The kidnapped son of Kaspersky Lab's founder has been freed and five suspects are in custody in connection with the abduction, according to a Russian media report today.
Russian law enforcement officials freed Ivan Kaspersky, the 20-year-old son of Chief Executive Eugene Kaspersky, through a special operation with company security forces, according to the Interfax news agency.
"He has been freed without ransom," a spokeswoman for the Moscow-based antivirus company told the news agency.
The younger Kaspersky, a fourth-year student of mathematics and cybernetics at Moscow State University, was kidnapped Tuesday morning on his way to work at InfoWatch, a company owned by his mother, Natalya Kaspersky, according to the English version of Pravda.ru. Someone claiming to be his abductor later reportedly phoned the father and demanded $4.3 million.
No further information about the suspects was available, and Kaspersky representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
2011年4月24日星期日
2011年4月20日星期三
Chicken coops cropping up in Greenville backyards
Take a peek around your neighborhood and you may even find one yourself —– a chicken coop.
“It is going crazy,” said Jim Adkins, a sustainable poultry expert who recently visited Furman University for a sold-out workshop on backyard chicken keeping.
He said he's seen a huge surge in recent years in the number of people who keep chickens in urban and suburban environments. Some do it for food, some do it for fun, some do it for nostalgia. But whatever the reason, folks with chickens say it's not as strange —– or as tough —– as it may sound.
“It's no trouble,” insisted Deborah Gibson, who bought five chicks about a year ago from a local feed store.
The inspiration came from her sister, who has a flock of chickens at her rural home down state.
“She just has the best time with it,” Gibson said. “When my granddaughters got older, I thought, ‘How cute would that be if we had a coop that we could gather the eggs and have just a few little chickens?' ”
The girls, ages 4 and 2, live across the street from Gibson and are her regular helpers.
“They're back and forth. We're in that coop and we're cleaning, we're feeding. Their little friends come over, and we have little tea parties out by the coop,” she said. “It's so fun.”
She's down to one bird in her yard at the moment after an unexpected turn of events with the original flock of chicks: one began to crow.
“I heard this funny little noise coming from my coop one morning. I thought, ‘What is that?' ” she said with a laugh.
Over the next three weeks, three others started crowing. Not wanting to be the bane of her neighborhood with four crowing roosters, she gave the birds away to people with farms or larger properties.
But she's had such fun with her remaining hen, Cocoa, that she's ordered three more chicks from a hatchery (these are supposed to be all hens) and is expecting them at the end of the month.
“It is going crazy,” said Jim Adkins, a sustainable poultry expert who recently visited Furman University for a sold-out workshop on backyard chicken keeping.
He said he's seen a huge surge in recent years in the number of people who keep chickens in urban and suburban environments. Some do it for food, some do it for fun, some do it for nostalgia. But whatever the reason, folks with chickens say it's not as strange —– or as tough —– as it may sound.
“It's no trouble,” insisted Deborah Gibson, who bought five chicks about a year ago from a local feed store.
The inspiration came from her sister, who has a flock of chickens at her rural home down state.
“She just has the best time with it,” Gibson said. “When my granddaughters got older, I thought, ‘How cute would that be if we had a coop that we could gather the eggs and have just a few little chickens?' ”
The girls, ages 4 and 2, live across the street from Gibson and are her regular helpers.
“They're back and forth. We're in that coop and we're cleaning, we're feeding. Their little friends come over, and we have little tea parties out by the coop,” she said. “It's so fun.”
She's down to one bird in her yard at the moment after an unexpected turn of events with the original flock of chicks: one began to crow.
“I heard this funny little noise coming from my coop one morning. I thought, ‘What is that?' ” she said with a laugh.
Over the next three weeks, three others started crowing. Not wanting to be the bane of her neighborhood with four crowing roosters, she gave the birds away to people with farms or larger properties.
But she's had such fun with her remaining hen, Cocoa, that she's ordered three more chicks from a hatchery (these are supposed to be all hens) and is expecting them at the end of the month.
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