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Hart's, Nottingham
"Cool city centre hotel with a great restaurant"
Review by Fiona Duncan, published 22nd August 2010.
The eponymous owner of this city-centre hotel recounts a nice joke about marital longevity. "If you're lucky enough to have been married for more than 30 years, then give thanks to the goddess of love, Aphrodite. But don't forget the goddess of glue, Araldite."
The goddess Araldite had to step in pretty swiftly as my husband of thirtysomething years and I searched for Tim Hart's hotel among a confusing maze in Nottingham's business district, a mix of modern buildings interspersed with period ones.
We were looking, it transpired, for the site of the city's former Victorian hospital. Hart's Restaurant occupies the old A & E department, while his hotel was purpose-built next to it in 2003. An odd place, perhaps, to find a Nottingham hot spot and a cool place to stay, but intriguing.
Transformed by Tim and his wife, Stefa, in 1997 into a light and airy modern space, walls decorated with bright abstract canvasses, the restaurant presented no echoes of its previous incarnation. The closest I came to an emergency was a strong urge to lie down at the end of the meal. In vain I tried to curb my greed. From a menu overseen by Aaron Patterson, the superb chef at Tim and Stefa's equally superb country house hotel on Rutland Water, Hambleton Hall, there was nothing I didn't want to eat.
Mindful, however, of NHS diktats, I stuck to a seasonal salad, followed by a plump slice of halibut served with a bouillabaisse consommé and then an orange crème brûlée, all excellent. We drank a perfect Pouilly Fuissé from Hart's short but expert list and the goddess Araldite's glue began to work.
So that's one distinct advantage if you choose to stay at Hart's: you get a happening local restaurant rather than the dull, under-used in-house dining room so often found in similar city boutique hotels. This one has striking lines, curved buttresses, panache.
Stefa is responsible for the stylish interior design, as she was at Hambleton Hall. I loved her dashing yet welcoming lobby, and the light-filled bar/breakfast room made an attractive place to linger, but she was evidently more constrained by the surprisingly boxy bedrooms, though they do benefit from high ceilings, plenty of natural light and louvred vents for natural fresh air.
Wardrobes and fittings are either in light or dark wood, with elegant curtains and sliding opaque glass doors to the bathrooms. Six rooms have private terraces (£170), which are desirable in summer.
If the bad news is that all but two suites are the same small size, the good news is that all but six inward facing ones present an unexpected surprise: a far-flung view across the city to the countryside. In the foreground: the remarkable Park residential estate, begun by the Duke of Newcastle in the 1820s and now preserved. In the distance: the cooling towers of the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, like a crouching giant – quite a sight.
How it rates
Small, but well equipped, with high ceilings and views
Warm local staff, more friendly than polished
For a modern hotel in a sometimes workaday city, a real find
Excellent restaurant; great bangers and coffee for breakfast, though often chock-a-block
Prices high for Nottingham, but fair for the standard
- Standard Hill, Park Row (0115 988 1900; www.hartsnottingham.co.uk). From £120; breakfast from £8.50. Access for guests with disabilities
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The Hotel Guru verdict
Small but well equipped, with high ceilings and views
Warm local staff, more friendly than polished
For a modern hotel in a sometimes workaday city, a real find
|Food and drink
Excellent restaurant; great bangers and coffee for breakfast, though often choc-a-bloc
|Value for money
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Albert H. La Plante, 89, a retired Cook County Circuit Court judge, served as a traffic court referee in Chicago and then as judge in the western suburbs.
A resident of Evanston, Judge La Plante died Sunday in the Georgian Home there.
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A Russian billionaire has offered $100 million to fund researchers at UC Berkeley's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Research Center to find extraterrestrial life.
On Monday, Yuri Milner, who invested early in Facebook and Twitter and made a fortune, joined physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking at the Royal Society of London to announce Breakthrough Listen. Hawking stated, "Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important to us to know if we are alone in the darkness."
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Research Center has been fruitlessly exploring the universe since 1961, but scientists there are planning to use Milner's funding to study the nearest million stars and 100 galaxies, as well as the Milky Way galaxy and its billions of stars. That effort will examine an area ten times wider in scope than any area examined before. The group will use the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, and Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia, two of the world's largest telescopes.
Milner asserted that the new technology available influenced him to make his hefty donation, saying, "Now we have completely different software and hardware to look through the enormous amounts of data that these telescopes will be collecting. it's only now we really have the capability to process as much information in a day than any previous search in a year." He also said any data collected will be made available to the public, and that Breakthrough Listen will make a platform available for developers to build applications that can examine the data collected.
Milner also offered $1 million in a competition called Breakthrough Message for the best messages that could be sent to any prospective forms of extraterrestrial life. He recalled that as a theoretical physicist in the 1980s, he dreamed of looking for extraterrestrial life, but now that dream could come to fruition, saying, "It is now a truly scientific quest. In the 20th century, we stepped out from our planet to space, to the moon, to the solar system. In the 21st century, we'll find out about life at the galactic scale. It is time to open our eyes our ears and our minds to the cosmos."
Andrew Siemon, one of the co-founders of The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Research Center, was delighted at how the scenario for the group has changed, stating, "We would typically get 24 to 36 hours on a telescope per year, but now we'll have thousands of hours per year on the best instruments. It's difficult to over state how big this is. It's a revolution."


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Greater London Council Staff Association
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- Dates of Creation1966-1987
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Administrative / Biographical History
The association was founded in 1909 as the London County Council Staff Association. After local government reorganisation in 1965 it became the Greater London Council Staff Association and in 1987 it joined the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union.
Reference: H.A. Clegg, General union in a changing society.Oxford, 1964
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Archivist's Note
An authority file exists for this corporate body (GB 152 AAR817).
The main archives of the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union, including the boilermakers' section, remain with the union at its national college. Some records have, however, been transferred to the Working Class Movement Library, Salford : see Working Class Movement Library, Bulletin, no. 2 (1992), pp. 67-92, for a description of these records. Some records of the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers are also held in the London Archive, Department of Politics, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London. The records of numerous textile unions are in the Lancashire Record Office. Other material, including some Blacksmiths' Society records, is held by the Centre.
Custodial History
The Greater London Council Staff Association's papers form part of the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union archive. The initial deposit related to this archive was made in 1978 and accruals are listed under the entry for the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union (MSS.192/GMB) .


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The Society for New Korean Music
Seven Composers & Three Performers—
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The straightforward thesis of the slim but powerful new book published last year by the Lagos State University (LASU) – based political economist, Dr Sylvester Odion Akhaine, is vividly captured by its graphic title – 'Patrons of Poverty: IMF/World Bank and Africa's Problems'. Published in Germany by LAMBERT Academic Publishing, the book runs into a little over a hundred pages divided into five simple and readable but tightly structured chapters. The thrust of his argument is that in our globalised world characterised by information technology revolutions and capital flows volatility, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, through their policies and activities, "have continuously relegated African economies to the backwaters".
He contends that Africa's protracted crisis of perennial underdevelopment can only be properly explicated and understood within the historical purview of the tragic incidences of slavery, colonialism and contemporary neo-colonialism as represented particularly by the policies imposed on the continent by hegemonic International Financial Institutions (IFI) like the IMF and the World Bank.
Many would contend that this is a tired and tortured argument that treads the worn path earlier charted by such radical scholars as Walter Rodney, Bade Onimode, Samir Amin, Claude Ake, Adebayo Olukoshi and scores of other radically inclined African intellectuals. Those who hold this view say that it only constitutes an attempt by Africans to evade responsibility for the plight of their blighted continent over five decades after the termination of formal colonial rule. Yet, the veracity of this position cannot be credibly refuted. It is impossible to comprehend Africa's dire, desperate and dismal present without reference to her traumatic, disturbed and turbulent past.
In a press statement issued at the Action Group Federal Headquarters, Lagos, on 28th June, 1961, the foremost Nigerian statesman and politician, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, made this point with characteristic pungency. "From the beginning of recorded history" he declared, "the black man has been the most conspicuous butt of all manner of inhuman treatment. In the palaces of the Arabian Potentates – both in the Middle East and in North Africa – he was degraded and enslaved. When the so-called 'Dark Continent of Africa' was discovered the European marauders hunted him down like a common beast, captured him, and sold him into slavery in the Americas and the West Indies. The era of trading in, and of enforcing the services of black slaves, terminated only to be replaced by the European Powers, which initiated it with a legalized form of political and economic enslavement of the entire peoples of the Continent of Africa…For more than sixty years thereafter, black Africa suffered under the grinding heels of alien conquerors and settlers".
Dr Akhaine has done Africans a great service by simplifying and making more accessible to a wider audience the ideas of earlier seminal scholars on the crisis of poverty and underdevelopment in Africa. As he puts it "The continent has no independent policies; it is continuously guided by transferred policies of leading global powers that are desirous of maintaining vertical relations of dominance between them and the dominant countries". In chapter two of his book, the author undertakes an overview of the current pathetic and dehumanising position of Africa in the global political economy. He traces the roots of underdevelopment in Africa to the brutal eras of slavery and colonialism as well as the continuation by conniving African leadership elite that pursue pro-imperialist policies, which only lead to further submergence of the continent in the miry clay of underdevelopment.
In this regard, Akhaine disagrees vehemently with the school of thought, which states that the slave trade was actually of benefit to Africa. According to this school of thought, slavery resulted in increased prosperity of such pre-colonial states as Dahomey, Benin and Oyo and that slavery served as a form of population control to avoid famine. In addition to these, the pro-slave trade school of thought believes that apart from helping to introduce into Africa new crops such as maize and cassava, slavery rescued the slave victims from poverty in Africa to more affluent lives in European and American destinations. Countering these racially jaundiced perspectives, Akhaine points out that the slave trade, which lasted approximately three centuries, actually had a negative and catastrophic effect on population growth in Africa, deprived the continent of the more productive and vigorous sections of their populations while also causing a severe dislocation of Africa's local economies as a result of intra-African slavery wars.
In the same vein, Akhaine contends, colonialism had a deleterious and retardation effect on African economies. The colonial administration forced Africans to produce so called cash crops as well as mine mineral resources for the benefit of the colonial economy. This led to a distortion and disarticulation of African economies, a distortion they are yet to recover from till date. Again, colonialism discouraged capital goods production such as equipment and machinery in the colonies thus inhibiting the capacity of these colonies for meaningful domestic capital formation.
In this chapter, Akhaine asks why and at what stage Africa became synonymous with chronic dependency and pervasive underdevelopment. He points out that Africa was in reality economically self-sufficient before the continent's encounter with the forces of slavery and colonialism. In his words "the present crop of African leaders need to know that the continent's conditions were not always as it is; its people once dominated and tamed their environment; they never had unemployment; they produced what they consumed and had food surpluses and that in the context of the prevailing global constraints these feats are still possible".
Not only was Africa self-sufficient in food production in contrast to today's dependency, the continent had taken impressive strides in industries such as cloth-making, iron smelting and soap making among others. These products, he says, had as far back as the 17th century, penetrated European markets especially the Iberian Peninsula. It was thus the brutal encounter with slavery and colonial imperialism that effectively arrested the self-reliant economic and technological development of Africa.
Of course, Dr Akhaine does not shy away from confronting the roles which corrupt and tyrannical post-colonial African leadership elite – Idi Amin, Mobutu Sese Soko, Marcia Nguema, Sani Abacha, Robert Mugabe etc – played in looting, exploiting and perpetrating the worst human rights atrocities in their countries. He, however, makes the point that the emergence and perpetuation in power of this perverse post-colonial leadership could not be divorced from the machinations of the colonial imperialists. This point is buttressed by the implication of the advanced imperial countries in the undermining and elimination of patriotic and progressive African leaders such as Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Samora Machel, Thomas Sankara or Murtala Muhammed who were genuinely committed to the liberation of the continent and the actualisation of her potentials.


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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 9, 2007
National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive
White House News
Subject: National Continuity Policy
(1) This directive establishes a comprehensive national policy on the continuity of Federal Government structures and operations and a single National Continuity Coordinator responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of Federal continuity policies. This policy establishes "National Essential Functions," prescribes continuity requirements for all executive departments and agencies, and provides guidance for State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector organizations in order to ensure a comprehensive and integrated national continuity program that will enhance the credibility of our national security posture and enable a more rapid and effective response to and recovery from a national emergency.
(2) In this directive:
(a) "Category" refers to the categories of executive departments and agencies listed in Annex A to this directive;
(b) "Catastrophic Emergency" means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions;
(c) "Continuity of Government," or "COG," means a coordinated effort within the Federal Government's executive branch to ensure that National Essential Functions continue to be performed during a Catastrophic Emergency;
(d) "Continuity of Operations," or "COOP," means an effort within individual executive departments and agencies to ensure that Primary Mission-Essential Functions continue to be performed during a wide range of emergencies, including localized acts of nature, accidents, and technological or attack-related emergencies;
(e) "Enduring Constitutional Government," or "ECG," means a cooperative effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government, coordinated by the President, as a matter of comity with respect to the legislative and judicial branches and with proper respect for the constitutional separation of powers among the branches, to preserve the constitutional framework under which the Nation is governed and the capability of all three branches of government to execute constitutional responsibilities and provide for orderly succession, appropriate transition of leadership, and interoperability and support of the National Essential Functions during a catastrophic emergency;
(f) "Executive Departments and Agencies" means the executive departments enumerated in 5 U.S.C. 101, independent establishments as defined by 5 U.S.C. 104(1), Government corporations as defined by 5 U.S.C. 103(1), and the United States Postal Service;
(g) "Government Functions" means the collective functions of the heads of executive departments and agencies as defined by statute, regulation, presidential direction, or other legal authority, and the functions of the legislative and judicial branches;
(h) "National Essential Functions," or "NEFs," means that subset of Government Functions that are necessary to lead and sustain the Nation during a catastrophic emergency and that, therefore, must be supported through COOP and COG capabilities; and
(i) "Primary Mission Essential Functions," or "PMEFs," means those Government Functions that must be performed in order to support or implement the performance of NEFs before, during, and in the aftermath of an emergency.
(3) It is the policy of the United States to maintain a comprehensive and effective continuity capability composed of Continuity of Operations and Continuity of Government programs in order to ensure the preservation of our form of government under the Constitution and the continuing performance of National Essential Functions under all conditions.
Implementation Actions
(4) Continuity requirements shall be incorporated into daily operations of all executive departments and agencies. As a result of the asymmetric threat environment, adequate warning of potential emergencies that could pose a significant risk to the homeland might not be available, and therefore all continuity planning shall be based on the assumption that no such warning will be received. Emphasis will be placed upon geographic dispersion of leadership, staff, and infrastructure in order to increase survivability and maintain uninterrupted Government Functions. Risk management principles shall be applied to ensure that appropriate operational readiness decisions are based on the probability of an attack or other incident and its consequences.
(5) The following NEFs are the foundation for all continuity programs and capabilities and represent the overarching responsibilities of the Federal Government to lead and sustain the Nation during a crisis, and therefore sustaining the following NEFs shall be the primary focus of the Federal Government leadership during and in the aftermath of an emergency that adversely affects the performance of Government Functions:
(a) Ensuring the continued functioning of our form of government under the Constitution, including the functioning of the three separate branches of government;
(b) Providing leadership visible to the Nation and the world and maintaining the trust and confidence of the American people;
(c) Defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and preventing or interdicting attacks against the United States or its people, property, or interests;
(d) Maintaining and fostering effective relationships with foreign nations;
(e) Protecting against threats to the homeland and bringing to justice perpetrators of crimes or attacks against the United States or its people, property, or interests;
(f) Providing rapid and effective response to and recovery from the domestic consequences of an attack or other incident;
(g) Protecting and stabilizing the Nation's economy and ensuring public confidence in its financial systems; and
(h) Providing for critical Federal Government services that address the national health, safety, and welfare needs of the United States.
(6) The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government. In order to advise and assist the President in that function, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHS/CT) is hereby designated as the National Continuity Coordinator. The National Continuity Coordinator, in coordination with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), without exercising directive authority, shall coordinate the development and implementation of continuity policy for executive departments and agencies. The Continuity Policy Coordination Committee (CPCC), chaired by a Senior Director from the Homeland Security Council staff, designated by the National Continuity Coordinator, shall be the main day-to-day forum for such policy coordination.
(7) For continuity purposes, each executive department and agency is assigned to a category in accordance with the nature and characteristics of its national security roles and responsibilities in support of the Federal Government's ability to sustain the NEFs. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall serve as the President's lead agent for coordinating overall continuity operations and activities of executive departments and agencies, and in such role shall perform the responsibilities set forth for the Secretary in sections 10 and 16 of this directive.
(8) The National Continuity Coordinator, in consultation with the heads of appropriate executive departments and agencies, will lead the development of a National Continuity Implementation Plan (Plan), which shall include prioritized goals and objectives, a concept of operations, performance metrics by which to measure continuity readiness, procedures for continuity and incident management activities, and clear direction to executive department and agency continuity coordinators, as well as guidance to promote interoperability of Federal Government continuity programs and procedures with State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure, as appropriate. The Plan shall be submitted to the President for approval not later than 90 days after the date of this directive.
(9) Recognizing that each branch of the Federal Government is responsible for its own continuity programs, an official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President shall ensure that the executive branch's COOP and COG policies in support of ECG efforts are appropriately coordinated with those of the legislative and judicial branches in order to ensure interoperability and allocate national assets efficiently to maintain a functioning Federal Government.
(10) Federal Government COOP, COG, and ECG plans and operations shall be appropriately integrated with the emergency plans and capabilities of State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure, as appropriate, in order to promote interoperability and to prevent redundancies and conflicting lines of authority. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall coordinate the integration of Federal continuity plans and operations with State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure, as appropriate, in order to provide for the delivery of essential services during an emergency.
(11) Continuity requirements for the Executive Office of the President (EOP) and executive departments and agencies shall include the following:
(a) The continuation of the performance of PMEFs during any emergency must be for a period up to 30 days or until normal operations can be resumed, and the capability to be fully operational at alternate sites as soon as possible after the occurrence of an emergency, but not later than 12 hours after COOP activation;
(b) Succession orders and pre-planned devolution of authorities that ensure the emergency delegation of authority must be planned and documented in advance in accordance with applicable law;
(c) Vital resources, facilities, and records must be safeguarded, and official access to them must be provided;
(d) Provision must be made for the acquisition of the resources necessary for continuity operations on an emergency basis;
(e) Provision must be made for the availability and redundancy of critical communications capabilities at alternate sites in order to support connectivity between and among key government leadership, internal elements, other executive departments and agencies, critical partners, and the public;
(f) Provision must be made for reconstitution capabilities that allow for recovery from a catastrophic emergency and resumption of normal operations; and
(g) Provision must be made for the identification, training, and preparedness of personnel capable of relocating to alternate facilities to support the continuation of the performance of PMEFs.
(12) In order to provide a coordinated response to escalating threat levels or actual emergencies, the Continuity of Government Readiness Conditions (COGCON) system establishes executive branch continuity program readiness levels, focusing on possible threats to the National Capital Region. The President will determine and issue the COGCON Level. Executive departments and agencies shall comply with the requirements and assigned responsibilities under the COGCON program. During COOP activation, executive departments and agencies shall report their readiness status to the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Secretary's designee.
(13) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall:
(a) Conduct an annual assessment of executive department and agency continuity funding requests and performance data that are submitted by executive departments and agencies as part of the annual budget request process, in order to monitor progress in the implementation of the Plan and the execution of continuity budgets;
(b) In coordination with the National Continuity Coordinator, issue annual continuity planning guidance for the development of continuity budget requests; and
(c) Ensure that heads of executive departments and agencies prioritize budget resources for continuity capabilities, consistent with this directive.
(14) The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall:
(a) Define and issue minimum requirements for continuity communications for executive departments and agencies, in consultation with the APHS/CT, the APNSA, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Chief of Staff to the President;
(b) Establish requirements for, and monitor the development, implementation, and maintenance of, a comprehensive communications architecture to integrate continuity components, in consultation with the APHS/CT, the APNSA, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Chief of Staff to the President; and
(c) Review quarterly and annual assessments of continuity communications capabilities, as prepared pursuant to section 16(d) of this directive or otherwise, and report the results and recommended remedial actions to the National Continuity Coordinator.
(15) An official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President shall:
(a) Advise the President, the Chief of Staff to the President, the APHS/CT, and the APNSA on COGCON operational execution options; and
(b) Consult with the Secretary of Homeland Security in order to ensure synchronization and integration of continuity activities among the four categories of executive departments and agencies.
(16) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall:
(a) Coordinate the implementation, execution, and assessment of continuity operations and activities;
(b) Develop and promulgate Federal Continuity Directives in order to establish continuity planning requirements for executive departments and agencies;
(c) Conduct biennial assessments of individual department and agency continuity capabilities as prescribed by the Plan and report the results to the President through the APHS/CT;
(d) Conduct quarterly and annual assessments of continuity communications capabilities in consultation with an official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President;
(e) Develop, lead, and conduct a Federal continuity training and exercise program, which shall be incorporated into the National Exercise Program developed pursuant to Homeland Security Presidential Directive-8 of December 17, 2003 ("National Preparedness"), in consultation with an official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President;
(f) Develop and promulgate continuity planning guidance to State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector critical infrastructure owners and operators;
(g) Make available continuity planning and exercise funding, in the form of grants as provided by law, to State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector critical infrastructure owners and operators; and
(h) As Executive Agent of the National Communications System, develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive continuity communications architecture.
(17) The Director of National Intelligence, in coordination with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall produce a biennial assessment of the foreign and domestic threats to the Nation's continuity of government.
(18) The Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall provide secure, integrated, Continuity of Government communications to the President, the Vice President, and, at a minimum, Category I executive departments and agencies.
(19) Heads of executive departments and agencies shall execute their respective department or agency COOP plans in response to a localized emergency and shall:
(a) Appoint a senior accountable official, at the Assistant Secretary level, as the Continuity Coordinator for the department or agency;
(b) Identify and submit to the National Continuity Coordinator the list of PMEFs for the department or agency and develop continuity plans in support of the NEFs and the continuation of essential functions under all conditions;
(c) Plan, program, and budget for continuity capabilities consistent with this directive;
(d) Plan, conduct, and support annual tests and training, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, in order to evaluate program readiness and ensure adequacy and viability of continuity plans and communications systems; and
(e) Support other continuity requirements, as assigned by category, in accordance with the nature and characteristics of its national security roles and responsibilities
General Provisions
(20) This directive shall be implemented in a manner that is consistent with, and facilitates effective implementation of, provisions of the Constitution concerning succession to the Presidency or the exercise of its powers, and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (3 U.S.C. 19), with consultation of the Vice President and, as appropriate, others involved. Heads of executive departments and agencies shall ensure that appropriate support is available to the Vice President and others involved as necessary to be prepared at all times to implement those provisions.
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(a) Shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and the authorities of agencies, or heads of agencies, vested by law, and subject to the availability of appropriations;
(b) Shall not be construed to impair or otherwise affect (i) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budget, administrative, and legislative proposals, or (ii) the authority of the Secretary of Defense over the Department of Defense, including the chain of command for military forces from the President, to the Secretary of Defense, to the commander of military forces, or military command and control procedures; and
(c) Is not intended to, and does not, create any rights or benefits, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
(22) Revocation. Presidential Decision Directive 67 of October 21, 1998 ("Enduring Constitutional Government and Continuity of Government Operations"), including all Annexes thereto, is hereby revoked.
(23) Annex A and the classified Continuity Annexes, attached hereto, are hereby incorporated into and made a part of this directive.
(24) Security. This directive and the information contained herein shall be protected from unauthorized disclosure, provided that, except for Annex A, the Annexes attached to this directive are classified and shall be accorded appropriate handling, consistent with applicable Executive Orders.
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Thank You For Your--UH--"Service": Ramon's 9-11
Thank You for Your–UH-"Service": Ramon's 9-11
James Craven/Omahkohkiaayo i'poyi, like every surviving offspring of a mostly successful policy and practice of genocide, can do nothing but continue to exist and be an accusation leveled at a smug society. When I worked at Claremore Indian Hospital in 1989, I saw plenty of people who did that… many of them so deracinated and broken that they had lost any shred of their joie de vive, like the society in which they were stranded was some distant planet with a slow poison in the air.
Jim has done something different, though. His life is one of those stubborn sparks that fans itself in the winds of political struggle. His accusations are not passive. Passive accusation gets invisibilized, like the homeless people we ignore as we pass them on the street. Jim accuses actively with his words and actions. Who better to tell us, as he did recently, that there is something mighty strange when the US press can natter on for days about a resolution on the Ottoman genocide of the Armenians in the grip of the press' own intransigent amnesia about the very land upon which they stand and natter.
I don't think Jim is motivated by vengeance or venom, even though his accusations are bitter. He is a committed socialist, which to me means someone who wants to relieve suffering… not impose it. The bitterness of his thoughts and words are the bitterness of a strong medicine that we need. Without trying to excuse or write an equal-sign between the suffering of the oppressed and the suffering of those who are privileged within a system of oppression, I will say — as Toni Morrison did — that the slave bears her scars on her back, and the master pays the cost of a fragmented personality.
This contribution to Insurgent American is Omahkohkiaayo i'poyi doing what he does best; and if it's bitter, then savor the bitterness. It is good for you.
Stan Goff
October 25, 2007
Thank You for Your–UH-"Service": Ramon's 9-11
by James Craven/Omahkohkiaayo i'poyi
We've all done it. Someone in uniform, military mostly, but also police, firefighters, we say it almost like "Good Morning"; it is "Thank you for your service." And we mean it. Thank you for being among the few with the courage and sacrifice to put your own life and comforts on the line for a transcendent cause beyond yourself; particularly if that Cause is the safety and liberty of me and mine.
But that begs a thought experiment: Do Germans thank former SS for their "service" that many actually convinced thmselves was for the safety and liberty of their system, culture and "own kind"? Can we or should we separate the "service" to a transcendent Cause from the nature of that Cause itself?
This occurred to me further when I got and and immediately digested the new book by Valerie Plame Wilson "Fair Game". On one level I could respect that she put her life on the line for a transcendent Cause beyond her own self and selfishness and self-preservation; a Cause that she still believes in. But when she is quoted on the jacket of the book that she is "proud to have served my country by working at the Central Intelligence Agency" a chill goes up my spine:
I think of all the books on the CIA written by insiders, never mind the outsider critics, I have read, along with all the released internal files of the CIA, that show what can only be described as organized terrorism and Imperial hubris against innocents. I think as well, about revelations, that, contrary to the hype and spin, almost every covert operation since CIA's inception, has been/is coming back as "Blowback" with far worse evils coming back and/or ourselves being turned into, than the operation was intended to deal with or prevent. I think of Tim Weiner's "Legacy of Ashes: The Secret History of the CIA" and Ralph McGehee's Deadly Deceits" and all that they and so many other histories like it reveal. I think of the rigged elections in Italy in 1948; the overthrow of Mossadeq in 1953 and installation of the brutal Shah; Guatemala 1954; Syria 1956; Tibet 1959; Laos 59-62; South Korea 1962; Cuba 1962; Vietnam 1963; Dominican Republic 1965; Indonesia 1965; and on and on and on–the "blood-and-treasure" count.
But most of all and always first, I think of Ramon. That is a pseudonym for a real person and I dare not use even his alias as I do not know if he is alive or if it might compromise him in some way. Ramon's own special
9-11 was 9-11-1973 outside Santiago Chile when the democratically-elected Government of Salvador Allende (far fairer election than any of Bush) was violently overthrown by a CIA planned, designed, nurtured, initiated, executed, consolidated and covered-up fascist coup d'etat that installed the brutal fascist dictatorship of Pinochet.
On his 9-11, Ramon was an engineering student working/studying outside Santiago at the copper pits. His wife was an artist who ran a center in Santiago. They were both idealists and progressives, but not members of any organization. Ramon, when attacked by fascist forces on 9-11, at the copper pits, picked up a gun for the first time in his life to defend himself. He was captured and because they thought he was some kind of a leader, he was slated for torture instead of immediate execution.
Ramon was taken initially to the soccer stadium in Santiago. He kept asking where was his wife. His wife was brought into a room with six guards and a "gringo" present, while he was forced to watch his wife repeatedly gang raped and then beheaded with piano wire. Later he had two fingers cut off but in the internment camp a doctor sewed up his hand with horse hairs improvised. While in the internment camp, the Red Cross came and a worker saw him, with TB, and took pity and got him out and to Canada where he became a legal refugee and immigrant.
I was teaching in a tenure-track position at a community college. Some friends approached me and basically asked for my help to do what amounted to the same thing as hiding Jews in nazi Germany. Although these Chilean immigrants were perfectly legal residents, as legal refugees and/or immigrants, they were subject to surveillance, harassment, kidnapping and even assassination (e.g. Orlando Letalier in Washington, DC) as Chilean DINA or national police, were allowed to operate, with the knowledge of the national intelligence services, in countries like the U.S., Canada, Britain, etc.
I was asked to help to set up safe areas for legal refugees fleeing locally-assisted DINA agents looking for them and to do some long-distance photography at the airport baggage pickup. Here, after all they had suffered, they were still not safe as they were hounded against, as legal refugees ,within the countries that had accepted them as refugees.
Last time I heard from Ramon was from a bakery somewhere on the east coast. Just like the Iraqis who got politicized, energized and became straight insurgents against a foreign occupying power, as we celebrate about ourselves doing every July 4th, and they have nothing to do with Al Qaeda, or that kind of ideology, they are not jihadists, so, people like Ramon, got politicized, energized and mobilized to devote their entire lives, and likely shorten those lives, in becoming very political, very radical and very determined. Another Blowback. Ramon got very political, and he became his own kind of counterterrorist against those who had terrorized him and so many like him.
I also found Ms Plame Wilson's book a bit self-absorbed. Over and over it comes through that, although she believes in all the good stuff, Americanism, Mom, apple pie, the flag, military,etc, her main choices were about her, her need for some thrills and travel, and what interested her personally as ways to make her contribution to the transcendent Causes. When her cover was blown, and other vital jobs were still open, but not in Directorate of Operations, or at least in the field, she chose to pack it in because the jobs did not fit her own personal interests and needs. So much for sacrifice for the ol Transcendent Cause.
Finally, her work, which most certainly was covert, as was her CIA association until she was outed by right-wingers, and her job as Chief of Operations in the Counterproliferation Division, were far beyond the "glorified secretary" portrayed on Fox News (which, apparently, is the network of choice at the CIA and that itself is frightening and revealing about the culture of CIA at the same time). But here is another question: Since nuclear weapons, used by anyone in a conflict, threaten many other nations and even the whole planet–not a parties to any wars between nations–why should any nation be allowed to have nuclear weapons, given their massive letality and global spillover effects? Or, if any nation has nuclear weapons, why does that not give license and precedent of any other nation to have similar so as to have their own deterrence and protect their own national security? And in stopping proliferations of weapons unless authorized by the U.S. Government (like the U.S. arming Saddam Hussein) Ms Plame Wilson seems uncurious and ahistorical as to the implications of any nation, being a sole global superpower, armed with weapons no other nation has, and with no other nations able to hold it to any accountability in law.
We can judge and rank-order systems on the basis of, with what given resources and constraints they deal with questions like: Who are the players? What do they do? How, Where, When, For Whom and Why do they do what they do relative to other systems? When we just look at the line-up of "candidates" for the presidency, historically and in the present, when we think that out of such a vast nation, is this really the "best" we could come up with? That thought experiment alone leads to some radical conclusions. And since all systems must be judged not only by what they really produce, BUT, also, relative to what they had to work with to produce it, and for whom they really produce it, then America is in some deep crap as is the whole world.
I now say "Thank you for your 'service' when I really mean it and when I do not have to de-link the service from the nature of "The Cause" that was/is really being served.
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Cincinnati Bengals RB Joe Mixon is expected to receive a bigger role in the offense under new offensive coordinator Bill Lazor, according to sources.
Mixon has not been a big factor on offense so far this season with 45 rushing yards and 20 receiving yards in two games. He could become the starting running back in the near future but likely will still have to share work with Jeremy Hill and Giovani Bernard. Mixon has the potential to be a productive fantasy option and can be at least a flex option if he receives the majority of the touches.
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How to Roast Garlic
You can never have enough garlic.
We cook with a lot of garlic in our house. Next to onions, garlic is the second most used ingredient excluding salt and pepper.
Garlic is used in so many of the recipes we prepare, we always have two or three heads on hand. From pasta sauces to stews to vegetable dishes we cook with garlic minced, smashed, chopped or left whole.
But there is another incredible way to use garlic in your dishes that is easy to do with a little planning ahead and that is roasting. When you roast garlic in a little olive oil with salt and pepper, it mellows out some and has a sweeter taste with the slightest hint of smokiness.
I absolutely love the taste and smell of minced garlic sautéed in a little olive oil, but roasted garlic offers you alternative ways of using it that you can't do with sautéed garlic:
Spread it like butter on a piece of baguette
Make a garlic aioli for dipping vegetables
Add it to a vinaigrette
Whip it into mashed potatoes
Add some to your favorite Italian pasta sauces
Spoon a little into soup recipes
Substitute for butter on a baked potato
Use in your favorite hummus recipe
Dab a little on the back of your ears to keep vampires away
One Head or More
What method I use for roasting garlic depends on how many heads I'm going to roast and if I'm roasting anything else with them. For example, if I'm only going to roast one head of garlic, I'll prep it and wrap it up in a piece of aluminum foil and roast it in a pre-heated oven for about 40 minutes.
If I'm going to roast several heads of garlic, I'll cook them in a small roasting pan. The temperature of the oven also depends on if I'm cooking them separately or with something else.
If done separately, I'll preheat and roast the garlic at 400°F for about 30 – 35 minutes but if I'm roasting a chicken or braising beef at 350°F, I'll just roast the garlic a little longer.
I like to multitask my cooking as much as possible and this is where meal planning can really help. If you know you are going to need roasted garlic for a meal you are preparing on Friday and are roasting a chicken on Wednesday, why not throw in some garlic with the chicken so you don't have to heat up your oven again? This is especially helpful during the summer on those hot days.
Sea salt
Freshly ground pepper
How To Prepare At Home
Prepping the Garlic
Start by removing any loose layers of skin from the whole head of garlic. Don't take too much off, you don't want the cloves breaking off.
With a sharp knife, carefully cut off the top 1/4 of the head so the cloves are exposed. You can toss the part you cut off and reserve the rest of the head.
If you are only roasting one or two garlic heads, tear off one or two sheets of aluminum foil, large enough to wrap the entire head of garlic. If you are roasting multiple heads of garlic, place the heads cut side up onto a small roasting pan or baking dish large enough to accommodate the number of heads you are roasting.
Drizzle a little olive oil onto each head and season with sea salt and freshly ground pepper. If you want to play around with some different flavors, you may want to experiment by adding a little minced rosemary or lemon zest to the seasoning. The number of options is huge.
Roast the Garlic
If you are using aluminum foil, tightly wrap the garlic head in foil and place directly onto the oven rack. This works great if you are roasting some other ingredient because the garlic takes up very little space.
You can even use this method when firing up the barbecue to grill vegetables or steaks or chicken. Depending on the temperature of the oven or grill, it should take about 40 - 45 minutes for the garlic to turn a golden brown the soften up.
If you are roasting a bunch of heads in a baking dish, place the pan into the oven uncovered and roast for 30 - 35 minutes until the garlic turns golden brown and the cloves become tender. If they are not softened up enough, just put the back into the oven for 5 - 10 minutes more.
After The Garlic Is Roasted
No matter what method you use to roast the garlic, let them cool down some after you remove them from the oven before handling. When they are cool enough to handle, unwrap from the aluminum foil or remove from the roasting pan and squeeze out the garlic from the bottom of each of the cloves with your fingers.
Yes, it's a little messy but please try to resist eating too much of the garlic while squeezing. The aroma from roasted garlic is so intoxicating you will have to use all your willpower to keep you from eating too much.
If you are roasting the garlic for a meal you are cooking that day, use what you need and store the rest in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to two weeks. If you don't have a recipe calling for roasted garlic later in the week, try substituting in any recipe calling for garlic or just spread some on a slice of Italian bread for a quick snack.
This is an easy cooking technique and if you do it while roasting something else, it really doesn't add that much time or effort to what you are cooking but it really makes a big difference.
Give it a try. I think you'll really enjoy the effort.
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Great piece on roasted garlic – TY!! I grow so much of it in my garden annually that I now roast a large part of it. After it's squeezed out, I fill ice cube trays with the "mash" and once frozen, pop them into resealable vac seal bags. I have roasted garlic at my disposal at all times; 15 seconds in he microwave and it's ready to use!!
PS. I enjoy your website and the articles you present. I too am in a Wall Street profession as founder of my RIA firm, but still working (happily)!! Love to spend down time with all types of food activities, from homemade pastas, to canning, to a variety of charcuterie. Keep up the good work with your site!!
Love, love roasted garlic and I'm so glad you're putting your method out for everyone. May I add just one thing – for 2-4 heads of garlic to be roasted, I add 1/3 to 1/2 cup of olive oil and after wrapping in foil, putting the pkg. (to prevent leaks) inside a larger baking bowl. The garlic oil from the garlic heads, I put in a container and freeze. Having garlic oil at your finger tips is as good as having the garlic (which I put the cloves in a baggie for the freezer, too.


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The Zampelas Art Museum and Cyprus Architects Association co-organise and present the architectural photography exhibition, entitled UNSEEN VIEWS, by the Architect Charis Solomou.
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Charis Solomou was born in Nicosia in 1982. He completed his studies at the School of Architecture of the University of Patra in 2006 where his interest and passion for architectural photography began to flourish at the same time. He established his own architectural studio in Nicosia in 2012, while in parallel participated at national and international architectural competitions with a considerable degree of success, winning numerous prizes and distinctions. Alongside practicing architecture, Charis teaches at the School of Architecture of Frederick University with an interest in research and teaching of computational design and fabrication, parametric design and advanced representation techniques focused on architectural design process.
With his studies in architecture, the practice in Cyprus and extensive traveling abroad, his work strives for alternative ways of describing the city, where concealed, unseen characteristics and particularities of the urban experience begin to become apparent through the photographic lens. His photographic portfolio focuses on well-known landmark buildings as well as thematic compositions of anonymous architecture. The light and shadows, texture, the geometrical characteristics of space and the morphological elements of buildings are the features that exist as an expression of the buildings unique identity and presence in the built environment of the city.
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I don't typically post multiple times during the week, but I just read an opinion piece by one of my favorite travel guides – Rick Steves – that really spoke to me.
Despite his hundreds of thousands of Facebook fans, Rick received a negative comment on one of his recent social posts describing his European travels. In essence, the commenter implied that with all of the troubling news in the world right now about the earthquake in Nepal, the riots in Baltimore, and beyond, Rick Steves' entertaining and educational posts about his latest European excursions seemed "out of touch."
I could not disagree more. Luckily, Rick felt the same way, and approached his public reply with his typical open-minded and inspiring prose.
"Traveling thoughtfully, especially in challenging times, is one of the best ways to put current events in perspective. It forces you to see that global victims of poverty and natural disasters aren't just faceless statistics in a newspaper, but humans. You can't help but feel empathy. In my travels, I've stood on the steps of sacred temples in Kathmandu, Nepal, bowed my head, and said "namaste" to people — perhaps some of the very same people who are now homeless and whose temples are now rubble."
While I have not yet been to Nepal, the message behind his words resonated to my core.
I grew up in a fairly wealthy suburb of Chicago, but at certain points during my teenage years my family could not afford vacations. I lived in a sheltered and ethnically homogeneous community, and I rarely traveled outside of it. I was certain that all of my peers were better off than myself, since my only exposure to other kids enduring true hardships was via the news. Apart from what I saw in the media, I was completely disconnected with the rest of the world.
So, when my folks signed me up to go on my first mission trip to Standing Rock Indian Reservation in south-central North Dakota with my church at age fifteen, I had no idea how much a trip devoted to volunteer work would give back to myself as well. I saw first-hand what it looked like to grow up in real poverty, and to be angry at another culture who overtook your land.
While I understand that the struggles and strife on Native American reservations are not in the news as often as the conflicts in Israel, that volunteer experience as a teenager has since helped me put those types of clashes into perspective. Meeting and learning from people who had different backgrounds than my own helped me learn what meaningful travel is all about.
In the article, Rick Steves continues on to say, "When people question how I can enjoy a great vacation while horrible things are happening, I say, "Sure, horrible things are happening. But what good does staying home do, especially when I find being on the road gives me a better understanding of the challenges our society will be confronting for a long time to come and help me better respond?"
Humans around the world face many challenges. That said, I firmly believe we (as a collective) will learn fastest by seeing first-hand how other cultures would approach problems differently than our own. In essence, the experiences we gain from traveling will enable us to find solutions together…as global citizens.
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Believe it or not some people like to do at least a few of their removals on a bike, but only if they're not moving too far. A jaunt across town with some of your most valuable items and jewels in a box doesn't seem so bad if there are certain things you want to protect, beyond any possibility of damage or loss. Wildly impractical for the longer journeys, of course. Still not a bad way to do your removals.
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|Godzilla: King of Monsters
|Clover Entertainment
|Electronic Arts
|Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii U
|Release Date(s)
|February 22nd, 2013
|Campaign, Free Roam, Multiplayer
|Age Rating(s)
|Action, Sandbox, Destruction
|Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Brawl
|Godzilla Universe Online
|Media Included
On October 28, 2012, it was officially announced that Godzilla: King of Monsters will also be made for NextGen Solo's new system, Neo. It was announced at the Fantendo Holiday Showcase.
A scientist collected small remains of skin from Godzilla, which were later transported to a government lab facility in the arid wasteland of Saradia. A scientist by the name of Dr. Shiragami intended to use the genetic material of the Godzilla cells to genetically enhance various species of plants to transform the land of Saradia with rich crops resistant to harsh weather and unfavorable conditions. However, it went horribly wrong and caused the test plant to mutate and create a terrible monster known as Biollante. Soon, Biollante is beginning to reproduce and form more mutated plant monsters. Only one monster can save the day: Godzilla.
Players control Godzilla (duh) in 3 huge open-world environments. The game is designed to give you the feeling that you really are Godzilla. You can swim, stomp through the streets, breathe atomic fire, and just do the things Godzilla does. Of course, Godzilla can destroy almost ANYTHING with his trademark abilities, such as his physical strength and atomic breath. The cities are fully destructible, and buildings crumble and collapse very realistically, one huge chunk at time, sometimes revealing a collectible or health replenishers. Godzilla can also climb up buildings that are much taller than him. There's also a new targeting system for when firing Godzilla's atomic breath. For example, you can lock on to a flying object, such as a military helicopter, and blast it out of the sky. Another great form of manuverability for Godzilla is that he can swim really well. You can go down really far underwater, but you still have to come up for air. Boats can also be destroyed.
You can earn upgrades to increase Godzilla's power and health, and earn more attacks. Unlike his portrayals in the previous films, Godzilla is faster and more agile, thus allowing him to climb structures and buildings taller than him, as said before. If Godzilla is taking damage or is near death, he can pick up people from the street and eat them. Godzilla can also use weapons out of his environment. He can use smokestacks from factories as clubs, television antennas as spears to impale enemies, cars and pieces of rubble as projectiles and can turn big chunks of rubble into steel gloves, enhancing his strength (similar to Hulk in Ultimate Destruction) If Godzilla causes enough damage, the army will come after him until he stops destroying the city. Godzilla can try to run away from them or destroy their forces. As the fight goes on, the army will leave and the Global Defense Force will arrive, with fighter jets, super-tanks and even MechaGodzilla (only if it reaches a 5-star alert level).
The city is extremely life-like. The game is supposed to make it feel like you really are Godzilla, and thousands of tiny people really are running away from you and you're really destroying an entire city.
Finally, there's the upgrades. You can upgrade Godzilla, make him stronger, increase the strength of his atomic breath, unlock new attacks and moves to enhance Godzilla. Make him into the ultimate monster.
Alert Levels
1 Star level - SWAT Team
The SWAT team, with SWAT vans and choppers will attempt to kill you. They are very weak, and you can obliterate them easily.
2 Star Level - Army
The military forces arrive with tanks and attack copters to destroy you. They are not as weak as the SWAT but still weak.
3 Star Level - National Guard
The forces of the National Guard with fighter jets and bombers will try to take you on. They're pretty tough, but you'll be able to handle them.
4 Star Level - Global Defense Force
The miltary forces around the world will take you on with super-tanks and specialized fighter jets. They are pretty strong and well-cordinated. Watch your back.
5 Star Level - MechaGodzilla
MechaGodzilla will try to take you down as a last resort. Kill him and the Alert Level will be brought back down to zero. MechaGodzilla is as strong as you, so be careful taking him on.
Monster Characters
|The star of the game, Godzilla is a giant mutated Godzillasaurus that has been terrorizing cities since 1954. Godzilla has amazing abilities, such as atomic breath and regeneration.
|Mothra is a giant butterfly that is a guardian of Earth. She normally fights Godzilla to protect humanity from his rampages, but she teams up with him this time to stop Biollante and her offspring.
|The main villain of the game, Biollante was created from a sample of Godzilla's DNA was combined with plant DNA. She is spawning more mutated plant monsters that are attacking mankind. Only Godzilla can stop her.
|King Ghidorah
|King Ghidorah is a 3-headed dragon from outer space that is the servant of the alien race known as the Vortaak.
|Biollante's Offspring
|The smaller plant creatures produced by Biollante that are invading the city during missions. They are the most common enemies in the game and come in various forms and shapes.
MechaGodzilla 3 (Kiryu)
|MechaGodzilla is a mighty mechanized version of Godzilla created by the Global Defense Force to combat all monster threats across the globe. Now, MechaGodzilla faces his greatest challenge yet: Biollante.
Human (and Non-Monster) Characters
This is a list of characters that are not giant monsters.
|Dr. Shirgami
|The scientist that accidentally created Biollante, he is working with the Global Defense Force and the Pentagon to create a forumla to destroy Biollante and her offspring.
Sergeant Manzella
|Sergeant Manzella is a military Sergeant who was brought out of Afghanistan to lead a military group to fight Godzilla and the Biollantes.
|Ronald Elagani
|Roland is a biologist that specializes best in reptiles. He doesn't want Godzilla to die like everyone else. He wants to study Godzilla.
|The leader of an alien race known as the Vortak, Vorticia wants to harness the power of Biollante's babies for her own means of taking over Earth.
Secret Characters
You can also unlock secret characters you can unlock and play as. Most of them are different versions of Godzilla, but there are unique ones as well.
|Godzilla 1954
|Godzilla 1954 is the very first Godzilla that EVER appeared. He is extremely similar to regular Godzilla, except much stronger, but his atomic breath has shorter range.
|Godzilla 1998
|Godzilla 1998 (or Zilla, sometimes GINO as most people like to call him) is the version of Godzilla from the infamous American remake. Godzila 1998 is faster and more agile than the regular Godzilla and can shoot gale-force winds from his mouth that are able to bring down buildings.
|MechaGodzilla 3, also known as Kiryu, is a mechanized version of Godzilla created by the Global Defense Force to combat all monster threats across the globe. He is equipped with plasma machine guns and an Absolute Zero cannon, its most powerful weapon.
|SpaceGodzilla is an evil version of Godzilla from outer space. He has the power to create crystals and absorb their power to become stronger. When he's absorbed the power of the crystals, he can be extremely dangerous.
|Gigan is a mighty monster with the head of a cyclops chicken. Don't let that idea fool you, he is one of Godzilla's most powerful adversaries. He can shoot a powerful laser beam from his cyclops-eye and he is armed to the teeth with spikes on his belly, claws for hands, and a tail that can gore his enemies.
Anguirus is an ankylosaurus-like creature. He was the first monster Godzilla ever fought (in the second Godzilla movie Godzilla Raids Again), but they've become friends since.
Avaliable for the Neo Edition or downloadable on Xbox Live, Playstation Network and Wii U Online
|King Ghidorah
Avaliable on Neo Edition or downloadable on Xbox Live, Wii U Online, or Playstation Network
Avaliable on Neo Edition or downloadable on Xbox Live.
|Destroyah is a monstrous gargoyle like creature that originated as a colony of Precambrian crustaceans that had been awakened and mutated when the Oxygen Destroyer was detonated to kill Godzilla in 1954
|The first city in the game, because, well, this is where Godzilla attacks in most of his films. This city features lots of buildings to destroy and a beautiful forest landscape to explore outside the city.
|New York City
|The largest city in the United States, New York City is an iconic city with many large skyscrapers to topple. New York has faced terrorist attacks and a stock market crash, but it probably won't stand a chance in a Godzilla attack.
|Chicago is a city in Illinois and it is home to the Sears Tower, now called Willis Tower. It has the hardest missions in the game and is the last level to be unlocked.
|San Francisco
San Francisco is one of the most famous cities in California. It is a hillside type city with houses built to stand on hills.
|Hong Kong
Avaliable on Neo Edition only.
Boston is a city in Massachusetts. It is where some of the Revolutionary War took place and has since has a significant role in the nation's history. Too bad it's about to be toppled by giant monsters.
Avaliable on Neo Edition only.
Online MultiplayerFor Godzilla: King of Monsters, the multiplayer system introduced into the Godzilla world for Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Brawl is now bigger and better than ever. You can once again select a monster of your choice to play as and compete with friends in city-crushing battles. You can play as many monsters from the Godzilla world and engage in several modes of online play with friends or other people around the world.
Multiplayer Modes
- Deathmatch: A straight up fight to the death to see who can get the most kills. Whoever does wins.
- Team Deathmatch: With this, you have to fight to get kills for your team. Whichever team earns the most kills wins. You get bonus XP if you can get a big killing spree.
- Destruction: Play as a monster of your choice and destroy stuff in the city to earn points. Cars are worth 10 points, small buildings are worth 100 points, medium buildings are 1,000 points, and skyscrapers are worth 10,000 points. Whoever gets the most points by causing the most carnage wins.
- Survival: Battle to survive hoards of Biollante's offspring. Whoever is the last monster still alive wins the match.
The game will be showcased at the Fantendo Holiday Showcase on December 21, 2012.
Expansion Packs
Godzilla: The Battle Continues
The Soundtrack of Godzilla: King of Monsters by Brian Tyler.
See here.
Godzilla: King of Monsters was officially released on February 22, 2013, and sold 3 million units in the US alone on its launch date, and grossed $200 million. Worldwide, it sold 5 million units and sold $400 million. It was on #1 on top selliing new games of the weekend.
As of February 27, 2013, the game has been a strong seller, earning $500 million and selling 10 million units worldwide.
Neo Edition
On October 28, 2012, it was announced by N Studios that a port for Godzilla: King of Monsters would be released 2 days after the original game's release. It would be dubbed: Godzilla King of Monsters: Monster Edition. The game would feature all Expansion Packs, more missions, more open-world environments, more secret playable monsters, a Certificate of Authenticity, a DVD for the original Gojira movie from 1954, and a hour long documentary showing the history of Godzilla.
A sequel may be being considered. However, during an interview with Clover, he said, "It is too early to decide. I mean, the game has only been out for a day. I could do a sequel to the game since I had so much fun with the first one. But, it'll take some time and effort to make it vastly superior to the first one."
It was confirmed that a sequel in development, once again by Clover Entertainment. Clover said in an interview that it will be an MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online), where you can play as several monsters from the Godzilla franchise.


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Phillip Langley, Lead Instructor for Developmental Eduction and English Instructor, joined DACC Players in 2007 with the production More Than Meets the Eye. A graduate of the University of Illinois with degrees in English and History, and a Masters Degree in Communications from Tiffin University, the Theater Department at DACC was a natural fit. Since 2007, Phillip has helped co-director Glenda Boling grow the DACC Players, such as co-directing the group's first musical production of Leader of the Pack in 2009. In 2014, Phillip was honored with the Faculty of the Year award at DACC, and in 2016, Phillip was also honored as the Illinois Community College Trustee's Association State-wide Faculty of the Year. While working with students is always Phillip's primary motivation, he very much enjoys working on the technical aspects of a production, specializing in lighting design and application as well as set design and staging.
Dr. Eric Simonson joined the DACC Faculty in 1999, working exclusively as the college's music faculty. In 2009, Dr. Simonson began using his musical talents to help the DACC Players expand into the Musical Theater genre. Since then, Dr. Simonson has been the musical director for Leader of the Pack, Hairspray!, and Les Miserables. In 2015, Dr. Simonson authored a new opera/musical entitled Ann and Abe to be performed by the DACC Players in their 2015-16 season, for which he also served as musical director. Dr. Simonson was honored as the DACC Faculty of the year in 2011. Additionally, his original music compositions have been featured in concerts across North America, including SEAMUS (Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States), ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) and SCI (Society of Composers Incorporated) performances.
Nicole Miller, Choreographer, begain working with the DACC Players in the spring of 2009 with Leader of the Pack. Since then, Nicole has choreographed Hairspray!, Stage Door, Les Miserables, The Rocky Horror Show, and Funny Girl. Additionally, she was excited to return to the stage in 2015 when she took on the additional responsibility of playing Columbia in The Rocky Horror Show.
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