouddhisme a l'égard de l'alimentation carnée a toujours été critiquée par les jaïns, dont la religion est basée sur l'existence de l'âme ou atman : les jaïns considèrent que le bouddhisme ne respecte pas la non-violence (ahimsa). En effet, un fidèle bouddhiste ne doit pas commettre de violence lui-même mais peut manger de la chair d'un animal tué par un autre ; cette attitude est condamnée par le jaïnisme, qui promeut une non-violence obligatoire pour ses disciples, exigeant de s'abstenir de la violence de neuf façons : par la pensée, par la parole et par le corps et, à chaque fois, soit personnellement (krita), soit en le commandant à d'autres (kârita), soit en consentant à son exécution par d'autres (anumodita).

Végétarisme bouddhique d'après la tradition antique

Les paroles traditionnelles du Bouddha, considéré comme le « Suprême Médecin », par rapport au végétarisme, sont peu nombreuses, mais concises et claires  :

« Du plus petit ver jusqu'à l'homme, vous ne tuerez aucun animal quel qu'il soit, mais préserverez toute vie. » (Paroles du Bouddha, Canon Pali)

« Ceux qui ne blessent aucune créature vivante, les sages toujours maîtres de leurs sens, sont en marche vers la condition impérissable où ils ne connaîtront plus la douleur. » (Dhammapada n°225)

« Celui qui ne fait de mal à aucune créature faible ou puissante ; qui ne commet point ou ne fait point commettre de meurtre, je l'appelle Brâhmane. » (Dhammapada n°405)

« Qu'il ne détruise absolument aucune vie, ou en soit la cause, ou bien qu'il sanctionne ceux qui le font. Qu'il s'abstienne de blesser quelque créature, aussi bien celles qui sont fortes que celles qui tremblent dans le monde. » (Dhammika Sutta)

« Répands la bienveillance sur le monde ; qu'il n'existe rien qui puisse faire du mal aux créatures, fortes ou faibles, et toutes apprendront les voies de la Paix. » (Chulla Vagga)

Dans le Bardo Thodol , on peut lire aussi :

« À Ceylan [Sri Lanka], sur la Montagne sacrée de Mihintalé, demeure comme témoin d'un temps […] bouddhiste, un ancien édit gravé sur pierre interdisant le meurtre des animaux pour les sacrifices et la nourriture. »

Références

Voir aussi
 Végétarisme
 Végétarisme hindou

Bibliographie
Bodhipaksa, Le végétarisme, une vue bouddhiste, traduit de l'anglais par Marion Frier et Ujumani, préface de Matthieu Ricard, Éditions Almora, Paris, 2017.
Shabkar, Les Larmes du bodhisattva (enseignement bouddhiste sur la consommation de la viande), édité et traduit par le Comité de traduction Padmakara, 2006.
André Méry, Les végétariens, raison et sentiment, La Plage éditeur, Tressan (France), 2001, .

Releasing life (chapter 4: 'The Debate'): publié par The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation, Taipei, Taïwan.
Phelps, Norm. (2004). The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights. Lantern Books.
Page, Tony (1998), Buddhism and Animals, Nirvana Publications, London.
Philip Kapleau, To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian, Harper & Row, San Francisco, USA, 1982.

Liens externes

Bouddhisme et non-violence
Pratique alimentaire végétarienne
Religion et alimentation
Bouddhisme et société
Philosophie bouddhique


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Web Development: Should You Hire An Agency or A Freelancer For Your Business?
Every business needs a website to have a successful online presence. This is an undeniable fact. However, simply having a website is not enough to be successful online. A good website must be built with the right combination of usability, visual design, content etc.
That being said, developing a website requires so much time and effort. If you don't have the experience, knowledge, skills and resources to do it on your own, should you hire someone to build it for you?
Basically, web development is a complicated process of building a website that consists of several phases: web design, web development, content creation, SEO etc. In this article we will try to figure out the advantages and disadvantages of hiring a freelancer and compare them to the benefits of hiring an agency.
A freelancer is a self-employed individual who works as a web designer, developer, content writer or even a blogger. A freelancer does not work for a business long term.
• Communication. When working with a freelancer, that person is responsible only for themselves and their own scope of work. You will only be in contact with him or her throughout the whole process.
• Lower Prices. Since most freelancers work alone and prefer to work from the comfort of their home, their expenses are much lower than that of an agency, who will have to include the cost of staff and office space into their fees. This means hiring a freelancer are cheaper than that of an agency.
• Flexibility. Oftentimes, freelancers work odd hours, so you can pretty much contact them with an update/question at any hour of any day and you'll likely hear back within the hour.
• Availability. A freelancer will always work on multiple projects at the same time. I.e., they've got a day job. This will make any changes you require to take a long time to implement.
• Low quality of end product. Freelancers can be quick and cheap but there is a high chance that they wouldn't be able to fix all your issues and it can badly impact the quality of the work delivered.
Now that the advantages and disadvantages of hiring a freelancer are clear, let us look at advantages and disadvantages of hiring an outsourcing agency.
• Continuous support. After launch of your website, an agency won't leave your site as is. They will be around to provide you with ongoing support and maintenance.
• Reliability. An agency has long-term goals, so it works hard to provide the best service to its clients and build its reputation. The web design and development agency have a whole keep you updated on every stage about the website project.
• Efficiency. An agency has the multiple staff to work on multiple parts of the project at once. This enables projects to be completed at a faster. An agency can also support a wider variety of design, tech and marketing requirements.
• Stability. An agency is a legal business entity. They provide contacts and other documents regarding the website project to make sure they are reliable partners.
• Higher cost. Agencies are typically more expensive than freelancers. Employing an agency that comprises a team is nearly always more expensive than hiring a single person, but in doing so, you are hiring a managed and controlled team of professionals who should deliver professional results.
With a web developer agency, you get what you paid for. With a freelancer, you'll get the work for half the price.
What else is there to talk about, this is basically it. We won't draw any conclusion which option the best for your business is. The choice depends on many factors, so before making your decision make sure to evaluate your goals, requirements, your budget, and your time-frame.