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Which Robot Would You Rather Be Served By – R2-D2 Or The Terminator?
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Research from Durham University Business School shows that customers prefer to be served by robots who are as human-like as possible
Research shows customers want service robots to be more Terminator, and less R2-D2
Customers value a human voice, human emotions, and the physical embodiment of a human
People find human-like robot's more controllable, predictable and the interaction easier and more familiar
Robots have been a part of popular culture for decades, dating back to early portrayals in TV and film such as the Tin Man in the 1939 classic film the Wizard of Oz. However, the fictional character was perhaps a little early for its time. Back in the 30's robotics was in its infancy and its use was simply in monotonous tasks mainly in the industrial sector – they certainly didn't speak, show emotions or skip down yellow brick roads.
But over time, development in robotics has exploded. The acceleration of the technology in this area has been meteoric, turning robots from machines constructed as simple processors – akin to R2-D2 character – to being able to move like a human, talk like a human, and even perform higher difficulty tasks – more akin to Arnold Schwarzenegger's the Terminator.
But, when people are given advice by a chatbot, or helped with searching for information, or even checked into a hotel by a robot – would they rather it be by a robot like R2-D2, or more like the Terminator?
Though natural reaction would have you thinking R2-D2 would be the better of the two in a customer services department (he's polite, helpful and much less lethal), new research from Durham University Business School shows that the Terminator may be the robot of choice. Customers actually prefer to be served by robots who are as human-like as possible, having a human voice, showing actual emotions, and physical embodying a human not a robot.
According to Markus Blut, lead-researcher and Professor in Marketing and International Business, this is because in an interaction with human-like robots people are able to apply the familiar social rules and expectations of human–human interactions.
"When a robot is perceived to be human-like it can better ease and facilitate human–robot interactions. During a human–robot interaction where the robot is human-like, people can easily apply the social scripts and expectations of a human– human interaction, thus, they tend to find the robot more controllable and predictable and the interaction easier and more familiar. If people feel as though they are comfortable and at ease with a robot, their chances of using the service increase," explains Professor Blut.
The researchers used a dataset of 11,053 individuals interacting with service robots, and developed a model to investigate relationships between anthropomorphism – the attribution of human characteristics or behaviour to an object – and its consequences on customer interactions.
The researchers reviewed the robot's characteristics, such as it's intelligence, and functions like usefulness as important factors in the want and ease for customers to use them. They also then examined the impact of customer's traits such as computer anxiety and technology competence, their sociodemographic, and the design features of the robot on whether or not people characteristics impacted their want to use human-like robots.
From this, the researchers found a number of customer characteristics that effected whether or not a company should use human-like robots in their services. Factors such as, customer's competence with technology, their computer anxiety and if they have general negative attitudes towards robots in daily life were all likely to stop customer adoption of human-like robots. Whilst a customer's age, gender and experience with previous robots also had a significant effect.
"Many companies have found that anthropomorphism can be used to increase product and brand liking in marketing, but in service robots it has been unclear whether it enhances customers' experiences or not," Professor Blut says. "However, our research shows the perception of humanlike qualities in service robots can facilitate engagement with customers, as it incorporates the underlying principles and expectations people use in social settings in a person's interaction with social robots."
The robotisation of the service industry is accelerating, and these findings show that the perception of humanlike qualities in service robots can facilitate engagement with customers, as it incorporates the underlying principles and expectations people use in social settings in a person's interaction with social robots.
For firms intending to further employ service robots on the front line of their customer interactions, they should really consider employing humanlike versus machinelike robots. This will ensure maximum uptake and usage of these robots, and ensure that they are not a complete waste of time and effort.
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PPV for Villa Games
By Ouchmefoot,
October 9, 2020 in Villa Talk
rbcuk 738
rbcuk
Eluko is vile, her comments about people being on furlong being workshy, she ain't got a clue, when someone bought up saying you work for sky she couldn't defend herself just went on the personal attack against this one
Hopefully no one buys these games so they know they have **** up and do like last season show all games for free on sky bt and bbc again
Tomaszk 5,651
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1 hour ago, villa4europe said:
Purslow voted for it so he's not in a position to criticise her opinion on it...
It was like she was baiting people though. Very strange.
You would never in a million years find Purslow putting his foot in it to this extent twice within three months.
She needs to get off twitter if she's going to remain in a prominent position at Villa, she can't be trusted to not embarrass herself and the club.
Or we could just sack her now and save face for the next time she asks why people less well off than her don't want to spend money on something they've already paid for.
Edited October 10, 2020 by Tomaszk
Delphinho123 5,750
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4 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:
Christ, good luck with that..
She's put her twitter as private again like last time she piped up with her comments
villa4europe 14,101
villa4europe
Location: Bonn
10 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:
Which is the standpoint of the club
Aston Villa want you to pay £15 to watch them
She asked what's wrong with it
The anger is being misplaced at her, at least she asked and in a manner that posed as a sensible question, she shouldn't have asked a question about something that the club shouldn't have done but she's getting shit when the club isn't? That's bollocks
tomav84 1,397
tomav84
17 minutes ago, villa4europe said:
Double question marks is antagonistic...was not posed as a sensible question
And this isn't in response to a question someone has asked her, this is a tweet out of the blue. She represents the club. Implying that watching it on TV is the 'same product' as the one we pay 30 quid to see in person is insulting. If purslow had said the same they'd be similar outcry
Edited October 10, 2020 by tomav84
In my opinion it was poorly thought out but the question itself wasn't the problem no, it was her responses afterwards.
It's like she was bored and decided to play devil's advocate poking those who were basically saying "I can't afford it".
The gist I saw before she disappeared off twitter when people said they couldn't afford it or didn't want to pay was her saying well you don't have to go, you've got a choice. Yes, thanks Eni, great input, I think they know it's not essential. They want to go/watch games, and have been able to, now they're being asked to pay more.
Mic09 1,774
Location: Lichfield
2 hours ago, Junxs said:
No but the rights to show the games come up every few years, and no one company can buy all 6 packages. Hence Sky had to share it out when Offcom did the report all those years ago.
This new non existing "PremFlix" of yours can't just show up out of the blue and buy all the broadcasting rights
True, which is a shame, because it would benefit fans who would be able to watch games when they want and how they want to.
But big boys need to share money's between themselves so opening up the market for a business that is cheaper and better than Sky or BT is clearly out of question at the minute.
John 4,949
What I think the most unfair thing about all of this is that glory hunting plastic fans are the ones that are benefitting the most, as Liverpool and Man Utd will be shown every week regardless of who they are playing. Their fans will have all games included in their Sky/BT subs without having to pay a penny more
If they are going down this route then the fairest thing would have been to divide all the televised games equally, then all fans have to pay the same or similar amount to watch their teams games.
I can't remember the last weekend when either of the 2 mentioned clubs above didn't have their match televised.
I agree, but annoyingly it always has been the case that Manchester United, Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Spurs, would be most frequently on Sky and BT. Their fans (including their many glory hunters), have always therefore had the better deal, when it comes to televised coverage.
From our point of view, we will still get the games that Sky and BT choose to cover, as part of our normal subscriptions. The difference is that our club (along with all but one, of the other PL clubs) have decided that we will no longer get our other PL games free (as we had done since the restart, if we had Sky/BT/Amazon). Those games will still be provided to us by Sky and BT now, but at a charge. It is for each of us to decide whether or not, we are prepared to or are currently in a position to pay it.
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I think this has been blown way out of proportion due to the usual social media pile on. It is basically a *good idea* to have all matches available to stream for those that want to watch, given that it's not posible to have fans in the ground. It is just the price point that sucks.
If they had sold them for £10 like the Carabao cup games then I'm guessing that there wouldn't have been much if any of a backlash. October is a test month after all so hopefully they learn from their mistakes and reduce the prices in November after some bad PR and poor uptake.
I don't believe that this will mean they will keep attractive fixtures stuck behind a paywall in the future. No casual or neutral fan I know would ever pay £15 to watch a football match that didn't involve their own team, so it would be a terrible business model. I am only contemplating paying £15 because it's villa and they are my team and I would pay a hell of a lot more to see them live if I was able. Even if it was the title decider or the champions league final I wouldn't pay £15 and I doubt many others would either. The PL are not entirely stupid and they know they are walking a tight rope already with fans moving to piracy.
mykeyb 1,466
mykeyb
Here is the big danger to Sky and BT. People find other options to watch these other games and then question why they are paying again to Sky and BT when their games are available at the same option.......
Greenfly 509
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9 hours ago, mikeyjavfc said:
£10 is what I spent on a day pass to watch the Liverpool game (best tenner I've spent in my life, by the way). If they'd come up with that figure I wouldn't have batted an eye. I just don't get why they think we'd be ok paying £15 now when the price has always been £10 before.
They should consider lowering even further to £5 though, because of the second bold bit here. £15, even £10 severely limits the audience they're going to get. I can see them regretting this.
Another thought - the last two gameweeks have been classics in terms of goals scored, so there might be an influx of people paying for these passes in the hopes they'll see more of the same. If the next one has a more regular amount of goals then there will be a significant drop off in sales going forward.
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MadridVilla 390
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I don't suppose anyone knows but can you still buy these games without an existing Sky/BT subscription? Seems like you do, which would be an even bigger blunder than charging £15 in the first place.
a-k 584
23 hours ago, CottenM said:
NBA League Pass is £25 a month and you can watch every game from every team
No unfair bias for fans of smaller / bigger teams
Even if the games are on network TV they're still available also*
£25 is still reasonable money, but not extortionate imo
Something like this would have been easy to copy, and they've got it wrong for me.
(*sure BT and Sky wouldn't let this bit happen...)
The broadcasting rights of the Premier League, the biggest league of any kind in the world, are ridiculous. Prior to this PPV scheme, how could someone who lives in England not have potential access to watch all matches? Like you said...want to watch any NBA match? Pay a monthly fee and watch any match you want, regardless of where you live. Want to watch NFL? Pay a monthly fee and watch any match you want, regardless of where you live. Live in Canada? Pay a monthly fee for DAZN and watch any Premier League, EFL, UEFA, Serie A, NFL, etc. match. I'm living abroad and for £30/month I can watch any Premier League, EFL, Bundesliga, Ligue 1/2, Golf, NHL, NFL, etc. "Problem" is that the Premier League games generally won't have English commentary. Sure, I can watch it as such, but how can the biggest league in the world not give me any other options to watch the matches in English?
Prior to DAZN, there was a point in time when all Premier League games were broadcast in Canada on TV. Of course you needed a basic sports package to access the channels, but I always thought it was ridiculous that I could choose which game I wanted to watch while people in England have no choice on what games they can watch.
Edited October 11, 2020 by a-k
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Location: Sunny Bewdley
I understand that the prem clubs chasing the lost match day revenue. They are still receiving the usual money from the collectively bargained TV deal. Although money from attendance is not as significant as it used to be, it's still important for trying to maintain spending power under the stupid FFP.
So the question is how much money do clubs actually make from a match day? After deducting policing, stewarding, turnstile operators, cleaners, cooks, wait staff, shop staff, heating, lighting and product / consumable costs. That's what they are trying to recoup.
Comparing what someone spends with what the PPV costs is largely not relevant. You aren't giving what you spend to the club, only a portion of it.
I have two concerns
If this is implemented per club (rather than collectively) then it will allow the "fashionable" clubs to increase their revenue disproportionately allowing for further abuse of FFP. Not really abuse as this is what it was intended to do.
I'm worried that pricing it at £15 will encourage people to gather at someone's house and thereby promote the spread of the virus.
Not really a concern, but if I'm paying £15 for a couple of hours fake fan noise entertainment, I expect to have the right to watch that at any time in the future like I would for a streamed film I'd bought at that price. I'd also expect multiple audio channels - some to not feature Liverpool and Man Utd apologists.
sharkyvilla 5,964
sharkyvilla
37 minutes ago, a-k said:
Again it's against the law to show any football match from the UK or worldwide at 3 o'clock on a Saturday afternoon. That's the reason why we can't currently see all our games, they'd either have to scrap 3pm kick offs in the Prem or change the law and screw over lower league teams whose fans may decide to just stay home and watch the Premier League on telly rather than turn up to their local team.
lexicon 5,107
Location: Here and there..
They'll have done their homework and decided that this is the price point that'll net them the most income. Like many others, I think it's too much and there's not anything they could add to or change about it to make me pay 15 quid for a single match. How much were the games when we were in the championship? I used to pay for them.
The_Steve 2,980
The_Steve
Fans will still pile into pubs given their exemption which is ridiculous giving the various levels and localised lockdowns. It's rank stupidity and dangerous. It needs a rethink.
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Afghanistan's emergence as a modern nation will involve negotiating a cultural transition that integrates enduring traditions with viable change.
Three themes have endured throughout Afghanistan's long history. Its central government has always been weak; it has always had a strong and independent society; and its people have always been somewhat mistrustful of outsiders. Notwithstanding those traits, over the past 13 years U.S. policy in Afghanistan has aimed to build a strong state and change and modernize society through outside assistance and expertise.
If we are to make the most of our investment in Afghanistan, the task now is to identify the traditional features of Afghanistan that endure, and to distinguish the tangible and substantive changes that will redirect Afghanistan's political destiny from those that are merely superficial.
In the following pages I offer some pointers to assist in that task.
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A young girl accompanies her mother into a voting booth in a secondary school in Kabul during the second round of the 2014 presidential elections.
For most of the 20th century, Afghanistan was a poor, tranquil, slowly developing country. The three pillars of stability were a moderate form of Islam that regulated daily life, a tribal organization of society based on norms of traditional leadership and a state dominated by royalty that had two essential functions: to represent Afghanistan to the world as an independent and Islamic entity, and to mediate internal conflicts when necessary.
Each of these pillars was fundamentally transformed by Afghanistan's clash with modernity in a way that turned them from bases of stability into sources of conflict. The clash, which began with the 1973 coup by Mohammed Daoud Khan against his cousin, King Zahir Shah, became irreversible with the communist coup of 1978.
The ensuing policy of emptying rural areas, which the historian Louis Dupree describes as "migratory genocide," undid the tribal structure of authority. The new structure made no sense in Afghanistan's rural or urban areas, or in the refugee camps in Pakistan and Iran to which millions of Afghans fled. It led to an Islamist reaction, which radicalized politics and religion, taking the latter far beyond its traditional function of regulating daily life.
The influx of arms and the formation of Islamist mujahedeen groups during the resistance to the Soviet occupation created new sources of power and even more radical ideologies. This also transformed Afghans' traditional, quasi-ceremonial use of violence to resolve conflicts between communities into a pattern of atrocities. The defeat of communism temporarily legitimized the Islamist factions, but was insufficient as a governing ideology or a means of uniting these factions.
Each of these pillars was fundamentally transformed by Afghanistan's clash with modernity in a way that turned them from bases of stability into sources of conflict.
The rise of the Taliban in the mid-1990s was both a reaction to the chaos and a search for order by a new generation nostalgic for tradition (especially in Pashtun communities), but fundamentally uprooted and unable to replicate it.
Thus, Afghanistan's violent political struggles are less a question of typical tribal unruliness than a chaotic search for political order amid the remnants of the pillars of stability smashed by Afghanistan's clash with modernity. This search has been frustrated by the lack of any commanding political figure, as well as by the interventions of outside actors. Further, the failure to find political consensus has created habits that actually make the search for consensus more difficult.
Nowhere is this better demonstrated than in the failure of Afghan leaders to take advantage of the opportunity offered to them in 2001. The toppling of the Taliban regime by U.S. forces and the massive infusion of resources to back a new political order created political space for both order and modernization for the first time since the 1960s.
This space was, however, threatened from the beginning by the gradual re-emergence of two older and more destructive political movements. First, the Taliban began to reconstitute itself within sanctuaries neighboring Pakistan provided. At the same time, powerful figures who had emerged during the jihad and civil war also began to reconstitute their informal power. They were participants in the new political order to the extent that it provided them resources, but they were also threatened by it—either because a genuine democratic order might exclude them, or because they lacked the ability to operate effectively in a regime based on law and constitutionality.
Posters of presidential contenders Ashraf Ghani Amadzai and Abdullah Abdullah above a street market in Gardez, the capital of Paktia province in southeastern Afghanistan.
The resulting combination of formal and informal power, wielded at the national and subnational levels, ended up delegitimizing the formal power structures. This, in turn, made the Taliban an increasingly attractive alternative. For a local leader who ended up on the wrong side of a dispute because his rival used his formal position to prevail, the Taliban offered a means of resistance or revenge, regardless of how one felt about sharia. Threatened from within and from without, the modernization project faced long odds.
The bruising 2014 presidential election—particularly the manner of its resolution—was perhaps the final decisive act in the struggle for modernity and order. There was a genuine democratic activism in the lead-up to the election, in particular among Afghanistan's massive youth bulge (according to the United Nations Development Program, 68 percent of the nation's population is under the age of 25). There was also a significant amount of fraud, which political elites both perpetrated and used to delegitimize the process.
Unhappy backers of the losing candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, threatened to use their informal power against the state. This forced the Obama administration to intervene directly to broker a compromise. As happened earlier, this intervention again privileged accommodation for stability over the logic of modernization.
The bruising 2014 presidential election—particularly the manner of its resolution—was perhaps the final decisive act in the struggle for modernity and order.
After months of negotiations between the two camps and an unprecedented audit of every ballot box, a power-sharing government finally took office in September. But by acquiescing to runner-up Abdullah's request not to release the results of the official audit—which showed he had decisively lost—Washington not only locked traditional leaders into the institutions of governance, but institutionalized their rivalries.
The Taliban, meanwhile, took advantage of Kabul's power vacuum during the dangerous summer of the election to launch a series of debilitating attacks, taking on Afghan forces closer and closer to the capital. Though there is no imminent danger that Pres. Ghani's government will be militarily defeated, the struggle has significantly weakened it at the outset. There is a sort of stability; but there are also huge governance challenges for an administration that is more divided and less legitimate than it should have been.
The key to managing the traumatic transition was always to inject as much certainty as possible into an uncertain situation. The election was an essential part of this strategy, intended as it was to ensure the continuity of the 2004 constitution—which, for better or worse, set out rules for power that were at least superficially accepted by powerful elites.
This confidence was shaken by two developments. First, Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced in December 2013 that he would not sign any new Bilateral Security Agreement with the United States. Then, after energetic diplomacy failed to budge Karzai, President Barack Obama announced in May that the U.S. would leave just 9,800 combat troops in Afghanistan in 2015, which would be withdrawn by the end of 2016.
Nargis Nehan, director of Equality for Peace and Democracy, gives a press conference in February during a seminar on women and elections in Kabul. The seminar brought presidential contenders, including eventual winner Ashraf Ghani, together to field questions from leading women's rights advocates and civil society representatives from around the nation.
Pres. Ghani's government has now signed the BSA, but the Obama administration still plans to remove nearly all troops before leaving office. Looked at in the most positive light, this can be a forcing mechanism for Afghan leaders to develop sufficient cohesiveness to function on their own. The jury is still out on whether they are capable of it.
In the meantime, U.S. policymakers and diplomats must develop new habits of their own. Afghan "rentierism" means that money from outside has always had an outsized influence on Afghan domestic politics. This has prevented Washington from having a typical bilateral relationship with Kabul. At a conceptual level, the relationship has been defined, especially since the mid-2000s, by U.S. rhetoric pushing Afghan leaders to "take the lead"—even as Washington continues to invest billions of dollars without much to show for it.
As Western troops withdraw and aid flows are reduced, Afghanistan's dealings with the United States will need to become more like traditional bilateral relationships. This will entail confronting several thorny dilemmas, however. For instance, the Ghani administration has listed making peace with the Taliban as a key priority. Washington will need to decide to what extent it can allow Kabul to reach whatever accord it can with the Taliban and Pakistan, even if such arrangements undermine interests that the United States has up to now described as critical, such as the guarantee of civil and political rights to all Afghans.
In confronting these dilemmas, U.S. policymakers will be burdened by the massive investment they have made in rebuilding and protecting Afghanistan, and the high hopes it once had for the country's future. They will also have to start treating their Afghan counterparts as colleagues rather than clients. The danger is that, if not managed well, frustration on the U.S. side may lead to temptations to disengage non-strategically. Instead, the Obama administration should use these next two years to pave the way for a relationship characterized by different expectations and different means of leverage than before.
The key to managing the traumatic transition was always to inject as much certainty as possible into an uncertain situation.
Whatever the unachieved hopes since 2001, America's involvement in Afghanistan has transformed the country in ways that are not yet fully apparent. As an older generation of disappointing political leaders fades from the scene, a younger, more urbanized population is emerging. Since they are, for the most part, reluctant to forgo those elements of modernity that the international presence has offered, they are likely to favor good relations with the West.
At the same time, both the Taliban and a generation of rural youth have had more traumatic interactions with the international presence. Like their urban peers, many of them have used technology to engage with the modern world. But this has exposed them to globalized jihadist ideologies like al-Qaida and the Islamic State group.
The future in Afghanistan lies not between the old generation and the emerging one, but between the cities and the towns—between an urban-rooted state struggling to assert itself and a rural-based society that remains suspicious of state power. While these old patterns endure, Afghans' clash with modernity has already had irreversible consequences.
A modern Afghanistan will not look exactly like the one that was imagined by international policymakers a decade ago. But neither will it look like the society of the past.
Scott Smith is the director of Afghanistan and Central Asia programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Prior to joining USIP in April 2012, Smith spent 13 years at the United Nations, focusing primarily on Afghanistan and democratization issues. An adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affiairs, he is the author of Afghanistan's Troubled Transition: Politics, Peacekeeping and the 2004 Presidential Election (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010), as well as a number of articles and book chapters.


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San Francisco, Jan. 16, 2018 — In celebration of the 10th year of the Rosalinde Gilbert Innovations in Alzheimer's Disease Caregiving Legacy Awards, Family Caregiver Alliance and The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation are pleased to announce three winning organizations—each with outstanding programs that address the needs of caregivers for people with Alzheimer's disease.
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Oracle takes Java copyright dispute with Google to appeals court
by John Ribeiro
October 30, 2016, 12:07 pm October 30, 2016
Oracle has taken its bid for up to $9 billion in damages to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit after a judge in a federal court in California recently struck down its bid for a retrial in a copyright infringement suit against Google over the use of Java code in the Android operating system.
A jury had cleared Google of copyright infringement in May this year, upholding the company's stand that its use of 37 Java APIs (application programming interfaces) in the Android mobile operating system constituted 'fair use' under the Copyright Act, which allows copying of creative works under certain circumstances. A judge named William Alsup of the US District Court for the Northern District of California entered a final judgment in favour of Google on 8th June.
Oracle had subsequently asked the district court for a new trial, which would be the third in this dispute. The company claimed, among other grounds, that Google had concealed information during discovery on its plans to integrate Android apps with the Chrome OS running on desktops and laptops, thus extending the scope of the infringement beyond smartphones and tablets.
Judge Alsup last month denied Oracle a new trial. He wrote in his decision that Google had produced at least nine documents discussing the goals and technical details of its ARC++ project in 2015, at least five months before trial, but the information was in any case not relevant to the trial which was limited to infringement in smartphones and tablets.
Oracle provided notice to the court on 26th October that it appeals to the 8th June Federal Circuit judgement.
Google has not commented on the appeal yet, however, an Oracle lawyer had said after the trial that the company planned to appeal the jury verdict in the Federal Circuit.
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As we reported earlier, the trial began today for the 2008 murders of Jennifer Hudson's family members, and the singer was rumored to be taking the stand, but nothing had been confirmed. Now we can officially report she HAS taken the stand against the killer, and we have details on her testimony! Read on for more.
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Q: Code data issue after upgrade to XCode + iOS 4.2 NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Thread" inManagedObjectContext:managedObjectContext];

That line doesn't seem to work anymore (I'm pretty sure its that line).
I can't seem to work out whats the problem. The application worked perfectly on Xcode with iOS 4.1 and now crashes with this error in the console:
2010-12-07 17:12:27.552 SMSApp[9222:207] +[ persistentStoreCoordinator]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0x5b14580
2010-12-07 17:12:27.553 SMSApp[9222:207] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '+[ persistentStoreCoordinator]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0x5b14580'
*** Call stack at first throw:
(
    0   CoreFoundation                      0x01547be9 __exceptionPreprocess + 185
    1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x0169c5c2 objc_exception_throw + 47
    2   CoreFoundation                      0x015497bb +[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 187
    3   CoreFoundation                      0x014b9366 ___forwarding___ + 966
    4   CoreFoundation                      0x014b8f22 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 50
    5   CoreData                            0x00e6f3ca +[NSEntityDescription entityForName:inManagedObjectContext:] + 42
    6   SMSApp                              0x000046b9 -[MessagesRootViewController reloadMessages:] + 146
    7   SMSApp                              0x00004a09 -[MessagesRootViewController viewDidLoad] + 85
    8   UIKit                               0x0052265e -[UIViewController view] + 179
    9   UIKit                               0x00520a57 -[UIViewController contentScrollView] + 42
    10  UIKit                               0x00531201 -[UINavigationController _computeAndApplyScrollContentInsetDeltaForViewController:] + 48
    11  UIKit                               0x0052f831 -[UINavigationController _layoutViewController:] + 43
    12  UIKit                               0x00530b4c -[UINavigationController _startTransition:fromViewController:toViewController:] + 524
    13  UIKit                               0x0052b606 -[UINavigationController _startDeferredTransitionIfNeeded] + 266
    14  UIKit                               0x00643e01 -[UILayoutContainerView layoutSubviews] + 226
    15  QuartzCore                          0x010b4451 -[CALayer layoutSublayers] + 181
    16  QuartzCore                          0x010b417c CALayerLayoutIfNeeded + 220
    17  QuartzCore                          0x010ad37c _ZN2CA7Context18commit_transactionEPNS_11TransactionE + 310
    18  QuartzCore                          0x010ad0d0 _ZN2CA11Transaction6commitEv + 292
    19  UIKit                               0x0047719f -[UIApplication _reportAppLaunchFinished] + 39
    20  UIKit                               0x00477659 -[UIApplication _runWithURL:payload:launchOrientation:statusBarStyle:statusBarHidden:] + 690
    21  UIKit                               0x00481db2 -[UIApplication handleEvent:withNewEvent:] + 1533
    22  UIKit                               0x0047a202 -[UIApplication sendEvent:] + 71
    23  UIKit                               0x0047f732 _UIApplicationHandleEvent + 7576
    24  GraphicsServices                    0x01b2ca36 PurpleEventCallback + 1550
    25  CoreFoundation                      0x01529064 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE1_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 52
    26  CoreFoundation                      0x014896f7 __CFRunLoopDoSource1 + 215
    27  CoreFoundation                      0x01486983 __CFRunLoopRun + 979
    28  CoreFoundation                      0x01486240 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 208
    29  CoreFoundation                      0x01486161 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 97
    30  UIKit                               0x00476fa8 -[UIApplication _run] + 636
    31  UIKit                               0x0048342e UIApplicationMain + 1160
    32  SMSApp                              0x000025c4 main + 102
    33  SMSApp                              0x00002555 start + 53
)
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'NSException'

Any idea where this error is coming from or what is causing it?
Just to let you know as well, upgrading to XCode with iOS 4.2 caused some of the files to be deleted from my project. I don't know why this was, whether it was because they were linked files and not actually in the folder I dunno.
Any ideas?
Thanks
// EDIT
This method is in the AppDelegate:
- (NSManagedObjectContext *)managedObjectContext {

    if (managedObjectContext_ != nil) {
        return managedObjectContext_;
    }

    NSPersistentStoreCoordinator *coordinator = [self persistentStoreCoordinator];
    if (coordinator != nil) {
        managedObjectContext_ = [[NSManagedObjectContext alloc] init];
        [managedObjectContext_ setPersistentStoreCoordinator:coordinator];
    }
    return managedObjectContext_;
}

// EDIT AGAIN
- (void)reloadMessages:(NSNotification *)notification {
    NSLog(@"RECIEVED NEW MESSAGES TO MessagesRootViewController");

    NSLog(@"%@",managedObjectContext);

    // we need to get the threads from the database...
    NSFetchRequest *theReq = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
    NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Thread" inManagedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext];
    [theReq setEntity:entity];

    threads = [NSArray arrayWithArray:[managedObjectContext executeFetchRequest:theReq error:nil]];

    [self.tableView performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(reloadData) withObject:nil waitUntilDone:NO];

    if(notification != nil){ // if its been caused by a notification
        UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"New Message" message:@"A new message has been received" delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"Thanks" otherButtonTitles:nil];
        [alert performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(show) withObject:nil waitUntilDone:NO];
        [alert release];
    }
}

// EDIT 3
If I put this code in the applicationDidFinishLoading of my app delegate it works fine!
NSFetchRequest *theReq = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
    NSEntityDescription *theEntity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Thread" inManagedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext];
    [theReq setEntity:theEntity];

    NSArray *theThreads = [NSArray arrayWithArray:[self.managedObjectContext executeFetchRequest:theReq error:nil]];

A: After having a quick look at your code I think I found a couple of parts that needed attention. I'll try and break them down below:
SMSAppAppDelegate
1) Notice that in your interface file, you declare your CoreData variables with an underscore at the end of the variable name. Then you create properties for each of the ivar without the underscore. That is all fine as long as you @synthesize them making the correct assignment, which seems to be missing from your implementation:
@synthesize managedObjectContext=managedObjectContext_;
@synthesize managedObjectModel=managedObjectModel_;
@synthesize persistentStoreCoordinator=persistentStoreCoordinator_;

DownloadContacts
1) In this class you are calling the managedObjectContext directly through the variable. I wouldn't recommend that but this is not your actual problem. Notice that you release the managedObjectContext on dealloc even though you have no ownership of it!
2) What I would do in this case is declare a property for the context and always access it via the property. Also if you rename your instance variable to include an underscore at the end you are minimising your chances of accessing it directly (i.e. without using self.) and it will make it easier for you to find where in this class you are actually doing that (there are a couple of places from memory).
So in your interface file, rename managedObjectContext ivar and declare a property:
NSManagedObjectContext *managedObjectContext_;
...
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSManagedObjectContext managedObjectContext;

And don't forget to make the assignment on @sythesize and release on dealloc, since you are using a retain property:
@synthesize managedObjectContext=managedObjectContext_;
...
[managedObjectContext_ release];

Then if you try and compile you will get two or three errors of unrecognised instance variable which is where you have to go and change it to self.managedObjectContext
MessagesRootViewController
And finally I'd recommend you go through the same process in your MessagesRootViewController but this one should still work fine as is!
See how you go and let me know if any of the above is not clear!
Cheers,
Rog

A: I'm assuming you're doing something like:
[ClassName persistentStoreCoordinator]

Make sure ClassName is defined and has the persistentStoreCoordinator class method. Perhaps the file that did these things got deleted?
Matt

A: Your database might be corrupted, try resetting the iOS simulator
by clicking on iOS Simulator>Reset contents and settings.
Edit:
It looks like you're trying to call a selector that doesn't exist.  Try figuring out which files were deleted, as it seems like you have a method that is called that can't be found at runtime. Did your core data classes get erased, maybe?

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Playoffs
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Dale Trumbore is the winner of American Choral Directors Association's first Raymond W. Brock Competition for Professional Composers for her composition In the Middle. The work will be performed by the Aeolians (Jason Max Ferdinand, conductor) at the 2019 ACDA national conference in Kansas City, February 27-March 2, 2019. The composer will accompany the choir.
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