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the-remainder · 3 years ago

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The Red Seas Scrolls - 1 - Change

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This essay is inspired by possibly our most articulate and verbose fans - furidashipod.com - a curious mix of game design and academia with plenty of mood. They had an afterthought on The Remainder, in which the mechanisms of desire in the story was singled out, dissected, laid-bare and scrutinised. Click here to give it a read, it's fun and possibly illuminating.

For the record, yes, I am tooting my own horn a little bit. It's nice to be appreciated. I appreciate you spending your valuable time and brain cells to read these words, you beautiful human-being you. See? It feels nice, right?

Desire?

This post got me thinking, what are we actually doing with desire? It occurs to me what is interesting about desire is how you the reader experiences Vyn's wobbly steps along the way to literally self-discovery. Each step takes them toward a bit of knowledge of who they are, granting satisfaction, but then immediately leads to the knowledge of how much they've forgotten, inducing despair and further desire to move forward. One step forward, two wobbly steps sideways. Since Furidashi has so beautifully observed this aspect, I shall go in a different direction, to explore a deeper, more fundamental level of what is at work, at least according to me.

There is a feature of story-telling that is so common as to be taught in schools and courses these days, it can be found in just about 100% of stories featured in main-stream novels, comics, and games. If you've read it, seen it, or heard of it, it contains this feature. It's the fact that when a character has a desire for something and takes an action toward fulfilling their desire, they inadvertently make their situation worse and are set back. They will renew their effort, try a different tact, and make some progress forward, then another set-back will, well, set them back further. They will be locked in an escalating cycle of increased effort and set-backs until ultimately they must give their all, and face the ultimate set-back, total destruction of them selves and what they hold most dear.

Stories are made this way because this resonates with the audience, this resonates with the audience, because the audience feels and recognizes the truth of it, they see this and say to themselves "this is how life is."

This is certainly how games are, each bit of strength you gain is soon trumped by a tougher enemy, and every stage you move forward ups the stakes of how much rewards you could gain if you win. Games that don't do this quickly bore you, because without the alternating ups and downs, you'll either defeat all enemies with ease, or be ground into dust repeatedly by stronger foes.

How is this like life?

What is life but an endless series of alternation between win and loss, joy and despair, pleasure and pain?

Sure, but can we simply it, by taking away what is not essential, so that we can be left with the essence?

An endless series of alternation between gain and loss, joy and despair, pleasure and pain.

An endless series of alternation between gain and loss, joy and despair

An endless series of alternation between gain and loss

An endless series of alternations

This is the essence. Change. Life is change.

When a story can capture the essence of life, it is a good story, but not as good a story as it can be. Why not?

Human beings don't like change.

Change is unstable, unpredictable, undependable. There is no discernable end, one end is only another beginning.

Human beings want to know where they came from and where they're going. They want to know that the path they walk leads somewhere definite, preferably with a big, chunky treasure chest waiting at the end, after all their fighting and toiling. And they want to see this reflected in the stories they read. They want to see Frodo destroy the ring and then live in peace forever. They want to see the Knight save the princess and live happily together. But when one steps back and look with a broad enough lens, one realizes that there is no peace forever, given enough time, another powerful being will fall to greed and create the rings, the world will be thrown into turmoil again. Another dragon will come and abduct the princess, or else the knight and princess will find out they don't actually like each other and it was just a heat of the moment thing, and file for divorce, and the custody battles, ad infinitum.

When faced with a sea of change, the human desire is for it to end, for there to be an island refuge where the waves of change no longer shakes and sways one. This only works on paper, or the silver screen, but not in real life, because life is change, and this desire is for permanence. This is a problem. Life is change, and change is a problem for people who desire permanence.

Stories that end on a comma and not a period are more "life-like" because they accord more with reality. Leaving something unsaid, some event unresolved, helps the reader imagine what could come after the last page. But is this the perfect way to tell a story?

How stories end is not the whole story.

People care very much about how stories end, which is a reflection of how they see life. If the end of a story is all that matters, then readers will only read the last page and be done with the book.

Similarly, if life is a race, then the finishing line is death and the fastest way to get there is suicide, but who will consider that some kind of victory? However, if life is a dance, and death is the bell that signals its close, then what matters is not how it tolls but rather how one danced before then. It is not so much the end that defines the story.

For a story to be truly good, it must address the essential problem of life, which is the conflict between the reality of change and the unrealistic desire for permanence. This problem is so intractable that to even think of solving it seems impossible, something belonging to the realm of fantasy. That is where a good story comes in. Stories illustrate what is possible, so that the readers can imagine the impossible. They take something from fantasy and attempt to bring it into reality, through inspiration and demonstration.

A truly good story

would have to be one where a character, having been astray and adrift in the sea of change for so long, having floated up and sank down so many times that they're utterly exhausted and distraught, and has not the strength to fight the waves anymore. That's when they try the untried, the illogical, the opposite of what they had been doing this whole time, they give in to the waves of change and accepts them for how they are. A strange thing happens then, they find that in this giving up of enmity and opposition, they stop alienating themself from what's around them. They start to accept the ups and downs, and move with them, make friends with them, and to dance with them. They're no longer concerned with how they are and how they wished the waves would be, they're just the movement, just the dance. And soon, in this dance of joy, of acceptance, of giving up, they realize what had been happening the whole time. There was no one there to begin was, there was only the water, there was only an errant wave that got caught up in a whirlpool and imagined it was something separate from the Seas. And now it has realized the truth and laughed itself out of existence. Now there are only the waves, only the Seas.

Change is not a problem when there is no one to struggle against it. The problem is solved by the personal experience of discovering that it was only a delusion.

Is such a story possible?

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biofunmy · 5 years ago

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Your Friday Briefing – The New York Times

A general election to push Brexit forward

Prime Minister Boris Johnson challenged British lawmakers to approve a general election on Dec. 12 in a bid to break through the political paralysis and throw Brexit back to voters. He is expected to bring it before Parliament on Monday.

The proposal would require the backing of two-thirds of lawmakers, meaning he needs the support of the opposition Labour Party, which has reacted coolly to the prospect of a general election without first taking the option of a no-deal Brexit off the table. But that could happen as soon as today, if the E.U. agrees to Mr. Johnson’s request to extend the Brexit deadline to Jan. 31.

Strategy: Mr. Johnson is offering the opposition a quid pro quo: more time to debate, in exchange for the general election. He’s also framing the idea as a moral one — saying that it is what the people of Britain long ago voted for.

What’s next: Elections take five weeks, so campaigning needs to start almost immediately to avoid a run-in with the Christmas season (which poses challenges for venue-booking, weather and voter turnout).

Polls show Mr. Johnson’s Conservative Party with a comfortable lead, but it is difficult to predict how votes will translate into seats in Britain’s winner-take-all electoral system.

Russia cracks down as unrest grows

There has been a wave of arrests — of journalists, opposition activists, doctors and religious people — in a growing Russian crackdown. With the end of the Putin era perhaps now within sight, law enforcement bodies are clamping down to prove their mettle as they jockey for influence in the Russia of the future.

Details: In the aftermath of mass protests, which were broken up with often brutal force, law enforcement agencies last week conducted nationwide raids on news outlets critical of the Kremlin and on the homes and offices of people affiliated with the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. And the Kremlin purged the more outspoken members of its Human Rights Council this week.

But amid growing unrest, often exacerbated by the crackdowns, it is unclear how morale will improve.

Quotable: “They can’t act like a normal European government. All they can do is frighten people,” said one newspaper editor. But, he added, “they have created a new generation that is no longer scared of them.”

The cost of withholding aid in Ukraine

The freeze on nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine was felt on the front lines. President Trump has been accused of withholding the funding as part of a politically motivated pressure campaign against the Ukrainian government, a central piece of the impeachment investigation.

But in the trenches of Ukraine’s war with Russian-backed separatists, which has left some 13,000 people dead, soldiers said the freeze took a more immediate toll, striking at their confidence that their backers in Washington stood solidly behind their fight and potentially signaling weakness to Russians in negotiations.

European perspective: American allies are increasingly worried about their dependency on an undependable president. There’s a sense Mr. Trump’s recent actions in Ukraine and Syria could accelerate a process of peeling away from the United States, and a growing concern that he has destabilized the Continent’s near neighborhood in a fundamental way.

39 found dead in Britain likely to be Chinese

The people found in a refrigerated truck trailer near London on Wednesday are now believed to be Chinese citizens.

Eight of the dead are women and 31 are men, the police said. Each body will undergo a full coroner’s examination to identify the victim and establish the cause of death. The driver of the truck, identified as Morris Robinson, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

Context: The case increasingly appears to be linked to human trafficking and bears resemblance to another case in 2000, when 58 Chinese migrants were found dead.

Takeaway: “The world’s 2nd biggest economy, all the bridges, railways, skyscrapers, the carefully manicured parks, the military parade, one of the biggest markets for many luxury brands,” Li Yuan, a Times columnist, noted on Twitter. “Yet for some Chinese it’s still worth the risks to be smuggled to a foreign land.”

If you have some time, this is worth it

Britain’s most influential editor

Under the leadership of Mary-Kay Wilmers, above, The London Review of Books has flourished, even as other newspapers and magazines struggle.

Its circulation has risen consistently since 1985, and its strategy involves offering what readers are said not to be interested in anymore — like articles with word counts in the tens of thousands and ideas too quirky for other publications. “She has that archeditor’s ability to remind her writers that the world is slightly funny,” said one contributor to the review.

Here’s what else is happening

Syria: Turkish forces appeared to have clashed with the Syrian Army and the Kurdish-led militia in northeastern Syria, apparently violating a cease-fire.

Trump administration: The Justice Department has opened a criminal inquiry into its own Russia investigation, a move that is likely to raise alarms over political payback against President Trump’s adversaries.

Franco’s remains: The Spanish government on Thursday exhumed the remains of the former dictator Gen. Francisco Franco from an underground basilica, which he built after winning his country’s civil war, and reburied them near Madrid. Critics said the move would reopen old rifts.

Dutch earthquakes: Gas drilling in the Netherlands once helped wean the country from coal. But now, after decades of extraction, residents are fed up with earthquakes and damage to their properties. More than a thousand tremors have been recorded since the mid-1980s.

Snapshot: Above, sailboats in the Gulf of Trieste preparing at the start line ahead of the Barcelona regatta — one of the most crowded races of its kind in the world. This year, however, there has been no wind.

What we’re reading: This story in The Philadelphia Inquirer about the “Hamilton” bathroom line . Choire Sicha, our Styles editor, writes: “Tanya Heath is a multi-instrumentalist, soprano and actor whose greatest role — just for now! — is running the 20-minute panic for 200 women to pee during the intermission at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia. Has any story about a bathroom ever made you want to stand up and cheer before?”

Now, a break from the news

Our Climate Fwd: newsletter has advice on shopping for more environmentally friendly appliances.

And now for the Back Story on …

Movie trailers

The release of the trailer for the new Star Wars movie, “The Rise of Skywalker,” was met with predictable fanfare: a frenzy on social media, blog posts cataloging the hidden secrets, and deep dives poring over every detail.

Movie trailers have come a long way since their introduction in the 1910s. Back then, according to a history by FilmmakerIQ.com, the trailer would generally be shown after a film, as its name suggests, often promoting the next entry in a series.

For decades after, most trailers were produced by the same company — the National Screen Service — giving them a fairly uniform style. But in the 1960s, auteurs like Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick began to produce their own trailers, applying their unique artistic sensibilities to the promotional clips.

In the modern era, trailers have become known for the deep-voiced narration made popular by Don LaFontaine. By the time he died in 2008, Mr. LaFontaine had recorded more than 5,000 trailer voice-overs. He was perhaps best known for the phrase that often started them: “In a world …”

That’s it for this briefing. See you next time.

— Melina

Thank you To Mark Josephson and Eleanor Stanford for the break from the news. Tom Wright-Piersanti, on the Briefings team, wrote today’s Back Story. You can reach the team at [email protected].

P.S. • We’re listening to “The Daily.” In today’s episode, David Shulkin, President Trump’s former secretary of veterans affairs, discusses how he was pushed out. • Here’s today’s Mini Crossword puzzle, and a clue: Podcaster’s booking (five letters). You can find all our puzzles here. • The Times photographer Tyler Hicks and photo staff members from The Times Magazine were honored with Lucie Awards this week.

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The weirdest things we learned this week: Victorian sex drugs and deadly milk injections

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The weirdest things we learned this week: Victorian sex drugs and deadly milk injections

In the 1660s, English doctor Richard Lower transfused lamb blood into a clergyman. These types of animal blood transfusions wouldn’t be outlawed until the end of the 17th century. (Wikimedia Commons/)

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Fact: Uranium glass was all the rage

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This is one of those facts that I can’t stop talking about. I’ve managed to shoehorn it into stories about Iranian nuclear weapons and Game of Thrones dragonglass. But there’s no end to my fascination with uranium glass, which somehow managed to be a household staple for centuries!

As you probably already know, uranium is a naturally radioactive heavy metal that nuclear scientists enrich into atomic weapons and power plants. But starting in the 1830s, with the Austrian manufacturer Reidel, entrepreneurs began using uranium to add new colors to their glass products. Specifically, a color that could generously be called green apple, or maybe just “radioactive glow,” but more honestly is best describe as “urine-ish.”

The style took off, and remained popular for almost 100 years, meaning plates and decorative bowls and cups capable of setting off a Geiger counter could be found in most kitchens. (Fortunately, the radioactivity was pretty negligible.) Even after its big heyday, it eventually evolved into something called “vaseline glass,” which had a milky flair. And the basic principle was reproduced for everyone’s favorite 20th-century ceramic: fiestaware!

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Fact: A Victorian heart medication turned into a gay sex drug

By Rachel Feltman

All props to Alex Schwartz for this week’s facts, which I learned in the course of editing his fantastic Pride Month feature on the history of poppers. You can read it yourself or listen to this week’s show to find out more, but here are a few highlights: Yes, poppers—now a quintessential character in the past and present of gay culture—started out as a heart medicine in the Victorian era. One scientist even brought samples to conferences to let his colleagues take a whiff of the woosh-inducing chemical for themselves. And intriguingly, poppers were briefly blamed by many for the AIDS crisis—even though their use likely lowers risk of HIV transmission.

Fact: Doctors really wanted milk infusions to be a thing

By Marion Renault

We should be really grateful for the gift of clean, human blood when we receive modern transfusions. In the 1600s (and the centuries that followed), physicians injected animals and humans with everything from milk to urine, beer, sheep’s blood, saline solutions, and perfluorochemicals (a group of polymers similar to Teflon).

In the late 1800s, after about 200 years of messy, often-unsuccessful infusions of human blood—as well as of lamb, sheep, and calf blood—physicians deemed such exchanges undependable (we still didn’t know about blood types or blood-borne diseases or how to keep blood supplies from coagulating). “For a short time, milk seemed to be the panacea,” notes one medical historian.

The first milk transfusions took place in the midst of the 1854 cholera epidemic when a pair of doctors brought a cow into a Toronto hospital and pumped the animal’s milk into their own patients (don’t worry, the milk was passed through gauze and kept in a warm bowl). More doctor followed suit. A Dr. T.G. Thomas transfused milk into a woman suffering from severe uterine hemorrhage. Dr. William Pepper remained optimistic about the procedure even when his patients complained of headache, fever, and renal issues after their bovine infusions. Dr. J.S. Prout suggested a medical-legal use for milk transfusions, proposing they might prolong life to allow “the victim of an assault to identify his assailant.”

Dr. Joseph Howe of New York City was an especially adamant explorer of the procedure. In 1873, he injected 1.5 ounces of goat’s milk into a tuberculosis patient who was soon racked by vertigo, chest pain, and uncontrollable eye movement. Naturally, Howe doubled the dose; the patient promptly died. You can hear more about his egregious experiments on this week’s episode.

Strangely, a century and a half have passed since Dr. Howe’s futile milk experiments and there is still no safe, effective blood substitute approved in the United States or Europe. For now, artificial blood remains a holy grail of trauma medicine. Efforts to synthesize the substance have been—wait for it—in vein.

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JWExPod 70 Jermaine Lucious

I first met Jermaine Lucious on the set of an Undependent Films production. I had been following his Facebook post for a while and I enjoyed his take current events. He met Co-host Alvin Chiu and me at Tacoholics for a chat about everything from Bill Cosby, Kayne West and Donald Trump. He filled us in on Facebook Live game he and Ron Scott organize every month at Tacoholics. Apologies for the background noise. Enjoy the episode.

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Week 13 fantasy busts: Time has come to demote Kareem Hunt

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Week 13 Fantasy Lames: Big Ben to cool off considerably in Cincy

Each week the Noise highlights 10 somewhat un-obvious names whom he believes are destined to implode leave egg on his face. To qualify, each player must be started in at least 50 percent of Yahoo leagues. Speaking as an accountability advocate, I will post results, whether genius or moronic, the following week using the scoring system shown here (Thresholds – QB: 18 fpts, RB: 12 fpts, WR: 11 fpts, TE: 10 fpts). If you’re a member of TEAM HUEVOS, reveal your Week 13 Lames in the comments section below.

[Week 13 fantasy rankings: Overall | PPR | QBs | RBs | WRs | TEs | FLEX | DST | Ks]

Ben Roethlisberger, Pit, QB (64 percent started; Yahoo DFS: $40) Matchup: at Cin

At home, Big Ben is your local high end family-owned Italian joint, a go-to institution. However, on the road, he’s Fazoli’s, an “Italian” fast food chain fully equipped with a drive thru. His splits are obscene and very discouraging when not relishing the creature comforts of Heinz Field. He’s fallen short of the 18.0 Flames/Lames fantasy point threshold in 10 consecutive away games. More worrisome, he struggled to push the ball downfield in his his prior matchup versus Cincinnati, completing 58.3 percent of his attempts for a pedestrian 224 yards and two scores. Jacksonville’s secondary has earned all the hype, deservedly so, but the Bengals are not far behind in stinginess allowing 6.3 yards per attempt, 219.1 pass yards, 1.1 pass touchdowns per game. Aaron Rodgers and, randomly, DeShone Kizer are the only signal-callers to cross the 20-point line against them. Getting down to the brass tacks, corners William Jackson, Pacman Jones, Darqueze Denard and Dre Kirkpatrick have conceded a combined 73.2 passer rating to their assignments. Big Ben has drop kicked DBs in recent outings (10 TDs last three), but this week the clock strikes midnight.

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Kareem Hunt, KC, RB (91 percent started; Yahoo DFS: $29) Matchup: at NYJ

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Jay Ajayi, Phi, RB (70 percent started; Yahoo DFS: $18) Matchup: at Sea

From bodily entrance to exit, last Sunday on “Fantasy Football Live” I fell into a burning ring a fire. Losing a Leonard Fournette vs. Ajayi wager (my side) the week prior, I took on the #OneChipChallenge. The Carolina Reaper went down, down, down and the flames, oh yes, they went higher. It burned, burned, burned. That ring of fire. That ridiculous ring of fire. Thanks Doug Pederson … The Eagles head honcho has morphed into everyone’s worst fantasy villain. His running back head games are reminiscent of Mike Shanahan’s or Bill Belichick’s. It’s aggravating. It’s bewildering. And it’s impossible to predict. But that’s the point. Ajayi, once a true workhorse in Miami, is now a Shetland pony with the Eagles. In three weeks donning kelly green, he’s averaged 17.7 snaps, 7.3 touches and 70.3 total yards per game. His resulting 9.6 yards per touch and 3.45 YAC/att suggest he deserves more work, but Pederson doesn’t care about Fantasyland’s pithy requests. LeGarrette Blount, Corey Clement and Kenjon Barner are fixed heads on the Eagles’ rushing hydra. Due to the enormous workload reduction, Ajayi should be avoided this week in Seattle. Bobby Wagner, the leader in run-stop percentage at linebacker, and his Seahawks have surrendered just 2.67 yards per carry and 57.0 rush yards per game to RBs since Week 6. I’m convinced Ajayi would crush with 15 or more touches behind Philly’s immovable offensive line, but Pederson’s RBBC commitment greatly hinders his overall potential.

Fearless Forecast: 9 carries, 31 rushing yards, 1 reception, 6 receiving yards, 0 touchdowns, 4.2 fantasy points

Golden Tate, Det, WR (81 percent started; Yahoo DFS: $17) Matchup: at Bal

Similar to his alma mater, Notre Dame, Tate has suffered a tough-to-swallow collapse. Placed in an iron maiden the past two weeks, he’s hauled in an uneventful seven receptions for 39 yards. Though he’s delivered consistent WR2 value in PPR leagues for much of the season, his absent touchdowns over the year’s second half has left a bitter taste for the standard scoring fantasy player. Since Week 8 he’s found the end zone once. Over that span, Marvin Jones has stolen much of the TD thunder. Still, his appreciable targets share (21.2 percent), 75.9 catch rate (WR4) and league-leading 411 yards after catch offer significant weekly upside. His Week 13 matchup, however, greatly lowers the ceiling. Jimmy Smith, winded by Baltimore’s lack of sustainable drives, was manhandled a bit last week by DeAndre Hopkins. But even including that forgettable performance, the corner has yielded only a 44.9 passer rating and 65.4 catch percentage to his assignments. Brandon Carr (71.7 RTG allowed) and LaDarius Webb (68.5) have also proven rather unwelcoming. And Baltimore, as a whole, has given up the second-fewest fantasy points to wide receivers this season. Matthew Stafford has tossed two TDs or more in six of his past seven contests, but against the Ravens’ hardened secondary, he and Tate may find it difficult to cross the chalk.

Fearless Forecast: 6 receptions, 58 receiving yards, 0 touchdowns, 8.8 fantasy points

Julio Jones, Atl, WR (100 percent started; Yahoo DFS: $33) Matchup: vs. Min

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Fearless Forecast: 5 receptions, 73 receiving yards, 0 touchdowns, 9.8 fantasy points

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1. Scott J.

Meet Scott, a transportation planner from Saint Louis, MO who now lives and works in Santa Monica. After living in Saint Louis for 28 years, he lived in the northeast (NYC, Philadelphia, and DC) for 6 years and has been living in LA since November 2016. Since he doesn’t own a car, he commutes to work by bike or bus.

Tell me about your commute in LA.

I'm only about 2.5 miles away, so I just bike to work most days. It's the easiest and quickest way to go. It's also nice because you know exactly when you leave and you'll get there in a certain amount of time because even though the transit system is pretty good, there's something always happening, like the Big Blue Bus [the main transit agency in Santa Monica]. Even though the bus stop is really close, the buses tend to bunch up a lot. They have the ETA signs for when the buses are coming and they'll be like, buses are coming in 15 minutes and then they show on the sign that another bus will come another two minutes after that. Because it's a long route, they get bunched up because of the traffic on the road because there's not separate facilities for that. Even though it's a very minor thing, the inconvenience of having to fill up your card again, I have to make it a purposeful point to fill up the card because bus stops don't allow you to fill up your TAP card. It's nice that they now have the [Token Transit] app where you can just buy the tickets and just show it. Even just having cash on hand is really inconvenient, there's no change, it's $1.25. It's just the amount you don't happen to carry around. Even if you take out a $20 bill and break the change. And I notice that a lot at the airport, there's a lot of foreign visitors and they go to the bus transfer center and there's no way to get the $1.25 because they've pulled out cash but it's all twenties, so it's a little inconvenient. I don't understand why they don't have TAP cards there [at LAX]. So it's just easier to bike. It eliminates a lot of hassle.

How long is your bike ride, usually?

Depending on how fast I go, it's about 10-15 minutes, whereas the bus is, including the waiting time, usually more 25-30 minutes. It's not a very long route, but it's undependable in terms of frequency. They run a lot of buses on it but I think the traffic backs it up.

How do you like biking in Santa Monica, or at least to work?

I think within Santa Monica, it's pretty nice. There's a lot of parallel routes, there's a lot of different options to get places. I feel like they have one of the nicer bicycle facilities [in the LA area] and it doesn't feel like you're taking your life into your hands. I used to bike in New York a little bit, where it just makes a lot more sense to take transit. The main thing in New York is it took awhile. If you were living in Manhattan, it would be really easy to bike to work, but going from Brooklyn to Manhattan, you're going over one of the bridges, goes up really high. It adds a lot to your trip time.

How does biking in Santa Monica compare to the rest of LA?

I think it's a lot. In the rest of LA, you have to really know where you're going. Otherwise, you're going to get thrown out on this road that's six lanes of traffic and I feel like people in Santa Monica watch out for bikes more. People expect it and it's more normalized at this point, whereas in the rest of LA, people seem more intensely hostile to it compared to other cities I've lived in, like Philly or DC or even NYC. I feel like in all those places, it's not like people love people biking, but they expect to see people walking around, where in LA, people still think it's weird to walk around, even if the distance itself is not that far.

Do you have any recent examples you can recall that shows intense hostility?

I wouldn't call it “intense hostility,” I think it's just “not paying attention.” I was walking to the grocery store and I was crossing the street and this car was looking to pull into the lane, but they were obviously just watching the cars and not expecting anyone to walk. They obviously weren't paying attention and pulled into me. I noticed that in DC, people would typically watch for people walking around and then you go to Silver Spring [a suburb in Maryland adjacent to DC] and people are just oblivious. They're not expecting people to walk in the crosswalk, so they're not even paying attention or looking at all.

Is there anything you dislike about your commute? Focusing on biking because you've also talked about bus.

I think the main thing is: on the route I take goes to Santa Monica High School and there's a drop-off thing [for students]. If I don't leave early enough, I hit the drop-off thing and there's just a ton of parents who drive their kids to school, so there's this huge back-up. But other than that, when school is out, there's no traffic at all. But [the parents] just pull over and you really have to watch what you're doing because they'll just open the door into the bike lane. You don't want to go too fast because you don't want to get completely doored. It's a bit of a mess. I feel like of my route, that's the time that a situation is going to happen, that someone will open the door into you.

You talked about biking and taking the bus to work. How do you get around LA, outside of your work commute?

A lot of times I use the Expo line. I find that's a big advantage. That's something I thought about, coming to LA, that it does extend to Santa Monica. It's actually a selling point, that maybe it is feasible to go car-less with that, because you have all the options to downtown LA, where there's jobs and a lot of activities. So typically, I take the Expo line to go and visit people and also using the bus system, which takes longer but a lot of times it feels worth it. You don't have to look for parking, you don't have to worry about moving your car around once you've gotten to Hollywood. You don't have to find out where you can park or how long you can park. Not having that hassle is a big advantage. And I think the one thing that has really shifted the dynamic, at least for me, it makes it doable [to not have a car], is that you do have carshare options with Uber and Lyft. Without that, there's just certain locations you can't get to and you're just out of luck. Or when it's not rush hour, you don't want to take two hours to get home, when it can be 20 minutes.

Can you talk more about your experience of not owning a car in LA?

I think the main thing is not having to deal with the hassle. Also, I have a Zipcar membership, so that's something I could always use and that's located close by. It's something I could always use if I need to get a car for a particular reason. I think the main thing is that it saves a lot of money: just not having to go to the DMV, not have to renew your license plate, not having to deal with all that, and worrying about getting gas. It gets rid of a lot of headache. Like I was saying with rideshare, everything is reachable, as long as you don't overuse it, it's actually a lot more cost effective not to have a vehicle because you're probably going to paying at least $200 a month in insurance. So if you spend less on rideshare, you're coming out ahead. And the rideshare is actually more convenient because it just drops you off and you don't have to think about your car. You can take transit home or whatever you want to do. It's a lot more flexible.

Do you ever wish you had a car?

I think the main thing is for road trips. When I lived in New York, that was the same thing. That's the main purpose. It's not as convenient. Like, if you want to go to Santa Barbara, you can't just get there [without a car]. There's an extra layer of hassle. Sometimes you don't do something that you've might've done, just because you didn't have a car on hand.

How do you get around your neighborhood?

Typically, for groceries, they're very conveniently located, a couple of blocks away. There's two main grocery stores nearby and you can just walk there. It's nice taking a little walk, listen to podcasts or just to get out of the house, instead of having to deal with driving to the parking lot. It's always funny: I find that in New York, the grocery store itself is packed with people but there's no parking hardly at all, whereas in LA, the parking lots are always a madhouse but then you get into the store and it's not really that crowded [laughs]. So it just goes to how people get to the store. It's a lot more efficient if people could get to the store in a different way. I always hear people complain that it's such a hassle to go to the grocery store because you're driving there, whereas if you walk in, you're not worried about trying to find a parking space. It's not that crowded in the store itself.

How do people react when you tell them you don't own a car in LA?

I feel like people seem really surprised. They're like, “I don't understand how you can do it.” And that's something I noticed on the bus. I feel like the bus system works pretty well, but you don't have a lot of choice riders. In New York or Philly or DC, everyone uses the bus a lot more. In LA, it's still perceived that you want to move on: you've done better because you were able to get a car, that you've been more successful, whereas that wasn't the case in other cities. There wasn't a mark of doing better or an opton that you want to stop using [transit]. People just seem surprised. They don't understand it. I do find it funny when you tell them that we just use rideshare and if you use less than $200 of rideshare, then that'll be the same price as insurance and maintenance for a car, then they're like, “Oh, that makes a lot of sense, actually.”

Do you think you'll ever own a car while living in LA?

It would depend. I could see possibly, depending on circumstances became such, having one car for the household. Like, if there's some kind of job that you just can't get to any other way. In a way, I kind of expect, depending on how fast autonomous cars get here. At least I see it as, if most people have self-driving cars and it was cheap and operated like Lyft, they'll be no reason to own a car yourself. It's just the price factor if you're going to use it all the time, but if the cost came down and if you could just always use Lyft all the time, then there would be no reason to ever own your own car.

Any final thoughts?

I think the one thing in LA, it really lessens your anxiety level to not be driving on the highways and the traffic. I find a lot of people at work, even when transit takes longer, they're willing to do that because it's more calm for them, that they can actually do something, they can read or something like that. It's past the tipping point where it's a complete hassle to get on the highway. I think LA is a prime example of that and I think that's why people are willing to fund transit. It's different in other cities. In Saint Louis, it's not that congested and it's just quicker to get to certain locations by car. The thing that's very interesting: for having so much road space, you're always almost trapped in your location because there's so much traffic. Even though you have so much road infrastructure, you're almost less mobile than other cities, compared to New York or elsewhere. You know for a fact you can get from here to here in 40 minutes. In LA rush hour from 4-7pm, you might as well not try to get there because it's going to take two hours on the 405. It's just a weird concept to me, that there's no way to get to that location, even though you have a ten-lane highway [laughs].

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Chapter 7: Mobile Computing and Commerce

Multiple Choice

1. How can handheld mobile computing devices and technology significantly improve performance in the healthcare system?

a) Make it easier and faster to get prescriptions

b) Reduce the preventable errors made by healthcare providers

c) Reduce the need for emergency medical care

d) All of the above

2. Electronic prescription systems (EPSs) offer huge potential benefits, but several obstacles are slowing the adoption of these systems. Which of the following is not one of those obstacles?

a) the high start-up financial investment

b) insufficient knowledge of the EPS concepts

c) widespread EPS technology standardization

d) resistance from healthcare providers

3. Which is not one of the three dominant PC operating systems (OSs)?

a) Apple

b) Java

c) Linux

d) Microsoft Windows

4. Writing apps for handheld devices, such as smartphones, is __________.

a) easy because only a few lines of code are needed

b) easy because the devices have limited features

c) difficult because of many different models and OSs

d) about the same as writing apps for computers.

5. The mobile computing and commerce environment relies on two basic approaches to Internet connectivity: short range wireless technologies such as __________ and longer range telecommunications technologies such as __________.

a) Wi-Fi; WiMAX

b) WiMAX; 4G

c) 3G; 4G

d) 4G; Wi-Fi

6. End users can access a WLAN with their laptops, desktops, or PDAs by adding a(n) __________.

a) 4G network

b) Internet protocol

c) access point

d) wireless network card

7. Which of the following is not a characteristic of Wi-Fi?

a) Most laptops today rely on Wi-Fi technology that require being in range of at least one satellite.

b) Wi-Fi performance decreases roughly significantly as distance increases at constant radiation levels.

c) Wi-Fi has fairly high power-consumption compared to some other standards.

d) Wi-Fi is used to support business and compliance requirements, such as the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response (MINER) Act passed by the U.S. Congress.

8. Many financial service handhelds send SMS texts using __________, which work like telephone numbers, except that they are 5 or 6 characters long and easier to remember.

a) mobile PINs

b) packets

c) short codes

d) biometrics

9. The __________ is expected to emerge as the predominant market for mobile banking services done via cell phones or other mobile device.

a) Asia-Pacific region

b) European Union (EU)

c) United States (US)

d) United Kingdom (UK)

10. Which of the following is not one of the threats to mobile banking?

a) cloning

b) phishing

c) lost or stolen phones

d) SMS

11. Duplicating or __________ the Electronic Serial Number (ESM) of a cell phone and using it in second phone allows the perpetrator to have calls and other transactions fraudulently billed to the original phone.

a) cloning

b) phishing

c) smishing

d) vishing

12. One innovative payment systems uses an iPhone app called __________, in which two individuals can transfer money to each other simply by tapping their phones together.

a) bump

b) tap

c) QR

d) knock

13. An advantage of an __________, which is a piece of software, is that it that stores an online shopper’s credit card numbers and other personal information so that the shopper does not have to reenter that information for every online purchase.

a) e-phone

b) e-card

c) e-reader

d) e-wallet

14. Mobile commerce in __________ is growing exponentially and now represents the largest amount of m-commerce sales in the world.

a) Europe

b) Japan

c) developing countries

d) India

15. In Japan, wireless shopping is popular with busy single parents, executives, and teenagers, who are doing __________ percent of their e-commerce shopping from cell phones.

a) almost 25

b) up to 33

c) up to 50

d) over 80

16. According to the Daiwa Institute of Research, __________ account(s) for most of the purchases that are done on mobile phones, if the users are on flat-fee-based service.

a) entertainment

b) impulse shopping

c) travel

d) sports

17. The __________ continues to be a leader in making digital music, movies and podcasts available to consumers for a fee.

a) iTunes Store

b) Amazon.com

c) Fox Mobile

d) Grooveshark.com

18. Belgian Godiva Chocolatier is recognized worldwide as the leader in fine chocolates. The Godiva Mobile app integrates Godiva's best selling products with the address book on a BlackBerry smartphone. Why is this integration a good strategic move for Godiva?

a) Consumers can purchase products by simply scrolling and clicking.

b) Godiva chocolates and other products are usually bought as a gift rather than for oneself.

c) Address book integration allows users to ship with just a few clicks.

d) All of the above

19. Why did Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and Siemens establish the Mobile Games Interoperability Forum (MGIF) that defined a range of technical standards?

a) To create a competitive advantage by running mobile games on proprietary networks

b) To make it possible to deploy mobile games across multi-game servers and wireless networks, and over different mobile devices

c) To compete against Microsoft in the mobile game market

d) To develop games that ran on slower speed networks

20. Primary forces that are driving the growth of the mobile market are __________ and __________.

a) virtual communities; Wi-Fi

b) air travel; hotels

c) Skype; banking

d) mobile social media; gaming handhelds

21. __________ is user-specific advertising that is location-sensitive and used to inform potential buyers about shops, malls, entertainment, and restaurants close to where they are based on the __________ in their cell phones.

a) Mobile marketing; SMS

b) Wireless marketing; cookies

c) Targeted advertising; GPS

d) Targeted advertising; router

22. __________ handhelds are a special technology that involves computer-generated images superimposed on pictures of real things and can be used by advertisers in several ways.

a) Augmented reality

b) Foursquare

c) WAP

d) Skype

23. Yahoo Mobile and iGoogle are__________ which are customer channels optimized for mobility and that aggregate content and services for mobile users.

a) search engines

b) browsers

c) mobile portals

d) wireless apps

24. Characteristics of voice portals include each of the following except:

a) Many organizations use voice portals to replace or supplement help desks and reduce costs.

b) Voice portals are used extensively by airlines enabling travelers to make reservations, find flight status, and more.

c) Voice portals are Web sites because they are accessed through a browser.

d) A benefit for Internet marketers is that voice portals can help businesses find new customers.

25. The underlying technologies needed for location-based commerce and services are __________ and __________.

a) GPS; GIS

b) TPS; laptops

c) portals; servers

d) social networks; sensors

26. A global positioning system (GPS) is a wireless system that uses __________ to determine where the GPS device is located anywhere on the earth.

a) GIS

b) portals

c) satellites

d) servers

27. Engineers can find the location of any receiving station to within 50 feet by __________, using the distance from a GPS to three satellites to make the computation.

a) latitude

b) longitude

c) triangulation

d) altitude

28. GPS software computes the latitude and longitude of the receiver. This process is called __________.

a) decoding

b) geocoding

c) receiving

d) geocomputing

29. Characteristics of NextBus include all of the following except:

a) The system knows exactly where buses are, but not individuals, which protects the person’s privacy.

b) San Francisco bus riders carrying a smartphone or similar device can quickly find out when a bus is likely to arrive at a particular bus stop.

c) The system tracks public transportation buses in real time.

d) The core of the NextBus system is a GPS satellite that can tell the NextBus information center where a bus is at any given time.

30. The location provided by GPS is expressed in terms of __________.

a) geocodes

b) digital maps

c) latitude and longitude

d) data visualization

31. Data acquired by a GPS is inserted into a digital map, which is known as a __________, to identify a specific place or address.

a) geographical information system (GIS)

b) data visualization

c) mapinfo

d) mobile positioning center (MPC)

32. GPS is supported by __________ U.S. government satellites, plus three backup satellites, that are shared worldwide.

a) 12

b) 24

c) 180

d) 360

33. Why are leading organizations developing marketing and sales strategies built on connecting with their customers via mobile devices?

a) Because mobile transactions are now secure and protected against fraud.

b) To remain competitive with the vast majority of organizations that have developed plans for mobile customer service and support.

c) Because customers want to be connected to all aspects of their lives via their mobiles.

d) All of the above

34. Traditional POS technology involves a computerized cash register connected to a server via __________.

a) Wi-Fi

b) WiMAX

c) a WAP

d) a wired LAN

35. What is a disadvantage of traditional POS technology?

a) Stations are fixed and require customers to bring their merchandise to a specific location.

b) They expedite checkout for those customers paying with credit card.

c) The processing is slow creating long lines of customers.

d) The technology is undependable.

36. Benefits of mobile POS stations include each of the following except:

a) Mobile POS stations can be setup as needed by using handheld computers, scanners and printers.

b) The stations are low cost and do not require employee training.

c) During periods of high volume, employees can setup temporary mobile check out stations capable of scanning merchandise bar codes, processing credit card payments, and printing receipts.

d) Employees can walk through a fixed station line offering to expedite checkout for those customers paying with credit card.

37. Ways in which the use of mobile devices in inventory management improves business performance include all of the following except:

a) Eliminates inventory out-of-stock situations.

b) Retailers can record merchandise when it enters the store, where it is stored, and when it is moved to the floor.

c) Delivery drivers can enter invoices and other shipping data into the store’s database at the point of delivery.

d) The cumbersome process of changing prices on in-store merchandise is easier.

38. For the 2010 census, the U.S. the government allocated $3 billion for handhelds to improve the interviewer’s performance in the field. What was the result?

a) The program was a success because it saved taxpayers over $3 billion.

b) The program reduced the cost of the census about $1 billion.

c) The program worked, but did not significantly reduce costs.

d) The program was a failure and had to be delayed to the 2020 census.

39. In the large software suites, such as Siebel’s CRM, the two CRM functions that have attracted the most interest are __________ and __________.

a) sales force automation; field service

b) collaboration; supply chain management

c) inventory management; mobile POS

d) job dispatch; messaging

40. Sales teams at Adidas America use Blackberry’s Enterprise Solution and PDAs to check inventory levels from anywhere in real time, which improves sales and service. This is an example of how __________ can improve operational performance.

a) inventory management

b) mobile supply chain management (MSCM)

c) mobile customer relationship management (MCRM)

d) a sales portal

41. Applying mobile computing to __________ may have strategic implications by shortening cycle time, reducing delays, and improving supplier and customer relationships. Such solutions enable organizations to proactively adjust plans or shift resources.

a) operations

b) job dispatch

c) supply chains

d) sales

42. By enabling sales force employees to type orders or queries directly into __________ systems while at a client’s site, companies can reduce clerical mistakes and improve supply chain operations.

a) ERP

b) RFID

c) CRM

d) JIT

43. __________ extends the reach of CRM—both inside and outside the company—and to both employees and business partners on a 24/7 basis, to any place where recipients are located.

a) Mobile CRM

b) ERP

c) Mobile SCM

d) CAT

44. A __________ device allows improved response with reduced resources, real-time tracking of work orders, increased dispatcher efficiency, and a reduction in administrative work.

a) mobile POS

b) inventory management

c) job dispatching

d) SCM

45. Poor program management, poor contract estimate and hardware and software delays contributed to the mobile app failure of __________.

a) Salesforce.com’s App Exchange

b) the U.S. Census Bureau

c) Blackberry’s Enterprise Solution

d) All of the above

True/False

46. Mobile computing has changed dramatically since 2008 as portable devices that connect wirelessly to the Internet became lighter, smaller, thinner, and much more powerful.

47. New categories of handhelds such as e-readers--Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iPad - have not been rapidly adopted.

48. Blackberry OS, made by Research in Motion, is currently the dominant smartphone OS in the U.S. and number two globally.

49. Companies need to develop Web sites and apps specifically for mobile OSs because consumers expect to access Web sites from their smartphones and other devices and are frustrated by companies that do not support their devices.

50. The mobile computing and commerce environment relies on two basic approaches to Internet connectivity: short range wireless technologies such as 3G and longer range telecommunications technologies such as 4G.

51. Wi-Fi has fairly high power-consumption compared to some other standards such as Bluetooth.

52. Several mining companies in Europe installed hundreds of Wi-Fi hotspots in their coal mines. Information from drills and trucks is transmitted wirelessly to the control center, which increases both productivity and safety.

53. Duplicating the Electronic Serial Number (ESM) of one phone and using it in second phone -the clone is referred to as phishing. This allows the perpetrator to have calls and other transactions billed to the original phone.

54. As interest in mobile commerce grows, there is a greater demand for innovative payment systems that make transactions from smartphones and other mobile devices convenient, safe, and secure.

55. Many of the new m-wallet products are safe and secure because confidential information in a user’s wallet is stored on the mobile device.

56. Mobile commerce in Japan is growing exponentially and now represents the largest amount of m-commerce sales in the world.

57. Location-based commerce (l-commerce) refers to the delivery of advertisements, products, or services to customers whose locations can be identified at a given time. L-commerce is beneficial to both consumers and businesses.

58. Greater adoption of mobile apps will change the way that organizations deal with both internal and external customer service and support. Therefore, most organizations have developed plans for mobile customer service and support for competitive advantage.

59. Long lines frustrate customers. Some studies show that at least one in 100 customers will abandon a long line, leaving the store without completing a purchase.

60. The cumbersome process of changing prices on in-store merchandise is made easier using mobile devices. Employees can walk the aisles of a store, scanning merchandise and checking the posted price against the price in the store’s UPC database.

Short Answer

61. Mobility started when computers became __________.

62. The iOS, Android and Palm operating systems are all based on modifications of the __________ OS.

63. In a typical wireless LAN configuration, a transmitter with an antenna, called a __________ connects to a wired LAN from a fixed location or to satellite dishes that provide an Internet connection.

64. __________ is generally defined as carrying out banking transactions and other related activities via mobile devices.

65. Many financial service handhelds make use of __________ that are 5 or 6 characters long for sending SMS texts.

66. __________ is a mobile banking security risk because by duplicating the Electronic Serial Number (ESM) of one phone and using it in second phone, any calls or transactions are billed to the original phone.

67. __________ is the use of deceptive e-mail or other communication to trick the receiver into revealing confidential information, such as account numbers, passwords, or other identifying information

68. __________ equipment identifies the location of the mobile device either through GPS or by locating the nearest base station. The information is sent to the mobile positioning center.

69. A __________ is a wireless system that uses satellites to determine where the device is located anywhere on the earth.

70. During periods of high volume, __________ stations can be setup by using handheld computers, scanners and printers and that are capable of processing credit card payments and printing receipts.

Essay

71. Identify and discuss two ways in which mobile technology can be used to save lives.

72. List 4 of the most popular mobile OSs:

73. Identify three of the most common mobile banking services.

74. Select an industry (e.g., sports, travel, entertainment, retail, and manufacturing) and identify two ways in which mobile computing or commerce could improve financial or operational performance of a company in that industry.

75. Discuss ways in which mobile computing can improve customer service and reduce costs of providing that service.

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Russia cracks down as unrest grows

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