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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Ogwumike, No. 4 Stanford women rout Arizona 73-43

Stanford 's Chiney Ogwumike (13) grabs a rebound next to Arizona 's Carissa Crutchfield (4) and Alli Gloyd, right, during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Stanford, Calif., Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Stanford 's Chiney Ogwumike (13) celebrates after scoring against Arizona during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Stanford, Calif., Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer instructs her team against Arizona during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Stanford, Calif., Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Stanford 's Mikaela Ruef, bottom, battles for a loose ball against Arizona 's Alli Gloyd during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Stanford, Calif., Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Stanford 's Mikaela Ruef (3) grabs a rebound next to Arizona 's Davellyn Whyte (0) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Stanford, Calif., Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) ? Chiney Ogwumike is used to posting big numbers on most nights. Mikaela Ruef surprised herself by nearly matching Ogwumike.

Ogwumike had 18 points and 12 rebounds for her seventh straight double-double, leading No. 4 Stanford past Arizona 73-43 on Friday night. Ruef scored 11 points and had 10 rebounds for her first career double-double.

"It was weird. I thought I'd never score 11 points in a game," said Ruef, a high school Gatorade Player of the Year in Ohio. "That's way too much. Normally it is not my job to score."

Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer has been pushing for the rest of the team to become offensive contributors in an attempt to ease the pressure on Ogwumike.

Ruef listened.

"Tara told me to be confident in my moves when I got into position on the block," Ruef said. "I didn't know I had any moves, but I did want to be confident when taking a shot."

Joslyn Tinkle added 15 points, including a 3-of-4 effort from long range, for the Cardinal (21-2, 10-1 in the Pac-12), who won their seventh straight.

"We can't just be a one-trick pony," VanDerveer said. "We can't be all about Chiney. When people play with Chiney, she makes it look so easy. Others need to assert themselves more. Mikaela got in deep and scored against them."

Alli Gloyd scored 13 points to lead the Wildcats (11-11, 3-8 Pac-12), who lost their sixth straight and have dropped eight of 10 overall since opening the season 9-3.

"We didn't play very well," Arizona coach Niya Butts said. "I think we did some good things defensively, but we just couldn't score. We were missing layups in the paint."

Ogwumike missed three of her first four shots, allowing Arizona to remain within striking distance midway through the first half. She made four of her next five shots, however, coinciding with a 17-6 run that gave Stanford a 31-19 halftime advantage.

Stanford has held its last 41 opponents to less than 70 points, an ongoing school record.

Davellyn White, the Pac-12's active scoring leader, was held below 10 points for the first time this season, and the first time since last year's matchup with Stanford, a span of 31 games. She has 1,932 career points.

"She plays so hard and she's always hitting the floor," Butts said. "She's banged up at the moment, but she will be OK. She's played through a lot."

White did set a school record with her 119th career start. She had been tied with Dee Dee Wheeler.

The Wildcats were able to force the Cardinal into a season-high 19 turnovers, but also turned the ball over 19 times themselves.

"We dropped passes and we didn't finish," Butts said. "We missed a lot of opportunities."

The Cardinal eventually built a 20-point advantage within the first six minutes of the second half and cruised the rest of the way, beating the Wildcats for the 22nd consecutive meeting. Arizona last beat Stanford in 2004.

Stanford played without starting guard Toni Kokenis, who sat out as a precaution for an undisclosed illness.

The Cardinal, who lead the conference in three-point field goal percentage defense, limited the Wildcats to 1 of 14 from long range.

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Friday, February 8, 2013

AOL Grow Revenues For The First Time In 8 Years! - Business Insider

AOL just reported earnings. Revenues beat Wall Street expectations, thanks to strong ad network and search revenues. AOL's core business, display advertising, did not grow.?

You can find the full release here.

The numbers:

EPS: $0.41 versus $0.41 expected.
Revenue:???$599 million versus $573 expected.

The big news is that AOL grew revenues for the first time in eight years.

Here's how AOL did that ? through accelerating ad revenue growth and flattening subscription revenue declines:

The big negative news is that AOL did not grow is display advertising business year-over-year. Ad revenue growth depended once again on search and ad network growth.

AOL changed the way it segments its businesses for these earnings, breaking its business into three. Here is how they performed:

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/live-aol-reports-earnings-2013-2

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Three Breakout Tech Trends Changing Work And Play | Technology ...

Some ideas have to simmer for a long time before they?re ready for mass consumption. All three of these have been around for a long time now, but there are signs that 2013 is their time to shine.
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1. World Premieres on the Web
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Last weekend, Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) entered the original entertainment programming business with House of Cards, a made-for-streaming-video series starring Kevin Spacey as a deliciously villainous politician.
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In a cool quirk that reflects its Web-centric world, Netflix made all 13 one-hour episodes of the first season available at once to its subscribers.
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According to Variety, ?extreme binge viewing? has ensued.
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The New Yorker declared that House of Cards is ?in the same league as the best shows? on cable, not to mention ?about five times better than the average Hollywood film.?
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It had better be. Netflix reportedly paid $100 million for two seasons of the show.
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Meanwhile, Netflix's extremely deep-pocketed competitor Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) just won exclusive rights to stream the popular PBS costume soap opera Downton Abbey, all the way through season five, if it happens. According to a company statement, Amazon is selling the first three British seasons as a package now?meaning Americans can get the final three episodes of the current season before they air on US television.
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That?s one in the eye for Netflix, which has only got season one of Downton Abbey, and even that is expected to be yanked soon, thanks to the Amazon deal.
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This battle for subscriber share is going to get very expensive for Netflix and Amazon, and very entertaining for consumers.
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The clear losers are the cable television service companies. If consumers were already thinking of cutting the cord to Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) or Time Warner (NYSE:TWX), the knowledge that some of the best stuff is available only in their Netflix or Amazon Prime subscriptions could push them over the edge.
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2. Game Consoles for Grown-Ups
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The invitation from Sony (NYSE:SNE) to its next ?press event? is cryptic, but it sounds an awful lot like the company is going to launch a new and more powerful version of the PlayStation home game console on Feb. 20 in New York.
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Industry watchers tell Bloomberg News that the new Playstation 4 will have hyper-realistic images, allowing for much uglier monsters to be blown to smithereens in many more creative ways.
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Sony?s Feb. 20 event gets in ahead of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), which is expected to introduce an updated version of its Xbox 360 game console in June at a video game conference in Los Angeles. The Xbox, and its Xbox Live online gaming service, have for years been the lone bright spots of sales growth and critical raves for Microsoft.
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Oddly, the Xbox has for years contained powers that have gone unrecognized by anyone past adolescence. It is capable of serving as an ?entertainment hub? for delivering television programming, movies, music, and more.

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Birds in Asia may need a hand to weather climate change

Feb. 4, 2013 ? Birds in Asia may need a helping hand to adapt to climate change, according to scientists.

A new study led by Durham University and BirdLife International, shows that many bird species are likely to suffer under future climate change, and will require enhanced protection of important sites, better management of the wider countryside, and in some of the most extreme cases may need to be physically moved to climatically suitable areas to help them survive.

The priority, the researchers say, is for stronger protection and effective management of networks of important sites for conservation which currently support priority species and could offer new habitat for birds forced to shift their distribution in future.

The research, published in the journal Global Change Biology, examined the potential future distributions of suitable climate within conservation sites (Important Bird Areas) for 370 Asian bird species of conservation concern across the Eastern Himalaya and Lower Mekong regions.

According to the scientists, the findings demonstrate how climate change could affect birdlife and conservation policy across the globe. The researchers say that adapting the way that conservation sites are managed, and facilitating the movement of species to suitable areas, will be critical to future conservation.

Projections show that at least 45% and possibly up to 88% of the 370 species studied will experience declines in suitable climate, leading to changing species composition at individual sites.

The study considered almost 500 scenarios of each bird species' response to future climate change and showed, for the first time, that despite uncertainty in future climate projections, it was extremely likely that these changes in bird communities would occur. However, the site network as a whole is still likely to retain suitable climate for all species in future, meaning that current conservation efforts should be strengthened, but also adapted.

Co-lead author, Dr Robert Bagchi, a Research Fellow at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich, who conducted the analysis while at Durham University, said: "It is striking that despite big differences among these scenarios, they agree on the final outcome. Even under the least extreme scenarios of climate change, most species we examined will have to shift their ranges in order to find suitable areas in the future."

The regions studied by the research team include the countries of, Bhutan, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, as well as parts of Nepal and India.

Co-lead author, Dr Stephen Willis, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, said: "As climate changes, we may have to assist birds to move to more suitable locations to help them survive. Although many birds will adjust their distributions, and will find new habitats with suitable climate, we need to manage the countryside to help them disperse, or even relocate birds in the most extreme cases.

"We expect there to be 24 times as many 'losers' as 'winners' in terms of bird species losing or gaining habitat in the future."

The researchers explored climate change impacts on birds in the biodiversity hotspots of the Eastern Himalaya and the Lower Mekong. They then forecasted the likelihood of the IBA (Important Bird Area) network to maintain suitable climate for species of conservation concern.

Co-author, Dr Stuart Butchart, Head of Science at BirdLife International, said: "Overall, while these important sites will continue to sustain bird species of conservation concern, climate change will modify which species each site will be suitable for.

"We therefore need to adapt our conservation management. The good news, however, is that protecting natural habitats benefits people too, helping communities to adapt to climate change. Healthy ecosystems enhance resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change and reduce the vulnerability of people."

The results show that IBAs in the Lower Mekong region were affected more negatively than those in the Eastern Himalaya. Many parts of these regions will experience significant turnover of bird species (the rate of birds newly colonising or becoming locally extinct) over time.

The study draws upon the work of thousands of experts and organisations, in particular the Partners that form BirdLife International, who contributed to defining species of conservation concern (through the IUCN Red List), mapping their distributions, and identifying Important Bird Areas. The work was funded by a MacArthur Foundation grant to BirdLife International and Dr Willis at Durham University.

The research was led by Durham University and BirdLife International (including BirdLife International in Indochina) with research partners including Bird Conservation Nepal, Bombay Natural History Society and Conservation International.

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Robert Bagchi, Mike Crosby, Brian Huntley, David G. Hole, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Yvonne Collingham, Mohit Kalra, Jagadish Rajkumar, Asad Rahmani, Mitra Pandey, Hum Gurung, Le Trong Trai, Nguyen Van Quang, Stephen G. Willis. Evaluating the effectiveness of conservation site networks under climate change: accounting for uncertainty. Global Change Biology, 2013; DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12123

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