Residency is the act of establishing or maintaining a residence in a given place. Residency is a concept which heavily affects the legal rights and responsibilities that are available to a person, including eligibility to vote, eligibility to stand for political office, eligibility to access government services, responsibility to pay taxes, and on and so forth.

Political office

It is important in terms of politics, as in many jurisdictions candidates must maintain residency within the district in which they intend to run. Requirements vary by jurisdiction, and sometimes by the political office for which a person runs. The cutoff may be as little as a month or as much as several years. Once elected, the office-holder must remain resident in the appropriate district, or may usually be forced to resign.

Canada

To run as a candidate for election to the House of Commons, a candidate must have established residency in Canada — however, a person does not need to have established residency in the specific district where they are running. In most elections, in fact, virtually all of the major political parties run at least a few paper candidates in districts where they do not have a strong organization or a viable local candidate; a paper candidate may be from almost anywhere in the country.

The GOAT Store (Games Of All Type Store), LLC is one of the largest retro gaming online stores, and an Independent Video Game Publishing Label. Additionally they are one of the primary sponsors for Midwest Gaming Classic.

History

Dan Loosen and Gary Heil established The GOAT Store, LLC officially on May 15, 2001, although the business was started informally in 1999 in a more limited capacity.

The GOAT Store focuses solely on retro products from Atari, Nintendo and Sega as well as off beat consoles such as 3DO, ColecoVision, Intellivision, Magnavox Odyssey², and TurboGrafx-16. Additionally, the GOAT Store stocks collectibles such as action figures, cards and more with thousands of unique items in stock.

GOAT store publishing

In 2003, the GOAT Store launched a publishing division GSP (GOAT Store Publishing) with the independently release of commercially released independent game release of Feet of Fury for Sega Dreamcast in 2003, the game was released on Mil-CD instead of Sega's standard GD-ROM in order to release the game at $15. All independent games until 2006 were sold exclusively via their and Lik-Sang, the exclusive agreement expired when Lik-Sang was forced into bankruptcy by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, although Sony refused to take responsibility for the store's bankruptcy.