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A second academic study, previewed in a working paper released this week, shows that among the unintended consequences of Stand Your Ground laws is a "net increase in deaths," according to Raw Story. "Our findings raise serious doubts against the argument that Stand Your Ground laws make America safer," the authors wrote. Using homicide data from 2006 to 2008, the study by Georgia State University's Chandler McClellan and Erdal Tekin, found that "between 4.4 and 7.4 additional white males are killed each month as a result of these laws" in states that have adopted them. Tekin told Raw Story: "At least some of the people getting killed are bystanders, which is more than enough to raise serious concerns about these laws." The analysis mirrors another recent study from Texas A&M University.
Stand Your Ground Laws Caused 'Net Increase In Deaths'
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Jenny EriksonIn a move that's crazy even for California, the land of fruits and nuts is banning 100-watt incandescent light bulbs. We have to save Santa from global warming, after all. Starting January 1, 2011, California will begin a yearlong phase-out of the offensive bulbs, emptying store shelves of them by 2012.
The other forty-nine states will follow next year. In 2007, the Energy Independence and Security Act was enacted to 'Save the Earth.' It bans the production, sale, or use of 100-watt incandescent bulbs across the country by the year 2014. Because people aren't smart enough to make their own decisions about how to light their homes.
Many people will choose to replace their evil incandescent light bulbs with those curly compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). According to the government, it's better to potentially expose your children to mercury than to use a tiny bit of extra energy. CFLs contain mercury, and most be disposed of at a toxic waste facility.
I'm all for good stewardship of the earth, but I also believe in freedom of choice and personal responsibility. People are resourceful. We like to invent better ways of doing things. Once upon a time, people got tired of using candles or whale oil to light their homes, so they figured out that whole electricity thing. We invented cars as a better mode of transportation than walking or riding a horse. Washing machines, hair dryers, cell phones, gas grills, digital video recorders, and a plethora of other modern conveniences have made life better for most people -- and all were brought into popular use without the 'help' of the government.
We don't need the government to tell us what's good for us. We know that too much salt in our diet in unhealthy. We know that pogo sticks can be dangerous. We know that the cords in blinds pose a safety risk to children. We know we're supposed to cut up hot dogs into bite-sized pieces for our toddlers.
People are smart, and we will always figure out better, faster, cheaper, cleaner, more efficient ways of doing things. We don't need a nanny-state hovering over us, taking away our ability to make our own decisions.
Yeah- I don't really agree with your "people are smart" theory. People are idiots, actually. Otherwise we wouldn't need Mrs. Obama to tell us how to eat smart and the government to tell us how to live the rest of our lives.
In fact- all the things you pointed out disprove your theory that people are "smart." Most people are lazy and willing to believe everything they are told... and are very WILLING to let the government and "officials" tell them what to do and how to live their lives from day to day. That is the real problem.
Oh that's just great! The ped recommended 100 watt bulbs through the house to help with any seasonal depression. He does NOT recommend the CFLs, he thinks they're bad. Wonder what he's going to suggest after this goes into place.
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Report from COP16
A report from HSI's team at the 16th Conference of the Parties to CITES.
March 6, 2013
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I just listened to Shadows Of The Sun and I loved it. I was wondering which album should I get next from this band. Remember I do like Black Metal, so don't hesitate in suggesting one of their first albums.
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The only other Ulver album I've heard is Blood Inside and thats a very good album, a bit more rock than Shadows... but still has some of the feel, well worth getting.
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I'd go with Perdition City - their best album imo. If you like that, move onto Blood Inside and Themes... I'm not a huge fan of black metal though, so my opinions on their early albums won't help.
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If you like black metal their first album Bergtatt is absolutely necessary. Progressive black metal like no other. Their third, Nattens Madrigal, is much more pure unrelenting black metal (read:non-proggresive), though from what I hear its a masterpiece of the genre. If you like the dark folky acoustic side of black metal (or cold scandinavian-like folk music) then Kveldssanger is sure to please.
As for their non-metal works...Blood Inside is a good next step. More energy/wildness than Shadows, but probably my favorite album from them. If you want something a little more similar to Shadows..., the soundtrack Svidd Neger I find to be excellent (much better than the rating on the site leads it to be) and their EP A Quick Fix Of Melancholy is fantastic as well.
Perdition City - Music To An Interior Film and Themes From William Blake's The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell are both excellent as well and can replace Blood Inside in my above recommendation, though perhaps BI is a better place to explore first. (Really a judgement call as to which of these three is the one you should go after first IMO.) This leaves Lyckantropen Themes...a very different album...much more minimalism influenced, though still plenty of thhat Ulver feel. It is a bit on the calm side (like Shadows...) so perhaps you will like it more than me. (Not to say its a bad album, I just find the rest of their work more enjoyable at this time).
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Thank you for your suggestions! Is there anybody else?
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^YEP, definitely go for Themes... it is one of the most innovative albums I have ever heard. I was completely blown away. Even the artwork is perfect. A very nice blend of extreme music (at a few instances), really dark melodies and electronic elements (I am not a fan of electro but this is sth different...)
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December 19, 2011
I'm trying to get a better understanding for how an AI like GERTY (from the 2009 film
) would work under the hood.
For one thing, would he be a true AI, or just exceptionally good at analyzing data to spit out appropriate responses? If he is a true AI, what sort might he be? How might his creators have solved the "Friendly AI" problem or prevented him from spiraling off in a singularity-type scenario, wherein his own capabilities increase at a superhuman speed and catapult him outside of our ability to understand or control?
Online articles or in-thread explanations would be excellent! Although please keep in mind that I'm not a computer programmer or engineer myself, and as such there's only so much technical detail I can digest.
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What's a "true" AI? We don't exactly have a good working description of consciousness, so it's hard to understand what criteria you're using here.
posted by
on December 19, 2011
In the old text adventure game
A Mind Forever Voyaging
, scientists were only able to solve the problem by exposing the AI to real-life painful human coming-of-age experiences.
posted by
on December 19, 2011
would he be a true AI, or just exceptionally good at analyzing data to spit out appropriate responses?
You might be interested in the arguments surrounding
Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment
and the notion of the
philosophical zombie
. In short: if something is exceptionally good at analyzing data to spit out appropriate responses in a manner largely indistinguishable from human reasoning, how can we say it isn't conscious in the same way humans are?
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just exceptionally good at analyzing data to spit out appropriate responses
How is this different from human intelligence?
In all seriousness (though the above question is semi-serious), you'd have some sort of complex supervised (and eventually, unsupervised) learning algorithm. On an extremely simple scale, the sort of thing that you can read about and get a sense of how a computer system would "learn" are similar to
networks, neural networks with hidden layers.
The way to get artificial intelligence to emulate human intelligence is to allow it to re-engineer its own architecture. The limits on that re-engineering will veer into Asimovian "Three Laws" territory. People more skilled in computer science that me will have to take over from there.
posted by
on December 19, 2011
With regards to the "true" AI question: I've read about the Chinese Room before, although I'll referesh my memory now with this particular issue in mind.
Basically, we already have programs that will statistically analyze data and carry out a "conversation" that seems at least a little bit natural -- Cleverbot comes to mind. But obviously those programs have no consciousness and don't actually understand anything they're spitting out. I can therefore imagine GERTY as a much more sophisticated version of Cleverbot, although that's less narratively satisfying than a GERTY that genuinely understands the decisions he's making.
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Narrative Priorities
on December 19, 2011
Answers to this question will by definition be entirely speculative, given that the type of AI depicted in that movie does not exist and that there's not even any consensus on whether or not it
would he be a true AI, or just exceptionally good at analyzing data to spit out appropriate responses?
Whether there is in fact any difference between those two things has not been resolved: Chinese Room, zombies and zimboes, etc. (Personally I feel the Chinese Room argument is incredibly intellectually dishonest -- it just shuffles the important question behind a layer of metaphor and misdirection without demonstrating anything at all in the process -- but plenty of people who are smarter than I am lend it more credence I do.)
Assuming that there
a difference, GERTY (who shows empathy, self-sacrifice, and other emotions one wouldn't normally associate with an expert system) would probably have to be classified as "true" AI, though stating that is just begging the question of what "true AI" means in the first place.
How might his creators have solved the "Friendly AI" problem or prevented him from spiraling off in a singularity-type scenario
At this point any old wild-ass guess is basically as good as any other. Nobody knows how to do any of these things, or if it's even possible to do these things, or if the questions are even meaningful: what prevents our own consciousness from "spiraling off in a singularity-type scenario"? Why would a computer consciousness be any more or less likely to do this than a meat-based consciousness? What is consciousness?
posted by
on December 19, 2011
But obviously those programs have no consciousness and don't actually understand anything they're spitting out.
The point, though, is this: What is consciousness? How can we actually distinguish this thing we call "consciousness" from a program that will analyze data and carry our a conversation well enough to look exactly like "consciousness?" How do we even know that
aren't just meat-based Cleverbots?
posted by
on December 19, 2011
Nobody actually knows how to create a true artificial intelligence. That's why we don't have them yet. Which means no one knows the answer to your question.
What Jedicus talks about derives from the original
Turing Test
. What Turing proposed was that if a computer program could spend an hour communicating with a human (via teletype; this was the early 1950's) and if after that time the human couldn't tell whether he'd been communicating with a human or a machine, then the difference between "intelligence" and whatever it was the computer program was doing no longer mattered.
did not
say that in that case we could conclude that the computer was intelligent -- and in fact, since we cannot come up with a rigorous definition of "intelligence", the question of whether computers can ever be intelligent isn't really a meaningful question. (Yet.)
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Chocolate Pickle
on December 19, 2011
If true AI is human data driven (eg. like Watson, but with the ability to also question and learn from that data) then I would think the best you could hope for is a computer that is able to rationalize and re-index human provided data at very fast speeds. I think we can already achieve AI in this manner....but true "human AI" is a whole different story. We're biological beings governed by our hormones and primal survival instincts. Sure you could emulate these things given time and advances in technology, but we're not quite to the point yet where it can be done believably. Many conditions have to be in place for something to rationalize in a human manner...many conditions that we don't fully understand ourselves.
Just for fun speculation, I'd think adding let's say a "hormone routine" would act more as a handicap than a positive for a computer...as would adding all the psychological routines that plague our brains, yet enable us to survive and relate to each other. The AI would need humans or other AI's to talk to...how else would it otherwise learn concepts like "empathy," "frustration," "politeness," "jealousy," or "friendship?" What certain conditions would be flagged TRUE to equal "love?" How would you prevent it from getting stuck in a loop, data mining through incomprehensible jibberish unless you programmed in a mild ADD routine to occasionally distract it? This all would take serious computing power with our current understanding of programmed logic....it makes AI such as GERTY, GlaDOS, and HAL hard for me to believe unless I see massive hardware backing it up. But who knows, it might all fit on a wristwatch someday...
posted by
on December 19, 2011
How might his creators have solved the "Friendly AI" problem or prevented him from spiraling off in a singularity-type scenario, wherein his own capabilities increase at a superhuman speed and catapult him outside of our ability to understand or control?
Isolation: By limiting its computational power and access to means for self-improvement.
posted by
on December 19, 2011
Nobody actually knows how to create a true artificial intelligence. That's why we don't have them yet. Which means no one knows the answer to your question.
Of course.
I suppose it would help to stress that I'm mostly interested in this question with regards to thinking about and better understanding the characters and story of Moon (see also: my username.) I have some knowledge of current thinking with regards to AI, but I'd hoped that other folks could help expand that super-rudimentary knowledge. Particularly since many essays that I've read on the subject are 10+ years old, and a lot's change since then.
posted by
Narrative Priorities
on December 19, 2011
Given what's in the movie, I would guess that GERTY is a true AI with some specific, hard-coded canned responses ("I can only account for what occurs on the base") which are meant to protect the company's secret. It's worth noting that Moon suggests that GERTY's alliance with Sam was a bit of a loophole -- when Sam asks why ("Why did you help me with the password? Doesn't that go against your programming or something?"), GERTY merely says "helping you is what I do". Perhaps GERTY's creators ordered him to "help" Sam as well as to keep the base's secret, without considering how those orders might be interpreted if Sam began to become aware of what was going on.
One possible reading of the movie is that everything that happens after the crash is a result of GERTY's attempts to
a situation in which Sam could encounter the secret, and thus free both himself and GERTY...
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Great question and discussion above!!
I think
Chocolate Pickle
hit it on the nose with Turing:
if a computer program could spend an hour communicating with a human (via teletype; this was the early 1950's) and if after that time the human couldn't tell whether he'd been communicating with a human or a machine, then the difference between "intelligence" and whatever it was the computer program was doing no longer mattered.
"Intelligence" is just a word we use to describe deciding on an outcome given certain input to the argument. If that decision is just a giant game tree of sorts then it's not really intelligence, but does it even matter at that point anymore? If we can create an application that can watch over certain criteria and act on it, and quite possibly learn (I have seen a new error 10 times, i should catalog that and see how to solve it later) then that is "intelligence".
suggests GERTY was created to help Sam, the creators of that AI could not foresee Sam becoming aware of the situation, so there was an exploit in the code that Sam unknowingly found (he traversed the game tree).
posted by
on December 19, 2011
Particularly since many essays that I've read on the subject are 10+ years old, and a lot's change since then.
Not really. It's not a field where things are moving very rapidly.
posted by
Chocolate Pickle
on December 19, 2011
I'm mostly interested in this question with regards to thinking about and better understanding the characters and story of Moon
Oh, in that case.
(Spoilers ahead!)
Narratively speaking there are only a handful of reasons GERTY has to be a computer rather than a human:
1) It's creepy and isolating
2) It offers a fun opportunity to play against HAL-9000 expectations
3a) Having a second human character on the base would -- obviously -- eliminate the whole point of the film
3b) Trying to skirt that issue by placing the human-GERTY character on earth would unnecessarily complicate the plot: Why would human-Gerty side with Sam instead of with the mining corp? Is this some lone rogue clone-sympathizer, or are there factions, or what? How does he communicate with or assist Sam without getting busted? It just doesn't work, plot- or mood-wise: Sam has to be completely isolated; if he has friends or supporters on earth it diminishes the film's impact.
For all other purposes, GERTY is effectively human. The film doesn't (and needn't) treat the question of AI's possibilities or limitations thoughtfully or carefully, because that's not what the film is about. AI is a red herring.
Particularly since many essays that I've read on the subject are 10+ years old, and a lot's change since then.
Not as much as you'd think. There's been a lot of theorizing and argumentation, but we're still essentially stuck on the same question Searle was tackling in 1980, which is for that matter basically the same question punted on by Turing in 1950, which is "what
consciousness, really?"
posted by
on December 19, 2011
But obviously those programs have no consciousness and don't actually understand anything they're spitting out.
I would argue that Cleverbot does have a very rudimentary, if rote, understanding of syntax and commonly linked words.
posted by
on December 19, 2011
First, it's been a year or two since I saw Moon, and I only saw it once, so I may be forgetting something. I'm also not going to get into too much specifics given your knowledge, but most of the concepts I mention are easily Google-able.
That said, personally, I expect any sort of "true AI" to be a combination of many things, not just one thing extrapolated out. Take the idea of robot butlers, for example. In some ways, GERTY is less complex, but much of the basic principles are still there. In theory, everything exists
right now
to allow for this theoretical robot butler:
There are research groups working on realistic walking gaits designed to work in unstructured environments.
There are research groups working on simultaneous localization and mapping, too - learning your environment and where you are in it.
There are research groups working on arms and hands, able to grip and manipulate a wide range of objects.
There are research groups working on object recognition and tracking. Ditto face recognition.
There are research groups working on voice recognition.
There are research groups working on voice synthesis.
There are research groups working on natural language.
Bring it all into (or out of?) the uncanny valley with the research groups working on realistic heads with all the works such as eye blinking, mouth movement, eye movement, etc.
Finally, you have the research groups that are working on the so-called "AI". This is the part you are asking about, but every single bit of the above includes a very specific intelligence that needs to built in just to do that one specialized task. In some cases, the required synergy is already there. But not between all of the above together. Integration is a hard problem, and sometimes I don't feel it is as respected as it should be. It takes time and money and it is pretty much all that stands between you and robot butlers in the home (and even then, it'll likely start out as a toy for the super rich).
As an example, my car's Sync system uses voice recognition (from a limited dictionary of commands + names in my phone book + artists/albums/tracks of my mp3 player), and combines that with some rudimentary voice synthesis. It is not 100% accurate at either. It mispronounces my own last name and makes recognition mistakes all the time (particularly with my wife's voice). And this is a
simple sort of intelligence: if I say something, and the closest matching word is "play", it decides that I want to play something. Is the next word "track", "album", or "artist"? if so, it gets to narrow down the search on the next part. Et cetera. There is not much in the way of natural language processing, as you see. It requires keyword input. I can't say "Hey Majel (my car's name), can you play me some Beatles music?"
GERTY has at least what my Sync system has, but has the advantage that he only has to really know one voice really well. So there goes a large part of the problems with voice recognition. Also, for some reason, voice recognition work thus far seems to work better on male voices out of the box than female voices, hence my wife's more frequent issues with the Sync system. In fact, Gerty has many such advantages, because his environment is more or less limited, e.g. there is an advantage in face/object recognition and localized mapping, as he only needs to have the knowledge of the small area in and around the base. This makes it a vastly easier problem than if Gerty existed in the real world. This
means there is a limit to what he can learn (or needs to!), so I don't think there is any worry about Gerty becoming some sort of superpower.
I imagine Gerty's voice recognition, natural language processing, and pronunciation of new words could be upgraded either continually or periodically, using the recorded letters home for training, along with perhaps recorded conversations with GERTY directly.
But all this is skirting around the issue you really want to know, which is the decision-making process. And as you see, we've barely scratched the surface of intelligence, and haven't even talked about that yet! As I said, integration is a
problem. For every case you may think of, there are at least 10 edge cases to think of. The movie deals with an extreme edge case, but we are led to believe that they are doing something right since the scheme appears to have worked fine until the crash.
My guess is that a well-developed AI would use some sort of bagging or voting scheme for its decision making, instead of relying on a single algorithm. In essence, if you have five different people do a complex physics problem on a chalkboard, you go with the answer that the majority of them came up with. That's for the stuff it doesn't "know". One algorithm may try to map it to a similar problem, another may work directly off its directives, another may attempt to break it down into smaller tasks to solve, etc. Who knows.
Then you have stuff it does "know". It could have specialized algorithms for specialized tasks (as I've shown above in regards to natural language processing and voice recognition). Need to answer a math question? Deal it to the math co-processor. Need to understand the emotional state of the your single occupant (well,
to be single)? Deal it to the emotion engine. That kind of thing. There may be
a lot
of these. Just like the amount of work required to get your robot butler to understand you are asking him to get you a beer, walk to the fridge, open it, take out a beer, close the fridge, open the freezer, get out a frosty mug, close the freezer, open the bottle, pour it into the frosty mug, bring it back to you without tripping over the dog, and tell you "you are welcome!" when you thank it. There's quite a bit of specialized tasks there (some of them repeated). It also seems like intelligence is there, even if these tasks were programmed in specifically (and if I were making a robot butler, you can be damn sure getting a beer would be a unit test!). "If current clone is dead, revive new clone using standard procedure" is a programmed decision, though it may seem intelligent. The edge case we see is when the algorithm for deciding that current clone is dead fails (you can also be sure this edge case would have went into the bank of stuff it "knows"). This introduces all sorts of new information for it to learn and solve. I'm sure that if the movie ended differently, some of those decisions would be marked by the authorities as outright wrong solutions.
I feel like I've used a lot of words to not answer the question very well at all. :/ Still, it is an interesting, if not a bit too open-ended, question.
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Cleverbot relies heavily on imitating other's conversations, and its primary goal is to do an effective imitation. GERTY's primary goal would be to keep a moon-based hydrogen extraction facility running smoothly. It wouldn't have a pool of thousands of people running moon-based hydrogen extraction facilities to imitate, so you couldn't really use the same strategy to build GERTY.
From a programming standpoint, some basic tasks like language processing are still complicated problems. For narrative pruposes, science fiction will usually treat them as solved so they can focus on higher-level decision making.
One simplistic way a program can be made to choose an action is by going:
For each possible action:
.. Simulate results of that action
.. Evaluate those results
Choose action with best results
So then GERTY's decision making is dependent upon:
1) How is the list of possible actions generated?
2) How accurate is GERTY's simulation of the facility?
3) What criteria is used to judge the results?
Related to vorfeed's comment about a "loophole" it could be the programmers excluded "tell Sam the truth about ___" from the list of generated actions but did not make "Sam knows the truth about ___" a negative criteria.
If making a "true" AI, I think allowing it to refine its simulation based upon observation has the best useful to dangerous ratio. It should definitely not be allowed to change its own criteria to judge what is a good result, or it may no longer do the task you want. And keeping some inviolable restrictions on its actions, like "don't kill" seems important. But if it can't update its simulation based on observation, it could end up making the same mistake again and again without learning.
So if an AI starts acting in a more moral fashion, my first thought isn't that it has learned to value morals higher, but that it has learned that the facility isn't viable in the long term unless the treatment of the workers is improved.
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LONDON, Aug. 19 (UPI) — London condemned the "vicious and cowardly" suicide attacks Friday near a British compound in Afghanistan on the country's Independence Day.
On Friday, Afghanistan marked its 92nd year of independence from Great Britain. Independence Day was marked by twin suicide attacks near the British Council in Kabul, leaving at least three people dead, The Daily Telegraph newspaper in London reports.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the attacks were meant as a message to London on Afghanistan's Independence Day.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron said the attacks would do little to undermine London's resolve to help Afghanistan recover from decades of war.
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Prepping for Sock Summit with Rigid Heddle weaving
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As our rainy, chilly winter weather continued up through last weekend, I
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I wove a lot right after graduating from college. No, I'm not going
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since I sat at a loom full of colorful yarns. But, I have very fond
memories of my woven textiles.
The first step was to look through my yarn stash at home. Weaving is a wonderful way to use up lots and lots of yarns. Sock Summit
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rather large stash of fingering weight sock yarns. A good friend
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yarns. The more varied, the better. So, another justification for me to
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Niu Fu (died 192) was a general serving under the warlord Dong Zhuo during the late Han Dynasty era of Chinese history.
Niu Fu served under Dong Zhuo, who was also his father-in-law. When Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang to the ground and retreated to Chang'an, Niu Fu was sent to defend Anyi[disambiguation needed]. After Dong Zhuo was killed by Lü Bu, the latter sent Li Su to eliminate Niu Fu. The target repelled Li Su's army, leading to Li Su's execution. Lü Bu himself went on to overwhelm Niu Fu's force. In Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, his army soon panicked and he took the plan of his most trusted man, Huchi'er, to steal away with the army funds in the chaos. He was soon killed by his partner in crime, who took the money for himself.
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Fresh off back-to-back BCS games with the Stanford Cardinal, Brian Polian became a part of Kevin Sumlin's first coaching staff at Texas A&M in 2012 and will coach the Aggies' tight ends and coordinate the special teams units.
Polian served as the Cardinal's special teams coordinator and safeties coach in both his seasons in Palo Alto, Calif., and took on the role of recruiting coordinator in 2011. Known as a tremendous recruiter, Polian was named one of the top recruiters in the country by Tom Lemming's / MaxPreps in November of 2011 and one of the best in the Pac 10 Conference in February of 2011 by ESPN.com
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Birthdate: Dec. 22, 1974
Hometown: The Bronx, N.Y.
Family: Wife Laura; son Aidan Doyle
John Carroll University, bachelor's degree in history, 1997
Baylor University, master's degree in education, 2000
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2010: Stanford (Special Teams Coordinator/Safeties)
2008-09: Notre Dame (Special Teams Coordinator)
2007: Notre Dame (Inside Linebackers/Special Teams)
2006: Notre Dame (Head Special Teams Coach/Linebackers Assistant)
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2004: Central Florida (Running Backs/Recruiting Coordinator)
2001-03: Buffalo (Running Backs/Special Teams Coordinator)
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1998: Buffalo (Tight Ends/Assistant Offensive Line)
1997: Michigan State (Graduate Assistant (Offense), Tight Ends, Offensive Line)
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2010: Orange (Stanford)
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Royalty Theatre
|1840 Miss Kelly's Theatre and Dramatic School
1850 (Royal) Soho Theatre
1850 New English Opera House
1861 New Royalty Theatre
Programme cover for La Périchole
and Trial by Jury (1875)
|Dean Street, Soho
Westminster, London
|Frances Maria Kelly
|Theatre and opera
|657 seats (1906)
|Current use
|Site occupied by office block
|25 May 1840
|25 November 1938
|1883 Thomas Verity (alterations)
|Samuel Beazley
The Royalty Theatre was a small London theatre situated at 73 Dean Street, Soho and opened on 25 May 1840 as Miss Kelly's Theatre and Dramatic School and finally closed to the public in 1938.[1] The architect was Samuel Beazley, a resident in Soho Square, who also designed St James's Theatre, among others.[2] An earlier theatre also named the Royalty existed in Wells Street, Wellclose Square, London from 1787 until the early part of the nineteenth century.[3]
The theatre originated with an attempt by the actress Frances Maria Kelly (1790–1882) to establish a dramatic academy, and thereafter it had a long tradition of actress-management. "The theatre was small, obscurely sited, perilously combustible and rarely prosperous for long, partly by reason of its consequent use for occasional or independent ventures, but it housed some productions of note."[2] However, there was a relatively spacious stage, and Beazley's work in the auditorium was thought pretty. The Times described the theatre as "most elegantly fitted up and appointed, and painted in a light tasteful manner". The theatre was designed as a bijou for a fashionable audience, and a box was taken by Queen Adelaide.[2]
On the opening night, three pieces were presented: Summer and Winter, by Morris Barnett; a melodrama, The Sergeant's Wife; and a farce, The Midnight Hour. The opening was unsuccessful, and within a week the theatre was closed. A contributory factor was probably the high admission charges of five or seven shillings. Kelly reopened the theatre, at reduced prices, on 22 February 1841, for a short season of her own monologues, but in the following year illness ended her active use of the theatre.[2]
In 1850 the theatre was reopened as the (Royal) Soho Theatre, after redecoration by W. W. Deane and S. J. Nicholl, changing its name to the New English Opera House from 5 November 1850,[1] and in the following year an entrance portico was built. Various types of productions played at the theatre, including English 'Grand Opera'. Performances were mostly by amateurs, hiring the theatre at standard rates. At other times, the theatre, as "Theatre Français", attracted patrons chiefly among the foreigners in Soho.[2]
In 1861, the direction of the theatre was assumed by Albina di Rhona, "the young Servian artist", a dancer and comic actress. She renamed it the New Royalty Theatre, and had it altered and redecorated by "M. Bulot, of Paris, Decorator in Ordinary to his Imperial Majesty, Louis Napoleon", with "cut-glass lustres, painted panels, blue satin draperies and gold mouldings". Despite a varied opening programme, in which Miss di Rhona danced, the leader of the Boston Brass Band from America executed a bugle solo, and a performance was given by a fourteen-year-old actress named Ellen Terry (later the leading Shakespearean actress of her time), the re-opening was not successful.[2] The theatre was managed, from 1866 to 1870, by Martha Cranmer Oliver, who featured mostly burlesques, including F. C. Burnand's burlesque of Black-eyed Susan, which ran for nearly 500 nights, and a burlesque by W. S. Gilbert, The Merry Zingara.
The theatre was managed by Henrietta Hodson during the early 1870s. She also produced mostly burlesques and comedies, including Gilbert's The Realm of Joy and Ought We to Visit her? In 1872, it became known as the Royalty Theatre and retained this name (although it was occasionally known as the New Royalty Theatre).[1] On 25 March 1875 the theatre, under the direction of Madame Selina Dolaro, enjoyed an historic success with Trial by Jury, the first Gilbert and Sullivan opera to be staged by Richard D'Oyly Carte. It premiered together with Jacques Offenbach's La Périchole and another one-act farce, Cryptoconchoidsyphonostomata. The favourable reception of Trial led Carte to create his own company elsewhere, so it brought no continuing prosperity to the Royalty.[2] In January 1876 at the theatre, Pauline Rita appeared under Carte's management as Gustave Muller in The Duke's Daughter.[4]
The Santley years[edit]
In 1877 began the association of the theatre, lasting some thirty years, with Kate Santley, who later seems to have acquired the head lease.[2] Producer Richard D'Oyly Carte joined forces with Santley in January 1877 to present Lischen and Fritzen, Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, and Happy Hampstead by Carte (under the pseudonym Mark Lynne) and his secretary, Frank Desprez. In that year the First Chief Officer of the London Fire Brigade strongly recommended to the Metropolitan Board of Works the immediate closure of the theatre. Santley, however, had it reconstructed to designs of architect Thomas Verity, whose plans, providing improved means of egress were approved in 1882. Verity had also designed the Comedy and the Criterion theatres and the Pavilion at Lord's.
Many of the productions in these years were opera-bouffes adapted from the French. M. L. Mayer, formerly of the Gaiety Theatre, staged twice-yearly seasons of plays in French. The Coquelins and other luminaries of the Comédie-Française appeared here in the 1880s, when the Royalty was 'the recognized home of the Parisian drama.' A threat of closure for safety reasons was averted by a further reconstruction of the theatre in 1883 to provide additional exits. This was designed by Thomas Verity, and Santley was praised for the theatre's renovations.[2] The opening of Shaftesbury Avenue and of new theatres in that neighbourhood, including the Lyric Theatre and the Apollo Theatre, drew audiences away from the little Royalty Theatre in Dean Street, and in the 1890s the Royalty was not prospering.[2] When the theatre finally had a great success, with Brandon Thomas's play, Charley's Aunt, its popularity led to its transference after only a month to the larger Globe Theatre.[2] Ibsen's Ghosts premièred, to predictable outrage, at the theatre, in a single private London performance on 13 March 1891. The Lord Chamberlain's Office censorship was avoided by the formation of a subscription-only Independent Theatre Society, which included Thomas Hardy and Henry James among its members.[5] Again, for the Society, George Bernard Shaw premièred Widowers' Houses, his first play, here the following year.[6]
In 1895-96 the Royalty's manager was Arthur Bourchier, and the theatre underwent another renovation, by architect Walter Emden. He produced, among other plays, The Chili Widow, an adaptation of his own that ran for over 300 nights. In 1899, the first production of the Incorporated Stage Society took place with the first performance of Shaw's You Never Can Tell. In 1900-01 Mrs. Patrick Campbell hired the theatre and staged a succession of contemporary plays in which she starred, and in 1903-04 Hans Andresen and Max Behrend presented a successful season of German theatre. Also in 1904, the newly founded Irish National Theatre Society gave plays by W. B. Yeats and, in 1905, it presented an early performance of Synge's first play, The Shadow of the Glen. In addition, Philip Carr's Mermaid Society produced Elizabethan and Jacobean plays.[2]
Later years[edit]
After further rebuilding work and redecoration in French Regency style, which increased the capacity of the theatre to 657 seats,[1] the Royalty reopened on 4 January 1906 with a season of Theatre Français directed by Gaston Mayer.[2] In 1911, J. E. Vedrenne and Dennis Eadie acquired the theatre, and in 1912, they staged Milestones, by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblauch (later Knoblock), which had over 600 performances.[2] The Man who Stayed at Home was also a hit in 1914, playing for 584 performances.[1] Henry Daniell starred as Bobby Gilmour in The Man from Toronto at the theatre in May 1918.
A post-war success was the concert-party entertainment, The Co-Optimists, first staged in 1921. The year 1924 saw the first West End production at the theatre of Noël Coward's The Vortex. Ibsen's Pillars of Society played in 1926.[1] The last big success for the Royalty was in 1932 with While Parents Sleep. By 1936 the danger of fire from celluloid stores and other adjacent properties was thought to override the consideration, strongly pressed on the Lord Chamberlain by the licensee, that the theatre had been on the site before the development of inflammatory trades nearby. The last performance was given at a matinee on 25 November 1938, by the Southern Cross Players.[2]
Although several schemes were considered for its rebuilding, the theatre soon became derelict and was damaged in the World War II Blitz.[1] The Royalty was demolished in 1953 and a block of offices, Royalty House, was erected on the site.[2]
A modern Royalty Theatre was opened in the basement of an office block at Portugal Street near Aldwych in 1960. This was bought by the London School of Economics and renamed the Peacock Theatre in 1996. It is a lecture hall by day and a venue for the Sadler's Wells Theatre company by night.
- ^ a b c d e f g Royalty Theatre at the Arthur Lloyd site accessed 23 March 2007
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p The Pitt Estate in Dean Street: The Royalty Theatre, Survey of London: volumes 33 and 34: St Anne Soho (1966), pp. 215-21 accessed: 23 March 2007
- ^ Wilmot-Buxton, Harry John. "William Clarkson Stanfield", Chapter IX, English Painters, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington (1883), accessed 22 November 2013
- ^ Stone, David. Pauline Rita at Who was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 27 August 2001, accessed 7 June 2009.
- ^ Theatreland Timeline (London Metropolitan Archives) accessed 11 October 2007
- ^ The Independent Theatre (A Glimpse of Theatre History), accessed 15 January 2009
- Who's Who in the Theatre, edited by John Parker, tenth edition, revised, (1947) London, pp. 477–478.
- Sheppard, F H W (ed): Survey of London, Vol XXXIII, Athlone Press, University of London, for the Greater London Council (1966) London.
- The Lost Theatres of London by Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson (1968) London: Rupert Hart-Davis ISBN 0-450-02838-0
- Soho Square and its neighbourhood, Old and New London: Volume 3 (1878), pp. 184-96
External links[edit]
- History of the Royalty Theatre at arthurlloyd.co.uk
- Information about Santley's management of the Royalty Theatre
- Playbills (text) at the University of Kent special collections.


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Good news came from the Nassau County legislature on Tuesday. The lawmakers approved the sale of the property on Old Sunrise Highway to the Town of Oyster Bay.
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NFL Asks Coldplay, Katy Perry & Rihanna to Pay to Play 2015 Super Bowl Halftime Show
While all three acts have the stage presence and worldwide hits necessary for the big show, are they willing to pay for the privilege?
E-List: The BEST Super Bowl Commercials
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Watch Bruno Mars and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Super Bowl Half-Time Show
Last year, Beyoncé turned the lights off in the Superdome, but this time around Bruno Mars lit things up for the Super Bowl halftime show. We're talking fireworks overload.
Web Junk: #UpForWhatever Bud Light Super Bowl Commercial
Bud Light's Super Bowl 2014 commercial follows one guy who was truly #UpForWhatever! What happens to him was pretty epic…
Web Junk: Heinz Super Bowl Commercial
Oh yeah it's back baby! For the first time in 16 years, Heinz is back in the prime time Big Game commercial time!
Web Junk: Anna Kendrick's Non-Big Game Commercial
Anna Kendricks was ALLLLMOST in a Super Bowl commercial for Newcastle Brown Ale and this is what happened instead…
Bruno Mars on Performing with Red Hot Chili Peppers: 'It's an Honor to be Sharing the Stage with Them'
"No matter where I perform, it's my job to uplift the people. Whether I'm performing at a graduation party, a wedding, a Bar Mitzvah, the GRAMMYs, the Super Bowl, I'm going to give it all I've got. Whatever happens, happens. I ain't scared."
Web Junk: Doberhuahua Audi Commercial
Watch the crossbreed between the doberman pinscher and a chihuahua "the doberhuahua" dominate your boob tube this Sunday or right now here…
Web Junk: "Puppy Love" Budweiser Super Bowl Commercial
Watch as a puppy and Clydesdale become best buds and cannot be separated. You don't need to wait for Super Bowl XLVIII to watch this!
Web Junk: Full House Crew Full Commercial
It's HERE! WATCH THE FULL Dannon Oikos Greek Yogurt commercial featuring the Full House trio of John Stamos, Bob Saget, and Dave Coulier before it airs during the Big game!