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Thursday, April 3, 2008
On the Street…..Done Right, Florence
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The yellow glasses are delightful!
He still has his yellow glass. Fine! In the previous photo – with checked jacket – he looked cooler! How do his shoes look like?
What a nice Italian gentleman! And what an unexpected thing to discover yellow glasses and all those bracekets while enlarging the pic. Not that classic after all…
oooh look im first!
i just love pictures of old men, especially when they do it so well. But the whole mobile phone thing is confusing my natural thought patterns… but i guess if he can dress this well, he can work out the whole mobile thing too aye?…
love the fit & color. his silver slicked back hair is gorgeous too with his tan skin. fly me to florence… stat! :)
looking good…..very sexy.
That's a great look…I really like the yellow glasses peaking out from his pocket. That gives the impression of practicality and really living in a suit that I think is forgotten all too often.
Also, that wide thin collar on his shirt is excellent.
that suit fits beautifully.
I would like to be this gentleman for a day…Everything here is right…and the yellow (?) spectacles are genius!
I love that he has a set of yellow framed sunglasses tucked behind his hanky. Excellent shot.
Wow, that guy is always on the phone.
Perfect! Looks like a Al Bazar shirt? Met Mr Alliata in Milan last week, so kind and helpful.
I think his coat is a bit boring, the flannel looks flat and commercial and the sleeves and back is too short. The narrow trousers reveal his skinny legs – pleats and a bit more room would have been handsome. The colour combination and his hair is perfect though.
Its done so well, I love it. I hope when I'm that age I'm looking that good. The bracelets add such a great little artistic touch.
I'm sick of seeing this guy too!
We get it already – he's a sharp dresser.
Are you on his payroll?
Reminds me a good Port -the older the better.
Again the yellow spec's – he surely likes them. So do I.
"Done right" is exactly right.
yes, yes, yes…molto bene fatto!
WOW! What a beautifully cut suit, and love the club collar shirt as well. And the yellow glasses add just the right amount of individuality and quirk.
It's all about the mustache and the way his hair is slicked back.
Love the suit. It's beautiful. I also love the crisp white shirt with the curved cuffs, and navy and grey is one of my favorite color combos.
for anon 10:05 am
Isn't the fact that he is a sharp dresser almost the entire point of the blog?
No buttonhole? The glasses take over that function, perhaps.
Love the 'stache.
The edges on the suit coat (lapel, hem, cuffs) are so finely sewn and pressed that they remind me of paper creases. (I'm thinking especially of the creases made when you fold a paper airplane.) I think it gives what appears to be a heavy fabric a light and airy look.
any idea where his suit and shirt are from?
I wonder if that is a custom shirt, because the collar size is just perfect. If it is a custom shirt, then the unbuttoned shirt cuffs are an affectation (he could certainly have requested cuffs that fit loosely), but a harmless one.
I think his pants should be a bit looser. We should not be able to see the outline of whatever he is carrying in his front right pocket.
I like his hair and I really like the suit material. A lovely combination of blue and grey.
He should consider a windsor knot for his tie to go with the spread collar shirt.
Everything in this photo is perfect and delightful!
His pose, how he is holding his phone and the cigarette, the fit and colour of his suit, the unbuttoned sleeves (How I love that!), the yellow glasses poking out of his pocket!
A sartorialist master indeed.
I like the overall restraint of this guy's style with some added bits of fun (glasses, bracelets), and I love the shoulder and lapel on the suit but . . .
The suit is cut too close. It lacks a certain "body" or fullness. I don't really understand the school of thought that a jacket that is cut close to the body is a good fit. A suit can be shaped to a person's body and give that person a little bit of breathing room. The tension on the middle button is a dead give away that a little more cloth is necessary. Ditto on the trousers, needs more drape.
The suit is beautiful, it just needs a little more meat on its bones. Sort of like Kate Bosworth.
Sart, is he wearing one of Lino's special collar shirts? I love that collar and would like it in a woman's blouse, too.
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Classic elegance….very nice!
Nice cuffs…nice fit of coat and pants!
Hi this is ANON 10:05.
There are surely enough sharply dressed people in this world of 6 billion that you don't need to waste your time revisiting the same ones. It smacks of sycophantism.
Look it up!
Sycophant: A person who seeks favor by flattering people of wealth or influence; a parasite; a toady.
Thanks, Sart. This inspiration is what I am looking for in your Blog. It's what it is all about, good inspiration and new concepts. I regret some might think otherwise.
The gray-blue flanel is outstanding. I will be looking for it, and wear with a blue shirt and brown shoes. Awesome.
Keep doing what you're best, giving us good inspiration!
prob. one of the things i love the most about italy is the way italian men dress. its so styling and elegant. you can see many men in their forties riding their vespas in rome. i love that country….
he's so elegant…. i love this pic!
barrel cuffs, unbutton, stiff and pressed. nice.
the details are impeccable!that cut of the suit is gorgeous. and those little details with the bracelets and yellow glasses and cigarette – this man enjoys a gamut of life.
It's pictures and style like this that makes me want to grow old – simple,elegent,wondeful.
Total Italian sickness. What's most interesting are the accessories, i.e., the yellow glasses, cigarette, ring, bracelets, and classic flip-phone.
for Anon 10:05 @ 4:09
the problem is that almost every-time i see him he looks great, so why wouldn't I let myself be inspired?
why wouldn't i shoot this for later inspiration?
to be honest this photo is not about him as a person.
actually I don't even know his name but i do know he owns a showroom in Milano and we really don't even talk because he speaks basically no English.
when it comes down to it, ever day I am in Milan or Florence I am always curious to see what he is wearing so i feel completely comfortable sharing his sartorial excellence with my audience,
fair enough?
Why is it that only men are photographed smoking?
He is just terrific.
I would like to see more classic style done right on your blog.
God is in the details i say.
Hi Sart this is Anon 10:05 @ 4:09
Cool! Nicely put
Keep it up SART I am with you all the way 100%. I just hope one day you can capture my style here on the street in the city. I dress in a very similar if not the same style so when are you going to be on madison avenue in the 60′s-70′s already lol? Tommorow or sunday around 1 see you there!
Yes, fair enough! He's awesome. The more pictures of guys who look like this, the better. As for ANON 10:05 – maybe you should spend time with other blogs instead of this one if you find it so sycophantic. There's a whole Internet out there…
SOOOO well said in the end.
That suit is amazing and I agree, the yellow glass are a wonderful, yet unexpected touch.
I love seeing men dressed like this. It's so fresh, crisp and it somehow gives them power. So appealing!
My gosh what a gorgeous man… wish they still made 'em like this.
It's like that Mori guy in NY. When are we gonna see him again? (Would love to).
Fellow commenters: Can we please not call every man over 50 "old"?
Awesome… The cut of the suit is perfection. Modern, classic, effortless and transcends trends: Timeless. Totally feeling the individual and whimsical touch of the yellow glasses and the bracelets. This has nothing to do with fashion– just pure style.
The tailoring is absolutely flawless. Perfectly put together look. Love it!
I love when all the Americans start waxing puritanical about the close continental European cut–especially when most American suits out there fit like pajamas. They sound like a bunch of old-fashioned rubes.
This guy is absolute perfection! The jacket sleeves are magnificent.
This for me is what the Sartoralist is all about. Please no more tiresome skinny jean hipsters. Sart, you can post him on here as many times as you like as far as I'm concerned. Could you get any more Italian?
I agree with the persons comment above me. We need more fashion like this on here not some hipster with his skinny jeans
Not only are his shirt cuffs unbuttoned, it looks like his jacket cuffs have a few buttons left open as well. Are they??
That is one of my favorite looks, but is almost impossible to do anymore unless wearing a bespoke jacket.
And, sweet 'stache…
He looks like he could be a Don– Styling!!!!
he reminds me of cesar romero from oceans 11.
also, i agree w/ 2:38, more of this guy, less greasy hipsters. if i wanted to see hipsters, i'd walk around greenpoint or williamsburg all day.
That old man has some serious style. I love how his tie looks.
You know why this does NOT work: TOO perfect.
Too self conscious. Too matched.
I call this outfit out as 'too slick'
oh, firenze! i love it. makes me want to hop a plane…
post him everyday, i won't mind (and not because of him – but because it's so ITALIAN!)
What is it about this picture? White shirt with a spreak color, gray suit, navy tie? What could be more basic?
Yet, it's "Done Right" as the caption says. Is it the cut of the suit? The hair, which is well groomed and seems to match both shirt and suit? Is it the 1.5′ of shirt cuff showing?
Anyway, great photo.
he just symbolizes NEW YORKER in a whole, busy,rich,foreigner,business,class, and good humour(yellow glasses)!
Every time that I'm a little lost about what to do with my outfit, I revisit this picture, and it sets me right…
Molto elegante. The Italians always get it right.
I had the pleasure of meeting this gentleman while in Florence a week ago. He is certainly outstanding, both in looks and personality.
This is called tailoring, this is made in Italy!.
What's more, perfect, so one can do what you want, you can also smoke in the hospital. ;-)
Questo si chiama sartoriale, questo è il made in Italy!.
Cosa dire di più, perfetto, uno così può fare quello che vuole, può anche fumare in ospedale. ;-)
What is this gentleman's name?
Does anyone know who this guy is? I would really like to know!!


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Bleeding from his behind, Fidel Ramos had this crazy notion that he should be taken to a hospital. Not a prison infirmary, but a real hospital, with an emergency room and doctors and such.
His keepers at the Denver Reception and Diagnostic Center, a maximum security prison on Smith Road, thought otherwise.
Ramos complained that the bleeding was getting worse. No response. He asked for an ambulance. The guards chuckled. He demanded to make a call to his lawyer. That got someone's attention. Finally, after days of blood and negotiation, he was slung into the back of a van like a side of beef and taken to the emergency room at Denver Health.
At the hospital, Ramos lost consciousness. When he came to, a doctor explained that he'd performed surgery on a ruptured artery, a complication resulting from two prior surgeries to remove a peri-rectal cyst. If he hadn't sought medical attention when he did, the doctor told him, he could have bled to death.
It was around that time that Ramos decided he'd had enough. Maybe he was just a lowly prisoner, serving 24 years for bank robbery in the Colorado Department of Corrections. But you don't treat even a caged dog that way -- especially a dog whose complaints have already cost the state in excess of $100 million.
At 55, Ramos knows his way around the state prison system. He's been behind bars for close to half of his life. During that time, he's picked up a little knowledge of constitutional law, including the Eighth Amendment, the one about cruel and unusual punishment. (The Founding Fathers were against it.) Early in his prison career, he even made law.
In 1977, acting as his own attorney, Ramos filed a lawsuit against Colorado's antiquated maximum-security prison, known as "Old Max." The case soon became a class-action lawsuit championed by the American Civil Liberties Union, with Ramos named as lead plaintiff. A sprawling indictment of a violent, poorly managed corrections agency, Ramos v. Lamm was the most effective -- and costly -- attack on prison conditions the state had ever seen. It led to the closure of Old Max, a building boom that has modernized prisons across the state and a revolution in the way the DOC deals with safety issues and medical care for inmates ("Safely Behind Bars," July 3, 1997).
The Ramos case served as a judicial watchdog over the DOC until it was finally settled in 1994. By then, Ramos himself had moved on to federal prison. Three years ago he returned to the DOC to serve state time for his last robbery -- and discovered that medical care under the "new" system wasn't all that different from what he'd experienced previously. Although technologically the services were much more advanced, getting access to care wasn't easy.
For almost twenty years, Fidel Ramos had been the biggest pain in the ass the DOC had ever known. Now it was his turn to feel the pain.
According to Ramos, he had to battle the department's medical bureaucracy every step of the way -- to get his cyst diagnosed and operated upon, to get a second operation after the area became reinfected, and to get treatment for the ruptured artery in early 2001. Months later, he discovered in his medical records a doctor's recommendation that he not be forced to sit for prolonged periods of time, in order to avoid putting pressure on the incision. The recommendation had been routinely ignored as he was transported back and forth among half a dozen prisons between surgeries and afterward. Nearly two years after the last operation, he's still having trouble with chronic infections and bleeding -- and still being shifted from prison to prison.
"I'm tired of messing around with medical," he says. "There's professional concern and then there's professional neglect. They treat us like we don't deserve any kind of medical assistance at all."
Bouncing around the system for months, Ramos became convinced that his concerns were hardly isolated ones. He saw prisoners collapse or go into seizures while corrections officers with minimal medical training stood by, watching idly or putting in a leisurely call to medical staff for instructions. He saw jaundiced inmates, in advanced stages of hepatitis, dying slowly of liver disease while waiting for admission to the DOC's highly restricted drug-therapy program.
He saw Charles Renfro, an old con he'd known since the 1970s, confined to a wheelchair after suffering a stroke. One day Renfro complained of chest pains. He was told to put in a "kite" -- a formal request for administrative action -- so he could be examined by a physician's assistant the following day. That night, Renfro died in his cell.
Ramos saw plenty. Then he began drafting a new lawsuit, one he expects to be filed in federal court before Christmas.
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Across the nation, a declining crime rate has slowed prison growth to a crawl. But the DOC's inmate population has increased by a whopping 50 percent in the past five years -- to 18,382 -- and is expected to soar to more than 22,000 in the next five years.
Other state agencies are slashing costs, cutting programs and laying off employees as part of Governor Bill Owens's belt-tightening measures. But the DOC is slated for a 7.5 percent increase in its current $500 million budget.
Longer sentences, an influx of drug offenders, a logjam of nonviolent prisoners that the state refuses to parole and other policy decisions have all contributed to the prison boom. Perhaps the biggest factor has been the increase in parolees being returned to prison for technical violations of their parole, including traffic offenses; close to one out of three people sent to prison last year were "technical returns," coming back to serve time on the same felony for which they were previously incarcerated. Whatever the driving force, the rising population comes with a rising price.
Part of that price is medical. Every time some crackhead, drunk driver, gangbanger or rapist is sent to prison, the taxpayer is also getting sentenced -- to pay for said felon's ulcers or peri-rectal cysts, insulin injections or dialysis for however long the offender is stuck in the system. In 1999, the DOC spent $30.5 million on medical services; this fiscal year, medical expenditures will top $54 million. Medical costs, along with mental-health and drug-treatment programs, are among the department's fastest-growing line items, demanding a greater percentage of the corrections budget than ever before.
Legally, the DOC isn't required to respond to every kind of health complaint a prisoner might raise; it is, however, supposed to address the "serious medical needs" of those in its custody. And thousands of prisoners now in the system have chronic, potentially life-threatening diseases that are devouring the medical budget -- including, most alarmingly, an epidemic of hepatitis C, a blood-borne virus that has infected 20 to 40 percent of the entire U.S. prison population.
The DOC estimates its current level of hep C infection at around 17 percent, well below the rampant spread of the disease in correctional systems on the East Coast. Even so, the virus, which attacks the liver and can cause cirrhosis and organ failure, is now the most common cause of death in Colorado prisons. A Westword review of death certificates, autopsy reports and other records found that at least twenty out of 122 inmate deaths -- roughly one out of six -- over the past three years stemmed from hepatitis-related illnesses. In recent months, hepatitis C has outpaced heart problems, lung cancer and other diseases as the leading killer in the joint.
Critics of the DOC's health-care system -- including inmates such as Ramos, plaintiffs' attorneys and prisoners' families -- insist that the quality of care is shockingly poor, resulting in unnecessary suffering and questionable deaths. The system's defenders insist that it meets and exceeds constitutional standards for inmate care. But the rising tide of deaths and lawsuits is prompting the department to re-examine how it deals with its sickest cases, from revising its controversial treatment policies for hepatitis C to opening a prison at Fort Lyon for geriatric and chronically ill inmates.
Facing a crisis in critical care that is only going to get worse in coming years, the DOC's medical staff is trying to steer a course between two extremes: a degree of compassion that it can't afford and a level of neglect that can be fatal.
"I think the department is acting in a responsible way," says Joseph McGarry, the department's chief medical officer. "We're taking care of 18,000 people. The fact is, being in a correctional system slows down your access to health care. Things don't happen as fast as they can on the street. That's part of the downside of being in prison."
Your name is Clarence Thompson. You are 28 years old, almost six feet tall, a sturdy 225 pounds. You are down for twelve years for theft and stuck in a private lockup in a place called Olney Springs. There is not much to do in the private lockup, but there is marijuana.
You get word that a drug test is coming down with your name on it. This is never good news, but especially not now, when you are higher than the razor-wire-topped fences that surround the place. A positive test means loss of "good time" -- time shaved from your sentence for good behavior. It also means restriction of privileges and a lot of other complications you don't even want to think about.
You've heard that there are special pills a body can take that are supposed to confuse the piss test, but you can't get any of that stuff in here. What you need is something else to clean out your system. Thanks to some very bad advice, or perhaps because your options are desperately limited, you seize on the only cleansing diet available to you.
You swallow Tide detergent and VO5 shampoo, washing the nasty stuff down with huge gulps of water. You follow this up with more and more water, to rinse your system clean. Results are not long in coming. Nausea grips you. Soon you are vomiting. The puking makes you thirsty, so you guzzle more water, then puke some more.
You keep this up most of the day, dodging the drug-testing squad. You think you are getting the dope out of your system, like flushing a radiator, but you are actually taking on water faster than your kidneys can eliminate it. You don't know that water intoxication can cause serious problems. Nobody told you what happens to the marathon runners, the Grand Canyon tourists, the psychotic compulsives and others who drown their thirst without replacing electrolytes -- how they sometimes become disoriented, fatigued, even gravely ill. You haven't heard about those rave-hopping, Ecstasy-addled kids who suck down water until their brain swells, cutting off its own oxygen supply, a condition that can lead to a coma and brain death.
By the time the authorities catch up with you that evening, you can't feel your legs. Maybe all the water sloshing inside of you will confuse the test, maybe not, but it's sure left you confused. You tell the medical staff you have taken something, but you won't tell them what it was. Noting your "deteriorating mental status" and suspecting a drug overdose, the staff finally calls for an ambulance.
You arrive at a Pueblo hospital after midnight. The electrolyte imbalance isn't detected until after you slip into a coma. You are rushed to intensive care, but it's already too late. The following morning, an electroencephalogram shows no brain activity. After several days, your family asks that your body be taken off life support, and you are officially pronounced dead at 1:09 p.m. on June 26, 2001.
Manner of death: accidental. Cause: probable acute water intoxication. In the course of the autopsy, various tests are performed.
Just as you feared, your urine tests positive for marijuana.
Prisoners die in all sorts of ways. The violent prison deaths you see in movies and TV shows -- stabbings, beatings, hangings, that suspicious "accident" in the license-plate factory -- are only a small part of the picture. The DOC averages one or two homicides a year, and just as few suicides.
Drug overdoses, accidental or not, aren't all that common, either. Occasionally, autopsies do turn up a lethal amount of heroin, morphine or some other controlled substance that's supposed to be impossible to obtain on the inside. (Note on the death certificate of one Arkansas Valley casualty: "Ingested three balloons filled with cocaine that ruptured.") But the ODs are not as frequent as you might think. The state's prisons had three such cases in 2000, two in 2001 and none at all in the first seven months of this year.
The vast majority of prisoner deaths aren't cinematic. Inmates get clogged arteries, diabetes, dementia. After protracted battles, they succumb to lung cancer, kidney failure, cirrhosis or AIDS. In some cases, the end comes amid such a muddle of diseases and complications that the coroner offers a catch-all phrase as cause: "failure to thrive."
Regardless of the cause, certain patterns have emerged that suggest dying inside is a very different matter from dying outside. Some prisoners perish of what appear to be very treatable medical problems, raising questions about the kind of health care they receive. And for the most part, they die young.
Although Colorado's prison population is getting older, with more inmates serving longer sentences, doing time is still chiefly a young man's fate. The average age of prisoners coming into the system in 2001 was right at 32 years old. The average age among prisoners who died last year was 48. By contrast, the average life expectancy of the non-incarcerated American male is 74 and rising.
Of course, most prisoners will do their time and get out alive. A statistician might argue that the relatively low age of those who die is largely a reflection of the demographics of the incarcerated; since there are more people in their forties and fifties than senior citizens behind bars, it follows that they account for a larger number of fatalities, too. But such a heavy concentration of "natural" deaths in such a narrow (and commonly survivable) age range can't be easily explained.
McGarry, the DOC's chief medical officer, attributes the early expiration of some prisoners to their dismal medical histories, which might include gunshot and knife wounds, alcoholism and drug addiction, as well as decades of little or no contact with the health-care system. A criminal lifestyle, he notes, is not conducive to a long and happy existence.
"People coming into our prisons are sicker and have had less medical attention than the rest of the folks out there," he says. "They have a much higher incidence of disease. There's a lot more trauma, a much greater history of abuse and substance abuse. In general, their income is less than any cross-section of the population, and studies have shown that the amount of money you make has a direct relationship to how long you live. For these people, it's almost like you move the biological clock up ten or fifteen years. A person who's forty in prison has the health of someone who's fifty or fifty-five."
Although prisoners complain frequently about the quality of health care they receive, in many cases it's probably better than what they're used to on the street. The DOC screens new arrivals for a panoply of infectious diseases, and most of those who are diagnosed with tuberculosis or hepatitis C were previously unaware that they had the disease.
"The DOC knows much more about the health of its patients than any HMO in the state," McGarry says. "We suffer the burden of our vigilance. We do a good job of detecting these diseases and treating them."
Yet there are crucial drawbacks to the kind of health care a prison can offer. Pundits who express outrage at the notion that prisoners are entitled to any kind of medical attention rarely grasp how limited the care really is. Routine complaints are usually seen by a nurse or physician's assistant rather than a doctor, and security considerations severely restrict access to outside care. Some rural prisons are located hours away from the nearest fully equipped trauma center. For obvious reasons, powerful painkillers are almost never prescribed, and all but the most indigent inmates are expected to purchase ibuprofen and other over-the-counter medicines at the canteen, paying for their pills out of prison wages that average less than eight dollars a month.
Depending on staff attitudes and training, a prisoner complaining of chest pains -- or labor pains -- may receive immediate treatment or be told to sit tight until tomorrow. Recently, the state paid $50,000 to one female inmate whose pregnancy ended in a miscarriage, the result of medical care that McGarry described as "below any minimal level of competency."
"In the real world, you can call 911 for a medical emergency," says one nurse-practitioner who's worked in Colorado's prisons. "But in there, you're at the mercy of the medical staff."
"The general medical services are poor," says Dennis Hartley, a Colorado Springs attorney who is currently suing the state over its hepatitis C treatment policies on behalf of several inmates. "But I don't think the DOC is completely at fault for that. Some inmates don't get treatment because they don't want to give blood tests that show they're getting drugs smuggled in. Some people arrive in pretty miserable condition to start with. But the general attitude on the medical staff is that the inmates are trying to manipulate them, and these guys have to make several complaints before they get the attention they need."
Sometimes they don't get it. Hartley once represented the family of a DOC inmate who was stabbed by another prisoner. "When the guards finally come to get him, they walk him to the infirmary," Hartley recalls. "Once he's there, they put him on a gurney -- and he's bled to death by that time. The pathologist said a simple pressure bandage could have prevented this."
Officially, the death was entered in the books as a homicide, but Hartley believes that medical care, or lack of it, played a part, too. The same might be said of death from an asthma attack -- a rare occurrence on the outside, but the DOC has had at least two such deaths in recent years.
Other cases are more ambiguous. Last December, 24-year-old Henry Whatley collapsed and died on a basketball court at the Buena Vista Correctional Facility. Whatley had a congenital heart defect; given his condition, it was an oversight for the DOC to place him at Buena Vista, a high-altitude setting that would put further strain on his heart. But then, Whatley probably shouldn't have been playing basketball, either.
In the spring of 2001, David Alonzo, 42, slipped and fell in his cell at Limon. Three days later he was dead.
Alonzo went to the infirmary the day after his fall, complaining of swelling in his left arm. He was moved to a local hospital, then to University Hospital in Denver, as the doctors who examined him began to recognize the seriousness of the infection he had developed. At University, Alonzo was diagnosed with upper-extremity compartment syndrome -- basically, his left arm had become necrotic and required immediate surgery. He died a few hours later.
It's impossible to say if Alonzo's bumped elbow would have proved just as fatal if he hadn't been in prison. He was diabetic and weighed 340 pounds; he had a history of health problems, and surgeons had previously amputated one leg below the knee. But when dealing with a condition as dangerous as compartment syndrome, every minute counts, and the long journey from infirmary to major hospital is, as McGarry puts it, part of the "downside" of prison life.
Bryan Bush never made it to the hospital. A 43-year-old inmate at Arkansas Valley, Bush was found unconscious in a bathroom in the summer of 2001 by another inmate. He was taken to the infirmary, where he revived. The medical staff could find nothing wrong with him and sent him back to his unit. He was found dead in his cell later that day.
Bush had a long history of seizures, and it was probably a seizure that killed him. That, at least, was the opinion of the forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsy and "found no evidence of traumatic injury or medical disease sufficient to explain his death." But among prisoners who knew Bush, a former minister and notorious child molester, rumors persist that he was murdered -- if not by another inmate (his cellmate was questioned and cleared), then by the contempt of his keepers.
Roderic Gottula, a former DOC medical director and now a consultant on correctional health-care issues, notes that most medical staffers who work in corrections "fell into it" rather than set out to find a job behind bars. Even so, he believes that Colorado's prisons usually deliver appropriate care in an environment hamstrung by security concerns and other challenges.
When Gottula left the system in 1995, he says, inmates were actually averaging twelve medical visits a year, far more than most people on the outside. "Obviously, they have an issue with illnesses that the average person doesn't have," Gottula explains. "But a lot of the visits aren't strictly medically related. If you want an extra mattress or different shoes, you go to medical. Sometimes they do it because they want to get out of work, check out the new nurse or try to get drugs. There's a whole variety of reasons."
But Gottula admits to being puzzled by the number of DOC deaths among younger inmates, particularly those deaths resulting from conditions that are usually non-fatal. "You don't see forty-year-olds dropping dead on the streets that often," he says. "Now, some of these guys have diabetes or other problems, but you don't see them dropping on the streets, either. You almost never see someone in the twenty-to-thirty age range die of these types of causes. This is really unusual."
Gottula wonders if the prison system is doing sufficient diagnosis and follow-up care of manageable illnesses. Even suicide, he suggests, reflects on the quality of health care, since suicidal prisoners typically see a health-care provider shortly before they try to take their lives. Last summer the DOC had a string of three suicides in four weeks. One was at San Carlos, the system's special prison for the mentally ill; the other two involved inmates who'd recently been moved from the state mental hospital in Pueblo back to regular prisons and killed themselves within days of the transfer.
"In that kind of situation, you'd expect they would be monitoring the inmate carefully to see how the transition was going," Gottula says.
Mental-health issues can play a part in other kinds of deaths, too. The DOC estimates that it has close to 2,500 prisoners with diagnosed mental illnesses, but only the most impaired end up at San Carlos. Others are supposed to be cared for in "special-needs" units at various prisons. But the care may not provide adequate protection for the mentally ill, who are often seen as easy prey by other prisoners. And it doesn't always protect staff from inmates who could be seriously deranged.
Consider the case of Edward Montour, a Limon inmate accused of killing corrections officer Eric Autobee with an oversized soup ladle in the prison kitchen in October.
The official version of the slaying, the DOC's first staff murder in more than seventy years, is that it came out of nowhere, a random assault by a "model" inmate who later admitted to investigators that he was seeking a transfer in order to avoid being labeled as a snitch. But Montour, who's serving a life sentence for the 1997 murder of his three-month-old daughter, also had a reputation within Limon as an unstable, often heavily medicated prisoner. Both inmate and staff sources say that kitchen workers had accessed inmate records and used the information found there to taunt Montour, who'd become increasingly agitated in the days leading up to the attack.
"If you taunt a convicted murderer and continuously call him 'Baby Killer,' among other things, most times the response is negative," says one Limon prisoner. "To involve other inmates in this game is dangerous."
"Montour should have been sent to a mental facility," says another. "When he first got here, they had him so pilled up he'd walk like Frankenstein to and from the pill line. There are lots of guys here with psycho jackets who should be in the state hospital, and he was one of them."
Your name is David Jenner. You are forty years old and serving what amounts to a life sentence -- 96 years -- for sexual assault. One day in 1997, a physician's assistant informs you that you've tested positive for the hepatitis C virus.
This is not, you are told, a big deal. The virus, which is spread primarily through dirty needles -- intravenous drug use, amateur tattooing -- can lurk in your system for years, even decades, with no visible symptoms. Most hep C infections become chronic, but only a small percentage of cases become deadly, progressing to cirrhosis or liver cancer. The DOC will monitor your blood, you learn, and if certain liver enzyme levels reach dangerously high levels, you could be eligible for treatment with a drug called interferon.
Over the next three years, you request and receive numerous blood tests that measure how your liver is doing. Each time you are told that you are faring just fine. But in 2000, you are transferred to the Limon Correctional Facility, and no one there seems particularly interested in your case. You ask for a blood test again and again, at least twenty times -- an average of twice a month for ten months. Your requests are ignored.
You persist. In October, you are given the test. A nurse tells you that your enzyme levels are not high enough to warrant drug treatment. You have been reading up on the disease, and the levels seem pretty high to you. You ask to review your medical file. When you finally get access to it, you realize that you have been misled.
According to the file, your enzyme levels have been increasing steadily for years, while DOC staffers told you merely that your counts were within the "acceptable" range. Actually, your enzyme levels were unacceptably high, by the department's own standards, as far back as 1999. But at some point, the medical staff hiked the values for the "acceptable" range by ten points without explanation, making you a borderline candidate, at best, for interferon therapy.
You apply for treatment. You are handed a contract that states you must first complete a year of substance-abuse counseling and random drug testing before you are eligible for interferon. No one told you about the classes before, and you wished you'd heard about them three years earlier. You sign the contract under protest. You do the classes and complete them in November 2001.
Now can you have the damn drugs? Of course not. The next step is a liver biopsy, which will give the doctors a better idea of how much damage the virus has already done. The biopsy is ordered in February but not scheduled until August 2002. "Budget constraints," you are told.
It's been five years since your diagnosis. You file numerous grievances, to no effect, and join several other prisoners who've been denied treatment for hepatitis C in a lawsuit against the state.
The doctor performing the biopsy is one of the defendants in your lawsuit. You wait in line with other prisoners until he calls you into his office. He explains that he'll "do a couple of passes," and if he can't hit the liver, he'll try again at a later date, with more sophisticated imaging equipment. He makes pointed reference to the fact that you are suing him.
You say little. You don't want to provoke someone who will soon be slicing into you.
You are given an anesthetic. You hear later that the doctor stuck you five or six times. Two months go by. You learn that the procedure failed to yield a single analyzable sample of liver tissue. You await another biopsy.
Your gut is swollen and achy, and you are fighting chronic symptoms of fatigue and nausea, as if you're getting the flu over and over again. The drug therapy is supposed to have close to a 50 percent success rate, but you are not close to getting the drugs. You file more grievances, write to your lawyer, compare notes with other prisoners on the insidious progress of the virus and the lack of progress in your treatment.
Mostly, you wait.
Prisoners die in all sorts of ways. Increasingly, though, they die from hepatitis C.
Last March, the virus claimed Frank Rodriguez, who'd been on Colorado's death row for sixteen years for the kidnapping, rape and murder of bookkeeper Lorraine Martelli. Rodriguez's death from liver failure saved the state the expense of an execution, but the disease's impact on the system is costing taxpayers millions.
The DOC has screened its inmate population for liver abnormalities since the 1970s, long before hepatitis C was identified as a specific threat. Over the years, as more has become known about the virus, the department has refined its treatment program and now offers a costly regimen of interferon and ribavirin, drugs that have proven successful in ridding the body of detectable levels of hepatitis C in up to half the patients treated.
But critics of the DOC's treatment policies say that out of hundreds who may need them, only a fortunate few actually receive the drugs. The system now has roughly 3,000 inmates who've tested positive for hep C; in the current fiscal year, 34 are receiving drug therapy. Even according to the DOC's own conservative estimates, which project that 4 percent of its hepatitis cases will end in liver failure, the number of cases getting treatment is abysmally low. And studies indicate that up to 20 percent of hepatitis C patients will develop cirrhosis; that's 600 potential candidates in the system right now.
The problem, says McGarry, is determining which inmates are the best candidates. "Do you treat 25 people in order to get the one who's at greatest risk?" he asks. "Undoubtedly, you're going to have to treat more than 4 percent. Our ability to identify and target those people isn't good enough."
But inmates say the department is trying to avoid treating anyone. They accuse administrators of loading the hep C program with hurdles and foot-dragging tactics -- the required year of substance-abuse classes, the delays in getting biopsies, restrictions that bar you from the program if you're too old, too close to your parole date or caught using tobacco -- in order to keep to a bare minimum the number of inmates receiving some very expensive drugs. Interferon therapy usually runs between 24 and 48 weeks, at an average cost of $25,000 per inmate. In some cases, the drugs' side effects require additional countermeasures, such as a series of injections to stimulate red and white blood cell production, bringing the total cost for each of those patients to as much as $75,000.
Terry Akers, an inmate at the Colorado State Penitentiary, learned that he had hepatitis C when his liver enzymes checked out "high" in 1998. But he was told his body seemed to be "fighting the infection adequately," and his treatment was delayed for months pending additional tests. Then he learned about the required classes, which weren't even offered at the time at CSP, the state's supermax. As the months dragged on, Akers developed cirrhosis and began vomiting blood. The DOC then denied his request for treatment because the disease had reached such an advanced stage, making it less likely that interferon would help him ("The Needle and the Damage Done," December 14, 2000).
Akers has endured a stomach swollen like a beach ball with excess fluid and debilitating cramps that have left him curled up on his cot, unable to walk. Earlier this year, he suffered a bout of encephalopathy that left him disoriented and incoherent for weeks. "No one expected me to make it," Akers wrote in a recent letter. "But I am determined to beat this disease."
Along with David Jenner and several other prisoners, Akers is now suing the state over its hepatitis policy. Another one of the plaintiffs, Anthony Rodriguez, has been seeking treatment for the virus within the DOC since 1993. For years nurses told him no treatment was necessary, based simply on examinations of his skin and eyes. After a blood test finally revealed his elevated liver enzymes, he waited another eighteen months for a successful liver biopsy. Although he qualified for interferon therapy, the drugs weren't ordered for another two and a half years -- and then Rodriguez learned he was receiving only half of the dosage that had been prescribed. Last year, medical staff decided that his infection wasn't responding to the drugs and ceased treatment while denying his request for an alternative drug regimen recommended by outside doctors.
The state's approach to the epidemic troubles Rod Gottula, who developed the DOC's initial hepatitis treatment policies a decade ago. "Back then, the treatment was in its infancy," Gottula recalls. "We didn't test routinely for hepatitis C. If we had someone who had an abnormal liver-function test, we would sometimes run a hepatitis profile on them and find it that way."
But the original policy didn't require a lengthy series of substance-abuse classes, either. Gottula is now the acting president of a national association of corrections health-care providers, and he says several states have adopted more "advanced" treatment programs than Colorado's, with fewer delays in detecting and treating the virus.
"Their treatment is more aggressive," he says. "Some of them require substance-abuse treatment, too -- but if they do, they make it available. From a physician's standpoint, it makes no sense to take a substance abuser with hep C and spend thousands of dollars on interferon and not treat the primary problem. The main issue I have with the recent DOC policy is that they required the substance-abuse program but didn't make it available; nor were people told that they needed the program to be eligible for interferon."
Gottula understands why some states are moving slowly in responding to the epidemic. "In many systems, just the cost of treating hep C is more than their whole health-care budget," he says. "So while they don't necessarily deny treatment, they don't go out actively looking for people to treat. When you get down to it, this is really a public health problem, and public health agencies don't want to fund it."
McGarry responds that his staff is diligent about informing patients that they have the virus and what their treatment options are; it's the inmate's responsibility, he insists, to take the necessary steps to qualify for drug therapy. "We're not dealing with a disease that can be spread innocuously," he notes. "You don't get hepatitis C from someone sneezing on you. The public health implications of this are different than they are for, say, tuberculosis. There's absolutely no downside to these people being involved in a drug or alcohol program, even if they aren't going to get [interferon] treatment."
But the current and threatened litigation surrounding hepatitis treatment appears to be exacting changes within the DOC. Hartley, the attorney representing Akers and Jenner in their lawsuit, declines to comment on the case other than to confirm that the litigants are in settlement negotiations. McGarry acknowledges that the department is in the process of revising its treatment protocol, with the aim of setting specific timelines for tests and biopsies and making drug therapy more readily accessible to qualified patients.
Even prisoners with advanced cirrhosis, such as Akers, can now qualify for the drugs, based on new research that suggests interferon can help stall the ravages of the disease. Akers reports that he started drug therapy a few weeks ago and felt immediate improvement. More recently, though, the drugs "caused my platelet and white blood cell counts to drop to critical levels," he says. He's now receiving injections to counter the side effects of the anti-viral drugs.
Treating hep C can be grotesquely expensive. But not treating it can be even more expensive. The virus is the primary reason for liver transplants in the United States. Last summer the DOC reached an agreement with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center concerning inmates who might be candidates for transplants. Although no prisoner has yet been accepted for the procedure, which can cost around $250,000, McGarry acknowledges that it's probably only a matter of time until suitable candidates are approved. Death row inmates such as Rodriguez wouldn't be eligible, but dozens of others could conceivably meet the criteria.
"The DOC accepts financial responsibility for anyone we send to the university for liver transplantation," McGarry says. "If someone in our custody satisfies the transplant board, we will pay for that." The department has already paid for bone-marrow transplants for convicts with leukemia, he adds, as well as a kidney transplant for a diabetic woman who was on dialysis.
Some states have taken a different approach when faced with inmates who require organ transplants or other major medical procedures. They let them out, a practice known as "compassionate release" (or "patient dumping," as one California prison executive recently described it on Sixty Minutes). But Colorado has been reluctant to bend the terms of sentence for its hep C prisoners, even when the inmate's family offers to assume responsibility for his or her care. Prisoners are full of stories about cons who can't get treatment and can't get paroled, such as Arturo Guzman, a 34-year-old chronic drug offender who died in September after a long battle with hepatitis C. Despite his terminal condition, Guzman had been turned down for parole repeatedly, most recently in March.
Of course, most people couldn't care less about the health and welfare of addicts, rapists and killers. But Gottula argues that the public should start paying attention; the walls that separate the average citizen from convicts' epidemics are thinner than they appear.
"Most of these people aren't in there forever," he says. "The public ought to be interested, because these individuals are going to cycle back into our communities, with all their health problems and communicable diseases. And if most of them are in there for some drug-related activity, why aren't we working on that? We lock people up and don't take care of the primary problem."
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Jailhouse lawyer Ramos says the public only hears about the lucky prisoner who gets a transplant or expensive drugs, not the swarm of medical problems in prison that go untreated. In his view, his keepers are no better than the care they offer to those they keep.
"Prisoners are looked at as less than human, but every human being has a right to live," he says. "If prisoners need treatment, they should get it. Instead, the people who run these places just sit back and watch them slowly die. To me, that's barbaric."
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BROSSARD — The Canadiens cleared out their lockers at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard and fielded questions about their impressive season and playoff run and also their individual performances.
Habs empty lockers, ponder futures
BROSSARD — The Canadiens cleared out their lockers at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard and fielded questions about their impressive season and playoff run and also their individual performances.
For some players, like unrestricted free agent Thomas Vanek, the questions were also about the future.
Canadiens goaltender Carey Price spoke to the media for the first time since suffering a knee injury in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference final when New York Rangers forward Chris Kreider lost his balance and crashed into him.
"I don't think it was on purpose," Price said of the collision.
"Hockey is a rough sport. Injuries happen all the time. Sometimes they're intentional, sometimes it's just bad luck. I don't think he did it on purpose."
"I actually got really lucky. It could have been a lot worse than it was," he said of the injury which won't require surgery.
Price said he would have been pushing his luck to come back really quickly. But he thought he would have been able to return to play in the Stanley Cup final if the Habs had made it there.
When Price got injured the Canadiens opted to go with rookie Dustin Tokarski instead of backup goaltender Peter Budaj.
"Peter is one of the genuinely nicest human beings I've ever met," Price said.
"He's an unbelievable backup. He's a really good friend of mine. He's one of the best friends I have on this team. He showed a lot of character. He never hung his head. He never pouted. And he showed the utmost support for everybody including Dustin. It takes a special person to do that."
Tokarski did a great job, Price said.
"That's probably one of the hardest situations you could ever throw a guy into. And he really excelled. He showed why he's won at different levels."
Price had an excellent season and won a goal medal backstopping Team Canada at the Sochi Olympics.
"During this playoff run it was really fun to play with these guys in this locker-room. I think this is the tightest group we've ever had. Obviously, it's sad to have it come to an end right now. But we've got to look forward to next year," Price said.
Vanek struggled during the playoffs, but suggested he wasn't suffering from a serious injury.
"Nothing big. In playoffs I think every player has bumps and bruises. I had a few, but overall that was not a reason (for) what happened," Vanek said.
"It wasn't great obviously," Vanek said of his playoff performance. "Yesterday was tough waking up because I know I could have made a difference and it just — it wasn't there."
"When I first got moved here, I played a few games, struggled. Then I got moved with (David Desharnais) and (Max Pacioretty). I really found myself. I think I was put in a position to do well. And then once I got moved, I struggled to find chemistry. This game is all about chemistry and confidence. I slowly lost it. I thought the later part in the Rangers series, I played with Lars (Eller) a little bit and Danny (Brière) and I slowly found my game and I thought I was better."
Asked he would have liked to stay playing with Desharnais and Pacioretty, Vanek said: "No, I mean, changes happen. I'm not ignorant to that … I'm not blaming anyone but myself. Chemistry doesn't just happen overnight. Sometimes it does when you play with players that you feel right with. I think it happens quicker. But again, I just didn't find it."
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According to the National Review, the fiscal-cliff proposal that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner delivered to leading Congressional leaders, including Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, gave the Kentucky Republican the giggles. McConnell laughed out loud at the proposal, the conservative publication reported.
"He wasn't trying to embarrass Geithner, McConnell says, only responding candidly to his one-sided plan, explicit on tax increases, vague on spending cuts," the piece by Fred Barnes says.
The Huffington Post meanwhile has a PDF of the White House proposal, taken from a House Republican source.
The White House, on a blog, says limiting tax deductions just doesn't raise enough money. The blog post, issued Thursday afternoon, was authored by top economics aides Gene Sperling and Jason Furman. It says that a 25% cap on itemized deductions on high-income households, if authored sensibly, would raise $450 billion, not the $1 trillion or so some say.
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With winning a championship routinely comes the opportunity to visit the White House, but it's not clear if the newly-crowned Golden State Warriors will pay a visit to President Donald Trump just yet.
"Today is all about celebrating our championship," the organization wrote in a statement released Tuesday. "We have not received an invitation to the White House, but will make those decisions when and if necessary."
A report surfaced shortly after Game 5 claiming that the Warriors would unanimously refuse any invitation to the White House, but that report was clearly debunked by the organization's statement.
President Trump has already welcomed members of the New England Patriots and Clemson Tigers football team to the White House after their championship runs this past winter. Whether or not the Warriors will join those teams remains to be seen.
One Warrior has already publicly stated he won't make the trip if the offer is placed on the table. Back in February, guard Shaun Livingston was asked about visiting the White House, but he told a local radio station, "I definitely wouldn't go."
Even if the entire team follows Livingston and says "no" to the White House, that doesn't mean they still wouldn't make a trip to Washington D.C. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who represents San Francisco, on Tuesday took to Twitter to say, "The @Warriors leadership is inspiring. I'd be honored to welcome the team to the U.S. Capitol. #DubNation."
Back in 2015, the Warriors did pay a visit to a Barack Obama-governed White House after capturing the organization's first title in 40 years.


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If you've been doing appliance repair as a Professional Appliantologist for any length of time, you've probably struggled through something similar to all these situations:
- You're trying to fix an Electrolux range but you can't even figure out how to take it apart so you can troubleshoot.
- You need to put a Whirlpool Duet washer into diagnostic mode but the sleaze bag who worked on it last stole the tech sheet.
- You're working on a temperature control problem in a GE refrigerator and need to look up some schematics and specifications in the service manual, which you don't have with you.
- You're preparing for a job on an LG dishwasher and want to make sure you have the service manual with you but you can't find it in those messy piles of papers and documents you call your filing system.
Wouldn't it be awesome if there was a way of keeping all the technical documents you need during service calls in an inexpensive, compact, light-weight container in which you could quickly find the document you need to fix the problem? In this action-packed, no-holds-barred episode of Samurai TV, I'll show you how I use the Amazon Kindle Fire to easily carry service manuals, bulletins, diagrams, etc., with me on service calls. Using the Kindle Fire, all the tech info I need for a job is right there at my fingertips, easy to retrieve and use.
You can buy a brand new Kindle Fire for $160, a very modest investment for such a powerful information tool. Plus, if you're using it for work, it's tax-deductible!
Amazon also offers a Kindle Fire HD, which has a higher screen resolution and more memory. It's also a lot more expensive. I just use the plain Kindle Fire because, for what I use it for-- carrying technical service manuals on jobs-- it has plenty of storage and the screen resolution is more than adequate for reading manuals. Here's the link to the Amazon Kindle Fire that I use on service calls: http://amzn.to/ZhC8tG
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Making a Dent in the 21st Century: Women and Technology
Let me start out by saying that I love technology and am passionate about getting people, particularly women, excited about choosing a career in technology. My own career path in technology had commenced with a focus on computer networking, and now amongst my various technical initiatives, I am looking at how Machine-to-Machine communications and eHealth can contribute to assisted living cases. The latter example, is more poignant to me as my mother–my hero–has been struggling with Stage IV breast cancer, and, continues to follow my numerous achievements whilst asserting "that nothing is impossible, Monique."
"Nothing is impossible" has been my modus operandi in anything I do especially in technology and in pursuing technical paths where people stated that you cannot.
On July 27, 2012, I had the pleasure to attend the Women@theFrontier venue on "Design the Future 2012": and to meet the most amazing women from a variety of backgrounds who are exponentially making a difference in this world and using technology to do so.
I noted that in this backdrop at NASA Ames, scientist and astronaut Dr. Sally Ride had just passed away on July 23 2012. Dr. Ride was passionate about science and in stimulating that passion in school, Kindergarten to- 12th grade knowing that inspirational teachers do make a difference in shaping the path of a potential technologist.
Ping Fu, CEO of Geomagic, a leading provider of 3D software of creating digital models for digital objects [yes she wore platform shoes and a necklace that she had designed with her 3D software] stated at the July 27, 2012 event, rather than moving upward to an artificial glass ceiling, why not move forward, just move forward!
I find it even more relevant that Coke CEO, Muhtar Kent, that the 21st century is for women and offers the statistics to validate his assertion:
I am here to tell you that not only Geek is Chic but that collectively as technologists and in the 21st century, we can certainly make that dent in the universe, so please join me in doing so!
Be curious, ask questions, and invent !
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Laurier researchers use backyard rinks to track climate change
Public invited to upload their own skating-rink data to website
WATERLOO -- Generations of Canadians have grown up on backyard skating rinks, dreaming of becoming the next Wayne Gretzky or Joannie Rochette. But climate change appears to be threatening this time-honored Canadian tradition, and three Laurier researchers want to document what's happening to our outdoor skating season.
Associate Professor Robert McLeman, Assistant Professor Colin Robertson and Master of Science student Haydn Lawrence from Laurier's Department of Geography and Environmental Studies have launched www.RinkWatch.org, an easy-to-use website where "backyard skating meets environmental science." The researchers are inviting Canadians with a backyard or neighbourhood rink to report skating conditions over the winter to provide valuable data about the impact of climate change.
"Our hope is that Canadians from coast to coast will help us track changes in skating conditions, not just this year, but for many years to come," said McLeman. "This data will help us determine the impact of climate change on winter in terms of length of season and average temperatures. We want to see what is actually happening."
Mittens and hats have been optional for many Canadians over the last few winters. The 2011-2012 winter was the third warmest on record, with national average temperatures 3.6 degrees Celsius above normal, according to an Environment Canada 2011 report. The warmest winter on record since nationwide records began in 1948 was in 2009-2010, with a national average temperature 4.1 degrees Celsius above normal.
More recently, Environment Canada chose unusually warm temperatures from coast to coast in 2012 as Canada's top weather story of the year. Senior climatologist David Philips said the period between January and November was the fourth warmest on record since 1948.
The Laurier researchers hope that the backyard-rink concept will not only generate valuable data about Canadian climate change, but also raise awareness about its impact.
"The backyard rink is a Canadian tradition -- one that future generations may not get to experience because of the damaging effects of climate change," said McLeman, who has fond memories of past winters skating on backyard rinks and the Rideau Canal. "If we want to skate on backyard rinks in the future, we have to find out what is going on today."
To become part of the cross-Canada study, Canadians with a backyard or neighbourhood rink can visit www.RinkWatch.org to create a profile and add the location and name of their rink, which will show up on a Google map. Registered users, whose identities remain private, are asked to return to the site once a week to check off which days they were able to skate. The website will track the results and compare conditions with other rinks across Canada. You can even post photos of your rink.


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Alex Proyas and Summit have just nabbed the rights to Daniel H. Wilson's latest novel AMP a book about what happens when technology gives the disabled superpowers.
Robopocalypse author Wilson (whose latest novel is being directed by Steven Spielberg) has finally sold the rights to his latest unfinished work, AMP, to Summit and director Alex Proyas. According to Deadline, Proyas is attached to produce, but he may wind up directing.
The novel itself is "set in a world where the technology designed to make the disabled whole, turns them into supermen," and supposedly started a little Hollywood fervor with its District 9-like undertones. On the author's blog, Wilson calls the book a, "techno-thriller that explores and expands the definition of what it means to be human."
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NH Catholics celebrate new pope
Pope elected Wednesday afternoon
Catholics around New Hampshire are celebrating the new pontiff with special Masses Wednesday evening.
News 9's Adam Sexton attended a service in Manchester.
The bells of St. Joseph Cathedral rang out calling Catholics to worship and celebrate.
On Wednesday, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio became the first Pope Francis in the 2,000- year history of the church.
Bishop Peter Libasci said the name "Francis" is laden with meaning.
"We remember that St. Francis of Assisi, when he was told by the Lord 'rebuild my church' Francis thought it was the building, but then realized, no, it was the spirit and the heart of the church, which Francis did by preaching and by his example," said Libasci.
The bishop said the posture of the new pope as he walked onto the world stage was notable. Normally, popes have their arms raised or hands clasped in prayer.
"He comes with his hands completely at his side, and walked out to the loggia without any fanfare, but came out -- and I will tell you, that reminded me so very much when somebody would just want to come into a room and say hello," said Libasci.
Parishoners were similarly struck by the new pope's bearing and what he brings to the papacy.
"What really impressed me was when he knelt down and asked people to pray for him," said one church-goer.
Another said, "The word 'Catholic' means 'universal,' and I think from Latin America he gives us that perspective."
"It's like a new day. A new dawn. I'm excited and up for it," said another parishioner.
Catholics had been planning this celebratory Mass for a while but they did not expect it to be Wednesday night.
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Unfinished Business
The Creations n' Chrome Mustangs had become quite well known for their colored chrome finishes, but oftentimes people would overlook the shop's ability to build a complete vehicle. Everyone would check out the Mustangs' exteriors, but would pass up the rest of the stuff like the chassis and engine work. This caused the boys at Creations n' Chrome to stop and think about ways to showcase the shop's ability to build a complete vehicle and how they would approach the next build differently.
Starting off with a great truck, C&C's 1968 Chevy C10 was being shaped and formed to the ultimate shop truck. First thing was deciding on what would power such a sleek C10. The guys in the shop got together and brainstormed on engines and came up with a 502 Ram Jet. Well they weren't finished with the engine just yet and decided that adding a Vortech V7 YSi blower would be the icing on the cake.
A set of 1.75-inch tubed Kooks headers feed into 3-inch exhaust with CGS mufflers calming some of the sound down. To supply enough fuel to the engine a Holley Billet Dominator fuel pump and fuel pressure regulator were installed external of the tank. A 700-R4 was built to handle the massive power of the supercharged Ram Jet and a custom-built Currie 9-inch rearend was installed.
The 9-inch rearend has 3.83 gears with a Tru-Trac differential to plant both tires on the ground. The front suspension featured Hotchkis TVS upper and lower control arms and drop spindles, including a new sway bar. The rear suspension has CPP trailing arms with Hotchkis springs, shocks, and sway bars. The frame of the C10 was also reinforced to support the Ram Jet's massive output.
For the interior, C&C graphed in a set of 2012 Ford Mustang GT seats and deleted the headrest for visual reasons. The door panels were covered in high-end leather and stitched in a diamond pattern to match the seats. A custom wood center console was made to house the integrated rear-firing subwoofer. The console also has a cool place to set a drink because the guys at C&C wanted this truck to not only look great, but also be practical on the road – that's right, this truck is a driver. Classic Instruments gauges line the cluster alongside the Billet Specialties steering wheel and Lokar Shifter.
When I first laid eyes on this truck it was at the 2012 Las Vegas SEMA show displayed in the Hotchkis booth. I thought it was another truck that I had recently photographed, but the engine and interior made me take another look. To me this truck represents what can be accomplished with a C10 as well as support from the aftermarket and great vehicle builders such as Creations n' Chrome.
1968 Chevy C10
Creations n' Chrome
Valencia, California
Frame: 1968 Chevy C10 reinforced
Modifications: K-member and boxing
Rearend / Ratio: Currie 9-inch / 3.83
Rear suspension: CPP trailing arms with Hotchkis drop springs and shocks
Rear brakes: Wilwood
Front suspension: Hotchkis TVS
Front brakes: Wilwood
Steering box: CPP
Front wheels: HRE 945RL 20X9
Rear wheels: HRE 945RL 20×11
Front tires: Falken FK-453 275/40/20
Rear tires: Falken FK-453 315/35/20
Gas tank: Boyd's Tank modified by C&C for baffles
Engine: 502 Ram Jet with Vortech supercharger
Heads: 502 Ram Jet
Valve covers: stock
Manifold / Induction: Ram Jet w/Vortech supercharger
Ignition: HEI
Headers: Kooks 1.75-inch tubes
Exhaust / Mufflers: 3-inch exhaust Flowmaster
Transmission: 700-R4
Modifications: everything
Shifter: Lokar
Style: C10
Modifications: fuel door hidden in bed with Eddie Motorsports hinge kit
Fenders front / rear: stock
Hood: stock
Grille: stock
Bed: mahogany painted PPG black
Bodywork and paint by: Gary Watson, Creations & Chrome
Paint type / Color: PPG/ factory black
Headlights / Taillights: stock
Outside mirrors: stock
Bumpers: stock
Dashboard: stock
Gauges: Classic Instruments
Air conditioning: Vintage Air
Stereo: Alpine w/JL audio amps
Steering wheel: Billet Specialties
Steering column: stock
Seats: 2012 mustang GT seats with headrest removed
Upholstery by: High Quality Upholstery of Santa Clarita, CA
Material / Color: leather / black with white diamond stitching
Carpet: Auto Customs Carpets