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don't askTopic: Entertainment
Interesting.
Talking about the difference between the violence in a documentary and [..]“fiction films,” Abe Nornes details out how the “direct representation of sacrifice violence” is found mostly in feature films, which, in turn, allow “vast control over lighting, camera movement and special effects.”
The result of this control, according to Nornes, is in the ability of filmmakers to “aestheticize death.”
http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/life/12210-aestheticizing-wars-concerto.html
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Culture Exports Divisions
France pays for Jazz fest in Germany Jazz bigger with Euros than Americans
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/paris-blues-original-trailer/2966112455
Ancient Music
Flutes from the caves : Earliest musical tradition documented in SW Germany
Havent got much from http://www.google.cn?
World Trade Organization panel condemned Chinese restrictions on American CDs, DVDs, books and computer software, meanwhile Google has been “ordered to comply with China's laws and regulations and completely filter pornographic content to prevent pornographic material from entering from overseas," Xinhua said.
The order coincides with plans by the city of Beijing to recruit tens of thousands of volunteers to monitor the Internet.
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What you need to know about life in China right now..you knew in the past 20 years a new Chinese middle class has developed, didn't you?
While still, amidst anniversarys of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, tainted milk scandals and earthquakes and Winter Olympics, amd China wants all personal computers sold domestically to come with software that blocks access to online pornography, which it has banned,you can sue the telephone company for the equivalent of about 18 cents in excessive long-distance charges. China’s New Rebels
Paul French, author of Carl Crow, a Tough Old China Hand and North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula has written a book about foreign journalists who reported from China from the 1820s to 1949.
http://www.brandrepublic.asia/Media/marketingarticle/2009_06/MediaTV-Keith-Smith/36078
Tsukiji fish market (ç¯‰åœ°å¸‚å ´ Tsukiji shijÅ ) is the biggest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world and also one of the largest wholesale food markets of any kind. The market is located in Tsukiji in central Tokyo, and is a major attraction for foreign visitors.
The market handles more than 400 different types of seafood from tiny sardines to 300kg tuna, from cheap seaweed to the most expensive caviar.
Overall, more than 700,000 metric tons of seafood are handled every year at the three seafood markets in Tokyo, with a total value in excess of 600 billion yen (approximately 5.5 billion US dollars).
Tsukiji alone handles over 2000 metric tons of seafood per day.
The number of registered employees varies from 60,000 to 65,000, including wholesalers, accountants, auctioneers, company officials, and distributors.
At one auction, a single giant Northern bluefin tuna sold for more than $100,000.
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