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Gazprom EP International considers Libya as one of the key regions of its operation in Northern Africa. The office of Gazprom Libya is located in Tripoli.
Gazprom EP International has been operating in Libya since 2007 when it participated in the exploration phase on Blocks 19 and 64 under the Exploration and Production Sharing Agreements with the Libya's National Oil Corporation. Apart from this, the company develops oil concessions C96 and C97 as the JV with Wintershall AG.
Blocks 19 and 64
The first exploration well was spudded in the Ghadames oil-and-gas-bearing basin on Block 64 in January 2011. The hydrocarbon exploration of offshore Block 19 (start of drilling) on terms of the subsequent production sharing was planned for the middle of 2011.
However, due to the destabilized situation in the country in 2011, all works on blocks 19 and 64 were stopped and the spudded well and main equipment were suspended.
Blocks 91 and 107
Since 2008, Gazprom EP International has owned 49% of WIAG. Since 1966, Wintershall Aktiengesellschaft (WIAG) — a joint venture between Gazprom EP International and Wintershall DEA — has been the operator of two blocks in Libya. Activities within these blocks resulted in a discovery by the company of 9 oilfields, which were further brought onstream. The largest of them is the As Sarah field located within contract block 91 (former С96).
After 2011, the production within the concessions was stopped. As the internal situation in the country had improved, the production gradually started to resume. In 2017, the Libyan JV produced 230 million cubic meters of natural gas and 1.5 million tons of oil.
On 12 December 2019, the Exploration and Production Sharing Agreements (EPSAs) on Blocks 91 and 107 (former C96 and C97 respectively) were signed between Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) and Wintershall AG in Tripoli.
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In October 2020, WIAG delegated the operatorship of the fields in the Sirte basin on Blocks 91 (former Concession 96) and 107 (former Concession 97) to Sarir Oil Operations — the newly established JV with Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC).
After signing two Exploration and Productions Sharing Agreements (EPSAs) in December 2019, WIAG continued to conduct operations in the fields while SOO was preparing to assume the liabilities of an operator. The overwhelming majority of the Libyan employees of WIAG were transferred to SOO with their official duties kept.
After another suspension in the mid-January 2020, due to the ongoing blockade of the export infrastructure, oil production on Blocks 91 and 107 resumed in October 2020 when Libya's NOC announced the lifting of force majeure at all export terminals and ports.
On 29 October 2020, the force majeure was lifted and the production resumed on Block 107. The products from this Block are exported via the Zuwaytinah terminal.
On 2 November 2020, the force majeure was lifted and the production resumed on Block 91. The products from this Block are exported via the Ras Lanuf terminal.
The oil production on Blocks 91 and 107 gradually resumes and amounts to more than 50 thousand barrels per day.


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introduction and short definition
Anis based spirits is what unites many mediterranean countries. This very peculiar flavour can be found since centuries in France as well as in Greece or in Tunisia or Cyprus. It is at the origin of many spirits such as sambuca, ouzo or absinthe and pastis. It is one of the oldest category of spirit.
The EU regulated most of these spirits. Anise drinks must obtain their flavour from green anis, fennel or star anise and it must be the dominant flavour.
Here is an extract of the EU regulation.
a)Aniseed-flavoured spirit drinks are spirit drinks produced by flavouring ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin with natural extracts of star anise (Illicium verum Hook f.), anise (Pimpinella anisum L.), fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.), or any other plant which contains the same principal aromatic constituent, using one of the following processes or a combination thereof:
(i)maceration and/or distillation,
(ii)redistillation of the alcohol in the presence of the seeds or other parts of the plants specified above,
(iii) addition of natural distilled extracts of aniseed-flavoured plants.
(b) The minimum alcoholic strength by volume of aniseed-flavoured spirit drinks shall be 15 %.
(c) Only natural flavouring substances and preparations as defined in Article 1(2)(b)(i) and Article 1(2)(c) of Directive 88/388/EEC may be used in the preparation of aniseed-flavoured spirit drinks.
(d) Other natural plant extracts or aromatic seed may also be used, but the aniseed taste must remain predominant.
According to European regulations, pastis is the result of the flavouring of a neutral alcohol of agricultural origin with extracts of green anise, star anise, fennel or any other plant containing the same main aromatic component, as well as natural extracts from liquorice wood.
Pastis according to the EU, in details
(a)Pastis is an aniseed-flavoured spirit drink which also contains natural extracts of liquorice root (Glycyrrhiza spp.), which implies the presence of the colorants known as 'chalcones' as well as glycyrrhizic acid, the minimum and maximum levels of which must be 0,05 and 0,5 grams per litre respectively.
(b)The minimum alcoholic strength by volume of pastis shall be 40 %.
(c)Only natural flavouring substances and preparations as defined in Article 1(2)(b)(i) and Article 1(2)(c) of Directive 88/388/EEC may be used in the preparation of pastis.
(d)Pastis contains less than 100 grams of sugars per litre, expressed as invert sugar, and has a minimum and maximum anethole level of 1,5 and 2 grams per litre respectively.
Pastis owes its success to the ban that targeted absinthe in the 1910s as it was the wormwood-free version of absinthe.
Note that pastis is a large family and there are as many Pastis as producers, recipes, ingredients and maceration or distillation techniques will always be different.
What about Ricard and Pernod?
Pernod is the oldest of the French aniseed brands, owned by the Pernod company of the Pernod Ricard group. Pernod is not technically a pastis (although it is often referred to as such) because it contains very little liquorice. Ricard is a brand of pastis.
Check the table in that page for the Pastis vs. Pernod game.
What about Pastis and Pastis de Marseilles?
Pastis de Marseille is a pastis with an anethole content of 2 grams per litre. Pastis can have less.
The minimum alcoholic strength by volume of pastis de Marseille shall be 45% whereas it is 40% for pastis.
Tsípouro
Tsípouro is a brandy made from marc. Various flavours can sometimes be added during the first or second distillation, like aniseed but not all tsipouro are flavoured! The Thessaly and Macedonia Tsipouro is generally flavoured with aniseed, which brings it closer to Turkish raki but other variety such as the one produced in Crete is never flavoured for example.
More about Tsipouro in the Marc and Fine 101.
Raki is an aniseed flavoured pomace spirit. It is consumed in Turkey, the Balkans, Armenia and the Middle East. And it is probably the oldest of the anise family. There is a Greek raki, but it has nothing to do in an anis based spirit 101. If Turkish raki is
made from anise-flavoured spirits, which gives a similar taste to Greek Uzo, Greek raki is a pure brandy without additives, no anis addition.
Arak, arac or arack is a wine brandy traditionally consumed and produced in the Middle East. It is made by distilling wine which is then mixed with aniseed and distilled a second time. It then ages in clay jars. Turkish raki, Greek ouzo resemble arak but are lighter in flavour.
Be careful of the spelling and do not confuse Arak with the very different East Asian liquor Arrack (not the spelling). Arrack is is not anise flavoured.
Mastíkha is a broad term referring to a set of alcoholic beverages most often aniseed, produced in Bulgaria, Greece and the Republic of Macedonia.
This brandy-based Greek liqueur is flavored with gum mastic on top of the sometime aniseed.
Anise has been used for several centuries as a medicine, and is still used today in cooking and for the production of alcoholic beverages.
In France, the Corporation of the King's Anysetiers, a guild of practitioners who used anise, was founded as early as 912 AD, while the qualities of this plant were already known to the Babylonians.
It was when the British Thomas Cavendish brought star anise or star anise from Asia in the 17th century that anise infusions became fashionable in Europe.* (see sources below)
They are many anis flavoured spirits (and liqueurs) and it is no point of covering them all.
See a non exhaustive list below:
Pernod (France)
Pastis (France)
Anisette (France)
Absinthe (Switzerland, France)
Mistra (Greece)
Ouzo (Greece)
Anesone (Italy)
Sambuca (Italy)
Kasra (Lybia)
Arak (Middle east)
Raki Middle east)
Abis (spain)
Ojen (spain)
Tsipouro (Greece)
Mastika (Greece)
You'll find more details on the next columns about some of them.
pernod vs. pastis
Date of invention
Name of inventor
One of them is Paul Ricard
Henri Pernod
Anis seed (up to 48 botanicals for Bardouin)
star anise, fennel and liquorice. Star anise and fennel are distilled to extract anethol which is then blended with distillates of other botanicals.
100 gr/litre
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Bardouin, Pastis, Ferroni pastis, Janot Lou Garagai
Pernod (it is a brand)
dry ingredient macerated and then blended with the distillate and left together for a month (Bardouin)
In progress!!!
Absinthe is a set of spirits made from absinthe plants: Artemisia absinthium L. (also called grand wormwood in contrast to petite wormwood) and Artemisia pontica (petite wormwood). Note: Absinthe is part of the anise family but it is wormwood that gives absinthe its identity.
Ouzo is a Greek aniseed alcoholic beverage made from neutral alcohol mixed with various herbs and then distilled and diluted. To be more precise: the law stipulates that it must be distilled from a minimum of 30% grape residue but the rest can be distilled from cereals or other fruits to which are of course added aniseed seeds and other aromatic seeds (coriander, cloves, cardamom...) which give this characteristic taste to the alcohol.
Since 1989, European regulations have specified that ouzo must be produced in Greece to have the right to this name.
The maximum sugar level is 50 gr/ liter.
Sambuca is the name given to a sweet and strong Italian cream made from star anise, created in Civitavecchia, in the province of Rome, in 1851. This is a liqueur.
It is also EU regulated as such:
(a)Sambuca is a colourless aniseed-flavoured liqueur:
(i) containing distillates of anise (Pimpinella anisum L.), star anise (Illicium verum L.) or other aromatic herbs,
(ii) with a minimum sugar content of 350 grams per litre expressed as invert sugar,
(iii) with a natural anethole content of not less than 1 gram and not more than 2 grams per litre.
(b)The minimum alcoholic strength by volume of sambuca shall be 38 %.
(c)The rules on flavouring substances and preparations for liqueurs laid down under category 32 apply to sambuca.
(d) The sales denomination may be supplemented by the term 'liqueur'.
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If there is one spirit from the mediterranean, that's this one!
how ARE THOSE SPIRITS made?
To obtain the aniseed flavour spirits, they must contain ingredients such as: star anise, anise and fennel and alcohol.
THE ALCOHOL
The raw material for aniseed drinks is neutral alcohol of natural origin, made from grapes, grains, dates or even, in Turkey, beet molasses.
Those made from neutral alcohol: pastis, absinthe, ouzo
Those made from flavoured wine brandy (wine distillate or pomace): sambuca, tsipouro, raki. The brandy is sometimes re distilled (like for absinthe or arak), sometimes directly bottled after dillution (like for ouzo).
THE HERBS, the plants, the spices.
Anise (Pimpinella anisum) is a herbaceous plant species of the Apiaceae family, grown as a condiment plant for its aromatic leaves and seeds. The plant is sometimes called green anise. It has a taste quite similar to that of liquorice. The key ingredient of this plant is an organic compound, anethole, 13 times sweeter than sugar, very little soluble in water but highly soluble in alcohol.
Pimpinella anisum is however expensive and hard to get. It is difficult to cultivate as it requires a lot of sun and also a constant humidity. The dependancy changed once star anise was brought back from China.
Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) is a flowering plant of the carrot family. It is a very aromatic and tasty herb with a similar taste than Anise. Like Estragon, it contains anethole.
Liquorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) a small tree, evergreen, originating from the Mediteranean but also to be found in Asia. The roots are used into the making of many anisseed based spirits.
Star anise, staranise, star anise seed, Chinese star anise, or badiane (Illicium verum) is a medium-sized evergreen tree native to northeast Vietnam and southwest China. It resembles anise in flavor even though they're not from the same family. Star anise contains anethole, the same compound that gives the unrelated anise its flavor. It is long to get mature, but after 25 years the tree are in full maturity and they can give up to 45 kg of fruits, twice per year.
The EU listed the component that can be added to aniseed, fennel and badiane. Here are three examples:
liquorice root
aromatic Mediterranean herbs
rosemarine
(72 herbs and spices are actually accepted in the recipe)
CONVERSION / FERMENTATION
No conversion per say but the different ingredients require to be transformed.
Anise, for example, must be harvested before maturity to dry, then distilled in order to extract the essential oil which is then rectified (i.e. purified). This results in an extremely concentrated (and sweet) anethole extract.
Licorice, another example, requires the extraction of the aromatic compounds from the roots of the licorice plant. First the sticks are reduced to fine straws and then macerated in a mixture of water and alcohol for five hours.
There is no fermentation process other than the one needed to obtain pure alcohol.
Depending on the type of drink you want to obtain and the brand's particular production method, neutral alcohol, which is at least 96° vol., is either redistilled or macerated with aromatic plants.
Let's look at it in details:
This flavouring can be obtained by three processes (or a combination of all three):
- maceration or distillation,
- redistillation of alcohol in the presence of these plants,
- addition of distilled natural extracts of aniseed plants.
The more time intensive process and also the most quality making is maceration. Maceration ca take 28 to 72 hours and up to 8 weeks for the most quality obcessed producers.
When the maceration is over the resulting liquid is pressed, and then distilled.
The hardest step in pastis and the blending of the different essence along with sugar, the neutral alcohol and the anethol (concentrated aniseed).
As for the best ouzo, it is distilled once to reach 96% vol. before adding star anise, often with other herbs and spices. More precisely, the neutral alcohol of agricultural origin is mixed with herbs and then distilled; the product is then either mixed with pure alcohol (the percentage of distilled product must be at least 20%) or simply diluted with water to reduce its alcohol content (the cost is then higher).
Raki is distilled twice from grape marc, sometimes mixed with ethanol. Raki is to be found in Turkey. This is the type of distillation and the content of it that define the different styles of raki.
The different qualities are: the yeni rakı (new raki) grading 45%, of which 65% must come from grape distillation; the altınbaş rakı (golden head) and the kulüp rakı (club) grading 50%, of which the alcohol comes entirely from grape distillation.
Arak is also distilled twice, but the second time it is already infused with anise. Indeed the resulting distillate is mixed with aniseed and diluted with water prior to a final slow distillation in a pot still, it is important to not go too high in temperature so that you'll have more of the flavour of the anise into the distillate.
Traditionally, absinthe starts from a neutral spirit. Whatever herbs or spices the distiller wants to use are then added to the spirit and macerated—soaked until they soften. The infused spirit is then re-distilled, which removes most of the highly bitter flavors imparted by the herbs. The resulting spirit is yellowish.
Sambuca is obtained by steam distillation.
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OTHER THINGS THAN HAPPEN BEFORE BOTTLING
Then, sugar and natural colourings can be added, depending on the spirit produced.
The yellow colour of pastis is due to a colouring agent, often caramel. There are white pastis without colouring. for pastis, only a maximum of 100 gr sugar per liter is allowed.
We wrote above than the re-distilled spirit is mostly yellowish-clear when it comes off the still, however the absinthe is often green. It is because absinthe undergo a process of secondary maceration, in which another round of herbs are steeped in the spirit. The chlorophyll from these herbs imparts the absinthe's famous green color, as well as flavors.
At least 350 g of sugar/L is required for sambuca before it gets bottled.
According to the EU, anis flavoured spirits must be bottled at a minimum alcoholic strength of 15 % abv., with exception such as for pastis 40 % abv or ouzo 37.5 % abv.
the ouzo effect?
Anethole, which is not very soluble in water, causes the color of the liquid to change and creates the famous opalescence of anis based spirit, also named « louching ». According to Wikipedia: The ouzo effect (also louche or spontaneous emulsification) is a cloudy (louche) oil-in-water emulsion that is formed when water is added to ouzo and other anise-flavored liqueurs and spirits, such as pastis, rakı, arak, sambuca and absinthe.
Another note: anything with anis must be stored at a temperature above 12°C otherwise anethole crystals will appear (they dissolve when the bottle gets warm).
RESOURCES/SOURCES
Been very much helped by my bedside favourite The Drunken Botanist, by Amy Stewart, the two French speaking Alcools by Andre Hominé and Bières, Vins et Spiritueux à travers le monde by Stuart Walton and Brian Glover (the original book is in English though) and Distilled by Joel Harrison and Neil Ridley.
And of course checking wikipedia from time to time is very helpful.
Photo: Hugo Aitken on Unsplash (header) as well as Erwan Hesry & Ehud Neuhaus.
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The Check-Up: Would You Drink Blood?
A college track coach told one of his athletes to drink blood. Now the coach is being sued
By Emily Leaman· 9/20/2011, 9:32 a.m.
Warning: This story might make your stomach churn. A Kenyan track-and-field athlete at Central Connecticut State University was told by his coach to drink a cup of blood as part of his training. The coach allegedly said the kid was "too thin" and "needed calcium"; he somehow thought drinking blood would help. Plus, you know, he figured since the kid was Kenyan he did stuff like that all the time, anyway, so what's the big deal? And so, the kid drank the blood in front of about 10 teammates; now the athlete's suing the coach.
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On 26 February 1918, over 10,000 from all walks of life joined the annual Lunar New Year "Derby Day" races at the Happy Valley Racecourse. Due to overloading, the bamboo-made stands collapsed and caused a disastrous fire which eventually claimed more than 600 lives of various nationalities and background.After the calamity, the Tung Wah Hospital swiftly offered healing hands to the victims, the affected families and arranged for labourers to collect the dead bodies. Tong Yat-chuen, the Chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital 1918/1919, appealed to the Government to allocate a land for use as a burial site on 3 March 1918. Four Board Members of the Hospital, namely, Ho Tai-sang, Ho Ngok-lau, Look Poong-shan and Choi Kwai-ng were entrusted to invite monks from the Dinghu Mountain, Zhaoqing, Guangdong to host Chinese mourning rituals at Happy Valley to pay homage regards to pacify the spirit of the victims and the sentiment of the affected families.A land at "Coffee Garden" was then allocated as the burial site. The Tung Wah Hospital held an architectural design competition for a permanent monument to be erected at the burial site and eventually selected the design from Ho Sheung. With the benefit of public donations, the Memorial was completed and designated as the Race Course Fire Memorial in 1922. It was later relocated to the existing location to tie in with the district development plan of the Government.With funding from the Hong Kong Jockey Club and the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, the Memorial was repaired in 1974, 1983, 1993 and 2010 respectively under the advice from Government experts, and will continue for the conservation of the Memorial. As of today, the Board of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals has continued to uphold the custom of paying respect to the ancestors reposed at the Tung Wah Coffin Home and the Tung Wah "benevolence cemetery" on the Ching Ming Festival day every year. They also send Tung Wah staff to grave sweep all Tung Wah "benevolence cemetery".
The Memorial was declared as a monument on 23 October 2015 by Hong Kong Government.
1. The newspaper report of the Race Course Fire. 2. The main central archway is inscribed with the characters "福"(fortune), "祿"(riches)and "壽" (long life). Each bay consists of a Classical Italianate granite niche, containing marble memorial plaques. Below the right-hand side plaque is an Earth God shrine (后土). The whole composition shows great architectural talent in cleverly combining both Western Classical as well as traditional Chinese architectural elements.
3. Two octagonal Pavilions on the top terrace of the site, are of two-storey construction and supported by eight slender columns of reinforced concrete. The roofs are covered by Chinese green glazed tiles; fixed tables and stools constructed of granite and concrete are placed inside for the benefit of visitors. 4. A pair of traditional Pagodas is constructed on the next lower terrace; the Pagodas are octagonal with three storeys. The characters, "寶塔"(precious pagoda) are inscribed on their front elevations. The Pagodas have also been constructed for use as furnaces for visitors to burn paper offerings.


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Phil Rockstroh: Roasting Marshmallows on the American Reichstag Fire to Come
I happened to bookmark this thoughtful piece by Phil Rockstroh a couple of days ago (see PG Picks). Thanks to Phil sending it, I had the welcome opportunity to re-read it and I'm pleased to feature the full article and not just the link here.
By way of preamble, just in the last few days there have been a number of important articles about the continuing diminution of constitutionally-enshrined rights and the danger of martial law in the United States. Many of you will have seen, for example, Michel Chossudovsky's piece in the Canadian site Global Research entitled Bush Executive Order: Criminalizing the Antiwar Movement.
In addition to this, see Kurt Nimmo's Decider Guy Demands Further Erosion of the Fourth, James Bovard's Martial Law: Waiting for the Clampdown, Dave Lindorff's The Threat Of Martial Law Is Real, Paul Craig Roberts, My Wake-up Call: Watch For Another 9/11-WMD Experience and Ernest Partridge, A Republic, If We Can Keep It — but a sample of the wake-up call in the last couple of weeks alone.
The dangerous erosion of civil liberties is not of course limited to my dear friends in the States. Here in Australia at Empire's Edge, and in the UK, draconian new "terror" laws are also being enacted, though the corrosion of constitutional democracy seems most marked in Empire's Epicentre in the US. Nor is all this intended merely to depress us; rather, we are the informed citizenry upon which a healthy and genuinely functioning democracy depends, and we already have means available for redress and reclamation. The impeachment movement is a start that changes the players, there is more we can each do to better direct the system.
In Fascism Anyone? Lawrence Britt enumerates upon the fourteen common characteristics of fascist regimes (subsequently expanded upon and updated in Heather Wokusch's Bush and the F-Word in 2006), and their prevalence today, identified as:
Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism; Disdain for the importance of human rights; Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause; The supremacy of the military/avid militarism; Rampant sexism; A controlled mass media; Obsession with national security; Religion and ruling elite tied together; Power of corporations protected; Power of labor suppressed or eliminated; Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts; Obsession with crime and punishment; Rampant cronyism and corruption; and Fraudulent elections.
On the US Constitution: GWB has said that its "just a goddamn piece of paper" (Nov 2005).
In Friday's LA Times too, Rosa Brooks recalls Ron Suskind's oft-quoted passage in his book The One Percent Doctrine on imperial hubris in its presumption of the unilateral construction of reality (see A Really Bad Case of "Reality"; and the 'aide' quoted is widely tipped to be Karl Rove):
The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism.
He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'
Phil Rockstroh captures the zeitgeist very well and addresses both the imperial imposition of (its version of) reality and its creeping fascism. He is a contributing editor to Cyrano's Journal Online and is an auto-didactic poet, lyricist and philosopher bard living in New York City.
Tales of Angst, Alienation and Martial Law: Roasting Marshmallows on the American Reichstag Fire to Come
by Phil Rockstroh
In this summer of angst and grim foreboding about what further assaults against common sense and common decency the Bush administration might inflict upon the people of the world, how many times during the day do those of us — still possessed of mind, heart and conscience — take pause, hoping we've seen the worst of it, then, fearing we haven't yet, attempt to push down the dread rising within us, so that we might simply make it through the day and be able to rest at night?
Accordingly, those who have been paying attention are aware that the outward mechanisms of martial law are in place. We shudder knowing that Bush has issued an executive decree that grants him dictatorial power in the event of some nebulously defined national emergency. In addition, the knowledge nettles us that a vast network of internment camps bristle across the length of the U.S., standing at wait for those who might raise objections to the fascistic fury unloosed by the American empire's version of the Reichstag fire.
Moreover, a closer look would reveal that the inner processes by which an individual begins the act of acceptance of authoritarian excess — the mixture of chronic passivity, boredom, low grade anxiety and unfocused rage inherent in the citizens/consumers of the corporate state that primes an individual for fascism — have been in place for quite some time within the psyches of the American populace, both elites and hoi polloi alike. Although, don't look for torch-lit processions thronging the nation's streets and boulevards; rather, look for a Nuremberg Rally of couch-bound brownshirts. Instead of ogling the serried ranks of jut-jawed, SS soldiers, a contemporary Leni Riefenstahl would be forced to film chubby clusters of double-chinned consumers, saluting the new order with their TV remotes. In the contemporary United States, the elation induced by the immersion of one's individual will to the mindless intoxication of the mob might only be possible, if Bush seized dictatorial control of the state while simultaneously sending out to all citizens gift certificates to Ikea.
After the catastrophes spawned by the rise of European fascism in the 1930s, a number of brilliant, original thinkers (including Hannah Arendt, Roberto Freire, Wilhelm Reich, and R. D. Laing) set out to study the phenomenon in order to learn how future calamities might be prevented. Although the methodologies and conclusions of these thinkers varied, each noted that alienation and dehumanization festered at the core of the death urge of fascism.
Nowadays, in contrast, the elites of the corporate media have proven themselves useless in this regard, believing, as they do, they constitute the thin line between the rabble at large (me and you) and the chaos begot by freedom. At present, mega-churches attract alienated suburbanites. Right-wing talk show hosts misdirect their listeners alienation towards so-called illegal "aliens" and exploit their audience's sense of powerlessness (created by the rigged system of corporate capitalism) against elitist liberals (who themselves, ironically, benefit from the present system and who only want to change it to the degree that their own privilege will not be affected — in other words, not at all).
Combine the above with the American character trait of being hostile towards introspection and it becomes evident that the present disaster has been building for quite a while now. And it can (and most likely will) get worse — far worse.
Most Americans alive today have been trained since birth to adapt to and serve the corrupt corporate structure by means of the shunning of critical thinking and have been conditioned to be in constant (empty) motion or in the thrall of mass media distraction. We have been taught that passivity is for losers, yet we find ourselves nearly powerless before the corporate/consumer/military/police/entertainment state. In this way, we serve our corporate masters; it serves the corpocracy that the lower orders refuse meaningful self-awareness. If one were to glimpse one's own illusions, then it follows one might begin to question collective delusions, and this would upset the social order.
Those who have studied the dangers of authoritarian rule have advised us to be wary of people who carry an inner emptiness. Of course, these unfortunates yearn for the void to be filled. But with their hearts and minds mortared closed, what makes it through the self-constructed prison is loud, stupid, and fascistic. At present, what penetrates is: Fundamentalist Sermons on Armageddon, violent video games, the empty spectacle of steroid-induced professional sports hype, the lethal fantasies of American exceptionalism, the exercise in Rock and Roll imperialism that U.S. foreign policy has become. In short, all the banal Sturm and Drang necessary to pierce those protective walls and penetrate the pervasive inner emptiness.
When the people of a culture have been conditioned to worship power — but feel powerless — there's trouble ahead. The elites must displace the public's rage by a demagogic sleight-of-hand such as the demonization of marginalized groups. In the US, we've been inundated by years of state and commercial propaganda that has degraded and demonized the country's permanent underclass by the labeling of them as welfare parasites and career criminals.
It has been noted that the mindset, methods, and procedures of America's punitive, profit-driven prison-industrial complex was a prototype for the systemic cruelty of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib; furthermore, it is a given that those institutional affronts to human decency will have served as prototypes for the methods and procedures that will be practiced upon those who are swept-up in the purges and detainment mania following the declaration of martial law in the United States.
We push this knowledge away from us, fearing we will be paralyzed by its crushing implications. Worse, what is nearly impossible to admit is, most likely, the system crushed us long ago. Apropos, R. D. Laing averred that being able to adapt and function within an insane, authoritarian system renders one for all practical purposes insane — only insane in a manner acceptable to a power mad ruling elite.
This is the knowledge we push down, every hour of everyday. Otherwise, we would be driven to admit outright that the system has crushed our individual hopes, aspirations and yearnings. We must, at all costs, keep these feelings concealed; otherwise, we might be compelled to contemplate what we have forsaken, what passions and truths we have traded away for the false sense of security that the corporate order offered us when we tacitly agreed to surrender what was most sacred, vital and alive within us. One psychological manifestation of this phenomenon is the incessant chanting of that mantra of the American corporate workforce: "I'm not my job. I'm not what I do all day long."
For a moment, meditate on the calamity implicit in such a sentiment. Because If we cannot locate and engage our true selves during our waking hours, then who the hell are we anyway? This is a profoundly troubling circumstance. Moreover, if we've condemned our daylight selves to a void of non-being, what then remains of us?
We experience this dislocation of the life force as a sense of nebulous dread. Everything, these days, the architecture and accouterments of our lives seems so fragile and unreal; it feels as if everything could just fly apart at any given moment. The world and our place in it seems so flimsy: an empire built of eggshells; it could all shatter in an instant.
Living on credit, the house of cards of the real estate market, jobs evaporating, most of us languishing only a couple of paychecks away from ruin: The empire is coming undone. As it is, it seems the nation is only being held together with hydrogenated fat, wheat gluten, over-extended credit and particleboard. Ergo, there is one law the lawless Bush administration and their keepers from the plundering class cannot flout: the second law of thermodynamics. They won't be able to claim executive privilege to avoid the consequences of negative entropy.
In a similar vein, we, the underlings of empire, stand helpless before the prevailing madness. Individual reason rarely acts as a countervailing force to stem a drowning tide of cultural cognitive dissonance. Because the more epic and all-compassing the mistake, the more epic and all-encompassing come the rationalizations, the scapegoating and the compulsion for do-overs. If the surge isn't working as fantasized, then we'll double-dog surge you and then bomb Iran. If police state tactics fail to alleviate a sense of anxiety, then we must construct more detainment camps, more maximum security prisons, enact more federal death penalty statutes. "Bring back the electric chair; being put to sleep, like stray pets, is too good for the traitors," the mob will rage. That's the solution, but (cognitive dissonance being what it is) we need to go bigger — we need an electric sofa — yet, bigger still — an electric dining room set! "Aahh . . . the smell of deep-fried dissidents in the morning."
And over the smoking corpses, let us pray. We need to pray for . . . what? . . . more prayer. These prayers would work, the homicidally faithful will insist, if every single doubter was induced to drop to their knees and pray. Hence, we need prayer in the public schools. We need prayer on public transportation. We need prayer in public restrooms!
Animus, ignorance, and magical thinking are a tragic mix and, I'm afraid, that vintage of mind is the hideous wine of our times. The social criteria that gives rise to fascism is in place in the U.S. and those in positions of power have a strong interest in seeing things remain that way. All we can do is what folks (a minority) have always done . . . exile or resistance.
In my opinion, both are honorable. The other options are varying degrees of "little Eichmann[ism]" — Ward Churchill's much scorned, career purge-inducing — but nevertheless accurate phrase. If one does the "soul work," to appropriate archetypal psychologist James Hillman's term, it is still possible to resist complicity. Training yourself to avoid lying for provisional gain is a time honored means of preventing alliances with exploitive assholes. They will avoid you, fire you, curse your name from the darkness of their inner abyss, but this will solve the problem of dependence on them and you'll be forced to live by other means. Generally, one is more adaptable than one believes.
Keep yourself as healthy and as sane as possible: we're going to need you around after the inevitable collapse of the present system. Also, beware of those reductionist demons of the mind who diminish the soul-making possibilities of "mere" words. The acts of writing and reading are seen as passive; to crackpot realists, these activities seem useless, unproductive — the feckless indulgences of a class of the thin-wristed effete.
Accordingly, Americans have all but ceased reading. Worse, they displace their feelings of self-loathing borne of their own corporately induced passivity upon writers and thinkers. If the tenets of democratic discourse are to survive, it is imperative that writers and thinkers begin to engage in a passionate defense of themselves against the kvetching armies of crackpot realists that have encircled and laid siege to our collective hearts and minds.
But don't expect to be lauded with praise for the effort. It's doubtful our adversaries will be moved by our entreaties: There cannot be a rapprochement with reality for those who have never had a relationship with it in the first place. Yet verbal imagery and depth-inducing insights are the DNA of compassionate engagement. It is not a coincidence that George W. Bush is an inarticulate oaf. Conversely, there are many things in this world that require being touched by words, for there are occasions when words alone can suffice to take us deep and lift us up and serve to ameliorate our alienation.
It is in this spirit that I offer the above words to you. I'm traveling light; they're all I'm carrying with me, at this late hour, in these dark and dangerous times.
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Only partway through this post you sparked me up on the greatest failing of erudition. It is supposed we have intellectuals that the masses might be spurred to action by their insights, but this really has not been true for a long time. Intellectuals are actually reviled by an astonishing number of people, and where this is not the case a couple of other impediments to action exist. A swath listens dutifully precisely so that they might then express admiration and illustrate their own humility. "Wow, what a brilliant person that is! I could never think that well." And there it ends. Another engages to immitate, debate or berate, see who gets the most attention, the top spot on the search engines out of it. So casting aside the multifarious failings of our entirely too fat and lethargic population, the intellectuals are of their ilk (only with impressive expression) and doing precisely as Rove predicted, which is to say: doing nothing… which is what set the masses against them to begin with. Anyone who might at least satisfy the intellectual appetites of a few while we wait helplessly for our RFID chips, just ends up having facilitated their implantation!
We can't say the world into acting as we would have it, or out of acting as it does. Comedians and writers are gaining fame (and sometimes fortune) as never before precisely because of the mechanism about which Rove spoke.
NOT GOING TO CUT IT!!!!!! OH. MY. GOD. IT'S SO NOT CUTTING IT, HAS NO PRAYER OF IT, AND WHEN, WHEN, WHEN WILL THESE BRILLIANT GAS BAGS GET IN THE STREETS WHERE IT MIGHT COUNT FOR SOMETHING TRULY WORTHY!?!
Thank you. Thank you very much indeed for enduring another outburst from me. xoxoxox
Ann El Khoury
Another very good insight, 99. Its true we can't "say" the world into acting as we would have it, but it also true that language constitutes reality and not only frames our world and how we apprehend reality, but also reproduces that reality. Thoughts and words become deeds, and while a certain amount of disdain for armchair scholars who do not crucially act upon their insights is healthy, particular in a more corporatized university environment, I've met some pretty committed scholar-activists out there in the trenches, so to speak. I can understand the motivation behind anti-intellectualism if all scholars were sitting in their comfortable ivory towers, not daring to speak truth to power lest they place in jeopardy their tenured careers, but we're not all like the equivalent of "art for art's sake" intellectual hedonists.
And some of the most erudite (and active) people have not been scholars.
More to the point you make however, erudition is on its own insufficient, yes, but it is also an essential prerequisite and indispensable as part of the social change equation when taken together with action. I was on the proverbial streets in a peace mediation group on Sunday, and reminded there how words are an essential supplement to, though obviously not a substitute for, action.
The erudition here is a call to action, a making sense of what is happening and a raising of awareness. Rockstroh himself puts it best I think when he says: "Yet verbal imagery and depth-inducing insights are the DNA of compassionate engagement."
"Words are all we have to go on" as the playwright Tom Stoppard once said — and deploying them in the service of social justice action (the "real" eloquence) is something we can all learn.
One citizen campaign for impeachment — got any other ideas for strategy?
Bill Maher making my point. [eight-parts put together into one post]
And, well, I'm bedecked with grotesque orange ribbons and betaking myself into the public daily… two things I simply loathe… in an effort to goose people about impeachment, which I'm convinced is the only stop to the warring… among entirely too many other things. I'm jaded by having to endure the blathering of dolts who think their use of long words makes them "right" where I donate my time for a good cause. I'm frustrated by the fucking ocean of incentives to revolution that seems only to have sodden my countrymen. I'm up past my eyeballs with the knowledge of how activism turns so swiftly into another iteration of identity rather than, say, efficacious. Move someone to actually move and soon you find them moving like crazy just as they once opined like crazy… toward illustrating their position on the matter… missing completely that the object has not been attained. The rare few who will act are further reduced by how many of them find they like its reflection. We need a big mob of people who hate to act, only slightly less than they hate what's going on, and will DIE before making it a hobby.
I am a rabid defender of teachers and as rabid toppler of ivory towers. I'm wondering how the heck we ever got around to the First American Revolution… how Thomas Paine, et al. managed to rally the forces.
I'm thinking it would help if all teachers kept in mind the civic responsibility inhering the education of citizens, never letting them forget that it isn't even for its own sake that it is worth while, but for the planet's sake.
And I happen to know a few of the leading lights of Blogistan's intelligencia, and, well, they are very wrapped up in their own statures, in each other's statures, and what we would suppose should flow from their eloquence doesn't. It's serving to soothe the freaked minions, assuring them that their hysteria is justified. This tends toward SETTLING the juices which would otherwise move them into the streets.
It's a very bad problem.
Dave Bath
Good post, good find!
On resistance or exile: this might be usefulhow to renounce your Australian citizenship
On the XO itself:
Given timezones, I think Tigtog's And we thought Haneef had it bad at LarvProd was quick off the mark. There's also a worry for us Aussies because the XO was courtesy of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. A couple of days later and another XO extended Bush's ability to gag scientists if facts get in the way of the Bush agenda. Little Johnny, Ruddock et al will be taking notes in case they get back after the election.
Indeed! Great post (Room 101) and I read it and LP's take with great interest — very scary. I too was gob smacked at this latest XO (someone at LP linked to the whole list):
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/orders/
I notice our Prime Miniature is refusing to say sorry to Muhamad Haneef for his wrongful detention:
Howard: "Australia will not be apologizing to Dr. Haneef. Dr. Haneef was not victimized and Australia's international reputation has not been harmed by this 'mis-start' to its new anti-terrorism laws."
Pull the other one, John. And the capricious Kevin Andrews is a disgrace, adding insult to injury by continuing to defame Dr Haneef: ("His lawyers indicated to my department … that he wanted to get out of Australia as soon as possible. If anything that rather heightens, rather than lessens, my suspicions.").
I missed the 60 Minutes interview yesterday but am glad to hear at least it showed the government up. It was amusing to watch even the tabloids' about-face on this one. In the Sunday papers the family was so gracious in thanking the public for their support, that was the only bright spot for the crap this innocent man had to endure.
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Doncaster Rovers are delighted to announce that in form striker Andy Williams has been named the Sky Bet League 1 Player of the Month for December.
Williams arrived at Rovers in the summer from Swindon Town and has scored 10 goals in his last 12 matches, most recently against Southend United, taking his tally to 13 for the season.
As well as his all-round play in the penalty area, Williams' wonderfully inventive drag back and 'Bergkamp-esque' finish against Oldham Athletic was the pick of his four goals in as many games.
Manager Darren Ferguson said: "I am absolutely delighted for Andy, it's fantastic news for him and the club. Full credit to him, he is flying at the minute and long may it continue.
Williams himself also stated his delight with the award. "To win this award is really pleasing," he said.
"I'm delighted with it and with my form over the Christmas period.
"As a footballer you make a lot of sacrifices and it's nice to be rewarded at the end of it all. I want to thank the lads and all the staff for their support in helping me reach the form that I am in. I would also like to thank the fans for their brilliant support."
Everyone at the club would like to congratulate Andy on his award!


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poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement
Sir Muhammad Iqbal (November 9, 1877 – April 21, 1938), widely known as Allama Iqbal, was a Muslim poet and philosopher. He became the national poet of Pakistan. He is also known as the poet of East. He wrote poetry in Urdu and Persian. His poetry is considered to be revolutionary.[1] His vision of an independent state for the Muslims of British India was a starting point for the creation of Pakistan. He is commonly referred to as Dr Allama Iqbal.
Allama
Dr Muhammad Iqbal
محمد اِقبال
Allama Muhammad Iqbal
(1877-11-09)9 November 1877
Sialkot, Punjab Province, British India,
(now in Punjab, Pakistan)
21 April 1938(1938-04-21) (aged 60)
Lahore, Punjab, British India
British Indian
Poet of the East
شاعر مشرق
Scotch Mission College (F.A.)
Government College (B.A., M.A.)
University of Cambridge (B.A.)
University of Munich (Ph.D.)
The Secrets of the Self, The Secrets of Selflessness, Message from the East, Persian Psalms, Javid Nama (more works)
Main interests
Urdu poetry, Persian poetry, Law
Notable ideas
Two-nation theory, Allahabad Address
Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, Syed Mir Hassan, Rumi, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Thomas Walker Arnold
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan Movement, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Ale Ahmed Suroor, Ali Shariati, Fateh Muhammad Malik
1 Early life and education
2 Early career
3 Later career, poetic and ideological work
4 Ideological work
5 Death
Early life and educationEdit
Muhammad Iqbal was born on 9 November 1877. His father was Sheikh Noor Muhammad[2], who worked in a small government job but later started his own business, and his mother was Imam Bibi. Both Allama Iqbal's mother and father were very pious and religious-minded people and devoted to a simple life. After early Islamic education and then secondary at a small school in Sialkot, Iqbal was admitted to the Scottish Murray College, Sialkot, where he topped the higher secondary examinations and got a scholarship to study at the famous Government College, Lahore, for BA. On going to live in the hostel there, Iqbal met Professor Arnold, an English teacher who taught many things to Iqbal and guided him in his studies of philosophy and literature.He was very young at that time.
Early careerEdit
At that time, Iqbal also became well known as a new poet and writer. He used to go to attend the 'Mushaira' at the haveli of Hakim Syed Aminuddin, in BhaatiGate area of Old Lahore city—here, he met many famous poets and writers and also began to write good poems which became very popular. He was guided by Mirza Dagh, Mirza Gurgani, Hakim Amin uddin, Hakim Shuja uddin and Sir Abdul Qadir. His first famous poem, Koh i Himala was also printed in Makhzan magazine, owned by Hakim Shuja uddin and Sir Abdul Qadir
After doing his BA and MA from Government College, Lahore, Iqbal was appointed a professor at this same institution and after some time, in 1905, he was selected for higher studies in England and Europe. He went and studied in Cambridge University and then also law at University of London, and then he went to Munich, Germany, where he took a PHD degree. After all his study, Iqbal decided to go back and teach and also practice law in India.
Later career, poetic and ideological workEdit
At that time he faced many difficulties.Although faced by some of the difficulties, Iqbal followed this plan. He taught some senior classes at Government College and also practiced Law at Lahore High Court. At the same time, he wrote many famous poems such as Asrar i Khudi, Ramuz i Bekhudi, Payam i Mashriq, Zabur i Ajam, Bang i Dara, Bal i Jibrail, Zarb i Kalim and etc. Because of his learning and knowledge, people soon began to call him 'Allama' Iqbal and in 1922, King George V of Britain, made him a knight, giving him the title of Allama 'Sir' Muhammad Iqbal. He was awarded 5 awards.
Ideological workEdit
Allama Iqbal was a poet and a philosopher, he was always concerned about the thoughts, ideas and condition of Muslims everywhere, but specially Indian Muslims who were under British Rule and also threatened by Hindu majority population. Iqbal believed strongly in Sir Syed Ahmed Khan's earlier idea about 'Two Nation theory' that Muslims and Hindus were two separate nations and should be allowed to live separately. He put forward this idea again in his famous Allahabad Address of Muslim League, in 1930,[3] and also preached this in his poems and lectures. Allama's words and ideas inspired many Muslims, some of whom became leaders of the Muslim League, and struggled to obtain Pakistan later on. He was very popular amongst the Muslim masses too.
DeathEdit
He died on 21 April 1938 in Lahore, Punjab, British India.
List of Urdu language poets
List of notable Lahoris
↑ Bhatti, Alama (2006-06-28). "Iqbal and Goethe" (PDF). Yearbook of the Goethe Society of India.
↑ Anjum, Zafar. Iqbal : The Life of a Poet, Philosopher and Politician. ISBN 9788184006568. OCLC 1015890929.
↑ http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_iqbal_1930.html Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal's 1930 Presidential Address to the Muslim League at Allahabad
3. ↑ http://www.allamaiqbal.com Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Official website.
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package com.gs.collections.impl.set.sorted.immutable;

import com.gs.collections.impl.block.factory.Comparators;
import com.gs.collections.impl.test.Verify;
import org.junit.Test;

public class ImmutableEmptySortedSetSerializationTest
{
    @Test
    public void serializedForm_no_comparator()
    {
        Verify.assertSerializedForm(
                2L,
                "rO0ABXNyAFFjb20uZ3MuY29sbGVjdGlvbnMuaW1wbC5zZXQuc29ydGVkLmltbXV0YWJsZS5JbW11\n"
                        + "dGFibGVTb3J0ZWRTZXRTZXJpYWxpemF0aW9uUHJveHkAAAAAAAAAAQwAAHhwcHcEAAAAAHg=",
                ImmutableEmptySortedSet.INSTANCE);
    }

    @Test
    public void serializedForm_with_comparator()
    {
        Verify.assertSerializedForm(
                2L,
                "rO0ABXNyAFFjb20uZ3MuY29sbGVjdGlvbnMuaW1wbC5zZXQuc29ydGVkLmltbXV0YWJsZS5JbW11\n"
                        + "dGFibGVTb3J0ZWRTZXRTZXJpYWxpemF0aW9uUHJveHkAAAAAAAAAAQwAAHhwc3IASGNvbS5ncy5j\n"
                        + "b2xsZWN0aW9ucy5pbXBsLmJsb2NrLmZhY3RvcnkuQ29tcGFyYXRvcnMkTmF0dXJhbE9yZGVyQ29t\n"
                        + "cGFyYXRvcgAAAAAAAAABAgAAeHB3BAAAAAB4",
                new ImmutableEmptySortedSet<Object>(Comparators.naturalOrder()));
    }
}

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Q: How can I create function which will return value of jQuery method attr I have html structure:

and I have done attempt create function which will get attribute of current img element and I want to return from this function this current attribute, I have next code:
var sr = "";
function imgSrc(){
   $('div').on("click", "ul li img", function () {
        sr = $(this).attr("src");
        return sr;
    });
}

console.log(imgSrc());

unfortunately I get undefined in my console.

A: Your function doesn't return anything. It just defines an onClick handler. So that's why you get a return value of 'undefined'
If your intention is to log the src of a div when you click on it, your code would need to be more like this...
$('div').on("click", "ul li img", function ()
{
    var sr = $(this).attr("src");
    console.log(sr);
});

That registers the event listener on the element.
However, if you want to wrap the listener in a function and then call that function, as you have done, that will also work - the function in the on("click") will be triggered when clicking an element. The value of sr will be set, but the outer function itself won't return a value. You would need to find another way to do something with the value of sr, within the function in the on("click")

A: you must put your event handler before calling function
var sr = "";
function imgSrc(obj){
    if(obj.tagName == "IMG")
        sr = $(obj).attr("src");
    else
        sr = $(obj).find("img").attr("src");
    return sr;
}
$('div').on("click", "li img", function () {
    console.log(imgSrc(this));
});

A: if I understand correctly, you want sr to have the attribute value?
var sr = "";
$('div').on("click", "ul li img", function () {
    sr = $(this).attr("src");
});

console.log(sr);

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I've written before about my search for the way to deal with data in python. It's time to write again, though because I have a new favorite: pandas, the panel data package.
There is copious, and growing documentation for pandas, but it assumes a level of familiarity with python and numpy. I thought I'd write some little examples calculations that I've done with pandas recently to complement the real docs with some "recipes". You don't really need to know python to use these, let alone numpy.
This is cooler than a rec_array because you don't have to dig in the docs for the constructor, and you can use a dictionary to name each column.
This is not as cool as a rec_array, because writing df['age'] has more characters than df.age, but I feel churlish to complain about it.
It's good that I complained about my uncool df['age'] business, because I learned that df.age works, too, as long as you are using an up-to-date pandas.
More substantial recipe to come. Is there already a cookbook out there?
Pandas can do data.age! When you add a column via dictionary, their names get added to the data frame as an attribute.
Awesome, you're right! I thought it didn't because I was using an old version.
Did you tried using pandas with pymc? Do these two packages talk well to one another?
Can I have a pymc stochastic that is a DataFrame or a Series?
Good question… I expect that you can, so give it a try. Maybe I will to in a future blog post.


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