| Event Recap: Final Fantasy XI Fan Festival 2007
As you probably know, the 360 is not that popular in Japan, so even though it's on sale not many people have the actual hardware to play it. But yeah, we're pleased to see that a lot of the users in Europe and America (where the 360 is popular) are players using that, and we hope to continue making stuff for that market. So in Japan they play more PS2 or PC? Sage Sundi: At the release, there were a lot more using the PS2 in Japan, but recently the trend has been that most players are moving to the PC versions. HT: And then a lot of the players in America -- probably most of the people who have an Xbox 360 also have a PC -- so most of them are going to be playing on the PC rather than the 360. .
Ottawa fires nuclear safety commission head
The federal government has fired the head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, days after she publicly accused Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn of interfering with the independence of the arm's-length watchdog. The former head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Linda Keen, says she will appear at a parliamentary committee about the reactor closure on Wednesday.(CBC) "The president was aware of the importance of maintaining Canada's and the world's supply of medical isotopes," said the statement from Lunn's office. "However, given the growing crisis, she did not demonstrate the leadership expected of the president under the existing legislative provisions of the Nuclear Safety and Control Act to put the commission in a position to address the situation in a timely fashion." Lunn and Keen have been at odds since the 50-year-old Chalk River nuclear reactor was shut down in November, prompting a worldwide shortage of medical isotopes.
A reading list
Originating in England, it was America's most popular cookbook in 1776. The U.S. edition was published in 1805. • American Cookery by Amelia Simmons (Dover Publications). An exact reproduction of the 1796 edition of the first cookbook published in the United States. It includes recipes for pumpkin pudding, winter squash pudding, Indian slapjacks and spruce beer. • Civil War Recipes: Receipts from the Pages of Godey's Lady's Book by Lily May Spaulding and John Spaulding (University Press of Kentucky). The recipes are from Godey's Lady's Book, a popular women's magazine with a national circulation of 150,000 during the 1860s. • Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (Prospect Books). America's greatest cookbook when published in 1896, it was the first to use standardized measurements, rely on simple directions and show concern for nutrition.
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