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As mid-term week approaches, college students start to get lazier when it comes to putting on a fresh face before stepping out of the dorm. Wouldn't it be great to look casual and trendy at the same time without even trying?
Fashion experts have long been debating the easiest way to add a flare of sophistication to a simple outfit. But I have found the secret in a commonplace accessory: glasses.
(courtesy of http://www.seeeyewear.com)
Glasses are your go-to secret weapon. When confronting fashion in college, might at first seem counter intuitive When walking around campus, I only see thick-lensed frames pop up on faces of computer science nerds or on athletes battling pink eye. Most college students have their seventh-grade frames stashed away in their bottom desk drawer for emergency purposes only.
But the fact that the majority of college students opt for contact lenses makes wearing glasses unique. And if you pick out a super cute pair, it can add a new layer of personality to your look that feels just as refreshing as a new makeover.
Whether you're one to plan your outfits days in advance or you barely manage to roll out of bed in time for class, a perfect pair of glasses can give you a nerdy chic twist that adds an unidentifiable spark to any look.
I discovered my power weapon in a pair of glasses from an eye-wear boutique in Boston a couple of years back. While satisfying my shopping cravings on Newbury St., I stumbled upon SEE Eyewear. Their window display glinting with colorful and retro-style frames lured me into their basement store, where I spent hours trying on various frames before settling on a pair of ruby red specs with tortoise shell lining the sides.
SEE's carefully crafted frames might edge on the pricier side of your budget, but the quality makes up for the cost. Their stores can be found all across the country and have grown in renown throughout the years. Just this fall, SEE Eyewear was featured in magazines including Marie Claire, Seventeen, People and GQ. As a lover of SEE since the very start, I know that their newly acquired prominence does not go unwarranted.
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Whether you choose SEE or another local eye-wear boutique, make sure to choose a pair of frames that fits your face shape. Experiment with colors and dare to be bold! Glasses can make a statement that says a lot about your personality, so make sure your pair accurately reflects you.
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Long-term gold holders are in the cross-hairs again.
After trading to new yearly lows and then falling below $1,320, gold on Thursday reached its lowest level since September 2010. Friday's session has seen gold enjoy a slight profit-taking bounce to retest a high of $1,301.70.
As the dollar rallied on Thursday, with the Dollar Index stretching back above 82, commodities across the board saw tremendous pressure in dollar terms. The Dollar Index was slightly negative on Friday, and you can expect a close below 82 to support gold. However, a retest of Thursday's highs and major resistance at 83 will be very bearish for the metal, as well as for other commodities.
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The momentum is obviously pointing down. We expect the trade to pause right here, but only a close back above $1,323 will neutralize the selloff. Look for resistance at $1,305 to remain in place, and a close above this level could signal a consolidation higher for a session or two.
Support on Friday's session will come in at $1,280. Traders have to look back to the mid-April selloff to remember how important the closing values were to momentum, and how quickly this market traded. Be sure to use a stop and measure your risk.
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Despite what they may say, mothers have favorites among their children, and a new study finds that those preferences tend to continue into old age. The authors of the study suggest that doctors, hospital staff and family members need to take those preferences into account when decisions are made about caregiving and other matters for the aging parent.
"There's been a great deal of research done on younger mothers with young children in terms of favoritism," said Jill Suitor, a sociologist at Purdue University and one of the authors of the paper, published in the Journal of Marriage and Family. "It's very common for parents to differentiate between their children" with regard to punishment and feelings of closeness, she said.
Researchers know less about favoritism among older parents, however, so Suitor and her colleagues began a survey of several hundred families 15 years ago. They found that older parents also tend to favor some children over others. "If anything, perhaps it becomes more common," Suitor said. "It certainly doesn't become less common."
As part of their survey, the group asked women between ages 65 and 75 about their relationships with their children. About two-thirds said they were closer emotionally to one of their children than another, feelings that generally persisted seven years later when the researchers surveyed the women again.
At that point, four-fifths of mothers said they preferred one of their children as a caregiver. Mothers tended to prefer the child whom they saw as sharing their values and their perspective on the world, the group found.
In previous studies, Suitor and her colleagues have documented the negative consequences for elderly people when they can't be near the child they trust most, consequences that included an increased likelihood of depression following an illness or an injury.
There are also serious emotional consequences for adult children who feel excluded. Suitor hopes her group's work can help them cope with those feelings by recognizing that favoritism is normal.
She also said that when adult children are asked to name the sibling to whom their mother feels closest, they are correct less than half the time, so some of that sense of exclusion may be baseless.
Yes, Mom may like one child best
Despite what they may say, mothers have favorites among their children, and a new study finds that those preferences tend to continue into old age. The authors of the study suggest that doctors, hospital staff and family members need to take those preferences into account when decisions are made about caregiving and other matters for the aging parent.
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October 27, 2008
420 Cinema and Gort & The Stig's favorite books
plus: some of your own sharpness
Tonight, on 420 Cinema a dozen perceptual framing system films**:
be impressed with yourself in The Body in Numbers trailer
be introduced to The Boy Who Sees Through Sound
join those who are (also) Losing Reality
explore realities of My Fake Baby
witness some of the power of appetite in Super Skinny Me
experience the ultimate solitude of Alone (documentary about a sensory deprivation experiment)
discover what happens When Senses Collide (bump into more colliding senses [synesthesia] here)
reconnect with your Neanderthal Code connections
and try them out in Pan's Labyrinth: the feast and fairies chalked sequence
then travel East of Havana
and be back in time for when New Orleans goes up for sale
(** for educational purposes only)
These endless web log pages can, when desired, be exported as a single file to my computer's desktop where the file could be imported to another web log or used in any of the ways a digital file may be used, including conversion of the web lob into a print object via pdf or, for instance, through Booksmart software/services at Blurb.com. (image from Blurb.com)
There are other possibilities
for both new print object production and alternative physical libraries and artifacts for those alternative physical libraries.
In partial preparation for some of these possibilities, and for your own inventions, please take a look at:
We Tell Stories an alternative library framing system and alternative artifact framing system
Comment Press is a social text tool that, as stated at the site: allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. It can be applied to a fixed document (paper/essay/book etc.) or to a running blog. ¡Try it out! (download instructions and examples are at Comment Press)
and examine THE BOOK ART OF ROBERT THE, CARA BARER, AND JACQUELINE RUSH LEE in an essay by Elizabeth Wadell. More of Cara Barer's book art, favorites of Gort and The Stig, can be seen at Book Art All-Stars at deep linking.net.
Alternative artifact framing systems may apply not only to a book system, but also to a book subsystem such as a page (such as these and other web log endless single pages) single word, and/or a single word as in Lisp by Ed Ruscha. Do also check out the word art at word art.
There are a number of online tools/generators that can transform your online information into other forms of information, other digital structures and architectures, that may also function as aesthetic digital or virtual objects. You can convert any (of your or other) web pages into a visualization or graph at Web pages as Graphs where three of the entries for this blog were converted: INFORMATION FIELDS & other interactions of energies outside limits of human perception (though some of these interactions may be experienced in various [un]provable ways [so far], depending on framing systems of proof in play) & KINDERGARTEN, GORT, LIMITED FORK THEORY, and THE STIG!, and last week's the GORT-STIG Helvetica-Connection Project and (some) Words & Images of Urgency: political, social, cultural, etc. (in favor of immediacy of response) (also: metaphor as all of this & more) entry.
Support of the web page graphing is through Fernando Luis Lara's alternative generation of and cataloguing of narrative information submitted to the 365 Special Days site.
Word Cloud generation of web page/blog content for alternative artifact mapping is available at Wordle.com where these clouds of this web log were generated:
When we last assembled, this was said, marking, in various ways, some subtle, for the moment, the moment and its associates, its riders, its steerers:
"I always try to avoid traveling with knives"
"I always travel with knives.... I had an out-of-body experience"
The subject of the evening became Helvetica, the choice of, physical configuration of thought, idea, agenda in the taking on of text form.
The subject of the evening was thew context of your projects within a system of obstruction (interaction as obstruction) of urgency: political, social, cultural, etc. urgency —a crucial bit of tech to work with in intersections of technology and the humanities is mind tech. A training of the mind to be(come more) adept in constructing flexible frames with variable connection points or hubs (that also function as bifurcation stations), frames that can be shifted and (re)positioned so as to invent, discover, & so forth; so as to expose territory that might otherwise not arrive at a surface to support activity and possibility. To identify and utilize possibilities instead of literalities can aid in realizing those tines of possibility that otherwise might not emerge in the realities with which we think we have contact.
And knives have something to do with this, the urgency that supports avoiding traveling with knives, & the urgency that supports always traveling with knives
The following stories may be considered, in some way, on some scale, for some duration of time, forms of knives:
The Circular Ruins by Jorge Luis Borges
The Garden of Forking Paths --ah: not just configuration(s) pf Borges's story, but also a virual experience of implications of the information, of what is among what is embedded in the information, what emerges as the information of the forking paths, of the garden is flexibly configured--
The Garden of Forking Paths --ah: the story, dynamically unfolds
The Garden of Forking Paths --ah: a full text version
There is an arrangement of knife and fork in which the knife becomes transparent:
(from tricks and illusions.com)
In Gabriel Garcia Lorca's The Quarrel, you can read about the knife, as in these lines from The Quarrel:
In mid-ravine
the Albacete knives
lovely with enemy blood
shine like fishes.
A hard light of playing-cards
silhouettes on the sharp green
angry horses
and profiles of riders.
In the heart of an olive-tree
two old women grieve.
The bull of the quarrel
climbs the walls.
Black angels bring
wet snow and handkerchiefs.
Angels with vast wings
like Albacete knives.
Juan Antonio of Montilla,
dead, rolls down the slope,
his corpse covered with lilies
and a pomegranate on his brow.
Now he mounts a cross of fire
on the roadway of death.
My having heard the comments about knives, my having received/been receptive to the being marked by) the incoming information that attached itself to a number of information hubs in the brain while also forming a new hub based on intersections of this arriving information and associated situations,
a new hub feeding/generating/supporting/configuring a system/subsystem of connection/meaning in which how Gort and tHe Stig might use knives, might have knives used against them begins unfolding
--like a switchblade.
So the 420 comments about knives function as obstructions to the agenda in place before the arival of the comments that reconfigured the agenda to include them, a reconfiguration in which I have some complicity via my attraction to the knives, an attraction much informed by a prior obstructive encounter with Lorca's The Quarrel. That an architecture of knives is important to my thinking seems reasonable to assume, and is something that will transform to a subsystem of my own agendas as I map further, as I allow/encourage folds of engagement with the idea system to become more defined, more sharp, more necessary for me to pursue toward some unfolding of some form of poam, more research and thinking, more constructing of imagined possibilities/realities for knives becoming necessary for (a self-generated) sense of significance to inhabit the folds that through such emphasis become reinforced and able to support further and/or intensifying investigation.
These Obstructions could not be avoided. I was sideswiped by them; they made an impression on my thinking
in part because of (acquired and modified) programming of my mind, so that attraction and preference help me focus on and embrace those knives, and link them now, through imagination-nurtured recollections of the film Freaks
As it turns out, there are indeed knives in the movie Freaks, as indicated in the plot summary at Wikipedia, the source of the following quote
This commentary on knives in the movie Freaks comes from Adam-Troy Castro at SciFi weekly:
Now I know that Edward Scissorhands might be Gort and The Stig's distant (though the space is closing) cousin:
--tonight's 420 film festivals offers realities within realities, flexible framing systems that intersect with other flexible systems, though without overlapping completely; converging and diverging, looping, twisting systems of information folding and unfolding into a variety of geometries and architectures of meaning, experience, possibility, preference, realities.
Right here, you can see more of Ben Underwood from a CBS news story:
--at Reborn-baby.com The process of reborning a doll is being able to create as realistic baby as possible without producing actual babies which sometimes is not an option.
Here's a clip from the BBC documentary:
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Juxtaposed with lived fantasy, with fantasy merged with lived shared reality is this scene that offers most of the clip (without the writing that appears in a seemingly blank book that helps open access to the reality of a monster (residing inside the language that designates him, his world, the rules of that world, and the bridge systems from that world to others):
For perceptual framing, for imagined and imaginative constructions, for compromised and compromising reconfigurations, for mutation, transformation, enhancement, interaction anything that exists somewhere on some scale for some duration of time is/can become/has been available for use, for consideration, for possibilities for scaffolding that might support meaning or some other ([flexibly] constructed) form of use; as if anything (including New Orleans) can be/is/has been/will be for sale, can be/is/has been/will be part of the stuff from which experience is processed:
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Collaboration, Ownership, Role of subjects and objects of expression and of community
As you set up and develop your projects/projects sites, do give some consideration to (and comment on, in some form) how responsibility interacts with the information you are generating, framing, sharing, manipulating
(for to present information is to resituate it in the context of the presentation; the reframing is to manipulate the information, to try to cause the information to be seen in some way [shaped by the limiting factors that help to determine a consensus context in which individual contexts emerge, evolve, bifurcate] —even an intention to provide unbiased framing is an agenda, a form of manipulation.
What does it mean to share?
If products of creative expression are free, how do those generating creative products earn a living?
How much free exchange is possible without restructuring societies and communities?
What impact is user-generated content having on authority and on the vetting of expressive producers?
Who will determine the canonical content?
Who can afford to share?
Who can't?
What are the rules that framing systems of information (specify contexts you are/would like/would not like —with reasons in any form— to consider) encourage? discourage? For whose greater good?
How is creativity shaped by direct (specify) and indirect (specify) (desired) goals of creative expression?
Is innovation an aspect of creativity? How do they differ?
Are there similar responsibilities in both?
Looking for the Big Break!
How is the big break configured?
(specify context(s)
How might the big break be (re)framed?
Do you think that some creative and/or innovative outcomes are withheld
or manipulated in pursuit of the big break?
Please explain (in any form[s]).
Here is shared creative expression from Strexx:
How does this creative product address (portions of [some of]) the questions raised in this post?
Let's also take a look at the creative expression that is a system of altering books, as in BOOK AUTOPSIES:
from shelleylyn.com
perhaps a practice easier to justify now that book content may be disseminated more easily in digital forms, and now that some fear an increasing obsolescence of printed books that offer more straightforward depictions of text (visit The Institute for the Future of the Book among other locations, and think about the collaborative writing of wiki books).
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Who Gets Into Accelerators? Persistent Men With SaaS Apps, Says Study
What kind of startups get into Accelerators? Well, according to new research, it's startups with around 2-3 founders, most male, often SaaS platforms and ones who are persistent, applying for at least two programs. And on average, less than 4% of applicants ever make it in. Those are the findings of new research from F6S, a web portal which allows startups to apply for multiple accelerator… Read More
La Belle Assiette Launches Its On-Demand Chef Service In Belgium And The U.K.
French startup La Belle Assiette just opened shop in Belgium. La Belle Assiette is a sort of on-demand chef service. You can browse the site, find your chef and book a meal directly from the service — a chef will then come to your home or office. The startup will also roll out its offering in the U.K., Switzerland and Luxembourg in the next six weeks. Here's how the service works. Next… Read More
Putting The Many Pieces Back Together After The Death Of Your Co-Founder
Sébastien Métrot shared a tough story today at FailCon France at the Ministry for the Economy and Finance — he co-founded Yasound in 2011 with CEO Jean-Marc Plueger, who died in a scooter accident in 2012. But It wasn't just an accident, Métrot said Plueger's terrible work/life balance was a contributing factor. Today's interview was Métrot's tribute to his… Read More
Health Startup Healthberry Soft Launches Beta To Measure Patient Feedback
UK-based health startup HealthBerry has soft launched its beta. Pitched as a "better way to engage with patients" the startup uses social media as a way for national health services to measure patient feedback and thus inform improvements to services. It's trailing with the UK's National Health Service. The platform engages with patients, monitors programmes, syndicates… Read More
Watch Out Moves And Human — Now RunKeeper Releases A Movement App
By now may are familiar with the smartphone apps that track your movements via the accelerometer. There are multiple pedometers on all the apps stores for instance. But a more intriguing sector has emerged in the shape of apps like Human and Moves. Both not only track steps but give you feedback on reaching goals, in a very light-touch manner. The beauty of these apps is that they gradually… Read More
Comparison Engine Versus Launches Its First App To Grow Its 3.5M Monthly Uniques
Versus IO, a consumer electronics product comparison engine startup based out of Berlin that's attracted backing from Dave McClure's 500 Startups (among others), has launched its first app as it seeks to continue growing its user-base. Read More
Urban Transport App, Citymapper, Pulls In $10M, Led By Balderton, To Roll Into More Cities
Urban transport app Citymapper has just announced a new Series A funding round of $10 million, led by Balderton Capital. Connect Ventures (Bill Earner), Index Ventures (Robin Klein) and Greylock Partners (Laurel Bowden), also participated in the round, along with as a number of unnamed angels. The startup said it plans to use the new funding for launching in new cities, and expanding the… Read More
Work4 Raises $7M To Rival Job Sites With Its Social Network-Based Recruitment App
Work4, an online recruitment startup that uses social networks to advertise and find leads for job vacancies, has picked up another $7 million in funding that it plans to use to expand further into markets outside the U.S., and the scope of its product. The Series B round was led by new investor Serena Capital with participation also from existing investor Matrix Partners. Read More
LongAccess Wants To Cold-Store Your Digital Life For 30 Years
Tech people are probably used to the idea that we'll have our memories and photos stored online. Sure, we have it in the backs of our mind that it'll all be on some dusty hard drive somewhere we can access in the nursing home – at least we HOPE that's the case. At the same time, very few people know how to store something in the cloud for a very long time – other than… Read More
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Created in collaboration with British singer-songwriter Imogen Heap, the Mi.Mu glove turns the arms and hands of performers into musical instruments. Eventually, Heap and Mi.Mu's developers hope the glove and it software, which will be made open source, will reach a wide range of users. Read More
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Ask all the questions now and you will not have to ask them later. There really are no better questions.
Got it. Thank you Bobbym for your patience and getting me some confidence. Next time, I may bother you with a better question. Keep smiling.
Yes, but remember this is only an example book problem. It is there to teach the new technique. In the real world you rarely get such an easy problem.
That is something even the best books do not adequately cover. Finding the best one is an art form and is what separates one person from another.
Yes Bobbym. Actually, I have shot both questions in dark - looking at some example problems. I calculated the Root geometrically, by drawing the curve and then tangents at f(xn) repeatedly (4 iterations only).
The above is the formula for Newton's iteration or Newton Raphson method.
In many numerical methods we start with a guess! This will be very disturbing to many math types who will actually begin to whine and moan about that. Do you understand so far?
This is very encouraging response, Bobbym. Here I have just copied the original question for solution:
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Use the Newton-Raphson method, with 3 as starting point, to find a fraction that is within 10^−8 of .
Show that your answer is within 10^−8 of the truth.
I have copied the above questions from the question paper, given in an exam. It will be so nice to get my confusion cleared.
I feel so grateful to Bob Bundy and Bobbym for their help and references. I will try to benefit from these ideas, and wish the best for those; who try to help others like me.
Hi Raabi;
The sad truth of the matter is most mathematicians hate computers and won't use them. Many textbook writers are only imitating their heroes.
I tried to get a better answer by googling. Don't think I really got anywhere but I did find some articles/books/courses on the subject that may interest you.
Well the only other thought I have on this is that a computer method for solving a problem has to depend on some technique or other, often from an area of maths. So you have to study the maths in order to get anywhere with the computerised solution.
Sorry Bob, I did not see your reply before. Our syllabus, for this semester, is divided into three parts:
Thanks for your attention, Agnishom.
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I demonstrate a simple approach to help students think and write scientifically/critically. The approach uses the journalistic questions of who, what, where, when, how, and why.
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( Lee Min-ho {이민호} in current number-one drama Boys Over Flowers {꽂보다 남자}. Source )
Even as late as 2009, Koreans' relative unfamiliarity with foreigners produces many challenges in speaking with them that are rarely faced by students of other languages, and it can be trying for even the most earnest of Koreaphiles when their simply being Caucasian, say, somehow renders their spoken Korean incomprehensible to natives. An exaggeration? Perhaps, but while things have definitely been improving in recent years, it still happens often enough to be annoying, and never encountering the problem is arguably the real reason that East Asians tend to learn Korean much faster than Westerners. For no matter what you've heard, Korean is not a difficult language.
To compensate, long-suffering Korean partners and friends, with whom it's extremely difficult to get out of the habit of speaking English with once started(!), will invariably recommend watching Korean dramas to get exposure to everyday language instead. And why not? It's a logical idea, and it certainly seems to work for East Asians based overseas too. But the problem with that solution is that Korean dramas are…well, on the one hand having only ever seen one series in its entirety, and just bits and pieces of others here and there, then I must resist the urge to generalize them, but on the other there's definitely some commonalities between that quickly put myself and the vast majority of Western viewers off ever watching them. But what exactly?
Just a few days ago, I would have said that one major problem was because of a lack of realistic dramas, but that isn't really fair: while it's true that there is nothing like the decades-old British EastEnders, Coronation Street or even the Australian Neighbours here for instance, and which is why "soap opera" is probably a bad translation of the Korean "드라마," however opulent or rustic the settings there are many that deal with the trails and tribulations of living with in-laws and extended families for example, very common in this part of the world. But not realistic for me personally however, and it's a very rare occasion when within ten minutes into such a drama, I'm not wanting to grab the poor daughter-in-law and try to shake some sense into her, and turn off in disgust when she merely wipes her tears and acquiesces in continuing to be the virtual family slave.
Most could not be described as at all realistic though, but my dislike of those is just a matter of taste: there's nothing wrong with fantasy and escapism per se, and Koreans or even East Asians certainly don't have a monopoly on those sorts of dramas either. But then Korean dramas really have to be seen to be believed, as they are invariably much cheesier, cornier, more formulaic and more music and star-orientated than their Western counterparts, and in their ready reliance on leukemia and/or memory loss to move plots along, love triangles between rich playboys and farming girls, and regular use of gangsters (for starters), almost gross parodies of the very genre itself. See here and here for the unofficial "rules" of Korean dramas, by no means exaggerations, and to which I would add the annoying frequent monologues of characters thinking out loud to themselves in order to explain the plot, which somehow writers of Western dramas manage to do quite well without.
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But why are Korean dramas like this? That I still can't answer, and while the following excerpts from various authors on the subject are by no means a comprehensive look at the subject, they do provide good summations of the essential features of Korean dramas that I cannot. And some of which have interesting implications for gender relations in Korea, which I confess is what got me started on this admittedly unplanned post in the first place, but which I'll now have to explore in a follow-up post for the sake of making both easier to read(!).
First then, take this from Recentering Globalization: Popular culture and Japanese transnationalism (2002) by Koichi Iwabuchi, which I first looked at in detail here when I discussed why Korean cartoon characters tend to look more Caucasian than East Asian. Note that technically he is talking about the appeal of Japanese dramas in Taiwan rather than Korean ones, and that the bulk of his research was conducted as long ago as the mid and late-1990s too, but in fact this just adds poignancy to more recent points made about Korean dramas as we shall see:
This sort of identification with the desirable is similar to what Richard Dyer calls utopianism: "Entertainment offers the image of 'something better' to escape into, or something we want deeply that our day-to-day lives don't provide. Alternatives, hopes, wishes – these are the stuff of utopia, the sense that things could be better, that something other than what is can be imagined and maybe realized" (Only Entertainment, 1992, p. 18). Dyer argues that entertainment does not offer "models of the utopian world" but provides its consumers with the possibility of experiencing "what utopia would feel like rather than how it would be organized" (18). Referring, in particular, to the musical form, Dyer points out the importance of non-representational means such as music and colors, and the simplification and intensification of people's relationships in entertainment's articulation of utopianism. (pp. 144-45)
Yes, admittedly that particular paragraph was a bit "out there" sorry, but I include it for those fellow geeks amongst you interested in further study, and it provides some context for the excellent summation of Japanese dramas of ten years ago in the next paragraph:
Though Dyer's argument is about musicals, these points well fit the structure of many Japanese idol dramas….Apart from the comparatively large budget and the sophistication of the production techniques, two structural factors make Japanese dramas attractive for their Taiwanese audiences. First, Japanese dramas are not soup operas; they always end within ten to twelve episodes (each episode being an hour long). By contrast, Taiwanese and American dramas seemingly never end. Most of my Taiwanese respondents commented that they felt such programs were unnecessarily protracted. Because Japanese dramas finish in a comparatively short time and their plots are usually less complicated than those of traditional soap operas, my respondents found it easier to focus on these dramas and enjoy the progress of their narratives. In addition, Japanese dramas, like movies, use orchestral music and theme songs repeatedly and effectively. The use of a theme song in a drama is particularly important. Each week, the theme functions not just as background music but as a constitutive part of the climatic scene. The theme song works in these instances to encourage the emotional involvement of the audience. It thus serves to evoke "romance," helping the audience to enjoy a "romantic, beautiful love story," as one of my interviewees put it.
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And now read Kim Hyun Hee's take on the popularity of Korean dramas in Taiwan in the early-2000s in turn in Korean TV Dramas in Taiwan: With an Emphasis on the Localization Process from the Winter 2005 edition of Korea Journal, which you can download and read for yourself by clicking on that link:
The people I met in Taiwan made some distinctions between Korean and Japanese dramas. Japanese dramas are usually composed of 12 parts, and the stories are complicated, compressed, and deliver abstract messages. In contrast, Korean dramas unravel a simple love story between men and women. Although the stories are sometimes unrealistic, such as with sudden deaths caused by car accidents or leukemia, Korean dramas do not demand from their audience a high level of complicated "thought." (p. 196)
This was a little surprising to me, as I was under the impression that Korean dramas generally followed the Japanese lead in their styles and development, Winter Sonata (겨울연가) , for instance, being so popular in Japan primarily because it reminded its female devotees in their thirties and forties of Japanese dramas of a decade earlier. There are differences though, and not necessarily good ones, the rapid mass-production and export of them during the "Korean Wave" ensuring that there was a limit to how much they could:
…pull the audiences in as active participants. A major factor contributing to the general perception of Japanese dramas as "cultural text" is the [extensive] public forums in newspapers and on the internet, which analyze and rate Japanese dramas. (p. 196)
However, it was difficult in 2005 at least to find any equivalents for Korean dramas, all reactions to which were:
…centered on the stars, not the text. If Japanese dramas have connected the realities of young Taiwanese to the complicated human relationships portrayed therein and functioned as an interactive text, Korean dramas, with their simple love stories, are gaining mass popularity but lacking in lasting "reverb."
Also, the simplistic quality of [them] reduces their ability to weave the effects of "fantasy" and "imitation" that cultural images are supposed to be able to produce. (p. 197)
And which in turn create and sustain entire industries based on supplying the fashions and styles of drama stars, but which then at least only existed for Japanese dramas in Taiwan, implying that "images of Japanese stars and culture [were] still perceived as high quality, unique, and more desirable" than Taiwanese and Korean ones. Kind of strange though, considering the latter's fantastic settings:
Korean dramas are recognized for the dazzling capitalist materialism they portray. The environment in which the love stories of these dramas take place, with their breathtaking scenery, luxurious houses, chic outfits, and fabulous professions, operates to homogenize all class differences and social relationships in Korean society and create an unreal entity of urban spectacle. That what is shown on TV could not possible be "real" but is a momentary and "artificial" representation of Korean society is further evoked by the Taiwanese media, which repeatedly emphasizes the idea that the Korean actresses are "artificial beauties" and their appearances are not "true natural born." (pp. 193-194)
And on that note I'd better stop, for however accurate (or not) Iwabuchi's and Kim's may above descriptions of a particular wave of Korean (and Japanese) dramas may have been, they both had a great deal more to say on the subject, and besides which five years is a long time in the media business. But there are a myriad of K-pop blogs out there to help you catch up with more recent trends if you're interested, although if you want more than just extensive coverage of celebrities' breasts then personally I highly recommend Dramabeans, and which the occasional analysis of the wider issues raised by dramas is done by people who actually watch them too *cough*. I do think though, that there are definitive links between certain aspects of gender relations in Korea and Korean women's tastes in dramas that even a non-drama watcher like myself can make, and so which I'll discuss in the follow-up post soon.
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In the meantime, I'd be grateful for any recommendations for any dramas that, after reading that, you think that I'd like? This new one definitely looks like it has potential for instance, although "Queen of Housewives" seems to be a better English title for it than the "My Wife is a Superwoman" that that first article provides. Also, my apologies for the length of this promised "light post" in between those on domestic violence in Korea, for no matter what my original intentions, I really should know better by now!


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You know, I really don't have a problem with Dragon Ball games being made; I think the show begs for a good fighting game and if made right can be quite enjoyable. Unfortunately this is not that good fighting game we were all hoping for. This game is nothing more than a simple button mash fest with a broken fighting, flight, and special move system. In short, even if you're the hardest of the hardcore Dragon Ball Z fans, give this game a rental shot before you toss away your money on this festering pile.
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Graphics have taken the cel-shaded turn and for the most part look very good, the rest of the game does not however, really all you'll be staring at is the fighters anyway so do you really care how the rest of the game looks? The music is also a bland mix of stuff you'd hear from the TV show and generic fighting game music that really adds nothing to the game. I've also never been a fan of the voice acting in the series, in the middle of the Frieza series they switched actors and I think it was really for the worse. The voice acting here won't be winning any award that's for certain.
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