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Show A The Daily Herald Saturday, October 14, 1995 DILBERT CATDERT By Scott Adams THE. H.R. DIRECTOR. JOB rAY I 15 TOO CAN SEE A COnPAW COUNSELOR OUP, PROCESS. COVER ? W By Shelly Norman Special to The Daily Herald If your child enjoys computerized books, he or she w ill probably like "Sunday. That One Day." produced and marketed by Infobases, located in Provo. But. if you only have one computer in the house and you want to play it yourself, you may not like this game as well. It is similar in design to the Living Books series which features titles such as "Just Grandma and ONLY bENEFIT YOU WITH SAND. I'D BETTER TU5T KEEP GET A YQURttOUTH OPEN. LOT OF sand! ) A teJ Novell sufferin g from weak profits The day before Novell completof WordPerfect. Novell's stock price hit $14. down from S23 a share prior to the merger announcement. Now. nearly 16 months later. Novell's stock price is back in the S14 ranee after enjoying a brief run-urecently to the low twen- ning to introduce Win 95 applica-tions- s in early 1996. the results in the meantime have been near disastrous. "As we've surveyed people, we've found that when they compare, WordPerfect 6.1 and Per ed' its acquisition il p ties. In the interim, the Dow Jones Industrials have enjoyed a robust increase of more than 25 percent, while the technology sector as a vvhoe has seen dramatic increases in stock perfoimances since the first of the year. The latest stock price retreat can be lied directly to an announce-hien- t this week that Novell expects its earnings from fourth fiscal financial quarter to under-perfor- anah st expectations. (Novell's cal year ends on October 28. hw David Poiitis yfj Wasatch Tech Watch fectOffice with the other products out there (from Microsoft and LotusIBM), they do surprisingly well." said Mary Conti Loffredo. research manager at International Data Corp. "But when customers consider product longevity, or the likelihood that a company is even going to be around. Microsoft wins hands down." she said. Given the steeping slope Novell faces in selling its Win 3.1 Word- fis- ) The stated reason, according to the Novell news release, is "continued weakness in the application segment of its software business." Specifically. Novell announced that preliminary indications from results of the first two months of the quarter "are that its WordPerfect family of personal productivity application products could decline more than $75 million from the $134 million contributed by applications the year before." According to the release, applications accounted for 28 percent of Novell revenue in Q4 '94 and "could decline to below 13 percent" in Q4 '95. Perfect business applications. Microsoft's aggressive and apparently successful marketing tactics for pushing its Win applications, and the fact that native Windows 95 applications from Novell will not be available at least until New Year's Day, Novell better have a killer strategy in place for moving these new products. Because if they don't. Novell may find its WordPerfect applicar-ion- s relegated to the also-ra- n heap. Just for the record. I've used WordPerfect ever since moved d According to industry sources. Novell sorely underestimated market, demand for new applications created specifically for the 32-b- it Windows 95 operating system .from Microsoft. Although its 3.x applications run under Win 95. and the firm is plan RJR plans 575 job cuts, shift NF.W YORK (AP) RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp. said today ii would eliminate about 575 jobs in its tobacco business and move its international tobacco division headquarters to .Switzerland from North Carolina. Virtually all of the job cuts will be in Winston-Salem- . 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(AP) Thiokol Corp. and the Carlyle Group have created a jointly owned affiliate to acquire Howmet Corp.. a world leader in precision castings of superalloys and titani- headquarters mer found food contamination, pest infestations and unkempt facilities now is in compliance with state sanitation regulations. Becky Shreeve, chief inspector with the Department of Agriculture, said a followup examination found those problems have been corrected at the plant, owned by the family of Utah Lt. Gov. Olene Walker. The company has expanded its cleaning staff, hired an outside ees. n For more information, call Severance, Workers Compen6 sation Fund of Utah, at extension or firm, and resealed wall seams to better keep out pest-contr- Ear-ly- ol insects. Walker said. 288-826- SALT LAKE CITY The acquisition, announced K ALL- - 8266. Income Index Thursday, includes the Cercast unit from Howmet affiliate Pechiney Internationa! S.A.. a multinational French firm. Howmet. headquartered in Greenwich. Conn., has annual revenues of $900 million. The company's castings are used primarily for jet aircraft and industrial gas turbine engine components. How-meoperates 30 plants in North America. Europe and Asia, employing approximately 8.500. jobs. The international tobacco division employs 13.000 people worldwide and 160 in Winston-SaleThe company said 85 of the international employees in Winston-Salem w ill be offered jobs in Geneva or elsewhere in the company. RJR's chairman and chief executive. Charles M. Harper, said the moves should eventually boost RJR's profits by $150 million a year. For the week ending Oct. 12,1995 Money Markets Prime Rate Money Market Mutual Funds Bank Money Market Savings. 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Internet at politisdfahitech.com. The trum. If you click on another baby, she throws cereal on the floor and a little mouse comes and carries it away. On the Primary room page, you can pop a balloon and sing the song that is behind it. My son played the songs over and over again. I guess his new favorite is "Book of Mormon Stories." Chet's favorite parts so far seem to be when the fox drops a gumball on the floor and the frog's long tongue grabs it, or when the dinosaur made of blocks comes to life and eats the other blocks. He also loves dressing the bunnies in the appropriate Sunday clothes. Some of the things I thought were funny were the snoring in Sacrament meeting and the octopus playing the organ. I'm certain there are more surprises it's just a matter of finding them. The game is available on for Mac- - and DOS-base- d computer systems. We have a PowerMac at home, and because "Sunday" is not available in a native version, it runs slow on our machine. Both my son and found this frustrating, . 09 VcrtEP 16.26 10.39 leased David L. Poiicare organi-ation- s. tis welcomes comments and column ideas at 569-259- 2 or via the 75 Product Review . 08 0.50 Vort 23 1121 SALT LAKE CITY Equifax announced Thursday that it has marketint; communications consultant to and heath high-tec- although ocal HiolUigh A - Haw To Bsad The Slocks ..01 . 1! X .10 11.21 Mrjf !2 WEi) WUunm 96 23.96 E Em HBotm CnGa Wort! Fundi 120.76.1.61 Kpl (01 1 ..06 ..10 2.62 16.21 MXi 11.16 10 38 Westwre to 10.63 14 70 675 !nbd 95-bas- three-year-ol- Advances: 1073 11.21 OflTEl although I sincerely hope Novell can recov er from this stumble with a launch of Win products in the first week or two of 1996. But as contemplate these questions and the future of WordPerfect products. I'm reminded of the phrase that begins. "It's always darkest just before And as I see it. there are two possible ways to complete that sentence. It's always darkest just before the daw n. or It's always darkest just before it turns completely black. Hopefully the dawn is almost here. 11 7 97! u!US 27 03 IT 1093 1023 120 76 m 14.05 1041 Outturn USGwm tMsftdtteear Wt&VK 13.jo 1118 MTFin 'J14 70 162 Tudor JcaWlJm WriEoX Gofi GNMA I UITA WnGlm Grtnc GNMAR alternatives." What can be done? What will happen? don't know, truthfully 17.95 Wrflm 29 .13 .10 .15 1 it didn't annoy Chet, to discourage him from enough I playing it. On other computers, have would this; don't believe you problem. Included with the game is some black and white artwork. You can. call Infobases to register and they will provide a password to unlock, the drawings. You can then open them in any paint program and "color" them. Or you could print them out in their outline format and take them to church for the kids to color. The game also comes with a coloring book. In the radio advertising that I've! heard for "Sunday," the parents are having so much fun that they take over the game from the kids. I must confess that I was eager tq see what the pipes on the organ did or what Ethel had to say to Frank.' However, once I went through the game once, I was willing to hand the mouse back to my child. He, on the other hand, has spent many happy hours on the computand that er playing this game was just the First day. My husband asked him if he like the game, and Chet said "Yes." My husband asked him if he was going to be reverent in church like the bunnies, and Chet said "Yes." This I have to see. The suggested retail price of $49.95 seems a little high to me, but that's pretty much what these type of games are selling for. However, if it can pique my son's inter est and he learns to enjoy church as much as Alex and Annie do, I would think it's a bargain. Editor's note: The product is currently on sale for $39.95 in many stores throughout Utah. quality time at home, writing to the LDS missionaries and enjoying one another's company. There are ten pages in this game. Each page is a fully animated color screen. When you activate certain items in the screen, you initiate an action. For instance, when you click on one of the babies in Sacrament meeting, she climbs off the bench and crawls up on the ros- - 10.52 12.95 1001 15 92 HOCip 52 WGH 10.45 29 J7 19 1 Birthday" and "The Tortoise and the Hair." The big difference is that "Sunday" is aimed specifically at young members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. "Sunday" stars twin bunnies, Andrea and Alexander. You guide them though a "typical" Sunday at an LDS meetinghouse. The scene is more ideal than typical, but parents can always dream. To get a realistic review of this name, I enlisted the help of our resident computer-gam- e expert d Chet. This game is of particular interest to me, not because of the technology, but because of the subject. Chet is not a big fan of going to church. In fact, he usually starts complaining about it on Saturday night. He did, however, give the game a thumbs up. "Sunday" starts with the bunnies waking up on Sunday morning, eager to go to church. One of them is even giving a talk in Primary. They get dressed, go to Sacrament meeting and attend Primary, including Sharing Time and class. They also go to Grandma's for dinner and then spend some chng 10.01 Gc ..07 u10 itk 10 45 EG 1001 bid 910 16.2! 36 30 1431 10.(4 16J8 ..09 18.15 10.96 CtpAp .07 13.67 Game STTiMB 1247 12.41 1098 U10 24 910 JpOIC NVttu U1095 ESnen 11.1! 04 30.04 30 110.09 10.09 Nftsttdi WmttO UtCs 07 12.55 SOffQl 11.61 Wndvlf Bllm Mi fcntb Cimm Ct&m Eelyt 11 18 EG Nim ken 65 Wuta'uMacHA&ser 12.36 vVTfm1013 12.75 36 15.09 Fume 15.7! 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The cuts include 500 jobs in the United States, or 5.2 percent of the company's domestic work force of about 9,500 people, including 7.500 in Winston-Salem- . RJR's domestic tobacco business has been losing market share in recent months while industry leader Philip Morris has gained ground w ith brands that include the g cigarette. Marlboro. The move of the international tobacco headquarters to Geneva. Switzerland, from Winston-Sale- itiised. 'Computer expert' gives bunnies thumbs up IP THIS IS COUNSELING NOW UE PUT YOU IN A BIG HOLE AND 5TRE55FUL. I 8 Niimt PH 1 AnDiv Vol 0p' Chg ISIS Nimt: This is the abbreviation Issued lor each stock. If you see a This symbol uses no spaces space, il Is to set aside footnote. 2 Footnote: b Fee covonng marketing costs is paid trom fund assets, d Deferred SEies charge, or a redemption fee t Front load sales charge, m Multiple fees are charged, usually a marketing fee and either a sales or a - Split, x Ex dividend. n redemption fee. 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