Agnes Zimmer in Melbourne, Australia in 1853.
Died: Broadford, Australia, 27th March 1900 aged 71 years.
The first of the Zwar family to go to Australia.
Michael Zwar was born on 24th March 1829 in Drehsa, a small town a few kilometres from Bautzen in the Kingdom of Saxony. He was the eighth child and fifth son born to Johann and Anna Zwar, who finally had eleven children – five daughters and six sons – exactly the same number as Michael would later father himself!
Michael's father had been born a month before the French Revolution in 1879. His mother was four years younger, and they had married in 1812. Michael's father was a 40 year old market gardener when Michael was born, and his mother was 36.
Michael's oldest brother and two older sisters had already died at least 12 years before Michael was born. The other children still living were Andreas, now 11 years old; Johann (7), Peter (5) and Maria (2 years old).
A younger sister, Magdalena, was born when Michael was 3 years old, but 2 years later she died. About the time Michael would be starting school, when he was almost 6 years old a younger brother was born, but was stillborn. A year later his brother Karl was the last to join the family making it 2 parents and 6 living children.
Michael apparently got along quite well at school – also with his teacher. In his first letter home from Australia he wrote: "Best wishes to schoolmaster Forster and all my old schoolmates." Four days before Michael's 11th birthday his father died, 20.3.1840. An older brother, Peter, had just taken on his first job at Huhndorf (near Dresden). I do not know if 19 year old Johann was still at home. The oldest of the boys, Andreas, was apparently to stay on the home property. Also helping their widowed mother at home were Maria, now 13 years old, Michael (11) and Karl (3 and a half).
On 24th August 1849, when Michael was 20 years old, he sailed for Australia from Hamburg on the 345 ton ship Prubislav. There were nearly two hundred other passengers on board with Michael.
Why did Michael leave home for Australia?
Overall it must be borne in mind that this was the time of a great emigration from Europe to the 'New Countries'. From 1850 to 1870 about 5 million emigrants left Europe and went to the U.S.A., largely from Germany, Scandinavia and Ireland. Only a relative trickle went to Australia. I am fairly certain the final impetus that caused Michael to leave was that he turned 20 and was called up for the 2 years military service all the 20 year olds had to go through in Saxony. The story has always been passed down by his family in Australia that Michael hid under a load of vegetables to make his escape. In the call-up he could be sent to fight anywhere and his folk had experienced the worst of wars.
The local school Michael walked to as a schoolboy at Wurschen is the name for an enormous battle the English call the Battle of Bautzen. The French call it the Battle of Wurschen and the name 'Wurschen' appears on the Ach de Triomphe in the centre of Paris as one of Napoleon's great victories. The battle took place in 1813, the year after Michael's parents married. The French general Ney led his troops past both sides of the Zwar village of Drehsa to attack the allied troops on the otherside of Drehsa. Altogether there were 300,000 troops involved in the battles in and round Bautzen. There were about 50,000 casualties. No wonder young men like Michael were not keen to join the army for two years service! The Saxons fought with the French against the Russians and Prussians.
One had to get a passport for permission to leave Saxony. In 1848 there were revolutions in Europe, including one that was put down at Dresden, about 50 kilometres from Michael. His older brother Peter was called up again for military service at this time too, but was declared to be medically unfit for the second time. Peter had intended going to Australia at this time too, but for some reason changed his mind.
Another reason Michael could go was that he wasn't needed at home. He had three older brothers, of whom only Johann had married (In 1847) at this stage. In later years Johann and Peter would also leave for Australia, and his youngest brother Karl would become a butcher at Grosspostwitz. This still left the oldest son Andreas at home to care for their mother and their sister Maria.
This newspaper was published at Bautzen only a few kilometres from the Zwar home. Ten years later Johann Zwar wrote a report of his trip for this newspaper as he knew the editor.
There were people who made their living convincing people to go to the new countries. The shipping companies paid travel agents a commission for every person who boarded their ships. The agents painted wonderful and alluring pictures of life in Australia. Some even pretended they were going too!
The securing of a pastor would encourage the religious people of Lusatia to apply. The deeply religious would not consider migrating if their religion was to suffer. The Church was the centre of their village life. If a schoolteacher would come as well there would be a better chance to get the families with young children to go along too.
On 7th July the paper reported that Pastor Andreas Pench of Bautzen and Johann Zimmer of Weissig had been signed up, and that the voyage would begin at the end of the month. The fare was 76 Thaler (25 pounds) (children under 8 years 40 Thaler, and infants free). There were some delays.
The newspaper of August 14th reports that Pastor Pench addressed his words of farewell, being about to commence his term of service as spiritual leader of the migrants to Melbourne in that richly blessed land of Australia.
They said their farewells to family and friends and traveled across Germany to Hamburg, full of anticipation.
In Hamburg a series of incidents soon changed their mood and they were soon wishing that they had never thought of the idea. The first shock waiting for them was the news that Pastor Andreas Pench had died in Berlin on his way through to Hamburg. Even his possessions were at Hamburg already as others had brought them along for him.
Secondly, there was no ship in Hamburg to take them on their voyage! This meant that they had to find and pay for accommodation. They booked into the guest house ''Zum Wilden Mann''.
Added to this, Hartig now demanded more money than he had actually mentioned previously. There were other discoveries about Hartig which soon had them cursing the day he was born. The passengers intending to sail came from different parts of Germany. The majority were Germans. Several Germans had no money, but Hartig had persuaded them to come anyway because "the Wends had money and were good people and they would pay for them etc.'' When the Wends arrived and were informed of Hartig's generous plan the Wends would have nothing to do with the Germans who were to be their shipmates. At Hamburg the intending passengers learnt for the first time that Mr. Hartig and his wife were not actually coming on the trip themselves. He had given the impression that he and his wife would be with them all the way!
The feelings against Hartig and his wife grew stronger by the hour. Several migrants broke down and wept and would have gone home if they could have. Some of them claimed that Hartig's wife had bewitched them, so to speak. The Wends decided that as Hartig was so crooked they would definitely not go to the place recommended by him (ie. Melbourne) when they arrived in Australia. It would probably be as corrupt as he was!
Pastor Pench's brother turned up from Ebendorfel to collect his dead brother's belongings. Hartig would not let him have them unless he paid out 70 Thaler (almost the fare to Australia!). Hartig said that he had had to attend to this and that for the deceased Mr Pench and he would not hand over the possessions until he had been paid. Pench went to the police who directed him to the council. At the council he learnt that they all knew Mr. Hartig. He had brought migrants to Hamburg before and had always fallen out with them. The council advised Pench to pay 20 Thaler, although he could stay and fight the case with Hartig, which could possibly cost him more. Pench paid Hartig 20 Thaler and received his brother's belongings.
The Wends had time on their hands. They attended church every day. A child of the Wend Wuchatsch was baptised. At a communion service an elderly pastor preached on Abraham, his call from God to leave his country, and the promise of God to go with hi. The pastor told the intending travellers that they had received no call from God to leave their land and no promise that he would be with them to bless them. What a cheerful encouragement from the pulpit!
A ship was being prepared for their journey. They could go aboard and watch the carpenters installing various fittings and 250 bunks. The double bunks were placed alongside each other in double rows. There was 3 metres of space from floor to ceiling.
A rumour suddenly swept Hamburg that the Prussian army was returning home from Schleswig-Holstein via Hamburg and that this would cause riots etc. The Wends were terrified. They could remember how the Prussian troops had put down the uprising at Dresden only 3 months earlier. But nothing came of it.
The Prübislaw finally left Hamburg with 168 adults and 61 children on August 23rd 1849 under Captain Wilhelm Niemann. Even this was not achieved without an accident! As they were sailing out of the harbour they rammed a smaller coal ship which sank with all on board.
We possibly imagine the ship coming down the coast of Africa, rounding the Cape of Good Hope and then heading for Australia. However the popular route for the German sailing ships was to sail through the English channel and then catch any winds they could to carry them over the equator and over to South America where they would put on fresh provisions at Rio de Janiero in Brazil.
Then they would make towards the South Pole – going so far south that it might snow (as it did later when Johann came out). Way down below Africa the Westerlies would catch them and blow them on a fast course to the southern shores of Australia.
The Prubislav arrived in Rio de Janiero on October 27th to take on fresh meat and water. Here they had some troubles. The passengers published a bitter letter of complaint directed against Knorr and Jannsen, the Hamburg forwarding agents. Their complaints were about the Captain, the overloading of the ship, and about the spoilt condition of their food supplies. As a result they spent more than a month in Rio and only left on December 2nd.
Two storms and two months later they saw the Australian coast on Feb. 2nd 1850.
About seven Wend families landed at Melbourne, including Johann Wuchatsch, Karl Hoehne, Andreas Kaiser, Michael Zimmer, Johann Stephan and Michael Zwar.
Melbourne's population at this time was approximately 25,000. The Wend families who disembarked would have visited, or been visited by the Wends already in and round Melbourne. Each would have been glad to see the other. The new arrivals would have the latest news from home.
Several years later Johann Ponich was digging for gold in the Alexander Hills, eighty miles from Melbourne, when he heard of the arrival of the 'Helena' at Adelaide. Ponich left the diggings immediately and went about 600 kilometres to Adelaide to spend some weeks with the new arrivals.
The same questions are asked today when someone leaves Australia for overseas. When the immigrants arrived in Australia they had something to prove, as did those who came out to Australia 100 years later in the big migration of the late 1940's and the 50's. They wanted to show the people at home they hadn't made a mistake, and were better off in the new Country.
When the Wends came to Australia they were in for some shocks.
Michael was not to know that Johann and the letter would pass each other on the high seas. Johann had left Saxony for Australia before the letter reached home.
When Michael writes the first letter home he is over the 'miserable' stage. He intended to return home after several years for a visit, but not to stay. He did make the visit, but it was nearly 30 years later.
He does not say where he is working, but his letter is sent from Point Henry, near Geelong, and about 90 kilometres miles from Melbourne. There was a German settlement there which became known as Germantown – and renamed to Grovedale in the War years.
Michael casually mentions that he has bought an acre of land near Melbourne and that he hopes to go into the brick making business in the following year (1852). He was probably working to pay off the loan he had taken out to buy the land. The land was in Brunswick, quite near the city, and just off the main Sydney road. It cost him 20 pounds. The half acre is shown in the plan below as it is today, now part of the Jewell Railway Station and partly used for streets. The land in this street was selling for $11 per square foot in 1980.
In order to buy land one had to be a naturalized citizen. Michael applied for naturalization in a letter on September 30th 1852 and states that he is 23 years old, living in Melbourne and a farmer, and is desirous of purchasing land and of establishing himself for life in this Colony. The referees who backed his application were George Muller, Edmund Ashley, Lonsdale Street, and N Heales, Lonsdale Street. The Certificate to Naturalize was issued to Michael Zwar in Melbourne on the first day of October 1852.
Michael had received several letters from home. He owned land. He was working for a good boss. His future seemed assured. So now he writes his first letter home to tell them about the new Country. It was almost 2 years since he had left home.
The year Michael wrote his first letter home (1851) became the turning point in the history of Victoria. It began with a drought and ended in a gold rush.
The drought came along with searing temperatures. No one had experienced such heat before. It is still the hottest year on record (?). Thursday 6th Feb 1851 became known as 'Black Thursday' when fire devastated Victoria. The people of Melbourne tried to find shade from the temperature (over 110 degrees) and shelter from the roaring hot winds which blew sand, dust and gravel up the streets and through the buildings.
The drought continued until September.
It was a pastoral colony. The sheep numbered six million!
Michael mentioned the discovery of gold in New South Wales in his letter home. People were already leaving for the diggings from Victoria, so a 'Gold Discoveries Committee' offered a reward of ₤200 for the discovery of gold in Victoria. Two claims were made immediately in June. In August gold was discovered at Buninyong (near Ballarat), only a day's journey from where Michael had written his letter.
A Wend, Johann Ponich, earned ₤250 (equal to about five years wages) by the end of the year when incredibly rich fields were in full production at Ballarat, Bendigo, Mount Alexander (Castlemaine) and Mclvor.
In the last days of December the first shipload of diggers arrived from overseas. (They were on their way to NSW, but all left the ship when it called at Melbourne). 94,644 new arrivals came in 1852 and more than doubled the population.
Victoria would never be the same. Workers simply walked off their jobs and rushed to the diggings. On 1st January 1852 only 2 out of 140 police remained on duty in Melbourne. Wages doubled in the year to try and keep people at their jobs. The pastoralists could not get shearers to shear the 6 million sheep.
Up to 50 ships were stranded in the harbour with no sailors on board to sail them. Some seekers struck it rich at the diggings. Others made quite a tidy profit carting supplies to the goldfields. Michael Zwar was one of the latter. At first he dug for the precious yellow metal. Then he turned to carting supplies to the goldfields.
We do not know when he began, but in 1853 Michael was carting flour to the Beechworth fields at ₤40 per ton. Carriers were demanding up to ₤150 per ton to take supplies to some of the fields. Prices skyrocketed for all goods. For those who came from Europe by ship, it now cost more to get their goods from the harbour to Melbourne than it had cost to bring them from Europe. Parts of Melbourne grew into tent camps holding thousands; and if you did not have a tent you could bed down in a horse stall with 2 others at 5/– a night (each!).
There were no 'roads' to the diggings. The drays and wagons, usually overloaded, had to make their way through scrub, forest, swamps and creeks along rough bush tracks. In wet weather there was often no way through at all. Drays would disappear completely in deep bog holes. Wagon teams became bogged for weeks at a time. During 1853 it was costing one Ballarat Publican ₤1,500 each month to get his supplies through from Geelong.
The Wendish Newspaper carried reports in Saxony!
In the three years since 1851 the population of Victoria increased fourfold and a number of the newcomers were from the Continent. There were many people now who could not speak English, but this was not a great handicap when digging for gold.
By the time Michael's first letter home reached its destination, his brother Johann was on his way to Australia. Johann Zwar's ship called in at Adelaide on Christmas Eve 1851, on its way to Melbourne where he was to join Michael.
There were 98 Wends on the ship (out of 128), and when the South Australian Wends heard of their arrival they went to Port Adelaide to greet them. They needed help with their harvest, so they convinced the Wends to unload in Adelaide and help them, ''And then you can go on to Victoria later if you are not satisfied with South Australia''.
Some of the Wends did go overland to Portland several years later and finally settled near Penshurst, but Johann stayed in South Australia.
Johann and Michael did visit each other in later years, but apart from Johann's visit in 1863 records or details of their visits are scarce.
On 16th October Michael sold the half acre of land at Brunswick to John Myers for ₤40. He repaid 18 pounds still outstanding on the loan of ₤20 he had taken from James McEroy to buy the land, and made a profit of ₤20. The Brunswick clay was particularly suited for brickmaking and a number of brickworks opened there. Michael had intended starting a brickworks of his own but worked instead for Hoffmann's. (Hoffmann's became the largest of them all and made bricks there for over 120 years). We do not know exactly when Michael began working for Hoffmann's, but it is said that he carted bricks for the building of the Sarah Sands Hotel. This was opened in 1854.
Of more importance to Michael at this time was a young 17 year old Wend lass called Agnes Zimmer. Agnes had come out on the same ship as Michael with her brother. Her brother Michael had worked as a shepherd at the Red Bluff for 9 months, followed by a variety of jobs. He also carted supplies to the Bendigo (and later) Beechworth goldfields.
Just when Michael Zwar and Agnes Zimmer were thinking about getting married, Melbourne suddenly had a Lutheran Pastor. Michael had been attending services with other Lutherans (Wends & mainly Germans) in the chapel of Mr. Morrison in Collins Street in Melbourne. (Mr. Morrison was an Independent Minister).
The Lutheran services were led by laymen and held on Sunday afternoons. The Lutherans had been trying unsuccessfully for several years to get a Lutheran Pastor to Melbourne. The only Wend-speaking Lutheran pastor in Australia (and the only one who ever came to Australia) was Pastor Kappler who had landed in Adelaide in 1848. In 1852 he visited Melbourne, but many of the Lutherans had left Melbourne and joined the gold rushes and there were not enough left to support him, so he returned to Adelaide.
The first permanent Lutheran pastor in Melbourne was an unusual man who became their pastor in unusual circumstances. Matthias Goethe was born in Germany, began studies for the Roman Catholic priesthood, became a Protestant and went to England where he married an English girl. He was brought out to Sydney by Dr. Lang and taught at Lang's 'Australian College' in Sydney. The college included a curriculum which Presbyterian students for the ministry had to pass through. In Sydney Goethe was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry, but also preached for a small German Protestant congregation which met in the same hall where Goethe taught mathematics and modern languages. When the College was failing, Dr. Lang advised Goethe to go to the Germans in Melbourne as he knew they were desperately looking for a minister.
In an unusual service on Good Friday in 1853 Matthias Goethe was installed as the Lutheran Pastor in Melbourne by Rev. James Clow, assisted by seven other non-Lutheran clergymen.
Eighteen days later Pastor Goethe married Michael Zwar and Agnes Zimmer.
minister of the Evang. Lutheran Church.
Michael was living at 'Pendrige' (later 'Pentridge'). The area was later named Coburg and adjoins Brunswick. Michael and Agnes lived in this area for about two years. Michael earnt money carting flour to the Beechworth goldfields, possibly with his brother-in-law Michael Zimmer.
On February 2nd 1854 their first child, Gustavus Adolphus was born [at Brunswick ?].
On 12th July the first lands were proclaimed for sale in the Countie of Dalhousie, a district Michael had passed through when carting supplies to the goldfields. On 29th August 1854 Michael bought 88.2.0 acres of land, Countie of Dalhousie, Parish of Broadford.
"Yielding and paying yearly unto us, Our Heirs and Successors, the Quit Rent of one Peppercorn forever, if demanded".
It was signed by Chas Hotham, the Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria. The purchase was recorded in the Register of Lands on 16th January 1855. Michael had apparently started clearing the land and/or building a slab hut in l854, leaving Agnes and their son in Brunswick.
In November 1854 Michael's older brother Peter and his bride landed at Port Adelaide and went to live with Johann and his wife in the Barossa Valley in South Australia.
On 6th April 1855 the first daughter was born to Michael and Agnes. They named her Anna Maria Magdalena. (Michael's 2 oldest sisters had been named Maria and Magdalena, but both died as infants. His two younger sisters had then been named Maria and Magdalena. Maria lived on, but Magdalena only lived two years.).
Anna Maria Magdalena Zwar was born at Epping and she came with her brother and mother to Broadford when she was a few weeks old. Presumably they moved into 'the hut' which Michael had been building out of slab timber, in May or June 1855.
Every second year for ten years another child would arrive!
The Zwar's lived about a mile west of Broadford on what became known as 'Zwars Hill'.
Broadford was on the main road to Sydney from Melbourne. There were still Aboriginal tribes in the area who used to wander from station to station. There were grey kangaroos, possums, and numerous koalas in the forest-land which Michael had bought, and platypuses in the creek. Also bandicoots, native cats and tiger cats [?]..
There were a number of small goldfields near Broadford.
Michael developed a mixed farm fairly typical of farms at the time – dairy, pigs, fowls, sheep, horses etc – with the unusual addition of a home made brick kiln. Timber was sold as the land was cleared, and the timber not suitable for sale was used to fire the brick kiln.
In 1863 Michael went to Melbourne to help his brother Johann get married a second time. Johann's first wife had died in 1859. Johann then went to Melbourne in 1863 to marry Anna Kaiser, who was also from the same village of Drehsa in Saxony. She had been a guest at his first marriage. Her brother was Michael's mate who looked after him on the boat trip out when he was terribly seasick.
On 13th July 1869 Michael was in Melbourne again for another wedding. This time it was his brother Johann's eldest daughter Maria (from the first marriage). Maria's father and step-mother did not attend the wedding, and Michael signed the certificate as her guardian, giving her permission to marry August Petschel, also a Wend, who had emigrated in 1848. August and Maria Petschel lived at Hamilton for a few years before moving to the Dimboola District.
As the Zwar children had continued to arrive on the farm at Broadford the slab hut began to get crowded. The arrival of Charles, 11.6.1868, and Mary Ann 24.9.70 brought the number of children to nine.
Michael had a new home built with bricks made in the brick kiln on the property. The new house was completed in 1871 (?) and was named 'Glendale'. In later years it became known as 'The Ranch'. Henry Peter was the first child to be born in Glendale, 2.12.1873.
There was no Lutheran church in the area, so some of the children were baptized and grew up in the Church of England and some were baptized in the distant Lutheran Church at Thomastown, later to become a Melbourne suburb. At home they all became staunch members of the Church of England.
In 1869 the Broadford District Road Board was proclaimed and 7 local men were elected. Michael Zwar served for 2 years from 1872. It was a responsible position. The members of the Board were personally liable to the Bank for any overdrafts the Board arranged!
The Board became the Shire Council when Broadford was proclaimed a Shire in l874. Michael served a on the Council. He was quite a shrewd man and known as a bit of a 'bush lawyer'.
It is amazing to find Michaell topping the poll one year in the voting in the English community. English was his third language, after Wendish and German.
"North of and adjoining MacKenzie's farm is another belonging to Mr. Michael Zwar, who has occupied it for 22 years. It contains 360 acres, a great portion of the land being very good, and cultivation is carried on upon a more extensive scale than in the case of most farms in the district.
About 90 acres are usually under crop every season with wheat, oats, peas, and potatoes, and though the land has been in cultivation for a great number of years, yet, by careful management, good returns are generally obtained. The crop of last season was 40 acres, which yielded an average of 23 bushels to the acre, the straw being slightly touched with the rust, but no damage was done by it.
Oats turned out a very good crop, and 17 acres of peas gave a return of 37 bushels per acre. Potatoes generally remarkably well on this farm, but the last crop was only a poor one, owing to the dryness of the season.
Mr. Zwar has made it a practice for a number of years to have a regular rotation of crops, and he considers that, to a great extent, this accounts for his success in farming. His system of cropping is as follows: – Wheat, oats next, then two crops of peas, after which wheat is sown again, and then the land is laid down with English grasses for four or five years before it is broken up again. The remainder of the land is under grass, and in addition to this farm Mr. Zwar also owns another in the neighbourhood, containing 400 acres, the whole of which is used for grazing purposes.
There are about 120 head of cattle, and dairying is carried on upon a rather large scale, from 20 to 30 cows being in milk throughout the year, whose produce is all turned into butter. Among the home stock there is a fine heavy draught mare by Clyde, a sire imported by Mr. J. C. Cochrane, and another by Blackleg.
Oldest Daughter Marries and Youngest Child is Born!
In 1874 their oldest daughter Anna married George Bidstrup and the following year Michael and Agnes became grandparents for the first time. But Michael and Agnes had not quite completed their own family. Three years later their 11th and last child, Ada Wihelmina was born, 9.11.77. She was the fifth daughter.
The following year, 1878, Michael fulfilled his ambition to return to his homeland alone for a visit.
In Saxony his younger sister Maria was still alive, and his younger brother Karl was married, with two children and was a butcher at Grosspostwitz, quite close to Drehsa.
Michael's older brother Andreas had died in 1869 leaving 2 children, Ernst and Maria. Their mother had also died, so their uncle Karl had taken them into his family. Michael tried to get Ernst and Maria to return to Australia with him.
Ernst came out to South Australia in 1880 and lived with his uncle Johann in the Barossa Valley before marrying and settling down in the Burra District in South Australia.
Maria did not come. She married Bernhard Hartmann and had 6 children. In the infamous German inflation of the early 1920's her family suffered terribly, and Maria wrote to Australia (to uncle Johann) bitterly regretting that she had not come out to Australia with her uncle Michael.
It is said that Michael had to leave Germany hurriedly because he spoke too loudly about his preference for British government to German. I wonder if it might have had something to do with leaving Saxony without a permit before he did his military service. This was a criminal offence. I understand that people who did this lost their Saxon citizenship.
The 1880's saw the exodus of nearly all the children from home. (In some letters Mary Ann wrote at this time she called the home ''Vineyard Hill'').
Emily married Thomas Marchbank in 1882.
William married Lucy Smedley in 1884 and soon moved to Melbourne.
John married Alice Coombs in 1886.
followed by Henry in 1890.
Suddenly their beautiful 19 year old daughter Maryanne, whom they affectionately called 'Polly', died from an appendicitis attack during a heatwave the day after Christmas 1889. The family was devastated.
Boxing Day (Thursday last) was about the hottest day of the year just expired, although at Kilmore the heat as usual was not so severe as at Melbourne and other places. Friday set in cool with a southerly wind, and on Saturday afternoon it blew almost a gale from the south, making the dust somewhat unpleasant for a time. The weather since has been mild and pleasant – genial sun and cool winds.
During the holidays Mr Michael Zwar's family at Broadford suffered a sad bereavement, the fourth daughter of the gentleman named, Miss Mary Anne, being called to her long home on the 26th ult. Deceased young lady was only 19 years of age, and was a general favourite with all who knew her.
This left the youngest child Ada, now 12 years old, at home with Charles who had married but worked the home farm and lived there with his wife Eliza and his parents.
On June 6th 1891 Agnes Zwar died. She was not quite 56 years old. She had been a great mother to her children. Agnes had been the strong influence in moulding the characters of the children who were all to grow into people of integrity, and several became members of parliament.
Sadly her husband had not always been a great help. He had developed a tendency to go on a spree when he went into town. Sometimes he did not return home for days. The grapes he grew on the farm tended to lead to the wrong influence too. When the children were still at home he arrived home one night cursing the grapes, and advised his sons they'd be better off if the vines were ripped out. His oldest son saw the opportunity and yoked up a draft horse the same night and pulled the vines out with a strong chain. He also holed the wine casks.
It is a fine tribute to his mother, as Henry left home when he was about 14 years old.
"The King of Terrors has again visited our quiet township and after a long and painful struggle has at length claimed another victory in the person of Mrs Zwar. For at least seven months the deceased lady has been battling with a fell disease, whose very name is a terror and though medical science has been ransacked, and all that skill and love could suggest have been done to stay its ravage, the insidious malady but strengthened its Python grip, till after three weary months of agonising confinement to her room the struggle has been given up.
The end came not unexpectedly. Dr. O'Hara, the famous Melbourne Physician, had visited Mrs Zwar a fortnight ago and pronounced the case utterly hopeless, and so prepared the family for the parting day, and on Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock, with all her family around her with but one exception, the sufferer passed peacefully and painlessly away.
The mortuary arrangements were committed to Mr. Bossence of Kilmore, and the funeral fixed for Wednesday. Long before the time appointed, a large number of carriages, and horsemen assembled at Glen Dale and exactly at a quarter to three, the black, lace-trimmed coffin, was borne from the house, a long procession slowly following, bareheaded to the hearse, which had reached a distance fully a quarter of a mile from the house ere the last member of the numerous cavalcade has started on the way. High Street being at length gained, the remains were carried into the Episcopalian Church, where the expressive service of the English Church was impressively read by the Rev. A. Toomath of Kilmore, who was afterward assisted by the Rev. E. G. Higgin.
At the close of the first part of the service and prior to leaving for the cemetery, where the concluding part was read, the congregation filling the edifice, tried to give expression to their pent up feeling in the hymn which commences with the words "A few more years shall roll" – a hymn deriving peculiar power from the fact that it had been the favourite one of the deceased, who had frequently asked to have it sung and played to her between her paroxysms of anguish.
Probably a hundred people gathered round the grave, and the scene was an affecting one. Among those assembled we noticed the whole of the family of the deceased, also Dr Skinner, the late lady's medical attendant, and who, throughout the illness, has shown the most unremitting concern and attention. Many present had come long distances to pay a mark of respect to one who had for 40 years been their neighbor.
Michael lived for another nine years. Some of the time he lived alone in a little old brick home on the 'Sheoaks' property. His grandson Ernie Bidstrup could dimly remember calling there as a lad and remembers that his grandfather had peanuts growing near the house.
In his last years Michael lived in a large room which his boys had built – separate from the house – on his son John's farm near Broadford.
In 1900, two days after Christmas, John sent his son Arnold into town to get the doctor for Michael, but by the time the doctor arrived it was too late.
Michael died at the age of 71 years, almost 51 years after arriving in Australia.
"Another of our pioneers has gone the way of all flesh. Mr. Michael Zwar who, with the exception of the past few years, has played a very important part in the affairs of the district, passed away yesterday morning at the residence of his son, Cr. J. Zwar, at the ripe old age of 72 years. Deceased has been ailing for some time, but latterly has been more particularly under medical care, the diagnosis being that the heart was in a very weak state as well as other complications being present, and near relations were advised to be prepared for the worst at any time. Some time prior to his demise Mr. Zwar appeared more hearty than usual, even partaking of light food with apparent relish, and those attending on him were hopeful that this was a sign of approaching recovery, but as indicated by the doctor the end came suddenly through heart failure.
Not only was the late Mr. Zwar a pioneer in this district but was one of those venturesome men of the early days who came to Australia's shores to make a home in this wide free land. Soon after arrival in 1849—51 years ago—the great gold rushes broke out in various parts of the colony, and our late citizen in company with others braved the privations and uncertainty of a gold field life in order to mine for the wealth deposited so richly throughout this colony. His labours met with varying success and in 1856 Mr. Zwar came and settled in Broadford selecting land which he has ever since held, its splendid purity (?) being an evidence of his judgment in selection.
For about 12 or 15 years Mr. Zwar held a seat first on the Road Board then in the Shire Council, and took an active interest in many of the public works carried out by the government and through government grants.
The late Mr. Zwar leaves a large grown up family of ten children, most of whom are married. The late Mr. Zwar was a native of Germany and was an exceptionally well read man, with considerable theoretical and practical knowledge on many subjects, his geological bent being exceptionally marked. We are sure that the large and highly respected family who are left to mourn their loss have the deep sympathy of the whole of the district folk.


"COM1: BASE 3f8, IRQ 4"
You sure you chose the right COM port in the application? I get at least a failed attempt in the log here. The default in the application seemed to be COM2.
Ok, sorry for the gap, I found an error I made in the config file. So now that its fixed I get a better result from the log file. Of course it still doesn't work.
23658.199 write 0x80 to LCR.
23658.199 write 0xc to THR.
23658.200 write 0x0 to IER.
23658.201 write 0x7 to LCR.
23658.201 write 0x0 to IER.
23658.202 read 0x1 from ISR.
23658.203 read 0x60 from LSR.
23658.203 read 0x0 from MSR.
23658.241 write 0x3 to MCR.
23659.000 read 0x0 from LSR.
23659.000 read 0x30 from MSR.
23672.931 write 0x3 to MCR.
23672.932 read 0x11 from LSR.
23672.932 read 0x30 from MSR.
23727.841 write 0x3 to MCR.
23727.841 read 0x1 from LSR.
23727.841 read 0x30 from MSR.
23782.790 write 0x3 to MCR.
23782.790 read 0x1 from LSR.
23782.790 read 0x30 from MSR.
23837.699 write 0x3 to MCR.
23837.699 read 0x1 from LSR.
23837.699 read 0x30 from MSR.
23892.641 write 0x3 to MCR.
23892.641 read 0x1 from LSR.
23892.641 read 0x30 from MSR.
23947.549 write 0x3 to MCR.
23947.549 read 0x1 from LSR.
23947.549 read 0x30 from MSR.
24002.489 write 0x3 to MCR.
24002.489 write 0x1 to MCR.
24002.490 read 0x60 from LSR.
24002.519 write 0x3 to MCR.
25003.000 write 0x1 to MCR.
25003.000 read 0x60 from LSR.
Your device doesn't respond so good to the communication attempt... can't tell why.
Hmmm, ok well now I know that its on my side.
Ok I tried one last time, this time I get the repeating overrun error.
Almost looks like the baud rate is wrong.
like the radio is transmitting too fast?
I have a program written in Turbo pascal that I am trying to get working. The program interfaces via serial port to a programming coil that uses magnetic communication to interface with a device that is a hermetically sealed housing. Anyway... I'm told that the app will not work above 33mhz so I am attempting to use DosBox to solve this problem. I feel as if I am also having serial port issues. I have been reading up on this for about 5 hours now, and have tried about everything that has been listed. Attached is my log from the serial debug version of HAL's build. I would appriciate any help you all can give me on this.
Bugfix attached (may it help or not).
Patch for serial to use multiprop stuff. I hope this is what it was supposed to be . No user-recognizable changes.
A friend of mine has this way old gas flow sensor, which is fed by the RS-232 signals themselves. I tried to run the corresponding program (DOS, of course), in DOSemu without much success.
Someone on the DOSemu list prompted me to use DOSbox. The results were better, but not convincing yet. I started to suspect drive current problems (those modern CMOS drivers might not be able to feed the sensors), so I put an amplifier on the lines that matter (TXD and DTR in this case). No difference.
DOSemu basically doesn't communicate at all, DOSbox gets the data in just a couple of seconds, needing several retries to get it right. Original DOS (or FreeDOS) do the same communication instantaneously - no retry at all! The program won't work at all under Windows XP's DOS (surprise).
To start/feed the sensor, the program sends first a series of 0x0F's, then starts the protocol. Still, there is some (probably timing) issue that makes things fail.
Can anyone suggest some steps to debug this?
It will add the logs in the subdirectory 'capture'.
I'm interested in finding the exact issue, even if it can't be fixed. However I don't have the hadware and thus can't do it myself.
On my homepage the 'megabuild' has serial debugging and UART FIFO implementation. It can create logs from serial activity.
Great! I've downloaded the megabuild (and to be sure the other version with seriallog included), I'll publish the results later - an extra complication is that the machine to test it on is at 30 km from here.
Does it contain the VESA 1600x1200/256 also?
> Does it contain the VESA 1600x1200/256 also?
No, not yet. Can take a few more days.
I've finally finished the Linux-specific part in the serial FIFO patch.
In the download the patch file, a Windows binary and a Ubuntu32 Linux binary are included. (I do not know how useful the latter on another system is). The builds only include the serial15 patch.
Compatibility and regression testing welcome since a part of the non-FIFO mode was changed too in the process of adding the FIFO part.
I hope I will not upset the network gods (and goddesses) asking this question here with my non-existent network skills.
I am a user of CAPing software at work. This, conversationally, makes G-code programs for machine tools to run. The CAP software, of course, is an older dos package, is a gazillion dollars to update, and won't run under XP. And of course, they need to run all computers on XP now.
Our IS department got it running with Dosbox and the megabuild. Needed the megabuild to have the software access a dongle. It runs surprisingly well. with one fatal problem.
They are running the software from our network, and say they must. It loads up quickly, runs OK, but seems to have some problems with some access.
When you are paging through screens of program filenames, there is a distinct lag when paging down. The really big problem though, is that when you start a new program there is a lockup of a minute or so. When it is starting a new file it takes forever. If you start that new file in a directory with just a few filenames (ridiculously few) it does OK.
I've been trying to separate our thousands of files into sub, and sub-sub-sub directories, but it is just too cumbersome. If there is any way you all could help me help our network guys get this going, I would greatly appreciate it. They are about to give up and the next step is third-party software which. I feel, would be inferior.
An user here has run into a similar issue, with trillions of CAD-drawings stored on a file server. He is trying to isolate the piece of code that makes accessing networked drives slow.


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WATCH: Reporter Blames Trump For Shootings. Sarah Sanders Spanks Him With Crime Reports...
Nichole Cooper
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has given some knock-out press briefings in the past year (see WATCH: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Spanks Wailing Democrats for Delaying DACA and Sarah Huckabee Sanders Says Jim Jong Un is Mentally Ill, Needs a Firm Hand). The lady knows her way around a press room. Here's another moment that won't disappoint.
Watch as Sarah chews out a reporter after his pinheaded inquiries on the Kentucky shooting.
REPORTER: What has the president done since October to prevent any of the shootings from taking place?"
SARAH SANDERS: The president believes that all Americans deserve to be safe in their schools and in their communities.
She went on to highlight what the government has done to fight violent crime.
SARAH SANDERS: They've charged more defendants with violent crime offenses than in any year in decades , they've charged the most federal firearm prosecutions in a decade, and they've convicted 1200 gang members and took down numerous drug trafficking organizations, all in an attempt to help create safer and better communities, and certainly safer schools.
Pause. Let's do a fact check:
ICE Set Out to Destroy MS-13. And The Results Are Glorious…
Surprise! Violent Crime FALLS After Phoenix Ditches Sanctuary City Status…
MS-13 Gang Members Busted for Gruesome Murders. Guess How Many are Legal Citizens…
Funny how the sheriff stars align with violent illegal immigrants, no? The government has been doing work to cut down on violent crime. The left just ignores it because it doesn't fit their narrative. Unpause.
REPORTER: Do you think they're because of the crime wave? Shootings seem to be in their own category. We agree we don't want crime.
SARAH SANDERS: I think they're part of a crime wave, definitely, I don't think you can completely separate the two. They are a part of domestic violence. And I think they would certainly be part of a crime wave that we are focused on addressing.
Domestic violence. Neglect. Bullying. Abuse. All of these elements are violent, pervasive crimes which affect school shootings.
REPORTER: What is the president specifically doing to prevent shootings? Will the president come forward before the nation and tell people how he feels and use the bully pulpit?
SARAH SANDERS: The fact that you're basically accusing the president of being complicit in a school shooting is outrageous.
The president has been very clear in instructing the top law enforcement agency in this country to crack down on crime and to do everything they can to prevent these types of things.
She also mentioned ATF is reviewing firearm policies, which could be a good thing or a bad thing. But one thing is for sure: nettlesome reporters who are bent on politicizing tragedy will have a copy of crime reports shoved up their dark places.
The Trump admin has been cleaning out the American crime house, sweeping up violent crime, drugs, and gang-related badness. While cleaning those heroine needles in the corner. It also a happy addition illegal amigos are being deported for their naughty behavior.
Especially with these baddies hanging about:
Illegal Murders 15-Year-Old Stepdaughter Pregnant With HIS Child. But It Gets Worse…
REPORT: Over 100 Murders Committed by Illegals. None of Them Deported…
Watch: Illegal Accused of Killing Cops: "I wish I had killed more…"
So yes, the Trump administration is doing a lot to crack down on violent crime, no thanks to leftists and their sanctuary houses of straw.
Gun control "prevents" mass shootings about as much as illegal immigrants "benefit" America. See why:

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Helen Mirren & Ian McKellen in Con Romance 'The Good Liar' Trailer
"Seems like you've had quite a past…" Warner Bros has unveiled the first official trailer for a movie titled The Good Liar, the latest directed by Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, The Fifth Estate, Mr. Holmes, Beauty and the Beast most recently). Oscar winner Helen Mirren and two-time Oscar nominee Ian McKellen star in their first movie together. Described as "a story about the secrets we keep and the lies we live", The Good Liar is about a career con artist Roy Courtnay who starts to fall for the "well-to-do widow Betty McLeish" after meeting her online. It seems like there's plenty of twists and turns in this, and mysterious secrets. The full cast includes Russell Tovey, Mark Lewis Jones, Jim Carter, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, and Celine Buckens. This looks darn good, I like McKellen's mustache and the mysteriousness. Curious?
Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Bill Condon's The Good Liar, direct from WB's YouTube:
Career con artist Roy Courtnay can hardly believe his luck when he meets well-to-do widow Betty McLeish online. As Betty opens her home and life to him, Roy is surprised to find himself caring about her, turning what should be a cut-and-dry swindle into the most treacherous tightrope walk of his life. The Good Liar is directed by filmmaker Bill Condon, of Kinsey, Dreamgirls, Breaking Dawn - Part 1 & 2, The Fifth Estate, Mr. Holmes, and Disney's Beauty and the Beast previously. The screenplay is written by Jeffrey Hatcher, adapted from Nicholas Searle's novel of the same name. Warner Bros will release Condon's The Good Liar in theaters everywhere starting November 15th, 2019 later this fall. First impression? How does that look?


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H2O: Just Add Water is an Australian live-action series for preteen-to-teenage girls that has been shown in North America on Nickelodeon and currently shows on Teen Nick as H2O. The story focuses on three friends who gain magical powers over water and after a trip to the mysterious Mako Island, turn into mermaids following "The Splash Method" (when they are wet they turn into mermaids, and when they are dry they aren't) after swimming in a magical pool during a full moon.
The three girls are:
Emma Gilbert (Claire Holt), the "leader" of the group, who is a rather serious an responsible girl. She is a bit of a Control Freak and has powers to freeze water and manipulate ice, snow, and clouds. Her actress is noticeably missing from the third series; she left to film a straight-to-video prequel to The Messengers.
Cleo Sertori (Phoebe Tonkin) is the brunette of the group and a bit awkward but eventually becomes more outgoing. Her powers are manipulating the shape of water and she later gains the Razor Wind power too.
Rikki Chadwick (Cariba Heine) is the "Wild Child" of the group, who in appearance and attitude is similar to Sam from ICarly (although Rikki notably pre-dated her). She is the new girl in town but not a Naive Newcomer, because she is rebellious and confident. Her powers initially involve manipulating heat in water (i.e. boiling it), but eventually extend to control over fire and lightning.
The series mostly is about the girl's powers and dealing with them in real life. There were initially going to be only two seasons, but due to popular demand a third season was added, with several of the characters missing.
Tropes related to the series
Adults Are Useless: And clueless and easily distracted, and readily accept some really bizarre excuses with no question.
Averted with characters like Miss Chatham and Max who have experienced the mermaid problems and offer helpful advice to the girls.
All Your Powers Combined: Apparently the powers will be divided by those in the moon pool when it's active during the full moon. When Charlotte became a mermaid, she gained all three of the powers because she was the only one in the pool.
That doesn't really explain Bella, however, who only has one power even though she was alone in her moon pool.
Alpha Bitch: Miriam is not a nice person.
Annoying Younger Sibling: Cleo's younger sister Kim is a rather extreme case. Elliott, Emma's brother, is an aversion as he is usually nice, friendly and 'squeaky clean' (Rikki's words).
Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other: A sisterly version between Cleo and Kim occasionally shows up throughout the series.
The Beautiful Elite: This show is a pretty bad offender of this.
Lampshaded in Season 3 when Rikki tells new girl Bella that she only likes Will because "he's the only guy in a five-mile radius not to swoon over her".
Back for the Finale: Lewis.
Bait the Dog: Charlotte spends most of series 2 trying to be nice to people, it's the main characters that are doing nasty things to her. This changes in the last four episodes.
Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: With Cleo as Beauty, although she started off as somewhat Hollywood Homely.
When Emma leaves in season 3, Cleo eventually went into Brains territory while Bella took over the Beauty spot.
Black Best Friend: Tiffany, Miriam's friend in Season 1.
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Well, blonde, brunette and strawberry blonde. But which one of the blondes is the smart one?
In "Red Herring", Emma dyes her hair bright red (a Shout-Out to The Little Mermaid).
When Charlotte becomes a mermaid (but then it would be Blonde Blonde Brunette Redhead or Blonde Brunette Redhead (strawberry blond) Redhead
Body Horror: When Emma in a Season 2 episode is poisoned after cutting her finger on a piece of coral, she starts mutating into a white scaled monster.
Bratty Half-Pint: Kim, Cleo's sister.
Brother Chuck: Some of the Season 1 characters are no where to be found in Season 2, such as Miriam and Byron. Also Ash in Season 3.
Brought Down to Normal: In the Season 1 finale the girls lose their powers for twelve hours after entering the moon pool during an eclipse. And in the Season 2 finale Charlotte tries to get the girls into the moon pool during the fifty year moon in order to make them permanently lose their powers, thinking that she would be the only special girl for Lewis if she did. The other girls manage to overpower her and drop her into the moon pool, causing her to lose her powers forever.
Calling the Old Man Out: Zane does this to his father, after helping the mermaids escape from Dr. Denman in the Season 1 finale.
Cloudcuckoolander: Louise Chatham appears to be one of these.
Looking at a full moon (or even at just a reflection of one) has the effect of turning the mermaids into this. It wears off at sunrise the next morning, but until then, you can expect some crazy things to happen.
Clingy Jealous Girl: Season 2 character Charlotte. Sophie from Season 3 is rather clingy towards her own brother.
Color Coded for Your Convenience: Not obvious at first but in Season 1 the girls are often coded by the color of their clothing: Rikki (the brawny one, heating power) wears red, Emma (the restrained one, ice power) light blue and Cleo (who gets often caught in the middle) wears purple/pink.
Control Freak: Emma, and later Charlotte.
Dawson Casting: averted in the first two seasons as the three leading actresses were still in high school, but the gap between Seasons 2 and 3 left them playing high school seniors while they were 20/21 in the final season.
Did Not Do the Research: The Lunar Eclipse in one episode was far too speedy. Same issue: the comet in Season 3.
Do-It-Yourself Theme Tune: Even though the 3rd season reused the OP from the 1st two seasons, this version is sang by Bella's actress, Indiana Evans.
Evil Redhead: Charlotte, sort of. And Sophie in Season 3.
Fan Service: Season 1 not so much since they were all about 15 but being able to turn into mermaids doesn't stop the girls from walking around in bikinis a lot of the time. And the character of Will who spent the majority of his first episode of the series shirtless.
Fan Service Pack: All three girls, as well as Louis in season 2. All the actors were much older so it was okay to have them used for Fan Service.
Floating Water: Cleo's power lets her do this.
In Season 3, the water from the wall of the cave the moon pool is in combined with the water in the moon pool creates an anti-gravity ball of water.
Getting Crap Past the Radar: See Kick the Dog below for the specifics but one episode has Cleo left depressed and she swims out into the middle of a known shark breeding ground. Yep, probably the first kids' programme to show a character nearly committing suicide.
Heel Face Turn: Charlotte in Season 2. Sophie in Season 3.
Hollywood Nerd: Cleo's boyfriend Lewis.
Hollywood Tone Deaf: Cleo, as demonstrated in "The Siren Effect". The same episode has Rikki doing some truly awful karaoke as well though she's clearly doing it badly on purpose.
Hot Scientist: Dr. Denman. The characters even mention she looks more like a Baywatch actress than a scientist.
In season 3, Cleo becomes one of these.
How Do I Shot Web?: Each girl spends an episode wondering what her power is. When Rikki tries to find her power the first gesture she makes is the one Spider-Man uses to shoot web.
An Ice Person: Emma's powers, reflecting her character.
This strangely parallels Sailor Mercury's powers changing with the introduction of Sailor Neptune in Sailor Moon, although with all the Shout Outs in the show this is perhaps not quite an accident.
I Just Want to Be Normal: Gracie, one of the three original mermaids felt this way. Louise Chatham also mentions that she also eventually found the burden of being a mermaid too much and gave it up. Mostly averted with the main trio, although Emma and Cleo at first had some trouble adjusting to their new situation, since Emma had to quit the swim team and Cleo hadn't yet learned how to swim and was somewhat afraid of water.
I Just Want to Be Special: When Charlotte learns that her grandmother Gracie was a mermaid, and later discovers that Cleo, Emma and Rikki are mermaids as well, she decides that she wants to become a mermaid herself. She succeeds.
Idiosyncratic Wipes: Splashes of water.
Image Song: Bella is fond of these (and the only one of he mermaids to do so), due to singing songs in Season 3.
Irony: Becoming a mermaid ended Emma's career as the champion of the school swim team.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Rikki.
Karma Houdini: The girls themselves in "Under The Weather" where it's raining outside so they fake being sick. They use their powers to fake some symptoms and they end up having the entire house quarantined in fear of a tropical disease. At the end Emma lies to say they faked being sick to get out of a biology exam. The girls don't get punished at all and the end of the episode even shows them about to go to a party. Most lenient parents ever.
Kick the Dog: Charlotte stealing Cleo's locket and making her believe that Lewis no longer cares about her.
Kissing Under the Influence: All three girls kissed their love interests in Season 1 while under the influence of the full moon.
Lonely Rich Kid: Zane.
Love Potion: In one episode, Nate get's hold of some ambergris which makes him irresistible to the mermaids.
Love Triangle: Sort of, between Cleo, Lewis and Charlotte in Season 2.
MacGuffin Location: Mako island often seems to serve this purpose.
Making a Splash: Seldom used offensively, though, except as a prank.
Manipulative Bastard: Charlotte may count as a minor version of this.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In one episode, the mermaids and Lewis make a magic potion that can supposedly allow mermaids to grant wishes. However, when it apparently doesn't work, Rikki declares it a waste of time, and she uses her powers on it one more time before leaving. This causes the potion to start growing and it spreads all over the coolroom in the Juicenet cafè and eventually starts spreading into the cafè itself. Later in the episode, she also suggests to Emma that she try to use her power to freeze the stuff, which only causes the stuff to spread even faster.
No Export for You: In the US, the last half of Season 2 and the entire third season were held up substantially. The show ended half-way through Season 2 during re-airings in 2008. When Teen Nick began re-airing the series in 2011, the remaining episodes still weren't being aired - instead cycling through the same aired episodes again and again. Finally averted on January 16, 2012, where the final thirteen episodes of Season 2 were aired in a Teen Nick marathon leading into the US premiere of Season 3. (3 Years after the UK aired the 3rd season.)
The rest of the world, including its native Australia, didn't get the 3rd season until 2010, whereas the UK got it first in 2009.
Our Mermaids Are Different
Overprotective Dad
Playing Sick: The girls had to do this in one episode because it was raining outside, however things got a bit out of hand...
Power Trio
Puppy Love: in-universe. One episode had Emma's younger brother Elliot trying to ask Cleo's younger sister Kim out. Kim just took advantage of him and kept bossing him around. He eventually got tired of her attitude and ditched her at the end of the episode.
Put on a Bus: In Season 3, Emma and her family has left town to travel around the world. Later that season Lewis leaves to go study in America.
Reed Richards Is Useless: The rare mermaid guide Lewis bought. The girls don't seem interested until Cleo thinks of a way to reunite her parents, and then it's lost while dealing with the wish-granting potion. There's no telling what other information was lost - even a way to only change in seawater, and stay human in freshwater?
Scenery Porn / Real Place Background: Sponsored by Australia's Gold Coast tourist board and Sea World. Many Americans hadn't really heard of the Gold Coast before this, but wow, is it pretty.
Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers: Charlotte entered the moon pool alone. She developed all three of the girls' powers, and turned out to be the most talented at learning them. To put it mildly, this went to her head to the point of nearly killing Nate, and then Cleo's favorite dolphin, Ronnie.
Shout-Out:
To various things, one being that Rikki does Spider-Man's Memetic Hand Gesture when she tries to figure out her water power.
The episode "Red Herring" is an allusion to the episode "Rumors" from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody in which Cody Martin wants to change his look just like Emma and they both end up dyeing their hair red and they both see it and they both end up hating it.
One of the episodes is called "Bad Moon Rising".
Slap Slap Kiss: Rikki and her on-and-off again boyfriend.
Superpower Meltdown: Happens every time there's a full moon to the three girls. Which is often, and quite painful and scary for them.
Girls and the moon cycle...
The Merch: CDs and books have become available in Australia; Kate Alexa's made herself famous by the CD. In the US, dolls of the 3 mermaids were available for a short time.
Theme Tune Cameo: In "Sink or Swim", Emma refers to herself as "Not an ordinary girl."
In the Season 3 finale, Bella performs the theme song at Rikki's Cafe.
They Would Cut You Up: Part of the girls' justification for hiding their status as mermaids.
Three Amigos: More Beauty, Brains, and Brawn.
Tomboy: Rikki.
Too Dumb to Live: The girls have been warned of the effects of the full moon. Yet it - an inanimate hunk of rock - manages to outwit them every single night it's visible (at least for the first season and a half or so; after that, they just become... more immune to it, rather than mastering the art of not looking at it).
The first moon was unavoidable. #2 was a spot they missed (it ended up reflected as Cleo went to wash her hands after using the toilet).
The third time also had the moon light reflect of various objects until it was reflected in a glass of water that Rikki was holding. In the first episode of the second season, they didn't realize that the full moon was already out because Lewis had mistakenly come to the conclusion that the moon wouldn't rise for another hour because of a computer program he was using. They usually seem to come under the influence of the full moon due to having missed a spot, or some other unexpected event.
Tsundere: Rikki.
Tranquil Fury: Rikki lapsed into this when she found out that she was tricked into working for an illegal fish selling operation.
Walk On the Wild Side Episode: Emma gets this twice. The first is a small one where she decides to dye her hair red after being called predictable and the second has her completely slacking off and throwing a Wild Teen Party in her house. She's learnt her lesson by the end of the episode of course. Rikki of all people has to calm her down.
What Did I Do Last Night?: The girls usually find themselves wondering this after having been affected by the full moon.
Who Wears Short Shorts?: All the girls though justified since it's Australia.
Wild Teen Party: Emma throws one of these to show she can be fun and it naturally gets out of hand with her mother's crystal ornament getting broken. In another episode Rikki trashes the kitchen with her powers and Emma lies saying they had a party.
You're Just Jealous: This gets thrown around a couple of times in the episode where the mermaids are infatuated with Nate.
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Battlebikes is a supplement published by Games Workshop in 1984 for the near-future post-apocalyptic combat board game Battlecars.

Gameplay
Battlebikes, the first expansion for Battlecars, was designed by Gary Chalk, Albie Fiore and Ian Livingstone, and adds combat motorcycles to the game. The components include
 cards and counters for six motorcycles
 weapon counters
 a rulebook
In addition to new rules about combat motorcycles, the rulebook includes two scenarios. In one scenario, "Raid on Taccoville", seven townspeople try to stop three bikers from robbing a bank. In the second scenario, "Smokey Joe's Cafe", four bikers take on two combat cars.

Reception
Chris Baylis reviewed Battlebikes for Imagine magazine, and stated that "I am sorry to report that this boxed set has very little to offer either as an expansion kit to Battlecars, or as a game in its own right (using the Battlecars playing boards of course)."

In the August 1984 edition of White Dwarf (Issue #56), Ian Waddelow thought that "the introduction of armoured motorcycles is a welcome addition" to Battlecars, but wondered why no new weapons had been developed. He admired the two scenarios, calling them "the nicest feature of this supplement, and I hope there'll be more printed in the future." He concluded by giving the supplement an average overall rating of 7 out of 10, saying, "If you liked Battlecars then Battlebikes is a winner, though a few new weapons would have been nice."

References

Board games introduced in 1984
Games Workshop games

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Kelly Kristen Rulon (born August 16, 1984 in Point Loma, California) is an American water polo player. She won a gold medal with the United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the water polo competition. She is also a bronze medalist from the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her position is driver.

Rulon is a two-time medalist (one gold and silver) at the World Championships.

High school and college
At University of San Diego High School, Kelly Rulon was a four-time first-team all-league, all-city and All-California Interscholastic Federation selection, as well as Most Valuable Player of her team each year she played.

As a freshman in 2003, Rulon was second on the UCLA Bruins with 27 goals, 26 assists and 27 steals, and scored once in the Bruins' 4-3 victory over Stanford University in the NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship; she finished with six post-season goals.

Returning from the Olympics in her 2005 season, Rulon led her team in scoring with 70 goals, as well as multi-goal games (22), assists (48), steals (72) and post-season goals (12). She led the Bruins to the NCAA title with a 33-0 record and was named a first-team All-American by the American Water Polo Coaches Association. When UCLA defeated Stanford University in the NCAA final, Rulon, who scored three goals in the semifinal win over Hawaii, led UCLA in scoring for the season and post-season.

As a junior, Rulon was selected the Most Valuable Player of the 2006 NCAA Tournament after leading UCLA to its second consecutive and fourth overall NCAA title. She scored 11 goals in the three games to set a new NCAA Tournament record. In the 9-8 championship victory over the University of Southern California, Rulon scored four goals and set up the game-winner by drawing an ejection foul with four seconds to play.

During her senior year, Rulon had 70 goals, totaled a team-high 52 assists and team-leading 42 steals, and recorded seven blocks and 26 earned exclusions, both totals ranking second-highest on the club. She scored in 26 matches and posted 16 multi-goal efforts. Then she registered a season-high six goals against Loyola Marymount (March 31). Another highlight was the five goals she scored twice – versus Santa Clara (Feb. 24) and UC San Diego (March 16). Rulan had six four-goal performances and had netted 19 goals in a four-game span. She and her team-mates led UCLA to the school's 100th NCAA National Championship (a new record).

In 2007, Rulon was named winner of the Peter J. Cutino Award, which is given to the college Player-of-the-Year in water polo. She joined other UCLA Bruins, Coralie Simmons (2001), Natalie Golda (2005), and Courtney Mathewson (2008), as the school's four UCLA female Peter J. Cutino Award winners, all coached by Adam Krikorian.
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International and Olympics
Rulon received MVP honors at the 1999 Junior Olympics and was five-time Junior Olympics First-Team All-American. She played in the 2002 Junior Pan American Championships, where she was the tournament's leading scorer.
In 2004, Rulon redshirted to play in the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She scored four goals in the Olympics including the game-winning goal against Hungary in the opening game. The US women won the bronze medal by defeating Australia. After the 2005 collegiate season, Rulon played for the U.S. National Team that won a silver medal in the 2005 FINA World Championships in Canada.

During 2009 FINA World Championship in Rome, which saw US women team winning the gold medal, Kelly Rulon scored last two goals of the final match against Canada. She was also awarded of the Gold Cap as tournament's best player.

Kelly currently trains with the USA Water Polo National Team and in October 2011 helped lead Team USA to the gold medal at the Pan American games.

In 2012, Rulon played in the Summer Olympics in London, England.  She assisted the US women's team win the gold medal, against Spain. The final score of the final match in London against Spain was 8-5.

Clubs
Rulon left UCLA after 2007 College season for moving into Europe. In the same year she joined the A.S.D Roma team playing in the Italian Women's Waterpolo Championship. With A.S.D. Roma she won that year the LEN Cup, as best scorer of final match in Padua.
Rulon played 2008/09 season for Nervi, being the scoring leader in the Italian Championship (81 goals)
After her coming back in Rome she scored 58 goals in the 2009/10 season.

Awards
In 2020, Rulon was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.

Personal
Kelly Rulon majored in history at UCLA. Rulon's younger sister, Katie, was also a member of the UCLA water polo team.

See also
 United States women's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
 List of Olympic champions in women's water polo
 List of Olympic medalists in water polo (women)
 List of world champions in women's water polo
 List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo

References

External links

 Kelly Rulon: UCLA Team biography
 San Diego Hall of Champions: Kelly Rulon, 2005 Amateur Star of the Year

1984 births
Living people
Sportspeople from San Diego
American female water polo players
Water polo drivers
Water polo players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in water polo
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in water polo
World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
Water polo players at the 2011 Pan American Games
Pan American Games medalists in water polo
Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
UCLA Bruins women's water polo players
Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
University of San Diego High School alumni


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Ядринський повіт (, чувас. Етĕрне уесĕ) — адміністративно-територіальна одиниця Казанської губернії, Чуваської АО та Чуваської АРСР, що існувала в 1708—1927 роках. Повітове місто — Ядрин.

Історія
Ядринський повіт сформувався у 90-х роках XVI століття навколо міста Ядріна, заснованого 1590 року. Основну масу населення повіту в XVII столітті становили ясачні чуваські селяни. За неповними даними, у 80-90-х роках XVII століття в Ядринському повіті було 1258 ясачних і 40 приватновласницьких дворів. У першій чверті XVIII століття ясачні селяни і деякі категорії служивих людей були переведені до розряду державних селян. 1723 року податне населення Ядринського повіту налічувало 9,2 тис. людей — 581 містянин і 8,6 тисячі селян. Серед селян перше місце за чисельністю посідали державні — 8 тис. осіб (чуваші); потім йшли поміщицькі — 363 людини (росіяни); церковно-монастирські — 221 особа (росіяни).

У другій половині XVIII століття церковно-монастирських селян було переведено до розряду державних. У результаті 1795 року в Ядринському повіті налічувалося 60,7 тис. осіб державних селян (59,7 тис. чувашів, 971 росіянин) і 15 тис. поміщицьких російських селян. За даними перепису 1897 року, в Ядринському повіті без міста проживало 152 тис. людей (77,2 тис. осіб складали жінки, 74,8 тис. — чоловіки), зокрема:
 чувашів — 140,3 тис.;
 росіян — 11,6 тис.;
 татар — 40 осіб;
 мордви — 23 людей;
 інших національностей — 13 осіб.
За соціальною належністю: селян — 150,8 тис., представників духовенства — 565, 551 міщанин, 60 почесних громадян, 52 особистих і стовбових дворянина, 17 купців, 1 козачка, 8 представників інших станів, а семеро не вказали стану (4 чоловіки, 3 жінки).

Основним заняттям населення повіту було землеробство. У XVIII столітті (до 1774 року) в повіті було 4 винокурних заводи (усі приватні). Також відомі шкіряні і салотопні заводи купця Засипкіна. У 1882 р були 1 ґуральня й 1 поташний завод. За даними 1901 року, в повіті розташовувалися 1 ґуральня і 1 маслоробний завод, 827 дрібних промислових закладів (зокрема 784 млини, олійниці тощо), 4 лікарні, 131 школа.

До 1708 року Ядринський повіт перебував на території, керованої Казанським наказом, а 1708 року увійшов до Казанської губернії; 1714 року був включений до Нижньогородської губернії і 1719 року приписаний до Алатирської провінції цієї ж губернії. 1779 року Ядринський повіт знову увійшов до Казанської губернії; у 1781-96 роках перебував у Казанському намісництві; у 1796 році включений до складу новоствореної Казанської губернії.

24 червня 1920 року повіт увійшов до складу новоствореної Чуваської АО.

З 21 квітня 1925 року в складі Чуваської АРСР.

1 жовтня 1927 року Ядринський повіт був скасований, а на його території утворено Ядринський район.

Примітки

Історія Чувашії
Ядринський район
Казанська губернія
Чуваська АРСР


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Today in London health care history: Workers occupy St Leonards Hospital, Hackney, 1984.
In 1979, despite opposition in the form of a day of action and a march attended by over a thousand people, St Leonard's Hospital Accident & Emergency Department was closed.
By the early 1980's the future of the whole hospital was looking bleak; by late 1983 the Health Authority was actively looking to close the hospital under pressure from a Conservative Government keen to make cuts.
At a Health Authority meeting to ratify the cuts and closures at Hackney Town hall on 26th September 1983, the Health Authority and its multi millionaire, Jockey Club chairman Louis Freedman were overwhelmed in a turbulent day of protest, (later described as a "riot") which ended with them being forced to abandon the meeting after the town hall was surrounded by thousands of angry locals opposing the closure plans. Freedman refused to use his casting vote to settle the closure issue; demonstrators demanded increasingly vocally that he use his vote to save the hospital.
As he dithered, the doors to the Council chamber were barred and padlocked, and after a 20 minute stand off he was escorted out of the building with the help of local Labour MP Brian Sedgemore.
Freeman, who lived in a central London penthouse, and had private health insurance, said in the Daily Mail "We might as well be living in a dictatorship".
The incident was labelled a riot in the Evening Standard and Daily Mirror, though no-one was reported as being injured on either side. Admittedly there was an attempt to keep the Board members in the meeting and to stop them voting in private…
The disturbance was carried on all the main news channels that night and newspapers the next day and ensured health moved nationally up the political agenda.
On the 7th June 1984 Norman Fowler, Tory Secretary of State announced his decision to close all wards and remove all beds at St Leonard's and leave just a first aid unit and a handful of community based services.
In response a small working group was established by the staff and Hackney health emergency to look into the possibility of the 180 staff working at St Leonard's organising an occupation or work-in of the hospital. A decision was made to occupy the hospital on the 3rd July 1984. The occupation was ratified by a staff meeting of eighty staff on 4th July.
But by the 5th July (NHS Day) the management had somehow managed to secure and issue writs and summons against the key stewards. As NUPE had not made the occupation official, and fearing an injunction (similar to that used against the Miners) NUPE officers removed NUPE placards and began to distance themselves from the occupation.
Despite this thousands of people in Hackney were supportive of the occupation.
On the 16th July management repossessed the hospital, sending in security staff and bailiffs (probably illegally) to end the occupation. In the next three days management systematically interviewed staff and reps and suspended key stewards. Disciplinary action was taken against Andrea Campbell, a shop steward for COHSE, and Geoffrey Craig, a NUPE shop steward. They were dismissed as a result of that disciplinary hearing, and they then appealed.
However, local trade unionists organised a 24-hour picket line outside the hospital and the drivers from the London Ambulance Station refused to move the patients out.
On top of targeting union representatives and other members of staff involved in the occupation, the management also made life uncomfortable as possible for the patients remaining in the hospital (who refused to move) by threatening legal action. Frail, elderly patients were bundled out in the early morning or late at night, driven to other hospitals, torn away from staff they knew and their possessions being sent on much later because they hadn't been told they were to be permanently moved.
After the Occupation was smashed, management employed a whole private army of security guards to 'protect' the building, costing the Health Authority almost £1,000 a day, money clearly better spent this way rather than used to maintain the crumbling local health services.
Much more on Hospitals occupations can be found in past tense's pamphlet, Occupational Hazards, available from our publications page.
1980s Hackney health hospital-occupations
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SeaWorld killer whale Tilikum may be dying
By Michael Martinez, CNN
Updated 9:27 PM EST, Tue March 8, 2016
Tilikum the killer whale may be close to dying
01:33 - Source: WESH
Tilikum was at the center of the 2013 CNN documentary "Blackfish"
"He battles chronic health issues that are taking a greater toll as he ages," SeaWorld says
The bull orca is fighting what's thought to be a yet incurable bacterial infection in his lungs
Tilikum the killer whale may be "beginning to deteriorate" as the estimated 35-year-old animal battles a yet incurable bacterial infection in his lungs, SeaWorld said Tuesday.
"Despite the best care available, like all aging animals, he battles chronic health issues that are taking a greater toll as he ages," SeaWorld said on its website.
"However, the suspected bacteria is very resistant to treatment and a cure for his illness has not been found," SeaWorld said.
The bull orca "has become increasingly lethargic" the past few weeks, according to the marine mammal park in Orlando, Florida.
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The backlash after 'Blackfish'
SeaWorld says that at 12,000 pounds, Tilikum is "the largest marine mammal living in a zoological park."
Tilikum was at the center of the 2013 CNN documentary "Blackfish," which gave a disturbing portrayal of the captivity of the killer whales in SeaWorld, which in response called the film false, misleading and "emotionally manipulative" propaganda.
Tilikum was captured off the coast of Iceland and has sired 21 calves in captivity. He has been involved in the deaths of three people, the most recent being trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010.
The documentary energized activists on both sides nationwide. Last year, the California Coastal Commission approved SeaWorld's $100 million plan to double the size of its killer whale habitat in San Diego, but the approval meant the park now cannot breed any of the 11 killer whales in captivity in California.
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SeaWorld nixes killer whale shows based on 'feedback'
Without being able to breed the animals, the SeaWorld park in San Diego announced it may scrap the expansion plan and said it will end its show of killer whales doing tricks at the end of this year. Instead, the park will create a new, more "natural" show of the animals.
In Orlando, SeaWorld teams are ensuring that Tilikum receives the best medication and treatment for his physical health, mental engagement and social activity with other whales, the park said.
"It has been our duty and passion to make sure we give him the utmost care we possibly can," Daniel Richardville, animal training supervisor, said in a statement.
Tilikum arrived at SeaWorld 23 years ago, the park said.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claimed Tilikum has been suffering "immensely by confining him to a small concrete tank for decades, causing him to succumb to mental illness that has resulted in aggression and now to some incurable illness," PETA president Ingrid E. Newkirk said in a statement Tuesday.
"It's time for SeaWorld to move the orcas to sanctuaries, where they could enjoy a more natural life," she added.


So I was going through some recipes to find something easy. It's a busy weekend and I don't have time for something elaborate. I came across this recipe from Better Homes and Gardens for Indian Masala Chili. I love Indian food and we love chili. Problem was, I need to use what I had on hand and do this in my slow cooker. When I'm busy, I prefer to throw something in my slow cooker instead of a 30 minute fast meal. It's much easier to make something hearty and filling. I'm also not messing around trying to find something to make. The stats weren't horrible on this one, but I had some stuff to use up. So most of the adjustments are for this purpose.
I used a slow cooker instead of the stovetop.
I used garam masala instead of the spice mix in the recipe.
I replaced the tomatoes with one can of pumpkin.
I added a can of low sugar diced mango for vitamin C.
I increased the servings to 5.
Added 1 red bell pepper for vitamin C.
Place all of the ingredients in a slow cooker. Cook on low for 8 hours. Serve.