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Q Magazine: George Michael The Only Interview (December 1998)
Below is George Michael interview by John Aizlewood entitled "I Am What I Am" billed as "The honest George Michael interview you'll ever read" published by Q Magazine in December 1998
George Michael was already the world's third-biggest pop star, the chap with the nuts to rough up Sony, belle monde consort of knights and princesses and serial Renaissance Man. But honestly, you waft one penis at a policeman. "I'm just an ordinary person with extraordinary gifts," he tells John Aizlewood.
GEORGE MICHAEL KISSES (lips yes; tongues no) his tanned cougar-eyed boyfriend Kenny Goss goodbye and leads a small posse into a West London recording studio.
The dog owning, homosexual, superstar felon sits everyone down. There's a brace of publicists, his chilly older sister Yioda, who endearingly still calls him Yog, the nickname Andrew Ridgeley, his classmate at Bushy Meads School, bestowed upon him before the pair became Wham!, the group who never lost their exclamation mark. Present too is Michael's long-term companion, Hippy, a gorgeous golden labrador who would rather go for a walk. Buzzing around are minions, one of whom expertly pre-rolls the joints (being a megastar means having "people" do your basic activities) Michael will gorge throughout the afternoon, washed down with lashings of steaming tea.
"Ready?" asks Michael. Oh yes. Two of his new songs rattle the room. The first, a cover of Stevie Wonder's As, is a feisty duet with Mary J. Blige. The second, A Moment With You, is a wry tribute Marcelo Rodriguez, the policeman who arrested Michael in Los Angeles Will Rogers Memorial Park (quote beneath the park's Rogers statue: "I never met a man I didn't like.") on April 7th.
"Mmmm, this is going to be great," someone purrs. Michael boogies with less self consciousness than the occasion demands. Someone else claps along and in the silence between songs unleashes a furious, albeit solo, round of applause. Q, unfortunately placed in everyone's eyeline, settles on non-committal, but regular, nodding motions. Unsurprisingly the consensus declares the songs, "Just great George". Soon, the others drift away. And it's time to talk, and George Michael loves to talk. Almost as much as he hates being interviewed. "This is quite a big thing," he muses. "I'm sick of people thinking I'm stroppy!"
Ostensibly he's very keen to promote Ladies & Gentleman, The Very Best Of George Michael ("My audience wants to know where I'm at and what's going on."), a selection which confirms, if nothing else, that he's an outrageously gifted artist. In reality, the events of April 7th are more on his mind.
IN JUNE 1994, he lost his court case to Sony after alleging his contract amounted to restraint of trade and this compilation was part of the settlement. Sportingly, for a man who, post trial, taped Rod Stewarts The Killing Of Georgie as his answerphone message, climaxed with a shout of ,"£3 million! Bastards!", he's recorded those new tracks (plus Outside) and will even take on the non-legally-ordered obligation of doing B-sides, if current label, Virgin, allows. This does not, however, indicate regret at bringing the most celebrated suit of what sometimes seems like a career chainmailed by litigation.
"I don't feel I was wrong taking them on. It was a moral issue. Free agency didn't exactly kill films and sport did it?"
Why did you lose?
"One: it was me. Two: somebody whispered in the judge's ear, no question."
Why work so keenly with Sony now?
"I want the album to do well. It clearly shows the two sides of my appeal: fuck-off pop songs people can't resist and songs that make you feel. And they're putting it out at a reasonable price, which I'm pleased about."
Paul Russel, Sony's European President, said he'd love to poach you permanently. "He let a journalist believe I'd come back, knowing it would piss me off. You can't get away with that shit if you're head of a record company. I don't think I'll go back, but it's not impossible. They'd have to fucking make it worth my while, put it that way."
"If I'd been trying to come into this business now, I'd have given up. My attitude then -You fuckers don't know anything- wouldn't get me anywhere. I've realised that if you're looking for respect or long term vision from record companies, forget it. One minute I was the fastest-selling album on Virgin ever."
What? Older?
(Tetchy) "It was their fastest-selling album!"
(Hostile) "Yes. Ever. Two months later the Spice Girls arrive."
AT THE END OF THE '70's, Michael and Ridgeley gatecrashed record companies, claiming appointments. Sometimes it worked. Court cases, stadium tours and several million sales later, Wham! straddled the world like a grinning colossus.
There were two Wham!s. The first shaved their chest hair to peddle Club Tropicana and Bad Boys, pop so shallow Modern Romance were Joy Division with Ingmar Bergman-directed videos in comparison. Their Wake Me Up Before You Go Go video , ended with a message to "buy-buy" the single.
"I understand completely why people hated us. We were so cocky and so childish."
They were signed on the strength of Careless Whisper, co-written by Ridgeley later released as a Michael solo single. By then, the second, deeper Wham! had taken over.
"We were excellent. Some of the best records of the '80's are there. For the last six months of Wham! it was o.k. to like us, we got a little hip. People couldn't ignore Everything She Wants."
"Duran Duran and Culture Club were so sneery, and they were shocked when we went past them. I can't think of another band who got it together so much between first and second albums. On Fantastic you can tell I don't think I'm a singer, but some vocals on Make It Big are the best I've done. Even if we were wankers, you still had to listen."
Wham! had a unique morality among pop groups. Garishly aspirational.
"It was ignorance of the difference between how me and English people looked at things. I was brought up in an environment where the ethic was, work your arse off, you'll never get a penny for anything you don't earn. Typical first, second generation immigrant mentality. I thought I was like everyone else. I didn't realise until I was older that people I grew up with were suspicious of it. Being attached to the Thatcherite thing was that simplistic: we wanted to do well, to become more famous, more successful."
Isn't that quite Thatcherite?
(Sneery) "No it's not. Thatcherite means being monetarist at whatever cost to whoever's around, only believing in survival of the fittest. I've never been like that. I've always been unconcerned with money, even when I didn't have any. I had a mother who taught me it was the root of all evil and although I don't particularly think that anymore, she was pretty much right. All I wanted was fame and to make music. I came from a secure home. By the time I was a teenager I was in a middle-class area, we didn't want for anything."
As pop stars are supposed to do, Wham! spent much of their career having sex, particularly Ridgeley, foiled in his quest to sleep with every woman in the world by North Korea's prohibitive Visa requirements. Michael, however, was squiring Brooke Sheilds.
"We went back to her apartment for what I thought was going to turn into the Real McCoy. We walked into her bedroom and there were bollards around the bed linked by a yellow police line. Then her mother and her security guard jumped out going, "Surprise!". Next day I told her we wouldn't be seeing each other anymore. She was really upset… I can't believe I've told you that."
WHAM! SPLIT. Ridgeley briefly became a figure of tabloid fun before retreating to a farmhouse in Cornwall, where his dignified silence surprised everyone, except those who knew him.
"Why would he stick the boot in?" Asks his somewhat cross ex-partner. "Andrew knows exactly what my contribution to his life has been. Me likewise. It wouldn't occur to Andrew to put me down. I haven't seen him for a year and a half, Cornwall's not the easiest of places to pop over to. It's alright when I do, but he doesn't want anything to do with the past."
Are you jealous of him and his presumably idyllic life?
"Andrew got great things in Wham! and still does, but he got terrible things as well. He became a reference for certain things he's not and that had a serious effect on him. I'd never say I was jealous, because he's not had an easy time, but sometimes I think he's had an easier time than me. Sometimes I feel he had the right idea."
Michael's first solo album, Faith found it's way into eight million American homes, establishing him as a global superstar. He achieved everything he wanted. Then he didn't like it.
"I wanted to compete with Michael Jackson and Madonna and did everything I could to get there. I was 24 and thought, Fuck, this isn't very much fun. I was at an incredible low. I was so lonely."
Circumstances dispensed with Wham!'s exuberance.
"My desperation forced me to look at myself in ways I hadn't while I'd placed my energy into achieving my goals. I took 1989 out, as I made Faith's follow-up, to sort out my head. I did. I think."
"I came to terms with the fact that I felt so little self-worth. That's what the ambition's about and why I was so miserable. I was chasing the wrong things to be happy. Thousands and thousands of screaming fans will not keep your bed warm at night. The best way to hold down the part of me that loved adulation was to stay out of those situations – not tour, not stand in front of cameras, not put myself out there – and see how I felt. The thing that I'm proud of is that I'm ambivalent about my disappearance in America. I have my ego stroked at home when I hear my records on the radio. Then, when I go to America I don't have the hassle or hysteria that goes with being the hot thing. I couldn't deal with it worldwide, and things will be easier if my album doesn't do well in America. I'll leave it in the lap of the Gods."
AS HE SLIPPED FROM PUBLIC VIEW, the tabloids decided George Michael was weird and dour. "I was happy letting people make up their own little character as long as I didn't have to be involved. I knew how to protect my sanity and songwriting."
By the end of 1989, his least favourite solo album, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 was complete. "Everyone thought it meant Listen To Me Without Prejudice which would have been so fucking wimpy and self-absorbed. It meant I Don't Think You're Prejudiced Against Me But If You Are Fuck Off, You Don't Have To Buy It."
The 27 year-old finally sorted out his love life. He decided he was gay, would tell his inner circle (who may not have been wholly shocked), hint about it in his work but otherwise keep shtoom.
"For someone who'd had as much nookie as me, I was terribly under-developed emotionally. I knew what it was all about but I had no idea what falling in love was. Sexuality's not about who you can get it up for, it's about who you can get it up for and fall in love with."
So the girlfriends were real then?
"If I wasn't someone who knew about women, I wouldn't have the audience I have. People don't want to hear that, but it's the truth. I spent the part of my adulthood not being in love, fucking around, fucking men, fucking women, thinking I was bisexual. I had no proof of anything deeper."
"I'd spent most of my professional life being told what my sexuality was, which was rather nice as I didn't know. It could have gone on indefinitely if I'd kept working and taking public admiration as a replacement for the real thing."
HE MET BRAZILIAN designer Anselmo Feleppa and the pair stayed together until Feleppa died of an AIDS related brain hemorrhage in 1993. "For the first time I got together with someone I thought loved me. I actually felt that I loved him."
Listen Without Prejudice Vol.II would never appear. It was to have been "up". Feleppa's death and the Sony court case ensure Older would be many things, but not "up".
"I was still grieving very heavily. I was trying to write but when I'm not listening to music I dry up and I was too fragile to listen to anything that might take me anywhere depressing. At the end of 1994, eighteen months later, I wrote Jesus To A Child and I was back. Phew."
Did you really make Older on a diet of joints?
"Oh yeah. It's the only way to work. I light a joint at the end of Spinning The Wheel. You here a lighter, then you here it burning and me going (makes not entirely unexciting sucking noise), then, Pahhh, and the next track starts. I don't want to sing about drugs though. How boring. The media and music industry have been incredibly irresponsible in making drugs essential to youth culture. Look at how Happy Mondays were written about and how Oasis are written about. It's fine if you've got a habit and the money to do it, but it does nobody any favours to make out it's an integral part of making music. I made lots of music before I took drugs that was just as good."
What's your tipple?
"I'm a grass and occasional ecstasy man. I wish I'd never taken ecstasy because I wouldn't know what I was missing. I've never thrown up on it, never had a headache. I'm very good with drugs, but I find cocaine offensive – it's the new alcohol."
"It's fashionable to take heroin again, so you've got perfectly intelligent people doing the most stupid thing. It's looked at as heroic. It doesn't matter how horrific Trainspotting is if you give the coolest soundtrack of the last five years. I didn't take drugs until my fucking bones had stopped growing. At least I was the shape of an adult."
He ignites another joint.
WITHOUT A SERIOUS relationship for three years after Feleppa died, Michael met Texas born Kenny Goss in summer, 1996. Then his life really went downhill. Two days later he discovered his mum, Lesley, had terminal liver cancer. She died in February, 1997.
"I was so convinced that I was going to lose her, that in my own way I was grieving well before she died, y'know. I've had five years of bereavement, but I'm a lucky man, I have a fantastic partner and some fantastic friends." This is roughly the same gang he's had since Wham!, although writer of choice, Tony Parsons, co-author of Michael's peculiar autobiography, Bare, (Chapter 5: A Very Early Masturbator) has been excommunicated since an interview Michael assumed was for a record company biography turned up in The Mirror. Over three days.
"I'd talked to him as a friend. Even though I was telling the truth, it was degrading in Mirrirspeak. I didn't want to talk about important things in The Daily Mirror. I lost dignity. I was almost as upsetting to me as this year."
"When my mum died, it was the one time when going through my internet sites made me feel good, people genuinely wishing you well is a blessing. It's been a strange decade. The last one went by (his voice cracks)… everything was great y'know….from beginning to end, everything worked, although I was lonely. From the minute I sorted myself out, everything seemed to fall apart. It's lucky it was that way round. If these things had happened when I was a young man, it would have been too much."
"When you've gone through the shit I have, you understand the value of pop music, of how fantastic it is to whack on a great record and go where it takes you. I fucking needed that plenty in the last couple of years. I really understand what it is to be able to do that for people. I don't want to write more songs about misery – writing about it doesn't seem to stop me getting more of it."
The second half of 1997 was spent grappling with depression.
"After my mum died," he remembers, breathing deeply, "I thought I was dealing with it, but I worked my arse off, so I had no time to reach the depths. Finally, I fell apart."
1998 CAME AND WITH IT a new George Michael. He hadn't got over his mother, but he'd come through the worst. After a spirit-enhancing fortnight in Mustique, he and Goss returned to his Hollywood Hills mansion to do whatever an international celebrity does for downtime (certainly not grooming his American dog, a grooming service drops by every week: "Oh come on, it's not really decadent, I wash Hippy."). Then, on April 7th, shortly before 3pm Los Angeles time, he was arrested outside a gentleman's toilet in the Will Rogers Memorial Park and charged with lewd conduct.
"If it hadn't happened that day, it was going to happen very soon," admits Michael. "But going through two bereavements gives unrivaled perspective. The first day I freaked out because I literally had just got out of depression. I thought, somebody is trying to finish me off here. I cannot be this unlucky. When do I get a fucking break? I couldn't believe it had happened."
According to the arrest report, two undercover policemen were responding to complaints of previous "lewd acts" in the park. George "Michaels" was followed by Officer Rodriguez into the toilet. "Michaels" was pretending to wee at the urinal. Rodriguez pretended likewise in the W.C. Then the underwear-free star ("I don't wear underwear. Not a refusal. I just don't.") wafted his "erect penis towards my direction and began to masturbate with his right hand". Officer Rodriguez went out of the toilet, and with his fellow officer, arrested "Michaels" as he "exited the restroom". Results: Small fine, community service order and the most public-coming out in world history.
"I've always liked having sex in places I shouldn't. I remember shagging this girl in a car park after a Wham! show. There was a crowd of people, security was there and I was pissed out of my head. But I don't remember anyone calling the police."
"It's disgusting, it's completely disgusting. The Beverly Hills police sold this ridiculous arrest report to The Sun, with all its fucking lies."
Why do it? The thrill of getting caught?
"Bollocks. I did it because I couldn't resist a free lunch. Is there an element in me that thought, Fuck it, if I get caught, I get caught? Yes of course. I've actually had people ask me if I planned it. Let's face it George, you couldn't get arrested in America…"
"The truth is that there were three people. Two undercover cops and a randy pop star who'd had a couple of drinks at lunch. I didn't come… Um, I don't mean "come". I didn't go anywhere near the guy. He started playing, I'll show you mine, you show me yours. And when you show me yours I'll nick you. That's what happened. I was angry."
"He was quite tasty. They don't send Karl Malden in there, we're not talking Columbo with his dick out. They only need a quick flash to arrest, so he was off quickly. I stood there thinking, Hmmm, that was weird. I assumed he was unimpressed."
"As far as I was concerned, I wasn't followed into that toilet by someone shifty. I responded to something that I shouldn't have, but I don't think anyone in a thousand years looks at a man waving his penis at them and thinks, Oh, he's got to be a cop."
Of course they do. In a public place…
(Nasty, sarcastic tone) "What? If there's no-one around except you and someone who wants a bit of fun? Why'd I think I'd be unlucky enough for that to happen? (Shouting) That's what people do! If men pick each other up, they show each other their dicks! That's how it works! They don't usually get nicked! Why should I think he's a cop?"
It's certainly not out of the question. You must have thought that.
(Calmer) "Obviously I took that risk. There are many times when I wouldn't have. In the arrest report, the guy said he was simulating urination. Excuse me? If you try that at home, you'll get wee all over the shop. If you see a man playing with his penis in front of you, you don't think it's a cop. I don't understand why it's more legal for a cop to go into a toilet and wave his dick at people than it is for someone who wants to do it. Only they get paid for it. What goes on the C.V.? Professional Wanker? Oh, that's my title at the moment. I don't know. It's all beyond me."
"In 1998, I didn't believe that people went to that degree to induce crime. That's not what American tax-payers think their money is being spent on. Everyone knows that people come-on to each other in those places. I was stupid, I shouldn't have done it, it's against the law, but what happened that afternoon was totally unfair. I apologise to people if it offends them, but it's not like anything outrageous happened. If it does offend them, they aren't likely to be fans, so why would I worry? I'm not interested in the views of homophobes or people's perceptions of me outside those who like the music. I have nothing to apologise for. I could not believe they had fucking done that to me. I was totally stitched up."
"Put it this way, it wasn't just the paparazzi who made money that week."
If you're so sure about that, you'd obviously have fought the case…
"Lawyers tell me everyone knows this is going on, all those reports look the same. They make up bullshit arrest reports so people are terrified to fight them in court. This shit has benn going on year in, year out. It's easy convictions."
"Was I prepared to stand in court and call the man who wrote the report a liar? My word against a policeman's? If I were not a celebrity, I'd have done it and claimed entrapment, but not on worldwide fucking television. It's not an option for a celebrity."
That's what George Michael says. Undoubtedly, his dignity was gone forever.
"Running up and down Oxford Street singing I Am What I Am would have been a more dignified way to come out."
Don't you wish you'd come out earlier?
"My favourite, favourite motto is a Jean Cocteau quote: never state what you can imply. It's got me into a lot of trouble recently."
You weren't this sad, multi-millionaire, closeted guy?
"The paparazzi like to think of me as that, but I've been openly gay with the people in my life for eight or nine years now. The paparazzi don't want to hear that I'm perfectly fine with my sexuality or that I have a fantastic relationship. They want to hear the hard luck story of a poor closeted pop star. That's not what people are going to get because it isn't like that. If it were, I would have been destroyed by my arrest. That's what they wanted. Also, as far as I'm concerned, I'd come out in my work."
"People might have looked at my not being out with the tabloids as dishonest. I couldn't think of anything more honest. Anyway, if you don't want people to think you're gay, you don't grow a mustache that makes you look like you've failed a Village People audition. Who was there left to say I Am Gay to, other than people that it didn't matter to."
By your logic it would have been neither easier nor harder if you had come out earlier?
"Exactly. It was a good thing it happened. It took me off my pedestal. I know I built it, but it's hard to get on and off it everyday."
Boy George must have been pleased…
"I've had to put up with Boy George doing the whole closeted thing. I've always been nice to him, talked to him about my boyfriends and he still has to have a go. Leave it out. What's his problem? I'm hardly going to take spiritual or career guidance from him."
What about your father? One school of thought says you never came out so as not to offend him.
"When I say I was out with everyone in my life, I mean everyone. He was fine. He's just lost my mum, so his sense of perspective was heightened. My dad loves me, and on the phone he told me to get out there and tell'em to fuck off. I'm not saying it wasn't tough for him, but he took it very well."
What about Kenny? He can't have been delighted.
"I'm very honest in my relationship. I've had many truthful discussions with my boyfriend about who I am and what I'm like, so it was no great shock. What has been difficult is the media attention. Someone at BT sold my phone records to the press who rang his entire family and everybody he'd called from a number in my house that was especially his. You're absolutely fucked everywhere you turn."
Have you heard any jokes?
"My favourite follows a false report that says to officers walked in while I was having a good old knuckle shuffle, I didn't stop, and apparently I went, hello guys, here it is. (Mirthlessly) What's the difference between George Michael and a microwave? A microwave stops when you open the door."
How have ordinary people reacted?
"I've been signing more autographs. It's finally proved to me that people are nowhere near as dumb or as prejudiced as the papers they read. I've had one comment, someone shouting (expert Arthur Mullard-esque mode) You queer cunt, from a car going fifty miles per hour, a real brave one. I've had the privilege of being seen in my worst possible incarnation and people being okay with it. If you've been the soundtrack to someone's life, they'll be a little more forgiving. I responded with honesty.
People said, Fuck it, we don't care."
You handled it well, all thing considered…
"When I was fine, the press were disappointed. I went to Spago's restaurant in L.A. just after. We had The Daily Mirror coming to the table and thought they were the only paparazzi there. It's a real embarrassment for me to go to the toilet these days. I have to make sure there's no-one in the vicinity in case I scare them out. Towards the end of the meal I went."
Urinal or water closet?
"Urinal. I came out and Spago's manager was going, I'm really sorry sir. My manager and my lawyer at my table told me that half the bar had gone after me. The waiters had to run to the toilet door to stop them going in. What the fuck did they expect? A reconstruction?
"It's bizarre to be written about as a fallen idol, a shamed pop star. What exactly am I supposed to be ashamed of? What I did hate though was people thinking, Poor thing, it's the only place he could get his fucking end away."
Will it happen again?
"Oh no. I'll never get arrested again. Look (exasperated) you've got to understand, it didn't happen by accident. Am I going to put myself in a public situation like that again? No, of course not. Are they going to try and humiliate me again? Very possibly."
"This has been something which I've ended up writing a couple of decent songs about. As long as I get a smash number one, I won't care. I'm being flippant, but only because I've made a smash record and don't need anymore publicity. As long as people buy my records, it makes what I don't like easier to stomach. It's a means to the end of having people hear my music. If my record is all over the radio and part of the interest is based on that scandal, then fucked up though that is, then fine. So be it."
Do you want to forget about it?
"I don't want it to stay around, but I'm not going to kick it out the door. I have no problem with it lodging in peoples memory, it makes no difference to me."
THIS WEEK, George Michael will buy albums by Lauryn Hill and Manic Street Preachers. He's smoke all his drugs – none of that old fashioned stash-sharing, mind – and drunk all his tea. He switches to Silk Cut and Diet Coke, the diet of all his supermodel friends that frequented his videos. "Ah", he notes triumphantly, "but did you notice how many men there were?"
He doesn't go out much ("A bit difficult, I'd rather be at home with a joint"), but he's friendly with some Spice Girls and their boyfriends.
"I know barely any celebrities, believe me. I get on well with Geri (Halliwell). When she had nowhere to go to finish her tax year out, she stayed with me. We were in St. Tropez after the World Cup. Victoria and Beckham were staying at Elton's house. They hadn't spoken and I said, You know you're dying to speak to her, why don't you invite her down? That's what happened. Sweet of me, wasn't it?"
What can you talk to David Beckham about?
"Whether or not they'd been consulted about Gazza, the press. He's very nice, but he spent most of the evening staring wide-eyed at Victoria, so we didn't talk much. He's much taller than I'd thought."
When you look in the mirror, what do you think?
"Same as ever. I don't like it. But now I realise a lot of other people do."
"Just about everything. I've never gotten over it, it's very deep-rooted that one. Even the way I groom myself is down to insecurity, trying to make something out of what I don't like very much."
Nobody has facial hair like yours.
"It's part of my job not to look like everyone else. I don't consider I've gone to great lengths to keep people interested physically. There are plenty of goatees around, just not as gay and tidy as mine."
Do you like yourself?
"Deep down, parts of me still give in to low self-esteem. I realise I'm a good person. I value myself and what I do a lot more than I used to."
Is Georgios Panayiotou still alive?
"Oh, very much so."
What's he like?
"Well he's the randy bugger for a start. More than most artists, I've held onto things about me that made people buy my music in the first place. That's why I'm still successful. But how can you remember who you were fifteen years ago? The insecurities feel the same, but I'm more confident. I know who I am. I'm not lonely anymore. I don't have anxieties the way I did. I just wish I hadn't lost the people I've lost."
Do you stop being George Michael at home?
"I'm not George Michael much of the time. I've engineered my life so I don't have to be."
Why don't you kill him?
"I did that and ended up missing him. I'll not be going on as long as your average pop star. What I do is for the mainstream, and if I had declining sales, it would mean the records were getting crapper."
How good are you?
"At what I do, I'm the best. My talent is very traditional. I'm not interested in anything other than songs that stand the test of time. I've always wanted to please people. I'm never happy with a song warmly received than with a smash people are still going to hear in fifteen years."
"I get a shiver when I come up with something that everyone's going to know. I never write stuff people can't understand and I never want to. Now, I can talk about things that are incredibly important to me, but make them work within the context of a pop song everyone's going to like. That gift to me is progress. I have total respect for my gift."
Are you familiar with doing a George Michael, ie successfully moving from teeny band to adult songwriter?
"Absolutely. I hate it. Gary Barlow doesn't have any talent. I listened to that shit about him, someone discovered in a Northern Working Mens Club, being the new George Michael. Just because he was fat and we both have inflatable cheeks does not mean we are working in the same area. I resent it when people make out my contribution to the early '80's was influencing future boy bands."
What are you like?
"I am quite odd. People expect you're going to be as clean and easy to digest as a person as you are a musician, but I'm as unconventional a pop star as you could meet. I don't think like straight people, I don't think like gay people. It's made me uncomfortable in certain areas of my life as I don't have a rule book to follow and I don't really follow others' examples. I have a problem with authority."
"I am the least secretive person. I'm very decent, even though I'm painted as very indecent. I've never willingly hurt anyone or treated anyone badly. I'm just an ordinary person with extraordinary gifts."
He has a parting shot, this happy/sad man who isn't lonely anymore.
"I miss people-watching. When we signed our record contract I used to go to Oxford Circus and watch people for hours. When they're all staring at you, it doesn't serve the same purpose. I used to like doing that."
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The following photos of Efkere and the surrounding countryside are from 1998. The first picture is taken from the front of Surp Stepanos, looking across the valley to the opposite hillside, which was Western Efkere. Little more than the foundations of some buildings remain. The remainder of the photos, from Eastern Efkere, give a good sense of the current condition of the village. Most of the vintage structures have been taken down, and those that remain are largely in ruin. Still, some homes and buildings remain standing, in good condition, and are occupied.
From the Southwestern Plateau, the photograph on the left was taken in May, 2002, and shows the condition of Eastern Efkere today. Surp Stepanos, lacking its dome, is visible in the center, toward the right. The photograph on the right is taken from almost the same vantage point, and dates from prior to 1915.
The images to the right are from May, 2002, showing a view of the village from the Southwest Plateau, and the likely ruins of St. Elia's Chapel.
The Southwest Plateau. The numerous structures on the hillside are "pigeon houses". Food and water were placed at the bottom of these structures in an effort to lure pigeons, which provided the crops with valuable fertilizer. At the top of the hill, are the ruins of an old building. This may represent a part of Sp. Elia, although this is uncertain.
Eastern Efkere, January 2002. The first photograph shows a typical pre-World War 1 dwelling. This home is located approximately 60 meters northwest of Surp Stepanos.
Efkere, December 2004. I am extremely grateful for the following series of photographs of Efkere, which were sent to me anonymously.


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FORGET EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT ZOMBIES.
In under 10 minutes, 99.9% of the world's population will be dead… or changed. Conversion is instant. Headshots just make them angry. And they're getting smarter.
Ken Strickland has made it through the first moments. But his family is still out there.
Can he survive? Can he find them? Or will he become one more of the creatures that now rule our world?
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RISING FEARS
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Michaelbrent Collings is a #1 bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His bestsellers include Strangers, Darkbound, Apparition, The Haunted, The Loon, and the YA fantasy series The Billy Saga (beginning with Billy: Messenger of Powers).
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ADS Classification and Handbook of Dahlias
Anemone-flowered
Straight Cactus
Collarette
Formal Decorative
Incurved Cactus
Informal Decorative
Laciniated
Micro Anemone-flowered
Micro Collarette
Micro Novelty Open
Micro Novelty Fully Double
Micro Orchid-flowering
Micro Orchette
Micro Peony-flowering
Micro Stellar
MWL
Micro Water Lily
Miniature Ball
Mignon Single
Novelty Open
Novelty Fully Double
Orchid-flowering
Orchette
Peony-flowering
All dahlias in classes 0001 through 7715: Formal Decorative, Informal Decorative, Semi-Cactus, Cactus, Incurved Cactus, Laciniated, Ball, Miniature Ball, Pompon, Stellar, Waterlily and Novelty Double are fully double with the central rays spirally displayed. The mature petals that determine the size of the dahlia determine the dahlia formation. In the following descriptions, the X in the number range signifies size and can be replaced with 0 (AA), 1 (A), 2 (B), 3 (BB), 4 (M) or 5 (MC).
X001—X015 FORMAL DECORATIVE Dahlias: Ray florets are generally flat, broad, and smooth in a regular arrangement that gradually recurve toward the stem. Each ray floret row should convey uniform and regular size arrangement with the tips preferably round or extending to a slight point. The ideal depth is three-quarters the diameter of the bloom and should not be greater than its diameter.
X101—X115 INFORMAL DECORATIVE Dahlias: Ray florets are twisted, curled, or wavy, and of uniform size in irregular arrangement. They may be partially involute or revolute, but no portion should be fully revolute or involute except at the tip of the ray floret. The ideal depth is three-quarters the diameter of the bloom and should not be greater than its diameter.
X201—X215 SEMI-CACTUS Dahlias: Ray florets are broad at the base, straight or incurved, and reflex toward the stem in a regular and uniform arrangement. Ray florets will be revolute for approximately half their length and fully revolute (touching or overlapping) for at least one-fourth their length. The ideal depth is three-quarters the diameter of the bloom and should not be greater than its diameter.
X301—X315 STRAIGHT CACTUS Dahlias. Ray florets are narrow at the base, straight, uniform in length and reflex toward the stem, radiating uniformly in all directions from the center. They will be revolute for the majority of their length and fully revolute (touching or overlapping) for approximately half their length. A depth of about three-quarters the diameter is ideal for this form.
X401—X415 INCURVED CACTUS Dahlias: Ray florets are pointed, narrow at the base, uniform in length and arrangement, revolute for the majority of their length, and fully revolute for at least half their length. They will curve upward to the bloom face, but may also arc downward and then up, or they will swirl horizontally around the bloom circumference, usually exposing the involucre in either case. Depth must be at least half the diameter.
X501—X515 LACINIATED Dahlias: Ray florets are split at the tip with the number and depth of the splits varying according to the size of the ray floret. The portion of the ray floret with the splits should uniformly twist or curl whether involute or revolute. The less mature ray florets should possess splits but do not have to twist or curl. In the ideal laciniated dahlia, the majority of ray florets will be uniformly arranged with a split, twist, or curl that conveys an overall fringed or frilled effect. Ray florets, slightly involute or revolute, that split regardless of length and remain generally flat are a major fault. Ray florets with a shallow notch or cleft and possessing little twisting to the extreme portion should not be classified as laciniated. The ideal depth is three-quarters the diameter of the bloom and should never be greater than its diameter.
6001—6015 BALL Dahlias: Blooms are ball shaped with uniform florets, involute for most of their length, and fully involute for more than half the length; the ray florets reflex toward the stem. Ray floret tips in cross-section should be circular and exhibit little distortion, completely filling the floral head and are either round or blunt without notch or point.
6101—6115 MINIATURE BALL Dahlias: Except for size, miniature ball and ball dahlias possess the same form features.
6201—6215 POMPON Dahlias: The ray florets are involute for the whole of their length and fully involute for half their length. Except for size they are similar to the ball description.
7001—7015 STELLAR Dahlias: Ray florets are long and narrow along their length with pointed tips preferred; like a star, they exhibit space between the ray florets in each of the rows and possess a uniform, regular arrangement. All the ray florets will have a partially involute form in an approximate U shape in cross-section for the majority of their length and will recurve toward the stem; the bloom depth should be greater than one half of the diameter and should not be greater than its diameter.
7101—7115 MICRO STELLAR Dahlias: Micro Stellar dahlias posses the same formation as Stellar dahlias except they are under 2 inches in diameter.
7301—7315 WATERLILY Dahlias: The bloom should be fully double and symmetrical; the side view should be flat to saucer-shaped in arrangement, and the layer of florets should be open faced to give a delicate appearance. The center should be closed and dome-shaped breaking gradually to four to seven rows of fully developed outer florets. Outer florets should be broad and slightly cupped with rounded tips. A bloom position at 45 degrees is preferred, but a top facing bloom is acceptable. In petite waterlily cultivars (from 1 to 3 inches) in diameter, the depth should contain fewer rows of ray florets in order to represent the waterlily form accurately. The depth should never be more than one-half the diameter of the bloom.
7401—7415 MICRO WATERLILY Dahlias: Micro Waterlily dahlias posses the same formation as Waterlily dahlias except they are under 2 inches in diameter.
7601—7615 NOVELTY FULLY DOUBLE Dahlias: Will display distinct and different form from present classifications. The new formation must display good symmetry, including a closed, tight center, ray florets uniformly shaped and/or arranged differently from other fully double form characteristics.
7701—7715 MICRO NOVELTY FULLY DOUBLE Dahlias: Micro Novelty Fully Double dahlias posses the same formation as Novelty Fully Double dahlias except they are under 2 inches in diameter.
8001—8015 PEONY Dahlias: At least two, but not more than five rows of ray florets surround the disc.Ray florets are broad, generally flat to slightly cupped and evenly spaced in a flat plane.Ray florets are equal or nearly equal in length from the bloom face to the back, not recurving or reflexing to the stem.Ray florets adjacent to the disc may be twisted or curled, but if present should be symmetrically arranged around the disc.Ideal depth is less than one-third the diameter.Disc flowers with 0 to 3 rows of pollen are desirable.
8101—8115 MICRO PEONY Dahlias: Micro Peony dahlias posses the same formation as Peony dahlias except they are under 2 inches in diameter.
8201—8215 ANEMONE Dahlias: A dome of elongated tubular disc florets surrounded by one or more rows of ray florets. The ray florets should be uniform in shape, size and formation and be regularly arranged around the disc florets. The ray florets should be visible from the face of the bloom, creating a pleasant and balanced framing of the dome. The disc florets should also be uniform in shape, size and formation and be fully developed. Each disc floret should be entirely tubular or predominantly tubular with a fringed tip.
8201—8215 MICRO ANEMONE Dahlias: Micro Anemone dahlias posses the same formation as Anemone dahlias except they are under 2 inches in diameter.
8601—8615 NOVELTY OPEN Dahlias: Have characteristics distinct and different from the present classifications are classified as novelty dahlias. The center should be open with the disc center in proper proportion to the ray florets.
8701—8715 MICRO NOVELTY OPEN Dahlias: Micro Novelty Open dahlias posses the same formation as Novelty Open dahlias except they are under 2 inches in diameter.
9001—9015 COLLARETTE Dahlias: A bloom will have a single row of flat or slightly cupped ray florets arranged in a flat plane; the ray florets will uniformly overlap, preferably in the same direction with no gaps. The petaloids surrounding the disc should be approximately one-half to two-thirds the length of the ray florets. Eight ray florets are most desirable. A round floret tip is preferred. Disc flowers with 0 to 3 rows of pollen are desirable.
9101—9115 MICRO COLLARETTE Dahlias: Micro Collarette dahlias posses the same formation as Collarette dahlias except they are under 2 inches in diameter.
9201—9215 ORCHID Dahlias: A single row of uniform, evenly spaced ray florets arranged in a flat plane surround the disc flowers. The ray florets should be straight and involute for two-thirds or more of their length and fully involute for at least one-third their length. Eight ray florets are most desirable. Disc flowers with 0 to 3 rows of pollen are desirable.
9301—9315 MICRO ORCHID Dahlias: Micro Orchid dahlias posses the same formation as Orchid dahlias except they are under 2 inches in diameter.
9401—9415 ORCHETTE Dahlias: A bloom combines the involute characteristics of the orchid dahlia form and the petaloid characteristics of the collarette form. Ideally, eight ray florets uniformly surround the disc flowers in a flat, even plane. Ray florets should be straight and involute for at least half of their length and fully involute for at least one-fourth of their length. Ray florets should possess a corresponding petaloid at their base. Petaloids should be of a length which gives visual impact and not so small that they are not easily discernible at arm's length. Petaloids may lie flat within the base of the ray floret or slightly rise and/or cup upward toward the center of the bloom. Disc flowers with 0 to 3 rows of pollen are desirable.
9501—9515 MICRO ORCHETTE Dahlias: Micro Orchette dahlias posses the same formation as Orchette dahlias except they are under 2 inches in diameter.
9601—9615 SINGLE Dahlias: The bloom has a single row of flat or slightly cupped ray florets arranged in a flat plane. They uniformly overlap, preferably in the same direction with no gaps. Eight ray florets are most desirable. Disc flowers with 0 to 3 rows of pollen are desirable. A round floret tip is preferred. The bloom is over two inches in diameter.
9701—9715 MIGNON SINGLE Dahlias: Mignon single dahlias possess the same formation as single dahlias except they have round ray floret tips. Disc flowers with 0 to 3 rows of pollen are desirable. The bloom is under two inches in diameter.
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The Memorial Project
The Pectoral Cross
Published by Peter Collins on May 3, 2018
ABOVE: The reverse side of the (Pectoral) Gold Cross of the Knighthood of the Order of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The inscription was added in 1924 by Brisbane jeweller, Bruce Phillips, on the instructions of a delegation from the local Greek Orthodox worship community, centred on St George's Church, South Brisbane. Photo courtesy of St George's Church, Whyke, Chichester.
IN 1920 the Reverend Canon David John Garland was conferred the Order of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the form of a small, gold cross.
In 1940 this priceless liturgical accessory, containing a holy relic, was bequeathed to a member of Canon Garland's extended family in England. Every year since then, at Eastertide, the Pectoral Cross is laid upon the altar of a parish church in the Anglican Diocese of Chichester.
The Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude, Constantine Damianos, made Canon Garland a Knight of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in July 1920 "in appreciation of his great interest and reverence for the Holy Orthodox Church of Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulchre".
A report that appeared in Rockhampton's "The Capricornian" newspaper on 31 July 1920 (page 24), stated that a letter accompanying a diploma from The Patriarch, "gives the information that Canon Garland is the first priest of the Church of England to receive this decoration. It will be remembered that he (Garland) was the first to celebrate the Holy Eucharist in the chapel set aside for the Church of England at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre after the Turks were driven out of the Holy City and that since his return from Palestine he has advocated the claims of the Oriental Church upon the Church of England."
As will be noted in the blog post, Canon Garland invested, there was an investiture ceremony performed on behalf of the Patriarch by Brisbane's inaugural Acting Vice-Consul of Greece, Christy Kosmas Freeleagus, at St Barnabas' Church, Red Hill, on Sunday, 10 July 1921.
Mr Freeleagus duly read out the diploma in Greek, with a translation of it in English, for the benefit the Ithaca-cum-Bardon congregation, as well as the sizeable delegation of visitors with Greek ethnic heritage.
As Canon Garland had only been the Rector at St Barnabas' Church barely a year, the ecumenical collegiality on display almost certainly would have been confronting to those brought up on the forms and rituals outlined in the Book of Common Prayer.
Three years later, with his record of fellowship, fostering and encouragement of Brisbane's Eastern Orthodox traditions – especially that of the ethnic-Russian community – now far better understood and appreciated, Canon Garland again played host to the now-Honorary Consul of Greece in Brisbane, Mr Freeleagus, at St Barnabas' Church.
On Sunday, 12 October 1924, an overflowing congregation of parishioners and Greek community visitors witnessed Canon Garland ceremonially receive his knighthood and Pectoral Cross, again.
This time choristers who, by 1929, would formally belong to the Greek Orthodox Community of South Brisbane's flourishing Parish of Saint George the Great Martyr, bolstered the numbers and added a distinctive Orthodox flavour to the morning's service of worship.
It also just so happened to come a little over week since Canon Garland had marked his 60th birthday.
His beloved Pectoral Cross was now described as "of gold, and the stones are rubies. It was made Mr. Bruce Phillips".
The city's Greeks had been so taken by Canon Garland's ceaseless advocacy on their behalf that many had contributed to a fund to pay for the Cross of the Holy Sepulchre to be reset into a larger piece of gold, using the talents of Brisbane jeweller, Bruce Phillips.
ABOVE: Edward Street, jeweller, Bruce Phillips, advertised his skillset in "The Telegraph" newspaper on 3 October 1921 (pg6). Mr Phillips was engaged to inscribe these words on the reverse of the Pectoral Cross: "Pres. to Canon D.J. Garland by the Greek Community of Brisbane as a token of recognition of valued services rendered."
Described in Canon Garland's 1938 Last Will and Testament as "containing three splinters of the TRUE CROSS", the centrepiece was now affixed to a bigger gold cross, flanked by an engraved Fleur-de-lis at the extremity of each arm and encrusted with a small ruby; topped by a stylised motif of St Edward's Crown, itself set with four rubies – a nod to Canon Garland's fealty to the King and British Empire – and finished out by a gold chain set into a deep maroon-coloured ribbon (see close-up photograph below), finally enabling it to be worn in a style that priests of the Eastern Orthodox tradition would find familiar.
Along with his prized Pectoral Cross, Canon Garland also bequeathed its "certificate of identity, signed by the Patriarch of Jerusalem".
On Sunday, 18 January 1920 – and presumably not yet aware that the Patriarch of Antioch (Jerusalem) was intending to bestow on him a knighthood – in his "Reunion of Christendom" sermon delivered at Brisbane's St John's Cathedral, Canon Garland described the pinnacle of his tour of duty as the First AIF's Senior Church of England Chaplain in Jerusalem, between late 1917 and mid-1919:
"…the preacher [ Canon Garland ] had the great privilege of celebrating the Holy Eucharist on an altar, somewhere about 1,200 years old, in the underground church of St John the Baptist, in Jerusalem, assisted by a body of Australian troops, a celebration which the Patriarch of Jerusalem had said was the first celebration in that place of the Holy mysteries for 1,000 years. Christmas, a year back, he (the preacher) had the wonderful privilege of being received by the Patriarch of Antioch. At the Christmas Eucharist in the Damascus Cathedral, by direction of the Patriarch, he was vested in their sacred vestments, placed at the altar amongst the priests, and given the Holy Communion as a priest. Then in Jerusalem, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, with only a wall dividing the altar from Calvary, there was an altar erected by the Patriarch some 35 years ago in order that Church of England priests might celebrate the Holy Mysteries according to the use of the Book of Common Prayer, and where he (the preacher) had celebrated many times…"
ABOVE: Detail of the obverse side of the Pectoral Cross. Note the inlaid rubies. The tiny, gold, centrepiece crucifix – it is claimed in a certificate issued in 1920 by the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Sepulchre – to contain "splinters of the TRUE CROSS". Since it was bequeathed to Canon Garland's nephew in the United Kingdom in 1939, the Pectoral Cross has been kept in a small wooden box which, in turn, is kept in a locked ambry cupboard alongside the High Altar of the Church of St George, Whyke, in the Anglican Diocese of Chichester. This cupboard is also use to keep the Holy Oils blessed by the Bishop at the Christmas Mass held in Chichester Cathedral and used at baptisms, unctions for the sick, and the like. The Pectoral Cross is taken out and placed on St George's Church altar on Good Friday and for other festivals, particularly at the church's patronal festival – St George's Day – where some members of the congregation venerate it by kissing it as it is held by the priest. Photo courtesy of St George's Church, Whyke, Chichester.
There was an Hellenic atmosphere at St. Barnabas' Church, Red Hill, yesterday [ 12 October 1924 ], when Canon Garland [ David John Garland ] was invested with the Order of the Holy Sepulchre by the Consul for Greece (Mr. Christie Freeleagus).
There were many prominent members of the Greek community in Brisbane present, and during the service hymns in Greek were rendered by a soloist.
The Order of the Holy Sepulchre is one of ancient origin, and is said to have been founded by the Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great.
Helena was a British princess, whose son, born at York, became the Roman Emperor, and afterwards, sent his mother, the Empress Helena, to Jerusalem, where she built churches over the site of Calvary and of the Holy Sepulchre.
The Order was at one time given only to Royalty, and, is now bestowed very sparingly upon those who have shown some special devotion to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
It is the gift of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, who at present is His Beatitude Damianos, a Greek by birth.
The cross is of gold, and the stones are rubies. It was made Mr. Bruce Phillips.
— from page 8 of "The Brisbane Courier" of 13 October 1924.
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SOMERSET, FITZROY RICHARD (1885 - 1964) 4th BARON RAGLAN, soldier, anthropologist, author
Name: Fitzroy Richard Somerset
Date of death: 1964
Spouse: Julia Somerset (née Hamilton)
Parent: Ethel Jemima Somerset (née Ponsonby)
Parent: George FitzRoy Henry Somerset
Occupation: soldier, anthropologist, author
Area of activity: Literature and Writing; Military; Science and Mathematics
Author: Emrys George Bowen
Born 10 June 1885, eldest son of the 3rd Baron Raglan and Ethel Jemima Ponsonby, daughter of the 7th Earl of Bessborough. The 4th Lord Raglan succeeded to the title in 1921 as the great-grandson of the 1st baron who received the title in 1852 when Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in the Crimea.
Lord Raglan was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and following the family tradition entered the Army. He joined the Grenadier Guards in 1905 and held the rank of Captain in 1914 and Major in 1919. His first post overseas was A.D.C. to the Governor of Hong Kong (1912-13). In the latter year he joined the Egyptian Army and remained in the Eastern Mediterranean Area until 1921, for the first six years with the Egyptian Forces and later from 1919 until he returned in 1922 he was a political officer in Palestine. In recognition of his services in Egypt he was made an Officer of the Order of the Nile.
The military phase may be considered as the first phase of Lord Raglan's life for it was followed in the 1930s by a second, though somewhat different, one. It is clear, however, that both phases are closely related. During his service with the Egyptian Forces he became deeply interested in the archaeology of ancient Egypt as well as the physical anthropology of the native troops, being, for example, particularly fascinated by the fine physique of the Nilotic negroes. These interests he developed on his return to Britain. In 1932 he took an active part, with his close friend C. Darryll Forde (then Professor of geography and anthropology at the U.C.W., Aberystwyth) in the excavations in that and later years conducted at the important Iron Age hill fort of Pen Dinas, outside Aberystwyth. By 1933 he was sufficiently advanced in anthropology to become president that year of Section H (Anthropology) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, while during the two years (1945-47) his interests in social anthropology were recognized by his election to the presidency of the Folklore Society. Ten years later he was president of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and had been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Meanwhile he turned his full attention to Wales and the archaeological field, occupying a succession of key positions at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. In 1947-51 he was chairman of the Museum Archaeology and Art Committee, in 1950-52, treasurer of the Museum, in 1952-57 vice-president and finally, in 1957-62, president.
Ever since his return to Britain he was not only an active member of many societies and interested in administrative duties in national institutions but also published a large number of important and interesting books and papers on archaeology and anthropology. In 1933 appeared Jocasta's crime - an anthropological study, and in the same year The Science of peace and followed in 1934 by If I were dictator. Two years later saw The Hero — a study in tradition, myth and drama followed three years later by How came civilization? After World War II there followed several studies in primitive religion; 1945 saw Death and Re-birth, 1949 The Origins of Religion and in 1964 The Temple and the house. While Lord Raglan became more and more closely associated with the National Museum he naturally became more closely associated with the director, Sir Cyril Fox and in the years 1951-54 a Survey of Monmouthshire Houses, I-III, prepared in collaboration with Sir Cyril Fox, appeared. This work was a survey of pioneer importance.
Lord Raglan's anthropological work has not been universally well received. This is largely due to the fact that the topics discussed are too contentious, complex and wide ranging to be dealt with within the confines of a single volume. The topics also present a temptation to provide simple solutions for highly complex situations, e.g. that men wear hats because they wish to be like kings who wear crowns. Many scholars too are of the opinion that Lord Raglan, an interesting and charming man, loved deliberately to provoke those who held strongly opposite views to his own and to watch with amusement their reactions, yet remaining on the most intimate personal terms with those who disagreed with him. His well-known views concerning the marked emergence of Welsh national feeling in post- World War II Wales is a case in point.
Behind his military, anthropological and archaeological interests and achievements there is yet another facet of Lord Raglan's life yet to be added, namely the long and devoted services which he rendered to the old county of Monmouth and to the whole of Gwent. He was a Justice of the Peace for the county as early as 1909 and served for twenty-one years (1928-49) as a member of the former Monmouthshire county council. He took a great interest in the Boy Scout movement and was county commissioner for Monmouthshire for twenty seven years (1927-54). He was deputy Lord Lieutenant for the county in 1930, becoming Lord Lieutenant in 1960. In 1923 he married the Hon. Julia Hamilton, daughter of the 11th Baron Belhaven. There were two sons and two daughters. The family home was at Cefntilla Court, Usk, Gwent. He died 14 September 1964.
Professor Emrys George Bowen, (1900 - 1983), Aberystwyth
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Prof. Blaauw was a key member of the team that developed the world's first millimeter-scale computer, known as the Michigan Micro Mote (M3).
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The research addressed voltage scaling of processors at the point where, at very low voltages, voltage leakage begins to dominate the computational power consumption.
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2009 College of Engineering Awards
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2008-09: Chris Casto played in 31 games for Hill-Murray School in Minnesota. He scored 4 goals with 27 assists as the Pioneers advanced to the high school state tournament after winning the Section 4 AA title. Hill-Murray lost to eventual state champion Eden Prairie, 3-2 in overtime in the state quarterfinals.
2009-10: Casto returned to Hill-Murray for his senior season — skating in 25 games as the Pioneers finished third in the Minnesota State AA tournament. He scored 11 goals with 17 assists and was an Honorable Mention all-state selection. Hill-Murray defeated White Bear Lake, 5-1, in the Section 4 AA championship game. After defeating Duluth East, 5-3, in the quarterfinals, the Pioneers lost to Minnetonka, 2-1, in a four overtime game in the semifinals. Hill-Murray defeated Apple Valley, 6-3, in the third place game. Castro committed to playing college hockey at Minnesota-Duluth in 2011-12 in January 2010.
2010-11: Casto was the second-leading scorer amongst defensemen for Lincoln in his first USHL season. He scored 6 goals with 19 assists and was +15 with 40 penalty minutes in 58 games for the Stars. Lincoln finished fourth in the Western Conference and was swept by Lincoln in a first round playoff series. Casto had no points and was -3 in the two-game series.
2011-12: Casto skated in all 41 games for Minnesota-Duluth as a freshman. he scored 2 goals with 11 assists and was +21 with 14 penalty minutes. The Bulldogs finished second in the WCHA and received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament after a double overtime loss to Denver in the WCHA semifinals. The defending national champions topped Maine, 5-2, before a 4-0 loss to eventual national champion Boston College in the NCAA Northeast final.
2012-13: Casto signed a three-year entry-level contract with Boston in March 2013 and made his pro debut with Bruins AHL affiliate Providence following his sophomore season at Minnesota-Duluth. He had no points nor penalty minutes and was an even plus-minus in four AHL games. Providence finished first in the Atlantic Division and reached the second round in the playoffs.Casto did not play in any playoff games. In 36 games for Minnesota-Duluth in his final college season he scored 3 goals with 6 assists and was +1 with 16 penalty minutes. Minnesota-Duluth struggled for much of the season, finishing ninth in the WCHA, and was swept by Wisconsin in the first round of the WCHA tournament. The Bulldogs failed to win 20 games for the first time since 2007-08.
2013-14: Casto appeared in 53 games with Bruins AHL affiliate Providence in his first pro season, appearing in one game with the ECHL's South Carolina Stingrays. A frequent healthy scratch for the P-Bruins early in the year, his role increased through the season. Casto scored 3 goals with 8 assists and was +8 with 23 penalty minutes. Providence finished third in the Atlantic Division and reached the second round in the playoffs. Casto played in all 12 playoff games and had an even plus/minus with 2 assists and 13 penalty minutes. He had no points nor penalties and was -2 in his only ECHL game with the Stingrays.
2014-15: Casto attended training camp with the Bruins before being assigned to AHL affiliate Providence. Skating in 62 regular season games in his second pro season, he scored 1 goal with 11 assists and was +17 with 35 penalty minutes. The Bruins finished second to Manchester in the Atlantic Division and lost to Hartford in a first-round playoff series. Casto was -2 with no points and 2 penalty minutes in five playoff games.
Casto is a big and smooth-skating defenseman whose skill level suggests he can be an effective two-way player at the NHL level one day. He does not play the punishing style often associated with a player his size and his defensive game remains a work in progress. He has improved in staying constantly involved in the play — an area of his game that was a concern early in his pro career.
Casto is skating for the AHL's Providence Bruins in 2015-16. Now in the third year of his original entry-level contract, he is the second-leading scorer amongst defensemen for Providence behind former San Jose Shark Matt Irwin. Yet to appear in an NHL game, Casto is still a work in progress in terms of consistency on the defensive end of the ice but his scoring ability suggests he can be an effective puck-moving defenseman. With the depth in the Bruins' organization he may have to head elsewhere to get that opportunity.