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Actually, it's not a cure, but a treatment. And it was developed by leukemia patient John Kanzius. I saw this on 60 Minutes (which I think was a rerun from a few months ago), and Kanzius says he did it for the kids he saw in the cancer ward. While he was undergoing treatment himself, he couldn't stand seeing the sad faces of the children and thought there had to be a better treatment without the horrible side effects.

Kanzius built radios as a kid and was inspired by the hobby and what he knew about radio waves. He built a machine that heats up targeted cells with radio waves, eventually incorporated nanotechnology, and the first thing he tested it on to verify raising the temperature of targeted points was hot dogs.

This is said to be a very promising development that may eliminate the torturous aspects of chemotherapy.  Yea, Kanzius, and hooray for hot dogs!

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Something about a hot dog is so ... Summer.  What's Summer without hot dogs at a baseball game, camping, or grilling out?  They're little processed meaty icons of the good ole U.S. of A.

So since I heard about the recent plight of a local hot dog vendor, I'm on a mission.  Just as much as hot dogs go with Summer, they go with Summer in the city.  And last time I checked, this is a city.  Or almost.

The man pictured here, Thomas Nolan, is an artist with a gallery on South Main, and he's a hot dog vendor.  He's a hot dog vendor who went through all the right channels to get all the right permits.  But alas, he has been run off from certain areas by the police.

He seems to do okay in Court Square at lunch time, as Paul Ryburn blogged about him yesterday.  Funny he did that, considering we had not talked about the hot dog guy, and I already had this planned.  I guess great bloggers think alike, and I use the term "great" loosely in my case.  Blogging tends to cut into my sleeping and drinking time.

But anyway, I do take some cues from Paul, and like his (and Mikey's) Handling Panhandling cause, I decided this blog needed one.  So this is it -- hot dogs.  memphisLimelight is hereby taking on the cause to encourage the eating, purchasing, and making of hot dogs, legitimate street vendors in general, and especially, as the pioneer of Memphis street vendors, Thomas Nolan. So go buy a hot dog from him! Now! Do it now! Shirts coming soon.

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