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A Hempstead man has been arrested for allegedly shooting a 24-year-old man following an argument at the accused gunman's home early over the weekend, Nassau County police said.
Oneil Meade, 28, his 41-year-old brother, Clive Meade, and the victim walked outside of the Linden Place home after the fight escelated shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday, when Oneil shot the victim in the neck, police said.
The victim was taken to a local hospital, where he is listed in critical condition.
Hempstead and Nassau police recovered a silver Walther PPKS 9mm handgun at the scene, authorities said.
Oneil Meade was charged with second-degree attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. Clive Meade was charged with tampering with physical evidence.
They will be arraigned Sunday at First District Court in Hempstead.

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In 2000, she was acquired by the internet job search site Monster.com. Where the vessel was renamed as the Sea Monster. With the intention of converting her for use as a yacht, research vessel, and promotional tool.
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GamerGate was the first major loss for feminism and SJWs in the culture wars. Who did feminist believe was behind GamerGate and handed them this loss? They stereotyped them as: nerds, men who lived in their mom's basement, neck-beards, failures to launch, game-boys, or just plain old losers. This stereotype was far from true (for one, many GamerGate supporters were female), but it is the stereotype feminist had of their enemy.
And, make no mistake, feminist did consider this group of men enemies. Their defeat at the hands of these men has stuck in their craw ever since. The have never let go of it, and still want revenge. In the word incel they think they have a vehicle.
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February 13/20, 2017: Volume 31, Number 18
By Lisbeth Calandrino
Everyone wants to know who exactly are the millennials and what type of customers they represent.
Everything I read says they're a new type of customer. They don't want to be sold anything and are armed with the Internet and every device possible.
Social media has changed how customers get information and who they listen to. Our new customers have stopped listening to salespeople and are instead consulting online friends. What does that mean to RSAs? It means we belong online. Where do the RSAs fit? Their place is providing great customer service. The new consumers want service and they want it fast. They are willing to do all of the research and want us to help them make the right decision.
Social media is the place to build connections, but many stores use it to only show products. They need to have RSAs interacting with customers online. Facebook and LinkedIn are good places to start.
Millennials are comfortable with the online process and don't mind doing their own research. When the customer comes into the store, RSAs should talk with her about what products she has found. Then they can help the customer make sure she has the right products. Instead of selling features and benefits, salespeople should be selling solutions, answering questions and demonstrating the value of the products.
I know what you're thinking, "We already do that." My experience tells me it isn't true. RSAs are still spending inordinate amounts of time studying features and benefits of products and then telling the customer what to do. Of course they need to know these things but remember the customer has already searched the Internet for the right products. Features and benefits are worthless unless they provide an explanation to a customer's concerns. The old adage still matters: They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Technology allows you to stop selling your customer and focus on the relationship. Does your website have products and ideas about color and design? Do you have a blog that provides useful information for your customer? Your blog can help her determine what to look for in a flooring store as well as how to find the salesperson. Communication used to be one-to-one but now it's one-to-many. If you don't have an online presence, you are likely to fade into the background behind your competitors. It's impossible to talk about your competitors online; offline is the only place where you can show the customer you are better. The key is to get them into your store. Social media allows you to develop networks where you can share common interests with your potential customer. MeetUps are a wonderful way to build new customers and get closer to the ones you know.
Why don't we understand customers come from building positive connections to other people? We can't tell who is ready to buy, but we can get to know them before they buy and build communications. An online friendship is a great way to build trust, which is an essential factor in the buying process.
This new customer doesn't need any selling; she needs experts who will help her make the right decisions. Customer service is more important today than ever.


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Friday, July 15, 2016
The East Wind Challenge #59 ~ Photo Inspiration
Hello everyone. There is a new challenge beginning today on The East Wind Challenge Blog and we thought we would try something a little different (for us) and make this a Photo Inspiration challenge. I will post the photo at the bottom of this post. When doing this kind of challenge, you can use anything that you notice, like, or that speaks to you from the inspiration photo. For me, it was the gorgeous sea colours, the stripes of the water, and the beachy feel.
I chose The East Wind image, Lucy Loo Midnight Mermaid, to star in my project. She was coloured with a mix of Prismacolor and Polychromos pencils and fussy cut directly on the lines of her body and hair. I didn't leave my usual white border, nor did I mat with black. I also cut off the waves surrounding her in the image because I wanted to create my own. She was popped up on foam tape except for the very bottom edge.
The background was created with torn strips from five different papers or cardstock. They were torn in a curvy fashion with the white edge exposed so they looked like whitecaps Each piece was layered slightly overlapping the one above until the entire background was covered. A pre-printed saying was die cut and the colour of the lettering changed to black. Black Big Brush pen was used to outline the edges before it was adhered over the waves. Shell were cut from seashell themed paper, outlined with black, and then adhered overlapping the saying piece. Small flat pearls were clustered with the two lower shells.
The bottom left corner was also decorated with a small shell image, some pearls, and hemp twine which was looped and then tied together before glue was added. The top left corner was given a photo corner punched from the same deep blue paper as in the waves. More pearls were clustered below it to complete the visual triangle. Patina Stickles were added to the mermaid's outfit to add a little magic and shimmer. The outside edges of the page were lined with Black Big Brush pen before a black mat was added to frame the page.
Thanks for popping by today. Midnight Mermaid and I appreciate that! To see the amazing creations by the rest of the Blog DT for our Photo Inspiration Challenge, be sure to pop by The East Wind Blog. We would love to have you play along with us.
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I seem to have been on a wild ride of emotional turmoil lately, but as the dust settles, the picture is getting clearer and the view is getting much, much nicer.
I feel like kicking myself yet again for not only lacking patience but for doubting the Universe (as we all do in challenging times) because yet again it has proven itself as a magical and wondrous infinite being wherein we all seem to be part of a much bigger story. Though there is by far, so much work ahead of me… with relationships, situations and mostly, with myself, it almost feels like the clouds have parted and the path has presented itself… Finally.
Am I getting too ethereal here? Probably. But as often as I've spoken about trusting your struggles and how everything is happening exactly as it's supposed to and how in retrospect life tends to work out for the best regardless of how much we worry about it, alas, I am still human. And I still worry. In fact, I've been worrying for almost 3 years now about what is going to happen with my house, resisting the idea of selling, fearing my future instead of anticipating it (well, I go back and forth with that one) and just digging my feet in the ground when it has come to all matters of my living situation.
I didn't want to sell my house. Beyond just loving it and the location, there are so many emotional ties to it, and as someone who generally doesn't attach sentimentality to objects, I attached what seemed like bags full of luggage to my house and was holding onto it tightly.
A few of the resisting feelings had to do with my now ex-husband, who has put very little into this dwelling and because I live in California, law states that he deserves half of it, even though to me, and it probably sounds petty, but half is nowhere near what he actually deserves.
I also had a lot of pride of ownership in this house, not visually-speaking, as in keeping up appearances and mowing my hypothetical lawn, but in the fact that I alone put the downpayment on it, paid for every single mortgage and tax payment on it, upkeep, maintenance and the little additions, and have been responsible for it from the beginning. It felt like a HUGE accomplishment for me… and to be forced to not only part with it, but to give away half of it to someone who doesn't deserve it, was a really hard pill for me to swallow.
To top it all off, the last thing my ex said to me in the elevator going back down to reality after our court date was "Maeg, you DIDN'T pay for all of that house" when in fact, I did. His argument has always been, Well, if I didn't make money, you wouldn't have been able to save as much as you did to put the downpayment down. And my response was Well, if I didn't work and ALSO MAKE MONEY, you wouldn't have been able to save as much cash as you did working for your father.
The fact is that we both worked and had good incomes and we both shared our living expenses, which, in turn, allowed us BOTH to save separately (advice: never get a joint account. keep that shit separate… unless it's an ADDITIONAL account where you both save – keep your original bank account in your name only -side note: after my ex left, he drained our joint account without telling me and I got nothing – imagine if that was my ONLY account.) but I digress… We were both good savers. But I saved income that I actually earned from working that went directly into bank accounts and he saved cash. And unless you have ALL OF THE CASH, you have to get a loan to buy a house and you can't get a loan from a bank with cash.
The bottom line is that aside from the 10K he paid for escrow fees and the 5k he paid for the new air conditioner, I paid for it all. Regardless of his ridiculous reasoning, my calculations show that he deserves a sum total of about $15k-20K minus half of whatever was in the joint account, which would actually probably put him in the negative or at least at zero. And after I spent 64K of my savings on the downpayment (made every payment and paid every bill from MY account), I worked so hard the first year we lived here just to be able to save and grow my bank account back to almost the same amount I had prior to buying the house – and I did it ALONE. Once we moved up here, he did not work. I supported both of us – ALONE.
But he can think whatever he wants. The fact is, now is the time that I have to sell it. And up until last Friday, I was still trying to find any possible way out of that reality.
But everything changed last Friday and suddenly doors were opened and opportunities were flying in and the fear of selling turned to excitement to finally be able to move on and not fear my future.
By Saturday afternoon I had a realtor walking through my house advising me on the sale of it.
And finally I felt like I could actually breathe again… and though it's also been completely overwhelming, the fresh air is quite nice.
I won't go into details yet about my future because I have seen in the past when I have spoken about such things before they were a true reality, they seemed to fall apart (hello 2011 book deal and DIY show)… and so, when the time comes, I'll share more but I will say that the possibility of having a view of the golf course is probable, something I mentioned that was growing on me in a recent Sunday House Crush post. And though it may be a rental for the time being, I am NOT doing it alone. And that actually feels really good to say. It may only be temporary, it may be for a lifetime, but only time will tell… and work. lots of work. But it feels like new work instead of the constant mental fight I've been having with my past, so I'm interested in seeing how much free mental space it clears up and what positivity and creativity grows from it.
So now I am in the process of finishing removing my ex's stuff from the premises via donation (because I literally cannot be bothered trying to sell it any longer AND I have about a week to get it all done – for those who just stopped by, yes, he left everything behind except his Xbox) preparing the exterior and cleaning out my house for it to be photographed next week and listing it for sale before the end of the month… ALONE. It's bittersweet still, but for the first time also feels a little liberating.
I'm sure once the house sells, my ex and his new girlfriend will be ecstatic knowing that they can finally begin their new life on the back of all my hard work… but that's their burden to bear now and I just have to figure out a way to let it all go. And I will. I am.
It just feels like I have options now for the first time in a long time… and for the first time I walked back through my front door today after being out and had an overwhelming feeling that I was walking into my past instead of my present.
And for the first time I felt ready to sell it and let it all go. And I will. And I am.


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Outfit| Pink hair
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I did mine in blue last summer one day and adored it, but man, when I washed it out the shower looked like a Smurf murder scene. Definitely need to try some sort of temporary dye instead!ReplyDelete
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I love when you wear pastels Victoria because you really make them look edgy! And pink hair looks really fantastic on you (really, I think that!), and if you wanted, I think you could pull off pink ombre hair in the more permanent form. Congratulations on the ASOS competition, too!!!!!!! So exciting! :D xxxReplyDelete
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Congrats on getting picked for the Fashion Finder competition. I entered a few of my outfits too although sadly I wasn't picked! I'll definitely be voting for you though :) Your hair looks gorgeous with pink in it. You can't tell from the pictures that it's a spray colour! I remember when I was younger spraying silver glitter all over my hair! I wonder if that look will make a comeback too!! xxReplyDelete
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victoria, congrats on your bloglovin finalist thing! your hair does look great. i was thinking about those spray hair colors, now i'm just saying no. thanks for the honesty. :)ReplyDelete
Te ves muy bonita con esos colores, nos encantó!ReplyDelete
Y eso es lo malo de los colores en spray, que se caen y dejan polvitos por todos lados.
Felicidades por tu look para ASOS, votaremos por ti!
Te ves hermosa con el color rosa <3 y que valiente eres. Yo no se si podria ponerme un color asi en mi cabello. Soy muy miedosa.ReplyDelete
Eres tan combinable con tu cabello rosa <3 me encanto todo.
Felicidades por tu look en Asos :D votare por ti y te deseo mucha suerte Victoria.
ONE MORE HEART FOR YOU!ReplyDelete
I used to have purple hair and also blue when I was at school... It was about 15 years ago and I used colours for theatre artists. You could use them only on bleached hair and lasted about 5 washes... I don't know if they still exist! :)
mega like lilly!!!ReplyDelete
like a bouth outfits,
boots,pastel heels
diferent style
same old marmalade<3
voted for you already ♥ReplyDelete
wish i could pull off pink or lilac hair! but being asian, it's tough to pull of such hair colours.
Lovely, all colors fix together. A Candy Dream =)ReplyDelete
It looks amazing, guapa! My mother tried this with a red colour and it hardly lasted at all.. :) xxReplyDelete
Me encanta tu pelo con las puntas rosas, te da un aire sofisticado y etéreo que me chifla.ReplyDelete
Fantastic styling and great shots - love them - will pop over for a look at the Asos xxReplyDelete
Ooooh this looks so good on you! Love this look.ReplyDelete
I love pink hair but I know that if I tried to dye mine completely...my hair would just be straw afterwards :/
Love your hair, stunning outfit!ReplyDelete
- http://fashionnfairytale.blogspot.com/2012/04/looking-beyond-horizon.html
i love pink hair, it looks great! xReplyDelete
really lovely what you've done with your hair!ReplyDelete
Thank you for commenting on my post. I love your blog your hair is fantastic!ReplyDelete
Emma x
Your hair sure looks amazing, it looks so good on you!! Too bad if it doesn't feel/smell good though. Have to check your asos competition!ReplyDelete
I love your pink hair!ReplyDelete
I didnt know about this colour hairspray, I think it would be perfect for one of those retro crazy themed parties that happen in Brighton now and then! xReplyDelete
Your hair is so nice!!!^^ReplyDelete
i follow you on GFC ;)
can you follow me too?¿? :D
No te queda nada mal el pelo rosa eh! Me gustaría probarlo un día y como tu has dicho lo bueno de esto es que te lo puedes quitar, aun que no se si merece la pena probarlo para manchar la ropa y tener el pelo tieso jajajaReplyDelete
Me encanta el conjunto blusa-falda de las ultimas fotos.
Ya te he votado en lo de Asos, mucha suerte! Un beso Victoria!
Oye pero que que chulo te queda Comadre!! Porque no te haces el color permanente asi en rosa... animate!!!ReplyDelete
your hair looks awesome, I loooove it! xxReplyDelete
I love this hair, and you look great with it. I think you can rock this all the time:)ReplyDelete
love the hair
amazing colour
thanks a lot for the comment on my blog
I love this colour. I didn't know that coloured hairspray existed! But it looks wonderful!ReplyDelete
I can imagine, that it isn't very confortable but it looks great! :)ReplyDelete
want to try it out...
Great pics, I love pink hair on youReplyDelete
xoxo Sootjeelina <3
So cool!ReplyDelete
My sisters I used to do this before we acually dyed our hair
I know the smell you are talking about :)
Awesome outfit
Great pictures!ReplyDelete
Love your hair:)
Your blog is so wonderful!!! I follow you - would be happy if you'd follow me tooReplyDelete
wish you a wonderful evening!!
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Soy tan bobona que no sabia que esos colores de pelo se ponian con spray, de verdad que caso el mio... en fin me encanta como te sienta y en las fotos estas genial.ReplyDelete
Y por cierto tienes mi voto, no lo dudes!
i love this so much! you look amazing with pink hair. i actually added one of your pictures to my pinterest, hope you don't mind ! :) it's here, http://pinterest.com/titlesarescary/beauty/ xReplyDelete
i love your hair color and your style amazing !!ReplyDelete
Ooh I have to do that! Even if that looks to have inconvenients, I want pink and blue hair!!ReplyDelete
Urgh, can imagine it sucks to have static hair all day after using the spray.. Absolutely loving the color on you though :) The pink is not too bright, and not too subtle either. Perfect for you I'd say :) Maybe you should consider coloring it or so? Hahaa.ReplyDelete
The heart has been given :) ....You look beautiful with pink hair and lipstick. I love the colour and despite the inconveniences I think it was worth the effect :)ReplyDelete
Ah. I am seriously obsessed with your style. You're beyond amazing.ReplyDelete
OMG, this is soooooo amazing!!! I LOVE IT !!!ReplyDelete
Great colours ! Your hair is gorgeous .ReplyDelete
xo ,
Ana Catalarrana
This is absolutely the way to wear pastels without without being sugary sweet! And congratulations on making the competition line up again. Well-deserved, my friend. xxxReplyDelete
So fun. I remember doing this as a kid at Halloween. And pink was always my fave color. Sounds like it hasn't improved much since then, the hair color I mean :) your look is amazing as always and I like your poses a lot too. Congrats on the ff comp as u totally deserves it and so glad the fashion peeps r catching on to your totally fab style :)ReplyDelete
Nos encanta! te queda muy bien el color!!! y también tu chaqueta está increíble!ReplyDelete
(tengo muchas ganas de pintármelo todo de color violeta, pero tengo que esperar las vacaciones :(, atte: Harumi de PieldelCosmos)
That hair spray sounds so neat and I love how it looks on your hair! I'm definitely going to try to find it.. That color looks so pretty on you!ReplyDelete
oh wow how cool! If it doesnt ruin your hair and if you can wash it and do it again, then who cares! I think your hair look just so cool! Im totally voting for you =)ReplyDelete
Lovely blog.ReplyDelete
Wow!!! Bloody could not love your hair this colour any more, it seriously looks amazing!! Love all the pastel clothes too and that leather jacket is stunning, such an unusaul colour!ReplyDelete
I'll head over to the ASOS thing and vote for you now, congrats and good luck! x
your hair looks fab!ReplyDelete
i fell in love with your hair.ReplyDelete
mint shoes and pastels <3
wow, it's amazing - pinky hair for one day, I like it;)=)ReplyDelete
I actually really like pink hair, and it looks great on you! I liked it on Gwen Stefani like ages ago, and now I guess Charlotte Free set the trend again....ReplyDelete
Victoria you look amazing ! Love you haircolour against the pale clothing. Stunning !ReplyDelete
jajaja, en las fotos se ve super el color rosa, siempre he querido probar uno de esos solo por diversión. saludos!ReplyDelete
This inspired me!ReplyDelete
See here:http://pretty-the-fool.blogspot.com/2012/04/friday-photo-shoot-easter-hangover.html
love those shoesReplyDelete
OUTFIT AND STYLE PERFECTION!!! love these so much, I know how you feel about the colour though xxReplyDelete
Wow, thank you so much for following my blog & for your lovely comment !ReplyDelete
You now have a new follower too :)
I love this post, beautiful outfit and hairReplyDelete
I hate the way that hair spray feels, but the result looks nice! You should consider it more permanently!ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes I'm thinking the same! :)Delete
i LOVE that look! :) and all your style!!!!!ReplyDelete
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Inside the decor holds onto the circus theme. You will see a bold stage decorated with extravagant stars and chandeliers. The big-top theme extends to the ringmaster and the shaping of the roof above the stage. You will feel immersed in a whole new world.
The acts are to die for. Sword swallowers, acrobats, jugglers, trapeze, and clowns will feature on stage and from time to time roam the crowd, to the audience's delight. The acts are taken from various other circuses and shows around Paris and the area, and their experience means you will love every minute. The costumes are fantastic, a combination of traditional circus outfits and more modern rocker styles.
Of course, with it being a French club the acts will all be in French. Do not expect translations unless they begin advertising an English show. This might spoil it for some international travelers who will not be prepared to follow a fast paced action show in French. However much of the act is purely visual, and you should be able to enjoy the acrobatics, the slapstick comedy, and the music even if you do not understand a word of French.
The audience can get in on the act, with sparklers, Roman candles, and champagne bottles to pop, keeping everyone entertained on the dance floor between and after the acts. All round the atmosphere is great fun. It is easy to get swept up in it all, especially when the music begins and the dance floor comes to life. The venue focuses on electronic music, leaning to techno and house, but with some standard electronica and remixes.
The lighting is perfect and tuned into the music and the show. It will really capture your eye and keep you thrilled. The lighting is also ideal for selfies, although you will probably rather shoot the acts than yourself.
The alcohol at the Monsieur Cirque club is not the best of any Parisian club, but it is still good and very reasonably priced as well.
The dress code is basically whatever you want. The circus theme extends to the guests, so whether you want to go dressed casually or dressed up, you'll be welcome. It has a capacity of 1500 people, which means there will be plenty of life and atmosphere. That said, this extraordinary Paris nightclub is a completely novel experience for the city, and as such it is usually absolutely packed. Expect long queues and not to be able to get in on the night. It is much smarter to make an online reservation and save yourself the stress of showing up on the day.


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opinionBamboozled: Why I am quitting Tropfest / By Will Kostakis
Tropfest's winning film this year is an unintentionally poignant reminder that we have a long way to go when it comes to treating the LGBTQI community as 'equal', writes Will Kostakis.
Ugh, Tropfest.
I go to Tropfest each year expecting to be disappointed. There always tends to be two or three films I like, and a lot more with too much 'typically Australian' humour for me to stomach (lots of bodily functions and fluids). The latter kind always do better in judging than the former, but I leave knowing I'll come back next year.
Two films into Tropfest 22, I knew I didn't want to come back next year.
I didn't even want to stay for the rest of this year's.
Now, I understand comedy is subjective, and I'm certain that others would consider a lot of the comedy I appreciate offensive (If It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia were food, I could live off it), but Matt Hardie's Bamboozled was... soul-crushing. Capping off a weekend that saw the nation's first legal same-sex marriages, it was an unintentionally poignant reminder that we have a long way to go when it comes to treating the LGBTQI community as 'equal', rather than 'other'.
In Bamboozled, Pete bumps into his ex at a bus stop. The twist? His ex has had a sex change (a really tasteful use of the year's theme, 'change') and is now a man. They catch up over a few (hundred) drinks, rehashing the two years they spent together. Their connection is clear. The next morning, Pete wakes up next to his ex (a man) and he clearly regrets his decision. Yes, their shared history and obvious chemistry is null and void because, 'Ew, gross, I slept with a boy.' Cue audience laughter. Then, he finds out it's an 'elaborate hoax', and instead of sleeping with a Helen-turned-Harry, he's just slept with a Harry. And he's shamed for it. Cue more audience laughter.
"We got you, man! We got you!" Harry howls.
As if things can't get any worse, in comes Helen, his real ex. "How do you like that, Pete?" she asks. "And now, you slept with a guy!"
"You totally banged me, man. You totally banged me!" Harry continues. He adds a, "He loved it!" as he high-fives his co-conspirators.
So, yeah: Ugh, Tropfest.
Director Matt Hardie has defended the film as a parody of the media in an interview with ABC.
"The punchline really is a comment on media and how the world may have homophobia, but the lead character, and what I was saying, he was completely willing to go with either gender, he was in love with the person," he says.
Right, okay. I don't know what media he's commenting on. Yes, reality programmes like 2003's There's Something About Miriam were vile and exploitative, but they were also in 2003. Since then, we've seen positive, sensitive portrayals of the LGBTQI on the small screen thanks to reality TV. I'm no fan of Big Brother, but there's no denying it's done some good in this regard.
Let's be honest here, if Hardie's character Pete really was "completely willing to go with either gender", his first words when waking up next to an affectionate man wouldn't have been, "What the F?" In fact, the whole scene wouldn't have been framed like every other morning-after-drunken-regret scene committed to film.
Hardie says the punchline is two-fold. It's a commentary on a media (that may or may not actually exist), and "how the world may have homophobia". I'm assuming he means Helen's gleeful, "How do you like that, Pete? ... You slept with a guy!" This is perhaps the most problematic part of his explanation. The world having homophobia isn't a punchline.
There's nothing particularly funny about being intimate with someone of the same gender. That, in and of itself, is not humorous. And neither is shaming them for it. That's othering anyone who doesn't identify as heterosexual, pointing at them and laughing (literally, in this case).
If selecting the film as one of 16 finalists wasn't - wait for it - bamboozling enough, it went on to win. In the short term, it's disheartening. In the longer term, it may have a positive effect. It may have inspired someone who was sitting in Centennial Park who wasn't laughing to pick up their camera and tell a story we didn't see on the big screen tonight.
Will Kostakis is a 24-year-old author from Sydney. He tweets at @willkostakis. View his full profile here.


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However, that night he met Steve Harvey. While Steve Harvey was in town, he mentored Williams. Steve Harvey takes Williams to the mall, and shows him how to dress. He advises Williams to dress like you are going to work. He watches Williams' sets, and gives him notes and suggestions. The short comedic incubator week with Steve Harvey kick starts his comedy career.
Williams continues to work on his sets, and studies great comedians from the era of Red Fox and Richard Prior. He empathizes with the same pastor-destressing effect that earlier comedians had on black audiences during that period.
"I was really a student of the earlier comedians. They had to make people laugh at a time the nation was undergoing a facelift in terms of racial equality. To be able to make people laugh during those times was inspiring to me."
While attending Alabama State University, a professor introduces him to a manager. The manager encourages Williams to immediately leave for Los Angeles. With a class away from graduation, he left to Los Angeles in 1995.
He arrives in Los Angeles, and just in two months he lands a role in the film Nutty Professor in the famous scene as the host of the comedy club that roasts Professor Clump (Eddie Murphy).
"Once I saw I can make money from comedy. I saw that I can earn money from something I love to do. I did it for free for so many years. I had the passion for it. This was my calling I felt."
He's able to fill up his calendar with gigs and performs on numerous television shows from BET's Comic View to Showtime at the Apollo.
Currently, he is the ambassador for the urban movie channel where comedy lovers can stream hours of comedy specials like Martin Lawrence Presents: 1st Amendment Stand-Up.
Bob Johnson, who created niche black programing for television takes the concept to the web. The urban movie channel (UMC) is a streaming subscription platform much like Netflix or Hulu. However, the programming tailors to urban audiences.
Streaming services have revitalized careers for series that didn't quite make the ratings needed for television. However, the series worked well on stream services as binge watchers divulge into marathon consumption. UMC has over 150 titles in the library, and plans to produce original programing.
"This is a new place where we can go and take our projects. We're not always able to get our stuff on primetime networks. A lot of times when you pitch a project, it is not that they don't find it interesting or good. It's just they don't get it. Here you can bring programs or movies to people who understand it. It's a whole new outlet to get your material out. To me that's priceless."
Success can be measured various ways. Some men measure success on the values of tangible items – house, car, clothes, or gadgets. Other men measure on status or power. For Williams, success is simple. Success is having a career you love.
"What I've learned. True success is being happy at what you are doing, and able to make a living doing it. I'm proud that I was able to make thousands of thousands of people laugh, people happy, and in doing so was able to take care of my wife and kids. That type of success goes unnoticed."


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Well this has been one heck of a couple of years for the Republican Party. Never in my life time have I see anything like it — given that's a relatively short lifetime, but who's counting?
And now that we're headed towards the next big election, we wanted to get a better sense of what parts of Illinois would be the most likely to back Donald Trump again.
Specifically, which cities have the highest number of conservative voters in the Prairie State?
In order to do so, we turned our sites on measuring how each city in Illinois with populations greater than 5,000 voted and contributed to political campaigns in the past several years. The cities with the highest percentage of voters who voted republican and gave the most to conservatives where named the most conservative cities in the state.
If you're wondering, Lansing is the most liberal city in Illinois of all those we measured.
And to be clear, we didn't form this list based on our own biases — we relied on the cold hard data. For more on how we ran the numbers, keep on reading. Then we'll take a closer look at each of our top 10 most conservative cities in Illinois.
And if you already knew these places were conservative, check out some more reading about Illinois and the most conservative places in the country:
How we determined the most conservative cities in Illinois for 2019
We started by making a list of every city in Illinois over 5,000 people based on the 2013-2017 American Community Survey (The most recent data). That left us with 330 cities and towns.
We then measured the voting record and donation data to determine which places lean the most rightward in their allegiances by:
- Percentage Of Registered Republicans
- # Of Contributions To Republicans Per Capita
- $ Amount Contributed To Republicans Per Capita
Next, we ranked each city from 1 to 330 for each of the criteria where number one was the most conservative.
The winner, Effingham, is "The Most Conservative City in Illinois For 2019".
Let's go through these conservative places, shall we?
The 10 Most Conservative Places In Illinois For 2019
Effingham is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Effingham County, Illinois, United States. Effingham is one of the northernmost cities in southern Illinois. The population was 12,604 at the 2015 census estimate. Effingham is part of the Effingham, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Vandalia is a town in Fayette County, Illinois, United States, 69 miles northeast of St. Louis, on the Kaskaskia River. It served as the state capital of Illinois from 1819 until 1839, when the seat of state government moved to Springfield. Vandalia was for years the western terminus of the National Road.
Olney is a city in Richland County, Illinois, United States. The population was 8,631 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Richland County.
Population: 5,359
Percent Republican: 74.4%
$ Republican Amount Per Capita: $8.26
# Republican Contributions Per Capita: 0.04
More on Watseka: Data
Watseka is a city in and the county seat of Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. It is located approximately 15 miles west of the Illinois-Indiana state line on U.S. Route 24.
Mount Carmel is a city in and the county seat of Wabash County, Illinois, United States. At the time of the 2010 census, the population was 7,284, while the next largest town in Wabash County is Allendale, population 475. Located at the confluence of the Wabash, Patoka, and White Rivers, Mount Carmel borders both Gibson and Knox counties of Indiana. A small community known informally as East Mount Carmel sits near the mouth of the Patoka River on the opposite side of the Wabash River from Mount Carmel. Mount Carmel is 5 miles northeast of the Forest of the Wabash, a National Natural Landmark within Beall Woods State Park and about a mile north-northeast of one of its main employers, the Gibson Generating Station. Mount Carmel is also the home of Wabash Valley College, part of the Community College System of Eastern Illinois.
Metropolis is a city located along the Ohio River in Massac County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of 6,465 according to the 2013 estimate of the United States Census Bureau. Metropolis is the county seat of Massac County and is part of the Paducah, KY-IL Micropolitan Statistical Area in Southern Illinois.
Population: 8,446
Percent Republican: 71.5%
$ Republican Amount Per Capita: $6.33
# Republican Contributions Per Capita: 0.06
More on Paris: Data
Paris is a city in Paris Township, Edgar County, Illinois, 165 miles south of Chicago and 90 miles west of Indianapolis. In 1900, 6,105 people lived in Paris; in 1910, 7,664; and in 1940, 9,281. The population was 8,837 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Edgar County.
Chester is a city in and the county seat of Randolph County, Illinois, United States, on a bluff above the Mississippi River. The population was 8,586 at the 2010 census. It lies 61 miles south of St. Louis, Missouri.
Summing Up The Conservative Strongholds in Illinois
Well there you have it, the places in Illinois that have the highest number of conservatives per capita, with Effingham ranking as the least conservative in the entire state.
If you're curious, here are the least conservative cities in Illinois:
- Lansing
- Glencoe
- Prospect Heights
For more Illinois reading, check out:
- 10 Best Places To Live In Illinois
- These Are The 10 Best Counties To Live In Illinois
- 10 Cheapest Places To Live In Illinois
- 10 Best Places To Raise A Family In Illinois
- These Are The 10 Best Places To Retire In Illinois
- These Are The 10 Richest Cities In Illinois
- 10 Safest Places In Illinois
- 10 Worst Places To Live In Illinois


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An important player in the "upstream" (exploration, drilling and production operations) part of the oil and gas industry, IHS Energy serves companies involved in exploring, developing and producing oil and gas worldwide. Although IHS Energy provides an enormous amount of E&P data on historical upstream activities in every country in the world, it also creates software that clients use to analyse this data, make projections of the future and ultimately, make investment decisions on which opportunities to pursue. Dennis Smith, an international economist at IHS Energy, is in charge of building this software - a product called AS$ET. When it became clear to Dennis that Monte Carlo simulation would improve the numbers AS$ET churned out for IHS Energy customers, he began looking for ways to incorporate the technique.
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Part One: Introduction
Part Two: Becoming the Stop For Games
Part Three: The Feeling of Being Used
Part Four: A Programmed Response
Part Five: A Conclusion on Distribution; Corrections
Part Two: Becoming the Stop For Games
Howard Lincoln said that video-game rental was "nothing less than commerical rape. I can spend thousands of hours and millions of dollars creating a game," he says. "I expect, therefore, to be compensated every time the thing sells. All of a sudden, out of the blue, comes a system that distributes my game to thousands of people and I get no royalty. The video-rental companies exploit the thing–renting it out over and over again, hundreds and even thousands of times–and I get nothing. The guy who developed the game and Nintendo get screwed. What does the guy who's renting the cartridge contribute? What does he pay in terms of a royalty for the commercial exploitation of copyrighted work? Zip."
– David Sheff, as written in "Game Over"; first-edition published in 1993.*
As early as the mid-to-late eighties, the matter of video game resale was already waged on a similar front. In conjunction with the Japan-based Association of Copyright for Computer Software, the major Japanese video game publishers and developers had already worked and prevailed to ban video game rental in their home country, a matter whose acceptance and legality in Japan remain nebulous, depending on which way the political wind is blowing. This battle soon made a landing in the United States. Obviously, the American movie rental companies stated they were providing a service, allowing players to "sample" the games at a cheaper price. It also provided a welcome reprieve to the parents of needy kids, as Nintendo's manic control of distribution led to the infamous supply shortage of Nintendo cartridges leading in and through the summer of 1988. In this combination of short supply and intense demand, video game rental became a lucrative market.
Of course, Nintendo didn't like that. Rental not only posed a threat to their unquestioned control of game distribution, but the company believed the rental market could devalue the consumer perception of what a game should be worth. Maintaining firm knowledge of the 1983 crash and its deflation of software prices, Nintendo built the American market around a fixed pricing model, threatening retailers who dared to drop the prices of their games even by a couple of dollars. So when companies began offering the chance to rent a fifty-dollar game for four dollars, Nintendo made a quick decision that they would have to respond. In August of 1989, the company would go after Blockbuster, the largest movie and video game rental chain in the country. Nintendo won a preliminary injunction against Blockbuster for their use of photocopied manuals, presumably a matter of copyright infringement. After Blockbuster and other companies replaced the photocopied manuals with generic instruction booklets, the venture would accomplish little for Nintendo.* Nintendo of America chairman Howard Lincoln knew that the company didn't have much of a case. As most people in the States are familiar with, rental in the United States was and continues to be protected by the "first sale doctrine", the century-old limitation that allows one to sell, lend, re-use, or give away a copyrighted work without the permission of the copyright holder. Much to Nintendo's chagrin, the market for renting video games was affirmed.
From there, the origins of the market for American video game resale becomes pretty clear, with companies and entities of varying capital all competing to get back in a market they had written off as a "fad" in the early eighties. In this march to attract new customers, some of the biggest brick-and-mortar video game stores of the early 1990s would build their empires around video game resale. That's correct: The history of North American used video games began long before companies said they had a problem with it.
The paper trail that has written the modern history of American game retail began in 1988, with the ambitions of Minnesota resident David Pomije. To this point in his young life, the free market had not been kind to him. His successful resale of Commodore computers would subsequently subsidize a failure of a mail-order catalogue business. So what next? Much as the rental companies looked at the market for Nintendo games and reacted accordingly, Pomije played his own resale game. Pomije took out a loan to purchase and resell 1,100 units of the Nintendo Entertainment System, a number of which came with Nintendo cartridges. Left with over a thousand game cartridges, he parlayed the software into a supply chain for video game rental stores. And with this, Funco was born.*
It was a solid venture for Pomije, but it was unsustainable. By 1989, in spite of the demand for Nintendo products, Pomije's inventory had become old news. He solicited for input from those already in the video game resale business, a platoon of entrepreneurs who pushed their goods through magazine and newspaper advertisements. His conclusion? The first mail-order business may have failed, but this one wouldn't. Pomije didn't merely believe he could make money selling used video games, he thought that he could do it better.*
Running the business out of his house, the venture proved popular enough that his neighbors started calling the cops on him, as children were visiting the house around the clock to get some of that sweet video game candy. The growth was fast and it was immense. In 1990, Pomije moved the operations to a warehouse, and in that same year, he would open the first two FuncoLand retail video game stores. Fronting used video games as the company's selling point, the stores would combine for 200,000 dollars in sales during their first year. By 1992, Pomije had ten stores and needed the capital to continue expanding. He took the company public. David Pomije was not the first man to sell a used video game, but he was the first to turn it into a mass-market business venture.*
It's not hard to understand why the business took off. Pomije felt that the market was pricing out younger players that were relying on adults to finance the video game habit. He was correct. Adjusting for inflation, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 price point of sixty dollars had nothing on the early-to-mid 1990s. Those pieces of plastic were not cheap. In the early years of the Super Nintendo life cycle, most games went for fifty or sixty dollars. If you were aiming for a thirty-two-megabit gaming event such as Super Metroid or Chrono Trigger, you could expect to pay as much as eighty dollars. The popularity of the Sega Genesis in the North American market and the United States' investigation into whether Nintendo business practices constituted a monopoly (lol!) had forced Nintendo to ease off most of their restrictions, namely the price fixing. That still didn't stop the retailers from charging what they thought would sell. The market for price relief was almost too obvious, and the newspapers of the day concurred.
One important aspect of buying games for consumers has been the price. Two years ago when consumers wanted to buy a game they were stuck with that game whether they were finished with it or not at a price usually around $40-$60. Today, a game owner can trade in a game and buy a new or used game for between $20 or $45.
Roger Webster, manager of Games to Go at 4399 First Avenue S.E., said the need for used games stores was overwhelming.
"Everybody sells new games all over the place, but there's not a whole lot of people that sell used games," said Webster. "People were tired of paying the price of a new game which is sometimes as high as $70."
Marion Times; published December 9, 1993.
It was a win for everybody. Consumers got cheap video games and more entertainment for their money. Game developers now had a model where consumers could put old video games towards the purchase of new video games. No doubt that the retailers made out the best. Not only did the fair and reduced pricing endear them to their customers, but under normal circumstances, video game retailers earned a small cut from the sale of a new video game. Today, that commission is usually in the range of about ten dollars. If you were buying old video games and marking up the price, you were pocketing the difference. The retailers had turned video games into their own commodity market, earning a far more lucrative profit margin on the used games. Pomije knew that used game sales were the crux of the business. Their 1994 holiday ads showed it.
(How much has retail changed? Look at the bottom of the ad: "All products listed are previously played and include a 90 day replacement warranty." Today, GameStop won't give you a refund on the Xbox if it explodes at your birthday party. At least not until you get the guts off of the damn console.)
What's important to remember is that FuncoLand was in no way "one used game retailer to rule them all". Canadian retailer Microplay Video Games would also make used games the focus of their business operations. Both Electronics Boutique and Babbage's (one of the two companies that would merge and form a company by the name of GameStop) would make used games a portion of their in-store catalogues. By the mid-1990s, most major video game retailers in North America were employing used games as a means to attract customers and pay the bills. Funco would continue to figurehead the philosophy. The company and its competitors would take some scrapes in the middle of the decade. No doubt that a wretched run of game consoles took its toll, where the Sega CD, Sega 32X, Atari Jaguar, and 3DO muddled the end of the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis life cycle. During this time, the game retailers became involved in an intense pricing war with the mega-marts. But soon after, with the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation firmly established as the new kings of the market, the fiscal year of 1997 proved a panacea for FuncoLand. Seven years removed from selling video games out of his house, David Pomije was the proprietor of a 120-million-dollar-a-year business built out of roughly 200 retail stores and its related apparatus.* Business was good.
So what's the deal? Pomije is selling used video games through mass-market retail and he's making millions doing it. Ever since Nintendo's attack on the rental market and the Blockbuster debacle, developers and publishers were silent on the matter of used video games in the American video game market. Pomije's success changed nothing. As it concerns the American and European video game industry, it's rather easy to understand why: The console video game market was still dominated by the Japanese. Western developers were carving out their meal ticket on personal computers. Their pressing issue was software piracy. Through the pursuit of slaying that beast, game manufacturers built their games for online multiplayer. Yeah, you could still play these games offline. Computer games were still being shipped with compelling single-player components. However, the major online gaming services would require an authentic product key. Given the nature of product keys, there was no guarantee that if you could even find a used copy of StarCraft at a retailer, that buying it would yield you full ownership of that product key. For most American developers, used games had already been busted. And through the firm dominance of digital distribution services such as Steam, which lock your game licenses to a single account, used computer games remain busted.
On the other end of the Pacific Ocean, the Japanese had other ideas. Working by a different set of laws and the knowledge that they had already defeated rental in their home country, the Japanese video game industry decided to go all-in. In June of 1998, Capcom, Konami, Namco, Sony, and Square filed a joint suit in Japanese court to prohibit the resale of video games within the country.* The argument was simple: Under Japan's copyright laws, movie companies are given full control over the distribution of their works. From there, the video game industry would argue that video games are "movies". Therefore, "fuck used game sales". You have to give some credit to the Japanese game makers. The publishers of Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid were admitting their games were movies long before their customers did. But even in the universe of Japanese copyright law, "games are movies" was a pretty ridiculous argument. After four years of fighting legal battles, the publishers lost.* "But what does that have to do with the American video game market?" It shows acceptance. Even the companies willing to fight for a video game resale ban in their home country saw no recourse for the "first sale doctrine" in the United States. They accepted it as a necessary evil for doing business in the largest game market on the planet.
Of course, that occurred in Japan. Who cares about them? What have they done for video games? Focus, people. What was FuncoLand up to? Oh, they were just continuing their rapid expansion. From 188 stores in March of 1997, FuncoLand had expanded to its 300th store by November of 1998.* However, the times were changing. Deregulation of American markets leading through the eighties and nineties was accelerating the rate of mergers. This consolidation was possibly exacerbated by a looming technology bubble, the rapid investment of capital into anything vaguely related to technology.* In the case of the video game industry, the mergers came from a need to finance more expensive games that were taking cues from summer movie blockbusters. In an American market quickly becoming "consume or be consumed", FuncoLand was too big to ignore and too small to save itself. And by "save itself", I mean "save itself for a buyout that's appealing to Pomije and his shareholders". By 2000, a merger was inevitable. After rejecting an offer from Electronics Boutique, FuncoLand was purchased by bookseller Barnes and Noble.* Sound weird? The plan was to assimilate the FuncoLand store locations under a Barnes and Noble subsidiary by the name of GameStop. Pretty sure you guys know how this one turned out.
Changes came very quickly. Most of the FuncoLand stores would be chewed up and rebranded under the GameStop label. The focus of the stores would remain on resale. Just like FuncoLand, the GameStop business model was built around video game resale. But while most FuncoLand software was reasonably priced, GameStop chose to invoke the power of the free market. GameStop became the manifestation of "that one store" in most Japanese Role-Playing Games, the one that buys your items for a quarter of market value and marks them ten-fold. While long-time FuncoLand customers where rightly perturbed at the change in policy and pricing by the new shape of management, most consumers didn't care, much in the way those who play online games for free balk at the monthly subscription fee for Xbox Live. For a new audience of video game players that were brought into the video game market by the Sony PlayStation, it wasn't about the audacity of paying forty-five dollars for a used video game. It was the satisfaction of saving five dollars off the new game asking price.
Where's the publishers? What do they have to say about GameStop? They still don't have a problem with this. Most of them maintained their silence. GameStop wasn't the Wal-Mart of video game retail quite yet, and the existing narrative continued: Trade-ins put more money in the hands of the consumer, and that money went towards new video games. Publishers weren't speaking out against used video game sales. In-fact, they were speaking in favor of them. In 2002, syndicated newspaper columnist Linda Cobb was prompted by a reader on where they could find a copy of Lode Runner for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Tactfully ignoring that the Nintendo port of Lode Runner was a terrible video game, Linda provided her advice.
Because [Nintendo doesn't] make new games for [the system] anymore, you're going to need to go with a pre-owned version. Nintendo suggests a store called Gamestop.
When I checked their Web site [sic] (www. gamestop.com), they did have Lode Runner for the NES. It costs $4.99 plus shipping and handling.
Frederick News-Post; published December 1, 2002
The same year, Sega "vice president of strategic planning and corporate affairs" Charles Bellfield affirmed that his company had no problem with used games. According to him, developers and publishers thought it was a great thing.
"Obviously, there isn't significant cannibalization going on at the moment, because otherwise we would see that in our numbers," he said. "I think it gets consumers in the market. You may experience a different range of content, which makes you go out and buy new product."
The Frederick News-Post (from The Dallas Morning News); published December 16, 2002.
(I know you want to ask the question: "Sega and Nintendo speaking out in favor of used games? I thought you said that Japanese game makers hated the things?" Note that Sega and Nintendo did not put their names forward in the 1998 fight against used game sales in Japan. It's not surprising, actually. Both of those companies had a second revenue stream in 1998. They were both selling hardware. Nintendo still is. Keep that in mind.)
Quite honestly, nobody cared if GameStop executives were doing backflips into the money bin. The truth is, most of the industry was doing well. The Sony PlayStation tapped adult markets that the Sega Genesis could only scratch. And thanks to the ridiculous number of mergers leading into the dawn of the 21st century, the riches to be found in the console video game industry were secured by a handful of giants and a few dozen smaller publishers. If there was growth to be found, those companies would reap the rewards. The American video game market would grow by thirty percent from 2000 to 2004.
Source: The Electronic Software Association's 2008 "Essential Facts" Guide, data
acquired from The NPD Group.* (Note: This is software sales. No hardware involved.)
It wasn't just Japanese companies selling their games for the lucrative consoles. For the first time since the early 1980s, Western developers were calling the shots in the North American market. Thanks to the success of Halo: Combat Evolved, Microsoft's Xbox became the first successful American foray into game consoles since the Atari 2600. Even as the Sony PlayStation 2 ran away with the so-called "sixth generation", the market was now big enough for three competing video game consoles. As far as console hardware was concerned, the Japanese were still dominating, but their stranglehold on the world's most profitable video game franchises was drying up. The crown of "Biggest Gaming Event of the American Year" was ceded to both the Grand Theft Auto and Halo franchises. Even an impenetrable rhythm game market dominated by Konami began to show cracks, as developer Harmonix unveiled surprise hit Guitar Hero in 2005.
But speaking of 2005, 2005 happened. Coming to the end of the sixth generation console cycle (with the Nintendo GameCube and Microsoft Xbox mostly irrelevant), software sales dipped roughly three percent from 2004. This time, stagnation came with far less appealing conditions. The looming seventh generation of game consoles (launched with the November 2005 release of the Xbox 360) only promised more expensive games that would become a larger risk in the retail market. The monster budgets that once provided appealing returns had backfired. Consumers now demanded "production values". With a good year for a major video game publisher usually earning a ten-percent return on investment, these companies would either have to cut corners or new revenue streams would have to be secured. If only there was a company that was profiting handsomely from the expansion of the video game market…
Over all, GameStop appears on track to generate about $3 billion in revenue this year. Of that, it looks like $800 million to $1 billion will come from the sale of used software, hardware and accessories. Just how profitable that segment is has only recently become clear to investors.
The quarter that ended in October was the most recent with GameStop results and was the first in which the company broke out results for its used segment. They were eye-popping. Used products made up almost 32 percent of the company's total retail sales and almost 44 percent of gross profit. Even more impressive, while GameStop's gross profit margin on new hardware sales in the quarter was less than 11 percent, and on new software less than 25 percent, the company generated a whopping 45 percent profit margin in its used segment.
Seth Schiesel, "A Bright Spot in the Dim Video Game Picture" New York Times; published February 2, 2006.*
The same year that video game sales went stagnant, GameStop reported a sixty-seven-percent increase in sales for the 2005 fiscal year.* That same year, GameStop would buy out its remaining competitor and merge with Electronics Boutique,* a mere six years after E.B. sought to merge with the FuncoLand that would eventually merge with GameStop. Every major video game retailer in the United States now operated under GameStop corporate, leaving the American video game retail market to operate under the iron fists of GameStop and monster market chain Wal-Mart. But in spite of middling attempts by Best Buy and Circuit City to begin resale initiatives,* GameStop ruled and continues to rule the retail used video game market. Back in 1990, David Pomije wanted to give younger gamers the freedom of economic choice in making purchases of video games. By 2005, he was the C.E.O. of the most important video game retailer on the planet. The question was no longer about cheaper video games or choosing which retailer to visit. It was about choosing the GameStop that was closest to your house. And when those people walked in a GameStop, they were greeted by walls of "PRE-OWNED" video games.
For most of the decade, GameStop was just one of many companies making money in a video game industry that was doing really well for themselves. So long as developers and publishers were making money, they had no reason to care about the retailer. In that same New York Times article, author Seth Schiesel prodded Take-Two spokesman Jim Ankner on how the video game industry felt about the "new-found success" of GameStop. Standard answer, right? Used games put more money in the market, right?
"We would prefer that retailers only sold new games," he said, "but we've learned to make peace with it."
Peace, indeed. The war would soon be on.
Continue to Part Three: The Feeling of Being Used


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"Shocking" is the word used by one of the FSU research coordinators who worked on a study to see how distracted a person can become when they get a notification on their cell phone. FSU researchers suspect that upon getting a notification - even if the recipient lets it go and does nothing else - the recipient, knowing that they missed a call or have a text message waiting for them, shifts their attention to what they may have missed and momentarily stops focusing on the task at hand.
FSU called its study "The Attentional Cost of Receiving a Cell Notification." The first study of its kind, it has now been published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. During the study, researchers were shocked to discover that merely receiving a notification but not responding can be just as distracting as actually answering the phone or replying to a text message. While many public safety campaigns simply advise drivers to "ignore" phone notifications while driving and wait until later to respond to messages and calls, the results of the FSU study suggest that may not be enough to avoid distraction and that the safest practice would be to turn off cell phones while behind the wheel.
Even a slight distraction while driving can lead to devastating consequences. The problem has become so common that after an accident, one of the first questions now being asked it whether any of the drivers had been using their phones, GPS systems and other devices. The attorneys at Heintz & Becker strongly advise everyone to take heed of the results of this latest study and TURN OFF your phones and other devices while driving. We also wish to thank the researchers at Florida State University for their important work and the potentially lifesaving information coming out of their study.
We encourage you to contact the accident attorneys at Heintz & Becker if you or a loved one has been injured in a motor vehicle accident involving a distracted or impaired driver. Our attorneys are available to consult with you about your case and will provide a free analysis of your claim and rights to seek compensation for your injuries and damages.
Source(s): Florida State University, "Cell phone alerts may be driving you to distraction", posted July 9, 2015; Science Daily, "Cell phone notifications may be driving you to distraction", posted July 9, 2015
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