And instead of attaching a standard-issue blue oval badge onto the hood, a slightly smaller emblem was designed and integrated into the sheet metal.
"Yeah, they did something horrible to end up here," said Cheryl Steed, a psychologist at the California Men's Colony, where prisoners who help inmates with dementia are called Gold Coats because their yellow jackets contrast with the standard-issue blue.
She wore a black velvet cocktail dress to their wedding ceremony, on Oct. 5, 1994; he wore Docs, as the Department of Corrections's standard-issue blue shirts and pants are called.
The hundred-odd families there had been released from the detention camps five months earlier, and were now living in lean-tos made out of sheet metal or U.N.-issue blue plastic; some had fenced themselves in with woven palm palisades.
The thousands of militia members have each been issued blue 119-page pocket-size booklets offering English, French and German translations of what are purported to be typical Russian law-enforcement phrases.
Dr. Mary McCord, a pediatrician at Columbia-Presbyterian, said a telling moment came this fall after months of being told she and her colleagues would soon receive red identification tags, (New York Hospital colors) and then were issued blue tags (the Columbia color).
"We introduced new regulations to ensure fairness and consistency in awarding of the badges, but these new regulations did not reduce or restrict the eligibility criteria for issuing blue badges".
Additionally, papers on the IUGONET development activities (MDDB and software) have been issued (blue, in Figure 6), and a further 42 thesis papers (Bachelor, Master's and Doctoral) have been submitted up to March 2014.
For those who don't know him, remember the mattress where he slept on the floor of his apartment and the state-issue blue Buick he used as the people's limousine.
