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Cranberry-Cream Cheese Bars
Provided by: www.kraftfoods.com
What you need:
i 1/2 cups boiling water
| i package (8-serving size) cranbeny-flavored gelatin dessert
i can (16 oz.) whole-berry cranberry sauce
i i/2 cups cold water
i can (i i oz. or 12 oz.) mandarin orange segments, drained
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup sugar.; divided
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, melted
1 package (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened
2 tubs (8 oz. each) whipped topping, thawed, divided
What to do:
Stir boiling water into gelatin in large bowl for at least 2 minutes or until completely
dissolved. Add cranberry sauce; stir until melted. Stir in cold water. Refrigerate about 1 1/4
hours or- until slightly thickened (consistency of unbeaten egg whites). Gently stir in mandarin
oranges.
Meanwhile, stir crumbs, 1/4 cup sugar and butter until blended. Press mixture firmly onto
bottom of a iy-by-p-inch dish. Refrigerate until ready to use.
Beat cream cheese and remaining 1/4 cup sugar in large bowl with wire whisk until well j
blended. Gently stir in 1 tub whipped topping. Spread evenly over crust; cover with gelatin f
mixture. Refrigerate 3 hours or until firm. Garnish with remaining tub whipped topping just |
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wording to conceal deep
changes within the game.
The patch notes are often
intended to be humorous,
as shown by this quote
directly from the notes:
“The Fiery War Axe is now
in fact, fiery.” The cynical
patch notes made fun of
this comment by adding:
“The Tauren Icebreaker is
now in fact, a Tauren.”
Photoshop Phriday is
also one of the site’s most
famous features. Users
from the Something Awful
forum modify photos in
humorous and sometimes
offensive ways. The most
recent Photoshop Phriday
feature is called “Postcards
from the Video Game
World,” and pokes fun
at postcards. One of the
many postcards is a picture
of a peaceful countryside
with the following words
written on it: “Come Visit
Castlevania.”
The forums at Something
Awful remain one of the
most popular features
of the entire Web site.
In fact, http://www.big
boards.com has named the
Something Awful forum
as the seventh most active
forum on the Internet.
The forums include
“Ask/Tell,” the question/
answer board; “Serious
Hardware/Software Crap,”
the technology board and
“Debate and Discussion,”
the board dedicated to
discussing current events
worldwide. Other boards
exist on the forum that
cannot be spoken of in this
article because of obscene
content. These forums also
helped to spawn many well
known Internet fads such as
“All your base are belong
to us” and “The Terrible
Secret of Space.”
The future looks bright
for Something Awful.
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manager for Mobile ESPN.
“Consumers have the
opportunity to get a cell
phone service that caters
to their needs. You can
focus on a much narrower
market segment. We have
the luxury of-really focusing
on sports fans.”
As mobile phones have
become more data-oriented,
the amount of news and
video content available has
steadily increased. ESPN
hopes to take the notion of
mobile information device
to another level.
“We believe there is no
better content experience, let
alone a sports experience,”
Jha said. “By really focusing
on something, you tend to
get deeper and better at
that than if you do a whole
lot of things. There will
be no wireless service that
will deliver a better sports
experience.”
ESPN content’ can be
seen on other mobile phones
offered by wireless carriers.
But with other services,
the “carriers control the
content distribution,” Jha
said. “Here we control it
end-to-end and we can
deliver it very quickly.”
The phone is easy to
navigate. To launch the
sports service, you just hit
the “E” — for ESPN — at
the top of the scroll wheel
surrounding the phone’s
main menu button.
You must wait a few
seconds for the application
to open, but ESPN makes
the wait interesting by
providing a “Did you know”
sports factoid to read. Once
open, the screen displays
the day’s top sports stories
complete with a photo and
a few headlines. You click
on a headline to get the
story.
If those stories don’t
interest you, just hit the
button on the left side of
the scroll wheel to pull up
the menu of other ESPN
content.
There’s a menu for
ESPN columnists, another
for fantasy services (you
can manage a fantasy team
from the phone), scores
of ongoing games, more
general sports news and
other goodies. Users can
also set up their own menus
for content on favorite
teams and players.
Known for its highlight
reel of dunks, crunching
tackles and long homers,
ESPN wisely borrows
clips from its bevy of
sports shows, including
“SportsCenter,” “Pardon
the Interruption” and ^
breaking stories from ^
ESPN News. The
video content changes
throughout the day as
stories develop. In the
evening, after games start
concluding, highlights are
posted quickly.
During tests while
watching the recent Rose
Bowl between Southern
California and Texas, the
phone constantly updated
the score and offered game
highlights. At halftime,
for example, the phone
had sideline interviews ^
from the head coaches
that only moments before
were broadcast by ABC, an
ESPN sister company.
Accessing video can be
slow, however. For one,
video takes longer to
download than stories, and
two, the phone launches a
second application to play
the video, adding more
time. In reality, the wait
is only about 15 seconds,
but that is slower than
most people have become
accustomed to in this era
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disorder, panic attacks,
bipolar disease and phobias.
Whether one causes the
other still remains to be
determined, Stein said, and
researchers don’t know if one
condition is the dominant
factor in the equation.
Not everyone who suffers
from migraines also has a
psychological condition, but
there are other common
characteristics. Migraineurs
often have a family history
of headaches. They tend
to be bothered by flashing
lights and bold patterns,
so much so that they often
gravitate toward plain
clothing with solid colors.
If they don’t have visual
discomforts, Stein said, they
may be sensitive to smells or
loud sounds.
“Some people will tell me
they can predict changes
in the weather,” Stein said.
“It’s like they are human
barometers.”
Migraine triggers differ
greatly in people, too, Stein
added. For some, it is stress;
for others, too much sleep
or perhaps not enough. Any
number of foods can trigger
migraines in individuals
— most common on the list
are chocolate, red wine and
aged cheeses.
Still, other migraineurs
fall into a pattern where it
doesn’t matter what they eat
or do — they are stricken
with migraines. There are
physical connections, too,
including menstrual cycles
in women and, doctors
have recently discovered,
a relationship with a heart
defect.
Finding a treatment for
such a variety of headaches'
and triggers is daunting,
but in the past 10 years, a
number of new medications
have been approved. In
1992, the first medication
specifically for migraines
became available in an
injectable form. In 1995, it
was available in tablets, and
the following year, it was
offered as a nasal spray.
There are now seven
therapies available to
migraineurs, and they are
effective for up to 80 percent
of migraine suffers.
“None work 100 percent
every time,” Stein said. “We
don’t understand why.”
In recent years, research
has focused on preventive
therapies. If patients can
keep a headache from
starting, Stein said, they can
save themselves a lot of pain.
The drawback is that the
medications must be taken
daily, since migraines can’t
be predicted.
Some of the preventive
I
treatments for migraines
have been discovered
accidentally. Patients get
treated for one condition
and find that their migraines
disappear.
A drug initially approved
for the treatment of epilepsy
is being considered for use
in preventing migraines. A
formal study on the use of
Botox to prevent migraines
is expected to begin this
month. People were getting^
Botox injections for cosmetic^
reasons, Stein said, and they
noticed that their migraines
had stopped.
Once there has been
evidence that a drug has
been helpful in preventing
migraines, many doctors and
patients are willing to give it
a try, provided it’s safe to do
so, in a practice known as
going “off-label.”
All of the changes jn
migraine treatment have
brought new hope to
migraineurs, but a side effect
of more successful treatment^*
and public acceptance ha.
been a decline in support
groups.
The Internet has also
had a hand in redefining
communities, Stein said.
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