Joan Rivers unapologetic over Holocaust joke

By Randee Dawn, TODAY contributor

Don't expect Joan Rivers to back down over a joke. The acerbic 79-year old comedienne and host of E!'s "Fashion Police" refuses to apologize for comments made on her show's post-Oscars wrap-up Monday.

"The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into ovens," she noted then, referring to a dress "Project Runway" host and model Heidi Klum wore at the Academy Awards.

But on HLN's "Showbiz Tonight," she backed up the comment. "It's a joke, No. 1," she told host A.J. Hammer. "No. 2, it is about the Holocaust. This is the way I remind people about the Holocaust. I do it through humor.... Your generation doesn't even know what I'm talking about.... Didn't bother Heidi, doesn't bother me."

When she was asked about offering an apology, she asked back, "For what? Why don't you worry about Mel Gibson? Why aren't you worried about the anti-Semites out there, and not pick someone who doesn't have a single living relative, hmm?"

Rivers says comedy is how she deals with the tougher aspects of daily living. "I think that's how we get through life," she said. "You make people laugh, you laugh, you can deal with it. Done."

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How budget cuts could affect you

Automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect Friday are expected to touch a vast range of government services. Some examples:

DEFENSE

One of the Navy's premiere warships, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, sits pier-side in Norfolk, Va., its tour of duty delayed. The carrier and its 5,000-person crew were to leave for the Persian Gulf on Feb. 8, along with the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg.

Veterans' funerals at Arlington National Cemetery could be cut to 24 a day from 31, meaning delays in burials for troops from past wars. Troops killed in action in Afghanistan will be the priority ? they are usually laid to rest within two weeks, Army spokesman George Wright said. But overall funerals would be reduced by about 160 a month because of furloughs among civilian employees who work with families to schedule services as well as furloughs among crews that dig the graves and do other grounds work.

Pentagon investments in countering cyberthreats and nuclear proliferation will be at risk, says Michael Vickers, the undersecretary of defense for intelligence. And the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, says the agency could be hit hard because it depends heavily on military and civilian personnel to accomplish its mission.

Coast Guard rescue aircraft will fly fewer hours and cutters will patrol the seas for fewer hours, says Commandant Adm. Robert J. Papp. Emergencies will be a priority and interdictions of illegal immigrants, drugs and illegal fishing could decline.

HOMELAND SECURITY

Hundreds of illegal immigrants have been freed from jail across the country. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say they had reviewed several hundred cases of immigrants and decided to put them on an "appropriate, more cost-effective form of supervised release" in a moved started Tuesday.

FOOD SAFETY

There could be an estimated 2,100 fewer food safety inspections and increased risks to consumers because of the cuts and the fact that lack of a new 2013 budget means the Food and Drug Administration is held at last year's spending level. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg says most of the effects wouldn't be felt for a while, and the agency won't have to furlough workers.

HEALTH CARE

Hospitals, doctors and other Medicare providers will see a 2 percent cut in government reimbursements because once the cutback takes effect, Medicare will reimburse them at 98 cents on the dollar. But they aren't complaining because the pain could be a lot worse if President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans actually did reach a sweeping agreement to reduce federal deficits. Automatic cuts taking effect Friday would reduce Medicare spending by about $100 billion over a decade. But Obama had put on the table $400 billion in health care cuts, mainly from Medicare. And Republicans wanted more.

On the other hand, Obama's health overhaul law is expected to roll out on time and largely unscathed by the cuts. Part of the reason is that the law's major subsidies to help uninsured people buy private health coverage are structured as tax credits. So is the Affordable Care Act's assistance for small businesses. Tax credits have traditionally been exempted from automatic cuts.

TRANSPORTATION

The nation's busiest airports could be forced to close some of their runways, causing widespread flight delays and cancellations. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood predicts flights to cities like New York, Chicago and San Francisco could have delays of up to 90 minutes during peak hours because fewer controllers will be on duty.

Though the spending cuts are scheduled to go into effect on Friday, furloughs of controllers won't kick in until April because the Federal Aviation Administration is required by law to give its employees advance notice. In addition to furloughs, the FAA is planning to eliminate midnight shifts for air traffic controllers at 60 airport towers, close over 100 control towers at smaller airports and reduce preventative maintenance of equipment.

NATIONAL PARKS

Visiting hours at all 398 national parks are likely to be cut and sensitive areas would be blocked off to the public. Thousands of seasonal workers looking for jobs would not be hired, according to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Salazar and National Park Service director Jon Jarvis said visitors would encounter locked restrooms, fewer rangers and trash cans emptied less frequently.

FEDERAL WORKERS

More than half of the nation's 2.1 million government workers may be required to take furloughs if agencies are forced to trim budgets. At the Pentagon alone that could mean 800,000 civilian workers would be off for 22 days each, spread across more than five months ? and lose 20 percent of their pay over that period. Other federal agencies are likely to furlough several hundred thousand more workers.

EDUCATION

Some 70,000 students enrolled in pre-kindergarten Head Start would be cut from the program and 14,000 teachers would lose their jobs. For students with special needs, the cuts would eliminate some 7,200 teachers and aides. The Education Department is also warning that the cuts will impact up to 29 million student loan borrowers and that some lenders may have to lay off staff or even close. Some of the 15 million college students who receive grants or work-study assignments at some 6,000 colleges would also see changes.

CONGRESS

Congressional trips overseas likely will take a hit. House Speaker John Boehner told Republican members in a closed-door meeting that he's suspending the use of military aircraft for official trips by House members. Lawmakers typically travel on military planes for fact-finding trips to Afghanistan or Pakistan, or other congressional excursions to foreign locales.

NUCLEAR SECURITY

Cleanup of radioactive waste at nuclear sites across the country would be delayed. The Energy Department says the cuts would postpone work at the department's highest-risk sites, including the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash., where six tanks are leaking radioactive waste left over from decades of plutonium production for nuclear weapons. Other high-risk sites facing work delays are the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee, Savannah River Site in South Carolina and the Idaho National Laboratory.

TAX COLLECTION

Millions of taxpayers may not be able get responses from Internal Revenue Service call centers and taxpayer assistance centers. The cuts would delay IRS responses to taxpayer letters and force the agency to complete fewer tax return reviews, reducing its ability to detect and prevent fraud. The IRS says this could result in billions of dollars in lost revenue to the government, complicating deficit reduction efforts. However, the IRS says the cuts shouldn't delay tax refunds.

LABOR

More than 3.8 million people jobless for six months or longer could see their unemployment benefits reduced by as much as 9.4 percent. Thousands of veterans would not receive job counseling. Fewer Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors could mean 1,200 fewer inspections of dangerous work sites.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/budget-cuts-could-affect-204939859--politics.html

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Then and Now: Moving Homes in Corona

In the true sense of ?green? building, Corona has a long and successful history of relocating structures so that they can be reused and appreciated by later citizens of Corona.? The top photo on the attached flyer shows how home?re-locations?were done in the early days. Corona?s first Santa Fe Depot is seen in the background behind the house and family members that are being towed by a team of horses.

?A Brief History of Relocated Structures

We know that the building now located at 507 Vicentia (Settlement House) [MAP] was relocated three times.? It was built on the original Lincoln School campus at Tenth and Victoria; then moved to Corona?s first High School in the 1200 block of Main Street [MAP]; then to the original Washington School at Second Street and West Grand Boulevard[MAP], where it served as a Kindergarten classroom; and ultimately adjacent to Corona?s Second High School where it was used as the band room. This same building was later became the Police Department storage room for evidence, and currently it serves as the Settlement House at 507 Vicentia Avenue [MAP].? We know that the very earliest structure used by the First Congregational Church was relocated to a spot on the north side of East Sixth Street.

Among the homes known to have been moved are:? Captain Gully?s home on Sixth Street near Victoria was moved to the east side of Main Street at Francis. Dr. Huff?s home on the northwest corner of Washburn at Sixth Street was relocated to the northeast corner of Merrill and Seventh Street [MAP].? More recently, Harmony Antiques (the former Frazer-Dixon residence) once found at 916 W. Sixth Street [MAP], took a short trip around the Circle and found a new home on the East side of Grand Blvd. near Fullerton.? The Call Ranch House was relocated from the west side of California Avenue near Ontario to Corona Heritage Park.? The home of early Corona volunteer firefighter Joseph Brumbaugh was relocated from the south side of Seventh Street near Sheridan and?re-purposed?as a guest house at the rear of another historic property located at 1052 East Grand [MAP]. A historic Victorian ranch house once found amid citrus groves at 2342 Gilbert [MAP], was cut into four sections to be moved and then relocated and reassembled on a lot near Lake Mathews.

In the past, many of Corona?s historic old buildings have met the wrecking ball. ?If uprooted and relocated, these mementos from the past might have been preserved and maintained so that their craftsmanship might still be honored today.

Two homes are in dire need of being moved so that the Corona Regional Medical Center, which is very important to our community, might be able to complete a desired update and expansion. Corona Historic Preservation Society members hope that the buildings that need to be moved will have similar happy landings as those mentioned above.

If you or anyone you know might be interested in this opportunity, please contact Jeff Tupper whose contact information is listed on the flyer.

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Suns end Spurs' 18-game home streak, 105-101 in OT

Phoenix Suns' P.J. Tucker, unseen with hand at center, reaches for the ball between San Antonio Spurs defenders Tim Duncan, left, and Manu Ginobili, right, of Argentina, during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, in San Antonio. Spurs' Tiago Splitter (22) watches. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Phoenix Suns' P.J. Tucker, unseen with hand at center, reaches for the ball between San Antonio Spurs defenders Tim Duncan, left, and Manu Ginobili, right, of Argentina, during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, in San Antonio. Spurs' Tiago Splitter (22) watches. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker (9), of France, shoots over Phoenix Suns' Goran Dragic (1), of Slovenia, during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Phoenix Suns' P.J. Tucker (17) passes around San Antonio Spurs' Kawhi Leonard (2) during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

San Antonio Spurs' Tim Duncan (21) is fouled by Phoenix Suns' Luis Scola, rear, of Argentina, during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, in San Antonio. Suns' Wesley Johnson, right, also defends on the play. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

SAN ANTONIO (AP) ? After a 25-day, nine-game road trip, the San Antonio Spurs were glad to be back in their own building, relaxed and ready to add to their 18-game home winning streak.

Maybe too relaxed.

Jermaine O'Neal had 22 points and 13 rebounds, Wesley Johnson hit a 3-pointer at the end of regulation to force overtime and the Phoenix Suns rallied to upend San Antonio 105-101, stunning a raucous crowd that had begun celebrating midway through the third quarter only to exit in silence.

Tony Parker had 22 points to lead San Antonio, which had not lost at home since Nov. 19 against the Los Angeles Clippers. Tim Duncan had 19 points and 11 rebounds, and DeJuan Blair and Kawhi Leonard added 15 points apiece.

Luis Scola added 15 points and Goran Dragic had 13 points and 13 assists for Phoenix, which snapped a six-game losing streak against the Spurs.

"We are all very upset, especially after the performance we had on the road," San Antonio guard Manu Ginobili said. "Coming back home and losing the first one is hard, but it happens. We got relaxed after such a long road trip, but this is what happens in the NBA when you do not play your best."

After going 7-2 on the road trip due to the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, the league-leading Spurs (45-14) appeared to have the game well in hand following a strong third quarter by Parker.

Amid cries of "MVP," Parker had 10 points in the period as San Antonio extended its lead to double digits. His assist to Duncan with 10 minutes left in the third gave the Spurs a 56-45 lead and his 10-foot jumper put them up 69-58.

Leonard's 3 with 1.1 seconds gave San Antonio a 77-67 lead entering the fourth.

Trailing by 11 points with 11:29 left in the game, the Suns rallied behind O'Neal. The veteran center had 13 points and five rebounds as Phoenix (20-39) outscored San Antonio 33-23 in the fourth.

"For us, we're obviously not in the playoff run, but it's about trying to be a better team," O'Neal said. "Games like these are what build character and put us in the right direction. That's what we're trying to do."

The Suns pulled within 97-95 with less than a minute remaining on Marcus Morris' 3. Parker attempted to keep the Spurs ahead, tossing in a floater, a jump shot and feeding Duncan for a jumper that gave San Antonio a 99-97 lead with 11 seconds left.

Ginobili made one of two free throws with 3.7 seconds left to make it 100-97. O'Neal rebounded Ginobili's second free throw attempt, firing a pass down court to Johnson, whose 3 at the buzzer tied the game at 100 and sent it to overtime.

"Overall we made a lot of mental errors," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "Especially on that last play on the free throw line when Johnson went all the way down the court and he wasn't picked up. That cost us the game."

Johnson's 3 seemed to stun the Spurs even more so than the fans.

"I think we were kind of surprised that Manu missed that last free throw, but they made a great play," Parker said. "Wesley made a big 3."

San Antonio went 0 for 10 in overtime, its only points in the extra period coming when Parker made 1 of 2 free throws.

"I think they missed some shots they normally make, so defensively we did some things great that worked great for us," Phoenix coach Lindsey Hunter said.

The teams combined to go 0 for 14 to open overtime. Marcin Gortat's tip follow was the first basket of overtime, giving Phoenix a 102-101 lead with 1:07 left.

NOTES: After three weeks on the road, the Spurs were finally able to honor Parker as the NBA Player of the Month for January, doing so prior to the game. ... San Antonio observed a moment of silence in honor of Dr. Jerry Buss, the Los Angeles Lakers owner who died Feb. 18. ... The Spurs have won 64 games overall on its rodeo road trips, which began in 2003. ... A video highlighting the Spurs' recent road trip played prior to the game to Phillip Phillips' "Home." ... Dragic and reigning MVP LeBron James of Miami are the only players leading their team in points, assists, steals and free throw attempts. ... Scola, Gortat and Markieff Morris have played all 58 games for Phoenix, with Gortat starting each.

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Al-Akhawayn University to hold the National University Sports ...

By Youssef El Kaidi

Morocco World News

Fez, February 28, 2013

The Department of Sports and the Sports Council of Al Akhawayn University students organize the National University Sports Symposium under the theme: University sport between expectations and realities.

The symposium is to take place on March 6^th, 2013 at Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, 170 kilometers (106 miles) east of Rabat.

Moroccan university sport has recently seen many disruptions in terms of management, operation and organization. Consequently, the symposium aims at investigating the current situation of university sport and exploring the possibilities of its revival and rehabilitation.

In addition, the conference aims at addressing and highlighting the role that university sport can play in the development of national sport whose presence at the continental and international level has remarkably declined in the last decade.

The symposium will also discuss the legal framework of university sport in light of the new constitution.

This event will bring together all those responsible for university sport in Moroccan universities, officials of the Royal Moroccan Federation of University Sports, the Director of the National University of Cultural and Social Works (ONUSC) and members of the Moroccan press.

The schedule of the symposium includes seven presentations, five workshops, debate and finally the symposium appraisal.

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Green Blog: Some Far Out (at Least for Now) Energy Ideas

The just-concluded annual meeting of ARPA-E, an agency founded to nurture interesting energy ideas that may or may not work, featured an exhibition hall with scores of displays staffed by hopeful entrepreneurs.

Many of them seemed to be Ph.D. engineers; in some cases, you needed a Ph.D. yourself to understand what was being presented. But here are three simpler ones that seemed enticing, even if their practicality has yet to be demonstrated.

Some bacteria and algae turn sunlight into oils that can be burned in a car engine or used as raw material at a refinery in place of crude oil. Yet production of reasonable quantities at a reasonable cost has so far been elusive. Tobacco, meanwhile, is easy to grow but has no healthy use. Can the two be merged?

The research consortium Folium (from the Latin word for leaf), which includes the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Kentucky, has taken genes from those types of bacteria and algae and inserted them into tobacco plants. In the first year of work, it produced a crop and then used organic solvents to extract the oils out of the leaves. (Check out the video above.)

Further work on the project, which received $4.8 million from ARPA-E, will determine whether the oils can be used directly as fuel or must go to a refinery. But the tobacco is already yielding one product that could substitute for diesel oil, said Peggy G. Lemaux, a researcher at Berkeley.

Making these oils from tobacco, as opposed to some other crops, would not interfere with food production, Dr. Lemaux noted. And tobacco is already in surplus because of the decline of the cigarette market, so a large infrastructure is already in place, she said.

Researchers have modified the plants so that they have less chlorophyll, the chemical that converts sunlight into stored energy. Normally, chlorophyll is helpful in photosynthesis and makes leaves dark enough that the area beneath them is in shadow, killing off competing species. But ?that doesn?t make sense in a monoculture,?? Dr. Lemaux said, so the chlorophyll is reduced. With less chlorophyll, light not absorbed by the top layer of leaves can penetrate down to lower levels.

Among the challenges, however, is raising the amount of oil produced per pound of tobacco.

In another project, Proton Energy Systems received $4.6 million to work on using electric current to break up water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.

One of the problems with integrating renewable energy into the electric system is that wind and sun are intermittent, creating challenges for grid operators who need to provide a constant supply of electricity. Proton came up with a product that is the direct opposite of a fuel cell, which converts hydrogen to electric current and water. The oxygen and hydrogen atoms are instead split up in a chemical reaction, and the hydrogen can either be turned back into electricity in a fuel cell or used for industrial purposes.

Proton is currently is working with the town of Hilo in Hawaii on an installation that would make hydrogen for a bus powered by a fuel cell. But the Proton equipment would also be connected to the local grid: upon receiving a signal, it would pull more current from the grid, or less, to keep supply and demand exactly balanced.

The system could store energy produced by the wind and sun when the electricity wasn?t needed, and balance the system on a moment-to-moment basis.

At another booth, a company called Otherlab was showing off a concept for a different kind of vehicle tank to hold natural gas. Today?s tanks for compressed gases are almost always spheres or cylinders, a geometry that affords maximum space. But it can be hard to find space for a cylinder or a sphere on a car, where every inch of space is usually spoken for by some mechanical system.

So Otherlab, which received $250,000 from ARPA-E, proposes a ?conformable tank,? meaning a coiled pipe that would store gas in a flat area. The company had an eye-catching display of a coiled tube storing an example of a large volume of material: the human gastrointestinal tract.

Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/some-far-out-at-least-for-now-energy-ideas/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Bomberman gets unofficial web-based version, crams in up to 1,000 online players

This is about to ruin any hopes you had of a productive day. Bombermine, an unofficial version of SNES throwback, Super Bomberman, is a web-based gift that lets you face-off against up to 1,000 players in a single game. Borrowing the same scoresheet setup of a first-person shooter, you'll auto-generate within an existing game once you've picked a username. Beta servers in Europe, the US and Japan all went live earlier this week. The gameplay is unaffected by the transition, although there are some new additions, like a chat window and even a Nyancat-tainted power-up to bring this terrible, terrible time-sink up to date. Get your work in order, then meet us on the servers at the source link.

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