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Cal Ripken Jr.
News about Cal Ripken Jr., including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Highlights from the Archives
At Hall of Fame, Day Dedicated to Two Icons
The induction of Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday was notable primarily because no one mentioned Barry Bonds's race catch Hank Aaron.July 30, 2007 sportsNews
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BASEBALL; After 2,632 Games in a Row, Orioles' Ripken Sits One Out
Cal Ripken, who had not missed a game since 1982, removed himself from the Baltimore Orioles' lineup here tonight after playing in 2,632 consecutive games. Ripken walked into the office of Manager Ray Miller about half an hour before the Orioles' game with the Yankees and said, ''I think the time is right.''September 21, 1998 nytfrontpageNews
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BASEBALL; After 2,130 Games, Mr. Ripken Meets Mr. Gehrig
Baseball, a sport that memorializes not only its heroes but also their vaunted numbers, celebrated with Cal Ripken tonight as the Baltimore Orioles' indefatigable shortstop matched a legend and a record many thought would never be broken: Lou Gehrig and his consecutive-game playing streak of 2,130. Ripken's achievement, 13-plus years and running, was punctuated by a series of standing ovations and a home run he hit in the sixth inning of the Orioles' 8-0 victory over the California Angels.September 6, 1995 sportsNews
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Ripken Ties Errorless Mark as Orioles Win
LEAD: Cal Ripken Jr. tied a major league record with his 88th consecutive errorless game at shortstop and drove in two runs with a first-inning double tonight as the Baltimore Orioles beat the Chicago White Sox, 4-1.July 20, 1990 sportsNews
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SPORTS PEOPLE; Father Knows Best
LEAD: Cal Ripken Sr.'s reason for ending Cal Ripken Jr.'s consecutive inning streak at 8,243 was simple.September 16, 1987 sportsNews
Red Sox Acquire Carson Smith From Mariners
Boston further bolstered its bullpen, agreeing to a trade with Seattle for Smith and Roenis Elias while dealing starter Wade Miley and reliever Jonathan Aro.
December 8, 2015, Tuesday
Kevin Spacey and Cal Ripken Jr. to Team Up for Fund-Raising Gala
Philanthropic advisers say there isn't a great track record of charities working together, but the stars' foundations hope to overcome the odds.
September 5, 2015, Saturday
For a Parting Gift, Do You Want a Grapefruit or a Meatball?
If Adam Wainwright did Derek Jeter a favor by giving him an easy pitch to hit in Jeter's final All-Star Game appearance on Tuesday night, he has company, at least in folklore.
July 17, 2014, Thursday
A Stock Market Streak That Has Drawn Few Cheers
Few investors may have noticed, but every day in 2012, and in the early days of 2013, the S.& P. 500 has closed in positive territory for the calendar year.
January 6, 2013, Sunday
On Ripken's Night, Buzz Is Back at Camden Yards
On the anniversary of the night Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig's record, the Yankees were in town and Baltimore was again a contender.
September 7, 2012, Friday
Ripken's Mother Safe After Being Kidnapped
Cal Ripken Jr.'s 74-year-old mother was found with her hands bound in the back seat of her car Wednesday after being kidnapped at gunpoint a day earlier, the police and neighbors said.
July 26, 2012, Thursday
Advice for Jeter From One Who's Been There
Cal Ripken says Derek Jeter should contain his emotions and keep an open mind as he goes forward from 3,000 hits.
July 14, 2011, Thursday
Q&A With Cal Ripken Jr.
Cal Ripken Jr. has added a new title to his post-retirement list: children's book author.
March 18, 2011, Friday
Baseball's Ironman Gets on With Life
Cal Ripken talks about his life during and after his baseball career.
July 11, 2010, Sunday
Sincere Flattery With a Baseball Bat
Gar Ryness, who made a name for himself imitating big-league batting stances on the Web, lists his favorite players to see in the batter's box.
May 9, 2010, Sunday
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I wanted to share Hallie's cookbook with you today (and one of our favorite recipes from it) because I happen to think Hallie's cookbook is perfect as we head into Summer's beautiful bounty of fresh fruits and veggies.
The Pure Kitchen is loaded with simple and nutritious recipes – recipes you could serve to your friends, your family – and no one would even notice that the gluten and the dairy are missing. Hallie focuses on pure ingredients and uses real food to make delicious dishes.
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Black Bean and Quinoa Patties
This recipe is a hit at our house. Callum LOVES them and that makes me happy!
Reprinted with permission from Hallie.
1 (15 ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
1 ¼ cups cooked quinoa, cooled to room temperature or refrigerated
2 garlic cloves
2 medium scallions, roughly chopped (white and green parts)
¼ cup fresh cilantro or flat-leaf parsley
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 tablespoon brown rice flour or sorghum flour
1 ½ teaspoons ground cumin
¾ teaspoon chili powder
½ teaspoon sea salt
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
Large lettuce leaves
In a food processor fitted with the steel blade, combine the black beans, quinoa, garlic, scallions, cilantro, tomato paste, flour, cumin, chili powder, and sea salt. Process until just combined, 15-20 seconds.
Form the mixture into four 1/2 –inch thick patties of equal size. Arrange the patties on a parchment-lined plate and freeze, uncovered for 20-30 minutes.
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Serves 4 – Vegan, nut-free
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Family secrets can bind and destroy
Kate is ready to put her nomadic, city-dwelling past behind her when she marries Joe Krause and moves with him to the Iowa farm that has been in his family for more than 140 years. But life on the farm isn't quite as idyllic as she'd hoped. It's filled with chores, judgmental neighbors, and her mother-in-law, who--unbeknownst to Kate until after the wedding--will be living with them.
As Kate struggles to find her place in the small farming community, she begins to realize that her husband and his family are not who she thought they were. According to town gossip, the Krause family harbors a long-kept secret about a mysterious death that haunts Kate as a dangerous, unexplainable chain of events begins.
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Herman Seedorf, plant manager for PBF Energy's Delaware City refinery, publicly apologized to Middletown's mayor and council and those in attendance at council's monthly meeting Monday evening for the strong odors that wafted from the plant over into the town's borders Feb. 5.
The odor that was released into the air was caused by a substance called Mercaptan, which is used in small quantities to odorize natural gas, Seedorf said.
"We had some Mercaptan wind up in our storm sewer," he said. "It was only a few gallons, but from the storm sewer, it was then processed into our waste water, and from there it tends to odorize."
Seedorf said if an incident like this occurs, refinery officials perform a root-cause analysis in order to fully understand what caused the problem and how the company can make sure it does not happen again.
"I want to personally apologize for you and your residents for that event," Seedorf told the town council. "We've operated pretty well up until then, but that one was something we would have preferred not to happen.
"I can commit to you that we've done our best to make sure that will not happen again," he added.
Vice-Mayor Jim Reynolds asked Seedorf if, in the event a similar incident does happen, whether there is an alert that will go out to the refinery's surrounding communities.
"We were flooded with phone calls, the school district was flooded with phone calls, and in turn, they called us," Reynolds explained. "The fire company was out riding all around town trying to locate the smell. Is there going to be an alert put out to the town so that everyone isn't riding around town looking for this thing?"
Seedorf and the refinery's community relations manager Lisa Lindsey, said that Lindsey now has a system in place in which she would put in a call to the Town of Middletown's public information officer Kristen Krenzer, who would then disseminate the information to the Middletown community.
Seedorf also encouraged Middletown-area residents to call the refinery's 24-hour hotline if they have any questions or concerns. The hotline is accessible at (302) 834-6200.
Tours of the refinery are also available, Seedorf said.
"Many times, these refineries develop a mystique to them, that there's something beyond those gates that people should be worried about," he said. "If you come to the refinery, we'll give you a tour and show you what's going on inside."
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Walking: Salt Lake City hopes to change, a new title in the Wilderness Press Walking series, caters to tourists who have never been to Salt Lake along with locals who have forgotten the beauty of city.
Authors Lynn Arave and Ray Boren, who have enjoyed longtime careers writing and photographing for area media, co-wrote the book. Both worked at the Deseret News where Lynn was a writer and editor for 31 years while Ray was an award-winning photographer and occasional writer.
The book includes 34 walking tours of well-known locales such as Temple Square, 9th and 9th and Capitol Hill, along with some secluded and forgotten locations like the Miller Bird Preserve and the appropriately named Hidden Hollow.
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This book caters to the bustling family of four and the cute couple looking for a romantic picnic spot. It also features local restaurants as well as some chain restaurants that are convenient to the walks.
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Photo of Jazmine Sullivan at STEVEN (c) Donna Ward
By Mawuse Ziegbe
When I'm not camping out in craptastic bars in the LES or at a concert furiously scratching notes like a geekazoid, I daydream about the most fantastical situations. Maybe one day I'm making Smores with Amy Winehouse. Maybe I'm taking a magic carpet ride with Diddy. Maybe I'm shaving Common's head. Or maybe, just maybe, I'm in the Midwest having the bestest time in a truly underrated city. Last week, I went to Detroit on business which is like Narnia for cheap beer-swilling, early '90s dance addicts like myself. God bless the Motor City Casino Hotel where the driveway is lit up with a maze of rainbow lights like so many glittering Quaaludes. Ce Ce Peniston and Crystal Waters jams are pumped throughout the lobby and the rooms look like the set of a J. Lo video. I partied with some friends at an "apartment" (which, after living in "cozy" NYC apartments, looked like an airport hangar) that held a boutique, a DJ booth and a mess of bedrooms. People were cheery, the music was good and when it wasn't good, it didn't matter because alcohol in the Midwest basically costs a hug and a kiss.
But New York is the only place you will find buxom soul singers sweatin' out a shoe store full of beautiful people. Our precious Giant Step orchestrated another throwdown at Steve Madden's LES outpost which was swarmed by rapturous Jazmine Sullivan acolytes who knocked over precarious stiletto displays. It was a short 3-song set which she ended with her balmy reggae single, "Need U Bad." Music heads who have been waiting for her time in the sun and newly enchanted well-wishers were all pouting for more. But children, she is going on tour which, by the by, is fronted by MAXWELL!! I mean, THE Maxwell – in all his singing-naked-in-the-bathtub, Afro-and-sideburns-before-it-was-cool, making-songs-for-sex-scenes-of-every-Sanaa Lathan-movie-since -1995 glory, – is actually coming to your city! You can pay to watch him gyrate for a few hours and maybe touch his head or something if you camp outside the tour bus. With Maxwell, John Legend and Raphael Saadiq on the road, 2008 is officially the year of the intellectual groupie.
2008 is also the two-year anniversary of one my favorite bars, Home Sweet Home. It's basically an unmarked, unfinished basement packed with taxidermy and a broken disco ball. But its appeal is the reckless, sensual and, if I may, crackity sensibility that makes downtown NYC so legendary. I've had nights where one minute I'm teaching some hipsters the Soulja Boy and the next I'm vomiting onto a stuffed weasel. So, of course the anniversary party had to reflect that psycho glamour with complimentary Patrón and a giant moose ice sculpture which doubled as a shot luge. Resident performers Sweatshop Labor and Young Lords held court and even smiley trip-hop vocalist Sia came out for a drink and a dance. And yes, I got a little reckless, sensual and crackity.
However, more than taxidermy and making up adjectives, the hottest thing in the streets right now is the election debates. When they plucked that Sarah Palin woman from Baby Siberia, I thought she must have been a brainy, ambitious, innovative politician who could really shake up the stodgy and grim Republican ticket. Instead, we have this aging beauty queen with prom hair and a foreign policy perspective that's seemingly informed by Rainbow Brite. I wish I could skip through the most important test of my life winking and giving shout-outs to 8 year-olds. Maybe, just maybe…if I keep dreaming.


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My wish to go to Sicily began with an image from my grandmother. She described an ancient Greek temple built of pink stone, at the edge of the Mediterranean, set in the midst of "wild stretches of earth . . . dappled & dimpled with small sweet things—valerian—muscari & small sultry poppies—all stridently in bloom." She was an artist from Boston who painted under her maiden name, Margarett Sargent, and she wrote those words from Sicily in a letter I found while researching The White Blackbird, the book I wrote about her life. She went to Sicily in the spring of 1954; now, 55 years later, Margarett was sending me. I'd embark on a nine-day trip that would start in Palermo, then take me through the temples and ruins of Segesta, Selinunte, Agrigento and Taormina.
My grandmother was always a force in my creative life, but the message was decidedly mixed. A gifted sculptor who became a modernist painter, Margarett had nine much-praised one-woman shows in six years, only to stop painting in her early forties. As a young writer I often found myself blocked, and of course my grandmother's fate came to mind. I needed to know what had happened to her, and one day when she was in her eighties, I got up my nerve. "Why did you stop?" I asked. "It got too intense," she answered. You can see intensity in her highly colored, angular paintings, but she was also referring to something else, an undertow of manic-depressive illness for which she was first hospitalized in her fifties. No one would have predicted a tragic life for the brilliant young woman who at 17 escaped the suffocation of a Boston Brahmin childhood by persuading her par-ents to send her to finishing school in Florence. She came back "crazy for Donatello" and set about becoming an artist. By the 1920s, she was a young mother of four, exhibiting her sculpture and paintings in New York and traveling several weeks a year in Europe with my grandfather.
When I was a child, the grandmother I knew was often hospitalized for depression, but when she emerged she wrote me wonderful letters on brown butcher paper in odd-colored inks. And every birthday present was unusual: at eight, a red jacket from France; at 13, a green satin evening bag.
I was 20 when I planned my first trip to Europe, and it was only natural that I would seek her out. Even though she was bedridden from a series of strokes, Margarett remained glamorous—yellow sheets, a hot pink coverlet, the walls crowded with paintings and drawings. "Go to Florence," she told me. "Make sure you see the Donatellos!" My eccentric grandmother was teaching me to travel like an artist, to find in what I saw something I could carry away with me.
Now I was following her lead again. My trip to Sicily would not be about the food, the Mafia or the sea, but about ruins and architecture, landscapes and traces of Magna Graecia, as ancient Sicily was called when it was colonized by the Greeks. It was a familiar feeling, being led by Margarett's imagination, although I am no longer 20 but in my early sixties, close to the age Margarett was when she went to Sicily. Earlier in my life, it had been easy to identify with a young woman who had her life ahead of her, but how would I, for decades a working writer, connect with the grandmother who had left her art behind?
My sister Rosemary is my traveling companion, and since this is my first trip to Sicily we're spending a couple of nights in Palermo before setting off to see the ruins. We hire a guide for a day, and as she navigates the narrow streets in her small car, she gives us a summary of Sicily's history, the indigenous Sicans and Sicels, and the waves of invaders and colonizers Sicilians call the strangers: Greeks, refugees from Troy, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs and the Normans who crowned an emperor named Count Roger.
We're on our way to the Cathedral of Monreale, on the outskirts of Palermo, and as we drive, the landscape opens to a valley that is now part of the city; I'm imagining it thick with orange groves as it was 50 years ago when Margarett's driver took her up this very road. When she reached Sicily, Margarett had not painted or traveled for 20 years. She was looking for a new life, whereas I, depleted by a year touring for a successful book, am wondering how to make my way back to writing.
Later, driving through farmland toward Segesta, the site of the first Greek temple on our itinerary, I remind myself that I have been a writer for nearly four decades, one of a generation of women whose work and activism have helped make a story like Margarett's nearly obsolete. And yet I am still always apprehensive before I start something new. Right then the road sign for Segesta interrupts my reverie, and I see it: a flash of pink and columns.
The day is gray, which makes the landscape all the more luscious, and the temple seems to rise like a vision as weapproach it. Its appearance is so unexpected that, in spite of the ticket booth, I almost believe Rosemary and I are the first modern people ever to climb thishill. I still expect a Greek temple to be white, but this one is quite definitely pink, a golden-hued pink. I take my time, relishing forest, meadow and mountain. It's late in the day, so there's no one here but us, and there's a haunting feeling of loneliness. This mountain-side was once the fierce city of Segesta, and the temple, built in the fifth century BC, was first restored at the end of the eighteenth century. The vista changes as I circle, the landscape framed differently by successive pairs of massive but graceful columns.
The next morning we head out for Cave di Cusa, where the stone for the temples at Selinunte, Segesta's rival city in antiquity, was quarried. My idea of a quarry is a pond in New England cut steeply from granite, and as we walk a meadow carpeted with wildflowers, gnarled olive trees evoking the past, that's what I look for. And then we come upon a massive drum of stone set in a clearing, which I realize is a section of column. Birdsong and the silence make it seem so innocent in contrast to its enormity—its height and width much greater than I am tall. No excavation has been done here, the guidebook tells me. Beyond the next olive grove, I find a fluted column still within the envelope of stone from which it was being mined. All work ceased one morning in 409 BC when stoneworkers, startled by the thunderous sound of the Carthaginians' invading army, dropped their tools. The city fell in nine days, sacked and burned to the ground, its people sold into slavery.
It's hard to summon images of carnage when the bleached golden ruins of Selinunte come into view. Recon-struction did not take place until the late 1950s, so Margarett would not have seen the temple gorgeous against a blue sky on this grassy hill. On another rise, just a few columns emerge from massive rubble, as if the temple were awakening from a sleep of millennia. As we tour the skeleton of a vast city, I imagine crowds of merchants and shoppers and, at the almost intact Sanctuary of Demeter Malphoros, worshippers carrying tiny votive images of the goddess, examples of which we'll see the following day in the archaeological museum in Agrigento.
At Agrigento, ruins of temples and an ancient garden crown a hill, now a park called Valle dei Templi (Valley of the Temples), from which you can see the modern city, built from the same pinkish stone. Margarett posed for a now lost photograph at the Temple of Concord, the most complete of the structures, and as I approach, I picture her between its columns, tall and dressed in black. I spend hours there watching the light change on the ancient stone.
Our second morning, I rouse myself at five, leaving my sister asleep. "I saw them in many different hours & lights," Margarett had written of the temples. Driving in the darkness, I am startled when the Temple of Heracles, a sequence of columns at the summit of the hill, blazes into view, still illuminated, orange against the black sky, the moon silvery and small. Leaving the car, I breathe in the cool air, standing there as dawn opens the sky to blue, the hills turn bright green and, their artificial light suddenly turned off, the columns fade to golden pink. If I can just hold this vision—"ever changing temporal geometry," I write in my notebook, "against an eternity of sky."
Taormina, said to be the most romantic place in Sicily, was on Margarett's list, and I have chosen it for our last two days. A legendary seaside resort, it offers a heart-stopping craggy shoreline—one offshore island is called, simply, Isola Bella, "beautiful island." In the distance is Mount Etna, the still fuming volcano that had its most serious eruption in 1669 and was known to the ancients as the forge of Vulcan, the god of fire.
After settling in at the San Domenico, a hotel built as a monastery in the fifteenth century with a view of the water, we visit the Greek theater, built into the side of a hill, the sea flashing azure in the distance, the columns of the stage framing what would have been a magnificent view of Etna, had it not been fogged in. It wasn't until dark, when I slipped out onto my balcony to take in a breath of the fragrant air, that I saw evidence of the volcano, the distant orange of molten lava through the dark. "A jagged scribble of fire," I wrote in my notebook, feeling suddenly the surge that comes when my imagination hooks up to a possible image.
I wondered what Margarett would have been thinking seeing these same sights. She never resumed painting and never had another exhibition during her lifetime. I've known that forever, but here, now, after a life full of the satisfactions of writing and teaching young writers, thinking about her life makes me terribly sad. This image of fire may not turn up in my writing, but I know that I will find my way again to my desk and to the wonderful silence that tells me I'm going to start another poem or write another book.
Etna is still fogged in the next morning when we take an exploratory walk down the Via Bagnoli Croce toward the ocean, only to stumble upon an unexpected marvel: the public gardens. Set overlooking the sea, the park is a maze of cedar, palm and exotic plants, and its pathways are a mosaic of multicolored pebbles. Half-hidden are Victorian follies, small houses for picnics or tea parties, constructed of bits of lava, stone and architectural fragments that reprise Sicily's heritage: the Greek, the Arabic, the Roman. Exotic ducks swim in a tiny pond, and a flock of green parrots resides in one of the follies. When I step out to the palisade, I can almost see Margarett gazing at the changing light of the Mediterranean. "Nothing equalled the day I left," she wrote, "when the sea looked like a maddened opal—still & wild simultaneously. Everything excites me so superbly here . . . "
Driving away from Taormina, I know I will someday return to Sicily, if only to see Mount Etna freed of its shroud of fog. As I left the hotel, I asked a man with an iPhone to e-mail me a picture if the mountain became visible. When I arrived at the Rome airport and turned on my BlackBerry, there it was! Against the bluest sky, Taormina in the foreground, was Mount Etna blanketed with the whitest snow, looking nothing like the volcano I'd imagined when I'd seen those flames in the darkness.
Honor Moore's Sicily
Getting there I flew to Rome, and from Rome to Palermo on Air One, then returned via Catania. To get around Sicily, I rented a car (europcar.it) in Palermo, returning it at Catania.
Where to stay In Palermo, check out the Grand Hotel et des Palmes (despalmes.hotelsinsicily.it). Wagner completed Parsifal there. It has just been renovated, and it's an easy walk to restaurants, shops and sights. If you go to Selinunte, consider Villa Sogno (sicilybedandbreakfast.villasogno.it). Rooms are small but amusingly decorated, and there is a pool in a lovely garden of olive and citrus. In Agrigento, we stayed at Fattoria Mosé (fattoriamose.com), an organic farm complete with a beautiful chapel. The farm harvests olives, citrus, pistachios, almonds, fruits and vegetables, and has been in the same family for 200 years. When in Taormina, book the San Domenico Palace Hotel (sandomenicopalace.hotelsinsicily .it). But note that food there is not as good as at the profusion of local restaurants.
Where to eat Even though my trip wasn't about the food, eating in Sicily is an experience not to be missed—the fish and produce are spectacularly fresh. In Selinunte, reserve a table at Baffo's Castle, Castelvetrano. I had delicious "pesto Siciliana"—basil, tomato, olive oil and a touch of tuna. If you visit the temples of Agrigento, check out Kókalos, a lovely restaurant that serves wonderful fish. In Taormina, try La Botte Trattoria, which is a short walk from the San Domenico Palace Hotel, and order the delectable pasta con aglio e olio, which is accented with very thin slices of red and green pepperoncini. —H.M.
Honor Moore's book The White Blackbird is now out in paperback, as is her memoir, The Bishop's Daughter.
For pictures from her trip, click here.


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I am going to have to come clean here. I go through "phases" with cinnamon and minty candies. Some months I really enjoy them, others I can't stand the thought of them. Right now I'm on the "blech" phase, but I knew I had to review these soon. I bit the bullet and did my tasting against why my appetite said. It wasn't a bad as I feared, but it also wasn't as awesome as when I'm craving them. That being said, these are Hot Tamale's Fire and Ice candies. They both come in separate packages, and I don't know how else to say this other then these are old. Very old. Older than some edible candies should be. Still, I have a duty to my fellow candy lovers, and I needed to find out what these things tasted like. Old or not. So here we go…
It's an intense black package with flames on it that says "cinnamon charged". It's a very striking wrapper, it totally stands out next to the red of the regular Hot Tamales candy. To be honest I really don't remember where on earth I found these. It might have been a discount dollar store? All I know was that it was a freak sighting and it's been in my candy stash far too long now.
The candies are the same shape as Mike and Ike. Oblong with one side flattened and the other more pointed and round. The color is of an intense cherry red with a nice gloss to them.
The smell ever so slighy of cinnamon, barely noticeable.
The flavor is immediately of cinnamon. Very, very intense cinnamon. It gets to the flavor point where it does feel like it's "burning" some, but you feel it more as you swallow than when you chew it in your mouth. The flavor and burn quickly disappears from your mouth once the candy is finished, so it's not something that will have you guzzling water (or rather milk, since water does nothing towards capsaicin, which I doubt is in here anyways) afterwards to rid yourself of the heat.
Tasty for sure, and a good pick if you're into the cinnamon jelly beans and perhaps looking for something more intense.
I do happen to remember where I bout these. I found them in a gas station mart while on weekend trip in Riverside, CA. It wasn't until I got them in the car that I realized that the expiration date read September 2008. Whoops.
They smell sweet and lightly peperminty, like toothpaste. I was surprised the scent wasn't strong, but it's possible since they're past the "best by" date that they would have smelled stronger in their prime.
The candies are this strange bright light blue color. They're very opaque, and some even had white speckles on them. Again, I am not sure if age is a factor in this or not.
The texture was immediately off as they were much denser and chewier than other fresher hot tamales I've had. These were thick and sticky on my teeth. The flavor starts out peperminty and lighty sweet at first, then a big hit of fresh, clean peppermint washes in. That creshendo didn't last long and it mellowed out into this minty, oddly fake fruity taste. I'm not quite sure what to make of it.
Fire and Ice Hot Tamales were interesting. I probably would have enjoyed them more if I had fresh specimens. Sometimes that's how it works though, since some candies come and go so quickly. I'm still happy that I got to try them before they disappeared forever.
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Review: Glacier Cyclocross Glove
Submitted by David on
From the GlacierGlove website:
Cold, wet, and muddy. This glove was designed to keep the back of your hand warm yet allow the palms to breath on the bars. The Basics for Cyclocross racing. Breathable palms and weather resistant back. This glove is a toned down version of the Premium Cyclocross Glove. Good for cold, wet weather and great for helping manage your body heat.
I have used this glove now a few times and I will have to say I really love it. My hands get cold relatively easily and take a while to warm up. The palms of the gloves do breathe nicely and help regulate your hand temperature. The times I used this glove the temperature has ranged from 35F to 50F. The sweet spot for this glove is right around 45F.
If you have ever tried the original Glacier cycling gloves these are very different. The original gloves did not breathe very well and I felt it would take awhile for my hands to warm up. My hands would then sweat and get cold. These gloves are much thinner and breathe nicely. I would highly recommend these gloves for cool weather racing conditions.
You can buy them online.
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No one makes a glove that
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
No one makes a glove that works well under 25. Period.
Yes, I'm trolling in the hopes that someone can prove me wrong.
Points: 17
For the non-believers
Submitted by Kris Thompson on
For the non believers in gloves below 25 there was an awesome product at Interbike this year of heated grips and bar tap. So when gloves can't do it, the heated grips/tape can make up the difference. They are suppose to send us a pair to test but since we haven't gotten them by now my guess is they aren't sending them.
Points: 25
Below 25 Degrees - Glove Choice
Submitted by David on
I think the only glove that works when the temperature drops below 25 is a lobster glove.
I have ridden in sub 25 degree weather plenty of times and the lobster mitt is the only thing that can keep my hands warm.
Points: 19
I use chemical hand warmer
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
I use chemical hand warmer packs in my lobster gloves when it's 25 or below. I read Georgia Gould uses a battery-powered heated glove for training when it's really cold.
Points: 22
I use the lobsters, but I
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
I use the lobsters, but I have to go full mitten when below 25 (err 22). Makes shifting a challenge!
I have used the chempacks inside and they do help but they are one use.
303 had a link to a balm company a few weeks back. I looked at the sight briefly. Anyone with knowledge of handbalms?
Link to the battery glove that Georgia uses?
Double cork tape helps so I am sure that heated grips would help but probably not solve the issue.
Sign, Bare Legs, Wimpy hands
Points: 25
Oh I think heated hand grips would really hit the spot
Submitted by Kris Thompson on
As I see it, the problem with wimpy hands (you are not alone) is once they get cold then you are screwed, blood flow slows and it takes a lot of body heat to return them to life BUT with heated grips they can provide heat to the hands (they have different levels of heat) so if they get cold, crank it up, get heat back to your hands, get the blood flowing again and then turn the heat back down. Gloves and chemical heat pads are great but there is no variability to it.
Kris Thompson
Points: 18
I bike all winter and full
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
I bike all winter and full mittens are the way to go in the 20's. Keeping the digits fully functional and comfy is the most important cuz once the hands go numb, riding a bike becomes pretty dangerous.
Points: 21
I have both the original
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
I have both the original glacier glove and the premium (with fleece lining). Original is worthless when it's cold - you're better off wearing dish gloves under your regular cycling gloves. The premium version is pretty good for a short (45 min) race in cold and wet conditions. Keep your hands toasty warm in big gloves right until the start, then put on the glacier gloves and go hard to stay warm. Change immediately after the race back into something warm.
Points: 9
Warm Arms = Warm Hands
Submitted by KSinMT (not verified) on
My hands never used to get cold...but I must be getting older. I used to ride fingerless in the 40's and full finger summer gloves in the 30's. I've shifted that by about 10 degrees now. Still I don't pull out insulated gloves until it hits the low 30's. The key for me is keeping my arms a little warmer. All of that nice warm blood from your core cools down before it gets to your hands so there is no way to warm them back up. Next time you ride in the cold, add a layer to your arms. Thermal or wind-proof arm warmers are ideal. Let your core cool, but keep your extremities toasty. I've also found that it helps with limit fatigue in my forearms.
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The New Brunswick government has filed an appeal of the "cross-border" liquor case that was decided last month (the Comeau case) and which held that provincial liquor laws could not impede the "free trade zone" guaranteed by s.121 of the Constitution. The appeal goes directly to the New Brunswick Court of Appeal (skipping an intermediate level of court) and contends that the judge made errors of law in interpreting s.121. One of the primary appeal arguments is that the judge did not follow older decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada that interpreted s.121 in a much more restrictive manner. The CBC news report on the appeal is here: New Brunswick appeals cross-border liquor case. The appeal is not surprising given the importance of the issues in this case.
In what could prove to be a groundbreaking decision of immense importance to the Canadian wine industry, a New Brunswick judge has found today that provincial laws that restrict the interprovincial transport of liquor are unconstitutional. The judge found that s.121 of the Constitution which guarantees a free trade zone within Canada does not allow provinces to create laws that prevent Canadians from transporting liquor from another province. It is not currently binding on other provinces because it is the decision of a NB trial court. However, if it is appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, which seems all but certain, then it may eventually become binding across the country. Even now, it will likely be influential because there is now a precedent for other Canadian jurisdictions, if not a binding one. I note that all Canadian provinces have some form of laws, regulations or policies that inhibit the interprovincial trade in alcohol (Manitoba is the least restrictive). All of these restrictions are now vulnerable to a similar challenge.
This case may become Canada's Granholm (a case which opened up the U.S. market to direct to consumer wine shipping). This may be the start of a new era when Canadians from one part of the country will be able to legally purchase wine, or other alcohol, from another part of the country just as most people in the world are able to do. This is a very significant development for the Canadian wine industry because it may transform their markets from customers in a single province to all of the residents of the entire country.
Here is a link to the full decision: NB Liquor case.
From a wine lawyer's perspective, 2016 is shaping up to be what could be an exciting year in Canada. There are two significant court cases likely to be decided this year, from opposite sides of the country. Either one of these cases could significantly change the regulatory landscape for the wine industry in Canada.
In this sense, Canada could see a decision which may eventually have "Granholm-like" significance. Granholm v. Heald was the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision that opened the U.S. wine market to direct to consumer shipping by holding that a state could not discriminate against out of state wineries if it allowed in-state wineries to direct ship to consumers. In the recent Silicon Valley Bank "State of the Industry 2016" report, it was commented that the U.S. wine industry "really dodged a bullet" due to the Granholm decision because the decision "knocked the legs out from protectionist state laws that favored in-state wine producers". The subsequent rapid expansion of the direct-to-consumer wine market greatly helped small wineries who found it difficult to obtain distribution because of a consolidation of distributors and the growth of grocery/big-box wine sales.
The first Canadian case is the New Brunswick case of R. v. Comeau. In this case, Mr. Comeau crossed over the provincial border from his home province of New Brunswick to purchase some beer and spirits in Quebec, where they are cheaper. He was nabbed by the RCMP on the way back. Rather than paying the fine, he chose to fight the charges. As a result, a constitutional challenge has now been made to the New Brunswick law that prevented Mr. Comeau from importing the alcohol. The details of the case are here: Canada's Complex Liquor Laws Under Spotlight in N.B. Trial. This case was argued last year and a decision is expected this spring.
The second case is more recent. Up until last year, Alberta's taxation system for alcohol was non-discriminatory. All alcohol was subject to "flat tax" (volume based) markups that applied equally regardless of where the alcohol was produced. However, in the most recent Alberta budget, the NDP government chose to depart from the previous approach and to apply lower markups to beer that was produced by craft breweries in those provinces that had signed the New West Partnership (BC, AB, SK). Craft beer produced in other provinces is now subject to higher markups. Predictably, Ontario's craft breweries were not pleased. One such brewery, Toronto's Steam Whistle Brewery, was sufficiently upset to hire legal counsel and to take action (details here: Steam Whistle Granted Injunction Against Alberta's Protectionist Beer Tax). They have subsequently obtained an injunction to delay the imposition of the discriminatory markups until such time as a full hearing is held. A court date has now been set for July of this year, at which it is expected that a constitutional argument will be made that one province cannot impose discriminatory markups on alcohol products produced in another province. This is a very similar argument to the one that was successful in Granholm.
If one or both of these cases is successful, there could be "Granholm-like" effects for the wine industry and for Canada's liquor boards. If restrictive inter-provincial liquor transport laws are struck down in the Comeau case, then Canadians may become free to order wine and other alcohol from anywhere in the country. If discriminatory provincial markup policies are struck down in the Steam Whistle case, then Canadian liquor boards will no longer be able to impose taxes or markups on out of province producers that they do not apply to in-province producers. The latter development would fundamentally change BC's current policies since they currently exempt BC producers from liquor board markups on many products.
There will be a full discussion of the above cases at the BC Wine & Liquor Law Conference in Vancouver on Monday, February 22nd ... including a presentation from the lawyers that argued the Comeau case in New Brunswick.
Wine media in Washington state is reporting on a Bill that would increase the number of secondary (off-site) tasting rooms for WA wineries to a new maximum of four: see Washington Wineries Ask Legislature for More Tasting Rooms. Secondary tasting rooms have proved to be extremely successful in Washington since a legislative change in 2000 which introduced the current allowance of two off-site tasting rooms per winery. The change allowed wineries to locate tasting rooms either in downtown wine area towns (e.g. Walla Walla) or closer to urban markets (e.g. Woodinville, which now has 130 tasting rooms just northeast of Seattle). These changes have meant that wineries could increase sales in their DTC channel which is, by far, the most profitable retail channel for the wine industry. Meanwhile, here in B.C., the provincial government has accepted a recommendation of the liquor policy review that secondary tasting rooms should be permitted. However, to date, there has been no announced timeline for implementation and wineries are unable to operate even a single off-site tasting location.
The Toronto Star is reporting the details this morning of the Ontario government's plan to roll out wine sales in supermarkets: Ontario Uncorks Plan for Supermarkets. The plan calls for a phased roll-out of wine sales in supermarkets with an equal number of licenses to be issued at each stage for: a) "Ontario-only" wine, and for b) the sale of all international wines. In the first year, 35 licenses of each type would be issued (70 total). In 2019, 40 more licenses of each type would be issued (80 more for a cumulative total of 150). At the end of the phase-in period, all licenses would permit the sale of all types of wine. There is no limit to the number of licenses eventually issued. The licenses would permit the sale of wine on regular supermarket shelves (does not require segregated store within a store). The issues surrounding this plan and BC's supermarket plan will be discussed at the upcoming Wine Law Conference in Vancouver, to be held on February 20th. Please attend the conference for a full analysis of the issues.


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Spearfish, S.D. – Dakota Athletic Conference officials announced today that senior quarterback Drew Hodgs was named Dakota Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week and senior linebacker Forest Sainsbury was named Dakota Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week.
Hodgs threw five touchdown passes in the Yellow Jackets' 48-17 victory at Mayville State. He was 15 of 23 for 261 yards and had no interceptions. Sainsbury had four tackles-for-a-loss including two sacks on Saturday. He ended the game with seven solo tackles and two assist tackles.
"Both Drew (Hodgs) and Forest (Sainsbury) deserved to win these awards this week," said head coach Jay Long. "Drew got our offense going and Forest was a force on defense."
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Cyclist hit on Deer Creek Canyon this morning
Submitted by Kris Thompson on
From a friend on Facebook... a developing story!
"Today's ride was anything but fun. Around 9:00AM our morning group ride was heading up S. Deer Creek Canyon Rd when a motorist pulled up behind us and began to honk his horn incessantly. Then he sped up and rammed into one the cyclists smashing his bicycle and dragging him under the car. The man got out of his car, started swearing to no one in particular and then took the bicycle and threw it off the road. Notice the man's face as he doesn't have a care in the world. Not once did he apologize or seem to show any remorse."
Updates below
- Rider was Bryon Nix USAC results & ACA results 2011 Colorado Masters Road Champion (and a whole lot more)
- Driver did stay on the scene and the state patrol showed up.
- Riders condition is not serious BUT more tests are to be done
- Denver Post has picked up the story.
- The Driver is apparently the grandson of a former USA President
- This will be on 9News tonight, here is their version
- Denver 7 News picked this up as well
Byron Nix on the ground after the incident
Statement from Thecyclist-lawyer.com
"This accident had the potential to be very, very bad -even life threatening, the way Byron's bike was sucked up into the front wheel of the truck -we are so grateful it wasn't worse than it was. We are also very grateful to the first responders for their prompt action in getting him to the ER, and to the Colorado State Patrol for responding to the scene and investigating and appropriately citing the driver. I'd also like to commend the cyclists on scene for their self restraint. I'm sure it wasn't easy to remain calm and collected with the driver standing there, but Byron's teammates did the right thing by taking photographs of everything and by remaining calm. Inciting an altercation would not have helped Byron or his case and would only have served to further increase tensions among residents/motorists in Deer Creek Canyon and cyclists who ride there."
Tips for Cyclists
- What to do if you are in an Accident
- Colorado Bike Accident Cards
- Insurance struggles if you are in an accident
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Sounds like intent to commit
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Sounds like intent to commit murder with a deadly weapon.
Points: 7
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Should have boxed that attempted murderers head in.
Points: 39
The self control of Byron's
Submitted by migd89 (not verified) on
The self control of Byron's teammates should be praised, not lauded. They reacted with extraordinary restraint in the most difficult of situations. By not boxing anyone's head in, the offender's lawyer won't have any ammunition to refute the plain and simple fact that the crime was willful and criminal in intent and nature, and the correct individual will go to prison.
Where he will hopefully take it up the ass every single night. Let due process punish this bastard, not off the cuff, irrational and purely emotional response.
Points: 26
I can only hope that the
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
I can only hope that the legal process ends up working the way it should and this criminal is sent to prison like he should be. I don't know what I would have done if I were on this ride but my cellphone definitely would have been full of pictures and video by the time the cops showed up.
Points: 15
the driver didn't stay at the
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
the driver didn't stay at the scene??? is that possible? hopefully he is getting in even more trouble for that... glad I wasn't there..I probably wouldn't have helped things... hope byron is ok...
random side story.. a few years ago a buddy of mine was harassed by a redneck in bldr.. who was yelling/ swerving at him they both pulled over .. words were exchanged and my buddy noticed the driver was drunk and grabbed the keys from his truck... well .. somehow the driver was given a warning and my buddy spent an evening in jail for "trespassing" (by going in and taking the guys keys so he wouldn't get away...) lame... hope this guy gets what he deserves
Points: 16
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
talking about how calm everyone was is pure BS, they should have killed the guy. The state will not do anything
Points: 19
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
I hope the cyclist is recovering quickly, and we as cyclists should never take the law into our own hands.That's a lose lose situation. Prayers be with you my fellow cyclist.
Points: 8
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When the police do show up, that is the time to show some emotion. Had an experience where a turning vehicle into a hotel driveway right-hooked a fellow cyclist on the road. Cyclist crashed, but only lost some skin and the bike was okay. Motorist proceeded into a large parking lot for two hotels. I checked hoods of parked vehicles for heat, but could not identify the car in this fashion. I spoke with the hotel staff and alerted them the police would be coming soon, then called 911. When constabulary arrived, they were just standing around and assuring themselves no ambulance was needed. I really woke them up by saying what the hell they were doing: they should get their notebooks out and start a search, because this was a CRIME SCENE. That really got their attention. Later I heard they found a 16-year old boy, who did not have a driver's license, cowering and trembling behind a washing machine in the hotel laundry room. Justice served!
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Learn to read... "•Driver did
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"•Driver did stay on the scene and the state patrol showed up."
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Lauded means praised.
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Didier Reynders is pleased with the transfer of Bosco Ntaganda to the International Criminal Court. The minister also appreciates the constructive role played by Rwanda, the USA and the Netherlands. Their cooperation made it possible for this transfer to take place in the best possible circumstances.
This surrender has a high symbolic value. It reinforces the fight against impunity, without which no sustained stabilisation would be possible. The transfer also gives hope to the victims and to the population, who are central to the efforts to restore stability in the African Great Lakes region.
The minister hopes that these efforts will continue so that the continuing violence in the east of the DRC can come to a speedy end and the commitments made under the Addis Ababa agreement concerning stability, peace and development in the region can once again be implemented.


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- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup mashed ripe banana
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 3 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Additional confectioners' sugar
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. In a small bowl, combine banana and buttermilk. Combine the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture alternately with banana mixture.
- Drop by tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until set. Cool for 2 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
- For filling, in a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, peanut butter and butter until fluffy. Beat in confectioners' sugar and vanilla until smooth. Spread filling on the bottoms of half of the cookies, about 1 tablespoon on each; top with remaining cookies. Dust with additional confectioners' sugar. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: 2 dozen.
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"Very good cookies! Peanut butter flavor was a little strong, but I don't have a problem with that. Will try again with a different flavor filling next time."
"The cookies have a soft texture and good taste, but the peanut butter filling really overpowers the delicate banana flavor. I would make them again but would reduce the amount of peant butter and powdered sugar. Otherwise, a very rich cookie with great texture!"
"I had never made cookies with banana and wanted to try these. I made them to serve as individual cookies. However, I wondered about using something else, other than the cream filling. I had some Nutella--hazelnut spread--on hand and tried that. Perfect! The chocolate flavor added to the flavor of the cookie, although the cookie by itself is very tasty, and the banana flavor comes through."
"I have made these twice now because they got such rave reviews when I took them to work the first time. I have also made the Lemony Gingerbread and the Red Velvet version (all in the February mag), and these were the favorite of all three."


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ZF-8583: Add "mappers" to the module autoloader
Beside services and models, you may want to store your own mappers in your modules as well. Thus the module resource autoloader should also have a "mappers" => "Mapper" directive in its standard definition.
As we currently have Model_DbTable mapped to models/DbTable we would probably either want to map Model_Mapper to models/Mapper, as Ralph would agree, but I still think that mappers belong to their own directory in the modules' root.
This topic needs further discussion.
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Few textile manufacturers still take the time to process natural indigo or block-print fabrics, but both practices continue to flourish in Rajasthan, India, where this handcrafted bedding is made using techniques that have been perfected over centuries. Bundles of the indigo plant are soaked to extract the vibrant dye, while long sheets of cotton are laid out awaiting the color. With hand-carved wooden blocks, a wax resist is applied to the fabric. When dyed, the wax areas remain white while the rest takes on the evocative hues of midnight, lapis lazuli, and cerulean that all begin with the tropical indigo plant. 100% cotton.
Wash before using. Indigo may lose color. Machine wash in cold water with like colors on gentle cycle using a non-chlorine bleach detergent. Tumble dry, low heat. Fold and smooth.
In the family's studio compound, a dye vat is prepared over three weeks using a mixture of indigo, molasses, slaked lime, and water. When the dye mixture is ready, sheets of cotton are spread out awaiting printing. Using hand-carved wooden blocks and a mixture of earth and tree gum as a resist, the artisans stamp the fabric in a repeating pattern. After each block of the pattern, sawdust is dusted across the surface to ensure that the images don't smudge. The block-printing process is repeated for each motif that is to make up the final design.
Finally, when the printed cloth is dried, it is dipped in the indigo vat. The stamped parts of the pattern will resist the dye and emerge with lighter hues. Immediately upon removal from the vat, the fabric appears white, and then green. It is exposure to oxygen that quickly brings out indigo's well-known blue hues. This chemical phenomenon led many travelers to regard Indian dyers as magicians. Indian lore also associates indigo with Lord Krishna, making it an auspicious color to work with and to use in one's home.
During 1920s India, Mahatma Gandhi promoted cottage textile production as a means for rural Indian self-employment. Resisting the import of foreign-produced cloth became a touchstone of the freedom struggle, and even the flag adopted by the Indian National Congress in 1931 features a spinning wheel as its main insignia. Today, sixty years after India's independence and as the country rises in the global economy, workshop-produced textiles remain an important local industry in rural communities, and they struggle to stay productive alongside large-scale Indian-owned manufacturers.
The Jaipur family who makes this indigo bedding has been doing so in the textile town of Sanganer for more than 200 years. Here people specialize in the use of alizarin, indigo, and a range of vegetable colors. The elderly father oversees the dye vats and production, while his sons keep the books and learn the skills they will need to take over the business.
The day usually starts late for the printers around 10 am and after a leisurely cup of tea they open the printing operation. Due to the extremes of heat and cold, often the printers will work in the evening hours as well. Dyed fabric is carried through the desert for finishing using camel-drawn carts. Printing is not only a career, but a passion to these artisans who have perfected this art of printing and dyeing.
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Phuoc T. Tran, M.D., Ph.D.
Phuoc Tho Tran, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Director of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences
Expertise: Adrenal Cancer, Bladder Cancer, Image-Guided Radiation Therapy, Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), Metastatic Bone Disease, Metastatic Disease, Oligometastatic Disease, Penile Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Radiation Oncology, Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy, Testicular Cancer, Urethral Cancer ...read more
Research Interests: Radiosensitizers; Genetically engineered mouse models of disease; Epithelial Plasticity (Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition and Mesenchymal-Epithelial Transition)
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Dr. Phuoc T. Tran is an associate professor of radiation oncology and molecular radiation sciences, oncology and urology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Dr. Tran is the Clinical Director of Radiation Oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and treats patients with cancers of the genitourinary system and uses stereotactic radiation techniques (such as SRS and SBRT/SABR) for the treatment of patients with oligometastatic disease. His research focuses on the improvement of clinical radiotherapy for the treatment of primarily prostate cancer, but also adrenal, bladder, urethral, testicular and penile cancer as well as patients with oligometastatic disease.
Dr. Tran completed his medical and graduate training at the Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland. He conducted a residency in radiation oncology at the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2008 where he was an instructor of radiation oncology before then joining the staff of Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Tran has published more than 70 scholarly works, has received numerous awards for his research, and is a primary investigator on a number of clinical trials. He is a member and holds leadership positions in the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the American Society for Radiology Oncology (ASTRO), and is board certified in radiation oncology by the American Board of Radiology.
- Clinical Director of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences
- Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences
- Associate Professor of Oncology
- Associate Professor of Urology
Departments / Divisions
Centers & Institutes
- MD PhD, Oregon Health & Sciences University (2003)
- Stanford University School of Medicine / Radiation Oncology (2008)
Board Certifications
- American Board of Radiology / Radiation Oncology (2009)
Research & Publications
Research Summary
Dr. Tran's research focuses on the improvement of clinical radiotherapy for the treatment of primarily prostate, as well as adrenal, bladder, penile, testicular and urethral cancer. To learn how tumors arise, how they spread and why some cancers are resistant to treatment, he studies tumor cell epithelial plasticity - transitions of epithelial and mesenchymal cellular states.
Dr. Tran and his laboratory focus their studies on tumor cell epithelial plasticity - the transitions between epithelial and mesenchymal cellular states and the implications of these transitions for tumorigenesis, cancer treatment resistance and radiation-induced fibrosis. Their research utilizes a variety of inducible transgenic mouse models, non-invasive rodent imaging as well as more tradiational molecular, biochemical and cell biologic approaches. One of these transitions, known as epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), is a conserved developmental program that when inappropriately activated in post-natal life has been associated with organ fibrosis, tumorigenesis and metastasis.
A major focus of the laboratory is the use of inducible mouse models to simulate molecularly targeted therapies for malignancies and radiation induced late effects.
Another focus of the laboratory is the study of novel targeted agents as tumor selective radiosensitizers to increase the therapeutic ratio of clinical radiotherapy.
The Tran lab is committed to translating discoveries from the laboratory bench into novel cancer prevention, diagnostic and treatment approaches that can be tested in the clinic.
Lab Website: The Tran Lab
Technology Expertise Keywordsepithelial plasticity; epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT); genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs)
Clinical Trial KeywordsProstate cancer, Radiation therapy, Oligometastasis, SBRT/SABR
Clinical Trials
Radiation and Androgen Ablation for Prostate Cancer
MRI for Assessing Prostate Cancer Response
Stereotactic Body Radiation with Nelfinavir for Oligometastases
Selected PublicationsView all on Pubmed
Tran PT*,+, Shroff EH*, Burns TF*, Thiyagarajan S, Das ST, Zabuawala T, Chen J, Cho YJ, Luong R, Tamayo P, Salih T, Aziz K, Adam SJ, Vicent S, Nielsen CH, Withofs N, Sweet-Cordero A, Gambhir SS, Rudin CM, Felsher DW+. "Twist1 suppresses senescence programs and thereby accelerates and maintains mutant Kras-induced lung tumorigenesis." PLoS Genet. 2012;8(5):e1002650. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002650. Epub 2012 May 24. * - these authors contributed equally; and + - corresponding authors.
Timothy F. Burns, Irina Dobromilskaya, Sara C. Murphy, Rajendra P. Gajula, Saravanan Thiyagarajan, Sarah S. Chatley, Khaled Aziz, Yoon-Jae Cho, Phuoc T. Tran, and Charles M. Rudin. Inhibition of TWIST1 Leads to Activation of Oncogene-Induced Senescence in Oncogene Driven Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Mol Cancer Res 11 (2013) 329-338.
Tran PT, Bendapudi PK, Lin HJ, Choi P, Koh S, Chen J, Horng G, Hughes NP, Schwartz LH, Miller VA, Kawashima T, Kitamura T, Paik D, Felsher DW. "Survival and Death Signals Can Predict Tumor Response to Therapy After Oncogene Inactivation." Sci Transl Med. 2011 Oct 5;3(103):103ra99. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3002018.
Jason A. Efstathiou, Deborah S. Nassif, Todd R. McNutt, C. Bob Bogardus, Walter Bosch, Jeff Carlin, Ron C. Chen, Henry Chou, Dave Eggert, Benedick Fraass, Joel Goldwein, Karen E. Hoffman, Ken Hotz, Margie Hunt, Marc Kessler, Colleen A. F. Lawton, Chuck Mayo, Jeff M. Michalski, Sasa Mutic, Louis Potters, Chris M. Rose, Howard M. Sandler, Greg Sharp, Wolfgang Tomé, Phuoc T. Tran, Terry Wall, Anthony L. Zietman, Peter E. Gabriel, Justin E. Bekelman. Practice-Based Evidence to Evidence-Based Practice: Building the National Radiation Oncology Registry. J Oncol Pract 9 (2013) e90-95.
Aaron T. Wild*, Nishant Gandhi*,Sivarajan T. Chettiar, Khaled Aziz, Rajendra P. Gajula, Russell D. Williams, Rachit Kumar, Kekoa Taparra, Jing Zeng, Jessica A, Cades, Esteban Velarde, Siddharth Menon, Jean-Francois Geschwind, David Cosgrove, Timothy M. Pawlik, Anirban Maitra, John Wong, Russell K. Hales, Michael Torbenson, Joseph M. Herman+, Phuoc T. Tran+. Concurrent versus sequential sorafenib therapy in combination with radiation for hepatocellular carcinoma. PLoS ONE 8 (2013) e65726.
Rajendra P. Gajula*, Sivarajan T. Chettiar*, Russell D. Williams, Saravanan Thiyagarajan, Yoshinori Kato, Khaled Aziz, Ruoqi Wang, Nishant Gandhi, Aaron T. Wild, Farhad Vesuna, Jinfang Ma, Tarek Salih, Jessica Cades, Elana Fertig, Shyam Biswal, Timothy F. Burns, Christine Chung, Charles M. Rudin, Joseph M. Herman, Russell K. Hales, Venu Raman, Steven An, Phuoc T. Tran. The twist box domain is required for Twist1-induced prostate cancer metastasis. Mol Cancer Res 11 (2013) 1387-1400**. PMID: 23982216. PMCID: PMC3833995. * - these authors contributed equally. ** - Cover illustration and Highlighted in Mol Cancer Res.
Academic Affiliations & Courses
Graduate Program AffiliationGraduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Activities & Honors
- Fellow, Henry S. Kaplan Research, 2007
- Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Alumni Award, Oregon Health & Sciences University Chapter, 2013
- Fellow, Parker B. Francis, 2008 - 2011
- Fellow, Radiological Society of North America Research, 2008
- John Muir College Caledonian Honor Society, University of California, 1995
- 1R01CA166348-01A1, National Cancer Institute , 2013 - 2018
- Sidney Kimmel Translational Scholar Award, 2013 - 2015
- Patrick C. Walsh Prostate Cancer Research Fund Award, 2013 - 2014
- Early Career Achievement Award, Oregon Health & Sciences University School of Medicine Alumni Association , 2013
- Research Scholar, American Cancer Society , 2012 - 2016
- Uniting Against Lung Cancer Award, 2012 - 2014
- Included among Top Doctors, Baltimore Magazine, 2012
- Educator of The Year, Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology (ARRO) , 2012
- Prostate Cancer Physician Research Training Award, DoD , 2011 - 2016
- The Phyllis and Brian L. Harvey Scholar - Patrick C. Walsh Prostate Cancer Research Fund Award, 2011 - 2013
- Junior Faculty Career Research Training Award, ASTRO, 2009 - 2011
- Malcolm A. Bagshaw Award, 2007
- Methods in Clinical Cancer Research Workshop Scholarship, ASCO/AACR , 2007
- Research Resident, Radiological Society of North America , 2006
- Roentgen Resident Research Award, Radiological Society of North America , 2006
- Deans Medical Student Research Award, OHSU, 2003
- Molecular Hematology Research Training Fellow, OHSU, 1998 - 2001
- Laurel Merit MD/PhD Scholar, OHSU, 1996 - 2003
- Graduated magna cum laude, University of California, 1996
- Regents Scholar, University of California, 1995 - 1996
- Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award, 2015
- ASCO Leadership Development Program, 2015
- Movember Foundation-PCF Challenge Award, 2015
- Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society , 2013
- American Association for Cancer Research , 2007
- American College of Radiation Oncology , 2005
- American College of Radiology, 2004
- American Society for Radiation Oncology, 2004
- American Society of Clinical Oncology , 2007
- American Thoracic Society, 2008 - 2012
- Radiation Research Society , 2011
- Radiological Society of North America , 2004
- The EMT International Association , 2011


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ZF-3321: Zend_Search_Lucene::find() times out on certain queries
When doing a search like the following, Zend_Search_Lucene times out (on my server I have a script timeout of 60 seconds, so I guess it is not related to the mass of results, also since I only have about 100 results there.
$search = new Zend_Search_Lucene(...);
Also searches like ``` result in a timeout.
You can test this bug as well with the Manual Search of the Zend Framework. As this cannot be catched as Exception or such, it is really bad for production sites and should be fixed with the next mini release.
Alex, please evaluate and categorize as necessary. I'm taking a stab at release targeting based on Ben's comments, but you can change this if you think it's not right.
I think this is really necessary and important. Just think of what might happen, if somebody knows that you are using Zend_Search_Lucene. It's easy to kill the server with a flood of requests with invalid queries. Currently I plan to write some QueryFilters for the production server. But a good solution would be fine.
Any news?
How it's going ?
Would also very much like to see this bug resolved. Wish I knew enough to be able to contribute myself.
Anyone know the status on this one?
i Also have this important bug in a production site. I discovered it a few days ago. I have only a few records in the index but if i do a search with "*" php goes in timeout . I'm running zend framework 1.7
is it possibile to know if and when the problem will be resolved? We use this library in production sites so this is very very critial and important thank you.
I`m also in similar situation. Any clues when Alexander Veremyev will be able to fix it?
Fix is included into ZF 1.7.7 even it adds sevral methods into API. Documentation will be added with ZF 1.8.0
Hi all. I updated today to the latest version (1.7.7) and found what I think is a bug: querying the index with a range term, produces an error:
"Uncaught exception 'Zend_Search_Lucene_Exception' with message 'Terms per query limit is reached.' in .../Zend/Search/Lucene/Search/Query/Range.php:191 Stack trace: #0 .../Zend/Search/Lucene/Search/Query/Boolean.php(145): "
Code: $userQuery = Zend_Search_Lucene_Search_QueryParser::parse(convertSpecialCharacters($query)); $datesLimit = Zend_Search_Lucene_Search_QueryParser::parse(date:[20010101 TO 20090303]); $query = new Zend_Search_Lucene_Search_Query_Boolean();
$query->addSubquery($datesLimit, true /* required /); $query->addSubquery($userQuery, true / required */);
$index = Zend_Search_Lucene::open($this->LuceneIndexLocation); $hits = $index->find($query);
Note: if the time frame between the dates is small (less than 1 year, for example) it works fine.
Tried Zend_Search_Lucene::setTermsPerQueryLimit(0) but still doesn't work.
Dario, please add a new issue for that.


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Norbert Weisbeck, '72
Weisbeck, general manager of the Wyoming general office of New York Life Insurance, was selected as this year's BHSC Outstanding Alumnus (now known as Distinguished Alumnus). He graduated from BHSC with a degree in business administration. He was also a defensive back on the Yellow Jacket football team, receiving all-conference honorable mention during his senior year.
In addition to receiving numerous company awards from New York Life, Weisbeck was named to Who's Who in the West, Outstanding Young Man of America, and nominated for boss of the year by the Ogden Chamber of Commerce. In 1985 he was selected as a member of the regional board of directors for the Zion First National Bank system.


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Peter Metcalf, the CEO and president of Black Diamond Equipment, is an unapologetic environmental activist who has helped to galvanize the outdoor recreation industry as a political force. And while he is not ready to shed his battle gear when it comes to negotiating with Utah's congressional delegation over public land policies, he believes his group is making headway.
The crux of the issue, Metcalf says, was best summed up by the outdoor industry pioneer Yvon Chouinard, who famously quipped, "There is not a lot of business to be done on a dead planet."
Roughly translated, Metcalf says, that means the success of Utah's prized outdoor economy, which includes the ski industry, is inextricably tied to conservation.
"There is no vibrant outdoor industry if we don't work hard right now to preserve the last unprotected, incredible, iconic landscapes, rivers, canyons and alpine mountain environments in America. If we lose them now they are lost forever because they are under siege."
Metcalf offered his candid assessment of the economic and environmental issues facing the outdoor industry at the Swaner EcoCenter on Wednesday, April 24, as part of the center's discussion series on sustainability.
The lecture followed closely on the heels of Sally Jewell's confirmation as U.S. Secretary of the Interior, which Metcalf characterized as a "watershed historical event.
"She is an incredibly accomplished leader of a $2 billion retailer. She is a climber, a mountaineer and a conservationist who I feel fortunate to call a friend," he said.
Having a voice in Washington, D.C., Metcalf said, is a stunning accomplishment for such a young industry which began to take shape only 25 years ago.
In a galloping rendition of the outdoor industry's history, Metcalf described the scene in the early 1980s as "a mob, a group of random individuals running around without leadership, without a social contract, without any morals or values."
But outdoor recreation was gaining popularity and small entrepreneurial companies, like Chouinard Equipment, where Metcalf worked, were growing quickly.
That is, until 1988-89, when they were hit by what Metcalf refers to as "the big bang."
Due to changes in tort law, outdoor recreation companies faced new legal and financial challenges. Some, like Chouinard, were forced into bankruptcy.
"It sent shockwaves through the industry," he said.
Increased liability was just one of several issues jabbing at the beleaguered industry. According to Metcalf, access to parks and private land was also under fire.
Ultimately, those threats served to pull the industry together. "It was a shot across the bow," said Metcalf. In response, recreation-related businesses banded together in 1989 to form the Outdoor Recreation Coalition of America, the precursor to the Outdoor Industry Association. A few years later, in 1996, the association hosted its first trade show, Outdoor Retailer, an event that has since become an economic staple in Salt Lake City.
Another turning point, according to Metcalf, came when the outdoor industry began to use its economic clout as a political tool.
Originally, in keeping with its customers' environmental concerns, the association had aligned itself with the conservation movement. However, Metcalf said, as long as the industry just spoke about conservation, it was "marginalized."
But with Outdoor Retailer's twice-yearly trade shows firmly established, the association tried a different tack.
With a cascade of new data highlighting the growing impact of the recreation economy in Utah and around the country, the association decided to reframe the debate.
"We decided it is not about being aligned with conservation, it is about money; it is not about jobs versus the snail darter, it is about jobs versus jobs."
That is when Metcalf picked up his megaphone.
In 2004, then Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt and the federal government were locked in a battle over the status of a multitude of land parcels being considered for wilderness protection. The state had filed lawsuits contesting the amount of potential wilderness acreage and demanding, in part, the right to maintain roads on those parcels to provide access to resource development. In response, the Outdoor Industry Association threatened to move the Outdoor Retailer trade shows out of Utah.
After heated negotiations, Leavitt softened his position, agreeing not to pursue road access through national parks, monuments and compromising on some of the most critical wilderness study areas.
"We suddenly found our voice. It was a catalytic event for the outdoor industry ... the tradeshow was an incredibly valuable collateral asset in this," Metcalf said.
Today, according to Metcalf, Utah's outdoor industry has a $5.8 billion impact on the economy. It provides about 70,000 jobs and generates $300 million in tax revenues.
Studies, he said, have also shown that public lands, when offered environmental protection, have the potential to generate more revenue through tourism, jobs and increased property values. "Those tools have been a critical element in being able to lobby for public policy decisions," he said.
However, to the small audience in Park City last week, Metcalf admitted the industry is still evolving. While trying to invite more groups into the tent, he worries the group will "dilute the issues it goes after" in the interest of having a broader appeal.
"Candidly, that is an internal debate within the organization now among many of the founding companies that are very committed to being a champion for our core constituents, versus pandering to a broader group of constituents who don't want to see such an activist or militant position."
Overall, though, Metcalf said he is proud to be part of an industry that has gone from being completely disorganized to having a voice in Washington, D.C.
He added, "Even through we are in disagreement with many of our elected officials, at this point in time we feel being here, going toe-to-toe and leaning forward on those people will have the greatest positive impact on the state for the long term."
Metcalf is keeping a close eye on Congressional delegation
Peter Metcalf, the CEO and president of Black Diamond Equipment, says the future of SkiLink depends on whether Congress listens to the public or to big money.
During the Q&A after a lecture at the Swaner EcoCenter in Park City on April 24, Metcalf, a longtime board member and former vice chairman of the Outdoor Industry Association, did not mince words.
"There is no question in my mind, it is a fact; the industry is totally against it," he said.
Citing reports from the SnowSport Industries America, Metcalf said, "The only category of skiing that grew this last year was off-piste backcountry skiing. You look at any of the numbers -- of gear being sold, of lift tickets being sold, it is all about off-piste skiing."
Off-piste is a term that originated in Europe to describe ungroomed terrain and now is widely used to refer to skiing outside of developed resorts.
According to Metcalf, Utah is known for its untrammeled backcountry. Bisecting that terrain with a mechanical lift doesn't make sense.
"It is just a bad project because it is not where skiing is going today," he said.
"Utah's signature product is world-class, easily accessible ski areas, juxtaposed against world-class, alpine wilderness backcountry. That accessibility is why so many people come to this state to ski and to recreate in the winter," he said.
That reputation for off-piste access draws visitors from as far away as Europe and Asia, said Metcalf.
"They stay at hotels, they ski for a couple days at our world-class ski areas and then they want to go in the backcountry that was featured in the latest Warren Miller film," he said.
Installing the SkiLink gondola in the backcountry will diminish that appeal, he said.
"If we really want to advance Utah's recreational economy and ski industry, we need to fight for this signature product. That is the message the ski industry is trying to give to our elected officials," he said.
With at least one notable exception.
SkiLink was proposed in 2011 by Talisker Corporation, the Canadian parent company of Canyons. According to the SkiLink website, "The gondola would be the first of its kind in the United States and give Utah a competitive advantage." linking Solitude and Canyons, the site adds, skiers and snowboarders would have access to more than 6,000 acres of terrain. The project's proponents also say the project would boost tourism and add jobs to the economy.
However, Talisker must first convince Congress to sell the company a 30-acre, 150-foot-wide strip of U.S. Forest Service land enabling a route that would link the upper reaches of Canyons ski area in Summit County to Solitude Resort in Big Cottonwood Canyon. To accomplish that, four of Utah's five congressmen authored a bill, the Wasatch Range Recreation Access Enhancement Act. The legislation stalled over the winter but according to Metcalf may soon be reintroduced.
If the sale gets the nod from Congress, SkiLink will be subjected to local approval processes in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County and Summit County.
At that point, Metcalf is confident, it will be met by an avalanche of public protest on the local level.
"The public is absolutely opposed to this," said Metcalf, adding he met with U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) who, he said, assured him the bill was not going to move forward.
"They were shocked at the response that they got," Metcalf said, referring to negative feedback they received from constituents.
But that may no longer be true.
Two weeks ago, Metcalf heard the bill would be reintroduced with the Utah delegation's support. "The only thing you can conclude is that they don't care what the public wants," he said.
Ultimately, Metcalf believes SkiLink will be defeated. "I am an optimist at heart. I believe that we are going to stop it. But I am concerned about the money. At some point you just wonder if democracy can be bought."


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Nanoparticle Therapy: Promising New Directions in Ovarian Cancer Treatment
Called nanoparticles because they are less than 100 nanometers in size, these ultrafine particles are about the size of a virus. Yet they are able to do things that simple molecules cannot because they are typically made of two or more molecules assembled to perform specific tasks.
One team of Norris Cotton Cancer Center researchers led by Jose Conejo-Garcia, MD, PhD, has developed just such a nanoparticle, one that is proving to be effective in treating tumors of late-stage ovarian cancer in both mice and cultured human cells.
Conejo-Garcia, an immunologist who is originally from Spain and who previously did research on ovarian cancer at the University of Pennsylvania, came to Dartmouth for "the excellent environment for working in tumor immunology." Here, his team has been able to collaborate with a variety of immunology researchers approaching ovarian cancer from different angles. "Our overarching goal is to translate what we learn in various preclinical models to a clinical setting," says Conejo-Garcia. His team also has been collaborating with Cancer Center researchers working on breast cancer, as well as engineers from Dartmouth's Thayer School studying methods for making nanoparticles.
Taking on a Tough Foe
The team's target, ovarian cancer, has been a frustratingly difficult disease for researchers. Ovarian cancer is a "silent disease," almost always starting as a tiny lump of cells in the ovary. By the time symptoms emerge it usually has already spread throughout the peritoneal cavity.
"The story with ovarian cancer is almost always the same," says Conejo-Garcia. "Initially the treatment consists of surgical debulking plus chemotherapy. Patients respond, but then after some months or years, the disease comes back, arising from chemo-resistant cells that have survived the initial treatment." Unfortunately, as of yet there is no simple test to detect early-stage ovarian cancer, though researchers are working on identifying biomarkers for that purpose.
The nanoparticles developed by Conejo-Garcia and his team don't target ovarian cancer cells. Instead, they target other cells within the tumor "microenvironment"—the collection of cells in and around a tumor. "If you look at a typical section of a tumor under the microscope, in many cases much of the space is occupied by cells that are not tumor cells," says Conejo-Garcia. Cancer cells often trick the cells around them into growing blood vessels, lending structural support, or even defending against harmful substances.
The nanoparticles developed by Conejo-Garcia and his team target dendritic cells, a type of immune cell. Normally, dendritic cells collect pieces of pathogens such as viruses and bacteria and present these pieces to T-cells, which then recognize and attack the pathogens. Unfortunately, this mechanism usually fails with ovarian cancer cells, which typically corrupt surrounding dendritic cells. These corrupted cells stop signaling T-cells, and even help the tumor to grow. Conejo-Garcia's nanoparticles consist of a piece of "shortinterfering RNA," or siRNA, encapsulated in a polymer. The nanoparticles are injected into the peritoneal cavity of ovarian cancer-bearing mice, where they are quickly engulfed by the corrupted dendritic cells protecting the cancer cells. The siRNA and the polymer in the nanoparticles activate these dendritic cells, turning them into cells that can stimulate T-cells to create an immune response against the tumor.
The team's nanoparticles have increased survival in mice with advanced ovarian cancer. The particles also have been tested on human ovarian cancer cells in culture, and shown similar changes to the dendritic cells.
The Promise of Nanoparticles
Results like these have researchers excited, and hoping for swift adoption. "Nanoparticle treatments are very new, so I think implementing them clinically will take a while," says Juan Cubillos-Ruiz, a graduate student working with Conejo-Garcia, "but I also think they're very promising. In the future maybe they'll complement classical approaches like chemotherapy and surgery."
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) also sees great promise in nanoparticle therapies. ConejoGarcia's research, along with that of collaborating teams at the Cancer Center, was funded by an NCI Nanotechnology Group Award. With his group's findings, Conejo-Garcia hopes that the Cancer Center will be designated as the newest of several NCI Excellency in Nanotechnology Centers around the country.
In the meantime, Conejo-Garcia and his team are starting experiments with different types of nanoparticles. This time, they're working with several Dartmouth teams to create nanoparticles with iron cores in place of the siRNA. Again, the particles will target cells in the tumor microenvironment. Once the iron-core particles have infiltrated the tumor, the tumor (or, in a clinical setting, the entire patient) would be placed inside a coil producing a rapidly vibrating magnetic field, similar to an MRI machine. The vibration of the magnetic field would make the iron in the nanoparticles vibrate, generating heat. "Hopefully we'll be able to send these [iron] particles to the tumor, then apply the magnetic field and literally fry the tumor without damaging surrounding tissues," says Conejo-Garcia.
Nanoparticle research may sound like science fiction at times, but at its heart it is motivated by the same principles that guide all research at Norris Cotton Cancer Center. "I decided to work on cancer research during one of my first rotations as a resident, the first time I saw a kid with leukemia," says Conejo-Garcia. "Knowing what I do can be translated to help somebody makes me certain I made the right decision."
October 10, 2009
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Ledford Middle student places second in regional spelling bee
Published: Monday, March 18, 2013 at 9:52 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 18, 2013 at 9:52 a.m.
A Ledford Middle School eighth-grader finished second Sunday in the 73rd Regional Spelling Bee sponsored by the Winston-Salem Journal and Truliant Federal Credit Union.
Nejat Alkadir, 13, came in second to Daniel Mayo, 11, a student at Bethel Hill Charter School in Roxboro, according to the Journal. Nejat won the regional bee last year, and Daniel finished third.
In the 20th round, Daniel correctly spelled deglaciation. Nejat then misspelled adiabatic, an adjective that describes a condition in which heat is neither lost nor gained in a system. Daniel then spelled baleen for the winning word. Baleen is the structure in the mouths of some whales that allow them to strain food.
The event took place at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts.
Nejat has won the Davidson County Spelling Bee for three consecutive years.
Daniel advances to the national spelling bee.
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