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Sausage, Pasta & Bean Soup
Recipe by Lunchmeat
I made up this recipe and hope you like it as much as we did. I used a spicy cajun andoulle sausage but you could use your favorite.
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Delicious soup! My family enjoyed this last night with grilled cheese sandwiches. My son (7 yrs.) kept saying over and over how good the soup was! I used a ring of Hillshire Farm smoked sausage, Great Northern white beans, and mini penne for the pasta. I added some extra spices-Emeril's Essence, a little sugar, 1 tsp. dried basil, crushed red pepper flakes and a bay leaf. I sauteed chopped carrots with the onion, garlic, bell pepper, as I can't seem to make a soup without carrots-lol! I chopped some yellow summer squash along with the zucchini, fresh minced parsley and I threw in some frozen cut green beans. I loved that you can cook the noodles right in the soup and there is still plenty of broth! I don't care for thicker soups , I love broth, so this was a perfect! A very easy and yummy recipe and it leaves alot of room to add or leave out whatever you want! This will be a definite do over-very economical too! Thanks for the recipe, Lunchmeat!
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 453.59 g smoked sausage
- 236.59 ml yellow onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 green bell pepper, chopped
- 411.06 g diced tomatoes with juice
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- 4.92 ml Worcestershire sauce
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Nitric oxide generates slow electrical oscillations (SEOs) in cells near the myenteric edge of the circular muscle layer, which resemble slow waves generated by interstitial cells of Cajal (ICCs) at the submucosal edge of this muscle. The properties of SEOs were studied to determine whether these events are similar to slow waves. Rapid frequency membrane potential oscillations (MPOs; 16 ± 1 cycles/min and 9.6 ± 0.2 mV) were recorded from control muscles near the myenteric edge. Sodium nitroprusside (0.3 μM) reduced MPOs and initiated SEOs (1.3 ± 0.3 cycles/min and 13.4 ± 1.4 mV amplitude). SEOs were abolished by the guanylate cyclase inhibitor 1H-[1,2,4]-oxadiazolo-[4,3-a]-quinoxaline-1-one (10 μM). MPOs were abolished by nifedipine (1 μM), whereas SEO frequency increased and the amount of depolarization decreased. BAY K 8644 (1 μM) prolonged SEOs and reduced their frequency. SEOs were abolished by Ni2+ (0.5 mM), low Ca2+ solution (0.1 mM Ca2+), cyclopiazonic acid (10 μM), and the mitochondrial uncouplers antimycin (10 μM) and carbonyl cyanidep-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone (1 μM). Oligomycin (10 μM) was without effect. These effects are similar to those described for colonic slow waves. Our results suggest that nitric oxide-induced SEOs are similar in mechanism to slow waves, an activity not previously thought to be generated by myenteric pacemakers.
- smooth muscle
- interstitial cells of Cajal
- slow wave
- colonic motility
- enteric nervous system
electrical slow waves arise from interstitial cells of Cajal (ICCs) at the submucosal edge of the circular muscle layer in the canine colon (11, 12,22). These events occur at a regular frequency of 4–6/min. Slow waves play an important role in determining motility patterns in the colon. Recent studies have suggested that the inward current responsible for slow wave depolarization is due to nonselective cation channels expressed by ICCs (5, 14). Periodic activation of the cation channels is due to intracellular Ca2+ release from the endoplasmic reticulum and uptake of Ca2+ by mitochondria (18).
A second electrical rhythm is generated near the surface of the circular muscle layer adjacent to the myenteric plexus, and therefore it has been suggested that two electrical pacemakers contribute to the electrical behavior of the colonic tunica muscularis (11). The myenteric pacemaker generates a fast electrical rhythm referred to as membrane potential oscillations (MPOs), and these events occur at 17 cycles/min (11). A second plexus of ICCs is present at the myenteric edge of the circular muscle layer (1,22), and removing a thin strip of muscle containing the myenteric ICCs abolishes MPO activity (11). The myenteric network of ICCs may be the source of pacemaker activity in this region of the muscularis, but this hypothesis has not been rigorously tested. Previous studies have implied that there are significant differences in the properties and, possibly, the mechanisms responsible for the two colonic pacemakers.
MPO activity is not stable, and we previously showed that release of nitric oxide (NO) from intrinsic nerves (or the addition of exogenous NO) can switch the pattern of fast MPOs into a repetitive cycle of slow electrical oscillations [SEOs (3)]. Although quite different from MPOs, these SEOs qualitatively resemble the slow waves recorded from cells near the submucosal surface of the circular muscle. This observation suggests that there may be fundamental similarities between the two colonic pacemakers at the myenteric and submucosal surfaces of the circular muscle that are not immediately apparent in unstimulated muscles. The fact that stimulation of intrinsic nerves can switch MPO activity into an alternate electrical pattern makes it important to understand this process. The purpose of the present study was to examine the nature of SEOs and to determine whether the mechanisms giving rise to SEOs are similar to those that generate slow waves in the submucosal region.
Male and female mongrel dogs were killed with an overdose of pentobarbital sodium (100 mg/kg). This method is consistent with the recommendations of the Panel on Euthanasia of the American Veterinary Medical Association and was approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. The abdomen was opened, and a segment of proximal colon 6–14 cm from the ileocecal sphincter was removed. The colon was opened along the mesenteric border, cleared of remaining fecal material, and pinned out in a dissecting dish containing oxygenated Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution (KRB) of the following composition (in mM): 118.5 NaCl, 4.7 KCl, 2.5 CaCl2, 1.2 MgCl2, 23.8 NaHCO3, 11.0 KH2PO4, and dextrose. This solution had a pH of 7.4 at 37°C when bubbled to equilibrium with 95% O2-5% CO2. Unless otherwise specified, experiments were performed in the presence of 100 μMN ω-nitro-l-arginine (l-NNA).
Strips (15 mm) of the tunica muscularis were cut parallel to the circular muscle fibers with a knife consisting of a pair of parallel scalpel blades set 1.5 mm apart. The mucosa was removed from strips by sharp dissection. After dissection, the muscle strips were pinned in cross-section to the floor of an electrophysiological chamber. The strip was then cut in two halves, and the half that contained the myenteric plexus and longitudinal muscle was retained; the submucosal half was discarded. Muscle strips were superfused with warmed, oxygenated KRB solution. Temperature was monitored by a thermistor probe submerged in the perfusion solution near the muscle and was maintained at 37 ± 0.5°C. Muscles were allowed to equilibrate for ∼2 h before experiments were undertaken.
Muscle cells were impaled with glass microelectrodes filled with 3 M KCl and having resistances ranging from 60 to 100 MΩ. Membrane potential was measured with a high input impedance electrometer (model Duo 773; World Precision Instruments, New Haven, CT), and outputs were displayed on an oscilloscope (Hitashi). Analog electrical signals were digitized and recorded on videotape (Vetter 875) and AcqKnowledge 3.2.4 software (Biopac System) for later data analysis.
Analysis of data.
Several different parameters of electrical activity were tabulated. Resting membrane potential of cells in the myenteric region was determined as the average of the most negative values occurring between MPOs. Peak depolarization of MPOs was determined as the average maximal level of depolarization reached during 10 consecutive MPOs. "Resting" membrane potential of muscles during SEOs was defined as the average of the most negative values of membrane potential occurring between oscillations. The amplitude of slow oscillations was determined by subtracting resting membrane potential from the average of the most negative membrane potentials attained during the depolarization phase of slow oscillation. Because the SEO waveform was often complex, we quantitated changes in SEO time course by determining the entire amount of depolarization that occurred during the SEO. This was accomplished by integrating the voltage signal as a function of time between 10% depolarization and 90% repolarization.
Significant differences between means were calculated by a two-tailed paired or unpaired Student t-test, and values were considered significantly different when P < 0.05. Only one muscle strip per animal was used. Thus n values represent both the number of animals and the number of muscle strips tested.
Drugs used in this study included tetrodotoxin, l-NNA, sodium nitroprusside (SNP), antimycin, oligomycin, carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone (FCCP), nifedipine, BAY K 8644 (all purchased from Sigma, St. Louis, MO), and 1H-[1,2,4]-oxadiazolo-[4,3-a]-quinoxaline-1-one (ODQ; Tockris Cookson, St. Louis, MO).
Effect of NO on electrical activity in myenteric muscle strips.
As we previously showed under controlled conditions, 25% of colonic muscle strips exhibited electrical events termed SEOs. These events were abolished by the neural blocker tetrodotoxin (TTX, 1 μM) and by NO synthase inhibitors (e.g., l-NNA, 100 μM), suggesting that this activity arises from spontaneous release of NO from intrinsic neurons (3). Examples of SEOs are shown in Fig.1, A and B. In the remainder of muscles (75%), the predominant activity was rapid MPOs with an average frequency of 16 ± 1 cycles/min and an average amplitude of 9.6 ± 0.2 mV, as previously documented (11). SEOs could be evoked in the majority of muscles when the tissues were stimulated with SNP (0.3–1 μM). SEOs were characterized by a sharp upstroke depolarization and a sustained, plateau-like depolarization. In many cases, oscillatory changes in potential were superimposed on the plateau phase of the SEO. The frequency of SEOs averaged 1.3 ± 0.3 cycles/min and amplitude averaged 13.4 ± 1.4 mV. The maximum level of polarization between SEOs averaged −65 ± 1.3 mV (n = 22). SEOs evoked by SNP were identical in waveform and characteristics to the SEOs that occurred spontaneously in 25% of muscles, which were previously shown to be due to neural release of NO [see Ref. 3 and Fig.1 C]. Thus because the purpose of this study was to characterize the nature of SEOs, we evoked this type of electrical behavior with SNP in all experiments, unless otherwise indicated. Muscles were also pretreated with l-NNA (100 μM) to reduce variations in NO levels as a function of endogenous production. SEOs had waveform parameters reminiscent of slow waves generated at the submucosal surface of the circular muscle layer (12). Therefore, we compared the effects of several agents known to affect slow waves to determine whether SEOs are due to a similar mechanism.
The block of SEOs by both TTX and l-NNA was associated with depolarization of resting membrane potential (Fig. 1, A andB). Furthermore, other experimental protocols outlined below also produced some membrane depolarization. To test whether depolarization per se leads to block of SEOs, we examined the effects of raising extracellular K+ concentration ([K]o). Increasing [K]o from 5.9 to 16.9 mM led to a 18.5 ± 0.6 mV (n = 4) depolarization of resting membrane potential. Although SEOs were reduced to 39 ± 7.5% of the control amplitude (n = 4), they were not abolished (Fig. 2 A). To further investigate the role of membrane potential in the generation of SEOs, additional experiments were undertaken in which preparations were hyperpolarized by the addition of lemakalim (Lem) instead of SNP. Lem activates ATP-sensitive K+ channels (21). Lem (3 μM) caused a 13 mV of hyperpolarization (from −56.9 ± 3.4 to −69.8 ± 1.6 mV) but did not elicit SEOs (n = 5, Fig. 2 B).
SEOs induced by NO were due to a mechanism involving guanylyl cyclase, because treatment of muscles with ODQ (10 μM) completely inhibited the ability of SNP to produce SEOs. Control-like activity was re-established in muscles treated with ODQ in the presence of SNP (n = 4; Fig. 3). In contrast, submucosal slow waves have previously been reported to be insensitive to ODQ (2).
Effects of dihydropyridines on SEOs.
Slow waves in colonic muscles are not blocked by dihydropyridines (19). Recent studies have reinforced this notion by showing that inward currents in pacemaker ICCs are due to nifedipine-insensitive cation channels (5, 14, 20). Therefore, we tested the effects of nifedipine (1 μM) on MPOs (observed typically in control muscles) and SEOs evoked by SNP. Nifedipine completely blocked MPOs (n = 4) and depolarized membrane potential from −56.5 ± 2.2 to −51.5 ± 2.8 mV (P < 0.05; Fig.4 A). In contrast, SEOs persisted in the presence of nifedipine (Fig. 4 B) although the amount of depolarization during the SEOs decreased from 0.3 ± 0.05 to 0.15 ± 0.04 mV/s (P < 0.05), membrane potential depolarized from −63.8 to −61.9 mV (P < 0.05), and SEO frequency increased from 1.3 ± 0.1 to 1.7 ± 0.4 cycles/min (P < 0.05; n = 9). Rapid oscillations in membrane potential superimposed on some SEOs under control conditions were abolished in the presence of nifedipine.
We also tested the effects of the L-type Ca2+ channel agonist, BAY K 8644 (1 μM). BAY K 8644 had an effect opposite to that of nifedipine on SEOs. The amount of depolarization during SEOs increased from 0.13 ± 0.03 to 0.45 ± 0.06 mV/s (P < 0.05), and rapidly rising oscillations appeared at the peaks of SEOs in four of five muscles (Fig.5). The large contraction induced by this activity made it difficult to maintain impalements. BAY K 8644 did not significantly change resting membrane potential (−68 ± 2.2 to −69.3 ± 1.7 mV) but reduced the frequency of SEOs from 1.8 ± 0.2 to 0.9 ± 0.1 cycles/min (P < 0.05,n = 5).
Effect of low Ca2+ solution on SEOs.
Colonic slow waves are reduced by lowering extracellular Ca2+ from 2.5 to 0.1 mM (19). Therefore, we tested the effects of reduced extracellular Ca2+ on SEOs. Reduction of bath Ca2+ from 2.5 mM to 0.1 mM completely abolished SEOs (Fig. 6 A). As SEOs were inhibited, there was a significant decrease in the membrane potential between SEOs from −66 ± 1 to −53.5 ± 2.4 mV (P < 0.5, n = 10).
Effect of Ni2+ on SEOs.
We also tested the effects of Ni2+ on SEOs, because this cation has previously been shown to inhibit colonic slow waves (19). Ni2+ (0.5 mM) completely blocked SEOs (Fig. 6 B). This effect was accompanied by an 18-mV depolarization of the membrane potential between SEOs (from −67.5 ± 2.2 to −49.6 ± 1.9 mV, n = 9,P < 0.5), but as shown above, this degree of depolarization does not block SEOs (see Fig. 2).
Effect of CPA on SEOs.
Recent studies have suggested that release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores in ICCs is responsible for the initiation of slow wave activity (16, 18), and others have shown that CPA (10 μM) reduces the frequency of slow waves in the canine colon (7). We tested the effects of CPA (10 μM) and found that this compound completely blocked SEOs (Fig.7). The inhibition was accompanied by a small depolarization in the membrane potential (e.g., from −64 ± 1.6 to −59 ± 2.1 mV, n = 7, P < 0.05).
Effect of mitochondrial inhibitors on SEOs.
Mitochondrial uncouplers have been shown to block electrical slow waves in pacemaker ICCs, and we have previously suggested that mitrochondrial uptake of Ca2+ is an essential step in generation of pacemaker currents in these cells (18). Additional experiments were performed to test whether SEOs exhibit a similar sensitivity to mitochondrial inhibitors and uncouplers. Antimycin (an inhibitor of Complex 3 in the mitochondrial electron transport chain) and FCCP (a protonophore) both reduce the electrochemical gradient necessary for Ca2+ uptake by mitochondria. Addition of antimycin (10 μM) abolished SEOs (Fig.8 A) but had no significant effect on membrane potential (−67 ± 2.7 control vs. −67 ± 2.5 mV antimycin, n = 6). FCCP (1 μM) entirely abolished SEOs (Fig. 7 B) and produced a prominent depolarization of membrane potential (from −66 ± 1.9 to −39 ± 3.7 mV, n = 4, P < 0.05; Fig. 8 B). It is unlikely that the effects of antimycin and FCCP were due to reduction in the capacity of the tissues to generate ATP, because the mitochondrial ATPase inhibitor oligomycin (10 μM, n = 5) did not affect either SEO area (0.3 ± 0.1 control vs. 0.3 ± 0.1 mV/s oligomycin), frequency (1.1 ± 0.04 control vs. 1.1 ± 0.1 cycles/min oligomycin), or resting membrane potential (−65 ± 2.6 control vs. −67 ± 2.5 mV oligomycin) (Fig. 8 C).
There is a pacemaker at the edge of the circular muscle layer that generates 16-cycles/min electrical oscillations referred to as MPOs. MPOs persist in the presence of TTX, atropine, and l-NNA (3, 11), suggesting that they are nonneural in origin. We previously reported that nitrergic stimulation radically changes the MPO pattern of activity, and the activity that develops is reminiscent of slow waves recorded near the pacemaker region at the submucosal surface of the circular muscle layer (3). We have termed the activity generated by nitrergic stimulation SEOs. The present study characterized some of the properties and pharmacology of SEOs, and the data show that SEOs are similar to slow waves. Thus nitrergic stimulation of a pacemaker in the myenteric region of the proximal colon generates electrical activity similar to the slow wave activity generated by the submucosal pacemaker.
Some of the properties SEOs share with slow waves include:1) SEOs and slow waves depend on discrete pacemaker regions at the myenteric and submucosal surfaces of the circular muscle layer, respectively. Surgical removal of these pacemaker regions blocks both events. 2) Both types of activities decline in amplitude as a function of distance from the pacemaker regions, suggesting that neither activity is actively regenerated within circular muscle cells.3) Both events are resistant to blockade by nifedipine.4) Both events are blocked by Ni2+ reduced and by extracellular Ca2+. 5) Both events are inhibited by the CaATPase inhibitor, cyclopiazonic acid (7). 6) Both events are blocked by mitochondrial inhibitors and uncouplers, such as antimycin and FCCP (18). 7) Neither event is affected by oligomycin. From these comparisons, we suggest that SEOs and slow waves may be due to similar mechanisms.
A major finding of this study is that nitrergic stimulation acts through a cGMP-dependent mechanism to suppress MPOs and generate SEOs. The mechanisms responsible for MPOs and SEOs are quite different. MPOs occur spontaneously and have different waveforms than do SEOs. MPOs are blocked by nifedipine, whereas SEOs are not. Dependence on L-type Ca2+ channels suggests that a voltage-dependent mechanism is responsible for MPOs. Switching on of SEOs appears to require cGMP. The mechanism by which cGMP initiates SEOs in myenteric pacemaker cells is not understood at the present time.
Significant evidence has accumulated suggesting that ICCs are responsible for generation of slow waves in gastrointestinal muscles (10). Networks of ICCs are found at both the myenteric and submucosal surfaces of the circular muscle layer. There is strong evidence that submucosal ICCs are responsible for the generation of slow waves, because these events are eliminated when this region is surgically removed or damaged by chemicals (8, 12, 17). Cells with morphology similar to submucosal ICCs are found at the myenteric surface of the circular muscle layer (1, 15), and there has been speculation that myenteric ICCs could provide pacemaker activity responsible for MPOs. It is possible that SEOs also could be generated by ICCs located within the myenteric plexus region. This hypothesis has not yet been directly tested. However, surgical removal of both submucosal and myenteric borders of the circular muscle layer renders the remaining muscle quiescent (9).
Recent studies suggest that rhythmic inward (pacemaker) currents in cultured ICCs are due to cation channels permeable to Ca2+and Na+ (5). These channels are voltage independent and insensitive to block by L-type Ca2+ channel inhibitors, such as nifedipine. The pacemaker currents are blocked by divalent cations, such as gadolinium (5). The sensitivity of pacemaker current to divalent cations and insensitivity to nifedipine is similar to the effects of these agents on slow waves in intact muscles [slow waves are resistant to nifedipine but are blocked by Ni2+ (19)]. In the present study, SEOs were resistant to nifedipine and abolished by Ni2+. Thus it is possible that SEOs may be generated by nonselective cation currents similar to the currents observed in ICCs.
Although Ni2+ blocks both SEOs and slow waves, there were significant differences in the effect of Ni2+ on resting membrane potential. Ni2+ blockade of SEOs is accompanied by a large depolarization of resting membrane potential. Previous experiments in which slow waves were recorded from cells near the submucosal surface of the circular muscle layer did not find that Ni2+ caused depolarization (19). Mechanisms responsible for the depolarization of cells near the myenteric surface (this study) were not determined, but the difference noted suggests that different conductances may contribute to resting potentials in the two regions of the circular muscle layer. Depolarization per se was unlikely to cause the block of SEOs by Ni2+, because an equivalent depolarization with elevated extracellular K+did not abolish SEOs (Fig. 2 A).
Nifedipine did not abolish SEOs, but it significantly increased the frequency of these events. Nifedipine had similar effects on slow waves (19). In contrast, the L-type Ca2+ channel agonist BAY K 8644 decreased the frequency of both SEOs and slow waves (19). Changes in slow wave and SEO frequency suggest that Ca2+ influx via L-type Ca2+ channels modulate the processes that control pacemaker activity, and previous studies have reported that L-type Ca2+ currents are expressed by ICCs from the canine colon (6).
Reducing extracellular Ca2+ from 2.5 to 0.1 mM or the addition of Ni2+ blocked myenteric SEOs (this study) and slow waves (19). Although Na+ is likely to be the primary charge carrier through the pacemaker conductance (5), blockade of activity by procedures that would tend to inhibit Ca2+ influx suggests that Ca2+ entry is necessary for maintaining rhythmicity. Ca2+ entry may be important for maintaining Ca2+ stores that also appear to be critical for slow waves (7, 13, 18) and SEO (this study) generation.
Recent studies have linked pacemaker current generation in ICCs to coupling between inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Ca2+ release from the endoplasmic reticulum and Ca2+ uptake into adjacent mitochondria (18). Tests in the present study using mitochondrial inhibitors and uncouplers suggest that a similar mechanism may drive SEOs. Antimycin abolished SEOs without producing a significant change in resting membrane potential. Block of an SEO was unlikely to be due to ATP depletion, because oligomycin, an inhibitor of the F0/F1 ATPase, did not affect SEOs. SEOs were also blocked by FCCP, and this effect was accompanied by depolarization.
The most prominent feature that distinguished SEOs from slow waves was the dependence of SEOs on nitrergic stimulation (3). Because the actions of SNP were abolished by the guanylyl cyclase inhibitor ODQ, it is likely that SNP acts via generation of cGMP. In contrast, slow waves occur spontaneously in cells near the submucosal pacemaker, and concentrations of SNP that greatly modified the pattern of activity in the myenteric half of the circular muscle produced only a modest inhibition of slow waves in cells near the submucosal surface (3). Interestingly, cGMP has been shown to inhibit pacemaker currents in cultured ICCs from the murine small intestine (4). This action is more in line with the effects of NO on slow waves than the stimulation of SEOs by SNP/cGMP. At present, the cGMP-dependent regulation of pacemaker activity in the myenteric region is not understood, but effects of the cGMP pathway on Ca2+handling mechanisms may be involved.
In summary, our results suggest that there are pacemakers at the myenteric surface of the circular muscle layer capable of generating two discrete forms of electrical rhythmicity, MPOs and SEOs. MPOs (nifedipine-sensitive) occur spontaneously in the majority of preparations, and SEOs (nifedipine-resistant) are switched on via nitrergic stimulation via a cGMP-dependent mechanism. SEOs are a specialized type of electrical slow wave with properties very similar to the electrical slow waves generated at the submucosal surface of the circular muscle layer. Because the myenteric pacemaker region also contains networks of ICCs, it is possible that SEOs are generated by myenteric ICCs after activation by NO/cGMP.
This project was funded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Grant DK-41315.
Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: K. D. Keef, Dept. of Physiology and Cell Biology, Univ. of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, NV 89557 (kathy{at}physio.unr.edu).
The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
- Copyright © 2002 the American Physiological Society


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There is a complete lack of follow up by this office. If you haven't been there for a while, and need a prescription refilled, they won't call to ask if you would like a new appointment. They just call to tell you they are refusing to refill the prescription and that you should call your primary care doctor instead. Horrible. Dr. Tilem spends as little time as possible with me on each visit. I don't feel my concerns are taken seriously.
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Dr. Tilem always takes the time to answer all of my questions, explains things thoroughly, and doesn't make me feel rushed. His bedside manner as well as his expertise in his specialty make him an outstanding Doctor in my eyes.
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Whole visit went very well. Staff very nice. Dr. Tilem was thorough and explained everything. Would highly recommend.
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Heavy rain in parts of Texas flooded roads, left campers stranded, forced the evacuation of a hotel during a weather-related fire and ushered in unseasonably cool temperatures.
Following the first triple-digit day of the season earlier this week, temperatures took a nosedive Friday as some cities experienced record low temperatures. Heavy cloud cover following overnight storms kept the usual heat wave at bay, meteorologists said.
The Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area had temperatures dip to 65 degrees Friday morning, breaking the previous record low by one degree.
While Waco did not experience a record low, the area was on track to break its record-low maximum temperature of 86 degrees, said Matt Bishop with the National Weather Service in Fort Worth.
Bishop said Fort Worth also was on pace to break its record-low maximum temperature of 79 degrees.
"We reached 100 degrees later than average, but it wasn't any kind of record," Bishop said. "But we could end up with a couple of record-low maximum temperatures."
Because the National Weather Service only gathers climatological evidence for the DFW and Waco areas, Bishop said, record highs and lows for Killeen were not available. However, temperatures in Killeen never left the 70s Friday, peaking at 77 degrees at 5 p.m. The area experienced a similar cool spell in July 2013, but not one quite this dramatic, Bishop said.
Central Texans should not get accustomed to the lower temperatures. Next week will see a resurgence of the familiar mid-70s lows and mid-90s highs.
"We're going to warm up quickly this weekend," Bishop said.
As storms cleared out, San Antonio firefighters early Friday responded to a Holiday Inn after lightning blew a hole in the roof. The estimated 50 guests were safely evacuated and the fire extinguished.
Austin-Travis County EMS reported 13 campers on an island in the Colorado River were evacuated Friday amid concerns their canoes and kayaks could not safely navigate the fast-moving water. A helicopter safely transported the men to land.
Forecasters said the Austin and San Antonio areas recorded nearly 3 inches of rain since Thursday night, prompting street flooding.
Storms earlier Thursday swamped some North Texas roads. The Killeen area got nearly an inch of rain this week.
About 10,000 customers in the San Antonio area were without electricity Friday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Components Newsfeeds Feeds
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How to Access
Select Components → News Feeds → Feeds from the drop-down menu on the back-end of your Joomla! installation, or select the "Feeds" link from the News Feeds Manager - Categories.
The News Feed Manager screen allows you to add News Feeds from other sites to your Joomla! site. You can add links to these feeds for users by creating News Feed layouts in Menu Item Manager - New/Edit.
Column Headers
Click on the column heading to sort the list by that column's value.
- Checkbox: Check this box to select one or more items. To select all items, check the box in the column heading. After one or more boxes are checked, click a toolbar button to take an action on the selected item or items. Many toolbar actions, such as Publish and Unpublish, can work with multiple items. Others, such as Edit, only work on one item at a time. If multiple items are checked and you press Edit, the first item will be opened for editing.
- Title. The name or title of the feed. Make it as descriptive as possible.
- Published: Whether the item has been published or not. You can change the Published state by clicking on the icon in this column.
- Category. The Category to which this News Feed belongs. See Category Manager - Edit (News Feeds). Note that News Feed Categories are separate from other Categories, such as those for Articles, Banners, Contact, and Web Links.
- Ordering: Up-Down Arrows User specified ordering, default is order of item creation. When active, drag and drop ordering by 'click and hold' on the bars icon then 'release' in desired position.
- Access. The viewing Access Level for this item.
- Feed Count The number of articles included in the feed.
- Cache Time. The number of seconds for which to cache the item locally. It can safely be left at the default.
- Language. Item language.
- ID. This is a unique identification number for this item assigned automatically by Joomla!. It is used to identify the item internally, and you cannot change this number. When creating a new item, this field displays 0 until you save the new entry, at which point a new ID is assigned to it.
At the top left you will see the toolbar:
The functions are:
- New. Opens the editing screen to create a new news feed.
- Edit. Opens the editing screen for the selected news feed. If more than one news feed is selected (where applicable), only the first news feed will be opened. The editing screen can also be opened by clicking on the Name of the news feed.
- Publish. Makes the selected news feeds available to visitors to your website.
- Unpublish. Makes the selected news feeds unavailable to visitors to your website.
- Archive. Changes the status of the selected news feeds to indicate that they are archived. Archived news feeds can be moved back to the published or unpublished state by selecting "Archived" in the Select Status filter and changing the status of the news feeds to Published or Unpublished as preferred.
- Check-In. Checks-in the selected news feeds. Works with one or multiple news feeds selected.
- Batch. Batch processes the selected news feeds. Works with one or multiple items selected.
- Trash. Changes the status of the selected news feeds to indicate that they are trashed. Trashed news feeds can still be recovered by selecting "Trashed" in the Select Status filter and changing the status of the news feeds to Published or Unpublished as preferred. To permanently delete trashed news feeds, select "Trashed" in the Select Status filter, select the news feeds to be permanently deleted, then click the Empty Trash toolbar icon.
- Options. Opens the Options window where settings such as default parameters can be edited.
- Help. Opens this help screen.
Click on the Options button to open the News Feed Manager Options window. This window allows you to set default parameters for News Feeds, as shown below.
This tab has the following options:
- Feed Layout. Allows users to set the specific content layout for newsfeed items.
- Feed Image. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Hide or Show the image of the News Feed.
- Feed Description. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Hide or Show the description text of the News Feed.
- Feed Content. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Show or hide the content of News Feeds.
- Characters Count. Allows users to define how many text characters are shown.
This tab has the following options:
- Choose a Layout. Allows users to set the default content item layout for newsfeed articles.
- Category Title. Can Show or Hide the Category Title for the newsfeed items.
- Category Description. Can Show or Hide the Category Description for newsfeed items.
- Category Image. Can Show or Hide the Category Image for the newsfeed items.
- Subcategory Levels. Can set how many sub-category levels will be displayed in the newsfeed.
- Empty Categories. Can Show or Hide empty categories (categories with no active articles in them).
- Subcategories Descriptions. Can Show or Hide the Description for Subcategories in the newsfeed.
- # of Feeds in Category. Can Show or Hide the number of categories in the newsfeed.
NOTE:These options can be modified on a per-menu-item basis.
This tab has the following options:
- Top Level Category Desctription. Can Show or Hide the description for the top level category shown in the newsfeed. This may be changed in the menu item configuration window for specific menu items.
- Subcategory Levels. Can determine how many subcategory levels to display.
- Empty Categories. Can Show or Hide Empty Categories. (Categories with no active content articles in them)
- Subcategories Descriptions. Can Show or Hide Subcategory Descriptions.
- # of Feeds in Category. Can show or Hide the number of newsfeeds in each category.
NOTE: These options may be changed on a per-menu-item basis.
List Layouts
The following options are available for this tab:
- Display Select. Can Show or Hide the Sleect dropdown listbox.
- Table Headings. Can Show or Hide the headings in list layouts.
- # Articles. Can Show or Hide the number of articles in each newsfeed.
- Feed Links. Can Show or Hide a link to each feed.
- Pagination. Can Show or Hide Pagination Options. Pagination allows additional content to be displayed on subsequent pages. This may be useful if your content will not easily fit on one page.
- Pagination Results. Can show the number of pages of newsfeed content. This option is only viewed if the Pagination option is turned on. An example would be Page 1 of 4.
NOTE: These options may be changed on a per-menu-item basis.
This tab Allows Administrators to set permissions for user access levels to the Newsfeed Component. For each User Group Administrators can set permissions for the following actions:
- Configure.Allows users in this usergroup to edit and configure the Newsfeed component.
- Access Component. Allows users in this usergroup access the Newsfeed component.
- Create. Allows users in this usergroup to create content in the Newsfeed component.
- Delete. Allows users in this usergroup to delete content in the Newsfeed component.
- Edit. Allows users in this usergroup to edit content in the Newsfeed component.
- Edit State. Allows users in this usergroup to edit the state of content in the Newsfeed component. (e.g. Published, Unpublished)
- Edit Own. Allows users in this usergroup to edit content they have created in the Newsfeed component.
List Filters
Filter by Partial Title
You can filter the list of items either by typing part of the title or the ID number.
If you have a large number of items on the list, you can use this filter to find the desired item(s) quickly. Enter either part of the title or an ID number and press 'Search' to display the matching items. You can type whole words or part of a word. For example, "ooml" will match all titles with the word "Joomla!" in them.
Filter by State, Category, Access, and Language
In the upper right area, above the column headings, there are 4 drop-down list boxes as shown below:
The selections may be combined. Only items matching both selections will display in the list.
- Select Status. Use the drop-down list box to select the published state: Published, Unpublished, Trashed, or All. For Articles, you may also select Archived. Important: With the default setting of -Select Status-, the screen only shows Published and Unpublished items. If you have the filter set to -Select Status- and you change items to Trashed, the Trashed items will disappear from the screen. However, they have not been permanently deleted. To do that you need to:
- Change the filter to Trashed. The Delete icon will now show in the toolbar.
- Select the items you want to permanently delete.
- Click on the Delete icon.
- You can see all items, regardless of their published state, by selecting All for this filter. You can also re-publish Trashed items by selecting them and clicking on the Publish icon in the toolbar.
Filter by Category. Lets you show only items assigned to a specific category. The list box will show the categories defined for your site.
- - Select Category -: Show items assigned to any category.
- <your category>: Show items assigned only to this category.
Filter by Viewing Access Level. Lets you show only items that have a specified viewing access level. The list box will show the access levels defined for your site, similar to the example below.
- - Select Access -: Show items with any viewing access level.
- <access level group>: Show items only with this viewing access level.
Filter by Language. Lets you show only items that have a specific language assigned. The list box will show the languages defined for your site, similar to the example below.
- - Select Language - or All: Show items for any language.
- <your language>: Show items only for this language.
Quick Tips
- You need to add at least one Category for news feeds before you add the first feed. Categories are added using the Category Manager by clicking on 'News Feeds', and then on 'Categories' in the 'Components' menu.
Related Information
- To create or Edit News Feeds: News Feeds Manager - New/Edit
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Durban - Bands of homeless Tanzanians went on the rampage in Albert Park in Durban on Thursday, attacking compatriots they accused of not financially supporting them.
The attackers stabbed five people and a six-year-old boy's leg was broken as Tanzanians stampeded to get away.
A flat and spaza shop were set alight and a number of cars were damaged.
One man was thought to have died after being stabbed in the chest. Others were hacked with pangas.
Late yesterday taxis took the injured to hospital as ambulances were slow to arrive.
The Albert Park area is home to thousands of foreigners from across Africa.
Tanzanian Ramadhani Juma explained that those with jobs had, until recently, been giving some of their wages to their fellow unemployed countrymen in a gesture of brotherhood.
But yesterday the employed Tanzanians said they had had enough. This is what ignited the violence.
Yannick Ponda, also from Tanzania, said they had rented a commune on the South Coast for their unemployed "brothers", but that they had moved to be closer to the city.
Now many were living rough along the railway line near the Berea station, but still demanding money from their countrymen.
Ponda said: "These people are here in South Africa not willing to work, but are surviving by committing crime and selling drugs to young South Africans. We don't want anything more to do with them."
Last night the community held a meeting to discuss marching to the local police station to ask for a 24-hour police presence in the area and the removal of the homeless from the railway line.
Councillor Willie Zenzile appealed to the community not to resort to violence.
A number of people were arrested.
Police spokesman Thulani Zwane said they were picked up because they were illegal immigrants.
No one was arrested for public violence. - The Mercury


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Many nurseries include the child's name or initials on the wall. Why not make this sweet accent yourself?
Approximate Time 1-2 hours
I'm not particularly crafty, but at the end of my pregnancy, I suddenly decided I had to have something with my daughter's name or initials in her room. I didn't like the style or cost of wooden letters, so I made my own wall art while I was off work, waiting for my due date.
I found a font that I liked (you can use your computer's existing ones or download one) and typed the letters in a big size, like say 72. Then print the letters out and cut them out. Trace the letters on your foam board and cut them out. (You can also do your letters freehand if you want, no printer required.) Don't worry if the edges are rough because next you cover the letters in tissue paper. It helps smooth out the lines. I taped the tissue paper to the back of each letter (like wrapping a present almost). Just make sure you are making the correct side of the letter pretty! (I think I made the V backward, but you can't really tell.)
I was going to mount the letters onto a piece of foam board covered in tissue paper, but it was too busy, so I used strips of tissue paper to hang the letters from the larger piece. (You could also use ribbon, string, whatever.)
Note: you could probably use glue for any of these steps as well if you prefer.
If you want to make sure you don't rip it when you take it down, I recommend putting packing tape on the back of the larger piece, then mounting it with some double-sided tape. I didn't do this and when we moved, the back was a little damaged, but it's still intact!
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1959 Ford Thunderbird Convertible - Mostly restored - NO RESERVE
Price: US $22,000.00 Item location: Leander, Texas, United States
- Condition: Used
- Make: Ford
- Model: Thunderbird
- Type: Convertible
- Year: 1959
- Mileage: 0
- Color: White
- Engine size: 352 4V
- Number of cylinders: 8
- Power options: Power Brakes, Power Steering, Power Driver Seat, Power Windows
- Fuel: Gasoline
- Transmission: Automatic
- Drive type: RWD
- Interior color: Turquoise & White
- Options: Convertible
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1959 Ford Thunderbird1959 Ford Thunderbird Convertible - Mostly restored - NO RESERVE Power steering, ower brakes, ower windows and power driver seat. This is an early 1959 so the top is not fully automatic. You have to open the deck lid by hand then you can raise or lower top with a hydraulic pump. This is considered the more desirable one as you don't have all the problems that the fully automatic top has. Due to health issues I am not able to finish this project but everything is done except for adjustments and noted items. This has been a restoration project for me and is a very nice car with thousands of dollars in new and rebuilt parts & hundreds of hours of labor.· The brakes have been updated to power disc in the front with the original drums in the rear with new hoses and lines.
· The front suspension is all new including coil springs, pper and lower a-frame bushings, ie rod ends, pper and lower ball joints, hocks (front & rear), ront stabilizer bushings and bumpers on the a frames.
· The power steering has been rebuilt including the pump, ontrol valve, lave cylinder with new hoses.
· All the weather-stripping and seals have been replaced, his includes doors, indows, runk, nd every seal was replaced.
· The front tires are new and the rear tires are very good condition, he spare is old but has never been used.
· The interior is mostly new with new seat covers front and rear, ew foam in the front seats. The door panels and trim panels are new along with new carpet.
· The convertible top is new, ith new pads and seals, ew top pump and hoses.
· The transmission and torque converter have been rebuilt and is original to the car.
· The engine a 352 4V (correct but not original to car) was torn down but found to be in good condition and was put back together with new seals, iming chain and oil pump.
· The rear end is original, till tight with no leaks.
· The trunk area has been restored with all new correct parts and burtex mat.
· The fuel tank is new along with a new sending unit and electric fuel pump. The original mechanical fuel pump has been eliminated because they don't last long with today's fuel.
· The paint is all new and is very high quality two part polyurethane enamel. The paint and body are show condition.
· The underbody has been re-undercoated. I scraped all the original undercoating that was loose or poor condition off. There was no rust other than some surface rust which was painted with Por-15 rust encapsulating paint before the undercoating.
· The whole car was almost rust free and has all the original floors and panels. There were just a few spots where they all seem to get rust.
· The chrome is mostly original but in very nice condition - too nice to get redone
The car is complete and driveable but still needs a few issues attended to in order to be perfect. I have some health issues that are keeping me from working on &completing the car. I have decided to try to sell it as is. If it doesn't sell with this listing I will work on having the issues repaired and relist later with a much higher price that will be much closer to its true value. To fix everything that is wrong will probably be less than a $1000 in parts but my selling start price is very low with no reserve . Unless it gets bid way up it may go for $10,000+ under book. This is what I know needs attention: · The rear quarter windows do not align perfectly when raised; need help the last quarter inch.
· The windshield has a crack, ery hard to see on the passenger side. This was a new $700 dollar windshield.
· The exhaust system should be replaced; it is not correct. I was going to replace but it can be used as is.
· The front end will need an alignment because with all the new parts I'm sure it's out of alignment.
· The wind shield wipers don't work very well; a common problem with vacuum wipers.
· The radio may not work. I was going to put an AM FM reproduction radio in so I never even tested it.
· The rear antenna is not hooked up. I have a new one but didn't install it (included).
· There is a cable for the defrosters that needs to be hooked up or replaced (included). I was going to try to find a nicer heater control panel.
· The jack is not the original one so the jack base won't screw to the spare tire like it is supposed to.
· The clock doesn't work but the other gauges do.
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Celebrating Our Heritage and Our Hope
On Saturday, I was honored to attend the opening celebration of an exhibit highlighting the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to the Nisei (Second Generation Japanese-Americans) veterans of World War II at the de Young Museum.
With this exhibit, "American Heroes: Japanese American World War II Nisei Soldiers and the Congressional Gold Medal," we continue to pay tribute to heroes and veterans of the Greatest Generation who were willing to pay any price and bear any burden to fight tyranny and secure our future. It is fitting that their motto, as inscribed on the Gold Medal, is "Go for Broke." The Gold Medal awardees were willing to "go for broke" -- fighting for freedom abroad and against discrimination here at home, even in the face of injustice of internment. Even in the age of racism and prejudice, endless Japanese-Americans endured brutality in their own communities. These brave men in uniform rose above feeling embittered. Instead, they felt compelled to demonstrate their love of country and their loyalty to the cause of democracy.
Simply put, the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and the Military Intelligence Service saved American lives. Across the Atlantic, they faced deadly combat in Italy, France, and Germany. In the Pacific, they interpreted radio transmissions, translated enemy documents and interrogated prisoners of war. Some gave what President Lincoln once called the "last full measure of devotion," never to return to their homes again. All through, they were great fighters; all through, they were great patriots. All recognized the task in their mission wasn't simply the end of fascism, but also the end of discrimination here at home. All embraced and all advanced the American ideal of equality, our heritage and our hope.
This weekend, we have another opportunity to honor these values as we commemorate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence with the celebration of the Fourth of July. Let us take this weekend to commemorate our past and honor our Founding Fathers, our veterans, and our service men and women. Let their example continue to be an inspiration.
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This is getting really annoying. I look forward to doing something and I get excited about it. Then he'll say he's busy or there's too much traffic or some bullshit excuse not to do it.
He doesn't do it all the time but it's enough times then it's getting to the point where I'm tired of it. It's just rude to to this right?
I'm left sitting at home with nothing to do because it's a last minute cancellation and too late to do anything else.
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sorry about misspelling enlightenment, it was too late before i realize my mistake.
he looks kind of like Big Brother--scary, but cool.
it's kinda ironic this way
that cracks me up.. how do you mispell that? lol
i really like it, maybe a less orange brown but thats not that big of a deal
this is a nice piece, however boxing it limits it (-enlightened about what? the box in which you live?) but nice graphics nice execution (barring the spelling… but…bah!?
why must ghandi be cheapened for the sake of your boring shirt?
ok u r worng Ghandi is not a Buddah ok. i dont think he was a buddhist
he was a hindu. he lived according to Hindu teachings "brahmacharja." i protrayed the image of buddha in the image as of living. sorry if i applied him as a buddhist, but they are very similar in aspect.
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My brother and I have been struggling with trying to find any information regarding, as best we can describe it, a plastic helicopter kite.
It is something we owned waaay back in around the early 80's.
This thing was a mean machine and quite dangerous for anyone unlucky enough to be anywhere near it as it came close to the ground. However, this helicopter was awesome! And it sounded awesome as the blades whirred away.
The helicopter had 4 rotor blades on top and we believe 4 blades on the rear... but may have been two.
The kite was yellow in colour. It perhaps measured about two foot in length and a just under a foot wide for the body. The blades were perhaps 3 foot tip to tip and maybe 5 cm in width. The body of the helicopter was just a frame. It was entirely made of plastic and was very rigid and strong. No tubular sections that I can remember. All the plastis was long flat rectangle shaped parts. Oh, it did have a plastic looking seat in the middle of it.
It would usually take two people to get this thing off the ground in good winds. It was controlled by the use of four strings. Two strings held per hand and attached at four separate points on the helicopter.
The second person would hold it in the air until the blades were screaming away and would then give it a lift and off it went. It was very stable and flew like a dream. This toy was the most unusual and memorable thing we owned at around 9 years old! It was damn scary :-D
We want to know if it can be bought today. If not, at least to find images of it for memories sake. Any help in identifying this fantastic kite will be so appreciated with huge smiles.
After some extensive image searches, I have failed to turn up anything that exactly matches your description. However, you can easily double-check by typing "gyro kite" (including those double-quotes) into Google Image Search. This particular search turned up the biggest collection of relevant images.
Regarding whether this gyrocopter kite would be for sale - I very much doubt that, due to its sheer age. Even eBay is not of much help since it mainly carries 'new' items these days. I did check though.
All I can suggest is that you join some kite forums online and ask around. Someone, somewhere is likely to know more about your kite! Perhaps they even have photos of their own.
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Hope you eventually track down that elusive whirring flying machine!
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