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Out of any position on the football field, the most important one to any given team is the quarterback. The offense always runs through them, and in the modern game, having one that you can trust can make all the difference between wins and losses. In other words; it's a premium position at any level of the game. If a team wants any chance of success considering the way that football is played today, it starts with the quarterback position.
Over the years, we've seen plenty of college quarterbacks excel, and make us believe that they were destined for greatness in the NFL ranks as well. All the tools seemed to be there, and the expectation was that there excellent play on the field would simply carry over. This wasn't always the case, and some of the greatest NCAA quarterbacks of all-time have failed miserably in the pros. There are certainly exceptions to this, but many quarterback stat-monsters in college just weren't cut out for the difficulty of the professional game. Here's a look at some of the most notable examples of that.
Ranked below are 15 elite college quarterbacks who turned out to be busts in the NFL.
15 Chris Weinke
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His 2000 season at Florida State was the best one of his college career, and launched him into the national spotlight. Weinke was considered to be a really good pocket passer who could transition into the professional game relatively seamlessly. The Panthers ended up taking him in the 4th round, and he was named the team's starter for the 2001 season immediately.
Unfortunately for them, Weinke never did grasp the game at the next level. He had a dismal rookie season, and then was cast off to the bench, never to be a full-time starter in the NFL ever again. For a short time, Weinke was considered to have a bright future in the league, but it never came to fruition, and he fizzled out relatively quickly.
14 Robert Griffin III
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RGIII's Heisman-winning season in 2011 made him the most popular collegiate player in the country, and what many thought was a surefire bet to succeed in the NFL. The Redskins infamously sold the farm for him in a trade with the Rams, and selected him with the 2nd-overall pick in the 2012 draft.
After a solid rookie season where Griffin managed the game, and played-mistake free, he really fell off the map quickly. Injuries, along with a strained relationship with the coaching staff made him fall out of favor before his career really got going. Now he's barely hanging on in the league, and his career may be over shortly if he can't find a team willing to take a flier on him, yet again.
13 Ken Dorsey
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There's no doubt that Dorsey was under center for some great Miami Hurricanes team of the late-'90s and early-2000s, but he quickly proved that he was nothing more than a game manager. His numbers in college were very good, and while he wasn't the most coveted quarterback prospect, he still received some starting opportunities when he got to the NFL.
Dorsey just didn't have the skill set cut out for the NFL, as many feared. Miami was a defensively-led team back then, and all Dorsey had to do was simply not to turn the ball over. Unfortunately, more is expected of an NFL quarterback than just protecting the ball, and Dorsey never ended up making the grade as a starter. He bounced around the league for a bit, and then was retired by the end of the 2008 season.
12 Colt McCoy
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It's strange to believe now, but McCoy was once considered one of the best players in college football, and the outlook for his NFL career was bright indeed. He had four stellar seasons as a Texas Longhorn, and was a 3rd-round pick by the Browns in the 2010 draft. At the time, it seemed like a steal. Now, it seems like a massive reach.
McCoy was underwhelming as a starter in Cleveland, and later for the Redskins. It became obvious that he was going to just be a career backup in the NFL ranks, as opposed to many who believed that he could eventually turn into a franchise player. He still remains on the Redskins' roster as the backup to Kirk Cousins, but that's about the extent of what he's going to do from here on out.
11 Troy Smith
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Smith was a dominant dual-threat for Ohio State in the mid-2000s, and he seemed to be the kind of dynamic player that had the ability to succeed at the next level. His efforts for the Buckeyes won him the Heisman in 2006, and he was taken by the Ravens in the 2007 draft. Smith seemed to be on his way to the top.
In limited starting time in Baltimore, he just couldn't cut it. He was woefully inaccurate, and never proved that he his athletic ability was able to translate to the pro ranks. Since he was only a mid-round pick, this bust isn't as egregious and cringeworthy as others. However, since Smith was a Heisman-winner, it's still one of the more notable ones of the 2000s. He would be out of the NFL by the end of the 2010 season, after another ill-fated attempt for the 49ers to find a good QB.
10 Ty Detmer
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A big-armed quarterback from BYU, Detmer could sling the ball with the best of them when he was in the college game. He had a stellar 1990 season that landed him a Heisman, and while he struggled at times with accuracy, he was at least considered a solid candidate to produce effectively in the NFL.
Detmer would spend two seasons as the backup in Green Bay, before getting a chance to start for the Eagles in 1996. While he certainly wasn't the worst Philly quarterback from the mid-'90s, he decidedly wasn't going to be the franchise quarterback for the long-term, and thus began his journeyman status, taking multiple jobs as a backup over the next few seasons. A great college career gave way to a mediocre NFL one, a theme all too common for quarterbacks of the era.
9 Graham Harrell
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Under center in the pass-happy Texas Tech offense, Harrell posted amazing numbers during his three seasons as a starter. Accuracy, arm strength, big plays; he seemed to have it all, but ended up going undrafted. His only NFL season came as a backup on the Packers in 2012, and when he failed to crack the Jets lineup in 2013, that was it.
Many quarterbacks are able to excel at the college level simply because of the system that they're in. Texas Tech has always had a dynamic offense, benefitting many quarterbacks along the way. Harrell simply took advantage of it more so than most, and his numbers reflect that. If anything, this example just proves how difficult it is to land a starting quarterback job in the NFL, much less actually succeed at it.
8 A.J. McCarron
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Just another in a long line of system quarterbacks that have played under Nick Saban, McCarron was the perfect kind of game-manager for his situation. He could make impressive throws at the collegiate level, but he wasn't asked to do it all the time in order to win games. As a result, he was able to let the run-game and defense do much of the heavy lifting.
He now resides as the backup for the Bengals, and it's unlikely that a team is ever going to give him an opportunity to start consistently. McCarron, despite his strong performance at Alabama, just isn't cut out to be a starter on a more level playing field like the NFL. A backup role is about his ceiling, and he ultimately may not even be able to hold on to that.
7 Colt Brennan
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When fans talk about the all-time great college quarterback stat monsters, Brennan's name is often forgotten. He put up three amazing season at Hawaii, but in 2006 he set the record for most touchdown passes in a single FBS season with 58. More touchdown passes than anyone. Regardless of the team or conference he played within, that's no small feat.
Unfortunately, despite landing a pick with the Redskins, he wasn't able to transition to the pro game, as is expected with most Hawaii-level quarterbacks. The pass-happy style of football he was used to didn't lend him a helping hand in adapting an NFL-style playbook, and he was really only with the team for a cup of coffee. Brennan's touchdown record is still remarkable though, and he still has that going for him.
6 Matt Leinart
One of the poster boys for Pete Carroll's legendary USC teams of the mid-2000s, Leinart seemed to be on his way to being a franchise NFL quarterback. All the signs were there. He was consistent, accurate, had a high football IQ, and was a Heisman winner in 2004. All of these traits and accolades landed him as the 10th overall selection by the Cardinals in the 2006 draft.
And it was a disaster from the beginning. Leinart was one of the biggest quarterbacks whiffs of his generation. Within a year, he was removed from the starting role, and ended up being a journeyman backup. Quite the contrast from what everybody expected, but he turned out to be just another in a long line of disappointing USC quarterbacks. Ultimately, Leinart was just a mediocre player, and one of the biggest busts of his era.
5 Sam Bradford
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While Bradford may hold a starting job right now in the NFL, that doesn't mean he isn't a disappointment as a former 1st-overall pick. A starting-caliber player should be the floor for a player taken with that kind of a pick, and Bradford is barely even hanging on to that with the Vikings.
No denying that his two full seasons at Oklahoma were unbelievable, particularly his 2008 season that pretty much set in stone the fact that he was going to be the 1st-overall selection. But his play in the NFL showed him taking a step backwards. (Don't let 2016's numbers fool you.) While injuries definitely didn't help, Bradford has also been healthy for enough games for everyone to know that he's average at best, and not the true franchise player that he was touted to be when he played for the Sooners.
4 Danny Wuerffel
Wuerffel was simply one of the best college quarterbacks of the '90s while at Florida. His '95 and '96 seasons were among the best of anyone's in the country, and he took home the Heisman for the latter season. While he was only taken with a mid-round selection, he was projected to have a quality pro career, but it shocked just about everybody when that didn't turn out to be the case.
He proved early and often that he was nothing more than a career backup. Wuerffel was drafted by the Saints, and in the roughly 10 games that he did start under center, the results were mediocre at best. New Orleans was struggling mightily at the time, and this set them back even further. For Wuerffel, it cemented his role as a journeyman backup, and he never came close to replicating the great play of his college career.
3 Johnny Manziel
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In a college career that was highlighted by unthinkable ad-lib moments, and a penchant for the highlight reel, Manziel was one of the most popular football players in the nation for a few short years. A 2012 Heisman-winner, and one of the most exciting players that college football had seen in years, he was a consensus 1st round pick by just about everybody.
That's when the wheels fell off of both his career, and personal life. Manziel's limited starting time with the Browns was marred by inconsistencies, and an inability to play the position at the NFL level. To make matters worse, his partying and habits off the field had forced him into rehab with 2 years of making it onto an NFL roster. Manziel's story is infamous by now, and should be prime material for a "30 For 30" within the next 10 years or so.
2 Vince Young
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Young was on top of the football world when he played for the Texas Longhorns, and was considered to be the new great NFL franchise quarterback. His 2005 season allowed him to be the 3rd-overall pick by the Titans in the draft. The eyes of the football world were upon him, and many believed that he had the capability to turn a bad franchise into a great one.
Instead, his difficulties with the intangibles that come along with the position in the NFL, came to the forefront. Young struggled not only with reading defenses and arm accuracy, but also bickered with the Tennessee coaching staff. Before long, he was out of a starting job, and his career was just about over. Now making his CFL debut this season, it's been a fall from grace for Young, but at least he's found himself back on some kind of a football field.
1 Tim Tebow
The only name that could truly come in at number 1 on this ranking, the Tebow phenomenon was like nothing anybody had ever seen before. Everything from his highlight reel plays to his demeanor on and off the field was enticing to the public, and made him a celebrity even during his time at Florida. He had both his supporters and detractors, and everybody was forced to take a side.
Amazingly, Tebow was able to lead the Broncos to a playoff win, the year after he was taken as the 25th-overall pick. He turned in some jaw-dropping 4th-quarter performances in those games, and everyone was completely enamored. At the same time, it was clear that his mechanics were shaky, and that his style of play wasn't sustainable at the NFL level. That turned out to be correct, because just a few years later he was out of the league for good.
The Tebow era was one of the strangest in the history of the NFL, but it was entertaining all the same. Now, you can catch him on the baseball diamond, where he's trying to make waves in the Mets organization.
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Ms. Kristina M. O'Brien was appointed to the Senior Executive Service on November 12, 2019 as Principal Deputy Director for Logistics, Joint Staff, The Pentagon, Washington D.C. In this role she supports the Director for Logistics, J4 in integrating logistics planning and execution in support of global operations to drive joint force readiness, maximize the Joint Force Commander's freedom of action and advise the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on logistics matters.
Prior to her SES appointment, Ms. O'Brien supported the U.S Department of Commerce, where she led a multi-organizational team to coordinate, integrate, test and deploy the Remote Alaska Operational Delivery supporting the 2020 Decennial Census System of System architecture.
Ms. O'Brien previously served in the United States Air Force as a Logistics Readiness Officer. Her joint experience includes serving as Chief of Logistics Operations at Headquarters United States Indo-Pacific Command; Chief of Logistics, Plans Programs and Operations at Headquarters United States Africa Command; and Chief of Knowledge Based Logistics, Joint Staff J4. She has also served in multiple command and deputy command roles at the group and squadron level, to include while deployed supporting operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom.
Ms. O'Brien's academic credentials include a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Illinois Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in Operations Management from the University of Arkansas, a Master of Science in Logistics Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and a Master of Arts in Strategic Studies from the Air War College. She is also a certified Program Management Professional.
Her military awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star and Defense Meritorious Service Medal.

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The Punchline Comedy Club - ONE SHOW ONLY!
The Punchline Comedy Club is back in Beijing for one night only, with three world-class comedians flown in on tour from London.
If you made it to the November show, I don't need to tell you that The Punchline puts on a hilarious and memorable show. If you haven't been - don't miss the January installment.


Here's the next installment of the month Sahana News for October 2013.
First Virtual Eden Training Held. The first virtual Sahana Eden training for new developers was held on September 30th. We had over 20 persons in attendance and we've received great feedback and evaluations. All training materials – including a recording of the session – are available on our training page. Stay tuned for news on when we'll scheduled the next one!
Grace Hopper Open Source Day. On October 5, the Sahana Software Foundation participated in the Grace Hopper Open Source Day in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Many thanks to SSF Director Louiqa Raschid for leading our contingent, SSF Member Pat Tressel for being our lead onsite facilitator and University of Maryland undergraduate students Deonna Hodges, Naomi Wilcox and Aboli Kumthekar for assisting. More information about the event can be found on Louiqa's blog post.
New Communications and Disaster Research Interns Announced. As part of the Sahana Software Foundation's internship program, we awarded our year-long communications internship to Hannah Schwartz, and four-month disaster research internships to Om Goeckerman and Hanna Maier. See our announcement for more information.
Software Developer and Design Internships Starting Soon. We announced openings for our software development and design internships in late September. The application period closed earlier this week. Decisions will soon be made with a target start date of the first of November.
Google Code-In. The Google Code-In is being held again this year. SSF Community members Ramindu Deshapriya (GSOC 2011 & 2012) and Vishrut Mehta (GSOC 2013) have volunteered to serve as our "admins". They will be letting you know how you can help support this program – if we are selected – by mentoring and contributing task ideas.
SahanaCamp Vietnam October 29 in Hanoi. Fran Boon will be facilitating a day-long event to introduce practitioners and technologists to Sahana Eden. SahanaCamp Vietnam is scheduled to take place the day before an ISCRAM Asia Conference.
Los Angeles County Community Resilience Mapping Tool. Training is taking place this week and next in Los Angeles for the eight "coalitions" that are going to be using Sahana Eden for community resiliency mapping. I'll share a report on outcomes next week.
NYC Prepared. Planning continue to deploy a Sahana Eden based platform to support NYC Prepared activities. There is information on the technology strategy on the NYC Prepared site. We're going to be holding a face-to-face meetup in New York City next month to coordinate.
That's all for this month. As always, my inbox is always open. I look forward to hearing from you.


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We reinforce trust through a flat company organization whereby most employees are also long-term company shareholders, resulting in genuine care and low staff turnover.
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HSBC Adds To Swiss Teams
has made a number of hires and appointments in its investment management team in Geneva.
Karl Faivre has been appointed as head of investments and wealth solutions (IWS) EMEA (excluding UK), and head of IWS Switzerland. He has overseen the products and investment teams in Switzerland for the past three years.
In his expanded role, Faivre will be responsible for the full range of wealth products, platforms and propositions for personal, premier and private banking clients in EMEA.
In parallel, HSBC Switzerland has appointed Alexander Neil as head of equity advisory to strengthen its stock picking capabilities. Neil, who has worked for HSBC since 2018, brings more than 16 years of equities experience to his new role, including time spent at EFG Bank and several years on the sell-side in London and Paris.
The bank has also recruited Cristiano Mendes as a structured products specialist to join its team in Switzerland. Mendes spent the past eight years in investment management roles at UBS, Lombard Odier and Barclays Wealth Management.


Ms. Adamo is founder and president of Code Red Business Continuity Services, LLC.
Code Red's client list includes large to small sector businesses encompassing the financial industry, manufacturing, insurance, and non-profits.
Before founding Code Red, Ms. Adamo served in municipal government for many years. She worked as the Economic Development Director for the City of Cranston and previously for the City of Woonsocket in Rhode Island. She also served two years concurrently as the Executive Director of Main Street 2000 for the City of Woonsocket. She received an award from the National Main Street Foundation commending the revitalization of a blighted Main Street.
Ms. Adamo is a member of the Board of Directors for the Northeast Disaster Recovery Information Exchange (NEDRIX). She is Vice President and also serves as the Director of the Private/Public Sector Initiative. She is working to establish a Private Public System in conjunction with the six New England emergency management agencies to promote collaboration and resource development at the time of a major disruption. She sat as an advisory member to the Institute for Business & Home Safety's Board to help market and promote "Open for Business" a disaster planning tool for small business. She currently sits on the steering committee for the RI Cyber Security Planning, the Safer Institutes Credentialing Program, which is a State of RI effort, and is a student mentor for Sophia Academy, an all girls' school, located in Providence, Rhode Island.
Ms. Adamo has been published in the Providence Business News, National Industry Periodicals and Magazines, and the Disaster Resource Guide covering topics such as Pandemic Preparedness, Business Continuity and Emergency Response Planning. She has also presented on important topics such as Pandemic Preparedness, Business Continuity, Emergency Response Preparedness and Risk Management for industry and public sector conferences and symposiums.
Ms. Adamo is a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) with DRII. She is a member of RI Tech Collective in Providence and the Providence Chamber of Commerce. She has a BS in Retail Marketing/ Merchandising Management and an AS in Advertising from Johnson & Wales University. She resides in Cranston, Rhode Island.
Mr. Stowe is a professional, self-directed, innovative and creative individual with a tenacious approach to solving problems, which supports his reputation of always finding a way to complete difficult projects successfully. His experience includes teaching several city governments Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP); community emergency response and resilience evaluations; emergency management medical dispensing site plan development; developing collaborative relationships between the private and public sectors. He has extensive experience developing and delivering programs to improve disaster preparedness, teaching disaster prep workshops and creating table top exercises for clients. He recently completed a program for the State of RI that will connect the public and private sector industries together at the time of a disaster through communications, resource sharing and partnerships. He has been working with Code Red Business Continuity Services, LLC for the past two years supporting and managing many business continuity and emergency response projects. Mr. Stowe holds a Master of Science in Emergency Management from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
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Chris has a consulting company, Glebus Continuity Consulting, which specializes in preparation, recovery and response plans for any business; from the small business owner, mid-sized companies and large corporations as well as providing her guidance and expertise in Crisis Management. Chris consults with Code Red in the preparation and facilitating of their Business Continuity Preparedness Workshops and Planning.
Chris was previously a Vice President at State Street Corporation in the Global Continuity Division heading up Incident Management Services department globally, a position she held for 10+ years.
Some of Chris' speaking engagements have occurred at Continuity Insights, Bentley College, and the New England Consortium of Schools, Secure World Conference, Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) Conference and the Strohl User Group Conference.
Chris previously worked for Fidelity Investments in Boston, Massachusetts where she was responsible for the Business Continuity and Incident Management Programs for their Retail Brokerage Division which included overseeing their Investor Centers nationally.
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Chris is a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) as well as holding an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Practitioner's certification.


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Meta scrubbed a fake scientist's account that spread bogus COVID-19 claims
Facebook removed 524 inauthentic Facebook accounts, 20 pages, four Groups and 86 Instagram accounts boosting the claims.
A medical worker prepares a dose of the Sinopharm Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on November 25, 2021. - China OUT (Photo by AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
On July 24, 2021 a Swiss biologist, Wilson Edwards, claimed on Facebook and Twitter that the United States was pressuring the World Health Organization to blame the origin of COVID-19 on the Chinese government.
Within an hour, Chinese officials were promoting the message on social media, using the apparent claim to turn public opinion against the U.S. after China attracted scrutiny for reportedly rejected further investigation into the origins of the virus.
But Wilson Edwards wasn't real, the Swiss Embassy in Beijing announced on Twitter on Aug. 10.
Instead, the ruse was a part of an elaborate coordinated campaign based in China to discredit the U.S., researchers at Meta, which is owned by Facebook, revealed in a report out Wednesday.
What researchers found was a "hall of mirrors," Ben Nimmo, global information operations threat intelligence lead at Facebook, said in the report.
In total, Facebook removed 524 Facebook accounts, 20 pages, four Groups and 86 Instagram accounts a part of the network. The network targeted primarily English-speaking audiences in the U.S. and U.K., with Chinese state infrastructure companies sharing the posts.
The fake accounts all followed a similar posting pattern. Before and after the Wilson post, the hundreds of accounts posted the same links to news articles and social media posts, which praised China or bashed the government's critics.
Meta found two occasions in which accounts in the network published the designated links along with directions for the campaign, which instructed accounts when and what to post, as well as how to track engagement.
The campaign was largely unsuccessful, with few real users engaging with the material, the company said.
The inability of such coordinated campaigns to pick up organic engagement has been a common thread across Meta's research, Nimmo notes in a report outlining the findings. Similar efforts that relied on traditional spamming techniques have frequently failed to generate viewers, in part because of clumsy language or signs of obvious bias.
The findings were released as part of Meta's most recent threat report. While the report in the past has focused on coordinated inauthentic behavior, researchers for the first time included research regarding other security threats, including "brigading." The tactic involves people working together to mass comment, post or engage in behaviors like mass reporting to stifle or harass opposing viewpoints.
Under its anti-brigading policy, Meta also took down an anti-vaccine group called "V_V," which has targeted medical professionals and other journalists on both Meta as well as other platforms such as Twitter and YouTube. The network, which coordinated through Telegram, relied on mass-harassment of pro-vaccination individuals. It also hijacked high-interest Meta Pages to share anti-vaccination misinformation.
Additionally, Meta took down a network of Vietnamese accounts used to mass report activists critical of the Vietnam government as a means of getting them de-platformed. Some members of the network also impersonated individuals in an effort to report the legitimate account as a fraud.
Researchers also uncovered separate networks in both Poland and Belarus focused on the border crisis between the European Union and Belarus. Meta linked the Belarusian campaign, which consisted of 41 Meta accounts, five groups, and four Instagram accounts, to the Belarusian KGB. The Belarusian military has been tied to a similar disinformation campaign.
The Polish campaign included two events that garnered 90 interested users. The planning of one protest in Minsk received local news coverage but Meta could not confirm if the events in question happened.
The Polish, Chinese and Belarusian networks all used artificial intelligence-generated images for inauthentic profiles.
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Russian disinformation rampant on far-right social media platforms
The report found a web of 35 accounts linked to suspected Russian information operators spreading lies about rigged elections, the Ukraine war and political issues.
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Why MMO Games Die?
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As everything in this world, MMO games have a lifespan as well. They are imagined, designed, created, they live their lives making all their fans happy and then just… die, many of them earning a special place in their players' hearts, some of them maybe disappearing too soon. Although it may be sad, this single fact can be extremely interesting if you think about it in a more analytical way, leading yourself to ask a simple question: Why MMO games die?
The first and easiest answer is also the most common: because they suck. We don't want to be disrespectful here, but honestly there is no other way to say it, and we are mainly talking about all the thousands of clone games, which are the pale copy of a copy of a copy of that successful game. These games, mainly free to play browser games, are usually created with a limited budget, without passion, using a preset formula and style, already seen many, many times, without even trying to add something unique to the gameplay or genre. They have the only purpose of attracting players often with misleading websites, descriptions and images and squeeze from them as much as they can in terms of money and time before being abandoned for a new identical game and then shut down. These games have a very short lifespan and they aren't mean to last, so their death is pre-calculated and it's just a matter of – not so much - time.
However, there are also bigger and more important games, often with big companies or franchises behind them, that have been closed maybe too soon, and some examples are The Matrix Online (MxO), Star Wars Galaxies (SWG) and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. All the three of them were big productions, full featured high quality games that we can't play anymore. And even if you never heard about them, you will probably be familiar with The Matrix and Star Wars franchises, so you can imagine the magnituted of this titles. So why have they been shut down while other MMOs such as Lineage II and WoW are still up and running? Let's examine them case by case.
The Matrix Online is the one with the shortest lifespan among the three of them. Launched in 2005, after the trilogy was already concluded, the game was shut down by SOE in 2009, with less than 500 active players. The game was surely flawed in certain aspects, such as lack of gameplay innovation and repetitive structure. However, in this case we can safely assume that the lackuster reception of the last 2 movies, an overcrowded MMO market and the fading interest in a franchise with no future expansion plans played a major role in the game's premature departure.
Regarding SWG things get a little more complicated. It was officially released in 2003 and had longer life, shutting down only in 2011. In this case the causes of its death can't be obiously be related to a lack of interest in the franchise, so we have to start looking somewhere else. The game is described from its most loyal fans as something more than a Themepark; it was a real virtual world, a truly sandbox experience with player-managed cities, totally customizable housing, one of the deepest crafting system in the genre and a truly dedicated community.
So if everything seems so dreamy, what happened? Basically, the publisher, in order to open the game to a wider audience and to attract more casual players started to reduce the difficulty and complexity of the game and to semplify it update after update, making it more similar to a classic themepark, a genre that was entering its golden age, quickly becoming the staple of the MMO market. However, the game's complexity and its deep sandbox nature were the real treasures of SWG that made all its most loyal players fall in love with it and this process - which reached its climax with the so called CU (Combat Update) - changed everything, almost completely transforming the game into a generic themepark ad managing to drive away even the most enthusiast players. To help you to understand how deep the changes were and how horrified the old players were from them, just think that after the update, a lot of fan-made projects started to pop up, trying to emulate the game "pre-CU".
Independently from the quality of a title, poor managment decisions can kill a game. In an extreme effort to homologate the game to the market trend in order to attract more players and money without listening to their loyal community, the publisher killed its product with its own hands, suffocating the game's truly unique nature and style and driving passionate customers away.
The last example we want to talk about is Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. It came out back in 2007, switched to the free-to-play model in 2012 and was definitely shut down in 2014. It was a huge fantasy MMORPG with a classic themepark setting wich tried to offer a personal take on different features, such as unique classes that were more "hybrid" and different from the usual classes seen in many other MMORPGs of the time, a slower, more grou-focused progression, a huge and complex game world full of deep and interesting lore and more.
The game was highly hyped from a lot of players that were looking for a game capable of competing with the most successful titles on the market and Vanguard had all the right cards to be a huge hit itself, so what's happened? The thing is, the game was launched too soon, when it was still incomplete and full of bugs, and the poor gameplay experience of the first period caused a quick and constant hemorrage of subscriptions that the game game only partially managed to stop with patched and updates with time. Later on, when programmers and publisher tried to save the situation and substanstially improve the game, they saw a slight inrease in the number of active subscriptions, and with the switch to the free to play model the game almost lived a second youth, but it was already too late for it to be the big hit it could have been and it was shut down by SOE along with other titles. So in this case, as they say, "the first impression is the last impression", too bad.
There are a lot of possible causes behind the death of a MMO, and if we had to examine them all and give you examples this article would have been waaay to long. A game can die of bad managment decisions, bad design, bad first impressions and much more, and the number of active players make the difference between a living game or a dead one. Each customer abandoning the game could be the decisive one to push the publisher to shut down a game which isn't lucrative anymore. Because in the end how good a game truly is, or how passionate and supportive the community is doesn't even matter. It's business after all, and when the upkeeping cost of a MMO game is more than the income that the game can make every month, - and MMOs are extremely money-consuming after lunch as well, just think about server manteinance and constant updates development - it's time to pull the plug and say goodbye, sayonara.
Well, that's all Folks, if you enjoyed our take on the reasons behind the death of MMO games let us know and share your thoughts with a comment!


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Dan joined Amy Robach at the Good Morning America round table, on the first day in July of 2014, to discuss the story of a man from Georgia who is now charged with the murder of his 22-month old son. Justin Ross Harris says he accidentally left his son in the car for seven hours on a 90-degree day, but is there more to the story? Harris is still insisting to Georgia police that this tragedy was an unfortunate accident. But police are also insisting this wasn't simple negligence and have charged Harris with murder and cruelty to children. Harris, who had researched children dying in hot cars, told police this was because he was fearful this could happen. Dan comments, "I think there have been two key facts that have been troubling the police. Number one, we're one is those internet searches and number two is the fact they believe he went back to his car in the middle of the day. Both of those suggest to police this wasn't just an accident. But they're going to have to be able to link these two." Watch the full clip here.


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Massabesic Middle School student diagnosed with chicken pox
RSU 57 says the single case has been confirmed by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
By TAMMY WELLSJournal Tribune
WATERBORO — Regional School Unit 57 has notified parents of students at Massabesic Middle School that a student there has been diagnosed with chicken pox.
The letter to parents and staff was sent out after the district was notified by the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that a student had been diagnosed with chicken pox, Superintendent Larry Malone said.
Chicken pox outbreak reported at day care center in Westbrook
Vaccination opt-out rate rising among Maine kindergartners, along with the risk of illness
"The CDC let us know of one confirmed case, and we have been following their guidelines," Malone said Wednesday.
He said that the state agency does not consider the one diagnosis an outbreak.
Malone said notifications also will be sent to families of high school students, since some high school and middle school students travel on the same buses.
Chicken pox, or varicella, is a very contagious infection caused by a virus that usually begins with a mild fever and an itchy rash that starts as small, red bumps, the CDC said. The bumps become blistered, ooze and crust over. The virus is spread through exposure to infected fluids from the nose, throat or skin rash of someone with chicken pox, the CDC said in the notification sent to parents.
Unvaccinated children could be out of school for as much as three weeks.
"If your child has not been immunized against varicella and/or proof of immunity has not been provided to the school, your child should be excluded for a total of 21 days from the onset of the rash of a confirmed case of chicken pox, per Maine CDC," school nurse Jen Dorr said in a letter to parents. "This is the maximum amount of time that one could develop symptoms after an exposure to chicken pox. The purpose is to break the chain of exposure to prevent spread of disease."
She said once a family provides proof of immunity, the child can return to school.
Children can be vaccinated for chicken pox starting at age 1; infants less than 1 year old are too young to be immunized.
In Maine, parents can opt out of having their children receive required vaccinations for school or day care by signing a form indicating they have philosophic or religious objections. The state has consistently had one of the highest vaccination opt-out rates in the nation for children entering kindergarten over the past several years, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Five children who attended a Westbrook daycare were diagnosed with chicken pox in May.
There were 198 cases of chicken pox in Maine in 2017, the CDC said. Of those, 20 were in York County.
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This mother's day has been so deeply contradictory. It has been both amazingly joyful and breathtakingly sad. I have struggled with missing my mother and and simultaneously celebrating being a mom. Missing a daughter I have not yet met and praying for a mother that gave the ultimate sacrifice for her child. It's like a tornado of feelings all stirred up in one chaotic mess.
I miss my mom. I sold her house this week. I had never lived in it but of course, all of my childhood memories had been kept there and there were memories of her with the grandchildren she never got to see grow up. It is another chapter closed but definitely stirred up all the feelings of her being gone. She loved her house so much, she had little grape bushes in the back yard, she had a deck she loved to use for dancing. When I close my eyes, it is where I remember her.
I long for my daughter in China. We have come so far yet are still so far away. I think about the difficult choice her mother made to put her down and walk away from her that March day. I wonder what the weather was like. I wonder if she looked back at those big brown eyes. I am thankful that God is bringing her into our lives but I am also broken knowing how much this child was loved.
I still struggle with infertility trauma. Wounds that three beautiful children do not heal. I miss my children in heaven and I hurt for women who still walk that broken road. I cry for those families that do not feel complete.
My children. They are wild, crazy and deeply emotional. They love fiercely and brighten everyday. I do not take for granted the gifts that each one of them blesses me with daily. Their smiles, their hugs and their snuggles fill my love bank up daily.
My husband. He is amazing. I can be pretty difficult at times but he loves me unconditionally. He supports my passions. He spent time taking care of the kids and me this weekend and for that I am very grateful.
My family & friends. So much loved was shared my way today. Friends with kids, friends without. Family that took time to tell me that I am loved and appreciated. I am so thankful for each and everyone of them.
Sometimes it is hard to see the rainbow through the clouds.
I pray that each of you have an amazing day of love and celebration. Embrace the time you have. Embrace the bitter and the sweet. Shape your tomorrow into something to be remembered.
Very bitter sweet. So many emotions. I'm so glad that our God is greater and His plans are beyond our understanding. But He is good. Sounds like you had a well deserved mother's day.


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Q: Executing a Task inside of a constructor I've been trying to find a design for the situation where you have a type that has a dependency and you want to call a method that returns a Task.  The gut reaction is to do GetAwaiter().GetResult() but I know that goes against the whole purpose of asynchronous tasks.  The thought is to spin up the task but let it do its thing until the type needs it.
public class SomeClass {
    private readonly Task<Data> _getDataTask;
    private readonly IDependency _dep;

    private Data _data;

    public SomeClass(IDependency dep) {
        _dep = dep;
        // I'll spin this up but I don't need the result yet
        _getDataTask = _dep.GetDataAsync();
    }

    public async Task DoSomeWork() {
        // Now I need the result of the task so I'll await the task
        _data = await _getDataTask;
        ExecuteWorkOn(_data);
    }
}

Maybe this approach would produce a lot of condition statements to await if you don't have the result cached?  I'm hoping to get feedback on this approach in the hopes that either another SO question gets linked or we come up with a design we didn't think about before.
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I made the Task to be Task<Data> as mentioned in one of the comments

A: There are two good solutions for this problem:
First:
Use a async init methode in the constructor and hold the resulting Task in a property. This way the calling code can await the completion if the initilisation.
public class Foo
{
    public Task InitTask { get; private set; }

    public Foo()
    {
        this.InitTask = this.Init();
    }

    private async Task Init() { ... }
}

can be used like this

var newFoo = new Foo();
await newFoo.InitTask();
// can now use newFoo

Second:
Use a use only private constructors and have a Create methode which you use to create intances for your class
public class Foo
{
    public Foo() { }

    public async Task<Foo> Create()
    {
        var newFoo = new Foo();
        await newFoo.Init();
        return newFoo;
    }

    private async Task Init() { ... }
}

can be used like this
var newFoo = await Foo.Create();

Your approch, if not bad, is a variant of approch 1 but would mean that you need to await the task started in the constructor in every methode that needs the result (or side effect) of the task.
public class Foo
{
    private Task InitTask { get; private set; }

    public Foo()
    {
        this.InitTask = this.Init();
    }

    private async Task Init() { ... }

    public async Task DoStuffA()
    {
        await this.InitTask;
        // do work
    }

    public async Task DoStuffB()
    {
        await this.InitTask;
        // do work
    }

    public async Task DoStuffC()
    {
        await this.InitTask;
        // do work that could be done without async/await
    }
}

So I would recommend approch 2 to do async initialization.

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Last week, around 60 migrants died when the vessel transporting them from Italy to Libya sank in the Mediterranean Sea. Most of them were Bangladeshis. The small boat was overloaded, and sank about 10 minutes after the migrants were transferred to it from a larger boat. According to Red Crescent officials, the survivors had spent eight hours trapped in the cold sea before being spotted by fishermen who alerted the Tunisian coastguards. Rescue operations have been severely affected by the Italian government's policy which restricts rescued migrants to enter the country. This incident is one of the many of its kind, as the route is one of the deadliest ones of transporting migrants.
Every year, many Bangladeshis move abroad in search for better financial opportunities at a great cost- both economic and personal. A huge portion of them are undocumented and uneducated workers who have to resort to a corrupt and unreliable system. Unauthorised migrant workers usually cannot access rights under destination country's labour laws. However, regardless of their classification made by the destination country, they do come under the overarching auspices of international human rights law.
As per the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 217, the rights enshrined in the UN Declaration of Human Rights extend to all migrant workers despite their legal status in a given country. Migrants are entitled to right to life and cannot arbitrarily be deprived of it. States have a positive duty to protect migrants from loss of life while travelling by land or sea within its jurisdiction. This has been iterated in the UN General Assembly, Resolution 23/20. Moreover, shipmasters are bound under the UN Convention on Law of the Sea to provide assistance to any person found at sea who is in danger of being lost and to rescue persons in distress if informed of their need for assistance. Such assistance must be provided regardless of their nationalities, statuses, or the circumstances which they are found to be in, as per the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue.
Despite the existence of these international safeguards, the incidents of death and disappearance of migrants in sea channels is a persistent phenomenon. Unless the concerned States come together to build a system that is sensitive to the socio-economic realities of the vulnerable migrant workers, such incidents cannot be prevented. Sending and receiving States of migrant workers need to work together to lay out the terms of employment and must ensure a reliable support system for the workers.
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Georges Feydeau (* 8. Dezember 1862 in Paris; † 5. Juni 1921 in Rueil-Malmaison) war ein französischer Dramatiker. Seine exakt konstruierten Bühnenkomödien gelten als letzter Höhepunkt des Vaudeville, kurz bevor diese Unterhaltungsform verschwand.

Feydeaus Karriere umfasst die Zeitspanne von 1886 bis 1916, in der er zu den erfolgreichsten Autoren des Vaudevilles zählte. Seine Komödien wie Der Damenschneider und Der Floh im Ohr zielen häufig auf die Doppelmoral des neuen Bürgertums. In späteren Jahren schränkten private Probleme und Geldnöte Feydeaus Produktivität zusehends ein. Nach langer Krankheit starb er in geistiger Umnachtung in einem Sanatorium.

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Georges Feydeau kam am 8. Dezember 1862 als Sohn des französischen Schriftstellers Ernest und der Polin Léocadie Feydeau, geborene Zelewska, in Paris zur Welt. Das Paar hatte 1861 geheiratet. Die als ungewöhnlich schön beschriebene Léocadie (oder auch Lodzia) soll nach Gerüchten ein Verhältnis mit dem Halbbruder von Napoléon III., Charles de Morny, gehabt haben. Dass sogar Napoléon III. selbst der Vater ihres Sohnes sein könnte, wies sie zurück: "Sehen Sie sich meinen Georges an! Wie kann ein so intelligenter Junge der Sohn eines so dummen Herrschers sein?" Gerüchte um außereheliche Affären brachen jedoch nie ab.

Ernest Feydeau, der in den Kreisen von Gustave Flaubert, Théophile Gautier und Alexandre Dumas verkehrte, war selbst nur ein unbedeutender Schriftsteller. Durch Spekulationen an der Börse verlor Ernest Feydeau das meiste Geld. Die Gewinne waren durch Umzüge in luxuriösere Wohnungen schnell verbraucht. Die gemeinsamen Theaterbesuche mit dem achtjährigen Sohn weckten in Georges die Theaterleidenschaft. Ernest Feydeau starb 1873.

Nachdem Ernest Feydeaus Witwe 1876 den Theaterkritiker Henri Fouquier geheiratet hatte, lebte Georges fortan im Internat. Er war ein schlechter Schüler und seine größte Aufmerksamkeit galt seinen Stücken, die er zu schreiben begann. Außerdem veranstaltete er Aufführungen mit der von ihm ins Leben gerufenen Schauspieltruppe. Sein erstes Stück, der Einakter Amour et piano, hatte 1883 seine recht erfolgreiche Premiere. Kurz darauf verließ er die Schule und trat den einjährigen Militärdienst an.

Karriere als Autor
Ohne eigenes Vermögen oder Einkommen, nahm er 1885 im Théâtre de la Renaissance eine Stelle als Sekretär ein. Der Theaterleiter Fernand Samuel (eigentlich Adolphe Louveau) war ein alter Freund Feydeaus. Samuel ermöglichte Feydeau 1886 auch, dessen erstes abendfüllendes Stück Tailleur pour dames (Der Damenschneider) dort aufzuführen, das noch in der Zeit des Militärdienstes entstand. Der überwältigende Erfolg der Produktion ließ sich in den darauffolgenden Jahren mit weiteren Stücken jedoch nicht wiederholen. Feydeau geriet in finanzielle Schwierigkeiten.

Über den erfolgreichen Porträtmaler Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran lernte er dessen attraktive Tochter Marianne kennen und lieben. Mit ihrem Vermögen half sie ihm über die schwierige Zeit, in der Feydeau seine schriftstellerischen Tätigkeiten ruhen ließ, um die Techniken der wichtigsten Vaudeville-Autoren zu studieren. Einige Jahre später legte er schließlich den Direktoren des erfolgreichen Theaters Palais-Royal zwei Stücke vor, von dem Monsieur chasse umgehend in den Spielplan aufgenommen wurde. Das zweite Stück Champignol malgré lui wurde als zu absurd und unglaubwürdig abgelehnt: "Nehmen Sie unseren Rat an und verbrennen Sie es."

Der Direktor des Nouveautés, eines Theaters, das nach einer Reihe von Misserfolgen vor der Schließung stand, zeigte sich von dieser Komödie hingegen so überzeugt, dass er es umgehend auf den Probenplan setzte. Die Premiere von Champignol malgré lui im Jahr 1892 wurde zum Triumph, dem bald die erfolgreiche Premiere von Monsieur chasse am Théâtre du Palais-Royal folgte.
Die beiden Stücke waren der Auftakt einer Serie von Erfolgen, die Feydeau zum beliebtesten Vaudeville-Autor im Paris der Jahrhundertwende machte.

1889 heiratete er Marianne, mit der er vier Kinder bekam: Germaine (* 1890), Jacques (* 1892), Michel (* 1900) und Jean-Pierre (* 1903). In den ersten Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts schien sich das häusliche Glück zu wenden. Wenn Feydeau nicht schrieb, verbrachte er seine Zeit meist außerhalb des Hauses bei Proben, im Kaffeehaus und spät nachts im Maxim. Durch Spekulationen an der Börse und seine Spielsucht geriet Feydeau trotz des großen Erfolges seiner Stücke immer wieder in Geldnot. 1901 war er gezwungen, Teile seiner imposanten Kunstsammlung zu veräußern, darunter Werke von Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir und Vincent van Gogh. Theaterwissenschaftler sehen in den bitteren späteren Werken Feydeaus, beginnend mit Feu la mère de Madame (1908), den Einfluss der privaten Krisen. 1909 kam es nach einem handfesten Streit mit seiner Frau zur Trennung. Die nächsten zehn Jahre verbrachte Feydeau im Hotel Terminus nahe dem Gare Saint-Lazare. Seine Produktivität nahm weiter ab, bis 1916 schließlich sein letztes Stück Hortense a dit: Je m'en fous! (Hortense hat gesagt, Sie können mich mal…) herauskam. Seine Scheidung wurde im selben Jahr offiziell.

Krankheit und Tod
Wahrscheinlich bei einer Prostituierten steckte er sich mit Syphilis an. Die Spätfolgen führten zu exzentrischem Verhalten und Wahnvorstellungen, worauf seine Familie sich gezwungen sah, ihn in ein Sanatorium einzuliefern. Dort starb er zwei Jahre später am 5. Juni 1921 in geistiger Umnachtung. Er vollendete etwa 23 oder 24 abendfüllende Stücke und 21 Einakter.

Werke (Auswahl)

 Durchs Fenster. Einakter ("Par la fenêtre"). Ahn & Simrock, Berlin 1961.
 Liebe & Klavier. Komödie in einem Akte ("Amour et piano"). Sessler, München 1985.
 Galgenvögel ("Gibier de potence"). Lauke, München 1996.
 Fiancés en herbe. Comédie en un acte. Librairie théatrale, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-7349-0021-1.
 Der Damenschneider. Lustspiel in drei Akten ("Tailleur pour dames"). Ahn & Simrock, Wiesbaden 1970.
 Die Katze im Sack. Vaudeville in drei Akten ("Chat en poche"). Ahn & Simrock, Berlin 1960.
 Die Brautwerber von Loches. Vaudeville in drei Akten ("Les Fiancés de Loches"). Ahn & Simrock, München 1973.
 Die Affäre Eduard. Lustspiel in drei Akten ("L'affaire Édouard"). Ahn & Simrock, Wiesbaden 1973 (zusammen mit Maurice Desvallières).
 Die Hochzeit des Barillon. Komödie in drei Akten ("Le Mariage de Barillon"). Ahn & Simrock, Wiesbaden 1969 (zusammen mit Maurice Desvallières).
 Monsieur Chasse oder wie man Hasen jagt. Komödie in drei Akten ("Monsieur Chasse"). Kiepenheuer, Berlin 1970.
 Ein Klotz am Bein. Komödie in drei Akten ("Un fil à la patte"). Ahn & Simrock, München 1967.
 Unser Zukünftiger. Lustspiel in einem Akt ("Notre futur"). Ahn & Simrock, Berlin 1971.
 Hotel zum freien Wechselkurs. Komödie in drei Akten ("L'Hôtel du libre échange"). Ahn & Simrock, Wiesbaden 1972.
 Der Gefoppte ("Le Dindon"). Lauke, München 1996.
 Der Diener als Hypnotiseur. Farce in einem Aufzug ("Dormez, je le veux!"). Ahn & Simrock, Berlin 1973.
 Die Dame vom Maxim. Eine Farce in drei Akten ("La dame de chez Maxim"). Ahn & Simrock, Berlin 1970.
 Du bist dran, ich passe. Stück in vier Akten ("La main passe"). Henschelverlag, Berlin 1988.
 Der Floh im Ohr. Schwankhaft-groteske Komödie in drei Akten ("La puce à l'oreille"). Theaterverlag Mahnke, Verden/Aller 1998 (Uraufführung 2. März 1907, Paris, Théâtre des Nouveautés).
 Kümmere dich um Amélie. Ein Stück in vier Bildern ("Occupe-toi d'Amélie"). Ahn & Simrock, Berlin 1975.
 Lauf doch nicht immer splitternackt herum! Farce in einem Akt ("Mais ne te promène donc pas toute nue!"). Ahn & Simrock, Berlin 1963.
 Champignol wider Willen ("Champignol malgré lui"). Ahn & Simrock, Wiesbaden 1972.
 System Ribadier. Komödie in drei Akten ("Le système Ribadier"). Ahn & Simrock, München 1983.
 Herzogin Crevette. Schwank in vier Akten ("La duchesse des Folies-Bergères"). Ahn, Berlin 1905.
 Das Rennen. Komödie in drei Akten (vier Bilder) ("Le circuit"). Ahn 6 Simrock, München 1982.
 Baby hat nichts gemacht. Stück in einem Akt ("On purge bébé!"). Henschelverlag, Berlin 1978.
 Ich betrüge meinen Mann nicht. Komödie in drei Akten ("Je ne trompe pas mon mari"). Ahn & Simrock, München 1987.
 Hortense schert das "einen Dreck". Komödie in einem Akt ("Hortense à dit: je m'en fous!"). Theaterverlag Mahnke, Verden/Aller 2002.
 Un bain de ménage. 1888.
 C'est une femme du monde. 1890.
 Le Ruban. 1894.
 Les Pavés de l'ours. 1896.
 Séance de nuit. 1897.
 Das goldene Zeitalter ("L'âge d'or"). 1905.
 On va faire la cocotte. 1913 (Erster Akt; unvollendet)

Literatur
 Stuart E. Baker: Georges Feysdau and the aesthetics of farce. UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, Mich. 1981, ISBN 0-8357-1265-6 (zugl. Dissertation, New York University 1976).
 Manuel A. Esteban: Georges Feydeau. Twayne Publ., Boston, Mass. 1983, ISBN 0-8057-6551-4.
 Henry Gidel: Georges Feydeau. Flammarion, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-08-066280-5.
 Henry Gidel: Le théâtre de Georges Feydeau. Klincksieck, Paris 1983, ISBN 2-252-02075-X.
 Charles-Armand Klein (Hrsg.): Les pensées des boulevardiers. Alphonse Karr, Aurélien Sholl, Georges Feydeau. Le Cherche Mide Edition, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-86274-345-3.
 Leonard C. Pronko: Eugène Labiche and Georges Feydeau. Grove Press, New York 1982, ISBN 0-333-28899-8.
 Fabio Perilli: Georges Feydeau: écriture théâtrale et stratégies discursives, Napoli, E.S.I., 2010, ISBN 978-88-495-1966-2.

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Ant Neely is an English composer and musician, known for an eclectic  style.

Career
Neely attended Glasgow University and holds a degree in Zoology. After graduating, he studied jazz guitar at the Musician's Institute in Hollywood, California, where he met subthunk co-founder Alex U'Ren.

Neely divides his time between writing music for film/television, releasing albums, both under the subthunk banner and as a solo artist, and more recently writing screenplays. His composing credits include music on shows such as Six Feet Under, Boston Legal, Samantha Who, Las Vegas, as well as three seasons of orchestral compositions for the popular Dutch show Sprookjesboom.
Neely has been called "a creative and progressively thinking artist", whose eclectic style incorporates everything from electronica to "John Barry-like orchestral atmospherics".  His Creative Commons released album, Not Fit For Human Consumption, contains elements of Morse Code, old educational film clips (courtesy of the Prelinger Archives) and is part of a Geotracking experiment.

Mark Mothersbaugh is a fan of Neely and subthunk's music. He is quoted as saying "The masses are asses who need subthunk glasses".

Neely co-produced, wrote the screenplay and scored the feature film Dimensions. The film was voted Best Film 2012 at the 37th Boston Science Fiction Film Festival and awarded the Gort Award. Previous Gort Award winners have included Duncan Jones' Moon. Dimensions went on to win Best Film at the London Independent Film Festival  and Best Film at the Long Island International Film Expo.

Life
As a child, Neely's family moved frequently. He spent time in various parts of England, Scotland and several years in Qatar. He attributes this nomadic upbringing to his diverse tastes in music. An early fascination with sound developed when his father gave him his old reel-to-reel tape machine, with which he made his first experiments in ambient noise.

Neely is married to director/production designer/art director Sloane U'Ren.

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Living people
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Iran Shoots Down US Drone, Says "Ready For War"
Tensions between the US and Iran flared again on Thursday when the Iranian Revolutionary Guard shot down an American drone that was said to have flown into Iranian airspace. The drone was reportedly flying over the Strait of Hormuz – that critical chokepoint for the global oil trade – not far from where two oil tankers were recently attacked.
"We will defend Iran's airspace and maritime boundaries with all our might," Ali Shamkhani, secretary-general for the Supreme National Security Council was quoted as saying by state-run Islamic Students' News Agency. "It doesn't matter which country's aircraft cross our airspace.
IRGC Commander Hossein Salami said shooting down the drone had a clear and strong message for the US: Iran's borders are 'red lines' and though Iran doesn't seek war, Iran is ready for war. The US, meanwhile, denies that the drone crossed into Iran's airspace, and says it was in international airspace the whole time.
The news sent oil prices surging, with Brent up more than 2.5%. President Trump has been briefed on the incident and the White House is "monitoring the situation." The US military has branded the shooting "an unprovoked attack."
The shooting follows attacks on six tankers in the region, which Iran has denied responsibility for (including the two from last week). On Wednesday, a news agency operated by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said that the rebels had hit a power station in Jazan, Saudi Arabia, with a cruise missile, though these reports weren't independently verified.
Stratfor, defense intelligence platform, warned that Thursday's incident "significantly raises" the prospects for international conflict.
Particularly after the US dispatched more troops to the region last week, tensions between the US and Iran just won't subside, with Tehran still furious over US sanctions on oil sales. With Tehran poised to violate its agreements under the JCPOA on enriched uranium stockpiles, many are fearful that a 'hot war' between the US and Iran might erupt. If it did, some of Washington's biggest geopolitical adversaries (Russia and China) could get involved, triggering WWIII.
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"Something Over Something Else": Romare Bearden's Profile Series
October 26, 2019, 10:00 am - 10:00 am at The High Museum, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30309, USA
Price: $14.50 for Not-Yet-Members. Free for members.
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2019–JANUARY 5, 2020
Organized by the High, this touring exhibition will be the first to bring dozens of works from Romare Bearden's eminent "Profile" series together since its debut nearly 40 years ago.
In November 1977, The New Yorker magazine published a feature-length biography of Bearden (American, 1911–1988) as part of its "Profiles" series. The article brought national focus to the artist, whose rise had been virtually meteoric since the late 1960s, and the experience of the interview prompted Bearden to launch his autobiographical "Profile" collection. He sequenced the project in two parts: "Part I/The Twenties," featuring memories from his youth in the South and in Pittsburgh, and "Part II/The Thirties," about his early adult life in New York.
Inspired by the High's recent acquisition of a key work from the series, "Something Over Something Else" will be the first exhibition to reassemble more than 30 collages from the series and to re-create the experience of its original presentations in 1978 and 1981, which featured accompanying wall texts Bearden wrote in collaboration with his friend Albert Murray, an essayist, jazz critic and novelist.
Beyond providing the opportunity to explore an understudied body of work, the exhibition will investigate the roles of narrative and self-presentation for an artist who made a career of creating works based on memory and experience. It will also reveal some of Bearden's broader inspirations, which lend insight into American life in the first decades of the 20th century.
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Coursework, Learning Log, Part 3 - Mirrors and Windows, Photographers
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Hans Eijkelboom is a Dutch photographer who has done several series of images about people.
© Han Eijkelboom – With My Family
In With My Family (1978) he posed as the father with a mother and their children in their living room. The rooms are busy and reminiscent of the June Street images of Parr and Meadows, although of course, the twist here is that the 'father' is not the real father (and possibly the families are rather higher in the social scale). However they look totally relaxed and could easily be mistaken for a 'real' family. I wonder who took the images as there is no sign of a cable release– was it an assistant, or could it, in a further twist, have been the actual father. More recently, Trish Morrissey (discussed in Masquerades) has done a similar set of images for her series Front (2005) where she became the 'mother' in photographs of families on the beach. In these images she took it further as she borrowed items of clothing from the actual mother before posing. On her website she says, 'Ideas around the mythological creature the 'shape shifter' and the cuckoo are evoked.' (Morressey, 2017). Both of the series raise the question about the reality of images, and what is truth. Does it matter that the apparently happy family group is a constructed one? What does that say about the identity of families? How can an outsider know? One assumes that groups of people on the beach or in the house are related if they are shown in a family album – but they may not be. The further on in time from the image the less certain one becomes. I have images in my family archives of similar (although less professionally posed groups) where no one now alive is sure who all the people are.
© Trish Morressy – Sylvia Westbrook
Eijkelboom has carried on working with identity. His more recent work People of the 21st Century, collected into a series of Photo Notes shows people he has photographed on the street. He then collages groups of people who are wearing very similar outfits. Does this show loss of the individual? But everyone is subtly different, their personal slant on what is the current fashion. Although this is in some ways a retake of Sander's People of the 20th Century there is no overt attempt to categorise the people by their place in life or their class, although assumptions might be made by the grouping and the clothes. In An interview Eijkelboom says, "That's a very strange development in society. That wasn't the intention at the start of the project, but in the end you could say the book is about a fight, a war within society: more and more, big companies have their grip on people, in producing the clothes and so on. But in the book you see the possibilities to give it your own personal touch. When you now go to the Kalverstraat in Amsterdam, everybody has their own individual message on their T-shirt. But on the other hand, they all look the same, because they are all people with a message on their T-shirt. You can already see a little bit of change, making the power of the big companies weaker, I think." (Petridis, 2014).
© Hans Eijkelboom
Morressey, T. (2017). Trish Morrissey. [online] Trishmorrissey.com. Available at: http://www.trishmorrissey.com/works_pages/work-front/workpg-01.html [Accessed 8 Jan. 2020].
Petridis, A. (2014). Same but different: Hans Eijkelboom's tribal street photography. [online] the Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/23/hans-eijkelboom-street-photography-tribes-people-twenty-first-century.
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