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Anna Pniowsky on Light Of My Life director and co-star Casey Affleck: "Casey is a phenomenal actor and I'm very thankful that I got to work with him and learn from him." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Anna Pniowsky stars opposite Light Of My Life screenwriter/director Casey Affleck in a father-daughter relationship. They live in a post-catastrophe society of the future, where the female population is feared to be wiped out by a mysterious plague, which has taken her mother, played by Elisabeth Moss. Affleck, a longtime favourite of David Lowery (Ain't Them Bodies Saints, A Ghost Story, The Old Man & The Gun), Best Actor Oscar winner for Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By The Sea, and director of the Joaquin Phoenix film I'm Still Here, creates in Light Of My Life an alternative universe where disguise is a mode of survival.
Rag (Anna Pniowsky) with Dad (Casey Affleck): "I was comfortable around him and I could be vulnerable around the camera."
Similar to the situation in Debra Granik's Leave No Trace, starring Ben Foster and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, life in the wilderness is tougher on the child than the parent. "Don't make it about me," says Rag (Pniowsky) to her father (Affleck), who is about to tell her a story. It's a long tale about a girl fox named Goldie and her husband Art and a rival named Fang, and a flood and an ark. It's a beautiful way to start a film that tackles the nature of storytelling.
Rag wonders if she is the only girl of her species left on earth. Her father does everything to protect her, which includes pretending that she is a boy when around other people, which rarely occurs. Affleck, the director, is less interested in painting dystopian cataclysm than in providing a mood, a sense of what major disasters do to individuals. Light of My Life is closer to the films he made with David Lowery. There is a ghostly quality to the way these two survivors move through the snow, wrapped in raggedy blankets.
When they come to an abandoned house, a bit like Goldilocks or Snow White, the girl clothes that Rag finds upstairs fit her perfectly. In moments like this, the film opens up to issues about gender, desire, and how much it means to be able to freely choose what you want to wear.
In midtown Manhattan, I met with the formidable Anna Pniowsky for a conversation on Light Of My Life, which had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year and screened at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
Anna Pniowsky as Rag with Dad (Casey Affleck): "I myself, I'm pretty tough, I'd like to think. I mean, I'm not like super tough."
Anne-Katrin Titze: First question - Are you "tough and outdoorsy"? As you say in the film?
Anna Pniowsky: I myself, I'm pretty tough, I'd like to think. I mean, I'm not like super tough. You know, I hate bugs but I can stand cold. So I'd say I'm half and half. I'm from Canada, the third coldest city in the world. I can stand the cold - I don't know if that counts as tough and outdoorsy.
AKT: There's a lot of snow, so the cold part is more on your level than the bugs. A lot of the film is about storytelling. The scene in the beginning, the first ten minutes are really beautiful with you mostly listening and then making the most remarkable comments. How did you film this? Was it all scripted or some of it improvised? Did you know everything that was going to come?
AP: It was scripted. I mean, I'm sure a few words came in here and there. But we stuck to the script for the most part. That scene took a whole day of filming. We just kind of kept rolling or sometimes one of us would mess up so we'd start again.
AKT: Your reactions are great. When he comes up with the name Fang [for the antagonist in the Noah's Ark story the father is telling her]. It was very realistic, as if you were totally surprised. Did you grow up with storytelling? Were you told stories?
AP: I was told stories, mostly by my dad. Yeah, I think storytelling was a big part of my childhood. Even though I still am a kid technically, I'm only 13. I'm acting like I'm 20.
Anna Pniowsky on Rag in Light Of My Life: "In this movie, it's having to go in hiding. Things like that, you know, pretending to be a boy."
AKT: What kind of stories? Fairy tales?
AP: Fairy tales, yeah.
AKT: Did you have a favourite?
AP: I did. Me and my sister. I have a sister [Abigail]. If I remember correctly, we were both princesses. That was my favourite. I always wanted to be a princess. We had this horse, I think. And then the horse went missing or something like that. That one was my favourite. I think we found the horse at the end. Happy ending. I just remember this, when I was younger, I had this huge book of Disney stories. It was very big and I would read that. Or someone would read it to me.
AKT: Reading, storytelling - it's so important in this film that has none of the technology that you grow up with here. It gets to the basics. Did you have an appreciation after being in this film? A thought of "Wow, my life is really good. I don't have to sleep in the forest"? Did you feel that way a little?
AP: Yeah, it was kind of, not really a reality check, but it was a little eye-opening. Just the thought of civilisation collapsing. It's a little bit of a scary thought to lose everything.
AKT: And to lose all women in the world!
AP: Yeah, to lose your loved ones and your role models. And in this movie, it's having to go in hiding. Things like that, you know, pretending to be a boy. I think that is kind of a little freaky. So think about if that were ever to actually happen. So far it hasn't luckily. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
Anna Pniowsky: "When I was younger, I had this huge book of Disney stories. It was very big and I would read that. Or someone would read it to me."
AKT: Could you identify with her, just on a small level, wanting to wear a dress after filming? Wanting to wear something other than these outdoorsy tough boys' clothes?
AP: You know what? I actually, even on and off, but I mostly wanted to wear dresses constantly. Because I actually did cut my hair very short. I mean, I was younger.
AKT: How old were you during the shoot?
AP: I was eleven. People would sometimes actually mistake me as a boy in real life, so I felt the need to wear skirts and things like that. Because I was a little girl and it hurt my feelings sometimes. Especially, I started middle school with an awful haircut - because people did mistake me as a boy, even though girls can have short haircuts. I think at that time it was more common for boys to have short hair. So I would always want to wear like girly things and stuff like that. As Rag did.
AKT: Tell me a little bit about the casting! Did you have long hair when you were chosen?
AP: I did! And it was funny because I had multiple callbacks and on one of them Casey started talking about how short he would cut my hair. I didn't know if I had gotten the role or not. It was a little confusing. I had very long hair, actually it was down to my waist.
AKT: And he saw through it, as, of course, it's not the hair, but something else that makes you the perfect Rag. Tell me a bit about how you were working together with Casey?
AP: I mean, Casey is a phenomenal actor and I'm very thankful that I got to work with him and learn from him. I was comfortable around him and I could be vulnerable around the camera, which is important in this kind of character-driven film.
AKT: Casey is acting with you and directing you at the same time.
Anna Pniowsky on Light Of My Life: "Different people take away different things, which is one thing that's really great about this movie."
AP: I think it made it easier for him - I don't want to put words into his mouth - but I hope that it made it easier that it was mostly just us for the film. He could change the way he acts to effect the way that I act if he wanted to give direction. It felt normal.
AKT: What kind of movies do you like? What do you watch as an audience?
AP: I tend to like comedic shows. My favourite show is The Office. By far, my favourite show ever. I do like to watch sad films sometimes, it kind of depends what mood I'm in.
AKT: Do you remember the first movie you ever saw?
AP: The first movie I ever saw? I'm sure I watched cartoon movies. My first memorable one was most likely Cinderella or The Little Mermaid. Disney.
AKT: That seems to be it for most people. You probably haven't seen a French film called Donkey Skin? A fairy-tale film, a beautiful one from almost fifty years ago. I introduced a screening of it at the French Institute Alliance Française around the corner from here the day before yesterday. And the director of that film, Jacques Demy - even his first film was by Disney - Snow White.
[In Light Of My Life] there is a great moment on the bridge when you're doing that kind of boy walk. Did you have a choreographer?
AP: I didn't have a choreographer for that. I just copied Casey. He has a very strong strut. It's a very manly kind of big walk. I just mimicked him.
AKT: What about the toothbrush with the dirt?
Light Of My Life poster - opens in the US on August 9
AP: It was charcoal. We had this like nature person come in before filming and he would show me all kinds of things and give me little lessons on nature. Charcoal apparently it whitens your teeth. I was born with kind of yellow teeth and now I use charcoal toothpaste, which is funny.
AKT: That's what making a film can do - you change your toothpaste. Anything else you learned? How to make fire? Or a tent?
AP: I really wish that I could say that I did learn nature-y things from the film, but I don't think so.
AKT: There are some scary moments - mother and daughter skeletons. I don't know if you've ever seen the Hitchcock movie Psycho?
AP: Sorry? No. Is it scary?
AKT: Forget it. That'll be for later.
AP: I hate scary movies.
AKT: Did they hide things from you during filming because you were only 11?
AP: Oh no! I know that it's fake and I'm aware. They [the skeletons] were a little scary though. I will say they freaked me out a little bit.
AKT: One of the greatest lines is about ten minutes in and you say "You said it was about Goldie [the female fox in Casey's story] and then it was all about Art [the male fox]." The film comes back to it, and the idea of men taking over. This is a great feminist statement there. It's too often forgotten that there's another voice.
AP: I don't know. I don't fully know the reason why he wrote any particular lines. I think different audiences take away different things. Different people take away different things, which is one thing that's really great about this movie.
Light Of My Life opens in the US on August 9 and on Digital and On Demand the same day.


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I have buttons that open different URLs in webviewer. The buttons work fine (click and webviewer opens) in the horizontal arrangement, but I when change to a horizontal scroll arrangement the buttons stop working (no longer clickable). Is there a way to make buttons clickable in horizontal scroll arrangement ?
Please provide an example aia project that replicates this behaviour
The "Events" button will not click in the horizontal scroll arrangement, but if move it to the horizontal arrangement with the rest of the buttons, it will click. Thanks for the help. Events is really HomeButton. Sorry for the confusion.
auroralife.aia (251.0 KB)
Works OK here.
Test with a different website for the Events button, e.g.
Add a label that displays the CurrentUrl to show which url is in use.
Did you actually test it using the MIT Ai2 Companion ? If the button does not click, it does not matter what the URL is. Why, if I move the Events button to the Horizontal arrangement (on top of the screen) it will work ?
two screenshots. One of the Chamber button showing you can click it and one of the Events button showing it not clickable.
OK, you don't believe me
Try this revised version:
auroralife_revised.aia (251.2 KB)
I have put all the buttons in the horizontal scrolling arrangement (HSA), and a label showing the current url at the top.
You need to scroll the HSA to the right to access all the buttons
You should also scroll down your web pages to see the specific page content
You want to remove the menu from your website. for me this makes the webviewer go fullscreen, users won't be able to get back to the buttons....
Thanks for the help. The problem was the android emulator inside my virtual device.
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SUNY-ESF Graduate Named 2006 Presidential Management Fellow
(Syracuse, NY) Robert McAfee, who received his BS from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in 2004, has been named a 2006 Presidential Management Fellow. He is one of 550 fellows selected from 167 graduate institutions out of 3,500 applicants in a competitive selection process.
“We have nominated highly qualified individuals for the program over the years, but this is the first time an ESF student has been awarded a Presidential Management Fellowship, “ said Marla A. Bennett, ESF’s PMF institutional representative and assistant dean for Instruction and Graduate Studies.
Bennett continued, “The nomination process is exhaustive and I congratulate Rob for his perseverance. In many ways, he was the ideal candidate because he embodies the qualities we appreciate in our students: dedication to public service, a realistic perspective of environmental issues and policies, high academic standards, and a friendly personality.”
The Presidential Management Fellowship program was created by President Jimmy Carter in 1977 and modernized in 2003 under President George W. Bush, who said, “The purpose of the program is to attract to the federal service outstanding men and women from a variety of academic disciplines and career paths who have a clear interest in, and commitment to, excellence in the leadership and management of public policies and programs.”
Previous Presidential Management Fellows include former Syracuse University and NASA Administrator, Sean O’Keefe who is currently Chancellor of Louisiana State and A&M College.
McAfee will graduate with his master of science degree in forest and natural resources management in May 2006. His thesis research, “Innovative Management Structures for Onsite Wastewater Treatment” has been completed under the guidance of co-major professors Robert W. Malmsheimer and Sharon D. Moran.
In April, McAfee will join the 2006 fellows for a job fair in Washington, DC where they will meet and select agencies with whom they wish to work. Within the year, fellows and agencies will commit to appointments from the Departments of Homeland Security, Agriculture, Interior, Justice, State, Education, Defense, Commerce, and Management and Budget to name a few.
McAfee would like an appointment with the Environmental Protection Agency. Upon completion of the fellows program, McAfee will receive appointment to a full-time permanent position within the federal government.
Additional information about the Presidential Management Fellows Program is accessible from the website: www.pmf.opm.
Release No. 53, March 15, 2006
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Brazil: SuperGeo and its reseller in Brazil, ENGESAT team, assisted Engeluz in optimising public lighting facility management in the country. Engeluz is an electrical engineering company which provides services and solutions to local governments to maintain and preserve governmental properties.
Apart from providing mobile GIS system for developing public lighting system, Engeluz also offers various methods to monitor and conserve the public lighting system to improve its efficiency.
In this project, mobile GIS application plays an important role in helping the local government recognising locations of public lights and electric energy consumption, carrying out system maintenance, and optimising resource usage.
To establish a mobile GIS system to meet governmental requirements, ENGESAT team supported Engeluz to adopt SuperGIS Mobile Engine 3 and develop Engeluz SGIP-Mobile application with camera and basic GIS manipulation functions. This enabled surveyors and administrators to collect field data through handheld devices such as PDA to fulfil any GIS task.
With complete GIS and GPS functions, Engeluz SGIP-Mobile GIS application will enable field workers to update the current status of lighting facilities by adding attribute data and pictures.


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(WKBN) – Mercer and Lawrence counties will be getting about $25,000 this year from the Pennsylvania Department of Aging for their senior community centers.
Normally, the Department of Aging has a competitive grant process, but because of COVID-19, all of the 405 affiliated centers will be getting about $5,000.
The money will be available until June of next year.
Each senior community center is free to determine the best way to spend the money.
“We’re giving them a lot of flexibility. They can use it for administrative expenses or it could be rent, utilities, it could be to purchase cleaning supplies, protective equipment so when the older adults return they are prepared,” said Robert Torres, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Aging.
The centers receiving the grants are the Grove City Senior Community Center, McQuiston Center by the Park, Shenango Valley Senior Center, Greenville Senior Community Center and Challenges-Options in Aging.
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Cottleville City Medical Marijuana Question, 2 (April 2010)
Both measures were defeated by the same totals.
- YES 190 (48.84%)
- NO 199 (51.16%)
The mayor, who supported the measure, said he was hoping the measure would have passed, but is done with the issue and is happy the state legislatures know their opinions on the matter. He also noted that because so many voted in favor, there still is wide interest in the issue and people are aware of larger issues in their community. Other residents thought it was the wrong area to introduce the idea of medical marijuana and should remain at the state level.
These measures asked city voters if they wanted to agree with the state legislation bill that would make the use of medical marijuana legal. The second measure specified if they agreed with bringing the vote to a state wide election in November. The Mayor of the city was pushing for this measure because he felt it would help cancer patients and other cities in the area have also shown interest in the measure.
- St. Charles County Election Authority, April 6 Election Results, pg. 14-15
- Suburban Journals, "Marijuana questions fail by slim margins in Cottleville," April 7, 2010 (dead link)
- St. Charles County Election Authority, Sample Ballot Cottleville
- KMOV, "Local mayor pushes legalization of medical marijuana," March 31, 2010
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London Youth Choir
Unlocking young people’s potential through the power of choral singing
Background & Brief
London Youth Choirs is a youth arts organisation, that enriches the cultural life of young people through the pursuit of musical excellence and social change.
Children and young adults living or educated in London receive singing tuition and performance opportunities, which educate and inspire, build confidence, and develop skills in teamwork and leadership, all whilst championing inclusivity, empathy and understanding.
The LYC branding looks tired. It doesn’t appeal to young people. We celebrate our 10th Anniversary in 2020 and need a total refresh that represents the vibrant personality of our singing and our members.
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When our team at LYC first saw the new branding we loved it! The symbolic ‘fountain of youth’ Y represents perfectly our members and mission”
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When researching the world of chorale music and choirs, it was dominated by musical notes, treble clefs and other clichéd icons. Our challenge was to create a symbol that represented the young members in a unique way.
In mythology the Fountain of Youth is a spring that supposedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks or bathes in its waters. We liked the reference to youth and the restorative powers of the story. It was the perfect metaphor for the performances and powers of choral singing, and the inspiring work of London Youth Choirs.
Celebrating Ten Years
LYC looked forward to confidently celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2020, and expanding into the four corners of London, however the coronavirus unfortunately curtailed these plans, nd many planned concerts had to be postponed or cancelled but they have been able to continue to create and collaborate with each other online.

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50 novels you should have read
M magazine presents its list of 50 novels – some classic, some offbeat, some old, some new – that, should you devour them all, will allow you to call yourself truly well-read
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1884), MARK TWAIN
WHY The author uses authentically coarse and colourful language to weave a story that embodies man’s eternal quest for freedom – and to take a scathing look at entrenched attitudes, Twain’s speciality.
WHAT TO KNOW It’s the weightier successor to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, going far beyond its simple adventure tale with a critical examination of race, religion, class and moral conflict. While sometimes difficult to read, the rendering of the dialects, both white and black, of 19th-century rural America, is flawless.
HOW TO FAKE IT “Hemingway said it all, didn’t he? ‘All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.'”
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1920), EDITH WHARTON
WHY Unfulfilled love, the constraints of New York society and an almost inevitably tragic outcome combine to make this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel one of the most memorable love stories ever written.
WHAT TO KNOW Newland Archer and May Welland are a perfectly matched Upper East Side couple until the arrival of May’s cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska (whom we all secretly long to be, if female, or run off with, if male).
HOW TO FAKE IT “I don’t want to give the plot away, but May is clearly more cunning than we all give her credit for, isn’t she? Telling Ellen what she did could only have one outcome.”
AMERICAN PASTORAL (1997), PHILIP ROTH
WHY Grief, bewilderment, rage – Roth fearlessly and seamlessly enters the minds of furious men to try to decipher the America of the 1960s and 1970s.
WHAT TO KNOW The author returns to his alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, and uses the framing device of a high school reunion to weave the story of “Swede” Levov, whose fulfilled life is marred by his beloved daughter’s transformation into a teenage radical. Race riots, the Black Panthers, the sexual revolution, Vietnam and Watergate all make appearances.
HOW TO FAKE IT “You know the Levov character is based on a real ‘Swede’? A legendary high school athlete in Roth’s hometown of Newark, New Jersey.”
ANNA KARENINA (1878), LEO TOLSTOY
WHY The original desperate housewife, the tragic figure of Anna Karenina is one the most enduring in all of literature. The novel has been described as the best ever written and explores all those human themes we love to read about; passion, jealousy, desire and loss.
WHAT TO KNOW The first line is often quoted: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Thus begins the tale of Anna Karenina, a novel divided into eight parts, charting the course of the eponymous heroine and her ill-fated affair with the dashing and rather dastardly Vronsky.
HOW TO FAKE IT “The seventh section of the novel is such an obvious precursor to the stream-of-consciousness style of writing later adopted by Joyce and Woolf.”
THE BIG SLEEP (1939), RAYMOND CHANDLER
WHY For the beauty of the prose, tough and sinuous, and some of the finest descriptive writing in American literature. With beautiful girls, old millionaires and a hard-boiled detective, Los Angeles was never so devilish. And it begins: “It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid-October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.”
WHAT TO KNOW The plot is almost incomprehensible. When it was being filmed with Humphrey Bogart in the lead role, the director Howard Hawks phoned Chandler to ask him who killed one of the lead characters. No idea, replied Chandler.
HOW TO FAKE IT “The Big Sleep is a euphemism for death. But there’s nothing deathless about this prose.”
THE BLIND ASSASSIN (2000), MARGARET ATWOOD
WHY Actually you could pick almost anything by this master of fiction, but this one stands out as particularly brilliant. That’s not only our opinion; it won the Booker Prize in 2000 and was named best novel of the year by Time magazine.
WHAT TO KNOW Atwood expertly juggles several plot lines to tell the story of the Chase family. Part historical, part novel-within-a-novel, The Blind Assassin is a little like a Russian doll, with each tale fitting perfectly into the other and propelling the action forward. A compelling read that keeps you guessing until the very end.
HOW TO FAKE IT “It is really The Handmaid’s Tale comes of age, wouldn’t you agree?”
BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY (1996), HELEN FIELDING
WHY Why not?
WHAT TO KNOW Next to Jilly Cooper’s Riders, the best chick lit ever written, with laugh-out-loud lines and great insight into life as a “singleton” (as opposed to a “smug married”) in London. Told in diary form, the plot centres on Bridget’s rather unreliable love life and attempts to snare her very own Mr Darcy.
HOW TO FAKE IT “Without doubt, the most amusing homage to Pride and Prejudice ever written.”
CATCH-22 (1961), JOSEPH HELLER
WHY It’s among the best anti-war novels ever and a wild romp through the life’s absurdities. It presages the “We had to destroy the village in order to save it” mentality of the US military during the Vietnam War.
WHAT TO KNOW Major Major, Milo Minderbender, Captain Aardvark, General Dreedle, Corporal Popinjay – Heller’s clever names of his characters rival Dickens. “Catch-22” refers to the self-contradictory circular logic that, for example, prevents a pilot from avoiding combat missions.
HOW TO FAKE IT “It’s like Rashomon, with the same event told from different points of view and taking on different interpretations.”
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST (1939), NATHANAEL WEST
WHY Alienation and life outside the fringe in a quintessentially American setting provide the platform for a radical challenge to Modernist literature. The author’s storytelling skills lift a tale about Hollywood “types” into a captivating fable about ennui, weltschmertz and an eventual apocalypse.
WHAT TO KNOW The oddball characters make for delightful entertainment. And note well that one locust is no problem, but that a swarm destroys everything in sight.
HOW TO FAKE IT “Of course, you can’t overlook the fact that West was also writing about his marginalised role as a Jew in America.”
THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS (1951), JOHN WYNDHAM
WHY One of the best and scariest science-fiction novels ever. Established John Wyndham as a writer.
WHAT TO KNOW A comet shower blinds most of the world’s population, leaving a few sighted people to reconstruct society while fighting mobile, flesh-eating plants called Triffids. Our hero is Bill Masen, who guides us through the post-apocalyptic world.
HOW TO FAKE IT “Of course with the central theme of the genetic modification of plants, this novel is even more relevant today.”
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1942), JAMES M CAIN
WHY The journalist-turned-author Cain was every bit the storytelling artist and wordsmith that Raymond Chandler was in hardboiled crime fiction. Albert Camus admired his stark writing.
WHAT TO KNOW An insurance salesmen falls under the spell of a wayward wife and plots with her the perfect murder of her husband in 1930s Los Angeles. Cain captures the sun-baked setting that seems to leech the morality out of his characters. He also excels at plot twists and turns, racing to a gripping, otherworldly climax.
HOW TO FAKE IT “The ending is positively eerie, isn’t it? ‘The moon.’ And how telling that none other than Chandler wrote the screenplay to the film version.”
FLASHMAN (1969), GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER
WHY The most rambunctious, caddish, yellow, mean-spirited, libidinous hero in literature.
WHAT TO KNOW Based on a fictitious minor character in Thomas Hughes’s Tom Brown’s Schooldays, he romps through many of the familiar episodes of British history causing murder and mayhem, while emerging heroic and victorious, through no help of his own.
HOW TO FAKE IT “Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE. Only three talents, languages, horse-riding and seducing women. Dashed handy attributes, what?”
FRANKENSTEIN (1818), MARY SHELLEY
WHY The book that spawned a hundred films – possibly the most famous Gothic science-fiction novel ever. Written by Mary Shelley, the wife of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, on a trip to visit Lord Byron on Lake Geneva after rain confined them to the house.
WHAT TO KNOW The young and ambitious Victor Frankenstein, consumed by the desire to find the secret of life, creates a monster and is powerless to do anything as it destroys everything he holds most dear.
HOW TO FAKE IT “Of course it is all about the pursuit of dangerous knowledge.”
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1861), CHARLES DICKENS
WHY This is Dickens at his best; who can ever forget the character of Miss Haversham, forever the seething bride, and Pip, who triumphs against all odds?
WHAT TO KNOW Written in the first person from the point of view of the orphan Pip, the novel charts the fortunes and misfortunes of the young man, from his humble beginnings and the eerie graveyard meeting with Magwitch to his love for the cruel and cold Estella and his subsequent self-improvement.
HOW TO FAKE IT “I prefer the original ending where Estella finally understands the meaning of love.”
THE GREAT GATSBY (1925), F SCOTT FITZGERALD
WHY It’s the definitive American novel, with its theme of class, longing, reinvention and unrequited love. The romantic excesses of the Jazz Age have never been more lyrically presented.
WHAT TO KNOW The autobiographical narrator Nick Carraway’s powers of observation and analysis, and his disdain for selfishness and boorishness, are spot-on gripping. The characters, even the minor ones, are fully developed and effortlessly visualised.
HOW TO FAKE IT “The eyes of Dr TJ Eckleburg are every bit as powerful a symbol as the green light at the end of the dock, aren’t they?”
IN COLD BLOOD (1966), TRUMAN CAPOTE
WHY If not the first it’s certainly the most famous “non-fiction novel”, and it broke historic “New Journalism” ground in that regard. The author took poetic licence to create his internal monologues and descriptive details, but that’s the whole point of the you-are-there genre.
WHAT TO KNOW It’s the true story of how two small-time criminals mercilessly slaughtered a farm family in the US Midwest – but also a compelling read-between-the-lines tale of their psychological conflict, and of a police investigator’s relentless pursuit of justice.
HOW TO FAKE IT “He couldn’t have done it without Harper Lee as his researcher, you realise. And he never wrote anything better, did he?”
JANE EYRE (1847), CHARLOTTE BRONTË
WHY Worth it just for the moody Mr Rochester, who is second only to Emily Brontë’s Healthcliff in the Byronic hero stakes.
WHAT TO KNOW The young orphan Jane is sent to live with her wicked aunt, then to the notorious Lowood School (based on a real school in Yorkshire the novelist sisters went to) that is even worse than her aunt’s home. Things improve once she gets a job as a governess at Thornfield Hall and meets the grumpy Mr Rochester. The rest, dear reader, is history…
HOW TO FAKE IT “This is the first feminist novel. When she wrote that ‘women feel just as men feel’ and talked about their need for intellectual stimulation and suffering from restraint, Charlotte Brontë opened up a whole new world.”
THE LEOPARD (1958), GIUESEPPE TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA
WHY One of the finest Italian novels ever written, a haunting tale of decline and decay in Sicily at the time of the Risorgimento.
WHAT TO KNOW Di Lampedusa wrote only one book, published posthumously after being rejected by a number of publishing houses. Went on to be one of the most acclaimed and best-selling novels in Italian history.
HOW TO FAKE IT “As Tancredi says: ‘If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change’.”
LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES (1782), CHODERLOS DE LACLOS
WHY Seduction, revenge and malice – what else do you need in a book?
WHAT TO KNOW An epistolary novel that centres on the relationship between the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont and their use of sex to humiliate and avenge not only each other, but also those around them, with tragic consequences.
HOW TO FAKE IT “To quote the Vicomte de Valmont, ‘It is beyond my control’.”
THE LITTLE PRINCE (1943), ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPERY
WHY One of the best-selling books ever, with over 200 million copies sold across the world.
WHAT TO KNOW While ostensibly a children’s book about a pilot crash-landing in the desert and meeting the little prince, the novella deals with many issues linked to human nature, such as the fact that adults tend to miss what is truly obvious, such as a boa constrictor eating an elephant, assuming instead that it is an everyday object such as a hat.
HOW TO FAKE IT “‘One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.'”
LOLITA (1955), VLADIMIR NABOKOV
WHY “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.”
WHAT TO KNOW Caused as big a scandal as James Joyce’s Ulysses three decades earlier.
HOW TO FAKE IT “Nabokov was a lepidopterist, you know.”
MADAME BOVARY (1856), GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
WHY One of the most influential novels ever.
WHAT TO KNOW Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor’s wife, lives beyond her means and has affairs to escape the banality of her life.
HOW TO FAKE IT “The French word bovarysme means a tendency to romanticise reality as a way of escaping the limitations of one’s own existence.”
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (1952), ERNEST HEMINGWAY
WHY While many would argue for the inclusion on this list of the author’s more complex A Farewell to Arms or The Sun Also Rises, this slim tale of Man versus Nature shows the power of his short sentences and strong nouns and verbs. It should be taught in every writing class.
WHAT TO KNOW Just try to find an adjective or an adverb in the novel’s 128 pages. The story moves along like a freight train. You can’t help but read it in one sitting, and be caught up by Santiago’s epic battle against the elements.
HOW TO FAKE IT “It’s Sisyphean, isn’t it, with the struggle doomed to failure but ultimately ennobling in and of itself?”
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA (1973), MIKHAIL BULGAKOV
WHY Surreal madness in Moscow, with the devil, a chess-playing black cat and the sexiest heroine in literature. Oh, and Pontius Pilate.
WHAT TO KNOW Bulgakov wrote this at the height of Stalin’s terror and it conveys the horror of totalitarianism – and how an artist can overcome it, with the help of a beautiful muse.
HOW TO FAKE IT “Remove the document – and you remove the man.”
MIDDLEMARCH (1871), GEORGE ELIOT
WHY According to Virginia Woolf it is a “magnificent book that, with all its imperfections, is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people”.
WHAT TO KNOW Too much to summarise here; it is a vast book, not only in size, but in its scope of themes, such as political reform, the status of women, the nature of marriage and religion, as well as its cast of characters.
HOW TO FAKE IT Be sure you don’t refer to the author as a “he”. George Eliot was a woman named Mary Ann Evans who wrote under a pseudonym because she wanted to be taken seriously in male-dominated Victorian England.
MRS DALLOWAY (1925), VIRGINIA WOOLF
WHY This is Virginia Woolf at her very best, the novel in which, many critics say, she found her writer’s voice and transformed the novel as an art form. No task (buying flowers, planning a party) was too menial for Woolf’s prose.
WHAT TO KNOW The external action all takes part on one day in June. But what’s really important is the internal action of the main characters, who struggle to come to terms with their own past, regrets and future in post-war Britain.
HOW TO FAKE IT “Septimus Smith really is Mrs Dalloway’s double, and to some extent, the author’s.”
MONEY (1984), MARTIN AMIS
WHY Amis Jr may be the most irritating little twerp in literature, but this is his finest hour, a tour de force of 1980s excess.
WHAT TO KNOW The novel was based partly on Amis’s experience working as a scriptwriter on the film Saturn 3. It anticipated the world’s obsession with money – and celebrity.
HOW TO FAKE IT “‘John Self? He was based on my brother. Or perhaps it was me.'”
THE NAME OF THE ROSE (1980), UMBERTO ECO
WHY Forget The Da Vinci Code, this is historical murder-mystery at its best. It sold 50 million copies worldwide and was made into a blockbuster film starring Sean Connery.
WHAT TO KNOW Set in a Benedictine monastery in Italy in 1327, the novel tells the story of a series of murders. Friar William of Baskerville efforts to uncover the culprit using semiotics, cunning and books.
HOW TO FAKE IT “I much prefer the original title, Il nome della rosa. Don’t you?”
1984 (1949), GEORGE ORWELL
WHY If only to know where the term Big Brother comes from. A classic novel in the social science-fiction genre, portraying the dangers of totalitarianism in all its forms, even if it’s a bit of a clunky tale.
WHAT TO KNOW Winston Smith, an intellectual, rebels against the party and also has the temerity to fall in love. Neither will be tolerated.
HOW TO FAKE IT “‘He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.'”
100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE (1967), GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
WHY Mainly so you can say that you have. Sometimes it feels like it takes longer to read.
WHAT TO KNOW The novel has sold 20 million-plus copies. It centres on seven generations of one family and is told via different time frames.
HOW TO FAKE IT “Magic realism; it’s so captivating, don’t you think?”
PERSEPOLIS (2000), MARJANE SATRAPI
WHY Originally written in French, this is an autobiographical comic, describing Marjene’s childhood during and after the Islamic revolution in Iran. It is drawn in black and white, was an immediate hit on publication and was translated into several languages. A must-read, especially if you live in the region.
WHAT TO KNOW Subtitled The Story of a Childhood, the novel features Satrapi, who is nine years old when fundamentalist rebels overthrow the Shah. Her radical parents initially welcome the change, but they soon discover another kind of totalitarianism is taking over. Satrapi’s art is minimal and stark, almost understated, but always charming and humorous as it describes the madness around her. The drawings are almost more effective and powerful than her words.
HOW TO FAKE IT “She is a direct descendant of the last Emperor of Iran, which rather enhances the veracity.”
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1890), OSCAR WILDE
WHY This little Faustian Gothic horror gem is Wilde’s only published novel.
WHAT TO KNOW The beautiful young Dorian is painted by the artist Basil Hallward. Shortly afterwards, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil’s, and becomes enthralled with his hedonistic philosophy and his view that beauty is all. Realising he will age, he jokingly says he will sell his soul to remain as beautiful as he is in the portrait.
HOW TO FAKE IT “Be careful what you wish for.”
THE PLAGUE, ALBERT CAMUS (1947)
WHY Even more than Camus’s The Stranger, it’s a seminal examination of the human condition of isolation, estrangement and longing in the 20th century – and of how the simple act of doing one’s duty can help man overcome such existential alienation.
WHAT TO KNOW The Plague is classically structured in five even parts. It is the story of a siege of plague in the town of Oran, Algeria, in the 1940s. Its mass deaths, petty bureaucracies and denial of and escape from horror – all the more powerful for the author’s use of irony and understatement – are metaphors for what occurred under Adolf Hitler.
HOW TO FAKE IT “It’s obvious from the beginning that Dr Rieux is the narrator, isn’t it?”
POSSESSION (1990), AS BYATT
WHY Won the Man Booker Prize in 1990. Part historical, part contemporary fiction, it uses a combination of diaries, letters, poems and third-person narrative to tell the story.
WHAT TO KNOW A literary love story from the past and present, centering on two academics who race to discover the truth about their literary obsessions.
HOW TO FAKE IT “This is surely the most faux-brow novel one has ever read.”
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1813), JANE AUSTEN
WHY If you haven’t read this already then please do not speak to us until you have.
WHAT TO KNOW OK, so we all know this is really 19th-century chick lit, but who cares? The dashing Darcy is there to be devoured. Even if you know what happens in the end, it is still a great read and beautifully written.
HOW TO FAKE IT “‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.'”
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE (1961), MURIEL SPARK
WHY A small but gloriously rebellious and sexy novel that makes for compulsive reading. A Dead Poets Society of its era.
WHAT TO KNOW Miss Jean Brodie, a teacher in a girls’ school, believes that education is at its most effective in the Latin sense of the word, educere, to lead out.
HOW TO FAKE IT “Of course Miss Brodie is in part based on an old teacher of Muriel Spark’s called Christina Kay.”
THE QUIET AMERICAN (1955), GRAHAM GREENE
WHY Greene was the best English writer of his generation, and this is his finest hour. He anticipates the entanglement of America in Vietnam.
WHAT TO KNOW Draws on Greene’s experiences as a spy during World War II.
HOW TO FAKE IT “Saigon, Haiphong, and Hanoi, names as beautiful as Vietnamese women. I always read this book whenever I stay at the Continental in Saigon, as Greene did.”
REBECCA (1938), DAPHNE DU MAURIER
WHY Spooky and masterful, and that’s just the dashing hero.
WHAT TO KNOW “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again” is the often-quoted first line. The house is almost a character in this gripping yarn.
HOW TO FAKE IT “She wrote most of the book while she was living in Egypt, you know.”
A ROOM WITH A VIEW (1908), EM FORSTER
WHY Florence, young love, the English countryside and society – what’s not to like?
WHAT TO KNOW The romantic story of the young Lucy Honeychurch and the social constraints that surround her, partly in the form of her irritating cousin Charlotte Bartlett.
HOW TO FAKE IT “It’s the sexually repressed English versus the liberated and carefree Italians.”
THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES (1998), ROBERTO BOLAÑO
WHY A rare talent wrestles South American literature from the iron vice of the magical realists.
WHAT TO KNOW A rough, bleak, funny and picaresque tale of two poets, Ulises Lima and Arturo Belano, in the 1970s.
HOW TO FAKE IT “We’re all visceral realists now.”
THE RED AND THE BLACK (1830), STENDAHL
WHY Could be called a French take on Great Expectations; but being French, the hero, Julien Sorel, is, of course, handsome, sensitive, romantic and troubled.
WHAT TO KNOW Julien tries to elevate himself from his poor family background and finds France’s strict social rules thwart him despite his intellect and personal charm.
HOW TO FAKE IT “If any novel can be called a precursor to the French Revolution, this is it.”
SCOOP (1938), EVELYN WAUGH
WHY One of the funniest novels ever written, as relevant a satire on the great British institution of tabloid journalism today as it was back then.
WHAT TO KNOW The story features the hapless William Boot, a war correspondent for a Fleet Street newspaper who is sent to a fictional African state where civil war is about to erupt.
HOW TO FAKE IT “Boot is modelled on Bill Deedes, whom Waugh met in Addis Ababa in 1936.”
SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTH (1966), TAYEB SALIH
WHY The classic post-colonial Sudanese novel. Sounds boring? Wrong. It’s brilliant.
WHAT TO KNOW The unnamed narrator tells a tale as dark as Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. There’s love, lust, death, despair and of course, the River Nile.
HOW TO FAKE IT “Based partly on Othello, it’s quite clear, although in this case she dropped the handkerchief deliberately.”
THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR (1973), JG FARRELL
WHY The British overseers stiff-upper-lipping it under siege in India during the 1857 Rebellion are hilarious.
WHAT TO KNOW The Brits indulge all whims, then are forced to eat dogs, horses and beetles.
HOW TO FAKE IT “You’ve read the unfinished The Hill Station, haven’t you? Pity he went into the drink at such a young age, isn’t it?”
TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891), THOMAS HARDY
WHY Quite apart from anything else, it is an absolutely ripping yarn; with love, seduction, betrayal, murder, revenge and just about everything else you need for a good read.
WHAT TO KNOW Once you know the subtitle, A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, you understand everything. This is Hardy’s criticism of the double standards and notions of female purity in Victorian England.
HOW TO FAKE IT “The ‘I am ready’ quote from Tess is one of the most powerful quotes in literature, isn’t it?”
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY (1974), JOHN LE CARRE
WHY Had to have a spy novel. Love the title.
WHAT TO KNOW A British agent tries to track down and expose a high-ranking Soviet mole within the British secret service.
HOW TO FAKE IT “Truth is stranger than fiction. You realise it’s based on the unmasking of the Cambridge Five traitors?”
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1960), HARPER LEE
WHY The Southern Gothic novel about a lawyer defending a black man falsely accused of rape is a classic of American literature.
WHAT TO KNOW It’s warm and humourous, deceptively well-written and full of characters who leap off the page and into your mind.
HOW TO FAKE IT “The Dill character was based on Truman Capote.”
UNDER THE VOLCANO (1947), MALCOLM LOWRY
WHY Suffering and self-destruction have never been more readable than in this novel about the last 24 hours of a former British consul in a small town in Mexico.
WHAT TO KNOW Ambitious, audacious, intellectual and inventive, this is by no means an easy read – but the concentration required will make the story all the more rewarding.
HOW TO FAKE IT “It’s pretty much a faithful retelling of the time Lowry spent in the American colony in Cuernavaca.”
WIDE SARGASSO SEA (1966), JEAN RHYS
WHY The best title ever.
WHAT TO KNOW A prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, it tells the story of the first Mrs Rochester, who is the madwoman in the attic of the Brontë novel. Here though, Antoinette Mason is a lively, vulnerable and real woman, not just some lunatic.
HOW TO FAKE IT “Such a great post-colonial novel.”
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1846), EMILY BRONTË
WHY Passionate love, betrayal, lust and revenge intertwined with the cruel landscape and harsh climate of the north of England create one of the most memorable love stories ever written.
WHAT TO KNOW A Yorkshire spinster had the imagination to come up with one of the cruellest and most passionate novels of all time. A story that stays with you for life and makes you wonder if you have ever really been in love.
HOW TO FAKE IT “The question of whether Heathcliff is a hero or a villain is so last week. Clearly he is a hero.”
Selected and written by Helena Frith Powell, Rick Arthur and Rupert Wright
Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.
Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor in chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group.
Helena contributes regularly to UK-based newspapers and magazines and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Helena is working on a thriller called Thin Ice that will be published in 2021 as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.
Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and in paperback in April 2018.
Helena, who was educated at Durham University, lives in the Languedoc region of France with her husband Rupert and their three children.
More France Please, we’re British; Gibson Square 2004
Two Lipsticks and a Lover 2005; Gibson Square (hardback)
All You Need to be Impossibly French; (US version of above) Penguin 2006
Two Lipsticks and a Lover; Arrow Books (paperback) 2007
Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (hardback) 2006
Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (paperback) 2007
So Chic! (French version of Two Lipsticks) Leduc Editions 2008 (also translated into Chinese, Russian and Thai)
More, More France; Gibson Square 2009
To Hell in High Heels; Arrow Books 2009 (also translated into Polish)
The Viva Mayr Diet; Harper Collins 2009
Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011
The Ex-Factor; Gibson Square 2013
Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles; Gibson Square 2016
The Arnolfini Marriage; Amazon Kindle December 2016
Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles (paperback); Gibson Square spring 2018
The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019

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Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region (JFHQ-NCR) is directly responsible for the homeland security and defense of the Washington D.C. area as well as surrounding counties in Virginia and Maryland. Primarily made up of joint military units within the National Capital Region and led by the United States Army via the Military District of Washington (MDW), the JFHQ-NCR assists federal and local civilian agencies and disaster response teams in the event that the capital area's security is or possibly could be breached by acts of terrorism. Officially activated on September 22, 2004, JFHQ-NCR is part of United States Northern Command.
- 1 History
- 2 JFHQ-NCR in action
- 3 Organization
- 4 References
- 5 External links
After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon on September 11, 2001, military and civilian leaders recognized a need for strong cooperation and communication between agencies and national and local units in times of emergency or to prevent such attacks in the first place, something that had been severely lacking prior to that time. USNORTHCOM was subsequently established, taking the lead of several JTFs throughout the U.S. that are subordinate to the Command and charged with homeland security. The Joint Force Headquarters for the National Capital Region was created for the sole purpose of preventing and responding to future terrorist attacks within the Washington, D.C. area and its surrounding cities and counties. JFHQ-NCR officially came into being in September 2004. However, the unit had been operating in part for at least a year prior to its official creation. Major General James T. Jackson, the MDW Commander at the time of the September 11th attacks, was the first to take hold of the concept of the new Headquarters and began to piece various aspects of it together, particularly seeing and responding to the need for a mobile command center and a more effective central command and control headquarters. When MG Galen B. Jackman replaced Jackson in 2003, Jackman solidified the role of JFHQ, commanding the response to various regional emergencies and National Special Security Events (NSSE), proving the potential of JFHQ-NCR. When the organization finally stood up in the fall of 2004—after having had a year of practice—it was fully operational and able to provide an effective answer to the NCR's growing security concerns.
JFHQ-NCR in action
When called upon to assist in a regional crisis or an NSSE (national events requiring security measures outlined and directed by the U.S. Secret Service), the JFHQ mobilizes and becomes Joint Task Force-National Capital Region (JTF-NCR). The JTF-NCR is then directed to respond as quickly as possible and with as many component partners as applicable to address the issue at hand. Although the JFHQ is the single point of contact for entities within the JTF-NCR, the JTF is ultimately guided by the lead agency (the agency that asked JFHQ for assistance to begin with) and the directives of USNORTHCOM. The JFHQ-NCR has had several claims of success in the few years it has been operating. The first crisis that required the help of the JFHQ's JTF occurred on February 2, 2004 when ricin was discovered in the Capitol Hill office mail room of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. The Marine Corps' Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) assisted in the situation and helped officials safely decontaminate the area.
Other JTFs have been activated in the NCR for the dedication of the World War II Memorial on the National Mall and its accompanying World War II reunion, former president Ronald Reagan's state funeral, President George W. Bush's 2005 Presidential Inauguration, President Bush's State of the Union Addresses, and most recently the state funeral of former president Gerald Ford.
Joint Operations Center
The Joint Operations Center (JOC), dedicated a month and a half prior to the official activation of the JFHQ, is the command and control center at the heart of the JFHQ. The JOC is housed in a newly renovated building at Ft. McNair, designed with the latest in technological advances for its time. The JOC boasts 50+ work stations, complete with secure and non-secure capability by way of phones, computer network access, and video teleconferencing for the entire center. The JOC is also "red phone" capable, Geospatial Information System ready, and fully integrated into the secure NORTHCOM communications system. In addition to the ability to communicate with various civilian and military units within the NCR, satellites provide the JOC with secure communication links to the Mobile Command Center and its smaller mobile cousin, "Dagger."
Mobile Command Center
The Mobile Command Center (MCC), like the JOC, was instituted as a direct result of failures in communication capabilities at the time of the September 11th attacks. MG James Jackson needed to be in two places at once much of the time to coordinate recovery efforts at the Pentagon; however, "We had no vehicle then that was capable of anything more than a non-secure telephone connection. The EOC was basically an unclassified environment. (Jackson) made the commitment to secure a modern mobile command center and to fund it from the MDW budget," said Col. Egon Hawrylak (USA-Ret.), a civilian deputy operations officer who previously worked in the MDW operations center.
The MCC, the mobile, smaller version of the JOC, is situated on a 41-foot, 10-wheeled, truck chassis. The MCC was custom built for its mission of providing mobile support to the JFHQ commander and the JOC and, like the JOC, is complete with the latest in computer, technological, and communication advances.
Command of the JFHQ-NCR
The commanding officer of the JFHQ-NCR is also the Commanding General of the Army's MDW. This general officer, who represents the US Army within JFHQ-NCR through the MDW, is aided by a deputy commanding officer who is not associated with the MDW; he or she is a commanding officer of one of the military component-partners within JFHQ-NCR. The commander of JFHQ-NCR, like all JTFs in the U.S., must answer to USNORTHCOM and its commanding general.
|Maj. Gen. Jeffrey S. Buchanan, USA||Rear Adm. Patrick J. Lorge, USN||2013–Present|
|Maj. Gen. Michael S. Linnington, USA||Rear Adm. Patrick J. Lorge, USN||2011–2013|
|Maj. Gen. Karl R. Horst, USA||Rear Adm. Patrick J. Lorge, USN||2009 - 2011|
|Maj. Gen. Richard J. Rowe, Jr., USA||Rear Adm. Terenee E. McKnight, USN||2007 - 2009|
|Maj. Gen. Guy C. Swan III, USA||Rear Adm. Terence E. McKnight, USN||2005 - 2007|
|Maj. Gen. Galen B. Jackman, USA||Rear Adm. Jan Cody Gaudio, USN||2004 - 2005|
The Command Sergeant Major of the MDW, Command Sergeant Major David O. Turnbull, fills the same position within the JFHQ-NCR. Because of the double-role of the MDW/JFHQ-NCR Commander, both commands are headquartered out of the same address at Ft. Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C.
Interagency and community cooperation
When called upon for assistance by the civilian sector of the National Capital Region, the JFHQ-directed-JTF acts as a single cooperative point of contact for a wide range of military units, civilian units, and government agencies throughout the Washington, D.C. area.
Military units and assets
- Army Military District of Washington/Joint Force Land Component Commander (JFLCC) (MDW)
- 89th Airlift Wing
- Arlington National Cemetery
- White House Transportation Agency
- 1st Battalion, 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment
- US Army Band
- 911th Engineer Company
- 12th Aviation Battalion
- Washington MP Battalion (CID), Fort Myer, Virginia
- Site-R Raven Rock Mountain Complex Alternate Joint Communications Center (AJCC) Alternate National Military Command Center
- Naval District of Washington (NDW)/Joint Force Maritime Component Commander (JFMCC)
- Air Force District of Washington (AFDW)/Joint Force Air Component Commander (JFACC)
- Marine Corps National Capital Region Command (aka the Marine Corps Installations National Capital Region)
- U.S. Coast Guard Fifth District
- Fort McNair, Washington, D.C.
- Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia
- Fort Belvoir, Virginia
- Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia
- Fort Meade, Maryland
- Fort Hamilton, New York
- Department of Homeland Security's Office of National Capitol Region Coordination (ONCRC)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF)
- Naval Criminal Investigative Service's Multiple Threat Alert Center (MTAC)
- 902nd Military Intelligence Brigade
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- U.S. Secret Service
- Federal Aviation Administration
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Joint Task Force Civil Support (JTF-CS)
- White House Military Office
- D.C./Virginia/Maryland State and National Guard Units
- US Army's Installation Management Agency, Northeast Region Office (IMA-NERO)
- Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
- Washington Headquarters Services
- Pentagon Force Protection Agency
- Walter Reed Army Medical Center
- National Naval Medical Center
- U.S. Park Police
- U.S. Capitol Police
- D.C. Metro Police
- D.C. Homeland Security Emergency Management Agency (HSEMA)
- Local fire departments
- Local police departments
- Search and Rescue (SAR) units
- "Capital Region Joint Force Headquarters Readies for Battle" by Tom Mani, "American Forces Press Service" August 5, 2004
- "Statement of General Ralph E. Eberhart, USAF, Commander North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command before the Senate Armed Services Committee," USNORTHCOM's Newsroom, 25 March 2004
- "Guardians Of The Nation's Capital" by MG Galen B. Jackman, USA, "Army Magazine: The Green Book" Vol. 54, No. 10, October 2004
- "Safeguarding the Nation's Capital And Providing Ceremonial Support" by MG Guy C. Swan III, USA, "Army Magazine: The Green Book" Vol. 55, No. 10, October 2005
- "Statement of General Ralph E. Eberhart, USAF, Commander North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command before the Senate Armed Services Committee," 25 March 2004
- Tom Mani (August 5, 2004). "Capital Region Joint Force Headquarters Readies for Battle". American Forces Press Service. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Aug2004/n08052004_2004080502.html. Retrieved 2006-12-02.
- MDW Homepage/Leadership List
- "Leadership List". JFHQ-NCR Homepage. http://www.jfhqncr.northcom.mil/leaderships.html. Retrieved 2006-12-02.
- JFHQ-NCR Partners, Units, and Installations
- JFHQ-NCR Task Organization Chart
- "JFHQ-NCR Homepage". http://www.jfhqncr.northcom.mil/.
- "JFHQ-NCR adopts coordinated Strategic Plan". JFHQ-NCR Public Affairs. February 2, 2006. http://www.mdw.army.mil/content/anmviewer.asp?a=1577&z=72.
- "Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region". www.northcom.mil (US Northern Command). http://www.northcom.mil/about_us/JFHQ_NCR.htm.
- Linda Fischer (September 24, 2004). "Joint Force Headquarters-NCR officially stands up". www.dcmilitary.com. http://www.dcmilitary.com/navy/seaservices/9_38/local_news/31314-1.html.
- Jim Garamone (September 22, 2004). "New Joint Command Stands Ready to Defend Capital". www.defenselink.mil. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2004/n09222004_2004092209.html.
- Harold Kennedy (June 2005). "Joint Force: Capital Unit Seen as Prototype for Homeland Defense". www.NationalDefenseMagazine.org. http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/issues/2005/jun/joint_force.htm.
- Tom Mani (August 16, 2005). "Exercise practices response to attack on capital". www.GlobalSecurity.org. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2005/08/mil-050816-arnews01.htm.
- Tom Mani (February 2, 2006). "JFHQ-NCR backstops presidential message". JFHQ-NCR Public Affairs. http://www.mdw.army.mil/content/anmviewer.asp?a=1578&z=18.
- Katherine McIntire Peters (July 15, 2005). "Guardian General". GovExec.com. http://www.govexec.com/features/0705-15/0705-15na1.htm.
- Beau Whittington (October 7, 2005). "Joint Force structure defined at press briefing". www.dcmilitary.com. http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/pentagram/10_40/local_news/37580-1.html.
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We take a look at Sunday afternoons (25/8/2019) NRL 2019 Week 23 match is between the Melbourne Storm and the Gold Coast Titans. Melbourne Storm have shown signs of weakness recently but should still be able to easy account for the Titans in this game.
When: Sunday August 25th, 2:00pm
Where: AAMI Park
Bet: Bet On This Match HERE
The Storm will look to put an uncharacteristic loss last round behind them when they host the bottom placed Titans on Sunday.
In the biggest odds mismatch of the season, the Storm opened as 19.5-point favourites against Gold Coast, who are priced at a huge $7.50 in the head-to-head market.
A 36-12 loss to the Eels was the Titans’ ninth defeat in 10 games and they have won just four times this season. Their road form is the worst in the league, with just two away wins in 2019.
Melbourne led an 18-0 lead slip against Canberra to lose 22-18 and will field an unchanged starting side for this match. They played the Titans just a few weeks ago on the Gold Coast after coach Garth Brennan was sacked and rested all of their State of Origin players, but still prevailed 38-18.
The Wolf expects a ruthless Melbourne performance where they could clock up a half century and run away with things as they don’t often lose two in a row.
Tip: Melbourne Storm at $1.04
Value Tip: First Try Scorer: Suliasi Vunivalu at $6.50
Storm: 1. Jahrome Hughes 2. Suliasi Vunivalu 3. Will Chambers 4. Justin Olam 5. Josh Addo-Carr 6. Cameron Munster 7. Brodie Croft 8. Jesse Bromwich 9. Cameron Smith 10. Nelson Asofa-Solomona 11. Felise Kaufusi 12. Kenneath Bromwich 13. Dale Finucane 14. Brandon Smith 15. Tui Kamikamica 16. Joe Stimson 17. Ryan Papenhuyzen 18. Curtis Scott 19. Tom Eisenhuth 20. Max King 21. Harry Grant
Titans: 1. Michael Gordon 2. Jesse Arthars 3. Kallum Watkins 4. Brian Kelly 5. Phillip Sami 6. Tyrone Peachey 7. Ryley Jacks 8. Moeaki Fotuaika 9. Mitch Rein 10. Jai Arrow 11. Kevin Proctor 12. Sam Stone 13. Nathan Peats 14. Alexander Brimson 15. Jai Whitbread 16. Jarrod Wallace 17. Brenko Lee 18. Bryce Cartwright 19. Tanah Boyd 20. Anthony Don 21. Jack Stockwell
*Odds correct at time of posting. Subject to change


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Do any of you have those days where you come home and you just can't be bothered with pots and pans for dinner? Or you have had your dinner and you're feeling a need for sweetness to balance afterwards, but don't want the fuss of scales, measuring cups , whipping and baking?
I tried making this over the weekend... and guess what? it took me 4 minutes to prep and cook. NO KIDDING!
I followed this nicely documented recipe here and served with good Vanilla ice-cream. Just grab your ingredients and go! 2 minute of prep and 1.5 minutes of micro-waving later..... BOOM.
This Nutella mug cake is an easy recipe to remember (tablespoons of self-raising flour, sugar, cocoa, Nutella, vegetable oil, milk and 1 egg - Update: depending on the size of your mug, just fill it with mixture that is about 1/2-3/4 way up the mug). I can SOOOoooo imagine busy Mums (and Dads), those who have had long days at work, lazy folks etc, all giving this a go! I know many girls that would probably eat this for breakfast, lunch and dinner hah!
For other mug recipes, savoury or sweet...served in a mason jar...a glass...or whatever ...see it all collated nicely here!
I don't always condone laziness, but with a busy week ahead at work I can see myself coming home to console myself with a Mug cake or two!

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The TV star has had "a benign cyst removed," her rep tells PEOPLE
“After several months of vocal therapy and on the advice of her doctors, Rachael decided to have a benign cyst removed from her vocal cord,” says Charlie Dougiello. “According to Rachael’s doctors the minor, non-invasive procedure was a success and she is already resting at home.”
The TV chef and talk show host, who is known for being upbeat and outspoken, had previously scheduled surgery to remove the cyst and then cancelled the procedure and instead began intensive vocal therapy.
Now, “the hardest part for Rachael is going to be giving her voice a rest for the next week or so,” says her rep.
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NEW YORK—Schoology, the education technology company that puts collaboration at the heart of the learning experience, today announced $32 million in financing led by JMI Equity, a growth equity firm focused on investing in leading software and services companies, with additional participation from existing investors FirstMark Capital, Intel Capital, and Great Road Holdings. This latest investment brings Schoology’s total funding to $57 million. Concurrent with the financing, Jit Sinha, General Partner at JMI Equity, will join the Schoology board.
A market leader in Learning Management System (LMS) adoption with more than 12 million users in more than 130 countries, Schoology will use the new funding to make product engineering investments to increase the scope and power of its education cloud, which connects the people, content, data, and systems that fuel education. It also plans to expand distribution so it can reach more schools, districts, colleges and universities around the globe.
“School districts and colleges have been striving to personalize the education of every student for years, but there hasn’t been a teaching and learning platform that could do it. The industry is littered with failed point solutions that didn’t integrate easily and weren’t easy to use – which resulted in extremely low adoption rates and failures to deliver real educational value,” said Jeremy Friedman, CEO, Schoology. “We built the first education cloud that allowed educators and students to collaborate and connect all digital resources on one intuitive platform. Because we designed our platform to be student-centric and we built the enterprise functionality out from there, we’ve been able to combine unparalleled user adoption with the strongest platform capabilities in the industry.”
More institutions are turning to a robust LMS to reign in disparate systems and create more opportunity for individualized learning. Entities like Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) – the second largest school district in the country, who recently purchased Schoology – are leading the way for the more than 13,000 U.S. school districts. Estimates suggest that only 25 percent of school districts have deployed an LMS, and those that have are looking to replace legacy systems.
“In our conversations with customers, it was clear that they wanted a comprehensive platform that covers the entire education ecosystem – from course management to assessment, collaboration and analytics – that allows school districts and colleges to achieve desired student outcomes,” said Sinha. “Schoology is the only company that delivers that in a single platform. The company is also unique in its ability to match enterprise-caliber technology with the intuitive usability of social networks. The company’s design, collaboration-first approach and subscription cloud-based business model make it a leader in the space and we are excited to be partnering with Schoology to help drive the next phase of growth.”
This news comes during a flagship year for Schoology. The company has added 400 new enterprise customers in the past year — surpassing 1,000 total universities, colleges, and K-12 school districts — including deployments such as St. Paul (MN) Public Schools,Seattle (WA) Public Schools, Henrico County (VA) Public Schools, Boise (ID) Independent School District, and Mohave Community College. It also recently expanded its senior management team, with the appointments of Norman Weissberg as Chief Revenue Officer, Melton Littlepage as Chief Marketing Officer, and Michael Brinkman as Chief Technology Officer.
Schoology is the education technology company putting collaboration at the heart of the learning experience. Schoology’s education cloud connects the people, content, and systems that fuel education, and provides all the tools needed to personalize education and improve student outcomes. More than 12 million people from 60,000 K-12 schools and universities around the world use Schoology to transform how they teach and learn. Find us online, follow us on Twitter, or join us on Facebook.
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THE construction industry and social housing projects in Northern Ireland are set to benefit from a boost of more than £30m thanks to a funding partnership between a housing group and a loan firm.
Clanmil Housing is hoping that the windfall will contribute to the construction of 300 new social homes across Northern Ireland over the next 18 months, securing almost 300 on-site jobs as well as supporting many more associated jobs throughout the supply chain.
In April, it was revealed that the construction industry had again recorded the most severe decline across the whole of the UK.
There were 41,356 applicants on Northern Ireland's social housing waiting list at March 31 2013, of which 22,414 are deemed to be in housing stress.
Now Clanmil has teamed up with The Housing Finance Corporation (THFC), an independent, not-for-profit organisation that makes loans to regulated housing associations, that provide affordable housing throughout the UK.
THFC is providing a £17m loan to help Clanmil access some £14m in grant funding from the Department for Social Development.
The funding has been provided by THFC through an aggregated bond issue of £55m funding 10 social housing borrowers, of which Clanmil is the largest participant. At 4.31% for 30 years, this is one of the most competitive rates of interest for long-term borrowing ever achieved for UK Housing Associations.
Jonathan Boggs, group finance director at Clanmil, said that the funding is cost-effective and good news in a tough lending market.
"Faced with growing demand for social housing and increasing constraints on statutory funding, our challenge is to find new funding sources that will support continued investment in social housing and make available public money go further," he said.
"This funding leaves us well placed to continue to play a major role in providing affordable homes for people in housing need."
John Armstrong of the Construction Employers Federation welcomed the funding. He said: "It will help in the provision of much-needed social housing and also provide a real boost to the construction industry."


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The Jazz took a gamble with their two unrestricted big men, and well they lost. Both Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap have decided to take their talents elsewhere.
Al Jefferson decided that he was better off served in Charlotte with the Bobcats. Jefferson will sign a three-year deal worth $40.5 million. Jefferson averaged 17.8 points and 9.2 rebounds last season.
As for Paul Millsap, the Jazz just lost him to the Atlanta Hawks. It’s being reported that Millsap will take a two-year deal with the Hawks for $19million.
Millsap averaged 14.6 points, 7.1 rebounds and 2.6 assists last season for the Hawks.
Losing these two players means that the Jazz will be without a combined 32.4 points and 16.3 rebounds per game, something I’m not sure a single player could produce on that team.
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CHICAGO (CBS) – The snow days are over, and it’s time for the City that Works to get moving again.
As CBS 2’s Susanna Song reports, Chicago Public Schools buses are running again as usual. Bus drivers are focusing on schools where there are a lot of special education students.
Parents were advised to expect some delays.
The city also resumed normal garbage service on Monday, according to a release from the Office of Emergency Management and Communications.
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Last Monday and Tuesday, crews picked up additional garbage in anticipation of having some garbage collection hampered during and after the blizzard, the release said.
All city and sister agencies — including the airports, libraries, parks, senior centers and CTA — are also operating as normal Monday.
The city said to expect a few hiccups here and there as the city tries to return to pre-blizzard conditions.
For the past five days, the city has also given motorists a pass for feeding parking meters. Police and city revenue workers didn’t write parking tickets, so many drivers got away without paying.
But as of 9 a.m. Monday, the amnesty ended, at least for part of the city.
The city’s parking meter grace period is actually coming to a close in two steps, as WBBM Newsradio 780’s Bob Roberts explains.
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The first step began at 9 a.m. in the Loop and in surrounding areas – Oak Street to the north, Lake Shore Drive to the east, Roosevelt Road to the south, and Halsted Street to the west, city Office of Emergency Management executive director Jose Santiago said.
Outside of that area, Monday remains a free day, Santiago said. Parking enforcement for the rest of the city begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
City and transit workers spent most of the weekends to help dig out parking meter boxes, bus stops, and entrances to ‘L’ stops around Chicago.
The city also has 174 tow trucks on the streets, using nearly 500 pieces of equipment to remove snow in trouble spots.
The city says 311 calls have substantially decreased, from nearly 7,000 calls this past Wednesday at the peak of the blizzard to about 600 calls Sunday afternoon.
The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.


- Fastest phone on earth
- Unique webtop functionality
- Future 4G capability
- Solid gaming experiences
- HSUPA disabled
- No 4G yet available, for the most part
- Webtop browser requires separate data plan
For the moment, the Motorola Atrix is king of the hill: long live the king.
AT&T’s Motorola Atrix 4G is an Android OS device chock full of cutting-edge elements, starting with an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, a 960 x 540 qHD display, fingerprint scanner and unique webtop capability.
It is a vanguard in the next generation of smartphones. Packed with advanced technology, the Atrix promises tomorrow’s performance today — but can it live up to such a claim? Read our full review and find out.
BUILD & DESIGN
There’s no denying the basic appeal of the Motorola Atrix 4G. The body of the phone is a plastic shell with metal vacuum-deposited over top. It’s comfortable and solid in the hand.
The design isn’t the bravest or most innovative on the market — it’s a simple black slate. Popularized, perhaps, by the iPhone, the large, screen-centric form factor has become synonymous with high-end smartphones…
…which is a sticking point with the Atrix, by the way — at CES, NVIDIA and Motorola were big on referring to the Atrix as a superphone, not a smartphone. Granted, it’s a slick piece of kit, and the Tegra 2 SoC beating at the heart of the beast is pretty fast, but… no. Just, no.
The front of the phone is taken up by the 4-inch, 960 x 540 resolution display. It’s a gorgeous screen, and one of the first Android phones to launch with a display approaching the resolution of the iPhone 4. In terms of pixel density, it’s not quite as high, but at the distance most people use a phone, the differences are negligible.
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|Apple||iPhone 4||3.5||960 x 540||326|
|HTC||EVO||4.3||800 x 480||217|
|Motorola||Droid X||4.3||854 x 480||228|
|Atrix||4.0||960 x 540||275|
|Samsung||Nexus S||4.0||800 x 480||235|
It’s a beautiful display, and the increased resolution is both noticeable and appreciated. Once you get used to using a higher-resolution screen, it’s hard to go back. The increased resolution is helpful when viewing web pages without having to zoom in as far, and text as well as vectorized graphics and icons look very sharp.
There’s a peculiar issue where some solid colors look weirdly pixelated on the display, but it’s something to which you quickly become attuned.
The screen is capacitive touch-enabled and can support up to two-finger multitouch.
Since this is a touchscreen-focused slate device, the keyboard is all software. Motorola includes two different keyboards on the Atrix; one is a multitouch-compatible traditional model, while the second is Swype.
The stock keyboard works pretty well, with autocorrect options and two-finger support. Only one issue cropped up during our testing, which was the way Motorola handles punctuation marks (they appear in a menu once you hit the space bar after you type a word). It’s different, but not necessarily bad, and it’s something you can easily get used to with extended use.
Swype is the popular 3rd party keyboard developed by the inventor of T9 text entry. It works by swiping your finger across all of the letters in the word you’re trying to spell. It works very well, but selecting it disables the voice recognition functionality for the keyboard, which is one of Android’s very best strengths.
The voice issue brings up an infuriating problem with this phone. As mentioned in our first look, Motorola switches out the built-in Android voice search for a competing alternative by Vlingo. The first time you go to use it, it requires agreeing to a completely separate, and somewhat unreasonable, ‘terms of service’ and completely disrupts the phone experience.
Thankfully, you can easily change it back by holding down the combination settings/numbers button on the keyboard and selecting the multitouch keyboard’s input settings.
Other Buttons and Controls
Four capacitive touch buttons sit flush below the display with the standard Android functions; each responds with a bit of haptic feedback when activated.
But, as is common with consumer smartphones these days, there’s very little in the way of physical buttons on the device.
There’s a volume rocker on the top right corner, and a combination power button/fingerprint scanner inset into the top rear of the phone. A 3.5mm headphone jack sits on top, and a small speaker is found on the bottom rear.
In my first look on the Atrix, I mentioned that while the fingerprint scanner is an interesting add-on, it doesn’t really add to the security of the phone since it requires you to enter a numerical passcode backup. Some of the forum members posted disagreement, mentioning that it’s an easy way to get more people to secure their mobile devices.
I wish I could agree.
After spending some more time with the phone, however, I found myself wishing that Motorola had just left it off entirely. The scanner is accurate, but only if you slowly and consistently wipe your finger across its surface. If the action is too fast or too slow or a partial swipe or your finger is dirty or….
I actually disabled the functionality entirely once the novelty wore off and annoyance set in. It’s also a bit of a pain thanks to its location; it’s set into the back of the phone to help with scanning, which means you can’t leave the phone flat on a surface and turn it on. That’s probably a minor usage scenario, but it’s definitely a difference I’ve noticed between the Atrix and a competitor like the HTC EVO 4G.


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Robert Gordon University stormed to victory in the Aberdeen Asset Management Universities’ Boat Race.
Aberdeen University had gone into the race looking for victory for the 15th time but it was RGU who instead picked up only their third win in the annual event.
RGU led from the start to win the 3km race along the River Dee by four lengths.
Team president Ruth Wright said: “I’m absolutely ecstatic. We knew we had it right from the start. It was just a case of keeping it relaxed. It’s just brilliant and I couldn’t be happier. It was a perfect race for us. We always knew we had it in us to win by a good distance.”
Aberdeen University team president Katie McPherson added: “I’m disappointed but still very proud of the crew. They worked extremely hard and had an excellent race. RGU were very strong but the whole of Aberdeen University are very proud of the crew.”