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Every school day 7,000 teenagers become high school dropouts. Every school day 1,000 teenagers learn from CHOICES why they should stay in school
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1 Every school day 7,000 teenagers become high school dropouts Every school day 1,000 teenagers learn from CHOICES why they should stay in school We engage local communities to provide interactive workshops that keep teens In school! The Problem With more than 26% of students failing to graduate on time each year in the U.S. we face a growing national crisis. Based on current reports from the National Center for Education Statistics the median income of high school dropouts is 40% lower than those who complete high school. Dropouts are more likely to be unemployed. They tend to be in worse health and they make up a disproportionately higher percent of the nation's prison and death row inmates. These outcomes affect not only them but also all of us when we consider the high social costs and our nation s loss of productivity and economic vitality. In the face of this crisis CHOICES offers hope. Fully 88% of participating students rate CHOICES positively and 97% of their teachers agree. We currently reach 200,000 teens each year with our stay-inschool message. Now we invite your help to take CHOICES to the next level so we can reach far more kids as they face this critical choice. CHOICES has a 21-year history and the opportunity to expand our reach has never been more timely or compelling. We ask you join with us in creating a better future for our children and our nation. Our Solution Keeping Teens Into School One of the most persistent questions facing teachers today is how to motive underachieving students to learn. How do you get teens into school in the same way they are into sports or music? How do you inspire them to do more than get by? For most teens success in school takes time and effort. Many find school to be boring or unrewarding. Homework is not a high priority for them and it is all too easy to find excuses to not do it. Working hard, using time wisely and staying in school or excelling is perceived as not worth it by far too many. A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit social enterprise helping teens since
2 CHOICES is an interactive, decision-making workshop that makes education more personally meaningful to teens because they see how it will help them achieve their career and life aspirations. In two hour-long sessions local business and community volunteers take 8th or 9th grade students through real-world exercises that help them understand how their decisions to study or not have consequences. They see the immediate consequences and the impact of that on the rest of their lives. They come to recognize that self-discipline is integral to their success. They become motivated to take school seriously and to study harder. They also get guidance and practical experience with time management and goal setting. This engaging workshop is a real aha experience for teens. They discover that they control many of the factors that influence their lives and that they can make choices to expand their opportunities. They learn how tough it is to balance a budget on a dropout s paycheck. And they begin to picture how completing high school or pursuing further education affects their ability to have the life they imagine for themselves. In one student s own words: I now think dropping out is more serious and I want a good job so no matter how much I hate it, I m gonna graduate. CHOICES is delivered by local volunteers who have credibility with students because they are from the world of work. They come to the classroom because they care, not because it s their job. CHOICES is intriguing enough to students that they participate actively and discover the message themselves through highly interactive role-paying. Because they draw conclusions based on their own involvement the lessons really stick with them. Presenters derive a great amount of satisfaction as well. Here is how one of our 2,000 presenters put it: I could see the change in the faces of the students, especially when I presented the timeline. You could see that they had never considered life beyond today. Social Enterprise Model Leveraging our Reach CHOICES is a program of the CHOICES Education Group a Seattle-based nonprofit social enterprise that earns its revenues by licensing our workshop to client businesses and community organizations such as chambers of commerce, service clubs and urban leagues. Our fees cover the fully loaded costs of this effort including program services and administrative costs. In return our clients receive the right to deliver CHOICES as their community support program in their local communities. From us they get the training, materials and support to implement and manage the program. A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit social enterprise helping teens since
3 The value of this third party delivery model is the extraordinary leverage. Not only do our clients provide the funding they also recruit and train the volunteer presenters and deliver the program in their local schools. Through this powerful model our staff of four supports 230 clients in 47 states with 2,000 volunteer presenters to deliver CHOICES to 200,000 students each academic year. That s 50,000 students served per employee! Since 1985 we have served nearly 6 million students in all 50 US states, 7 Canadian provinces and 3 locations in Australia. We do all this at a cost of less than $5 per student. Workshop Impact We re Making a Difference CHOICES has a direct impact on teens. It causes a significant improvement in their understanding, attitudes and motivation. They learn that their life should not be determined by external influences but shaped by their own initiative. For some CHOICES makes the difference between dropping out and staying in school. Others see, for the first time, the relevance of education to their future. For still others CHOICES transforms their educational experience to a stimulating and rewarding quest for learning. These realizations improve their performance, attendance and stimulate additional effort. Eighty-eight percent (88%) of students rate CHOICES positively, saying it is fun, relevant and realistic. Ninety-seven percent (97%) of teachers view CHOICES positively. They love it because it can be easily incorporated in their curriculum and because they see students begin to value education and work harder. These teachers want CHOICES year after year because they know the workshop helps them meet their student learning objectives. A teacher s reaction to CHOICES: The impact of the program is enhanced with students hearing this valuable message from someone other than their parents or teachers. An indication of the impact of CHOICES can be seen in the experience of the Independence Missouri Chamber of Commerce. The chamber is a long-time CHOICES client and recently reported that over the last five years their dropout rate has decreased by 26%. The Chamber and the schools attribute this drop to presenting CHOICES. As a result, the Business Civic Leadership Center, a nonprofit affiliate of the United States Chamber of Commerce selected the Independence Chamber to be one of five finalists in the country for their 2006 U.S. Community Service Award. They were the only finalist that was not a major corporation. The others selected were Arvin Meritor, McGraw Hill, Morgan Stanley, and Union Pacific Railroad. A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit social enterprise helping teens since
4 Our Client Community An Ever-Changing Environment Participating schools and their resources have been constantly changing during our 21-year history. Funding for education and community programs has been changing as well. Previously, many schools used federal School to Work funds to provide CHOICES. Now they must rely on business, foundations and individuals for support, but they are not fundraisers. So in many cases we write the grants and use these contributions to seed new programs that are conducted by chambers of commerce and service clubs. After a year of using these seeded programs, schools and community groups are convinced that they need this program and seek local funds to continue providing CHOICES. We repeat the seeding cycle over and over in new locations to reach more students. We have assembled a deeply engaged board of directors who have expertise in law, business, marketing, education and finance. With their help we constantly refine our message in the classroom as well as our marketing and public relations efforts to create new initiatives. An example of a recent initiative is the partnership we created with the Shaun Alexander Foundation. In just two years of this partnership we have raised $58,000, which represents 11,600 teens served. CHOICES Board of Directors Alberto Chang, Forensic CPA PricewaterhouseCoopers Jim Elias, Founding Director CHOICES Education Group Shannon Kavanaugh, President Go-To-Market Strategies Leo Muller, Executive Director CHOICES Education Group Joe Stowitschek, Ed.D. Research Professor, University of Washington John Waechter, Managing Director Delafield Hambrecht Bill Weigand, Attorney Davis Wright Tremaine LLP A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit social enterprise helping teens since
5 Contributions and Discounts Value-Added Support Many organizations see the value of CHOICES and support us through their contributions. Here is a sample of these corporate donors with their cumulative level of support: Bank of America Foundation $445,000 Nordstrom Corporate Giving $242,500 UPS Foundation $125,000 Russell Investment Group $75,000 MGM Mirage VOICE Foundation $54,716 In addition we have received pro-bono and discounted support from: Regus Group $150,000 Piranha Productions $31,000 Orrick Herrington $31,000 Go-To-Market Strategies $22,500 The Next Step Expanding the reach of CHOICES While we are proud of our past accomplishments, we have an opportunity to do much more. Nationally there are 3.2 million eighth-grade students enrolled in school each year. We are better positioned now to expand CHOICES more so than at any other time in our history. We have set a goal of 10% annual growth over the next four years with the objective of reaching 300,000 students annually by the year Our long-term goal is to reach at least as many students as the drop out rate of 7,000 students every school day. We have three major strategies to accomplish these goals: Enhance customer satisfaction Continue to adapt our training and support for students and presenters to keep CHOICES material relevant and in demand. Conduct outcome-based evaluation Validate the effectiveness of CHOICES across a broad range of locations and demographics to insure optimum results no matter what the venue. Expand classroom delivery Raise more seed funding to constantly increase the number students who benefit from our message. Our nation needs more kids saying what this one said: "I learned that tests and things matter for your grades in high school, which affects the college that you go to, which affects your job, which affects your life." A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit social enterprise helping teens since
6 We Need Your Help! Become a contributor to CHOICES so we can convince more students to take control of their future and get serious about their education. To make your donation, contact Leo Muller, Executive Director, at or or complete and return the enclosed donation form. Does CHOICES matter to kids? Here is one young man s reply: I liked the way you talked to us as if we were important. Is CHOICES a worthwhile investment? This young woman writes: Thanks to you I know how to take care of my life and I ll never forget. The future of the nation resides within the minds of our children Thank you for your interest and support A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit social enterprise helping teens since
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Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley are both super proud parents of their girls – Adalaide, nine months and Naleigh, four years – often sharing cute snapshots of the girls on social media.
Josh shared this sweet photo of his beautiful baby girl this week on Instagram with the caption: "My first toofy's just came in …"
Awww! How cute is their baby Adalaide?!
The couple adopted their eldest daughter, Naleigh, in 2009 from South Korea and in April 2012, little Adalaide, adopted from the U.S, joined their family.
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The Godfather
Review by wannabepunktony
"Not an offer you can't refuse but an offer that may pleasently surprise"
Sitting atop a throne built from the remains of countless imitators and wannabes, The Godfather (most notably in movie form) encompasses what many of us consider to be 'the mafia'. With a star-studded cast, filled with the likes of Marlon Brando, James Caan and Al Pacino, as well as original author Mario Puzo's and director Francis Ford Coppola's phenomenal script, the characters and their lines have transcended their original context, cementing themselves forever into America's pop culture. The soft spoken leader Vito Corleone, the Don of New York, and his legendary line "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse" alone has been replicated in everything from children's cartoons to video games and movies, so much so that he has become the stereotypical mafia boss [Like in the Simpsons episode Homie the Clown, when the Don admits, "I'm just an old Italian stereotype!" Ed.]
Despite the celebrated status that the Godfather movie trilogy holds, its status as a videogame has strangely been kept dormant, with its only appearance coming in the early Nineties in the form of a shoddy arcade-style game developed by U.S. Gold. Looking to add to their already large movie license repertoire, Electronic Arts pounced and acquired the rights to the Godfather franchise from Paramount Pictures (much to the supposed ire of Coppola). Initially released for the current generation of consoles, a warm reception there led to the enhanced Xbox 360 port. With a slew of additions - new missions, new graphics, new features and new A.I. - this Godfather, while still carrying the same unattended to wounds of its first release, packs a bit more brass in the pants. Is it $60 worth of additional brass? Well, that depends on how deep you bought into "the Family" the first time around.
Based almost entirely within the time span of the first movie, Electronic Arts' The Godfather puts you in the shoes of an up-and-coming player in the Corleone family business, who is seeking revenge on the Brazini family for killing his father. After you create your character, using a limited version of the Tiger Woods create-a-character system dubbed 'Mob-Face', you are placed into New York circa 1945. Using a sandbox style progression, you move through the game at any pace you desire, pursuing the two story arcs or any of the countless side quests in any order you see fit. Freedom is the name of the game here, but with the help of excellent pacing and quest placement, as well as the ability to view your current objectives with the press of a button, you'll never feel the anxiety of undisclosed or unspecified possibilities. With a gameplay area spanning countless miles and five neighbourhoods, always being knowing what you can do at any given time is a necessity.
The main story, unravelled throughout the game, can be broken into two arcs. The main arc is a retelling of the events in the movie through the eyes of your created character. Starting with the opening scene of the movie - the wedding of the Don's daughter, Connie - the majority of important moments from the movie are represented in some form or another. But instead of simply rehashing those moments, EA has reworked these scenes to include your character. Surprisingly, the movie lends itself perfectly to this, and while your character's role is almost always the (most times previously unseen) support, it still works as an interesting catalysis. An example of this is that instead of simply assuming that the undertaker's request for revenge at the beginning of the movie is taken care of, your character is brought into the Corleone fold by Luca Brasi to assist in caring out the favor. Another example can be seen a little later in the game; your character, along with Fredo Corleone, drive the gunned down Don Corleone to the hospital; when assassins come to kill the injured Don at the hospital, your character helps Michael Corleone protect his father. From Paulie's murder to planting the gun that Michael uses in his assassination plan to snuffing out the mob leaders, there is no major scene that happens in New York City that is missing, making this a real treat for fans of the movie.
The second arc is exclusive to the game and revolves around your created character, whose father was gunned down right in front of his eyes by the Brazini family when he was only a child. Don Corleone, who was in the area, told the distraught child that his time for revenge was not now, but would come in the future - a promise the Don would not forget. After finally being brought into the Corleone fold, you make your way up the family ladder, gaining respect within the family from your deeds and actions. This second arc is very small in comparison to the main arc, encompassing very little playing time. It doesn't hurt your character though, as being the main focus of both arcs gives him all the exposure he needs. The supporting cast of the second arc suffer greatly from this lack of attention, however. When Death takes away many of these characters, it is hard to push forth a reaction of any kind. It's just like, "well, I guess that sets up my next mission."
Normally I would worry about story spoilers when writing about a game's story, but The Godfather is different. If you have never seen the movie then do not do yourself the injustice of playing the game without that experience. Even if it has been a few years since your last viewing, I would still recommend watching it beforehand; there is very little in the way of character and story development here that can stand on its own without the movie, and no amount of poor quality video clips from the movie can change that. EA may have gone to great lengths to attempt to capture the essence of the movie by securing the faces - which are mapped on with haunting detail - and voices for the majority of the cast, and by hiring Mark Winegardner (author of the novels The Godfather Returns and The Godfather's Revenge) to help with story editing and insight, as well as sending a team on a supposed week long visit to Coppola's personal winery to study his wealth of material, but there is still the feeling of something missing - and that missing element is humanity. EA have completely failed to capture the emotion, humanity and soul of Puzo and Coppola's opus. Characters move and react like wooden puppets, their eyes constantly looking off in odd directions. The dialogue is generally solid, though at times uninspired, but when the voices don't always line up with mouth movements (I have read through an entire subtitled exchange, with mouth movement, before voices have even been cued up, on multiple occasions). Cut scenes lack the artistic touch that a director of Coppola's caliber brings, generally consisting of the bare minimum of angles, pans and editing, tearing the heart out of pivotal scenes. It feels too often that the game is simply about human characters, who have bodies and brains but no real humanity or depth, who spend their lives talking and killing - a complain that Coppola himself made after playing an early build of the game.
What this game dearly needs is a huge dose of humanity. One way this could have been addressed would have been asking the character to interact with the world in a non-violent way at times. There are really no moments like that, where you aren't off to engage in illegal activities - and don't give me the excuse that 'mundane' life details don't make for interesting gameplay - classics such as Bully and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion have proven that statement to be nothing short of false. Another way would have been the addition of at least a couple prominent female characters. The main women from the movie - Connie, Sandra and Carmella Corleone, and Kay Adams - are all absent except for the small, stereotypical old lady cameo that Carmella's character makes. The addition of Francis "Frankie" Malone, someone your character falls for, is simply to push forth a plan for revenge when she is later murdered after little build up.
I understand that EA may have been hesitant to take anything more than minor liberties with the original material, n respectable attitude to have, but it feels almost as if they let that overtake their judgment. The story and script are solid enough, at the very least providing the necessary amount of entertainment, even if they can't stand without the source material - but more attention to character development and storytelling and less on simply using cut scenes to set up missions would have created a game with a stronger lasting impression. There is also mishandling of two of the biggest points of the movie - Michael's 'trip' to Italy and Don Corleone's death - both of which are essentially treated as "mum's the word." This may sound overly harsh, but we aren't talking about some summer blockbuster that will quickly fade into far recesses of our memories; we are talking about The Godfather, widely considered as one of the greatest movies in cinematic history. At the minimum you need to bring whatever it is that sits above your 'A' game, but what we have here lands somewhere between the C+ to B- range.
Despite the flaws in the storytelling, the gameplay is still solid enough that they do not detract too much from the experience. As this is a sandbox game, the expected third person view and basic run-and-gun components are, on the surface, at work here; your standard Grand Theft Auto controls superimposed into the Godfather world. EA could have very easily stopped right there and would have still had a decent, albeit drab, game on their hands, but this is not the case, as fresh and innovative takes on combat, side quests and open world interactivity allow this game to rise above the ranks of mediocrity.
The combat is near impossible to explain in one simple sentence, as many different aspects have been combined. Before going into details though, the very important factor of the enemy A.I. must be addressed, as the enemies here are some of the most realistic reacting foes ever to grace a sandbox game, never slouching off at any point. There were plenty of times I got cocky and approached a mission or side quest with a guns blazing approach, only to meet a swift demise. Enemies always take cover behind whatever they can, sticking their guns out just enough to fire off a few shots in your direction. If you take the defensive too much then they will come after you - and they have no problem shooting you right in the back! By the time you reach the end of the game you're expected to be a master of the combat system - and I wouldn't have it any other way. There's even the ability to recruit other mafia members to join you on your battle in an attempt to ease the difficulty. As you can begin to tell, this isn't your typical combat system and while it can be daunting at first, as the learning curve is fairly high for the first couple hours, the combination of experience and the newly created training videos makes for a rewarding transition.
Hand-to-hand combat is dealt with not by a single button, but by the right analog stick, much like EA's Fight Night Round 3. Holding down the right trigger when close to an enemy initiates a grapple - a key to the entire combat system. Sure, you could just pump wildly on the right stick, but you'd leave yourself wide open for counterattacks and a swift defeat. If, for example, you throw a couple of punches, grab your opponent by the collar, hand out a couple blows to the face followed by a head butt, slam him into the wall and then break his neck, chances are you'll come out on top and unscathed. That is just one possible combo outcome, as the fighting (which includes melee weapons such as bats and lead pipes) and execution system gives you plenty of choices for tackling each situation with gameplay that rewards skill and patience over bravado and one hit kills.
The same is true for gunfights, as running into situations gung ho will turn you into food for the worms before you can 'rigatoni'. Let's start with your choice of weapons, which are basically torn straight off the screen - shotguns, snub-nose pistols, Tommy guns, revolvers and more - are at your disposable and fully upgradeable. Cover is your best friend - you'll be dead in a matter of seconds without it. You can not only hide behind boxes, cars and people, but you can also stick to a wall, Solid Snake style, and shoot from around the corner with the help of either auto or manual aim. Auto aim, initiated by holding the left trigger, has your character locking on to the nearest target. By letting go and pressing the button again, you can switch between nearby targets, although this simple concept proves to be a lesson in poor execution. With middle to long range gun fights you should see little problem, but in close combat you generally end up trying repeatedly to target an enemy right in front of you, and instead target everyone else. Don't even bother trying to fire without the lock-in - it has the same effect as firing straight into the air.
To try and compensate for this, there is a second aiming technique at your disposal; by hitting the left bumper, you bring up a crosshair for manual aiming. This can be quite useful, as there are plenty of times where you will be taking cover and need to make a perfect shot to pick off an enemy doing the same. Or, maybe you want to disable an enemy by shooting out his kneecaps, causing him to fall to the floor, momentarily dazing him long enough for you to close in for a really gruesome kill. Whether you kill from far away or up close, the shooting and execution system work brilliantly in giving you a multitude of patience-inducing killing tools. In a very odd occurrence, there were times I couldn't get the manual aim crosshair to come up, no matter how many times I pressed the left bumper. After some trial and error, I could still not pin down a reason for this, but I have no idea why an important offensive device would not work 100% of the time. To be honest, even these descriptions shed only a minute amount of light on the subject of this combat system; there is a lot left unmentioned, as part of the fun of the controls is to discover new moves, executions and strategies. Though not without flaws or complaints, this is still one of the soundest control schemes in the genre.
What would all these awesome combat skills be good for if you weren't given plenty of fun ways to use them? This is where The Godfather really begins to shine and show you that it is undeserving of the 'GTA clone' tag. Along with money, the other 'point' system in the game is the Respect meter. Just about everything you do in the game dishes out Respect points, including finishing missions, beating up a mugger, killing members of rival families, collecting film reels and more. Once your meter reaches a certain value, you will gain a level and a skill point to be used to buff up your character. The RPG-lite formula works well here, giving you another reason to pursue the tasks asked of you - and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Another way you can gain Respect points, as well as money, is through extorting local businesses for protection money, taking over rackets and rival families' warehouses. The former two use the Black Hand system, a way to pressure business owners and racketeers to give into you. This can be done ten different ways, ranging from simply punching them until they give in, to busting up their merchandise or roughing up their customers. Each owner/racketeer has a meter that represents their health and it reacts differently to the Black Hand system. One storeowner may respond to the fist, while another may need you to throw one of their customers through a window before they listen to reason. As you gain Respect levels, the less persuading you will need to do. With plenty of buildings to take over (that's buildings, not businesses and rackets), simply extorting the entire town should take ten hours or more alone!
Taking over warehouses is a little less technical, but no less fun. Used as shipping hubs for the families, warehouses are vital parts of each business and their destruction can severely damage profits. There are two ways this can be done. Firstly you can steal their moving trucks, which can be seen around town transporting illegal goods. If you see a truck you want to jack, you need to ram it with a car or shoot at it enough to cause the driver to stop the truck and the guards to come out. If you can kill the guards and Black Hand your way to the driver's keys, you can steal the truck. Now you just need to take it back to one of the Corleone's hubs and you can cash in on the goods. Don't expect the original owners to let you off the hook once you take possession of their goods though - you will be hunted down relentlessly until you drop off the truck, making that task a fight against time.
If you want to approach the problem at its source, you can mount a full attack on the warehouse itself - one of the biggest thrills in the entire game. Consider these as one man against the world battles to the death. Each warehouses is a fort, guarded inside and out by the best men the owning family has to offer. Do not even bother to confront one without enlisting the help of one of your fellow family members - the enemies bring their top game here. This visceral, heart-thumping action, as you duck behind a crate while being fired upon from all angles, brings the fire fight home in a way very rarely seen in a mafia game. Once you plant a bomb to blow the place to bits and run out, action-movie style, that accelerated heartbeat will let you know you are alive!
One of the major changes between the Xbox 360 version and the versions to come before was in the presentation. Going back into the game, EA updated much of the graphics, adding and enhancing where they could. This turns out to be a very mixed blessing. There are plenty of impressive details exclusive to this build to observe, including the hauntingly accurate faces of every character based on a real person, the ever-changing weather system and new lighting effects. Shooting a flaming garbage can and watching the fire soar in the air, flickering with vibrancy, before landing on any nearby people and igniting them instantly is a cheap, visceral, feeling I couldn't get enough of. But for every new detail, there seems to be an element left in limbo. Your character's face has nothing in common with the majority of the people he interacts with, appearing as if he is from the wrong game altogether - a very jarring effect that you never really get used to. The textures used to create the environments have been cleaned up, but many still lack the detail and clarity expected in a Xbox 360 game, taking a very distinct "we weren't built for you, we came from another system" stance. That adds another injury to the buildings you can explore, which are already suffering for the rehashing of the same few layouts, even with some of them seeing layout changes for this version; there are just far too many déjà vu moments. Slowdown hits at times, especially when driving around, giving off a jagged feeling of movement as the game skips frames - thankfully this is rarely seen during non-vehicular combat.
If there is one realm where the quality of this game takes a non-EA quality change it is in the audio department. And no, I don't mean the aforementioned voice acting, which isn't the best you'll ever hear, but is still very good, especially considering that many of the voice actors either had to return to characters they haven't voiced in over fifteen years or were impersonators. I am talking about the music. You'll mostly hear the themes present in the movie, which have been faithfully reproduced here. During the cut scenes, they are implemented without a problem, cuing up at the right volume and times. During the rest of the game though, the music never seems to know what to do with itself. "Should we cue the music in now - okay wait, cut it, too early, okay, go now damn, we missed the mark and came in too late. Who wants to ditch work and catch a movie - everyone? Awesome." As you can tell, if the music even makes an appearance, it will most likely miss the obvious cue. I don't know if this a problem linked directly to this version or if it plagued all versions, but I wouldn't expect this type of obvious flaw from a company like EA.
When it comes to lasting appeal, sandbox games generally take the cake with the sheer amount of things to do and items to track down. Outside of the lengthy main story, which clocks in around twenty to thirty hours, you will find more than enough reasons to extend your stay in The Godfather to well over the forty or even fifty hour mark. There are a plethora of side quests, favors and hits to take up and, thankfully, only one hidden item set to collect. There's a leaderboard for all players, tracking their game scores and ranking them accordingly. But when they sell certain decisive factors on the leaderboard, such as cash, through Xbox Live, I have to wonder just how good the top player really is.
The Godfather, despite a list of shortcomings, have proven to be fully capable of overcoming them to become a critical success, both with the press and gamers (the PS2 version just became a Greatest Hits title). As the game continues to move up the system ladder, each with its own host of changes and improvements, a new problem is developing - fans will never have a definitive edition. This version is the best currently on the market, but will the upcoming PS3 and Wii versions top it? That is yet to be seen. Unless either of those two options intrigues you, and you aren't already the proud owner of an earlier version, let this game make you an offer you can't refuse (how can anyone write a Godfather review without using that line?!) especially if you are tired of the sandbox genre, because The Godfather just might surprise you.
Reviewer's Rating: 4.0 - Great
Originally Posted: 03/06/07
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Flip Flops
- It is an electronic circuit that has two stable states & can be used to store state information. It is basically a bistable multivibrator or latch or toggle.
- S-R (Set-Reset) Flip-flops
Fig. : Block diagram Fig. : NOR based S-R flip-flop
- Clocked S-R Flip-flop
The clocked SR flip-flop shown in fig. 8 (d) consists of a basic NOR flip-flop and two AND gates.
Fig. : Clocked S-R Flip-flop
Table S-R Flip-flop Truth Table
The disadvantage of S-R flip-flop is for S = 1, R = 1 output cannot be determined. This can be eliminated in J-K flip-flop.
Fig. : Graphic symbol of J-K flip flop
- J-K Flip-flops :
The Master-Slave JK Flip-flop
The Master-Slave Flip-Flop is basically two gated SR flip-flops connected together in a series configuration with the slave having an inverted clock pulse. The outputs from Q and from the "Slave" flip-flop are fed back to the inputs of the "Master" with the outputs of the "Master" flip-flop being connected to the two inputs of the "Slave" flip-flop. This feedback configuration from the slave's output to the master's input gives the characteristic toggle of the JK flip-flop as shown in fig.
Fig. : The Master-Slave JK Flip-Flop
Master-Slave JK Flip-flop is a "Synchronous" device as it only passes data with the timing of the clock signal.
- D Flip-flops :
- It has only one input known as D (Delay) & two outputs Q & .
Fig. : D-flip-flop Using NAND gates
Fig. : Logic symbol
- T Flip-flops
- It is also known as trigger or toggle flip flop.
Fig. : Block diagram of T flip flop


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A new poll suggests that liberal college students are far more comfortable sharing their political views on campus than are their conservative and moderate peers.
A Georgetown University law professor recently claimed that "ALL white people are racist" and "ALL men are sexist."
Kent State University will kick off the school year with a four-day orientation program held exclusively for minority students.
Several professors took to mocking Sen. John McCain's views on health care amid news that he had been diagnosed with untreatable brain cancer.
An Evergreen State College student may sue the school for denying him a right to carry a licensed firearm at school-sponsored off-campus events.
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Three members of the CSUF College Republicans are suing to compel the state to validate a recall petition against Democratic State Senator Josh Newman.
Teaching white social workers about their privilege and microaggressions isn't enough to combat racism, argue two professors.
WSU is paying students who know "how power, privilege, oppression operates" $11 per hour to "promote equity and advance social justice."
Two leading free-speech advocates are taking a psych professor to task for declaring that offensive speech is a form of literal "violence."
The UC-Berkeley student government wants to eliminate a training program for campus police officers, claiming it encourages "militarized" policing.
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"Manspreading" on campus buses is indicative of the larger culture of sexism that is pervasive on campus, according to one female student in Texas.
To "solve the problem of meritocracy," one professor argues that elite universities should use an "admissions lottery" to select which students they accept.
The Texas A&M University College of Dentistry recently received a $3.5 million federal grant to "advance diversity in faculty and students."
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Grinnell College awards a $100,000 prize each year to an "Innovator for Social Justice," according to a nomination form that went live on Sunday.
Harvard's public health school requires faculty hiring committees to take "implicit-bias training" to learn "how unconscious bias can infect the recruitment process."
A petition is demanding that Youngstown State University the Chick-fil-A on campus, saying it "adds to the negative experience of LGBT students."
The University of California, Berkeley has announced that it will not accommodate Ben Shapiro for a speaking arrangement this fall.
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Public museums and memorials serve our nation's "foundational commitments to white heterosexual male supremacy," two Women's Studies professors complain.
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|Death to the Traitor
|Conflict: Sollozzo Intrigue
|Date: 1946
| Place: Hell's Kitchen
|Outcome: Corleone victory
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After the attempt on Vito Corleone's life and the crashing of Rosa Morelli's New Years Party, Salvatore Tessio was assigned the task of rooting out the traitor in the family.
Paulie Gatto, a promising enforcer, was discovered to be the culprit and Peter Clemenza was dispatched to eliminate him, first destroying the Tattaglia family base at The Roost in Hell's Kitchen.
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Clemenza took his henchmen, Gatto and Aldo Trapani to The Albatross Grill first to pick up some of his favourite cannoli. Whilst there, Trapani rescued the Albatross Grill Chef from Tattaglia goons.
From here, the three Corleones made their way to the Roost, laying a bomb on the top floor and letting the building blow.
Clemenza then drove to a shipyard in Brooklyn, where Gatto was dispatched. Clemenza, Trapani and Rocco Lampone then drove to Paulie's Apartment to flee from the police.


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Louisiana State Police along with an FBI task force arrested two suspects Wednesday for child trafficking in the French Quarter, according to a State Police press release.
Investigators with the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations and the FBI New Orleans Child Exploitation Task Force rescued a 17-year-old that was being held against her will and forced to perform commercial sexual acts.
The two agencies began working together in December, 2014, and information obtained led investigators to the identity of two individuals.
Kayla Griffin, 21, was arrested and booked for trafficking of children for sexual purposes and intimidating a witness.
Lance Everson, 36, was being held in St. Tammany Parish Jail on unrelated charges and is awaiting extradtion to Orleans Parish on charges of trafficking of children for sexual purposes and pandering.
The investigation is on-going and additional charges may be forthcoming, the press release says.
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'Cements an idea we had in our minds that Toibin is quietly becoming a sort of Irish version of Ian McEwan' – Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
Although ostensibly taking place in Ireland roughly a decade after the events of Brooklyn, and featuring a whole host of different characters, Nora Webster is a book that is very much cut from the same cloth. Brooklyn's central character Eilis is even mentioned in an aside at one point early on in the book, the counterpoint offered as a possible life choice that isn't open to our titular heroine this time around, whose life is evenly mapped by both grief and responsibility. Grief because at the opening of the novel, Nora has just lost her husband Maurice to a sudden and surprising illness; responsibility because, in keeping with a great many Irish families at the time, they weren't backward at coming forward when it came to children, and Nora and Maurice managed four children, two girls and two boys, before he shuffled off this mortal coil. So Nora Webster then…
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We want to be able to block an external email address (eg: firstname.lastname@example.com) from all internal domain users except for 2 or 3, does anyone know how to do this?
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Apr 14, 2009 at 10:13 UTC
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Don't assign all of the users SMTP addresses. Only assign the users that you want to get mail from outside the company an SMTP email address.
You could also look at a SPAM solution and use a wildcard to block all incoming mail to all users except the users you want to get mail.
Apr 14, 2009 at 10:25 UTC
For what you're looking for, nothing really easy. If I had to, I would use my SonicWall device, and I could block those e-mail addresses company-wide, then have the users I need override the company settings.
Built-in to Exchange there is nothing easy. You can go in AD and look at the user's properties, go tot he Exchange General tab, then Delivery Restrictions, and set Accept Messages to "From everyone except:", but you would have to create an external contact for each of the e-mail addresses you want blocked, and then you would have to set this up for every user seperately (I just tried using ADModify, and it can't hit that property for some reason...). Really I'm not positive that this would work, it would take some testing, but I think that it should...just might not be worth the trouble if you have more than a few users.
Apr 14, 2009 at 12:22 UTC
I am going to watch this one just because this seems like one of those impossible things to do easily and efficiently, but probably does have a cool fix.
Apr 15, 2009 at 6:49 UTC
Guess I need to be more specific, there is only 1external email address we need to block, this email address is an ex employee and we want to limit thier ability to email current employees to only 2 or 3 instead of the entire company, is there away to block them from emailing everyone, or is there a rule that can be setup to send all mail from email@example.com to specified users?
Apr 15, 2009 at 7:13 UTC
IT Journey, LLC is an IT service provider.
If you have a SPAM solution in place, blacklist the users email address for the entire company, then whitelist it for the couple of people that you want to get the emails. That should work since I believe the whitelist typically overrides the blacklist.
Apr 15, 2009 at 8:07 UTC
As far as I know there is nothing native in Exchange to do this. You can block ALL email from a sender, and then archive the messages, which will drop the messages in
c:\program files\exchsrvr\mailroot\vsi 1\Filter
You can do this by opening Exchange System Manager, Global Settings, properties on Message Delivery, then the Sender Filtering tab.
You'll need to make sure someone keeps an eye on that filter folder.
Apr 27, 2009 at 5:20 UTC
The blocklist and whitelist combo should work, but not in Exchange. So, can you just contact the people sending to this address and provide them with another address?
This discussion has been inactive for over a year.
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Originally posted by Inactive Userwas playin the other day and had to take a pic of this. Nuke in a care package
i think they were cheatin tho, cause when i was in the lobby, we got nuked like 2 games in a row with the first place player on the other team had no more than 15 kills. ?)
i thought that you couldn't get nukes in care packages?
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For PS3 How to play any game mode with new maps:
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Originally posted by Inactive UserYou don't have to have a jtag. You can get into a lobby and get the infection that lets you have nuke in care packages, fully automatic M-16s, unlimited UAV, and an aim bot. My friend has it and it's freakin crazy. I was so overwhelmed haha. You can see people through walls and shit. It's soooo sweet.
wow lol, I didn't know about that. Sometimes I swear I play against people with wall hacks..
yo what are these modded controllers that i keep hearing about lately? do they aim for you or something?
Originally posted by Inactive Userlol new map pack in june.
Originally posted by Inactive Userlol new map pack in june.
Originally posted by Inactive UserModern Warfare 2's "Resurgence" pack will contain a mix of maps, some new, some not so new.
The old maps are Vacant and Strike, while the new maps are called Trailer Park (a tight, constrained map), Carnival (a big fairground) and Fuel (a sniper's paradise).
The Resurgence pack launches June 3 for Xbox 360, while PC and PS3 owners will have to sit tight for further details on their respective launches.
I bet that Carnival one will be very similar to that level in cod 4, could be pretty good.
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Cody Croslin (November 1, 1980) is an American professional wrestler currently known by the ring name Tyler Bateman.
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Roundhouse to Triple Spin Kick is a move introduced to Kazuya Mishima in Tekken 2. Jin Kazama can perform this move in Tekken 3 and Tekken Tag Tournament and Devil Jin in Tekken 5 and Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection.
This move is good to make a lot of damage and combos. However, it is also predictable, especially in high-level play, and from Tekken Tag Tournament to Dark Resurrection, if the second or third hit is blocked, the move will be interrupted and the character will be left open for attacks.
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Saying that your business should never, never, ever use cloud-based applications instead of desktop or network/server based ones is about as ridiculous as saying that cloud-based applications will eventually replace IT completely. An article titled 'cloud computation is for suckers' rallies on the follies of the cloud talking about flaky performance, dependency problems, cyber terrorism and the likes.
There might be some truth about performance issues because even with a 30 MBPS service you'll get flaky performance from most online apps, especially if they're popular. Always remember that your online speed is only as good as the speed at which data is coming at you: The application server may be swamped, and the various nodes along the route could become clogged, too. Nothing is ever as fast as the machine sitting on top of (or beneath) your own desk.
Despite the backlash, some basic facts cannot be hidden and that is the clouds are here to stay! I am not sure if I've mentioned this statistic before? Gartner predicts that by 2012 80 percent of Fortune 1000 enterprises will pay for some cloud-computing service, while 30 percent of them will pay for cloud-computing infrastructure. While the technology has its fair share of drawbacks such as privacy and security concerns, an undeniable silver lining is currently turning skeptics into enthusiasts.
A significant section of the technology community believes that there is a compelling case for clouds for business reasons and otherwise. Let's look at social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube…the list is quite big. Utilizing a cloud service for communications would definitely be a cheaper alternative than a private solution because it is cheaper to connect to a hub or a network once rather than have multiple point to point connections. Cloud computing is a way to provide an application at low startup costs in exchange for revenue over time – whether through advertising, in the case of Google's apps, or through a subscription model. Yes, it is very much "renting" rather than "owning," but that can very well make financial sense in many cases.
Then there is this whole 'more for less' philosophy when shared resources are used on demand/intermittently. You're no longer tethered to a single computer/network. You change workstations and your existing applications will follow you through the cloud. Moving to a portable device? Your applications will be available there. Desktop networking can destroy all your data when your hard disk crashes. But when your data's out there in the cloud, it is still accessible and offers you an unlimited amount of storage. It's likely that at some point any device that can access the Internet will be able to run a cloud-based application. Application services are available, independent of the user devices and network interfaces.