Costa Rica wants to become the world's first country to achieve a comprehensive national strategy to eliminate single-use plastics by 2021.
The Central American nation intends to replace single-use plastics, such as plastic store bags, straws, coffee stirrers, containers and plastic cutlery, with biodegradable or water-soluble alternatives, or products made of renewable materials (think plant starches).
The initiative is led by Costa Rica's Ministries of Health and Environment and Energy with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and from local governments, civil society and various private sector groups.
Costa Rican government officials announced the country's ambitious plan on June 5, 2017, World Environment Day.
"Being a country free of single use plastics is our mantra and our mission," according to a joint statement from Environment and Energy minister Edgar Gutiérrez, Health minister María Esther Anchía, and Alice Shackelford, resident representative for UNDP Costa Rica.
"We also need the leadership and participation of all: women, men, boys and girls," the statement notes.
Costa Rica has emerged as an global environmental leader, with its frequent 100 percent renewable energy streaks and its 2021 goal of becoming carbon neutral—a deadline set a decade ago.
However, the officials point out in their statement that Costa Rica's impressive environmental record still has room for improvement.
"Although the country has been an example to the world by reversing deforestation and doubling its forest cover from 26 percent in 1984 to more than 52 percent this year, today one fifth of the 4,000 tonnes of solid waste produced daily is not collected and ends up as part of the Costa Rican landscape, also polluting rivers and beaches," they explain.
In an effort to find alternatives that significantly reduce pollution, Carlos Alvarado, the President of Costa Rica, ordered to restrict the use of plastics in all public institutions of the country.
According to the guideline established by the president, all canteens of public schools, health system institutions, cafeterias, and prisons should avoid single-use plastics such as dishes, removers, disposable cups, and cutlery.
It was stated that other public institutions such as the University of Costa Rica and the Costa Rican Petroleum Refinery have adopted restrictions for the use of plastics. The measure is taken in order to avoid the incorrect disposal of this material that has negatively impacted the country in environmental matters.Additionally, Alvarado and the Minister of Environment and Energy, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, signed an agreement that instructs the ministries of Education, Justice, and Social Security to abstain from the purchase, use, and consumption of single-use plastics, by declaring that "we are giving unequivocal signals about our orientation in environmental matters".
Plastic and traces of hazardous chemicals have been found in the majority of snow and ice samples taken earlier this year in Antarctica, one of the world's last great wildernesses, according to a new study.
Researchers spent three months taking water and snow samples from remote areas of Antarctica earlier this year. These have now been analysed and researchers have confirmed the majority contained "persistent hazardous chemicals" or microplastics.
The findings come amid growing concern about the extent of the plastic pollution crisis which scientists have warned risks "permanent contamination" of the planet.
. . . The new report by researchers at Greenpeace is part of global campaign to create the world's biggest ocean sanctuary in the seas around Antarctica to protect the fragile ecosystem from industrial fishing and climate change.
Frida Bengtsson, of Greenpeace's Protect the Antarctic campaign, said the findings proved that even the most remote areas of the planet were not immune from the impact of manmade pollution. "We need action at source, to stop these pollutants ending up in the Antarctic in the first place, and we need an Antarctic ocean sanctuary to give space for penguins, whales and the entire ecosystem to recover from the pressures they're facing," she said.
Seven of the eight sea-surface water samples tested contained microplastics such as microfibres. Seven of the nine snow samples tested contained detectable concentrations of the persistent hazardous chemicals – polyfluorinated alkylated substances, or PFAS. Researchers said the chemicals are widely used in many industrial processes and consumer products and have been linked to reproductive and developmental issues in wildlife. They said the snow samples gathered included freshly fallen snow, suggesting the hazardous chemicals had come from contaminated rain or snowfall.
Prof Alex Rogers, a specialist in sustainable oceans at the Oxford Martin school, Oxford University, said the discovery of plastics and chemicals in Antarctica confirmed that man-made pollutants were now affecting ecosystems in every corner of the world. And he warned the consequences of this pervasive contamination remained largely unknown. "The big question now is what are the actual consequences of finding this stuff here? Many of these chemicals are pretty nasty and as they move up the food chain they may be having serious consequences for the health of wildlife, and ultimately humans. The effects of microplastics on marine life, likewise, are largely not understood," he said.
There is relatively little data on the extent of microplastics in Antarctic waters, and researchers said they hoped this new study would lead to a greater understanding of the global extent of plastic and chemical pollutants.
The samples were gathered during a three-month Greenpeace expedition to the Antarctic from January to March 2018. The Guardian joined the trip for two weeks in February.
A decision on the sanctuary proposal, which is being put forward by the EU and supported by environmental campaign groups around the world, will be taken at the forthcoming meeting of the Antarctic Ocean Commission in Tasmania in October.
On 30 May, Chile became the first South American country to approve a nationwide ban on single-use plastic bags, garnering congratulations from around the world for its efforts to beat plastic pollution ahead of World Environment Day on 5 June.
In 2017, under the presidency of Michelle Bachelet, the country banned the use of plastic bags in 100 coastal communities. But the government of current President Sebastián Piñera decided to take things one step further, proposing to the Congress to extend the measure nationwide.
The ban will come into force in one year's time for major retailers and in two years' time for smaller businesses. "Today we are more prepared to leave a better planet to our children, grandchildren and the generations to come," said Piñera.
Several other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are using taxes, bans, and technological innovation to restrict the production and consumption of plastic bags and reduce their harmful impact on oceans and marine species.
It is estimated that the world consumes each year up to 5 trillion plastic bags, mostly made of polyethylene, a low-cost polymer derived from petroleum, which takes at least 500 years to degrade. Only 9 percent of all plastic waste is recycled.
Latin America and the Caribbean – home to the Amazon Basin, the Patagonian highlands, and a dense concentration of coral reefs – is incredibly rich in biodiversity.
Governments around the region have been delivering bold pollution-beating policies. Antigua and Barbuda was the first country in the region to ban plastic bags in 2016. Soon after, Colombia passed a similar ban, and in 2017 applied a tax to large plastic bags, while ordering changes to their design with the aim of achieving greater resistance and reusability.
The measure has helped reduce plastic bag consumption by 35 percent and raise a total of 10,460 million Colombian pesos (about $3.6 million), says Andrés Velasco, vice minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia.
The tax began at 20 Colombian pesos for each plastic bag in 2017, and will increase 10 pesos each year until reaching 50 pesos in 2020 – equivalent to approximately $0.02.
Colombia's neighbor, Panama, became at the beginning of 2018 the first country in Central America to ban polyethylene bags. The country is also drawing up a national plan to combat marine litter.
The Panamanian legislator Samir Gozaine, one of the supporters of the law, says that the mentality of the population is changing and more and more people are choosing reusable or biodegradable bags, such as cardboard or thread bags.
"Similar legislation has been passed by a growing number of countries in the world, so yes, we can say that we are moving forward in the battle against plastic bags," says Gozaine.
Costa Rica adopted a national strategy to drastically reduce the use of disposable plastics by 2021, while in the Caribbean, Belize, Bahamas and Bermuda have passed or are drafting laws to eradicate single-use plastics.
Ecuador aims to transform the remote Galápagos Islands into a plastics-free archipelago: no more plastic straws, bags or bottles will be sold or used after 21 August of this year.
In Peru, several bills on the issue of plastic bags are debated in Congress. The most recent, prepared by the Government, seeks to reduce the consumption of this product by 35 per cent during the first year of implementation.
The region's three biggest cities – Mexico City, São Paulo and Buenos Aires – have also joined the fight against plastic bags. The Mexican capital was one of the first to do so. In August 2009, the capital city government reformed the Solid Waste Law and prohibited stores from dispensing bags free of charge.
Buenos Aires went a step further: starting from 1 January 2017, all of the city's supermarkets were prohibited from using or selling disposable plastic shopping bags.
Before the law, 500 million plastic bags per year were used in the city, according to Eduardo Macchiavelli, the Minister of Environment and Public Space in the Argentine capital.
A lot of these bags would end up in the city's waterways, triggering floods, a situation that changed "notoriously" after the implementation of the law, Macchiavelli said. A similar ban is also in force in other Argentine cities including Rosario, Pinamar and Bariloche. "It is necessary for large cities to take an active role, since being the most densely populated, they generate a greater impact on the environment," says Macchiavelli.
In São Paulo, the government approved a law prohibiting the free distribution of plastic bags in shops in 2011. However, the measure was suspended for several years due to legal claims, until its implementation was finally endorsed by the Brazilian justice system in 2015.
According to data from the City Council of São Paulo, the consumption of disposable bags was reduced by up to 70 percent during the first year of the implementation of the law.
UN Environment's Clean Seas campaign aims to drastically reduce the consumption of disposable plastics and eradicate the use of microplastics that pollute the world's oceans. Twelve countries in the region are part of the campaign: Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Grenada, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Dominican Republic, Saint Lucia and Uruguay.


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TOP NEWS: China Assists Cambodia to Upgrade Ream Port Without Strings Attached; Cambodia Will Be the Owner, not China (Video inside)
Phnom Penh (FN), Jun. 2 – Cambodian Defense Minister Tea Banh told Fresh News on Wednesday that China has assisted Cambodia to develop Ream Port. Banh said upgrading the port is no strings attached aids. The port solely belongs to Cambodia and that China will not have exclusive control over the port.
"Development of Ream Port allows Cambodian maritime sector has a suitable settlement, a shipyard, and a wharf. It is clear that today, no shipyard were built due to low sea level. Therefore, China voluntarily gives a hand. Cambodia is very grateful," the defense minister underlined.
Every naval base needed infrastructure. The development of Ream Port cannot be done with low budget.
"Cambodia could not afford to spend by her own, so China lends us a helping hand," he said.
The construction of Ream Port has begun and China is sending construction materials. Cambodia will use it for her own national development and that the port will not be controlled by China.
The minister's confirmation came after several US media outlets accused Cambodia for allowing China to set up military bases on her territory. Cambodia has repeatedly denied the claim as the Cambodian government firmly adheres to the principles of independence and neutrality enshrined in the Constitution, which strictly forbids the presence of any foreign military base in the Kingdom.
"Does Cambodia have the right to seek help to develop her own country? Cambodian Constitution clearly states that Cambodia reserves the right to receive foreign assistance in military equipment, armaments, ammunition, in training of its armed forces, and other assistance for self-defense and to maintain public order and security within its territory," Minister Tea Banh reiterated.
The broadcast that said Cambodia handed over the port of Ream to China exclusively was a childish talk. Our constitution make it clear that Cambodia shall not permit any foreign military base on its territory and shall not have its own military base abroad, except within the framework of a United Nations request. We have repeatedly told them our constitution, yet they do not use their ears to listen.
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Ms. Mascola and Dr. Moore join RHS staff
November 26, 2018 By Megan Chow
As November quickly comes to an end, the R-Hi wishes to feature Rutherford High School's newest staff members and catch up with them on how their school year has been so far. This is Ms. Mascola (English) and Dr. Moore's (STEM) first year teaching at Rutherford High School. I met with each of them to discuss their experiences at RHS so far.
Ms. Mascola, a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, is a new teacher in our English department. She came to Rutherford High School after hearing great things about the environment and curriculum. When asked about how her experiences at RHS have been, she tells me she loves the atmosphere of the school and especially the pep rally. She enjoys being a part of the students' school pride and appreciates how her students can achieve academic success in school, but can also have fun in their own time. Her favorite part of teaching her English classes is when her students enjoy the book they're reading and connect to the story. Ms. Mascola tells me, "The pep rally was amazing and interactive for both students and faculty members." She looks forward to the holidays, when everyone is in the holiday spirit and dresses up for the winter pep rally. When asked about a fun fact that she'd like to share with the student body, she tells me she's a triplet and has two brothers!
This is also Dr. Moore's first year teaching STEM at Rutherford High School. Despite being new to RHS, she is definitely not new to the education profession. She graduated from Felician College and is currently going back to the school to take physics classes. She came to Rutherford High School looking to switch from a private school setting to a public school setting. She was the dean and vice principal at Paramus Catholic High School for two years, but likes the change in position. As a teacher, she has more personal and positive interactions with students. "I definitely smile a lot more as teacher," she tells me. She also coached the dance team at Paramus Catholic High School and hopes to help with the cheering team here at RHS. The fun fact she would like to share with the student body is that she has a rescue greyhound dog!
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Now is the time to send cards, letters or emails to government executives who will be formulating grizzly hunt policy, which will be put forward for debate after the holidays. I am sending input by surface mail, copied below FYI, and ask that you also communicate your input to the Premier, Ministers and MLAs.
Knowing the bears will soon be safe in their dens is a big relief. It's constantly stressful to think of them caught in the sights of hunters' weapons, suffering and dying for no good reason. With that in mind, there is a chance now for the NDP to fully acknowledge the shift in societal values that drove your decision to end grizzly trophy hunting in the first place. A "sustenance hunt for grizzly bear meat", conducted under the same allocation system as defined by the Liberal government, does not fulfill the promise that was called for.
Two recent articles clearly express the united voice of people advocating for a complete ban on grizzly hunting province-wide (see references below). This united voice comes from many people like myself who believe in the standards of NDP leadership. We are your support base. We call on you to heed the principles of environmental ethics and do the right thing for BC Grizzly Bears; make BC grizzly hunt free.
British Columbians should be consulted on this proposal to continue killing Grizzly Bears for a supposed "sustenance meat hunt".
Please read the open letter at: https://justiceforbcgrizzlies.com/2017/10/06/45-groups-call-for-an-end-to-all-grizzly-bear-killing-province-wide-in-b-c/ and submit your comments based on that information.
Taking further action for BC Grizzly Bears is easy, every day.
1. Learn more about BC Grizzly Bears' lives and the challenges that they face here.
2. Talk to friends, neighbours and others that you meet. Surprisingly, many people are not even aware that Grizzly Bears are killed in a lottery hunt, twice a year, in British Columbia. You can help spread awareness.
3. Call your MLA – ask them where they stand on the grizzly hunt and let them know that this is a provincial issue that needs their continued attention.
4. Write to Premier John Horgan, Minister Doug Donaldson and your own MLA. Short messages from many people get noticed! Please share this link on social media.
We will only celebrate when Grizzly Bears are exempt from all legal killing anywhere in the province. Policy has not yet been written outlining mechanisms by which new practices will be regulated, so we watch closely as further announcements are released.
Your cards, letters, and email messages have all helped to move this along. Thank you so much. A few short sentences to the Premier, Minister and NDP MLAs, as indicated below, will help to keep it moving.
Thank you for following through on your campaign promise to end Grizzly Bear trophy hunting. It is definitely a step in the right direction. A full ban would be more consistent, less costly to implement and would have full support of the majority of British Columbians. Grizzly Bears in every part of the province deserve the same respect as those who live in the Great Bear Rainforest.
Thank you for your efforts to end this hunt. Very concise and well said. Like many people I have signed petitions and done what I could to oppose this but the government has just ignored the overwhelming majority of voters in this province.for years now. Very frustrating and I feel the protest must be ramped up. Has the NDP come out with a position on the grizzly hunt, I am not sure? They certainly have not been very vocal on this issue. I will write to my MLA and the premier to express my opposition.
Thanks very much for your comments, James and for writing to your MLA and the premier. Now is the time to keep the pressure on, working up to the general election. The NDP have not come out with a statement yet. I'm in close communication with my MLA as well on this issue. Keep up the good work. Many people are coming together for the Grizzly Bears and we're not going to give up!
Today I wrote three (snailmail) letters, put each in an envelope and sent them to the politicians listed on this website. It only took 30 minutes of my time! Not much time out of my life to (hopefully) save the life of a grizzly bear.
Stop the murder of Grizzlies for any reason!


This frog must have been startled last Friday night, when a Minotaur V rocket blasted off from Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia, launching the LADEE moon craft to an eventual lunar orbit.
LADEE stands for Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer. The craft is a robotic mission conducted by NASA.
NASA says the frog probably didn't make it. But its legend will live on.


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Kicking King as s seven-year-old Tom Taaffe-trained gelding landed his second-successive King George VI Chase and earned a featured place in the King George Chase Roll of Honour. In winning he joined only a handful of chasers - all of them top-class - to land the King George and the Cheltenham Gold Cup in the same season. His two wins will no doubt be a highlight of the King George Chase history.
His regular pilot. Top King George Chase jockey, Barry Geraghty, was once again on board and the two did as much as they had too, to claim the race off what was only a moderate pace. Runner-up, Monkerhostin, was, in fact, closing on the leader at the finish, although that in no way detract from the winner as Kicking Kick always had his measure. In third place was Impek, and his rider Tony McCoy surprised many by racing prominently, trying to force the pace for much of the way. The disappointment of the contest was 2004 runner-up Kingscliff, who dropped away fairly tamely after clouting the final fence on the first circuit.
The race was very much a case of the King retaining his crown in the King George at the Kempton Park racecourse on Boxing Day and he rewarded his loyal fans by landing the 11/8 odds.
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Kostel svatého Petra a Pavla je barokní stavba nacházející se v Tištíně na střední Moravě. Kostel je památkově chráněn od 18. ledna 1973. Byl vybudován v roce 1719 na místě, kde předtím stál dřevěný kostel ze 14. století. Za zakladatele kostela je považován Matěj Josef Brožka (farářem 1702–1738). Na venkovský kostel má chrám v Tištíně elegantní proporce a komplikovanou stavební formu, byl totiž stavěn nejen místním farníkům, ale i poutním potřebám věřících z okolí.

Historie

Starý kostel
Nejstarší zmínka o obci Tištín pochází z roku 1327, avšak zmínky o kostelu nejsou. Až mezi lety 1360–1390, a to v souvislosti s právem podacím, přesněji se spory o toto právo podávat návrhy na obsazení tištínského církevního obročí. Tehdejší kostel měl tři zvony a tři oltáře: hlavní oltář byl zasvěcený jeho dvěma patronům – svatému Petru a Pavlovi – a dva boční, které byly zasvěcené svatému Jakubu a svaté Barboře.

Založení nového kostela
Příchod pana Matěje Josefa Brožka (farářem 1702–1738) mělo pro kostel velký význam. Byl to velice vzdělaný a organizačně i kulturně disponovaný kněz. Do roku 1708 pan farář však neplánoval stavět nový kostel, pouze přikupoval a upravoval původní starý kostelík. Vše se však změnilo a v kostelních účtech se objevil nový oddíl pro výdaje na stavbě nového kostela. A v polovině roku 1710 se začalo s přestavbou staré kostelní věže. Věž se totiž nestavěla od základů znovu, ale původní věž se zesilovala a zpevňovala. Kvůli věži dokonce byla přistavěna zvonice jako dočasná úschovna zvonů (původně 3 zvony). Zvonice byla zachována a stála zde do roku 1865, kdy byla zničena požárem. Veškerá stavba byla dokončena roku 1723.

Od smrti Matěje Josefa Brožka po současnost
Po smrti Matěje Brožka nastoupil jako Tištínský farář Ignác Khell (farářem 1738–1752), který pozastavil veškeré výdaje na stavební práce, a na doplňování vnitřní výzdoby a zaměřil se na bohoslužebné náčiní. Bylo koupeno nové ciborium, pořídily se svícny na hlavní oltář a nové misály.

Již v brzké době se však kostel musel znovu rekonstruovat, a to kvůli špatné kostelní střeše za faráře Jiřího Jana Hájka (farářem 1752–1771).

Radikální změnu přineslo v 18. století Josefínské osvícenské nařízení. Tištínu přinesly hlavně zrušení pohřebního bratrstva svatého Josefa, jehož majetek byl rozprodán v aukci, a nastal všeobecný zákaz poutí.

Ve 20. století došlo opět k mnoha opravám a restaurováním. Obrazy měl tu možnost restaurovat Otto Stritzko. Rekonstruovalo se západní průčelí ještě ze škod po 1. světové válce a později i po 2. světové, kdy 30. dubna se strhl boj o Tištín a Koválovice. Němečtí vojáci obsadili kostelní věž, utrhli kus plechové střechy a pálili odtud proti sovětům. Rusové odpovídali tankovými střelami a zasáhli kostelní věž a kostel nejméně dvanáctkrát. Rusové později, když vyhráli, okradli místní obyvatelstvo a vyloupili i kostel. Oprava kostela tak trvala až do roku 1947.

Následující léta za komunistické totality se promítla především zanedbanou údržbou. Vše bylo však po pádu komunismu obnoveno a zrestaurováno.

Popis stavby
Kostel je součástí farního areálu, jehož součástí je dále:

 barokní socha Jana Nepomuckého z roku 1773
 kříž z roku 1760
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 busta Františka Palackého
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 barokní měšťanský dům z 1. poloviny 18. století

Exteriér
Hlavní průčelí je orientováno na západě. Má bohatou sochařskou i epigrafickou výzdobu. Nad hlavním vchodem se nachází oválná mramorová nápisová deska, která potvrzuje zhotovení kostela. Je psán v latinském jazyce a v překladu zní: Tento chrám byl od základů ke cti velikého Boha, nejsvětější Panny Marie, jejího snoubence svatého Josefa, nebeského klíčníka svatého Petra Apoštola a učitelé národů svatého Pavla přiměřeně vystavěn a léta Páně 1719 dokončen.

Po pravé i levé straně od nápisové desky se nacházejí mezi pilastry hluboké niky a v nich dvojice soch protimorových patronů sv. Šebestiána (z čelního pohledu nalevo) a sv. Rocha (napravo). Po stranách volutové štítové atiky stojí sochy apoštola Judy Tadeáše (nalevo) a Jakuba Většího (napravo). Mezi sochami svatého Tadeáše a Jakuba a mezi pilastry je další nika, v které se nachází svatý Josef s Ježíškem v náručí. Nad ní, přímo na vrcholu štítu, je socha Panny Marie Immaculaty (Bez poskvrny počaté). Sochy jsou vyrobeny z pískovce sochařem Davidem Zurnou pocházejícího z Olomouce.

Sochy Panny Marie a Josefa ve vrcholu průčelí odkazovaly na barokní poutní tradici.

Interiér

V průběhu několika staletí se do kostela doplňovalo různé umělecké vybavení.

Zajímavosti

Pohřební bratrstvo svatého Josefa
Pohřební bratrstvo svatého Josefa vzniklo v Tištíně v roce 1714 a s tím se začalo pracovat i na pověsti Tištína jako poutního místa. Členství v bratrstvu tehdy umožňovalo aktivní účast na náboženském životě bez rozdílu na sociálním postavení. Bratrstva původně zastávala funkci pěveckého sboru, zařizovala kulturní akce, vánoční hry a organizovala poutě. Pohřební bratrstvo mělo za úkol připravit své členy na smrt dobrého křesťana a zajistit jim důstojný pohřeb. Tuto "dobrou smrt" jim měli zařídit patroni sv. Josef a sv. Barbora. Bratrstvo bylo zrušeno s dekretem Josefa II. z 22. května 1783.

Tištín jako poutní místo
Sice se traduje, že Tištín byl velice oblíbeným poutním místem, ale nejsou o tom mnohé zmínky. Bratrstva z okolí si navzájem pomáhala a snažila se vytvářet nové a nové poutní cíle. Většinou se na těch místech však žádné zázračné místo, či nějaký tradiční cíl nenacházel. Účastníci poutě nejenom, že si užívali společný duchovní prožitek, ale zároveň přispívali hospodaření daného místa. Příjmy z nich plynuly jak náboženskému bratrstvu, tak farnosti i jejímu faráři a zprostředkovaně místnímu podnikání v řadě oblastí.

Tištín byl prý cílem poutníků po několika staletí, přicházející sem k Panně Marii Tištínské. Ale žádné takové zmínky o uctívání Panny Marie neexistují. Mariánská kaple v kostele byla vybavena až jako poslední a žádné zmínky o pověsti, o zjevení či zvláštních meteorologických úkazech není zaznamenána.

Chronologie farářů
 Jakub Voštický (1695–1702)
 Matěj Josef Brožek (1702–1738)
 Ignác Khell (1738–1752)
 Jiří Jan Hájek (1752–1771)
 Tadeáš Basil Walloni (1811–1823)
 Martin Dvořák (1823–1838)
 Antonín Navrátil (1867–1897)
 Antonín Porobek (1897–1904)
 Ignác Kupčík (1907–1918)
 Rudolf Bajar (1920–1936)
 Ignác Boxan (1937–1948)

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PLYMOUTH — Logan Neaton needed time in the midst of a wild championship celebration to process the events of an entire year.
It was 365 days earlier that Neaton and his Brighton hockey teammates were beaten by Detroit Catholic Central, 3-0, in the MHSAA Division 1 championship game.
From the moment the Bulldogs stepped off the ice at USA Hockey Arena that night, everything they did was designed to get back there and write a different ending.
Brighton completed its mission with a 5-2 victory over three-time reigning champion Catholic Central in the season's final game Saturday night.
Neaton, normally not one to show his emotions during a game, leaned back over the crossbar and looked to the rafters of USA Hockey Arena in the final minute after Jake Crespi's empty-netter made it apparent the Bulldogs would win their fourth MHSAA title.
When the clock hit zeroes, Neaton wound up in a pile with his teammates, got himself out, jumped against the glass to celebrate with the student section, then went to the faceoff circle and had a moment to himself face down on the ice.
"It's been a year to the day since we lost," said Neaton, who made 31 saves Saturday and allowed only four goals in six postseason games. "You just represent so much more than yourself. You're representing all the boys who came before you, who came so close and couldn't get it done. Everyone in your city, we just had so much support throughout the year. So many people instilled so much in us and put so much of their time and effort in us. To do that for them and do it for the boys last year and everyone who came before us is unbelievable."
Brighton (24-6-1) lost in the 2014 and 2016 Finals to Catholic Central after beating the Shamrocks for the 2013 title.
The Bulldogs also won in 2006 and 2012. Brighton and Catholic Central have crossed paths in four of the last five MHSAA Finals. The Bulldogs beat the Shamrocks twice this season after doing so only once in 11 previous meetings.
"They've always been the benchmark," Brighton coach Paul Moggach said. "They're the team to beat for a lot of years. We've struggled to beat them. This year we beat them twice, which we've never done before. We just keep working hard and trying to be able to compete with them. Now we're on the map, as well."
Brighton stormed out of the gates, jumping to a 2-0 lead in the first 2 minutes and 23 seconds on goals by Keith Wikman and Spencer Gehres.
Junior Adam Conquest, who played for Brighton as a freshman before returning to travel hockey as a sophomore, extended the lead to 3-0 with a shorthanded goal 43 seconds into the second period.
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Gehres gave Brighton some insurance when he deflected in a shot by Conquest with 11:44 left in the game. An empty-netter by Crespi with 1:08 remaining left no doubt that this was Brighton's year.
There was some doubt just a couple weeks earlier as to whether or not the Bulldogs would be celebrating with the championship trophy. Brighton went 1-4-1 in its last six regular-season games, but was missing players.
"You need adversity to understand where you're at and get you pumped up a little bit more," Moggach said. "They reacted well. We had some injuries and illness in there, too. Not for excuses, but we all realized we had the makings of a good team."
It was only the fifth time in 18 trips to the MHSAA Finals that Catholic Central took home the runner-up trophy.
"We're just incredibly proud as a coaching staff of how they competed to the very end," Kaleniecki said.
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HowAboutWe
PeerIndex
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Who is using scikit-learn?¶
Spotify¶
Scikit-learn provides a toolbox with solid implementations of a bunch of state-of-the-art models and makes it easy to plug them into existing applications. We've been using it quite a lot for music recommendations at Spotify and I think it's the most well-designed ML package I've seen so far.
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Inria¶
At INRIA, we use scikit-learn to support leading-edge basic research in many teams: Parietal for neuroimaging, Lear for computer vision, Visages for medical image analysis, Privatics for security. The project is a fantastic tool to address difficult applications of machine learning in an academic environment as it is performant and versatile, but all easy-to-use and well documented, which makes it well suited to grad students.
Gaël Varoquaux, research at Parietal
betaworks¶
Betaworks is a NYC-based startup studio that builds new products, grows companies, and invests in others. Over the past 8 years we've launched a handful of social data analytics-driven services, such as Bitly, Chartbeat, digg and Scale Model. Consistently the betaworks data science team uses Scikit-learn for a variety of tasks. From exploratory analysis, to product development, it is an essential part of our toolkit. Recent uses are included in digg's new video recommender system, and Poncho's dynamic heuristic subspace clustering.
Gilad Lotan, Chief Data Scientist
Evernote¶
Building a classifier is typically an iterative process of exploring the data, selecting the features (the attributes of the data believed to be predictive in some way), training the models, and finally evaluating them. For many of these tasks, we relied on the excellent scikit-learn package for Python.
Mark Ayzenshtat, VP, Augmented Intelligence
Télécom ParisTech¶
At Telecom ParisTech, scikit-learn is used for hands-on sessions and home assignments in introductory and advanced machine learning courses. The classes are for undergrads and masters students. The great benefit of scikit-learn is its fast learning curve that allows students to quickly start working on interesting and motivating problems.
Alexandre Gramfort, Assistant Professor
Booking.com¶
At Booking.com, we use machine learning algorithms for many different applications, such as recommending hotels and destinations to our customers, detecting fraudulent reservations, or scheduling our customer service agents. Scikit-learn is one of the tools we use when implementing standard algorithms for prediction tasks. Its API and documentations are excellent and make it easy to use. The scikit-learn developers do a great job of incorporating state of the art implementations and new algorithms into the package. Thus, scikit-learn provides convenient access to a wide spectrum of algorithms, and allows us to readily find the right tool for the right job.
Melanie Mueller, Data Scientist
AWeber¶
The scikit-learn toolkit is indispensable for the Data Analysis and Management team at AWeber. It allows us to do AWesome stuff we would not otherwise have the time or resources to accomplish. The documentation is excellent, allowing new engineers to quickly evaluate and apply many different algorithms to our data. The text feature extraction utilities are useful when working with the large volume of email content we have at AWeber. The RandomizedPCA implementation, along with Pipelining and FeatureUnions, allows us to develop complex machine learning algorithms efficiently and reliably.
Anyone interested in learning more about how AWeber deploys scikit-learn in a production environment should check out talks from PyData Boston by AWeber's Michael Becker available at https://github.com/mdbecker/pydata_2013
Michael Becker, Software Engineer, Data Analysis and Management Ninjas
Yhat¶
The combination of consistent APIs, thorough documentation, and top notch implementation make scikit-learn our favorite machine learning package in Python. scikit-learn makes doing advanced analysis in Python accessible to anyone. At Yhat, we make it easy to integrate these models into your production applications. Thus eliminating the unnecessary dev time encountered productionizing analytical work.
Greg Lamp, Co-founder Yhat
Rangespan¶
The Python scikit-learn toolkit is a core tool in the data science group at Rangespan. Its large collection of well documented models and algorithms allow our team of data scientists to prototype fast and quickly iterate to find the right solution to our learning problems. We find that scikit-learn is not only the right tool for prototyping, but its careful and well tested implementation give us the confidence to run scikit-learn models in production.
Jurgen Van Gael, Data Science Director at Rangespan Ltd
Birchbox¶
At Birchbox, we face a range of machine learning problems typical to E-commerce: product recommendation, user clustering, inventory prediction, trends detection, etc. Scikit-learn lets us experiment with many models, especially in the exploration phase of a new project: the data can be passed around in a consistent way; models are easy to save and reuse; updates keep us informed of new developments from the pattern discovery research community. Scikit-learn is an important tool for our team, built the right way in the right language.
Thierry Bertin-Mahieux, Birchbox, Data Scientist
Bestofmedia Group¶
Scikit-learn is our #1 toolkit for all things machine learning at Bestofmedia. We use it for a variety of tasks (e.g. spam fighting, ad click prediction, various ranking models) thanks to the varied, state-of-the-art algorithm implementations packaged into it. In the lab it accelerates prototyping of complex pipelines. In production I can say it has proven to be robust and efficient enough to be deployed for business critical components.
Eustache Diemert, Lead Scientist Bestofmedia Group
Change.org¶
At change.org we automate the use of scikit-learn's RandomForestClassifier in our production systems to drive email targeting that reaches millions of users across the world each week. In the lab, scikit-learn's ease-of-use, performance, and overall variety of algorithms implemented has proved invaluable in giving us a single reliable source to turn to for our machine-learning needs.
Vijay Ramesh, Software Engineer in Data/science at Change.org
PHIMECA Engineering¶
At PHIMECA Engineering, we use scikit-learn estimators as surrogates for expensive-to-evaluate numerical models (mostly but not exclusively finite-element mechanical models) for speeding up the intensive post-processing operations involved in our simulation-based decision making framework. Scikit-learn's fit/predict API together with its efficient cross-validation tools considerably eases the task of selecting the best-fit estimator. We are also using scikit-learn for illustrating concepts in our training sessions. Trainees are always impressed by the ease-of-use of scikit-learn despite the apparent theoretical complexity of machine learning.
Vincent Dubourg, PHIMECA Engineering, PhD Engineer
HowAboutWe¶
At HowAboutWe, scikit-learn lets us implement a wide array of machine learning techniques in analysis and in production, despite having a small team. We use scikit-learn's classification algorithms to predict user behavior, enabling us to (for example) estimate the value of leads from a given traffic source early in the lead's tenure on our site. Also, our users' profiles consist of primarily unstructured data (answers to open-ended questions), so we use scikit-learn's feature extraction and dimensionality reduction tools to translate these unstructured data into inputs for our matchmaking system.
Daniel Weitzenfeld, Senior Data Scientist at HowAboutWe
PeerIndex¶
At PeerIndex we use scientific methodology to build the Influence Graph - a unique dataset that allows us to identify who's really influential and in which context. To do this, we have to tackle a range of machine learning and predictive modeling problems. Scikit-learn has emerged as our primary tool for developing prototypes and making quick progress. From predicting missing data and classifying tweets to clustering communities of social media users, scikit- learn proved useful in a variety of applications. Its very intuitive interface and excellent compatibility with other python tools makes it and indispensable tool in our daily research efforts.
Ferenc Huszar - Senior Data Scientist at Peerindex
DataRobot¶
DataRobot is building next generation predictive analytics software to make data scientists more productive, and scikit-learn is an integral part of our system. The variety of machine learning techniques in combination with the solid implementations that scikit-learn offers makes it a one-stop-shopping library for machine learning in Python. Moreover, its consistent API, well-tested code and permissive licensing allow us to use it in a production environment. Scikit-learn has literally saved us years of work we would have had to do ourselves to bring our product to market.
Jeremy Achin, CEO & Co-founder DataRobot Inc.
OkCupid¶
We're using scikit-learn at OkCupid to evaluate and improve our matchmaking system. The range of features it has, especially preprocessing utilities, means we can use it for a wide variety of projects, and it's performant enough to handle the volume of data that we need to sort through. The documentation is really thorough, as well, which makes the library quite easy to use.
David Koh - Senior Data Scientist at OkCupid
Lovely¶
At Lovely, we strive to deliver the best apartment marketplace, with respect to our users and our listings. From understanding user behavior, improving data quality, and detecting fraud, scikit-learn is a regular tool for gathering insights, predictive modeling and improving our product. The easy-to-read documentation and intuitive architecture of the API makes machine learning both explorable and accessible to a wide range of python developers. I'm constantly recommending that more developers and scientists try scikit-learn.
Simon Frid - Data Scientist, Lead at Lovely
Data Publica¶
Data Publica builds a new predictive sales tool for commercial and marketing teams called C-Radar. We extensively use scikit-learn to build segmentations of customers through clustering, and to predict future customers based on past partnerships success or failure. We also categorize companies using their website communication thanks to scikit-learn and its machine learning algorithm implementations. Eventually, machine learning makes it possible to detect weak signals that traditional tools cannot see. All these complex tasks are performed in an easy and straightforward way thanks to the great quality of the scikit-learn framework.
Guillaume Lebourgeois & Samuel Charron - Data Scientists at Data Publica
Machinalis¶
Scikit-learn is the cornerstone of all the machine learning projects carried at Machinalis. It has a consistent API, a wide selection of algorithms and lots of auxiliary tools to deal with the boilerplate. We have used it in production environments on a variety of projects including click-through rate prediction, information extraction, and even counting sheep!
In fact, we use it so much that we've started to freeze our common use cases into Python packages, some of them open-sourced, like FeatureForge . Scikit-learn in one word: Awesome.
Rafael Carrascosa, Lead developer
solido¶
Scikit-learn is helping to drive Moore's Law, via Solido. Solido creates computer-aided design tools used by the majority of top-20 semiconductor companies and fabs, to design the bleeding-edge chips inside smartphones, automobiles, and more. Scikit-learn helps to power Solido's algorithms for rare-event estimation, worst-case verification, optimization, and more. At Solido, we are particularly fond of scikit-learn's libraries for Gaussian Process models, large-scale regularized linear regression, and classification. Scikit-learn has increased our productivity, because for many ML problems we no longer need to "roll our own" code. This PyData 2014 talk has details.
Trent McConaghy, founder, Solido Design Automation Inc.
INFONEA¶
We employ scikit-learn for rapid prototyping and custom-made Data Science solutions within our in-memory based Business Intelligence Software INFONEA®. As a well-documented and comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art algorithms and pipelining methods, scikit-learn enables us to provide flexible and scalable scientific analysis solutions. Thus, scikit-learn is immensely valuable in realizing a powerful integration of Data Science technology within self-service business analytics.
Thorsten Kranz, Data Scientist, Coma Soft AG.
Dataiku¶
Our software, Data Science Studio (DSS), enables users to create data services that combine ETL with Machine Learning. Our Machine Learning module integrates many scikit-learn algorithms. The scikit-learn library is a perfect integration with DSS because it offers algorithms for virtually all business cases. Our goal is to offer a transparent and flexible tool that makes it easier to optimize time consuming aspects of building a data service, preparing data, and training machine learning algorithms on all types of data.
Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku
Otto Group¶
Here at Otto Group, one of global Big Five B2C online retailers, we are using scikit-learn in all aspects of our daily work from data exploration to development of machine learning application to the productive deployment of those services. It helps us to tackle machine learning problems ranging from e-commerce to logistics. It consistent APIs enabled us to build the Palladium REST-API framework around it and continuously deliver scikit-learn based services.
Christian Rammig, Head of Data Science, Otto Group
Zopa¶
At Zopa, the first ever Peer-to-Peer lending platform, we extensively use scikit-learn to run the business and optimize our users' experience. It powers our Machine Learning models involved in credit risk, fraud risk, marketing, and pricing, and has been used for originating at least 1 billion GBP worth of Zopa loans. It is very well documented, powerful, and simple to use. We are grateful for the capabilities it has provided, and for allowing us to deliver on our mission of making money simple and fair.
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Under these two aspects, it is really the same; but as development takes place, it receives the different names. Together we call them the Mystery. Where the Mystery is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful.
All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what ugliness is; they all know the skill of the skilful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what the want of skill is.
So it is that existence and non-existence give birth the one to (the idea of) the other; that difficulty and ease produce the one (the idea of) the other; that length and shortness fashion out the one the figure of the other; that (the ideas of) height and lowness arise from the contrast of the one with the other; that the musical notes and tones become harmonious through the relation of one with another; and that being before and behind give the idea of one following another.
Therefore the sage manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his instructions without the use of speech.
All things spring up, and there is not one which declines to show itself; they grow, and there is no claim made for their ownership; they go through their processes, and there is no expectation (of a reward for the results). The work is accomplished, and there is no resting in it (as an achievement).
The work is done, but how no one can see; 'Tis this that makes the power not cease to be.
Not to value and employ men of superior ability is the way to keep the people from rivalry among themselves; not to prize articles which are difficult to procure is the way to keep them from becoming thieves; not to show them what is likely to excite their desires is the way to keep their minds from disorder.
Therefore the sage, in the exercise of his government, empties their minds, fills their bellies, weakens their wills, and strengthens their bones.
He constantly (tries to) keep them without knowledge and without desire, and where there are those who have knowledge, to keep them from presuming to act (on it). When there is this abstinence from action, good order is universal.
The Tao is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in our employment of it we must be on our guard against all fulness. How deep and unfathomable it is, as if it were the Honoured Ancestor of all things!
We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications of things; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves into agreement with the obscurity of others. How pure and still the Tao is, as if it would ever so continue!
I do not know whose son it is. It might appear to have been before God.
Heaven and earth do not act from (the impulse of) any wish to be benevolent; they deal with all things as the dogs of grass are dealt with. The sages do not act from (any wish to be) benevolent; they deal with the people as the dogs of grass are dealt with.
May not the space between heaven and earth be compared to a bellows?
'Tis emptied, yet it loses not its power;
'Tis moved again, and sends forth air the more.
Much speech to swift exhaustion lead we see;
Your inner being guard, and keep it free.
The valley spirit dies not, aye the same;
The female mystery thus do we name.
Its gate, from which at first they issued forth,
Is called the root from which grew heaven and earth.
Long and unbroken does its power remain,
Used gently, and without the touch of pain.
Heaven is long-enduring and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves. This is how they are able to continue and endure.
Therefore the sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in the foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign to him, and yet that person is preserved. Is it not because he has no personal and private ends, that therefore such ends are realised?
The highest excellence is like (that of) water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving (to the contrary), the low place which all men dislike. Hence (its way) is near to (that of) the Tao.
The excellence of a residence is in (the suitability of) the place; that of the mind is in abysmal stillness; that of associations is in their being with the virtuous; that of government is in its securing good order; that of (the conduct of) affairs is in its ability; and that of (the initiation of) any movement is in its timeliness.
And when (one with the highest excellence) does not wrangle (about his low position), no one finds fault with him.
It is better to leave a vessel unfilled, than to attempt to carry it when it is full. If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
When gold and jade fill the hall, their possessor cannot keep them safe. When wealth and honours lead to arrogancy, this brings its evil on itself. When the work is done, and one's name is becoming distinguished, to withdraw into obscurity is the way of Heaven.
When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating. When one gives undivided attention to the (vital) breath, and brings it to the utmost degree of pliancy, he can become as a (tender) babe. When he has cleansed away the most mysterious sights (of his imagination), he can become without a flaw.
In loving the people and ruling the state, cannot he proceed without any (purpose of) action? In the opening and shutting of his gates of heaven, cannot he do so as a female bird? While his intelligence reaches in every direction, cannot he (appear to) be without knowledge?
(The Tao) produces (all things) and nourishes them; it produces them and does not claim them as its own; it does all, and yet does not boast of it; it presides over all, and yet does not control them. This is what is called 'The mysterious Quality' (of the Tao).
The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space (for the axle), that the use of the wheel depends. Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness, that their use depends. The door and windows are cut out (from the walls) to form an apartment; but it is on the empty space (within), that its use depends. Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.
Colour's five hues from th' eyes their sight will take;
Music's five notes the ears as deaf can make;
The flavours five deprive the mouth of taste;
The chariot course, and the wild hunting waste
Make mad the mind; and objects rare and strange,
Sought for, men's conduct will to evil change.
Therefore the sage seeks to satisfy (the craving of) the belly, and
not the (insatiable longing of the) eyes. He puts from him the
latter, and prefers to seek the former.
Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same kind).
What is meant by speaking thus of favour and disgrace? Disgrace is being in a low position (after the enjoyment of favour). The getting that (favour) leads to the apprehension (of losing it), and the losing it leads to the fear of (still greater calamity):–this is what is meant by saying that favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared.
And what is meant by saying that honour and great calamity are to be (similarly) regarded as personal conditions? What makes me liable to great calamity is my having the body (which I call myself); if I had not the body, what great calamity could come to me?
Therefore he who would administer the kingdom, honouring it as he honours his own person, may be employed to govern it, and he who would administer it with the love which he bears to his own person may be entrusted with it.
We look at it, and we do not see it, and we name it 'the Equable.' We listen to it, and we do not hear it, and we name it 'the Inaudible.' We try to grasp it, and do not get hold of it, and we name it 'the Subtle.' With these three qualities, it cannot be made the subject of description; and hence we blend them together and obtain The One.
Its upper part is not bright, and its lower part is not obscure. Ceaseless in its action, it yet cannot be named, and then it again returns and becomes nothing. This is called the Form of the Formless, and the Semblance of the Invisible; this is called the Fleeting and Indeterminable.
We meet it and do not see its Front; we follow it, and do not see its Back. When we can lay hold of the Tao of old to direct the things of the present day, and are able to know it as it was of old in the beginning, this is called (unwinding) the clue of Tao.
The skilful masters (of the Tao) in old times, with a subtle and exquisite penetration, comprehended its mysteries, and were deep (also) so as to elude men's knowledge. As they were thus beyond men's knowledge, I will make an effort to describe of what sort they appeared to be.
Shrinking looked they like those who wade through a stream in winter; irresolute like those who are afraid of all around them; grave like a guest (in awe of his host); evanescent like ice that is melting away; unpretentious like wood that has not been fashioned into anything; vacant like a valley, and dull like muddy water.
Who can (make) the muddy water (clear)? Let it be still, and it will gradually become clear. Who can secure the condition of rest? Let movement go on, and the condition of rest will gradually arise.
They who preserve this method of the Tao do not wish to be full (of themselves). It is through their not being full of themselves that they can afford to seem worn and not appear new and complete.
The (state of) vacancy should be brought to the utmost degree, and that of stillness guarded with unwearying vigour. All things alike go through their processes of activity, and (then) we see them return (to their original state). When things (in the vegetable world) have displayed their luxuriant growth, we see each of them return to its root. This returning to their root is what we call the state of stillness; and that stillness may be called a reporting that they have fulfilled their appointed end.
The report of that fulfilment is the regular, unchanging rule. To know that unchanging rule is to be intelligent; not to know it leads to wild movements and evil issues. The knowledge of that unchanging rule produces a (grand) capacity and forbearance, and that capacity and forbearance lead to a community (of feeling with all things). From this community of feeling comes a kingliness of character; and he who is king-like goes on to be heaven-like. In that likeness to heaven he possesses the Tao. Possessed of the Tao, he endures long; and to the end of his bodily life, is exempt from all danger of decay.
In the highest antiquity, (the people) did not know that there were (their rulers). In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them. Thus it was that when faith (in the Tao) was deficient (in the rulers) a want of faith in them ensued (in the people).
How irresolute did those (earliest rulers) appear, showing (by their reticence) the importance which they set upon their words! Their work was done and their undertakings were successful, while the people all said, 'We are as we are, of ourselves!'
When the Great Tao (Way or Method) ceased to be observed, benevolence and righteousness came into vogue. (Then) appeared wisdom and shrewdness, and there ensued great hypocrisy.
When harmony no longer prevailed throughout the six kinships, filial sons found their manifestation; when the states and clans fell into disorder, loyal ministers appeared.
If we could renounce our sageness and discard our wisdom, it would be better for the people a hundredfold. If we could renounce our benevolence and discard our righteousness, the people would again become filial and kindly. If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers.
Those three methods (of government)
Thought olden ways in elegance did fail
And made these names their want of worth to veil;
But simple views, and courses plain and true
Would selfish ends and many lusts eschew.
When we renounce learning we have no troubles.
The (ready) 'yes,' and (flattering) 'yea;'–
Small is the difference they display.
But mark their issues, good and ill;–
What space the gulf between shall fill?
What all men fear is indeed to be feared; but how wide and without end is the range of questions (asking to be discussed)!
The multitude of men look satisfied and pleased; as if enjoying a full banquet, as if mounted on a tower in spring. I alone seem listless and still, my desires having as yet given no indication of their presence. I am like an infant which has not yet smiled. I look dejected and forlorn, as if I had no home to go to. The multitude of men all have enough and to spare. I alone seem to have lost everything. My mind is that of a stupid man; I am in a state of chaos.
Ordinary men look bright and intelligent, while I alone seem to be benighted. They look full of discrimination, while I alone am dull and confused. I seem to be carried about as on the sea, drifting as if I had nowhere to rest. All men have their spheres of action, while I alone seem dull and incapable, like a rude borderer. (Thus) I alone am different from other men, but I value the nursing-mother (the Tao).
The grandest forms of active force
From Tao come, their only source.
Who can of Tao the nature tell?
Our sight it flies, our touch as well.
Eluding sight, eluding touch,
The forms of things all in it crouch;
Eluding touch, eluding sight,
There are their semblances, all right.
Profound it is, dark and obscure;
Things' essences all there endure.
Those essences the truth enfold
Of what, when seen, shall then be told.
Now it is so; 'twas so of old.
Its name–what passes not away;
So, in their beautiful array,
Things form and never know decay.
How know I that it is so with all the beauties of existing things? By this (nature of the Tao).
The partial becomes complete; the crooked, straight; the empty, full; the worn out, new. He whose (desires) are few gets them; he whose (desires) are many goes astray.
Therefore the sage holds in his embrace the one thing (of humility), and manifests it to all the world. He is free from self-display, and therefore he shines; from self-assertion, and therefore he is distinguished; from self-boasting, and therefore his merit is acknowledged; from self-complacency, and therefore he acquires superiority. It is because he is thus free from striving that therefore no one in the world is able to strive with him.
That saying of the ancients that 'the partial becomes complete' was not vainly spoken:–all real completion is comprehended under it.
Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature. A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day. To whom is it that these (two) things are owing? To Heaven and Earth. If Heaven and Earth cannot make such (spasmodic) actings last long, how much less can man!
Therefore when one is making the Tao his business, those who are also pursuing it, agree with him in it, and those who are making the manifestation of its course their object agree with him in that; while even those who are failing in both these things agree with him where they fail.
Hence, those with whom he agrees as to the Tao have the happiness of attaining to it; those with whom he agrees as to its manifestation have the happiness of attaining to it; and those with whom he agrees in their failure have also the happiness of attaining (to the Tao). (But) when there is not faith sufficient (on his part), a want of faith (in him) ensues (on the part of the others).
He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm; he who stretches his legs does not walk (easily). (So), he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged; he who is self-conceited has no superiority allowed to him. Such conditions, viewed from the standpoint of the Tao, are like remnants of food, or a tumour on the body, which all dislike. Hence those who pursue (the course) of the Tao do not adopt and allow them.
There was something undefined and complete, coming into existence before Heaven and Earth. How still it was and formless, standing alone, and undergoing no change, reaching everywhere and in no danger (of being exhausted)! It may be regarded as the Mother of all things.
I do not know its name, and I give it the designation of the Tao (the Way or Course). Making an effort (further) to give it a name I call it The Great.
Great, it passes on (in constant flow). Passing on, it becomes remote. Having become remote, it returns. Therefore the Tao is great; Heaven is great; Earth is great; and the (sage) king is also great. In the universe there are four that are great, and the (sage) king is one of them.
Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
Gravity is the root of lightness; stillness, the ruler of movement.
Therefore a wise prince, marching the whole day, does not go far from his baggage waggons. Although he may have brilliant prospects to look at, he quietly remains (in his proper place), indifferent to them. How should the lord of a myriad chariots carry himself lightly before the kingdom? If he do act lightly, he has lost his root (of gravity); if he proceed to active movement, he will lose his throne.
The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or footsteps; the skilful speaker says nothing that can be found fault with or blamed; the skilful reckoner uses no tallies; the skilful closer needs no bolts or bars, while to open what he has shut will be impossible; the skilful binder uses no strings or knots, while to unloose what he has bound will be impossible. In the same way the sage is always skilful at saving men, and so he does not cast away any man; he is always skilful at saving things, and so he does not cast away anything. This is called 'Hiding the light of his procedure.'
Therefore the man of skill is a master (to be looked up to) by him who has not the skill; and he who has not the skill is the helper of (the reputation of) him who has the skill. If the one did not honour his master, and the other did not rejoice in his helper, an (observer), though intelligent, might greatly err about them. This is called 'The utmost degree of mystery.'
Who knows his manhood's strength,
Yet still his female feebleness maintains;
As to one channel flow the many drains,
All come to him, yea, all beneath the sky.
Thus he the constant excellence retains;
The simple child again, free from all stains.
Who knows how white attracts,
Yet always keeps himself within black's shade,
The pattern of humility displayed,
Displayed in view of all beneath the sky;
He in the unchanging excellence arrayed,
Endless return to man's first state has made.
Who knows how glory shines,
Yet loves disgrace, nor e'er for it is pale;
Behold his presence in a spacious vale,
To which men come from all beneath the sky.
The unchanging excellence completes its tale;
The simple infant man in him we hail.
The unwrought material, when divided and distributed, forms vessels. The sage, when employed, becomes the Head of all the Officers (of government); and in his greatest regulations he employs no violent measures.
If any one should wish to get the kingdom for himself, and to effect this by what he does, I see that he will not succeed. The kingdom is a spirit-like thing, and cannot be got by active doing. He who would so win it destroys it; he who would hold it in his grasp loses it.
The course and nature of things is such that
What was in front is now behind;
What warmed anon we freezing find.
Strength is of weakness oft the spoil;
The store in ruins mocks our toil.
Hence the sage puts away excessive effort, extravagance, and easy indulgence.
He who would assist a lord of men in harmony with the Tao will not assert his mastery in the kingdom by force of arms. Such a course is sure to meet with its proper return.
Wherever a host is stationed, briars and thorns spring up. In the sequence of great armies there are sure to be bad years.
A skilful (commander) strikes a decisive blow, and stops. He does not dare (by continuing his operations) to assert and complete his mastery. He will strike the blow, but will be on his guard against being vain or boastful or arrogant in consequence of it. He strikes it as a matter of necessity; he strikes it, but not from a wish for mastery.
When things have attained their strong maturity they become old. This may be said to be not in accordance with the Tao: and what is not in accordance with it soon comes to an end.
Now arms, however beautiful, are instruments of evil omen, hateful, it may be said, to all creatures. Therefore they who have the Tao do not like to employ them.
The superior man ordinarily considers the left hand the most honourable place, but in time of war the right hand. Those sharp weapons are instruments of evil omen, and not the instruments of the superior man;–he uses them only on the compulsion of necessity. Calm and repose are what he prizes; victory (by force of arms) is to him undesirable. To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.
On occasions of festivity to be on the left hand is the prized position; on occasions of mourning, the right hand. The second in command of the army has his place on the left; the general commanding in chief has his on the right;–his place, that is, is assigned to him as in the rites of mourning. He who has killed multitudes of men should weep for them with the bitterest grief; and the victor in battle has his place (rightly) according to those rites.
The Tao, considered as unchanging, has no name.
Though in its primordial simplicity it may be small, the whole world dares not deal with (one embodying) it as a minister. If a feudal prince or the king could guard and hold it, all would spontaneously submit themselves to him.
Heaven and Earth (under its guidance) unite together and send down the sweet dew, which, without the directions of men, reaches equally everywhere as of its own accord.
As soon as it proceeds to action, it has a name. When it once has that name, (men) can know to rest in it. When they know to rest in it, they can be free from all risk of failure and error.
The relation of the Tao to all the world is like that of the great rivers and seas to the streams from the valleys.
He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent. He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty. He who is satisfied with his lot is rich; he who goes on acting with energy has a (firm) will.
He who does not fail in the requirements of his position, continues long; he who dies and yet does not perish, has longevity.
All-pervading is the Great Tao! It may be found on the left hand and on the right.
All things depend on it for their production, which it gives to them, not one refusing obedience to it. When its work is accomplished, it does not claim the name of having done it. It clothes all things as with a garment, and makes no assumption of being their lord;–it may be named in the smallest things. All things return (to their root and disappear), and do not know that it is it which presides over their doing so;–it may be named in the greatest things.
Hence the sage is able (in the same way) to accomplish his great achievements. It is through his not making himself great that he can accomplish them.
To him who holds in his hands the Great Image (of the invisible Tao), the whole world repairs. Men resort to him, and receive no hurt, but (find) rest, peace, and the feeling of ease.
Music and dainties will make the passing guest stop (for a time). But though the Tao as it comes from the mouth, seems insipid and has no flavour, though it seems not worth being looked at or listened to, the use of it is inexhaustible.
When one is about to take an inspiration, he is sure to make a (previous) expiration; when he is going to weaken another, he will first strengthen him; when he is going to overthrow another, he will first have raised him up; when he is going to despoil another, he will first have made gifts to him:–this is called 'Hiding the light (of his procedure).'
The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong.
Fishes should not be taken from the deep; instruments for the profit of a state should not be shown to the people.
The Tao in its regular course does nothing (for the sake of doing it), and so there is nothing which it does not do.
If princes and kings were able to maintain it, all things would of themselves be transformed by them.
If this transformation became to me an object of desire, I would express the desire by the nameless simplicity.
Simplicity without a name
Is free from all external aim.
With no desire, at rest and still,
All things go right as of their will.
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The life and times of Peter Reynolds
I'm Voting In The Irish General Election
I am privileged to be a registered voter in both the UK and the Republic of Ireland. As a Welshman I am very happy to live alongside my Celtic brothers in County Kerry and I still have a base in Dorset on the south coast of England. I am proud to be British and although some might think in Ireland it's a dirty word, I have never met any hostility here and it's a fact of geography that the UK and Ireland together comprise the British Isles.
In the recent UK General Election, I voted Conservative because above all else I wanted to 'Get Brexit Done'. On Saturday I will be voting in Ireland and I'm deciding who to vote for.
I am a passionate Brexiteer because I consider self-determination to outweigh almost all other political considerations. In June 2008, Ireland voted against the EU over the Lisbon Treaty but it was forced by the Eurocrats to hold a second referendum and just over a year later the Irish people were bullied into submission. I wish that Ireland could have left the EU alongside the UK and there is a significant level of opinion here in favour of 'Irexit'. It would certainly have solved the problem that Brexit has caused for the border with the North.
The other solution to the border is a united Ireland and that is something I strongly support. It's only in the past 10 years that I have come to understand Irish history and Britain is shamed by its record of brutal oppression. I realise now that this important history is excluded from the school syllabus in the UK. Our behaviour in Ireland is one of the most dreadful episodes of history and the British were guilty of war crimes similar to Israel's current conduct in Palestine, the Nazis in World War II and other tyrannical regimes. If I had lived in Ireland in the 20th Century I would certainly have joined the IRA. It was a righteous and noble cause.
I know for certain that I will not vote for Fine Gael, the present party of government. While I admire the way that it has helped Ireland become a progressive society, escaping from the evil of the Catholic Church, it describes itself as 'the party of Europe' and Leo Varadkar, its leader and the present Taoiseach is a gay, Asian version of Tony Blair. I hasten to add that I have nothing against him for being gay or Asian!
I am more naturally drawn to Fianna Fail, the main opposition party that is more Ireland-centric and republican in its philosophy. But it is very old-fashioned, embedded in the past, illiberal culture and offers little promise for the future. It strikes me that like the two main parties in the UK, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail are content with the status quo where power switches back and forth between them periodically. There's no doubt that Ireland is ready for a change.
Ireland has a history of electing significant numbers of independent politicians and here in Kerry we are blessed with our very own independent dynasty, the Healy-Raes, an extraordinary family which can, most certainly, be described as eccentric. We have a proportional, single-transferable vote system where voters specify candidates in order of preference by writing 1, 2, 3, etc. alongside their names. Michael Healy-Rae will definitely be near the top of my choices.
But voting for independents will not help create a new government that can move beyond the tired politics of the past. Extraordinarily, I find myself tempted by two socialist parties: Sinn Fein and People Before Profit. Sinn Fein for its noble ideals and ambition for a united Ireland. (The name translates as 'We Ourselves'). People Before Profit because I have met several of its TDs and it is strongly committed to cannabis law reform.
Also, as all democrats should be, I am disgusted by the way Fine Gael and Fianna Fail treat Sinn Fein, currently ahead of both them in the polls. They both refuse to engage at all and say they would never work with it in government. The reason given is because of Sinn Fein's past paramilitary connections and, as they say, that is has never properly distanced itself from violence.
I say this is preposterous, dishonest nonsense. Firstly, it was a just war. Of course, I deplore violence against innocent civilians but given the perspective I have recently acquired, I am ambivalent about action against security forces. An army of occupation must expect to meet resistance. If Fine Gael and Fianna Fail refuse to engage with a party with such massive popular support, they must reap the consequences. How is any movement supposed to progress beyond violence to peaceful politics if it is spurned and isolated?
For me, one of the most extraordinary experiences since moving to Ireland was meeting Martin Ferris, a Sinn Fein, Kerry TD who is retiring at this election. He was a hunger striker and starved himself for longer than some who died as a result of their protest. In the late 70s, I was in my early 20s and I remember that my perspective on the hunger strikers was that they were fools because the British government would never give in. But now I see it very differently. I see the huge courage and nobility in their protest.
So I shall be voting for Sinn Fein. I'm not yet sure what number I shall put against their candidate, Pa Daly's name but it could well be number one. Were People Before Profit fielding a candidate in Kerry, they too woud get a vote. The elegance of the Irish voting system is that I can offer support to these socialist parties without fear. The first past the post system in Britain really does hold us back and I hope there will be electoral reform in my lifetime.
My father would turn in his grave if he read these words. I am surprised at myself but my mind is made up. Of course I am only one voter amongst more than three million but I am excited about this, my first Irish election, as I believe it heralds real change.
Written by Peter Reynolds
Posted in Biography, Politics
Tagged with Conservative, election, Ireland, Sinn Fein, UK, voter
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Well well peter voting for a socialist party!! I also lived in Ireland in 1979 to 1983 i remember the hunger strikes and being an english man in county Cork. I remember the strangle hold of the catholic church. Ireland has come along way. I wish them the best from this election and I hope for a united Ireland flowed by us Scotts gaining our Independence. Welcome to the world of people power politics modern socialism
Dave Soulsby
"I voted Conservative " "I am a passionate Brexiteer because I consider self-determination to outweigh almost all other political considerations."
you have voted for a party responsible for the culling of over 130,000 humans.
their blood is on your hands.
you have voted for my ongoing torture, assault, fraud and attempted murder, and the ongoing torture, assault, fraud and attempted murder of millions more, and who knows how many more deaths.
check your priorities.
digitteknohippie
I suggest you take a step back from the hysteria and get yourself better acquainted with reality. Your words achieve nothing except to make you appear to be ridiculous.
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