Are the world's tallest plants heading for extinction?

Amazon Rainforest

If you don't know what the world's tallest plants are, they are trees. Yes tree's or more specifically big, old ones are disappearing everywhere around the world. The cause of this is fires, droughts, logging and disease.  Logging companies are one of the main causes because they target the biggest and oldest trees. Ones again the meddling of humans with the environment is destroying a species. Actually several species because many birds, reptiles, mammals and marsupials make their homes in trees. Some of these tree's even produce seeds that replenish the forest and can be used as food. Many forests around the world can't even grow large, strong tree's anymore because of human interference, shifting climate and aggressive species. Examples of aggressive species would be Asian Tiger Mosquito's, Burmese pythons and Cane toads. Also in areas of the world old trees are vulnerable to being toppled by wind and parasites due to forests being reduced to fragments. The main message of this article is to let it's readers know that trees are disappearing faster than they are reappearing. 

This article relates to international business because the declining of tree's will definitely effect the logging companies around the world due to the reduction of trade they will face. This article also gives reason for logging companies to cut down tree's in a more sustainable way, which will reduce production if they decide to. 

Twilight, Skyfall remain top picks for movie fans

 


       Skyfall and Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 are the top movies being spoken about from Hollywood right now.

        You maybe be wondering why I decided to specify Hollywood. Well the reason is because that is not the only film industry out there. In fact its not even the largest film industry. Another movie that is being spoken about is Jab Tak Hai Jaan from the largest film industry in the world, Bollywood. Sorry had to add a little masala (Spice) to this blog.

       So back to the topic. Skyfall has raised 246 million dollars domestically in its fourth week and 900 million world wide. While Breaking Dawn has dominated the domestic box office with 254.6 million but slumped with 702 million internationally in it's second week.

       I believe the reason for why these two movies are the top grossing movies in theaters right now is because they come from series. This is not the first time a series has dominated box office sales. Another example would be The Dark Knight Rises which completed the batman trilogy, The Avengers which isn't part of a series particularly but is a movie made up of several movies like Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America. Other series that have been top in the last two years include Pirates of the Caribbean On Strangers Tides, Transformers 3, Fast 5, Mission Impossible IV, Deathly Hallows Part II and the list goes on.

      Do you agree? What other advantages help a movie to be successful?

Microsoft in Canada

Microsoft’s first Canadian retail store to open at Yorkdale

Microsoft opened up its first retail store outside of the U.S this Friday in Yorkdale mall. It looks much like the Apple store with its clean, spare design. This store will not only be selling its own products but also computers that run on Windows, including Samsung, Sony, Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Dell. The Apple store in Yorkdale mall will definitely face competition with the new Microsoft store because they will only be two door down from each other.


This relates to international business in a huge way because the new Microsoft store is the first international location outside of the U.S. Even though we can find Microsoft products in stores such as Walmart, Zellers, The Source, Future Shop, Best buy, etc. All of Microsoft's products are not always at these locations. Much like Apple and how it's products are also not all sold at these stores. It makes a huge amount of its profits from it's own stores because it supports all of its products and it has a larger supply of them. Microsoft will also make a huge profit from opening its own store internationally because customers know exactly what they will expect to find. Also this store is  supporting other products that are not Microsoft like Acer, Windows 8, Sony etc. This will attract customers even if they are not looking for Microsoft products.

I will definitely be checking out the new Microsoft store the next time I go to Yorkdale mall.

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