EA's Sims Online encouraged people posing as avatars to meet, chat and entertain each other within worlds the creators design.
And Welsh duo Joanna Weale and Anwen Butten also crashed out, suffering a 20-11 defeat to New Zealand's Sharon Sims and Joanna Edwards.
The six groups with reduced funding are Southampton's Turner Sims Concert Hall, John Hansard Gallery and Nuffield Theatre, The Anvil in Basingstoke, Southampton-based Art Asia and the Aspex Visual Arts Trust, based in Portsmouth.
"Right now my heart is breaking, " said Cherry's great aunt, Patricia Sims, of Oakland, Calif.
Graham Sims, the council's chief executive, said they were faced with "rising costs and legal stalemates".
Now, that market in the sperm donor world accounts for less than 14 percent, according to projections by Charles Sims, the organization's co-founder and medical director.
Ron Sims, King County's chief executive, said recently that perhaps Seattle should work in the same way with neighbouring counties and even with cities such as Spokane, in the east of the state.
But before my neighbors and my wife call their respective lawyers, I should point out that the situation I'm describing is a slice of virtual life from the world's No. 1 PC game, The Sims, by virtuoso designer Will Wright.
Sims had one last chance to save Baylor's season after Reid's free throws but was off-target and late on a desperation heave.
Chef Charlie Sims cooked fried chicken, lasagna and the region's traditional New Year's dishes of black-eyed peas and cabbage.
This month a test version of its Sims 2 is available with beverages at Atlanta-area McDonald's.
Australian-based Sims Metal Management (SMS, 16) is the world's largest publically traded scrap metal recycler and electronics recycler.
On Monday, West Midlands Police Chief Constable Chris Sims said out of five options being considered over the camera's future, he would like to see them removed in the hope it would rebuild trust within the communities.
Finally, Bloomberg says (and our own sources have corroborated) that Apple's working on a so-called "Universal SIM" technology that would eliminate physical SIMs altogether and make using the iPhone on different networks a simple matter of provisioning, not unlike American CDMA networks today.
Joe Sims, an antitrust partner at Jones Day and former member of the firm's partnership committee, said clients don't mind paying for associates, as long as they feel they are getting their money's worth.
Among the luminaries who waltzed on stage for conversation were artificial intelligence godfather Marvin Minsky, Boston Scientific founder and billionaire John Abele, Oxbridgian longevity messiah Aubrey De Grey (who's got 536 friends on Facebook), Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard, sculptor Chuck Hoberman, Sims creator Will Wright, genomics pundit Juan Enriquez and computer scientist Sandy Pentland from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Among the luminaries who waltzed on stage for conversation were artificial intelligence godfather Marvin Minsky, Boston Scientific (nyse: BSX - news - people ) founder and billionaire John Abele, Oxbridgian longevity messiah Aubrey De Grey (who's got 536 friends on Facebook), Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard, sculptor Chuck Hoberman, Sims creator Will Wright, genomics pundit Juan Enriquez and computer scientist Sandy Pentland from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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