Monday, 26 April 2010

Avatar breaks US DVD sales record

Another new record in the pocket for James Cameron, director of the blockbuster “Avatar”, with an astonishing high amount of DVD/blu-ray sales in the USA. Next Monday Avatar will be released in Britain, stores will be open at midnight so the big fans could by the film as early as possible. The previous record holder on DVD sales was ‘The Dark Knight’ in 2008. Cameron announced that the re-release version, with an extra seven minutes of footage, will be playing next summer in theatres and also that the sequel to the film would be centred around the ocean on the planet Pandora.

I found it an easy read especially because I myself am rather interested in films in general. I did find Avatar a pretty incredible film and by reading this article it kind of confirms that the rest of the world agrees since it has the largest sales on the planet. What I did find weird about the article is the sentence:“Avatar is being released in the UK on Monday. Some stores opened their doors to fans at midnight.”, if I am not mistaking this sentence is all wrong. It says that it will be released next Monday but doors to shops have already opened at midnight.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8643539.stm

Tuesday, 20 April 2010

European airports start to reopen for flights

Summary:

All throughout Northern Europe airplanes slowly start to take off again from airports. The inactivity in the European airspace caused by the volcanic ash from Ireland is coming to an end. UK’s air traffic control announced that next Tuesday the main airport in London will reopen and regular schedule flights will be up in the air. The airline Body announced they have over lost over £ 650 million because the airspace was closest for about one week. The UK has deployed three navy warships in order to help pick up stranded passengers from Spain.

My opinion:

The article gave a little bit too much examples about conditions of airports throughout Europe. What I found rather annoying is that the author made sub articles in this article, for example the piece about the warships being deployed which has not much to do with airports reopening again throughout N. Europe. I did find the rest of the article rather interesting since it is a very interesting topic. The volcanic eruption all affects us since no one is able to travel around now by airplane.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8631238.stm

Monday, 19 April 2010

Nick Clegg seizes his moment in historic TV debate summarized by janne

Summary
Leader of theLiberal democrats, Nick Clegg, won Friday night’s debate by far. He was the first one to overcome his nerves and within minutes after the debate more than 61% of the voters said that he had won the debate. Leader of the Labour party, Gordon Brown, sought common with Nick Clegg in order to isolate the third speaker, David Cameron, however Mr. Clegg smoothly avoided friendly contact from Mr. Brown. This debate was of big importance because it was the first time the three leaders had a debate face to face. For the first time in years the Liberal Democrats seemed to have a hope of giving them a run for their money.

Own opinion
My opinion on the article’s content is that it is of rather big importance to know the information given in the article when you are from Britain since the debate had a large influence on the countries future. The article is well written because you get the main point clearly and it summarizes the entire event. What I found rather funny is that the current Prime Minister (Gordon Brown) scored the lowest percentage of voters.