Jeanne Louise Calment (21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) … had the longest confirmed human lifespan in history, living to the age of 122 years, 164 days.[3] She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, outliving both her daughter and grandson by several decades.
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At age 85 (1960), she took up fencing, and continued to ride her bicycle up until her 100th birthday… Calment lived on her own until shortly before her 110th birthday,
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Calment smoked from the age of 21 (1896) to 117 (1992)
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Calment ascribed her longevity and relatively youthful appearance for her age to olive oil, which she said she poured on all her food[4] and rubbed onto her skin, as well as a diet of port wine, and ate nearly one kilogram (2.2 lb) of chocolate every week.
the thinnest weights of Helvetica Neue are best used as display faces — meaning at larger sizes, for headlines and titles, and in relatively short bursts. Their very shapes were optimized for those cases where there’s ample room for the eye to truly travel along their supple curves, leisurely tracing the long, sprawling stems, bars and bowls of each letterform. To use them as both Google and Apple do, in text settings, in small sizes, in paragraphs, makes reading more visually cramped and more difficult than it should be.
Peens made his international debut for Italy in 2002 against Wales.
Compass is my new favorite app.
Newstand in a folder, rejoice.
Buggy as hell.
Slow as balls on my iPhone 4.
I’m unable to detect any improvements in Mail.
Swipe left to right no longer works? I imagine this will change in subsequent betas….
I guess swipe left to right is now standard for going back. Interesting…
No parallax wallpaper for the 4.
I just had to reboot because it was locked up.
Some tiny design features make me giddy.
Some make me go ‘ew, why.’
Needs the sound effects from Letterpress.
Why is the dock an ugly gray bar?
Where’s the iPad version?
What’s the deal with the calculator and mail unread icons going orange?
Still would like a standalone dictionary app.
Today was a good day.
