Burt Bee’s Canada has unleashed a thought-provoking campaign in Canada.
These educational installations demonstrate how synthetic beauty products are absorbed into the body. In lament terms, Burt’s Bee is suggesting to shoppers “buy my 95% natural products. Forget everyone else. I’m the real deal.”
Will this make you think twice about the beauty products you put into your body?
Nos EUA
Aguardado com grande expectativa, o Employment Report de janeiro é composto pelos seguintes indicadores: Nonfarm Payrolls, com o número de empregos gerados na economia, excluindo agricultura e pecuária; Taxa de Desemprego; Average Workweek, com as horas trabalhadas semanais; e Hourly Earnings, com a remuneração por hora trabalhada.
Já o Consumer Credit, divulgado pelo Fed, tem o objetivo de medir o volume de crédito oferecido ao consumidor. Na agenda de discursos, o secretário do Tesouro norte-americano, Tim Geithner, comparecerá à reunião de ministros das Finanças do G7 em Iqaluit, no Canadá. O presidente regional do Fed de St. Louis, James Bullard, fará discurso sobre política monetária na Universidade de Wahington.
Indicadores Horário de Brasília Referência Anterior Expectativa Nonfarm Payrolls (EUA) 11h30 Janeiro - 85 mil - 15 mil Taxa de desemprego (EUA) 11h30 Janeiro 10% 10% Average Workweek (EUA) 11h30 Janeiro 33,2h 33,2h Hourly Earnings (EUA) 11h30 Janeiro 0,2% 0,2% Consumer Credit (EUA) 18h00 Janeiro - US$ 17,5 bilhões - US$ 10 bilhõesAs seguintes empresas divulgarão resultados:
Empresas Horário de Brasília Tyson Foods Antes do mercadoCenário interno
A FGV (Fundação Getúlio Vargas) divulga o IGP – DI (Índice Geral de Preços – DI) de janeiro . O IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística) divula a Pesquisa Industrial Mensal: Produção Física, que acompanha a evolução do mercado de trabalho e da produção na indústria, só que agora em versão regional.
O IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística) divulga o INPC (Índice Nacional de Preços ao Consumidor), que mede inflação em todo o Brasil. O IPCA (Índice de Preços ao Consumidor Amplo), também divulgado pelo IBGE, é utilizado pelo Banco Central para acompanhamento dos objetivos estabelecidos no sistema de metas de inflação.
Por último, o IBGE divulga a Pesquisa de Custos e Índices da Construção Civil, que avalia os preços e custos dos materiais utilizados na construção civil.
Indicadores brasileiros Horário de Brasília Referência Anterior Expectativa Pesquisa da Construção Civil 9h30 Janeiro - - INPC 9h00 Janeiro 0,24% - IPCA 8h00 Janeiro 0,37% - IGP-DI 8h00 Janeiro - 0,11% - 0,20% Pesquisa Industrial Mensal – Regional 9h00 Dezembro - -No cronograma de oferta de ações, teremos o seguinte evento:
Empresa Tipo da Oferta Evento Multiplus Primária Início das negociações PDG Realty Secundária Início das negociações
Fonte: InfoMoney
On a mountain road in Banff, Alberta. This is a young male bighorn sheep, probably just over a year old. He was mid-graze when I started to shoot, then struck and held this pose for a few minutes before apparently deciding he’d done enough modelling for one day and wandering off.
Taken in August of 2008
by Alex Chornyj
If it’s integrity we’re after
Then keeping to the high road
Adhering to principles
Must be first and foremost.
Secrets that abounded in the past
Will be left at the curb
There is no place for whispers
But a refreshing frankness.
To be told where we are
Not where we thought we were
So lead to believe
By some surreptitious propaganda.
I will not live a lie
The silence will be broken
The days of turning the other cheek
Have vanished with the lost apathy.
The ones who were powerless
Now see the impenetrable wall
Was only there by the force of suggestion
Almost like a placebo if you will.
Once one summoned the courage
To just walk over a line
That was only imaginary
One saw a true reflection,
In an unaltered mirror
The difference was like night and day
The actual from the inferred
Would be like an oasis,
Being posited as a barren waste
One could not have been further
Like thinking there were no trees
Then finding an entire forest.
Which would not only be shocking
But rather disturbing
From feeling rather naive
To then inquiring as to the motive,
Behind such an inconspicuous shield
To keep most from realizing
What truly existed
Only for their own selfish consumption.
Alex Chornyj is a reiki master teacher. Alex has been published in White Mountain Publications, Articulations, The Tower Journal, The Canadian Federation Of Poetry, online at www.artistsforabetterworld.org and in many Blog Talk Radio spoken word programs such as “Shaman’s Hand” and “Poetry Super Highway.” Alex currently resides in Canada.
Just Say No to Stephen Harper
It was a bone-headed idea the first time he did it; and it’s still a bone-headed idea now. Our Great Poobah, Steven Harper, has prorogued parliament again. Maybe he’s just a masochist. Whatever he is, I’m sick of his childishness and wish he would just prorogue himself.
In case there’s anyone left who doesn’t know about this: Harper shut down parliament on 30 Dec, for a couple of months, because he wasn’t getting his way. The act of shutting the government down like this is called prorogation.
Lots of people are mightily pissed off about this. For example, there are several facebook groups dedicated to complaining about prorogation. The one I joined, Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament, has over 220,000 members, and it has a regular website too. Typically demure Canadians are atypically miffed at ol’ helmet-hair’s brazenness. We’re unaccustomed to being taken advantage of quite so obviously. Harper’s astounding arrogance is not something Canadians suffer gladly, but this isn’t really what burns my toast.
It has become quite clear that this move was one of political convenience alone. Like a spoilt brat at a playground, Harper has taken his ball and gone home, thus avoiding a lot of embarrassment about things like mistreatment of Afghan detainees. Even the most cursory review of the news – including from non-mainstream sources – makes it clear that we really need an operating parliament these days. But that’s not keeping me up at night either.
It’s rather bizarre that Harper would just call up Governor General Michaëlle Jean and arrange the matter over the phone – a sure sign of disrespect for the GG’s office, if not for Ms. Jean herself. I mean if I was going to stop a whole government, I’d at least make an appointment and have a chat. Perhaps even more bizarre is the lack of reporting (as near as I can tell) on why Ms. Jean granted Harper’s request. (I’ve only found one fairly shrill rant about it, which really wasn’t worth reading.) Sure, Ms. Jean seems like a really nice person, but that shouldn’t stop the people of Canada from understanding what happened here. But that’s not a big bother either.
What really pickles my cabbage is the notion that Harper keeps trying to sell this prorogation as if it were the right thing to do. No matter how staggeringly irrational it is, Harper just can’t bring himself to tell the truth. Of course, this isn’t surprising; he is, after all, a politician. And all politicians really do is make whatever thing they’re doing seem like the right thing. Although he’s living down to everyone’s expectations of him, I just can’t get over the inanity of it. His steadfast dedication to repeating the same tripe over and over again makes me wonder he isn’t some kind of nut. They say that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result. Harper keeps saying and doing things that denigrate Canadians, and Canadian Institutions, over and over again. And yet he expects us to just accept it? He keeps denying the most obvious facts, and expects us to think he’s rational? He keeps refusing to show any leadership in key international issues like climate change, foreign aid, and women’s rights, and expects us to think he’s progressive? He continually supports big business at the expense of the middle and lower classes, and calls himself a leader of the people? He cuts funding to science and engineering, yet expects innovation to thrive.
It wouldn’t bother me so much if it weren’t for the sheer magnitude of his folly. He’s shut down the government! This is big. Really, really big. Short of declaring himself Emperor of Canada, this is just about as big a thing as he can do. And yet he’s treating it as if it were a Sunday afternoon game of pickup baseball.
Sorry, folks, but this just isn’t how the leader of our country should act. He’s a putz. And the sooner we get him out of office, the better.
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Many people are familiar with Lake Minnewanka because of it’s boat tours and scuba diving. Since I already have images of Lake Minnewanka in a familiar light, I thought it would be more interesting to show it in a less familiar way. This particular morning was extremely cold (about -30 C) so the water was much warmer than the air. The result of the huge difference in temperatures was lots of mist which created a very surreal atmosphere. On this morning I produced several of the images in my portfolio, one which includes the boat house (which is out of frame to the left here), and another of a herd of elk (just down the road)… all utilizing this amazing light. I still dream of another chance to make images in these type of conditions.
