Agence France-Presse

New York

La livre du coton a atteint un nouveau sommet historique vendredi à New York, à près de 2,13 dollars, alors que l'offre de fibre blanche était extrêmement réduite mais que la demande ne faiblissait pas.

Sur l'Intercontinental Exchange, la livre pour livraison en mai s'échangeait vendredi vers 15h50, heure GMT (10h50 à Montréal), à 2,1270 dollars, soit une hausse de 15,45% par rapport à sa clôture d'il y a une semaine, à 1,8423 dollar.

«Aucun signe de l'étroitesse de l'offre ne se dissipe», a constaté Sudakshina Unnikrishnan, de Barclays Capital.

Les ventes à l'exportation depuis les États-Unis ont nettement progressé la semaine passée, selon le relevé hebdomadaire du département de l'Agriculture (USDA) publié jeudi et qui a dopé le marché en fin de semaine.

Avec 403 000 balles vendues, les ventes sont en hausse de près de 50% par rapport à la moyenne des quatre dernières semaines.

«Le monde se démène pour mettre la main sur les quelques balles de coton restantes», a constaté John Flanagan, de Flanagan Trading. Les options posées pour de futurs contrats montrent que «les usines doivent faire encore beaucoup d'achats entre maintenant et juin», a ajouté l'analyste.

Le marché du coton était marqué par des stocks très faibles, qui ont alimenté une hausse impressionnante des prix: le prix de la livre a grimpé de près de 160% en un an et de 47% depuis le début de l'année à New York.

«Le principal problème reste la Chine, dont les importations de coton augmentent fortement», ont souligné les analystes de Commerzbank, de 86% en 2010.

Le géant asiatique, premier producteur mondial de coton, est incapable de couvrir environ un tiers de sa demande par sa propre production, selon l'USDA, ont-ils précisé.

Toutefois, selon Commerzbank, l'Académie chinoise des sciences agricoles a estimé que la Chine importerait moins de coton en 2011 à cause du niveau élevé des prix.

Parmi les producteurs clés, l'Inde, deuxième producteur mondial, est l'un des seuls à voir sa superficie dédiée au coton augmenter, à un niveau record en 2010-2011 et «probablement en augmentation pour 2011-2012», a souligné Sudakshina Unnikrishnan.

«Toutefois, l'Inde a revu à la baisse cette semaine sa prévision de production de coton pour 2010-2011 de plus de 5% à cause de pluies malvenues», a ajouté l'analyste.

Le contrat de coton pour livraison en décembre 2011, qui enregistre déjà des volumes d'échanges étoffés, s'établissait à 1,2548 dollar vendredi.

L'indice Cotlook A, moyenne quotidienne des cinq prix du coton les plus faibles sur le marché physique dans les ports d'Orient, valait de son côté 236,25 dollars (pour 100 livres), contre 209,30 dollars en fin de semaine précédente.

Verts, les jeunes?

Daphné Cameron
La Presse


Pour 83% des jeunes âgés de 18 à 30 ans, la protection de l'environnement passe avant le développement économique. Les jeunes Québécois sont-ils des écologistes finis? Pas si sûr, répond Ariane Paré-Legal, jeune chroniqueuse à l'émission La vie en vert, diffusée à Télé-Québec.
La Presse: Les 18-30 sont-ils environnementalistes?

Ariane Paré-Legal: Je pense que c'est plus à la mode de se positionner en faveur de l'environnement qu'en faveur du développement économique. On cherche toujours une reconnaissance sociale et être écolo c'est une nouvelle façon de se reconnaître entre nous. À preuve, il y a énormément de branding écologique. Le vêtement éthique n'est plus seulement un t-shirt en coton biologique ordinaire. Tu le reconnais, le vêtement, il va se coller aux grandes marques, avoir des signes distinctifs. Ces temps-ci, il est également de très bon ton de dire qu'on a acheté le composteur Blue Planet ou d'affirmer qu'on utilise des sacs biodégradables alors que je n'ai pas l'impression que nos grands-parents se seraient vantés de faire du compostage. Bref, je crois que les jeunes sont nombreux à se dire verts, tout en laissant une empreinte écologique considérable.


LP: Avez-vous tout de même l'impression que les 18-30 ans sont davantage sensibilisés à la cause environnementale que, disons, les baby-boomers?

A. P.-L.: Nous avons grandi en parlant des pluies acides et de la planète à l'école, mais on ne trouvait pas toujours une oreille attentive lorsque l'on arrivait avec ça à la maison. Je crois que nous allons davantage avoir un impact sur nos enfants que sur nos parents. Cela dit, je crois que les jeunes qui sont conscientisés - parce qu'ils ne le sont pas tous - ont poussé les baby-boomers à faire des changements.

LP: Vous prônez la consommation responsable, achetez des produits du terroir québécois et circulez à vélo. Représentez-vous les gens de votre âge?

A. P.-L.: Je ne suis pas la seule dans mon entourage, mais je suis consciente que mon entourage n'est pas la norme. J'ai des amis qui sont écolos jusque dans leurs moindres gestes, mais qui n'ont pas le choix de circuler en voiture. J'en ai d'autres qui ont de la difficulté à faire la différence entre «biologique» et «biodégradable», mais qui sans être conscientisés, ne surconsomment pas et ne voyagent pas en avion. On ne peut pas tous mener la même bataille. Une mère seule de trois enfants ne peut pas acheter bio. Maintenant, est-ce qu'on fait le maximum de choix écologiques dans nos situations respectives? Je pense qu'elle est là, la question.
(source: http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/200809/22/01-22390-verts-les-jeunes.php)

I believe firmly that the young people of today are concerned about the environment, however I believe that they are not ready to make the sacrifices so to arrive at something  concrete. We are returned at a point hinge where we must wonder whether we are ready to make sacrifices.

THE GLORIFICATION OF NATURE-HEMP CHAIR

At the exhibition "Poetry Happens" in Ventura Lambrate, Werner Aisslinger presented the world’s first concept for a monobloc chair made of natural fibers – a project supported by the German chemical company BASF. The "hemp chair" has been designed for a lightweight manufacturing process stemming from the car industry: the renewable raw materials hemp and kenaf are compressed with a water-based thermoset binder to form an eco-friendly, lightweight and yet strong composite.

Description:

Today’s consumers are striving towards a well-balanced and healthy lifestyle that is in harmony with the environment. They want innovative products such as electric scooters and hybrid cars as well as new, environmentally compatible, light and durable materials.

According to Werner Aisslinger, the development of the "hemp chair" marks a turning point in this trend. “Design history is driven by new technologies and material innovation. For us designers, the advent of these technologies has always been the starting point for new objects and typologies in design,” states the internationally acclaimed designer from Berlin.

Acrodur

lightweight, strong, easy-to-mold and eco-friendly. The sustainable sheet material of the "hemp chair" allows the use of more than 70% natural fibers in combination with BASF’s water-based acrylic resin Acrodur. Unlike with classic reactive resins, this method releases no organic substances such as phenol or formaldehyde during the cross-linking process. The only by-product of the curing procedure is water. Furthermore, the industrial process of compression molding accounts for low-cost mass production of three-dimensional objects with high mechanical resistance and very low specific weight. This production method is widespread in the automobile industry. Natural fiber composites are often used in lightweight  components such as door linings, glove compartments or rear shelves.

Monobloc chairs

The "hemp-chair" is designed in the tradition of monobloc stackable chairs, which have often been made of reinforced plastics at the time they were launched. Shaping a complete chair structure from a thin layer of material is one of the most challenging ways to design and engineer a chair. The "hemp-chair", with its soft curves and its bead structure, embodies a new approach to this complex type of chair..

(source:http://www.aisslinger.de/index.php?option=com_project&view=detail&pid=121&Itemid=1)

CLANNING- Occupy Wall street

That an other effects from the clanning trend that I talk before.....



Together is about the extraordinary revival of small groups in Britain today.

What happens when a room full of people decide to work towards the same dream? Why is it that when we come together in small groups we are so much more than the sum of our parts?

From druids to bingo-clubbers, eco-warriors to flash-mobbers, historical re-enactors to bee-keepers, books groups and knitting circles, W.I.s, Young Farmers and the fan-owners of a football club, Together reveals the true story of modern Britain. The country we live in is in fact an extraordinary composition of small groups powered by shared interests and common ideals. Hemming reveals a different way of seeing society, one that recognizes the massive, untapped potential of these hundreds of thousands of small groups, how they work and what they enable us to do that we can’t do alone.

Witty and provocative, Together gives us an extraordinary cast of characters, a series of unlikely alliances and most importantly, a vision of what we can achieve Together

(source:http://henryhemming.com/?book=together)

The content of the book is very actual, he related to the trends that I work with, for the school project.

I took time to analyze a lot of things and I understood the comments of the author when he says that " a small group can achieve big things ", I understand when I read it that together nothing is impossible, together we can arrive there. However we have to remain close....

Generation Y’s most coveted reward: self esteem

Generation Y regularly takes lashings in the media for being the “self esteem generation” or “trophy kids,” raised in an era of coddling and compliments and faring poorly in the workplace without constant praise. A new study raises some new, albeit unusual, alarm bells on this: an article in the forthcoming Journal of Personality article titled “Sweets, Sex, or Self-Esteem? Comparing the Value of Self-Esteem Boosts with Other Pleasant Rewards.” The big finding: young adults like and want moments that boost self esteem more than having sex, eating a favorite food, drinking or pretty much any other pleasurable activity the paper studied.

Participants in the study were asked to imagine their favorite food, sexual activity and self-esteem building experience, such as getting a good grade or receiving a compliment.Then, participants asked how much they “liked” and “wanted” each of those things. The 130 University of Michigan undergrads “liked” and “wanted” the self-esteem boosts more than either of the other activities. Here’s how they matched up:

The researchers then tossed in a few other fun activities, like receiving a paycheck, drinking, even seeing a best friend. Again, self-esteem trumped:

There was a small gender split here: while men valued self-esteem boosts above everything, women put them on par with seeing best friends and getting paid.

How generalizable these results are is a bit unknown. As the researchers Brad Bushman, Scott Moeller and Jennifer Crocker note, “We are unable to know what kinds of self-esteem boosts people were considering.” Either way, they do see the results as a red flag. The paper ends with a reference to Fritz Perls, an early 19th century psychologist, and his stern warning that “Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem.”

(source:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/generation-ys-most-coveted-reward-self-esteem/2011/09/28/gIQAZwaZ4K_blog.html)



Making a fast introspection of myself, being myself a part this group, I believe that it's not a bad thin. I saw my father and my grandfather working for merciless employers. I know what I want, I know my rights and I refuse to undergo what my parents underwent. I believe that it is important that an employer gives some feedback to the people with he works with, however it is not necessary that this one encourages them in every seconds.

THE INFLUENCERS

There are more than six billion people living on the planet right now, and over 33 million of them live in Canada alone. That's a lot of people making decisions. The state of the world is determined by the choices people make, but as you know if you've ever asked a group of friends their opinion on getting dental implants in Toronto, there some people whose decisions matter more than others. These are the newsmakers, the leaders. They are the people who determine the direction of society. They are the Influencers.

Even though you and I may never make a bigger decision than which firm to turn to for real estate services in Toronto, we still need to do our part in shaping the world. How do we do that? By keeping tabs on the most powerful and influential people. By staying informed about what's going on in the world. And by standing by, ready to take action if the world is going in a direction we don't like. Because as important as these few influencers are, together, we the masses can overwhelm their influence if we all stand together.

So who are these influencers? Influencers are the wealthy, the powerful, the prominent people in our society. Some of their names you may already know - like Stephen Harper, Barack Obama, and Stephene Meyer - while others exert their driving forces from behind the scenes by suggesting new class actions in Canada or delivering reports that change the opinions of the people who make the decisions. We'll introduce you to the Influencers whose choices affect your life, both the ones you would guess are influential, like political leaders - and the ones you wouldn't, like film directors, and outline for you why these people are so influential.

Most Influencers are not born. They are made. Some are shaped into forces for change by others who have seen their potential, while others have made something of themselves after growing tired of driving a Brampton airport taxi. If it's your goal to become an Influencer yourself, our definitions and career paths information will be invaluable to your efforts. We believe any one of us can become an Influencer if we simply put our minds and our efforts toward the task.

Forces for change come in good and in bad forms. Some are obvious, and some are so subtle that they are difficult to trace. We are your source for information relating to both. We can tell you what procedure developed at Resume Writing Winnipeg will sweep the world. We can deliver news, information, profiles, and more - anything that will give you a clearer picture of how the world works. Check out the navigation bar above for our topics and to get your learn on...
(http://www.theinfluencers.ca/)

I believe that we need these influencers. Human, alway needed a  hand. All this to begin with the religion religion was there to tell people what's bad or not. However, today, the world became disillusioned with people get loose more and more from the religion. Each person get there own vison but... We still need anybody who have a strong charisma, who have the power to affect the decisions of the others, to change things. Chanel, Steve Jobs, Picasso... They all change the way to think, they gave their own vison.