My Daily Domestic Clips 11/05/2010 (a.m.)

• History tests and quizzes – USHistorySite.com tags: history homeschooling
• Woman Considered World’s Oldest Person Dies At 114 – Annotated Bless her – may she rest in peace. tags: aging
  • GUSTAVIA, St. Barts — Eugenie Blanchard, a nun who was considered the world’s
    oldest person, died in the French Caribbean island of St. Barts on Thursday. She
    was 114.
    Bruyn Hospital director Pierre Nuty said she died early Thursday at the
    hospital, where she had lived in the geriatric ward since 1980.
    Cousin Armelle Blanchard told The Associated Press that while Blanchard could
    no longer talk, she had seemed to be in relatively good health.
    “When you talked to her, she would smile,” she said. “We don’t know if she
    understood us.”
  • Blanchard was born in St. Barts on Feb. 16, 1896, and lived much of her life
    in a convent in the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao before returning home in
    the 1950s. She was the last survivor of a family of 13 brothers and sisters.
    Blanchard had earned the nickname “Sweets” because of how she treated others,
    said Victorin Lurel, who represents St. Barts in France’s lower house of
    parliament, the National Assembly
• The Longevity Genes Project | Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY tags: aging
• Arlene Weintraub: Centenarians: How To Make It To 100 (VIDEO) – Annotated tags: aging
  • Barzilai believes his super agers were born with a genetic code that got them
    long past 80, but that living a healthy life is important for everyone —
    regardless of whether they have those magic genes. “If you want to get above 80,
    you have to not smoke, you have to exercise, and you have to watch your diet,”
    Barzilai says.
  • Exercise your mind, too. You don’t see many easy chairs and
    remote controls in the videos of Barzilai’s centenarians. These people are
    constantly on the go–traveling, visiting their grandkids, even working. At age
    104, Irving Kahn was still working five days a week as an investment advisor. “I
    enjoy debating with him about business subjects,” his son says in the video.
    (Incredibly, Kahn also had a 108-year-old sister.)
  • As for me, I’m inspired by the video of 96-year-old Port, walking the
    treadmill in her purple, velour sweatsuit. “You have to be active,” she says.
    Good advice from someone who’s truly qualified to advise us all on how to age
    well.

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