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Orson Scott Card has won the 2008 Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association for "his outstanding lifetime contribution to writing for teens" for his novels Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. The ALA said that Card "weaves the everyday experiences of adolecence into broader narratives, addressing universal questions about humanity and society." The organization added:
"Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, both published by Tor Books, present a future where a global government trains gifted young children from around the world in the art of interstellar warfare, hoping to find a leader whose skills can prevent a second attack upon humanity by the insect-like aliens descriptively nicknamed 'buggers.' Young Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin may be the savior they seek. He is not alone, as seen in the companion tale, Ender's Shadow, where orphaned Bean relates his own Battle School experiences. Just as the stories of Ender and Bean are paralleled in the novels, their experiences echo those of teens, beginning as children navigating in an adult world and growing into a state of greater awareness of themselves, their communities and the larger universe."
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Baumeister on the Situation of Self-Regulation
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An "outburst of the soul," the composer Frederick Delius called music. The sounds associated with the form produce "a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without," observed Confucius. It is the art "which is most nigh to tears and memory," noted the writer Oscar Wilde.
It turns out that these guys were more on target than we thought. Our experience of the music we love stimulates the pleasure chemical dopamine in our brain, concludes a new study produced by a slew of scholars at McGill University. The researchers followed the brain patterns of test subjects with MRI imaging, and identified dopamine streaming into the striatum region of their forebrains "at peak emotional arousal during music listening."
Not only that, but the scientists noticed that various parts of the striatum responded to the dopamine rush differently. The caudate was more involved during the expectation of some really nice musical excerpt, and the nucleus accumbens took the lead during "the experience of peak emotional responses to music."
In other words, just the anticipation our favorite passage stimulates the production of dopamine. "Our results help to explain why music is of such high value across all human societies," the writers conclude.
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To learn more about the music/brain/stimulation process, the McGill researchers followed subjects through the 'chills' or 'musical frisson' response moment. You may have thought that chills were just a subjective concept, but that isn't the case. They involve a "clear and discrete pattern of autonomic nervous system (ANS) arousal," the experimenters say, which facilitate "objective verification through psychophysiological measurements."
Bottom line: the chills moment "can be used to objectively index pleasure." So these scientists rounded up a cohort of people who had a proven record of getting the "verifiable chills" when listening to their favorite songs.
It took a while to find these folks. 217 people responded to an advertisement looking for chill-susceptible music lovers. Each candidate provided ten pieces of instrumental music that set them off in some way. The genres included tango, techno, punk, rock, electronica, jazz, folk, and classical. They then filled out a questionnaire designed to make sure their chills were authentic, and went through a mental illness screening session.
Degrees of pleasure
The process produced a cohort of 10 subjects for the actual experiment, who were scanned over two sessions. The participants listened to music that they experienced as pleasurable or to which they felt neutral. They also kept track of their chills themselves, including the "number of chills, intensity of chills and degree of pleasure experienced from each excerpt."
Meanwhile these frisson seekers were MRI scanned during the listening experience, and images that correlated with chill laden moments were examined.
"We found that hemodynamic activity in the regions showing dopamine release was not constant throughout the [musical] excerpt, but was restricted to moments before and during chills and, critically, was anatomically distinct," the researchers note.
The McGill group says that this experiment is "the first direct evidence that the intense pleasure experienced when listening to music is associated with dopamine activity in the mesolimbic reward system, including both dorsal and ventral striatum."
Thus dopamine "is pivotal for establishing and maintaining behavior," the researchers conclude:
If music-induced emotional states can lead to dopamine release, as our findings indicate, it may begin to explain why musical experiences are so valued. These results further speak to why music can be effectively used in rituals, marketing or film to manipulate hedonic states. Our findings provide neurochemical evidence that intense emotional responses to music involve ancient reward circuitry and serve as a starting point for more detailed investigations of the biological substrates that underlie abstract forms of pleasure.
It also may explain why, as Oscar Wilde suggested, we experience bursts of pleasant recollection while listening to the music that we enjoy. As studies of nicotine use show, the cigarette induced release of dopamine stimulates the remembrance of things past.
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A few nights ago I saw what I thought was a hummingbird – out way past its bedtime – whirring around the fragrant, long-tubed blooms of the Rangoon creeper in my back yard. As I watched, several more of these curfew-breakers appeared, working the flowers all up and down the fence. I soon realized that these were not in fact hummingbirds, but were their nocturnal analogs: hawk moths or sphinx moths.
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Talk about convergence! If they hadn't been flying at night – and there are some day-flying sphinx moths, by the way – I would have been hard put to tell they weren't ruby-throated hummers (the most common hummingbird species in our area). The sphinx moth in question (probably the five-spotted hawkmoth, Manduca quinquemaculata) is about the same size and shape as a ruby-throat, with a bullet-shaped, streamlined body, and has exactly the same behavior. The powerful wings of both hummers and sphinx moths beat so swiftly (up to 50 or so beats per second) that they are just a blur in flight. Both can hover up, down, back and forth, helicopter-like. Instead of a hummingbird's long bill, sphinx moths have a long tongue or proboscis, kept rolled up when not in use and extended when reaching for nectar at the base of a long-tubed flower.
Both hummers and sphinx moths are important pollinators, and certain plants have evolved flowers that are specifically "designed" to attract these powerful fliers with their long beaks or tongues. Such flowers typically have abundant nectar at the base of elongated floral tubes (the bottom part of the petals grows together to form a hollow tube). But while hummingbird flowers are usually brightly colored (especially red) and often do not have any scent (since hummingbirds can't smell), moth-pollinated flowers are typically white or pale-colored, and often emit a strong, sweet scent as the sun goes down.
The family of sphinx moths, the Sphingidae, is a large one, with about 1200 species world-wide (most are tropical). There are about 60 species of sphinx moths in North America, several of which occur locally. Some of the most common species in our area are the Five-spotted sphinx, the Carolina sphinx, the Rustic sphinx, the Pink-spotted hawkmoth, White-lined sphinx, Tersa sphinx, Vine sphinx, and Pandorus sphinx.
Another spectacular species, which occasionally ranges up from the tropics into our area, is the Giant sphinx. This very large moth (over six inches across) is notable as the pollinator of the rare ghost orchid of Florida's swamps, Dendrophylax lindenii. Made famous in the book "The Orchid Thief" on which the movie "Adaptation" was based, this orchid has an extremely long, thin floral tube and depends on the giant sphinx moth to transfer pollen from one bloom to another in order to reproduce. Take a look at the specimen of the giant sphinx from our collection. Uncoiled, its tongue is almost nine inches long, almost twice as long as its body!
This moth is the New World equivalent of the renowned "Darwin's moth." As the story goes, when in Madagascar, Charles Darwin saw the orchid Angraecum sesquipidale (rather similar to the ghost orchid). He postulated that there must be a moth with a tongue of equal length to the orchid's 11 inch nectar spur that would serve as its pollinator. Sure enough, 41 years later (long after Darwin's death), such a moth was discovered and its common name acknowledges his prescience.
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Sphinx moth caterpillars are called "hornworms" because most of them have a distinctive horn that sticks up at the end of their abdomen. If you are a gardener you may have encountered large, green hornworms devouring the foliage of your tomato plants; these turn into the five-spotted hawkmoth I saw visiting my Rangoon creeper. Another hornworm frequently seen in the garden (if you grow pentas or star-flower) is the caterpillar of the Tersa sphinx, Xylophanes tersa. This caterpillar turns from green to brown as it grows, and has a pair of dramatic eyespots on its thorax. People sometimes confuse it with the caterpillar of the spicebush swallowtail. While hornworms can eat a lot of foliage, I confess that in my garden they are welcome to it – I like the adult moths too much to consider destroying their destructive "baby" stage… Besides, I think the caterpillars themselves are rather handsome!
If you find a hornworm and want to rear it, be sure to provide it with a couple of inches of loose soil when it gets large enough to pupate. Most sphinx moths pupate in the soil, and do not spin cocoons around the brown pupa. Some sphinx pupae have the tongue pulled away from the body, resembling the handle on a pitcher or Greek vase! Don't disturb the caterpillar/pupa for several days after it burrows down or you may disrupt the pupation process.
Whether or not you get into the caterpillars, it is always a thrill to see an adult sphinx moth in action. To attract these nocturnal hummingbirds to your garden, consider planting some of the following. As an added benefit, you'll enjoy the wonderful fragrance on evenings when these plants are in flower.
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Five of those workers took shelter from the storm under, for unknown reasons, a work vehicle, a supervisor for the workers said through a translator. Some workers were taken to Medical Center of the Rockies and others to Poudre Valley Hospital.
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The storm also produced a dusting of snow at Loveland Ski Area, and the Colorado Department of Transportation reported some light snow at Loveland Pass.
On the Western Slope, a large mudslide closed Interstate 70 in both directions near Palisade about 6:15 p.m. Another mudslide closed U.S. 24 in both directions east of Minturn, and mudslides were reported in the Marble and Redstone areas as well. The weather service said 2 inches of rain fell in some parts of the Western Slope on Thursday afternoon.
The Friday forecast for Larimer County calls for a high near 72 degrees with a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
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The NCAA stripped Oregon of a scholarship in each of the next three seasons and placed the program on probation for three years, opting against stiffer penalties like a bowl ban despite issuing a show-cause order against former coach Chip Kelly, who apologized to the school, its fans and it players.
The NCAA's Division I Committee on Infractions released a report on Wednesday that said Kelly failed to monitor the program for its improper involvement with Willie Lyles and his Houston-based recruiting service.
Kelly was hit with an 18-month show-cause order, a sanction that likely will have limited impact now that he's coaching the Philadelphia Eagles.
The program he left behind was stripped of scholarships, paid visits and evaluation days, but avoided some of the harsher penalties handed down to other programs in recent years.
"Now that the NCAA has concluded their investigation and penalized the University of Oregon and its football program, I want to apologize to the University of Oregon, all of its current and former players and their fans," Kelly said in a statement. "I accept my share of responsibility for the actions that led to the penalties. As I have I stated before, the NCAA investigation and subsequent ruling had no impact on my decision to leave Oregon for Philadelphia. I have also maintained throughout that I had every intention to cooperate with the NCAA's investigation, which I did."
The NCAA had been looking into Oregon's program for more than two years after learning Oregon had paid $25,000 to Lyles and his recruiting service, Complete Scouting Services.
The NCAA's infractions committee found that Lyles provided cash and free lodging to a prospect, and engaged in impermissible calls and off-campus contact with prospects, their families and high school coaches.
It also said the football program exceeded coaching limits by allowing staff members to engage in recruiting activity.
Oregon lost one scholarship in 2012-13 and will lose another during the next academic year through self-imposed sanctions. It also will have its total number of scholarships reduced by one from a maximum of 85 each of the next three seasons, also self-imposed.
The NCAA cut Oregon's official paid visits from 56 to 37 for the next three academic years, reduced its spring and fall evaluation days for each of the next three seasons and banned the program from using recruiting services during the probation period. Oregon must also disassociate itself from Lyles and his recruiting service.
The show-cause order for Kelly will require schools to go before the infractions committee should they wish to hire him, which seems unlikely since the coach just left for the NFL. Former Oregon assistant director of operations Josh Gibson was given a one-year show-cause order after the NCAA said he was aware of Lyles' involvement in recruiting and routinely told him to tell recruits to contact football coaches.
"Listen, no one wants to be in this position so I don't think anybody's happy," Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens said. "Again, we're pleased to be at the end of the process and we're ready to move forward. We've learned a lot, some mistakes were made and we corrected some of those along the way and we still have some more things to implement. But we're pleased that it's finished."
The NCAA had been looking into Oregon's recruiting practices since questions arose over a 2010 payment to Lyles. He had a connection with Lache Seastrunk, a star prep running back from Texas who committed to Oregon in 2010, a month before the payment.
When Oregon later released the recruiting package it said Lyles had prepared for the school, the material was largely outdated. While use of services to identify potential recruits is allowed under NCAA rules, questions were raised about Lyles' relationship with Seastrunk and other athletes from Texas, and whether he steered any prospects to the Ducks, which would be a violation.
Seastrunk redshirted for the Ducks his freshman year before transferring to Baylor prior to the 2011 season.
The NCAA said Kelly was unaware of Lyles' involvement in recruiting, but the committee noted it is the head coach's responsibility to know the rules and ensure staff and coaches comply with them.
"I've not met an institution that wants to go through the infractions and enforcement process," infractions committee member Greg Sankey said. "This was a multi-year effort that certainly existed and there are penalties that impacted the program. The committee made its decisions based on information given to it, not on other speculation and evaluations."
Under Kelly, the Ducks appeared in four straight BCS bowl games - including a bid for the national championship against Auburn in 2011. Oregon finished 12-1 last season, capped by a victory over Kansas State in the Fiesta Bowl.
He was replaced by offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich, who will make his debut as head coach on Aug. 31.
Oregon was previously penalized by the NCAA in 2004 for a major violation involving the improper recruitment of a junior college player by an assistant coach. The university was put on probation for two years and the unidentified assistant coach was suspended without pay for a week and restricted from some recruiting activities.
The Ducks remained eligible for postseason play and did not lose any scholarships because of that violation, which occurred in 2003.
The latest recruiting violations are another hit to Oregon's image, but are unlikely to have an impact on the field for a program that's become an annual national-title contender
"It was a lengthy process," Mullens said. "We've been at this for two and a half years and as we said, there's been some negative recruiting around it. Obviously, the length of the process and the process itself had some punitive measures to it. In the end, I don't think the facts tarnish anything."
AP Sports Writers Anne Peterson in Portland, Ore., and Dan Gelston in Philadelphia contributed to this report.


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Case 9 never ends, yet now comes ...
CASE 10 - Joshu See Through The Old Woman
So, this mountain called Mt. Taizan is still very famous in China as a religious pilgrimage site, said to be the place where lives the Bodhisattva Manjusri (a Bodhisattva of Wisdom). Monks would come to a crossroads near the old woman's tea shop and ask directions to the mountain. She would reply "Straight ahead". When the monks would then set off straight ahead down the road, toward the mountain, she would say something like, "Is that what you think it is about?".
So, we walk ahead diligently, straight ahead ... but where will we truly find what we are looking for? On some touristy mountain? In the next book we read or youtube talk we watch? In the tea shop? At the crossroads? In the monk? All of the foregoing, and no place at all? Where does Manjusri really live?
So Joshu goes to check out the old lady, and says he sees her "through and through". Does that mean that he has seen her for a charlatan? A Zen poser (like those folks all over the internet who engage in "Zen Speak" and cheesy imitation "Dharma Combat")? Or, "poser" or not, in seeing "through and through" has he seen right through the lady, no lady to see, and thus straight ahead into Joshu and she him? Has he seen everyone and everything, and no place at all? Has he seen clear straight through to Manjusri and the mountain?
QUESTION - On your spiritual searches, where are you looking? Are you looking in the right places? Where do you think the mountain and Manjusri are to be found?
One other thing nice to mention about Koans like this is the respectful, central place it appears to give a gifted lay person, even a woman! (That was quite something in the Ordained Priest dominated, "man's world" of traditional Chinese society back then).
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Today's News: Our Take - The X Factor: Simon and Demi Get Snippy
America is finally getting the chance to vote — again! The X Factor is turning the competition over to viewer votes to determine who will stay and who will go, beginning Wednesday with live performances by the Top 12 on the theme "Songs from the Movies."
But wait, not so fast. The Top 12 turned into 13, as hosts Khloe Kardashian and Mario Lopez revealed a twist at the start of the show — that one of the contestants who was cut from the Top 16 last week would be returning. "The final 12 we're very happy with, but we believe we made a mistake," Simon Cowell explained. Which singer was stellar enough to return? Diamond White of course! The 13-year-old had sung for her life last week, but was let go, much to the disappointment of rather vocal fans.
Now that the contestants must connect with at-home viewers to advance in the competition, the show also started to get heavily into each of their backstories — revealing, for instance, that Vino Alan often performs for the troops, that Jennel Garcia would probably be enrolled in bartending school if she wasn't doing the show, and that Beatrice Miller has two moms.
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Things got a little testy between Cowell and Demi Lovato early on, when Cowell cautioned Lovato and Britney Spears (the two new judges on the panel) against turning the show into a "karaoke competition." From that point, it seemed that Cowell and Lovato were just trying to one-up the other, each sniping about the other's mentoring style and not having a positive thing to say about any of their protégés (at least until Lyric 145 took the stage).
Read on to find out how each contestant did, and which performance(s) the judges thought were "perfect."
The Teens, mentored by Britney Spears
Arin Ray: Ray opened the show with Kanye West's "American Boy," giving a lively performance that prompted Simon to tell him that he was "turning into a little pop star." Lovato and L.A. Reid also heaped on the praise, and Ray showed that he knows how to work the crowd as well — bending down during the song to shake hands with the (mostly female) audience members in the front row, and telling Kardashian and Lopez afterwards that he was there for the fans.
Beatrice Miller: Miller chose the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris" for her song, and while the recorded version sounded like her 13-year-old voice wasn't mature enough for the vocals, apparently something was lost in translation from the live versionbecause all the judges had great things to say. Reid even told Miller her vocal tone "sounds like a hit record." And her mentor, Spears, said her musical talents weren't the only thing that would win her admirers. "You have the best personality out of anybody in this whole competition," Spears told her.
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Diamond White: Suffice to say, all the judges welcomed White back into the competition with open arms. For her comeback song, the teen offered a rendition of Whitney Houston's "I Have Nothing" that far surpassed her 13 years. Reid called the song choice "ambitious" but said White rose to the occasion, and Lovato said the performance nearly moved her to tears.
Carly Rose Sonenclar: Sonenclar redeemed herself from last week's choreographed dance extravaganza with Bruno Mars' "It Will Rain," which was much more her speed. "This week compared to last week, it's night and day. This is you in your element," Lovato told her. Cowell agreed that it was "a huge improvement" and said he felt like they were "watching a star in the making." As for her mentor? Spears told Sonenclar she should have been the final performer of the night "because nobody can follow that."
The Young Adults, mentored by Demi Lovato
Paige Thomas: Thomas gave a straightforward rendition of Berlin's "Take My Breath Away" that left the judges impressed but not "blown away," in the words of Reid. It was Thomas's performance that prompted Cowell's comment about the "karaoke competition." And his criticisms continued with ...
Jennel Garcia: Garcia went full rocker chick this week, tackling Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'n' Roll." Unfortunately, neither Reid nor Cowell were on board with her new look. Reid called it a "Joan Jett parody," and Cowell also criticized Lovato' altering her performance, telling Jennel she was "unrecognizable from the person" who originally auditioned for the show. "That's why I'm her mentor and you're not," Lovato sniped back.
CeCe Frey: After ditching her signature leopard face paint last week, Frey was back in big cat mode Wednesday as she powered her way through Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger." Spears called her performance "courageous," but Reid and Cowell were more tepid. Cowell in particular didn't mince words. "Anything recognizable about you from the beginning has been thrown away, and this song choice was just horrible," he said, criticizing Lovato's unoriginality and lack of imagination and telling Frey she should start picking her own songs. "You are being taken into a direction you shouldn't be going into." (Frey, for the record, said she was on board with the song choice.)
The Over 25s, mentored by L.A. Reid
Vino Alan: Alan took on Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman," and Reid said the rendition made him proud. Lovato was more reserved, however, telling Alan that her main concern "is that I have a hard time seeing you as a No. 1artist. I think you're an incredible vocalist, but I'm not sure I see you as a pop star." Cowell, on the other hand, said the performance took Alan "from zero to hero" in the span of a week and called Lovato's comment about him not being a rock star "stupid."
Tate Stevens: Stevens's country-tinged take on Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive" led Spears to tell him, "You definitely are a true cowboy, and you're a slice of America. You nailed it." And even Lovato and Cowell both agreed that he's one of their favorite contestants.
Jason Brock: The judges (save for his mentor Reid) were unimpressed with Brock's delivery of R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly." Clad in a bright red tuxedo jacket and using a sparkly microphone, Brock offered a straightforward rendition of the ballad that Spears said reminded her of a "Vegas lounge act" and Lovato called "predictable and very cabaret." Cowell, never one to shy away from being a little mean, told the portly Brock point-blank, "I don't believe you could fly. Maybe jump a couple of inches off the ground." Possibly trying to heal his protégés presumably battered ego, Reid reminded Brock that the decision of whether he will stay or go is up to the audience at home, not the judges.
The Groups, mentored by Simon Cowell
Emblem 3: The all-male trio is quickly becoming a frontrunner in the competition, delivering a pop mashup that included The Temptations, Katy Perry and One Direction. Reid struggled to find something constructive to say afterwards, and finally gave up. "You guys are actually perfect and I don't like that," he told them. Lovato, trying to get in her own dig at Simon, criticized his decision to include another one of his groups (One Direction) in the mashup. "They deserve better than that," she said. "That's called being clever," Cowell responded testily.
Lyric 145: Lyric 145 went for musicality and theatrics, blending Mary Poppins and Alice in Wonderland as they dressed up as the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and the Red Queen for a hip-hop version of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" that Reid called "inventive" — even though he wasn't a fan. "I completely hated it, but you shouldn't be bothered," Reid said. "It's not my personal cup of tea, but I think it was perfect." Spears also gave a thumbs up, and even Lovato had only good things to say. "Who knew in that rusty old brain there was some fresh, cool, hip thoughts?" she said, referring to Cowell, who told the group they were "bloody fantastic."
Fifth Harmony: Formerly known as 1432, and before that as Lylas, the newly-named Fifth Harmony (let's hope this one sticks!) proved that they're the group with the most harmony between them — at least vocally speaking — as they chose to cover Christina Perri's "A Thousand Years." Reid said they "nailed it," and Cowell called their vocals "stunning." "The transformation week on week has been enormous," he told the all-female quintet. "I could not be more proud of you girls."
So what did you think? Were the judges right to bring Diamond White back into the competition? And which contestant will be getting your vote? Sound off below!
The X Factor results show will air Thursday at 8/7c on Fox, and will also feature a performance by One Direction.
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The tablet market is growing by leaps and bounds and Apple with its iPad is the source of much of that growth. There are a number of Android tablets on the market today, but they aren't selling well and some users are complaining about the Honeycomb operating system and the availability of tablet-specific apps.
Analysts have agreed that the tablets are taking market share from the notebook and netbook, but the outlook for tablets overall has taken a downturn recently. The reason that the estimates for overall shipments by analysts are changing has to do with the sinking popularity of Android tablets. While Android offerings are seeing estimates for shipments cut, the iPad is actually being increased.
Jefferies analyst Peter Misek noted about six months ago that the forecast for 2011 tablet sales was 100 million. After a recent poll of consumers, Misek has changed his predictions by a whopping 30% reports eWeek. He believes that 70 million tablets shipped is a more realistic expectation.
Misek wrote in a research note, "We now believe 70 million to be more realistic due to: 1) Android 3.0 Honeycomb needing polishing, and 2) Android tablets that are priced too high."
Misek also thinks that if tablet makers like Motorola and Samsung want to compete with the iPad, they are going to need to take a hit and cut the price. Bill Shope from Goldman Sachs also lowered the overall estimates for tablet shipments in 2011 and 2012. The decline was due to reduced estimates for Android tablets, the estimates for iPad shipments actually increased.
Shope wrote, "Our iPad forecast remains unchanged, though we have lowered our non-Apple tablet unit assumptions by 2.3 million units in 2011 and 2012." He continued, "Meanwhile, we have raised our forecast for Apple's tablet market share to 66.4 percent in 2011 (64 percent prior) and 66.6 percent in 2012 (65 percent prior). Overall, we are expecting 57.7 million total tablets for 2011 and 78.0 million tablets for 2012, versus 60.1 million and 80.3 million previously."
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has also said that for Android tablets to be competitive, they need to be cheaper. NVIDIA has a vested interest in the Android tablet market since his company makes the Tegra processors that many of the newest Android tablets use.
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Vringo is a tiny company that purchased some patents from Lycos, an old search engine, in 2011 and then used those patents to sue Google. In December 2012, Vringo won $30 million in a jury trial, but that was far less than the hundreds of millions it was seeking.
Today, Vringo got the payout it was looking for: a 1.36 percent running royalty on US-based revenue from AdWords, Google's flagship program. US District Judge Raymond Jackson had already ruled last week (PDF) that the AdWords program, which was tweaked by Google after the Vringo verdict, wasn't "colorably different" from the old infringing program. He gave Google and Vringo one last session to hammer out a royalty rate, and when they couldn't, he went ahead and set it (PDF)—at almost exactly the rate Vringo was seeking.
Because some aspects of Google's revenue are opaque, it's impossible to know exactly what Vringo's win would be worth—and the company is a long way from cashing a check. But if the royalty rate were to be upheld on appeal, Google would surely have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars.
Whatever its worth, the victory will lift the hopes of patent-holding companies around the nation. A 2006 Supreme Court decision makes it almost impossible for so-called "patent trolls" to get an injunction that would knock a product out of commission; in the context of 2014 case law, a solid running royalty is a troll's dream come true.
Jackson followed the methodology laid out in an East Texas case in which Yahoo was found to infringe an online advertising patent owned by famed patent troll Acacia. The math is a little confusing. Today's order sets a royalty rate at 6.5 percent, on a "royalty base" of 20.9 percent, for an overall rate of 1.3585 percent. The royalty base is supposed to calculate what the Vringo-owned patents add to Google's search system.
"My reaction is pretty darn positive," said Jeffrey Sherwood, the lead lawyer on Vringo's trial team. In Vringo's view, the patents describe Google's ad-filtering system, which ranks various possible advertisements against each other in an auction. "They have a huge inventory of ads, and they have to get it down to the few that are the most relevant to their users. These patents describe a way to do it. And our position is, that's the way Google does it."
Jennifer Polse, Google's lead patent lawyer on the Vringo case, said that the company has already appealed the jury verdict and will appeal today's royalty award as well. "We believe strongly in our pending appeal in this matter, and we anticipate seeking Federal Circuit review of today's decision as well," said Polse in an e-mailed statement.
AOL, Gannett, Target, and IAC were named as co-defendants in the lawsuit for their use of AdWords. However, they've been indemnified in this case by Google, which is handling the litigation. Vringo brought the case under the name I/P Engine, a subsidiary it created to hold the two patents it purchased, numbered 6,314,420 and 6,775,664.
Vringo also sued Microsoft over ads in its Bing search engine. Microsoft settled that case in May, agreeing to pay $1 million plus 5 percent of whatever Google ultimately pays.
While publicly traded Vringo also has a "video ringtone" business, its financial statements describe its business as now being focused on patent assertion. The company has 28 full-time employees, has generated "no significant revenue to date," and had more than $10 million in legal expenses in 2012.
Vringo stock rose 13 percent before trading was reportedly halted.
Redesigned system wasn't different enough
In today's order, Jackson awarded Vringo almost exactly the royalty it wanted. The company's expert argued for a royalty of 5 percent, and Jackson chose to award 4.6 percent. Vringo wanted a 40 percent increase on the rate because Google was found to be a willful infringer, and Jackson agreed that was reasonable. Knocking up 4.6 by 40 percent comes out to 6.44 percent, which the judge rounded up to 6.5.
That's significantly more than the 3.5 percent royalty that the jury suggested, which was "only a starting point in the analysis," wrote Jackson in today's order.
Even though there was no evidence of copying—Vringo admitted as much—a willfulness adjustment was still appropriate, the judge found. "Defendants' misconduct continues presently and Defendants have taken no remedial action," wrote Jackson. "In fact, they have redesigned a system that clearly replicates the infringing elements of old AdWords."
In last week's order, Jackson said that Vringo had proven infringement of both the old and new AdWords systems. While he didn't go into the details of changes Google made, he did write that all Google had done was apply the "LTV" or "long-term value" score at a different point in the ad-selecting process. It was basically the same: "[I]t is undisputed that new AdWords continues to use a candidate advertisement's LTV score that includes a predicted click-through rate in the process of choosing which advertisement will ultimately be shown to the individual performing the query."
Becker, the Vringo expert who convinced the judge on most points, has testified as a patent damages expert in many cases, including past cases over AdWords. In 2010, he argued that Google should pay patent-holding company Bright Response LLC between $64 million and $128 million, because AdWords infringed its patents, as well. Google won that case. Last year, Becker served as the damages expert for TQP Development, which won a patent trial against Newegg.
Back-of-napkin math on the Vringo win
Google doesn't break out AdWords revenue clearly, but the company made $9.39 billion from "Google-owned sites" in the last quarter. The company will likely make more than $35 billion in 2013 in this area. The majority of that is surely AdWords, since estimates for YouTube range from $3.7 billion to $5.6 billion. Around 55 percent of the company's overall revenue comes from the US.
Accepting those estimates, an extremely rough calculation suggests US AdWords revenue is somewhere in the range of $15 billion to $18 billion annually. If that's right, it would place the Vringo royalty win somewhere in the realm of $200 million to $250 million annually. The patents expire in 2016, and Google is liable from November 2012, which is the date final judgment was entered after the trial.
And of course, if Google loses, it will owe interest on the whole shebang.
It's all pretty academic at this point; the numbers are clearly high enough that Google is likely to fight this tooth-and-nail through the appeal process, and the parties have agreed to stay earlier judgments until the appeal is resolved.
Still, a royalty award that could potentially push the billion-dollar mark—on old search technology that not even Vringo believes Google actually copied—could become additional fodder in the ongoing patent debates in Congress.
In an interview today, Sherwood emphasized that debates in Congress over "patent trolls" don't apply to Vringo.
"The criticism doesn't relate to cases like this," he said. "There are situations where plaintiffs are filing cases that have no merit and extorting money out of defendants, because it's cheaper to settle. Obviously, in this case, we had a very good federal judge and jury come to the opposite conclusion."


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PHILADELPHIA -- Union College won its first NCAA hockey title Saturday night, scoring three times in a 1:54 span in the first period in a 7-4 victory over Minnesota on Saturday night.
Mike Vecchione tied it at 2 with 4:01 left in the first, Eli Lichtenwald gave the Dutchmen the lead 57 seconds later, and Daniel Ciampini capped the spree with 2:57 to go.
"I don't think anyone will call us Cinderella anymore," said Shayne Gostisbehere, who had a goal and two assists. "These guys, my brothers, they do everything for me. I don't care about anything else, we're national champions."
Max Novak, Kevin Sullivan and Mat Bodie also scored and Colin Stevens made 36 saves for Union (32-6-4), the 2,200-student liberal arts college in Schenectady, N.Y., that competes in Division III in all other sports.
"A little bit speechless right now," third-year coach Rick Bennett said. "Just happy for our school, for this program and the past players. It's an unbelievable experience."
Justin Kloos, Sam Warning, Taylor Cammarata and Hudson Fasching scored for Minnesota (28-7-6). Adam Wilcox stopped 41 shots for the five-time champion Gophers.
"Both teams are better defensively than a 7-4 score shows," said Bodie, the Union captain. "It's just one of those games where crazy bounces happen. We just wanted to stick with our process. We thought we were playing pretty well and great things happened."
Cammarata pulled Minnesota within one with the lone goal in the second period, but Novak restored the two-goal cushion on a deflection at 5:31 of the third.
Fasching cut it to 5-4 with a power-play goal with 3:40 left. Sullivan put it away with 1:22 to go, and Bodie scored into an empty net with 44.2 seconds remaining.
"Just one shift at a time," Bodie said. "This is the biggest game of our lives, hands down, but you've got to treat it like any other game. It was tough, I had people texting me, people calling me and stuff, and, you know, it was real tough to keep that mindset, but with our sport psychologist we were able to get that done."
Kloos opened the scoring on a rebound 2:37 into the first period. Gostisbehere responded for Union by weaving through three opponents and beating Wilcox with a wrist shot to glove side at 9:26. Less than a minute later, Warning squeaked a bad-angle shot between Stevens and the pipe to put Minnesota up 2-1.
Union won its final 12 games and went 16-0-1 in its last 17. Ciampini scored three goals in the Dutchmen's 5-4 victory over Boston College in the semifinals Thursday night.
The Dutchmen have competed in Division I since 1991-92.
Minnesota lost for the seventh time in the title game. The Gophers were making their first appearance in the championship game since winning its second straight title in 2003.
NOTES: Union last met Minnesota in 2010-11, when it won 3-2 in Minneapolis. The overall series is tied 2-2 . ... Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren dropped the ceremonial first puck. Holmgren played for the 1974-75 Minnesota team that lost to Michigan Tech in the national title game. ... The 2015 Frozen Four will be played at TD Garden in Boston.


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'Mumbling woman' pushes man to his death in front of NYC subway train
NEW YORK – For New York City, it wasn't an unusual sight: a possibly mentally ill woman pacing and mumbling to herself on an elevated subway station platform.
The woman eventually took a seat on a bench Thursday night, witnesses later said. Then, without any warning or provocation, she sprang up and used both hands to shove a man into the path of an oncoming train.
As police sought on Friday to locate the unidentified woman, Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged residents to keep the second fatal subway shove in the city this month in perspective. The news of the horrific death of a 46-year-old man from India came as the mayor touted drops in the city's annual homicide and shooting totals.
"It's a very tragic case, but what we want to focus on today is the overall safety in New York," Bloomberg told reporters following a police academy graduation.
The New York Police Department released a sketch of the woman and surveillance video of her fleeing the area and interviewed witnesses, including some who described her as acting agitated before the attack.
Some witnesses said the man had been shielding himself from the cold by waiting in a stairwell before he ventured out onto the platform to see if the train was coming. They also said he had no interaction with the woman, who immediately darted down a stairway after she pushed him.
One witness told police that the man had no time to try to save himself. The witness turned away to avoid seeing the man getting crushed on the tracks.
Investigators identified the victim, who lived alone in Queens, through a smartphone and a prescription pill bottle he was carrying. They delayed releasing his name while they worked to notify his relatives in India.
Detectives were following leads from the public generated by the video and were checking homeless shelters and psychiatric units in a bid to identify the woman, described as Hispanic, heavyset, and in her 20s. It was unclear whether the woman and the man knew each other or whether the attack was simply the act of a deranged stranger.
The medical examiner said Friday that an autopsy found that the man died from head trauma.
Commuters on Friday expressed concern over subway safety.
"It's just a really sad commentary on the world and on human beings, period," said Howard Roth, who takes the subway daily.
He said the deadly push reminded him, "the best thing is what they tell you -- don't stand near the edge, and keep your eyes open."
Bloomberg, asked earlier Friday about the episode at a station on Queens Boulevard in the Sunnyside neighborhood, pointed to legal and policy changes that led to the release of many mentally ill people from psychiatric institutions from the 1960s through 1990s.
"The courts or the law have changed and said, no, you can't do that unless they're a danger to society; our laws protect you. That's fair enough," Bloomberg said on "The John Gambling Show with Mayor Mike" on WOR-AM.
There are no barriers separating the trains from the people on the city's subway platforms, and many people fall or jump to their deaths in front of rushing trains each year.
Though shoving deaths are rare, Thursday night's killing came just weeks after a man was pushed in front of a train in Times Square. A homeless man was charged with murder and is awaiting trial.
Other high-profile cases including the 1999 fatal shoving of Kendra Webdale, an aspiring screenwriter, by a former psychiatric patient. That case led to a state law allowing for more supervision of mentally ill people living outside institutions.
Like many subway riders, Micah Siegel follows her own set of safety precautions during her daily commute: Stand against a wall or pillar to keep someone from coming up behind you, and watch out when navigating a crowded or narrow platform to avoid being knocked -- even accidentally -- onto the tracks.
"I do try to be aware of what's around me and who's around me, especially as a young woman," Siegel, a 21-year-old college student, said as she waited at Pennsylvania Station on Friday.
So does Roth, who's 60.
"It sounds a little wimpy if you're like, `Who's going to push me?"' he said. "But it's better to be safe than sorry."


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Hooper Starts, Stars in USA Gold Medal Win
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Nebraska's Jordan Hooper scored nine points and grabbed nine rebounds while making her first international start, powering the USA Basketball Women's World University Games Team to a 90-71 victory in the gold medal game on Monday.
Hooper, a 6-2 senior forward from Alliance, Neb., erupted in her first USA start, pouring in five points, including the game's first three-pointer, to go along with three early rebounds to fuel the U.S. team's 13-3 lead to open the game. She also played a major role defensively in helping the United States to its third straight World University Games gold medal.
Hooper scored seven first-quarter points to help the USA take a 22-13 lead at the end of the quarter. She played the entire first period and finished with 31 minutes in the game. Entering the contest, Hooper had averaged 6.2 points and 5.0 rebounds while playing 12.6 minutes per game in the USA's first five wins.
In the tournament, Hooper finished with 6.5 points and 5.8 rebounds in 15.7 minutes per game, giving her per 40-minute averages of 16.6 points and 14.9 boards.
In addition to her scoring and rebounding, Hooper was officially credited with two assists, although her passes led directly to four USA baskets. She also had one official blocked shot, which came on a 3-on-1 Russian fastbreak. Hooper also caught a pair of Russian passes and forced several turnovers, although she was not officially credited with a steal in the contest.
Hooper started the second quarter on the bench, and while she was out, the Russian team quickly trimmed the USA margin to 25-21 with 7:46 left in the first half.
Hooper immediately returned to the court and helped shut out the Russians for the next three minutes to ignite a 7-0 USA run. Hooper's offensive rebound and assist to Crystal Bradford (Central Michigan) in the corner for a three-pointer, gave the USA a 38-25 lead with 2:43 left in the half. It was the first of back-to-back threes by Bradford in a 45-second stretch to send the U.S. squad to halftime with a 41-27 lead.
With Hooper keying the defense, the USA surrendered just six points in the final seven-plus minutes of the half.
Nebraska's two-time All-American played every minute of the third quarter. She again keyed a U.S. defense that helped the team build a 68-47 lead at the end of three quarters.
Hooper's final bucket came with 7:30 left in the game, giving the USA a 75-55 lead.
For the game, Hooper hit 4-of-8 shots from the field, including 1-of-3 three three-pointers, while the USA connected on 35-of-57 shots for the game, including 9-of-20 threes. The U.S. squad also hit 11-of-15 free throws. Despite Hooper's game-high nine rebounds, the Russians outrebounded the USA, 38-34, but the United States won the turnover battle, 20-16.
Bria Hartley (UConn) led a balanced U.S. attack with 17 points, while Bradford added a huge performance off the bench with 16 points in just 11 minutes. Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis (UConn) pitched in 15 points, while tournament MVP Odyssey Sims (Baylor) contributed 10 points and three assists. Theresa Plaisance (LSU) managed nine points and six rebounds, while fellow post player Cassie Harberts (USC) added eight points off the bench.
Russia hit 27-of-65 shots from the field, but just 5-of-24 from three-point range. Russia hit 12-of-18 free throws. Natalia Vieru, a 2012 Russia Olympian, led the team with 13 points.
The gold medal game, which was televised live by ESPNU, will be re-aired Monday at 8 p.m. The game will also re-air on Tuesday at 7 a.m.
USA Basketball Women's World University Games
Results & Schedule (Gold Medal)
Monday, July 8 – USA 120, Mali 32 (Pool B)
Tuesday, July 9 – USA 101, Czech Republic 61 (Pool B)
Wednesday, July 10 – USA 105, Brazil 75 (Pool B)
Friday, July 12 – USA 103, Sweden 72 (Quarterfinals)
Saturday, July 13 – USA 79, Australia 78 (Semifinals)
Monday, July 15 – USA 90, Russia 71 (Gold Medal Game)
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The Gooseberry Patch Cookbook series truly is one of my favorite cookbook series. All of their recipes are tried and true from real home cooks like you and me.
My first review book for 2013 was a much needed one. Gooseberry Patches Slow Cooking All Year Round. The title says it all. I own 4 slow cookers in various sizes, and I can honestly say I use each and every one of them.
I do find myself using my slow cooker more in the winter and summer months. I need to start using it all the time, because it really does makes my life easier.
My slow cooker gets a huge workout in the summer, because I can still enjoy all my favorite comfort foods without heating up the entire house. In the winter it runs non stop with soup, stews and chowders. This year I have vowed to use my crock pots year round.
- Warming Winter Dishes
- Simple Speedy Springtime
- Slow & Easy Summer
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The Springtime chapter features St. Patricks Day & Easter Recipes. Scalloped Potatoes and Ham, Reuben Bake, Slow Cooker Iris Stew and more.
Last but not least is a sampling from Hearty Harvest Favorites. They have a Hot Turkey & Stuffing Sandwich I can't wait to try. As well as Caramel Apple Cider, Slow Cooker Spanish Rice and a Slow Cooker Turkey Breast recipe.
Last weeks we were blessed with several inches of rain, so it was really cold and yucky outside. While the kids were at school I prepared this rich and yummy hot chocolate. It was a nice surprise and after school snack. It only took 2 hours to cook and then I just kept it on the warm setting.
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Grammam Phyllis's Italian Meatballs
1 - 26 - 32 ounce bag frozen hash browns
1 - 8 oz container sour cream
1 - 10.5 oz can cream of chicken soup
1/4 - cup onion, chopped fine
1 1/2 - cups shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 - cup butter, melted
salt and pepper, to taste (about 1/4 teaspoon each)
In a large bowl add the hash browns thawed or frozen, sour cream, soup, onion, shredded cheese and melted butter.
Mix to combine. Spoon hash brown mixture in a 4 quart slow cooker that has been sprayed with non stick spray.
Sprinkle salt and pepper on top cover, and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until done. The casserole should be crispy on the sides and bubbly throughout. Yields 8 Servings.


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Argentine dinosaur find: Fossils may be biggest ever
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Dinosaur fossils found in Patagonia provide the first evidence that long-necked, whip-tailed diplodocid sauropods survived well beyond the Jurassic period, when they were thought to have gone extinct, Argentine paleontologists said.
Pablo Gallina, a researcher at Buenos Aires' Maimonides University, described the find as the first definitive evidence that diplodocids reached South America, and the most recent geologic record of this branch of sauropod anywhere.
"Diplodocids were never certainly recognized from the Cretaceous or in any other southern land mass besides Africa," the authors wrote. "The new discovery represents the first record of a diplodocid for South America and the stratigraphically youngest record of this clade anywhere."
Explaining the find a day after the conclusions were published in the PLOS ONE scientific journal, they said the eight vertebrae they recovered belong to a new species they named "Leinkupal laticauda." That's a combination of native Mapuche words for "vanishing" and "family," and Latin words for "wide" and "tail."
The remains were found in rocky outcrops of the "Bajada Colorada," a Cretaceous-era formation south of the town of Picun Leufu in Neuquen province.
Paleobiologist Paul Upchurch at University College London, a sauropod expert who was not involved in the study, said it suggests that not all diplodocids succumbed to a mass extinction about 140 million years ago at the end of the Jurassic period.
"Here's evidence that one or two groups got through. Rather than a total extinction, that it was devastating, but it didn't completely kill them off," Upchurch said.
As for the conclusion that the South American find shows diplodocids evolved from a common ancestor earlier than previously thought, Upchurch said "there's certainly a possibility that this would push the origin back a bit," given that Africa and South America separated during the Jurassic period.
Another expert, paleontologist John Whitlock of Mount Aloysius College in Pennsylvania, also lauded the finding.
"A discovery like this is more than just another data point. It's a chance to re-evaluate our understanding of how the group spread across the globe through time," he said.
"We can use that information to do things like examine how dinosaurs might have chased their preferred environment around the globe as the climate changed, and that's the sort of research with direct implications for those of us around today."
The research was partly funded by The Jurassic Foundation, formed by producers of the Jurassic Park films. Sebastian Apesteguia, paleontology director at Maimonides University, noted that the characters in Jurassic Park II ride a motorcycle under a diplodocid's legs.
"Until now the diplodocids were thought to be North American dinosaurs. They were the classic dinosaurs from all the Hollywood movies," he said.


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The chances are good that if you're buying a smartphone or tablet in 2013, you're buying something with iOS or Android on it. The two operating systems loom so large over their competitors that even the entrenched, deep-pocketed Microsoft has had trouble making headway into this market with its Windows Phone, Windows 8, and Windows RT systems.
Google and Apple's combined dominance hasn't stopped others from trying, though. New mobile operating systems have been springing up like weeds in the last six months. RIM (now BlackBerry) finally launched the long-awaited BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Z10 in an attempt to overhaul its image. Mozilla is making Firefox OS in an effort to tackle developing markets and prove that a browser is all you really need. And Canonical wants to take Ubuntu beyond the desktop with Ubuntu Touch.
We got a not-quite-hands-on test drive of a 12.10-based version of Ubuntu's mobile operating system back at CES, but the OS images were recently updated to Ubuntu 13.04 when Raring Ringtail was introduced at the end of last month. Though Ubuntu Touch won't be available at retail before the end of this year at the earliest, we figured now is an opportune time to check in and see how things are going.
It can't be stressed enough that even in this updated form, Ubuntu Touch is nowhere near usable as a mainstream mobile operating system. Canonical makes no claim that it is. For now, the software is about half development environment and half proof-of-concept tech demo. As such, we aren't going to be evaluating Ubuntu Touch using quite the same criteria we'd use for a shipping product—we're going to be focusing more on how the OS looks and works and less on how it performs. As we get closer to Ubuntu 14.04 and presumably Ubuntu Touch's retail availability, we'll certainly be revisiting it with a more critical eye.
Smell you later, Android: Installing Ubuntu Touch
Dedicated Ubuntu Touch hardware isn't here yet. If you want to run the operating system, you need an Android device with an unlocked bootloader. We ran through the complete installation instructions several times on our devices, and we'll present a condensed version here for your convenience.
Today there are four devices onto which you can easily load Ubuntu Touch: the Galaxy Nexus, the Nexus 4, the Nexus 7, and the Nexus 10. As Android reference devices, these phones and tablets are all pretty easy to unlock and manipulate, and their software and drivers are all readily available from Google and the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Because Ubuntu Touch relies on a few low-level parts of Android to work—the Linux kernel, graphics and audio drivers, and software for using the phone's cellular radio—porting the OS to any other device requires that software to be available.
A considerable amount of work has been done to port Ubuntu Touch to a smattering of other phones and tablets, the full list of which can be found on this Devices page. Images for these devices aren't hosted by Canonical, but the flashing instructions and status pages are all linked there. At the time of writing, the instructions that we cover here won't apply to any non-Nexus devices.
You only need a few things to get started: a working Ubuntu computer (or Ubuntu VM with USB passthrough support), a micro-USB cable to connect to your phone or tablet, and a Nexus phone or tablet that you don't have any important data on. This particular flashing process is potentially destructive. Canonical warns that you can "potentially brick your device," so it would be best not to install the software on hardware that you rely on from day-to-day.
First, you'll need to grab the appropriate Android development tools for your Ubuntu computer, which can be executed through a couple of simple terminal commands. Start by adding the Ubuntu Touch PPA to your list of repositories:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:phablet-team/tools
Then you'll actually download the tools from that repository:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install phablet-tools android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot
This will add both the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) that you'll need to communicate with the device and the
phablet-flash tool used to flash it.
Next, you'll need to unlock the bootloader on your phone or tablet and enable USB debugging. The standard warnings about unlocking your bootloader apply here: a device with an unlocked bootloader can be made to run malicious code at boot, and unlocking your bootloader also makes it easier for anyone with physical access to your phone to bypass any PIN or password you may have set.
Unlocking the developer-centric Nexus devices is pretty simple. First, power the device off, then power it on while holding down the power, volume down, and volume up buttons. Once you see the bootloader screen, plug the phone or tablet into your Ubuntu PC, open up a terminal window, and type
sudo fastboot oem unlock. Accept the terms of service, and then unplug the device from the Ubuntu PC and reboot.
When the device reboots, tap through the first-time setup stuff until you're on the Android home screen. Go into the Settings app, scroll all the way to the bottom, tap "About [device]," and then tap repeatedly on the build number until the device informs you that you're now a developer. Tap the back button, tap the now-visible "Developer Options" menu, and check the "USB debugging" box.
Almost done! Next, go back to your Ubuntu PC, and in your terminal window type
adb kill-server followed by
adb start-server to make sure the ADB service is running properly. Plug your Android device back in via USB and tap OK when asked to allow USB debugging. Finally, type
phablet-flash -b to deploy the appropriate Ubuntu Touch image to your Nexus device; this will take some time, but when it reboots your phone or tablet should be thoroughly Ubuntu-fied.
The installation wiki page has a few extra instructions that could be helpful if you encounter problems (like if your device can't make it past the boot screen after unlocking, which happened to our Nexus 10), but these steps should make your Nexus devices into Ubuntu devices without too much trouble. That wiki page will also come in handy if you'd like to get Android back on your devices when you're finished playing with Ubuntu. For the more adventurous, it's also possible to have both Ubuntu and Android installed on your device at once, but that's more than we'll get into here.


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