Odysseys of George

The Red Ribbon

Anti-drug symbol
AIDS awareness symbol
Heart disease (also uses the red dress symbol), Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome,
Multiple myeloma (burgundy/maroon)

The Blue Ribbon

Anti-tobacco,
Anti-second hand smoke campaign.
Oral Cancer Awareness

The White Ribbon

The anti-violence against women movement

The Orange Ribbon

Leukaemia,
Multiple Sclerosis,
Lupus ( SLE, Lupus pernio for Sarcoidosis, Lupus vulgaris for TB)
World harmony Day

The Green Ribbon

Organ donation & Transplant
Awareness of Abuse ( mint green)
Special Parents for Special Children
Ovarian Cancers
Prostate Cancer

The Pink Ribbon

Breast cancer

The Purple Ribbon

Pancreatic Cancer Research
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25
Awareness for Testicular Cancers

The Jade Ribbon

Hep B & Liver Cancer

The Metallic Gold Ribbon

Children Cancer Awareness

The Silver Ribbon

All Mental Health
Help fight Diabetes

The Brown Ribbon

Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Colorectal Cancer Awareness

The Black Ribbon

Malignant Melanoma

The Yellow Ribbon

Bladder cancer,
Endometriosis,
Spina bifida (pale yellow),
Sarcoma (yellow with sunflower),
Hydrocephalus or hydrocephaly,

Others

Lung Cancer

Autism

Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Pulmonary hypertension,
Eating disorders,
Stomach cancer,
GERD,

Endometrial cancer,
Uterine cancer

Osteoporosis

Leukaemia
Lymphoma

Myasthenia gravis;
Ovarian, cervical, uterine,polycystic ovarian syndrome and all other gynecological cancers;
Substance abuse;
Sexual violence;
Tourette syndrome

Is there such a thing??

Ex gratia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ex gratia (sometimes ex-gratia) is Latin (lit. ‘by favour’) and is most often used in a legal context. When something has been done ex gratia, it has been done voluntarily, out of kindness or grace. In law, an ex gratia payment is a payment made without the giver recognising any liability or legal obligation.

The phrase is pronounced ex grah-tsee-ah.

In 1994, the government implemented the Ex-Gratia Scheme for government servants who gets involved in an accident or injured in the line of official duty.This was then amended in 2001.to follow the PERKESO/SOCSO Scheme. The difference is that a civil servant do not make contributions to this scheme and therefore the financial benefit is 20% less compared to that of SOCSO.

This scheme covers:
1. ex-gratia payment for accidents and permanent disability or death done either as a bulk payment or monthly payments according to certain formula
2. payments for various partial disability
3. diseases identified as occupational hazards

This scheme actually covers contract staffs, temporary staff and permanent staffs.

Further information:
http://www.treasury.gov.my/

For those who missed this article in The Star (3rd October)

PSD: Doctor who died eligible for ex-gratia

PUTRAJAYA: The doctor who died after an accident in an ambulance is eligible for an ex-gratia payment, according to the Public Services Department (PSD) and Treasury.

PSD corporate communications unit head Hasniah Rashid said although Dr Norbaizura Yahaya was not confirmed as a doctor at the time of death, she was eligible for the compensation as long as she was a government staff member.

She said the ex-gratia scheme was provided for all government servants under a 1994 Treasury circular amended in 2001, which stipulated that a staff member injured or killed while on duty, even if not confirmed, was entitled to compensation.

“In her (Dr Norbaizura’s) case, the Health Ministry is conducting an investigation and will propose the payment (quantum) to the Treasury, which will then relay the final decision to the PSD on the next course of action,” she said.

On Sept 4, Dr Norbaizura was accompanying a patient in an ambulance from Seremban Hospital to Selayang Hospital when the vehicle burst a tyre at the expressway near Bangi and landed in a ditch.

The 24-year doctor from Sabak Bernam, who suffered injuries to her head, ribs and lungs, went into a coma and died 16 days later.

Any comments?

Well I will try to put up the Ex-Gratia file!

Lost my watch recently. It was a nice professional type watch in almost in its 10th year of life and were showing signs of aging. Must have accidently misplaced it either in OT or after the gym.

I did not want something fancy but again another professional type watch simple design for me to wear for functions and meetings. Furthermore, I just invested into a dive watch, the famed SUUNTO D6.

So, with a limited budget, extremely limited budget, I went hunting. After,a while I invested in a watch whose name has been in the industry 120 years founded by Kintaro Hattori in 1881. He called his factory Seikosha(Seiko = miniature;exquisite;success: sha= house). Now called SEIKO.I bought a SEIKO 5 series.

Any idea what are the pros and cons of this brand? The SUUNTO is still my favaourite.

The project seems to take a long time to complete like many other things in Malaysia. They follow the same theme – build, break, repair, break, repair,…build again!!

“Open a single lane to make the public happy but continue the repairs and take your time — the longer better more money for all of us”

ENGLISH OF TOMORROW EU ANNOUNCEMENT

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.

In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.

The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of “k”. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the s ekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent “e” in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining “ou” and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.