15 Monday Aug 2011
Posted in Grey Power Editor
A young lady confidently walked around the room while explaining stress management to an elderly audience. With a raised glass of water, and everyone knew she was going to ask the ultimate question, ‘half empty or half full?‘… She fooled them all … “How heavy is this glass of water?”, she inquired with a smile.
Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz.
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15 Monday Aug 2011
Posted in Grey Power Editor, Link Information
The following quotations were take from a light hearted Ladies web site called Growing Old Disgracefully.
We have inserted the link for your information at the end of the quotes;
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
— Gloria Pitzer
‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
— Martha Graham
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
— Madeleine L’Engle
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all.
— Doris Lessing
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14 Sunday Aug 2011
Posted in Letters
FNPF members paid for the ‘Part 1’ newspaper advertisement of Saturday August 13th 2011, and will have the privilege of paying for three more of these ads in the next 3 weeks. Next week’s waffle will be titled ‘What Pension Rate Is Sustainable’ – the answer to this how-long-is-a-piece-of-string question will surely be eagerly anticipated by all.
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13 Saturday Aug 2011
Posted in Articles & Reports
Explicitly recognizing age as a prohibited ground for discrimination would go a long way in improving the lives of older persons around the world. With the world’s population growing older, human rights experts have called for a stronger international protection regime to ensure the rights of older persons without discrimination.
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12 Friday Aug 2011
Posted in Grey Power Editor
CEO Aisake Taito remains ‘firm’ on a lot of things- ‘firm’ on GPH decision as reported in the media on 10th August, ‘firm’ on cuts to pensioners’ last source of income and livelihood, ‘firm’ on the stand of FNPF Trust, as a trustee with absolute powers to do things without consultations with the beneficiaries; and ‘firm’ on the message he sends out regularly to the pensioners- ‘you are nothing; the Board is everything’.
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11 Thursday Aug 2011
Posted in Letters to FNPF
Dear Mr Kodagoda and Associates
Further to my earlier emails that you have acknowledged ( but not answered the points that I have raised ) there are further matters that I wish to bring to your attention.
The first of these is to your advertisement in the Fiji Times of 16 July 2011 entitled “FNPF CLARIFIES PENSION REFORM”. I previously drew your attention to this in my email of 27 July 2011.
10 Wednesday Aug 2011
Posted in Grey Power Editor, Letters
It is important for men to remember that as women grow older, it
becomes harder for them to maintain the same quality of housekeeping
as when they were younger. When you notice this, try not to yell at
them. Some are oversensitive, and there’s nothing worse than an
oversensitive woman.
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09 Tuesday Aug 2011
Posted in Letters
Why are the FNPF and Attorney General so afraid of a group of aged pensioners who have decided to make a stand with regard to their human rights and for what is rightfully and legally theirs – a pension until they die, and why are they saying that it has a political angle – or is there something more sinister here, that the FNPF members have not been made aware of?
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09 Tuesday Aug 2011
Posted in Articles & Reports, Grey Power Editor
In 1991, the General Assembly adopted the United Nations Principles for Older Persons to provide a broader framework for action on ageing. The Principles are framed as 18 entitlements that older persons “should have.” They are organized into five areas relating to the status of the older person: Independence; participation; care; self-fulfillment; and dignity.
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08 Monday Aug 2011
Posted in Articles & Reports
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