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Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on August 15, 2013, 12:16:23 AM
If Bolivia's public records are correct, Carmelo Flores Laura is the oldest living person ever docuмented.

They say he turned 123 a month ago.

The native Aymara lives in a straw-roofed dirt-floor hut in an isolated hamlet near Lake Titicaca at 13,100 feet (4,000 meters), is illiterate, speaks no Spanish and has no teeth.

He walks without a cane and doesn't wear glasses. And though he speaks the Aymara language with a firm voice, one must speak directly into his ear to be heard.

"I see a bit dimly. I had good vision before. But I saw you coming," he tells a group of journalists who visited after a local TV report about him.

http://news.yahoo.com/bolivia-records-aymara-herder-123-years-old-202553434.html

Wouldn't you like to live so long?
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Frances on August 15, 2013, 01:04:02 AM
 :scratchchin:
I'm not sure I'd like to outlive all my family and friends, a definite possibility since I'm unmarried and have no children.  If I did live way over 100, I'd prefer if my mind were still good. If my body still worked, all the better.  I think it highly unlikely I will live so long.  Too much stress, city life not conducive to longevity.  It's in God's Hands.  I don't worry how long I live, just that I live well and die in a state of grace.
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Matto on August 15, 2013, 01:29:56 PM
I remember reading an old thread on cathinfo about the oldest person ever. The person this thread talked about lived in England a long time ago and he lived to be older than this person.
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Telesphorus on August 15, 2013, 01:32:13 PM
http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php?a=topic&t=3066
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Matto on August 15, 2013, 01:34:53 PM
Thanks for finding the link, Tele.
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on August 17, 2013, 05:23:21 AM
In today's fast-paced world, changing jobs multiple times throughout your career is the norm, and job-hopping is only becoming more frequent. According to a 2012 survey, the majority of Generation Y workers move on to a new gig an average of once every two years. Getting the under-30 set to wrap their heads around staying with one company for 5 or 10 years is tough enough … so how about 72 years? That's the milestone a 99-year-old New Jersey man hit recently.

This summer, Hy Goldman, a World War II Army vet, marked his 72nd anniversary working for the family-owned lighting retailer Capitol Lighting. Though his first job was chopping ice before school for the local "ice guy" when he was just 14, Goldman took a position selling goods as well as stocking and cleaning displays in 1941 at Capitol Lighting's first store, in Newark, New Jersey, at age 27, and has been with the company ever since. More than seven decades later, Goldman is still going strong, working at Capitol's East Hanover, New Jersey, location, just 15 miles from the Newark shop that kicked off his career.

Goldman shared some stories, his thoughts on the modern world, and a few secrets to longevity with Yahoo! Shine. (Rule #1: Learn math without a calculator.) He turns 100 on Saturday.

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/what-s-it-like-to-work-for-the-same-company-for-72-years--202309703.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on August 22, 2013, 11:34:26 PM
They're called "super agers" — men and women who are in their 80s and 90s, but with brains and memories that seem far younger.

Researchers are looking at this rare group in the hope that they may find ways to help protect others from memory loss. And they've had some tantalizing findings: Imaging tests have found unusually low amounts of age-related plaques along with more brain mass related to attention and memory in these elite seniors.

"We're living long but we're not necessarily living well in our older years and so we hope that the SuperAging study can find factors that are modifiable and that we'll be able to use those to help people live long and live well," said study leader Emily Rogalski, a neuroscientist at Northwestern University's cognitive neurology and Alzheimer's disease center in Chicago.

The study is still seeking volunteers, but chances are you don't qualify: Fewer than 10 percent of would-be participants have met study criteria.

"We've screened over 400 people at this point and only about 35 of them have been eligible for this study, so it really represents a rare portion of the population," Rogalski said.

They include an octogenarian attorney, a 96-year-old retired neuroscientist, a 92-year-old h0Ɩ0cαųst survivor and an 81-year-old pack-a-day smoker who drinks a nightly martini.

To qualify, would-be participants have to undergo a battery of mental tests. Once enrolled, they undergo periodic imaging scans and other medical tests. They also must be willing to donate their brains after death.

The memory tests include lists of about 15 words. "Super agers can remember at least nine of them 30 minutes later, which is really impressive because often older adults in their 80s can only remember just a couple," Rogalski said.

Special MRI scans have yielded other remarkable clues, Rogalski said. They show that in super agers, the brain's cortex, or outer layer, responsible for many mental functions including memory, is thicker than in typical 80- and 90-year-olds. And deep within the brain, a small region called the anterior cingulate, important for attention, is bigger than even in many 50- and 60-year-olds.

The super agers aren't just different on the inside; they have more energy than most people their age and share a positive, inquisitive outlook. Rogalski said the researchers are looking into whether those traits contribute to brain health.



Other research has linked a positive attitude with overall health. And some studies have suggested that people who are "cognitively active and socially engaged" have a reduced chance of developing Alzheimer's disease, but which comes first — a healthy brain or a great attitude — isn't known, said Heather Snyder, director of medical and scientific operations for the Alzheimer's Association.

Snyder said the SuperAging study is an important effort that may help provide some answers.

Edith Stern is among the super agers. The petite woman looks far younger than her 92 years, and is a vibrant presence at her Chicago retirement home, where she acts as a sort of room mother, volunteering in the gift shop, helping residents settle in and making sure their needs are met.

Stern lost most of her family in the h0Ɩ0cαųst and takes her work seriously.

"What I couldn't do for my parents, I try to do for the residents in the home," she said, her voice still thick with the accent of her native Czechoslovakia.

most people at the home, even many younger residents.

"I am young — inside. And I think that's the difference," she said.

"I grasp fast," she adds. "If people say something, they don't have to tell me twice. I don't forget it."

She's different in other ways, too.

"When you get old, people are mainly interested in themselves. They talk about the doctor, what hurts," she said. "You are not so important that you just concentrate on yourself. You have to think about other people."

Study participant Don Tenbrunsel has a similar mindset. The 85-year-old retired businessman doesn't think of himself as a super ager. "Neither do my children," he says, chuckling.

But Tenbrunsel says his memory has been sharp "from the time I was born. My mother used to say, 'Donald, come sing with me — not because I had a good voice, but because I always knew the words," he said. "I think I'm just lucky, not only with respect to my memory, but I'm able to get around very well; I walk a lot and I have a pretty good attitude toward life itself."

Tenbrunsel volunteers several hours a week at a food pantry run by the Chicago church where he is a parishioner. One recent morning in the sun-filled rectory kitchen, he nimbly packaged ham and cheese sandwiches, set out bags of chips and cans of soda, and cheerfully greeted a steady stream of customers.

"Good morning, good to see you," he said, standing at the pantry's bright red door. He gave everyone their choice of chips — a small gesture but important, he said, because it gives them some sense of control over their hard-luck lives.
"I enjoy doing it. I probably get more out of it than I give," Tenbrunsel said.

Ken Zwiener, of Deerfield, Ill., is another super ager. He had "more than an inkling" he might qualify for the study, and his kids encouraged him to enroll.

"They said, 'Dad, your brain is the best thing about you,'" the 81-year-old retired businessman recalled.

He's a golfer and Broadway musical "nut" who created a 300-plus-page computer database of shows. Zwiener uses an iPad, recently went hot-air ballooning and is trying to learn Spanish.

He also pours himself a vodka martini every night and is a pack-a-day cigarette smoker, but says he doesn't think his habits have made much difference. His healthy brain, he says, may be due to heredity and genes, but Zwiener said he hopes the study comes up with more "scientific insights".

"My dad lived into his middle 90s and was pretty sharp right up until the day he died," Zwiener said.

Zwiener's motivation for joining the study was simple: The best man at his wedding died of Alzheimer's disease before age 50.

"To lose a mind ... is just a terrible way to go," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/study-seeks-super-agers-secrets-brain-health-071524341.html

Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Elizabeth on September 06, 2013, 09:32:40 AM
My Dad is a "super ager".  I pray he will start super co-operating with Gods' Will and use the brain God gave him as He intended.
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on September 14, 2013, 03:22:15 AM
The world's oldest living human being today is 115-year-old Misao Okawa from Japan. If Ethiopia's Dhaqabo Ebba claim is indeed true, he's far ahead of Okawa - and all legally recorded human births. This would make Ebba 46 years older than the oldest ever recorded man.

Ebba provided so much detail on the history of his local area that reporter Mohammed Ademo became convinced that Ebba must be at least 160 years old. Ademo made that statement on Oromiya TV.
 
"When Italy invaded Ethiopia I had two wives,and my son was old enough to herd cattle," Ebba said.

Ebba then recounted his eight-day horseback rides to Addis Ababa as a child, which is a journey that takes only a few hours today.

Ebba, having grown up in an oral society, there are no paper trails and no living witnesses to verify his age.

Ebba would also overtake French woman Jeanne Calment as the oldest person to have ever lived. Calment claimed to have remembered painter Vincent Van Gogh in her native village. Calment also lived a rarefied existence, having never worked a day in her life. She died aged 122 years and 164 days in 1997.

The last man confirmed to have lived in the 19th century was Jiroemon Kimura, who was born in Japan on April 19, 1897. He died in June this year at the age of 116, making him the longest-living man in history.

From Kyotango, Japan, Kimura left behind seven children, 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 15 great-great-grandchildren.

Japan has more than 50,000 centenarians, reinforcing its reputation for longevity

http://catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=52378
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on September 14, 2013, 11:56:54 PM
The world's oldest man, a gin rummy-playing, one-time sugarcane worker born in Spain, has died at 112 in New York state, a funeral home said on Saturday.

Salustiano "Shorty" Sanchez, recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest man, died on Friday at a nursing home in Grand Island, New York, the M.J. Colucci & Son Funeral Chapels said on its website.

Guinness said in June that Sanchez, who also had been a construction worker, was the oldest man following the death of 116-year-old Jiroemon Kimura of Japan.

Sanchez credited his longevity to eating one banana per day and taking Anacin daily, according to a recent Guinness online profile.

He told Guinness that living so long was not a special accomplishment.

Sanchez was born in El Tejado de Bejar, Spain, in 1901 and worked as a sugarcane field worker in Cuba before emigrating to the United States, where he found work in Kentucky coal mines.

Sanchez liked to garden, do crossword puzzles, and play gin rummy every night with friends, according to Guinness.

Sanchez was known for his musical talents as a boy, playing a dulzania, a Spanish double reed instrument related to the oboe, Guinness said. He went to school until age 10.

Sanchez moved to the Niagara Falls area of New York state in the early 1930s and became a construction worker. He worked for Union Carbide Co for more than 30 years before retiring.

He married his wife, Pearl, in 1934. Sanchez had two children, seven grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and five great-great grandchildren, according to Guinness.

With his death, the world's oldest man is Arturo Licata of Italy at 111, and the oldest woman is Misao Okawa of Japan at 115, according to the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks people 110 and older and validates ages for Guinness.

The greatest authenticated age for any human is 122 years, 164 days by Jeanne Louise Calment of France.

http://news.yahoo.com/worlds-oldest-man-dies-112-york-state-022815259.html

I want to be the oldest person someday.
 :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on September 30, 2013, 11:41:11 PM
According to a story published recently in the New York Times, 103-year-old Harry Rosen credits his long life with a love of fine dining. Every evening, he visits one of his favorite Manhattan restaurants. “The food and the ambiance, it’s my therapy — it gives me energy,” he told the paper. Rosen also gets chatty with people sitting at nearby tables and remarkably lies about his age. “They always ask my age, and I often lie and tell them I’m 90,” he said. “If I tell them my real age, it becomes the whole subject of conversation and makes it look like I’m looking for attention, which I’m not.”

Rosen isn't the only centenarian who attributes his longevity to diet. In July, the Guinness Book of World Records welcomed the oldest living man into its annals, 112-year-old Salustiano Sanchez Blazquez of Spain. He died in September, however, according to a story published in the Daily Mail, Sanchez Blazquez credited his long life to eating one plantain a day. And then there's 105-year-old Pearl Cantrell. The mother of seven told Today that three slices of bacon ("It's gotta be crispy") is the reason for her youthful glow. On her most recent birthday, after learning of her love for bacon, representatives from Oscar Mayer paid her a visit and let her ride "shotbun" in their Weinermobile."


What makes people live so long — nature or nurture? "The average person should be able to live to 90 years old if they exercise, eat well, and avoid smoking,” Thomas Perls, M.D., a professor of medicine at Boston Medical Center, the director of the New England Centenarian study, and co-author of Living to 100, told Yahoo Shine. “Before the age of 90, genetics only accounts for 25 percent of a person’s lifespan; 75 percent is their healthy habits. If a person lives past 90, we have to look to a stronger genetic reason.”  Here’s how four other people over 100 keep the good times rolling.


Have a boss: At 108 years old, Irving Kahn still holds down a job as a New York City investment adviser, arising at 7:00 a.m. each morning and commuting to his office on Madison Avenue five days a week. Kahn, who outlived his 106-year-old brother Peter and older sister Helen, 110, is currently participating in a study of centenarians at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. “There are a lot of opportunities out there, and one shouldn’t complain, unless you don’t have good health,” Kahn told The Daily Beast in 2011. And while Kahn clearly loves his 9 to 5, according to Howard Friedman, Ph.D., distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside and co-author of The Longevity Project, a dream job isn't a must, in order to live longer. “Our studies show that people who don’t necessarily love their jobs, still live longer because they have a greater purpose and contribute to a greater good every day,” he says.

Indulge your silly side: 100-year-old Kathleen Connell sure does. According to a story published on Yahoo News in 2012, the grandmother of one received her first Nintendo DS as a gift on her 96th birthday and never looked back (she bought a second device since she "wore out" the first). Connell plays for two hours a day and says the games are the reason she doesn't "feel a day over 80."

Hit the slopes: Elsa Baily, is a 100-year-old former occupational therapist and avid skier who attributes simple health habits to reaching her golden years. “Be active. I do things my way, like skiing when I’m 100. Nobody else does that even if they have energy. And I try to eat pretty correctly, and get exercise and fresh air and sunshine,” Baily told ABC News in May. She has the right idea. According to one study published in the journal PLOS One, exercise such as brisk walking for 75 minutes per week is associated with a gain of 1.8 years in life expectancy.

Marry a younger guy: Daisy Dunnett, 100, says her second husband, David 33 years her junior, keeps her young, according to story published by SWNS. The fact that David wasn’t even born when Dunnett gave birth to her third child is small potatoes to the couple, who dated for nine years before tying the knot. “I really think I would be dead if it was not for him. If you’re elderly and on your own it is easy to give up," said Daisy. "He gives me a reason to enjoy life to the fullest." Daisy and David could be onto something — one 2012 study published in The Journal of Research in Personality found that while married people aren’t necessarily happier than their single counterparts, marriage is a safeguard against “normal declines in happiness” in adulthood. "We've seen from multi-generational studies that young people have a positive effect on the elderly, but the impact is a two-way street," says Perls.

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/quirky-secrets-to-living-past-100-190626973.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on October 12, 2013, 11:52:40 PM
In the near future, advances in biomedical technology will enable citizens of developed countries to live dramatically longer lives. The revolution in biomedicine stands poised to eclipse even the social and economic effects of information technology.


Right now, it’s hard to believe that a radically extended life is possible, especially after many failed promises in the past.

But for the first time, it has become possible to speculate, with some degree of certainty, that this dream could be achieved within our lifetimes. I outline some of these trends in my book, The Ageless Generation: How Advances in Biomedicine Will Transform the Global Economy.

Of course, there is disbelief and skepticism, even among some of the world’s top experts.

Biomedical innovations typically reach the mass market much more slowly than those produced by information technology. Consumer demand cannot significantly accelerate the process. Nevertheless, many advances made over the past three decades are already propagating into mainstream clinical practice and converging with other technologies to extend our life spans.

Consider these facts:

•More than $1 trillion has been spent on biomedical research over the past 20 years. These investments should soon start yielding longevity dividends.

•The number of scientists working on extending the life span world-wide has increased exponentially as computer and communications technologies have entered the mainstream and China and India have joined the race.

•The life spans of some laboratory animals have already been extended more than tenfold.

•Innovations have already started: vital organs have been grown from patients’ own cells and several stem-cell therapies are being proven.

•Cancer survival rates have increased steadily over the past few years. A diagnosis is no longer a certain death sentence.

•Advances in laboratory diagnostics and biometrics are already providing valuable insight into disease prevention.

•Fast-food outlets have started offering healthier dishes and displaying caloric content and smoking rates in developed countries have declined.

Many people would not interpret these seven facts as a single trend leading to dramatic increases in life expectancy because the long-term effects are so unpredictable. But just two decades ago, nobody could imagine the possibility of the technology we use daily now.
The possibility of a radically longer life is very real.

Surprisingly, though, most people do not want to have their life spans extended. According to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, 56% of adult respondents in the U.S. would not want to undergo medical treatments to slow the aging process and enable them to live to 120 or longer.

In my opinion, this pessimistic view stems from several factors. First, when forming a conscious and subconscious opinion about life expectancy, most people use as benchmarks their parents’ and grandparents’ life spans, and the national average. The line of thought is usually: I am 40, my grandmother lived to 92, my dad is 70, and I heard that the average is about 78, so I should live to somewhere between 80 and 95. But I am not sure if I want to live that long, because my grandmother was very frail in her later years.

These perceptions are fostered by researchers who look at historic trends and project only marginal increases, or even decreases, in future life expectancy. These researchers predict that recent behavioral changes, like high-calorie diets and sedentary lifestyles, as well as pollution and other environmental factors, will outweigh life-extending advances in biomedical sciences. But the past 20 years have demonstrated that those relying on historical trends to make predictions about science and technology are often proven wrong.

People may also believe an extended life span will extend frailty and boredom in old age. But biomedical advances are not all the same. The current paradigm in biomedical research, clinical regulation and health care has created a spur of costly procedures that provide only marginal increases late in life. The vast percentage of lifetime health care costs today are spent in the past few years of patients’ lives, increasing the burden on the economy and society and further contributing to the negative image of life extension.

In the near future, however, the focus of biomedicine will shift to extending healthy, productive lives and keeping people young and occupied for as long as possible. In fact, this is probably one of the very few altruistic strategies for avoiding the possible global economic collapse triggered by the unbearable costs of supporting our retired populations. When faced with a simultaneous decline in birthrates and an increase in the number of retirees, governments of developed countries will realize that investing in regenerative medicine and encouraging life-long learning and career planning are better strategies than implementing massive austerity measures and boosting immigration.

The preventive approaches available today, including improved diet and exercise and more advanced early diagnostics, may have the potential to add 10 to 20 years to our life spans. But future generations will more likely rely on biomedical interventions to prevent the loss of functionality with age and to maintain or even improve their performance on all levels. The lowest-hanging fruit is regenerative medicine, which will likely allow most of the organs in the body to be replaced or rejuvenated.

The benefits of becoming ageless

There is a big difference between thinking “I am 50, but I feel like 30 and expect to live to 80” and “I am 50, but I expect to be healthy until 150.” As our life spans extend, we will need to change our approach to getting older.

What does it mean to age without getting “old”? The brilliant psychologist Laura Carstensen, founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, was one of the first to propose and develop a life span theory of motivation called Socioemotional Selectivity Theory. According to Dr. Carstensen, our life span time horizons affect our motivation, behavior, risk taking and cognitive processing. For example, individuals with shorter perceived life expectancies will divert resources from investments intended for the future to pursue short-term goals and pleasures.

There are clear benefits, then, in proactively stretching your expected life horizon to a number much greater than your can currently imagine. It will probably not only make you look and feel younger, but also induce the behavioral patterns of someone more youthful, enabling you to interact with younger and older people without barriers and remain productive longer than your peers.

Another benefit of setting the bar toward 120, 150 or beyond is minimizing financial risk. This will most certainly lead more of us to postpone retirement and set a course for continuous improvement, lifelong learning and active career planning.

There is definitely no harm in stretching your “ageometer” to 150. Most likely technology will catch up and exceed your expectations. The worst that can happen is you will die earlier feeling much younger than you ever thought you would.

About the author: Alex Zhavoronkov, Ph.D., the author of The Ageless Generation: How Advances in Biomedicine Will Transform the Global Economy, is the director and a trustee of the Biogerontology Research Foundation, a U.K.-based think tank supporting aging research world-wide.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/yes-you-can-be-120-years-old-and-love-it-2013-10-12?pagenumber=2
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on November 06, 2013, 04:45:53 AM
It's hard to forget Elsa Bailey, the 100-year-old whippersnapper who wanted nothing more than to celebrate her 100th birthday last May by hitting the ski slopes at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area in Keystone, Colo., just as she did when she turned 90, for one final whirl down the mountain.

But Bailey's adventures certainly didn't end on her birthday. The tenacious centurion just fulfilled another huge accomplishment from her bucket list, to take a trip to see real-life polar bears in the wild.

"It was wonderful," Bailey, of Colorado Springs, told GoodMorningAmerica.com of her surprise trip to the tundra. "I've always loved animals, ever since I was down in Tanzania years ago watching their migration."

A self-proclaimed lifelong rebel, Bailey has "done a lot of fun things" during her extremely active existence, but seeing polar bears in the wild was one adventure she had yet to conquer.

Coincidentally, an employee of Natural Habitat Adventures, a company that helps organize polar bear tours, had been on the slopes the same day Bailey was celebrating her 100 th birthday, and later that night while watching the news, heard Bailey admit "she still had a bucket list, and atop it was her desire to see polar bears in the wild," Andrea Reynolds, the tour guide who accompanied Bailey on her trip, wrote on a blog detailing their adventure.

The group decided to surprise Bailey with a week-long trip to Churchill, Manitoba in October, an experience she says she'll never forget.

"I've wanted to see polar bears for years," said Bailey. "When the opportunity came, I jumped at it," especially, she notes, because the group she went with was "so nice, so helpful, and they made things as easy as they could for an old-timer like me."

Bailey traveled around the tundra in "these great big tremendous vehicles they call polar rovers," she recalled, with windows on both sides for her to peer out of telescopes to help her spot the bears.

"We were looking for them and saw them coming," she said. "They're so used to these polar rovers they just came down and began playing together right in front of me. They're such wonderful animals, but in this season they sometimes get bored because there's nothing for them to do, so they just play together, which was magnificent."

One of the highlights of her trip, however, was a different animal - the sled dogs. Bailey got to ride along with a professional dog musher for an exhilarating half an hour.

"It was wonderful tearing along behind the dogs through fresh snow and through the woods," she said. "I got a front seat."

Now that Bailey is back home, she's already got her eyes set on her next bucket list endeavor.

"Yellowstone," she said without hesitation. "I've wanted to go there for years. I just want to look. Apparently, it is a great big geyser with a lot of hot magma underneath and I'd love to see that. It must be glorious."

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/100-old-woman-fulfills-bucket-list-dream-see-204329354--abc-news-travel.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on December 31, 2013, 04:54:50 AM
Nordstrom's only greeter, who has worked for the company for more than 14 years, turned 100 today.

 
Related StoriesTed DiNunzio has worked at the Nordstrom department store in Arcadia, Calif., about 15 miles northeast of Los Angeles, since he was 86 years old.

On Friday, the company celebrated his birthday with nearly 1,000 cupcakes, some of which spelled out the number 100.

Some 14 years ago, the manager asked him to have a cup of coffee and offered him a job to be a store greeter. He works now on Fridays and Saturdays from about 10 to 5, with a one-hour lunch break and 10-minute rest period.

DiNunzio is the only greeter of Nordstrom's 261 stores in 35 states, a spokesman for Nordstrom confirmed.

When asked whether he will ever stop working at Nordstrom, he has said, "I will keep on working until I can't work anymore."

DiNunzio previously said the key to longevity is eating lot of vegetables and steak once in a while.

"Faith and positive attitude, always smile and be happy, that's the secret," DiNunzio said during the 100th birthday celebration, KTLA reported.

DiNunzio could not be reached for comment.

John Bailey, a spokesman for Nordstrom, said the centenarian and his family were planning to have a small celebration on his actual birthday, but on Sunday, DiNunzio went to the race track, one of his favorite pastimes.

Marcille Hughes, the store manager at Nordstrom Westfield Santa Anita, said in a statement, "Ted inspires others, he creates an environment that's welcoming and fun. "He has a belief that you need to treat people with kindness and smile. It works for him and works for all of us around him. He truly brightens everyone's day."

http://news.yahoo.com/nordstrom-39-only-greeter-becomes-centenarian-005438244.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Neil Obstat on December 31, 2013, 11:33:12 AM
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It's really funny, to see all these worldly quips from the faithless MSM saying that such-and-such is the oldest authenticated age and the longest recorded lifespan, etc.  

Not too long ago families kept records of births, marriages and deaths in the family by writing them down in the family Bible.  There were several pages for that purpose left with blank spaces in new bibles.  

And family bibles were used as the authentic record of when people were born, married, and died, among other things (baptism, first Holy Communion, Confirmation, Holy Orders).  

Now, we see this:

Quote from: poche

The world's oldest man, a gin rummy-playing, one-time sugarcane worker born in Spain, has died at 112 in New York state, a funeral home said on Saturday.

Salustiano "Shorty" Sanchez, recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest man, died on Friday at a nursing home in Grand Island, New York, the M.J. Colucci & Son Funeral Chapels said on its website.




Does Guinness World Records ever check family bibles for birth dates?  

Probably not.  

Because if they did, then they'd have to recognize the Bible for ages of people, and you know where that would end up?


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Guinness said in June that Sanchez, who also had been a construction worker, was the oldest man following the death of 116-year-old Jiroemon Kimura of Japan.

...

With his death, the world's oldest man is Arturo Licata of Italy at 111, and the oldest woman is Misao Okawa of Japan at 115, according to the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks people 110 and older and validates ages for Guinness.

The greatest authenticated age for any human is 122 years, 164 days by Jeanne Louise Calment of France.
 


The "greatest authenticated age for any human?"


Gee... I wonder what constitutes "authenticated age?"


Genesis chapter five:

25  And Mathusala lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot Lamech.
26  And Mathusala lived after he begot Lamech, seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.
27  And all the days of Mathusala were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.


Now, we can't be having the Bible recognized as being literally true, can we?

Or... can we?  Maybe it's not a problem with what the Bible says, but rather it's a problem with what we believe, and whether we are interested in pleasing God.


"But without faith, it is impossible to please God" (Heb. xi. 6).


Does Guinness World Records ever mention that?


Probably not.


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Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Mabel on December 31, 2013, 06:14:14 PM
On CI?

I think Neil Obstat, RomanCatholic1953, and maybe Stubborn are at the old man table, but I could be wrong.

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Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on February 21, 2014, 03:23:34 AM
An Italian nun celebrated her 107th birthday on February 20, attributing her longevity to “living in joy.”

Sister Candida (Alma) Bellotti, who is believed to be the world’s oldest religious. A native of Verona, she joined the Camillian order 80 years ago. She now lives in Lucca, in Tuscany.

For her birthday, Sister Candida was at the Vatican, where she attended Mass at the Domus Sanctae Marthae and spoke briefly with Pope Francis. She declined to choose a favorite among the nine Roman Pontiffs who have led the Church during her lifetime.

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=20557
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Nadir on February 21, 2014, 05:46:39 AM
I expect that joy would help to make a long life more pleasant, but I doubt very much whether it would make for a longer life. You'd expect she might put it down to the Will of God.
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on March 04, 2014, 12:50:36 AM
Seeking advice on how to live a long time? You could do a lot worse than Misao Okawa. The Japanese woman will celebrate her 116th birthday on Wednesday.

Okawa (pictured above, celebrating her 115th birthday in 2013) spoke to the U.K. Telegraph about her secrets for longevity. Those hoping for an obscure secret trick ("Always jump on one foot at exactly 3:43 a.m. while playing the banjo") are in for a disappointment. Okawa attributes her incredible life span to getting plenty of sleep, eating well, and taking a nap as needed.

She told the paper, "Eat and sleep and you will live a long time. You have to learn to relax."

Easier said than done, of course, but when advice on living a long life comes from the world's oldest person, it's worth heeding. Okawa, born in 1898 and great-great-grandmother to six, eats sushi "at least once every month," Tomohito Okada, head of the retirement home where Okawa has lived for the past 18 years, told the Telegraph.

When asked by the Telegraph about her happiest and saddest moments, she spoke about her 1919 marriage to her husband and the birth of her three children. Her husband passed away in 1931. Her surviving children are 94 and 92, according to the Telegraph.

Okawa became the world's oldest living person last year when the previous title holder, Jiroemon Kimura, passed away at the age of 116.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/eat-well--sleep-eight-hours-and-relax--world-s-oldest-person-offers-tips-a-long-life-181916538.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: SenzaDubbio on March 04, 2014, 01:09:36 AM
This old man was baptized Roman Catholic :)
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on May 22, 2014, 04:06:35 AM
At 111 years old, Dr. Alexander Imich of New York City has been crowned the new world's oldest living man, according to Guinness World Records.

The world's oldest living person and oldest woman, Misao Okawa of Osaka, Japan is 116 years old; she was born on March 5, 1898. The longest a person has been known to live, at least an age that could be authenticated by Guinness World Records, is 122 years and 164 days; that person, Louise Calment of France, was born on Feb. 21, 1875, and died in a nursing home in Arles, France, on Aug. 4, 1997.

Imich, who says he owes his longevity to good genes and a moderate and healthy lifestyle, was born in in present-day Cz?stochowa, Poland, on Feb. 4, 1903. He and his wife, Wela, immigrated to the United States in 1953, where his wife died in 1986. Imich has been living alone in Manhattan since she died. [The World's 7 Weirdest World Records]

His motto, he told Guinness World Records, is that one should "always pursue what one loves and is passionate about."

This latest oldest-man record was verified after the passing of the prior record holder, Arturo Licata of Italy on April 24. Licata was 111 years and 357 days.

So what's the secret to such long lives? While plenty of research has focused on longevity and what makes centenarians stand out from those who don't make it to such an old age, no single fountain of youth has turned up. Even so, both genes and a healthy lifestyle do seem to play roles. In a study detailed in 2010 in the journal Science, researchers found 150 genetic markers could predict 77 percent of the time whether a person lived into their late 90s and beyond. Another study out in 2011 also points to longevity genes, as the study participants who were 95 and older lived no more virtuous lives than the general population when it came to healthy behaviors.

But don't grab the doughnut just yet. In 2012, researchers reported centenarians living in mountain villages on the island of Sicily adhered closely to the Mediterrranean diet rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains, while low in red meat and refined carbs.

http://news.yahoo.com/111-old-worlds-oldest-man-151501105.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: MyrnaM on May 22, 2014, 04:22:28 PM
I bet I am the oldest person on this forum.   :king:
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: JohnAnthonyMarie on June 20, 2014, 01:49:33 AM
>50 ?
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Frances on June 20, 2014, 05:57:06 AM
Quote from: JohnAnthonyMarie
>50 ?

 :dancing-banana:>50!
 :alcohol:O, woe! Her peel is limp and wrinkled, splotchy and brown!  Her innards oh, so mushy, the fruit flies gathering round! :guitar:
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on July 05, 2014, 04:59:10 AM
 A south Arkansas woman celebrated her 116th birthday Friday with cake, a party and a new title — she's now officially the oldest confirmed living American and second-oldest person in the world, the Gerontology Research Group said.

Gertrude Weaver spent her birthday at home at Silver Oaks Health and Rehabilitation in Camden, about 100 miles southwest of Little Rock. This year's festivities included the new award from the Gerontology Research Group, which analyzed U.S. Census records to determine that Weaver is the oldest living American, rather than 115-year-old Jeralean Talley, who was born in 1899.

The research group, which consults with the Guinness Book of World Records, found that the 1900 Census listed Weaver as 2 years old — putting her birthday in 1898, said Robert Young, the research group's database administrator and senior consultant for Guinness.

That makes Weaver the second-oldest person in the world behind 116-year-old Misao Okawa of Japan and the 11th oldest person of all time, he said.

"Normally, 116 would be old enough to be the world's oldest person," Young said. "There's kind of heavy competition at the moment."

Weaver was born in southwest Arkansas near the border with Texas, and was married in 1915. She and her husband had four children, all of whom have died except for a 93-year-old son. Along with Census records, the Gerontology Research Group used Weaver's 1915 marriage certificate, which listed her age as 17, to confirm her birth year, Young said.

Although no birth record exists for Weaver, she celebrates her birthday each year on July 4 and did the same this year. At her 115th birthday party last year, Weaver was "waving and just eating it all up," said Vicki Vaughan, the marketing and admissions director at Silver Oaks.

"Most people want to know, 'Well, can she talk?'" Vaughan said. "Her health is starting to decline a little bit this year — I can tell a difference from last year, but she still is up and gets out of the room and comes to all of her meals, comes to activities. She'll laugh and smile and clap."

Weaver first stayed at the Camden nursing home at the age of 104 after she suffered a broken hip, Vaughan said. But Weaver recovered after rehabilitation and moved back home with her granddaughter, before returning to the nursing home at the age of 109.

Weaver cited three factors for her longevity: "Trusting in the Lord, hard work and loving everybody."

"You have to follow God. Don't follow anyone else," she told the Camden News this week. "Be obedient and follow the laws and don't worry about anything. I've followed him for many, many years and I ain't tired."

http://news.yahoo.com/116-arkansas-woman-named-oldest-american-162923684.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Cato on July 07, 2014, 01:39:05 AM
I highly doubt that man is a day over 80yo.  Someone mentioned the English man a couple centuries who claimed to be older.  It turned out he just "assumed" his grandfather's identity.

Anyway, 123yo is pretty old.  I think I'd be anxious to meet the good Lord by then.  If I make it to 80yo in good health, I'd be satisfied.
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Brennus on July 07, 2014, 03:55:36 PM
Quote from: Cato
I highly doubt that man is a day over 80yo.  Someone mentioned the English man a couple centuries who claimed to be older.  It turned out he just "assumed" his grandfather's identity.

Anyway, 123yo is pretty old.  I think I'd be anxious to meet the good Lord by then.  If I make it to 80yo in good health, I'd be satisfied.



You are probably referring to Thomas Parr.  Please cite your proof that he assumed his grandfather's identity.
 
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Cato on July 08, 2014, 03:01:57 AM
Quote from: Brennus
Quote from: Cato
I highly doubt that man is a day over 80yo.  Someone mentioned the English man a couple centuries who claimed to be older.  It turned out he just "assumed" his grandfather's identity.

Anyway, 123yo is pretty old.  I think I'd be anxious to meet the good Lord by then.  If I make it to 80yo in good health, I'd be satisfied.



You are probably referring to Thomas Parr.  Please cite your proof that he assumed his grandfather's identity.
 



"While Parr was undeniably old, the scenario sometimes posited is a confusion (deliberate or no) of this Parr's birth record with that of his grandfather."

http://www.nndb.com/people/609/000096321/
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Brennus on July 08, 2014, 07:06:39 AM
Quote from: Cato
Quote from: Brennus
Quote from: Cato
I highly doubt that man is a day over 80yo.  Someone mentioned the English man a couple centuries who claimed to be older.  It turned out he just "assumed" his grandfather's identity.

Anyway, 123yo is pretty old.  I think I'd be anxious to meet the good Lord by then.  If I make it to 80yo in good health, I'd be satisfied.



You are probably referring to Thomas Parr.  Please cite your proof that he assumed his grandfather's identity.
 



"While Parr was undeniably old, the scenario sometimes posited is a confusion (deliberate or no) of this Parr's birth record with that of his grandfather."

http://www.nndb.com/people/609/000096321/



That isn't proof. That's just assertion.  I don't want to sound hostile, thought, it's just that I've read about Tom Parr over the last 25 years and I still haven't found exactly WHAT records of his grandfather they supposedly confused or misrepresented. I am not sure there would have been anything in 1483 because they didn't uniformly record baptisms in England until about a century later (It was a gradual compliance with a law to do so, throughout the 1500s. See, I know something of English genealogy -- can trace some of my ancestry back to the 1100s, in fact.)  Parr doesn't seem to have been of significance enough for there to be such a record of his grandfather. I could be wrong though and am waiting for more on this subject.

In the meantime, even if that is the case, that it was a mistake, it is hard to see how it could have been made without Parr still being very old. The chain of events of his "later" life is pretty clear, adultery and penance, married the paramour 22 years later, died 30 years after that (continuing to have sɛҳuąƖ intercourse up to 12 years before his death._ SO, that is a 52 year stretch. For him o be mistaken with his grandfather, I think the story would have to start at a time when he was already old enough that he was the oldest man in the village. Let's be conservative and say that is in his 60s, let's say 62. Then we have to add 52 years to it and we are up in the 110s. Most researchers of this story have concluded that Parr, even if he wasn't 152, would probably have been more than 100 when he died.

When we get that through our heads we then must confront what Harvey wrote about the condition of his body and we start to suspect that there might have been something genetically unusual about the man. There was a cat once that lived to be 30 something. That was highly unusual. Perhaps Parr was like that. Maybe they should dig up his bones and see if they can find anything out.

I think I shall try to find out more. If you find out more, let me know.  
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Cato on July 08, 2014, 09:13:28 PM
Here's another reference:


 "A modern interpretation of the results of the autopsy suggest that Thomas Parr was probably under 70 years of age."

P. Lüth “Geschichte der Geriatrie” (1965), S. 153 + 154


I tend to doubt ancient records, but I suppose a person reaching 152 years old is possible.  It is, however, less likely back then with the poor nutrition, hygiene, and medicine.
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on July 17, 2014, 12:55:12 AM
Not many people reach the age of 93, let alone make it to work every day.

Enter Joel Presson, who has been an Oxford, Ohio, Wendy’s employee for 25 years and counting.

“He’s pretty much an ambassador for us,” Oxford Wendy’s operator Mo Murphy told ABC News. “He talks to customers and a lot of them come in here just to see him.”

Presson got his start in the restaurant industry at just nine years old, and he worked at restaurants off and on until he joined Wendy’s in 1989 at 67 years old.

“I was hungry and didn’t want to get any hungrier,” he bluntly told ABC News. “The founder of our company of course was Dave Thomas, and I read his books and liked the style. We were a people business as much as a restaurant business and it gave me a chance to meet with the people out front and I worked on the floor and I gave service.”

After working alone on his father’s farm as a child, Presson swore to himself he’d never work alone again.

“When you’re working on a one-horse farm, nobody but you and the mule can talk to each other,” he said.

Presson fills his days with a variety of responsibilities, but mainly chatting with the customers and getting drink refills.

“He does a little bit of everything, anywhere form filling ice bins to taking out the trash and mopping floors to prepping product for us,” Murphy said. “But the most important thing he does is taking care of the customers. He works the dining room for us, greeting customers and getting drinks for them. He’s really a public relations person for us. He does remarkable for 93 years old.”

Presson said he has no plans to stop anytime soon.

“I’m grateful for the years I’ve had and been able to work. You hope that you can do it because if you can keep active, that’s the only way,” he said. “I love the people here, and I don’t feel like a real fast food place, although we really are. But the food we have is, in my opinion, better than most restaurants. I eat any of it as long as my teeth will let me do the job.”

https://gma.yahoo.com/93-old-wendys-employee-still-hard-171511370--abc-news-Recipes.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on August 19, 2014, 11:41:13 PM
My peers of a certain age will remember an Oil of Olay commercial about deciding not to grow old gracefully, but rather to "fight it every step of the way."
And while we spend billions trying to turn back time, the Fountain of Youth has yet to be found at the bottom of a lotion bottle.
But one researcher from Harvard Medical School, David Sinclair, believes the secret to stopping the aging process is closer than we think.
"I wouldn't begin to put a limit on the human lifespan," he says.
Sinclair has spent the past 20 years looking for ways to help people live longer, healthier lives.
In an exclusive look at his strictly guarded mouse lab, Sinclair showed us how his research team is looking to stop the clock on aging.
It was Sinclair's research on resveratrol, a molecule found in grapes, that made headlines a decade ago when it showed promising results in keeping overfed mice as healthy as lean mice. Sinclair even chose to test resveratrol on himself, something he has been doing for the past 10 years, and he says he's feeling fit and healthy. Likewise, his parents, who are in their 70s, report similar results from taking resveratrol.

Today, Sinclair has taken his research even further. By prematurely aging mice, he is able to test new molecules on them in an attempt to return them to their younger, healthier state. He's hopeful that the molecules will one day help prevent or delay diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's in humans. All of this, of course, is still very much in the research phase, but Sinclair is confident that his work will lead to many of us living longer and healthier lives.
"Can we one day live to 150?" he asks. "I don't see why not; it's just a matter of when."
 Who do you think is a global game changer, and what person would you like to see featured in this series? Let me know on Twitter (@katiecouric) or on Tumblr.

http://news.yahoo.com/katie-couric-aging-mice-harvard-researcher-david-sinclair-035336385.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on August 19, 2014, 11:53:06 PM
His 101st Birthday Present? Another Day at Work

Herman "Hy" Goldman turned 101 this weekend and won't quit after 73 years working at the same New Jersey job.

Goldman still shows up four days a week at light fixtures company Capitol Lighting in East Hanover. His co-workers celebrated his birthday with him on Monday.

Aside from a brief absence to serve in the U.S. Army in World War II, Goldman has worked at Capitol Lighting since 1941. The store says he was first hired to sell items and stock and clean the displays.

Co-worker Sandy Ronco says Goldman now specializes in rebuilding items that were damaged or unusable.

Goldman lives in nearby Whippany and still drives himself to work.

http://finance.yahoo.com/photos/his-101st-birthday-present-another-day-at-work-1408451205-slideshow/
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on August 20, 2014, 11:41:53 PM
 A 111-year-old retired Japanese educator who enjoys poetry has been recognized as the world's oldest living man.

Sakari Momoi received a certificate from Guinness World Records on Wednesday. He succeeds Alexander Imich of New York, who died in June at the age of 111 years, 164 days.

The world's oldest living person is also Japanese: Misao Okawa, a 116-year-old woman from Osaka.

Momoi was born Feb. 5, 1903, in Fukushima prefecture, where he became a teacher. He moved to the city of Saitama, north of Tokyo, after World War II and was a high school principal there until retirement.

At the televised ceremony, Momoi wore a dark suit and silver tie, with his white hair neatly combed. He stood up from his wheelchair and moved to a chair next to it with little assistance.

Asked how he felt about the record, Momoi pushed his back upright and said he wants to live longer.

"Say, another two years," he said.

Momoi said he enjoys reading books, especially Chinese poetry, and sometimes practices calligraphy.

He said there is no special trick for his longevity, but his caregivers say Momoi keeps early hours and eats healthy, according to NHK public television.

He has five children and lives at a nursing home in Tokyo.

Momoi is one of 54,000 centenarians in Japan. The country is the fastest aging in the world and has the highest average life expectancy — 80.21 for men and 86.61 for women.

http://news.yahoo.com/111-old-japan-recognized-oldest-man-065238508.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on October 02, 2014, 12:58:53 AM
Name: Loren Wade
Age: 102

At 102 years old, Loren Wade is one of the oldest workers in the country.

For the past 30 years, he has worked at Wal-Mart's Winfield, Kansas store. Currently, he works 32 hours a week as an associate in the lawn and garden department, doing everything from stocking the shelves and running the cash register to helping customers pick out flowers for their garden.

"He's so good with customers," said store manager Tonya Villar. "They actually seek him out."

A former mail carrier, Wade gave retirement a try in the early 1980s but deemed it "pretty boring."

He and his wife of 67 years live mostly off his Social Security benefits and his small Postal Service pension, but he says the paychecks from Wal-Mart "come in handy, too." "I can buy things that I couldn't buy off of Social Security, like ice cream and to go out to eat once in a while," he said.

But it's not all work. He and his wife have visited almost every state in the U.S. and he played the saxophone and other instruments in a local band for nearly 80 years.

Wade says he plans to work as long as he can. Although he admits: "These 50 pound bags of dog food are getting pretty heavy," he said.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-s-oldest-workers--why-we-refuse-to-retire-190255455.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on October 02, 2014, 01:01:00 AM
Name: Betty Reid Soskin
Age: 93

Betty Reid Soskin has been an office worker, a record store owner and a political staffer. But it wasn't until she was well into her 80s that she found her dream job.

Seven years ago, she became a park ranger at the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, Calif. Three times a week, she shares with visitors what it was like to work in a segregated union hall during World War II -- how she never saw herself as a "Rosie" since black women weren't hired to do the same work as white women.

"It seems to me that all of the things I've done leading up to this period were in preparation for what I'm living now," said Soskin, who is the country's oldest full-time park ranger. "So it's rather an enviable spot to be in. I wouldn't think of retiring."

Soskin says she joined the park service "almost accidentally" after helping advise on the creation of the park while working as a field representative for a local state assembly person.

A social activist for much of her life, Soskin made news last year for speaking out against the government shutdown, which left her furloughed from work.

"I still think of her as an activist, but she's not out there on the picket lines anymore," said park superintendent Tom Leatherman. "She's found a way to tell those stories she thinks need to be told, but is doing it in a way which is very non-confrontational and is very personal."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-s-oldest-workers--why-we-refuse-to-retire-190255455.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on October 02, 2014, 01:03:08 AM
Name: Kenneth Curzon
Age: 91

In a career that has spanned many decades, Kenneth Curzon has done everything from managing service centers at car dealerships to acting as Smokey the Bear for the U.S. Forest Service. He's also a World War II veteran who witnessed D-Day from the beaches of Normandy as a member of the British forces.

But for the past 24 years he has been running the parking services at Scripps Memorial Hospital, which sees more than 3,000 vehicles come in and out every day.

His work day starts at 6:15 a.m. so he can ensure all of the equipment, including the parking lot gates and ticket machines, is working before he moves on to other duties, like preparing financial and operations reports.

"I'm not sure that I've ever beat him in in the morning," said hospital Chief Executive Officer Gary Fybel. "He's always here bright and early."

The extra pay has given Curzon enough cushion that he has given some of his retirement savings away to friends, family and charities.

While he has worked longer than many of his coworkers have been alive, he said he has no plans to stop.

"If they came to me and said I need to step aside then I would do that, but I would probably look for another job," he said.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-s-oldest-workers--why-we-refuse-to-retire-190255455.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on October 02, 2014, 01:09:01 AM
Name: John Fraser Hart
Age: 90

Taking one of Professor John Fraser Hart's geography classes at the University of Minnesota is like taking a step back in time.

The World War II veteran is known for donning a bow tie and using a carousel slide projector to show off his collection of tens of thousands of Kodachrome slides of landscapes across the country, all of which he's taken himself.

"In some ways he feels like he is a relic of an earlier time but he doesn't apologize for it at all," said retired University of Minnesota professor John Adams, who worked with Hart for nearly 40 years.

While Hart's style may not appeal to everyone, many students praise him in online reviews, noting his "wacky sense of humor" and his "all-around charming and entertaining" personality.

In more than 50 years of teaching, Hart has published 15 books and taught more than 50,000 students.

While he could have afforded to retire long ago, Hart said he simply loves his job too much.

"I've learned a lot and I have a chance to share with students," he said. "Each year, I think I keep getting a little bit better at what I'm doing."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-s-oldest-workers--why-we-refuse-to-retire-190255455.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on October 02, 2014, 01:11:03 AM
Name: Novalene Slatton
Age: 90

Novalene Slatton will tell you that she owes her job to former president Bill Clinton.

She has been working at the Hope-Hempstead Chamber of Commerce ever since 1992, when Clinton had just won the Democratic nomination for president and his small hometown of Hope was flooded with visitors and phone calls. Needing extra help, the Chamber of Commerce hired Slatton as a receptionist. She's been there ever since.

Slatton now works three days a week, manning the phones and helping the office to run smoothly. But her favorite duty is soliciting donations for Hope's annual Watermelon Festival.

The festival "is something she is extremely well known for," said Chamber Executive Director Mark Keith.

Slatton said the money she's earned from her job has helped her contribute to savings accounts for her three grandchildren, who are in college or early on in their careers.

When she's not working, Slatton goes to horse races with her brother and visits with friends, many of whom live in retirement homes.

As for her, she says she has no plans to retire.

"I just don't want to stay at home by myself and look at four walls," says Slatton, whose second husband passed away this year. "So many people have retired, and then they say they're bored to death."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-s-oldest-workers--why-we-refuse-to-retire-190255455.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on October 02, 2014, 01:13:18 AM
Name: Jack B. Weinstein
Age: 93

Nominated to the federal bench by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967, Jack Weinstein estimates that he has heard roughly 25,000 legal cases in his career, touching on everything from discrimination against African-American students to gun manufacturing.

And his decisions have made him "one of the most renowned judges in the history of the federal judiciary," according to a 2013 American Bar Association journal profile of the U.S. District Court judge.

Long known for his judicial activism, Weinstein said he's proud of the influence he has had on the law — no matter how controversial. "Society in this country is constantly changing, so the law has to be adjusted," he said.

He has long crusaded against mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders, while in more recent rulings he has battled what he said were excessive prison sentences for a man who had viewed child pornography.

He still wakes each morning at 5 a.m. so he can exercise (he enjoys swimming in his pool) and make breakfast for his wife before being driven from his home in Long Island, N.Y. to the Brooklyn courthouse.

Weinstein says he has no plans to retire, citing his love for "the excitement of the law" and the opportunity to help people and "occasionally improve society, even if only very modestly

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-s-oldest-workers--why-we-refuse-to-retire-190255455.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on October 02, 2014, 01:15:32 AM
Name: Jack H. hαɾɾιs
Age: 95

Jack hαɾɾιs made his movie making debut with the "The Blob" when he was 39 years old -- and the film is still keeping him busy decades later.

Not only is he helping to produce the latest remake of the cult horror film (which he said is slated to be released sometime next year), but he is also advising on the production of "Blob"-related slot machines.

In February, the 95-year-old producer set a Guinness World Record for being the oldest recipient of a star on the legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame. hαɾɾιs is also currently writing a memoir of his decades long entertainment career.

"That's one of Jack's favorite sayings — getting more squeal out of the pig," said his wife Judith hαɾɾιs about her husband's many ventures.

hαɾɾιs first dreamed of working in Hollywood when he was a child dancing in vaudeville theaters throughout the East coast. After working in the business most of his life, he said he can't imagine quitting now.

"Living and working over 90 is something that I just found happening," he said. "I've never been a lazy guy... So I wake up with joy in the heart for the day, exercise every day like a solider and I believe you should make a living doing something you love passionately."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-s-oldest-workers--why-we-refuse-to-retire-190255455.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on December 19, 2014, 12:43:03 AM
They say golf is a game you can play for a lifetime. So long as you're upright and swinging, that means you have a chance to make an ace, just like 103-year-old Gus Andreone did in Florida on Wednesday.

Andreone, the oldest member of the PGA of America, made the hole-in-one at Palm Aire Country Club in Sarasota, Fla. He used a driver from the green tees on the 113-yard 14th hole at the Lakes Course.

"I hit it solid and the ball then hit the ground about 30 yards from the green and kept rolling, rolling and rolling," Andreone said, according to PGA.com. "It fell into the hole, which was cut on the right middle part of the green. Miracles do happen once in a while."

Anderone, who now has eight lifetime aces, may well be the oldest man to have ever recorded a hole-in-one. The apparent prior record holder was Elsie McLean, who made a hole-in-one at 102 years old in 2007.  Anderone's first ace came 65 years ago in 1939. His last one before Wednesday was sometime in the 1990s, on the same course's 17th hole.

It certainly takes skill to make an ace, much less eight of them, but it's hard not to wonder if some people are just plain lucky. Anderone seems to be -- not only with the aces, but three lottery wins in his life.


http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/103-year-old-man-records-his-eighth-ace--becomes-oldest-with-hole-in-one-012551146-golf.html

Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on February 04, 2015, 01:16:56 AM
An Iowa man who turned 100 over the weekend refuses to retire from his steam-cleaning job despite health issues, saying the work is what keeps him alive.

“Well, I've always worked,” Holly Dickerson, who celebrated the triple-digit milestone Saturday, told KCCI-TV.

Dickerson, a former insurance salesman, opened Des Moines' Valley West Uniforms in 1981 as a quasi retirement project. Thirty-four years, a stroke and multiple heart surgeries later, Dickerson still insists on working five days a week, most of it spent on his feet steaming clothes.

“He can do what he darn well wants to when he's 100 years old,” his daughter-in-law, Cathy Dickerson, said. “He loves to be here, and that's just the bottom line."

His 67-year-old son, Terry Dickerson, says his dad once told him, “If you retire and sit in a rocking chair all day, you won't survive.”

"I go pick him up at about 11 o'clock and he steams here till about 3:30-4 o'clock in the afternoon," Terry, who now runs the store, said.

Dickerson told KCCI the secret to his longevity was all the time he spent mall walking around the time he could have retired, which was during the Jimmy Carter administration.

http://news.yahoo.com/100-year-old-man-refuses-to-retire-from-job-181950940.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on February 12, 2015, 04:39:51 AM
Alfred “Alfie” Date is 109 years old and he spends his days knitting sweaters for penguins. Actual, real-life little penguins who live off the coast of Australia and New Zealand.

It may sound crazy, but it’s the truth. Date, the oldest living man in Australia, has been an accomplished knitter for seven decades. He says he completed his first project, a sweater for his nephew, in about 1931.

Date had recently moved to an assisted living facility in New South Wales, when he got an unusual request from the staff.

"I think I’d been in here about 12 hours, might have been 13," Date tells 9News.com.au.

"The two [nurses] come in to me and say ‘We believe you can knit.’"

The nurses explained that the Phillip Island Penguin Foundation had put out a call for sweaters to help the animals.

Sweaters for penguins sound adorable, but seem farfetched. But in fact, they serve a practical purpose in rescuing the birds after oil spills.
“This is not a fashion statement!” the organization says on its website. “Knitted penguin jumpers play an important role in saving little penguins affected by oil pollution. A patch of oil the size of a thumb nail can kill a little penguin.”

After a spill in 2001, nearly all of the 438 affected penguins were saved.

Date took the request to heart.

"The girls who used to work for me, they’ll tell you I’m a sucker. I can’t say no," Date says.

Response to the request has been tremendous, largely due to the attention from the press, and the penguin rescue group is now politely asking knitters to lay off.

“Please note that we have plenty of penguin jumpers at this time donated by generous knitters across the globe,”  the group says. They suggest donating cash to support their work instead. Similar calls for mittens for koalas with burnt paws and knitted pouches for orphaned kangaroos have also resulted in an overflow of crafty donations.

Apparently knitters can’t resist a call to help.

Date is not the first knitter of a certain age to take up the cause. Merle Davenport, a 96-year-old great-grandmother in Ferntree Gully, Australia, made headlines last year for her penguin sweaters.

“I’ve got to have something to do with my hands,” Davenport told the Knox Leader. She said each jumper (Australian for “sweater”) took her seven to eight hours to make.

Even if the sweaters aren’t immediately put to use, they are having a positive effect on the knitters themselves. The craft has been used as a therapy to boost mental health, it relieves stress, and it boosts brainpower. One study found that crafting lowers your risk of developing mild cognitive impairment by as much as 50 percent and may lower your risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

https://www.yahoo.com/makers/109-year-old-spends-his-days-knitting-sweaters-for-110737180910.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on February 17, 2015, 05:58:23 PM
Maybe they can knit for the homeless people and children who live in cold areas of the world.
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on March 25, 2015, 12:55:31 AM
Not many of us can say we've been doing the same job for 69 years. That's probably because the vast majority of us won't live to be 100 years old.

Derrell Alexander, a Chevrolet salesman at White's Mountain Motors in Casper, Wyo., celebrated his own centenary on March 17th, bringing his employment with the dealership to 53 years spanning four separate ownerships regimes. He started selling cars in 1946 at another dealership in Douglas, Wyo., some 50 miles away.

"Sixty-year-old ladies remember him selling their parents cars," new car manager Marco Castillo told Automotive News. "Rarely will there be somebody who he doesn't remember what car they had or something about them."

It's this connection with multiple generations of customers that drives Alexander to come into work each day more than 30 years after someone would typically retire. He still arrives at 8 a.m. every morning, Monday through Saturday, and doesn't take vacations.

“The bible says on the seventh day, you rest,” he told the Casper (Wy.) Journal

Alexander only sells between six and 10 cars a year these days compared to 30 a month in the '50s and '60s, but that doesn't hinder his desire to aggressively chasing each sale. Like a true salesman, his tactic is simple: "Stay with them until they buy or die."

https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/100-year-old-car-salesman-still-knows-how-to-close-a-deal-132909457.html

Would you buy a car from this man?
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on May 24, 2015, 11:24:17 PM
A Detroit-area woman turned 116 Saturday, but she offers no secret for a long life.

"There's nothing I can do about it," Jeralean Talley of Inkster said ahead of her birthday weekend.

Talley will celebrate her birthday twice, including a party on Sunday at her church, New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist. The Gerontology Research Group considers her to be the oldest person in the world, based on available records, followed by Susannah Jones of Brooklyn, New York, who turns 116 in July.

"You're more likely to win the lottery than to reach this age," said Robert Young of Gerontology Research.

Talley bowled until she was 104 and still likes to catch fish. A daughter, Thelma Holloway, tells the Detroit Free Press (http://on.freep.com/1F2Ez2k ) that her mother still has a sharp mind.

She was born in Montrose, Georgia, in 1899 and moved to Michigan in the 1930s. Talley's husband died in 1988 at age 95.

"Her No. 1 rule is to treat people how you want to be treated," said godson Tyler Kinloch, 21, who fishes with her. "I definitely carry that with me every single day."

Talley received $116 — a dollar for every year — at an event Thursday at a local office of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The attendees included U.S. Rep. John Conyers. The Democrat is the longest-serving member in the House, but even at 86 he's three decades younger than Talley, who lives in his district.

"I thank you very, very, very, very much," Talley told the crowd.

http://news.yahoo.com/just-another-birthday-detroit-area-woman-her-116th-164853914.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: GottmitunsAlex on May 25, 2015, 01:27:13 AM
No wonder you have 7700+ posts.

Title: The oldest person?
Post by: JezusDeKoning on May 25, 2015, 08:12:00 AM
Indeed. Thank you CNN, I mean, poche. It's been a blast reading through this.
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Ladislaus on May 25, 2015, 10:41:31 AM
Paul VI is about 118 now.
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: BTNYC on May 27, 2015, 01:03:05 PM
Quote from: GottmitunsAlex
No wonder you have 7700+ posts.



And 13, 640 views for this thread(!). Truly, this is Poche's magnum opus of Yahoo News human interest fluff piece copy-and-pastery.

Also, Poche has 10,519 posts on FE (not to mention a much more receptive audience),  1,904 on SD, and a measly 331 on CAF.

20,000+ posts across (at least) four forums. That's ten times what I've managed to churn out in nearly the same amount of time (and, believe me, I think I post far more frequently than I should).

And people think I'm joking when I suggest that Poche is either independently wealthy, or else he is paid to post on internet forums...
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on May 30, 2015, 01:33:50 AM
Quote from: BTNYC
Quote from: GottmitunsAlex
No wonder you have 7700+ posts.



And 13, 640 views for this thread(!). Truly, this is Poche's magnum opus of Yahoo News human interest fluff piece copy-and-pastery.

Also, Poche has 10,519 posts on FE (not to mention a much more receptive audience),  1,904 on SD, and a measly 331 on CAF.

20,000+ posts across (at least) four forums. That's ten times what I've managed to churn out in nearly the same amount of time (and, believe me, I think I post far more frequently than I should).

And people think I'm joking when I suggest that Poche is either independently wealthy, or else he is paid to post on internet forums...

You left off jeunecatholiquesdetradition, cite.catholique, the saints discussion forum, and mi ca el.
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on May 30, 2015, 01:35:51 AM
Quote from: poche
Quote from: BTNYC
Quote from: GottmitunsAlex
No wonder you have 7700+ posts.



And 13, 640 views for this thread(!). Truly, this is Poche's magnum opus of Yahoo News human interest fluff piece copy-and-pastery.

Also, Poche has 10,519 posts on FE (not to mention a much more receptive audience),  1,904 on SD, and a measly 331 on CAF.

20,000+ posts across (at least) four forums. That's ten times what I've managed to churn out in nearly the same amount of time (and, believe me, I think I post far more frequently than I should).

And people think I'm joking when I suggest that Poche is either independently wealthy, or else he is paid to post on internet forums...

You left off jeunecatholiquesdetradition, cite.catholique, the saints discussion forum, and mi ca el.

Also the katakisma thread has over 40,000 views
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: BTNYC on June 02, 2015, 03:12:01 PM
Quote from: poche
Quote from: BTNYC
Quote from: GottmitunsAlex
No wonder you have 7700+ posts.



And 13, 640 views for this thread(!). Truly, this is Poche's magnum opus of Yahoo News human interest fluff piece copy-and-pastery.

Also, Poche has 10,519 posts on FE (not to mention a much more receptive audience),  1,904 on SD, and a measly 331 on CAF.

20,000+ posts across (at least) four forums. That's ten times what I've managed to churn out in nearly the same amount of time (and, believe me, I think I post far more frequently than I should).

And people think I'm joking when I suggest that Poche is either independently wealthy, or else he is paid to post on internet forums...

You left off jeunecatholiquesdetradition, cite.catholique, the saints discussion forum, and mi ca el.


That I did.

So how much are you being paid to do this?
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: BTNYC on June 02, 2015, 03:16:32 PM
Quote from: poche
Quote from: poche
Quote from: BTNYC
Quote from: GottmitunsAlex
No wonder you have 7700+ posts.



And 13, 640 views for this thread(!). Truly, this is Poche's magnum opus of Yahoo News human interest fluff piece copy-and-pastery.

Also, Poche has 10,519 posts on FE (not to mention a much more receptive audience),  1,904 on SD, and a measly 331 on CAF.

20,000+ posts across (at least) four forums. That's ten times what I've managed to churn out in nearly the same amount of time (and, believe me, I think I post far more frequently than I should).

And people think I'm joking when I suggest that Poche is either independently wealthy, or else he is paid to post on internet forums...

You left off jeunecatholiquesdetradition, cite.catholique, the saints discussion forum, and mi ca el.

Also the katakisma thread has over 40,000 views


http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3112.htm

Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on June 02, 2015, 10:55:33 PM
Quote from: BTNYC
Quote from: poche
Quote from: BTNYC
Quote from: GottmitunsAlex
No wonder you have 7700+ posts.



And 13, 640 views for this thread(!). Truly, this is Poche's magnum opus of Yahoo News human interest fluff piece copy-and-pastery.

Also, Poche has 10,519 posts on FE (not to mention a much more receptive audience),  1,904 on SD, and a measly 331 on CAF.

20,000+ posts across (at least) four forums. That's ten times what I've managed to churn out in nearly the same amount of time (and, believe me, I think I post far more frequently than I should).

And people think I'm joking when I suggest that Poche is either independently wealthy, or else he is paid to post on internet forums...

You left off jeunecatholiquesdetradition, cite.catholique, the saints discussion forum, and mi ca el.


That I did.

So how much are you being paid to do this?

I ask God for a merciful judgement when I die.
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on August 04, 2015, 12:22:55 AM
If you want to know the trick to living a long life, look no further than Agnes Fenton, a New Jersey woman who just celebrated her 110th birthday. So what’s her secret? Eating well? Psh. An exercise routine? Nah. It turns out the real keys to health and prosperity are Johnnie Walker and Miller High Life. Yes, you read that right.

Fenton is one of an estimated 600 people in the world who are 110 or older — also known as “supercentenarians” — making her about 1 in 10 million. Talk about good odds.

Born on August 1, 1905, Fenton, who has no children, has become a small-town celebrity, receiving birthday greetings from President Obama and New Jersey governor Chris Christie. August 1 was even declared “Agnes Fenton Day” in the city of Englewood, N.J. — an honor bestowed on her 100 th birthday.

In an ABC World News interview around her 105th birthday, Fenton shared the surprising possible secrets to her long life: whiskey and beer.

According to Fenton, following a run-in with a benign tumor years ago, a doctor told her, “Agnes, you must drink three Miller High Lifes a day.” Agnes followed that advice, and then some, adding a shot of scotch to her daily drinking regimen. In case you’re wondering, her go-to brand is Johnnie Walker Blue Label.

However, all good things must come to an end, and Fenton, who is now cared for full-time by a staff of caregivers, is no longer allowed her daily dose of booze, opting for favorite foods like chicken wings, green beans, and sweet potatoes instead.

Unfortunately, no hard science can back up Fenton’s miracle cure. It’s more likely, researchers say, that a steady routine, avoidance of stress, and genetics are the keys to super-longevity.

According to Dr. Kenneth Wasserman, Fenton’s physician of nearly 20 years, “The few things she’s had wrong with her have disappeared in ways they should not have. Her health has been phenomenal…. She’s completely, thoroughly amazing.”

So, maybe it is, in fact, good genes that have kept Fenton kicking for so long… but hey, it couldn’t hurt to drink a High Life from time-to-time, just in case.

https://www.yahoo.com/food/the-secrets-to-living-to-110-might-be-whiskey-and-125763572876.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: wren on August 04, 2015, 01:03:56 AM
A herb harvested from Shepton Mallet increases health and life span. An ancient esoteric learned people from that broader land tried to keep it for themselves. Their trickster ways continues today.
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: BTNYC on August 04, 2015, 02:05:06 AM
Quote from: wren
A herb harvested from Shepton Mallet increases health and life span. An ancient esoteric learned people from that broader land tried to keep it for themselves. Their trickster ways continues today.


"Trickster ways," Glaston?

Come, now. Kettles and pots and glass houses and all that.
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Stubborn on August 04, 2015, 05:15:31 AM

Ecclesiasticus 3:7
He that honoureth his father shall enjoy a long life: and he that obeyeth the father, shall be a comfort to his mother.
   

Deuteronomy 5:16
Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thou mayst live a long time, and it may be well with thee in the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on September 12, 2015, 01:17:22 AM
Meet Eugenia Bumpass, a 100-year-old educator in central Virginia, who has spent more time in school -- and on Earth -- than most.

The centenarian is being honored with a library and media center named after her at Louisa County High School in Mineral, Virginia, where she taught for over 30 years since 1935 when she was only 20, according to current school district superintendent Deborah Pettit.

"She's been professionally retired for a while, but she's still a teacher in that she's walking history and a role model for our students," Pettit told ABC News today. "She acts as our local historian and is always teaching us about the county's rich past. She's still sharp and reads voraciously, and she's always recommending good books for me and others to read at the library, where she still serves as a board member."

Pettit, who said she and her parents were once Bumpass' students, added that the 100-year-old educator still remains a "stickler for proper spoken and written English grammar."

Bumpass told ABC affiliate WRIC that before teaching in Louisa County, she was first a student there at the age of 5 in 1920. After graduating from the University of Virginia, she came back to teach in 1935 and has never left.

"I've never stopped [teaching]," she said. "I'm still doing it."

Though she traveled around the world during her summer breaks, Bumpass said that "something always brought me back to Louisa."



The century-old educator explained that her favorite thing about teaching is seeing the moment a student finally understands a frustrating, new concept.

"I love seeing those eyes of those kids when they begin to really understand something that I’ve been fussing or fighting over for a whole week maybe or more," Bumpass said.

Though Bumpass is no longer professionally working at Louisa County Public Schools, she said she still looks forward to visiting the high school's library named after her and catching up with new generations of students -- many of whom are grandchildren of her previous students.

"I’ll enjoy coming here and looking out the windows at all the green things and remembering the many days I’ve had," she said. "You see, my life has been full of school memories, and I think they’ll always be with me."

https://gma.yahoo.com/meet-100-old-educator-whos-taught-generations-students-214737612.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on January 05, 2016, 04:17:28 AM
We read that the oldest woman in the world, Susannah Mushatt Jones, age 116, eats four strips of bacon every morning. This, coupled with a June report that supercentenarian Agnes Fenton, age 110, credits her age to three bottles of Miller Light everyday made us realize that we might consider changing some things up. Maybe we should be eating less kale and quinoa and more whiskey and ice cream.

https://www.yahoo.com/food/food-10-foods-and-drinks-the-oldest-people-in-155237696.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: OHCA on January 05, 2016, 09:17:45 AM
Wonder if fried chicken and Colt 45 is good for longevity?
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on January 05, 2016, 11:07:26 PM
Quote from: OHCA
Wonder if fried chicken and Colt 45 is good for longevity?


You would have to ask one of the super centenarians.
 :farmer: :farmer: :farmer:
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Neil Obstat on January 05, 2016, 11:26:43 PM
Quote from: poche
We read that the oldest woman in the world, Susannah Mushatt Jones, age 116, eats four strips of bacon every morning. This, coupled with a June report that supercentenarian Agnes Fenton, age 110, credits her age to three bottles of Miller Light everyday made us realize that we might consider changing some things up. Maybe we should be eating less kale and quinoa and more whiskey and ice cream.

https://www.yahoo.com/food/food-10-foods-and-drinks-the-oldest-people-in-155237696.html

I don't know about whiskey and ice cream, but Grand Marnier and ice cream sounds pretty good.   :cheers:

(https://s17-us2.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffarm6.staticflickr.com%2F5725%2F23427042440_9e97350721_z.jpg&sp=0bbade1d14fe1e02012446d0b70c9bea)

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Title: The oldest person?
Post by: Neil Obstat on January 05, 2016, 11:35:07 PM
Quote from: OHCA
Wonder if fried chicken and Colt 45 is good for longevity?


Like this?
(https://s15-us2.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theawl.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F09%2F9-watermellon-chicken-colt45.jpg&sp=f8e9ea2a9d2f1e63c774c053dccd93fb)

Title: The oldest person?
Post by: OHCA on January 07, 2016, 05:17:51 AM
Yes, Neil.  That is pretty much the buffet spread that I had in mind.
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on January 08, 2016, 12:11:25 AM
Quote from: Neil Obstat
Quote from: OHCA
Wonder if fried chicken and Colt 45 is good for longevity?


Like this?
(https://s15-us2.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theawl.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F09%2F9-watermellon-chicken-colt45.jpg&sp=f8e9ea2a9d2f1e63c774c053dccd93fb)



Where are the super centenarians?  
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: OHCA on January 08, 2016, 08:01:52 AM
Quote from: poche
Quote from: Neil Obstat
Quote from: OHCA
Wonder if fried chicken and Colt 45 is good for longevity?


Like this?
(https://s15-us2.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theawl.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F09%2F9-watermellon-chicken-colt45.jpg&sp=f8e9ea2a9d2f1e63c774c053dccd93fb)



Where are the super centenarians?  


Based on their diet, there should be billions of them.  Maybe intra thug violence is keeping their numbers down.
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on January 12, 2016, 11:19:59 PM
At 99 years old, one Louisiana woman isn't about to let her age slow her down.

Every Tuesday, Mildred Bowie of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, plays in her 55-and-over bowling league, the Golden Nuggets. She hasn't stopped competing in almost 50 years.

"I started bowling when my granddaughter was about three years old and she's 50 now," Bowie told ABC News. "My average is only 119. I bowl with a eight-pound ball right now because I had carpal tunnel."

Bowie, who will be turning 100 on Jan. 19, said she joined the Golden Nuggets in 1983 and has served as the league's secretary.

The soon-to-be centenarian said she credits her longevity to good eating, her faith and spending quality time with loved ones.

"Go to church, watch what you eat...be light with the salt," Bowie said. "Be active and have fun and enjoy life. I like interaction with people. I taught school for 36 years. I have [tons of friends] and naturally my friends are younger and I have a very loving granddaughter and first cousin."

"Life is really an adventure," she added. "I've seen so many wonderful things that have happened

https://gma.yahoo.com/meet-99-old-woman-leads-louisiana-bowling-team-184901187--abc-news-wellness.html#
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on January 15, 2016, 04:48:59 AM
­­Molly McLaughlin, 87, started nursing school on the day World War II ended, in 1945, at the dawn of the age of antibiotics, and is ending her career treating victims of a disease that didn’t even exist then. In her 67 years as a registered nurse, she’s cared for veterans of the Spanish-American War, vaccinated thousands of children with the then new Salk polio vaccine, and was among the first to report the outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease. For the past quarter century, until her retirement this month, she has been caring for HIV and AIDS victims at the Veterans Administration hospital in Philadelphia.

“When you have a passion and you impact people’s lives on a daily basis,” she says, “it gives you a purpose.”

As a nursing student, one of her very first patients was a 12-year-old boy, Tommy Rios, who was riding double on the handlebars of a bicycle when he fell and was hit by a car, fracturing his skull and breaking his femur and pelvis. He was in a full body cast, in the hospital, for six months. Molly not only cared for him, but also brought him hoagies — the Philly word for submarine sandwiches — because he wasn’t eating the hospital food.

Molly’s niece Anne Harriott asked her the other day what ever became of the boy.

“I had lunch with him last week,” Molly replied.

Indeed, Rios, now 81, always felt enormous gratitude to Molly. He’d look her up whenever he returned to the hospital for follow-up visits, and they became lifelong friends. Years later, he taught Molly how to drive. When Rios married and had a daughter, he asked Molly to be godmother.

“Molly is a very caring person,” Rios said the other day. “When I was in the hospital for the six months, she was the one who kept me alive.”

Molly grew up in Philadelphia and says she’d wanted to be a nurse since the seventh grade. Her graduation present from Catholic high school was a bandage scissors and syringe, back in the day before disposables.

Molly’s interest was always public health.

After her graduation from Fitzgerald Mercy nursing school, she worked for the Philadelphia health department. She administered the newly discovered polio vaccine to thousands of schoolchildren. She has no idea how many thousands of shots she’s given since starting nursing school 70 years ago, but confesses, “I’m pretty good at it. I’m fast.”

In 1960, she went to work for the Philadelphia VA Medical Center — and spent the next 55 years there.

When she started, she was caring for veterans of the Spanish-American War of 1898.

“One man was 93 and worked for the state, and he was still working,” she recalls. “He was my inspiration. Another man was a stockbroker, and in 1929 he watched all his friends jump out of windows on Wall Street.”

Molly has built relationships with patients from many wars. She has the most affection for Vietnam veterans because they were treated so poorly by the public when they returned home.

One Vietnam vet, Ed Henry, was ambushed by machine gun fire at age 19 and had both legs amputated. Molly helped Henry in many ways, even filing paperwork to get him better compensation. Henry grew to trust Molly and rely on her. He’d bring in other vets who were reluctant to get care and escort them right to Molly’s office.

 After Henry died in 2012, one of the first people his wife called was Molly.

“He had a lot of faith in Molly,” said Linda Henry, “in her judgment and kindness and just her.”

Molly was working in a VA clinic in Center City, Philadelphia, the second day of August in 1976 when a veteran she had been dating, a member of the American Legion, came in and told her that many fellow Legionnaires attending a convention at a nearby hotel the previous week were sick and four had died.

She called the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, and the doctor there told her he needed more information. So Molly called the state Legion office and found out that, in fact, 11 had died.

“I called back to this doctor at the CDC,” Molly says, “and I said there are 11 dead, and I can hear him in my head right now, his saying, ‘Oh my god!’” Molly believes she was instrumental in sounding the alarm about Legionnaires’ with the CDC, although all these years later it’s hard to say who was first. Pennsylvania health authorities were already on the case.

Molly helped start the HIV-AIDS program at the VA in 1989, when few health professionals wanted anything to do with the deadly disease. She made a point of shaking hands with every patient. “People have to be told you’re not afraid of them,” she says. “I saw so many die,” she says of those early days. She felt a true sense of purpose in the AIDS program, and that’s where she stayed.

“She is the face of taking care of patients with HIV here, period,” said Jo Ann Seppelt, a nurse manager and Molly’s supervisor. “I don’t know how we’re going to replace her. Actually, we can’t replace her. It’s not just taking care of patients. It’s the passion behind it.”

The HIV program is part of the infectious diseases clinic, and Molly cared for patients with a variety of illnesses. As care and treatments have improved, Molly’s gotten to know many clinic patients for more than 20 years.

Julia Kent, 58, one of those clinic patients, came in the other day — Molly’s second to last — just to give her a present.

“I don’t want Molly to go, and I wanted to do this for her. We’ve been through so much,” Kent explained as Molly unwrapped a green wool scarf Kent had knitted just for her.

“Oh, that’s beautiful!” Molly said.

Molly tried it on, over her white nursing coat.

“For when you travel the world in the cold weather,” Kent said.

Molly’s first trip, planned for February, is to Venice.

“Please keep in touch. Send me postcards,” Kent said.

“Listen, I’ll never forget you,” said Molly. “And I have the scarf to prove it.”

Postscript: Molly, who said she was retiring because she was “tired of getting up at 6 a.m.,” announced on her first day of retirement, “I slept in till 10 o’clock this morning.” But quickly added, “I don’t expect to do that every morning, you understand.”

Why not? She’s earned it.

http://news.yahoo.com/the-amazing-and-inspiring-career-of-molly-mclaughlin--va-hospital-nurse-190808245.html
Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on January 23, 2016, 01:24:07 AM
After the death this week of the world's oldest man in Japan, the title will likely be passed on to 112-year-old h0Ɩ0cαųst survivor Yisrael Kristal in Haifa, Israel.

Kristal's relatives were contacted by the Gerontology Research Group, a U.S.-based organization keeping records on the world's "supercentenatirans," or those older than 110. To be certified as the world's oldest man, the Polish-born Kristal must provide docuмentation of his age, something he lacks prior to the age of 25, when he was married.
 
A candy maker from Lodz, Poland, born in 1903, he was sent to the nαzι cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρ in Auschwitz in 1944. His wife died there.

He remarried in 1947, settled in Israel with his second wife in 1950 and resumed his career as a confectioner. The son of a Torah scholar, Kristal has been religiously observant all his life.

Interviewed in 2012 at the age of 109, Kristal said the grace of God was the sole key to longevity.

My father is someone who is always happy. He is optimistic, wise, and he values what he has," his daughter, Shula Kuperstoch, told the Jerusalem Post. "His attitude to life is everything in moderation. He eats and sleeps moderately, and says that a person should always be in control of their own life and not have their life control them."

The Gerontology Research Group says the world's current oldest woman is Susannah Mushatt Jones of Alabama, who is 116.

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Title: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on March 07, 2017, 01:29:33 AM
She is one of the oldest religious sisters in the world, but this week, she turned 110 years young.

Despite her advanced age, Sister Candida Bellotti retains the enthusiasm of a young woman. On Monday, Feb. 20, she celebrated her 110th birthday and received a special message from Pope Francis.


“To the Reverend Sister Candida Bellotti, Sister Minister of the Sick, who with gratitude to God is celebrating her 110th birthday, the Holy Father Francis spiritually participates in the joy we all share for this happy occasion and sends warm congratulations and heartfelt wishes,” said the pontiff in his message.

At age 80, Pope Francis is 30 years her junior.

Sister Bellotti celebrated her birthday with the Bishop of the Italian Diocese of Lucca, Benvenuto Italo Castellani. She resides in the diocese along with the convent's sisters and the provincial superior, Sister Giuliana Fracasso.


In a recent interview, she said that her vocation was “sown” in a Christian family.

“Love, love and love still more, with joy,” is the advice she gives everyone, especially the new generations. She has a special invitation for young people: “Have confidence in the future, and strive to the utmost to accomplish your desires.”

Sister Bellotti belongs to the Congregation of San Camillus de Lellis, which this year observes the 150th anniversary of the death of its founder, Blessed Maria Domenica Brun Barbantini.

The 110-year-old sister was born in Quinzano, in the Italian province of Verona, on February 20, 1907. Since the 1930s, she has dedicated herself to serving those in need as a professional nurse in various Italian cities. Since the year 2000 she has been living Lucca, at her congregation's mother house.

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Title: Re: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on October 01, 2017, 12:24:31 AM
Sister Crucita has been a member of the Josephine Sisters in Mexico for 70 years. At nearly 100 years old, she says she is happy with her vocation and would not change her decision to give her life to God.
 In an interview with CNA, Sister Crucita – whose full religious name is Sister Maria of the Royal Cross – said that the secret of her perseverance has always been her trust in the mercy of God and the support of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
 “I say to the Blessed Virgin Mary, 'Take care of me, you already know I'm yours. Deliver me from the snares of the devil.' The Blessed Virgin has taken great care of me,” she said.
 Through the Holy Rosary she was able to persevere in face of the temptation to abandon the religious life on many occasions, she said.
 “One of the strongest temptations was to want to leave the religious life, because there were a lot of difficulties at the hospital where I was. The doctors encouraged me to leave, but I trusted in God and the Blessed Virgin. And here I am, thanks to them,” she said. Sister Crucita was born Nov. 23, 1917 in the El Oro municipality in Mexico State. From a very young age, she had a love for Christ and the Church, thanks to the devotion of her parents who took her to Mass.
 “I always liked going to Mass. I had an uncle who was a sacristan and I liked to spend time with him. So I was always drawn to the things of the Lord,” she said.
 She began thinking about a religious vocation after a group of religious sisters came to her home town. She even discerned with a cloistered convent, but was forced to return home after two years, due to an illness.  
 Sister Crucita was introduced to the Josephine Sisters by a priest. She worked alongside the sisters at a local hospital for a few months, and then entered the novitiate.
 On Aug. 15, 1947, Sister Crucita made her final vows as a Josephine sister, at 30 years of age. Currently she goes to confession about every two weeks, prays the Holy Rosary three or four times a day, and attends Mass daily.
 She said her religious vocation was always tied to her profession as a nurse.
 At the start of the 1950s, Sister Crucita was sent to her congregation's hospital in Cuba. Later, in 1952, she arrived in Guadalajara and was assigned as a nurse to the Civil Hospital. For many years she was the supervisor of the pediatrics department.
 “I see how the sick suffer and there are many who offer everything to God, they don't complain or anything. So then I think, if they who are sick and are always thinking about God, then what can I complain about. Anything on my part is something passing and I offer it to the Lord,” she emphasized.
 Sister María de la Cruz said that one of her secrets to keep on going has always been to feel welcomed by the mercy of God: “I know that He loves me much more than I love him. I have always thought that He seeks me, he calls me, that he is always with me. If something happens to me, He watches over me.”
 She encouraged young people to trust “completely in God, in the love that He has for us” because “He helps us and gives us peace.”
 On Nov. 23, at Our Lady of Bethlehem and Saint Michael the Archangel church, a Mass of Thanksgiving will be celebrated for Sister Crucita’s 100th birthday.
 Sister Beatriz Escamilla, a 44-year-old Josephine sister, said that at nearly 100 years old, Sister Crucita is still very independent.
 “She begins her routine at 5:00 am, because she moves at a slower pace, and then she comes to the chapel at 7:00 am. She is one of the most punctual sisters, and sometimes she beats us all there. Sometimes she's the one who opens up the chapel,” Sister Beatriz said.  
 She also highlighted Sister Crucita's fervent prayer for “vocations and for those of us still working in the apostolate.”
 “She has an hour dedicated to prayer in front of the Blessed Sacrament to especially ask for these needs,” she said.
 Whenever things at the hospital get difficult, Sister Beatriz said, she can always count on Sister Crucita for encouragement.
 “She's a person you're drawn to, through the peace she conveys. She offers a lesson in joy, perseverance, dedication and sacrifice,” she concluded.
 
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Title: Re: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on November 25, 2017, 01:35:42 AM
At age 113, Sister André is one of the oldest religious sisters in the world.
 According to French newspaper Le Parisien, Sister André is the oldest person in France. She told the newspaper that this “very much surprised me because I never even thought about it.”
 Sister André, who is blind, currently resides in the Sainte-Catherine-Labouré retirement home for religious in Toulon, a city in southeast France near the Mediterranean.
 She was born Lucille Randon on Feb. 11, 1904 in the town of Alès , about 140 miles northwest of Toulon. The nun told the French daily La Croix that she grew up in a poor Protestant family. Her paternal grandfather was “a pastor, very strict. The services lasted forever and you had to follow the entire sermon without budging or falling asleep! So my parents no longer practiced their religion. But that troubled me.”
 When she was 27, she converted to Catholicism. “I gradually progressed, following my Catholic faith,” she said.
 During her youth, she worked as a teacher and governess for various families including the Peugeots, who founded and owned the French car manufacturer.
 At age 40, she joined the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul and took the name André in honor of her brother André, whom she said was like a parent to her.
 After World War II began, the nun started working in a hospital in the town of Vichy in central France, taking care of the elderly and children.
 “Some of them were orphans, some placed there by their parents because they were no longer able to feed them,” she recalled.
 Sister André cared for children in that hospital for nearly 30 years, and said that “some of them have looked me up and still come to see me.”
 In 2009, the nun moved into the Sainte-Catherine-Labouré retirement home in Toulon.
 “I am really fortunate to be here, because I'm very well cared for here,” she said. “That's very reassuring at my age.”
 “When my brothers died when I was 70, I thought that it would be my turn soon,” she said. But several decades later, she is still alive, and grateful for all the blessings God has continued to send her.
 Sister André told La Croix that she worked until she was 104 years old. What she misses now is that she can no longer “read, write, draw, embroider and knit.” However, she said that she still enjoys experiencing the nice weather.
 “The good Lord has guided me well,” she reflected.
 
 
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Title: Re: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on May 12, 2018, 05:22:45 AM
The nation's oldest man lives on a street named after — who else — him in Austin, Texas.
He built that house on Richard Overton Avenue 72 years ago, when it was called Hamilton Avenue.
Overton turned 112 on Friday, May 11, and if you happened to be in town, you were invited to celebrate with the supercentenarian (http://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/richard-overton-oldest-living-veteran-turns-112/1173071402) and his family, according to KXAN.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article210926639.html#storylink=cpyHe fought in World War II, still enjoys a cigar and once told Steve Harvey the secret to a long life is to "Just keep living. Don't die."

That motto was emblazoned on T-shirts (https://www.dallasnews.com/life/better-living/2018/05/10/americas-oldest-man-still-kicking-smoking-nears-112-secret-dont-die) a family friend sold from his porch earlier this week as the town was abuzz over the approach of his birthday, according to the Dallas Morning News, but it's not the only elixir Overton believes has helped him with his longevity.
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Richard Overton during his military service in the 1940s.
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On the description of a GoFundMe campaign in his name, run by a cousin for his medical expenses, Overton says "cigars and God" (https://www.gofundme.com/Help-Richard-Overton) help.
That's right. At 112, he's still smoking those Tampa Sweet Perfectos on his front porch as he waves to passers-by who know him more for his age than his quiet spunk and independent streak.
Overton was born in Bastrop County in 1906 (http://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article129878559.html). That's a year before Oklahoma became a state.
He was part of a segregated Army unit, the 1887th Engineer Aviation Battalion, during World War II and fought in the Pacific Theater from 1942 until 1945. He was at Iwo Jima.
Volma Overton, the cousin who runs the GoFundMe campaign and also a 1960s Austin civil rights leader, told the Austin American Statesman before his 110th birthday: "Richard still smokes cigars every day and has a few shots of whiskey. We have no idea how long he will be around, but Richard says everything is left to God (http://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article129878559.html)."
His favorite foods include catfish and gravy (https://www.mystatesman.com/news/local/richard-overton-america-oldest-wwii-veteran-turn-112/KWx3gXYz9E2ogj5WHKIPhL/), corn, hamburgers and macaroni and cheese, according to another Statesman report.
The Gerontology Research Group has verified that Overton is, indeed, the oldest living man in the U.S (http://www.grg.org/SC/WorldSCRankingsList.html). He's younger, though, than Lessie Brown (113 yrs., 231 days, of Ohio); Clara Anderson (112 yrs., 313 days, of Alaska); Hester Ford (112 yrs., 269 days, of North Carolina); Iris Westman (112 yrs., 256 days, of North Dakota); Lucille Treccase (112 yrs., 205 days, of Pennsylvania) and J Lillian Stubbs (112 yrs., 11 days, of Virginia), the country's six oldest women.
The world's oldest person is Chiyo Miyako of Japan, who is 117 years and 9 days old, according to the Gerontology Research Group.

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Title: Re: The oldest person?
Post by: poche on August 14, 2018, 02:20:22 AM
Sister Emma of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, 97, celebrated last month her “diamond anniversary” of consecration to Christ.
The religious, born in 1921 Yahualica in the Mexican state of Jalisco, celebrated July 19 the 75th anniversary of her profession in the Congregation of the Servants of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Poor.

The congregation noted that the milestone marks for Sister Emma “75 years of living united to the Divine Spouse and of jubilant dedication to our most needy brothers, especially the sick and the elderly.”

Sister Emma entered the congregation Dec. 4, 1940. She made her first profession July 16, 1943, and made her final vows six years later.
She now lives in the congregation’s community at Most Holy Trinity Hospital in Guadalajara.
The congregation said that in the witness of Sister Emma's life “we can see our charism radically lived out, because she has known and has experienced being loved and indwelt by the Triune God and so has discovered the presence of God in the people she lives with and has served and loved as living temples of the Most Holy Trinity.”
The religious, they said, “always reminds us that it’s God’s work and that he will send us in his time many vocations, and that we should continue working and giving glory to God.”
The Congregation of the Servants of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Poor was founded by Blessed Vicenta Chávez Orozco amid the societal hardships and attacks against the Church in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Mexico. It was established as a religious institute in 1905 in Guadalajara.
At 113 years from their foundation, they are currently in several Mexican states, serving hospitals, medical clinics, mission centers, and infirmaries.

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