Folks, let us use this thread to chronicle all the old people who are older and much more healthier than syedna MB. This is not in any way meant to disparage the syedna, but to bring his abdes down to earth, esp. those morons who claim that syedna's longevity is a miracle and a divine phenomenon. please remember that syedna has millions and billions of dollars to get the best treatments that money can buy, plus all the logistical and other resources to make them happen. most of the old people who have lived longer than the syedna are primarily middle class - simple, ordinary hard working salt-of-the-earth types, who have worked strenously and physically all their lives, unlike the syedna who has never put in an honest day's work out in the fields or some busy office.
here is an article on the world's oldest man, who died yesterday.
World’s oldest man dies in US at 114 (AP)
15 April 2011, 8:00 AM
Walter Breuning’s earliest memories stretched back 111 years, before home entertainment came with a twist of the radio dial. They were of his grandfather’s tales of killing Southerners in the U.S. Civil War.
Breuning was 3 and horrified: “I thought that was a hell of a thing to say.”
But the stories stuck, becoming the first building blocks into what would develop into a deceptively simple philosophy that Breuning, the world’s oldest man at 114 before he died Thursday, credited to his longevity.
Here’s the world’s oldest man’s secret to a long life:
· Embrace change, even when the change slaps you in the face. (“Every change is good.”)
· Eat two meals a day (“That’s all you need.”)
· Work as long as you can (“That money’s going to come in handy.”)
· Help others (“The more you do for others, the better shape you’re in.”)
Then there’s the hardest part. It’s a lesson Breuning said he learned from his grandfather: Accept death.
“We’re going to die. Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you’re born to die,” he said.
Breuning died of natural causes in a Great Falls hospital where he had been a patient for much of April with an undisclosed illness, said Stacia Kirby, spokeswoman for the Rainbow Senior Living retirement home where Breuning lived.
He was the oldest man in the world and the second-oldest person, according to the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group. Besse Cooper of Monroe, Georgia — born 26 days earlier — is the world’s oldest person.
In an interview with The Associated Press at his home in the Rainbow Retirement Community in Great Falls last October, Breuning recounted the past century — and what its revelations and advances meant to him — with the wit and plain-spokenness that defined him. His life story is, in a way, a slice of the story of America itself over more than a century.
At the beginning of the new century — that’s the 20th century — Bruening moved with his family from Melrose, Minnesota, to De Smet, South Dakota, where his father had taken a job as an engineer.
That first decade of the 1900s was literally a dark age for his family. They had no electricity or running water. A bath for young Walter would require his mother to fetch water from the well outside and heat it on the coal-burning stove. When they wanted to get around, they had three options: train, horse and foot.
His parents split up and Breuning moved back to Minnesota in 1912. The following year, the teenager got a low-level job with the Great Northern Railway in Melrose.
“I’m 16 years old, had to go to work on account of breakup of the family,” he said.
That was the beginning of a 50-year career on the railroad. He was a clerk for most of that time, working seven days a week.
In 1918, his boss was promoted to a position in Great Falls and he asked Breuning to come along.
There wasn’t a lot keeping Breuning in Minnesota. His mother had died the year before at age 46 and his father died in 1915 at age 50. The Montana job came with a nice raise — $90 a month for working seven days a week, “a lot of money at that time,” he said.
Breuning, young and alone, was overwhelmed at first. Great Falls was a bustling town of 25,000 with hundreds of people coming and going every day on trains that arrived at all hours.
“You go down to the depot and there’d be 500 people out there all climbing into four trains going in four directions,” he said.
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1919 and America was riding a postwar wave into the Roaring ‘20s.
It was a secondhand Ford and cost just $150. Breuning remembered driving around town and spooking the horses that still crowded the dirt streets.
“We had more damn runaways back in those days,” Breuning said. “Horses are just scared of cars.”
The year may have started well, but it went downhill fast. Drought struck. The price of hay skyrocketed and farmers had to sell their cattle.
The railroad started laying off people. Breuning had some seniority, so rather than losing his job, he was transferred to Butte. It was there he met his future wife, Agnes.
Agnes Twokey worked for the railroad as a telegrapher. She and Breuning worked the same shift in the office, and they got along well. Their friendship turned into a two-year courtship, and then they got married and returned to Great Falls.
Things were looking up for Breuning, Montana and America. Great Falls gave Montana its first licensed radio station in 1922. The following year, Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons fought for the world heavyweight championship east of Great Falls in Shelby.
Breuning was optimistic. He and his wife bought property for $15 and planned to build a house.
Then it all went off the tracks. The Great Depression struck.
“Everybody got laid off in the ‘30s,” Breuning said. “Nobody had any money at all.”
People began to arrive in Great Falls searching for work. He recalled transplants from North Dakota telling tales of desperate families pulling weeds from the ground and cooking them up for food.
Breuning’s seniority paid off again — he held onto his job. But he and his wife never built their house. They sold the lot for $25, making a tidy $10 profit. It turned out to be the only time Breuning ever owned property — he was renter for the rest of his life.
Despite the hard times of the decade, he said what he considered America’s greatest achievement came in 1935, when President Franklin Roosevelt signed Social Security into law as part of his New Deal.
“I think when Roosevelt created Social Security, he probably did the best thing for people,” Breuning said. “You hear so much about throwing Social Security out. Don’t look for it. Hang on to your hat. It’ll never go away.”
World War II lifted the nation out of its economic slump. Industry went into overdrive to support the war. With the men headed overseas to fight, the women took their places in factories.
Montana’s Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, was the sole vote against the U.S. entry into the war.
By that time, Breuning was in his 40s and too old to be drafted. So he kept working on the railroad.
The man who otherwise preached kindness and service to others acknowledged that he had mixed feelings about the war and the Nazis. He expressed some sympathy toward Hitler.
The war ended in 1945 when President Harry Truman dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The debate over whether Truman did the right thing was the right thing was argued in the streets and cafes of Great Falls.
Breuning stuck up for Truman, saying there probably would have been a lot more people killed had Truman not made the decision to bomb the Japanese.
“I think he did pretty dang good,” Breuning said. “But you know, all presidents done something good. Well, most of them. Except that last one.”
Breuning, a self-described Republican, meant President George Bush.
“He got us into war. We can’t get out of war now,” he said. “I voted for him. But that’s about all. His father was a pretty good president, not too bad. The kid had too much power. He got himself wrapped up and that’s it.”
The 1950s brought rock-and-roll, put the U.S. in the middle of the Korean War and kicked off the space race with the USSR’s launch of Sputnik. The world was introduced to Elvis Presley, Fidel Castro and Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
For Walter Breuning, the 1950s was marked by the death of his wife. Agnes died in 1957 after 35 years of marriage. The couple didn’t have any children.
More than 50 years later, Breuning kept his feelings on his marriage and Agnes’ death guarded.
“We got along very good,” was about all he’d say. “She wouldn’t like to spend money, I’ll tell you that.”
Breuning never remarried. “Thought about it. That’s about it.”
He did was what he always did. He kept working.
Work was a constant in Breuning’s life, what he did to get through the hard times and what he used to keep his mind active. One of the worst things a person can do is retire young, Breuning said.
“I remember we had a worker in the First National Bank one time retired early. He wanted to go fishing and hunting so bad. Two months (later) and he went back to the bank. He got his fishing and hunting all done and he wanted to go back to work,” Breuning said.
“Don’t retire until you’re darn sure that you can’t work anymore. Keep on working as long as you can work and you’ll find that it’s good for you,” he added.
The same year the Beatles released their first album, Breuning decided it was time for him to retire from the railroad at age 67. It was 1963 and he had put in 50 years as a railroad worker.
But he stuck by his philosophy and kept working. He became the manager and secretary for the local chapter of the Shriners, a position he held until he was 99.
His beloved railroad underwent many changes soon after he left. In 1970 it merged with other railroad companies to become the Burlington Northern Railroad.
His fellow clerks began to feel the effects of technology. In the 1970s, computers started changing industries and the need for manpower. At the railroad, men and women were laid off at depots and freight offices. Superintendents and clerks like Breuning were given their walking papers.
But even with so many of his former co-workers out of jobs, Breuning was adamant that the rise of the computer was good for the railroad industry and the world.
“I think every change that we’ve ever made, ever since I was a child — 100 years — every change has been good for the people,” Breuning said. “My God, we used to have to write with pen and ink, you know, (for) everything. When the machines came, it just made life so much easier.”
Breuning had lived in a studio apartment in the Rainbow Senior Living retirement center since 1980.
He would spent his days in an armchair wearing a dark suit and tie, sitting near a framed Guinness certificate proclaiming him the world’s oldest man.
He would eat breakfast and lunch and then retire to his room in the early afternoon. He’d visit the doctor just twice a year for checkups and the only medication he would take was aspirin, Rainbow executive director Tina Bundtrock said.
His good health was due to his strict diet of two meals a day, Breuning said.
“How many people in this country say that they can’t take the weight off?” he said. “I tell these people, I says get on a diet and stay on it. You’ll find that you’re in much better shape, feel good.”
Breuning talked current affairs with the other residentsin the Rainbow. One of his main causes was to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“War never cured anything. Look at the North and South right today. They’re still fighting over the damn war. They’ll never get over that,” he said.
Along with debating others about the fate of the nation, Breuning also spent time a lot of time reflecting. Sitting in his armchair, he would reach back across the century and lose himself in a flood of memories that began with his grandfather’s Civil War stories.
He didn’t regret anything, and he implored others to follow his philosophy.
“Everybody says your mind is the most important thing about your body. Your mind and your body. You keep both busy, and by God you’ll be here a long time,” he said.
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can the syedna do this? he is now in fact one year younger than this sikh 'miracle'...
Best foot forward as 97-year-old man completes 10km race
news.scotsman.com by Lyndsay Moss, 08 September 2008
AT THE age of 97, Fauja Singh is an unlikely poster boy in the battle to encourage people to take more exercise. But as he crossed the finish line after a 10km race in Glasgow yesterday, he issued a rallying call to couch potatoes and gym-dodgers nationwide: "If I can do it, anyone can do it."
Fauja Singh is so popular in UK that Adidas signed him up for a major Ad campaign, details of which have not been disclosed, what is known though is that Fauja Singh has donated that entire amount to a charity and sworn them to secrecy.
Indian-born Mr Singh was among almost 20,000 runners taking part in the freshnlo Great Scottish Run events, which also included a half-marathon and junior 3km race.
After crossing the line, Mr Singh, who took up the sport aged 89, joked: "It was a walk in the park."
Along with a group of runners from the Scottish Sikhs, Mr Singh completed the 10km event in 76 minutes and 14 seconds.
A vegetarian and a teetotaller who lives in London, he said the key to his success was positive thinking. He added: "It is good for your health. It allows me to focus on the positive and run away from people who are not positive and it doesn't cost anything."
Mr Singh, who has completed seven marathons, was joined by 78-year-old Amrik Singh from the East End of Glasgow.
He has competed in more than 500 races since starting to run competitively in 1984, and said he had no intention of stopping now.
"I run ten miles every other day and run shorter distances the days in between," he said. "Seventeen members of my extended family are also runners so I have helped encourage them and hopefully other people as well."
Yesterday's half-marathon was won by Emmanuel Mutai from Kenya in a time of one hour, one minute and ten seconds.
The women's race was won by Wokknesh Tula of Ethiopia at one hour 11 minutes.
The fastest Scot was Robert Russell, from Auchterarder, who crossed the line in one hour, five minutes and 22 seconds.
The men's 10km was won by Murray Strain from East Lothian with a time of 32 minutes and 22 seconds, with Lindsay MacNeill of Renfrew the fastest woman at 35 minutes and 53 seconds.
Several major charities benefited from the event.
Best foot forward as 97-year-old man completes 10km race
news.scotsman.com by Lyndsay Moss, 08 September 2008
AT THE age of 97, Fauja Singh is an unlikely poster boy in the battle to encourage people to take more exercise. But as he crossed the finish line after a 10km race in Glasgow yesterday, he issued a rallying call to couch potatoes and gym-dodgers nationwide: "If I can do it, anyone can do it."
Fauja Singh is so popular in UK that Adidas signed him up for a major Ad campaign, details of which have not been disclosed, what is known though is that Fauja Singh has donated that entire amount to a charity and sworn them to secrecy.
Indian-born Mr Singh was among almost 20,000 runners taking part in the freshnlo Great Scottish Run events, which also included a half-marathon and junior 3km race.
After crossing the line, Mr Singh, who took up the sport aged 89, joked: "It was a walk in the park."
Along with a group of runners from the Scottish Sikhs, Mr Singh completed the 10km event in 76 minutes and 14 seconds.
A vegetarian and a teetotaller who lives in London, he said the key to his success was positive thinking. He added: "It is good for your health. It allows me to focus on the positive and run away from people who are not positive and it doesn't cost anything."
Mr Singh, who has completed seven marathons, was joined by 78-year-old Amrik Singh from the East End of Glasgow.
He has competed in more than 500 races since starting to run competitively in 1984, and said he had no intention of stopping now.
"I run ten miles every other day and run shorter distances the days in between," he said. "Seventeen members of my extended family are also runners so I have helped encourage them and hopefully other people as well."
Yesterday's half-marathon was won by Emmanuel Mutai from Kenya in a time of one hour, one minute and ten seconds.
The women's race was won by Wokknesh Tula of Ethiopia at one hour 11 minutes.
The fastest Scot was Robert Russell, from Auchterarder, who crossed the line in one hour, five minutes and 22 seconds.
The men's 10km was won by Murray Strain from East Lothian with a time of 32 minutes and 22 seconds, with Lindsay MacNeill of Renfrew the fastest woman at 35 minutes and 53 seconds.
Several major charities benefited from the event.
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@AZ,
What are you talking about? Comparing ordinary blokes with the syedna? How dare you? All his actions are miracles, let alone his long life. Just to give some examples.
1. He is father of abde math where 96 = 99 = 100. Even if Einstein were alive he would be stumped.
2. Let alone live longer, the fact that he was born was a miracle, because it was associated with his father taking over.
3. Ordinary blokes remember and honour their mothers. He is different and he is allowed to forget.
4. Ordinary folks like and cherish animals. He blows their brains out.
5. Common blokes value honesty and would not even imagine ripping others off. He collects wajebaat.
6. Normal humans, if they are bosses would insist on courtesy in their subordinates. He cultivates rude behaviour and arrogance.
7. Normal people would lose business and clients if they treated them badly. He has his clients come kissing his foot, after they are kicked.
Just some examples of how and why he is special. How dare you compare him with normal human beings?
What are you talking about? Comparing ordinary blokes with the syedna? How dare you? All his actions are miracles, let alone his long life. Just to give some examples.
1. He is father of abde math where 96 = 99 = 100. Even if Einstein were alive he would be stumped.
2. Let alone live longer, the fact that he was born was a miracle, because it was associated with his father taking over.
3. Ordinary blokes remember and honour their mothers. He is different and he is allowed to forget.
4. Ordinary folks like and cherish animals. He blows their brains out.
5. Common blokes value honesty and would not even imagine ripping others off. He collects wajebaat.
6. Normal humans, if they are bosses would insist on courtesy in their subordinates. He cultivates rude behaviour and arrogance.
7. Normal people would lose business and clients if they treated them badly. He has his clients come kissing his foot, after they are kicked.
Just some examples of how and why he is special. How dare you compare him with normal human beings?
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Jeanne Louise Calment 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997)[1] had the longest confirmed human life span in history, living to the age of 122 years, & 164 days (44724 days total).[2] She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, and outlived both her daughter and grandson. She became especially well known from the age of 113, when the centenary of Vincent van Gogh's visit brought reporters to Arles. She entered the Guinness Book of Records in 1988, and on 17 October 1995 she became the oldest person ever, having surpassed the (now dubious) case of Shigechiyo Izumi of Japan. She became the last living documented person born in the 1870s when the Japanese supercentenarian Tane Ikai (born 1879) died on 12 July 1995. Her life span has been thoroughly documented by scientific study, with more records having been produced to verify her age than for any other case. She is the only person ever to be confirmed to have reached at least 120 years of age.[3]
Biography
Calment was born in Arles in 1875.[1] Her father, Nicolas, was a shipbuilder, and her mother, Marguerite, was from a family of millers. Her close family members also lived to an advanced age: her older brother, François, lived to the age of 97, her father to 93, and her mother to 86. Calment claimed to have met Vincent van Gogh.[4][5] In 1896, at the age of 21, she married her second cousin (grandson of her great-uncle) Fernand Calment,[3] a wealthy store owner. His wealth made it possible for Jeanne never to have to work; instead she led a leisured lifestyle, pursuing hobbies such as tennis, cycling, swimming, rollerskating, piano and opera.[1] Her husband died in 1942 at the age of around 73 or 74 after eating a dessert prepared with spoiled cherries.[6] Their only child, a daughter named Yvonne, was born in 1898 and produced a grandson, Frédéric, born in 1926.[3] Calment outlived Yvonne, who died at age 36 in 1934 from pneumonia.[7] Frédéric became a doctor, and she outlived him as well, as he died in an automobile accident in 1960.[1] In 1965, aged 90 years and with no heirs, Calment signed a deal to sell her former apartment to lawyer André-François Raffray, on a contingency contract. Raffray, then aged 47 years, agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs until she died. Raffray ended up paying Calment the equivalent of more than $180,000, which was more than double the apartment's value. After Raffray's death from cancer at the age of 77, in 1995, his widow continued the payments until Calment's death.[1]
In 1985, Calment moved into a nursing home, having lived on her own until age 110.[1] Her international fame escalated in 1988, when the centenary of Vincent van Gogh's visit to Arles provided an occasion to meet reporters. She said at the time that she had met Van Gogh 100 years before (though this is contested[citation needed]), in 1888, as a thirteen-year-old girl in her uncle's fabric shop, where he wanted to buy some canvas, later describing him as "dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable", and "very ugly, ungracious, impolite, sick".[1][7] Calment recalled selling coloured pencils to Van Gogh, and seeing the Eiffel Tower being built.[8] At the age of 114, she appeared briefly in the 1990 film Vincent and Me as herself, making her the oldest person ever to appear in a motion picture.
A documentary film about her life, entitled Beyond 120 Years with Jeanne Calment, was released on 17 November 1995.[9] On 19 February 1996, just two days before her 121st birthday, Musidisc released Time's Mistress, a four-track CD of Calment speaking over a background of rap.[10] On her 122nd birthday on 21 February 1997, it was announced that she would make no more public appearances, as her health had seriously deteriorated. She died on 4 August of that same year.[9]
Calment's remarkable health presaged her later record. At age 85, she took up fencing, and at 100, she was still riding a bicycle. She was reportedly neither athletic, nor fanatical about her health.[8] Calment lived on her own until shortly before her 110th birthday, when it was decided that she needed to be moved to a nursing home after a cooking accident (she was having complications with sight) started a small fire in her flat. However, Calment was still in good shape, and was able to walk until she fractured her femur during a fall at age 114 years and 11 months, which required surgery.[3][13] After her operation, Calment needed to use a wheelchair. She weighed 45 kilograms (99 lb) in 1994.[14] Calment became ill with influenza shortly before her 116th birthday.[15] She smoked until the age of 117, only five years before her death.[1][15] Calment smoked from the age of 21 (1896), though according to an unspecified source, she smoked no more than two cigarettes per day.[16]
She ascribed her longevity and relatively youthful appearance for her age to olive oil, which she said she poured on all her food and rubbed onto her skin, as well as a diet of port wine, and ate nearly one kilo of chocolate every week.[10]
Biography
Calment was born in Arles in 1875.[1] Her father, Nicolas, was a shipbuilder, and her mother, Marguerite, was from a family of millers. Her close family members also lived to an advanced age: her older brother, François, lived to the age of 97, her father to 93, and her mother to 86. Calment claimed to have met Vincent van Gogh.[4][5] In 1896, at the age of 21, she married her second cousin (grandson of her great-uncle) Fernand Calment,[3] a wealthy store owner. His wealth made it possible for Jeanne never to have to work; instead she led a leisured lifestyle, pursuing hobbies such as tennis, cycling, swimming, rollerskating, piano and opera.[1] Her husband died in 1942 at the age of around 73 or 74 after eating a dessert prepared with spoiled cherries.[6] Their only child, a daughter named Yvonne, was born in 1898 and produced a grandson, Frédéric, born in 1926.[3] Calment outlived Yvonne, who died at age 36 in 1934 from pneumonia.[7] Frédéric became a doctor, and she outlived him as well, as he died in an automobile accident in 1960.[1] In 1965, aged 90 years and with no heirs, Calment signed a deal to sell her former apartment to lawyer André-François Raffray, on a contingency contract. Raffray, then aged 47 years, agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs until she died. Raffray ended up paying Calment the equivalent of more than $180,000, which was more than double the apartment's value. After Raffray's death from cancer at the age of 77, in 1995, his widow continued the payments until Calment's death.[1]
In 1985, Calment moved into a nursing home, having lived on her own until age 110.[1] Her international fame escalated in 1988, when the centenary of Vincent van Gogh's visit to Arles provided an occasion to meet reporters. She said at the time that she had met Van Gogh 100 years before (though this is contested[citation needed]), in 1888, as a thirteen-year-old girl in her uncle's fabric shop, where he wanted to buy some canvas, later describing him as "dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable", and "very ugly, ungracious, impolite, sick".[1][7] Calment recalled selling coloured pencils to Van Gogh, and seeing the Eiffel Tower being built.[8] At the age of 114, she appeared briefly in the 1990 film Vincent and Me as herself, making her the oldest person ever to appear in a motion picture.
A documentary film about her life, entitled Beyond 120 Years with Jeanne Calment, was released on 17 November 1995.[9] On 19 February 1996, just two days before her 121st birthday, Musidisc released Time's Mistress, a four-track CD of Calment speaking over a background of rap.[10] On her 122nd birthday on 21 February 1997, it was announced that she would make no more public appearances, as her health had seriously deteriorated. She died on 4 August of that same year.[9]
Calment's remarkable health presaged her later record. At age 85, she took up fencing, and at 100, she was still riding a bicycle. She was reportedly neither athletic, nor fanatical about her health.[8] Calment lived on her own until shortly before her 110th birthday, when it was decided that she needed to be moved to a nursing home after a cooking accident (she was having complications with sight) started a small fire in her flat. However, Calment was still in good shape, and was able to walk until she fractured her femur during a fall at age 114 years and 11 months, which required surgery.[3][13] After her operation, Calment needed to use a wheelchair. She weighed 45 kilograms (99 lb) in 1994.[14] Calment became ill with influenza shortly before her 116th birthday.[15] She smoked until the age of 117, only five years before her death.[1][15] Calment smoked from the age of 21 (1896), though according to an unspecified source, she smoked no more than two cigarettes per day.[16]
She ascribed her longevity and relatively youthful appearance for her age to olive oil, which she said she poured on all her food and rubbed onto her skin, as well as a diet of port wine, and ate nearly one kilo of chocolate every week.[10]
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List of oldest people by nation
This article gives the recordholders for various countries to the extent that they have been established. These records are based on country of birth in current borders for simplicity. Those listed as 'verified' have been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such as the Gerontology Research Group.
Country Name Sex Birth date Death date Age
France Jeanne Calment F 21 February 1875 4 August 1997 122 years, 164 days
United States Sarah Knauss F 24 September 1880 30 December 1999 119 years, 97 days
Canada Marie-Louise Meilleur F 29 August 1880 16 April 1998 117 years, 230 days
Ecuador María Capovilla F 14 September 1889 27 August 2006 116 years, 347 days
Japan Tane Ikai F 18 January 1879 12 July 1995 116 years, 175 days
Denmark Christian Mortensen M 16 August 1882 25 April 1998 115 years, 252 days
United Kingdom Charlotte Hughes F 1 August 1877 17 March 1993 115 years, 228 days
Romania Aniţica Butariu F 17 June 1882 21 November 1997 115 years, 157 days[17]
Portugal Maria de Jesus F 10 September 1893 2 January 2009 115 years, 114 days
Netherlands Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper F 29 June 1890 30 August 2005 115 years, 62 days
Spain M.A.C.C.[18] F 10 June 1881 16 January 1996 114 years, 220 days
Cape Verde Adelina Domingues F 19 February 1888 21 August 2002 114 years, 183 days
Germany Charlotte Benkner F 16 November 1889 14 May 2004 114 years, 180 days
Algeria Anne Primout F 5 October 1890 26 March 2005 114 years, 172 days
Australia Christina Cock F 25 December 1887 22 May 2002 114 years, 148 days
Italy Venere Pizzinato[c] F 23 November 1896 Living 114 years, 143 days[8]
India Lucy d'Abreu[d] F 24 May 1892 7 December 2005 113 years, 197 days
Sweden Astrid Zachrison F 15 May 1895 15 May 2008 113 years, 0 days
Hungary Elizabeth Stefan[a] F 13 May 1895 9 April 2008 112 years, 332 days
Poland Rosa Rein[e] F 24 March 1897 14 February 2010 112 years, 327 days
Finland Lempi Rothovius F 2 October 1887 17 June 2000 112 years, 259 days
Belgium Joanna Deroover F 3 June 1890 6 December 2002 112 years, 186 days
Czech Republic Maria Mika[f] F 23 May 1882 17 November 1994 112 years, 178 days
Norway Maren Bolette Torp F 21 December 1876 20 February 1989 112 years, 61 days
Ireland Katherine Plunket F 20 November 1820 14 October 1932 111 years, 327 days
Morocco Consuelo Moreno[g] F 5 February 1893 13 November 2004 111 years, 282 days
Mexico Soledad Mexia F 13 August 1899 Living 111years, 245 days[8]
Ukraine Fannie Buten[h] F 13 April 1899 24 September 2010 111 years, 164 days
South Africa Johanna Booyson F 17 January 1857 16 June 1968 111 years, 151 days
Russia Lillian Joelson F 20 August 1896 30 December 2007 111 years, 132 days
Belarus Mollye Marcus[j] F 18 October 1899 18 February 2011 111 years, 123 days
Colombia Daniel Guzmán-García M 6 February 1897 21 May 2008 111 years, 105 days
Switzerland Emma Duvoisin F 5 July 1886 30 September 1997 111 years, 87 days
Barbados James Sisnett M 22 February 1900 Living 111 years, 52 days[8]
Greece Gregory Pandazes M 15 January 1873 22 December 1983 110 years, 341 days
Austria Leopold Vietoris M 4 June 1891 9 April 2002 110 years, 309 days
Slovenia Katarina Marinič[k] F 30 October 1899 2 September 2010 110 years, 307 days
Saint Kitts and Nevis Rosalind Hill F 30 March 1899 18 January 2010 110 years, 294 days
Lithuania Ella Ille Rentel[l] F 19 May 1852 19 September 1962 110 years, 123 days
Croatia Hermina Dunz[m] F 24 February 1898 14 June 2008 110 years, 111 days
Peru Julia Dougherty F 20 August 1893 4 December 2003 110 years, 106 days
New Zealand Ethel Booth F 25 December 1890 18 February 2001 110 years, 55 days
Iceland Guðrún Björnsdóttir [19] F 20 October 1888 26 August 1998 109 years, 310 days
This article gives the recordholders for various countries to the extent that they have been established. These records are based on country of birth in current borders for simplicity. Those listed as 'verified' have been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such as the Gerontology Research Group.
Country Name Sex Birth date Death date Age
France Jeanne Calment F 21 February 1875 4 August 1997 122 years, 164 days
United States Sarah Knauss F 24 September 1880 30 December 1999 119 years, 97 days
Canada Marie-Louise Meilleur F 29 August 1880 16 April 1998 117 years, 230 days
Ecuador María Capovilla F 14 September 1889 27 August 2006 116 years, 347 days
Japan Tane Ikai F 18 January 1879 12 July 1995 116 years, 175 days
Denmark Christian Mortensen M 16 August 1882 25 April 1998 115 years, 252 days
United Kingdom Charlotte Hughes F 1 August 1877 17 March 1993 115 years, 228 days
Romania Aniţica Butariu F 17 June 1882 21 November 1997 115 years, 157 days[17]
Portugal Maria de Jesus F 10 September 1893 2 January 2009 115 years, 114 days
Netherlands Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper F 29 June 1890 30 August 2005 115 years, 62 days
Spain M.A.C.C.[18] F 10 June 1881 16 January 1996 114 years, 220 days
Cape Verde Adelina Domingues F 19 February 1888 21 August 2002 114 years, 183 days
Germany Charlotte Benkner F 16 November 1889 14 May 2004 114 years, 180 days
Algeria Anne Primout F 5 October 1890 26 March 2005 114 years, 172 days
Australia Christina Cock F 25 December 1887 22 May 2002 114 years, 148 days
Italy Venere Pizzinato[c] F 23 November 1896 Living 114 years, 143 days[8]
India Lucy d'Abreu[d] F 24 May 1892 7 December 2005 113 years, 197 days
Sweden Astrid Zachrison F 15 May 1895 15 May 2008 113 years, 0 days
Hungary Elizabeth Stefan[a] F 13 May 1895 9 April 2008 112 years, 332 days
Poland Rosa Rein[e] F 24 March 1897 14 February 2010 112 years, 327 days
Finland Lempi Rothovius F 2 October 1887 17 June 2000 112 years, 259 days
Belgium Joanna Deroover F 3 June 1890 6 December 2002 112 years, 186 days
Czech Republic Maria Mika[f] F 23 May 1882 17 November 1994 112 years, 178 days
Norway Maren Bolette Torp F 21 December 1876 20 February 1989 112 years, 61 days
Ireland Katherine Plunket F 20 November 1820 14 October 1932 111 years, 327 days
Morocco Consuelo Moreno[g] F 5 February 1893 13 November 2004 111 years, 282 days
Mexico Soledad Mexia F 13 August 1899 Living 111years, 245 days[8]
Ukraine Fannie Buten[h] F 13 April 1899 24 September 2010 111 years, 164 days
South Africa Johanna Booyson F 17 January 1857 16 June 1968 111 years, 151 days
Russia Lillian Joelson F 20 August 1896 30 December 2007 111 years, 132 days
Belarus Mollye Marcus[j] F 18 October 1899 18 February 2011 111 years, 123 days
Colombia Daniel Guzmán-García M 6 February 1897 21 May 2008 111 years, 105 days
Switzerland Emma Duvoisin F 5 July 1886 30 September 1997 111 years, 87 days
Barbados James Sisnett M 22 February 1900 Living 111 years, 52 days[8]
Greece Gregory Pandazes M 15 January 1873 22 December 1983 110 years, 341 days
Austria Leopold Vietoris M 4 June 1891 9 April 2002 110 years, 309 days
Slovenia Katarina Marinič[k] F 30 October 1899 2 September 2010 110 years, 307 days
Saint Kitts and Nevis Rosalind Hill F 30 March 1899 18 January 2010 110 years, 294 days
Lithuania Ella Ille Rentel[l] F 19 May 1852 19 September 1962 110 years, 123 days
Croatia Hermina Dunz[m] F 24 February 1898 14 June 2008 110 years, 111 days
Peru Julia Dougherty F 20 August 1893 4 December 2003 110 years, 106 days
New Zealand Ethel Booth F 25 December 1890 18 February 2001 110 years, 55 days
Iceland Guðrún Björnsdóttir [19] F 20 October 1888 26 August 1998 109 years, 310 days
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Shivapuri Baba, a Hindu Mystic was 136 years old when he died in 1963. Queen Victoria was so taken by him that she kept inviting him to visit her which he did no less than 18 times.
http://www.answers.com/topic/shivapuri-baba
http://www.answers.com/topic/shivapuri-baba
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wow so many old people....so it means syedna is not going any where for next 15 years or more Inshallah Ameen
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NAME: BABA RAMDEV
AGE: 400+ YEARS
AGE: 400+ YEARS
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Gulf wrote:NAME: BABA RAMDEV
AGE: 400+ YEARS
ramdev?yog guru? i thought he is 40 years old.
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No Food No Water For 70 Years
Fox news and many other news agencies, published the story because they believe they have trusted information about the claim.
A holy man in India claims that he didn’t eat or drink for 70 years. He claims to have been blessed by a goddess when he was 8-years-old, which has enabled him to survive without sustenance. But who is going to believe that right? Normally, people die within days if they didn’t eat or drink, how this person could survive all these years without essential minerals and water?
To test that claim, over 30 specialists and doctors in India put the holy man to test. The long-haired and bearded yogi is under 24-hour observation in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Two cameras have been set up in his room, while a mobile camera films him when he goes outside, guaranteeing round-the-clock observation.
Since the experiment began on April 22, Jani has had no food or water and has not been to the toilet. This tells us that the claim is correct, and this man has really some kind of un-natural power.
“The observation from this study may throw light on human survival without food and water,” said Dr. G. Ilavazahagan, who is directing the research. “This may help in working out strategies for survival during natural calamities, extreme stressful conditions and extra-terrestrial explorations like future missions to the Moon and Mars by the human race.”
This is still un-solved mystery, and the researchers are still evaluating Jani’s situation to learn more about how the body functions without food.
http://palscience.com/health-medicine/n ... -70-years/
Fox news and many other news agencies, published the story because they believe they have trusted information about the claim.
A holy man in India claims that he didn’t eat or drink for 70 years. He claims to have been blessed by a goddess when he was 8-years-old, which has enabled him to survive without sustenance. But who is going to believe that right? Normally, people die within days if they didn’t eat or drink, how this person could survive all these years without essential minerals and water?
To test that claim, over 30 specialists and doctors in India put the holy man to test. The long-haired and bearded yogi is under 24-hour observation in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Two cameras have been set up in his room, while a mobile camera films him when he goes outside, guaranteeing round-the-clock observation.
Since the experiment began on April 22, Jani has had no food or water and has not been to the toilet. This tells us that the claim is correct, and this man has really some kind of un-natural power.
“The observation from this study may throw light on human survival without food and water,” said Dr. G. Ilavazahagan, who is directing the research. “This may help in working out strategies for survival during natural calamities, extreme stressful conditions and extra-terrestrial explorations like future missions to the Moon and Mars by the human race.”
This is still un-solved mystery, and the researchers are still evaluating Jani’s situation to learn more about how the body functions without food.
http://palscience.com/health-medicine/n ... -70-years/
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No food no water for 70 year
This is not as big as No Salam money for 70 seconds.
This is not as big as No Salam money for 70 seconds.
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The day I met Abdul Sattar Edhi, a living saint
Sixty years ago, Abdul Sattar Edhi, 82, gave up everything to devote his life to helping Pakistan's poorest. Here, Peter Oborne hails a truly selfless spiritual sage
In the course of my duties as a reporter, I have met presidents, prime ministers and reigning monarchs.
Until meeting the Pakistani social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi, I had never met a saint. Within a few moments of shaking hands, I knew I was in the presence of moral and spiritual greatness.
Mr Edhi's life story is awesome, as I learnt when I spent two weeks working at one of his ambulance centres in Karachi.
The 82-year-old lives in the austerity that has been his hallmark all his life. He wears blue overalls and sports a Jinnah cap, so named because it was the head gear of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.
No Pakistani since Jinnah has commanded the same reverence, and our conversations were constantly interrupted as people came to pay their respects.
Mr Edhi told me that, 60 years ago, he stood on a street corner in Karachi and begged for money for an ambulance, raising enough to buy a battered old van. In it, he set out on countless life-saving missions.
Gradually, Mr Edhi set up centres all over Pakistan. He diversified into orphanages, homes for the mentally ill, drug rehabilitation centres and hostels for abandoned women. He fed the poor and buried the dead. His compassion was boundless.
He was born in 1928, when the British Empire was at its height, in Gujarat in what is now western India. But he and his family were forced to flee for their lives in 1947 when the division of India and creation of Pakistan inspired terrible communal tensions: millions were killed in mob violence and ethnic cleansing.
This was the moment Mr Edhi, finding himself penniless on the streets of Karachi, set out on his life's mission.
Just 20 years old, he volunteered to join a charity run by the Memons, the Islamic religious community to which his family belonged.
At first, Mr Edhi welcomed his duties; then he was appalled to discover that the charity's compassion was confined to Memons.
He confronted his employers, telling them that "humanitarian work loses its significance when you discriminate between the needy".
So he set up a small medical centre of his own, sleeping on the cement bench outside his shop so that even those who came late at night could be served.
But he also had to face the enmity of the Memons, and became convinced they were capable of having him killed. For safety, and in search of knowledge, he set out on an overland journey to Europe, begging all the way.
One morning, he awoke on a bench at Rome railway station to discover his shoes had been stolen. He was not bothered, considering them inessential.
Nevertheless, the next day an elderly lady gave him a pair of gumboots, two sizes too large, and Mr Edhi wobbled about in them for the remainder of his journey.
In London, he was a great admirer of the British welfare state, though he presciently noted its potential to encourage a culture of dependency. He was offered a job but refused, telling his benefactor: "I have to do something for the people in Pakistan."
On return from Europe, his destiny was set. There was no welfare state in Fifties Pakistan: he would fill the gap. This was a difficult period in his life. Shabby, bearded and with no obvious prospects, seven women in rapid succession turned down his offers of marriage. He resigned himself to chastity and threw all of his energy into work.
He would hurtle round the province of Sindh in his poor man's ambulance, collecting dead bodies, taking them to the police station, waiting for the death certificate and, if the bodies were not claimed, burying them himself.
Mr Edhi's autobiography, published in 1996, records that he recovered these stinking cadavers "from rivers, from inside wells, from road sides, accident sites and hospitals… When families forsook them, and authorities threw them away, I picked them up… Then I bathed and cared for each and every victim of circumstance."
There is a photograph of Mr Edhi from this formative time. It could be the face of a young revolutionary or poet: dark beard, piercing, passionate eyes. And it is indeed the case that parts of his profound and moving autobiography carry the same weight and integrity as great poetry or even scripture.
Mr Edhi discovered that many Pakistani women were killing their babies at birth, often because they were born outside marriage.
One newborn child was stoned to death outside a mosque on the orders of religious leaders. A furious Mr Edhi responded: "Who can declare an infant guilty when there is no concept of punishing the innocent?"
So Mr Edhi placed a little cradle outside every Edhi centre, beneath a placard imploring: "Do not commit another sin: leave your baby in our care." Mr Edhi has so far saved 35,000 babies and, in approximately half of these cases, found families to cherish them.
Once again, this practice brought him into conflict with religious leaders. They claimed that adopted children could not inherit their parents' wealth. Mr Edhi told them their objections contradicted the supreme idea of religion, declaring: "Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God."
Over time, Mr Edhi came to exercise such a vast moral authority that Pakistan's corrupt politicians had to pay court. In 1982, General Zia announced the establishment of a shura (advisory council) to determine matters of state according to Islamic principles.
Mr Edhi was suspicious: "I represented the millions of downtrodden, and was aware that my presence gave the required credibility to an illegal rule."
Travelling to Rawalpindi to speak at the national assembly, he delivered a passionate denunciation of political corruption, telling an audience of MPs, including Zia himself: "The people have been neglected long enough.
"One day they shall rise like mad men and pull down these walls that keep their future captive. Mark my words and heed them before you find yourselves the prey instead of the predator."
Mr Edhi did not distinguish between politicians and criminals, asking: "Why should I condemn a declared dacoit [bandit] and not condemn the respectable villain who enjoys his spoils as if he achieved them by some noble means?"
This impartiality had its advantages. It meant that a truce would be declared when Mr Edhi and his ambulance arrived at the scene of gun battles between police and gangsters.
"They would cease fire," notes Mr Edhi in his autobiography, "until bodies were carried to the ambulance, the engine would start and shooting would resume."
Mr Edhi eventually found a wife, Bilquis, but his personal austerity was all but incompatible with married life. When the family went on Hajj, a vast overland journey in the ambulance, he forbade Bilquis to bring extra clothes, because he was determined to fill the vehicle with medical supplies.
Reaching Quetta in northern Baluchistan, with the temperature plunging, he relented enough to allow her to buy a Russian soldier's overcoat. Later on, when their children grew up, Mr Edhi would not find time to attend his daughter's marriage.
But Mr Edhi's epic achievement would not have been possible but for this inhuman single-mindedness. Today, the influence of the Edhi Foundation stretches far outside Pakistan and Mr Edhi has led relief missions across the Muslim world, providing aid at every international emergency from the Lebanon civil war in 1983 to the Bangladesh cyclone in 2007.
There are no horrors that Mr Edhi and his incredibly brave army of ambulance men have not witnessed, and the numerous lives they have saved.
The story of Mr Edhi coincides with the history of the Pakistan state. More than any other living figure, he articulates Jinnah's vision of a country which, while based on Islam, nevertheless offers a welcome for people of all faiths and sects. Indeed, the life of Mr Edhi provides a sad commentary on the betrayal of Jinnah's Pakistan by a self-interested political class.
One evening, as the sun set over Karachi, I asked Mr Edhi what future he foresaw. "Unless things change," he said, "I predict a revolution."
Peter Oborne's film on the Edhi Foundation can be seen in 'Unreported World: Defenders of Karachi'
THREE CHEERS FOR OUR REAL HERO ''EDHI SAHIB''- MAY ALLAH BESTOW HIS CHOICEST BLESSINGS ON HIM
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Together with his wife, Bilquis Edhi, he received Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service.
Lenin Peace Prize and the Balzan Prize.Edhi was awarded an honorary degree of Doctorate by the University of Bedfordshire
Sixty years ago, Abdul Sattar Edhi, 82, gave up everything to devote his life to helping Pakistan's poorest. Here, Peter Oborne hails a truly selfless spiritual sage
In the course of my duties as a reporter, I have met presidents, prime ministers and reigning monarchs.
Until meeting the Pakistani social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi, I had never met a saint. Within a few moments of shaking hands, I knew I was in the presence of moral and spiritual greatness.
Mr Edhi's life story is awesome, as I learnt when I spent two weeks working at one of his ambulance centres in Karachi.
The 82-year-old lives in the austerity that has been his hallmark all his life. He wears blue overalls and sports a Jinnah cap, so named because it was the head gear of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.
No Pakistani since Jinnah has commanded the same reverence, and our conversations were constantly interrupted as people came to pay their respects.
Mr Edhi told me that, 60 years ago, he stood on a street corner in Karachi and begged for money for an ambulance, raising enough to buy a battered old van. In it, he set out on countless life-saving missions.
Gradually, Mr Edhi set up centres all over Pakistan. He diversified into orphanages, homes for the mentally ill, drug rehabilitation centres and hostels for abandoned women. He fed the poor and buried the dead. His compassion was boundless.
He was born in 1928, when the British Empire was at its height, in Gujarat in what is now western India. But he and his family were forced to flee for their lives in 1947 when the division of India and creation of Pakistan inspired terrible communal tensions: millions were killed in mob violence and ethnic cleansing.
This was the moment Mr Edhi, finding himself penniless on the streets of Karachi, set out on his life's mission.
Just 20 years old, he volunteered to join a charity run by the Memons, the Islamic religious community to which his family belonged.
At first, Mr Edhi welcomed his duties; then he was appalled to discover that the charity's compassion was confined to Memons.
He confronted his employers, telling them that "humanitarian work loses its significance when you discriminate between the needy".
So he set up a small medical centre of his own, sleeping on the cement bench outside his shop so that even those who came late at night could be served.
But he also had to face the enmity of the Memons, and became convinced they were capable of having him killed. For safety, and in search of knowledge, he set out on an overland journey to Europe, begging all the way.
One morning, he awoke on a bench at Rome railway station to discover his shoes had been stolen. He was not bothered, considering them inessential.
Nevertheless, the next day an elderly lady gave him a pair of gumboots, two sizes too large, and Mr Edhi wobbled about in them for the remainder of his journey.
In London, he was a great admirer of the British welfare state, though he presciently noted its potential to encourage a culture of dependency. He was offered a job but refused, telling his benefactor: "I have to do something for the people in Pakistan."
On return from Europe, his destiny was set. There was no welfare state in Fifties Pakistan: he would fill the gap. This was a difficult period in his life. Shabby, bearded and with no obvious prospects, seven women in rapid succession turned down his offers of marriage. He resigned himself to chastity and threw all of his energy into work.
He would hurtle round the province of Sindh in his poor man's ambulance, collecting dead bodies, taking them to the police station, waiting for the death certificate and, if the bodies were not claimed, burying them himself.
Mr Edhi's autobiography, published in 1996, records that he recovered these stinking cadavers "from rivers, from inside wells, from road sides, accident sites and hospitals… When families forsook them, and authorities threw them away, I picked them up… Then I bathed and cared for each and every victim of circumstance."
There is a photograph of Mr Edhi from this formative time. It could be the face of a young revolutionary or poet: dark beard, piercing, passionate eyes. And it is indeed the case that parts of his profound and moving autobiography carry the same weight and integrity as great poetry or even scripture.
Mr Edhi discovered that many Pakistani women were killing their babies at birth, often because they were born outside marriage.
One newborn child was stoned to death outside a mosque on the orders of religious leaders. A furious Mr Edhi responded: "Who can declare an infant guilty when there is no concept of punishing the innocent?"
So Mr Edhi placed a little cradle outside every Edhi centre, beneath a placard imploring: "Do not commit another sin: leave your baby in our care." Mr Edhi has so far saved 35,000 babies and, in approximately half of these cases, found families to cherish them.
Once again, this practice brought him into conflict with religious leaders. They claimed that adopted children could not inherit their parents' wealth. Mr Edhi told them their objections contradicted the supreme idea of religion, declaring: "Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God."
Over time, Mr Edhi came to exercise such a vast moral authority that Pakistan's corrupt politicians had to pay court. In 1982, General Zia announced the establishment of a shura (advisory council) to determine matters of state according to Islamic principles.
Mr Edhi was suspicious: "I represented the millions of downtrodden, and was aware that my presence gave the required credibility to an illegal rule."
Travelling to Rawalpindi to speak at the national assembly, he delivered a passionate denunciation of political corruption, telling an audience of MPs, including Zia himself: "The people have been neglected long enough.
"One day they shall rise like mad men and pull down these walls that keep their future captive. Mark my words and heed them before you find yourselves the prey instead of the predator."
Mr Edhi did not distinguish between politicians and criminals, asking: "Why should I condemn a declared dacoit [bandit] and not condemn the respectable villain who enjoys his spoils as if he achieved them by some noble means?"
This impartiality had its advantages. It meant that a truce would be declared when Mr Edhi and his ambulance arrived at the scene of gun battles between police and gangsters.
"They would cease fire," notes Mr Edhi in his autobiography, "until bodies were carried to the ambulance, the engine would start and shooting would resume."
Mr Edhi eventually found a wife, Bilquis, but his personal austerity was all but incompatible with married life. When the family went on Hajj, a vast overland journey in the ambulance, he forbade Bilquis to bring extra clothes, because he was determined to fill the vehicle with medical supplies.
Reaching Quetta in northern Baluchistan, with the temperature plunging, he relented enough to allow her to buy a Russian soldier's overcoat. Later on, when their children grew up, Mr Edhi would not find time to attend his daughter's marriage.
But Mr Edhi's epic achievement would not have been possible but for this inhuman single-mindedness. Today, the influence of the Edhi Foundation stretches far outside Pakistan and Mr Edhi has led relief missions across the Muslim world, providing aid at every international emergency from the Lebanon civil war in 1983 to the Bangladesh cyclone in 2007.
There are no horrors that Mr Edhi and his incredibly brave army of ambulance men have not witnessed, and the numerous lives they have saved.
The story of Mr Edhi coincides with the history of the Pakistan state. More than any other living figure, he articulates Jinnah's vision of a country which, while based on Islam, nevertheless offers a welcome for people of all faiths and sects. Indeed, the life of Mr Edhi provides a sad commentary on the betrayal of Jinnah's Pakistan by a self-interested political class.
One evening, as the sun set over Karachi, I asked Mr Edhi what future he foresaw. "Unless things change," he said, "I predict a revolution."
Peter Oborne's film on the Edhi Foundation can be seen in 'Unreported World: Defenders of Karachi'
THREE CHEERS FOR OUR REAL HERO ''EDHI SAHIB''- MAY ALLAH BESTOW HIS CHOICEST BLESSINGS ON HIM
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Together with his wife, Bilquis Edhi, he received Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service.
Lenin Peace Prize and the Balzan Prize.Edhi was awarded an honorary degree of Doctorate by the University of Bedfordshire
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Somebody is cutting onions in my room.Thank you br.Gulam Mohammed.
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Hazel McCallion, (born February 14, 1921) is the Mayor of Mississauga, Ontario. McCallion has been Mississauga's mayor for 32 years, holding office since 1978. She is affectionately called "Hurricane Hazel" by supporters as well as the media at large for her vibrant outspoken style of no-nonsense politics.[1]
She is one of Canada's best known and longest-serving mayors and she is one of the longest serving elected leaders in history. Now aged 90, she was easily re-elected in October 2010 for her 12th consecutive term, holding a 76% majority of the votes, and has often been reelected without even needing to conduct an actual campaign.
She is both a Member of the Order of Canada and a Member of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.[2]
McCallion was one of the first Canadian politicians to openly support the creation of a Palestinian state. Addressing the annual convention of the Canadian Arab Federation in 1983, she argued that Palestinian issues had been distorted by the national media and was quoted as saying, "The Palestinians need and require and deserve a country of their own. Why shouldn't they get it?"[22]
Personal life
Hazel Journeaux was born in Port Daniel on the Gaspé Coast of Quebec. Her father's family traces their roots back to the island of Jersey.[3] Her father Herbert Armand Journeaux (1879-1944) owned a fishing and canning company. Her mother, Maude Travers (1876-1955) was a homemaker and ran the family farm. She had two sisters, Linda Maude Adams (1911-2004), and Margret Gwendolyn Travers Capener (1915-1997) and two brothers, Herbert Lorne Journeaux (1907-1972), and James Wilson Lockhart Journeaux (1909-1964). After graduating from Quebec High School she attended business secretarial school in Quebec City and Montreal. She has stated, especially while receiving university honours, that she would have wanted to attend university, but financially her family could not afford it. After working in Montreal, she was transferred by Canadian Kellogg company to Toronto.
She met and married her husband, Sam McCallion, soon after in an Anglican Church congregation. As a marriage present from McCallion’s in-laws, a piece of land in what would later become Mississauga, near the village of Streetsville was given to the newlyweds. She has three children, Peter, Paul and Linda, daughter-in-law Donna Marie married to Paul, and granddaughter Erika. McCallion has often stated, such as on TVOntario's Studio 2, that her husband was always encouraging and supportive of her political career. Prior to becoming mayor, Hazel and her husband founded The Mississauga Booster community newspaper, a paper that her son now edits and publishes. In 1997, Sam McCallion died of Alzheimer's disease. The Sam McCallion Day Centre was created by the Alzheimer Society of Peel to honour Sam, the founder of the annual Streetsville Bread and Honey Festival. Hazel still resides in Streetsville.
In a first-person account for Canadian magazine Confidence Bound, McCallion credited her faith with giving her the energy her job demands. "Having a life filled with purpose and meaning and living my life in a Christian-like manner helps to motivate me and keep me energized," she said.
She also revealed that she does everything around the house herself. "I do my own cleaning, grocery shopping, gardening… The assumption is that people in my position have others doing all these things for them but I like to be self sufficient. Housework and gardening are great forms of exercise and keep one humble."
Hockey
McCallion is well known in Canada for her love of hockey. She played for a professional women's team while attending school in Montreal. One of her friends is Hockey Night in Canada commentator Don Cherry, who joked during her 87th birthday that while 98 per cent of the city voted for her, he was looking for the remaining 2 per cent that didn't. McCallion began playing hockey in the late 1920s in the town of Port Daniel, Quebec. She played with her two sisters and was a forward on their team. McCallion later played hockey for $5 a game in the city of Montreal. The team was sponsored by Kik Cola and it was a three team women’s league.[23] At one time, she was a board member of the Ontario Women's Hockey League, and was instrumental in getting the Hershey Centre built for the city of Mississauga. McCallion provided assistance for Don Cherry’s group to bring an Ontario Hockey League franchise to the city in 1998, and she was instrumental in bringing the IIHF Women’s World Hockey Championships to the city in 2000.
Honours
In 2005 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada. She is also one of the few non-Germans to be a Member of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (see Bundesverdienstkreuz).[2]
She ranked second in the 2005 international World Mayor poll, behind only Dora Bakoyannis of Athens.
The University of Toronto at Mississauga has named their new library and academic learning centre after McCallion, in appreciation for the support offered to the campus in its growth and development.
The Peel Board of Education has named a school after her: the Hazel McCallion Senior Public School.
Different Hazel McCallion bobblehead dolls have been made.[24]
She was named "American Woman of the Year" in Who's Who of American Women, as well as "Woman of the Year 2001" by an international business lobby.[18]
The Delta Meadowvale Hotel has a Hazel McCallion Room in her honour.
On June 7, 2010, she received the Honorable Doctorate degree by University of Toronto during the convocation of Bachelor of Arts for the University of Toronto Mississauga graduating class.
She is one of Canada's best known and longest-serving mayors and she is one of the longest serving elected leaders in history. Now aged 90, she was easily re-elected in October 2010 for her 12th consecutive term, holding a 76% majority of the votes, and has often been reelected without even needing to conduct an actual campaign.
She is both a Member of the Order of Canada and a Member of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.[2]
McCallion was one of the first Canadian politicians to openly support the creation of a Palestinian state. Addressing the annual convention of the Canadian Arab Federation in 1983, she argued that Palestinian issues had been distorted by the national media and was quoted as saying, "The Palestinians need and require and deserve a country of their own. Why shouldn't they get it?"[22]
Personal life
Hazel Journeaux was born in Port Daniel on the Gaspé Coast of Quebec. Her father's family traces their roots back to the island of Jersey.[3] Her father Herbert Armand Journeaux (1879-1944) owned a fishing and canning company. Her mother, Maude Travers (1876-1955) was a homemaker and ran the family farm. She had two sisters, Linda Maude Adams (1911-2004), and Margret Gwendolyn Travers Capener (1915-1997) and two brothers, Herbert Lorne Journeaux (1907-1972), and James Wilson Lockhart Journeaux (1909-1964). After graduating from Quebec High School she attended business secretarial school in Quebec City and Montreal. She has stated, especially while receiving university honours, that she would have wanted to attend university, but financially her family could not afford it. After working in Montreal, she was transferred by Canadian Kellogg company to Toronto.
She met and married her husband, Sam McCallion, soon after in an Anglican Church congregation. As a marriage present from McCallion’s in-laws, a piece of land in what would later become Mississauga, near the village of Streetsville was given to the newlyweds. She has three children, Peter, Paul and Linda, daughter-in-law Donna Marie married to Paul, and granddaughter Erika. McCallion has often stated, such as on TVOntario's Studio 2, that her husband was always encouraging and supportive of her political career. Prior to becoming mayor, Hazel and her husband founded The Mississauga Booster community newspaper, a paper that her son now edits and publishes. In 1997, Sam McCallion died of Alzheimer's disease. The Sam McCallion Day Centre was created by the Alzheimer Society of Peel to honour Sam, the founder of the annual Streetsville Bread and Honey Festival. Hazel still resides in Streetsville.
In a first-person account for Canadian magazine Confidence Bound, McCallion credited her faith with giving her the energy her job demands. "Having a life filled with purpose and meaning and living my life in a Christian-like manner helps to motivate me and keep me energized," she said.
She also revealed that she does everything around the house herself. "I do my own cleaning, grocery shopping, gardening… The assumption is that people in my position have others doing all these things for them but I like to be self sufficient. Housework and gardening are great forms of exercise and keep one humble."
Hockey
McCallion is well known in Canada for her love of hockey. She played for a professional women's team while attending school in Montreal. One of her friends is Hockey Night in Canada commentator Don Cherry, who joked during her 87th birthday that while 98 per cent of the city voted for her, he was looking for the remaining 2 per cent that didn't. McCallion began playing hockey in the late 1920s in the town of Port Daniel, Quebec. She played with her two sisters and was a forward on their team. McCallion later played hockey for $5 a game in the city of Montreal. The team was sponsored by Kik Cola and it was a three team women’s league.[23] At one time, she was a board member of the Ontario Women's Hockey League, and was instrumental in getting the Hershey Centre built for the city of Mississauga. McCallion provided assistance for Don Cherry’s group to bring an Ontario Hockey League franchise to the city in 1998, and she was instrumental in bringing the IIHF Women’s World Hockey Championships to the city in 2000.
Honours
In 2005 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada. She is also one of the few non-Germans to be a Member of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (see Bundesverdienstkreuz).[2]
She ranked second in the 2005 international World Mayor poll, behind only Dora Bakoyannis of Athens.
The University of Toronto at Mississauga has named their new library and academic learning centre after McCallion, in appreciation for the support offered to the campus in its growth and development.
The Peel Board of Education has named a school after her: the Hazel McCallion Senior Public School.
Different Hazel McCallion bobblehead dolls have been made.[24]
She was named "American Woman of the Year" in Who's Who of American Women, as well as "Woman of the Year 2001" by an international business lobby.[18]
The Delta Meadowvale Hotel has a Hazel McCallion Room in her honour.
On June 7, 2010, she received the Honorable Doctorate degree by University of Toronto during the convocation of Bachelor of Arts for the University of Toronto Mississauga graduating class.
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amazing! normally all the fanatic foaming-at-the-mouth abdes flock to hurl abuses and defend the miraculously long life of syedna when defending his corrupt establishment, but on this thread we have posted several articles of people who at syedna's age are even more active and healthier and claim no miracles or divinity.
kem hawa nikli gai badhani???
kem hawa nikli gai badhani???
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Queen Elizabeth I, the Queen Mother.
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the Queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother,[2] to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. She was the last Queen consort of Ireland and Empress consort of India.
Born into a family of Scottish nobility (her father inherited the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1904), she came to prominence in 1923 when she married Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. As Duchess of York, she – along with her husband and their two daughters Elizabeth and Margaret – embodied traditional ideas of family and public service.[3] She undertook a variety of public engagements, and became known as the "Smiling Duchess" because of her consistent public expression.[4]
In 1936, her husband unexpectedly became King when her brother-in-law, Edward VIII, abdicated in order to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson. As Queen consort, Elizabeth accompanied her husband on diplomatic tours to France and the United States in the run-up to World War II. During the war, her seemingly indomitable spirit provided moral support to the British public. In recognition of her role as an asset to British morale, Adolf Hitler described her as "the most dangerous woman in Europe".[5] After the war, her husband's health deteriorated and she was widowed at the age of 51.
On the death of her mother-in-law Queen Mary in 1953, with her brother-in-law living abroad and her elder daughter Queen at the age of 25, Elizabeth became the senior member of the royal family and assumed a position as family matriarch. In her later years, she was a consistently popular member of the family, when other members were suffering from low levels of public approval.[6] She continued an active public life until just a few months before her death at the age of 101, seven weeks after the death of the younger of her two daughters, Princess Margaret.
In her later years, the Queen Mother became known for her longevity. Her 90th birthday—4 August 1990—was celebrated by a parade on 27 June that involved many of the 300 organizations of which she was patron.[104] In 1995, she attended events commemorating the end of the war fifty years before, and had two operations: one to remove a cataract in her left eye, and one to replace her right hip.[105] In 1998, her left hip was replaced after it was broken when she slipped and fell during a visit to Sandringham stables.[106] Her 100th birthday was celebrated in a number of ways: a parade that celebrated the highlights of her life included contributions from Norman Wisdom and John Mills;[107] her image appeared on a special commemorative £20 note issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland;[108] and she attended a lunch at the Guildhall, London, at which George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, accidentally attempted to drink her glass of wine. Her quick admonition of "That's mine!" caused widespread amusement.[109] In November 2000, she broke her collar bone in a fall that kept her recuperating at home over Christmas and the New Year.[110]
In December 2001 aged 101, the Queen Mother had a fall in which she fractured her pelvis. Even so, she insisted on standing for the National Anthem during the memorial service for her husband on 6 February the following year.[111] Just three days later, her second daughter Princess Margaret died. On 13 February 2002, the Queen Mother fell and cut her arm at Sandringham House.[112] Despite this fall, the Queen Mother was still determined to attend Margaret's funeral at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, two days later on Friday of that week.[113] The Queen and the rest of the royal family were greatly concerned about the journey the Queen Mother was facing to get from Norfolk to Windsor.[114] Nevertheless, she made the journey but insisted that she be shielded from the press, so that no photographs of her in a wheelchair could be taken.[114]
At 102, she was still active enough to walk, unlike our syedna who has to be carried around in a palkhi!
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the Queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother,[2] to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. She was the last Queen consort of Ireland and Empress consort of India.
Born into a family of Scottish nobility (her father inherited the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1904), she came to prominence in 1923 when she married Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. As Duchess of York, she – along with her husband and their two daughters Elizabeth and Margaret – embodied traditional ideas of family and public service.[3] She undertook a variety of public engagements, and became known as the "Smiling Duchess" because of her consistent public expression.[4]
In 1936, her husband unexpectedly became King when her brother-in-law, Edward VIII, abdicated in order to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson. As Queen consort, Elizabeth accompanied her husband on diplomatic tours to France and the United States in the run-up to World War II. During the war, her seemingly indomitable spirit provided moral support to the British public. In recognition of her role as an asset to British morale, Adolf Hitler described her as "the most dangerous woman in Europe".[5] After the war, her husband's health deteriorated and she was widowed at the age of 51.
On the death of her mother-in-law Queen Mary in 1953, with her brother-in-law living abroad and her elder daughter Queen at the age of 25, Elizabeth became the senior member of the royal family and assumed a position as family matriarch. In her later years, she was a consistently popular member of the family, when other members were suffering from low levels of public approval.[6] She continued an active public life until just a few months before her death at the age of 101, seven weeks after the death of the younger of her two daughters, Princess Margaret.
In her later years, the Queen Mother became known for her longevity. Her 90th birthday—4 August 1990—was celebrated by a parade on 27 June that involved many of the 300 organizations of which she was patron.[104] In 1995, she attended events commemorating the end of the war fifty years before, and had two operations: one to remove a cataract in her left eye, and one to replace her right hip.[105] In 1998, her left hip was replaced after it was broken when she slipped and fell during a visit to Sandringham stables.[106] Her 100th birthday was celebrated in a number of ways: a parade that celebrated the highlights of her life included contributions from Norman Wisdom and John Mills;[107] her image appeared on a special commemorative £20 note issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland;[108] and she attended a lunch at the Guildhall, London, at which George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, accidentally attempted to drink her glass of wine. Her quick admonition of "That's mine!" caused widespread amusement.[109] In November 2000, she broke her collar bone in a fall that kept her recuperating at home over Christmas and the New Year.[110]
In December 2001 aged 101, the Queen Mother had a fall in which she fractured her pelvis. Even so, she insisted on standing for the National Anthem during the memorial service for her husband on 6 February the following year.[111] Just three days later, her second daughter Princess Margaret died. On 13 February 2002, the Queen Mother fell and cut her arm at Sandringham House.[112] Despite this fall, the Queen Mother was still determined to attend Margaret's funeral at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, two days later on Friday of that week.[113] The Queen and the rest of the royal family were greatly concerned about the journey the Queen Mother was facing to get from Norfolk to Windsor.[114] Nevertheless, she made the journey but insisted that she be shielded from the press, so that no photographs of her in a wheelchair could be taken.[114]
At 102, she was still active enough to walk, unlike our syedna who has to be carried around in a palkhi!
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fanatics like nallu and others who drip with sympathy for syedna MB for his loss of faculties at his advanced age and claim that it will not be possible for others at that age to even lift a finger to show that you desperately need to pee (presumably so that someone can carry you to the washroom) should read this thread to see how there are people as old or older than syedna who are still running in marathons, sky diving, driving race cars, or playing ice hockey!
they are ordinary people and claim no miracles from god for their health or active lifestyles. this is not meant to imply that we have no respect for syedna's advanced age, but is meant to be a resounding kick in the pants to foolish abdes who see miracles where none exist.
they are ordinary people and claim no miracles from god for their health or active lifestyles. this is not meant to imply that we have no respect for syedna's advanced age, but is meant to be a resounding kick in the pants to foolish abdes who see miracles where none exist.
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Fauja Singh (born April 1, 1911) is a centenaranian sikh. He is a marathon runner of Indian descent who is a world record holder in his age bracket. His current best time for the London marathon (2003) is 6 hours, 2 minutes, and his marathon record for age 90-plus is 5 hours, 40 minutes at the age of 92, at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon 2003.
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bro gm,
i have outlined the life and exploits of fauja singh in this same thread earlier. there is no harm though in repeating his example, just so that awe-struck abdes can realise that nothing about the syedna is divine and miraculous as they claim. the fools see a miracle in every corner and bush, having been fed a steady diet of lies, false miracles and completely invented incidents with no proofs or verifiable claims.
i have outlined the life and exploits of fauja singh in this same thread earlier. there is no harm though in repeating his example, just so that awe-struck abdes can realise that nothing about the syedna is divine and miraculous as they claim. the fools see a miracle in every corner and bush, having been fed a steady diet of lies, false miracles and completely invented incidents with no proofs or verifiable claims.
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100-year-old marathoner finishes race
TORONTO (AP) — A 100-year-old runner became the oldest person to complete a full-distance marathon when he finished the race in Toronto on Sunday.
Fauja Singh earned a spot in the Guinness World Records for his accomplishment.
Sunday's run was Singh's eighth marathon — he ran his first at age 89 — and wasn't the first time he set a record.
And on Thursday in Toronto, Singh broke world records for runners older than 100 in eight different distances ranging from 100 meters to 5,000 meters.
The 5-foot-8 Singh said he's hopeful his next project will be participating in the torch relay for the 2012 London Games. He carried the torch during the relay for the 2004 Athens Games.
http://news.yahoo.com/100-old-marathone ... 39203.html
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TORONTO (AP) — A 100-year-old runner became the oldest person to complete a full-distance marathon when he finished the race in Toronto on Sunday.
Fauja Singh earned a spot in the Guinness World Records for his accomplishment.
Sunday's run was Singh's eighth marathon — he ran his first at age 89 — and wasn't the first time he set a record.
And on Thursday in Toronto, Singh broke world records for runners older than 100 in eight different distances ranging from 100 meters to 5,000 meters.
The 5-foot-8 Singh said he's hopeful his next project will be participating in the torch relay for the 2012 London Games. He carried the torch during the relay for the 2004 Athens Games.
http://news.yahoo.com/100-old-marathone ... 39203.html
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Rosakutty, 106 years Old.
She saw her grandchildren use computers and developed a craving to beat them at it.
When she first walked in to enrol herself, the teachers fell off their chairs at the state sponsored e-literacy camp in her village. But within days, she took to the mouse and keyboard like a fish to the water. Rosakutty is India's only-- and perhaps the world's oldest-- computer student. And her indomitable spirit is the key to her long life, say gerontologists. For, unlike most centenerians Rosakutty doesnt have enormously healthy habits. She doesnt thrive on greens and fruits. For her, no meal is complete unless there is some spicy fish, chicken, lamb or beef curry with it. Whats more, she's hooked on snuff and smokes the occassional beedi. Yet she has NO ILLNESSES, bathes herself, walks few miles a day without effort and does small chores in the kitchen efficiently.
She was born in 1892 in Kerala, the year top grade cricket kicked off in India and 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' hit the stands in Britian. All the rest are little more then footnotes in history, but Rosakutty is very much part of the present. In white 'chatta-mundu' and huge gold earings, she may look like a typical granny. But one knows better.
By Ashok K Damodaran.
She saw her grandchildren use computers and developed a craving to beat them at it.
When she first walked in to enrol herself, the teachers fell off their chairs at the state sponsored e-literacy camp in her village. But within days, she took to the mouse and keyboard like a fish to the water. Rosakutty is India's only-- and perhaps the world's oldest-- computer student. And her indomitable spirit is the key to her long life, say gerontologists. For, unlike most centenerians Rosakutty doesnt have enormously healthy habits. She doesnt thrive on greens and fruits. For her, no meal is complete unless there is some spicy fish, chicken, lamb or beef curry with it. Whats more, she's hooked on snuff and smokes the occassional beedi. Yet she has NO ILLNESSES, bathes herself, walks few miles a day without effort and does small chores in the kitchen efficiently.
She was born in 1892 in Kerala, the year top grade cricket kicked off in India and 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' hit the stands in Britian. All the rest are little more then footnotes in history, but Rosakutty is very much part of the present. In white 'chatta-mundu' and huge gold earings, she may look like a typical granny. But one knows better.
By Ashok K Damodaran.
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120-year-old from Assam ties knot with 60-year-old
SILCHAR: He wanted to marry a second time after his wife died about six years back. He did so at the grand old age of 120 years. Meet Hazi Abdul Noor of Satghori, a remote village in Patharkandi block in Karimganj, who made history last Sunday when he married 60-year-old Samoi Bibi from North Foolbari village in North Tripura.
"My age in the voter list is 116 years. But actually I am 120 years old," Noor said.
He presides over a family of 122 members, including two sons, four daughters and lots of grand-children, most of whom are married. Salima Khatun, Noor's first wife, died in 2005.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 494274.cms
SILCHAR: He wanted to marry a second time after his wife died about six years back. He did so at the grand old age of 120 years. Meet Hazi Abdul Noor of Satghori, a remote village in Patharkandi block in Karimganj, who made history last Sunday when he married 60-year-old Samoi Bibi from North Foolbari village in North Tripura.
"My age in the voter list is 116 years. But actually I am 120 years old," Noor said.
He presides over a family of 122 members, including two sons, four daughters and lots of grand-children, most of whom are married. Salima Khatun, Noor's first wife, died in 2005.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 494274.cms
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*There is no need to ever retire, but if one must, it should be a lot later than 65. The current retirement age was set at 65 half a century ago, when the average life-expectancy in Japan was 68 years and only 125 Japanese were over 100 years old. Today, Japanese women live to be around 86 and men 80, and we have 36,000 centenarians in our country. In 20 years we will have about 50,000 people over the age of 100...*
At the age of 97 years and 4 months, Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world's longest-serving physicians and educators. Hinohara's magic touch is legendary: Since 1941 he has been healing patients at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching at St. Luke's College of Nursing. After World War II, he envisioned a world-class hospital and college springing from the ruins of Tokyo; thanks to his pioneering spirit and business savvy, the doctor turned these institutions into the nation's top medical facility and nursing school. Today he serves as chairman of the
board of trustees at both organizations. Always willing to try new things, he has published around 150 books since his 75th birthday, including one "Living Long, Living Good" that has sold more than 1.2 million copies. As the founder of the New Elderly Movement, Hinohara encourages others to live a long and happy life, a quest in which no role model is better than the doctor himself.
All people who live long, regardless of nationality, race or gender, share one thing in common: None are overweight... For breakfast I drink coffee, a glass of milk and some orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil in it. Olive oil is great for the arteries and keeps my skin healthy. Lunch is milk and a few cookies, or nothing when I am too busy to eat. I
never get hungry because I focus on my work.. Dinner is veggies, a bit of fish and rice, and, twice a week, 100 grams of lean meat..*
*Always plan ahead. My schedule book is already full until 2014, with lectures and my usual hospital work. In 2016 I'll have some fun, though: I plan to attend the Tokyo Olympics!*
*Share what you know. I give 150 lectures a year, some for 100 elementary-school children, others for 4,500 business people. I usually speak for 60 to 90 minutes, standing, to stay strong.*
*To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff. I take two stairs at a time, to get my muscles moving.*
*My inspiration is Robert Browning's poem "Abt Vogler." My father used to read it to me. It encourages us to make big art, not small scribbles. It says to try to draw a circle so huge that there is no way we can finish it while we are alive. All we see is an arch; the rest is beyond our vision but it is there in the distance.*
*Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it. If a child has a toothache, and you start playing a game together, he or she immediately forgets the pain.
*Hospitals must be designed and prepared for major disasters, and they must accept every patient who appears at their doors. We designed St.... Luke's so we can operate anywhere: in the basement, in the corridors, in the chapel. Most people thought I was crazy to prepare for a catastrophe, but on March 20, 1995, I was unfortunately proven right when members of the Aum Shinrikyu religious cult launched a terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway. We accepted 740 victims and in two hours figured out that it was sarin gas that had hit them. Sadly we lost one person, but we saved 739 lives.*
*Life is filled with incidents. On March 31, 1970, when I was 59 years old, I boarded the Yodogo, a flight from Tokyo to Fukuoka. It was a beautiful sunny morning, and as Mount Fuji came into sight, the plane was hijacked by the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction. I spent the next four days handcuffed to my seat in 40-degree heat. As a doctor, I looked at it all as an experiment and was amazed at how the body slowed down in a crisis.*
*It's wonderful to live long. Until one is 60 years old, it is easy to work for one's family and to achieve one's goals. But in our later years, we should strive to contribute to society. Since the age of 65, I have worked as a volunteer. I still put in 18 hours seven days a week and love every minute of it.*
*Don't be crazy about amassing material things. Remember: You don't know when your number is up, and you can't take it with you to the next place.*
At the age of 97 years and 4 months, Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world's longest-serving physicians and educators. Hinohara's magic touch is legendary: Since 1941 he has been healing patients at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching at St. Luke's College of Nursing. After World War II, he envisioned a world-class hospital and college springing from the ruins of Tokyo; thanks to his pioneering spirit and business savvy, the doctor turned these institutions into the nation's top medical facility and nursing school. Today he serves as chairman of the
board of trustees at both organizations. Always willing to try new things, he has published around 150 books since his 75th birthday, including one "Living Long, Living Good" that has sold more than 1.2 million copies. As the founder of the New Elderly Movement, Hinohara encourages others to live a long and happy life, a quest in which no role model is better than the doctor himself.
All people who live long, regardless of nationality, race or gender, share one thing in common: None are overweight... For breakfast I drink coffee, a glass of milk and some orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil in it. Olive oil is great for the arteries and keeps my skin healthy. Lunch is milk and a few cookies, or nothing when I am too busy to eat. I
never get hungry because I focus on my work.. Dinner is veggies, a bit of fish and rice, and, twice a week, 100 grams of lean meat..*
*Always plan ahead. My schedule book is already full until 2014, with lectures and my usual hospital work. In 2016 I'll have some fun, though: I plan to attend the Tokyo Olympics!*
*Share what you know. I give 150 lectures a year, some for 100 elementary-school children, others for 4,500 business people. I usually speak for 60 to 90 minutes, standing, to stay strong.*
*To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff. I take two stairs at a time, to get my muscles moving.*
*My inspiration is Robert Browning's poem "Abt Vogler." My father used to read it to me. It encourages us to make big art, not small scribbles. It says to try to draw a circle so huge that there is no way we can finish it while we are alive. All we see is an arch; the rest is beyond our vision but it is there in the distance.*
*Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it. If a child has a toothache, and you start playing a game together, he or she immediately forgets the pain.
*Hospitals must be designed and prepared for major disasters, and they must accept every patient who appears at their doors. We designed St.... Luke's so we can operate anywhere: in the basement, in the corridors, in the chapel. Most people thought I was crazy to prepare for a catastrophe, but on March 20, 1995, I was unfortunately proven right when members of the Aum Shinrikyu religious cult launched a terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway. We accepted 740 victims and in two hours figured out that it was sarin gas that had hit them. Sadly we lost one person, but we saved 739 lives.*
*Life is filled with incidents. On March 31, 1970, when I was 59 years old, I boarded the Yodogo, a flight from Tokyo to Fukuoka. It was a beautiful sunny morning, and as Mount Fuji came into sight, the plane was hijacked by the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction. I spent the next four days handcuffed to my seat in 40-degree heat. As a doctor, I looked at it all as an experiment and was amazed at how the body slowed down in a crisis.*
*It's wonderful to live long. Until one is 60 years old, it is easy to work for one's family and to achieve one's goals. But in our later years, we should strive to contribute to society. Since the age of 65, I have worked as a volunteer. I still put in 18 hours seven days a week and love every minute of it.*
*Don't be crazy about amassing material things. Remember: You don't know when your number is up, and you can't take it with you to the next place.*
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Train Escape Magic by BABA
The great 95 yearold man's magic
http://www.nidokidos.org/threads/156449 ... ic-by-BABA
The great 95 yearold man's magic
http://www.nidokidos.org/threads/156449 ... ic-by-BABA
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I was so moved by Br. GM story about Br. Ahdi I donated all my Nazar muqam to Bilkis Ahdi foundation.What a wonderful place for your Nazar Muqam Dabba.They replied back in three months if I wanted my money back because of some unforeseen hardship.I received Barkat in the form of lightheartedness that out weighs the small kindness on my part.I wish I could do more.
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Bro.seeker110,
I wish the zaadas and the dai at the advanced age of 99 years learns a thing or two from the selfless humanitarian services offered by the likes of Mr.Ehdi instead of boasting about his entourage in concordes and the luxury liner QE II and various insignificant titles purchased from various corrupt governments.
I wish the zaadas and the dai at the advanced age of 99 years learns a thing or two from the selfless humanitarian services offered by the likes of Mr.Ehdi instead of boasting about his entourage in concordes and the luxury liner QE II and various insignificant titles purchased from various corrupt governments.