Entertainment is a leisure activity consisting of an event and an audience that views the event and participates. This participation can be subtle, as in Theatres: Film, Opera or stageshows, or Orchestral symphony concerts wherein the applause due the performance or performing artists would be bad manners. In contrast, the sports entertainment industry feeds off audience participation— who can imagine the strange event attending a pro-wrestling bout, basketball or baseball game without cheering or booing the participants would experentially being happy.

The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry, and one distinction between what is meant by the term is the voluntary participation of the party being entertained, which may be passive (Opera) or active (Frantic shoot-em-up computer games) and the whole gamut of industry supported diversions in between (Baseball, Concerts, Football, Books, Television, film , striptease, and events like Karaoke).

Recreation, play, reading, and art appreciation may in some instances be confused with entertainment, but the difference is elementary—entertainments take two or more— even if one of the participants is a programmer for the obsolescent Amiga computer system who now happens to be deceased. Without the 'performance' of the artist and the participation of the viewer the event would and could not occur.

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L.A. Times - Latin America

Assailants attack US consulate in Mexico
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Additional police guarded the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey on Monday as investigators analyzed a security video in search of assailants who shot at the building and threw a grenade that failed to explode.
Mexico grapples with drug addiction
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Long a corridor for narcotics headed for the U.S., Mexico is now contending with its own addiction problem, as U.S. border controls push traffickers to look elsewhere. When the dope thugs beat him with a pistol, Rodrigo Sonck decided enough was enough.
'Caras vemos, corazones no sabemos/Faces Seen, Hearts Unknown: The Human Landscape of Mexican Migration' at UCLA's Fowler Museum
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
An exhibition at the Fowler Museum takes a look at the migration picture from both sides of the border. If you think that immigrant bashing is practically becoming an art form in America, you may want to stop by UCLA and inspect the literal evidence. The targets are hanging on display at the university's Fowler Museum, life-size piñatas of half-human, half-rabbit creatures that practically dare you to pick up a stick and take a hard whack at them.
Recipe: Creamy green chile and chicken stew
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
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World Briefing
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Southeast Asia: Thailand, Cambodia trade threats / El Salvador: U.S. pledges funds for gang control / South Korea: Mata Hari of the North is sentenced / Britain: One less test for schoolchildren Thailand, Cambodia trade threats
8 people killed in Tijuana
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Three teenagers and the relative of a police officer are among those to die in violence officials blame on feuding drug traffickers. Overnight violence left eight people dead in this Mexican border city, officials said Tuesday.

UN News Centre - Americas

Haiti: UN mandate extended amid political, economic, humanitarian insecurity
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500
The Security Council today extended the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) through mid-October 2009, recognizing the impact that the civil disturbances in April and the current devastating hurricane season have had on the country's stability and security.
Blue helmets in Haiti assist in new school year after devastating storms
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500
United Nations peacekeepers are helping Haitian families face the new school year by distributing school kits and furniture and cleaning up buildings as the impoverished Caribbean country struggles with the effects of four successive storms in as many weeks.
Haiti in desperate need of socio-economic development, stresses UN envoy
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500
The recovery and humanitarian relief efforts in Haiti - an impoverished country devastated recently by four successive storms in as many weeks - will not succeed unless the international community addresses the nation's social and economic crisis, a senior United Nations official stressed today.

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