Maybe it was a lifetime of chores on the family farm that accounts for Edna Parker's long life. Or maybe just good genes explain why the world's oldest known person will turn 115 on Sunday, defying staggering odds.
Scientists who study longevity hope Parker and others who live to 110 or beyond - they're called supercentenarians - can help solve the mystery of extreme longevity.
"We don't know why she's lived so long," said Don Parker, her 59-year-old grandson. "But she's never been a worrier and she's always been a thin person, so maybe that has something to do with it." On Friday, Edna Parker laughed and smiled as relatives and guests released 115 balloons into sunny skies outside her nursing home. Dressed in pearls, a blue and white polka dot dress and new white shoes, she clutched a red rose during the festivities. Two years ago, researchers from the New England Centenarian Study at Boston University took a blood sample from Parker for the group's DNA database of supercentenarians.
http://www.physorg.com/news127759556.html
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On to the tools....
On April 19th, Filezilla 3.0.92 was released. FileZilla is a powerful FTP-client for Windows NT4, 2000 and XP. It has been designed for ease of use and with support for as many features as possible, while still being fast and reliable
On April 18th, Adam Laurie released RFIDIOt-0.1s. RFIDIOt is a open source RFID exploration python library and toolkit. The big news with this release is that by popular demand, there is now a separate Windows distribution.
On April 17th, Microsoft SysInternals released Process Monitor v1.32 & Process Explorer v11.13. Use Process Explorer to find out what files, registry keys and other objects processes have open, which DLLs they have loaded, and more. Monitor file system, Registry, process, thread and DLL activity in real-time with Process Monitor.
On April 12th, KeePass v1.11 was released. KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. Check the press release for all the change details.
On April 11th, Paint.NET 3.30 was released. Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run XP, Server 2003 or Vista.
On April 9th, Adobe Systems released Flash Player v9.0.124.0. This release addressed several security vulnerabilities.
On April 2nd, Mozilla released Firefox 3 Beta 5. Improvements to the JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimizations have resulted in continued improvements in performance. Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run twice as fast in Firefox 3 Beta 5.
On March 31st, Pidgin 2.4.1 was released. Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. Check out changelog for all the details.
On March 30th, Wireshark 1.0.0 was released. Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) is a network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. This new release addresses several DoS vulnerabilities.
On March 28th, Nullsoft released Winamp 5.53. Check the version history for all the changes.
On March 27th, The Honeynet Project and School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington released Capture-HPC v2.1. Capture-HPC is an innovative security product that is able to find and investigate the increasing problem of client-side computer attacks. This new software release increases the features and speeds performance allowing anyone to investigate a larger range and quantity of client-side computer attacks. It is written and distributed under the GNU General Public License, v2.
On March 26th, GNU Privacy Guard released GnuPG 1.4.9 & GnuPG 2.0.9. This is a maintenance release to fix a possible vulnerability introduced with 1.4.8.
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