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Tell Me (When You’re Ready) - 4.1

notes: Part 4 of the Us Series also on ao3

Us Series Masterlist

warnings: 18+, drug use, polyamory, low key manipulation, toxic relationships, cheating

summary:

He’s never been involved with anyone else the way he’s been with you, you’re all he thinks about and wants to have. It’s more than just liking you, this instinct to care for you, this obsession and desire he feels over you, he calls it love, it must be love.

4.1 ✧ 4.2 ✧ 4.3 ✧ 4.4

At first glance, Touya didn’t really think much of you the first time he had seen you.

You were just another random party goer to him, one of many he saw whenever he attended those kinds of things, easier to just sell to his clientele if they conglomerated in these kinds of functions, though with the slightly older ones they have to blend in better since they’re technically crashing a house party. University students, upcoming freshmeat, recently graduated alumni and some of their plus ones or more, it’s so easy to tell who the veterans are versus the greenhorns.

The ones who can hold themselves together versus the ones that need to be carried, the ones who can hold there liquor versus the ones that need to be babysat, the strong versus the weak.

And you were that in between, walking around cross faded with eyes that looked lost in space but when someone put a hand on your shoulder then you would come back to earth, but not with your feet touching the ground. Like your feet just barely skimming the surface but still wanting to float in the sky, streaming through a pleasant haze just a bit longer until the high ends and you’ll have no choice until it’s time to walk amongst the animals again.

You sat on the couch with a few girls, talking amongst themselves and no doubt grouped together to protect one another from the predators; who could resist drunk and weak girls, especially the ones who looked the most broken. The eyes of the boys on your group and hoping to try to break into the circle and pick off the weakest to break away the pack. They get especially eager when the group wants to drink more, but you and two friends decide to go outside to smoke a joint instead.

“I’m drunk, I need’a go outside.”

The first words he ever heard you say, though not the first he’s heard but it sounded cute the way you slurred them out.

His eyes followed you briefly, holding hands with a friend as you made your way to get to the outside for a smoke.

“Yo Dabi! Good to see you man!”

He passed discreet little baggies, pink and blue tablets, little pills, he always gets a pat on the back from the boys and winks from the girls.

The girls like him, more than a few offering a little something extra when he makes a successful sale. Two of his whores are at this party, the decent flings he goes back to every so often when he wants to get his dick wet and when they want his goods.

Good dick and good drugs, it’s nice to get a two for one sale.

The second time he sees you at the party, he’s just leaving a room and fixing his belt while you sit at the top of the stairs with a friend. You and your friend are engrossed in your conversation, more than likely a similar talk happening somewhere inside the house party because you talked about your regrets of the way you and your ex broke it off, just more drunk girl talk. “It was so… so fuckin’ stupid dude, I was drunk and he showed up. We fucked but whe’ I woke up the next day, I fuckin’ left and just didn’t talk to him again.”

The second thing he ever heard you say but Touya literally passed by three girls half an hour ago that had a similar conversation, yours was nothing special.

Touya always denies drinks, offers of lines and other things when he goes to these kinds of functions, he needs a clear mind when he deals. He’s not dumb as fuck when he’s high or when he’s on, he can handle himself quite well and could sell just as well even if he were, he just doesn’t want to be relaxed around people that he doesn’t know that well or trust. It would have been nice if Keigo tagged along but the fucker’s Adderall hadn’t worn off in time to accompany him. Keigo gives him a good break from the others, kinda resets him and then he goes back to his business.

But Keigo isn’t around so Touya settles for plowing girls in random rooms of the house to give him a brief recess and then he’s back out there.

The third time he sees you, you’re leaning against the body of a young man just a little taller than Touya but nothing in the way he holds you shows that he has any ill intentions towards you. It feels rare sometimes to see two people having a platonic friendship, especially between two people of the opposite sex. Touya’s already sold your friend whatever he wanted but sticks around to make conversation, though it’s an excuse because he can’t help but note the way you’re being held in your friend’s arms. He tries to not make it obvious as he talks but truthfully, Touya wanted to just look at you. It’s obvious that there’s nothing romantic in the way your friend holds you but for some reason, it doesn’t sit well with him.

Even with his eyes up on your friend, he can see how you cling to your friend’s body with your arms wrapped around him so securely and with so much trust. Touya notes how you’re practically purring as your friend pets your head, sometimes massaging the tips of his fingertips against your scalp and then rubbing your shoulder in comfort. And he can see how you peeked up at him a few times, your curious eyes on him but Touya recognizes the cloudy way you look up at him. It’s not out of interest in the way you looked at him but probably just wondering why he was around.

Eventually you stop looking at him and choose to shut your eyes, concentrating on your friend petting your head instead.

“You want to try anything (Name)? Dabi’s got the best shit I’ve ever had, pretty fucking primo.” your friend had offered but you shook your head and said no. And goddamn if it wasn’t the cutest no that Touya’s ever heard in his life, the third thing he's ever heard you say. “Girl’s been pretty curious about wanting to try coke but she hasn’t worked up the nerve to actually give it a try. You know what, lemme buy a half off you too and maybe this’ll be the night that she finally gives it a try.”

Touya went home wondering if you lost your cocaine virginity that night.

That question wouldn’t be answered until a couple month’s later after you and him shared a philosophy class together. Touya remembered you very clearly but for some reason, his gut twists a little when you spoke to him the first time and it’s clear that you didn’t remember him from the party. He decides to forgive you for not remembering him because he feels like he can’t stay mad at you, not with that cute face you have.

But it’s just like at the party, you don’t seem particularly interested in him but Touya’s interested in you so he decides to seek you out more. He starts to crave your attention but he doesn’t want to look like a fool if it’s a one-sided attraction so he lays the charm on you, calls you pretty names that he’s never used on other girls. At first Touya thinks that you can just be girl number nine, hopefully another easy hole for him to use when he has an itch to scratch.

Now Touya’s fucked a lot of girls. He’s taken innocent girls virginities before and he’s had some pretty wild sex with the campus sluts, but there’s something different about you. You’re not a prude, not in the way you flirt back and insinuate wanting to take a seat on his face sometimes, but you’ve got some untouched parts of you that he wanted to lay a claim on. He’d show you new things and hold your hand over what you’d be too scared to do on your own or with others, he’ll watch over you. Imagine his giddiness the first time he ever cut lines of coke for you, it turned out that your cocaine virginity belonged to him this entire time.

"Oh... it's not that bad!"

You took that line so good, how about you take my cock next?

You tease him, playing coy one moment and then acting like nothing happened next.

And normally with bitches that do that shit with him for too long, Touya drops them pretty fast and moves on to the next. A little flirting and teasing is fine but he’s not looking to play a long term game with that kind of bullshit, it’s either happening or it’s not.

But with you it’s different.

You’re different.

Touya starts to obsess over you so slowly that he doesn’t even recognize it at first. All he knows is that he has to have you, he ghosts four of his whores in favor of being with you even though there wasn’t a guarantee that he would get in your pants. He just dropped the ones that he sought for sex only, the other half are still his clientele so he keeps those ones around, plus they're still decent lays. Keigo notices it, the way his friend talks over some girl that he hasn’t even fucked yet and letting go of four of his side whores has him thinking, ‘Wow, she must be something to get Touya’s attention this bad.’

The semester starts to come to an end and he still hasn’t bagged you yet, he calls you his doll but you haven’t let him play with you. He places one of his whores face down and ass up after she does a few lines, imagines that it’s you underneath him and what you might sound like and its your ass he’s grabbing. Touya can imagine it, you weak underneath him and begging for his cock but when the bitch under him whines out ‘Dabi’, he almost loses his boner. He tells her to shut the fuck up and bite the pillow, doesn’t want to hear her stupid sounds because he wants to envision you instead.

But even imagining you calling him Dabi feels wrong, Touya rolling off your pretty lips as he paints your insides white… it blows him over the edge.

In his mind that’s what he wants, but you don’t get the right to call him by his real name. He doesn’t know you like that so you’re just like everyone else for now, referring to him as Dabi. At some point he figures that this fixation he has on you will burn out soon. And yet Touya finds himself drawn further to you, wanting you more and more, doesn’t want you to wander too far away from him and wants to know who you’re with when he’s not by your side.

And he wanted to fuck you too, so fucking bad.

His first try was with a night cap at his place, the first time Touya ever had a girl over in his space. But it seems you know your limitation on alcohol and don’t let him pour you an extra drop, wanting to be able to drive yourself home and be in decent shape for your lectures. He smokes you up one day and it goes in a good direction, you were relaxed and sending him some good signals that lead to the two of you making out. It didn’t go further because he got a phone call from his mother that he couldn’t possibly ignore, but you thought ‘Oh a mama’s boy, that’s so sweet.’

It’s the third time that he finally gets you, playing music in his car that gets you in the mood and that gets you naked in his backseat. He doesn’t know what made you ready all of a sudden but he didn’t stop to ask as you fervently sucked him off. You were more riled up than him, so excited to get his dick and that eager look in your eye when you commanded him to blow your back out. And he sure did not disappoint, he never disappoints when it comes to his dick.

And a relationship persists forward to the surprise of both of you, liking each other more than you thought you would but there were no labels yet, Touya wasn’t used to having a girlfriend so he didn’t want to call you that at first and you weren’t sure if you wanted him to be your boyfriend. Neither of you really spoke about what you were to one another despite the attraction and the lazy build of emotions that neither of you were aware of in the beginning. All Touya knew was that he wanted you to be around him more and be waiting for him when he returned back to his apartment.

It’s difficult to say when mutual attraction turned into the of you catching feelings for one another. You and Touya were hooking up for a couple of weeks after the end of the semester of the one class you shared together, and while he was aware that you were a little disgruntled at him fucking the girls he sells to, he didn’t think it was that big of a deal at the time. Didn’t he make it obvious that you’re different from them and that he only cared about you? So what if he got his dick wet from other girls aside from you? He’d been doing it before he started seeing you but he always came back to you afterwards, so why were you so pissed?

“It’s just business doll.”

It wasn’t official between the two of you yet so there wasn’t much you could say at the time. You just figured that if Touya liked you so much then he would stop and Touya figured that since you liked him just as much then you would understand.

But Touya remembers that night when he left to go sell at another house party, trying to spend time with you before he had to leave but you wouldn’t let him. He knew you were mad again because he just came back from selling to one of his whores which meant that, ‘Yes, she offered her pussy when I got there so we fucked.’ He honestly did not understand where your jealousy was coming from. You were there, sitting in his apartment and spending nights in his bed, he was doing shit with you that he’d never done with anyone else and you were still getting mad at him.

How did you not get that you were different from the rest of them?

But Touya wasn’t going to put more effort into making you feel better when you didn’t want to be cheered up, so he left to do his usual thing.

And when he came back to his apartment earlier than expected, which was only one in the morning, he found that your car was not in the guest parking and therefore you were not waiting for him inside his home. He tried ringing you to find out if you went back to your place but it went straight to voicemail so he goes to your home in hopes that you would have been there instead. But you’re not there when he arrives and you don’t answer his texts and phone calls still don’t go through."Fucking bitch! Where the hell are you?"

Touya can stay up until three in the morning at most if he’s not on anything but that night was the only night he had ever stayed up by just being angry alone. He was riled up and emotions all over the place, hands shaking so bad that he needed to punch something, almost considered putting his fist through his wall. He was fucking furious because he knows immediately that you went out to be with someone else, went to get fucked by some scum because you wanted to be a vindictive little cunt about what happened earlier.

He had practically barged into Keigo’s place and shook him awake in his bed because he didn’t know who to turn to.

“She’s out getting fucked. I fucking know she is!”

“Wha-? Touya…” Keigo groggily sat up in his bed and brushed off Touya's hands off his shoulders, blonde hair a mess from tossing and turning but he gives his friend his undivided attention. He hadn’t met you yet, had only seen pictures and nudes of you that Touya shared with him, but he’s pretty shocked over how outraged Touya is. He’d never seen his friend get so worked up over one girl before, so it speaks volumes to him to see Touya so unhinged. “What makes you say that? Maybe she’s out with friends or something. Just because she’s not back in her place doesn’t mean that she’s getting with another dude.”

But Touya’s gut said otherwise and he insisted that it was right.

“Okay man, I’m going to put some things in perspective for you. I don’t know this girl but it’s obvious that you’re into her… like a lot, but I can’t really blame her for going out to be with someone else if that’s what she’s doing right now. She can still go do what she wants just as much as you can. If you guys haven’t defined what you are to one another, especially with how you operate, then you don’t have much of a right to be telling her what to do.”

Touya was livid when you returned to your apartment, angry that you had the audacity to be so spiteful with him and furious at the thought of you underneath someone that wasn’t him. It fucking hurt him because he didn’t fuck the whores to make you angry, they didn’t mean anything to him compared to you. But in the aftermath of hatefucking turning into lovemaking, he still mulled over Keigo’s advice, deciding that maybe it would make you happy to call you his girlfriend if it meant that you wouldn’t go behind his back again. You're his favorite, his number one, his only one, if reassuring is what he has to do then he'll put up with it as long as he doesn't have to say it too often. And fine, if it really bugged you that much then he decided to make it fair by giving you permission to sleep with who you wanted provided that you always came back to him the same that he did with you.

Except that after he put it out there, he immediately regretted putting the offer out but knew that a fight would surely begin if he decided to take it back. Once again the thought of you being with someone else had got his teeth grinding and gave him anxiety. You’re his fucking girl, his precious doll that deserved to be put on a throne and be given whatever you wanted. Touya wanted nothing more than to protect you from assholes who didn’t appreciate you like your dumbass ex-boyfriend.

“(Name)’s really great, I’m glad the two of you are together. Though are you sure you’re okay with her seeing other guys too? I know you said it to be fair to her but I see you get bent out of shape if she’s even around just one of her guy friends.” Keigo puffed on cigarette, tapping some of the excess ash off the tip before returning the filter to his lips. “You really going to be okay if she decides to get picked up by another dude?”

Touya let out a frustrated sigh as he lit his third cigarette in a row; you’d be pissed if you found out but he was fortunate that you would be out for a few hours so he had time to clean away the evidence. “They’re gonna treat her like shit, I know the assholes out there would but if I take it back, she’s going to get pissed. She didn’t even fucking apologize for fucking someone else behind my back. I don’t want her to be used by someone else, she’s not a whore.”

“Correction, you mean she’s your whore.”

The only one who understood his way of thinking was Keigo.

There’s a night where you sleep in your own apartment while Touya and Keigo sit outside your complex, leaning against his car and just looking at the balcony that they know is attached to your place. A six pack of beer sits on the hood of the car, two slots empty as they each hold a bottle in their hand. Keigo quietly admits to him, “I think I might like (Name) Touya. Like I think I like her a lot, more than just wanting to fuck her and more than just as a friend.”

Touya quietly takes in Keigo’s confession and just nods his head, still looking up at your balcony and hoping that you’re sleeping well. He’s never been involved with anyone else the way he’s been with you, you’re all he thinks about and wants to have. It’s more than just liking you, this instinct to care for you, this obsession and desire he feels over you, he calls it love, it must be love. He hesitantly admits back, “… I think I love her.”

“Wow…”

“Yeah, wow…”

“You really think you love her?” Keigo asked after polishing off his first beer. “What about that whole arrangement thing? If you tell her you love her, she might question you since, you know, you’re still fucking other girls. If you love her then she’ll expect you to be monogamous with her.”

“If she still takes me up on that arrangement, I don’t think I can handle it. Only people who love her should be allowed to fuck her.” In other words, only he should be the only one to have you. No one else loves you like Touya does, he’ll fucking kill any asshole that thinks they can use you as their fucktoy. When Keigo asks again about the other girls, he growls at him and tosses his bottle onto the concrete. “I’m fucking working on that, alright. I just… don’t know how to fucking commit. It’s too fucking hard to do this by myself.”

Keigo just pops the cap off another bottle and hands it to Touya. “Would it help if I joined the relationship? I’m sure we can work something out with (Name), provided she’s willing.”

Touya would observe you and Keigo together, you oblivious to his friend’s flirtations at times and mistaking it as him just being very friendly. He could see golden eyes wandering down your body, already knowing what you looked like without any clothes and how pretty you look when you’re gagging on a dick because Touya’s shown him your nudes and recorded videos of you. Keigo can try to hide and put up a front that he’s just lusting over you but Touya can see that his friend has got that little lovestruck glint in his eyes when he looks at you; and honestly, he’s not even upset about it. The vision of you and Keigo together, it makes him comfortable rather than the anxiety he feels when he thinks about you with someone else. They obsess over you together, you blissfully unaware of how tortured Keigo was sometimes that he couldn’t plow his cock into you because you saw him as just a friend.

So he takes up Keigo's offer.

He was hoping that the transition to introduce Keigo into the relationship would go smoother, but it only comes up after a fight when he brings you with him to a house party for the first time.

God, Touya didn’t mean what he said to you that night when you and Keigo rolled together; he was just frustrated because he didn’t know what he could do to show you that you meant more to him than you knew. No matter how much he reassured you, you kept on letting your stupid insecurities get in the way!

“C’mon man, one minute you’re telling me you love her and now all of a sudden you’re breaking up with her?” Keigo scolds him, unaware that you leave the both of them behind and duck into the house.

“I’m not trying to break up with her! I’m just— fuck, she just doesn’t get that… fuck!”

He’s at a loss of words, he doesn’t want to be mad at you but you couldn’t get over your hangups over the side whores. They weren’t his other girlfriends, not his side bitches, or anything like that. Touya literally only sees them for probably twenty minutes max on the occasion they hit him up, nothing compared to all the time dedicated to you. They can claw at his dick however much they want, that’s all they want from him anyway aside from the pills and powders he sells to them. If it gets them to shut up then fine, but Touya will never spend a second longer with them when he’s finished using them. He doesn’t give a fuck if they whine about not cumming, he never promised them an orgasm when he gives the whores his cock.

He obsesses over you, not them; he cares for you, not them; he only wants you, not them.

Stop being jealous, it's just you!

Keigo finally talks him down but they realize that you’re not around.

Touya searches the outside perimeter of the house while Keigo searches inside. You’re rolling, barely able to take care of yourself and they have no idea where you are. All the worst case scenarios run through his head like you wandering into the night and getting kidnapped, hit by a car while walking down the road, he wonders if you’re still at the house and possibly getting raped because you can’t fight back if someone forces themselves on you. He drives himself crazy with his own imagination and you won’t answer your fucking phone!

To his relief Keigo informs him that he found you locked inside one of the bedrooms, having mixed cocaine, ecstasy, and alcohol because you were upset about what happened. He’s a veteran, Touya’s mixed plenty of times within his boundaries of tolerance but you’ve never done it before so he worries instantly for your wellbeing. The only thing that he can think of what to do to help you is to bring you a fresh bottle of water, you’re probably dehydrated as hell.

He feels awkward as hell when he arrives to the room, standing off to the side as Keigo fusses over you. He’s able to comfort you with the right words in your state of mind, adding in kisses and sweet caresses to your body to help calm you, something that Touya feels unable to do at the moment. But Keigo fixes you up and nods for him to approach you, a little hurt that you whine for Keigo to stay.

But he has to admit his mistake, that he should have been more attentive to you when he brought you with him, even if he trusted Keigo to look over you the entire time. You’re upset, of course you’re upset with him, and he doesn’t want you to be mad at him anymore. So he decides to give you a right he should have bestowed to you a long time ago, you’re not allowed to call him Dabi anymore. It’s the only way he knows to make it up to you and show you that you’re important to him.

Don’t be mad at me anymore babydoll, I’m yours.

You’re a stubborn little thing at first, still insisting on calling him Dabi but he made you come around. His name falling from your lips just sounds so perfect, it sounds right as you choke up on pleasure and come undone with a scream of his name.

Touya imagines that night you went behind his back because you were mad at him, freezing for just a quick moment that you would do the same thing the next time you became angry with him, except now he had given you full permission. You hadn’t taken advantage of the arrangement and didn’t seek anyone out so far, he’s thankful for that, but he has to lock down Keigo into the relationship so that he can secure you.

Touya literally walked out of the house earlier to find you and Keigo making out, surely you can’t believe you can do that on ecstasy and still believe that everything is platonic. He has to put the truth out there, you deserve to know it, no one else would treat you so good like they would.

“He thinks you’re adorable. I talk about your pussy all the time with him. How fucking cute it is, how tight it gets when you get choked, and when you cum all over yourself. He wants to fuck you open so bad.”

“Touya, don’t say that! He’s just a friend!”

“A friend who wants to fuck you.”

He probably could have been more eloquent with his words but he gets his point across to you regardless.

“I gave you permission to fuck who you want doll, Keigo is not the worst person you could choose. In fact, I’d like it if he were the one to keep you warm for me.”

And he can see how realization hits you, Keigo further supporting the claim by coming onto you as well. What you used to perceive his actions as friendly, you thought otherwise now. It’s a truth that you can’t unlearn now that he’s put it out there, but he hopes that you fucking take the bait. If you reject Keigo coming into the relationship, he truly won’t be able to handle the possibility of you seeking someone else out.

He’d fucking go crazy.

That is not an exaggeration.

Everything goes smoothly though, you returning hand in hand with Keigo with that cute, embarrassed look on your face when you asked where the ‘proper threesome’ should take place. He doesn’t know what Keigo said to you or what you said to him in order to reach the desired conclusion but he doesn’t care, it doesn’t matter because he got what he wanted.

You’re right where Touya wants you.

It feels good to know that when he’s out, Keigo is there to be with you in his place.

Everything feels perfect when he’s with you, he won’t lose you to anyone, you’re so fucking good for him, so fucking loyal to him and Keigo that even when you have your own doubts, you fall in line with what he wants anyway. He knows what’s best for you, what you need and what you don’t need. You don’t have to worry about anything because you’re watched over and cared for. He cares for you all the time like when you’re drunk, high, rolling, cross faded, sick, depressed, and everything in between.

But admittedly there are moments when his own anxiety gets the best of him, sometimes Touya looks at you and suddenly wants to run to the hills. He pops a few oxys to try to calm him down sometimes but they’re not always effective. When the pills don’t help, he hopes one of the whores hits him up to ask for a pill or a baggy and he can pretend that he’s living his old life before you came along because that’s what he’s most familiar with. He thinks you’re too good to be true at times and he follows the instinct to self sabotage by still returning to the whores. And every single time without fail when he returns to you, he feels his chest constrict as soon as you’re in his sights.

It’s no secret to you when he goes out to see them, he comes back smelling like artificial fruit or sweet candy, and he sees how you bristle when he tries to come near you. You’re angry at him but choose to remain silent because it’s an argument that’s long exhausted, he feels guilty that he still can’t commit himself to you fully but swears that one day it will happen. One day he’ll defeat that monster inside him that tempts him to ruin everything he’s built with you. But until then, Touya wants to make it up to you every single time. Food and drinks are an easy way to placate you but his favorite is when you agree to house roll with him because no matter what you end up gravitating to him during the roll and lean on him during your come down.

Sensual make outs while on ecstasy when you’ve reached the peak and then comfortable silence during the come down as you wallow together in a brief period of depression, it’s when he feels the closest to you.

And you don’t know this because he hasn’t been ready to say anything, but he’s already told you that he loves you.

The first time he says it, it’s past the six month mark of the relationship and just a little after Keigo is inducted into it as well. Nothing special in particular had happened to make him say it, you went to bed early because you stayed up way too late the night before and you just needed the extra hours of rest. He smoked a joint to relax, hopped in the shower to clean up, and he tip toed quietly in the room to make sure he didn’t disturb you. You barely flinched as he turned on the light in the room, unaware at how much Touya stared down at you as you slept. He took in your features and marvels at how peaceful you look when you’re asleep.

“I love you.” he says for the first time to you out loud.

You shift a little and emit a quiet, nondescript sound and he panics briefly that you might have heard him. Relief floods through him as you simply mumble and nuzzle the pillow, continuing to rest and none the wiser to the confession that Touya spoke into the air. But a weight is off his shoulders as he climbs into bed with you and is ready to sleep alongside you.

So he tells you he loves you when he knows you can’t hear him like when you’re deep in slumber, when you have your headphones on and just blast your music, or just right when you walk out the door after kissing him goodbye. He’s brave enough in those moments to say it but not brave enough to actually tell you just yet.

There’s one night where he thought you were going to say it first, and if that was the case then Touya would happily reciprocate it back.

You were hanging onto him for dear life as Touya rammed his cock into you, your hands clutching his shoulders and the back of your head digging into the mattress with your back arched off the bed. Touya had been mean to you all night by edging you, pulling out just as you’re about ready to burst and relishes in your desperate cries. You promise him you’ll do anything he wants but please please please, don’t just leave you like this. It’s only when you’re at your most desperate that Touya decided to give you the orgasm he’d been denying you.

“Such a desperate fucking whore. Were you thinking about my cock the entire day you were out?” Touya growled into your neck before nipping down on a sensitive spot as he jackhammers his dick into your pussy. “You were fucking drenched in your panties when you walked through that door. You love my dick so much that you think about it all the time huh?”

Your hands clutch onto his shoulders and Touya’s hips move to fuck you until you pass out from cumming so hard. You’ve been fucked stupid plenty of times and you just blearily look up at him as he utterly uses you to his satisfaction. There are plentiful memories of when you’ve told him you loved his dick in the frenzy of the moment, nothing but praises for his cock and how good he rams it in and out of you. It’s so fucking cute when you’re dick drunk and you slur out all your words. But Touya swears that you say it a little bit differently, straining his ears to make sure he heard you right. His hips don’t falter in their pace but he wants to know that he’s hearing what he thinks he’s hearing.

“I love… it…. cock… I love… yo…” shaky breaths leave your lips, shuddering gasps as your whole body trembles at what is sure to be an earth shattering orgasm. “S’fucking good… love ih… Love… yo— ahhh!”

Your whole body tenses and your back arches off the bed as high as your body allows, toes curling as you cum all over Touya’s cock and he cums alongside you. But even in the wreckage of your orgasm, you’re still choking out those breathless words that he was straining to comprehend just a few seconds ago. He wanted you to enunciate more, he should have slapped your cheek and made you speak clearly otherwise he would edge you again but the idea comes much too late now that you’re a boneless, brain fucked mess beneath him with his cum leaking out of you.

He fucked you too good, you’re asleep within seconds after Touya pulls out of your pussy and he’s a little disappointed that he couldn’t draw those words out of you.

Turquoise blue eyes look down at you, so vulnerable and pretty right before him. You look perfect and so comfortable in his bed that for a few seconds he’s inconceivably happy. You’re completely unaware of the power you have over him, how easily you could kill him without even trying. He’ll break if you leave him and he’ll break you if you try to leave him.

Don’t leave me.

You stay curled up in the bed and snuggled into his pillow even though you have your own on your side of the bed. A few minutes have passed and Touya thinks it’s safe to say it again, confess his heart into the silence of the room and while you’re unconscious to avoid being vulnerable; he’s just not ready yet. It would make his life so much easier if you said it first out loud but he also thinks that it would make you really happy if he were to say it first.

He knows you’ll be happy once the words are put out there, whether he says it first or you do.

Until then, he says it quietly and in the safety of his room while you rest peacefully.

“I love you.”

#dabi x reader #todoroki touya x reader #todoroki touya #dabi #bnha x reader #bnha #tw drugs #tw toxic relationship #us series

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2019 Unofficial Event Survey Results

I was inspired to conduct this survey after I looked at some surveys held in other fandoms/interest groups in the past. This survey included all the events that had been translated from Dec 2018 to Dec 2019. You can view an archive of the questions here.

As a complete nobody with no marketing skills who appeared to be conducting this kind of survey for the first time I was pleasantly surprised to see this many responses from a rather small community.

I don’t quite have the knowledge to analyze these results on a holistic scale and I don’t believe I have a large enough sample size to say anything about the community as a whole, so this report will just be my own personal reflections on conducting the survey, and my observations of the sample group as it is.

If you have any questions or comments about the survey, the ask box is always open. I’m also open to suggestions for future surveys because I want to ask better questions that let me see trends of what people like in this game.

“Prefer not to say” answers were included in the transgender/orientation questions and were counted out. Some also wrote in “Prefer not to say” answers in the country question.

I believe I found it fairly difficult to share my survey because I was a nobody so the response pool was very US-centric.

I was initially surprised by the high references from Reddit (where it was shared in /r/TokyoAfterschool/) before I realized that people who are interested in reading longer content in a place like Reddit may also be interested in taking surveys (I can’t prove this but the possibility is there) After all, the surveys I took inspiration from were also found on Reddit.

also don’t mention Twitter to me I am going to pretend I didn’t see myself flop hard on Twitter qwq

The number of people who heard of this game before Mar 2018 surprised me a bit. The only time Lifewonders had interacted with the English community before then was in 2015, long before Housamo had even started on Dec 2016. That being said, there is a trend of more people starting to play the game after translations started (76 / 34.7% after Mar 2018, 87 / 39.7% in 2019 or later)

I had expected the English survey to be English-centric, but in the future I hope to get help in translating future surveys to other languages.

I had put in the protagonist question because I thought it would be interesting to see who people played as, but seeing as the question was made optional and I don’t think I can make any meaningful conclusions out of the responses beyond that, I don’t plan to include this question in future surveys.

I forgot to list the percentages of each event so here they are below:

14.8% total votes / 16.2% weighted points (Raiders of the Lost Isle)

14.6% total votes / 15.8% weighted points (Valentine Panic!)

13.5% total votes / 13.7% weighted points (New Champion of Christmas)

11.0% total votes / 11.2% weighted points (Seaside Summer School With You)

10.0% total votes / 10.7% weighted points (Black Snow on the Hot Spring Mountains)

9.6% total votes / 9.4% weighted points (I Ain’t Scared a No Halloween!)

9.6% total votes / 8.8% weighted points (Year of the Guardian Dog)

9.4% total votes / 8.7% weighted points (Embark! Summer Ocean Adventure)

5.0% total votes / 3.1% weighted points (Gift from an Apprentice Santa)

2.3% total votes / 1.5% weighted points (Lil’ Salomon’s Golden Week)

Respondents were also asked to choose what they liked most about the events they voted for, and the majority chose between Story & Characters. For Black Snow on the Hot Spring Mountains & Raiders of the Lost Isle, Story was the most picked answer. For the other events, Characters was most picked.

Age was the only demographic I decided to analyze for this survey.

The percentages of weighted points for each age group are as follows:

under 18: 20.1% (V) ｜ 17.6% (Y) ｜ 11.8% (R) ｜ 11.8% (I) ｜ 9.8% (N) ｜ 9.3% (E) ｜ 6.3% (B) ｜ 5.9% (S) ｜ 4.4% (G) ｜ 2.9% (L)

18-21: 18.4% (V) ｜ 16.5% (R) ｜ 13.5% (N) ｜ 12.0% (S) ｜ 9.4% (B) ｜ 8.6% (Y) ｜ 8.4% (I) ｜ 7.8% (E) ｜ 4.3% (G) ｜ 0.8% (L)

22-25: 18.1% (R) ｜ 13.7% (V) ｜ 13.0% (N) ｜ 13.0% (S) ｜ 12.2% (B) ｜ 11.5% (E) ｜ 9.6% (I) ｜ 5.2% (Y) ｜ 3.0% (G) ｜ 0.7% (L)

26-29: 21.0% (N) ｜ 17.3% (V) ｜ 13.6% (R) ｜ 9.9% (I) ｜ 9.3% (B) ｜ 8.6% (E) ｜ 7.4% (S) ｜ 5.6% (Y) ｜ 4.9% (G) ｜ 2.5% (L)

30+: 20.2% (R) ｜ 19.0% (B) ｜ 16.1% (S) ｜ 13.1% (N) ｜ 8.3% (I) ｜ 7.7% (Y) ｜ 6.0% (E) ｜ 4.8% (V) ｜ 2.4% (G) ｜ 2.4% (L)

The most notable trend here is the popularity of Valentine Panic in the younger age groups. I suppose it was possible it could’ve beaten Raiders of the Lost Isle had it also been popular with the older age groups.

Other things to note include how high Year of the Guardian Dog placed in the under 18 group and how high Black Snow on the Hot Spring Mountains placed in the 30+ group.

This section of the survey was completely optional. Excluding Lil’ Salomon’s Golden Week and Year of the Guardian Dog, the average response rate was 79.3% (1st favorite) and 68.3% (2nd favorite)

I received feedback that the survey became lengthy by asking for two favorite characters per event. This was supported by the response rate dropping in later events, so future surveys will only ask for one favorite character.

Respondents also answered what they liked about the character they chose from their Appearance, Personality, how they were written/Developed, and their Interactions with other characters. I will be noting which aspects scored the highest on the top 3 chosen characters from each event.

Yule scored fairly consistently in all aspects, with a lead in Personality & Development.

Ded scored significantly higher on Appearance & Personality.

Ryota scored higher on Personality & Interactions.

Sitri scored significantly higher on Development.

Moritaka scored higher on Appearance & Personality.

Gunzo scored higher on Appearance & Personality.

2 characters (Moritaka & Andvari) received votes but didn’t make it to the rankings; They earned 3 and 2 points respectively.

Chernobog scored higher in Personality & Development.

Zao scored fairly consistently in all aspects.

Oniwaka scored slightly higher on Appearance & Personality.

Lil’ Salomon scored significantly higher on Personality.

Marchosias scored higher on Appearance & Personality.

Asterius scored higher on Appearance & Personality.

Benten scored significantly higher on Personality and Interactions.

Typhon scored higher on Appearance & Personality.

Ahab scored fairly consistently in all aspects.

This event had a really large ensemble cast; 15 other characters received votes but didn’t make the rankings.

Ashigara scored higher on Appearance & Personality.

Jinn scored higher on Appearance & Personality.

Bathym scored slightly higher on Appearance & Personality.

Volos scored fairly consistently in all aspects, with a lead in Appearance & Personality.

Alice scored higher on Personality and Interactions.

Cu Sith scored higher on Appearance & Personality.

Triton scored fairly consistently in all aspects.

Nomad scored higher on Appearance & Personality.

Kurogane scored slightly higher on Personality.

Krampus scored fairly consistently in all aspects, with a lead in Personality & Development.

Ryota scored higher on Personality & Interactions.

Taurus Mask scored higher on Appearance & Personality.

Moritaka scored slightly higher on Personality.

Agyo scored higher on Personality & Interactions.

Garmr scored slightly higher on Personality.

#tokyo afterschool summoners #housamo #survey #survey results

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under the cut are our rules as they stand for right now. we want to put these out early not only for your sake, so you know what is expected prior to our opening, but also for our sake - in that you have a chance to share your opinions with us about these if you need to prior to our opening. with this, feel free to reach out, talk to us, any of that sort of thing. we do have reasons for each of the rules below, but we really want this site to be a site that we all benefit from. we want to take suggestions and have that open forum of discussion. additionally, if you think we maybe missed anything, please let us know that as well. it’s entirely possible we didn’t think of something as we are all definitely human and having the time pre-opening to fix anything is useful for all of us. please remember that these are taken directly from the current site, so the wording is all for an opened site. that said, we hope the guidelines are straight forward, and appreciate you taking the time to read them!

Nº1 REGISTRATION

1.1 when registering an account, please be sure to register with your character's first and last name in all lowercase (i.e. harry potter). if naming customs calls for this being changed for the character, that is completely fine, just remember to have it in lowercase. if you accidentally register in any other format, you can fix it via the name change feature under your control panel which does not require admin approval.

1.2 we ask that members try to refrain from duplicating names, which does include all spelling variations (ashley and ashleigh). the only exception to this rule is last names if characters are related or canonically have the same name. please be sure to refer to our member list before registering your character's name to avoid confusion.

1.3 we ask that members refrain from duplicating aliases as well. in this, we will allow variations such as membera, membera2, membera3. however, there must be a distinction to set the two aliases apart, to save on possible confusion.

1.4 we are not a canons only site. we welcome original characters from all over, including original muggleborn, half-blood, or tainted families from the uk and surrounding area. that being said, outside of canons, we don't allow any additional pureblood families for british and irish wizards that would have gone to hogwarts. we allow and encourage characters of all blood statuses who are students from the wizarding schools and countries outside of those that go to hogwarts, such as americans from ilvermorny or africans from uagadou. that being said, if you would like to retain the canon information but change the name of a canon family for diversity reasons (i.e. a culturally appropriate traditionally asian surname in place of a surname listed), please reach out to staff. we allow this given the lack of diversity in the canon, so as to allow for different heritages to be shown in these characters where surnames may be of significance. our canon list only features families from canon lore, so please remember to double check for a surname that may be in play via our member list before registering. finally, if you feel we are missing a canon family in our list, please feel free to reach out to a staff member!

Nº2 CREATION

2.1 all face claims must be verifiable celebrities (actors, models, or musicians) and eighteen or older. verifiable simply means that they are verified on instagram as we do recognize that face claims for certain marginalized groups can be harder to verify than mainstream celebrities. we do not allow deceased face claims, internet personalities, adult film stars, or anyone that's asked not to be used.

2.2 we will be using the 5 +/- rule which means that your face claim can be no more than five years older or younger than your character's appearance age. if you're portraying a character as looking 27 then they should be portrayed by a face claim between the ages of 22 and 32 to look that age. because of this rule, we ask that you keep images used of them to within this same time frame as well. additionally, please keep in mind we only allow characters aged eighteen or older.

2.3 your first five characters are free of restriction when it comes to creation, but anything beyond that must be purchased from our points shop which can be found here. the only exception to this is with the use of coupons. coupons can be randomly earned via our giveaways channel in our discord. all site buzz participants started with two free character slot coupons.

2.4 on the topic of changing canon ages, one or two years up or down can be allowed for major canons but any more might affect the site and other canons overall. these you can see denoted on our canon list as having a set age. for lesser canons we have left the ages blank to give you the freedom to change the ages as you please.

2.5 as far as canons of color, we do require that these characters remain characters of color. on the other hand, if you would like to make a canon who is white into a character of color, that is allowed, as we recognize that the canon list is very lacking in diversity. this is another reason we allow for original characters and international characters. along those same lines, with face claims we do not allow whitewashing. if the face claim is half black, that character should be as well. still, we are au. if you would like to make siblings adopted to use face claims of varying ethnicities, that's completely okay. basically, characters should ethnically match their face claims and families should ethnically match each other but, if you want to use someone specific, there are options for that as well that we're open to. what we aren't open to is whitewashing - be that to a canon, or a face claim. what this all boils down to is that we should be more careful in rp. it holds us all more accountable to perspectives we don’t normally consider, and that's important to us.

Nº3 ACTIVITY AND CONTENT

3.1 upon acceptance, members have forty-eight hours to get their claims done. if it is not done within that time frame, the claim will be open to other members once more. no exceptions.

3.2 fallout is a mature site (with jcink premium) which means that we do expect and allow for mature situations to come up in threads and applications. all triggering and mature material (applications, development, or threads) must be marked with the appropriate tag in the description ([m] or [tw]).

3.3 we ask for one of the following every ten days to remain active on site: one thread post, two shipper posts, or three communication posts. please note that here at fallout we also have no word count so rapid-fire threads are fine and will count as in-character posts.

3.4 we do allow for claim inquiries due to inactivity between activity checks, but these must be at least ten days following the ending of an activity check on site and never during an activity check. additionally, a pm will be sent to the account in question and they will be given forty-eight hours to respond before their account is archived and claims opened.

Nº4 COMMUNITY

4.1 fallout is community focused and that means that we want everyone to feel comfortable and welcome when they join.

4.2 respect is the golden rule here. respect your fellow members, staff, and guests alike. no one should feel like they can't speak up because another member has made them uncomfortable in some way or because they don't feel welcome. give respect to those around you and if you feel at any time that you are not getting that respect in return, please consult a staff member.

4.3 we have a zero tolerance policy for bullying or harassment and will take swift and decisive action that can include a permanent ban. if you feel you have an issue with another member that you can't handle yourself, come to a member of staff and we'll do our best to help you get everything sorted.

4.4 additionally, if you fill a request here on fallout please note that staff will reach out to the member who posted the request to get their approval. we ask that you do this in advance of the staff doing so for clarification in case any adjustments may be needed. the requesting member will have twenty-four hours to give their okay. should they not respond during this time, staff will move forward to accept the application as if it were not for a request.

4.5 along the lines of respect being key, we do ask that you read through our faq as some of our unwritten rules are there, and want to remind you that we are always open to questions and suggestions. please do not hesitate to message or dm a member of staff, or use our discord ticket system to have a discussion.

Nº5 AESTHETICS

5.1 the graphics necessary for our skin include the following:

an avatar of 200px by 450px

410px by 450px application image

350px by 350px or 80px by 80px shipper image

two 50px by 50px images

80px by 80px image

all of these will resize as needed, and the 50x50 and 80x80 images can be gifs if desired. we post this so everyone knows in advance what graphics they may need to create, find, or request. we do have a graphic request section on site as well, so please don't worry about needing these if you feel you are less graphically inclined.

5.2 we do not allow any outside coding, so please keep this in mind. however, you are welcome to suggest codes for us to create and offer if you think we've left a gap somewhere. as a reminder, we do not agree to theft, ripping, or even inspiration from that of our aesthetics. thank you.

5.3 our default skin is a dark skin. we recognize that this is not suitable for everyone, or to everyone's aesthetic choices. because we recognize this, we offer a light version of our skin. when logged in, please go to the bottom of the page or to the skin and languages section of the user control panel and switch from our dark skin to our light skin. we want to forever try to be as accessible as possible, and to meet the needs of everyone. if you feel we are failing in this somehow, please reach out to a member of staff. we are always willing to work to meet this goal.

Nº6 DISCLAIMER

6.1 because we have very relaxed rules, the admins reserve the right to pend or deny characters if we agree upon a just reasoning as to why, which will be provided to the member upon doing so. please note that a pend does not mean we do not like the character. please see this as a chance for revision and character development.

6.2 thank you for reading through all the rules! please check out this thread if you have any feedback or suggestions, which also features a nifty way to anonymously contact staff should the need arise.

#rules #foxrp #updates

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March 29, 2019 - Did you know AA doesn’t work like they want you to think it does???

Q. Therapist at work and home: My live-in partner and I have been going through a rough patch recently. I recently found out that he kissed someone else a few months ago and lied to me repeatedly about it. We are trying to patch things up and have identified his drinking and drug use as a major source of some of our issues in our relationship and his problems individually.

I’ve done everything I can to try to support him while also trying to heal myself from his betrayal, including going to the first AA meeting with him as a supporter and helping him get connected with a therapist through my work insurance. He went to the therapist once and hasn’t gone back to AA since I went with him. He has been drinking much less, but last weekend when we got into an argument, he slipped up.

I know I can’t be his only source of support while trying to make these changes; I work as a therapist for adolescents with suicidality, and when I come home, I feel completely burnt out. I’m hesitant to give him an ultimatum that if he doesn’t go to AA and therapy then we will have to end our relationship because I’m not really comfortable with ultimatums, but I feel way too much pressure to help him while I’m also in a lot of pain from his indiscretion with this other woman.

I love my partner a lot and I don’t want to abandon him while he’s trying to work on things, but everything is feeling like too much for me. Do I insist on AA and therapy for him in order to move forward in our relationship? Cut my losses, break up, and uproot the life I’ve created with him? Leave it up to him to figure out his drinking and drug use? We just started to see a couples therapist upon my insistence and he has been willing to engage in that, but the therapist took us on with limited availability and there have been weeks between appointments, so we haven’t been able to gain much momentum. The therapist was coordinated through my work insurance in which I have limited options, so switching isn’t really possible, and I don’t have the funds to pay someone else out of pocket.

Dear Therapist,

You two need to split and tell him to seek treatment at an in-patient facility.

1. You can’t have a good relationship with a drug. Anytime a partner is taking substances, regularly like that, you’re dealing more with the drug than them. They need to know you’re not going to enable their shit anymore.

2. It’s a big myth that you need to hit rock bottom before treatment. You don’t need to put him on the street, but he would be better off in a sober living facility than at home or else he will relapse more easily.

3. Ultimatums don’t work. You cannot recover in treatment if you are forced to be there, that’s why it doesn’t work - the person needs to make the call on if they want to recover. So what you really need to say is, “If you can’t get sober and don’t want to be sober, we are done.” But if he can go to AA and walk through the steps and he knows you’re at home to catch him, well... honey bun, it might be another enabling factor. You need to accept that you might be at the end of this relationship and you can only serve the ultimatum to yourself that if he doesn’t want to get clean, you will leave to save yourself.

4. AA is such bullshit, I can’t stand it, I hate it, I hate that a lot of fucking therapists think it’s the only option and god, I want to scream!

Let me break this down for those who don’t know.

4.1. The guys who founded it made it up. They didn’t know anything, they just tried something and managed to weasel into government consideration for programs for money for themselves, okay?

4.2. According to their own stats, they are no more effective than going cold turkey by yourself. Their highest reported success rate was .... 5%. For a program that nearly 100% of people are referred to? That is a shit number.

4.3. They are religious in nature. Not only is it a violation of your rights to be forced into an inherently Christian religious treatment, they lie to people when they say you can do it secular. I know a few atheists who were forced to recite prayers, etc., as part of their treatment when they were promised otherwise.

4.4. They have no exit plan. AA people are always the ones who are like, “I can’t be around beer, ever again!” Real treatment includes reintegration into situations that may have alcohol and having strategies to avoid the temptation. If you can’t be in a room with beer, you’re not recovered.

4.5 They deny human agency. Part of the insidious nature of the “God help me to get through shit,” is that that idea is what causes a lot of relapse. If you “give your recovery to a god” then you are not taking agency in what you are doing and in recovering. You are being taught that an outside force can help you, and it can’t, and it also leads a lot to those who have faith - having a crisis of faith which causes more FUCKING RELAPSES!

4.6. They substitute addictions. The community is cult-like. Pick a number of other shit they have been exposed for over the years and my goddamn tax dollars are still going to them... *grumble*

Look... The Bitch family knows rehab, we work in it. It’s a fucking hell of a road to walk down, and there will be relapses, etc., but if you take a secular, cognitive behavior therapeutic approach, you might have fewer walks down it than with AA. If you’re going to get him help, get him real help!

Drug treatment, for those who don’t know, can be a mixed bag. A lot of places simply use ex-addicts because the absolutely stupid idea of “You can’t help if you haven’t been addicted,” is still around. Which is not true at all, in fact, counselors who have never been addicts tend to be better than those who are. You want to seek out programs that are in-patient, (ideally) that are run by people who have graduate degrees or higher ONLY. They should not be methadone or suboxone adverse, they should not require statements of faith, they should be self-reflective, they should have proper discipline for those who transgress that does not include shit like public shaming, they should have trained nurses and narcan on hand, and they should be accountable to the state or a board that is not run on any principle except getting people better. They should also be willing to take back people who have fallen off the wagon at least a few times because that is very normal.

That is what you must get your partner to do and agree to. Proper treatment and it’s going to take awhile. Remember, his brain has been rewired in a bad way, detoxing him is the easy part!

Mrs. Bitch,

Sorry, I just really can’t stand AA’s bullshit. If nothing else is available first, then fine, but goddamn, we have got to stop funding them. They’re the Myers-Briggs of addiction treatment...

#dear prudie #dearmrsbitch #AA #addiction #addict partner

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Old Hanglas Site International Competition

Old Hanglas Site International Architecture Competition, 2021 Architectural Contest Call For Entries

Old Hanglas Site International Competition, S. Korea

27 May 2021

International Design Competition for Old Hanglas Site, South Korea

CALL FOR SUBMISSION

International Competition for the Development Plan of the Old HANGLAS Site:

– Design Guidelines –

May 2021

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Overview of the Competition

1.1 Title of the Competition ················································································································ 3 1.2 Site Location ··································································································································· 3 1.3 Background and Objectives ············································································································· 4 1.4 Overview of the Competition ········································································································· 4

Chapter 2 Competition Guidelines 2.1 Design Objectives ·························································································································· 6 2.2 Design Guidelines ·························································································································· 6

Chapter 3 Submission Guidelines 3.1 List of Submission Documents ······································································································ 8 3.2 Preparation of Submission Documents ·························································································· 8 3.3 Documents for Submission ············································································································ 8 3.5 Official Language and Units ·········································································································· 9

Chapter 4 Entry Review 4.1 Operation of the Technical Review Committee ············································································· 10 4.2 Organization and Operation of the Review Committee ································································· 10 4.3 Results Announcement ················································································································· 10 4.4 Copyright and Publication/Exhibition ······························································································· 11 4.5 List of Provided Materials ············································································································ 11

Ⅰ. Overview of the Competition

1.1 Title of the Competition: International Competition for the Development Plan of Old HANGLAS Site

1.2 Site Location: Entire district of 345-1, Icheon-ri, Ilgwang-myeon, Gijang-gun, Busan

1.3 Background and Objectives

Background of the Competition

∘ The chosen site used to be the location for the old HANGLAS factory (established in 1979). The factory has since moved to another site and the old factory has been demolished.

∘ The site is currently being prepared for the establishment of a prenegotiated district unit plan that responds to progressive societal changes and contemporary social demands. The goal is to modify the usage purpose of the site from that of a general manufacturing area to a quasi-residential and general commercial site, in order to create a tourism-focused cultural complex that can function as an axis of marine cultural tourism in the eastern Busan region. All relevant development plans have been requested regarding land use.

∘ This competition has been initiated by the Busan Urban Planning Committee to discover the optimum prenegotiated district unit plan.

∘ The project site boasts favorable accessibility to downtown Busan and the popular Ilgwang Beach, which attracts tourists from all over the nation as well as Busan citizens. As so, it is considered that the site’s location potential as a marine tourism focused complex combined with a housing complex is outstanding. It is also expected that the site would become a major foothold for Eastern Busan tourism.

Objective of the Competition

∘ The objective of this competition is to select a specialized enterprise that is able to develop innovative, contemporary and creative ideas, and to carry out the required services for establishment of the development plan of the old HANGLAS site.

1.4 Overview of the Competition

Classification Content Note Project Host and Ordering Agency DONGIL Construction Organizer Korean Institute of Architects Site location Entire district of 345-1, Icheon-ri, Ilgwang-myeon, Gijang-gun, Busan Site area 141,287㎡ Concept design service expenses for the project site development plan 300,000,000 KRW Preferred bidding with the winner Total prize money 80,000,000 KRW Provided to 2nd and 3rd place contenders outside the 1st place position

1) About the Competition

– This competition is a publicly open international competition for domestic and international specialists. – All submissions must be received as digital files.

2) Participation and Eligibility

– Participation only for professional domestic and international architects, experts, or enterprises (corporations) in urban design or landscaping. Regarding participation as a team; the maximum number of members is 5 (including entrants listed as an enterprise). – To stimulate the nurturing, and development, of unique ideas, joint participation of Korean and foreign companies is highly recommended. – With joint participation as a team, one representative must be appointed, and this representative must take responsibility to submit the team’s entry, to receive and submit any related documents, and to acquire or abandon the rights of the team. – Once registered the representative cannot be changed, but changes in the joint participants (other than the representative) is possible until entry submission. – Participation as an individual, team, or enterprise as an expert is possible, but after winning, it is requisite to perform joint supply and demand with a Korean specialized company (corporation). In this case, the principal agent of the service contract shall be the Korean specialized company (corporation). (Finalization of the contract must be completed within 15 days from the winner announcement.) – Duplicate participation of a group or individual is not allowed in this competition, and the participation of organizers or members of the competition operation committee is prohibited.

3) Competition Schedule

※ The time stated in the guidelines shall be based on Korea Standard Time (GMT+09), and the review schedule and winner announcement are subject to change depending on the circumstances of the ordering agency. Any revised schedules will be posted on the website (www.kiabb.org) and notifications sent by e-mail([email protected]).

Content Date Note

Competition Announcement, Participation Registration, Distribution of the Guidelines Wed. May 12, 2021 ~ Sat. Jun 12, 2021 ∘ E-mail registration ([email protected])

Question Registration Wed. May 26, 2021 ~ Wed. Jun 02 , 2021

Reply Mon. Jun 07, 2021 ∘ Posted on the website

Entry Submission Mon. Jul 12, 2021 by 17:00 ∘ E-mail submission deadline (60 days from the date of announcement)

Technical Review Wed. Jul 14, 2021

Main Review Fri. Jul 16, 2021

Winner Announcement Mon. Jul 19, 2021 ∘ Posted on the website

Ⅱ. Competition Guidelines

2.1 Design Objectives

○ The objective of this competition is to develop innovative, contemporary and creative ideas and to select a competent specialized enterprise to carry out the development.

2.2 Design Guidelines

1) Design scope

– Provision of a housing complex and marine culture tourism area development plan on the entire district of 345-1, Icheon-ri, Ilgwang-myeon, Gijang-gun, Busan (141,287 ㎡).

2) Direction of the design

– Provision of the development concept design and master plan for establishing the prenegotiated district unit planning of the old HANGLAS site. – Settlement of marine culture tourism and residential space zoning, development content and basic directions. Proposal of innovative ideas along with detailed functions, based on in-depth case-studies of various domestic and foreign examples. – Provision of the marine culture tourism facility development plan and programs for the waterfront. – Provision of height, mass and arrangement plans for different building uses with consideration of the surrounding ocean views of the project site. – Provision of an organic connection method between the facilities of marine culture tourism space and other spaces. – Suggestion and planning of the space idea of secure public space for local residents and the citizens of Busan.

3) Design Details

– The total area of the project site is 141,287㎡. Please refer to the following table when suggesting site plans, building scale, and building design plans for detailed uses. Use Site area on the project site Area/District Size Marine culture tourism based facilities Accommodations 9%~10% General commercial zone Less than 70% building coverage Floor area ratio 750%-1000% Marine culture tourism facilities 41%~44% Quasi-residential area Less than 60% building coverage Less than 400% floor area ratio Natural space Less than 20% building coverage Less than 80% floor area ratio Apartment houses and subsidiary facilities 47%~49% Quasi-residential area Less than 60% building coverage Floor area ratio 350%-400% Project site 141,287㎡

– Floors and height of the building can be freely suggested while meeting the conditions of the table provided, and the maximum width of the main roads in the project site shall be 20M. – Please refer to the table provided to plan any service facilities. Suggestions for the functions and scales of facilities other than the accommodation and apartment housing are possible, as long as they hold the aim of fostering marine culture tourism as well as improving public satisfaction of citizens in Busan. – The building plan must be based on the site division for different uses but it is recommended to provide a comprehensive plan that considers the overall perspective of the project site through an organic connection between each building (e.g. connection of a pedestrian walkways and road plans, waterfront and private facilities, etc). – Buildings must be outlined appropriately on all documentation. Flat and cross-sectional diagrams to highlight the vertical and horizontal moving lines must be provided. – For apartment housing, provide details explaining the height, area, and arrangement of each building. – It is recommended to provide methods for using the seawall on the front side of the site and programs connected with the marine sports (non-powered marine sports that do not require fixed anchors and floating type temporary facilities are allowed) and marine culture, etc. – For the waterfront outside the site boundary, planning fixed type facilities is not permitted. – Provide a plan for the Galmaetgil Trails (pedestrian trail) along the shoreline (Please refer to the Galmaetgil Trail Arrangement Plan Around the Site)

4) Miscellaneous ① Copyright of the submitted entry belongs to DONGIL Construction Co., Ltd. and participating enterprises are considered to agree with this through registration and entry submission. ② If the entry is the work of others, imitates domestic or international works, or is an identical/similar work to the one that has been submitted to other competitions, then it will be excluded from the review, or if any relevant facts are discovered after the competition, the entry will be excluded from winning and receiving prize money. Those overseeing the entry submission will be responsible for the issue. ③ If the winner elects to give up the act of being the preferred bidder or the preferred bidding breaks down, the next runner-up (or team) may have the right of negotiation. ④ The prime contractor of the development plan concept design service shall be a specialized Korean enterprise (corporation). (For individuals or foreigners, a joint enterprise must be organized to arrange a contract upon winning.) ⑤ For winning entries, if any changes are suggested after reflection on the opinions of the city planning advisory committee, (comprised of jury members of the competition and experts recommended by Busan Metropolitan City) changes in the design may be processed after the concept design service contract. ⑥ Participants are responsible for understanding the competition guidelines, and for any disadvantage from not understanding the guidelines. ⑦ Competition registration confirmation is carried out by reply from the Competition Operation Committee via e-mail([email protected]), and the registration code will be provided after e-mail submission. ⑧ Q&A regarding the competition is only processed with the attached form during the designated period.

Ⅲ. Submission Guidelines

3.1 List of Submission Documents Classification Submissions Standard and form Q Note Participation registration Participation Registration Form (includes agreement of using personal information) Attachment 1 E-mail submission ([email protected]) Entry submission Entry submission Form Attachment 1 Entry A0 panel file A3 design report file 1

3.2 Preparation of Submission Documents 1) General – A0 panel, 1 copy: Must include bird’s-eye view or perspective view, site plan, floor drawing, elevation drawing, and cross-sectional drawing. Provide appropriate diagrams to express other design purposes. There is no restriction for the technique of expression. – A3 description (less than 15 sheets, about 50Mb): Content in the A0 panel + additional supplementary description – For a fair review, any indications (logos, symbols, phrases, etc.) that may reveal the identity of the author cannot be used on the entry panel and description.

3.3 Documents for Submission 1) A0 panel, 1 copy (JPEG 200 dpi). A3 description (less than 15 sheets, PDF) Online submission ([email protected]) 2) Arrange the A0 panel vertically and A3 description horizontally. (Please refer to the following image.) A3, PDF A0 200dpi, JPG

3.4 Official Language and Units 1) Official languages for the Competition is ‘Korean’ and ‘English.’ 2) All submissions shall use Arabic numerals. 3) Write all the documents in Korean or English. It is possible to mix the two languages if necessary. If any misunderstanding occurs from the translation between Korean and English, the Korean version shall be prioritized. 4) Official units for weights and measures for the Competition shall be in the ‘Metric System.’ 5) The time and date stated in the rules, guidelines, Q&A, and entry submission deadline of the Competition shall be based on Korea Standard Time. (GMT+09)

Ⅳ. Entry Review

4.1 Operation of the Technical Review Committee 1) The review consists of a technical review and a main review. 2) The Technical Review Committee is made up of experts in relevant fields. It examines any violations regarding competition regulations, guidelines and design feasibility before the Main Review Committee and reports the results to the Main Review Committee.

4.2 Organization and Operation of the Main Review Committee 1) The Main Review Committee consists of architecture and urban planning experts, and will be announced on the website(www.kiabb.org) two weeks before the entry submission. 2) President of the Jury Members – Supervises the review and determines necessary details for review through agreement from the Committee. 3) Review Committee – Determines points deduction or elimination regarding guideline violations of the entry. – Selects winning entries and writes review reports including relevant reasons. 4) Disqualification – Any direct and indirect behavior that may offer an unfair influence on the evaluation of the jury members (request or contact with the jury member, etc.) – Discovery of critical issues including false statement in the submission documents and critical omission of the required submission documents provided in the guidelines.

4.3 Results Announcement 1) The review results will be announced on the website, as well as in the media, and in publications. Individual notifications will be sent to the winning participants. Individual inquiries regarding the results are not allowed. 2) The results provided from the Review Committee are final and objections cannot be made. The winner may not be selected as decided by the review results depending on the quality of the entries. 3) Awards to the Winners Rank No. of entry Prize (KRW) Prize money subtotal (KRW) Note 1 st place winner 1 Being the preferred bidder to provide services for the establishment of the development plan 0 KRW Concept design service expenses for the project site development plan 300,000,000 KRW 2 nd place winner 1 50,000,000 KRW 50,000,000 KRW 3 rd place winner 1 30,000,000 KRW 30,000,000 KRW Sum 80,000,000 KRW ※ The prize money will be provided within 30 days from the date of the results announcement. For joint application, the representative will receive the compensation. ※ The prize money includes the transfer of copyright, tax, and commissions, and the winner is responsible for paying tax and remittance charge, etc. (This is considered as agreed upon through entry submission.) – 11 –

4.4 Copyright and Publication/Exhibition 1) The entry should be a creative work and should not breach the copyright of the others. For an infringement on the copyright of others, the participant shall take complete responsibility and if it is the winning entry of the competition, this may result in the entry being cancelled. 2) The copyright of the submitted entry belongs to DONGIL Construction Co., Ltd. who is the host of the competition, and all participating enterprises are considered to agree with this through registration and entry submission.

4.5 List of Provided Materials (Download from the Notice on website www.kiabb.org)

○ Participation Registration Form (includes the provision and use of personal information) ○ Entry Submission Form ○ Questionnaire ○ Digital Topographic Map ○ Aerial Photograph ○ Development Plan of the Old HANGLAS Site (Reference only, An English version is not provided) ○ Galmaetgil Trail Arrangement Plan Around the Site (Reference only, An English version is not provided) ※ All documents must be submitted in PDF format unless otherwise detailed.

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There is a problem with workhorse linear regression models. The problem is that the relationship between the response and the conditioners may not be linear, or even linearizable. This is not that big an issue when the true relationship is at least monotonic. When it is not, it is easy to get spurious results. In fact, unless the pattern is completely random, when we regress a response on a bunch of conditioners, we are bound to find significant relationships where none exist due to sheer randomness — overfitting is the bane of econometrics. Moreover, while we may be able to visualize one-on-one relationships via scatter plots, that becomes less and less feasible as we add more and more conditioners to our model. We can’t check all the conditional relationships. And so some of the slopes we find significant may be an artifact of our choice of conditioners. Whether or not we should control for particular sets of variables depends on the underlying causal diagram that we are trying to uncover in the first place.

The machine learning approach is to resort to robust estimation techniques and/or out-of-sample cross-validation. There is great merit to these approaches, but they too have their limitations. They work better when one is trying to isolate a pattern that exists out there irrespective of the sample data. For then it makes sense to divvy up the data into training and testing subsets and check whether a model trained on the training subset works out-of-sample in the testing subset. But this may not always be advisable or suitable. In particular, it is unsuitable in forensic work.

Take the question that we have asked again and again — why did Trump win? Working with data at the county level, do we want train our model of the Trump swing on a random selection of say 2000 counties and see how it performs in the 1000 or so counties left out? I am not persuaded that that is a good idea. For there is no guarantee that a random selection of two-thirds of US counties is representative of the country as a whole. We want to know who put this guy in the Oval and why did they choose to do so. We can’t do that by pretending that counties are interchangeable and drawn from the same distribution. More generally, whenever we are interested not in uncovering a pattern that holds in general, but getting to the bottom of a specific historical instance, cross-validation makes little sense.

That brings us to non-parametric alternatives that may help us identify the underlying causal diagram. In what follows, we revisit the perennial question with a completely different weapon in hand. Here’s what we are going to do: For any candidate conditioner, say, overdose death rate, we will divvy up the counties by discretizing the conditioner into quintiles (5 equal parts), and then test whether the means of the Trump swing differ across these buckets. Specifically, we will test whether the means of the bottom two and top two quintiles differ from the middle quintile. We use a multiple comparison test based on the Kruskal–Wallis test by ranks — recall that rank-based methods are relatively robust to outliers. This is a much more robust way of isolating the underlying gradients than linear regressions or machine learning techniques. The reason is that we are making absolutely minimal assumptions about the data generating process. While this approach may not allow us to identify the underlying causal structure completely — in particular, it leaves us clueless to the conditional relationships — the results we do find will be robust, quantifiable, visualizable, and easy-to-interpret. Moreover, we shall use the 1 percent level of significance to be extra sure that our results aren’t spurious. So much for methodology. Let’s get on with the analysis. All data below is from Social Explorer.

Table 1 displays the main results. Each row contains means of the Trump swing (Trump vote share less Romney’s vote share by county) conditional of feature quintile. For instance, the first row shows that the bottom 20 percent of counties by college graduation rate swung to Trump by 6.4 percent, the second quintile swung to Trump by 5.8 percent — both of which were significantly greater than the 4.9 percent swing to Trump in the reference quintile (Q3). Meanwhile, the penultimate quintile of counties by college graduation rate did not swing significantly to Trump more than the reference quintile, but the top quintile swung significantly away from Trump by 1.8 percent.

Table 1. Mean Trump swing conditional on feature quintile in the cross-section of US counties. Q1 Q2 Q3 (reference) Q4 Q5 Kruskal Wallis P College graduation rate 6.4% 5.8% 4.9% 3.1% -1.8% 0 Premature mortality rate 0.9% 3.3% 4.1% 4.8% 5.4% 0 Teen birth rate 1.7% 4.3% 4.4% 4.4% 3.7% 0 Smoking rate -0.2% 3.6% 3.9% 5.0% 5.8% 0 Drinking rate 4.1% 3.8% 3.0% 3.6% 3.8% 0 Limited food options 4.6% 3.6% 3.4% 3.1% 3.7% 0 Access to exercise 5.8% 5.4% 4.7% 2.7% -0.4% 0 Food environment index 2.9% 3.8% 4.1% 4.1% 3.4% 0 Voting age citizens 4.8% 5.5% 4.8% 3.8% -0.6% 0 Percent white 0.9% 1.6% 2.5% 5.3% 8.0% 0 Percent black 4.8% 4.5% 4.4% 2.6% 2.1% 0 Percent Hispanic 7.5% 5.6% 3.7% 1.5% -0.1% 0 Less than high school 1.4% 4.2% 4.4% 4.2% 4.1% 0 High school only -2.3% 2.0% 4.6% 6.0% 8.0% 0 Some college only 3.7% 3.9% 3.9% 3.9% 3.1% 0.944 BA only 6.6% 5.4% 4.8% 3.2% -1.7% 0 MA only 5.7% 5.8% 4.9% 3.0% -1.2% 0 Professional degree 5.4% 5.6% 5.1% 3.4% -1.1% 0 PhD 5.8% 6.0% 4.7% 2.8% -0.9% 0 Median family income 5.1% 5.0% 4.4% 3.7% 0.0% 0 Median household income 5.1% 5.0% 4.6% 3.8% -0.3% 0 Per capita income 4.5% 4.8% 4.6% 3.9% 0.4% 0 Overdose death rate 1.6% 2.4% 3.6% 4.3% 6.3% 0 Net migration rate 4.2% 6.0% 5.3% 2.9% 0.0% 0 Multiple comparison test based on the Kruskal-Wallis rank test statistic for difference of means conditional on quintiles. Estimates in bold are significantly different from the reference quintile (Q3) at the 1 percent level. N=3,111 US counties. Source: Social Explorer, author’s computations.

The results show that the strongest conditioners of the Trump swing were (1) percent of the population with only a high school diploma, (2) percent of the populace with a doctorate, (3) overdose death rate, (4) percent of the population considered White, and (5) percent of the population that is Hispanic. All five of these conditioners have a very significant gradient and the pattern is strongly monotonic. Comparing the bottom and top quintiles of these conditioners yields a jump of 10.3 percent, -6.8 percent, 4.7 percent, 7.1 percent, and -7.6 percent respectively.

Just to be extra confident in these results we exclude outliers and rerun the algorithm. Table 2 displays the results.

Table 2. Mean Trump swing conditional on feature quintile (excluding outliers). Q1 Q2 Q3 (reference) Q4 Q5 Kruskal Wallis P College graduation rate 6.3% 5.9% 5.1% 3.4% -1.3% 0 Premature mortality rate 1.5% 3.8% 4.3% 4.8% 5.3% 0 Teen birth rate 2.3% 4.5% 4.7% 4.4% 3.8% 0 Smoking rate 0.7% 3.7% 4.0% 5.1% 5.8% 0 Drinking rate 4.9% 3.8% 3.2% 3.7% 3.9% 0 Limited food options 4.8% 4.0% 3.6% 3.4% 3.9% 0 Access to exercise 5.8% 5.8% 4.9% 2.8% 0.1% 0 Food environment index 3.2% 3.9% 4.1% 4.5% 3.8% 0 Voting age citizens 5.0% 5.7% 5.2% 4.0% -0.2% 0 Percent white 1.0% 1.8% 3.1% 5.7% 7.9% 0 Percent black 5.4% 5.1% 4.5% 2.7% 2.1% 0 Percent Hispanic 7.4% 5.7% 3.9% 2.1% 0.4% 0 Less than high school 2.0% 4.5% 4.6% 4.3% 4.0% 0 High school only -1.7% 2.4% 4.8% 6.2% 7.8% 0 Some college only 3.7% 3.8% 3.9% 4.1% 4.0% 0.85 BA only 6.5% 5.5% 5.0% 3.5% -1.1% 0 MA only 5.8% 5.9% 5.3% 3.3% -0.8% 0 Professional degree 5.5% 5.9% 5.3% 3.6% -0.7% 0 PhD 5.8% 6.1% 4.9% 3.1% -0.4% 0 Median family income 5.2% 5.1% 4.7% 4.0% 0.4% 0 Median household income 5.2% 5.0% 4.8% 4.1% 0.3% 0 Per capita income 4.8% 5.3% 4.9% 3.9% 0.6% 0 Overdose death rate 1.7% 2.6% 3.8% 5.0% 6.4% 0 Net migration rate 4.3% 6.0% 5.5% 3.4% 0.4% 0 Multiple comparison test based on the Kruskal-Wallis rank test statistic for difference of means conditional on quintiles. Estimates in bold are significantly different from the reference quintile (Q3) at the 1 percent level. N=3,091 US counties. Source: Social Explorer, author’s computations.

The results in Table 2 are congruent with those in Table 1. The strongest conditioners remain (1) percent of the population with only a high school diploma, (2) percent of the populace with a PhD, (3) overdose death rate, (4) percent of the population considered White, and (5) percent of the population that is Hispanic. Comparing the bottom and top quintiles of these conditioners yields a jump of 9.5 percent, -6.3 percent, 4.6 percent, 7.0 percent, and -7.0 percent respectively. The differences in means excluding outliers are a bit attenuated compared to those reported in the previous paragraph. But they are stable. This gives us good confidence in the robustness of our results.

The strongest conditioner of the Trump swing was percent of the populace with only a high school diploma; second strongest conditioner was percent of the populace with a doctorate — the orthogonal complement of the first. These variables capture the primacy of the class axis. Put simply, Trump’s election was the revolt of the white working class.

The next figure displays the mean ranks of the counties by Trump swing conditional on quintiles of percentage of population by quintile. We can see that there is a very strong relationship between the mean ranks by Trump swing and the proportion of the populace that is working class. The means in red are significantly different from the reference quintile in blue.

Indeed, this single feature explains 47 percent of the variation in the Trump swing in the cross-section of US counties. The gradient is so large that counter-factually increasing the percent of the populace by one standard deviation unit yields an additional +3.4 percent swing to Trump. The standardized gradients for other significant conditioners are displayed in the next figure. They must be taken with a pinch of salt because of the factors discussed above.

The results displayed in the two tables above are must more reliable that the gradients. The next set of figures graphs the conditional means. Where the relationship is monotonic we can be much more confident of the gradients. This is only robustly true for the five features isolated above.

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The evidence marshaled here reinforces the story we have uncovered. Trump is a symptom of the breakdown of elite-mass relations. He is in the white house because the white working class has revolted. But why is the white working class in revolt?

The left has been just as much in the grip of economism as neoliberal economists. As I plow through the literature on the white working class, I am finding again and again that this is the fundamental limiting factor. For all the hoopla about the cultural turn, we have failed to update our discourse and strategies to reflect the primacy of culture. For instance, the left has expected workers, assumed to be alienated from their work under capitalism, to unite around their shared interest against the owners of capital since at least 1848. With no sign of that, generations of leftists have effectively blamed the working class for sporting a false consciousness. But workers are not alienated from their work (Crawford 2009, Torlina 2011). To the contrary, blue-collar work, hard manual labor, is central to the meaning-making of the working class (Lamont 2000, Jensen 2012). Even most cultural sociologists have ignored this enduring reality. Torlina puts it best in Working Class: Challenging Myths About Blue-collar Labor:

Rather than the depictions of subservience, alienation, and meaninglessness that describe blue-collar work in social science textbooks, it became clear that these workers were proud of their trades and their products. They felt important in their skills and their efforts, and many of them regarded manual labor as the essential ingredient to an honorable and meaningful life.

Fast forward to post-GFC diagnoses. The entire left-progressive discourse amounts to an all-in bet on political mobilization around inequality. But vertical polarization in income and wealth per se just does not have same valence in the working class as it does among progressive social and cultural elites like us. The breakdown of elite-mass relations and the attendant rage of the white working class is only conditioned by the material reality of vertical polarization — it is instead driven primarily by the concentration of symbolic production in the hands of the cultural elite and their favored cities and college towns (Brooks 2001) and the attendant cultural desertification of the rest of the country (Lind 2020). The symbolic annihilation of the working class (Gerbner and Gross 1976, Butsch 2017) is exacerbated by the classism of our class — evident in both the self-congratulation of Boasian antiracism (Farooqui 2019) and the everyday ‘hidden injuries of class’ (Sennett and Cobb 1993, Jensen 2012, Williams 2017).

Many scholars to our right seem to be paying more attention to the importance of keeping both balls — economics and culture — in the air at the same time (Murray 2013, Cherlin 2014, Lind 2020). Although otherwise quite impressive, I do not believe that any of them have fully diagnosed the breakdown of elite-mass relations either. This task is not optional. Restoration of elite-mass relations in the West in general, and the United States in particular, is a prerequisite for a solution to the planetary impasse. For a stable sociopolitical alignment of forces is necessary to see through the energy transition. And the only actor capable of remaking the world is a resurgent social democracy anchored on a progressive-working class alliance. How to bring that about is the central challenge we face. All else is secondary.

The progressive achievements since the 1970s that have brought race and gender relations to the center of the discourse have now become obstacles in the only path out of the planetary impasse. This is because the cultural elite have come to be overwhelmingly dominated by professional antiracists whose principal job seems to be boundary work against the allegedly racist working class. But this policing is absolutely antithetical to any possibility of a progressive-working class alliance. That’s our real problem. And it is not going to go away even if Sanders wins the White House.

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Where Can I Print Documents Near Me?

How To Get To Print Documents Near Me?

When you ask yourself on where can I print documents near me?

First off, we need to separate on what type of document you are looking to get printed.

It makes a huge difference if the document is just words, or if it contains images in it.

The quantity also serves a big role here.

The purpose of the printed material if you are going to archive it, for homework or even flyers to hand out.

Printing Regular Text Documents Near Me

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For this sample, we would suggest a regular guy looking to print office documents which contains a lot of text and regular graphics. By regular graphics, we mean statistics and column numbering comparison. There is the sort of document we see more often coming out of office buildings and employees working there.

Any coffee shop near you would be able to help you printing these type of documents for a very affordable price. If you need even cheaper printing pricing, then we would suggest finding a color copy shop near you. A color copy shop, even though it says “color” within its name, it actually also prints in black and white. Black and white printing are among the cheaper way to get a document produced on any scale. So don’t get scared to look out for places with COLOR as part of their name as its just misleading for this case.

Text Document Print Price

The price for black and white copies ranges all the way from 1 cent to 9 cents per sheet. The price will vary on the quantity and printer provider you visit. For example the nearest copy print shop is located in the middle of Manhattan high-class area, consequently, prices could be incredibly high. On the other hand, if the nearest shop happens to be in the suburban area in the Bronx, the price will drop significantly compared to the Manhattan one.

Documents With Images On it

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The idea of just searching for coffee shops near you, would not work on this case. The machinery in local coffee shops might not print out images with good enough quality as we have seen for years. Anyway, it’s clear that is not their main business. They must be taking care of serving good “Coffe”, consequently, printing is just a little add-on for people who also seek this service.

For documents printing with a few image files as the graphical structure, therefore, this project should be referred to a copy and print place near you. Serious printer places will carry competitive machinery and better quality output for your printing. The quality output will vary from printer to printer for many reasons. The main reason the quality may vary is the maintenance of the machinery at the store. The better the place looks, the better the machinery will be maintained. Cleanness is also a good sign of how the place and printers are taken care of. Yes, it matters if the print shop near you is clean or not. This will talk a lot of about the copy shop owners and how often the machinery is getting maintenance done.

Image Document Print Price

Printing files with images usually will just print as color print price. The color copy print price may vary anywhere from 9 cents to 75 cents per full page. If printed double-sided, then a little discount could be applied for the backside. This price is calculated based on the assumption that the print out will be made on regular plain paper (cheaper paper for printing).

This is the cheaper paper and at the same time the most popular as well. Often, the customer doesn’t require anything thicker than just plain paper, but in case you need thicker paper stock, many choices are also available. Only at copy print shops, you will find different stock paper choices, I wouldn’t expect that on any coffee shop near me or you.

Printers Near Me for Copies as Flyers

When printing flyers, usually big quantities are ordered. By big quantities, we mean anything over 100 copies. If this is your case, continue reading and you might end up saving huge on printing.

When you print color copies for cheap, with the intention of using them as flyers. Many factors have to be considered in this case, as flyers usually print in bigger quantities. Printing a long run of flyers on regular copy shops could be expensive. Color copier machines are not intended for long run economical printing. If you want your flyers to print cheap, this time we need to look out for Printing Companies with Color Press machinery within the inventory.

The difference is the cost of printing per unit. When printing in a copy machine it could be using regular inkjet technology or laser printing technology. These 2 types of printers are good for home use or just short-run professional use. For big-scale printing, it gets very inconvenient because of the price per unit. Still, they are a very good choice if you need your flyers printer right away. The professional printing machines require specific setup times that could add up quickly to your flyer print turnaround.

So, printing flyers in a local printing company near you with an offset machine might be the best choice for quick flyers at reasonable prices. Just be aware that an additional day or 2 should be added to the printing turnaround, just because of how this machine works. Offset machinery requires professional personnel to operate and it takes anywhere over an hour to set up a single color flyer for printing. A full-color print out including images and any other sort of graphical content with different color, therefore, could take over 2 hours to set up correctly.

Printing Flyers Prices Comparison Between Offset Printing and Copier Machines

Let’s compare a simple job of 500 color copies printed Front side only. If you visit a local copy shop near you, the lowest they could charge you per copy in this quantity is somewhere around $0.39 per sheet of paper. In this case, we are required to use plain paper to keep the color copy price down. A whopping total price of $195 should be paid at the counter.

On the other hand, if you visit a Professional Printer Store near you, capable of handling offset printing. This same project consequently could cost you around $0.125 per sheet of paper. For a total of $62 for the whole project. This is a saving of around $133 when using a printing press provider instead of a copy shop.

The final product is worth the wait. The quality if amazingly superior on the offset printed flyers, so a better presentation is obtained. Nowadays your competitor could be using this sort of printing for their marketing efforts and maybe you should think about doing the same. It’s just a matter of setting everything up with a few days ahead of the deadline, if possible.

List of Copy Shops Near Los Angeles, California

A simple search in Google will give you a detailed list of providers near you for color copy printing and other similar services. Remember to include 2 terms to the search. #1 would be “color copies shop” or similar. The #2 is to add the words “near me” for an accurate search around you specifically. For a final search on “Where Can I Print Documents Near Me” the result will show as follows for Los Angeles, California:

General Copy Center

5.0 (6) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 962-6263

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9AM Mon

Gold Image Printing | Los Angeles Printing

4.0 (24) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 938-4262

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9AM Mon

Sharp Printing

4.8 (30) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 651-5552

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9AM Mon

Copy LA

4.1 (8) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(213) 746-3391

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9AM Mon

– Results for a different search: where to print documents near me?

Miles Copy Center

4.8 (9) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 903-5778

Closed , Therefore, Opens 10AM Mon

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SLB Printing, Inc.

4.8 (56) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(310) 558-4752

Closed , Therefore, Opens 8:30AM Mon

CopyCat

4.2 (27) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 913-0360

Closed , Therefore, Opens 8:30AM Mon

Printing Fly

4.8 (27) · Print shop

Los Angeles, CA

(310) 287-9982

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9AM Mon

Super Copy

3.6 (27) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 255-5800

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9AM Mon

Staples Print & Marketing Services

5.0 (3) · $$ · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 761-6043

Closed , Therefore, Opens 10AM

West Hollywood Printing & Copy

4.9 (8) · Copy shop

Sunset Laurel Plaza

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 650-0107

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9AM Mon

Printing Depot Inc.

4.6 (14) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(310) 470-2449

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9AM Mon

NoHo Copy & Printing

4.7 (60) · Copy shop

North Hollywood, CA

(818) 755-4542

Closed , Therefore, Opens 8:30AM Mon

Design Printing

4.4 (14) · Print shop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 549-9444

Closed ⋅ Opens 8:30AM Mon

Staples Print & Marketing Services

No reviews · $$ · Copy shop

West Los Angeles, CA

(310) 405-8298

Closed , Therefore, Opens 10AM

Access Print & Copy

3.6 (13) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(310) 444-0618

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9 AM Mon

Copy Space

4.7 (17) · Copyshop

Los Angeles, CA

(213) 413-2925

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9 AM Mon

E.R.Copies

4.3 (25) · Printshop

Los Angeles, CA

(213) 482-3804

Closed , Therefore, Opens 8:30 AM Mon

Henry Printing & Graphics, Inc

4.1 (12) · Copyshop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 464-7228

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9 AM Mon

Staples Print & Marketing Services

4.8 (4) · $$ · Copyshop

Los Angeles, CA

(213) 284-7701

Closed , Therefore, Opens 10 AM

Resources:

Google Maps

https://www.55printing.com/

Chimi Printing

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Where Can I Print Documents Near Me?

How To Get To Print Documents Near Me?

When you ask yourself on where can I print documents near me?

First off, we need to separate on what type of document you are looking to get printed.

It makes a huge difference if the document is just words, or if it contains images in it.

The quantity also serves a big role here.

The purpose of the printed material if you are going to archive it, for homework or even flyers to hand out.

Printing Regular Text Documents Near Me

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Text Document Print Price

Documents With Images On it

where to print documents near me

Image Document Print Price

Printers Near Me for Copies as Flyers

When printing flyers, usually big quantities are ordered. By big quantities, we mean anything over 100 copies. If this is your case, continue reading and you might end up saving huge on printing.

Printing Flyers Prices Comparison Between Offset Printing and Copier Machines

List of Copy Shops Near Los Angeles, California

General Copy Center

5.0 (6) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 962-6263

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9AM Mon

Gold Image Printing | Los Angeles Printing

4.0 (24) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 938-4262

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9AM Mon

Sharp Printing

4.8 (30) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 651-5552

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9AM Mon

Copy LA

4.1 (8) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(213) 746-3391

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9AM Mon

– Results for a different search: where to print documents near me?

Miles Copy Center

4.8 (9) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 903-5778

Closed , Therefore, Opens 10AM Mon

Discover more places

Print shops

Sign shops

SLB Printing, Inc.

4.8 (56) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(310) 558-4752

Closed , Therefore, Opens 8:30AM Mon

CopyCat

4.2 (27) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 913-0360

Closed , Therefore, Opens 8:30AM Mon

Printing Fly

4.8 (27) · Print shop

Los Angeles, CA

(310) 287-9982

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9AM Mon

Super Copy

3.6 (27) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 255-5800

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9AM Mon

Staples Print & Marketing Services

5.0 (3) · $$ · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 761-6043

Closed , Therefore, Opens 10AM

West Hollywood Printing & Copy

4.9 (8) · Copy shop

Sunset Laurel Plaza

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 650-0107

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9AM Mon

Printing Depot Inc.

4.6 (14) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(310) 470-2449

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9AM Mon

NoHo Copy & Printing

4.7 (60) · Copy shop

North Hollywood, CA

(818) 755-4542

Closed , Therefore, Opens 8:30AM Mon

Design Printing

4.4 (14) · Print shop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 549-9444

Closed ⋅ Opens 8:30AM Mon

Staples Print & Marketing Services

No reviews · $$ · Copy shop

West Los Angeles, CA

(310) 405-8298

Closed , Therefore, Opens 10AM

Access Print & Copy

3.6 (13) · Copy shop

Los Angeles, CA

(310) 444-0618

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9 AM Mon

Copy Space

4.7 (17) · Copyshop

Los Angeles, CA

(213) 413-2925

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9 AM Mon

E.R.Copies

4.3 (25) · Printshop

Los Angeles, CA

(213) 482-3804

Closed , Therefore, Opens 8:30 AM Mon

Henry Printing & Graphics, Inc

4.1 (12) · Copyshop

Los Angeles, CA

(323) 464-7228

Closed , Therefore, Opens 9 AM Mon

Staples Print & Marketing Services

4.8 (4) · $$ · Copyshop

Los Angeles, CA

(213) 284-7701

Closed , Therefore, Opens 10 AM

Resources:

Google Maps

https://www.55printing.com/

Chimi Printing

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Google Chrome Terms of Service

These Terms of Service apply to the executable code version of Google Chrome. Source code for Google Chrome is available free of charge under open source software license agreements at https://code.google.com/chromium/terms.html.

1. Your relationship with Google

1.1 Your use of Google’s products, software, services and web sites (referred to collectively as the “Services” in this document and excluding any services provided to you by Google under a separate written agreement) is subject to the terms of a legal agreement between you and Google. “Google” means Google Inc., whose principal place of business is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States. This document explains how the agreement is made up, and sets out some of the terms of that agreement.

1.2 Unless otherwise agreed in writing with Google, your agreement with Google will always include, at a minimum, the terms and conditions set out in this document. These are referred to below as the “Universal Terms”. Open source software licenses for Google Chrome source code constitute separate written agreements. To the limited extent that the open source software licenses expressly supersede these Universal Terms, the open source licenses govern your agreement with Google for the use of Google Chrome or specific included components of Google Chrome.

1.3 Your agreement with Google will also include the terms set forth below in the Google Chrome Additional Terms of Service and terms of any Legal Notices applicable to the Services, in addition to the Universal Terms. All of these are referred to below as the “Additional Terms”. Where Additional Terms apply to a Service, these will be accessible for you to read either within, or through your use of, that Service.

1.4 The Universal Terms, together with the Additional Terms, form a legally binding agreement between you and Google in relation to your use of the Services. It is important that you take the time to read them carefully. Collectively, this legal agreement is referred to below as the “Terms”.

1.5 If there is any contradiction between what the Additional Terms say and what the Universal Terms say, then the Additional Terms shall take precedence in relation to that Service.

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2.2 You can accept the Terms by:

(A) clicking to accept or agree to the Terms, where this option is made available to you by Google in the user interface for any Service; or

(B) by actually using the Services. In this case, you understand and agree that Google will treat your use of the Services as acceptance of the Terms from that point onwards.

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7.2 You should be aware that Content presented to you as part of the Services, including but not limited to advertisements in the Services and sponsored Content within the Services may be protected by intellectual property rights which are owned by the sponsors or advertisers who provide that Content to Google (or by other persons or companies on their behalf). You may not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on this Content (either in whole or in part) unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Google or by the owners of that Content, in a separate agreement.

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(A) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS,

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(D) THAT DEFECTS IN THE OPERATION OR FUNCTIONALITY OF ANY SOFTWARE PROVIDED TO YOU AS PART OF THE SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED.

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(A) ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY.. THIS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, ANY LOSS OF PROFIT (WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY), ANY LOSS OF GOODWILL OR BUSINESS REPUTATION, ANY LOSS OF DATA SUFFERED, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSS;

(B) ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OR DAMAGE AS A RESULT OF:

(I) ANY RELIANCE PLACED BY YOU ON THE COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY OR EXISTENCE OF ANY ADVERTISING, OR AS A RESULT OF ANY RELATIONSHIP OR TRANSACTION BETWEEN YOU AND ANY ADVERTISER OR SPONSOR WHOSE ADVERTISING APPEARS ON THE SERVICES;

(II) ANY CHANGES WHICH GOOGLE MAY MAKE TO THE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY CESSATION IN THE PROVISION OF THE SERVICES (OR ANY FEATURES WITHIN THE SERVICES);

(III) THE DELETION OF, CORRUPTION OF, OR FAILURE TO STORE, ANY CONTENT AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DATA MAINTAINED OR TRANSMITTED BY OR THROUGH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES;

(IV) YOUR FAILURE TO PROVIDE GOOGLE WITH ACCURATE ACCOUNT INFORMATION;

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21. Additional Terms for Enterprise Use

21.1 If you are a business entity, then the individual accepting on behalf of the entity (for the avoidance of doubt, for business entities, in these Terms, "you" means the entity) represents and warrants that he or she has the authority to act on your behalf, that you represent that you are duly authorized to do business in the country or countries where you operate, and that your employees, officers, representatives, and other agents accessing the Service are duly authorized to access Google Chrome and to legally bind you to these Terms.

21.2 Subject to the Terms, and in addition to the license grant in Section 9, Google grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to reproduce, distribute, install, and use Google Chrome solely on machines intended for use by your employees, officers, representatives, and agents in connection with your business entity, and provided that their use of Google Chrome will be subject to the Terms.

August 12, 2010

Google Chrome Additional Terms of Service

MPEGLA

THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED UNDER THE AVC PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE FOR THE PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE OF A CONSUMER TO (i) ENCODE VIDEO IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AVC STANDARD ( “AVC VIDEO”) AND/OR (ii) DECODE AVC VIDEO THAT WAS ENCODED BY A CONSUMER ENGAGED IN A PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY AND/OR WAS OBTAINED FROM A VIDEO PARTNER LICENSED TO PROVIDE AVC VIDEO. NO LICENSE IS GRANTED OR SHALL BE IMPLIED FOR ANY OTHER USE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM MPEG LA, L.L.C. SEE HTTP://WWW.MPEGLA.COM.

Adobe

Google Chrome may include one or more components provided by Adobe Systems Incorporated and Adobe Software Ireland Limited (collectively “Adobe”). Your use of the Adobe software as provided by Google (“Adobe Software”) is subject to the following additional terms (the “Adobe Terms”). You, the entity receiving the Adobe Software, will be hereinafter referred to as “Sublicensee.”

1. License Restrictions.

(a) Flash Player, Version 10.x is designed only as a browser plug-in. Sublicensee may not modify or distribute this Adobe Software for use as anything but a browser plug-in for playing back content on a web page. For example, Sublicensee will not modify this Adobe Software in order to allow interoperation with applications that run outside of the browser (e.g., standalone applications, widgets, device UI).

(b) Sublicensee will not expose any APIs of the Flash Player, Version 10.x through a browser plug-in interface in such a way that allows such extension to be used to playback content from a web page as a stand-alone application.

(c) The Chrome-Reader Software may not be used to render any PDF or EPUB documents that utilize digital rights management protocols or systems other than Adobe DRM.

(d) Adobe DRM must be enabled in the Chrome-Reader Software for all Adobe DRM protected PDF and EPUB documents.

(e) The Chrome-Reader Software may not, other than as explicitly permitted by the technical specifications, disable any capabilities provided by Adobe in the Adobe Software, including but not limited to, support for PDF and EPUB formats and Adobe DRM.

2. Electronic Transmission. Sublicensee may allow the download of the Adobe Software from a web site, the Internet, an intranet, or similar technology (an, “Electronic Transmissions”) provided that Sublicensee agrees that any distributions of the Adobe Software by Sublicensee, including those on CD-ROM, DVD-ROM or other storage media and Electronic Transmissions, if expressly permitted, shall be subject to reasonable security measures to prevent unauthorized use. With relation to Electronic Transmissions approved hereunder, Sublicensee agrees to employ any reasonable use restrictions set by Adobe, including those related to security and/or the restriction of distribution to end users of the Sublicensee Product.

3. EULA and Distribution Terms.

(a) Sublicensee shall ensure that the Adobe Software is distributed to end users under an enforceable end user license agreement, in favor of Sublicensee and its suppliers containing at least each of the following minimum terms (the “End-User License”): (i) a prohibition against distribution and copying, (ii) a prohibition against modifications and derivative works, (iii) a prohibition against decompiling, reverse engineering, disassembling, and otherwise reducing the Adobe Software to a human-perceivable form, (iv) a provision indicating ownership of Sublicensee Product (as defined in Section 8) by Sublicensee and its licensors, (v) a disclaimer of indirect, special, incidental, punitive, and consequential damages, and (vi) other industry standard disclaimers and limitations, including, as applicable: a disclaimer of all applicable statutory warranties, to the full extent allowed by law.

(b) Sublicensee shall ensure that the Adobe Software is distributed to Sublicensee’s distributors under an enforceable distribution license agreement, in favor of Sublicensee and its suppliers containing terms as protective of Adobe as the Adobe Terms.

4. Opensource. Sublicensee will not directly or indirectly grant, or purport to grant, to any third party any rights or immunities under Adobe’s intellectual property or proprietary rights that will subject such intellectual property to an open source license or scheme in which there is or could be interpreted to be a requirement that as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution, the Adobe Software be: (i) disclosed or distributed in source code form; (ii) licensed for the purpose of making derivative works; or (iii) redistributable at no charge. For clarification purposes, the foregoing restriction does not preclude Sublicensee from distributing, and Sublicensee will distribute the Adobe Software as bundled with the Google Software, without charge.

5. Additional Terms. With respect to any update, upgrade, new versions of the Adobe Software (collectively “Upgrades”) provided to Sublicenses, Adobe reserves the right to require additional terms and conditions applicable solely to the Upgrade and future versions thereof, and solely to the extent that such restrictions are imposed by Adobe on all licensees of such Upgrade. If Sublicensee does not agree to such additional terms or conditions, Sublicensee will have no license rights with respect to such Upgrade, and Sublicensee’s license rights with respect to the Adobe Software will terminate automatically on the 90th day from the date such additional terms are made available to Sublicensee.

6. Proprietary Rights Notices. Sublicensee shall not, and shall require its distributors not to, delete or in any manner alter the copyright notices, trademarks, logos or related notices, or other proprietary rights notices of Adobe (and its licensors, if any) appearing on or within the Adobe Software or accompanying materials.

7. Technical Requirements. Sublicensee and its distributors may only distribute Adobe Software and/or Upgrade on devices that (i) meet the technical specifications posted on http://www.adobe.com/mobile/licensees, (or a successor web site thereto), and (ii) has been verified by Adobe as set forth below.

8. Verification and Update. Sublicensee must submit to Adobe each Sublicensee product (and each version thereof) containing the Adobe Software and/or Upgrade (“Sublicensee Product”) that do not meet the Device Verification exemption criteria to be communicated by Google, for Adobe to verify. Sublicensee shall pay for each submission made by Sublicensee by procuring verification packages at Adobe’s then-current terms set forth at http://flashmobile.adobe.com/. Sublicensee Product that has not passed verification may not be distributed. Verification will be accomplished in accordance with Adobe’s then-current process described at http://flashmobile.adobe.com/ (“Verification”).

9. Profiles and Device Central. Sublicensee will be prompted to enter certain profile information about the Sublicensee Products either as part of the Verification process or some other method, and Sublicensee will provide such information, to Adobe. Adobe may (i) use such profile information as reasonably necessary to verify the Sublicensee Product (if such product is subject to Verification), and (ii) display such profile information in “Adobe Device Intelligence system,” located at https://devices.adobe.com/partnerportal/, and made available through Adobe’s authoring and development tools and services to enable developers and end users to see how content or applications are displayed in Sublicensee Products (e.g. how video images appear in certain phones).

10. Export. Sublicensee acknowledges that the laws and regulations of the United States restrict the export and re-export of commodities and technical data of United States origin, which may include the Adobe Software. Sublicensee agrees that it will not export or re-export the Adobe Software, without the appropriate United States and foreign governmental clearances, if any.

11. Technology Pass-through Terms.

(a) Except pursuant to applicable permissions or agreements therefor, from or with the applicable parties, Sublicensees shall not use and shall not allow the use of, the Adobe Software for the encoding or decoding of mp3 audio only (.mp3) data on any non-pc device (e.g., mobile phone or set-top box), nor may the mp3 encoders or decoders contained in the Adobe Software be used or accessed by any product other than the Adobe Software. The Adobe Software may be used for the encoding or decoding of MP3 data contained within a swf or flv file, which contains video, picture or other data. Sublicensee shall acknowledge that use of the Adobe Software for non-PC devices, as described in the prohibitions in this section, may require the payment of licensing royalties or other amounts to third parties who may hold intellectual property rights related to the MP3 technology and that Adobe nor Sublicensee has not paid any royalties or other amounts on account of third party intellectual property rights for such use. If Sublicensee requires an MP3 encoder or decoder for such use, Sublicensee is responsible for obtaining the necessary intellectual property license, including any applicable patent rights.

(b) Sublicensee will not use, copy, reproduce and modify (i) the On2 source code (provided hereunder as a component of the Source Code) as necessary to enable the Adobe Software to decode video in the Flash video file format (.flv or .f4v), and (ii) the Sorenson Spark source code (provided hereunder as a component of the Source Code) for the limited purpose of making bug fixes and performance enhancements to the Adobe Software. All codecs provided with the Adobe Software may only be used and distributed as an integrated part of the Adobe Software and may not be accessed by any other application, including other Google applications.

(c) The Source Code may be provided with an AAC codec and/or HE-AAC codec (“the AAC Codec”). Use of the AAC Codec is conditioned on Sublicensee obtaining a proper patent license covering necessary patents as provided by VIA Licensing, for end products on or in which the AAC Codec will be used. Sublicensee acknowledges and agrees that Adobe is not providing a patent license for an AAC Codec under this Agreement to Sublicensee or its sublicensees.

(d) THE SOURCE CODE MAY CONTAIN CODE LICENSED UNDER THE AVC PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE FOR THE PERSONAL NON-COMMERCIAL USE OF A CONSUMER TO (i) ENCODE VIDEO IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AVC STANDARD ("AVC VIDEO") AND/OR (ii) DECODE AVC VIDEO THAT WAS ENCODED BY A CONSUMER ENGAGED IN A PERSONAL NON-COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY AND/OR WAS OBTAINED FROM A VIDEO PROVIDER LICENSED TO PROVIDE AVC VIDEO. NO LICENSE IS GRANTED OR WILL BE IMPLIED FOR ANY OTHER USE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM MPEG LA, L.L.C. See http://www.mpegla.com

12. Update. Sublicensee will not circumvent Google’s or Adobe’s efforts to update the Adobe Software in all Sublicensee’s products incorporating the Adobe Software as bundled with the Google Software (“Sublicensee Products”).

13. Attribution and Proprietary Notices. Sublicensee will list the Adobe Software in publicly available Sublicensee Product specifications and include appropriate Adobe Software branding (specifically excluding the Adobe corporate logo) on the Sublicensee Product packaging or marketing materials in a manner consistent with branding of other third party products contained within the Sublicensee Product.

14. No Warranty. THE ADOBE SOFTWARE IS MADE AVAILABLE TO SUBLICENSEE FOR USE AND REPRODUCTION “AS IS” AND ADOBE MAKES NO WARRANTY AS TO ITS USE OR PERFORMANCE. ADOBE AND ITS SUPPLIERS DO NOT AND CANNOT WARRANT THE PERFORMANCE OR RESULTS OBTAINED BY USING THE ADOBE SOFTWARE. EXCEPT FOR ANY WARRANTY, CONDITION, REPRESENTATION OR TERM TO THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE SAME CANNOT OR MAY NOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED BY LAW APPLICABLE TO SUBLICENSEEIN SUBLICENSEE’S JURISDICTION, ADOBE AND ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, OR TERMS (EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WHETHER BY STATUTE, COMMON LAW, CUSTOM, USAGE OR OTHERWISE) AS TO ANY MATTER INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS, MERCHANTABILITY, INTEGRATION, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. SUBLICENSEE AGREES THAT SUBLICENSEE SHALL NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ON BEHALF OF ADOBE.

15. Limitation of Liability. IN NO EVENT WILL ADOBE OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE TO SUBLICENSEE FOR ANY DAMAGES, CLAIMS OR COSTS WHATSOEVER OR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, OR ANY LOST PROFITS OR LOST SAVINGS, EVEN IF AN ADOBE REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS, DAMAGES, CLAIMS OR COSTS OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY THIRD PARTY. THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS APPLY TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW IN SUBLICENSEE’S JURISDICTION. ADOBE’S AGGREGATE LIABILITY AND THAT OF ITS SUPPLIERS UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS (US$1,000). Nothing contained in this Agreement limits Adobe’s liability to Sublicensee in the event of death or personal injury resulting from Adobe’s negligence or for the tort of deceit (fraud). Adobe is acting on behalf of its suppliers for the purpose of disclaiming, excluding and/or limiting obligations, warranties and liability as provided in this Agreement, but in no other respects and for no other purpose.

16. Content Protection Terms

(a) Definitions.

“Compliance and Robustness Rules” means the document setting forth compliance and robustness rules for the Adobe Software located at http://www.adobe.com/mobile/licensees, or a successor web site thereto.

“Content Protection Functions” means those aspects of the Adobe Software that are designed to ensure compliance with the Compliance and Robustness Rules, and to prevent playback, copying, modification, redistribution or other actions with respect to digital content distributed for consumption by users of the Adobe Software when such actions are not authorized by the owners of such digital content or its licensed distributors.

“Content Protection Code” means code within certain designated versions of the Adobe Software that enables certain Content Protection Functions.

“Key” means a cryptographic value contained in the Adobe Software for use in decrypting digital content.

(b) License Restrictions. Sublicensee’s right to exercise the licenses with respect to the Adobe Software is subject to the following additional restrictions and obligations. Sublicensee will ensure that Sublicensee’s customers comply with these restrictions and obligations to the same extent imposed on Sublicensee with respect to the Adobe Software; any failure by Sublicensee’s customers to comply with these additional restrictions and obligations shall be treated as a material breach by Sublicensee.

b.1. Sublicensee and customers may only distribute the Adobe Software that meets the Robustness and Compliance Rules as so confirmed by Sublicensee during the verification process described above in the Adobe Terms.

b.2. Sublicensee shall not (i) circumvent the Content Protection Functions of either the Adobe Software or any related Adobe Software that is used to encrypt or decrypt digital content for authorised consumption by users of the Adobe Software or (ii) develop or distribute products that are designed to circumvent the Content Protection Functions of either the Adobe Software or any Adobe Software that is used to encrypt or decrypt digital content for authorised consumption by users of the Adobe Software.

(c) The Keys are hereby designated as Adobe’s Confidential Information, and Sublicensee will, with respect to the Keys, adhere to Adobe’s Source Code Handling Procedure (to be provided by Adobe upon request).

(d) Injunctive Relief. Sublicensee agrees that a breach of this Agreement may compromise the Content Protection Functions of the Adobe Software and may cause unique and lasting harm to the interests of Adobe and owners of digital content that rely on such Content Protection Functions, and that monetary damages may be inadequate to compensate fully for such harm. Therefore, Sublicensee further agrees that Adobe may be entitled to seek injunctive relief to prevent or limit the harm caused by any such breach, in addition to monetary damages.

17. Intended Third-party Beneficiary. Adobe Systems Incorporated and Adobe Software Ireland Limited are the intended third-party beneficiaries of Google’s agreement with Sublicensee with respect to the Adobe Software, including but not limited to, the Adobe Terms. Sublicensee agrees, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in its agreement with Google, that Google may disclose Sublicensee’s identity to Adobe and certify in writing that Sublicensee has entered into a license agreement with Google which includes the Adobe Terms. Sublicensee must have an agreement with each of its licensees, and if such licensees are allowed to redistribute the Adobe Software, such agreement will include the Adobe Terms.

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Speculation On Creation

NOTE: this paper was originally written in Chicago format and utilises footnotes. The footnotes are not available in the text below; for the full paper with references, follow the link below:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11A944lIB8yrlg9Ltai1_8enJ-DIK9413P5lCztlM4iA/edit?usp=sharing

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth”. A simple enough statement, but under further scrutiny, one wracked with controversy. The creation account in Genesis 1 raises such questions from believers as ‘was the earth really created in six days?’, ‘how much of the creation account is literal, and metaphorical?’, ‘where does science fit into the story of the creation of the world?’, and so forth. This paper will attempt to answer these questions and others like them, as well as examining evidence for and against each of the creation theories and reconciling scientific and Biblical agendas. Although the majority of Christians today seem to adhere mainly to young earth theories of creation, upon examination, the scientific evidence backing any of the old earth creation theories is vastly superior in both credibility and abundance.

Before embarking on this journey of scientific discovery, a good Christian must take proper inventory of their Biblical angle and thoroughly consider their beliefs. The most important question, in this particular instance, would probably be “Do I take every last thing in the Bible literally?” If answering “yes” to this question, one must then consider “why?” Not to say that the Bible should not be studied and followed, but simply that, in certain cases, taking a literal interpretation makes little sense. Many places in scripture, whole books even, are classified as poetic – Psalms, for example. Why, then, should other parts not be also? Furthermore, “Language differences increase the difficulty of comprehending the meaning of the creation ‘day.’ The entire Old Testament… comes to us from ancient Hebrew”. Most English-speakers simply do not take into account the language gap present when considering the Bible. Yet it remains acutely present – biblical Hebrew contains a few thousand words, as opposed to English’s vernacular of nearly four million. As such, many Hebrew words have multiple potential translations. More than that, though, the very essence of the language differs from English: ancient Hebrew is a rich, poetic, meaningful language, with nuances and structures that no one who has not studied it can hope to understand. The language’s nature being thus, the Hebrew Bible was written not with the intent of providing precise, scientifically-acute data, but of conveying to its reader the character and might of God. Moreover, the Hebrew culture differed astronomically from ours in many aspects, one of which being its unconcern with precision and hard fact; the Hebrews were much less concerned with hard science and time. Rather, the ancient Hebrew language emphasized poeticism and meaning, being more ‘big picture oriented’ than English. The discontinuity between the two creation accounts in Genesis accentuates this; had the tales been transcribed literally, each would contradict the other. Within the context of poetic imagery, however, each can be appreciated as a tribute to creation and God’s creative splendor.

Now bearing all this in mind, one can further contend interpretation of the Biblical creation accounts. Before engaging in more intensive speculation, though, one must keep in mind this: true science does not contradict scripture, for scripture does not contradict facts of the natural world. “Both the Old and New Testaments emphasize the importance of testing, of making sure the evidence supports truth claims”. God created a world of order, with laws and functions comprehensible to man; therefore, it should stand to reason that not only can science and scripture exist compatibly, but harmoniously. Now, it is surely no disputed matter that differences in scriptural interpretation can be met with some quarrel. Yet to properly assess one’s points of belief, one must put aside emotional responses and examine the facts. Foremost, one must consider the intended meaning of the word “day” in Genesis. The Hebrew word translated as “day”, yôm (יוֹם) is used “to indicate any of four time periods: (a) some portion of the daylight (hours), (b) sunrise to sunset, (c) sunset to sunset, or (d) a segment of time without any reference to solar days (from weeks to a year to several years to an age or epoch)”. It is entirely possible, therefore, that the “days” to which Genesis 1 refers are not twenty-four-hour days at all, but indiscriminate amounts of time. Moreover, Psalm 90:3 states “A thousand years in your sight [o Lord] are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night”, and again, “But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day”. Because God exists outside any human concept of time, he need not conform to any specific timeframe. Also, mankind did not even exist for the first five “days” of creation, so man’s concept of time would have been irrelevant in any case; God’s only timeframe would have been his own.

The most compelling evidence for the earth’s age, however, can be found in the earth itself. It should be noted that, for the sake of the length of this paper, explanation of scientific processes and methods must be minimal, if not forgone altogether. Keeping this in mind, the most common method for precise dating, radiometric dating, measures the presence of long-lived radioactive ‘parent’ isotopes and their stable ‘daughter’ isotopes in minerals. Over time, radioactive elements decay into lighter elements, which is one of the ways scientists know the earth to be at least one billion years old – those radioactive elements with shorter half-lives cannot be found that originated in the earth’s crust. Radiometric dating puts the oldest mineral fragment ever found (zircon), according to the journal Nature Geoscience, at 4.375 billion years old, give or take about six million. Obviously, this is significantly longer ago than some people believe the earth to have even existed. What to think? To begin with, radiometric dating has been proven one of the most accurate methods of mineral dating used due to the variety of radioisotopes and the constancy of decay; its (notably slight) error margin accounts almost entirely for timeframe miscalculation (different radiometric methods are used to date relics from different time periods). To examine the constancy of decay, one must understand that “radioactive decay is the process whereby an unstable nucleus either ejects or captures particles, transforming the radioactive nucleotide into an isotope of another element”. Decay constancy can be expected for two reasons: first, atomic nuclei are extremely well insulated by their electron cloud, preventing them from interacting with other atoms’ nuclei. Second, the energy required for nuclear changes is 106 times greater than that involved in chemical activity – an energy level naturally attainable only in nuclear reactions. Because radioactive decay necessitates elemental transmutation, and therefore nuclear changes, such an unlikely interference of external factors means that, barring some fundamental change in the nature of matter and energy, rates of decay have remained constant.

The cosmos serves as another huge indicator as to the passage of time. The better part of the universe remains largely mysterious to man – he has neither the technology nor the time to explore deep space. Still, man has discovered quite a goodly amount about his own solar system, to his credit. Based on much of the knowledge garnered by astronomers and astrophysicists, science has been able to ascertain the age of the universe. NASA’s oldest estimation of the universe falls around 13.7 billion years old – far older than planet earth, they posit. These conclusions were reached by extensive study of sound and light waves and how long they take to reach earth, and of the background microwave radiation avowedly produced at the dawn of the universe. Additionally, the majority of meteorites that have fallen to earth have been dated at between 4.4 and 4.6 billion years, and the oldest recorded supernova has been dated back a measured 4.3 million years; because “supernova explosions occur only when a massive star has burned up nearly all its nuclear fuel... this burning process takes several million years – even longer for less massive stars”. Therefore, all white dwarfs claim that age, at least. Moreover, by study of ancient galaxy clusters, astronomers have been able to determine that some stars therein date back tens of millions of years by comparing them with more newly formed adjacent stars. As a matter of fact, the simple reality that things billions of lightyears away can be observed attests to the solar system’s exceptional age; “lightyear” refers to the distance light can travel in a year, ergo light-sources billions of lightyears away would yet be unobservable were the solar system young, for the light from them would not as of yet have had sufficient time to reach earth. As a matter of fact, an excerpt from Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith notes, “Space and time, the cosmological coordinates, are correlative. Interlocking of the two is pronounced in God's seventh day rest, a temporal concept that connotes the spatial reality of the holy site of God's enthronement. Also indicative of their correlation is the giving of the temporal names ‘day’ and ‘night’ to the spatial phenomena of light and darkness [Gen. 1:5]”.

Likely the most controversial affair within science today, particularly among theists, is evolution. While evolution remains technically a theory, nearly overwhelming evidence exists in its favour and it represents a fundamental piece of biological history. To clarify, the term “evolution” is used here to express the concept of microevolution. Evolution does not purport to know how the first life came to be upon this earth, nor does it automatically posit the so-called “Big Bang Theory”. However, usually when one says they do not believe in “evolution”, it automatically connotes both evolutionary concepts. Such a claim sounds a bit foolish, if not downright absurd. First of all, the evidence for microevolution is abundant enough that it could very nearly be considered confirmed; furthermore, it is treated by the scientific community as fact. The most popular example of this principle in action is the study of the Galapagos Finches, however a clearer example lies in the sudden emergence of complex multicellular organisms (Eukaryotes) in the fossil record, following the Proterozoic period. Evolution within species causes an organism to adapt to its environment through mutation – in this way, they are better able to survive. It is not the subversion of species separation, but simply the division of already-existing species.

The tenets for young earth creationism are numerous; therefore, as much of the science forming the groundwork for various young earth arguments has already been discussed, from here on shall focus primarily on the different young earth views and their theological premises. One theory, “mature creationism”, postulates that God created the earth with an appearance of age, just as he presumably created Adam and Eve as mature adults. The problem with this theory is its inference that God not only created an earth that looked old, but that had every detail of an age to which it could not truly contend. To what end would God scatter fossils and mud cracks about in the sediment to make the earth look unnecessarily ancient? It would accomplish naught but confusion for his people, and worse, it would make him a deceiver -- something that God most decidedly is not. The other popular young earth position, called “flood geology”, speculates that the flood in Genesis 6-9 severely altered the geology of the earth’s crust, giving it an appearance of advanced age. This theory hypothesizes that the flood spanned the entirety of the earth, wiping out all -- plants, animals, and humans alike. However, the case for a geographically global flood lacks both Biblical and scientific basis – in fact, Psalm 104:7-9 seems to directly contradict the thought. Furthermore, the Hebrew word used throughout the Old Testament commonly translated as “world” was ‘erets (אֶרֶץ), which can also be translated to mean “land” or “country”. In fact, it was more commonly used to mean “land” than “earth”! Additionally, geographic evidence stands in opposition to flood geology; fossils, impressions, and patterns within sedimentary structures in other areas of the world bespeak no great hydraulic catastrophe.

Probably the most vexing young earth queries are those involving the question of death before the fall; obviously (assuming the advanced age of the earth), death of animals would have had to occur for fossils to be deposited as they are, and had animal death not occurred beforehand the planet would have been nearly overrun by the time the creation of man occurred. It then stands to reason that God’s creation was not entirely perfect, even before the introduction of sin. Yet, Genesis never says anything about God calling his creation perfect; Hebrew has multiple words that could be potentially translated as “perfect”, and God used none of them. Rather, he used the word tôv (טוֹב), which simply means “good”. As “good” presents a far more vague definition than “perfect”, it can be argued that an imperfect creation involving physical death could still be considered “good”. Since God (presumably) did not create animals with the same moral distinguishments as man, sin did not exist before him (“sin” meaning willful deviance from God’s instruction). This premanifestation of physical death may make sense even with concern to pre-fall humans – in part, due to the language used when forbidding consumption of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil: rather than simply using the regular form of the Hebrew word for “die”, môt (מֹות), God used an intensified form (מֹות תָּמֽוּת). This indicates a more extreme sort of death than mere physical death: spiritual death. The fact that God said post-fall “He [man] must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever” backs this up; God would not have needed to proscribe man from the tree of life were he already predestined to live forever, be it in the physical or the spiritual sense.

Ross makes the statement that “Current culture subscribes to this false dichotomy: facts and faith don’t mix. Yet the Bible claims that faith is built on reasonable evidence”. It seems silly, then, that some scorn evidence and fact on the part of faith, when in reality neither need jeopardize the other. It is true that some questions exist to which no one can ever truly know the answer. Yet, whilst man dwells upon this earth, should he not seek to study and understand it to the best of his ability? Earth is mans’ God-granted home, and as such man should not view attempts to explain and fathom it as heretical, but as explorative and progressive. God did not beget for man a random world, but one that can be ordered, analyzed, and explained; therefore, it stands to reason that he desires humanity to explore and decipher their home. The world God created for his people makes wonderful sense, and one day when everything is revealed, people will also be able to look at the gloriously harmonious congruity of creation and say “it is good”.

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Terms of services agreement

1. Your relationship with Google

1.1 Your usage of Google s items, software application, services and web websites (described jointly as the Solutions in this document and leaving out any services provided to you by Google under a different written contract) undergoes the terms of service of a legal contract between you and Google. Google means Google Inc., whose primary place of organisation is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States. This file discusses how the contract is comprised, and sets out some of the regards to that contract.

1.2 Unless otherwise concurred in writing with Google, your arrangement with Google will always include, at a minimum, the terms and conditions set out in this document. 1.3 Your agreement with Google will likewise include the terms of any Legal Notices appropriate to the Services, in addition to the Universal Terms of service agreement.

1.4 The Universal Terms, together with the Extra Terms, form a lawfully binding arrangement between you and Google in relation to your use of the Providers. It is essential that you make the effort to read them thoroughly. Jointly, this legal arrangement is referred to listed below as the Terms.

1.5 If there is any contradiction between exactly what the Additional Terms state and exactly what the Universal Terms state, then the Extra Terms will take precedence in relation to that Service.

2. Accepting the Terms.

2.1 In order to utilize the Providers, you need to first agree to the Terms. You might not utilize the Services if you do not accept the Terms.

2.2 You can accept the Terms by:

( B) by actually utilizing the Services. In this case, you comprehend and agree that Google will treat your use of the Solutions as approval of the Terms from that point onwards.

( A) clicking to accept or agree to the Terms, where this choice is made readily available to you by Google in the interface for any Service; or

2.3 You might not utilize the Services and might not accept the Terms if (a) you are not of legal age to form a binding agreement with Google, or (b) you are a person barred from getting the Services under the laws of the United States or other countries consisting of the country in which you are resident or from which you use the Solutions.

2.4 Before you continue, you need to print off or conserve a regional copy of the Universal Terms for your records.

3. Language of the Terms

3.1 Where Google has actually offered you with a translation of the English language version of the Terms, then you concur that the translation is offered your benefit just which the English language versions of the Terms will govern your relationship with Google

3.2 If there is any contradiction between exactly what the English language version of the Terms says and what a translation states, then the English language version shall take precedence.

4. Arrangement of the Providers by Google.

4.1 Google has subsidiaries and affiliated legal entities around the world (Subsidiaries and Affiliates). Often, these business will be providing the Services to you on behalf of Google itself. You acknowledge and agree that Subsidiaries and Affiliates will be entitled to offer the Providers to you

4.2 Google is continuously innovating in order to provide the finest possible experience for its users. You acknowledge and agree that the type and nature of the Solutions which Google offers might change from time to time without prior notice to you.

4.3 As part of this continuing development, you acknowledge and concur that Google may stop (permanently or temporarily) supplying the Services (or any features within the Solutions) to you or to users generally at Google s sole discretion, without previous notice to you. You might stop using the Solutions at any time. You do not require to particularly notify Google when you stop using the Services.

4.4 You acknowledge and agree that if Google disables access to your account, you may be prevented from accessing the Providers, your account information or any files or other material which is consisted of in your account.

4.5 You acknowledge and agree that while Google may not presently have actually set a fixed ceiling on the number of transmissions you might send or get through the Services or on the amount of storage space utilized for the provision of any Service, such fixed upper limits might be set by Google at any time, at Google s discretion.

5. Use of the Providers by you.

5.1 In order to gain access to certain Solutions, you may be required to provide information about yourself (such as identification or contact details) as part of the registration process for the Service, or as part of your continued usage of the Providers. You agree that any registration details you provide to Google will always be precise, proper and approximately date.

5.2 You concur to utilize the Solutions only for purposes that are allowed by (a) the Terms and (b) any appropriate law, guideline or usually accepted practices or guidelines in the appropriate jurisdictions (including any laws relating to the export of information or software application to and from the United States or other relevant nations).

5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to gain access to) any of the Services by any means aside from through the user interface that is provided by Google, unless you have actually been particularly allowed to do so in a different contract with Google. You specifically agree not to gain access to (or effort to gain access to) any of the Providers through any automatic ways (consisting of use of scripts or web crawlers) and will make sure that you abide by the directions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Providers.

5.4 You concur that you will not participate in any activity that interferes with or interferes with the Solutions (or the servers and networks which are connected to the Providers).

5.5 Unless you have been particularly permitted to do so in a different contract with Google, you agree that you will not recreate, replicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Solutions for any function.

5.6 You concur that you are exclusively responsible for (which Google has no duty to you or to any 3rd party for) any breach of your obligations under the Terms and for the consequences (consisting of any loss or damage which Google might suffer) of any such breach.

6. Your passwords and account security

6.1 You concur and comprehend that you are responsible for keeping the confidentiality of passwords connected with any account you utilize to access the Services.

6.2 Appropriately, you concur that you will be solely responsible to Google for all activities that occur under your account.

6.3 If you become mindful of any unauthorized usage of your password or of your account, you accept inform Google right away at http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=58585.

7. Personal privacy and your personal details

7.1 For details about Google s data defense practices, please read Google s privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy.html. This policy discusses how Google treats your individual details, and protects your privacy, when you utilize the Services

7.2 You concur to the use of your information in accordance with Google s privacy policies.

8. Material in the Services.

8.1 You comprehend that information (such as data files, written text, computer system software application, music, audio files or other noises, photos, videos or other images) which you might have access to as part of, or through your usage of, the Solutions are the sole responsibility of the person from which such material came from. All such information is referred to below as the Content.

8.2 You ought to understand that Content provided to you as part of the Solutions, including however not restricted to ads in the Providers and sponsored Content within the Solutions might be safeguarded by copyright rights which are owned by the sponsors or advertisers who offer that Content to Google (or by other persons or companies on their behalf). You might not modify, lease, lease, loan, sell, distribute or develop acquired works based upon this Content (either in entire or in part) unless you have actually been particularly told that you might do so by Google or by the owners of that Material, in a different agreement.

8.3 Google reserves the right (however will have no obligation) to pre-screen, evaluate, flag, filter, modify, decline or remove any or all Material from any Service. For some of the Services, Google might supply tools to filter out explicit sexual content. These tools consist of the SafeSearch preference settings (see http://www.google.com/help/customize.html#safe). In addition, there are commercially offered services and software application to limit access to material that you may discover objectionable.

8.4 You understand that using the Solutions you may be exposed to Material that you may find offending, indecent or objectionable and that, in this regard, you use the Providers at your very own threat.

8.5 You concur that you are entirely responsible for (and that Google has no responsibility to you or to any 3rd party for) any Content that you produce, transfer or display while using the Services and for the consequences of your actions (including any loss or damage which Google might suffer) by doing so.

9. Proprietary rights

9.1 You acknowledge and agree that Google (or Google s licensors) own all legal right, title and interest in and to the Services, including any copyright rights which survive in the Solutions (whether those rights occur to be registered or not, and wherever on the planet those rights might exist). You even more acknowledge that the Services may contain info which is designated private by Google and that you will not disclose such info without Google s prior written approval.

9.2 Unless you have actually agreed otherwise in composing with Google, absolutely nothing in the Terms offers you a right to utilize any of Google s trade names, trade marks, service marks, logo designs, domain, and other distinctive brand name features.

9.3 If you have actually been given an explicit right to utilize any of these brand features in a different written agreement with Google, then you concur that your use of such features shall remain in compliance with that contract, any relevant arrangements of the Terms, and Google's brand name function use standards as updated from time to time. These guidelines can be seen online at http://www.google.com/permissions/guidelines.html (or such other URL as Google may attend to this function from time to time).

9.4 Aside from the limited license set forth in Section 11, Google acknowledges and concurs that it acquires no right, title or interest from you (or your licensors) under these Terms in or to any Content that you send, publish, send or show on, or through, the Providers, consisting of any copyright rights which survive in that Content (whether those rights occur to be signed up or not, and anywhere on the planet those rights may exist). Unless you have concurred otherwise in composing with Google, you agree that you are accountable for securing and imposing those rights and that Google has no obligation to do so in your place.

9.5 You concur that you shall not eliminate, unknown, or modify any proprietary rights notifications (including copyright and trade mark notices) which may be affixed to or contained within the Providers.

9.6 Unless you have been expressly authorized to do so in writing by Google, you concur that in utilizing the Solutions, you will not use any trade mark, service mark, brand name, logo of any company or company in a method that is likely or intended to cause confusion about the owner or authorized user of such marks, names or logo designs.

10. License from Google

10.1 Google gives you an individual, around the world, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the software application offered to you by Google as part of the Solutions as provided to you by Google (described as the Software application below). This license is for the sole function of allowing you to utilize and enjoy the benefit of the Services as provided by Google, in the way permitted by the Terms.

10.2 You might not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy, customize, produce an acquired work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to draw out the source code of the Software application or any part thereof, unless this is specifically permitted or required by law, or unless you have actually been specifically told that you may do so by Google, in composing.

10.3 Unless Google has actually given you specific composed approval to do so, you may not assign (or grant a sub-license of) your rights to utilize the Software, grant a security interest in or over your rights to use the Software application, or otherwise move any part of your rights to use the Software application.

11. Content license from you

11.1 You keep copyright and any other rights you currently hold in Material which you send, publish or display on or through, the Providers. By submitting, posting or showing the material you provide Google a continuous, irrevocable, around the world, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, equate, publish, openly perform, openly display and disperse any Content which you submit, post or show on or through, the Providers. This license is for the sole function of allowing Google to show, distribute and promote the Services and might be withdrawed for particular Services as specified in the Extra Regards To those Services.

11.2 You agree that this license includes a right for Google to make such Material offered to other companies, organizations or people with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to utilize such Content in connection with the provision of those services.

11.3 You comprehend that Google, in carrying out the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, might (a) send or distribute your Material over various public networks and in different media; and (b) make such modifications to your Material as are required to adhere and adjust that Content to the technical requirements of linking networks, gadgets, services or media. You agree that this license shall permit Google to take these actions.

11.4 You validate and require to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority needed to approve the above license.

12. Software application updates

12.1 The Software application which you utilize might immediately download and set up updates from time to time from Google These updates are designed to enhance, boost and further establish the Solutions and might take the type of bug repairs, improved functions, new software modules and entirely brand-new versions. You consent to get such updates (and permit Google to provide these to you) as part of your use of the Services.

13. Ending your relationship with Google.

13.1 The Terms will continue to use until ended by either you or Google as set out listed below.

13.2 If you wish to end your legal agreement with Google, you may do so by (a) notifying Google at any time and (b) closing your represent all the Solutions which you use, where Google has actually made this option available to you. Your notice must be sent, in composing, to Google s address which is set out at the beginning of these Terms.

13.3 Google might at any time, end its legal contract with you if:

( A) you have actually breached any arrangement of the Terms (or have actually acted in manner which plainly reveals that you do not intend to, or are not able to adhere to the arrangements of the Terms); or

( B) Google is needed to do so by law (for instance, where the arrangement of the Providers to you is, or becomes, illegal); or

( E) the provision of the Providers to you by Google is, in Google s viewpoint, not commercially practical.

( D) Google is transitioning to not providing the Services to users in the country where you are resident or from which you use the service; or

( C) the partner with whom Google provided the Services to you has terminated its relationship with Google or stopped to provide the Services to you; or

13.4 Absolutely nothing in this Area shall impact Google s rights relating to arrangement of Providers under Section 4 of the Terms.

13.5 When these Terms pertain to an end, all of the legal rights, commitments and liabilities that you and Google have actually benefited from, gone through (or which have actually accrued in time whilst the Terms have actually been in force) or which are revealed to continue indefinitely, shall be untouched by this cessation, and the arrangements of paragraph 20.7 will continue to use to such rights, commitments and liabilities indefinitely.

14. EXCLUSION OF GUARANTEES

14.1 ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN THESE TERMS, INCLUDING SECTIONS 14 AND 15, SHALL EXCLUDE OR LIMITATION GOOGLE S GUARANTEE OR LIABILITY FOR LOSSES WHICH MAY NOT BE LAWFULLY EXCLUDED OR LIMITED BY APPLICABLE LAW. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE TRIGGERED BY NEGLECT, BREACH OF AGREEMENT OR BREACH OF IMPLIED TERMS, OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, ONLY THE RESTRICTIONS WHICH ARE LAWFUL IN YOUR JURISDICTION WILL USE TO YOU AND OUR LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE OPTIMUM DEGREE PERMITTED BY LAW.

14.2 YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND CONCUR THAT YOUR USAGE OF THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THAT THE SERVICES ARE OFFERED "AS IS" AND AS AVAILABLE.

14.3 IN PARTICULAR, GOOGLE, ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES, AND ITS LICENSORS DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT TO YOU THAT:.

( C) ANY INFO OBTAINED BY YOU AS An OUTCOME OF YOUR USAGE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, AND.

( D) THAT DEFECTS IN THE OPERATION OR PERFORMANCE OF ANY SOFTWARE APPLICATION PROVIDED TO YOU AS PART OF THE SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED.

( A) YOUR USAGE OF THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS,.

( B) YOUR USAGE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR FREE FROM MISTAKE,.

14.4 ANY PRODUCT DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH USING THE SERVICES IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR OTHER GADGET OR LOSS OF DATA THAT ARISE FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.

14.5 NO SUGGESTIONS OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, GOT BY YOU FROM GOOGLE OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICES SHALL CREATE ANY GUARANTEE NOT EXPRESSLY SPECIFIED IN THE TERMS.

14.6 GOOGLE FURTHER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL SERVICE WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR SUGGESTED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED GUARANTEES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

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17.2 The manner, mode and degree of marketing by Google on the Services are subject to alter without specific notification to you.

17.3 In factor to consider for Google approving you access to and use of the Services, you concur that Google may put such marketing on the Providers.

1.1 Your use of Google s items, software application, services and web sites (referred to jointly as the Services in this file and excluding any services provided to you by Google under a separate written arrangement) is subject to the terms of a legal arrangement in between you and Google. Google means Google Inc., whose principal place of business is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States. 1.2 Unless otherwise agreed in writing with Google, your arrangement with Google will always include, at a minimum, the terms and conditions set out in this file. 4.3 As part of this continuing innovation, you acknowledge and agree that Google might stop (permanently or momentarily) providing the Services (or any functions within the Solutions) to you or to users generally at Google s sole discretion, without prior notification to you. You concur to get such updates (and permit Google to deliver these to you) as part of your use of the Providers.

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10 Augmented Reality Apps That Are Better Than Pokemon Go

During the summer of 2016, Pokemon Go revived countless amounts of people’s inner Ash Ketchum, making street corners, parks, and backyards look like an arcade from the 80’s. Over 100 million people lived their childhood fantasies of catching, training, and battling Pokemon in (augmented) real life that summer, and the app’s enourmous popularity stimulated public interest in augmented reality technology as a whole. In fact, since Pokemon Go's release, the number of AR app downloads has exploded by 366%.

If you want to see what all the augmented reality hype is about, but don’t want to download and test out the more than 2,000 AR apps on the App Store right now, we’ve got you covered.

We curated a list of the mobile AR apps that are better than the app that popularized augmented reality, helping you grasp and enjoy the technology's current capabilities.

10 Augmented Reality Apps That Are Better Than Pokemon Go

MondlyAR

Inkhunter

Star Chart

Housecraft

Roar Augmented Reality

GIPHY World

Holo

Just a Line

Splitter Critters

Euclidean Lands

1. MondlyAR

App Rating: 4.7/5.0

Available On: IOS & Android

Price: Free

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Even though my parents are native speakers of Mandarin and I took a year-long Chinese course in college, I’m still terrified to speak the language. My American accent and lack of fluency is personally too embarrassing, so I just don’t speak Mandarin -- ever.

But one of my goals in life is to become fluent in the language, and the only way to accomplish this is by constantly conversing with native speakers. I can’t seem to muster enough courage to reveal my weak speaking abilities to them, though.

If you’re in similar situation, you might feel like you’re trapped in a vicious cycle, where your embarrassment leads to inaction, which leads to decline and, ultimately, more embarrassment.

Luckily, Mondly, a language learning platform, created an AR app to help you practice your speaking abilities with your very own virtual language assistant.

Your digital assistant can converse with you in seven different languages -- Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, British English, and American English -- and with MondlyAR’s advanced features like speech recognition, chatbot technology, and artificial intelligence, she can also give you feedback on your pronunciation and make your lessons as engaging as possible by summoning virtual animals, instruments, and other objects to your room.

2. Inkhunter

App Rating: 4.7/5.0

Available On: IOS & Android

Price: Free

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Getting a tattoo can be one of the most stressful decisions of your life. If you get the wrong one, it’ll stay with you forever -- until you opt for laser tattoo removal.

Fortunately, though, Inkhunter leverages augmented reality to take the guesswork out of getting a tattoo. After you upload your own art to the app or choose designs from Inkhunter’s gallery, all you have to do is mark the potential area for your tattoo and hover your phone over the mark to see how it’d look on your body, letting you think before you ink.

3. Star Chart

App Rating: 4.5/5.0

Available On: IOS & Android

Price: Free

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Stargazing has been a pastime for thousands of years. Who doesn’t love admiring a bright, dusty sky full of stars and learning about the wonders above? Unfortunately, if you didn’t study astronomy, the heavens can be quite challenging to understand.

With Star Chart, though, you can identify any star, constellation, meteor shower, comet, and planet in our solar system. All you have to do is point your phone to the night sky, and the app will automatically follow your movements, chart the sky, and teach you some cool tidbits about space.

4. Housecraft

App Rating: 4.5/5.0

Available On: IOS

Price: Free

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Designing a room is just like getting a tattoo. If you buy the wrong furniture, it could ruin the room’s entire aesthetic. And you’d have to deal with the embarrassment of living in an eye-sore -- unless, of course, you shell out more money on some new furniture. But even if you buy the most expensive furniture, it still might not fit your room’s look. The same thing could happen all over again.

To avoid this regretful situation, consider downloading Housecraft before you buy any new furniture. The app uses augmented reality to place fully rendered 3D models of a variety of furniture in your home. And all the furniture is resizable to fit your room’s dimensions, observable from any angle and in any light, and you can even save specific room designs for future reference.

You can also use Housecraft just for your own amusement. With the app’s video recording feature, you can document your dream home or something utterly absurd, like a room filled with potted plants, and send them to your friends and family.

5. ROAR Augmented Reality

App Rating: 4.3/5.0

Available On: IOS & Android

Price: Free

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ROAR is like Shazam, but for food and beverages. The app lets you can scan over 10,000 different products to learn about their prices, nutrition facts, ingredients, reviews, and relevant promotions.

You can also compare any product’s price in ROAR’s database by retailer, buy select items within the app, and even scan movie posters to buy tickets for the next show at certain theaters.

With all this valuable information at your fingertips, ROAR is like your personal shopping advisor.

6. GIPHY World

App Rating: 4.6/5.0

Available On: IOS

Price: Free

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GIFs are already one of the most popular and lovable ways to communicate through messaging and social media, but Giphy didn’t want to end their empire there. After the viral success of Snapchat’s dancing AR hot dog, they developed an AR app called GIPHY World, which arguably makes AR communication just as fun and engaging as Snapchat does. The app lets you record AR GIFs and stickers directly into your videos, post them to the internet, and share them with your friends who also use the app.

Nowadays, not a lot of people complain about the amount of GIFs they receive -- they usually rave about them. And since AR GIFs are novel, unique, and hilarious, their popularity will most likely soar.

7. Holo

App Rating: 4.4/5.0

Available On: IOS & Android

Price: Free

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Similar to GIPHY World, Holo lets you place AR visuals into your photos and videos. But the main difference between the two apps is that Holo’s AR visuals, or holograms, are of celebrities and famous fictional characters. Taking a selfie with Spider-Man is entirely possible on Holo, and regardless if your friends believe you’re tight with Peter Parker or not, the AR app is still an incredibly unique and fun way to interact with people.

8. Just a Line

App Rating: 4.6/5.0

Available On: IOS & Android

Price: Free

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As one of Google’s flagship AR apps, Just a Line is surprisingly simple -- the only thing you can do on the app is make simple drawings.

But Just a Line can actually be just as fun and engaging as a more sophisticated AR app, if you’re creative. To draw things in the app, all you have to do is doodle on your phone’s screen. Then, you can press record to document your AR masterpiece.

Just a Line can also sync your phone with your friend’s phone, letting you both share the same drawing space and potentially play the most engaging Tic-tac-toe game of your life.

9. Splitter Critters

App Rating: 4.8/5.0

Available On: IOS & Android

Price: $2.99

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Splitter Critters is an AR game that projects aliens who are lost in a forest onto a white box the game’s developer sends to you. By slicing the forest with your finger, your goal is to lead the aliens back home to their UFO. Splitter Critters might seem simple and straightforward at first, but there are a whopping 57 levels, so it’s definitely a challenge to beat the entire game.

10. Euclidean Lands

App Rating: 4.7/5.0

Available On: IOS

Price: $3.99

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Euclidean Lands is like the 3D version of the popular mobile phone game 2048. To win, you need to hone your spatial awareness, geometry skills, and perspective taking. Thankfully, you can play the game in any wide-open space, making it easier to devise a strategy that will help you beat each level.

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How to Watch Indy 500 Live Stream 2018 Online

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How to Watch Indy 500 Live Stream 2018 Online

When talking about 2018 Indy 500 is basically it basically refers to an annual Verizon IndyCar Series event that is meant to happen on Sunday, May 27th, 2018 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway which is located in Speedway, Indiana. Additionally, the scheduled event is supposed to cover about 200 laps which is actually about 500 miles. Importantly, Indy 500 Live is primarily a 2018 IndyCar Series. The latest edition winner of the Indy 500 is Takuma Sato. Moreover, Indianapolis 500 is normally at a higher level than the American Championship which is essentially an open-wheel formula mostly known as the Indy car racing.

Indianapolis 500 2018 Overview

Date: May 27, 2018

Time: Engines will start at 12:15 p.m. ET and the green flag will drop at 12:20 p.m.

Live Stream: Watch Here

TV Network: ABC

Presented by: PennGrade Motor Oil

Pace car: Chevrolet Corvette ZR1

Location: Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway, Indiana, United States

Indy 500 is normally known to contain some of the most prestigious motorsports including the 24 Hours of Le Mans and Monaco Grand Prix. The capacity of Speedway is approximated to be above 250, 000 and patrons attendance of about 300, 000. As if not enough, Indianapolis Motor Speedway was built in 1909 and crucially its first event was held in 1911 and was won by Ray Harroun. Indy 500 celebrated its 100 anniversary in 2011 although the 100th event took place in 2016. Some of the most successful drivers in the IndyCar Series include Rick Mears, A. J. Foyt and Al Unser Sr. Each of the above drivers have actually won the race four times. As if not enough, Roger Penske is the most successful car owner. He is the owner of Team Penske which has essentially had 16 wins out of the possible 17 poles. On the other hand, Rick Mears holds a title for the most career poles which he stands with six of them.

1 When and where is Indy 500 2018?

2 2018 Indy 500 Schedule

3 Indianapolis 500 TV Coverage

4 How to watch Indy 500 Live online

4.1 On cable

4.2 ABC

4.3 Without a cable

4.3.1 How to watch Indianapolis 500 online on an app?

4.3.2 How to watch Indy 500 online on Tablet or Smartphone

4.3.3 How to watch Indy 500 online on Xbox or PlayStation Vue?

4.4 Indianapolis 500 Live Streaming TV Channel

4.4.1 WatchESPN

4.4.2 Sky Sports

4.4.3 Fox Sports

4.4.4 Fubo TV

4.4.5 Sling TV

4.4.6 Direct TV Now

4.4.7 Hulu Live Package

4.4.8 YouTube TV

4.5 How to watch 2018 Indy 500 Live from everywhere

4.5.1 Using VPN

4.5.2 Using Smart DNS Proxies

4.5.3 Final Thought

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When and where is Indy 500 2018?

The 2018 Indy 2018 will take place live from Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indiana. Crucially, the event is scheduled on the Sunday of 27th May. The event will be the 102nd running of the Indy 500 and will kick off at exactly 12.15 PM ET but the green flag will be dropped at 12.20 PM. The race is 500 miles (200 laps) long. An event presented by PennGrade Motor Oil will actually take place on the Memorial Day weekend Sunday. 2018 Indy 500 Schedule

6 AM – all the public gates would be opened 12.15PM- Starting off the event 12.20 PM- Dropping of the green flag and 102nd running of the Indy 500 5 PM- all public gates closed.

Check the Indy 500 2018 Complete Schedule

Indianapolis 500 TV Coverage

The Indianapolis 500 is scheduled to be televised live in the United States right on ABC television. This is due to the multi-year and long-term contract between the network and Speedway. You can also take another option of streaming the race online at WatchESPN.com and using the WatchESPN app. It’s actually the final year of broadcasting after a long-term contract between the two parties.

How to watch Indy 500 Live online On cable

According to the United States Television regulation, all the rights to show 2018 Indy 500 are guaranteed to ABC Network in the United States. You can just check out the every detail about the race on their official website so that you get every detail you need in order to watch the game comfortably from your home. If you don’t have a cable to stream the live race trough ABC there a number of other official channels available to watch from. The alternative ways include streaming using your mobiles, desktops, laptops, Android, tablets, androids, and IPad, iPhone and play stations.

ABC

This essentially the official broadcaster of the Indy 500 2018. On the ABC television channel, you can watch the practices or the live action of the 102nd Indy 500 race online or through a cable. Additionally, you can also download the ABC app and stream the live action on a network. The availability of the channel greatly depends on your location.

Without a cable How to watch Indianapolis 500 online on an app?

There are a number of apps that can enable you to stream live the Indy 500 from anywhere you are. All you need is to sign up for the race app and you will be free to stream over a network. The app is in Los Angeles, Chicago, Raleigh-Durham, Huston, Fresno-Visalia, New York, San Francisco and Philadelphia TV market. You can download the free race app from Google play store or App store. As an additional option, you can also download apps for Chromecast, Roku, Nexus Player, Xbox, One and ZTE. From wherever you are the TV app offers you use any of your devices and stream live the Indianapolis 500 Online.

How to watch Indy 500 online on Tablet or Smartphone

If streaming your 2018 Indianapolis 500 on your smartphone, tablet, or any mobile device is your best option then you can go ahead and do it. All you need is to download the ABC app in a phone and it will provide you with live signals of the race from Speedway. You can find the app on Amazon Fire, App Store and Google Play store. After downloading, log in with information from your cable provider. Other mobile apps that you use to watch Indy 500 are WatchESPN app. Sling app and DIRECT NOW app. Download these apps from play store and app store and importantly signup for their free trial.

How to watch Indy 500 online on Xbox or PlayStation Vue?

The place you always determine whether you will or not get the Indy 500 signal. However, people who have PlayStation Vue and Xbox can always purchase the Indy 500 at a price of $40 per month.

Indianapolis 500 Live Streaming TV Channel

Indy 500 has been televised on ABC television since 1965 up then. This is actually the second-longest contract between a television network and a sporting event. On the 12th of May 2018, it’s only the ABC television that will have the rights to show the live event. On that note, let’s look at other streaming television options that can enable you to watch the live action.

WatchESPN

This is generally an online platform that enables you to stream the live action of Indy 500 from Speedway. For you to use the services you must have paid for the subscription the relevant cable compatible provider. WatchESPN is not an ideal option if you are watching it from a cable. However, if you are watching it from home then it can work for you. Importantly, plans are underway by Disney to spin ESPN of as a stand-alone application.

Sky Sports

Sky Sports offers you a whole range of options to stream the live action of Indy 500. Additionally, Sky Sports provides you a great viewing experience with Ultra HD stunning signals. Whether you are using the Sky Go or any other Sky Sports option, the experience is always great and of high quality. Other Sky Sports options that you can use to stream the Indy 500 include Sky iPad App and many other devices. In a nutshell, Sky Sports is actually one of streaming TV channels with the widest range of way of streaming Indy 500.

Fox Sports

With Fox Sports App and cable subscription, you are able to enjoy numerous streamable games including the famous 2018 Indy 500. Some of the major devices that are compatible with Fox Ports include Amazon Fire TV device, Chromecast, Apple TV, both Android and IOS mobile devices and Roku. For those who want to use their browsers to stream Indy 500, you have to possess a valid cable subscription information.

Fubo TV

Fubo TV is more like Hulu Live package, Sling TV, and many other streaming channels. With Fubo TV one is able to watch the live action of Indianapolis broadcast on FOX, NBC, ABC, and CBS. However, Fubo TV doesn’t include the ESPN network and any other network owned by Disney. Nevertheless, plans are also underway to include Red Zone and NFL networks to be part of Fubo TV. Importantly, the Fubo TV package cost $35 per month.

Sling TV

Sling TV is one of the ideal methods of streaming live games like the Indianapolis 500. Through Blue package one is able to access the live actions of Indy 500 on ESPN, FOX, NBC, and ABC Network. The advantage with this is that there is Sling TV doesn’t have CBS. It, however, has ABC for purchase via the Sports Extra add-on for $ per month.

Direct TV Now

Direct TV now enables you to access more 100 TV channels through the stream services. Some of this channels will help you stream the live action of Indy 500 from Speedway, Indiana. Recently, the ABC Network and the ABC Live Network have reportedly been included to be part the Direct TV Now. Importantly, the package costs $ per month.

Hulu Live Package

This package provides you a live stream action of Indianapolis 500 through a number of stream channels such as ESPN, CBS, ABC and FOX at a monthly price of $40. However, it’s important to put in mind that this package network is not found everywhere. Before you do any subscription, confirm is the network covers your area. The NFL network is not contained in Hulu Live Package.

YouTube TV

YouTube features about 40 streaming channels providing the viewers three channels that can enable them to watch the live action of Indy 500. For only $35 a month you get a subscription to ESPN, ABC, FOX, CBS as well as other sports channels like Fox Sports, ESPN2, ESPNU, the Big Ten Network, the SEC Network and importantly the CBS network. One advantage of the YouTube TV is that the availability of channels does not depend on your location. How to watch 2018 Indy 500 Live from everywhere Tweets by IndyCar

Using VPN

It common experience when you try watching streaming TV channels like Sling TV, Direct TV Show, NBC Sports, BT Sports, Fubo TV and ESPN Player they prompt you with a geo-error that says the channel is not available in your region. This becomes a challenge when you want to stream a live event online but your geographical region cannot allow you. With VPN (Virtual Private Network) this problem can actually be solved. If you an Indianapolis fan based in Australia, UK or Ireland you can just stream the live event online using the appropriate online channel. The Virtual Private Network primarily help you get the American IP Address and you will stream any live event in America from anywhere as though you are based in America. In a nutshell, a VPN is a way of unblocking the US channels so that you can stream them regardless of your geographical region. Steps to follow and unblock 2018 Indy 500 channels outside the US.

a) Sign up with an appropriate VPN service but ensure you distance yourself from free VPNs which can harm your online security. b) Download and do an installation of the VPN App from the relevant VPN provider website. c) Launch the application and connect with the involved VPN server based in the United States. d) After this, you will now be browsing with an IP Address located in the United States. e) The way gives you a chance to unlock all the channels based in the US and watch them from anywhere. Some of these channels include Fubo TV, Sling TV, Direct TV Show, NBC Sports, BT Sports and ESPN Player. Using Smart DNS Proxies

This another method that does exactly what VPN does. Smart DNS Proxies bypass any geographical restrictions and offers you a chance to unblock and stream channels outside the restricted area. With Smart DNS Proxies you are able to stream Indianapolis 500 from anywhere you want. Let’s look at how to unblock channels in the United States and consequently stream Indy 500 from anywhere.

a) Go to the Unlocator and sign up for the free version which normally lasts 7 days b) Follow the video tutorial provided to configure the smart DNS Proxies of your streaming device. c) Go to online Fubo TV, create an account by signing up for a 7-day trial version. d) Watch 2018 Indy 500.

Final Thought

Any looking to watch Indianapolis 500 2018, there are a lot of options available. All you need to do is finding out the option and to be specific the site that best works for you and stick to it as you enjoy the 102nd Indianapolis 500 event. With the new era of technology, there are always options to stream the actions of the live event.

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Kidd vs Nash: scouting, boxscores and impact

In the RealGM Top 100 project, we have done a lot of analysis and comparisons of great players vs one another in NBA history. One very interesting one pits the best two point guards of the last generation against each other: Jason Kidd vs Steve Nash. What do their careers look like if we step away from team accomplishments and narratives, and really look at them from a scouting/analytics level? Let’s find out (original post from 2014 Top 100 project).

The box scores: the least important part of this comparison?

Regular season, 10 year primes per100 possessions Jason Kidd 1998 - 2007: 20.6 pts (50.8% TS), 9.6 reb, 12.9 ast (4.4 TO) Steve Nash 2002 - 2011: 24.9 pts (61.3% TS), 4.9 reb, 14.9 ast (4.8 TO)

Playoffs, 10 year primes per 100 possessions Jason Kidd 1998 - 2007: 20.6 pts (49% TS), 9.9 reb, 11.8 ast (4.3 TO) Steve Nash 2002 - 2010: 25.5 pts (58.9% TS), 5.1 reb, 13.3 ast (4.7 TO)

I put these stats here for easy reference and for posterity's sake, but for point guards in general (and especially these two) their impacts are about so much more than the box scores that this data isn't especially telling to me without couching it in with the rest of their game. So let's go ahead and jump into the stylistics and other aspects of the comparison, and I'll bring up box score stats as the need arises.

The style makes the fight: two opposite ends of the spectrum

I think for many, the Suns version of Nash defines an ideal point guard. He was an offensive wunderkind. A maestro capable of controlling every aspect of his team's offense while leading said offense to historic ratings; a distributor/general that knew the strengths/weaknesses of his troops to a T and was capable of putting them into maximal situations to succeed; an excellent penetrator who was able to deform defenses and get them out of position off the dribble which helped him to get those easy shots for teammates; and on top of that, an excellent shooter who could put up scoring efficiencies unseen at the point guard position outside of Stockton but who could also call his own number to volume scorer at similarly great efficiency when the team needed him to. That is a very complete offensive package, and he was able to demonstrate it effectively for several years in Phoenix.

Kidd, on the other hand, is seen as more of a misfit than an ideal as point guard. I say this because his J was limited enough that he was known as Ason Kidd as a young player. Thus, Kidd could never be the scoring threat to opponents that Nash (or, frankly, most point guards) could be. And it's not just that his jumper wasn't a strength (after all, as his career progressed he developed his 3-point shot enough to be (I believe) 3rd on the all-time made 3s list)...it's that he couldn't reliably score off the dribble or on the move outside of layups. This did limit his abilities as a half-court point guard, and also limited his ability to have individual take-over games as a scoring PG. But even with that said and that limitation placed front and center, Kidd was still high on the list of best offensive players in the NBA during his run (see the RAPM section below). He was an incredible floor general, also able to maximize the talents of his teammates and to set them up in positions to succeed. I remember reading the USA today back when Kidd was a high school senior, and them deeming him the #1 prospect in the country before he went to Cal because his court vision was ridiculous. He was outstanding at finding teammates off the bounce, and excelled at doing so on the fast break. Of course, even with that vision Kidd didn't have nearly the offensive impact that Nash had in Phoenix...but he DID also have a very strong defensive impact. Kidd was a great on-ball defender (especially against big guards), he was a monster defensive rebounder from the guard position, and he was also very disruptive in team defense. Thus, it is the combination of his offense AND defense that makes his impact comparable to Nash even at Nash's best in Phoenix.

The impact stats: databall helps greatly in evaluating Nash's effect vs Kidd's

As has often been pointed out, Nash measures out as the highest impact offensive player of the databall era using RAPM. From Doc MJ's spreadsheet of 1998 - 2012 normalized PI RAPM, and using his technique of ranking by the best 5 years, Nash's offensive marks are off the charts with a 5-year average of +9.1 that laps the field (LeBron is 2nd best at +8.1, and no one else is over +8). Kidd's offensive scores are further down the list at #16 overall (best 5-year average of +4.7). He is the 9th rated guard on offense by this method, trailing Nash, Wade, Kobe, Ginobili, Paul, Baron Davis, Chauncey BIllups and Ray Allen.

However, on the defensive side of the ball, Kidd comes out much stronger with a best 5-year average of +3.3 that ranks him 40th on defense overall but 4th among guards (behind Tony Allen's +3.9, Eddie Jones' +3.5, and Doug Christie's +3.3). Nash, on the other hand, ranks #650 overall on defense using this method and only once had a value above 0 (0.6 in 2012).

Thus, when you look at their overall 5-year peaks according to this method, it is fairly close. Nash has the 5-year advantage with an average of +7.9 (8th overall) vs. Kidd's 5-year average of +6.9 (12th overall). To put this in perspective, this difference is similar in magnitude to the differences between the 5-year best marks of Shaq (+10.3) and Duncan (+9.3)...slightly smaller than the distance between LeBron's +10.5 and Dirk's +9.1, but slightly larger than the distance between Wade's +8.4 and Kobe's +7.5. In other words, there is a reasonable line there and in Nash's favor, but that the difference isn't very big at all. And this is for their best 5-year spans.

As you might expect, Nash's best 5 years all come from his time with the Suns and 4 of Kidd's 5 best marks came from his time with the Nets. However, it does have to be at least mentioned that both players played in multiple situations. How much those other time periods are weighed is of course up to the evaluator, but I think we should include that data here to make for easier evaluation:

Kidd (Late 90s, Phoenix): average scaled RAPM of +4.8 from 1998 - 2000 Kidd (late 00s, Dallas): average scaled RAPM of +4.4 from 2008 - 2011 Nash (early 00s, Dallas): average scaled RAPM of +0.5 from 2002 - 2004

I think this was important to point out for a few reasons. Nash is universally rated higher in Phoenix than in Dallas, but I don't think many people appreciate the massive scale of difference in his impact. In Phoenix he was the most impactful offensive player of this generation, but in Dallas (despite being a 2-time All Star) he was pretty much measuring out as a net neutral player. Kidd, on the other hand, measured out as a strong positive player at every stop in his career. His +4.8 and +4.4 averages would both have snuck into the top-20 scores from 1998 - 2012, despite his roles changing dramatically.

Postseason: where Nash separates himself from Kidd...or does he?

As I mentioned above, Suns Nash is considered to be an ideal offensive point guard in part because of his excellent scoring efficiency that scales with higher scoring volume in the postseason. Scoring in the playoffs is much more difficult on both a team and individual level against the ramped up quality and effort of defenses in the postseason, so individual scoring (at great efficiency) is highly valued. This is one of the big areas where Nash is postulated to separate himself from Kidd as a player.

However, while having an individual offensive player that can carry the load in the face of increased defensive pressure is very valuable, it should be noted that there is the obvious other side to the coin, that perhaps defensive impact also has the potential to scale up in value in the postseason. After all, if defenses as a whole are making the larger impact with respect to offense that many of us see and point out, then perhaps the defense of an individual might also scale up in value in the postseason vs. the regular season?

That isn't proven. But of course, I have started populating a postseason on/off +/- table of the elite players of this generation from 2001 on. I've posted many disclaimers and examples of data each time I bring this up in the project, so let me go ahead and re-post them in spoilers here so that you can decide how much (if any) credence to put into these results. Colts18, for instance, gives them no value. I, on the other hand, do think the data is worth seeing and evaluating. So:

(Aside on playoff on/off +/-)

With that done, here again is the career (or at least since 2001, which is when B-R has postseason on/off +/- results available) on/off +/- data in both the regular and post season for most of the current players that either have already been voted in or are coming up on the horizon. The chart is listed in descending order for who has the best difference between postseason and regular season on/off +/-, but at a glance you can also see who has the best regular season and best postseason on/off +/- scores (per 100 possessions):

And here, again, is a similar chart for these same players when focused on their best years. The following table will track important multi-year periods in these players careers...e.g. the Lakers years for Shaq, the "dynasty" years when Duncan's Spurs won the majority of their titles, the pre-LeBron years for Wade, the Cleveland years for LeBron, the Jersey years for Kidd, the post-Shaq years for Kobe, the Suns years for Nash and the post-Nash years for DIrk:

For both their entire careers (post 2000), as well as for their peak years, Kidd has better on/off +/- scores in the postseason than in the regular season, and in both epochs Kidd's scores are solidly higher than Nash's. Again, your mileage may vary as to how much you weigh these postseason +/- numbers. However, I would like to re-post Lorak's post from the #20 thread where he points out the trends of the postseason offenses and defenses of Nash's squads, and at least loosely ties them to his postseason on/off scores:

“There's no "ergo" in that, unless you will provide evidence showing how often Nash was actually defending opposing PGs or that "hiding" him on Bowen or opposing SGs hurt his teams defense. But I think that I agree with your general conclusion - that Nash's defense was a problem for DAL/PHO in the playoffs. In fact, I'm looking at his on/off playoffs splits and I'm shocked how bad he looks:

Sure, "off" in playoffs always deals with small sample issue, but here we see year by year consistency - he improves offense and defense with him usually was much worse than without him. What's surprising, is that overall his net impact in playoffs doesn't look so great as in regular season. Five years with negative (!) on/off, one slightly positive (0.1), one ok (4.8) and only two really great.” -- Lorak

Conclusion

I've always loved this debate, because I always thought that Kidd was better and was surprised at how conclusive it was considered in these parts that Nash topped him. We had some good Nash vs Kidd talk in the 2011 Top 100 project, but I wasn't able to get much pro-Kidd traction. Which is fine, as this is more about information than the ranking to me. However, it's interesting to me that at the time of the 2011 project, we lacked the pre-2003 RAPM scores and the basketball-reference playoff on/off +/- scores, and that lack of data definitely hurt Kidd in those rankings. A HUGE part of Nash's case is tied up into his impact, with RAPM scores used as evidence of that impact. The fact that so many of the offenses that Nash has run have been so great is obviously also big evidence, but the RAPM data is more granular and shows that those offenses (at least in Phoenix) can be correlated directly to Nash's presence. Without that +/- support, those that question why Nash should get the benefit of his team's outstanding team ORatings without that opening him up to the ringz argument as the ultimate team accomplishment would have an excellent poing. So +/- results are VERY important to Nash's "campaign". Thus, I find it interesting that the expanded +/- data really muddies the comparison between Nash and Kidd to such a large degree. Yes, Nash had the advantage in RAPM over their 5 best years (both a higher mark, and a consistently higher year-to-year mark when compared in rank order with Kidd, e.g. Nash's best is better than Kidd's best, his 2nd best better than Kidd's 2nd best, on down through that top 5 or 6 slots). However, that advantage at their 5-year bests wasn't very large...while Kidd's advantages in their non-peak RAPM scores was much larger. Kidd had the impact of a star at pretty much every stage of his career and every role...even when that role was seemingly more role-player late in his career in Dallas. Nash, outside of his time in Phoenix, didn't. Plus, Kidd's postseason +/- scores also look better than Nash and (for Nash in particular) these results seem to track with his team's performances. And could be a solid evidence point that in this particular comparison, defense DOES matter even though it's point guards we're discussing. Nash has major traction here, and I wouldn't even be surprised if he gets the vote. But to me, Kidd has an excellent argument against Nash. Maybe Nash at his best may have been slightly better, but Kidd was right there with him at his best, but had a pretty large impact longevity edge, demonstrated much better portability, and (to the extent that you believe it) may have been the more impactful post-season performer. I think that's a pretty strong case.

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