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Also another multi-platform game is currently trying to hit Steam: Vendetta Online, would be nice if some people could upvote it. -> http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=124255217
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Nice find but these are only the GPL sources to the CP firmware of the PS3 TOOL. The CP is basically a standalone system running Linux. But interesting to see that the CPU on the CP seems to be MIPS based
I have found the full PS3 SDK 1.92 it is stored on zshare on 13 differents archive but it's impossible to download it because the links reported on the pic that i found are cloudy.
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I've been searching to find the 1.92 SDK for 3 days with no luck. I'd even take an open-source equivalent. All I want to do is start creating homebrew.
the PS3 SDK is going to became the most wanted leaked file in the story of internet.
really pity that who have the lately PS3 SDK 3.xx and above don't share it with the community.
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i found the picture, sorry if i'm slow to reply but in italy it's 09:49 am and now i am at school
It is impossible to read what is written in the image! I subscribe to the list of those who want an SDK!
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If we open this can of worms do we get to see the future too? I am thinking lottery numbers here, I will leave saving the universe to others LOL
ok ok How about Book of the Long Sun Gene Wolfe? Not exactly cliche hard SF but has hard SF themes: Generation starship, no FTL as far as we are aware. Many would consider Wolfe to be a handy prose stylist and respectably "literary."
I certainly do despite the subjective nature of that term. Even stories that I never quite got into, or really comprehended fully, like 'There Are Doors' are still a pleasure to read and very immersive.
We don't classify authors. You're confusing genre as in literary movement with genre as in category (easy to do as they occasionally overlap such as magic realism and cyberpunk.) It's the work, not the author. So an author can write a hard SF work (which is a sub-category of the category of SF,) and thus be a hard SF author because he wrote one but also be a mystery writer, fantasy writer, sociological SF writer, etc. A writer can write in any number of categories. A writer can also be part stylistically of a literary movement, or not as the writer chooses, and can be part of more than one literary movement. All he has to do is have written one of the things and that is what he wrote. Of course, the discussion then is whether the trilogy counts as hard SF. I've only read the first one, long ago, and to my memory it was not hard SF, but I could be forgetting things and other parts of the trilogy may concentrate it on hard SF. It depends on which quantum physicist you talk to. Nope, delightful post-apocalyptic sociological SF with strong suspense plots, an ancestor of cyberpunk, and utilizing highly speculative science in the background. Some people believe very strongly that the works of Ur-Sun and Long Sun are fantasy, despite a lack of fantastical elements, because torturers. Other people will throw a screaming fit if you say that. The key test is if Arthur Clarke is "literary" or not. Clarke occupies a Tolkien like place in hard SF historically. And if you have a definition of hard SF that Clarke cannot meet, then that term has apparently been used for something completely different throughout SF history than what it supposedly means. And Clarke of course used FTL, although he had quite a bit of semi-empirically tested science behind it. But Clarke does meet the basic sub-category definition for most of his work, which is that they are stories involving hard science issues as the central premise. Of course, they also can involve powerful aliens, quantum physics, FTL, A.I. and space adventures as well. All of which is to say that the purity tests of what is SF based on it having to adhere to being hard SF leak like sieves. But I gather that Rosie Oliver wasn't trying to construct a purity test, The main premise of the sub-category of hard SF are stories about people (often scientists, don't have to be human,) trying to solve a hard science problem. Not stories about trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic future or planetary colony, not dealing with a war or an alien invasion, not mining asteroids or conducting trade in a merchant spaceship or through gateway, not trying to solve a murder mystery or dealing with a criminal danger or spies, not surviving a killer robot, not politics, not diplomacy, not sex and family structure, not religion, not taking a vacation to the moon -- but a hard SF story can have all of those elements in the story in addition to the central premise of solving a hard science problem. That's why hard SF is not a literary movement -- you can write in any style and structure and with whatever themes you want. It simply identifies a very basic element of the story -- it's about a hard science problem. So it's entirely possible to write a hard SF novel in a highly stylistic manner and some writers have. And if we are going purely with Fung Koo's approach of drawing attention to narrative, being writerly and funky, then Greg Egan might actually pop back on my list. While I don't think he has tremendous mastery of prose and imagery and I'm not a fan of his characterization which tends towards the macho suspense sort, the man uses all sorts of devices -- graphs, charts, equation proofs, etc. -- to tell stories about hard science problems that certainly draw attention to the narrative over and above the story at hand. So he might indeed count on that ground and actually quite a few others might too. SF was, for decades, more of a category of short fiction than novels, and so we have tons and tons of stories still respected and studied in academia where writers for the mags experimented with pretty much everything, including styles. But Dune isn't about solving a hard science problem, and Long Sun stories aren't either. But Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio is. (And Bear also likes to do Halo tie-in novels, so again, it's not about being one thing for authors.) Stories that are not hard SF don't necessarily jettison hard science elements or even always keep them to the background. But those stories are not about solving the hard science problem as the central premise.
I'm doing nothing of the sort. If you state Aldiss has been called a hard sf author, which you did, then you're classifying the author. And just because one of their works might be described as hard sf (which I think we can agree is a stretch) that doesn't mean their entire oeuvre is hard sf - which is the implication. If you were to say Greg Benford is a hard sf author, that's another matter, because most of his books have been hard sf, as that's his chosen métier.
1) I didn't say that Brian Aldiss has been called nothing but a hard SF author. I said that he's shown up on hard SF works lists, because some people feel that some of his works are hard SF. That's classifying the work, not the author. (Although it does then make him a candidate for "literary hard SF" author for Rosie O's purposes.) 2) I never said that writing one hard SF novel made an author's entire oeuvre hard SF. I said the opposite of that. I said that an author may write hard SF and sociological SF and fantasy and mystery and so forth. And we then say not that the author is a hard SF author and only that, but that the author is a science fiction author who writes both hard and sociological SF, or the author is a science fiction/fantasy/mystery writer, or a hard SF writer who also writes horror, or.... We are saying that they write these types of books, not that the author is only limited to one sub-category or category and anything that author writes cannot be considered something else. So Gregory Benford is not simply only a hard SF writer because he has also written other types of stories. Categories and sub-categories -- which we commonly call genres after another adopted definition of the term -- are not literary movements. They describe basic story elements. So an author does not pledge his loyalty to the sub-category forever just because he wrote a book in that sub-category. If we went by that idea, Margaret Atwood would be only a science fiction writer, even though she's only written three SF novels in her life. But we can call Atwood a science fiction writer in addition to her other work, and also a fantasy writer because some of her work is fantasy, because she has written works in those categories and they are part, but not all, of her oeuvre. So we basically don't have to worry about the problem you were talking about -- authors who have only done one or two hard SF stories. Their hard SF works can still go on a list of hard SF or "literary" hard SF, etc. and their other works do not disqualify them from being on such a list, but their hard SF works are not all that they are as authors.
The reason a lot of people don't believe they can leave the solar system is because the science fiction writers say so. But there is a very practicable step by step way of leaving the solar system - and yes I've had a short story published describing this way - so I come back to my point about there being a lack of imagination being used by hard science fiction writers today... So, no, we do not know what the future is. We need to break this accepted future view from public acceptance. And this is where literary style can help.
Phew... there's been quite a discussion while I haven't had a proper chance to to look in... I think one thing we can all agree on is that it is the the book and not the author that can should be classed as hard SF. Where the boundary is between hard SF and other SF is dependent on the your view of what constitutes science and how far you believe it can change in the future. The argument about going FTL or getting out of the Solar System are two examples of where such a wide difference of opinion exists. So one man's hard SF can be another woman's soft SF. I think this is the basis of what the argument about constitutes hard SF has really been about. The literary side of things is definitely about the style of writing. Whilst I have defined it by what its effect is, others have tried to define it by its purpose. The danger with the latter is that it could become too constrained and another name for a new style of writing will have to be invented. But, if I've followed the arguments correctly, not a single book can be agreed on as being literary hard SF. Given this amount of argument it is not surprising that the publishing industry shy away from using the phrase. They are trying to use jargon that people easily understand in order to sell their books. So it's no wonder Duotrope can't find any primary choices for literary hard SF stories (the original comment of this thread). But here's the thing... in all this discussion I seemed to have honed in on how much imagination is lacking from science fiction. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good traditional SF book as much as the next person. But where's the cutting edge science fiction, the science fiction that brings new ideas to the party that takes the readers breath away? Any ideas anyone?
I wonder if the CGI of the last 20 years makes that nearly impossible. I remember trying to envision what the Ringworld would look like if it existed. That was impressive. But now there is too much CGI in television commercials. I have read plenty of SF that I have liked, but take breath away, that has been a LONG time. psik
And as I've said before, I don't think you've made any real argument for this claim. Whether works are "literary" in writing style or not has nothing to do with cutting edge science ideas, and cutting edge science ideas are not the essence of story imagination. There's the predictive argument in SF -- people who feel that if science fiction cannot predict which new ideas will be used and accurately predict the future, then it's useless and lacking. This is an argument regularly made to support the idea that SF is dying or really much more awful than it used to be (out of juice). This argument assumes that the only purpose of science fiction stories is to predict things in science. And predicting that we might find a way around the speed of light and leave the solar system are things that science fiction writers did and still do regularly play with, so they are hardly cutting edge. And then there's another argument, which you may be making, that science fiction is failing unless it explores highly speculative theories. All these arguments are about personal preferences for what SF should be, not really a case for SF stories lacking. Also, getting a far future SF story published does not then mean that the science in your story is more plausible and likely or that it is now very, very hard SF. It just means you got a SF story published. (And that's no small accomplishment certainly.) When I'm reading Peter Watts and he not only has a hard SF premise but has an appendix in the back to explain various types of research he'd borrowed from to put his story together, I generally find it interesting and not lacking in imagination. But I also find sociological SF stories -- which don't have cutting edge science in them -- to be interesting too and not lacking in imagination. When Charlie Stross decides to do a police procedural near future cyberpunk thriller in second person, well so far I'm finding it interesting. (And of course some folk feel that some of Stross' work is cutting edge hard SF, like his novel Accelerando.) You might be interested in an anthology done for Tor by David G. Hartwell called The Hard SF Renaissance. The reality is that the fact that when you did a search on duotrope for literary hard SF and didn't find anything doesn't mean anything about what's actually going on in hard SF or SF in general. It doesn't tell you anything about SF being studied in universities or the actual writing styles of authors. And the fact that we and countless other fans don't agree about what the parameters of hard SF is or literary writing for that matter doesn't mean the people writing hard science stories aren't using cutting edge science or interesting writing techniques. A does not equal B. Disagreement does not equal lack.
Unfortunately, most of the stories in that aren't actually sf... much as many of the stories in their The Space Opera Renaissance weren't actually space opera. Taxonomy aside, both anthologies are large and somewhat variable in quality of content. But then what themed anthologies aren't? Except perhaps Rocket Science
Apart from being pedantic and saying CGI has been around for 30 years (10 more than your quote) - Tron came out in 1982... I suspect I agree with you to a certain extent. However, there are certain scenarios and aspects that can't be portrayed in pictures. I would have naively thought we would have seen more of these in the writing by now... so I'm defintiely missing a trick here...
You're right about me not making the argument for the lack of imagination in hard science fiction, but it is actually difficult for me to put it into words. But I'll have a go... Every hard science fiction story that is published has something new to say. The 'new' can be anything from an old story in a new setting or a slight difference from another story where the implications are worked out or similar slight variations to a completely new story in a completely new setting. So we have this spectrum of newness in hard science fictions stories and everyone can usually judge roughly how far along that spectrum of newness a story is. [Note, I'm not limiting newness to any particular aspect of story telling.] What I'm personally finding is that the new stories I read tend to be to the left hand side of the spectrum i.e. the not too much really new. There are some good reasons why this is the case. One is that in the middle of the last century most of the big ideas were developed about what our future could look like, thereby limiting the opportunities for publishing 'really new hard SF'. Another good reason is that the publishers are in the business for making money. They are risk averse, particularly at the moment, and therefore tend to want publish slight variations on a theme where they know there's a market for it. Now I would have quite happily gone along with left hand side of the newness spectrum being the only game in town... until I wrote my short story Agents of Repair, which I consider my breakthrough story. What this story showed me was I could have something very seriously new to say about future tech and its impact on humans... like WHY an app would become destructive and appear to become intelligent and acting in its own right. [It received good reviews when it was published, which to certain extent backs up this being my breakthrough story.] Anything that is based on pre Agents of Repair being written, is what I call traditional variations on the theme or the left hand side of the newness spectrum. Since Agents of Repair, i have drafted 5 short stories and a novel. With the exception of one short story, they are all further to the right of the newness spectrum. The exception was drafted for specific purpose that limited my room for manoeuvre. None of the new stuff has got published yet, for various reasons... though one short story is about to be published (and someone who saw an early draft said I could write a whole novel on the theme)... and despite getting a distinction for my novel on a top UK MA Creative Writing course, I have yet to find an agent. So unfortunately I can't produce the evidence to back this assertion up. Yes I have found the further right in the newness spectrum the storyline was, the harder it was to write. So I can understand KatG being sceptic about what I'm saying in this regard. I never said anything about what is and what is not going on in universities... the duotrope comment is about publishing. There could be some very good work going on in the universities, but we won't see it if it can't get published...
You're not making an argument, you're making suppositions. Or rather, you're describing a feeling. I don't have a problem with feelings, but the problem is they are usually presented not as feelings but as declarative statements about the state of the field, usually based on a very narrow reading of the field and according to classifications made up and personal preferences. This is in large part why we argue over classifications (hard SF,) literary movements and goalposts for SF fiction -- everybody is unhappy if their personal vision is not being utilized. But the field of SF, of authors in the field, doesn't give a twit what any individual wants in the field and never has. So, to make an argument that declares the state of the field requires evidence, and it requires more evidence than stuff I've read lately that I pre-selected according to my reader interests and it requires more evidence than SF authors I've noticed don't seem to be doing what I want them to do or what I'm doing in my writing. It requires you pointing to specific authors and explaining how they failed what you see as a critical goal of SF (which is not necessarily the goal of SF,) and those authors being seminal authors/works in the field. It requires you, if you're going to make a claim that there has been a shift, to come up with specific and sufficient numbers of works past and present to support it, it requires you to not ignore books, especially prominent and popular ones, that don't fit your hypothesis. It requires something beyond you complaining that nameless works you read bored you. Publishing is not risk averse, nor is it monochrome and united in its goals and interests. Publishers rely on variety to maximize readership in the market because written fiction is a small market. So hard SF (in all the forms we disagree about,) does not die. Nor do they have a problem with cool science ideas. And while you having trouble finding an agent in the very tight UK fiction market is unfortunate, it doesn't actually say anything about what different editors are doing in the market. It just means that you haven't found folks to connect with and willing to invest in your novel yet. The all the cool ideas of the future have been figured out already line is part of the cyclical call that SF is dying off. It is factually incorrect and ignores the scientific research that shows predictions about the future have been on average dead wrong. People whose job it is to predict future developments and trends have about as good a rate of success as a coin toss. And science is discovering new things all the time, which many science fiction authors seize on and play with. And you yourself declared that you found a new idea for your story. So let's dispense with the ideas are dead and publishers wouldn't want them anyway rhetoric. That's a feeling; it's not really backed up by the business or the world of science. Past SF authors were good, but they weren't that good. They thought computers would stay giant and aliens likely lived on Mars. It's true that many authors will take familiar paths. Suspense is obviously a standard approach in SF stories. But as you say, that doesn't result in a lack of imagination about science stories per se. To find that out or at least make a critical argument about, we'd have to look at the actual authors like Peter Watts, the three Greg's -- Bear, Egan and Benford, etc., and authors whose works are debated on being hard SF or not, such as authors like Stross, and look at what they were actually doing and the science they were utilizing and how cutting edge that science is and what they do with it. If we wanted to look at just those authors who are creating a far future vision, then we would have to look at that set in the same way. And if we wanted only to look at how literary stylistic approaches could be used in stories about hard science, that would be an analysis of actual narratives, not a database search. I don't think you want to do any of that. I think you are mostly worried about the reception for your fiction, and wondering what's in the neighborhood of it. Which is perfectly understandable and hopefully some of the authors we're talking about or that you may find, since your net for hard SF seems to be fairly wide, will help with that. And since you are not religious about the hardness, authors like Clifford A. Pickover and more speculative science-based fiction might interest you. Whether all of these authors will be stylist is another issue. It's certainly not avoided in the market -- fans like psikey feel it's taking over, in fact. But as in all fiction, it's not always the goal.
Actually, that may have been the case back in the 1980s, but when I last looked at the subject a few years back, definitely no. We have a much better understanding of what drives technology into the market place and why, which makes technology prediction easier. Rather than just take my word for it, I suggest you look it up yourself...
Are you talking about technology prediction or BUYing prediction? People buy garbage. That is partly why we have so much of an e-waste problem. And the media plays into it for the money. I see in a few places they say the Apple miniPad has 512 meg of RAM. But the majority of reviews say NOTHING about how much RAM. I have seen reviews get stuff wrong before so at the moment I am not sure if it has 512 or not. I would not buy an tablet with less than 1 gig today. That is the problem. Most people do not know enough science and technology so they get manipulated by psychology. And then the EXPERTS make things more difficult than necessary. That is why science fiction that makes science fun and explains things is so useful, even if it is not very literary. I just think most good hard science fiction writers care less about the literary aspects than many readers who care less about the science aspects. psik
M Actually, I'd rather you provide some evidence to back up the claim. ...rather than make us do the work of supporting a specious argument for you.
Whilst the two are inter-related through thinsg like accesses to resources, I'm primarily talking about technology prediction... the buying psychology you talk about is also understood to some extent and can be input into the analysis.
Nah... apart from my info not being up to date and me being too lazy to dig out my reference books, you'll learn a lot more if you did it yourself...


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I'm still trying to get it. All my downloads (incredibly slow by the way) turn up corrupted. Bah.
Game really looks nice. It supposedly has massive performance boosts as well.
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I'm still trying to get it. All my downloads (incredibly slow by the way) turn up corrupted. Bah.
Game really looks nice. It supposedly has massive performance boosts as well.
I've been using svn for months now, I think it's the most advanced open source game atm, you won't find some features that alien arena has in other games, some of them are pretty advance. This game could be made better if they fixed little things such as prettier fonts on screen, sane makefile with sane cflags, nice clean main menu with simple soft colors, higher quality audio for in-game effects, and few other small glitches. This game really has some potential, I personally like the sounds these little aliens make, I would be happy if they converted to git so I could branch out and hack/fix few things.
i don't want to belittle the effort they make, but the game doesnt really look good.
the graphics effects are cool and stuff, but what really makes a game attractive is the artstyle.
on top of that opensource games have the habit of growing featurewise, but lacking the material to support those features.
the graphics engine keeps getting new features, but the models and textures dont seem to use them...
it kinda looks like they imported a few half-life 1 maps and added some bumpmaps.
please dont misunderstand me. i dont want to say these games are doing a bad job, but they seem to lack some proper designers. i know those are hard to come by and you cant really blame the people working on these games.
but maybe it doesnt matter very much in a shooter since they are mostly about gameplay
still i want to thank the people who worked on this game to provide people with a free shooter!
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I completely agree with Pfanne.
I just wanna add one point: Why aren't there any screenshots where Anti-Aliasing is enabled? Sorry but if it's not used the game still reminds me of Doom 2
I don't think AA works. At least I can't tell the difference. Give me a second and I'll upload a few using 8xAA.
That's more like it!
You really don't see the sharp edges when AA is off?
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"At least we're more familiar with the next team," Baker said Thursday before wrapping up baseball's first Interleague Opening Series against the Angels with a 5-4 win.
Yes, Baker is glad to see a fellow National League team this series, even if it's one that won 98 games last year -- one more than the Reds -- and has lived up to the enormous preseason hype through three games this season. Washington should continue to hit well up and down the lineup, play high-level defense at every position and pitch with anybody in the Majors.
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Bailey threw a no-hitter last Sept. 28 against the Pirates, allowed just 10 earned runs over his final 48 2/3 regular-season innings and tossed a seven-inning, 10-strikeout gem in his lone postseason start against the Giants. He finished his spring on a high note as well, allowing just one hit over six scoreless innings.
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Young signed a Minor League deal that included an opt-out clause with Washington on Feb. 21. He gave up four earned runs in 16 innings this spring.
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• The Nationals lost a bit of offensive firepower this offseason when they sent outfielder Michael Morse to Seattle, where he's already hit four homers. But Johnson isn't concerned about his lineup, which is still stocked with power hitters and now features the patient, speedy Denard Span atop the order.
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• Nationals left fielder Bryce Harper extended his career-high hitting streak to 12 games with a first-inning single Thursday. He entered the game hitting .463 (19-for-41) with four doubles, a triple, five homers and nine RBIs during the streak.
• Thursday's win over the Angels was the 20,000th game in Reds franchise history. Only the Braves and Cubs surpassed the 20,000-game mark before Cincinnati, which had the first professional baseball team, founded in 1869, but didn't officially join the Major Leagues until 1882.
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well, at least it is MY third version of the trumpeter Kilo (1/144)
trimming and alpha trials are currently ongoing.
below is a link to a "striptease" of the boat since I'm too lazy even to crosspost.
improvements in this boat over the previous version :
- faster divetimes (no need for a calender any more )
- larger ballast tank (plm 50 ml) means better surface waterline
- hopefully better turning because the whole rudder assembly turns, not just the rudder
- better accessability
and time permitting : lighting. it's all there but the current battery container will not
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There is no known prevention.
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Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS), 1998-2005 (ICPSR 24901)
Principal Investigator(s): Yi, Zeng, Duke University, and Peking University; Vaupel, James W., Max Planck Institutes, and Duke University; Zhenyu, Xiao, Beijing University. China National Research Center on Aging; Yuzhi, Liu, Peking University. Center for Healthy Aging and Family Studies; Chunyuan, Zhang, Peking University. Center for Healthy Aging and Family Studies
The Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) provides information on health status and quality of life of the elderly aged 65 and older in 22 provinces of China in the period 1998 to 2005. The study was conducted to shed light on the determinants of healthy human longevity and oldest-old mortality. To this end, data were collected on a larger percentage of the oldest population, including centenarian and nonagenarian, than had previously been studied. The CLHLS provides information on the health, socioeconomic characteristics, family, lifestyle, and demographic profile of this aged population. Data are provided on respondents' health conditions, daily functioning, self-perceptions of health status and quality of life, life satisfaction, mental attitude, and feelings about aging. Respondents were asked about their diet and nutrition, use of medical services, and drinking and smoking habits, including how long ago they quit either or both. They were also asked about their physical activities, reading habits, television viewing, and religious activities, and were tested for motor skills, memory, and visual functioning. In order to ascertain their current state of health, respondents were asked if they suffered from such health conditions as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, emphysema, asthma, tuberculosis, cataracts, glaucoma, gastric or duodenal ulcer, arthritis, Parkinson's disease, bedsores, or other chronic diseases. They were also asked if they needed assistance with bathing, dressing, toileting, or feeding, and who provided help in times of illness. Other questions focused on siblings, parents, and children, the frequency of family visits, and the distance lived from each other. Demographic items specify age, sex, ethnicity, place of birth, marital history and status, history of childbirth, living arrangements, education, main occupation before age 60, and sources of financial support.
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Yi, Zeng, James W. Vaupel, Xiao Zhenyu, Liu Yuzhi, and Zhang Chunyuan. Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS), 1998-2005. ICPSR24901-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-06-04. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR24901.v2
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This study was funded by:
- United Nations Population Fund
- Hong Kong Research Grants Council
- United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging ((R01 AG023627-01))
- National Natural Science Foundation of China ((70533010))
Scope of Study
Subject Terms: activities of daily living, aging, caregivers, diet, family life, family relations, health care services, health status, illness, life expectancy, life satisfaction, living arrangements, marriage rates, older adults, perceptions, physical condition, quality of life
Smallest Geographic Unit: county
Geographic Coverage: China (Peoples Republic), Global
Time Period:
- 1998--2005
Date of Collection:
- 1998-03-01--2005-10-31
Unit of Observation: individual
Universe: The most elderly population in the counties and cities of 22 provinces in China during the period 1998-2005.
Data Types: survey data
Sample: All centenarians from the randomly selected counties and cities of 22 provinces in China who agreed to participate in the study. For each centenarian, one octogenarian aged 80-89 living nearby, one nearby nonagenarian aged 90-99, and one nearby younger elder aged 65-79 of predesignated age and sex were interviewed.
Mode of Data Collection: computer-assisted self interview (CASI), face-to-face interview, self-enumerated questionnaire
Response Rates: The response rate was 88 percent.
Presence of Common Scales:
Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)
Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Performed consistency checks.
- Standardized missing values.
Original ICPSR Release: 2009-05-21
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Cardinal Keith O'Brien is resigning his post as archbishop following accusations of inappropriate conduct. / Franco Origlia, Getty Images
LONDON -- The United Kingdom's top cardinal, Keith O'Brien, is to step down as an archbishop, effective immediately, according to a statement published on the website of the Scottish Catholic news office.
Cardinal O'Brien, who is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland and the U.K.'s most senior Roman Catholic, also says he is choosing not to take part in the election of the next pope next month to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, a process known as the "conclave.' He said in a statement that he will not attend.
His resignation came after news reports Monday of unspecified inappropriate behavior toward priests in the 1980s. He contests the allegations and pointed out in a statement that his request to resign was submitted to Benedict months ago. He said he would not attend the conclave because, "I do not wish media attention in Rome to be focused on me."
"Approaching the age of seventy-five and at times in indifferent health, I tendered my resignation as Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh to Pope Benedict XVI some months ago. I was happy to know that he accepted my resignation 'nunc pro tunc' -- (now -- but to take affect later) on 12 November 2012," said Cardinal O'Brien, in the statement.
"I thank Pope Benedict XVI for his kindness and courtesy to me on my own behalf and on behalf of the people of Scotland, I wish him a long and happy retirement."
It is not yet clear if he has not resigned from the College of Cardinals. But the primary task of a cardinal is to vote in the conclave. In an interview with the BBC on Friday, before the news of his resignation, Cardinal O'Brien said he found the prospect of choosing the next pope "almost frightening."
Pope Benedict XVI's resignation takes effect on Thursday. And Monday, Benedict issued a letter spelling out line-by-line changes in canon law that will allow cardinals to set an earlier date for electing his successor. The number of eligible electors -- cardinals under the age of 80 -- is now 115.
However, there is growing pressure from U.S. victims of clergy sexual abuse for Cardinal Roger Mahony, the retired Archbishop of Los Angeles, to withdraw from the conclave. More than 30,000 pages of priest personnel records released last month revealed that Mahony had been directly involved in covering up for priests who were known to have abused children and teens.
Mahony has been writing on his personal blog that he plans to attend the conclave and to vote. There's precedent for that. Cardinal Bernard Law, who resigned from his post as Archbishop of Boston in 2002 at the height of the explosive abuse scandal, nonetheless voted in the 2005 election that chose Benedict.
Monday, Terence McKiernan, president of BishopAccountability.org, lauded O'Brien's recusal as an important precedent for a church where priests have been disciplined for abuse but church leaders who failed to halt the abuse have been largely unscathed.
"Cardinals who are tainted by the crisis cannot choose the person who will solve it,," .McKiernan said in a statement. "...If they are involved in the deliberations and the votes, they will taint the outcome, damaging the legitimacy of whoever is ultimately chosen."
The last time a cardinal resigned from the College of Cardinals was in 1927, says church historian Matthew Bunson. French Cardinal Louis Billot stepped down because his support for a radical, conservative political movement was in direct conflict with then-Pope Pius XI who opposed it.
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