Despite an impressive recovery towards the end of the year spurred
by huge price cuts and the removal of the Kinect from some Xbox bundles, it was a largely forgettable year for the XBO in comparison to the kind of success the PS4 had.
CALGARY — Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX: SU), known for its
huge presence in Alberta's oilsands, is reducing its workforce
by 1,000 and
cutting $ 1 billion from its capital budget as the company grapples with plummeting crude
prices.
Now, for the past six years, I have had seven dresses that I always wear for formal events (black - tie, weddings): (1) a long sleeved, high - necked, knee length black lace dress
by Lover, whose darts I removed entirely so that it falls straight from my shoulders to hips to knees in a very loose, comfortable
cut (no need to pull any waists in, and I can eat as much as I like) that I made an underskirt for, so it can also be calf length (2) an ivory version of the same above, with the optional lace underskirt (3) an amazingly intricate ivory leather macrame flapper dress uner which I wear a dark brown long, stretch singlet dress (so comfortable again)(4) a vermillion small V - neck, long bell sleeved, straight
cut, long, widens - at - the -(just above ankle) hemline dress I sewed in the most gorgeous lace for twenty dollars (5) a burgundy lace version of the vermillion lace dress in (4)-- for the same
price (6) a knee length, Romance Was Born silk shift three sizes up so it sits away from the waist — again — its all about «a'll the better to eat dinner with, my dear», in a
huge, wild sunflower graphic print before graphic prints were trendy: it's giant sunflowers against an intense turquoise background (7) a calf length caftan
cut dress that I made from Japanese printed silk my mother had bought and kept for sixty years (it's just a giant square with a hole fro my neck and two for my arms, and has the best drape EVER owing to its being silk)
The storming success of the Wii has been somewhat quelled
by the Xbox 360 and, while the 3DS is finally gaining steam, it's also suffered a
huge price cut that has surely dealt a big blow to profits.
It's a familiar mix of finding ways to add a
price to pollution, moving forward with standards and policies that fulfill the
huge potential for
cutting energy waste and also invigorating the innovation pipeline
by greatly boosting investment — public and private — in research and development and the other steps required to generate insights and turn them into new and widely disseminated technologies.