104-year-old Marguerite Joseph in an undated family photo. Joseph uses Facebook with help from Gail Marlow, her granddaughter.
By Rosa Golijan
For the last few years, 104-year-old?Marguerite Joseph has been claiming that she's 99-years-old online.?"I was actually born on April 19, 1908," she explains on her Facebook profile, "but Facebook wouldn't let me enter in a date that goes back that far."
TODAY has covered Facebook users over the age of 99 and their Facebook profiles displayed their correct dates of birth, so we asked the social network why Joseph isn't allowed to be honest about her age.?"We've recently discovered an issue whereby some Facebook users may be unable to enter a birthday before 1910," a Facebook spokesperson told us. "We are working on a fix for this and we apologize for the inconvenience."
This odd and specific quirk means that Lee Stern and Florence Detlor ? who are?102- and 101-years-old, respectively?? are able to enter their actual dates of birth on Facebook while 104-year-old Joseph isn't.
The Internet-savvy grandmother has been a Facebook user since age 102, Gail Marlow, her granddaughter, told ClickOn Detroit.?"All of our family members always asked how grandma was doing on my Facebook page," she said. "So I decided I would set up a page of her own so she could stay connected to her family in Canada."?
As the elderly woman is legally blind and hard of hearing, ClickOn Detroit's Lauren Podell explains, her doting granddaughter helps Joseph use Facebook in her home in?Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan.?"Due to my eyesight, my granddaughter Gail is in charge of all my postings and responses," Joseph's publicly visible Facebook profile confirms. "She reads me my public and private messages regularly."
While it sounds as if both Marlow and Joseph treasure the time they spend on Facebook together, attempting to select Joseph's birth year on the social network has been an unfortunately frustrating experience. "Every time I tried to change the settings to the right year, Facebook always came back with an unknown error message and would send us right back to a year she wasn?t born in," Marlow complained to ClickOn Detroit. "I would love to see her real age on Facebook, I mean in April she?s going to be 105. It?s special."
Based on Facebook's statement though, the social network might just give Joseph a little present this year: An accurate birth date on her profile.
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Missouri State of Mind: California's Health Insurance Exchange Web Presence is Up and Running: Lots of people ask me what a health insurance exchange will look like. ?I've been telling them that they may visit the Massachusetts connector for one example and that California's site will be up soon. ?Now I have to amend that: Covered California may be visited here:?http://www.coveredca.com/
Now the harder question still remains unanswered: what will it be like to actually use the health insurance exchange to try to acquire health insurance? The conventional response seems to be that the exchanges will be modeled on Travelocity. I guess it all depends on your most recent experience with Travelocity and whether you think the kind of sophisticated value-driven computer-savvy consumers that use a site like Travelocity were the ones I am most worried about in the Exchanges.
I would add a worry: Travelocity needs to attract customers or its people will lose their jobs, the Director of Human Resources at a large company needs to have an HR website that does not get the CEO mad enough to fire them. The exchanges, by contrast, will work according to a less consumer-is-always-right more political-horse-trading logic. How will that work?
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The big social event of Pawnee is finally almost here. On Thursday, in the first of two back-to-back episodes of Parks and Recreation, Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and Ben Wyatt (Adam Scott) will finally tie the knot. And, as anyone who saw last week?s episode is well aware, the pair?s last-minute decision to marry that night means the whole wedding will have to get thrown together in about two hours.
EW was part of a conference call with Poehler and Scott as well as Parks co-creator/writer Michael Schur this afternoon where the three dished about what we can expect from the wedding and the rest of the season, as well as some of their personal favorite Leslie/Ben moments from the courtship. Check out four revelations below.
1.) ?I now pronounce you husband and wife.? Fans are looking forward to hearing those words, and it sounds like Tom Haverford may be delivering them. ?Everyone has a job to fill, and Tom becomes the officiant and has to get ordained online in like an hour,? Schur told reporters today. ?Donna [also] plays a role [in the wedding]. For the first time we?re going to feature her beautiful and professionally trained singing voice on the show. It?s very beautiful. What?s really nice is in the opening moments of the episode, to pull this thing off, in classic Parks and Rec fashion, everyone kind of has to chip in.?
2.) Poehler?s favorite Leslie/Ben scene of the show: ?I liked the proposal,? Poehler shared. ?I thought the proposal was so beautifully written ? It just felt like a long time coming. I think everyone was really happy for the characters. It was a great example of Mike?s writing, which is this combination [of] really sweet and heartfelt and also very earned. And then also very funny. And there?s a lot of that in the wedding episode. There?s a moment in the wedding episode, that to me is the perfect example of something that?s just a beautiful and sweet moment and then in the middle of it, just hard laughs.?
3.) Scott?s favorite Leslie/Ben scene of the show: ?The wedding. It?s really something,? Scott said. ?Being there for it, it really felt like we were at a real wedding. It was a very special evening. It?s make believe, but we were all very moved. I would also go back to the episode ?Road Trip? where Leslie and Ben have their first kiss at the end of the episode. I thought that episode was really well-written and directed, and the tension leading up to their first scandalous kiss in private I thought was a really, really fun to do episode and it?s one of my favorite episodes to watch as well.?
4.) The moment the Parks crew knew Ben and Leslie were end game. ?The plan [for bringing Adam Scott on] was that this was a long-term love interest,? Schur explained. ?Our initial idea for Leslie was that she was going to have a series of relationships with different kinds of men over the course of the show and she would kind of learn something different from each of them. She learned a little something from Louis C.K., from Justin Theroux, and then with Adam Scott we [thought], ?Oh she?ll date him for a while and learn something about herself from him.? ?What happened very quickly in that ?Master Plan? episode [was] they have a conversation in a bar and Ben says to her, ?You want to run for office someday, right?? and she says, ?How did you know??? and he just sort of blows past it and the idea was that he just kind of has got her number, he understands her. In the second episode we had, the finale that year, they have a conversation and Leslie smiles at him and walks off. And then there is a shot of [Ben] looking at Leslie with a smile on his face and as soon as I saw that, I kind of realized that not only were they going to get together, but they weren?t going to break up. It became very clear in that moment that this was it.?
Read more: ?Parks and Recreation?: J.K. Simmons to play mayor of Ben?s hometown Adam Scott, Lizzy Caplan, and rest of ?Party Down? cast reunite at SF Sketchfest ? EXCLUSIVE Happy Valentine?s Day! Who?s your fictional valentine this year?
Perceptions of health improve with pension receipt, researcher saysPublic release date: 20-Feb-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Jesslyn Chew ChewJ@missouri.edu 573-882-8353 University of Missouri-Columbia
Personal assessments of well-being vary by gender and fade over time
COLUMBIA, Mo. After retirement, pensions provide consistent income to aging individuals. Although the details of pension eligibility and implementation vary by country, receiving pensions can represent a new life stage for individuals. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has studied how older men and women view their health before and after receiving fixed incomes. South African men and women in the study viewed their health more positively when they began receiving their pensions, but the heightened sense of well-being faded over time.
"We looked at individuals' perceptions of their own health. Did they worry less? Were they less sad and more satisfied with life now that they were receiving pensions?" said Enid Schatz, associate professor of health science in the School of Health Professions. "People perceive their lives and well-being as better after they start receiving their pensions because they're getting money that they didn't used to get, so they're able to do more for others and more for themselves. When they are first able to do that, it feels good. Ten years later, their feelings of progress are not as great."
Schatz, who also teaches women's and gender studies in the MU College of Arts and Science, analyzed data previously collected as part of the WHO-INDEPTH Study of Global Ageing (sic) and Adult Health Survey of men and women in rural South Africa. Women reported poorer well-being than men, although women reported feeling less worried and more satisfied after they started receiving their pensions. Conversely, men reported lower well-being in the years leading up to receiving their pensions and, after receiving the pensions, men's well-being improved for five years and then declined.
"Women get a greater benefit in those first five years from having the money in their households," Schatz said. "Women are doing more of the caregiving, and pensions give them the comfort that they have a resource to do so. South Africa is a society where, traditionally, men have been the wage earners while women have stayed at home. For some women, the pensions might be their first incomes or their first consistent incomes."
The pension system in South Africa differs from Social Security in the United States. In South Africa, individuals do not need to have worked to receive pensions. Men and women qualify for pensions if they earn less than a certain amount and are age 60 or older. When Schatz conducted the study, men qualified at age 65 and women qualified at age 60. Although Schatz studied individuals from rural South Africa, she said her study may give researchers and policymakers an idea of how aging adults in the U.S. might feel about receiving fixed incomes after retirement, particularly in the current tough economic climate.
"Pensions and government assistance more generally are important sources of income for households and a way of making individuals feel better about themselves and their abilities to take care of themselves and their families," Schatz said. "Many people complain about social safety nets because they don't think they do what they're supposed to do. The data from my study indicate that people who do not have access to other sources of income because they are too old or sick to work, or they have retired are still supporting other people. Pensions affect the economic well-being of entire households."
Social Science & Medicine published the article, "The impact of pensions on health and wellbeing in rural South Africa: Does gender matter?" Schatz's co-authors included Margaret Ralston, a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology in the MU College of Arts and Science, and researchers from the University of Colorado and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Perceptions of health improve with pension receipt, researcher saysPublic release date: 20-Feb-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Jesslyn Chew ChewJ@missouri.edu 573-882-8353 University of Missouri-Columbia
Personal assessments of well-being vary by gender and fade over time
COLUMBIA, Mo. After retirement, pensions provide consistent income to aging individuals. Although the details of pension eligibility and implementation vary by country, receiving pensions can represent a new life stage for individuals. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has studied how older men and women view their health before and after receiving fixed incomes. South African men and women in the study viewed their health more positively when they began receiving their pensions, but the heightened sense of well-being faded over time.
"We looked at individuals' perceptions of their own health. Did they worry less? Were they less sad and more satisfied with life now that they were receiving pensions?" said Enid Schatz, associate professor of health science in the School of Health Professions. "People perceive their lives and well-being as better after they start receiving their pensions because they're getting money that they didn't used to get, so they're able to do more for others and more for themselves. When they are first able to do that, it feels good. Ten years later, their feelings of progress are not as great."
Schatz, who also teaches women's and gender studies in the MU College of Arts and Science, analyzed data previously collected as part of the WHO-INDEPTH Study of Global Ageing (sic) and Adult Health Survey of men and women in rural South Africa. Women reported poorer well-being than men, although women reported feeling less worried and more satisfied after they started receiving their pensions. Conversely, men reported lower well-being in the years leading up to receiving their pensions and, after receiving the pensions, men's well-being improved for five years and then declined.
"Women get a greater benefit in those first five years from having the money in their households," Schatz said. "Women are doing more of the caregiving, and pensions give them the comfort that they have a resource to do so. South Africa is a society where, traditionally, men have been the wage earners while women have stayed at home. For some women, the pensions might be their first incomes or their first consistent incomes."
The pension system in South Africa differs from Social Security in the United States. In South Africa, individuals do not need to have worked to receive pensions. Men and women qualify for pensions if they earn less than a certain amount and are age 60 or older. When Schatz conducted the study, men qualified at age 65 and women qualified at age 60. Although Schatz studied individuals from rural South Africa, she said her study may give researchers and policymakers an idea of how aging adults in the U.S. might feel about receiving fixed incomes after retirement, particularly in the current tough economic climate.
"Pensions and government assistance more generally are important sources of income for households and a way of making individuals feel better about themselves and their abilities to take care of themselves and their families," Schatz said. "Many people complain about social safety nets because they don't think they do what they're supposed to do. The data from my study indicate that people who do not have access to other sources of income because they are too old or sick to work, or they have retired are still supporting other people. Pensions affect the economic well-being of entire households."
Social Science & Medicine published the article, "The impact of pensions on health and wellbeing in rural South Africa: Does gender matter?" Schatz's co-authors included Margaret Ralston, a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology in the MU College of Arts and Science, and researchers from the University of Colorado and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Making a FaceTime call from your iPad or iPod touch is a little different than making a FaceTime call on iPhone. Since the iPhone is always connected to a cellular network, FaceTime is simply built into the Phone app. On the iPad and iPod touch, you'll need to be connected to a WiFi network. Once that's taken care of, you can get started with making FaceTime calls to other iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac users.
Here's how...
Launch the FaceTime app from the Home screen of your iPad or iPod touch.
On the right hand side, you'll see the list of contacts that you have in your Address Book. Tap on the one you'd like to make a FaceTime call to.
You'll now see that person's Contact Card. You can select either their phone number or email. Remember they must have a FaceTime capable device as well or the session will fail.
The FaceTime call will now initiate.
When the person on the other side accepts the video call you'll see your iPad or iPod touch say Connecting. After this, you should be able to communicate freely. That's all there is to it.
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