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On Tuesday, the presidential candidate and his allies presented the “popular program” for Prokhorov’s future party. According to the businessman, it was worked out based on an internet discussion of his presidential program which was published on his website earlier this year.
“Our citizens want to live in a different country,” Prokhorov stated.
The independent contender for the Kremlin is confident that foreign policy is secondary compared to internal affairs.
“Citizens should have a good education, jobs and be confident in the future. Foreign policy must provide all that,” he said.
The European Union, in Prokhorov’s opinion, should be Moscow’s key strategic partner since neither Europe nor Russia could compete on their own with old and emerging world centers such as America, Latin America, China and India.
Earlier, Prokhorov also announced a contest to find a name for his party, which has already gathered over 35 thousand applications from people willing to join.
The “dieselgate” emissions scandal scandal has continued to hold back Volkswagen Group, hitting profits despite the carmaker posting strong sales in the third quarter of the year.
VW reported revenues 5.8pc higher at €55bn (£48.9bn) in the three months to the end of September. It delivered 2.65m vheicles in the quarter, up 6.3pc.
Operating profits also came in ahead of expectations at €1.72bn, compared with the forecast €1.5bn. However pre-tax profit more than halved to €1.59bn after the company took a €2.6bn hit relating to dieselgate.
Boston Red Sox reliever Matt Barnes might have tried to exact a pound of flesh during Sunday’s 6-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards.
Barnes threw a fastball that sailed past the head of Orioles third baseman Manny Machado, whose late slide Friday night injured Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia, and the reliever promptly was ejected.
The Red Sox second baseman could be seen telling Machado that he had nothing to do with the high pitch, but Orioles closer Zach Britton believes that says worlds about Pedroia’s leadership.
Pedroia reiterated after the game that he didn’t order the pitch to be thrown, and he apologized to Machado. But Britton isn’t buying the All-Star’s explanation, saying things wouldn’t happen like that in the Orioles’ clubhouse.
As for the next time the Red Sox and Orioles meet, Britton said the O’s would let the Sox decide how it plays out.
“I think we’ve talked about it already, as a team, and we’ll see how they choose to act — whether or not they choose to act professionally or unprofessionally when we get to Boston,” Britton said.
The teams will meet for a three-game series at Fenway Park beginning May 1.
Ever wonder how streets, parks and ponds get their names?
Each Wednesday, you can read about the history and people behind those names, only in your Patriot Ledger.
WHERE: Off Main Street and Highland Avenue.
WHEN IT WAS NAMED: July 19, 1946.
NAMED FOR: World War II Army Veteran Donald Vautrinot from the Hingham High School Class of 1937 (Hull students attended Hingham High before 1957).
HISTORY: Donald Vautrinot fought for the U.S. Army during World War II. He was one of many soldiers killed during the Bataan Death March in the Philippines in 1942. Four years later, Director of Veteran Services Fred Cox requested that streets be named after the men who died for their country. Natasco Avenue, where Vautrinot grew up, became Vautrinot Avenue.
FOR MORE INFO: Call Hull Public Library Director Dan Johnson at 781-929-2295.
Today is March 14, also known as Pi day, and all we can think about is celebrating by eating large amounts of apple pie. Verizon seems to be warming up to peer-to-peer technology, and the music industry is proposing a monthly fee for Internet service providers to offset the cost of piracy. Do you think the RIAA deserves a slice?
What if Apple really opened up the iPhone?
What has Hulu done to win you over?
Shouldn’t Sony just say no to Microsoft?
Happy Pi Day to whoever has decided to show up today for BOL!
Enjoy the little song from woot!
Who wouldn’t want great feature films such as Om Shanti Om and Bhool Bhulaiyaa in the glory of Bollywood High Definition.
Jason’s DirecTV HD channel rant sounded very familiar! We had the same issue about a month ago. We tried the usual rebooting the box, checking cables, etc. We decided it must be the dish itself, possibly moved after all the storms in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our dish is on the roof of our 2-story townhouse, so we decided to call DTV for help. My husband called for service, and got the same $80 answer Jason got. Instead, he signed us up for a year of service protection for $3.50 a month, and the service call was like $20. Apparently it was “loose cables” on the dish, and now our HD is back, and no climbing ladders and possibly breaking our necks! If your dish is in reach, try tightening the cables and checking your satellite alignment first before calling DTV. Also check out DBStalk.com, they have great forums about satellite dish services and they can probably give you some more advice.
Do you LOL or BOL?
I know I’m behind the segments of Laughing Out Loud, but this morning I just Busted Out Laughing… which is BOL for short! Coincidence?
Perhaps you have a new thing?
Hey, Luis here from the Philippines.
I just invented a drinking game I’m calling the Molly Smacher.
What you do is you get a bottle of tequila and you listen to the latest Buzz Out Loud episode. And every time Molly bluts out “That’s ludicrous!” or says the word “noted” you take a shot. However, if the episode ends without Molly uttering those words, you replay the episode and take swigs every time she speaks.
You end up drunk no matter what.
It sounds fun but nobody’s agreed to play with me. I wonder why. Haha.
First time author Ben Fergusson has scooped the Historical Writers’ Association 2015 Debut Crown Award for new historical fiction at Harrogate History Festival.
Harrogate History Festival - Historical Fiction Award winner Ben Fergusson at the Old Swan Hotel.
The author of The Spring of Kasper Meier which is set in post-war Berlin, was presented with the coveted award worth £2,000 by broadcaster Mark Lawson at the opening night of the Harrogate History Festival at the Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate.
The event, hosted by Harrogate International Festivals, also saw War Horse author Michael Morpurgo, who has written more than 130 books for children, receive the Outstanding Contribution to Historical Fiction Award.
Harrogate History Festival runs at the Old Swan Hotel until Sunday with events including Kate Mosse (Friday, October 23, 5pm), Neil Oliver (Saturday, October 24, 9am), Tracy Borman - The Real Wolf Hall (Saturday, October 24, 10.30am), HRH Princess Michael of Kent (Saturday, October 24, 8.30pm), Melvyn Bragg (Sunday, October 25, 11.30am) and Ken Follett (Sunday, October 25, 1pm).
GILBERT — Bus drivers and mechanics for Pleasant Valley School District, who have been working without a contract for a year, are hammering out a deal with First Student, the private company that handles the districts' transportation.
"We're making progress," said Dennis Hower, negotiator for the Teamsters Union, which represents the transportation workers. Hower met with union members at the American Legion in Gilbert.
Tuesday's negotiations in Lehighton took place with the aid of a federal mediator, Hower said.
Earlier this month, the drivers and mechanics voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, with only two of the more than 100 workers voting against a strike if a contract could not be reached.
Hower said no action on a strike would take place until after Monday, when talks will resume.
A spokesperson for First Student could not immediately be reached for comment.
Hower said that progress had been made on wages and benefits, which remain the largest outstanding issues. Many drivers and mechanics have complained that benefits under First Student are inferior to those that had been offered by the school district.
Pleasant Valley's school board voted in June 2008 to outsource its busing to First Student, a subsidiary of First Group, which is based in the United Kingdom.
In November, the workers voted to join the Teamsters.
Contrary to popular assumptions, the recent cyberattacks against Google and more than 30 other high-tech companies were carried out by relatively unsophisticated attackers using outdated botnet tools, according to Damballa Inc., an Atlanta-based security firm.
The company, which offers a range of botnet protection services, released a report Tuesday based on what it said was a detailed analysis of the data surrounding the attacks, the malware that was used and the command-and-control topologies used by the perpetrators.
It reveals that the threat can "best be classified as just another common botnet attack and one that is more amateur than average," the Damballa report noted. "The attack is most notable not for its advanced use of an Internet Explorer 6 Zero-Day exploit, but rather for its unsophisticated design and a pedigree that points to a fast-learning but nevertheless amateur criminal botnet team," the report said.
In an e-mailed comment, a Google spokesman said that Damballa does not have any firsthand knowledge of Google's investigation of the attacks. "Beyond that, we are not going to comment on our ongoing investigation. We stand behind our original statement," he said.
The attacks, dubbed Operation Aurora after the botnet that was used to launch them, were described by Google and many in the industry as being particularly sophisticated and state-sponsored. Some called it a classic example of a new category of Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) facing many commercial enterprises.
According to Damballa, however, the actual attack data suggests otherwise. The Dynamic DNS (DDNS) command-and-control system that was used to control the Aurora botnet for instance, is "old school" and is rarely used today by professional criminal botnet operators. The reliance on a DDNS command-and-control infrastructure suggests that those behind the Google attacks were "new and amateur botnet operators," Damballa said.
The malware tool most commonly associated with the Aurora botnet is also a relatively unsophisticated Trojan Horse program called Trojan.Hydraq, said Gunter Ollmann, vice president of research at Damballa. In addition to Hydraq, the attackers also employed a variety of other malware tools on the Aurora botnet, many of which were unsophisticated and based on old obfuscation and evasion techniques, Ollmann said.
Compared to malware tools such as Conficker, the malware that was used in the Google attacks was "orders of magnitude" less potent, he said.
What the data shows is that the Google attacks were most likely carried out by relatively inexperienced attackers who were experimenting with different attack tools and techniques, Olmmann said. The fact that they were relying on DDNS itself is a major giveaway, he said. Botnets that use DDNS services are relatively easily for law enforcement authorities to shut down, which is why most professional botnet operators don't use them anymore.
"At the end of the day, what is pretty important to understand is, if this type of an unsophisticated attack was successful against these types of organizations, professional botnet operators have a much better chance of breaking in," he said.
The data also suggests that the attacks may not have been as targeted as Google and others might have assumed them to be, according to Damballa. The Aurora attacks appear to have first originated in July 2009 from mainland China. According to Damballa, a university in China and a Chinese collocation facility were critical "early incubators" of the infection.
One security researcher at the RSA Security Conference said that the sophisticated part of the attack was not really the botnet itself or the malware -- it was the social engineering used to target victims and the way criminals traversed a victim's networks.
Alex Stamos, a partner with Isec Partners Inc., said that the cybercriminals escalated privileges on the Windows network, accessed Active Directory servers and cracked database passwords -- then using that information to steal data. Because all antivirus companies are now detecting the Aurora code, "the malware is gone," Stamos said. "These guys are never going to use that malware again."
But one security researcher at the RSA Security conference said that the sophisticated part of the attack was not the botnet or the malware. According to Alex Stamos a partner with Isec Partner, the sophisticated part was the social engineering involved in targeting victims and the way the criminals moved around once they were inside victim's networks, escalating privileges on the Windows network, accessing Active Directory servers and cracking passwords in its database, and then using that information to steal data from targets.
Because antivirus companies now detect the Aurora code, "the malware is gone. These guys are never going to use that malware again," he said.
All of the aforementioned power features are designed to aid in overclocking, but GIGABYTE is about to change the way we do that, too.
Hi Cookie, GIGABYTE's resident overclocker took to action when it was time to start pushing performance to higher levels.
We are all familiar with Windows Hot Keys, combinations of buttons that when pressed together return a new action. ALT + TAB is one that I use most often, but now you can have performance profiles stored right on your keyboard with GIGABYTE's EZTUNE software that enables the new HotKey OC feature.
It took a little time, but someone has finally found a use for the iPad. GIGABYTE's new Cloud OC feature is the first web based overclocking utility. Since it is based in the cloud, it will run on most web enabled devices including mobile phones, iPads and even other PCs.
GIGABYTE made a promise to us that even more exciting features will make their way to the cloud in the future.
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran authorities on Friday said they arrested a high-ranking executive of a hydroelectric company on Friday on charges of helping plan the murder of indigenous environmental activist Berta Caceres two years ago.
Castillo "was in charge of providing logistics and other resources to one of the perpetrators already prosecuted for the crime," Public Ministry spokesman Juri Mora told Reuters.
Reuters was not able to immediately contact Castillo or his lawyers.
In a statement, DESA denied involvement in the crime and said Castillo is "innocent," adding that it "rejects this decision that comes from international pressure and smear campaigns of various NGOs on the company."
Caceres, a 43-year-old teacher who won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, was shot dead at her residence on the night of March 2, 2016.
Castillo is the second alleged mastermind captured for her murder. Eight other people, including company employees, hired assassins and members of the army, have been arrested and tried.
Honduras has seen repeated confrontations between indigenous populations with mining and hydroelectric operations. President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who won reelection in December in a vote marred by fraud allegations, has sought to boost investment in such ventures.
Members the activist group that Caceres led gathered Friday in front of prosecutors' offices in the capital to demand the arrest of more prominent local businessmen they allege are connected to the crime.
The U.S. Department of Education won't cut South Carolina's share of federal special education dollars by $36 million—at least not yet—prompting questions about whether such penalties for states that cut education spending without federal approval are meaningful.
South Carolina faces the cut because it slashed special education spending by the same amount during the 2009-10 school year. But the department didn't think the reduction was justified. Federal rules say states must maintain special education spending amounts from year to year, or increase them, regardless of financial crises. The rule is intended to buffer students' with disabilities from the ups and downs of the budget and keep services and staff they need in place from year to year.
In recent years, several states have asked to be exempt from this rule because their budgets have taken a beating from the economic downturn, and some have been granted their requests. If states slash special education budgets without getting the OK, they face a matching cut in federal special education dollars.
South Carolina won a reprieve for the 2008-09 school year. The state was allowed to cut special education spending by $20 million that year because of financial woes. For 2009-10, the state cut about $67 million, but the Education Department said in June that only $31 million of that cut was because of the state's financial plight. For 2010-11, the state cut another $75 million in spending on students with disabilities, which the department outright rejected. Before the end of the fiscal year, South Carolina scrambled to restore this money, saving itself from a $75 million annual penalty.
But with the 2009-10 school year long over, the state couldn't restore the $36 million cut from special education spending that year, and faced losing that much money by Oct. 1 and every year going forward.
At the time, the state said it would fight the penalty. In an Aug. 1 memo to state Superintendent Mick Zais, South Carolina Department of Education General Counsel Shelly Kelly said the federal government "abused" its authority and took too long to issue a decision about the 2009-10 school year. Also, Kelly wrote, the department found that South Carolina met its obligations under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, despite the reduction in spending.
Kelly went on to say the state should request that the cut be a one-time reduction, not a cut that would be repeated every year.
Then suddenly this week, the Education Department sent Zais a letter indicating that it would delay the cut to give school districts more time to prepare for a reduction in special education dollars.
"In order to provide the state, and its local educational agencies, additional time to take whatever steps are necessary to plan for the reduction and ensure that a [free appropriate public education] is available to all children with disabilities residing in the state, ... the reduction will occur" on Oct. 1, 2012, wrote Alexa Posny, assistant secretary for the office of special education.
South Carolina views the backpedaling as a victory.
"Dr. Zais' action on behalf of the state has apparently persuaded the U.S. Department of Education to postpone their $36 million cut a full year to allow a full and fair hearing of our appeal," said Jay Ragley, a spokesman for the South Carolina Department of Education.
For what it's worth, the U.S. Department of Education tells me they didn't know of South Carolina's appeal until after issuing a letter notifying them of the delay.
It has been all Army in the first half of the Armed Forces Bowl as the Black Knights have caused three turnovers and dominated SMU with its triple option attack.
Star defensive end Josh McNary scored the Black Knights’ first touchdown after returning a fumble 55 yards. Army linebacker Chad Littlejohn caused the fumble with a hit on SMU quarterback Kyle Padron. It was Pardon’s first of three first half turnovers, as he also threw two interceptions.
SMU’s defense hasn’t had an answer for Army fullback Jared Hassin, who has already racked up 48 yards rushing yards. Running back Malcolm Brown ran in Army’s second first half touchdown from13 yards out.
If Army’s defense can continue to stifle Padron and SMU’s June Jones attack the Black Knights will collect their first bowl win since the 1985 Cherry Bowl victory over Illinois.
NILES -- Lois L. and Dale R. Foster of Niles marked their 50th anniversary with a family dinner and celebration at Millennium Steakhouse. Dale Foster and Lois Schmidt married Feb. 16, 1957, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Berrien Springs. They have three children, Bruce of Berrien Center and D'nece Coleman and Scott, both of Niles. They also have six grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Foster retired as owners of Seldom Rest Farms.
Israel, Jordan and the PLO each have their own reasons to be apprehensive as to the different approach that Trump might be contemplating.
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