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さっぽろ雪まつり:準備始まる 像、大小200基制作予定

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NewsHub札幌市で2月1日から行われる「第68回さっぽろ雪まつり」に向けて、像の制作に使う雪を郊外から会場に運び込む作業が7日、始まった。今年は大小200基の雪像や氷像が作られる予定で、5トントラック約6000台分の雪を市中心部の大通公園などに運搬する。
陸上自衛隊員延べ約1万人が、雪の運搬と像の制作に当たる。7日は大通公園で雪輸送開始式を開催。トラックから勢いよく雪を下ろし、陸自第11旅団の甲斐芳樹旅団長が「魂を込めて雪像作りに取り組んでほしい」と呼び掛けた。札幌市では昨年12月、記録的な大雪となり、実行委員会は「今回は雪不足に悩むことはない」としている。(共同)

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CourtHarbor Kicks Off AdLove Giveback Program to Support Youth in Under-Served Tennis Communities

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NewsHubWINSTON-SALEM, N. C. , Jan. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Beginning January 2017, CourtHarbor, http://www.courtharbor.com , will kick off its giveback program, AdLove, which supports youth in under-served tennis communities.
Each quarter, CourtHarbor has committed to give 15 percent of its net profit to one deserving school or organization. Nominations are currently being encouraged and accepted at adlove@courtharbor.com .
As part of AdLove, CourtHarbor will also offer life skills sessions to high school students in North Carolina’s Triad focused on personal and career development. Successful business professionals from various lines of work will participate in these sessions, according to CourtHarbor Founder/President Jon McLamb.
« Creating and providing opportunities and resources to tennis programs that might not otherwise have them is extremely important to our team, as is giving back to our community with our own time and resources, » he says. « Through AdLove, we are able to do each of these and put our ‘why’ into action at CourtHarbor in meaningful and purposeful ways. We’re fortunate in the Triad to have so many sharp and talented professionals in various lines of business. So, we’re excited about these individuals sharing their career and life experience, along with their wisdom and insight, with high school students throughout the Triad.  »
For more information on AdLove, visit http://www.courtharbor.com/adlove/
CourtHarbor has created and developed free-standing tennis court dividers providing facilities a unique, on-court way to promote their brand while experiencing safer, less interrupted tennis. The court dividers are grabbing nationwide attention of tennis coaches and teaching professionals that are looking for a creative way to effectively promote their brand and enhance the look and feel of their courts. CourtHarbor is able to customize each court divider with logos or designs provided by the club, school or tennis center.
« The court dividers are quickly becoming popular at the college tennis level. Furman University , University of North Carolina-Wilmington , Boise State University , Oglethorpe University , Georgia Gwinnett College , University of Tennessee , University of Minnesota, Kennesaw State University and University of Wisconsin-Whitewater are among a host of college programs that have added the court dividers. Duke University , West Virginia University and Stephen F. Austin State University are CourtHarbor’s most recent additions. University of Kentucky , East Carolina University , Elon University and University of North Carolina will be adding court dividers to their facilities in the coming weeks, » McLamb says.
« It’s exciting for our team at CourtHarbor to see the value our product is bringing to tennis facilities throughout the country, » he says. « Our goal of providing a product that enhances the tennis experience by cutting down on the amount of interrupted play, and the added element of offering facilities a creative approach to branding, brings our team a lot of satisfaction.  »
CourtHarbor’s name is also spreading to the private and public tennis sectors. Concord Country Club (MA) recently added the court dividers joining West Side Tennis Club Forest Hills in New York (former host site of the U. S. Open); Field Club of Greenwich (CT); North Hills Club in Raleigh, North Carolina ; and The Clubs at St. James Plantation in Southport, North Carolina , as private tennis clubs that have added the court dividers to their facilities. Mecklenburg County Park & Recreation Department in Charlotte, NC recently increased their commitment and will soon have 22 court dividers at their public facilities.
CourtHarbor’s innovative products, which are 100-percent American made, provide tennis facilities the ability to maximize their home court advantage by promoting their brand in a variety of ways. In addition to their court dividers, CourtHarbor produces custom logo court number signs, net signs and windscreens.
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Reynolds, Fisher laid to rest at Hollywood Hills cemetery

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NewsHubLOS ANGELES — Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher have been laid to rest together at a sprawling Los Angeles cemetery favored by celebrities. The mother and daughter had a private joint funeral Friday at Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills the day after a memorial at their two neighboring houses.
Minimal details were revealed about the ceremony or the final resting places of the two actresses who died on consecutive days last week.
But Reynolds’ son and Fisher’s brother Todd Fisher talked to reporters afterward, telling them that Carrie Fisher was cremated before the funeral and her ashes put in her favorite possession, a giant porcelain Prozac pill.
Todd Fisher said the funeral was “fitting and beautiful.” He said he and other relatives will now plan a public memorial for the two women.

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Crews in Lake Erie find what may be human remains from plane ::

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NewsHubPosted 10:01 p.m. today
Updated 59 minutes ago
CLEVELAND — Crews searching Lake Erie on Friday found what may be human remains on a seat from a plane that was carrying six people when it disappeared more than a week ago.
Officials said Friday night that the remains were being analyzed by a medical examiner to determine if they are human. They said the remains were found on a seat from the plane’s passenger compartment.
Divers guided by an underwater detector earlier Friday found the cockpit voice recorder and pieces of the tail from the plane. They continued to search into the evening for the plane’s fuselage debris despite rough conditions that limited visibility to less than a foot just off shore from downtown Cleveland.
Authorities later said they had concluded their search for the day, would resume Monday and would be meeting to determine their next steps. They said they’d continue to search until they’re confident they’ve found all they can.
Transmissions from a locator beacon detector helped narrow the search area, but divers moved slowly as they followed the signals.
Daytime temperatures have been in the teens throughout the search, and Friday’s noon reading in Cleveland was 14 degrees with a wind chill of 3. The search by air and along the shore for debris continued as weather permitted.
Investigators have said the cockpit voice recorder appeared to be intact and would be sent to Washington, D. C., for further examination. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Tim Sorenson said the review is only in the beginning stages.
Searchers said previously they were looking for the cockpit voice recorder in an underwater area about 125 feet by 325 feet. They have found almost daily debris that is consistent with the Cessna 525 Citation, which vanished shortly after takeoff from Burke Lakefront Airport on Dec. 29.
The plane was piloted by John T. Fleming, the president of a Columbus beverage distribution company. The passengers were his wife, Suzanne Fleming; their teenage sons, Jack and Andrew; and two neighbors, Brian Casey and his teenage daughter, Megan Casey, a freshman nursing student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The group was returning to Columbus after attending a Cleveland Cavaliers game in downtown Cleveland.
Calling hours for the Fleming family will be from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at Canfield Presbyterian Church, 140 W. Main St., in Canfield. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the same church.
A second memorial is planned for 4 p.m. Tuesday at Liberty Presbyterian Church in Delaware, north of Columbus.
Funeral arrangements for the Flemings’ neighbors were not immediately available.
The families of Fleming and his wife issued a statement thanking supporters for their concern and kindness.
« The families are touched by the tremendous outpouring of support and continue to be grateful to all the agencies and individuals who have aided in the search and recovery efforts, now in the capable hands of the City of Cleveland, » it said.

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Gross & Klein LLP: Federal Jury Indicts Two Former Paskenta Tribe Employees on Embezzlement Charges

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NewsHubCORNING, Calif. , Jan. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — A federal grand jury has criminally charged John Crosby , his mother Ines Crosby , and her sister Leslie Lohse on 69 federal felony counts arising out of alleged embezzlement from the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians (the Tribe), while they were Tribal employees and, in Lohse’s case, an elected official in the Tribal government.
The charges are as follows:
If convicted on every count:
As detailed in the Tribe’s related civil federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) complaint filed in March 2015 in the U. S. District Court, Eastern District of California , against John Crosby , Ines Crosby , Leslie Lohse , and others, they and their co-conspirators used vicious and callous methods of intimidation and coercion to maintain access to the Tribe’s money, millions of which they stole in order to live a life of obscene luxury, while services to Tribal members went unfunded and Tribe members lived in fear of economic retaliation.
« The Tribe hails the decision by the grand jury to issue this indictment, which represents a significant step towards vindication and justice for the Tribe, » said Tribal Chairman Andrew Alejandre. « As alleged in the Tribe’s complaint, the harm caused by these persons to Tribe members was not limited to the millions they stole from the Tribe, which could have been used to improve the general welfare of Tribe members. These persons also abused and corrupted the Tribe’s institutions of government and terrorized its members, including elders who lived in fear of losing the income that they depended upon to meet basic needs and who, in some cases, had such income taken from them for speaking out, leaving them destitute.
« The Tribe’s success in removing these persons from power in 2014, after over a decade of abuse, was proof of the power of democracy and the resilience and determination of its members. This indictment is proof of the federal government’s ability and willingness to uphold justice on behalf of those members and others like them. The Tribe is very grateful for the work that led to this indictment and prays for the ultimate success of the government’s effort.  »
Stuart G. Gross of Gross & Klein LLP, who represents the Tribe in the civil RICO action commented, « This a great development. We look forward to the convictions.  »
The Tribe is represented in its civil RICO action, Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians, et al. v. Ines Crosby , et al. , by Stuart G. Gross and Rachel Rivers , of Gross & Klein LLP., Andrew M. Purdy of the Joseph Saveri Law Firm, Inc.
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Muskegon firefighters battle house fire

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NewsHubMUSKEGON, MI — Firefighters are battling a house fire in the 500 block of West Grand Avenue.
The fire was reported about 6:55 p.m. Friday, Jan. 6.
As firefighters were responding, witnesses reported that flames were showing from the upstairs. Firefighters called for help from fire departments in Muskegon Heights and Norton Shores.
Three people safely escaped the house.
Firefighters later said that, because of the fire’s intensity, they planned a « defensive attack » on the fire and would not go inside the structure.

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Moore, Thomas share lead at Kapalua

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NewsHubRyan Moore and Justin Thomas finished strong Friday and shared the lead going into the weekend at the SBS Tournament of Championship.
Moore birdied four of his last five holes, including a pair of wedges that he stuffed into tap-in range on the 16th and 18th holes that carried him to a 6-under 67. He played in the same group with Thomas, who birdied his last two holes for a 67.
They were at 12-under 134, one shot ahead of Patrick Reed (65) and Jimmy Walker (70).
As many as six players were tied for the lead at one point on another picturesque afternoon along the rugged coast of Maui. One of them was Hideki Matsuyama, going for his fourth straight victory worldwide, until he tried to clear the gorge on the 17th from thick rough and paid for it. He made double bogey, and a birdie on the last hole for a 68 — his 12th straight round in the 60s on the PGA Tour — left him three shots behind.
Reed is still struggling with an illness and learned the limits of what he can do when not playing so well. He hit every green in regulation, missed only one fairway and posted a 65.
Walker, who had a two-shot lead after the opening round, saw too many putts burn the edge of the cup. He finally dropped a shot on the 17th when he choked down to the shaft of a wedge from thick rough and didn’t reach the green. A birdie on the final hole still kept him right in the mix to atone for a playoff loss at Kapalua two years ago.
Jordan Spieth also was in the mix, but only briefly. The defending champion ran off nine birdies, five of them after taking a double bogey on the par-3 eighth hole. But he hooked a tee shot into the hazard on the 17th, hit his next into another hazard and missed a 4-foot putt to take triple bogey. Spieth shot a 69 and was seven shots back.
Jason Day, the world No. 1 who is playing for the first time since September, had a 69 and was five shots behind.
Moore is coming off the best part of his career last season. He won the John Deere Classic, lost in a playoff at the Tour Championship, was the final captain’s pick for his first Ryder Cup and made the putt that clinched the cup for the Americans.
He still feels like the same player, though the narrative has changed. He’s now a Ryder Cup player, and he’d like to pile up more victories.
Moore had a pair of three-putts early in the round, both from long range and one of them on a par 5, but he found his groove with a 25-foot birdie putt on the 12th hole. That carried him to his big finish. The only hole he didn’t birdie was at No. 17, where his 12-footer lipped out.
Thomas, determined to be more accurate off the tee this year, tied for the lead with a tee shot into 3 feet on the par-3 11th, and he appeared to escape trouble on the par-5 15th when he was able to slash his second shot out of the hazard. But he came up short of the elevated green and still left with a bogey, which feels worse as long as he hits it.
But he holed a 15-foot putt on the 17th, and his pitch from short of the 18th green settled 6 feet away for another birdie.
As many as six players were tied for the lead at one point. One of them was Hideki Matsuyama, going for his fourth straight victory, until he took double bogey on the 17th. He settled for a 68 and was three behind.

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After briefing, Trump denies hacking affected election outcome

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NewsHubUS President-elect Donald Trump answers questions from the media December 28 at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.
President-elect Donald Trump made nice with the intelligence community in a statement after he received a briefing from officials Friday. But despite his toned-down rhetoric, he didn’t concede that Russia was responsible for political hacks during the 2016 US election.
Instead, he cast further doubt on the idea that the hacks had any effect on the election whatsoever.
Trump’s statement marks a shift in tone toward intelligence officials without giving any ground on how he views the hacks. Trump has criticized the intelligence community for weeks , dismissing their assessment that Russia was responsible for hacks against the Democratic National Committee and other political organizations in the lead up to the election. « These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, » his transition team said in a statement in December.
On Friday, Trump first praised US intelligence workers, saying in his statement, « I have tremendous respect for the work and service done by the men and women of this community to our great nation.  »
He went on to name a laundry list of parties, including Russia, that « are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations including the Democrat National Committee.  »
Also on that list: « China, other countries, outside groups and people.  »
Despite these efforts, « there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election including the fact that there was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines, » Trump said.

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Bose suspends the seat, not the car, for a smooth ride

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NewsHubBose demonstrated the newest version of its active seat suspension in a commuter van.
Bose made its name in audio, and currently designs sound systems for automakers such as Nissan and Cadillac , but the company showed off another side of its business at CES 2017, active seat suspension. Already selling its unique seat suspension technology for commercial trucks, Bose is developing the technology for cars.
At CES, I rode in a van equipped with prototype versions of the seating technology, geared toward showing how riders can be more productive when their seats keep them steady.
Given an iPad and assigned writing and drawing tasks, I sat in a well-padded seat with a footrest while the van drove over obstacles representing potholes, speed bumps and an angled driveway approach. With the Bose system turned off, the van jounced me around with strong vertical and lateral motion, making it difficult and uncomfortable to use a stylus on the iPad.
Bose will need to make its seat suspension technology smaller for use in passenger cars.
With the system activated, my seat moved independently from the vehicle, absorbing much of the external motion. I still felt some of the harsher movements, but I could more easily work on the iPad. Bose’s technology became particularly noticeable when the van passed over uneven bumps. I could see the top and sides of the van moving around me while I remained upright and centered.
Bose thinks the technology could play a big part in autonomous cars, where riders will spend more time working or using tablets.
The production seats for trucks, called Bose Ride, use an electromagnetic motor to control vertical motion, which keeps the rider’s thorax insulated from hard shocks. A sensor detects the beginning of a shock moment, and the seat’s motor responds. The prototype I experienced added lateral control, a cradle in the seat that compensated for side-to-side motion.
Built for commercial vehicles, the Bose Ride seats look too large to fit in a typical passenger vehicle. But Bose showed its work towards making the technology smaller, so that one day it could be more widely used. Imagine a sports car with its suspension designed for perfect handling, while the seat’s suspension serves up a completely comfortable ride.

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More than 10,000 exposed MongoDB databases deleted by ransomware groups

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NewsHubGroups of attackers have adopted a new tactic that involves deleting publicly exposed MongoDB databases and asking for money to restore them. In a matter of days, the number of affected databases has risen from hundreds to more than 10,000.
The issue of misconfigured MongoDB installations, allowing anyone on the internet to access sensitive data, is not new. Researchers have been finding such open databases for years, and the latest estimate puts their number at more than 99,000.
On Monday, security researcher Victor Gevers from the GDI Foundation reported that he found almost 200 instances of publicly exposed MongoDB databases that had been wiped and held to ransom by an attacker or a group of attackers named Harak1r1.
The attackers left a message behind for the database administrators asking for 0.2 bitcoins (around $180) to return the data.
A day later, the number of databases wiped by Harak1r1 had reached 2,500 and by Friday, more than 8,600 had been affected and contained the ransom message.
In addition, other attackers have joined the scheme, researchers counting at least five groups with different ransom messages so far. Together, the groups deleted 10,500 databases, and in some cases, they’ve replaced each other’s ransom messages.
The bad news is that most of them don’t even bother copying the data before deleting it, so even if the victims decide to pay, there’s a high chance they won’t get their information back.
Gevers said he has helped some victims and there was no evidence in the logs that the data had been exfiltrated. He advises affected database owners not to pay and to get help from security professionals.
MongoDB administrators are advised to follow the steps on the security checklist from the MongoDB documentation in order to lock down their deployments and prevent unauthorized access.

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