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Many Shades Walking Football
Merry Christmas from the Many Shades
Posted on December 24, 2019 by misterpenalty
A very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year
from the Many Shades of Grey
Benny Reed
Posted on August 4, 2019 by misterpenalty
We are very pleased to announce that we will be player sponsor for the Hawks' new right back, Benny Reed, for the 2019/20 season.
Benny joined the Hawks in the summer from local club Horndean and has made the step up to National League South level with some very impressive performances in pre-season and on his NLS debut v. Welling United this weekend.
He has also come along to a number of the Many Shades training sessions where he has been showing of his goalkeeping prowess.
Welcome Benny from all the Many Shades of Grey and here's to a great season.
Confirmation in this weekend's matchday programme.
New training kit reveal
Posted on July 6, 2019 by misterpenalty
With the new season upon us, it is time to reveal the brand new, sparkling training kit.
So, after training, a select (-ish) group of Many Shades gathered in the Westleigh main stand looking resplendent in their pristine, but by now slightly sweaty, new outfits.
With Martin on another tea break, it was suggested that individual photos were taken on the Westleigh Park newly prepared pitch.
Breathe in boys – Stew, Dave & James strike the pose
Pete shows off the new tracksuit top.
With Martin still on tea break, it was decided it was time to christen
the new home dugout
Clive Wilkin
Posted on June 8, 2019 June 8, 2019 by misterpenalty
It was with great sadness that we learned recently that our dear friend and teammate had been taken from us far too soon.
Clive was the humblest and kindest of men and a complete gentleman. He was loved and will be hugely missed by all the Many Shades.
Last weekend, a memorial lunch was held for Clive at the Amex Stadium, home of his beloved Brighton & Hove Albion.
The occasion was a wonderful celebration of Clive's life and an opportunity to swap stories and memories.
Throughout the lunch, Clive's shirt was visible on his seat in the stand below.
You may be aware that Clive, having been an experienced bus driver, was an avid vintage bus enthusiast and it was great to meet up with his fellow enthusiasts who brought along a fine working example (sorry – I don't know the make/model!) which Clive had helped to restore.
Our thanks go out to Clive's wife, Josette, and family for inviting us along to be part of this wonderful tribute to Clive.
During the memorial lunch, a collection was made for Rowan's Hospice where Clive spent his final few days. Anyone, wishing to make a donation can do so via their website.
Rich Bonsey Memorial Festival 2019
Posted on May 27, 2019 by misterpenalty
The Rich Bonsey Memorial 60+ Festival on 28th April was a huge success, and while the Many Shades of Grey won the overall festival, it was the three charities British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, and Versus Arthritis who were the real winners, with over £600 per charity being raised.
To promote the three charities, we were pleased to field three teams made up of players drawn from clubs across the region, most of whom has had one or more diagnosis of : heart attack or stroke, joint replacement, or cancer.
The "Hearts" team (managed by David Hall)
The Joints team
The Cancer Research Team
A big Thank You goes out to our two corporate event sponsors : Morgan Innovation & Technology and Snows Motor Group
Barry collects the prestigious trophy from Stew
We were all spoiled by the best buffet (cakes and canapes and goodness knows how much more) on the south coast, courtesy of Suzette and Natalie Gray.
South Central League – not what the doctor ordered
Posted on March 15, 2019 by misterpenalty
A somewhat patched up side from the Many Shades of Grey promised much, but unfortunately delivered less at the initial South Central Walking Football League tournament held at Eastleigh's Silverlake Stadium on Wednesday 13th March.
Pedantry alert! When someone says a side was decimated, they usually mean that half or more of the players were missing. But strictly speaking it means that one-in-ten of the players was missing. This squad was more than decimated. Out of eight players set to play on Tuesday night, two of them proved unable to play, leaving us with the bare bones of six for a 7 game six-a-side tournament.
Buoyed by the emergency loans from Knightwood and Southampton Strollers respectively of "Dax" and "Steve", we at least had the opportunity to give players a rest as the day went on.
We started against Southampton Strollers, going down unluckily to a 1-0 defeat, in spite of hitting the post and keeping their keeper busy most of the game. This was followed by a good competitive 0-0 draw against Fleet of Foot, a team we know well, and who proved pretty useful on the day.
Next we faced Knightwood, and with Dax marking their danger man out of the game we won more comfortably than the 1-0 scoreline suggests. The goal was a classic Pete Brown finish. In our next game against the "All Stars" (who were drafted in to replace the unavailable Mountbatten), we started disastrously with a calamitous own goal in the first minute. Although we huffed and puffed, we just couldn't break them down, and so it was that it finished 0-1.
The fifth match of the day was against Pompey in the Community, the tournament favourites and eventual winners. They had brought a typically mobile side along with them, and scored two good goals against us. In spite of this, the Many Shades battled on, and forced their keeper into several good saves, and restricted them to blatant time-wasting towards the end. Highlight of our attacks was a stunning left-footed strike at goal from our player of the tournament Barry Ingram.
Our last two games were played out by an ever wearying squad, firstly against hosts Eastleigh, who cruised to a 3-1 win courtesy of some dubious refereeing and one good finish; our goal came from Tony Elliott. Finally we faced Gosport Neanderthals in a game that would decide who finished bottom of the league. Gosport snuck home 1-0 thanks to a clinical finish after Dave Rowbrey had pulled off a brilliant save, with the rebound dropping kindly for the opposition. So yes, we finished bottom of the league. But we do it all again on 10th April!
Your Many Shades of Grey squad for the day was somewhat depleted through injury and unavailability, but nonetheless gave a good account of themselves against some opposition of great repute: Dave Rowbrey, Barry Ingram, Pete Dolamore, Phil Hannam, Tony Elliott, and Pete Brown. Many thanks to Dax and Steve for trying their best to help us out. Rich Bishop and Stew Russell were on hand to offer support and guidance (that worked well then).
Many thanks to hosts Eastleigh for an impressive post-tournament buffet, very much appreciated by us all and thanks to Phil for his photos.
FA People's Cup 2019, not a good day at the office…
Posted on March 3, 2019 by misterpenalty
With the development of the squad over the past year meaning that we had a younger age range to choose from, we found ourselves quietly confident of being more competitive as we rocked up at ROKO for this year's march to the arch. Surely our young, agile, highly skilled athletes would more than hold their own against the might of whatever else the regional qualifier could throw at us?
Err… no. First up were Gosport & Fareham Civil Service, who looked to be strangely familiar, very similar to Gosport Neanderthals. In fact, they were Gosport Neanderthals. Well, we knew they were quite good, but they were beatable. Did we get complacent, were we too comfortable in our superiority? Maybe, because after Pete Brown had put us ahead, we seemed to just switch off, and an equaliser followed by a late winner put our noses out of joint straight away.
Next up were Pompey ITC Black (they had entered three teams, Black, Yellow, and Blue). We knew they were good, as they were Pompey's first team. Sure enough their movement, passing and clinical finishing, honed by years of playing in the ROKO cages, saw them to a fairly comfortable 3-1 win. The Many Shades' goal coming from Mark Hughes.
Straight away we were in action again, this time against the strongest team in the competition, Brighton and Hove Dolphins, who had been National Finalists in this competition last year. Fast and physical, they totally dominated the Many Shades, pulling us apart as they attacked and closing us down instantly whenever we got the ball. A thumping Chris Poirrier shot proved our only consolation as the Dolphins hammered six past the helpless and beleaguered John Kennett.
Due to a quirk of the fixture list we then had almost an hour to contemplate our 2019 FA People's Cup experience thus far over a cup of coffee and a chin-wag. Cages and unlimited touch seem to combine to beat us. We felt that the results would have been very different on open pitches, six- or seven-a-side, and three-touch. It would also be safer, without the crunching tackles from behind and the slamming against the boards that we had experienced and witnessed so far. What we had experienced was simply 5-a-side football with some older blokes charging around.
So to our final game, and the wonderfully named Arthritico Mad Ryde (Athletico Madrid, gettit?) were challenging us to see who would finish bottom of the group. We were determined not to let that ignominy happen to us, and stormed into a two-nil lead courtesy of Pete Brown and Mark Hughes. However Ryde were equally determined to get something out of it, and with just over a minute remaining they had pulled back to equalise. An inspired substitution, throwing the bruised Mark Hughes back on for the final minute, was just enough to swing it our way, and almost immediately Ian Thakore struck to regain the lead. With Ryde now throwing caution to the wind, the last kick of the match saw Mark Hughes complete a spectacularly tense and exciting last few minutes of football to see us home 4-2.
The Many Shades of Grey squad was: John Kennett, Ian Thakore, Chris Poirrier, Dave Hall, Mark Hughes, Jeff Pickering, James McIlwaine, and Pete Brown. Stew Russell provided one moment of inspired management; the less said about the rest of his moments the better.
Huge thanks to the fantastic turn out of Ultras who came along to support us. If we miss any of you out, we apologise, but from memory it was: Frank Antony, Rich Bishop (and his personal food bank), Phil Hannam, Dave and Helen Rowbrey, Mick Sidwell, Ian Warren, and Pete Brown's partner Karen.
Pete Dolamore, Barry Ingram, Colin Jeffery, and John Morgan all came along as well. As the FA People's Cup is also open to individuals to make up a team on the day, they joined in with Rod McMillan's Solent City to experience three defeats and a draw in the other group.
So no triumphant march to the arch for us again this year. But we can certainly say that another experience was added to our long and occasionally glorious history!
Many Shades of Grey feature in new Hawks book
Posted on February 17, 2019 March 3, 2019 by misterpenalty
Here at Many Shades Towers, we are all very proud to have been included in the new "A History of the Hawks 1998-2018" book.
The 4-page article, written by our very own Stewart Russell, details the journey from the "four old men in randomly acquired football kit" to the much travelled and much decorated significantly larger bunch that we are today.
The book is available now at the Havant & Waterlooville FC shop priced only £10.00.
With Mother's Day fast approaching, what a wonderful surprise this would be for your beloved family member.
Bobby leads the way at successful awards night for Many Shades
Posted on February 8, 2019 by misterpenalty
Thursday evening saw the annual Havant Borough Sports Association awards night and, of course, the Many Shades of Grey were there in force. The promise of free tea and a buffet was enough for the lads to don their Sunday best and head down to Havant Leisure Centre for what turned out to be a very enjoyable and successful evening.
Looking nervous in the bar prior to the presentations
Martin and John bemoan the fact that the bar shutters are down
The first success of the evening came in the category of Senior Team of the Year Award which the Mayor presented to Stewart and James for the Many Shades of Grey.
Stew's media training pays off
Following quickly on, Havant & Waterlooville FC were awarded the Club of the Year Award, not just for the first team successes in 2018, but also for the great work done by Hawks in the Community and the award-winning Westleigh.
With the team and staff en route to Gateshead for the big weekend clash, Stew and James stepped forward to accept the award on the club's behalf.
It was James's turn to take to the mic with the Mayor and Lady Mayoress hanging on his every word – and Stew wishing he would hurry up and finish so they could adjourn to the Westleigh.
However, the biggest congratulations of the night go to our own Bobby De Ste Croix who won the Special Merit Award for his long goal-scoring career in local football.
Congratulations Bobby – Well Deserved
With Bobby unable to attend, James was on hand to collect his award
Well done to all the winners and many thanks to Havant Borough Sports Association for putting on the event and having us along.
Many more photos of the evening can be found here
Our new motto: "We're gonna need a bigger trophy cabinet."
Winter Festival sees new winners
A very chill wind was blowing in from the north as six doughty groups of players gathered together at Park Community School on Sunday 27th January. Our first festival of the year was living up to its name – the Winter Festival. Solent City, one of our guest teams, reported a sad depletion in numbers, with a catalogue of injuries and illnesses leaving them with just three players a few minutes before kick-off – one of their number even pinged a calf muscle in the warm-up! We formed a Many Shades of Solent squad, lending three of our spectators and one of the original MSoG squad members.
We opened with a comfortable 5-0 win for the Many Shades of Grey squad over Bognor Regis Boulders, with Lloyd Fowler and a Mark Hughes hat-trick doing the damage in the wind-assisted first half, followed up by a Pete Brown strike in the second half. Meanwhile the Solent squad introduced themselves to each other courtesy of a well-deserved 2-1 win over Mountbatten.
The MSoG squad then beat the same Mountbatten team 1-0, courtesy of a debut goal from new signing Jason Burch, while the Solent squad were drawing 0-0 with Gosport Neanderthals.
He's in there somewhere – John keeping the chill out in goal
The Neanderthals then played a dogged defensive game against the MSoG, and a rare breakaway following a pass being blocked gave them a fortuitous 1-0 lead, which they managed to hold on to in spite of the best efforts of your lads. The Solent squad also found the going getting tougher as they lost 2-0 to the very impressive Godalming side.
The MSoG were next on the list for Godalming, who stormed into the lead, and but for a blinding save from John Kennett would have been in total control within five minutes. However the MSoG gradually began to get a stranglehold on the game, and a neat Lloyd Fowler goal brought us back to all-square. Your lads looked the more likely to score, but Godalming weren't top of the league for no reason, and they managed to score a winner shortly before the end. At the same time as this was going on, the Solent squad were giving Bognor a bit more of a bashing, running out 5-1 winners.
The final round of matches saw the MSoG beat the Solent squad 2-0, courtesy of a pair of James McIlwaine strikes. Credit must go to Pete Dolamore in goal for Solent, who saved a Pete Brown penalty. Although we didn't have a record of scorers for Solent, we were assured that Tony Elliott scored two goals for them through the afternoon.
A fine save from Pete D thwarts Pete B
Don't worry Pete B – I'm certain this incident will never be mentioned again
The final positions (as revealed at Suzette and Natalie's awesome buffet afterwards) were: winners with a 100% record, Godalming; 2nd were Many Shades of Grey (9pts), followed by Gosport (8), Many Shades of Solent (7), Mountbatten (3), and Bognor (1). Huge thanks to referees Graham Wilson, Dave Lister, and John Morgan.
MSoG: John Kennett, Ian Thakore, Chris Poirrier, Jeff Pickering, James McIlwaine, Lloyd Fowler, Mark Hughes, Jason Burch, Pete Brown. Playing for Solent were: Pete Dolamore, Barry Ingram, Dave Hall, and Tony Elliott.
Thanks to Paul Sumpner from Solent for the photos.


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Reina delighted for Liverpool pal Jones after Wembley triumph
Jones Awuah
Pepe Reina was delighted for Liverpool teammate Brad Jones after the stand in goalkeeper helped them reach the FA Cup final.
Reina was one of the first to celebrate with Jones at the final whistle against Everton.
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Q: Assign posts to taxonomy terms instead of the taxonomy terms to posts? So I have a custom post type (people) with a related custom taxonomy (directory).  Instead of editing a person and then choosing the related directory organizations I'd like to "edit" a directory org and choose the people that belong to it.  Anyone know of a plugin that allows this?
I could build my own plugin with an interface to do this - looking for opinions here to.  Thinking of doing something like:
<?php
//Get all directory orgs
$orgs = get_terms("directory");
$count = count($orgs);
$orgtermids = array();
$peopleByOrg = array();
if ( $count > 0 ){
   foreach ( $orgs as $org ) {
     $orgtermids[] = $org->term_id; //Build array of term_ids
     $peopleByOrg[$org->term_id] = array(); //Build an empty array() for each term_id
   }
}
//Get all people currently associated with a directory org
$myquery['tax_query'] = array(
    array(
        'taxonomy' => 'directory',
        'terms' => $orgtermids,
        'field' => 'term_id',
    )
);
query_posts($myquery);

if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
  $postOrgs = get_the_terms($post->ID, 'directory'); //Get directory orgs for this person
  if ( $postOrgs && ! is_wp_error( $postOrgs ) ) {
    foreach ( $postOrgs as $postOrg ) {
      $peopleByOrg[$postOrg->term_id][$post->ID] = $post; //Store person info with each org it belongs to
    }
  }
endwhile;
endif;

//Step through and create interface to choose additional people for each directory org
//code TBD
?>

Any ideas or opinions?

Just thought of a better way to do this by extending the Walker class with a new class based on Walker_Category.  I'd have to modify this to create a form where people could be assigned to directory orgs instead of displaying as a list (directory orgs are hierarchical).

A: I think the "Featured Post Manager" plugin will be closer to what you're looking for:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featured-post-manager/screenshots/
The language used is somewhat confusing, and it may not work for custom taxonomies (directories) or custom types (people), BUT you can probably take the code and customize it to work for those classes of things instead, as well as updating the language used on the page.
It's mostly a single PHP file, so you'd just have to look at the code ( http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-post-manager/trunk/fpmngr.php ) and change a couple things from "category" to "directory" (line 81), and "post" to "person/people" (line 108), etc.

A: I hope I'm understanding your question correctly here. But from what I can understand you'd like a way to select any number of custom post types on the taxonomy edit screen.
You might want to take a look at the Advanced Custom Fields plugin by Elliot Condon. The plugin features a 'Relationship' field type that might be just what you're looking for. The Relationship field allows you to select any number of posts to associate with the term. A single field or a group of custom fields can be applied to a specific taxonomy (rather than to a post editing page) if you wish.

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Tonight I was reading in Ezekiel chapter 36, and as I read it the words changed in my head and bore testimony to me of the power of our Lord Jesus Christ. I felt impressed to share what I had read and pray that it will touch the spirit of someone in need.
Then You sprinkled clean water upon me, and I was clean; from all my filthiness and all my addictions, did You cleanse me. A new heart also You gave me, and a new spirit did You put within me: and You took away the stony heart out of my flesh, and You gave me an heart of flesh. And You put Your spirit within me, and caused me to walk in Your statutes, and I will keep Your judgements and do them. And I will dwell in the land that You gave my fathers; and I will be your daughter, and You will be my God. You saved me from all my uncleanness's...And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden, or in other words, this woman who was filthy and sinful is become clean and pure through the atonement of Jesus Christ...Then the heathen that are left round about me shall know that You the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that was desolate: You the Lord have spoken it, and You have done it.
I testify to you that Jesus Christ can, and will, change our very hearts. If we allow Him to, He will take our desolate selves and turn us into the Garden of Eden. It is not an easy process and it is not a fast process, but it is real. My heart, that was stone, has been changed for a heart of flesh.
In the name of My Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ, amen.
Beautiful reminder that not only do we need to believe IN God but to Believe Him. Believe that what he says he can do he will do.


With horn-rimmed glasses, fingernails painted with blue polish, a tousled pompadour, boots, blue jeans and a pinstriped shirt, Masha Gessen projects intellectual intensity or maybe the lean, hungry look of a member of the English political punk band the Clash in the early 1980s.
Gessen, an opposition journalist in Russia who was forced to flee the country in 2013 because of anti-gay persecution, emerged after the 2016 election with a series of devastating essays in the New York Review of Books warning with Cassandra-like urgency about the dangers of creeping authoritarianism in the United States.
Having witnessed Russia revert to totalitarianism, Gessen suggested in a piece published two days before Christmas 2016 that Donald Trump is an eager disciple of Vladimir Putin's effort to master reality by lying with impunity.
Seated in the middle of a semicircle of faculty and students in a classroom on the second floor of Tribble Hall at Wake Forest University on Monday, Gessen surprises me with her unperturbed response to my question about whether US civil society will be able to reclaim reality in the face of right-wing internet trolls constantly manufacturing hoaxes to promote division.
"Humanity has certainly lived through darker times than we're in now," she deadpans.
As evidence that Russia did not attempt to influence the election, Gessen says Putin was as surprised as anyone else that Trump won and notes that the Russian president organized a conference outside of Sochi in October 2016 at which he invited people who could be expected to hold influence over national security issues in a pending Clinton administration.
The truth is right in front of us, Gessen says during the meeting at Wake. We don't have to uncover secrets.


I never really got into much trouble as a teenager, but what little I did, it was always with my friend Katie. I'm not going to elaborate, as we're both somewhat established in our respective communities with bosses and parents and friends who don't need to be reading about what naughty things we did when we were in high school, but let's just say that at various points skinny dipping, bonfires, and pepper spray were involved. Katie now lives in Nashville, but this weekend, we were lucky enough to get in some serious, though brief, time together.
It's been about a year since we were last in the same place at the same time, but it never ceases to amaze me how easily we fall back into our comfortable rhythm together. When I picked her up, we hugged, admired one another's new hairstyles, and suddenly it was as if we had seen each other last week. Like many best friends, we have a million private jokes, silly voices and funny stories that we like to relive, but we're equally happy just being together in silence. We spent the evening gossiping, eating dinner and watching trashy television.
At 7:30 this morning, on our way to the Oakland airport, from which Katie would be flying back to Tennessee, we stopped for breakfast, at her request, at Good Luck Dim Sum at 9th Avenue and Clement Street in San Francisco. Katie, a dim sum aficionado, proceeded to order enough dumplings, sesame balls, and pork buns for at least 4 people. When I laughed at her, she explained that she would eat whatever she didn't finish on the plane. So, if you are the poor schmuck who got stuck sitting next to the tiny blond bearing several cartons of dim sum, believe me, you are lucky--and not just because of the name of the restaurant where she got the food. You are fortunate enough to be sitting next to one of the funniest, smartest, most beautiful people in the entire world. But don't piss her off because she will totally take you down--and you will have deserved it.
Aha! I feel so privileged being the subject of your post. Yes, I remember when your Mom thought we were the "L" word, oh those were good times! I have not found another friend, female or male, to give me baths and wash my hair and make me feel like a true princess. Can you move to Tennessee promptly? Thanks!


By some miracle, I've managed to blog every single day for two weeks, which not only means that we are now well past the halfway point of Blogmas, but also that I beat last year's Blogmas streak of thirteen days. To wrap up another week, here is another How Wow Pow Chow.
I'm the type of person who desperately seeks the affection and approval of others. It's never in my identity to do wrong by anyone, nor is it in my nature to go out of my way to be petty and vindictive. As much as I try to lean away from these qualities, I began to realize this week that when I'm not given the attention I want or feel like I deserve, I lash out and shut down the qualities of the natures I've adopted. This week, God has been reinforcing the idea of forgiveness and humility within me. While it is important to remember that all of your actions and words to people must be done in love, God continues to convict me with the reminder that my relationships with the people in my life pale in comparison with my relationship to Him. It is not my job to lean into my worldly desires – things like craving attention and affection from others – but rather to be the light that people may need in their own lives. Being self-absorbed, vindictive, and self-serving are not and should not be in my nature because God did not call me to be any of those things. He calls us to be loving, understanding, and tolerant. Through the storms that I've experienced this week, God has provided me the peace and comfort that I needed.
What is something good that happened this week?
Last Friday, I got the chance to go see John Mulaney, one of my favorite comedians, live at the Orpheum Theatre in LA with some friends. It was an amazing night filled with laughter, food, and fellowship with the people I was with. Our division Christmas party also happened this past week, where I got the chance to interact with coworkers, both old and new. It's always so refreshing to be able to interact with colleagues outside of the work place, and getting to leave the pressures of the job behind.
Since October, I've been trying to make it a point to go to the gym as many times as I can during the week. When I'm physically active, the reprieve I feel not only comes from the rush of endorphins from working out, but also from knowing that I'm taking care of the body that God has given me. I haven't been able to work out as much as I wanted to since things kept getting in the way, and that may have been a factor in me not feeling like myself lately. Next week, I'll definitely go back to my usual workout schedule to get my blood pumping and endorphins running once again.
Other than the food that was catered at our staff Christmas party a few days ago, I want to highlight a trip to a cafe I took this past week. I've been to this spot many times before, and have never had anything less than a positive experience. This past week, a friend from church invited me to hang out there. The space lends itself to be a comfortable spot to have casual conversation with a group of people. We've only known each other for as long as I've been attending that church (which has been a little over two months now), but we've never interacted outside of church or our Bible studies. It's always refreshing to get to sit down and have real conversations with new people that come into your life, especially as an adult. It's a rare thing that I'm able to vibe well with new people and get to have a relaxed conversation without having to dance around small talk. Being that our friendship is founded in the Lord, along with the fact that conversation was so easy, I am incredibly optimistic about our friendship and fellowship moving forward.


The Throne of Nerds is made in honor of the Throne of Swords from the Game of Thrones TV series and fantasy series. It is constructed from 20+ computer keyboard mounted to a chair. The keyboards and have been shaped and melted to follow the form of the chair, the shape of the user, and to meld together into a combined whole.
The underlying message is one of suffering. The keyboards have been melted and warped. They're made to twist to fit, but at the same time that renders them unuseable because they cannot fulfill their intended purpose. The keyboards are black and silver, and the underlying chair is white, but those colours have been replaced with black, in whole or in random splotches.
The keyboard warping includes the scorching of almost all of the ESC keys to symbolize how impossible it can be escape suffering and blackness. The only key that is consciously left undamaged is the ESC key on the highest positioned keyboard.
Around the back, the keyboard cables have been arranged like human hair with an attempt to braid the cables that is ultimately left in a tangle. This denotes how good plans and order can degenerate into chaos.


In honor of its 30th anniversary, Novara launches new bike designs in the transportation and road categories, and introduces innovations in reflective apparel and tube packaging. The collection will begin rolling into REI stores and on REI.com now through spring 2013.
Gear up for group camping getaways, lightweight summit trips with friends or yoga retreats with REI's spring 2013 outdoor collections. This week, the company is giving a sneak-peek during the Outdoor Retailer tradeshow, the largest show in the country for the outdoor industry. The collection, available at REI and on REI.com next spring, offers something for most everyone.
REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.) announced its new lineup of exclusive gear and apparel for fall 2012 during the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market tradeshow. Available to members and customers starting in August, the latest additions to the gear and apparel line keep people warm and comfortable during their outdoor adventures this fall and winter.
REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.), a national retailer providing quality outdoor gear and clothing, today announced its 2011 Vendor Partner of the Year award recipients during the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market trade show. For the second year in a row, Vibram® USA, best known for its high performance soles for outdoor, recreational, work and fashion footwear, including Vibram FiveFingers®, received top honors as REI's Vendor Partner of the Year.
REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.), a national retailer providing quality outdoor gear and clothing, has announced its 2012 line of Novara-brand bicycles during the Interbike® International Bike Expo.
REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.), a national outdoor gear and clothing retailer, today unveils its spring 2012 line of exclusive REI-brand gear and apparel, during the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market tradeshow. As a trusted outdoor brand, REI continues to inspire people of all ages to have fun experiences while recreating outdoors.
This spring, REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.), a national retailer providing quality outdoor gear and clothing, offers its members and outdoor enthusiasts new ways to connect with nature and enhance outdoor experiences through its programs, volunteer opportunities and innovative product offerings.
REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.), a national retailer providing quality outdoor gear and clothing, today announced its 2010 vendor partner of the year award winners during the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market trade show. Vibram USA, best known for its high performance soles for outdoor, recreational, work and fashion footwear, including Vibram® FiveFingers®, received top honors as REI's 2010 Vendor Partner of the Year.
REI's in-house team designs and develops award-winning gear and apparel for camping, hiking, cycling, urban lifestyle, travel and general outdoor recreation. The REI and Novara brands are sold exclusively through the co-op's retail stores, online at www.rei.com and through its catalogs.
Contemplating the perfect gift idea? REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.), a national retailer providing quality outdoor gear and clothing, is stocked with the latest great gift ideas to help adventurers get outside this winter. Visit REI stores or the REI Holiday Gift Center for the latest selection of outdoor gear and apparel ideas to keep the entire family warm and stylish this season.


"designed for homeschooling high school students who would like to tailor their courses toward using college-level exams to earn college credits while completing their high school studies."
Online schooling for high school is a natural fit for today's teens. High school students have grown up with the Internet, and they use technology to connect with each other and their interests every day. Who better to take advantage of the benefits and possibilities of a free virtual high school program?
Welcome to Alexander High School!
The curriculum for SHS has not been finalized by Technical Working Groups for the various learning areas, but the general framework has been approved by the Steering Committee (the interagency body in charge of the K to 12 program).
Online education is a natural fit for today's teens. High school students have grown up with the Internet, and they use technology to connect with each other and their interests every day. Who better to take advantage of the benefits and possibilities of a free virtual high school program?
Online education is a natural fit for today's teens. High school students have grown up with the Internet, and they use technology to connect with each other and their interests every day. Who better to take advantage of the benefits and possibilities of a free online high school program?
About Early College High School - A Unique Opportunity!
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the website of Thomas Mills, a flourishing 11-18 high school situated in the pleasant and historic town of Framlingham , Suffolk. We are consistently one of the county's highest performing schools , graded Outstanding by OFSTED .
Dual Enrollment means you are enrolled in college while you are still in high school. This allows high school juniors and seniors to take college courses that count as dual credit for both high school and college.
Unionville High School (Pennsylvania) . For other uses of the initialism, see UHS (disambiguation) .
Seaside School, Inc. is one charter school serving students on two campuses.
Seaside School, Inc. currently serves students in grades five through eleven; grade twelve will be added in the 2015-2016 school year and Kindergarten through grade four in the near future.
Moorside High School is proud of the 'family ethos' we have developed. This has culminated in the high levels of attainment, high attendance and standards of behaviour that Ofsted graded as 'outstanding'.
High school students in the earth science inclusion classes of Michelle Astromovich and Dylan Duprez recently investigated and modeled physical weathering effects on substrates.
*BIBL 104, RLGN 104, & THEO 104 are all 4-credit courses. Students that are planning to pursue�a degree at Liberty University (whether online or residentially) are required to earn these 12 credits. We recommend taking these courses as they will apply to every degree.
Our charter schools were designed with a vision to provide the best educational experience to as many students as possible in a moral and wholesome environment. Are you exploring local schools or seeking a charter school K-6 or charter junior high and high school for your child? For the 2016 - 2017 school year, we will have 8 campus locations in the state of Arizona. Our campuses are located in Gilbert, Mesa, San Tan Valley, Queen Creek and Anthem South (Florence).


Welcome to Vanderhoof Christian Fellowship!
When you visit VCF, you will be greeted by a friendly church member. They'll be happy to answer any questions you have, and to show you around.
Our Morning Worship Service starts at 11:00 AM, and is generally about 90 minutes long. We have a few different worship leaders each with a different style of worship, so we have a mix of everything from contemporary songs to classic hymns.
What Do we Offer For Kids And Youth?
Here at VCF, we love children and encourage them to be apart of our morning service. Kids of all ages are welcomed to the stage with Pastor Peter for a little story and teaching. We also have Sunday school classes for ages 2+ and Jr and Sr youth groups that meet on a regular basis.
Learn more about our specific ministries on our Ministries Page.
We invite you to contact the Church office if you have any questions: 250-567-9198 or vcfemc@telus.net.
What Does Your Church Believe In?
Learn more about our Mission, Faith, and Conference at our About Us page.
Vanderhoof, BC, V0J 3A0 - for more information, visit our Contact Page.
Most Sunday mornings we include a sharing time where you are welcome to share your prayer request. If you are not comfortable sharing with everyone, or would like to be confidential, feel free to contact either of our pastors, or any of our deacon and elder couples.


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I'm slowly working my way through WHEN HORROR CAME TO SHOCHIKU, the Criterion Eclipse DVD box set I won at this year's Monster Bash. The next film up for discussion is GENOCIDE.
GENOCIDE starts out with a B-52 bomber being brought down near a Southeast Asian island chain. The plane, which was carrying an H-bomb, was attacked by insects. The crew is found in a nearby cave, their bodies covered with ghastly sores. One crew member has survived....but the man is raving mad, and can't remembered what happened. Since he served a combat tour in Vietnam, and suffers from drug addiction, he gets the blame for the other crew members' deaths....but a Japanese scientist who happens to be in the area remains skeptical about his guilt.
GENOCIDE is a wild ride of a film. It has a manic energy to it, and a storyline which veers off in all sorts of directions. The plot involves a ne'er-do-well husband, his neglected pregnant wife, arrogant American military figures, shifty agents working for an unnamed Eastern Bloc power, and lots and lots of bug attacks.
The movie's most memorable character is a sexy European lady who bears a passing resemblance to Ann-Margret. She also happens to be training insects to destroy the human race. The reason why? As a child she survived a Nazi concentration camp, and this is her revenge on humanity.
The bug attacks consist of a fair amount of stock nature footage of insects, but they are integrated into the scenes very well (if you have a phobia of bugs this movie is not for you). It's mentioned in the movie that insects have been going crazy all over the world--it's suggested that the creatures are taking revenge against mankind and his numerous wars of destruction. This takes into account the plot's Cold War-Vietnam backdrop. Of course the Americans are portrayed as war-like jerks, except for the surviving crew member. He happens to be black, and it seems that the film is trying to make him out as a victim of American racism (and a victim of the country's involvement in Vietnam)....but the guy also escapes his confinement and becomes a threat to the other characters, somewhat dimming any sympathy the viewer may have for him.
One highlight of GENOCIDE is when the well-meaning Japanese scientist injects himself with the evil European lady's serum. The serum's effect triggers a psychedelic dream sequence which rivals the ones used in Roger Corman's many Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. Another highlight is the poetically dark ending, where the pregnant wife sails out to sea alone as a giant mushroom cloud looms in the background.
GENOCIDE isn't a movie with a well balanced storyline that makes sense. But it is an interesting sci-fi horror flick that isn't boring. It was made in 1968, and it predates two genre staples of the 1970s--the ecological horror-disaster film and the killer bee movie. If you have a taste for unusual fantastic cinema, GENOCIDE is a picture worth seeking out.
ONLY THE LONELY
KNUTE ROCKNE ALL-AMERICAN
The Inmates Have Taken Over Arkham Asylum
Submitted For Your Approval
This Blog Is Not In 3-D
THE LIVING SKELETON
DIE, MONSTER, DIE!
BEN-HUR (1925)
GOKE, BODY SNATCHER FROM HELL
THEY DARE NOT LOVE


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Eva Logik Dimmer Setting
Devices & Integrations
David_Spurling (David Spurling) December 26, 2022, 4:44pm #1
My EVA Logic Z-Wave plug always turns on at 1% dimmer setting no matter what I set it to previously. It won't remember the last setting. Its been working fine for months until today. Any ideas on how to fix this? I'm assuming its an edge driver issue.
JDRoberts December 26, 2022, 4:57pm #2
Tagging @philh30 who has worked with this issue for some other brands.
Do you know the name of the edge driver that it selected?
It says Z-Wave Switch
webejcek (William Bejcek) January 1, 2023, 4:55pm #4
Having the exact same problem. Here is a screen shot of the driver info from the SmartThings app.
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I have a Aeotec hub
philh30 January 3, 2023, 2:04am #5
What I've seen before is Jasco dimmers coming on at 100% every time they were turned on by z-wave. In that case, the old DTHs we're sending a Basic:Set command for on/off, which the device interpreted as "turn on using default device settings". The default libraries for Edge drivers now try to use the most complex on/off command supported by the device, and only fall back to a Basic:Set if nothing more complex is supported. The more complex z-wave commands override the device's default behavior, which causes the undesirable results. The fix was a custom driver for those devices that sends Basic:Set for on/off.
If yours are coming on at 1% instead, it's possible that it's the same root cause but different behavior since it's a different brand.
webejcek (William Bejcek) January 4, 2023, 1:43am #6
I reached out to EvaLogik with a description of the issue and they were able to track it down to a bug in the driver. They updated the driver and provided the following instructions to add the new driver to the SmartThings hub. I successfully did this and the 1% issue at turn on is solved.
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Supporting New Game Controllers
With iOS 13, macOS Catalina, and tvOS 13, the Game Controller framework adds support for several well-known console game controllers. Get briefed about the newly-added controllers and understand how their inputs are delivered. Learn recommended best practices for handling optional buttons, and understand the right approach for support on macOS.
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Hello, my name is James Kelly, and I'm a Software Engineer on the Game Technologies Team at Apple. In this video, we'll be talking about the new features and changes coming to the Game Controller framework this year to help you adopt newly supported game controllers. The Game Controller framework has been making it easy to add support for MFi Game Controllers to your games on iOS, tvOS, and macOS. By abstracting controller hardware through a common API, the Game Controller framework lets you write your code once without you having to worry about how controller data is mapped. And this year, we're excited to announce new support for some fantastic controllers. First is the Bluetooth-enabled Xbox Wireless controller from Microsoft. This will now seamlessly integrate into any Game Controller framework-enabled game.
And that's not all. The DualShock 4 Controller from Sony is now supported by the Game Controller framework. It will just work with any games that already have controller support through the Game Controller framework. Many developers have already been creating some great games with controller support. Rayman Adventures, Transistor, Sky Force Reloaded, and Alto's Adventure are some great examples, and just a few of the games on the App Store that support controllers. By using the Game Controller framework, games will automatically support the Xbox Wireless and DualShock 4 Controllers in iOS 13, tvOS 13, and macOS Catalina. In this video, we'll talk about how to grab a reference to these new controllers through the Game Controller framework, how to access their inputs, some UI best practices for probably supporting MFi, Xbox Wireless, and DualShock 4 Controllers, and our recommendations for how to update your games on macOS, if they previously supported Game Controllers through lower level frameworks such as IOKit.
First, let's talk about changes coming to the Game Controller framework in support of these new controllers. As a quick reminder, games that already use the Game Controller framework will gain support for free, meaning if your game supports MFi controllers, it will also automatically support the Xbox Wireless controller and the DualShock 4.
The controller's inputs can be accessed via a GCController's GCExtendedGamepad profile.
For those of you who are new to the Game Controller framework, let's talk briefly about how to detect a controller. Each controller is represented by a class named GCController.
It's the same class for all controllers, MFi, Xbox Wireless, and DualShock 4 controllers, as well as the serial remote, are all instances of GCController. The first thing you want to do is get a list of currently connected controllers. To do this, use GCController's controllers class method. It returns an array of GCController instances representing all connected controllers. The array will be empty if no controllers are connected. You should check this array when your app launches and set up the controllers as appropriate. Now it's common for controllers to connect and disconnect while your app is running. For example, the player may turn on their controller after launching your game, their controller may run out of batteries, or they may just take the controller out of range. To be notified of these events, add observers for GCController did connect notification and GCController did disconnect notification.
Your application did finish launching with options method is a great place to do this.
So, now that you've grabbed onto an instance of a connected controller, let's talk about the buttons and other inputs it may have and how to access them. First, let's recap what inputs are available on a controller. There are two triggers, a directional pad, two thumbsticks, a menu button, four face buttons, a programmable 4-LED strip, and two shoulder buttons. Let's take a closer look at how physical buttons map to the API using the four face buttons as an example. Here we can see a table listing the four face button properties found on a controller's extended gamepad profile.
The face buttons of MFi controllers map directly to this API as do the face buttons of an Xbox Wireless controller. Note that there is some subtlety to consider with DualShock 4 controllers as they use symbols instead of letters to represent their face buttons.
In cases where there may be ambiguity when mapping an input to API, we use the notion of positional equivalents to resolve these mappings. For example, if we consider the face buttons to be four buttons arranged in a diamond on the right side of a controller, then the bottom cross button is positionally equivalent to the bottom A button of an MFi controller. So, it maps to the button A property.
The right face button with a circle button maps to the button B property and so on.
Next, let's talk about clickable thumbsticks or L3 and R3. We added support for these inputs to the Game Controller framework in iOS 12.1, tvOS 12.1, and macOS Mojave 10.14.1.
While the Xbox Wireless and DualShock 4 controllers all have clickable thumbsticks, thumbsticks on some models of MFi controllers may not be clickable.
Let's dive into a code example to see how we can handle this. Let's say we want to make the player character crouch when the player clicks L3. If we're supporting older versions of iOS, tvOS, or macOS, we should first check to see if we have the clickable thumbsticks API available to us. Even if we do though, the specific controller we're mapping may not physically have clickable thumbsticks. So, we check to see if the left thumbstick button is new. And if it is, we should ensure that the user interaction we were intending to map to L3, in this case, crouching the player, is available through some other means. Once we are working with a controller that we know has clickable thumbsticks, we can just assign our behavior to the press handler of L3.
Now, when a player clicks the left thumbstick button, the game will toggle the player character's crouch. If our game is running on versions of iOS, tvOS, or macOS that don't have this API, we still need to code an alternative path to the player crouch. Next, let's talk about some new buttons that have been added to the API in support of the Xbox wireless and DualShock 4 Controllers, what we're calling the auxiliary buttons. These buttons are typically found in the middle of controllers. First, we have the menu button. It should be used to pause gameplay and bring up the in-game pause menu. All supported controllers have this button. Now let's look at the options button.
It's a general purpose button, but you should avoid using it for time critical actions, as it's generally positioned out of the way. Note that not all controllers have this button. Let's take a look at how these new APIs map to existing MFi controllers. The center menu button maps directly to the button menu property of GCExtendedGamepad. Note that in this example, this MFi controller doesn't have an options button. So, the button options property of GCExtendedGamepad is new.
Next up is the Xbox Wireless controller. When a controller has multiple auxiliary buttons, we determine its button mapping using positional equivalents.
The right auxiliary button, in this case, the Xbox Wireless controller's menu button maps directly to the button menu property, whereas the left Auxiliary button or the Xbox Wireless controller's view button maps to the button options property.
The Xbox button in the center of the controller has been reserved for system use.
The same approach can be applied for the DualShock 4. Again, we can use positional equivalents to determine the button mappings. The right auxiliary button or the DualShock 4's options button maps to the button menu property, whereas the left auxiliary button, the DualShock 4's share button maps to the button options property.
The PS button in the center of the controller has also been reserved.
Note that we've deprecated the controller paused handler. You should now use the new button menu API instead. Let's dive into a code example to see how we can handle this.
Let's say we want to pause or unpause the game whenever the player presses the menu button.
If we're supporting older versions of iOS, tvOS or macOS, we should first check to see if we have the new menu button API. If we do, we simply register a pressed changed handler on the extended gamepad's button menu property. Within the handler, we toggle the pause menu. Typically, when players want to pause the game, they want to do it as fast as possible, so we make sure to trigger this behavior on button press rather than button release. If the new API isn't available, we should still register our functionality with the old controller PausedHandler. This will trigger whenever the menu button is pressed. So that was the menu button. Now let's look at the options button. Again, remember that not all controllers may have this button. Let's dive into another code example to see how we should handle this. Here, we want to bring up an in-game settings menu whenever the player presses the options button. If we're supporting older versions of iOS, tvOS, or macOS, we should first check to see if we have the new options button.
But even if we do, the controller we're mapping may not physically have an options button. So we check to see if the options button is new.
And if it is, we need to ensure that the settings menu is accessible via some other means.
For example, we can list it as an item in the pause menu. If the controller has an options button, we can just assign our behavior to the button options pressed handler.
Now, when a player clicks the options button, the game will toggle the settings menu.
If the new API isn't available, we still need to make sure there's an alternative path to reach the settings menu. So that was a quick look at the new API coming to the Game Controller framework this year in support of the newly added Xbox Wireless and DualShock 4 controllers. Now, let's talk about some UI best practices for handling different controllers so that your users can experience your game in the best possible way.
With the Game Controller framework being expanded to support more than just MFi controllers, a new consideration arises. Buttons and other inputs may no longer be visually consistent between controllers. In this example, the B button in the prompt only matches the MFi controller while the Xbox Wireless controller's B button is red and the DualShock 4 has a circle button instead. Let's dive deeper into this example to see how we could handle this. Let's say you're introducing your player to the base mechanics of your game and you want to display an in-game prompt that tells them how to block. In this case, your block function is mapped to the button B property of GCExtendedGamepad. For an MFi controller, we display our MFi B button asset as we did before. For the Xbox Wireless controller, however, we need to slightly tweak the asset, in this case, by making the B button red. Finally, we display a circle button when the DualShock 4 is the active controller. Now, regardless of what controller the player is using, they can easily understand your in-game prompts. Let's take a look at a code example to see how we can achieve this. Here, we have a simple function called getBlockButtonAsset that returns the appropriate art asset for the block button.
First, we switch over the controller's product category, a new property added this year to GCController to determine what kind of controller it is. If it's an Xbox Wireless controller, we will return the red B button asset. If it's a DualShock 4 controller, we'll return the red circle button asset. And finally, by default, overturn the MFi green B button asset. This way, your game will support the diverse range of MFi controllers currently available and gracefully fall back to a sensible asset should new controller support be added in the future.
Let's return to our previous block example. Instead of creating unique art assets for each type of controller, another option is to use generic symbols in your in-game tutorials and prompts. By providing a generic prompt that doesn't rely on anything other than positional equivalents, you can rest assured knowing that your players will be able to easily understand your in-game guidance regardless of what type of controller is connected. In this example, it's clear that the players should press the right face button. One last note, players may have multiple controllers connected to their device at the same time even if they're playing alone. You should gracefully support all connected controllers in this case, as a player may switch between them at any moment. This means that you'll need to recognize input from all connected controllers either by pulling them each frame or registering input handlers with each of them. You should also update your in-game guidance and visuals to match the most recently used controllers. For example, if a player is using their MFi controller, display the appropriate MFi art assets.
But if the player pressed an input on their connected DualShock 4, all in-game visuals should automatically adjust to use the DualShock 4 art assets. By dynamically adapting your visuals to the most recently used controller, you will provide your players an intuitive and polished controller-driven experience. Now, for those of you who have previously implemented the game controller support outside of the Game Controller framework on macOS, we have some new guidance for your games. When you adopt the Game Controller framework, game controllers will just work, so you should use it for MFi, Xbox Wireless, and DualShock 4 controller support on macOS. As we abstract away any hardware intricacies that may differ between controllers, we provide you consistency in your app across iOS, tvOS, and macOS. This will also help to ensure that your apps remain compatible with current and future OS updates. For those of you who have previously hardcoded support for these controllers through lower level APIs such as IOKit, we highly recommend that you move your implementation over to the Game Controller framework.
As new controllers will appear in both IOKit and the Game Controller framework, you should drop your IOKit implementation to ensure there are no conflicts.
This will allow you to code to a single interface and receive new game controller support for free. So let's summarize what we've discussed in this video.
The Game Controller framework abstracts hardware through a common API, letting you write your code once without having to worry about the low-level differences between controller models. This has the great benefit of allowing your game to automatically support newly added controllers such as the Xbox Wireless and the DualShock 4 controllers. However, in order to provide the best user experience for your players, you should take care to adapt your game's UI and on-screen indicators to the active controller. And finally, ensure your macOS apps stay compatible with future OS updates by migrating existing controller support from lower level APIs to the Game Controller framework. More information about this year's game controller update can be found on the Apple developer site. That's it for this year's game controller's update. Thank you for watching. We hope you found this information helpful and you can use it to create some awesome games with game controller support.
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I can see where you'd pick Alaska if you were hung up on frequent-flier miles and advance seat assignment (and unaware of what's going on with them flying out of Seatac).
I'm surprised that SW is actually less competitive as date-of-travel approaches. I'd have thought Alaska would really squeeze those travelers and SW would have a huge cost advantage, but it's not showing up. But it actually looks like you have to get further out, where Southwest's crazy internet-only specials are available, before they start to beat Alaska on price.
Alaska's cost to operate a flight is so much higher than Southwest's I don't understand how this is possible. I wonder how the two evolved in pricing to compete on this route, and why each is where they are. Also, I wish I could look up what their loads are… baffling.
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Isn't that Alaska's slogan, "You just get more"?
I think what you're missing though is Southwest gives you full credit even on their lowest fares for cancellations – no change fees, ever, no matter the fare level. W/ Alaska you get a minimum $50 change fee for cancelling a trip and then trying to use the credit later. My mom has switched to using SW b/c she got so annoyed when Alaska charged her $100 in change fees on $300 tickets when she had to cancel a trip due to a medical issues with my dad. That was more than a year ago, Alaska's change fees may be higher now – so maybe that's how they make up some of the difference.


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Old Melbourne Gaol: Death Masks & The Art of Hanging
Between 1845 and 1924, Melbourne Gaol housed some of Australia's most notorious criminals – including the outlaw Ned Kelly, and a serial killer believed by some to have been Jack the Ripper.
The three-storey museum charts the lives and deaths of both prisoners and staff, with often-morbid exhibitions including the death masks of executed criminals. Meanwhile, many visitors report disembodied voices and strange goings-on around the cellblock, sparking the interest of paranormal investigators.
I visited the gaol not just to feed my own fascination with Australia's history; but also to better understand how a site linked to so much death and suffering, could yet become an enduring landmark of Australia's 'Garden City'.
The Old Melbourne Gaol Museum
Located on Russell Street in what is now the city's CBD, the construction of Old Melbourne Gaol began in 1839. It opened its doors to convicts in 1845, and, located adjacent to the City Courts and City Police Watch House, Russell Street soon became the heart of Melbourne's judicial and penal system.
The Old Melbourne Gaol Museum is now reckoned to be one of the most-visited tourist attractions in all of Australia. The three storeys of this remaining wing have been opened up to guests, its cells filled with letters and memorabilia, photo archives and death masks.
Melbourne's first gaol was built on a plot of scrubland, northeast of the city. It was known locally as 'Wintle's Hotel', named for the gaoler George Wintle who was appointed to the task in 1838.
As the population of Wintle's Hotel grew though, construction began on a new site. Melbourne Gaol was built on the corner of Russell and La Trobe streets, but by 1850 it was already overcrowded.
The Australian Gold Rush (following the 1851 discovery of gold in the newly founded Colony of Victoria) brought a huge influx of people to Melbourne – and with it, a surge in lawlessness.
To meet this demand, a new prison wing was built between 1852 and 1854 using bluestone in place of the sandstone used for the first gaol building. Over the following years further extensions were added. The new wing grew considerably from 1857 to 1859, and was joined by a north wing in 1860, which incorporated a series of entrance buildings and a chapel. These new plots followed the established form for prisons of the time – with many design characteristics inspired by London's notorious Pentonville Prison.
Up until this point, male and female prisoners had lived in mixed cellblocks. However, unsavoury conditions prompted the building of a female cellblock between the years of 1862 and 1864; around the same time that women's rights advocates such as John Stuart Mill were preaching gender equality overseas.
By the time of the gaol's completion in 1864, the complex covered an entire block, and featured bath houses and a hospital, exercise yards and a chapel. Many of the gaolers and their families lived within the walls, with a total of 17 staff houses appearing along the side of Swanston Street.
Following World War I, parts of the gaol were incorporated into the neighbouring RMIT University, and excepting a brief period of use during World War II, those parts of the gaol not torn down were preserved in the form of a museum.
Meet the Inmates
Passing through the entrance building and into the lofty cellblock of Old Melbourne Gaol, visitors are free to explore for themselves. The ground floor and two higher levels, connected with metal stairs and walkways, are each lined with cells.
A few of these are locked closed, whilst others provide spy holes onto tortured mannequins dressed in prison smocks of the period.
Most of the cells have been turned into exhibition rooms however, chronicling the lives of the gaol's inhabitants through a collection of personal effects, letters and contemporary news clippings. Most striking of all, are the death masks.
The study of phrenology, developed in 1796 by the German physician Franz Joseph Gall, was reaching peak popularity around the middle of the nineteenth century. Although largely discredited now, phrenology was nevertheless an important precursor to modern neuropsychology; looking to connect the characteristics and traits of an individual with localised areas of activity within the brain. It was believed that different urges and emotions had their origins in particular regions of the brain… and that the physical size of these regions could be used as an indicator for the magnitude of the impulse.
With this explanation in mind, many physicians became increasingly fascinated by the shapes of skulls. Needless to say, those of convicts were treasured in particular, as experts would measure the contours of the head in order to find links to their behaviour. It was hoped that in time, an understanding of phrenology could inform a kind of 'early warning system' for violent offenders.
Many of the inmates executed in Old Melbourne Gaol became unwitting contributors to this great experiment. Immediately after hanging, the head would be shaved entirely for the application of a plaster cast. This would later be used to create wax replicas for study.
It was eerie to say the least, walking through the cells of Melbourne Gaol and reading about those who lived their last days inside its walls; watched all the while by the waxen faces of those very same convicts.
These rich characterisations are the real treasure of the museum; each death mask accompanied by personal effects and news headlines, charting the history of the wicked, the desperate, and sometimes the unfortunate inmates of Old Melbourne Gaol.
Take Basilio Bondietto, for example – a 65-year-old Swiss-Italian migrant worker, who was accused of the murder of a colleague in 1876. Without speaking a word of English, and with no interpreter, Bondietto remained seemingly naïve of his fate on the gallows right up until the last minute.
Another victim of the rope, An Gaa, was an immigrant Chinese miner working on a claim beside the Loddon River. He murdered his mate Pooey Waugh, apparently without motive, after the two had been smoking opium together in their bark hut. Governor John Castieau mentioned him in a journal entry dated 29th August 1875:
"The Chinaman who is to be hanged tomorrow was very restless," Castieau wrote after a visit to the chapel, "and made such a noise with his irons that I was obliged to get the clergyman to stop the service and have the condemned man removed."
One of the more notable convicts executed at Old Melbourne Gaol was the serial killer Frederick Bailey Deeming. Deeming began his career when he ran away to sea at the age of 16; after years of theft and fraud, in 1891 he was found responsible for the murder of his first wife and their four children in England. Later that same year, his second wife suffered a similar fate in Melbourne.
Frederick Bailey Deeming was executed at the Old Melbourne Gaol in May 1892, to great public applause; with as many as 12,000 people gathered in the streets outside.
Meanwhile, the violent and misogynistic nature of Deeming's crimes – along with the time he spent in England – led many contemporary commentators to speculate a link to the 1888 murders of Jack the Ripper.
Of all the gaol's residents though, none were quite so infamous as Australia's notorious bushranger and outlaw, Edward "Ned" Kelly.
Ned Kelly was born sometime towards the end of 1854, his father an Irish convict who spent most of Ned's childhood in trouble with the law. Ned made a name for himself early, when he saved a younger child from drowning in a creek, and was awarded a sash for his bravery. After John "Red" Kelly died in 1866, his son Ned adopted a lifestyle of bushranging and petty crime.
Following an incident at his home in 1878, Kelly went on the run. Acting on behalf of Victoria Police, Constable Alexander Fitzpatrick arrested Dan Kelly at the property, and in his report claimed that he had been fired upon by Ned Kelly. Other sources, including an interview with Kelly himself just prior to execution, state that Kelly had been 200 miles away at the time.
However, when Kelly and his gang later killed three policemen while on the run, his fate was decided for him.
The gang were finally confronted in June 1880 at Glenrowan, Victoria. Kelly entered the gunfight wearing home-made armour forged from plough blades; following the bloody confrontation, Ned Kelly was taken back to the Old Melbourne Gaol and hanged for murder in November of the same year. As was common practice at the time, his head was detached and taken for phrenological study, while his headless body was buried in an unmarked grave. He was 25 years old.
It's interesting to note that despite his reputation for violent crime, Kelly remains an enduring icon of Australian history, remembered fondly by many for his pioneering and independent attitude. His struggle is also deeply symbolic of the resistance of Irish-Australian immigrants against the ruling Anglo-Australian classes.
Ned Kelly's death mask now stands in an imposing cabinet on the ground floor of the gaol, placed where it can gaze out along the length of the cellblock. His skull itself was once displayed here too, until its theft in 1978.
Meanwhile, beside the death mask cabinet, a mock-up suit of armour in the style of Kelly's hangs on a wooden stand. "Kids," the exuberant sign invites, "dress up in Ned's armour!".
The Art of Hanging
There were a total of 135 hangings conducted at Old Melbourne Gaol. The scaffold can still be seen today, jutting out from the first floor landing at the rear end of the cellblock. Women were hanged here as well – starting with Elizabeth Scott on 11th November 1863, the first woman to be hanged in Victoria.
It's a somewhat macabre feature in the museum, and during my visit I observed three different groups playing with the rope, or posing for photos around the lever which operated the trapdoor.
A display case on one wall contains a model of the hanging mechanism. A tiny figurine stands on the gallows inside, a noose around his neck – and when a large red button on the exterior of the case is pressed, the body drops through the trapdoor to dangle on a piece of string.
A young child was playing with the exhibit when I arrived; he conducted six successive hangings before his parents called down to him from the next floor, and he moved on.
The cell beside the gallows had been re-imagined as a small exhibition, showcasing 'the art of hanging'. A hand-written table in a case on one wall showed a series of weights and measures, detailing the mechanics of the procedure. It quotes Charles Duff, who in 1928 wrote his book, 'A Handbook on Hanging'.
"Hanging is a fine art and not a mechanical trade," according to Duff. "Is not a man an artist who can painlessly and without brutality despatch another man?"
If the rope was too short in relation to body weight, it would bruise and suffocate rather than breaking the neck. Too long, and the momentum of the drop was liable to pull the head clean off.
A fine example of this theory in practice, comes from the execution of Colin Campbell Ross in 1922. Ross was a bar owner, convicted of the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl. The hangman used a new four-strand rope, and the force of the drop did not prove sufficient to kill; instead, Ross was slowly strangled by the rope for more than forty minutes prior to death [1].
Before long, the gaol switched from a conventional knotted noose to using leather tubing around the rope, which would slide effortlessly through a metal ring to tighten. The last execution held in the Old Melbourne Gaol was Angus Murray, who died here in 1924 on the same day that the gaol was finally closed. Later, in 1932, the scaffold was re-erected at Melbourne's Pentridge Prison located further north in Coburg. Most of the work was conducted by David Bennett, a carpenter accused of rape, his own being the first life to be taken by the Pentridge scaffold.
The original scaffold was returned to Old MelbourneGaol in the 1970s, and went back on display in 2000.
The City Watch House
Old Melbourne Gaol is more than just an artefact, as it aims to engage visitors with immersive first-hand experience; the gaol hosts after-dark ghost tours, as well as regular dramatisations of the story of Ned Kelly. One of the most interesting experiences of my visit, was being arrested at the City Police Watch House.
This building stands adjacent to the gaol, directly across a grassy courtyard now used by the university. I had signed up to experience the arrest procedure when I bought my entry ticket, and at the appointed hour a bell rang, inviting arrestees to the City Watch House.
I gathered outside with a group of eight others (including Australian, American and Chinese visitors), to be led in single file through the main entrance. This site was in use as a holding facility up until the 1990s, making the arrest experience feel all the more authentic.
The Charge Sergeant on duty provided each guest with an information sheet – allowing them to answer questions on behalf of a predetermined character – before heading into the cells. Here we were given a good telling-off, searched for concealed weapons, and then confined to a pitch black cell for five minutes.
On the way out, my fellow convicts queued in line for souvenir mugshot photos.
I headed straight outside, pondering all that I had seen. Old Melbourne Gaol is a truly fascinating museum, not least due to the level of interaction that visitors are permitted. Having seen a pre-teen child playing with a mock scaffold however, and two American girls posing for photos, pulling gruesome faces with a rope twisted around their necks, I found myself questioning the nature of that interaction.
Which came first – the dissociation from morbid reality that allowed such interaction, or, did the interaction with death serve to normalise it; to commoditise it, as dark tourism experts such as Dr. Philip Stone have hypothesised?
To further complicate matters, Old Melbourne Gaol is one of the oldest institutions in the state of Victoria; and yet its most famed exhibit, Ned Kelly, was a folk hero who lived in rebellion against that same state. The gaol is certainly not being marketed as the scene of past atrocities – no apology is offered for what happened here – but rather it offers an insight into how things were done back then. It is merely an outdated precursor to Melbourne's current penal system.
Whatever the answer, the museum is certainly not to blame. The artefacts and information contained within are presented without bias, and without politics. An estimated 140,000 visitors come each year, to immerse themselves in this world of death masks and scaffolds. I would imagine that for many of them, these gruesome exhibits are simply fragments from another world, a world completely detached from their own reality. One thing is clear from these figures, though: death sells.
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[1] Ross was later found to have been innocent, and received a posthumous pardon in 2008.
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In 1983 I visited the Old Melbourne gaol with my grandmother when I was 9 years old at one point of the tour I walked into the condemned man cell next to whether hangman's noose is. I closed the door behind me it was an empty room. Within 1 seconds of closing the door I screamed and my nan reopened the door. without feeling a single thing I had aquired but 30 cm cut on the inside of my left arm from roughly my breast past my elbow on the inside of my arm. My nan said how did you get that I said I don't know we both left the prison very shake and and scared. I will never forget this day for the rest of my life. The cell was totally empty and there was nothing in there to cut me. To this day I have no idea how this happened. I visited the jail pretty much every weekend with my cousin. We found the prison to be quite a unique museum. we would often stand and stare at the death masks for up to an hour without saying a word. We asked a tour guide why did the inmates have to wear such thick large round hessian mittens. We were told it was to prevent the inmates from masturbating so ultimately they had no pleasure whatsoever. Try being 10 years old when somebody tells you this. How bizarre.
Jason 1:51 am | 20 October 2020
Your text is not correct There were a total of 133 hangings at OMG
Bruce Johnson 5:05 am | 5 February 2020
Thanks Bruce, do you have a source at all? If you can show me a source, I'll update it.
Darmon 8:55 am | 25 March 2020
Its cool but my bother was Ned Kelly he always got smacks on the bum!
Jeff 4:46 am | 2 August 2018
Great story but there was no mention of any paranormal activity or if you felt anything while you were there. Also there was no mention of Cell 17 either which has the most activity.
Brendan 12:01 pm | 19 January 2018
Hi Brendan, I honestly didn't know about Cell 17 – wish I had! During my visit I didn't pick up on anything out of the ordinary, but then again it was a daytime visit with other tourists around. Another time I'd be curious to spend longer here… perhaps even overnight.
Darmon 4:23 pm | 14 April 2018
Wow I can't wait for year 4 camp
Montana 10:40 am | 30 June 2017
I enjoyed your blog and found it helpful to an essay I am writing. However, it was not mentioned that Colin Campbell Ross was innocent, but I appreciate how you were able to include multiple stories of prisoners. Additionally I found it initially difficult to source this as you did not include your name or a date published, I only discovered it through the comments.
Anne 10:47 am | 23 October 2016
Hi Anne, glad you found it helpful! I'll have to read up more on Colin Campbell Ross – I didn't have room to go into much depth with these individual stories, though the fact that he was actually innocent does sound like an important detail.
And I'm sorry you had problems sourcing this. The date is in the URL, as 2013/05… if it helps, I posted this on 23rd.
Darmon 11:18 pm | 25 October 2016
I am a little disappointed, you missed most of the "charm" of the City Watchouse, the experience of getting locked in a dark room with 12 strangers, the audio of detainees crying, detoxing, fighting etc…, the colorfulness of the graphiti all over everything and my favorite part, if you listen closely when you walk by the showers, within the shower audio is the sound of a guy getting raped. One of the oddest tourist attractions I have ever seen.
Matt Stiers 1:04 pm | 15 March 2014
Sorry to disappoint, Matt!
Perhaps my description of the City Watch House was a little dry… I think I captured the essence of the tour, though I could certainly have gone into more detail about what it felt like to be shut in that dark room with the other visiting tourists.
I did photograph some of the graffiti – which I enjoyed a lot – though I completely missed the soundtrack of the shower rape. I'll listen out for that next time.
Anyway, thanks for the comment… constructive criticism is always warmly received.
Darmon Richter 1:20 pm | 23 March 2014
Great in depth report Darmon. Just what we've come to expect from you.
dalecooper57 5:58 pm | 12 May 2013
This place has such a fascinating history that it was hard work deciding what to – and what not to – include here. For example, I would have liked to go into more depth about the theft of Ned Kelly's skull, its later reappearance, and the mass graves uncovered at nearby Pentridge Prison… but you can't fit everything in, and I'm very glad to hear you enjoyed this brief overview.
Darmon Richter 7:33 am | 17 May 2013
UPDATE: I have now done exactly that, and delved "into more depth about the theft of Ned Kelly's skull, its later reappearance, and the mass graves uncovered at nearby Pentridge Prison."
Here's the new post:
Dark Tourism in the Ruins of Melbourne's Pentridge Prison
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