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- Noncoder : a web interface for exon array-based detection of long non-coding RNAs (2012)
- Due to recent technical developments, a high number of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been discovered in mammals. Although it has been shown that lncRNAs are regulated differently among tissues and disease statuses, functions of these transcripts are still unknown in most cases. GeneChip Exon 1.0 ST Arrays (exon arrays) from Affymetrix, Inc. have been used widely to profile genome-wide expression changes and alternative splicing of protein-coding genes. Here, we demonstrate that re-annotation of exon array probes can be used to profile expressions of tens of thousands of lncRNAs. With this annotation, a detailed inspection of lncRNAs and their isoforms is possible. To allow for a general usage to the research community, we developed a user-friendly web interface called 'noncoder'. By uploading CEL files from exon arrays and with a few mouse clicks and parameter settings, exon array data will be normalized and analysed to identify differentially expressed lncRNAs. Noncoder provides the detailed annotation information of lncRNAs and is equipped with unique features to allow for an efficient search for interesting lncRNAs to be studied further. The web interface is available at http://noncoder.mpi-bn.mpg.de.
- Hypoxia-induced alternative splicing in endothelial cells (2012)
- Background: Adaptation to low oxygen by changing gene expression is vitally important for cell survival and tissue development. The sprouting of new blood vessels, initiated from endothelial cells, restores the oxygen supply of ischemic tissues. In contrast to the transcriptional response induced by hypoxia, which is mainly mediated by members of the HIF family, there are only few studies investigating alternative splicing events. Therefore, we performed an exon array for the genome-wide analysis of hypoxia-related changes of alternative splicing in endothelial cells. Methodology/Principal findings: Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) were incubated under hypoxic conditions (1% O(2)) for 48 h. Genome-wide transcript and exon expression levels were assessed using the Affymetrix GeneChip Human Exon 1.0 ST Array. We found altered expression of 294 genes after hypoxia treatment. Upregulated genes are highly enriched in glucose metabolism and angiogenesis related processes, whereas downregulated genes are mainly connected to cell cycle and DNA repair. Thus, gene expression patterns recapitulate known adaptations to low oxygen supply. Alternative splicing events, until now not related to hypoxia, are shown for nine genes: six which are implicated in angiogenesis-mediated cytoskeleton remodeling (cask, itsn1, larp6, sptan1, tpm1 and robo1); one, which is involved in the synthesis of membrane-anchors (pign) and two universal regulators of gene expression (cugbp1 and max). Conclusions/Significance: For the first time, this study investigates changes in splicing in the physiological response to hypoxia on a genome-wide scale. Nine alternative splicing events, until now not related to hypoxia, are reported, considerably expanding the information on splicing changes due to low oxygen supply. Therefore, this study provides further knowledge on hypoxia induced gene expression changes and presents new starting points to study the hypoxia adaptation of endothelial cells.
- Analysis of splicing sensitive microarrays (2013)
- Due to recent technical developments, it became evident that the mammalian transcriptome is much more complex than originally expected. Alternative splicing(AS) and the transcription of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are two phenomenas which have been greatly underestimated in their frequency. Nowadays it is accepted that almost every gene has at least one alternative isoform and the number of lncRNAs exceeds the one of protein-coding genes. We built user-friendly web interfaces which can process Affymetrix GeneChip Exon 1.0 ST Arrays (exon arrays) and GeneChip Gene 1.0 ST Arrays (gene arrays)for the analysis of alternative splicing events. Results are presented with detailed annotation information and graphics to identify splice events and to facilitate biological validations. Based on two studies using exon arrays, we show how our tools were used to profile genome-wide splicing changes under silencing of Jmjd6 and under hypoxic conditions. Since gene arrays are not intended for AS analysis originally, we demonstrated their applicability by profiling alternative splicing events during embryonic heart development. To measure lncRNAs expressions with exon arrays, we completely re-annotation all probes and built a lncRNA specific annotation. To demonstrate the applicability of exon arrays in combination with our annotation, we profiled the expression of tens of thousands of lncRNAs. Further, our custom annotation allows for a detailed inspection of lncRNAs and to distinguish between isoforms, as we validated by RTPCR. To allow for a general usage to the research community, we integrated the annotation in an easy-to-use web interface, which provides various helpful features for the analysis of lncRNAs.


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The Atlanta Thrashers have reassigned defenseman Noah Welch to the Chicago Wolves.
WELCH was recalled on March 14, but did not appear in any games with Atlanta. He has appeared in 39 outings with the Wolves this season, posting 10 assists, 12 points and 48 penalty minutes. The 28-year-old blueliner also holds seventh on the squad with a +8 plus/minus rating.
The Brighton, Mass., native skated in two contests with Atlanta earlier this season. He has tallied nine points (4G, 5A) and 58 penalty minutes in 75 career National Hockey League matchups with Atlanta, the Tampa Bay Lightning, Florida Panthers and Pittsburgh Penguins, spanning parts of five seasons (2006-09, 2010-present).
The Harvard graduate has also accumulated 76 points (19G, 57A) in 235 penalty minutes in 198 career American Hockey League games with the Wolves, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and Rochester Americans from 2005 to present.
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The Atlanta Thrashers have reassigned defenseman Noah Welch to the Chicago Wolves.


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Story and how it is told is an integral part of any MMO. In her latest column, Pokket gives her unique take on, as the title says, cutscenes, story and questing. Read on before lending your voice to the conversation in the comments.
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I think the main crux is that developers lean too much on how things are done in other media when they want to tell their story.
Wall-of-text quests descriptions? Think newspaper articles, they are built the same way.
Cutscenes? Think any movie/film. Yes, even TOR. They work in other BW games because your decisions in conversations really affect the world around you: You're playing the game in those dialogues. They don't work in TOR because simply put, whatever you 'decide' in conversations has no meaning at all. And that makes them superfluous. You're not playing the game, but sitting passively through what might just as well be auto-dialogue.
Now, we all know Half-Life and what it did to the genre of VG in general: It showed us that video games are a unique storytelling medium that has its own tropes and methods of getting a story across effectively: HAVE IT HAPPEN AROUND US WHILE WE PLAY!
And that is precisely why the Death Knight starting area works so well: Because all around us, we see the story, we play a part in it, and it unfurls around us. It takes full advantage of the Game as a medium: You are no passive consumer (movie and text), you are actively playing while the story happens.
And I think that more MMORPG developers should realize that they, too, can use the strengths of video game storytelling instead of relying on crutches borrowed from other media.
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Joined: 7/29/06
Blizzard likes to refer to their storytelling as "story throgh demonstration" which is exactly what you saw with the DK starter area.
This has been prevalent in WoW ever since, there were many epic moments in Cataclysm where, while you're in the action, the story is being played out to you... I think, without question, this is the best presentation layer of stgory I've seen in an MMO. If you haven't leveled through Cataclysm, you owe it to yourself to do so.
They took it a bit "too far" in Cata at some points though, especially in Uldum, because there were some cutscenes there that took control away from your character, which is what I don't like. They should tell it to you in the game world, with you in control of your character.
That's what makes TOR and all BioWare games so... boring to me is that if I wanted to watch actors tell me a story, I'd watch a movie. Instead, I want to EXPERIENCE the story as it's unfolding, and no one does that better than Blizzard.
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Joined: 2/27/07
While I am going to pick on SWTOR because it is the latest in a long line of failures in this industry, it is not the first with this problem, nor will be the last.
SWTOR's failing, too many cutscenes and voice overs. All that expensive fluff that gets boring and unnecessay after awhile. If they had devoted even half of all that work into making a better crafting system and more actual content they would probably not be having the problems with declining populace right now.
While fluff is nice, there is such a thing as too much of it. Stupid developers, can't seem to get that through their thick skulls.
They could have spent 1/4 of the money on SWTOR and still come out with a far better game. No wonder the Bioware founders fled after watching that disaster unfold. I guess they thought that if they could out fluff Blizzard they would have a winning formula. It is quite obvious not one of these designers ever played MMO's for any length of time.
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I think LOTRO did cutscenes right IMO. They only did cutscenes for the main story lines and only for certain ones so I found that they were "special" I really thought I would like the SWTOR story thing, but as Pokket stated after awhile they become boring. They would have been much better served perhaps only doing them for the class story arc and a few quests here and there.
I never minded quest hubs and I still don't. Nowadays there are so many cutscenes I just skip them. That is with the exception of wow. There cutscenes have been far and few and thus I actually find myself watching the full scene in its entirety at least once maybe more. Swtor did have way to many for my liking, and your characters story in GW2 also has to many for my liking. If I'm grinding out the story quest, I want to keep going not stop and watch a cinematic. I think wow gets a pass on a lot of things though from me because its once if those things you just start to appreciate, yes I've been there done that blah blah blah, but at some point in tike you do just slow it down and take it all in. I think GW2 had the sentimental value wow has for so many, I could see myself soaking it in as well, but its a greasy game, it probably has its peak number of players playing right now ( until tonight :-) and its the best time to be advancing in GW2 and there won't be another primetime like right now for GW2. Fast forward 3 years, its just not going to have the players coming back and enjoying cinematics like wow will and does.
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.
SWTOR went overkill on the cut scenes. Every quest, every side quest. Eventually you just space barred though them all. It is a shame that they put 90% of the content into cutscenes and not playable content.
Hopefully new mmo's will learn from that and never make that mistake again. There needs to be a balance between playable content vs cut scenes. I think cutscenes can be nice in story telling, but when your doing daily repeatable, nobody wants to hear the story of the 3 sith brothers who went into the cave over and over again.
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I enjoyed the cutscenes in TSW the most of any game so far.
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Question: Why do you write an article about story, cutscenes and questing and NOT write about Secret World?? Because it wins in every category by a long shot? Sorry but this article is incomplete
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I'm not a big fan of how most MMO's do "Story" and specificaly thier use of cutscenes because it severely limits the characters ability to have some creative input into the narrative of the game. It basicaly assigns you the role of "actor" in a script someone else wrote for you, rather then a "role-player" or player in the game world who's actions have some effect over your own destiny.
Coming from the MUD world, which is about as "sandbox" as you can get, they have loads more story then most, so called, story driven MMO's. They take an entirely different approach, though, it's entirely based on live events where there is a GM controling an NPC, spawning mobs and firing of "atmospherics", they even have methods of changing the game environments in response to what's happening. This allows for a great deal of creative input into the story on the part of the players. Such events also tend to "cascade" into vastly larger number of players then were actualy directly involved in the event itself, as other players REACT to the event and start to interact with other players in interesting ways who's reactions might have been different (e.g. formation of rival factions, etc). Then of course there are the player driven/initiated events where the players are essentialy pro-actively creating thier own mini-storylines for others to interact with. I've even seen GM'spick these up and get involved in ones that have grown significantly enough. Point is that the world is not a static, prescripted place but rather an environment that is constantly evolving and changing based on what is happening and much of that shaped by player input. There are tons of story's going on all the time, and every player has thier own.
That is not to say that the GM's must surrender ALL control over the environment and story arcs, for the world is a much bigger place then just the players and thier are forces much more powerfull then they moving within it. That is another way to show story within a game environment, and one where cutscenes can even be used. That is to show or hint at events that are transpiring in the world of which the players have no direct control and are merely witnesses. For example, you could show the characters a fight between 2 dragons in the sky in the far distance. The key here is that you are never actualy assuming control over the player characters and dictating to them how they must interact with the story. For example you wouldn't have a cutscene where the character must say "Yes General, I agree to serve you and investigate the dragons" .... that takes control away from the player. Taking control away from the player and how thier character acts is a cheap and amaturish way of introducing story into a game. If you must have a situation where the player has no input into an event...simply allow them to be witness to the event in a way they could not possibly interact with it...whether witnessing from afar, having it come to them in a vision, seeing it in a magical scrying devices, etc. Those are ways to add drama and story into a game without turning the player into a robot. YMMV.
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What does "story" mean?
The examples cited in the article suggest situational / historical context intended to create a frame around in-game content. Seemingly, these frames come in two flavors: a way of making in-game content feel larger than it is; or, a way of deliberately making in-game content more narrow by suggesting to players the ways they're "supposed" to interact with it.
IMO, both of these ways of thinking about how to write fiction in an MMO miss what's interesting about the new medium. They're trying to force MMO fiction to behave like pre-MMO fictional media.
There's a linearity to these backstories which conflicts with the way events unfold in MMOs. They have a pre-MMO structure, where "Things are the way they are now because x happened --> and then y happened because of x --> and then z happened because of y --> and that's how we got to where we are now --> thus, here's what you're supposed to do in this world / quest / zone / etc.." But, MMOs themselves explode those contraint structures. Think of a simple fork in the road, with a sign saying "Hey, you should go this way -->". What's the point of putting a sign there to try to constrain the behaviors of participants? Isn't a cutscene simply a more sophisticated road sign?
To me, this all implies that MMO content authors are still trying to figure out how the new medium works. For example, for a while after invention of the movie camera, early commercial films were simple, static, one camera documentations of stage plays. It took several years for filmmakers to evolve the techniques and conventions we take for granted today: more than one camera; cuts between camera angles; close-ups, wide angles, dissolves, and so on. Eventually those static one-camera films came to be seen as backward-looking and self-limiting. I believe this is what y'all are experiencing now when you point out that cutscenes etc. feel unsatisfactory: that kind of fictional frame around MMO content fundamentally misses what the medium is about.
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For me, playing an MMO is mostly about participating in an interactive story. For anyone to complain about the cutscenes getting in the way of levelling, just sounds silly to me. Its like saying the game was getting in the way of the game.
Right now everyone at mmorpg and really the entire gaming community except for a small handful of haters is sleeping, trying to rest up for mists of pandaria. Once the gake hits, they are going to logon and hit the first quest hub, complain about quest hubs, click accept, then go do the quest, after about 3 or 4 quests they will completely forgot about complaining about quest hubs and be so immersed in character progression it won't even matter. World of Warcraft!!! It's never going to die!!!
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Originally posted by divmax
I think that cut scenes when done correctly can enhance the story, but in some cases they can be intrusive and ruin it.
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Good article Pokket!
TSW has to many cut scenes as well, everytime you meet a new NPC with a quest a cut scence is played. If you repeat a quest the same cut scene is played. It is nice to get a feel for the npc you are trying to help and also tells an over all story but they could reduce some of it. The other issue I have is that my character never speaks even when the NPC asks questions.
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Originally posted by Yakamomoto
I would have to agree! TSW has the best cut scenes out of all of them in my opinion. I can only think that Pokket hasn't played TSW...
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Yep, echo that TSW has the best store/lore, voice acting and cutscenes I've ever seen in an mmo.
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I think your post hit's the nail exactly on the head. Many MMO Developers either don't understand how to work under the new paradigm or they are frightened about some of the implications of working under the new paradigm....so they aren't really able to take advantage of alot of the functionality that a paradigm like an MMO can open up.
Ironicaly, it was many of the older online games (MUD's/MUSH's) and some of the early MMO's where the developers seemed more comfortable working under the new paradigm or more willing to experiment with it. Perhaps because for them it wasn't really a new paradigm, it was simply an extension of the sort of game mediums (PnP RPG's) they had grown up playing.
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Conquering tomorrow, one today at a time.
Originally posted by Yakamomoto
Because I am not going to write about a game I wasn't interested in and didn't play. I got to experience some of the game in beta, but it just didn't get me hooked to the game and, ultimately, I didn't want to spend money on it when I had other games I wanted to buy (I'm poor :s). I'm not saying the game was bad. I'm just saying it wasn't my cup of tea. And I don't really agree with doing a report that analyzes games and you include games you have very little experience with ^.^
On that note, that's why you all should leave comments! If you think TSW had great cutscenes, you're obviously welcome to comment. Heck, I want to go back and give the game another chance now just to see for myself again @_@ lol


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Olson has served as Editor & Curator at Rhizome, the inaugural curator at Zero1, and Associate Director at SF Camerawork. She's contributed to many major journals & books and this year Cocom Press published Arte Postinternet, a Spanish translation of her texts on Postinternet Art, a movement she framed in 2006. In 2015 LINK Editions will publish a retrospective anthology of over a decade of her writings on contemporary art which have helped establish a vocabulary for the criticism of new media. Meanwhile, she has also curated programs at the Guggenheim, New Museum, SFMOMA, White Columns, Artists Space, and Bitforms Gallery. She has served on Advisory Boards for Ars Electronica, Transmediale, ISEA, the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, Creative Capital, the Getty Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Kennedy Center, and the Tribeca Film Festival.
Olson studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, and Rhetoric & Film Studies at UC Berkeley. She has recently been a visiting artist at Yale, SAIC, Oberlin, and VCU; a Visiting Critic at Brown; and Visiting Faculty at Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and Ox-Bow. She previously taught at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' new media graduate program (ITP) and was Assistant Professor of New Media at SUNY-Purchase's School of Film & Media Studies. She was recently an Artist-in-Residence at Eyebeam & is currently Visiting Critic at RISD.
Choosy Moms Choose GIF
It's no secret that the Rhizome staff loves animated gifs. The best to roll through our feed readers are often reblogged to our front page, and in 2005 we presented The GIF Show, an exhibition of 12 artists using animated gifs to make new work. When we heard about the upcoming "Graphics Interchange Format" exhibition, we knew we had to share the news. Curated by Laurel Ptak, keeper of the popular I Heart Photograph blog, the show at emerging Brooklyn art space Bond Street Gallery features 67 animated gifs made by 26 artists, including Rhizome's own staff writer Tyler Coburn, Petra Cortright, C. Coy, Ilia Ovechkin, M. River, Trevor Shimizu, Jo-ey Tang, Anne De Vries, and Damon Zucconi. Some of the artists are among the net's gif stars and others made their first gifs for the show--they were all commissioned on three days' notice by Ptak and are being sold in unlimited editions (accompanied by a personalized note from the artist) for $20, instigating "gif shop" puns across the net art blogosphere. The curator promises a show that will demonstrate the diversity of what this beloved file format has come to prove capable of since its inception by CompuServe in 1987. Nonetheless, as a show nestled within a group show of group photo shows, called "Young Curators, New Ideas," the artists were encouraged to use photographic media and the resultant works are poised to trigger references to the history of lens-based practices and proto-filmic experimental cell animation. Either that or they will just flicker their way into your hearts as they clearly have ours. - Marisa Olson
Image: M. River, Safarirafas, 2008
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Designer/researcher Greg J. Smith has curated an online exhibition that surveys twelve of the most influential mapping-related new media projects of the last ten years. "City of Nodes" is the 21st show presented by CONT3XT.NET, who use social bookmarking site del.icio.us as a platform for their TAGallery. The sites Smith selected actually skim the longstanding relationship between tagging and urban studies, with a focus on cartography and locative media. In his curatorial introduction (in this case, a "tag description"), Smith synthesizes Lewis Mumford's late-1930s conception of the city as "a nexus of social, creative, and economic collaboration," in contrast to William J. Mitchell's '90s era take on cities as including "not only asphalt and concrete, but bandwidth, code, and connectivity." This is the filter through which the twelve selected projects are viewed. They include the seminal Amsterdam Realtime (2002) project by Esther Polak and Jeroen Kee (the Waag Society) in which GPS devices worn by volunteers create a comparative portrait of the personal occupation of the city; iSee (2005), the Institute for Applied Autonomy's web-based program for locating CCTV cameras throughout a city and planning your travel route accordingly; and One Block Radius, Dave Mandl and Christina Ray's (a.k.a. Glowlab's) psychogeographic documentary of the immediate neighborhood surrounding what was then the future site of the new New Museum building. Given that so many of the selected projects are about tracing a collective experience, the folksonomic curatorial platform seems a perfect one on which to contemplate the work, with guest-curators' tags suggesting an interpretation before inviting viewers to travel off on their own. - Marisa Olson
Image: David Rokeby, Seen, 2002
Rock Me Amadeus
Australian artist Lynette Wallworth is bringing a high tech touch to this year's Mostly Mozart festival at New York's venerable Lincoln Center. At first glance, the pairing of a new media installation artist with a celebration of an old dead white guy's music may seem formulaically nouveau, but Wallworth's interactive works bring a nice visual meditation on this year's festival theme: mortality and transcendence. If anyone could speak from the grave about this topic, it's Mozart, the legend of whose death surrounds the mythologizing of his oeuvre and who has been the subject of remixes (or variations, as the ancients call them) by a number of significant classical composers. Wallworth's video installations Hold Vessel 1 and 2 and Invisible by Night create a truly immersive space, one which relies on the viewer to proactively enter and activate these areas. In Hold Vessel 1 and 2, viewers carry a bowl-shaped screen into the room, to capture "projected images of microscopic marine life and telescopic astronomical imagery." The physical analogy here seems equal parts panning for gold and holding the whole world in your hands, with the artist's expressed intention being that of revealing "the hidden intricacies of human immersion in the wide, complex world." Invisible by Night uniquely engages the context of the Lincoln Center complex, which is not only a family of concert halls but also a shopping center, luxury apartment building, and corporate headquarters. Wallworth encourages visitors to slow down, ponder the emotional history of the site, and practice empathy in engaging with video footage of a grieving woman whose gestures will mirror those of viewers who elect to touch the projection surface. The piece is meant to speak to "the transient nature of compassion," and the interactive installation format's ...
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Los Angeles-based artist Xtine Hanson calls her Mechanical Olympics "an alternative media spectacle to the Olympic games." Indeed, the project humorously turns the otherwise tightly-regulated machinery of both web commerce and international sports competition on their heads. Launching simultaneously with the Beijing games, on August 8th, The Mechanical Olympics invite the public to compete in sports previously restricted to people of specific genders and nationalities. The artist has enlisted participants via Amazon's Mechanical Turk site in which users receive paid commissions for completing tasks almost but not quite so simple a machine could complete them, thus joining the ranks of participatory projects like AddArt, Sheep Market, and Ten Thousand Cents, which also employed this service. Hanson likens this playful outsourcing of labor to working with artificial intelligence. Nonetheless, it's clear that her worker bees are bringing a hefty dose of personal creativity to this web-based role-playing game. A perusal of the videos thus far uploaded to The Mechanical Olympics' YouTube channel features Starbucks baristas working overtime to put their own spin on the classic sport of Hockey, and the woman who represents South Africa in the Freestyle Swimming event could win a gold medal in charm for her combined use of a spray bottle and trippy arm movements. When accepting one of the project's Human Intelligence Tasks (or HITs), the athletes agree to wear a pre-designed sign indicating their sport, gender, and country (they get to pick their own number) and to be paid between $1-3 dollars upon emailing Hanson a URL to their 30-60 second video. The footage will be posted daily, during the Olympics, and voted upon by blog readers. Rather than medals, the winning artificial Olympians receive bonus commissions, much like their more famous counterparts whose accomplishments score them lucrative endorsement deals. - Marisa Olson ...
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In the days of DIY online publishing, what we once knew as agitprop has increasingly taken the form of parasitic media. In such projects, activists leech qualities from the web presence of the host they intend to critique and use these visual resemblances (logos, site maps, page layouts, even URLs) to mimic their opponent in parallel sites that shoot off rather rhizomatically. Like a scientific parasite, the activist lives off the host, but what really thrives is the self-referential critique enabled by this form of parody. The Italian collective, Les Liens Invisibles, excels at initiatives such as these. In their open source project, Fake is a Fake, they make it easy for internet users with access to free Word Press blogging software to mimic high profile sites like news and government agencies, while inserting their own statements. "If at one time or another in your life you wanted to speak with 'the master's voice,'" they say, "then you are ready for our brand new fake-publishing services!" Constantly updated and refined by a group of devoted developers, the list of available spoofs continues to grow. Their most recent (ironically credited to Luther Blissett, the open source nom de plume--taken from the given name of a Jamaican footballer--originated in Italy for hundreds of worldwide activists) uses the upcoming games in Beijing as a backdrop for discussing China's attitude towards human rights. In the announcement of the Peking 2008 site, they declared, "While the Olympic curtain softly falls on the Chinese repression in Tibet, the imaginary art-group Les Liens Invisibles celebrates the upcoming Olympic Games with a new fake-based hybridation between art, activism, and advertising strategies." The ubiquity and recognizability of branded messages make them particularly vulnerable to such forms of plagiarism. The artists' disclaimer for Fake is a ...


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A lawsuit against the City of Georgetown and several public officials continues, as the plaintiff, James Marty Tennant, has filed objections to the report and recommendation issued by a magistrate judge in U.S. District Court June26.
The lawsuit is a civil rights case, involving one violation of amendment rights, one allegation of conspiracy denying protection of those rights, and four pendant state law claims.
In total, six causes of action. The magistrates report, which was filed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bristow Marchant, recommended the first and second claims be dismissed because, in the first claim no violation of Tennants rights was proved, and in the second Tennant did not provide evidence meeting all requirements to prove a conspiracy.
The suit also involved four state law claims, which the report recommended be dismissed without prejudice so Tennant could pursue the matters in state court.
Each party, starting with the plaintiff, is given a chance to file objections to the recommendation before the district judge reviews the case and makes a final ruling.
Tennants plaintiff objection was filed Aug. 4.
In his opening objection, he asks the district judge to reverse the magistrates approval of the Defendants motion for summary judgement. He warns allowing the report will endorse bullying and threats of violence as accepted official speech by public officials in retaliation to the protected speech of private, ordinary citizens.
The introduction also states accepting the report will effectively criminalize speech that was not criminal in nature and that was spoken as part of a private citizens normal and long accepted exercise of their first amendment right to criticize their government.
In opposition of the recommendation for the first claim, Tennant has several objections.
First, he disputes the sequence in which the magistrate addressed dismissing charges. The magistrate first dismissed the City of Georgetown, then Mayor Jack Scoville, and then Councilman Brendon Barber; Tennant argues it should be the opposite.
He also argues the judge used unfounded factual findings to make his determination, including a claim that Tennant started his presentation by addressing Barber rather than the council as a whole, and that he and Barber got into a brief personal dispute.
He also argues, in opposition to the magistrates statement that it would have been justifiable for the mayor to remove Tennant from the meeting, that one must conclude that the Magistrate believes Defendant Barber is above the law as it was Barber, not the Plaintiff, that did not abide by the rules of Council.
The report identified Mayor Scovilles comment, Why didnt we think about doing that before? as an obviously facetious comment.
Tennant argues that while both Scoville and Barber said the comment was a joke, the mayor contradicted himself by saying in court it was probably, an inappropriate comment.
Tennant also states the mayor should have gaveled and removed Barber from the meeting but did not.
The objection claims the report is unfair because it attempts to [weigh] the evidence and [determine] the truth, something reserved for the jury. Also, all justifiable inferences appear to have been given to the Defendants and not to the Plaintiff.
Tennant argues he was scared off from the meeting, and did not leave voluntarily.
In conclusion, in his objection to the recommendation for the first claim, he ends with an argument that the City of Georgetown should not be dismissed from litigation as all parties on city council were at fault: Barber threatened Plaintiff, ignored the Mayors gavel and was never disciplined. Scoville endorsed Barbers behavior and never enforced the ordinance requiring disruptive speakers to be removed. This was all done in front of the City Council and they never objected, during or after, in an official manner .
With regard to the second claim, the magistrate wrote it was to be dismissed because in order to prove a conspiracy, the evidence must show there was no rational basis for the difference in treatment.
Tennant argues he was treated differently, and that he did show there was no rational basis for the different treatment. Plaintiffs Memorandum clearly shows disparity of treatment and due process violations, but it was ignored in the R&R, the opposition states.
A second part of the claim dismissal states the Plaintiff does not dispute this evidence . Tennant responded, Plaintiff has vigorously disputed the evidence cited above.
He also disputes the magistrates statement that Tennant has a problem with the way the city responds to FOIA requests.
He argues this is not about how the City responds to Plaintiffs FOIA requests. Its about how the City impermissibly criminalized Plaintiffs protected right to criticize government officials and subjected him, and only him, to police presence requirements without due process .
After making several general objections at the conclusion of his objection document, Tennant ended with a plea the court review his documents and reject the fatally flawed Report and Recommendation.
The defendants will also have an opportunity to file objections to the report and recommendation before U.S. District Judge Richard M. Gergel gives the final ruling on the case.
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With just a few precincts left unreported, Wells was ahead with 66 percent with 7,241 votes. Vaughters had 3,678 votes cast for her. Results from the precincts not yet reported are not expected to be counted and released until sometime Wednesday, according to an Aiken County Elections official.
Wells was contacted Tuesday evening with the results thus far but did not want comment until the final results were in.
Vaughters said Tuesday night that she just wanted to thank all who helped her become a petition candidate.
Wells, R-Aiken, is serving his second term as an at-large member of City Council – he was first elected in 2005. Vaughters, who was a petition candidate for the seat, served on Council for eight years, having first been elected in 2001.
The House District 81 seat is currently held by Rep. Tom Young who ran uncontested for the Senate District 24 seat Tuesday – longtime Senator Greg Ryberg retired this year.
If Wells wins the seat, that leaves an at-large spot on Council open starting as soon as he's sworn in. A special election would be held in March for the at-large seat but when the term expires in 2013, it then would be a single-district seat.
The City of Aiken was pre-cleared by the Justice Department which allows them to go from the current four single-member districts and two at-large format and makes them all single-districts leaving the Mayor at large.
Wells received a business degree from Tennessee Temple University and owns Park Avenue Paints.
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This past weekend, Delegate Joshua Nelson (R-Boone) and his father Mark Nelson were guests on the Mike Huckabee show on Fox News with former Governor and former Presidential Candidate, Mike Huckabee.
The topic of the segment that Delegate Nelson appeared on was about coal.
The show played a clip of President Obama during the campaign last year speaking about how coal, oil, and natural gas production had increased and then another clip of this past week's press conference where the president has called on even stricter regulations on coal fired power plants even though the coal industry is staggering.
Governor Huckabee asked Delegate Nelson how these new regulations would hurt the industry, which appears to be hanging by a thread.
Nelson said that it could potentially crush the industry leading to even more layoffs and higher unemployment.
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Governor Huckabee asked Delegate Nelson's father Mark, what his thoughts were about the Obama Administration declaring a "War on Coal" as well.
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Lions Shoot Down Hawks
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HAMBURG, NY – Penn State Behrend (14-3, 10-2) jumped out to a 14-4 lead and raced past Hilbert (3-15, 2-9), 78-43 on January 25 at the Hafner Recreation Center. This is the second time the AMCC opponents faced each other this season.
After what was a close couple of minutes with almost even play between the teams, the Lions made it rain from three-point land, shooting 50% in the first half. Penn State Behrend held a 44-17 advantage at halftime. Hilbert shot just 26% from the floor in the first half.
Sophomore Natalie Whitman led the Hawks, and all scorers, with 14 points, followed closely by some solid play from freshman Sarah Lorusso {in photo to right}, who contributed nine points for the game.
For the Lions, four players reached double-digits in scoring, with Brittany Wilwohl having 12 points. Holly Bourquin and Julia Myers each tallied 11 points, and Brianna Bayly chipped in with 10.
Hilbert continues their AMCC play with a road game Saturday, January 28 to Pitt-Greensburg at 4pm.
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. --- The Chattanooga Mocs and Lady Mocs 2012-13 squads are on display for the first time Tuesday night at 7 p.m., for the annual Memorial Blue-Gold Tipoff Presented by Praters. This year's Blue-Gold extravaganza returns to McKenzie Arena after a few years in the First Tennessee Pavilion.
The Mocs open the evening with a 10-minute half of scrimmage. That is followed by the Lady Mocs providing a 10-minute playing session. The men return to the floor for the second half of their play for the evening.
There are several promotions and game activities, highlighted by a costume contest for students. The winner gets a choice of front row seats to the Lady Mocs game with Tennessee in McKenzie Arena on Nov. 9 or a gift card to a local merchant or restaurant.
"It's the first chance to see both teams this season," Interim Director of Athletics Laura Herron stated. "We are very excited about the upcoming year and hope our fans enjoy this first look."
The Lady Mocs are game-ready on Thursday this week, hosting Lee in an exhibition contest at 7 p.m. The season opens the following Friday, November 9, as Tennessee makes its way to the Scenic City for a 7 p.m. tip. Free student tickets are available for the Lady Vols game this Friday in Maclellan Gym following the volleyball matchup with UNCG which begins at 6 p.m.
The Mocs open the season at home on Monday, November 12, against Tennessee Temple at 7 p.m. After a trip to Kansas, they return home to host the CBE Classic Chattanooga Sub-Regional Sunday through Tuesday, November 18-20, with Louisiana Tech, Southeast Missouri and Troy coming to town. There will be two games per night as the teams play a round robin.
Season and single-game tickets for both programs are on sale now at the UTC Ticket Office at (423) 266-MOCS (6627) or online at GoMocs.com.GoMocs.com is the official website of the Chattanooga Mocs. The Mocs can also be followed on their official Facebook page, www.facebook.com/ChattanoogaMocs, or on Twitter, www.twitter.com/GoMocs. Find out how to join the UTC Mocs Club and support more than 300 student-athletes by clicking here.


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Mud Runs planned near Ottawa County FairgroundsWritten by Chase Will | | firstname.lastname@example.com
Adrenaline Rush Sports wants to get you off the couch and out to a mud run.
According to Troy Anthony, who co-founded the company with his wife, Sandy Anthony, the three-mile course and its 23 obstacles were created after growing weary of similar events.
"We built the course to be one we'd like to run," Troy said. "We wanted to see more obstacles, since most of the courses didn't have many."
"We wanted to get people out of their comfort zones," Sandy added. "Troy and I have done several mud runs, and we decided it was time to make one of our own. It's closer to home, and it's got more challenges than most of the courses we've seen."
The company's inaugural event in June drew athletes from as far as Utah, and half the proceeds benefited 10 local charities.
Troy stated one of his favorite obstacles is the 12-foot rope climbing wall, which leads to a horizontal 16-foot net spanning an open body of mud.
"We also have a 12-foot vertical net climb and a 16-foot cargo net climb," Troy said. "Getting through the water back in the woods is an obstacle on its own. It's quite murky, quite muddy, and you take home a lot of black swamp mud."
Although a basic level of fitness is preferable, the course was designed as a plausible challenge for absolutely anyone.
"Some of the changes we're making for the next obstacle run cater toward the athletic," Troy said. "We'll have the same kind of obstacles, but on the right side there'll be a very aggressive one and on the other side we'll have a secondary choice for others."
The next event, the Black Swamp Dash, is Aug 2-3. Participation costs only $39, which Troy said is nearly half of what similar events charge.
He said the obstacles course will be slightly different with each event so returning athletes won't know what to expect.
"We're going to add some water features to some of the obstacles, that way as you're going over them you're also getting wet," he said.
"The more active participants will pay attention to their times, but everyone can go at their own pace," Sandy said.
The Night of the Dead run is scheduled for Oct 10-11 during the Oak Harbor Apple Festival. This race begins at 7 p.m. both nights, and participants are invited to dress up.
"Generally, people put glow sticks on, and we encourage creativity," Troy said. "Everyone's doing the zombie runs now, and there haven't been a lot of events like ours, so that's our big feature."
Troy added the Ottawa County Fairgrounds has 200 campsites available, so families can plan to make a weekend of the event.
"The Lions Club will be on the course cooking all day, and the Ottawa County Fairgrounds will provide beer," he said.
The Anthony family began constructing the course last November, when Troy cleared a 1.5-mile trail in woods that hadn't been touched in 30 years. After working through the winter, he and Sandy designed and built the obstacles themselves.
"It was the winter that never ended," Troy said.
Adrenaline Rush Sports has also started a volunteer program which offers a tiered payment. This is meant to provide local youth with extra money.
Troy stated the course is maintained once a week minimum and thoroughly tested for safety hazards. All events will also have an emergency medical organization on site.
For more information on Adrenaline Rush Sports and upcoming mud runs, visit www.adrenalinerushsports.net.
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A bit extreme, doncha think?
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A bit extreme, doncha think?
I'm guessing Salman Rushdie can empathize.
Who is blonde,female and living in the south of France? Salman Rushdie.
Yes, bit extreme. Although as for his jail time ... that guy was not supposed to be on the Internet at all. How did he not think that wasn't going to come home to roost? Dumb. Probation violations happen all the time, I'm sure, but that was just asking for it.
I can't comment about his probation violations because I simply do not have enough information and all the facts pertaining to the conditions of his probation. I do think however he is a scapegoat for the unrest the film caused and his arrest is mostly to placate the radical, Islamists.
I find it a borderline paradox that one can put Jesus in a jar of urine and it's OK but simply wink at you know who and half of a country runs around foaming at the mouth.
no, it is not at all extreme...
at least, not from the p.o.v. of just about any sort of totally demented, evil, scum sucking religious bigots...
hey, folks who think as bakazwerds as these brave souls just shot a little girl on a school bus a few weeks back, remember ??!!
c'mon...you expected sanity and realism ??
any religion that seeks to curtail thought against it is simply not a religion worth believing in to begin with...muslim or christian, buddhist or giant spaghetti monsterian
shows a complete utter failing of thier own belief that it cannot sustain a critical thought...even gutter level thought...never mind a cogent, diverse p.o.v.
It makes me wonder.... if the shoe were on the other foot... if some nutjob Muslim who does not represent the majority of his faith were to make a film depicting Jesus in such a way... I just wonder how many extremist Christians would be screaming for his head on a platter? With folks like Mr. Jones (who likes to burn Korans) and his ilk, I am certain we would hear such rhetoric.
Like most unevolved persons, these Muslims who issued a fatwa against someone who basically said something they didn't like, are behaving like toddlers throwing a tantrum. Trouble is, there are those who would indulge it. I pray for the day that people can hold their own beliefs and not be so bothered if someone else doesn't agree. It's a childish and immature trait of humanity that we need to work on eliminating.
well...these nutjobs set about destroying some ancient statues a few years back, because they were not of islam...can't remember where...somewhere in afghanistan, i think, when the taliban first took over ?
and many of them have no problem killing people who choose to leave islam for another religion
a tantrum is one thing...until people start dying
...'course...is any of this that much different than the 'honor' killings throughout other societies/religions...
you're quite right tery...but is education alone (the current tool of the moment) really doing a good enough job at this point...


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The 8mm Mauser cartridge is right at three inches long, just a hair shorter than the 7.62x54R.
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Burnett Sets Pool Record as WVU Falls to Ohio
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - The West Virginia University women's swimming and diving squads squared off against Ohio in its final regular season meet Saturday at the WVU Natatorium. Despite a strong effort by the Mountaineers, they fell to Ohio by a score of 165-135
"It was a good day of racing. The ladies gave a great effort today and it was a good way to see what we need to work on," coach Vic Riggs says. "It was hard watching the last meet of this senior class. They have done so much for the program and raced so hard over the years. I'm very proud of them. Now it's time to get ready for what we do best, swimming our best at Big 12s and NCAAs."
In the last home meet of her storied career at West Virginia, senior Rachael Burnett won the 1,650 free in record fashion, setting a new pool record with a time of 16:59.32. Burnett also won the 100 free and 500 free, with times of 52.25 and 4:59.82, respectively.
The meet started with the 400 medley relay, where the team of Courtney Miller, Jenelle Zee, Mandie Nugent and Jaimee Gillmore placed second with a time of 3:52.63.
Nugent also won the 200 free and the 200 fly, with times of 1:53.77 and 2:04.93, respectively. In the 100 fly, Julie Ogden won the event with a time of 56.96, while Nugent followed close in second with a time of 57.23.
In the 100 back, Miller scored points for the Mountaineers in a third-place finish (1:00.50), while Zee placed second in the 100 breast with a time of 1:05.90.
Gillmore placed third in the 50 free with a time of 24.49.
In the 200 back, Austen Carrington placed third with a time of 2:08.83. In the 200 breast, senior Breanna McCann placed second with a time of 2:24.12, while Zee placed third in the event with a time of 2:26.71. Freshman Kelsey Frantz placed third in the 500 free with a time of 5:05.00. McCann also placed second in the 200 IM in a time of 2:08.54
In the other relay of the day, the 200 free relay team of Eva Burlingham, Ogden, Gillmore and Burnett won the event with a time of 1:36.80.
For the WVU diving squad, sophomore Haily VandePoel continued her impressive season with a first place finish on the 3-meter with a score of 305.07. She also placed fourth on the 1-meter with a score of 252.22.
The Mountaineers are off until the Big 12 Championships in Austin, Texas. The competition runs from Feb. 27-March 2. A recap of each day's action will be available at WVUsports.com
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ELKIN — A registered child sex offender was snagged last week by an Elkin police officer after being seen on school property.
Steven Curtis Wood, 41, of Elkin was charged with Sex Offender Unlawfully on Child Premise on Nov. 19 and arrested just outside Elkin Elementary, according to an Elkin Police Department report.
According to the police report, the incident occurred when Wood accompanied a female friend to pick up her son at the elementary school.
School officials state that no children were in danger. Wood never exited the vehicle, but the vehicle was on school property.
State law places a safe buffer zone, a 300-foot barrier against offenders, thus prohibiting them from being anywhere near children.
With Wood's 1998 conviction of attempted rape and indecent liberty of a minor on a Wilkes County child, he is required to register under North Carolina's Sex Offender Registration Program.
That's how he was recognized.
Elkin Schools Superintendent Dr. Randy Bledsoe said the incident is "isolated, but shows how effective the system is and how the current procedures designed to safeguard children really works."
The school district credits Elkin police officer Mendy Peles, who observed Wood leaving school property. According to police records, Peles recognized Wood as being on the state's sex offender database. With support of Elkin police officer Brooks, who was also on traffic duty, Peles moved in and made the arrest.
After the incident was under control, Peles informed Kevin Hall, resource officer for the Elkin school district, and Hall pulled in school authorities. The superintendent was notified immediately.
Though most of the parents and students were unaware of the incident, the school district informed faculty and parents. The timely notice to parents was released within 24 hours and after a police investigation was completed.
Bledsoe stressed his appreciation on partnering with law enforcement.
"The work behind-the scenes between law enforcement and the school district shows how we're in this together," said Bledsoe. "It's symbolic of the work we do in Elkin."
The zero-tolerance strategy toward keeping sex offenders in check and immediately arresting predators who violate state statute sends a clear message, say residents.
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Symeon C. Symeonides
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- LL.B. (Public Law) Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), summa cum laude
- LL.B. (Private Law) Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), summa cum laude
Symeon C. Symeonides received his first two law degrees (in private and public law) from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki in Greece and the next two (an LL.M. and an S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School. In 2012, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Thessaloniki, and, in 2014, an honorary Ph.D. degree in Social and Pedagogical Sciences from the University of Cyprus. He began his teaching career in 1976 at the University of Thessaloniki and in 1978 he continued at the Louisiana State University Law Center, where he became the Judge Albert Tate Professor of Law (1987) and vice chancellor (1991-97). He joined Willamette in 1999 as dean of the College of Law. He has lectured at the prestigious Hague Academy of International Law and several European and American universities, and has taught at the universities of Paris-I (Sorbonne), Paris-V (Descartes), Aix-en-Provence, Louvain-la-Neuve, Tulane and Loyola (New Orleans).
Symeonides has authored or co-authored 24 books and 112 articles, some of which have been published in Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish. He has been characterized as a "conflicts giant" (60 Stanford L. Rev. 247, at 249 (2007)) and "perhaps the world's leading expert on comparative conflicts law today." (The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law 1363, at 1380 (2006)). His work has been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States and the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (formerly House of Lords) and has received numerous laudatory reviews. The May 2005 issue of the Michigan Law Review characterized one of Symeonides' books as a "brilliant contribution to legal theory, an impressive, original, one-of-a-kind book," as well as "engrossing" and "often magnetic, a page-turner." The American Journal of Comparative Law (Vol. 52:4) praised Symeonides for "his path-breaking work on choice-of-law codification and his penetrating critiques of conflicts law and theory" and for the fair-minded tone and substance of his scholarship, noting that Symeonides "has continuously demonstrated that exercise of a sharp, critical mind does not require antagonism, that one can present important and original work without condemning the work of others, [and] that theory and critique can be both intelligible and profound."
His scholarly work has been honored with numerous awards. A resolution of the AALS Section of Conflict of Laws praised his "enormously influential" and "extraordinarily helpful" publications (1998). The Louisiana Law Review published A Tribute to Symeon C. Symeonides, a collection of articles by 26 prominent American and international academics (2000). The Asociación Americana de Derecho Internacional Privado (ASADIP) honored Symeonides for "his outstanding career and his exceptional contribution to the advancement of private international law" (2010), and the Academia Mexicana de Derecho Privado y Comparado (AMEDIP) named its 34th national congress "en honor del Dr. Symeon Symeonides" (2011). The American Society of Comparative Law awarded him the Friedrich K. Juenger Prize in Private International Law (2002) and the Courtland H. Peterson Senior Scholar Prize (2013). Willamette University awarded him the Robert L. Misner Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship(2012).
In 2013, Symeonides was elected member of the Institut de Droit International, the oldest and most prestigious international law organization. This is the highest distinction in international law, if only because the Institute's membership is limited and must be representative of all regions of the world. Only six other Americans are members of the Institute.
Symeonides is president of the International Association of Legal Science, past president of the American Society of Comparative Law, chair of the AALS Section of Conflicts of Laws, titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, life member of the American Law Institute, member of the Groupe Européen de Droit International Privé (GEDIP), Phi Beta Kappa, the Order of the Coif, and the Oregon Law commission, and fellow of the European Law Institute.
Professor Symeonides has been active in law reform. He has drafted: Book IV of the Louisiana Civil Code on Conflict of Laws; the new law of leases for the same state; the Oregon statute on choice of law for tort conflicts; and a Draft Code of Private International Law for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. He also has provided legislative advice to the European Union Parliament and the governments of the Russian Federation, Estonia and Tunisia. Symeonides spent the second half of 2012 in Brussels, working on law reform for the European Union. He chaired five working groups consisting of representatives of the 27 EU Member States and drafting laws on: jurisdiction and judgment recognition; sales; cross-border freezing of bank accounts; matrimonial property disputes; and property disputes between same-sex partners. He also represented the Presidency of the EU Council in negotiating a new international Convention on Choice of Law for International Contracts.
His teaching subjects include Conflict of Laws, Comparative Law, International Litigation and Property.
In March 2009, Symeonides was named the Alex L. Parks Distinguished Professor of Law at Willamette University.
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