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Walmart's Mexico Bribes

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2012/12/walmart-mexico-bribes

The New York Times has a 7,500-word major investigative article that runs under the headline "The Bribery Article: How Wal-Mart Used Payoffs To Get Its Way In Mexico." From the article:

Thanks to eight bribe payments totaling $341,000, for example, Wal-Mart built a Sam's Club in one of Mexico City's most densely populated neighborhoods, near the Bas?lica de Guadalupe, without a construction license, or an environmental permit, or an urban impact assessment, or even a traffic permit.

Let me stipulate loud and clear that I am against bribes. But what the article doesn't really explore is the link between regulation and corruption. One of the reasons that these extensive regulations are often a bad idea is that they don't actually achieve their stated goals. Instead, they create opportunities for regulators to shake down companies and individuals for either clearly illegal gifts like bribes or borderline legal benefits like campaign contributions, revolving-door job offers, or the prospect of lucrative future consulting work or speaking fees.

The article makes Walmart (and by extension, big business or global capitalism) out as the villain. But equally culpable are the Mexican officials who accepted the bribes. The Times article seems to let them off pretty easily.

I'm not familiar with how it works in Mexico. But in cities I have covered here in America, you get these environmental or traffic permits by hiring former city or county government officials as consultants to write reports and meet with their former colleagues. Or by hiring lobbyists who also work as campaign consultants and campaign fundraisers for the politicians who make the decisions. It may not be as nakedly corrupt as Mexico, but it's the same general idea of regulations that, rather than protecting people, serve to enrich the people who write the regulations.

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Baseball-bat killer gets federal death sentence

NEW HAVEN -- For the first time in Connecticut's federal court history, a judge sentenced a defendant to death for the brutal baseball-bat beatings of three duct-taped victims in a Bridgeport apartment house.

Azibo Aquart, minus the customary dreadlocks that earned him the street name `Dreddy," showed no emotion while U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton handed down the sentence imposed by a jury on June 15, 2011.

She ordered Aquart, 32, taken to the special confinement unit at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., where he will join 57 others on death row.

The judge also ordered a portion of Aquart's future puny prison job earnings be used to repay the $17,106 funeral expenses the three victims' families incurred.

"He should be treated like the animal he is," said Latavia Whittingham, a daughter of Tina Johnson, one of the victims. "What he did is characteristic of an animal. I will never find it in my heart to forgive him.

But imposition of the sentence won't came anytime soon.

Michael Sheehan, one of Aquart's court-appointed, lawyers, said appeals will be filed.

Aquart, the reputed head of a crack trafficking ring that operated out of an apartment house at 215 Charles St., was convicted in 2011 of planning, ordering and participating in the murders of Tina Johnson, a small time rival; her boyfriend, James Reid and a family friend, Basil Williams. Aquart led a group which included his brother, Azikiwie, who is serving a life sentence, dressed in black wearing ski masks and vinyl gloves.

During the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 24, 2005, they broke into Johnson's first floor apartment, bolted the door shut from the inside and mummified the trio in duct tape.

One of the participants, John Taylor, testified that Azibo that grabbed a baseball bat and beat Johnson and Williams to death while his brother battered Reid.

Taylor, who was sentenced to nine years in prison for his role, said at one point Azibo offered him the bat and asked him "if you want some of this."

A fourth participant, Efrain Johnson, is awaiting a mandatory life sentence.

On Monday, Whittingham addressed the court and related how on the first day of Aquart's 2011 trial two years ago "he looked at me and told me `it was business, nothing personal.' "

"You were extremely wrong. It was extremely personal," she said. "When the jury came back and said death, it made me feel better -- a whole lot better."

She then told Arterton: "He will never do that to anyone ever again ... Forgiveness is something I will never have in my heart."

Whittingham, who is due to give birth Jan. 20, said the daughter she is carrying will be named Tina, after her mother.

Eleanor Layne, Williams's sister-in-law, told the judge his death occurred on her daughter's birthday.

"She doesn't celebrate it any more," Layne told the judge. "She just goes to his gravesite."

The death sentence, coming so close to the horrifying massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, was touched on by both the victims' families and Sheehan, the defense lawyer.

Pamela Williams, Basil's sister who lives in Stratford, said listening to accounts of the horrifying events in Newtown caused her to flashback to the gruesome way her brother was battered to death.

"It brought back so many emotions," she said. "I pass by his cemetery every day I go to work. My heart is heavy."

Sheehan said he was numb both by the events in Newtown and the imposition of the death sentence in this courtroom. He termed it another "sad day for Connecticut."

He said the death penalty causes "good people to be "executioners" and "that is a form of sadness."

He claimed the majority of people on death row are "men of color" and he questioned the "politics of disparity."

Aquart is expected to be moved to the Indiana facility in this next few weeks. The two-story facility houses 50 cells and includes an industrial work shop, indoor and outdoor recreations, a food preparation area and a video-teleconferencing room used for court proceedings.

While Aquart is the first Connecticut man to face a federal death penalty, the government executed Louis Jones Jr., a 53-year-old former Gulf War veteran, on March 18, 2003, for raping and killing a 19-year-old female soldier.

Source: http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Baseball-bat-killer-gets-federal-death-sentence-4124674.php

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Gunman Forced Way Into School, Shot 26 Victims Multiple Times

New information from police investigating the school shooting in Connecticut indicate that the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, forced his way into the school on the morning of December 14, killing two school officials as they tried to stop him from making his way to classrooms filled with children. After shooting the principal, 47-year-old Dawn Hochsprung, and 56-year-old Mary Sherlach, the school's psychologist, Lanza proceeded to at least two classrooms, armed with a semi-automatic rifle and a pair of handguns, where he killed 20 children and the four teachers who were trying to protect them.

Law enforcement officials initially said they thought Lanza had been been buzzed into the school by Hochsprung, but it now appears that he breached school security by shooting through a glass door at the entrance, before going on his deadly rampage.

?We're doing everything we need to do to literally peel back the onion [of the investigation], layer by layer,? State Police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said at a news conference. He said they now know that Lanza ?was not voluntarily let into the school. He forced his way in.?

The Los Angeles Times reported that Lanza began the day by killing his mother, Nancy Lanza, in the home they shared, before driving to nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he used firearms belonging to his mother to kill his victims. While it is not clear how many firearms were used, investigators said they found at least one semi-automatic rifle and two handguns at the school, all of them tied to the assault.

According to the New York Times, investigators said Lanza shot his victims, ?first from a distance and then at close range, hitting some of them as many as 11 times, as he fired a semiautomatic rifle loaded with ammunition designed for maximum damage.?

Connecticut State Medical Examiner H. Wayne Carver II said autopsies revealed that most of the children, between six- and seven-years-old, had been shot more than once, saying the wounds were ?all over.? He emphasized that they were ?a very devastating set of injuries.?

From all indications, the adults killed in the incident died in heroic fashion, giving no thought to their own well-being as they attempted to save the children under their care. ?The Newtown school superintendent said the principal and the school psychologist had been shot as they tried to tackle the gunman in order to protect their students,? reported the?Times.

In addition to Hochsprung and Sherlach, the teachers who lost their lives were identified as Rachel Davino, 29; Anne Marie Murphy, 52; Victoria Soto, 27; and Lauren Rousseau, 30, who had just begun as a full-time teacher at the school in September after serving for several years as a substitute. ?It was the best year of her life,? her mother told the Danbury, Connecticut News-Times in a story about her daughter's life.

The New York Times reported that upon hearing the first gunshots, first-grade teacher Victoria Soto shepherded her first graders into closets and cabinets, ?and then, by some accounts, told the gunman the youngsters were in the gym.? A relative told ABC News that Soto died as she ?put herself between the gunman and the kids. She lost her life protecting those little ones.?

Contrary to earlier reports, there appeared to be no direct link between Lanza's mother and the school. ?Investigators said they believe Adam Lanza attended Sandy Hook many years ago, but they had no explanation for why he went there Friday,? reported the Associated Press. ?Authorities said Adam Lanza had no criminal history, and it was not clear whether he had a job.? It did appear, however, that Lanza may have suffered from a personality disorder, and may have been diagnosed with Asperger's, a mild form of autism. It was also reported that the young man was upset over his parents' 2009 divorce.

One classmate said that Adam Lanza was ?always different ? keeping to himself, fidgeting and very quiet. But I could always tell he was a super-smart kid, maybe just socially awkward, something just off about him.?

In a statement Lanza's father, Peter Lanza, said: ?Our family is grieving along with all those who have been affected by this enormous tragedy. No words can truly express how heartbroken we are. We are in a state of disbelief and trying to find whatever answers we can.?

Predictably, the tragedy has ramped up renewed rhetoric about federal gun control. Shortly after the shooting the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence organized a protest in front of the White House, with participants chanting that ?Today is the day? to move ahead with federal restrictions. The gun control group declared in a press release that ?Americans must demand immediate action by our President and Congress to reform our gun laws. This must include legislation requiring background checks on all gun sales, strengthening those background checks ... and renewing the ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.?

While avoiding the highly politicized issue in his initial remarks about the killings, President Obama nonetheless made a subtle suggestion that the federal government would have to do ?something? in response to what he portrayed as an epidemic of gun violence. ?As a country, we have been through this too many times,? said Obama. ?Whether it?s an elementary school in Newtown, or a shopping mall in Oregon, or a temple in Wisconsin, or a movie theater in Aurora, or a street corner in Chicago ? these neighborhoods are our neighborhoods, and these children are our children. And we're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.?

In the hours after the tragedy White House spokesman Jay Carney avoided addressing the issue of gun control when pressed by reporters. ?I think that day will come,? he said, ?but today?s not that day, especially as we are awaiting more information about the situation. I really encourage all of us to give a moment here to focus on what is an unfolding tragedy in Connecticut, and not to engage in Washington policy battles of long running today.?

Nonetheless, according to CNN, Carney said Obama is planning a renewed push for the ban on so-called ?assault?-style firearms ? a long list of semi-automatic rifles that are designed to look like fully automatic military weapons, but function as conventional rifles. Implementing such a ban ?does remain a commitment of his,? said Carney.

Gun control advocates in Congress quickly took the White House cue, raising a chorus for such a ban. ?We cannot simply accept this as a routine product of modern American life,? wept U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY). ?If now is not the time to have a serious discussion about gun control and the epidemic of gun violence plaguing our society, I don't know when is.?

CNN recalled that in 1994 Congress passed a limited ban on some of the rifles, noting that the prohibition, ?which expired in 2004, did not eliminate them, but restricted their features, limiting magazine capacity to 10 rounds and regulating pistol grips, bayonet attachments, and flash suppressors.?

But in a December 15 commentary on the Connecticut shooting Larry Pratt, head of the Second Amendment group Gun Owners of America, argued that the tragedy, and others like it, are the result of federal laws that have made schools and other public places ?gun-free zones.? Pratt wrote that the blood of those killed ?is on the hands of members of Congress and the Connecticut legislators who voted to ban guns from all schools in Connecticut (and most other states). They are the ones who made it illegal to defend oneself with a gun in a school when that is the only effective way of resisting a gunman.?

Pratt noted that all of the mass murders where guns were used in the past 20 years occurred in supposedly gun-free zones. Had the principal, a teacher, or other school employee been armed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on that Friday morning, some have suggested, many of those who perished might have survived, with the gunman being killed before he had a chance to commit so much carnage.

?Hopefully the Connecticut tragedy will be the tipping point after which a rising chorus of Americans will demand elimination of the Gun Free Zone laws that are in fact Criminal Safe Zones,? wrote Pratt. ?One measure of insanity is repeating the same failure time after time hoping that the next time the failure will turn out to be a success. Gun Free Zones are a lethal insanity.?

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Source: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/13941-gunman-forced-way-into-school-shot-26-victims-multiple-times

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Action by 2020 key for limiting climate change

Dec. 16, 2012 ? Limiting climate change to target levels will become much more difficult to achieve, and more expensive, if action is not taken soon, according to a new analysis from IIASA, ETH Zurich, and NCAR.

The new paper, published today in Nature Climate Change, explores technological, policy, and social changes that would need to take place in the near term in order to keep global average temperature from rising above 2?C, a target supported by more than 190 countries as a global limit to avoid dangerous climate change. This study for the first time comprehensively quantifies the costs and risks of greenhouse gas emissions surpassing critical thresholds by 2020. The findings of the study are particularly important given the failure of the recent climate negotiations in Doha to decide to increase mitigation action before 2020.

The authors show that the 2?C target could still be reached even if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced before 2020, but only at very high cost, with higher climate risks, and under exceedingly optimistic assumptions about future technologies. The more emissions are reduced in the near term, the more options will be available in the long run and, by extension, the cheaper it will be to reach international climate targets.

"We wanted to know what needs to be done by 2020 in order to be able to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius for the entire twenty-first century," says Joeri Rogelj, lead author of the paper and researcher at ETH Zurich. The team of researchers analyzed a large array of potential scenarios for limiting global temperature rise to 2 ?C above preindustrial levels, a target set by international climate agreements.

Projections based on current national emissions pledges suggest that global carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions will reach 55 gigatons (billion metric tons, Gt) or more per year in 2020, up from approximately 50 Gt today. At such levels, it would still be possible to reach the 2?C target in the long term, though it would be more difficult and expensive than if near-term emissions were lower.

For instance, nuclear power would need to remain on the table as a mitigation option, or people would need to quickly adopt advanced technology strategies, including electric vehicles and highly efficient energy end-use technologies such as appliances, buildings, and transportation. Meanwhile, coal-fired power plants would need to be rapidly shut down and replaced with other energy sources. IIASA Energy Program Leader Keywan Riahi, who also worked on the study, says, "You would need to shut down a coal power plant each week for ten years if you still wanted to reach the two-degree Celsius target."

"If we want to keep as many options open as possible, we should aim to reduce global emissions to 41 to 47 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year by 2020," says Rogelj. According to the study, the only way to meet the long-term temperature target without carbon capture and storage is to ensure that emissions fall within this near-term range.

"What we do over the next eight years really determines the feasibility and choices that we have in the long term," says Riahi. "Some of these options for policies and technological change are still choices, such as phasing out nuclear power. We lose these choices if we overshoot certain thresholds."

The study goes beyond previous analyses by directly assessing how high emissions in 2020 can go before the long-term target of 2 ?C is no longer attainable. "Under some conditions, the two-degree target is feasible even if we don't reduce emissions at all by 2020," says co-author Brian O'Neill, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. "But if we allow for the possibility that some technologies may not pan out, or are overly costly or have undesirable consequences, then emissions reductions have to start this decade."

"Our analysis shows that we are very dependent on key technologies like carbon capture and storage and on land-consuming measures like afforestation and the cultivation of crops for biofuel production," says Rogelj. "If we want to become less dependent on massive implementation of these technologies to make it below two degrees Celsius, we need to reduce emissions by 2020 and use energy more efficiently."

The study highlights the importance of reducing energy demand and improving efficiency as perhaps the most effective way to mitigate climate change this decade, echoing previous work from IIASA and others (Global Energy Assessment, 2012). In scenarios with lower energy demand growth, the researchers find a much greater chance that global temperatures would not rise more than 2 ?C, with much more flexibility in the methods and technologies required to reduce greenhouse gases.

"Fundamentally, it's a question of how much society is willing to risk," says IIASA energy researcher David McCollum, another study co-author. "It's certainly easier for us to push the climate problem off for a little while longer, but if we do that, then we risk that certain mitigation options may not ultimately be available in the long run. What's more, from the perspective of the global climate system, continuing to pump high levels of emissions into the atmosphere over the next decade only increases the risk that we will overshoot the two-degree target."

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Brooklyn's Interfaith Medical Center to Declare Bankruptcy?

Hospital officials said today that Interfaith Medical Center is planning to declare bankruptcy as soon as this week, according to the New York Times.

Interfaith, serving Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, serves over 250,000 patients a year, mostly Caribbean-Americans and African- Americans.

The Medicaid cutbacks of 2010 played a role, the hospital said.

About a year ago, according to the Brooklyn Eagle, DOH?s Medicaid Redesign Team/ Brooklyn Work Group found that Wyckoff, Interfaith and four other hospitals ?do not have a business model and sufficient margins to remain viable and provide high quality care to their communities as currently structured.?

The hospital hopes for millions in financing from the state, but officials told the Times that no money would be forthcoming unless Interfaith agreed to merge with Brooklyn Hospital -- something Interfaith officials say would be the end of the hospital.

In April, several groups -- including Occupy Wall Street's Healthcare for the 99%, the Granny Peace Brigade and Act Up -- marched over the Brooklyn Bridge for a rally about the Brooklyn hospital crisis.

OWS asked: Why did Gov. Cuomo appointed Stephen Berger, a Wall Street millionaire financier, to be in charge of restructuring health care in Brooklyn?

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Poinsettia Bowl 2012: BYU, San Diego State For Dec. 20 Matchup

SAN DIEGO (AP) ? After earning a share of the Mountain West Conference title for the first time since 1998, San Diego State will face BYU in the Poinsettia Bowl on Dec. 20 at Qualcomm Stadium.

The Aztecs (9-3, 7-1) finished the regular season on a seven-game winning streak to share the conference title with No. 20 Boise State and Fresno State. San Diego State is just two years removed from its last Poinsettia Bowl appearance, a 45-17 victory over Navy in 2010.

The Cougars (7-5), an independent program, lost three regular-season games to ranked teams, including a 17-14 defeat to national championship participant Notre Dame. Four of the Cougars' five losses were by six points or fewer.

The Poinsettia Bowl pits SDSU's powerful rushing offense, averaging 229 yards per game, against a BYU defense allowing just 14.7 points per game.

The Poinsettia Bowl is sponsored by San Diego County Credit Union.

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One father's quest against the misogynistic underbelly of the gaming ...

One father?s quest against the misogynistic underbelly of the gaming?community

Posted by mcclungsonline on November 30, 2012 ? Leave a Comment?

When it got out that Mike Hoye altered the code in the Legend of Zelda game The Wind Waker?to change protagonist Link?s masculine pronouns to feminine ones, he didn?t receive as many death?threats as he thought he would.

?But not none,? he adds. His family and his three-year-old daughter specifically have been?threatened as a result of his decision to do something to make his daughter feel less alienated by a?game.

Women are still generally regarded as ?the other? in the video game community. Sites like?Fat, Ugly, or Slutty?and?Not In?The Kitchen Anymore chronicle the misogynistic abuse women have to deal with when they engage?in their hobby online. Games are usually marketed to men with male protagonists, and women are?NPCs ? non-player characters ? or exist only for eye candy.

?Since I have a daughter growing up who seems to like Dad?s hobbies, I thought there was a?small thing that I could do about that,? Hoye says. When his daughter played the game, she started?identifying with Link as being herself ? she was the one who was saving people and fighting monsters.

He started out reading the dialogue and changing the pronouns as he went, but wanted to make it?easier on himself and for his daughter, since she was reaching reading age. He decided to go in and?change the code itself.

?I?ve been working with computers for a long time and you don?t usually stay in this career for?very long unless you can get obsessive about stuff like this,? he says.

Eventually he succeeded and put?the code up on his personal blog. After that, it took off. The story was reposted in various places,?picked up by Reddit, and then started appearing on sites like Kotaku and Hack a Day. The response to?the story has been polarizing: Hoye says he gets people calling him dad of the year, but there are also?the people who threaten his family.

?The pushback I?ve gotten about this has been remarkable,? he says. It?s not the first time that?there?s been an extreme negative reaction to people who want to change video games ? particularly?changes regarding women?s involvement or depiction. When Anita Sarkeesian started a?Kickstarter page?for a planned video series about women in video games, she received death threats, there was an?organized attempt to get her Kickstarter page taken down, her Wikipedia page was vandalized, and one?person created a game where the point was to punch her face until the screen went red. When?BioWare writer Jennifer Hepler said that she didn?t play video games and that games should have an?option to skip combat, she was also at the centre of a ?vitriolic?backlash. She was called a cunt, a whore,?and a bitch ? insults that are exclusively reserved for women.

But Hoye is fighting back against this hostility to women in the video game community.

?I did not expect this to take off the way it did. Since it has, I have been trying to use this as a?platform to make more people aware of the situation and I guess ultimately to show this is something?that maybe we can change and that we need to change.?

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Video games to be showcased in prestigious Museum of Modern Art ...

This might help settle the debate on whether video games should be considered art: An initial batch of 14 video games is zapping its way into the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

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Paola Antonelli, senior curator of the MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design, said the 14 are part of an initial wish list of about 40 games to be acquired soon.

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"We are very proud to announce that MoMA has acquired a selection of 14 video games, the seedbed for an initial wish list of about 40 to be acquired in the near future, as well as for a new category of artworks in MoMA?s collection that we hope will grow in the future," she said.

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She said this acquisition will allow MoMA to study, preserve, and exhibit video games as part of its Architecture and Design collection.

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The initial group, to be installed in the Museum?s Philip Johnson Galleries in March 2013, includes:

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• Pac-Man (1980)
• Tetris (1984)
• Another World (1991)
• Myst (1993)
• SimCity 2000 (1994)
• vib-ribbon (1999)
• The Sims (2000)
• Katamari Damacy (2004)
• EVE Online (2003)
• Dwarf Fortress (2006)
• Portal (2007)
• flOw (2006)
• Passage (2008)
• Canabalt (2009)

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Other games the MoMA is planning to acquire soon include:

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• Spacewar! (1962)
• games for the Magnavox Odyssey console (1972)
• Pong (1972)
• Snake (originally designed in the 1970s; Nokia phone version dates from 1997)
• Space Invaders (1978)
• Asteroids (1979)
• Zork (1979)
• Tempest (1981)
• Donkey Kong (1981)
• Yars? Revenge (1982)
• M.U.L.E. (1983)
• Core War (1984)
• Marble Madness (1984)
• Super Mario Bros. (1985)
• The Legend of Zelda (1986)
• NetHack (1987)
• Street Fighter II (1991)
• Chrono Trigger (1995)
• Super Mario 64 (1996)
• Grim Fandango (1998)
• Animal Crossing (2001)
• Minecraft (2011)

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Are video games art?

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Antonelli said video games are not only "art" but are also design, adding MoMA selected the for its collection as "outstanding examples of interaction design."

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She said that in the past year and a half, MoMA had sought the advice of scholars, digital conservation and legal experts, historians, and critics in forming the wish list.

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"Our criteria, therefore, emphasize not only the visual quality and aesthetic experience of each game, but also the many other aspects?from the elegance of the code to the design of the player?s behavior?that pertain to interaction design," she said.

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Design criteria

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Antonelli said the central interaction design traits that the museum privileged are:

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• Behavior: scenarios, rules, stimuli, incentives, and narratives
• Aesthetics
• Space
• Time

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Acquisition procedure

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MoMA?s acquisition process includes:

• obtaining copies of the games? original software format (cartridges or discs) and hardware (consoles or computers) whenever possible.
• acquiring the source code in the language in which it was written, so as to be able to translate it in the future.
• requesting corroborating technical documentation, and possibly an annotated report of the code by the original designer or programmer.
• working out the complex rights situation.

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Antonelli said MoMA?s general counsel is in deep negotiations with the publishers.

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"Of course, what we acquire depends on each game, how it is best represented, and how it will be shown in the galleries. If the duration of the game is short enough, the game itself could be made playable in its entirety," she said.

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If the game is too complex or too time-consuming to be experienced as an interactive display in the galleries, MoMA will create a video akin to a demo, in which the concept and characters of the game are laid out. ? TJD, GMA News

Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/284514/scitech/gaming/video-games-to-be-showcased-in-prestigious-museum-of-modern-art

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Review says Canadian controls hamper aerospace sales

By Nicole Mordant

Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:55pm EST

(Reuters) - Canada's aerospace industry is not selling as much as it could in countries such as Russia and China because of overly zealous government enforcement of controls designed to guard against leaks of sensitive technology, an industry review released on Thursday says.

Companies in other North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries, which have more "balanced" controls, are picking up the slack, the report said.

The controls are designed to protect national security and to preserve Canada's unique trade relationship with the United States, but evidence suggests the Canadian government's interpretation and application of the controls "may be unduly sweeping and rigid, even going further, in some instances, than is typical in Washington".

"The result is lost business for Canada with no material enhancement of security," said the independent, government-mandated review, which looked into the competitiveness of Canada's aerospace and space industries.

It urged Ottawa to review its rules to see whether they are unnecessarily restrictive.

The country's aerospace sector is the fifth biggest in the world, and is dominated by Montreal-based Bombardier Inc, which is the world's No. 3 civil aircraft manufacturer. Bombardier has struggled to find customers for its all-new, narrow-body C-Series jet, which is set for its first flight by the middle of 2013.

Other prominent Canadian aerospace companies include flight simulator manufacturer CAE Inc and Heroux-Devtek, a maker of landing gear systems.

The review, which was chaired by David Emerson, a former federal minister of trade, industry and foreign affairs, also urged Canada's Conservative government to be more aggressive in opening doors for the aerospace industry in foreign markets.

"Canada, almost culturally, has been reticent to engage in aggressive 'diplomacy' of this kind," the review said.

"Companies indicate that other governments have taken notice of Canada's relatively passive approach and have sometimes interpreted it as a lack of enthusiasm for, and commitment to, Canadian products."

Industry Minister Christian Paradis welcomed the report saying the government is "committed to helping the sector grow and add to the nearly 160,000 direct, indirect and induced jobs the industry supports".

The Aerospace Industries Association of Canada said in a statement that the review recognized the "critical juncture the aerospace and space industry is facing, and the urgent need for government, industry, academia and unions to adapt to a rapidly changing and highly competitive global environment".

(Reporting By Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Peter Galloway)

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Charlie Sheen Of 'Anger Management' Offers Angus T. Jones A Role On His Show

Charlie Sheen has a job on "Anger Management" waiting for Angus T. Jones, his former "Two and a Half Men" co-star. In an interview with ABC News, Sheen offered Jones a role on his FX comedy, following Jones' video "meltdown" in which he pleaded with viewers to stop watching the CBS series.

"My former nephew is welcome at the Goodson Anger Management home anytime," Sheen told ABCNews.com. On the FX series, Sheen plays Charlie Goodson, an anger management therapist. The FX series returns Thursday, January 17 at 9 p.m. EST.

"It is radically clear to me that the show is cursed," said Sheen, who called Jones' video a "Hale-Bopp-like meltdown."

Sheen spoke told TMZ that "Two and a Half Men" is a "hive of oppression."

"I dare anyone to spend ten years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami," he said.

In the Forerunner Chronicles video, Jones called "Two and a Half Men" "filth."

"If you watch 'Two and a Half Men,' please stop watching 'Two and a Half Men,'" Jones said in the video, which the website billed as "The Testimony of the Awakening of [a] star." "I'm on 'Two and a Half Men,' and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it, please stop filling your head with filth."

Jones has since issued an apology, saying, "Without qualification, I am grateful to and have the highest regard and respect for all of the wonderful people on 'Two and a Half Men' with whom I have worked over the past ten years and who have become an extension of my family."

"Two and a Half Men," now in Season 10, will likely write Jones out of the series if renewed for a Season 11. His character, Jake, joined the Army and does not appear in every episode of the CBS comedy.

"Two and a Half Men" airs on Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. EST on CBS.

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  Walden (Ashton Kutcher, right) starts to feel his age when Missi (special guest star Miley Cyrus, left), the daughter of a friend, comes to town.

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  "I Changed My Mind About The Milk" -- Walden plans a big surprise for Zoey's (Sophie Winkleman, right) birthday.

• "Two and a Half Men" Season 10

  "I Changed My Mind About The Milk" -- Jake (Angus T. Jones) Skypes with Alan from the Army.

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Argentina wins debt reprieve, default averted for now

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Argentina has won a reprieve against having to pay $1.33 billion next month to "holdout" investors who rejected a restructuring of its defaulted debt and have waged a long legal battle to be paid in full.

A U.S. appeals court granted an emergency stay order on Wednesday that gives Argentina more time to fight a debt ruling favoring the holdout creditors and eases investor fears of a new default as early as next month.

Last week, U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa ordered Argentina to deposit the $1.33 billion payment by December 15 for investors who rejected two restructurings of bonds left over from its massive 2002 default.

Griesa's order raised the risk of a technical default on about $24 billion worth of debt because it meant that if Argentina sticks to its position of not paying the holdouts, it would also be barred from paying investors who agreed to take a severe haircut in two debt exchanges in 2005 and 2010.

Branding the holdouts as "vulture funds," the government has vowed never to pay them and it swiftly appealed Griesa's ruling.

Argentina argued that, if left to stand, the order would make future restructurings impossible for countries facing debt crises because creditors would have no incentive to exchange their bonds at a discount.

However, some legal experts said Griesa's order would not have such broad ramifications because Argentina hurt its own cause in refusing to pay the holdouts, and that Griesa's ruling focused on the government's behavior in this specific case.

Griesa has often voiced frustration with Argentina in court and was riled by recent statements from government officials saying that the country would defy his orders.

In its decision on Wednesday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put off until well into 2013 a ruling on whether or not Argentina will have to pay in full the holdouts who refused to participate in its two restructurings, which paid less than 30 cents on the dollar.

"The extension of the stay brings back rationality and due process to a litigation that was being rushed through in a manner that understated the importance of the huge precedent that the district judge was seeking to set," said Vladimir Werning, an emerging markets economist at JPMorgan in New York.

Both Argentina and bondholders who took part in the debt exchanges filed appeals to the 2nd Circuit against Griesa's order. The appeals court will hear oral arguments on February 27.

Argentina's economy ministry said the appeal court's decision "ensures normal performance of Argentina's debt payments in December."

"The threat of default has been removed for now," said Ignacio Labaqui of emerging markets consultancy Medley Global Advisors.

"This is really good news for Argentina and exchange bond holders," he added. "The ruling came faster than expected, which sends the message that Griesa's decision may have been too harsh, from the point of view of the appeals court."

Lead holdout investors Elliott Management Corp and Aurelius Capital Management both declined to comment.

Lawyers for the holders of Argentina's exchanged bonds, who will now be paid a combined $3.3 billion in December as scheduled, welcomed the 2nd Circuit's order.

"The stay ensures that the exchange bondholders will receive their rightful payments through December, and until the Court can carefully consider the significant issues and interests that are involved before rendering its final ruling," said the statement from law firm Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP.

(Additional reporting by Basil Katz and Nate Raymond in New York and Hugh Bronstein in Buenos Aires; Editing by Kieran Murray)

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Elon Musk doesn't just want to put a person on Mars -- he wants to put 80,000. According to Space.com, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX recently spilled details about his hopes for a future Mars colony during a talk at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London on Nov. 16.

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COBB COUNTY, Ga. -- Music for All recently selected six Cobb County high school musicians to be a part of the Bands of America Honor Band in the 2013 Tournament of Roses Parade.

According to Cobb County schools, hundreds of students across the nation applied. The parade has become a New Years Day tradition in Southern California. This year will be the 124th run. Upon travelling to California, the students from three Cobb schools will spend a week participating in rehearsals, listening to performances in Disneyland and marching in the parade.

The selected students include Samantha Stammen from Allatoona High, Lena Paradiso, Ethan Thompson, Rachel Thompson and David Boughter of Harrison High, and Walker Cook from Walton High.

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For years, the NFL?s stance was that there was no substantive link between concussions suffered playing football and long-term brain damage.

But documents uncovered by ESPN investigative reporters?Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada in conjunction with PBS?s Frontline show that the league?s retirement board paid at least $2 million in disability benefits to players including former Steelers center Mike Webster upon the conclusion that football was the cause of their injuries.

The West Virginia lawyer who represented Webster called the decision ?the proverbial smoking gun,? which could be used against the league by the nearly 4,000 players who have filed concussion lawsuits.

?It?s pretty devastating evidence,? said Bob Fitzsimmons, the co-director of the Brain Injury Research Institute. ?If the NFL takes the position that they didn?t know or weren?t armed with evidence that concussions can cause total disability ? permanent disability, permanent brain injury ? in 1999, that evidence trumps anything they say.?

The league declined comment for the story, but league spokesman Greg Aiello made clear the retirement board is independent, and that its rulings ?are not made by the NFL or by the NFL Players Association.?

A decade ago, the league?s stance was firm, as from 2003 to 2009, the league?s Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee wrote that ?no NFL player? experienced chronic brain damage from concussions.

?Professional football players do not sustain frequent repetitive blows to the brain on a regular basis,? members of the league?s committee wrote in a December 2005 paper in the medical journal Neurosurgery.

But the documents uncovered by Fainaru and Fainaru-Wada showed that in 1999, the retirement board ruled that repeated shots to the head left Webster ?totally and permanently? disabled, showing signs of dementia then.

?The Retirement Board determined that Mr. Webster?s disability arose while he was an Active Player,? wrote Sarah E. Gaunt, director of the NFL?s retirement plan, in a May 8, 2000 letter to Fitzsimmons. The medical reports, she wrote, ?indicate that his disability is the result of head injuries he suffered as a football player with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Kansas City Chiefs.?

Two other players, whose names were redacted from the record, were also paid benefits based on ?repetitive trauma to the head or brain from League football activities.?

This report will certainly be seized by the concussion plaintiffs, and more will likely line up behind them.

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DEFIANCE, Ohio (AP) ? Republican Mitt Romney is renewing his focus on the nation's economy while facing continued pressure to break his silence on a GOP Senate candidate's statement that any pregnancy resulting from rape is "something God intended."

As Election Day looms less than two weeks away, the Republican presidential contender is also trying to move past new questions about his role in a key supporter's divorce. Court documents released Thursday reveal that Romney created a special class of company stock for Staples founder Tom Stemberg's then-wife as a "favor."

Romney has so far ignored the criticism and is instead accusing President Barack Obama of playing partisan politics in an "incredibly shrinking campaign."

"This campaign is growing. The momentum is building. We're taking back America," Romney told 12,000 supporters in Ohio late Thursday, the same night that media trackers confirmed the Republican's campaign was expanding its television advertising into Minnesota.

The economy was to play prominently in the presidential contest Friday.

As Obama takes a break from the campaign trail, Romney was to deliver what his campaign billed as a significant economic address in swing state Iowa. While he was not expected to break new ground, his campaign said Romney would use the speech to help crystalize the differences between each candidate's economic approach on the same day the government issues its final report on GDP growth before the Nov. 6 election.

The report ? set for release at 8:30 a.m. ? was expected to show that growth picked up only slightly in the third quarter. Tepid growth has given Romney an opening to challenge Obama's assessment that the economy is moving in the right direction.

Obama arrived back in Washington late Thursday following a 40-hour battleground state blitz that took him to eight states. He was taking a brief break from the campaign trail Friday and planned to spend much of the day at the White House.

But the Democratic campaign wasn't ceding the spotlight to Romney. Obama had a series of interviews scheduled, including several with local television stations in swing states. And the campaign announced Friday that the president will travel next week to Colorado, Wisconsin and Ohio for a series of campaign rallies and events.

The president was also using a trio of national interviews to reach key constituencies, including an MTV interview aimed at rallying the youth vote and a sit-down with American Urban Radio Networks, which has a largely black audience.

The president was also scheduled to talk with Michael Smerconish, the conservative-leaning radio host who backed Obama in the 2008 election.

On Thursday, the president made repeated, though indirect, references to Indiana Republican Richard Mourdock's controversial comment on rape and pregnancy.

"We've seen again this week, I don't think any male politicians should be making health care decisions for women," Obama told a crowd of about 15,000 in Richmond, Va. The president's aides pressed further, using a web video to highlight Romney's endorsement of Mourdock and to accuse the GOP nominee of kowtowing to his party's extreme elements.

Romney, who appears in a television advertisement declaring his support for Mourdock, ignored repeated questions on the matter. He centered his efforts instead on turning his campaign's claims of momentum into a more practical ? and ultimately necessary ? road map to winning the required 270 Electoral College votes.

Ohio, where he spent all of Thursday and will return Friday evening following the Iowa speech, is crucial to that effort. And Romney is trying to expand his path to victory.

Republicans and Democrats who track campaign spending confirmed that Romney will begin running television ads in Minnesota over the weekend.

The investment is described as a small buy that Democrats suggest is simply intended to generate media coverage and force Obama's campaign to invest there as well. Former President Richard Nixon was the last Republican to carry the state, in 1972.

"You're seeing a campaign which is an incredibly shrinking campaign right before your very eyes," Romney said of Obama in Defiance. "This is a time when America faces big challenges. We have a big election, and we want a president who will actually bring big changes."

Romney has disavowed Mourdock's comments, but his campaign says he continues to support the Indiana Republican's Senate candidacy.

At the same time, previously sealed testimony related to the Staples founder Stemberg's divorce was released Thursday in which Romney says he was initially skeptical of the idea for Staples, the office supply chain he now lauds as a business success story that he helped create.

The testimony had been sealed for almost two decades after Maureen Sullivan Stemberg sought unsuccessfully to alter the divorce agreement that provided her with 500,000 shares of Staples stock. Romney acknowledged in testimony that he and other Staples directors created a special class of company stock for Stemberg's then-wife as a favor to Stemberg, who is now a major political supporter.

At the time, Romney insisted the board's decision was made "in the best interests of the company's shareholders." His campaign did not address the issue directly when asked Thursday night, instead referring questions to attorney Robert Jones.

Jones rejected the notion that Romney undervalued Staples stock to help Stemberg.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/romney-pressed-abortion-073028229--election.html

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Space Saving Tips for Small Bathrooms ? UK Home Improvement Blog

In a typical city apartment or even smaller home, bathrooms are not always as large as you would like them to be, let alone as luxurious as you wish they could be. Older style homes often have baths with overhead showers, while modern homes are limited to showers alone. Luckily for you however, it is still possible to add more space to even the tiniest of bathrooms, allowing you to create an oasis of calm at the end of each day.

How to Add Space to Smaller Bathrooms

Depending on whether you wish to renovate the entire bathroom or simply add a few changes here and there, there are many different ways to add space to smaller bathrooms. Some ideas include the following:

• If your bathroom has a bath only, adding a shower attachment can be done without too much drastic work. Ideally, this option works best if you have a single tap however, which allows the attachment to work with your existing plumbing. You can purchase attachments and install them yourself if you have sufficient DIY skills, or have them installed by your handyman or plumber if you prefer a professional job.

• Fitting bathroom shelves is a simple way to add more storage. Wall mounted shelves can be attached using brackets, and used to keep towels, bath products and other items. You can also purchase wall cabinets if you have enough space, which can double up for storage and the all-important bathroom mirror.

• Corner baths are a great way to optimise on limited space, taking up far less space than regular shaped baths. While this job is best left to the experts, it is worth considering if your bathroom only has a shower or if your current bath takes up a lot of room. As an added perk, many modern corner baths can be sunken, giving a luxurious touch to your bathroom.

Hooks and rails can also be added to maximise storage space without adding to the clutter, while from an aesthetic point of view, large mirrors placed over the bath will help add the illusion of space without making any major structural changes. As a final bit of advice, it is best to avoid dark colours or busy wallpaper in small bathrooms. Instead, stick to light, neutral shades to make the room seem larger and more spacious. Along with these tips, you will be able to create the perfect bathroom, regardless of its size.

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English Catholic Church asks Vatican to posthumously remove Jimmy Savile's papal knighthood

LONDON - The Catholic Church of England said Saturday it has contacted the Holy See to ask if the papal knighthood awarded to late television star Jimmy Savile could be posthumously removed following sexual abuse allegations.

The head of the church, the Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichol, wrote to Vatican officials last week with the request in recognition of the "deep distress" of the victims allegedly abused by Savile, a well-known BBC children's television host who died last year at age 84.

Police believe Savile to be one of the most prolific sex offenders in recent history, with a "staggering number" of people reporting abuses by him after his death.

Some 300 potential victims have come forward with abuse allegations, police said. Most of them say they were abused by Savile, but some say they were abused by other people, Metropolitan Police said Friday.

Savile was made a Knight Commander of St Gregory the Great by Pope John Paul II in 1990 for his charity work.

He was also knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to charity and entertainment.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/english-catholic-church-asks-vatican-posthumously-remove-jimmy-140014668.html

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Black widow's tango mortale in gamma-ray light: Scientists discover record-breaking millisecond pulsar with new analysis method

ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2012) ? Pulsars are the compact remnants from explosions of massive stars. Some of them spin around their own axis hundreds of times per second, emitting beams of radiation into space. Until now, they could only be found through their pulsed radio emissions. Now, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute/AEI) in Hanover assisted by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy have discovered a millisecond pulsar solely via its pulsed gamma radiation. A new data analysis method developed by the AEI was crucial for the success. The pulsar is accompanied by an unusual sub-stellar partner, which it is vaporizing, hence the name "black widow."

Back in 1994, astronomers discovered a source of strong gamma-rays in the constellation of Centaurus. They suspected that a pulsar was the origin of the energetic radiation. Now, a team of scientists led by Holger Pletsch from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) has solved the mystery and identified the culprit: the millisecond gamma-ray pulsar PSR J1311-3430. The development of a new data analysis method by the AEI scientists enabled the discovery, since rapidly spinning pulsars are extremely difficult to find.

To unambiguously identify a gamma-ray pulsar, astronomers must know its properties to very high precision. This includes its position, spin frequency, and how the latter changes over time. If the pulsar is in a binary system, the analysis problem is even more complicated: at least three additional orbital parameters have to be determined as well.

In the case of PSR J1311-3430 astronomers had already observed the companion, which is heated by the radiation from the pulsar, with optical telescopes. They were thus able to partially constrain the orbital parameters and confine the position of the pulsar.

"We developed a particularly efficient method to search the data from NASA's Fermi satellite for gamma-ray millisecond pulsars, including those in binary systems. Only this method enabled us to probe the wide parameter ranges," says Holger Pletsch, lead author of the article published in Science. The new analysis method enables scientists to conduct a 'blind search' for gamma-ray millisecond pulsars for the first time -- right up to very high spinning frequencies.

The scientists analysed the Fermi data on the Atlas computer cluster at the AEI. "Our search used data collected by the gamma-ray satellite over a total of four years. Very soon after we started running the analysis, a clear signal showed up in the results. What we saw was very exciting," says Pletsch.

PSR J1311-3430 spins 390 times per second, emitting gamma-ray photons into space in the form of a beam, similar to a lighthouse. In roughly one in a million revolutions of the pulsar, a single photon reaches the detector on board Fermi.

The gamma-ray signal also reveals much about the companion to the astronomers: the orbital motion of the binary system modulates the photon arrival times, yielding information about the partner star. "The companion object is small and unusually dense," says AEI Director Bruce Allen. "It is at least eight times as massive as the planet Jupiter, but has at most 60 percent the planet's radius."

From this information, the researchers calculated the density of the companion, which turned out to be unusually high; it is around 30 times as dense as the Sun. Presumably, the small companion is the compact remnant of a star which has been orbiting the pulsar since earlier times. Over time, the pulsar accreted matter from the star, thereby accelerating its rotation. Pulsar and companion moved closer and closer together.

"At present, the remaining stellar core, which presumably consists mainly of helium, is heated by the radiation from the pulsar and literally evaporated," says Holger Pletsch. Astronomers call this type of pulsar a 'black widow', in analogy with a species of spider which kills the smaller male after mating. In the distant future, PSR J1311-4330 might possibly completely vaporize its companion and from then on travel through space alone.

And that's not all: "Our discovery is not only a first, it also sets several new records," explains Bruce Allen. Currently, the odd couple is orbiting its common centre of mass on an almost perfect circular trajectory in only 93 minutes. This is the shortest known orbital period of all pulsars in binary systems.

At a distance of only 1.4 Earth-Moon separations, the binary system is the closest one known to date with a pulsar. The pulsar is speeding along its circular orbit with at least 13,000 kilometres per hour. Its light-weight companion is even faster, at up to 2.8 million kilometres per hour.

Holger Pletsch and his colleagues also had a close look at older observations with the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia, but were unable to find the fast pulsar here. "Apparently, the cloud of vaporized material from the companion absorbs most of the radio wave emissions from the pulsar and possibly makes it invisible to radio telescopes," says Lucas Guillemot from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, co-author of the publication. The scientists are already planning further observations at higher radio frequencies. They hope to use them to accurately determine the object's distance from Earth, for example.

Systems like this provide astronomers with new insights into the evolution of very close binary systems, which are as yet still incompletely understood. PSR J1311-3430 could also shed new light on the generation of the gamma-ray photons and radio emissions in the strong magnetic field of pulsars. The pulsar may just be the tip of the iceberg: many other unidentified gamma-ray sources may harbour similarly unusual systems. Thirty years after the discovery of the first millisecond pulsar in the radio range, the novel analysis method of the Max Planck researchers at the AEI has opened a new door to the easier identification of these elusive celestial objects.

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1. H. J. Pletsch et al. Binary Millisecond Pulsar Discovery via Gamma-Ray Pulsations. Science, 2012 DOI: 10.1126/science.1229054

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