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Most people use a family physician, internist, obstetrician-gynecologist, or pediatrician as their primary care doctor. Primary care doctors, sometime called generalists, manage their patients' healthcare and help them make medical decisions when problems arise.
However, sometimes a person develops a medical problem that requires a physician with a more narrow focus. These specialists have received additional training to become experts in a specific field. They see far more patients with conditions related to their area of expertise than their generalist colleagues. Examples of specialists include oncologists (for cancer), cardiologists (for heart disease), and surgeons.
If you have a medical condition that requires specialty care, your primary care doctor will likely make a recommendation of whom to see, which you may simply choose to accept. However, there are many specialists out there, and you may want to do your own research to determine which one is best for you.
Make a List of Specialists
The first step is to make a list of potential candidates. Your friends, family members, or coworkers may know of a trusted specialist. Fortunately, there are also a number of organizations and services that can provide you with a list of medical or surgical specialists from which to choose:
- American Medical Association DoctorFinder—an online database that allows users to search for doctors by name or by medical specialty
- American Board of Medical Specialties—a directory that lists board certified doctors' names, along with their specialty and background
- American College of Surgeons—an online list of surgeons and treatment centers
- Administrators in Medicine Docfinder—provides data on doctors who are licensed in certain states
- Medicare Participating Physician Directory—a database of Medicare physicians that is searchable by doctor name, location, or specialty
- Disease-specific organizations and professional agencies—these resources, such as the National Cancer Institute or American College of Cardiologists may provide lists of specialists and sub-specialists in different geographic areas
- Insurance companies—your insurance provider should be able to provide you with a list of specialists that are covered under your plan
- Local hospitals—their patient referral services can provide a list of specialists who practice in that hospital
- Local medical societies—they may have lists of doctors in different specialties
- Public and medical libraries—they usually have print directories of doctors in different specialties
- Local phone books—local specialists are listed under the heading "Physicians"
- Doctors or other health professionals—doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals who work with specialists may be able to provide recommendations
Narrow Your List
After you have made a list of specialists in your area, you will need to narrow it to 2 or 3 doctors who meet your specific needs. Below is a list of factors you may want to consider when choosing a specialist. Prioritizing this list and adding to it will help you choose the right doctor for you.
Training and Background
Before choosing a doctor, you may find it helpful to learn more about how doctors are trained and how you can find out what kind of training your doctor has. Doctors receive 4 years of undergraduate education, 4 years of medical school (where they earn their Medical Degree [MD]), and 3-7 years of postgraduate medical training that includes internships and residencies. Doctors must pass a state exam to be legally permitted to practice medicine in their state. Specialist doctors completed their residency and specialty training in a specific area (fellowship), such as oncology or surgery. Doctors can even choose to "subspecialize" and complete at least 1 more year of training in a particular area of a specialty. Never hesitate to ask a doctor about his or her training, interests, and background with your condition or concern.
Ratings by Consumer and Other Organizations
More and more doctors are being rated by consumer organizations and other groups devoted to quality healthcare. One such service, Best Doctors, uses a national survey method to solicit doctor recommendations from other prominent doctors. Other online services like this are Rate MDs, and HealthGrade . While this information can be extremely useful, it should not be the only criteria used to judge a physician, since these organizations may rely on rating systems that are not entirely accurate or fair.
Privileges at Certain Hospitals
If you want to be treated at a specific hospital, narrow your list to only those doctors who practice at that hospital. Keep in mind that if you are looking for a surgeon, he or she can only be as good as the technical support the hospital provides. Therefore, it is important to know how many of your surgical procedures the hospital performs per year, and what the patient outcomes are.
Coverage by Health Plans
Unless you are prepared to pay for your treatment out-of-pocket (which is simply not an option for most of us), consider doctors who are covered by your health plan. If you use a federal or state health insurance program, such as Medicare, be sure to ask the office staff or doctor if they are accepting patients using these programs.
Membership in a Medical Society
Almost all specialists are members of a medical society, such as the American College of Surgeons. Doctors who have fellowship status in a medical society have demonstrated outstanding achievement in their profession in the eyes of their colleagues.
Ideally, your doctor should to be able to speak the same language you do. For non-English speakers, this will not often be the case. If you cannot directly communicate with your specialist, it essential that you find a practice and hospital that have high quality translation services.
Decide on a Specialist
When you have identified 1 or more specialists who meet your needs, the next step is to make an appointment. If your list includes more than 1 doctor, call each doctor's office and ask what regular office hours are, how long it takes to get an appointment, what the typical wait in the doctor's office is, whether the doctor or nurses give advice over the phone, and any other questions that are important to you.
When you visit your specialist for the first time, bring a list of questions. You want to be completely comfortable with your doctor, since you will be working closely with them when making decisions about your treatment.
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With today's discussions of Mercury's possible demise and Kirk Kerkorian's boy Jerry York (and by "boy" we mean "the oldest man alive") claiming that Ford should drop Volvo and Mercury like it's hot, we have to wonder if Mercury isn't going to go the way of Plymouth, Oldsmobile and Merkur. This brings up the question of whether or not they should save it?
Ford's plan to make Mercury the Ford for younger, successful women doesn't seem to be panning out. The last somewhat unique model the brand had was the Mercury Marauder which, you know, wasn't quite for the ladies and was really just a Crown Vic. Fellas, ladies, what do you think?


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Kenny Dalglish says Steven Gerrard is 'progressing brilliantly' in his bid to overcome an ankle problem, but the Liverpool boss was not prepared to put a date on the expected recovery of his captain.
Gerrard has made only five appearances for the Reds since March owing, in the main, to persistent setbacks relating to an ongoing groin problem.
However, the 31-year-old is currently sidelined with an ankle infection and has been forced to wear a protective cast on the area in question.
Dalglish, though, has been encouraged by the progress Gerrard has made thus far, and says the Liverpool midfielder will return when he is ready.
"Steven is progressing brilliantly," Dalglish said. "There is nothing that's been a disappointment other than he's not been available for selection
"He'll be available as and when he's over what he's got but everything's going really well. We couldn't ask for more or any greater news from him."
Meanwhile, Dalglish has confirmed that Jamie Carragher is in contention to face Chelsea on Sunday at Stamford Bridge.
The Anfield stalwart missed the Reds' last outing in the Barclays Premier League against Swansea due to an calf problem.
"Carra is training," Dalglish added. "He's got rid of his calf injury so he's fit and available for selection."


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Brendan DeMelle | June 25, 2013
By Brendan DeMelle • Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - 14:16
"I refuse to condemn your generation, and future generations, to a planet that is beyond fixing. And that's why today I'm announcing a new national climate action plan, and I'm here to enlist your generation's help in keeping the United States of America a global leader in the fight against climate change."
President Obama stepped up his game today on the issue of climate change, committing to several strong actions to curb dangerous climate pollution from coal power plants, build resilient communities to deal with extreme weather events, and foster clean energy investments around the world.
The speech was peppered with notable nods to the movement-building work undertaken by the environmental community, especially the clear shout-out to Bill McKibben and 350.org with the "invest and divest" line towards the end.
And it was a rough day for climate deniers, who again took multiple shots to the chin from the commander in chief, who said he doesn't have the "patience for anyone who denies that this problem is real. We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth society. Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it's not going to protect you from the coming storm." [Salon.com notes the president of the actual Flat Earth Society accepts climate science, adding insult to injury for climate deniers.]
But perhaps the most important thing the president did today was to confirm that the fate of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline will be determined chiefly based on its climate impact - whether the pipeline will produce a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions - firmly cementing the issue of climate change as the central determining factor in the president's mind.
Here is what the president said:
I know there's been, for example, a lot of controversy surrounding the proposal to build a pipeline — the Keystone pipeline, that would carry oil from Canadian tar sands down to refineries in the Gulf. The State Department is going through the final stages of evaluating the proposal. That's how it's always been done.
But I do want to be clear. Allowing the Keystone pipeline to be built requires a finding that doing so would be in our nation's interest. And our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution. The net effects of the pipeline's impact on our climate will be absolutely critical to determining whether this project is allowed to go forward. It's relevant.
Powerful words from a powerful leader. Now let's see how that all shakes out in reality.
It's too bad that the president pivoted from this great point on Keystone XL to bizarre and unfortunate cheerleading of natural gas fracking. But that's another story.
What is clear from this moment forward is that if President Obama intends to hold true to his word, both today and in his prior climate change commitments, there is no way that he can approve Keystone XL.
There will certainly be attempts by TransCanada and the State Department to waffle and pull technical backflips to claim that Keystone XL will not increase GHG emissions. But those would be extremely awkward public relations moves, with no basis in logic or fact.
Of course Keystone XL will increase carbon emissions. Its sole purpose for existence is to connect Canada's filthy tar sands with export markets in Asia, Europe, and South America, leaving behind a hefty dose of pollution to impact American communities along the Gulf coast's refinery row.
And this doesn't even account for inevitable pipeline spills like the one in Mayflower, Arkansas that has created the first U.S. tar sands refugees who will never return to their homes thanks to toxic diluted bitumen flooding their neighborhood.
The climate action community will surely remind the president of these facts repeatedly - you can't be a leader on climate action if you're a willing accomplice in accelerating the expansion of one of the largest carbon bombs on the planet.
If President Obama's words today are sincere, Keystone XL is doomed, as it should be.
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Obama on XL Pipeline
"IF" he stands behind his words on the XL pipeline, it will be a starting point for his regaining the trust he once had regarding this issue. Too much of the pipeline has been built in parts and pieces. The connection would be just another piece. The concern is that the pieces have not been dismantled. The snakes await the chance to cram it through. Better what has been built is dismantled. If he had called for that, it would have been something to celebrate.
Sad and feeling sorry for the Canadians who are losing their pristine lands and boreal forests to the petro industry up there.
Umm... Boreal Forests?
We got lots…. And I don't think anyone likes to camp up there anyways.
The talking points up here are native rights, and environmental regulations. The natives must be able to live off the land its a treaty right, and thats hard to do if the land is toxic. The Harper government pretty much deleted all federal environmental regulations in Canada.
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Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the 'go-to' place for entertainment and has been for decades. When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays - on the sponsors dime of course. Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's This Land is mine starring Charles Laughton & Maureen O'Sullivan.


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A 12-year-boy is in extreme pain with blistering second degree burns all over his back after doing a 'salt and ice challenge' – the latest dangerous craze sweeping the internet. The ill-advised stunt involves putting salt on bare skin then pressing ice on top of it. The combination causes a chemical reaction that burns the skin almost immediately. The Pittsburgh boy, his twin brother and their friend learnt about the 'challenge' through Facebook and You Tube. Last Friday night, the unidentified boy did the challenge as part of a dare, reported the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Lying on his stomach, his brother and friend poured salt in the shape of a cross on his back before pushing ice onto it.
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Digital-Privacy Rules Taking Shape
Frustrated by a flood of privacy violations, the Federal Trade Commission on Monday issued a strong call for commercial-data collectors to adopt better privacy practices and called for Congress to pass comprehensive privacy legislation.
In a starkly-written 73-page report on privacy in the digital age, the agency called on U.S. commercial data collectors to implement a "Do Not Track" button in Web browsers by the end of the year or to face legislation from Congress forcing the issue.
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"Simply put, your computer is your property.No one has the right to put anything on [your computer] that you don't want," said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the FTC, at a news conference Monday.
The agency also for the first time turned its attention to offline data brokers—which buy and sell names, addresses and other personal information—calling on them to create a centralized website providing consumers with better access to their data. The agency also wants legislation requiring data brokers to give consumers the right to see and make corrections to their information.
Linda Woolley, executive vice president of the Direct Marketing Association, which represents data brokers, said the group opposes giving consumers access to marketing information because it would be expensive, difficult to keep secure and the type of data used by marketers doesn't harm consumers.
The agency wants Internet firms to...
- Store data securely, limit collection and retention, and promote data accuracy
- Include a 'Do Not Track' mechanism in Web browsers by the end of the year
- Provide consumers access to data collected about them by data brokers that buy and sell names, addresses and other personal information
"We are very wary about taking the information out of the information economy," Ms. Woolley said.
The FTC doesn't have the authority to write new rules for privacy. Instead, it hopes its report will spur the industry to agree to abide by its voluntary guidelines.
The FTC can then use its authority to prosecute "deceptive" behavior if companies that agree to the guidelines don't live up to their promises.
Last month, the FTC notched a win for its guideline approach when the online-advertising industry voluntarily agreed to one of the main privacy recommendations: the development of a "Do Not Track" mechanism that would let users limit Web tracking using a single setting in Web browsing software.
Previously, the industry had urged consumers to individually "opt out" of more than a hundred different companies that track Web browsing behavior.
However, the agreement—which was announced at the White House last month— has been mired in debate about what "Do Not Track" means. The online-ad industry has agreed to what amounts to a "Do Not Target" definition, which would still allow data to be collected for purposes such as market research and product development. Privacy advocates are pushing for it to mean that data won't be collected. An international standards body is working to develop a consensus agreement on the definition of Do Not Track by June.
The Digital Advertising Association, which represents more than 400 companies, said it is pushing ahead to implement its definition of Do Not Track. "We're not at the finish line, but we're pretty close," said the trade group's counsel Stuart P. Ingis.
FTC Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch dissented from the vote approving the report, in part because he said "it is not clear that all the interested players in the Do Not Track arena" will be able to agree on a definition.
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STC exclusively grabs the HTC 8X
STC (Saudi Telecoms Company) Group has signed a strategic partnership with both HTC and Microsoft to exclusively launch the 8X Windows Phone in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This is a leap into offering the Apollo experience to the region, and for STC to hold exclusive rights on HTC's flagship. The announcement comes concurrently with the GITEX GulfComms exhibition, and we'll likely see STC launch the handset in November.
STC's GM of Corporate Communications, Eng. Nawaaf Al Shalani, had the following to add on the partnership:
"We are pleased to announce this new partnership, and we look forward to working with HTC and Microsoft, the leaders in innovative technology. This cooperation affirms our dedication to serving our customers, and sheds light on our ability to create comprehensive services and strategic alliances that consolidate our leadership in the IT industry, as the HTC device provides an added value to the smart phone market in general, and without a doubt it is an innovation that will satisfy the demands of the wider STC customer base by giving them the ideal smart phone experience."
The HTC 8X is expected to launch in a number of markets, offering consumers a colourful selection of HTC Windows Phones. Variants of the HTC 8X, alongside the HTC 8S, ensures that all bases are covered. While Nokia first injected colour into the platform last year with the Lumia 710 and Lumia 800, we'll certainly welcome HTC's new approach.
Jon French, HTC's Vice President MEA, commented on the deal:
"This strategic partnership promotes our vision in forming long-term, positive and mutually rewarding relationships with our main partners in the region, where we always seek to produce smart phones that embody pioneering technologies and innovative designs, as reflected in the advanced HTC Windows Phone 8X. We are thrilled for the opportunity to present the HTC Windows Phone 8X to the Saudi consumers."
The partnership between the three companies will bring the experience of Windows Phone 8 to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, though no pricing has been revealed as-of-yet. Last quote comes from a Microsoft Middle East spokesperson:
"The announcement of this partnership today is a proof of the collaboration strength that gathered 3 of the communication industry leaders, where the customers in Saudi Arabia will be able to experience the latest smart phone technology with HTC Windows Phone 8X, operated by STC."
To recap on HTC 8X specifications, the Windows Phone sports a 4.3" Super LCD display, 1GB RAM, 16GB storage, 8MP rear shooter (with wide angle 2.1MP FFC), Beats Audio, 1800mAh battery and NFC. Not a bad offering should the price be right.


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China's population will begin to shrink by 2030. How will that affect the outlook for its now-robust dairy product demand?
Despite a disappointing first read on China's more liberal one-child policy, dairy product demand will continue to grow in China as more people enter the middle class.
By loosening China's one-child policy to allow couples to have a second child as long as one parent is an only child, central planners in China expect roughly half of the estimated 11 million eligible couples to have another child within the first five years following the policy revision. Six months into the new policy, however, only 3 percent of eligible couples had applied for permission to have a second child.
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"Would-be parents in China are deterred by an onerous application process and the high cost to raise a child," says Sarina Sharp, agricultural economist with the Daily Dairy Report, Chicago, Ill. Credit Suisse estimates that the cost of child-rearing consumes about 43 percent of an average household's income in China.
Soon to be on the decline
While central planners in China are not trying create an actual baby boom, Sharp says they are hoping to slow the country's inevitable decline in population.
"China is trying to avoid becoming like Japan, with a quickly aging population and no hope of growing the workforce," says Sharp. "At best, China's demographics will be like those in much of the developed West, where the workforce is growing despite a contracting population because women are choosing to have children later in life and are working for a greater portion of their lives."
The United Nations predicts that China's population will begin to shrink by 2030 after years of slowing population growth. Even so, demand for dairy products in China should continue to be robust.
China's rapidly growing economy coupled with its strong population growth has pushed dairy consumption skyward. Over the past five years, China's skim milk powder consumption has grown from 124,000 metric tons in 2009 to an estimated 379,000 metric tons this year, according to USDA. Whole milk powder consumption has climbed from 1.064 billion metric tons in 2009 to an estimated 2.248 billion this year, and fluid milk consumption has increased from 11.79 million metric tons to 15.15 million. USDA does not provide consumption data for cheese or butter in China because they are consumed in much smaller quantities.
Africa Unlikely to Take China's Place
Sharp questions whether growth in Africa and other developing countries will be able to offset declines in China longer term. "There will certainly be more people in the world by the time China's population begins shrinking outright," she says. "The question is whether people in the world's most rapidly growing nations will view dairy products as an affordable part of their diet or a luxury."
At the same time China's population growth is slowing or contracting, Sub-Saharan Africa, the world's poorest region, will more than double in population, from 1.1 billion in 2013 to 2.4 billion by 2050, according to the Population Reference Bureau. The current population of China today is an estimated three times that of Sub-Saharan Africa.
"Africa will not be as great a new market for dairy products as China unless it can combine population growth with economic growth," notes Sharp. "Some African nations have a growing middle class, but economic growth in Africa is very uneven."
Regardless of whether the more liberal one-child policy takes root in China, Chinese dairy product consumption will likely continue to rise for the foreseeable future as more people enter the middle class and overall consumer spending increases.
"China will likely continue to import huge volumes of dairy products in the years to come," notes Sharp. "Demand growth is poised to outpace any increase in supply, and China has recently shown increased interest in UHT milk and cheese."
China's appetite for dairy products, however, would be even larger if Beijing were to successfully halt the long-term demographic trends of the one-child policy.


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Winter hopscotched into Southern California early this year, riding an arctic blast of air and snow at local ski resorts. On the mountain, there was elation — plus jammed parking lots, hordes of noisy boarders and skiers, crowded runs and long lift lines.
I don't want to sound smug, but while all that hoopla was going on, I was reveling in the backcountry stillness of a national forest. Crisp air, bright blue sky, a fresh dusting of snow. Birdsong occasionally accompanied the crunch of my snowshoes.
OK, so maybe I do want to sound a bit smug.
I also want to give my new sport its due: Snowshoes enabled me to avoid the yammering crowds that flock to the mountains in winter and turn pristine drifts of snow into soggy piles of muck. They afforded me an inexpensive way to leave the beaten track and explore the magical winterscape of the forest.
Snowshoes distribute your weight so you walk across the top of deep snow without sinking, so landscapes that are usually impassable in winter suddenly open to exploration.
Some experts think the activity originated about 6,000 years ago in Asia. Although certainly not new to the U.S., it has been gaining ground in the last decade as converts discover its challenges and benefits.
Last year marked the first time sports outfitter REI offered Outdoor School snowshoe courses, said manager Rebecca Bear, and "every class we scheduled was filled."
There's more to come. "We're excited about our classes planned for this year and will add additional courses as they fill," she said. (Info: http://www.rei.com/outdoorschool/162.)
Equipment improvements — lighter, easier-to-use snowshoes — have fueled an increase in interest. Some of the earliest shoes, made of bent twigs fastened with rawhide, evolved into wooden frames strung with animal gut. Today's shoes are constructed of lightweight metal frames and synthetic webbing: My gear was so comfortable that I felt as though I were floating atop the snow. And it's definitely easier than trying to cross a wintery field in boots.
It's also "a cost-effective sport," said Ryan Alford, editor of Snowshoe Magazine. "You're not going to spend an arm and a leg to do it, like you would if you were boarding or skiing."
Rental equipment costs about $15 to $20 a day, compared with $50 to $60 for other snow sports. If you're buying, Alford recommends spending about $300. (My snowshoes were an end-of-season special for $160.) Ski or boarding equipment can set you back $1,000 or more.
You also don't need to spend $100 a day on a lift ticket. "Snowshoeing is so versatile, you can do it almost anywhere there's snow," Alford said.
Many of the nation's prime ski resorts and national parks — particularly those that feature cross-country skiing — also offer snowshoe trails and trips.
I look my novice walk on a snowy meadow at Yellowstone National Park, (www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/skiyell.htm), where I joined a group of more than a dozen people following a guide. I liked the scenery, but the undulating line of snowshoers left me cold. I dropped back to the end of the line and turned back. We hadn't seen any wildlife in the 90 minutes I'd spent with the group; shortly after abandoning it, I spotted three Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep.
In California, you can snowshoe throughout the Sierra Nevadas and the Cascades, and at Lake Tahoe, Mammoth and Sequoia and Yosemite national parks; all are known for excellent trails.
And, when the weather cooperates, Southern California's high-altitude national forests and state parks also boast snowshoe country. The Sierra Club schedules regular outings and training sessions (www.angeles.sierraclub.org/index.asp, [213] 387-4287).
One of my favorite places, the Big Bear Discovery Center — a nonprofit forest-adventure outpost — is to open its snowshoe season on Saturday, weather permitting. Three-hour trips are taken mornings and afternoons on Saturdays and Sundays. "We do a little training — the duck walk and how to sidestep on hills — and have a lot of fun," said Stacy Gorin, program director for the San Bernardino National Forest Assn., which operates the center (www.nationalforestassociation.org/bigbeardiscoverycenter.php, [909] 382-2790).
My recent trek took me into San Bernardino National Forest near Green Valley Lake, a village about 15 miles west of Big Bear. While other people were eating turkey leftovers, hitting the malls and jamming lift lines, I padded along under trees heavy with fresh snow. I had taken off on a back road, my dog, Darby, gleefully racing ahead of me in pursuit of varmints. He never catches any, but he loves the chase almost as much as he loves snow.
While he searches for critters, I watch the ground for tracks in the snow: raccoons, coyotes, abominable snowmen. I haven't seen any of the latter, but they may be there. And if they are, they'd be smart to wear snowshoes.


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Note: For isolation of untouched monocytes, please use the Dynabeads® Untouched™ Human Monocytes, cat no. 113.50D
Principle of Isolation
Dynabeads are mixed with the cell sample in a tube. The Dynabeads will bind to the target cells during a short incubation, and then the bead-bound cells are separated by a magnet.
- Positive isolation – discard the supernatant and use the bead-bound cells for downstream applications (e.g. molecular analysis or cell culture).
- Depletion – discard the beadbound cells and use the remaining, untouched cells for any application.
Description of Materials
Dynabeads CD14 are uniform, superparamagnetic polystyrene beads (4.5 μm diameter) coated with a monoclonal mouse IgG2a antibody recognising the 55kDa CD14 single-chain cell surface glycoprotein. The CD14 antigen is predominantly expressed by monocytes and macrophages.
Materials Supplied
- 5 ml Dynabeads CD14 4 x 108 beads/ml in phosphate buffered saline (PBS), pH 7.4, containing 0.1% bovine serum albumin (BSA) and 0.02% sodium azide (NaN3 ).
- The product will process up to 2 x 109 cells
Additional Materials Required
Materials that are not included, but are needed to perform the entire protocol:
Magnet (Dynal MPC™): See Dynabeads® mRNA Purification Kit for mRNA Purification from Total RNA preps for magnet recommendations.
- Mixer allowing both tilting and rotation.
- Buffer 1: PBS w/0.1% BSA, pH 7.4.
- Buffer 2: PBS (without Ca2+ or Mg2+ ) w/0.1 % BSA and 0.6% Na-citrate or 2 mM EDTA.
Dynabeads Washing Procedure
Dynabeads should be washed before use.
- Resuspend the Dynabeads in the vial.
- Transfer the desired volume of Dynabeads to a tube.
- Add the same volume of Buffer 1, or at least 1 ml, and mix.
- Place the tube in a magnet for 1 min and discard the supernatant.
- Remove the tube from the magnet and resuspend the washed Dynabeads in the same volume of Buffer 1
- as the initial volume of Dynabeads (step 2).
Sample Preparation - Whole Blood and Buffy Coat
Whole blood and buffy coat must be washed before use to remove soluble
- Dilute the whole blood or buffy coat in Buffer 2 (1+2).
- Centrifuge at 600 x g for 10 min at 18-25°C.
- Discard the plasma fraction/upper layer.
- Resuspend to the original volume in Buffer 2 (2-8°C).
Please visit Pan Mouse IgG - Depletion or Positive Isolation of Cells from Different Species and follow our QuickLinks for recommended sample preparation procedures.
Cell Isolation
Critical Steps for Cell Isolation
- Use a mixer that provides tilting and rotation of the tubes to ensure Dynabeads do not settle at the bottom of the tube. When incubating Dynabeads and cells, the incubation temperature must be 2-8°C to reduce phagocytic activity and other metabolic processes.
- Never use less than 25 μl Dynabeads per ml of cell sample.
- Cell concentration can be up to 1 x 108 cells per ml.
Table 1: Volume of Dynabeads added per ml of cell sample. The volumes can be scaled up as required.
|Positive isolation
|Sample volume -
|1 ml
|1 ml
|Volume of Dynabeads
|25 μl
|50 μl
|Total no. of cells
processed per product
|2 x 109 cells
|1 x 109 cells
* if the concentration of MNC is increased, the volume of Dynabeads must be increased accordingly.
Depletion or Positive Isolation of Monocytes
- Add the appropriate volume of Dynabeads to the prepared sample according to table 1.
- Incubate for 20 min (positive isolation) or 30 min (depletion) at 2 - 8°C with gentle tilting and rotation.
- Place the tube in a magnet for 2 min.
- For depletion, transfer supernatant to a new tube for further use.
- For positive isolation, discard the supernatant and wash the beadbound cells 3 times by resuspending in Buffer 1 to the original sample volume, and separate using a magnet.
For molecular studies, lyse cells while still attached to the beads and transfer supernatant to a new tube for protein or gene expression analysis.
This product is stable until the expiry date stated on the label when stored unopened at 2-8°C. Store opened vials at 2-8°C and avoid bacterial contamination. Keep Dynabeads in liquid suspension during storage and all handling steps, as drying will result in reduced performance. Resuspend well before use.
Warnings And Limitations
This product is for research use only. Not intended for any animal or human therapeutic or diagnostic use unless otherwise stated. Follow appropriate laboratory guidelines. This product contains 0.02% sodium azide as a preservative, which is cytotoxic.
Avoid pipetting by mouth!
Sodium azide may react with lead and copper plumbing to form highly explosive metal azides. When disposing through plumbing drains, flush with large volumes of water to prevent azide build up. Certificate of Analysis (CoA) is available upon request. Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) is available at .
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Ever since Man of Steel was announced as being written by David S. Goyer and executive produced by Christopher Nolan, the claims of the film being a case of Superman getting 'the Dark Knight influence' have persisted. Even though the two men come from, literally, entirely different worlds.
But according to Goyer, this incarnation of Superman (Henry Cavill) isn't going to be trading realism for fantasy, or hard questions for special effects. In fact, Man of Steel isn't being approached as a comic book movie at all.
While Marvel may have found success developing comic books into movies without removing much of the humor and wonder seen in the source material, Goyer and Nolan did something different with their take on Batman. Removing or re-imagining elements in order to update an aging story or to help the material speak to modern audiences may be seen as blasphemy by some, but to Goyer, it's all in the service of a stronger story.
In the latest issue of Empire Magazine (via CBM) Goyer outlines his approach to a story familiar to nearly everyone. While staying respectful of the films that preceded Man of Steel, fans should expect something very different this summer:
"We're approaching 'Superman' as if it weren't a comic book movie, as if it were real... I adore the Donner films. Absolutely adore them. It just struck me that there was an idealist quality to them that may or may not work with today's audience. It just struck me that if Superman really existed in the world, first of all, this story would be a story about first contact.
"He's an alien. You can easily imagine a scenario in which we'd be doing a film like 'E.T.,' as opposed to him running around in tights. If the world found out he existed, it would be the biggest thing that ever happened in human history... It falls into that idea of trying to humanise the inhuman. He's made out of steel, he's not made out of flesh, metaphorically speaking. We are portraying him as a man, yet he's not a man."
The scriptwriter pulls no punches in his characterization of Superman as an alien (his suit already makes that clear), and not the simple embodiment of "truth, justice and the American way" to which he is so often reduced. However, in the process, Man of Steel seems to be as much a story about societies and how they view outsiders. Specifically, how the entire human race would view something as 'outside' our own experiences as a full-blown alien entity.
It's not hard to see the themes of immigration, belonging, and communal identity that Goyer is driving at (claiming that this is a movie he feels "the world needs right now"), but conceiving of a Superman who is so markedly removed from mankind takes this reboot into entirely different realms. As Goyer alludes to, Richard Donner's Superman (1978) never concerned itself with showing how the government or people on the street would react to an alien revealed to have been hiding among them.
Bryan Singer's Superman Returns (2006) jumped even further into acceptance of Superman as a celebrity, not just a superhero. But Cavill's closing lines of dialogue seen in the full Man of Steel trailer posed the question to all viewers quite plainly: "My father believed that if the world found out what I really was, they would reject me... what do you think?"
That willingness to face prejudice, fear, paranoia, and even hatred without sugarcoating humanity's, shall we say, less flattering tendencies, promises a film that is at least new, if not universally-pleasing. The themes at work have impressed executive producer Christopher Nolan, as has director Zack Snyder's vision for the big screen. But how do you tell such a serious, grounded story about a superhero from another world?
That's a question that has yet to be asked by DC superhero movies, since Nolan and Goyer's previous work on Batman was an extremely personal story of suffering and trauma. The task is a more difficult one, but at the end of the day, the story of Superman can be reduced to one core question of identity. A question hinted at in the pair of teaser trailers, but hinging on the ability to make it feel real:
"It is obviously a much longer process with a character like Superman. It is much easier to do a realistic take on Batman. You know nothing can hurt Superman, presumably other than Kryptonite. The challenge was simply: Can we figure out a way to make those elements work, quote unquote, in the real world? It's very much a story of a man with two fathers."
Nobody ever accused David S. Goyer or Zack Snyder of making things easy on themselves. And as if pairing such a personal struggle alongside "massive" action and backdrops, the word out of Warner Bros. is that much of the direction and feasibility of any Justice League movie will rest on how Man of Steel is received by the public.
The report comes from Variety, with Warner Bros. President Jeff Robinov explaining that the studio is "awaiting the results" of Snyder's Man of Steel before moving forward. That fact has been assumed to this point, but this certainly puts a damper on anyone expecting massive secret announcements at Comic-Con 2013.
What do you think of Goyer's approach to grounding Superman, and facing the world's reaction to his presence head on? Is this the story you've been waiting to see told (on film) or the wrong direction altogether?
Man of Steel hits theaters June 14th, 2013. Pick up Empire's March issue on newsstands this Thursday.
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Born leader
Quinn appoints 29-year-old to direct Illinois State Police
Ask Jonathon Monken how he got the job as director of Illinois State Police — at the tender age of 29, with no law enforcement experience — and he'll start with a story about being introduced to now-Gov. Pat Quinn at an awards
ceremony a few years ago.
"The first time we met was when he presented me with a Hometown Heroes award," Monken says.
And indeed, Quinn did deliver a speech at the Hometown Heroes breakfast sponsored by the Fox Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross at Eagle Brook Country Club in Geneva, Ill., on March 11, 2005.
Monken, who had raised about $18,000 in donations to repair schools in Kosovo, and another $5,000 to buy exercise equipment for his fellow soldiers in Baqubah, Iraq, couldn't collect his honor in person, however, because he was stationed in Germany at the time. He appeared at the breakfast banquet via video.
"We were able to correspond by telephone," Monken says. "That was my first introduction to the then-lieutenant governor."
They reconnected sometime after Monken returned to Illinois and his buddy Dan Grant joined Quinn's staff. Grant, who was Monken's classmate at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), was hired as a senior policy advisor to Quinn in November 2007 and elevated to director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs last month.
Monken's account of how he copped the top cop spot sounds just as serendipitous as his
initial virtual meeting with Quinn. "I was actually, at the time the job became available, when the previous director
resigned, I was actually in the office of [Quinn's] chief of operations," he says, referring to the governor's longtime aide, Simone McNeil. "I was actually there talking to her about some of the opportunities in Gov.
Quinn's office."
He was interested in something like deputy chief of staff for military relations, or a senior advisor post like the one his buddy Grant had just vacated. He says he had no idea that then-ISP director Larry Trent was about to resign.
"To be honest, I don't have specific information as to when the governor received that information. It just happened that I was in communication with Simone at the time," Monken says.
Wow. Talk about being in the perfect place at the perfect time. The troops he's now commanding aren't buying it.
"We're all mortified. This is a slap in the face," one near-retirement-age officer told me. "Being a good soldier doesn't mean that you're a good cop. Knowledge would be nice too, especially when a cop-type thing
comes up."
"Who is this guy and where did he come from? No one knows. Everybody's befuddled. I think everybody's shocked," another high-ranking officer told me.
He came from the Kane County town of St. Charles, a village west of Chicago with a population just under 30,000. U.S. Census data show a town that's overwhelmingly white (94 percent), highly educated (43 percent of adults in St. Charles have a bachelor's degree or higher), and affluent (the median household income among middle-aged householders is over $95,000).
His father, Jon Monken, is facilities director of the Norris Recreation Center and is currently a candidate for alderman; his mother, Jeanne, teaches seventh-grade language arts. Monken, who has an older sister named Virginia, played football at St. Charles High School and made good grades. At West Point, he did more of the same, graduating in the top 1 percent of his class, and lettering with the Black Knights, part of the NCAA's "Sprint football" league with a maximum weight limit of 165 pounds per player.
(Monken admits he would no longer qualify, now carrying 195 to 200 pounds on his 5-foot-8 frame. "I ran a lot more then, and I lift a lot more weights now," he says. "I'd like to think that a significant portion of the difference is muscle now, but yes, my wife is a fantastic cook, if this is going on the record.")
After graduating from West Point, Monken was deployed on a NATO peacekeeping mission to Kosovo, commanding a platoon of 20 soldiers and serving as military liaison to seven municipalities. In March 2004, he began a one-year tour of duty in Iraq, where he helped train Iraqi security forces. "At one point, I was responsible for the logistical support and training of over 1,000 Iraqi security forces personnel," he says.
It's these positions he points to when I ask him about law enforcement background. "It's basically limited to the experience I had in the military," he says. Heck, he's never even been on the bad end of law enforcement experience; the only traffic
ticket he has ever received was in Germany, where a speed-trap camera snapped
him doing 45 kilometers per hour in a 35 kph zone — or approximately 32 miles per hour in a 25 mph zone. "Yeah, I know," he chuckles, "living it up, right? Oh yeah!"
The fact that he is now top dog over some 4,000 employees — many of whom were on the job back when he was still in diapers — doesn't spook Monken.
"It's not the first time I've served in that capacity, as the leader for somebody that's much older than I am," he says. "The principles remain the same; leadership is leadership, regardless of who it
is that you're leading. You've got to make sure that you carry yourself with integrity, you dedicate
yourself to the job, and you lead by example."
He has made one wise choice: He's not going to wear an ISP uniform. "I think it's something that the troopers put a lot of time and effort into earning, and
until I think I've earned it, I don't think that's necessary," he says. "No matter what, I just want to represent the agency appropriately."
This decision has two benefits: It will marginally deflate the roiling resentment among the rank and file — each of whom could undoubtedly name at least five people more deserving of directorship than any 29-year-old kid — and it will allow Monken to find a wardrobe that will coordinate with his rose-colored glasses.


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The numbers provided are based on data released by the Federal Election Commission on Monday, Sept. 11, 2017:
Minnesota Congressman Collin Peterson (D-MN) is the only politician to have received funds from gun lobbyists for the upcoming 2018 election cycle.
According to the Federal Election Commission, Peterson has received $4,000 as of Oct. 4, 2017.


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Wendy Palmer, an 11-year WNBA veteran and former All-American at Virginia under Women's Basketball Hall of Fame coach Debbie Ryan, is in her fifth season at the helm of the UNCG women's basketball program. Palmer, who was named head coach on April 19, 2011, replaced longtime UNCG coach Lynne Agee, who retired in March 2011 after 30 years at the helm for the Spartans.
UNCG posted an 8-7 record in the non-conference portion of the 2015-16 season, finishing the first half of the season above .500 for the first time since the 2001-02 season. Palmer guided her squad to four-straight wins to close out the 2015 part of the season including a 103-56 win over North Carolina Central where the Spartans set a program record for field goal percentage in a game. She coached UNCG to it's 700th win in program history on December 28, 2015 in a 71-51 win over Maryland-Eastern Shore. That same game senior Lucy Mason became the program's all-time leading scorer surpassing alumni Angie Polk-Jones' 26-year old record of 1,585 career points.
In her third season at the helm, UNCG posted a 7-23 record and went 3-15 in the Southern Conferenc while sophomore Lucy Mason was named Academic All-Southern Conference. A year later she coached the Spartans to a 6-24 record while Mason and Jarae Savage eanred NCCSIA All-State honors. Mason was also an All-SoCon Second Team selection and became the first women's basketball player in program history named to the I-AAA ADA Scholar-Athlete Team.
The Spartans doubled their win total in Palmer's second season (2012-13) and the head coach mentored 2013 Southern Conference Freshman of the Year Lucy Mason. UNCG also knocked off Samford in Birmingham, handing the Bulldogs just their 14th-ever loss inside the Pete Hanna Center. It was also the Blue and Gold's first win at the venue.
At the 2013 Southern Conference Women's Basketball Championship in Asheville, N.C., Palmer led the Spartans to their first win in the event since 2010. No. 10 seed UNCG knocked off seventh-seeded Furman, 73-68.
Palmer, a Timberlake, N.C., native, came to UNCG after a two-year stint as an assistant coach at her alma mater. While on staff at Virginia, Palmer helped recruit and sign a class ranked in the top 15 nationally by ESPN HoopGurlz and coached All-American and national Defensive Player of the Year Monica Wright. During Palmer's tenure on the sidelines, Virginia made one NCAA appearance and a WNIT quarterfinals appearance.
Palmer was an assistant for two years at Kentucky prior to returning to Virginia. There, she coached All-American Victoria Dunlap, who was taken 11th in the recent WNBA Draft.
While still playing professionally, Palmer began her coaching career at Virginia Commonwealth. In her two years there, Palmer coached 2006 Colonial Athletic Association Rookie of the Year Quanitra Hollingsworth and Krystal Vaughn, who both went on to play professionally in the WNBA and in Europe.
Palmer enjoyed outstanding playing careers on both the professional and amateur levels. A WNBA All-Star for the Detroit Shock in 2000, Palmer was also the WNBA's Co-Most Improved Player with the Connecticut Sun in 2004. She was selected in the 1997 Elite Draft by the Utah Starzz in preparation for the WNBA's inaugural year of competition and was a second-team All-WNBA selection that season. Palmer also played for the Orlando Miracle, San Antonio Silver Stars and Seattle Storm in her WNBA career. The Shock's Community Relations Player Representative from 1999-2001, Palmer was the recipient of the Black Legends of Professional Basketball John Isaacs Service Award.
Palmer also played professionally in Spain, Brazil, Hungary, Turkey, Italy and Russia, earning another all-star bid in Italy.
On the collegiate level, Palmer was a two-time Kodak All-American and Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year for the Cavaliers, earning those honors in 1995 and 1996. A three-time All-ACC selection, she is still the Cavs' career rebounding leader and is fourth on Virginia's all-time scoring list. Palmer was the first woman in school history and just the second player overall to record 1,000 career points and 1,000 career rebounds at Virginia. Cavalier legend Ralph Sampson was the other.
Palmer is a member of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association and the Black Coaches Association.


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Sunday, April 1, 2012
* Easy Kid-Friendly Way To Dye Easter Eggs!
One of our new favorite Easter craftivities is easy egg-dyeing.
We'll be working on ours this week as a spring break craftivity.
"C"s preschool teacher let me know about this little gem last year,
and I WISH I had known about it years ago!
The directions for easy tie-dye eggs come from Family Fun Magazine.
Start with hard boiled eggs.
These photos are from last year, Aunt "D" and I hard-boiled a dozen eggs each
the night before so we would have plenty of blank canvases!
Then, set each child up with a colander over a sink
or, in our case, a shallow pan/dish.
Place one hard-boiled egg in the colander
and splash with some white vinegar.
Add a drop of food coloring.
Then, add another drop from one other color,
and gently swirl the egg around in the colander to distribute the colors.
Yellow seems to make the best follow up color
for most eggs if you don't want them to get muddy.
We did have success with a few eggs with
drops of red, yellow, and blue spread out to make rainbows!
Swirly Girls.
Let the colors sit for a minute to dry,
then rinse the egg in your colander under cool water in the sink.
Big cousin "E" showing little cousin "A" how it's done...
Repeat for your next egg.... how easy is that?!
They'll tie-dye and come out beautifully and no two eggs will be alike!
My sweet hubby helping the girls.
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Egg-stra fun and Easy Easter!
pink and green mama,
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"They wanted the baby to kick and move inside her belly..."
"In one central sequence – the wedding of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) – the camera pans around the newlyweds as they embrace."
"In one central sequence – the wedding of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) – the camera pans around the newlyweds as they embrace."
Press Release from Modus FX
awn.com Montreal, Que: Oct 20, 2011... Montreal-based studio Modus FX recently delivered invisibly integrated visual effect shots for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1. The latest installment in the wildly popular romantic vampire series based on the novels by Stephenie Meyer opens in theatres on Nov 18. Incorporating a stylized look as a visual expression of the more-than-human qualities of the characters, the film required seamless CGI (computer-generated imagery)and a refined aesthetic.
A team of 12 artists at Modus had six weeks to complete 42 shots for the film, which included creating a pregnant belly for lead actress Kristen Stewart, digitally removing a wrist brace she was wearing in another sequence and a variety of subtle cosmetic refinements.
Yanick Wilisky, visual effects supervisor and co-founder of Modus FX, described the challenges of creating organic CG. "We are all so used to seeing organic objects and surfaces. If something is just slightly off, you know it's fake - even if you can't put your finger on exactly what the problem is."
Making Stewart look pregnant was one of the tasks assigned to Modus. "They wanted the baby to kick and move inside her belly," said Wilisky. "We had to match the camera moves, the lighting, even the film grain, along with the subtleties of her skin."
In fact, according to CG supervisor Martin Pelletier, "The two hardest things to work with in CG are water and skin."
"For this project, we had to be really quick in terms of turn around," he explained. "We made use of very complex lighting from the set, adding 3D layers, and a matchmove of her stomach, to make her look pregnant. We took our time at the start to get the recipe right and that paid off in efficiency once we got going. We were soon able to turn around several shots each day."
"Hand-Crafted" Visual Effects
In one central sequence – the wedding of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) – the camera pans around the newlyweds as they embrace. However, due to a minor wrist injury, Stewart was wearing a brace on the day of the shoot. Naturally, the brace had to be removed in post.
"Matchmoving a close-up is a good example of the challenges of organic CG," said Pelletier. "We started with a CG model of the hand and then carefully crafting the rig to create natural motions. Once we had that, every minute movement of the hand had to be matched exactly."
The shot, which is over 300 frames, called for extensive camera tracking and object tracking. Lighting artists at Modus rendered the actor's hand with subsurface scattering to capture the partial translucence of skin and make it look believable.
"Tracking was particularly challenging, because when they were shooting it, they weren't thinking about it as an effects shot. There was no camera metadata for the sequence," Pelletier explained. "The solution was to do a series of careful manual adjustments until we had correctly replicated the light sources on the set. For work like this, it really takes the eye of a skilled artist to get it right."
"Bella is moving in the shot as the camera circles around her," Wilisky added, "She's holding Edward's hand, so we needed to recreate parts of his hand, along with some of the background. It was a highly technical and complex shot, but no one will see any of that when they watch the movie."
The Modus Pipeline
"We have developed a very efficient pipeline for visual effects in live action shots, particularly for aspects such as motion tracking," said Wilisky. Along with in-house proprietary technologies, Modus uses tools such as PFTrack, Mocha Pro and the Nuke 3D package. "The shots we delivered on Twilight are similar to the type of invisible effects work we've done in the past on films like The American, Barney's Version and Jane Eyre. The studios recognize that we have a strong pipeline and that we know how to deliver."
Directed by Bill Condon, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 will be released Nov 18, 2011 by Summit Entertainment. The film stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.
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8 Year Averages Based on Annual Data:
Price/Sales: 1.56
Price/Book Value: 1.41
Net Profit Margin: 7.49%
Dividend Yield: 2.31%
Market Cap: $596 million
Enterprise Value: $718 million
Current Data (2010 Annual)
Price: $699 (11/30 close)
Price/Sales: 1.72
Price/Book Value: 1.48
Net Margin: 7.7%
Dividend Yield: 2.0%
Current Market Cap: $692.7 million
Current Enterprise Value: $857 million
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Phoenix's 'Rock Burglar' sentenced to 20 years
An elusive thief who stole millions of dollars in cash and jewelry from hundreds of Phoenix-area homes over nearly two decades by using rocks to smash through windows was sentenced Wednesday to more than 20 years in prison.
Robert James Neese, 60, of Mayer, Ariz., dubbed the "Rock Burglar," pleaded with the judge to show leniency after his attorney described his troubled childhood, limited education and lack of violent history.
"I want to apologize to the victims. I'm really sorry. I deserve to go to prison. I just don't deserve to die there," Neese said in court Wednesday.
Maricopa County Judge Pamela Svoboda had little to say to Neese, aside from meticulously reciting each count against him and issuing a complex sentence that included multiple prison terms, some to be served consecutively, some concurrently.
In total, less about two years credit for time he has already been behind bars since his arrest, Neese was sentenced to just over 20 years in prison.
Authorities believe Neese was responsible for hundreds of burglaries in affluent neighborhoods dating back to the mid-1990s, including former Vice President Dan Quayle's residence. However, they were only able to connect him using DNA to a string of break-ins starting in 1999.
He was convicted of multiple counts of burglary and other charges in April, then later pleaded guilty to similar charges in a separate 2011 case.
"The only thing that stopped the defendant was the fact that he got arrested," prosecutor Mitchell Rand told the judge. "Twenty years of burglaries. That's what we're talking about ... This is probably the most prolific burglar that we've had in the state of Arizona."
Rand said Neese was also smart, only stealing items from the master bedrooms and bathrooms where burglar alarms weren't active.
"Most people don't have their master bathroom, master bedroom alarmed because if they have to get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom it would set that off," Rand said. "The defendant preyed on those weaknesses."
In emotional testimony, her voice cracking, Gail Gordon described for the judge the sentimental value of roughly $30,000 worth of jewelry stolen from her home in 1996, including her grandmother's silver locket and a gold bracelet she bought herself after having survived cancer.
"I could talk for hours. Seventeen years later I could describe pages and pages of these items that were taken that all had meaning attached to them," Gordon said. "I would give up everything to get any of that back, the meaningful stuff."
Police said the case against Neese took nearly a decade to put together. They had DNA collected from some of the homes, but no one in the system to match it to. Prosecutors obtained a 15-count indictment in 2005 naming "John Doe" as the suspect based on the DNA evidence. Another break came in 2011 when authorities say Neese left behind footprints while stealing more than $12,000 in items from a house.
A month later, Neese was arrested for possessing burglary tools, and police matched his DNA and footprints to the crime scenes.


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Jean Allen Bissett, 69, of Windsor Locks, CT formerly of Colchester, CT, peacefully passed away Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at Kindred Healthcare in Windsor, CT. He was born in Sacramento, CA on March 4, 1945, son of the late Jean Clark Bissett and Glenna Mary (Curry) Bissett, and lived for a number of years in Fair Oaks, CA before moving to Connecticut.
After graduation from Fair Oaks High School, Jean enlisted in the US Army and served during the Vietnam Conflict from 1963-1966. During his military service, he served as one of the original Delta Force Troopers from 1964-1966 and was awarded the Purple Heart, a Silver Star, Vietnam Gallantry Cross Medal, Special Operations Medal, and a Bronze Star.
After marrying his wife, Katherine (Dobrouch) Bissett in Hudson, NY, he moved to Connecticut where he has resided for the past 48 years. He was a retired service manager in the auto industry and was an active member of the Colchester community for many years. He was a Championship Little League coach and held memberships in numerous civic clubs and fraternal organizations including the Jaycees and St. Joseph Polish Society.
Jean loved cars, racing them and working on them. In the late sixties until it closed, he helped run tech inspections at the Connecticut Dragway. He raced in Pure Stock, B Gas Rails, Super Modified, Heads Up (became Pro Stock), and Fuel Funny Cars. He loved NASCAR and any form of racing. Jean was very well versed in most areas and loved to tell stories which sometimes never ended. He loved to gamble and play cards, especially Texas Hold'em, and enjoyed gardening and watching what he planted grow. Jean had a saying, "If it feels good, do it because if you hesitate the moment is lost forever."
Jean leaves his sweetheart and friend for many years, Karen Lee Stevens of Windsor Locks, CT with whom he shared 13 fun and interesting years together; two daughters, Michelle Bissett and her fiancé Anthony Connolly of Colchester, CT and Heidi Bissett and her fiancé Jonathan Trombley of East Lyme, CT; a sister, Bonita "Bonnie" Heckenlively, formerly of Klamath Falls, OR now residing in Texas; and a grandson, Jacob Allen Wylie. He was predeceased by his wife Katherine Bissett in 1977 after 31 years of marriage.
A graveside service under the direction of Nicholson & Carmon Funeral Home, 443 East St., Suffield, CT 06078 was held at 11 a.m., Friday (July 11, 2014) at St. Joseph Cemetery in Suffield, CT. Memorial donations may be made to the Wounded Warrior project, P.O. Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675.
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Hallmark Inn Manchester with smiling, friendly staff, free Wi-Fi throughout, ample secured parking charged at £5 per day. Selected rates including our Fantastic Full English & Continental Breakfast. Relax in our spacious en-suite rooms, all include flat screen TVs and tea & coffee making facilities.
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