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Smuggled bronze statue and relief returned to India
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photo courtesy of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
LONDON – A limestone carved relief and Navaneetha Krishna Bronze figure from India were repatriated to their home country. On Aug. 15, 2019, the High Commissioner of India in London accepted the return of the artifacts on behalf of India.
The artifacts are linked to one of the most prolific art smugglers in the world, who was recently charged in Manhattan, New York, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
An individual in the United Kingdom who possessed the items came forward to Homeland Security Investigations expressing a desire to surrender the pieces.
In June 2019, working with the Metropolitan Police Service, the individual turned over the artifacts to authorities. With the assistance of Indian Customs and an expert examination, the limestone relief is estimated to date from 1st Century BC to 1st Century AD, originating from Andhra Pradesh.
The bronze figure is estimated to date from 17th Century AD, originating from Tamil Nadu.
Both items will be examined by domain experts at a later date to establish their exact period and original location. The repatriated artifacts are just two of more than 2,600 antiquities that have been recovered around the world. The investigation remains ongoing.
Hidden Idol artifacts returned to India
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Bronze Sculpture Hindu God Ganesha Removed from a Temple in Tamil Nadu, India
Jain Figure of Bahubali South India, probably Karnataka 14th century Brass.
Parvati South India, Tamil Nadu Chola Dynasty, 12th century Copper alloy
Male Diety India, Madhya Pradesh Khajuraho, 12th century Red sandstone
WASHINGTON – Over 200 artifacts were returned to the government of India June 6, 2016, by Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch during a ceremony with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The items were recovered as a result of an investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the work of the United States Attorneys' Offices in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, and the Department of Justice's Office of International Affairs.Items returned included religious statues, bronzes and terra cotta pieces, some dating back 2,000 years, looted from some of India's most treasured religious sites. Among the pieces returned is a statue of Saint Manikkavichavakar, a Hindu mystic and poet from the Chola period (circa 850 AD to 1250 AD) stolen from the Sivan Temple in Chennai, India, which is valued at $1.5 million. Also included in the collection is a bronze sculpture of the Hindu god Ganesh estimated to be 1,000 years old.
Artifacts recovered in Hidden Idol investigation
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Buff Sandstone Panel Depicting Revanta and His Entourage, from India, in the 8th Century A.D.,
Federal authorities marked the upcoming Asia Week in New York by seizing two allegedly looted sculptures that had been slated for auction as part of the festivities.
The objects included a panel showing Revanta, a minor Hindu deity of hunting who bestows protection from the dangers of the forest and is often depicted atop a horse with a bow, and a stele of Rishabhanata, the first teacher of the ancient non-violent Jainism religion.
Below is the ICE account of the investigation:
ICE recovers stolen Indian artifacts from major auction house ahead of Asia Week New York
NEW YORK— Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in conjunction with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office seized two stolen Indian statues Friday, believed to be from the 8th and 10th centuries A.D., according to ICE officials.
The artifacts were recovered from Christie's auction house in New York City and are the result of an international investigation led by HSI and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, with assistance from the government of India and Interpol.
The seizure comes just days before a planned March 15, 2016 auction of the items as part of the "Asia Week New York" festivities. Christie's had included the two artifacts in an auction entitled: "The Lahiri Collection: Indian and Himalayan Art, Ancient and Modern."
The two artifacts listed in the auction as lots 61 and 62 are described as:
A Buff Sandstone Stele of Rishabhanata, from Rajasthan or Madhya Pradesh, India, in the 10th century A.D, approximately 22 3/8 inches high, and depicting a stele carved with the first Jain Tirthankara (a teacher who preaches dharma) seated in vajrasana (crossed leg pose) and flanked by a pair of standing attendants, and valued at approximately $150,000.
A Buff Sandstone Panel Depicting Revanta and His Entourage, from India, in the 8th Century A.D., approximately 30 by 53 inches, depicting a very rare representation of the equestrian deity, Revanta, a figure of great importance in Hinduism, and valued at approximately $300,000. More
Looted India idol in Indiana
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Shiva and Pavarti. Courtesy of ICE
Ball State University in Indiana has handed over its lone Art of the Past artifact to federal investigators. The bronze idol — a husband and wife piece depicting Shiva the Destroyer and Parvati — had been swiped from a temple in India, and Subhash Kapoor's Art of the Past Gallery transferred it to the university museum using a false background.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will hold on to the statue in case it needs to be used as evidence in the investigation into Kapoor's Manhattan-based operation, which authorities allege moved $100 million worth of stolen antiquities until he was arrested in 2011 and sent to India to face charges. Shiva and Parvati will ultimately returned to India.
Here's the ICE account:
ICE HSI partners with Ball State University and the David Owsley Museum of Art to recover a hidden idol stolen from India
MUNCIE, Indiana – Representatives from the David Owsley Museum of Art at Ball State University transferred Monday a religious relic known as a Festival Bronze of Shiva and Parvati to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Under the auspices of Operation Hidden Idols, special agents with HSI's cultural property unit were able to determine that this idol had been looted from a temple in Southern India and brought to the United States illegally. HSI formally took custody of the artifact, which is linked to the ongoing investigation. For the past five months, officials at the museum worked hand in hand with HSI to identify the stolen piece.
Bronze Manikkavichavakar heading home
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Manikkavichavakar, photo courtesy of ICE
Long story made short: In India in the 800s, Manikkavichavakar was sent to buy 10,000 Arabian horses for the king of Pandya on the subcontinent's southern tip. On the way, he ran into a devotee of Shiva, became enlightened and used the horse-trading money to build a temple. He wrote some hymns, got famous, became a saint, and had a bunch of statues made in his honor.
More recently, a Manikkavichavakar statue got swiped from India and wound up in the U.S. and was recovered by the feds on Wednesday.
Below is the Immigration and Customs Enforcement account:
ICE partners with art collector to recover stolen idol from India
NEW YORK – An anonymous collector of Asian antiquities voluntarily surrendered a stolen 11-12th century Chola bronze statue representing Saint Manikkavichavakar. Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations' cultural property unit determined the object had been looted from the Sivan Temple in Sripuranthan Village in Ariyalur District, Tamil Nadu in India. The recovery of this religious relic Wednesday follows an ongoing international smuggling probe by HSI.
HSI special agents believe the collector is a victim in this situation because when the artifact was purchased in 2006, a false provenance was provided with the piece that had been manufactured to pre-date the idol's theft.
HSI special agents have tracked multiple false provenances provided by Subhash Kapoor, the owner of Art of the Past Gallery, who has been implicated in the HSI probe dubbed Operation Hidden Idol. This methodology of back-tracking an artifact to its theft site and searching out the smuggling methods from the source country to Kapoor's U.S. gallery has led to numerous recoveries. To date, HSI special agents, in conjunction with the Manhattan District Attorney's office, have netted in excess of 2,500 artifacts worth over $100 million. These artifacts have been sourced from countries all around the world.
On Wednesday afternoon, HSI formally took custody of the stolen idol of Saint Manikkavichavakar linked to the ongoing investigation. Although the relic is a religious idol and priceless to its worshippers, it could sell for as much as $1 million if legitimately offered on the market today. In addition to recovering this idol from the Tamil Nadu temples, HSI also has recovered at least six other sacred Chola bronzes that it anticipates forfeiting and repatriating to the Government of India.
HSI's Operation Hidden Idol focuses on the activities of a former New York-based art dealer, Kapoor, who is currently in custody in India awaiting trial for allegedly looting tens of millions of dollars' worth of rare antiquities from several nations. The trails of looted artifacts have been traced all around the world. Within the past three months, two domestic museums, the Honolulu Museum and Peabody Essex, partnered with HSI to surrender illicit cultural property stemming from Kapoor. Over the last three years, HSI special agents have executed a series of search warrants targeting Kapoor's Manhattan gallery, along with warehouses and storage facilities linked to the dealer. Additionally, three individuals have been arrested in the United States for their role in the scheme. The estimated value of the artifacts seized so far in the case exceeds $100 million.
Museum surrenders pieces in Hidden Idol investigation
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One of seven items found in a Honolulu museum believed to have been looted from India. Photo courtesy of ICE.
HONOLULU — The Honolulu Museum of Art has handed over seven artifacts likely looted from India to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Wednesday.
ICE officials said the museum didn't know about the objects' background when they were acquired between 1991 and 2003.
"Many of the items can be traced to one of India's richest archeological regions, Chandraketugarh," ICE officials said in a release on the matter earlier this week.
Authorities allege some of the items are tied to the Operation Hidden Idol investigation former New York-based art dealer, Subhash Kapoor. Kapoor is currently in custody in India awaiting trial for allegedly looting millions of dollars' worth of rare antiquities, ICE officials said.
Pieces returned by the Honolulu museum include a 2,000-year-old terra cotta rattle.
"In addition to the rattle resembling the Buddhist god of wealth, the objects include figurines, architectural fragments and tiles, which were removed from religious temples and ancient Buddhist sites," officials said.
In 2013, Homeland Security Investigation agents in New York linked the museum's terra cotta rattle to the Hidden Idol case, the museum began working with authorities and identified the other six objects, officials said.
The artifacts will be used in the prosecution for the Hidden Idol case, which has already lead to the seizure of more than $100 million worth of allegedly looted objects and three arrest. The items will then likely be returned to India.
Most wanted sculpture heads back to India
J.Scott Reinitz	news	Hong Kong, India, Vishnu	1 Comment
This "Vishnu and Parvati" sandstone sculpture dating to the 11th or 12th century was stolen from an Indian temple in 2009. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations returned three recovered sculptures, valued at more than $1.5 million, to the government of India Tuesday during a repatriation ceremony at the consulate in New York City.
Earlier this week, statues that had been looted from India and then laundered through Hong Kong and England were returned to their home country after the wound up in the United States. One of the pieces was listed on Interpol's most wanted list for stolen antiquities.
Here is the Immigration and Customs Enforcement rundown on the case:
ICE returns recovered, 'most wanted' stolen antiquities to India
NEW YORK —U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations returned three recovered sculptures, valued at more than $1.5 million, to the government of India Tuesday during a repatriation ceremony at the consulate in New York City.
One of the objects –- a 350-pound sandstone sculpture stolen from an Indian temple in 2009 –- was listed as one of INTERPOL's top 10 most wanted stolen works of art.
Two of the three artifacts returned to India were reported in 2009 by the Archaeological Survey of India, who notified the Indian Consulate about two sandstone sculptures stolen from the Gadgach Temple in Atru, Rajasthan, India. The 350-pound "Vishnu and Lakshmi" sandstone sculpture dates back to the 11th or 12th century and was listed as No. 6 on INTERPOL's top 10 most wanted works of art. Also stolen from the temple and repatriated during the Jan. 14 ceremony was the 600-pound "Vishnu and Parvati" sandstone sculpture, dating to the same period.
The third artifact is a male deity black sandstone sculpture, depicting a Bodhisattva, a popular subject in Buddhist art, and is believed to date back to the 11th or early 12th century from either the Indian State of Bihar or Bengal.
The investigation began April 13, 2010, when HSI New York special agents received information that the Indian sandstone sculptures recently looted from India were being offered for sale in the United States. HSI special agents discovered that the "Vishnu and Lakshmi" was transported from India to Hong Kong. From there, it was sold to a dealer in Thailand, and then resold to a buyer in London. The London buyer shipped the sculpture to New York City for an exhibition in March 2010. On April 15, 2010, HSI special agents recovered the piece while it was being shipped back to London.
On July 12, 2010, as a direct result of the "Vishnu and Lakshmi" seizure, a sister piece, the "Vishnu and Parvati," was seized. It was transported to Hong Kong, sold to a buyer in New York and then sold and shipped to a buyer in Basel, Switzerland.
On July 7, 2011, the Indian black stone Bodhisattva figure was discovered being smuggled into the United States at Newark Airport by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers. HSI special agents seized it after discovering that its accompanying paperwork declared Great Britain as a false country of origin. In addition, the item was grossly undervalued.
The last ICE cultural property repatriation to India was in 2006 when ICE agents in NY returned a ninth century stone idol that had been stolen from a temple in Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh in 2000.
Plea in Art of the Past probe
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Here's the ICE account on the latest in the Art of the Past investigation:
NJ man pleads to selling stolen South Central Asian antiquities
NEW YORK – A Manhattan art gallery manager pleaded guilty last week in his role in coordinating a large-scale conspiracy to sell stolen Indian antiquities worth tens of millions of dollars.
Aaron Freedman, 41, of Princeton, NJ, worked for nearly two decades as a manager at Art of the Past, a gallery that served as a front for the sale of stolen and looted Buddhist and Hindu statues. As the store's manager, Freedman pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy in the for conspiring to possess stolen property, along with five counts of possession of stolen property.
He admitted to assisting Art of the Past owner Subhash Kapoor, 64, with shipments of stolen antiquities from India, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Cambodia, as well as providing false provenances. As part of the conspiracy, Freedman assisted with the sale of stolen artwork to galleries and museums across the world, which included the sale of a stolen $5 million Shiva Nataraja statue looted from the Sivan Temple in India, which is now on display at the National Gallery of Australia and the attempted sale of a 2nd century B.C. Bharhut Stupa Yaksi pillar sculpture valued at approximately $15 million, which is now in Homeland Security Investigations custody pending forfeiture.
In total, Freedman pleaded guilty to six felony counts related to possession of stolen property valued at roughly $35 million. He has also agreed to cooperate with the ongoing HSI investigation and prosecution of Kapoor, who is currently in the custody of Indian authorities for arranging the theft of statues from significant cultural and religious sites in that country. Kapoor also faces charges in New York County for possession of stolen property.
"Kapoor is by far the biggest smuggler, in terms of numbers of antiquities stolen and their market value, that we have seen," said James T. Hayes Jr., special agent in charge for HSI New York. "HSI special agents continue to search and seek recovery of dozens of bronze and sandstone images of Hindu and Buddhist deities sold by Kapoor."
Buddha, Ganesha seized
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HSI seizes additional stolen statues linked to Manhattan art dealer
NEW YORK – Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) seized two antique statues Oct. 23 from a Manhattan hotel. These statues were seized as part of an ongoing HSI Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Program investigation into an alleged dealer of stolen antiquities.
HSI special agents executed a search warrant Oct. 23 issued for a hotel located in Manhattan. The hotel was allegedly lent these statues by Art of the Past gallery, which is owned by Subhash Kapoor. In July, an arrest warrant for Kapoor was issued by the Manhattan Criminal Court on charges he possessed stolen property.
The statues seized include:
A grey schist bust of a Bodhisattva from Gandhara, from the second to third century A.D.: and
A white sandstone sculpture depicting a Ganesha from India, from the 10th century A.D.
The total value of seizure is estimated at $1.7 million.
In February 2007, the Indian consulate contacted HSI requesting assistance in the investigation of the potential smuggling of Indian antiquities into New York. The Indian consulate advised HSI that an import and export company was expecting the arrival of a shipment containing seven crates manifested as "Marble Garden Table Sets." The consulate believed these crates contained stolen Indian antiquities. This merchandise was allegedly imported by Kapoor.
As a result of this investigation, HSI special agents in New York have seized over 100 antiquities with an estimated value of $75 million. Notable items seized include:
One five foot tall head of a Buddha weighing approximately 1,600 pounds;
One life sized stone figure weighing approximately 500 pounds;
A bronze sculpture, depicting Uma Parvati, valued at nearly $2.5 million; and
A second century B.C. Bharhut Stupa Yaksi pillar sculpture valued at nearly $15 million.
This investigation has uncovered that Kapoor allegedly created false provenances to disguise the histories of his illicit antiquities. Investigators urge collectors and museums to further scrutinize their collections and contact HSI with any additional information. HSI will aggressively pursue the illicit pieces not yet recovered.
Kapoor, who was the subject of an Interpol Red Notice, was arrested in late 2011 at Frankfurt International Airport in Germany. Kapoor was extradited to India July 2012, where he faced criminal charges.


I have no idea what these striking blue-purple flowers are. Any guesses?
Anchorage Heritage Garden. The bed of this blue Chevy truck was filled with vegetables.
NOID mushroom. Looks dangerous to me!
Hosta' Empress Wu', one of the largest hosta cultivars ever created. If I lived in the right climate, I'd have several of these!
The idea of a botanical garden in Anchorage was born in 1983 but it took another ten years before it opened its doors to the public on July 25, 1993. Today the Alaska Botanical Garden occupies 110 acres of land leased from the Municipality of Alaska. Most of the land is boreal forest in its natural state, with trails connecting a series of cultivated gardens that include two hardy perennial gardens (Lile's Garden and the Lower Perennial Garden), an Herb Garden, an Alpine Rock Garden, an Entry Shade Garden, an Alaskan Kitchen Garden, and a new Anchorage Heritage Garden.
Unfortunately, most of the gardens weren't at their best at this time of year. To see what they look like at the height of summer, check out this comprehensive three-part article on Peter Herpst's blog Outlaw Gardener: 1 2 3. There even are photos of the Himalayan blue poppies I've recently become enamored with!
In closing, I'd like to thank the anonymous germ donor who so generously gave me their cold virus on one of the flights I took last week. I won't forget you!
Fie on the bad-mannered person who passed on his/her germs to you. Nasty anytime, but especially on a vacation.
I think fall in Alaska beats what I've seen on the east coast in Maine and Quebec. Yes, those places have mixed hardwood, but the colors are pale pastels.
The forest undergrowth in Alaska seen on the roadsides is so varied in color, size and texture, and there is so much of it. Plus there is the tundra to tramp with so many tiny colorful berries and leaves and mosses. Were you able to see the aurora at any time?
There's so much coughing and sneezing on planes, and their ventilation systems simply spread the germs around. No wonder people get sick after air travel. But it was all worth it. I saw so much beauty, I'm still trying to process it all.
I didn't see the northern lights, unfortunately. It was overcast the entire time I was in Anchorage (although my cousin had seen them just the week before I arrived). And from Adak you can only see the aurora two or three times a year.
Gorgeous from start to finish! I love Alaska and want to go back there when I'm not encumbered by an over-controlled tour schedule. Thanks for sharing your beautiful photos!
I think an organized tour is a good introduction, but ultimately you see much more if you strike out on your own. I must admit I've been bitten by the Alaska bug and can't wait to go back. Although my heart still belongs to the desert.
Autumn mode so early, but then again it's Alaska. Fabulous images!
Yeah, Alaska is on a different timetable altogether.
Sorry you caught a cold! How beautiful the garden is in the fall! I was thrilled to see it when I did but your images are stunning! Hope you enjoyed your time in my home state.
The timing was perfect. Fall color *and* some remnants of summer. It was a thoroughly enjoyable visit.
Really beautiful -- I especially love the colorful forest views! The two varieties of Filipendula ulmaria are quite nice too, although I expect it might be too hot and humid here... I may try those anyway next year!
I was really surprised by the variety of plants they can grow. In hindsight I shouldn't have, considering Anchorage is "only" zone 4, but cold-winter gardening is entirely new territory to me.
Gorgeous Gerhard, I can see you all giddy with your camera in the drizzle. Kind of like me when we end up in New Mexico or Arizona during the winter months. I'm glad your schedule allowed you time to visit the garden.
I didn't have too much time to go exploring around Anchorage because the point of my trip was to go to Adak. But I'm hoping to drive the Alaska Highway someday soon, all the way from British Columbia.
Oh what a beautiful place and I love your photos-you must have had so much fun taking them. Your purple mystery plant sure reminded me of the way Liatris blooms from the bottom up, but the foliage bears no resemblance.
It reminded me of liatris, too. In fact, in my mind I referred to it as the "arctic gayfeather," LOL.


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December 2014 Country Kitchen
Franklin Pecan Cake
Presbyterian Muffins
Tabasco Pecans
For many Southerners, it's not Christmas without pecans. Generations of home cooks have used them in treasured holiday dishes, making the pecan a nostalgic nut that is as arguably as important as the Christmas ham.
Whether pecans are used in a sweet dessert or a savory side dish, they are as versatile as they are sentimental.
For Dot Stone of Pine Apple, pecans are a during the holidays.
"Buying pecans just brings up those special feelings you get at holidays," she said. "We always use them in our Christmas dishes."
Dot, whose mother was a master cook and graduate of the Mississippi State College for Women's home economics program, grew up in the kitchen. She followed in her mother's footsteps, earning a degree in home economics from Auburn University in 1961.
After working for two years as a home economist for Alabama Power, where she demonstrated how to use electrical appliances in schools and homes, Dot became a stay-at-home mother to her two sons, Gordon and Chris.
"I stayed home for 21 years, and we ate together at the table every day," Dot said. "Until recently, we had Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner at our home for family and friends. We always filled up our banquet table, which seats 18 people."
At these meals, Dot served pecan pie from the 1958 Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn University) cookbook; sweet potato casserole made from a recipe she obtained in 1959; and her mother's famous Christmas applesauce cake. More recipes, like her daughter-in-law's Presbyterian muffins and a friend's popular pecan cake, have been added to her Christmas recipe repertoire over the years.
Gathering around the table and enjoying timeless recipes is something Dot believes keeps families strong.
"This day and time, people can get in the habit of being on the go instead of sitting down together," she said. "I think as long as a family eats meals together, it just strengthens the family unity. It's just important to have the family together to keep your family strong."

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Home F1 Features Ranking the best F1 seasons of this decade – 5 to 1
Ranking the best F1 seasons of this decade – 5 to 1
Date published: January 2 2020
So, looking back in time, Planet F1 ranks the best seasons of the decade, moving on to the top half as we crown the No.1 campaign…
Not only was 2013 the end of the V8 era in F1, but it was also the end of an era of dominance from one man and his team.
Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull would secure their fourth straight respective titles and last together, while the German's run of nine straight wins to the end of the season sent the Vettel days out with a bang.
That streak was a new record of consecutive victories in F1, while his tally of 13 wins for the campaign tied Michael Schumacher's 2004 record.
One of those wins of course came under very controversial circumstances as Vettel ignored team orders to stay behind Mark Webber in Malaysia, instead passing his team-mate for victory in what became known as the "Multi 21" controversy.
Naughty Seb. Still, it did him little harm with his achievements seeing him recognised by the Laureus World Sports Awards as the Sportsman of the Year.
So with 2014 in came the very quiet turbo-hybrid V6 engines and the arrival of this dominant Mercedes outfit we now know.
Behind the Silver Arrows it was left to the likes of Williams, Red Bull, Ferrari and McLaren to battle to establish some supremacy – Daniel Ricciardo achieved that to beat Vettel in his first season at Red Bull and send the four-time champ packing for Ferrari.
A thrilling back and forth duel between Nico Rosberg and Hamilton in Bahrain, followed by identical power issues in Canada and a collision at Spa added some extra spice as the Mercedes pair battled all the way until the season-ending Abu Dhabi GP.
Hamilton entered the last round with a 17-point advantage over his team-mate, and electrical problems for Rosberg coupled with the thankfully short-lived double-points rule saw Hamilton crowned World Champion for the second time in his career.
2014 was also the year of Jules Binachi's crash in Japan with his injuries sadly later proving fatal. His memory will remain in the sport forever.
Two years later Hamilton and Rosberg were at it again, and Abu Dhabi would prove to be the decider once more, though this time Rosberg had a 12-point cushion over his team-mate.
Hamilton secured pole and led from the start, and it would lead to one of the craziest F1 moments of the decade as Hamilton slowed considerably to back Rosberg into Vettel in hope that the Ferrari man could make the overtake.
Mercedes' clear instructions to stop would be ignored by Hamilton, though his plan failed to deliver as Rosberg crossed the line P2 behind the Briton to claim his only World Championship crown by five points.
It was a season of scruffy moments and bad luck for Hamilton, but after taking full advantage Rosberg would famously retire from F1 rather than returning to defend his title.
We also saw the emergence of a chap called Max Verstappen in 2016 as he claimed victory on his Red Bull debut in Spain after Hamilton and Rosberg took each other out on the opening lap.
For our runner-up in best season of the decade we skip back to the season which kicked it off, 2010.
There was plenty of excitement coming into it as Michael Schumacher made his return to the sport with Mercedes, while Hispania, Lotus and Virgin arrived to make it a 24-driver grid.
What we also got was one hell of a title battle – Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button and Vettel all claimed victory in the opening three rounds in Bahrain, Australia and Malaysia respectively.
Victory in China made Button the first driver to win two races in the season, before back-to-back P1's for Mark Webber in Spain and Monaco showed he was a contender. It could well have been a hat-trick if it wasn't for his collision with Red Bull team-mate Vettel in Turkey.
And it was in Germany where Ferrari returned to form and Felipe Massa was hit with the famous "Fernando is faster than you" message. It would be an important win for Alonso, but a $100,000 fine was the cost for the Scuderia.
Come the title decider in Abu Dhabi Vitaly Petrov would prove to be the key factor, holding Alonso to P7 when he needed P4 to win the title. Vettel would win the race and in doing so claim his first World Championship by four points.
Incredibly, that was the first time that Vettel had led the standings in 2010.
And now we get to the crown jewel – for us 2012 has earned its place as the best F1 season of the decade.
There were many elements that made 2012 the pinnacle, starting with the fact that we saw seven different winners in the opening seven races as Button, Alonso, Rosberg, Vettel, Pastor Maldonando, Webber and Hamilton all placed themselves atop the podium.
This run was a new record for the series with Alonso becoming the first repeat winner at Round 8 in Valencia. As was the number of World Champions starting the season with Vettel, Alonso, Button, Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen and Schumacher all lining up in pursuit of further glory.
It was also a season of stunning underdog stories like Maldonado's wonder drive in a Williams at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, while Nico Hulkenberg could have added his name to the list in Brazil under different circumstances.
As it was the season finale came down to Vettel and Alonso, it seemed the changeable conditions had rescued the Spaniard when he made it into the podium spot he needed at Interlagos while Vettel's poor stop relegated him to P12.
But Vettel would fight his way back up to the P7 he needed to clinch the title, before Schumacher allowed his fellow German through into P6. Even a late Safety Car couldn't stop Vettel as he brought his damaged Red Bull after earlier contact with Bruno Senna home to win his third World Championship.


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Jennifer Lawrence Doesn't Hold Back To Reveal Degrading Act She Had To Perform To Launch Career
Celebrities / By MetDaan Editorial Team
Unless you have been living under a rock, then you probably agree with me that Jennifer Lawrance is known as one of the biggest in Hollywood. And, until very recently, the 28-year-old was the highest paid actress within the industry.
Jennifer Lawrence is well known as an advocate for women's rights within Hollywood and has never held back to make critics and share the unfairness between the treatment of female talent and to their male counterparts.
Now, it looks like Lawrence has decided to open up about her own experience regarding sexual harassment in Hollywood. The Cut reports that she would speak of feeling "trapped" when the 28-year-old was required to do a naked line-up with other actresses.
In her speech at Elle's Women in Hollywood event, Lawrence recounted the incident as she was one of eight women to receive honors. The 28-year-old actress admitted:
A female producer had me do a nude line-up with about five women who were much, much, thinner than me.
We are stood side-by-side with only tape covering our privates. After that degrading and humiliating line-up, the female producer told me I should use the naked photos of myself as inspiration for my diet.
Lawrence also shared a story where a male producer told her she was "perfectly f*ckable" and "didn't understand why everyone thought she was so fat."
To make matters worse, she also has been told before this incident, to lose 15 pounds in a matter of weeks if she wanted to land a role she'd gone for.
Lawrence said she felt "trapped," – when described the effects of the incidents – by what happened to her. Saying "let myself be treated a certain way because I felt I had to for my career."
Lawerence has ever since, become a shining light for body positivity for both women and men, as well as she has broken free of the chains of body shaming in the idustry.
Lawrence said – when speaking about the cases of the alleged abuse of Harvey Weinstein – the resulting openness of women who are sharing their stories of sexual harassments are 'oddly unifying.'
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Harvey Weinstein has been fired over allegations of sexual abuse from multiple women, dating back throughout his career – high profile names such as Cara Delevigne and Rose McGowan have publicly accused Weinstein of various sexual assaults.
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Maybe the best news Gotham city has had in years. Frank Miller's Year One is going to get an animated movie.
The second and probably last season of V will be airing soon and ABC have released a super long spoiler for the opening episode.
The Walking Dead TV series has been a total dark horse when it comes to must watch TV. Here is the trailer for the third episode.
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Marvel and ABC have teamed up to make a new TV series based on the Incredible Hulk.
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With Smallville in its last season we have news that Wonder Woman will be getting a new series next year.
It's going to be a great few months a head for television, Smallville, Dexter and soon the first season of Walking Dead. The second season of Walking Dead has also already been confirmed.
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IDEA 5.1.2 can not check out/in files using VSS 2005, does IDEA 5.1.2 not support VSS 2005?
t> 5.1.2 not support VSS 2005?
so, will IDEA 6.0 support the VSS2005?
t> so, will IDEA 6.0 support the VSS2005?
Yes, either 6.0 or one of the bugfix updates (6.0.x) will support VSS 2005.
I find there are some problems using VSS in 5..1.2.
check out files by VSS client, then check in files by IDEA.
in these cases, sometime the color of the files name can not be updated in IDEA .
I recently changed company, and am trying to convince them to switch IDE (they've recently standardised on Eclipse). The major barrier at this time is their use of Visual Source Safe 2005.
There are different users defined in each repository.
There are other compelling reasons that I could use to convince them to switch (especially as they're switching to use AJAX development, where Eclipse is very clumsy), but this is a blocker, as with around 50 developers I can't impose a switch to Subversion or CVS.


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Islam's invented Golden Age
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ASAD Q. AHMED 28 October 2013
Open India
The introduction of print technology fundamentally changed the way one did scholarship in the madrasa. There were no manuscripts and margins, no reproduction and living engagement with a tradition of argumentation – one of a number of social, political, cultural, institutional, and technological factors explaining the current state of affairs.
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About two months ago, I received an invitation from the American Islamic Congress, an NGO based in Washington DC and Boston, to participate in a panel on Islam and science. I was told that I would be joined by a Pakistani public speaker, who had an interest in Islamic intellectual history and who was a popularizer of science and rationalist disciplines in the Muslim world. The invitation piqued my interest, given that I specialize in the study of the rationalist sciences – philosophy, logic, astronomy, etc. – of the pre-modern Muslim world (800-1900 CE).
Over the past few years, I have slowly and meticulously been peeling away at the layers of Muslim rationalist discourses, in order to construct a responsible narrative of the fate of science in Islam; some of my colleagues – singly and in teams – have also been devotedly involved in this scholarly endeavor around the globe and have contributed much to my own understanding of the past. And though we have yet a massive amount of trans-generational work to do, on the basis of our discoveries thus far, we have unanimously come to reject the longstanding narrative of the Golden Age and subsequent decline of Islamic rationalism.
Since some important work has already been done on the subject, I considered the invitation of the American Islamic Congress to be a welcome opportunity to share the current state of research with a non-specialist audience.
My co-panelist was the first to speak and he began with two assertions with which I agree: that the state of science and rationalist disciplines in the contemporary Muslim world is generally pitiful and that it is a desideratum of the utmost urgency that the situation be remedied. This was a heartening start, but the aetiology of the current situation that was offered thereafter was deeply flawed. We were told – amidst amusing personal anecdotes – that the reason for the failure of rationalism in the Muslim world must be traced back to the emergence of a neat break between the world of flourishing freethinkers in the classical or Golden Age of Islam (ca. 800-1200) and the Dark Ages (ca. 1200-2013) that followed with the ascendancy of mainstream Islamic orthodoxy.
In the wake of the death knell of philosophy and rationalism sounded by the Sunni theologian, al-Ghazali (d. 1111), the story went, Muslim rationalism fell into a deep slumber. Philosophers were persecuted; miracles became the sole explanation of natural phenomena; angels were taken to be the cause of celestial motions; and Muslims could no longer do science because they denied causality. It is therefore not surprising, so the audience was told, that no Muslim made any contribution to the world of knowledge from this point onwards. And so what we are witnessing in the Muslim world today is only the natural outcome – indeed continuity – of a history of the persecution of reason and of a lack of intellectual curiosity that stretches back several centuries.
But I am afraid that this is not how things happened. To begin with, al-Ghazali's attack in his famous Tahafut al-falasifa (The Incoherence of the Philosophers) is not aimed at reason or philosophy (despite how the title sounds). He takes issue, as he clearly outlines in his multiple introductions to the work and in the main body, only with metaphysicians, insofar as they use faulty logic – incoherent formal syllogisms, arguments with internal contradictions, premises that are unrelated to the conclusions, etc. – to argue about matters that pertain to the Muslim creed (such as the issues of bodily resurrection, that God knows particulars only in a universal way, etc.). Beyond these creedal matters, al-Ghazali is in fact rather explicit in stating that on matters pertaining to scientific demonstrations, Muslims should not argue with philosophers. Indeed he goes so far as to claim that when a scientific demonstration contradicts a hadith (Saying of the Prophet), it is more suitable to reject the latter as unsoundly transmitted; similarly, when any other scriptural proof text fails to conform to the demonstrated conclusions of reason, the former must be interpreted allegorically. In other words, there is practically no doubt that al-Ghazali gives authority to reason over transmitted sciences. His other works, including those on law and legal theory, include sentiments such as "reason is the source of transmitted knowledge" and sharp attacks against the blind imitation (taqlid) of authority.
In the world that came after al-Ghazali, this same attitude towards reason continued to flourish – authors such as Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (d. 1274), Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (d. 1311), Adud al-Din al-Iji (d. 1355) , al-Sayyid al-Sharif al-Jurjani (d. 1413), and Muhibballah al-Bihari(d. 1707) are a few among an innumerable host that come to mind. In fields ranging from astronomy to metaphysics and well into the early twentieth century, Muslim scholars generally took the attitude that reason provided scientific models for understanding the universe and that these models were conceptually and mathematically real, though one could not necessarily prove the validity of one over another. In other words, they adopted precisely the kind of attitude toward the scientific enterprise that has been embraced and consistently modified in the western tradition since David Hume (d. 1776), who, incidentally, also raised important questions about the metaphysical commitments in one's assumption of causality and in one's adherence to methods of induction. A rather large number of works from the period after al-Ghazali explicitly state that scientific investigations do no harm to one's creed.
Now lest the reader should be skeptical, let me point out that the rationalists that I am referring to and whose attitudes I am reporting here were not marginal figures in Muslim societies: they straddled multiple fields of expertise, ranging from Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir) and Sayings of the Prophet (hadith) to astronomy, medicine, mathematics, etc. In other words, they served multiple functions in a complex pre-modern society. And this makes perfect sense too, given that the curriculum of the madrasa up until at least the beginning of the twentieth century had more books in the rationalist sciences than it did in the transmitted. Indeed a scholar was expected first and foremost to master such disciplines as logic, rhetoric, and even medicine, in order to be equipped to handle scriptural sources responsibly and intelligently. Thus even at this early stage of research, it has become apparent that simple and naïve binaries, such as reason vs. revelation, rationalist vs. scripturalist, Golden Age vs. Dark Ages, and philosopher vs. mulla, must simply be discarded – to say of course nothing of the conceptually ill-equipped and displaced categories such as orthodoxy, cleric, and seminary in the Muslim context.
So how did we get here from there? And why is any of this historical disquisition important? Let me take up the latter question first, since it is the easier one to answer. If the narrative presented by my co-panelist -one that is routinely rehearsed by open-minded, liberal commentators on Islam – is correct and explains anything at all, then the current state of rationalist disciplines in the Islamic world is the direct result of the attitudes of mainstream Islam toward reason and rationality; and if this is true, then I would advise Muslims to abandon their religion. For in my view, no religion that suppresses this primary, essential, and defining faculty of humans can be true. Indeed this immediate consequence of the Golden Age and decline narrative – i.e., to abandon Islam – is precisely one that is also adopted by right wing Islamophobes in our own county. It is the fault, so we are told, of mainstream "orthodox" Islam that rationalism has had no home among Muslims for 900 years! The religion must be deeply flawed, they say, and so it must disappear in the modern age. Paradoxically, the same narrative breeds another kind of radicalism – one that is characteristic of militant fundamentalists within the fold of Islam. Much like the other side, they argue that Islam was gloriously successful during the first centuries of the religion's existence and it is to this Golden Age of Islam that they intend to return. The rest of us find ourselves in the middle, struggling to find a space for reason, while hard pressed by extremes on both sides.
Fortunately, the current and pervasive narrative, which is utterly dangerous, is also abysmally uninformed and incorrect. Now that we are beginning to take a few drops from this vast ocean of unexplored manuscripts in Islamic rationalism, none of us in western academia believes it. So what did happen to the rationalist disciplines in the larger part of the Muslim world? To be very frank, we are some ways from relating the counter-narrative with full confidence. In my own work, I have discovered that a number of factors played a role in bringing about a collapse of disciplines like philosophy, astronomy, and medicine. I mention only a few of them here; the more complete picture must await further research.
For example, the religious scholars, who were trained in a curriculum with a high dose of rationalism, faced an entirely transformed and impoverished system of princely patronage, staring at them in the middle of the nineteenth century. Many of the rationalist scholars belonged to the establishment; they not only sat as judges in the courts or passed fatwas, but they also served as court poets, tax collectors, diplomats, personal physicians, and cartographers. With the rise of the British Raj and the collapse of the institutions that sustained them, many of these scholars became disenfranchised and the vacuum was increasingly filled by a class of popular preachers, trained in a very different curriculum and connected with an emergent trans-regional reformist network of scholars.
Then at least in the context of South Asia, another factor for the decline in the rationalist disciplines was the growth of Urdu as the primary literary language among Muslims. Prior to this period, practically every single text in the rationalist sciences was written in Arabic (and sometimes in Persian). These two languages contained within them an advanced technical vocabulary that had developed over the longue duree of rationalist disciplines. With the loss of languages and the lack of systematic investment in translations into Urdu, the rigor of the rationalist disciplines was also compromised, since the technical baggage of the disciplines was lost with the language that carried it.
Finally, one may mention that, though counterintuitive, the introduction and growth of print technology had a negative impact on rationalism as well. Prior to the growth of this technology, Muslim scholars regularly wrote commentaries and glosses on various texts of the rationalist disciplines by hand and in the margins of manuscripts. This produced a diachronic and synchronic tradition of an internal dialectic with texts that was directly responsible for progress within a discipline. The introduction of print technology fundamentally changed the way one did scholarship in the context of the madrasa. There were no manuscripts and margins, no reproduction and living engagement with a tradition of argumentation.
These and a number of other social, political, cultural, institutional, and technological factors appear to be the more suitable explanations for the current state of affairs. And if this is the diagnosis and if there was no fundamental clash between mainstream "orthodox" Islam and rationality, as we are told, then the solutions must lie elsewhere. I leave the reader to fathom what they might be and how they may be implemented.
Let me end this essay with a statement about why the Golden Age vs. Dark Age narrative came to exist in the first place, without the analysis of the vast body of literature from the so-called Dark Ages; and let me also supply a statement about why the narrative still persists and will likely survive in the future, despite what we academics share with the world.
Here my own words cannot match the eloquence and directness of Sheldon Pollock, the Arvindh Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at Columbia University. In an essay on Indian intellectual history, "Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern South Asia," he writes:
"With respect to science and scholarship, however, especially during this critical early modern period, in-depth research in most disciplines is virtually non-existent… whole libraries of manuscripts… remain unread today. The factors contributing to this indifference would be worth weighing with care. One is certainly the diminished capacity of scholars today to actually read these materials, one of the most disturbing, if little-remarked legacies of colonialism and modernization. But there are other factors. These include the old Orientalist-Romantic credo that the importance of any Indian artifact or text or form of thought is directly proportional to its antiquity… Equally important is the colonial-era narrative of Indian decline and fall before 1800, so central to the ideology of British imperialism and its civilizing, modernizing mission… one salient example… is the disdain with which the remarkable achievements of Hindi literature and literary science… were dismissed by colonized Indian intellectuals no less than by their colonial masters" (emphasis mine).
The narrative began as colonial Orientalist lore and has taken hold as a kind of neo-Orientalism among individuals who have lost access to their past. Given this, I am afraid that Muslims really have one of two choices: they may continue to perpetuate a hackneyed and essentialist Orientalist narrative, misdiagnose the problem, and even enable all kinds of extremists with the power of a fanciful story.
Or they may rediscover their lost languages, produce historians who would penetrate the sources, and cultivate philosophers who would go beyond simple binaries and take control of the discourse in a sincere and sophisticated manner. Then perhaps they may be able to revise their received histories and find some real solutions to a complex situation.
Asad Q. Ahmed is Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, co-editor of Oriens (Brill), and the editor-in-chief of the Oxford Series in Post-Classical Islamic Scholarship (OUP).
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De Vereniging van Schouwburgen en Concertgebouwdirecties (VSCD) is een Nederlandse vereniging die in 1955 werd opgericht om door gezamenlijke inkoop prijskortingen te bedingen. In de loop der jaren is de vereniging uitgegroeid tot de belangrijkste brancheorganisatie van theaters in Nederland.

De vereniging is een ontmoetingsplek voor theaters en hun directies in de vorm van regio's, secties, congressen en beurzen, prijsuitreikingen, individuele coaching en intervisie en een groot aantal informele ontmoetingen en bijeenkomsten.

Prijzen
De VSCD reikt jaarlijks de volgende prijzen uit:

Toneel
 vier acteursprijzen: Louis d'Or, Theo d'Or,  Arlecchino en Colombina
 één prijs voor scenografie, gezelschap/regisseur/producent: Prosceniumprijs
Mime
 één makers-/productieprijs: de VSCD-Mimeprijs
Dans
 één prestatieprijs: De Zwaan voor indrukwekkendste podiumprestatie
 één productieprijs: De Zwaan voor de indrukwekkendste productie
 één loopbaanprijs: De Gouden Zwaan
Jeugdtheater
 één prestatieprijs: De Gouden Krekel voor de indrukwekkendste podiumprestatie van het jaar
 één productieprijs: De Gouden Krekel voor de indrukwekkendste productie van het jaar
Cabaret
 één prijs voor de theatermaker(s) voor het indrukwekkendste programma van het seizoen: Poelifinario
 één prijs voor de theatermaker(s) die het grootste toekomstperspectief heeft: Neerlands Hoop
Klassieke muziek, sinds 2010 De Ovatie genoemd.
 één prijs voor de indrukwekkendste individuele prestatie over het afgelopen seizoen
 één prijs voor de indrukwekkendste prestatie van een (klein) ensemble
 één prijs voor de indrukwekkendste prestatie van een groot ensemble of orkest
 één prijs voor een nieuw talent
Algemeen
 één oeuvreprijs (niet jaarlijks)
 regieprijs

Externe link
 Officiële website

Nederlandse vereniging
Nederlandse brancheorganisatie

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Q: How to block websites temporarily? Is there a way to temporarily block websites in Ubuntu?
For example let's say ... Facebook (or any other website) is just available from 8pm or just for five minutes within e.g. two hours?
Thank you!

A: If you use Firefox, the LeechBlock add-on looks like it might do what you wish.

A: The tool I'd recommend is Get-Shit-Done. It edits your host file so that you cannot access blocked domains using any browser. However, it does not have a scheduler (although you could use cron for that).
Stay Focusd is Chrome Extension that does something similar.
I personally use a secondary profile in Chrome, with the Whitelist extension, so that it blocks all websites, other than absolutely necessary ones

A: Open Terminal (CTRL+ALT+T).
Type sudo -i in the input field. Check the Run in terminal option. Finally click Run button.
Type your password if necessary and press enter. Then do the following command.
gedit /etc/hosts

You will get gedit Text Editor window.
For example, if we need to block Facebook just add the following lines just after 127.0.0.1 localhost.
0.0.0.1 facebook.com
0.0.0.1 www.facebook.com

By doing this, it will block the site in all browsers including Google Chrome, Chromium, Mozilla etc.... In fact, you can't access the website at all by any means.
That's it. When you now open www.facebook.com or facebook.com, you cannot access it. To enable back Facebook, remove the lines we added from the file /etc/hosts or as Eliah Kagan said you can add a # character before the 0.0.0.1 text we added in /etc/hosts to make it a comment and to block it again just remove # character from the beginning of the line.
Example
Blocking :

0.0.0.1 facebook.com

Enabling It Back by making the line a comment :

#0.0.0.1 facebook.com

Source

A: I think that this is important topic, so I've made python script to deal with issue
https://gist.github.com/josifoski/3d1406bba37694e19fce9d1e032bcb99

A: Ubuntu 20.04
Open a terminal type sudo nano /etc/hosts.deny or with any editor in sudo privileges.
Then add all the urls you want to block
www.facebook.com
www.xxxxx.com

Save the file and reopen your browser

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Q: PyCuda libcurand import issue There are many issues similar to mine, but solutions to those do not work for me. My speculation is that due having previously installed cuda-5.5 something is still set to that version, but no idea what exactly.
Below: Update after symbolic linking.
Basically, when I run in Python
>>> from pycuda.driver import autoinit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/dawid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pycuda/driver.py", line 5, in <module>
    from pycuda._driver import *  # noqa
ImportError: libcurand.so.5.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

My setting:
.bashrc:
export PATH=/usr/local/cuda-8.0/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/cuda-8.0/lib64

Confirmation:
dawid@junkyard:~$ ldconfig -p | grep libcurand
    libcurand.so.8.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/cuda-8.0/lib64/libcurand.so.8.0
    libcurand.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/cuda-8.0/lib64/libcurand.so

dawid@junkyard:~$ ll /usr/local/cuda*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   19 Mar 15 10:13 /usr/local/cuda -> /usr/local/cuda-8.0/

/usr/local/cuda-8.0:
{bins, docs, nvcc, etc.}

NVCC version:
dawid@junkyard:~$ nvcc --version
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2016 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Tue_Jan_10_13:22:03_CST_2017
Cuda compilation tools, release 8.0, V8.0.61

After performing symbolic linking there seem to be additional trait in the trail. Now Python complains about undefined symbol to which Google suggests taking care of Boost library. Any thoughts?
>>> import pycuda.autoinit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/dawid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pycuda/autoinit.py", line 2, in <module>
    import pycuda.driver as cuda
  File "/home/dawid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pycuda/driver.py", line 5, in <module>
    from pycuda._driver import *  # noqa
ImportError: /home/dawid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pycuda/_driver.so: undefined symbol: _ZNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEED1Ev


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Leselidze can refer to the following people and places, related to Georgia:

Leselidze (platform), a halt on the Psou-Engur railway line in Abkhazia
Leselidze (town), a town in Abkhazia, Georgia
Soviet-era name of the  in the historical part of Tbilisi
Konstantin Leselidze, Soviet Georgian Colonel General and participant of World War II
Viktor Leselidze, lieutenant colonel, commander Mortar Regiment, Hero of the Soviet Union