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Paviken is a small ocean lagoon on the west coast of Gotland and is today connected to the sea by a small outlet. It gets it's water supply from the inland wetlands and is today a nature reserve with a rich bird and plant life. When walking on the east part of the site that slopes down to the water from the inland agricultural land you see a calm landscape with cows and sheep grazing, the still Paviken water and on the horizon the Baltic Sea. The picture was a bit different during the Vendel and Viking age.
The first archaeological investigations at the site occured during the 1960's. The site underwent phosphate mapping in 1961 by Hans Hansson. This showed two areas of interest named Paviken I and Paviken II. Test pits were made in both areas in 1961 and in Paviken I he found a rich, 30 centimeters thick, cultural layer, a large amount of boat rivets and three find materials that he could date.
These finds consisted of a silver armring, a thors hammer and a bronze pendant. After these finds he dated the site to the 10th and 11th century. In Paviken II he found animal bones, a smaller cultural layer and heavily rusted iron artefacts.Paviken II was there after neglected and focus was turned to Paviken I. Paviken II, however, was the largest site in regards to the phosphate mappings.
The results from the phosphate mapping carried out by Hans Hansson in 1961. The two areas of high phosphate values are showed by the coloured areas. Paviken I is the northern site and Paviken II is the southern site.
In the late 1960's, Per Lundström and Jan Peder Lamm began excavating Paviken I. They spent 6 years at the site, excavating around 1000 square meters and found over 10,000 single find posts. They concentrated on the main area of activity at Paviken I which they had singled out after another phosphate mapping. They also made search trenches to the south east and south west to delimit the site archaeologically.
These investigations resulted in a short book where Per Lundström presented the results from Paviken I. No official report presenting the archaeological analysis, trench or construction plans, sections drawings finds list, photographs or find descriptions and categories were made.
In 1993 archaeologists return to the site. Dan Carlsson with a team of students spent three seasons investigating areas outside of Paviken I to get a better understanding of the size, structure and function of the site and its different components. These investigations included the southern grave field belonging to Paviken I, another grave field south of Paviken II, a house remain in between Paviken I and II and harbour constructions in the outlet of Paviken.
In 2013 Gotland Archaeological Field School started the Paviken Research Project with the intention to piece out the earlier excavations at the site and build a larger, more complete, picture over the entire eastern shore of Paviken.
The investigations started at Paviken I with a purpouse of investigating and document the cultural layer that had been excavated in the 1960's. The excavation entailed only 14 students and trenches were placed in an area that in the 60's excavation indicated workshops. In 2014 we were in the search for further evidence of settlement at the site. With the intention to find evidence of year-round houses we found the opposite. An area that was also used for crafting and contained weak evidence of structural houses.
After this, we continued in 2014 by starting the journey down towards Paviken II. in the 90's, around 70 meters to the west from Dan Carlsson's investigated house remains, there was another house remain just at the Viking Age beach. This house was partly excavated in 2014. The 2015 investigations were focused towards Paviken II, a site that been neglected archaeologically for almost 50 years.
There is more information about the different excavations, results and interpretations below. Paviken is now no longer a focus for excavations but instead for research. There is a large amount of material that needs to be compiled and a full publication is to be expected in the following years.
Map over the different excavations at the eastern part of Paviken.
Paviken is situated in the north side of Västergarn parish, one of the smallest parishes on the island of Gotland. Västergarn has an interesting early medieval history and it is with the discussions around Västergarn that Paviken is mentioned in the earliest sources.
In 1924, Adolf Schuck writes about the Gotlandic coast and in his discussion of harbour activities in Västergarn he mentions Paviken. The site had in folklore traditions been Västergarns inner harbour, protected from the weather and sea. According to the parish people, finds of shipwrecks and other wooden constructions had been made in the wetland. Ten years later the famous Swedish archaeologist Birger Nerman, who was then investigating the Viking Age harbour Grobina in Latvia, theorized that the eastern part of Paviken was the original harbour of Västergarn. He based his conclusions on stray finds and visible remains from the area.
Excavations began in the late 1960's by Per Lundström and Jan Peder Lamm. During the 6 years of investigations they excavated around 1000 square meters at Paviken I and recorded over 10 000 finds. Among these finds were glass beads, amber objects, garnet pieces silver coins, jewelry and bullion, iron tools, bronze jewelry, bone and antler objects such as combs and dices together with animal bones, ceramics, stone artefacts such as net sinks and more. The excavations were carried out with 2x2 meter squares that were shoveled through the first cultural layer and the deposits water sifted. After this layer a second layer with sand was noted. This was the "floor" area and also where most of the constructions were found. The sand layer was not excavated fully and neither were the constructions. They were left intact for future investigations, covered with black tarp and the trenches filled up.
The excavations led to the first harbour and trading site on Gotland from the Viking Age to undergo large scale excavations and it has dominated the debate regarding Gotland's role in the Viking Age trade ever since. It has never been fully published though; Per Lundström wrote a short book presenting the results but without a find list or any analyses regarding the finds, no trench plans or construction descriptions. He very much intended to do so but didn't get the chance before he passed away.
Construction plan from 1968 over the Paviken I excavation.
Reconstructed and merged plans over the main excavation area at Paviken I.
Lundström and Lamm uncovered finds that pointed towards the fact that this was not only a harbour but that the people who used the site had also been engaged in trading and crafting. Weights and bullion silver were uncovered in the main area of the site which suggested to them that an exchange of commodities had taken place.
To support this hypothesis, they also relied on the evidence of crafting at the site. Glass was found as raw material, as manufacturing waste, half finished products and finished products in the form of glass beads. The same was found for amber with raw material, broken or discarded artefacts and finished products as beads and a Thors hammer. Garnet, a semi-precious stone, was also found, but only as raw material. The amber, garnet and glass were imported to Gotland and strengthen Paviken's role as a trading site.
Ingots for silver or bronze together with bronze bullion, slag and finished pieces provided the evidence for metal working as well as glass and semi-precious stone working. With this, there are also signs of bone and antler crafts, again, antler not being local to Gotland had to be imported. The main thing missing from the site is the manufacturing constructions; no big furnaces or smithys have been found at Paviken I which in general has a weak settlement pattern with no distinguished houses.
A big part of the find material discovered in the early excavations at Paviken reflect the everyday activities at the site that were not a direct result from trading or crafting. For example, animal bones for food consumption is one of the biggest find categories at the site.
An osteological analysis of the animal bones showed that the biggest category (65%) of animals used at the site was cattle. This differs from other harbour sites where either domestic swine or an even distribution between cattle, sheep/goat and domestic swine occured. It also differs from a town perspective where domestic swine is most common and from a farm perspective where sheep/goat is more dominant. Why is Paviken dominated by cattle? This question doesnt have an answer at the moment. It has been suggested that this is an evidence for the selling of cattle and further Pavikens status as a big trading site. It may also be a result of the nearby farms that would have provided Paviken with food being focused on cattle, or it is the result of bias archaeological research. With only 3% of the animal bones analysed and a lack of other similar osteological investigations at different sites on the island we clearly need more research to be able to conclude anything around the animal husbandry and it's meaning at Paviken.
Constructions such as post holes for structures and hearths are also evident at the site. There is, however, no telling if these are products of crafting, such as workshops, or living quarters. In other trading sites, such as Kaupang in Norway, crafting, trading and living occured on the same house or plot. There are no evidence of plots at Paviken, or of traditional houses. This has been the reason for Paviken's interpretation as a seasonal site and the general outlay of activity and structural postholes are distributed in a way that is more similar to a fishing hamlet.
Storage can be showed in the ceramics found at the sites, these ceramics show a slavic origin to the east and the people at Paviken sure had something to lock away since keys are quite common at Paviken I. Fishing has been one of the activities at Paviken and is shown through the net sinks and leisters. Personal belongings are a tricky find category at sites like Paviken. One can argue that jewelry, beads and tools are personal belongings. This will have to be theorized however. Beads and jewelry can be products meant for sale as well as being used as personal dress ornaments or even raw material for production or re-use. For the finds usually categorised as personal belongings, all of the above meanings are probably more likely.
Ceramic vessel reconsutruction.
Keys found at Paviken I.
In the center of the Paviken I site there is a round stone setting. This stone setting included an inhumation burial of a male seen in the picture to the right. There were also cremations in the grave. One of the cremations had been placed in an urn together with the skeletal remains. Others had been scattered in the grave without any noticable vessel containing them. The man had a grave good in the form of a ring brooch. Other finds from the grave such as iron fragments, antler objects, amber and glass cannot be determined to belong to one individual.
The custom of secondary burials in the form of cremations is not uncommon in the Vendel and Viking Age Gotland. This may indicate lineage, worship of ancestors or continuity in the usage of the grave as a marker in the landscape, or in this case in the usage of the trading site. This man may be one of the founders of the site or his grave has been used to anchor a specific group or family to the site.
At the waterfront of the Paviken I settlement there is also another burial. Dug into a depression made for dragging boats ashore lay another inhumation, buried without any structure or noticable grave goods and placed on its stomach. The grave is poorly documented and no photographs have yet been found.
Stone setting inhumation in the center of the Paviken I site.
Section drawing of the stone setting.
After a gap of over 25 years archaeologists finally returned to Paviken. Focus was shifted from excavating a single large area of the settlement site to investigating smaller parts of the area to fill in some of the missing parts of the research. This was done to drive the discussion around Paviken further and viewing the area's landscape as a whole. This may have its roots in theoretical changes in archaeology that brought on a more landscape view of particular sites, something that was missing in older research. The excavations were led by Dan Carlsson and executed with a team of students from Gotland University.
Paviken's eastern shore is littered with remains of Iron Age graves. They occur from the nort side of Paviken I to the south side of Paviken II. In 1994 and 1995 excavations were done on one of the graves in the north, several burials from the grave field on the south side of Paviken I and on the south side of Paviken II, towards the end of what consitutes the entire Paviken area.
The grave in the north had two border chains and contained the cremated remains of an adult individual. There were several finds of nails and rivets in the burnt bone layer together with a presumed ring brooch. The grave is dated to Vendel/Early Viking Age and is part of a bigger grave field that runs in an east-west direction along the north side of the river that fills Paviken with water from inland.
The second grave field that was excavated on the south side of Paviken I showed burials in stone settings with cremations and inhumations. All of the burials had burnt bone and grave goods. They are dated to the Vendel/Viking Period. In one of the graves a dog and a horse were interpreted to be part of the grave goods.
On the south side of Paviken II, towards the modern day buildings, there was another gravefield that had been noted by Birger Nerman in the 1930's. The graves here differ from other graves in the area because they are not covered by a stone packing. Instead, they are dug graves, not visable above ground. This has led the probable destruction of a lot of graves due to modern history's agricultural work. Loose finds connected to the grave field have been reported since the 19th century and the original size of the area can be determined. Carlsson theorizes that the area had originally consisted of hunderds of graves.
Double burial at the grave field on the south side of Paviken II. Note that the grave would not be visible above ground but only by a slight depression caused by the dug feature in the center of the grave.
There had been little interest outside Paviken I since Hansson discovered the site in 1961. The area had been noted as an activity area during the Iron Age but excavations had been limited to the cultural layer at Paviken I. In 1995, Dan Carlsson and his students investigated a house remain on the eastern shore of Paviken, between Paviken I and Paviken II.
Originally, the house looked as if would be older than Viking Age due to the stone wall construction of it. After excavation it was concluded, however, that the house was a Viking Age structure. Inside the house they found burnt and unburnt animal bones, iron rivets and nails, part of a scale, lead weights, glass, a sandstone mold for making crosses or Thor's hammers, two fragments of Arabic silver coins together with smaller unidentified iron artefacts.
The animal bones were dispursed in an uncommon way; the burnt bones were highly fragmented and found inside the house while the larger unburnt bones were mainly found outside. The highly fragmented burnt bone was something that we later came across in the 2013-2015 excavations and has been preliminary interpreted as part of the production at the site. They had no hearth and were not interpreted as part of a living house but rather a workshop or storage house connected to the activities at Paviken.
To the right, the excavated grave in the north side of Paviken I. To the right, one of the excavated graves from the grave field on the south side of Paviken I.
The distribution of burnt (black circle) and unburnt (lines within a circle) animal bones in the house foundation.
In the stream of water that connects Paviken directly to the Baltic Sea a set of docks were uncovered. The excavations took place in 1994 and 1995 by Dan Carlsson and a team of students. The area that was investigated was first phosphate mapped, which revealed an area of high values that today is partly covered with modern buildings. Other parts of the outlet had been investigated before and revealed similar features so the appearence of the docks was expected.
These were, however, very well preserved and could be dendrochronologically dated to the year 1008. They show the Viking Age activity that took place in and around Paviken was not only concentrated at Paviken I. The area where they were found was probably a water basin and destroyed by a spring flood. Several floods could be seen in stratigraphy as sandlayers in between the silt depositions.
The docks during excavation. The logs were well preserved and could be dated to 1008.
Trench plan over the docks.
It is clear that the harbour and manufacturing site at Paviken was crucial in the older history of Västergarn. However, the full and exact nature of the role that Paviken played in history remains unclear. Gotland Archaeological Field School carried out complimentary investigations at Paviken during a three-year field project between 2013 and 2015, followed by results analysis and interpretation in 2016. The aim of the project is to better understand the function and development of the site and how it fit into the surrounding landscape, not least the site’s connection to what later became Västergarn. It is necessary to understand the functional correlation between the different settlement areas as well as the different groups of graves on the eastern shore of Paviken, spread out over an area of approximately 400 x 1,000 metres. A further aim is to understand the earliest as well as the latest occupation at the site and thus to understand the time frame and connection to archaeological evidence in Västergarn and the Västergarn waterway. In addition to these issues of time and space, we also need to understand the role Paviken played in terms of manufacture and long distance trade. We are now starting the year for preparing publications and analysing the site.
Right, trench three in the 2013 excavation. At the top of the picture the big hearth can be seen. Above, a section of the hearth.
Garnet found during the 2013 excavation
Glass beads from the 2013 excavation at Paviken I. Photos by Alan Burchell.
The excavations started in 2013 by investigating an area adjacent to Lundström and Lamms old search trench towards the east. The trenches meant to investigate the cultural layer, the stratigraphy and the condition of Lundström and Lamms old trench with the layer B (sand layer) still intact under a cover of black tarp.
The cultural layer consisted of dark, sand mixed soil where most of the finds were located. Underneath we uncovered layer B that consisted of sand, but also of natural clay and gravel mixed sand. Lundströms field notes also fit this description and we had a clear understanding of the stratigraphy of the settlement site. We excavated 8 square meters of Lundströms old trenches to investigate the condition of layer B. The tarp was intact when we opened the trenches and in them we found the abandoned constructions underneath. We also sifted the backfill from Lundström and Lamm and found a few artefacts that they had missed, for example a small gold bar.
We uncovered a large number of artefacts and constructions that confirmed that the area was probably used for crafting. Glass and glass beads were abundant in the three trenches we excavated. The raw material consisted of opaque glass tessarea, a find that Lundström interpreted had an origin in Italy. Together with beads we also found 325 pieces of unpolished garnet and amber, both raw material, half finished and finished beads.
With this we also found scrap pieces of iron, iron artefacs such as knives, rivets, nails and a wedge. Besides the finds, we uncovered a large hearth (2x1 meter) and a clay platform which could have been used in the bead production, as well as dug features and postholes. No buildings could be seen in the features of the excavated area.
During this season we found further evidence that dragged the limit of large scale activity in Paviken I further to the east. We concluded that the area was purely for crafting and living. We found one Arabic silver coin and two smaller lead weights. This could mean that trading occured on the site but it's more likely that the weights were used in the production process. We also started mapping the sorrounding area for the next season of excavating. We noted a small hill further to the south. This was a site that had high phosphates but had not been investigated before.
In the beginning of the season in 2014, we excavated the area noted the year before. Directly under the turf we noted that the surface on the trench was filled with stones around 20-30 centimeters in diameter. This set the tone for the excavation of the surface that went slowly because the difficulty with excavating around the stones. The stone packing represented the work area for the activities that took place in the area and were probably found natural at the site and were constructed in roughly two layers. This probably meant a redustribution of the naturally occuring stones to create a working surface at the site. We set out with a hypothesis of this being the place for a more structured settlement. This turned out not to be the case and the archaeology reminded us very much of the situation the year before. The differences in the two areas were represented in the find material. Even though the layout of the constructions in this area had a smaller cultural layer, concentrations of highly fragmented burnt animal bone and was missing the amount of garnet, amber and glass that we found in 2013. It was more characterized by bronze and scrap pieces of iron. A few small fragments of silver were found but generally the find materials were scarcer than the year before.
The 2013 area was a crafting area, without any sign of permanent living quarters and weak signs of trading. The 2014 area was also identified as a crafting area but without the find material that characterized production of garnet, amber and glass beads. These find categories were found but sporadically and in less amounts. This led to the conclusion that the working surface we uncovered was probably the site for more rough craft or the early stages of production which then moved into the 2013 area.
This theory is supported by the remains of a stone wall that enclosed the 2013 area, suggesting a spatial divider from the trading area and the early stages of production to the finial stages. When revisiting Lundström and Lamms excavation and finds list that was found in the archives, a clear distinction of the spatial structuring of the site becomes clear.
Some categories of finds and constructions can be found evenly all over the Paviken I area. Animal bones, postholes, small temporary hearths and dug features for refuse or waste material. Find categories of garnet, amber, raw material for glass, silver coins, scales and weights appear all over the site but have distinct clusters in different areas.
Trench plans over the different feature or constructions at the 2014 excavation.
Map over the intrasite structure of Paviken I. The map is in Swedish but a description can be found below.
Following the phosphate mapping of the site and the distribution of different find categories a rough spatial structure of the site could be determined. The highest distribution of silver, and weights can be found at the western part of the Paviken I site (number 1 in the map). This area was the site for some of the highest phosphate readings and also where Lundström and Lamm concentrated their excavation in the 60's and 70's. Laying just at the waterfront of Paviken and the juncture to the river flowing from inland, this is probably the area where most of the trading and exchange took place. If we follow the site to the east we encounter an area enclosed by what is today just a single row of stones, probably a more distinct stone wall during the time of occupation. Inside this enclosed area (number 2 in the map) we have a find distribution of fine crafting and raw material. The grave that was excavated by Lundström and Lamm is situated in the opening towards the river Idån and the main trading area. Moving south from this, we have the last high phosphate readings and the site for excavation in 2014 (number 3 in the map). The area has some of the characteristics of the enclosed area but with a smaller cultural layer, less raw material such as garnet, beads, glass and amber, a few silver fragments and no evident signs of permanent living houses. The features such as hearths, refuse pits, postholes, the stone packing and the concentrations of highly fragmented burnt bone signifies a work area for manufacture and production in a more rough sense than the enclosed area.
This distribution of different find categories together with features, cultural layers and visible remains above ground shows a general layout of the site and its intra site functions. The spatial structure of this area shows a situation quite different from some of the larger trading sites during the Viking Age and the question is what this means in regards to the Gotlandic trading and Paviken's role in the Viking Age society. These are preliminary results from some of the analysis at Paviken I and further research are underway.
Moving on from Paviken I, the second part of the 2014 excavation was focused towards a house foundation in between Paviken I and II. The house is located around 70 meters west from the house excavated by Carlsson in the 90's and sits on a hight of 2,7 meters above the sea. This puts it right at the beach during the Viking Age and the house has its long side parallel to the water of Paviken.
The house had no distinct cultural layer but a thin horizon of gravel. Inside the house, there were two concentrations of highly fragmented burnt bone and a posthole. The post in the posthole was dated to the 8th century and makes the house contemporary with the activities at Paviken. Only a few small iron objects were found in the house. No hearth or unburnt animal bone was found that could indicate any type of living quarters.
Being situated right at the beach the house was probably used for either storing or just a temporary structure. Needless to say, the exact function of the house is still unclear due to the lack of arhcaeology inside it. It was possibly swiped clean before abandonment.
Plan over the excavation of the house foundation excavated in 2014.
The most recent excavation at Paviken was done in 2015 and investigated the before neglected site of Paviken II found at the southern part of the eastern shore of Paviken. The site had lower phosphate values than Paviken I but spread over a larger area. It is also partly cultivated. We investigated both parts that were cultivated and parts that had not been affected by agriculture.
The trenches from the cultivated parts of Paviken II revealed a 20 centimeters thick plough layer with dark soil mixed with sand. The finds consisted of smaller rusted iron fragments, fragmented burnt and some unburnt bone together with one Viking Age bead.
Underneath the plough layer the bottom parts of dug features such as possible postholes and refuse pits were found. The features contained no finds except some burnt and unburnt animal bones. This showed that activity had taken place in the area but there was no surviving cultural layer to be found.
In the parts where agricultural activities had not taken place the intact cultural layer could be found. This consisted of a gravel horizon, 10 centimeters in thickness and containing finds of whet stones, glass beads, knifes, rivets and nails, small fragments of silver and a mould for silver bars. Some temporary hearths with the, now, common highly fragmented burnt animal bone and also some refuse pits with unburnt animal bones were found.
One large hearth (1x1,5 meters) was found (feature 23) near where most of the finds were concentrated. The hearth consisted of charcoal mixed soil and was dug into the natural clay layer.
The excavation was situated at 3,5 meters above the sea and concerned a beach zone with evidence of a barrier between sand and gravel mixed cultural layer. The gravel contained most of the finds outside the features and the features found where located within the sand part of the trenches. This may indicate refuse being placed on the beach as to keep working areas clean.
Paviken II probably doesn't fill the same functions as Paviken I in regards to trading and living. The thin cultural layer and the lower phosphate values indicate a more sporadic or different kind of activity at the site. It does, however, show signs of manufacture and production with finds like the mould, silver fragments, the large hearth and highly fragmented burnt animal bones. Only a small part of Paviken II has yet been excavated and the interpretation of the site might differ with more archaeological research. With this said, the 2015 excavation took place at the only location within the site that had not been cultivated or where other natural and man made obstacles would make an excavation difficult or hard to interpret
Section plan over trench three. In the left part of the plan the break between the sand and gravel part of the activity layer can be seen. The plan slopes to the right towards the shoreline.
Feature 23, hearth, fully excavated.
Together with the excavations at Paviken II, the area between I and II was investigated with phosphate and metal detecting surveys. These surveys led to test pits being laid out in one of the fields in between the sites. These test pits showed no sign of any cultural layer but two shallow postholes where found in one of the pits together with some fragmented pieces of burnt bone.
A possible stone setting and burial was excavated at the eastern part of the Paviken area. This investigations showed that it was not a stone setting and was excluded from the interpretations of the site. The feature had some burnt bone and quartz finds and was situated next to a Bronze Age grave; it was interpreted as a Bronze Age feature but with an unclear function.
Shallow post holes from the test pits in the 2015 excavation.
The southern grave field that demarcated the Vendel and Viking Age activities at Paviken to the south had been investigated by Dan Carlsson in the 1990's. During 2015 we continued these investigations with a metal detecting survey of an area in a modern day agricultural field where the grave field was presumed to extend into.
The result from the metal detecting survey indicated a grave field from the Vendel period with dress ornaments typical for the period. With the typical Vendel Age grave material another find category was also found: Viking Age Coins and polyedric weights. This does not match the excavated graves from the grave field or the Paviken II find material. The metal detecting actually showed a higher concentration of coins and weights than in Paviken I. This indicates the possibility of another Viking Age trading site near the southern part of Paviken and at the beginning of the outlet to the Baltic Sea, as mentioned before the outlet has many traces of harbour structures. The area is today the site for modern summer houses and is therefore much disturbed.
The Bronze Age construction from the 2015 excavation.
Metal detecting survey over the southern grave field. The dispersion of finds are in line with the plough direction at the modern agricultural field.
3D scan of one of the brooches found at the metal detecting survey of the southern grave field. The brooch is made of bronze with an outer decorative layer of gold seen in the pattern. Dated to the Vendel Period.
With the above summarized excavations we can now start to build a complete picture over the Paviken area and the entire site during the Vendel and Viking periods. The evidence shows a spread out activity with concentrated areas for trading and manufacturing.
The area between Paviken I and II shows a sporadic or short term, small scale, activity connected with manufacture and production and the main area for activity still being Paviken I and the north part of the site. The two house foundations found during the 1990's excavations by Dan Carlsson and in 2014 together with the postholes from 2015 supports this thesis.
The entire site is too large to present in full here and is also not fully analysed or published. Following years will be spent at this task and the aggregated information presented here is meant as a general insight into the research history of the site. Further research into the indications of another trading cluster south of Paviken II would fill any questions around the function of the outlet part of the area, is it possible that we are dealing with yet another settlement at Paviken, a Paviken III?


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K-Sha is a character in the fourth main series game of the Neptunia series, Megadimension Neptunia VII. She is first met in the beginning of the second arc of the game and later during Noire's chapter
Yuri Feats Edit
- She fell in love with Noire ever since she met her at the park in Planeptune.
- She wanted Noire's attention and love, like when She asked Noire about her feelings after she said "I love you, too", she became happy.
- She made puppets which took the form of Noire and said that they're cute just like her.
- She complemented Noire in a long dialogue.
- She has an almost yandere obsession with Noire, and she wants to be always with her forever.
- She asked Noire to touch her hand then later confessed to her.
- She's very protective and cares passionately about her, though in a somewhat romantic way which annoys Noire occasionally. This trait goes so far that initially, K-Sha wanted to kill Uni so that she would have Noire for herself.
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BERRYVILLE - One mobile home was destroyed and a second rendered uninhabitable Monday afternoon in this northeastern Effingham County community about 8 miles north of Springfield.
No one was injured in the blaze.
Lt. Walter Wright, spokesman for Effingham County Fire & Rescue, said firefighters were dispatched about 3:50 p.m. to the 600 block of Lower Ferry Road in reference to a mobile home on fire.
"When I got here the fire was fully involved but contained to the one mobile home," said Wright, who was the first man on the scene. "It quickly spread to another nearby mobile home and a small shed on the property."
Roland Rawls, 50, of Springfield, said he and a friend were moving clothing and other items from the mobile home at the time the fire started.
"We were taking piles of clothing out and cleaning up the house so we could tear it down," Rawls said. "One of us must of dropped a cigarette or something in the pile of clothes."
Rawls said both mobile homes belonged to his daughter Keyonta Rawls.
Neither home was being lived in at the time of the fire, Roland Rawls said.
"No one's lived here for a couple of years," he said. "We were moving stuff out so we could tear them down and move another trailer onto the property."
Wright said the cause of the fire was still under investigation.
Responding agencies also included Springfield Volunteer Fire Department and Rincon Fire Department.


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HSBC and First Direct slash fees for going into red as they reduce charge for unauthorised overdrafts to £5 a day
HSBC and First Direct are slashing their overdraft charges from November.
At present, customers are slapped with a £25 fee each time they go into the red without permission and can be charged up to £150 a month in total.
From November, they will instead be charged a £5 daily fee and charges will be capped at £80 a month.
This will leave hundreds of thousands of customers better off.
Overdraft warning: All customers will be automatically opted into the banks' text alert systems
There is no fee if you go over your agreed limit by less than £10 and you will not be charged more than the amount you borrow.
You will also escape the charge if you put money into your account so you are back in the black by 11.45pm on the same day.
All customers will also be automatically opted into the banks’ text alert systems so they will be warned if they breach their overdraft limit. At the moment, you have to choose to opt in to receive this service.
You do not have to pay a fee if a payment bounces because you don’t have enough funds in your bank account.
In April rival Barclays overhauled its authorised overdraft charging system, leaving many customers paying 15 times more as a result.
Banks are currently being investigated by the Financial Conduct Authority, the City regulator, over concerns that some of their overdraft charges are unclear and can work out as expensive as payday loans.
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The Sukhoi company (part of PJSC UAC of the State Corporation Rostec) has completed the implementation of another long-term contract for the supply of a batch of Su-34 fighter-bombers to the Russian Ministry of Defense. At the Novosibirsk Aviation Plant V.P. Chkalov (NAZ named after V.P. Chkalov) - a branch of PJSC "Company Sukhoi "manufactured and tested the final machine of the final batch.
“We have manufactured about a hundred vehicles of this type in the interests of the military department under a long-term contract,” said Yuri Slyusar, General Director of PJSC UAC, General Director of Sukhoi Company. “This year has become important for us in terms of ensuring the state defense order. We have completed the fulfillment of our obligations to the Ministry of Defense under large long-term contracts for the supply of new modern aviation equipment.
“At the same time, we started to implement new contracts signed within the framework of the Army Forum, which allowed us to load our enterprises and provide work for our employees in several regions of the country. "
The Novosibirsk plant of the Sukhoi Company today is one of the largest aircraft building enterprises in the UAC circuit. The production of Su-34 aircraft and its versions with enhanced combat capabilities provides the plant with a stable load for the future.
The Su-34 aircraft has high flight performance, combat effectiveness and maneuverability. The design and ergonomics of its cockpit makes it possible to make long flights. The Su-34 aircraft is designed to destroy ground, air and surface targets at any time of the day and in any meteorological conditions.
The main features of the Su-34 are increased combat survivability, being equipped with an in-flight refueling system, and an improved weapon control system.


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(Protein Rich Economical Livestock/Poultry Feed)
Azolla is a unique freshwater fern that is one of the fastest growing plants on the planet due
to its symbiotic relationship with a cyanobacterium (‘blue-green alga’) called Anabaena. Azolla‘s
rapid growth makes it a potentially important sequester of the gas carbon which is converted directly into Azolla‘s biomass. Azolla acts as local livestock feed, biofertilizer and biofuel
- Hosts a symbiotic blue green algae Anabaena azolle, which is responsible for the fixation and assimilation of atmospheric nitrogen.
- Can double in size every several days under optimal nutrient and water temperate conditions.
- Green manure plant for paddy agriculture for weed suppression and fertility (used extensively in organic duck and rice systems).
- Nitrogen and mineral source for compost making.
- 25-30% Protein, and low in lignin which makes it digestible to many animals, and it’s also nutritious.
- Rich in essential amino acids, vitamins (vitamin A, vitamin B12 and Beta- Carotene), growth promoter intermediaries and minerals like calcium, phosphorous, potassium, ferrous, copper, magnesium etc.
- On a dry weight basis, it contains 25 – 35 percent protein, 10 – 15 percent minerals and 7 – 10 percent of amino acids, bio-active substances and bio-polymers.
- Palatable to: ducks, chickens, pigs, cows, goats, sheep and rabbits and other animals.
- Can increase milk production in cows by 15-20%.
- Azolla is a nutrient feeder and prevents Algal blooms in farm dams, as a result keeping water more usable.
- Can be easily harvested with a scoop net, or grown in enclosed, floating rings which can be pulled to the edge for easy harvest.
- After initial collection/purchase, you get a lifetime supply.
Widely used on crops like Field Crops, Vegetables, Fruits, Plantation, Aromatic, Spice, Commercial crops etc.
Materials Required for 12*4*1 (ft) Azolla bed
- Azolla Bed
- Fresh Water to fill 10-12 cm of bed
- SSP (Single Super Phosphate) 50 gms
- Livestock dung of approx. 5 Kg
- Azolla plants of 0.5 Kg
- Fresh soil of 15-20 Kg
- Mixed micronutrients 50 gms
Azollabed Preparation& Procedure:
- Add 15-20 Kg soil to the bed as first input.
- Add water to the soil ensuring its filled upto10-12 Cm of bed.
- Apply 3-4 Kg of Livestock dung.
- Apply Mixed micronutrients of 30-50 Gms.
- Retain the bed in same condition for next 2 days (Day1, Day2, Day 3).
- Add Azolla mother culture of 0.5 Kg.
- Observation of azolla growth.
- Drain out 25-30% of total water.
- Add 25-30% of fresh water.
- Add 2-3 Kg of livestock dung.
- Add 30-50 gms of mixture of micronutrients.
- Observation of azolla growth.
- Estimation of azolla yield/production.
- Azolla ready to use as cattle/livestock/Poultry feed.
Features of Azollabed:
- Durable, flexible and crack proof.
- Cost effective.
- Easy to manage and also for movement.
Precautionary Measures in Azollabed Preparation:
- Use fresh water for better results.
- Other raw materials to be used as per recommendation.
- Maintain required shade and sunlight.
- Suitable nutrients should be supplied, as and when, nutrient deficiency is noticed.
- Plant protection measures against pests and diseases should be taken as and when required.
- A fresh bed has to be prepared and inoculated with pure culture of Azolla, when contaminated by pest and diseases.

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Are there any living relatives of Laura Ingalls Wilder?
If you’re a fan of the Little House books, you may have wondered about the ancestry of famed children’s author Laura Ingalls Wilder. Although Laura has no living direct descendants, thousands of Americans share an ancestor or two with the ultimate pioneer girl.
What is Laura Ingalls family tree?
|Laura Ingalls Wilder|
|Children||2, including Rose Wilder Lane|
|Parents||Charles Ingalls Caroline Lake Quiner|
|Relatives||Mary Ingalls (sister) Caroline “Carrie” Ingalls Swansey (sister) Charles Frederick “Freddie” Ingalls (brother) Grace Ingalls Dow (sister)|
How many siblings did Laura Ingalls have?
Grace IngallsCarrie IngallsCharles Frederick Ingalls
Laura Ingalls Wilder/Siblings
Did Laura Ingalls have an adopted brother in real life?
Laura Ingalls and Willie Oleson were adopted brother and sister in real life. Sara Gilbert, who played Darlene on a popular TV Series Sitcom, is also an adopted sibling in the Gilbert family.
Was Isaiah Edwards a real person?
Edwards is a fictional character that appeared in the Little House series of autobiographical children’s novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. His character was later adapted for the NBC television show, Little House on the Prairie and given the name “Isaiah Edwards.” As stated by Wilder in her books, Mr.
How did the Ingalls family died?
Diabetes ran in the Ingalls family and Laura, Carrie, and Grace all died from the complications of the disease, Dow being the first Ingalls sibling to succumb. She is buried near the Ingalls family plot at De Smet Cemetery in De Smet, South Dakota; her husband is buried next to her.
How many children did Charles and Caroline Ingalls have?
On February 1, 1860, she married Charles Phillip Ingalls in Concord, Wisconsin. Together they had five children: Mary Amelia, Laura Elizabeth, Caroline Celestia (Carrie), Charles Frederick (Freddie), and Grace Pearl.
Who were Laura’s siblings?
Did Laura Ingalls have an adopted brother?
Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls and Willie Oleson were adopted brother and sister in real life. Sara Gilbert, who played Darlene on a popular TV Series Sitcom, is also an adopted sibling in the Gilbert family.
What happened to Laura’s parents on Little House on the Prairie?
After Pa’s death, Mary continued to live with Ma in the Third Street house until Ma died. Mary went to stay with Carrie for a long visit, suffered a stroke, and eventually passed away while still in Keystone, South Dakota. In the books, we saw a sharp contrast between Pa/Laura and Ma/Mary.
What’s the age difference between Laura and Almanzo?
Melissa Gilbert (Laura Ingalls) and Dean Butler (Almanzo Wilder) share an eight-year age difference in real life. While starring as love interests on Little House on the Prairie, this gap left a lot of tension between the actors.
What is little house in the Big Woods plot?
Little House in the Big Woods was published in 1932 by American author Laura Ingalls Wilder. The first in a nine-book series, the autobiographical narrative relates the story of a family of homesteading pioneers living and laboring in Wisconsin. The story is illustrated by Garth Williams, whose drawings of the Ingalls family are often considered iconic and an integral part of the reading experience.
What is the climax of Little House in the Big Woods?
What happens at the end of Little House in the Big Woods? The climax occurs as little Laura, lying in bed, muses about time: She thought to herself, “This is now.” She was glad that the cosy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now.
Is little house in the Big Woods historical fiction?
Little House in the Big Woods Historical Fiction. Little House in the Big Woods is the first installment in the classic Little House on the Prairie series, by Laura Ingalls-Wilder. Also, although it is categorized as ‘historical fiction’, it is not fiction. I am trying to figure out how to add it t…
What are the themes in the book Little House in the Big Woods?
Little House In The Big Woods Summary. Major themes of Little House in The Big Woods include social duty, self-reliance, and dependence on family. The plot is episodic, and the novel continues to attract readers for its charming atmospheric details.

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“If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.”, Lord Kelvin
CHTech was born from the need to manage energy requirements and to drive costs down based on intelligent data.
We wanted similar output to a Fluke 199 but in realtime to a database and for multiple channels. This sort of technology was extremely expensive and not the sort of kit you could leave dedicated to the job. Cheap alternatives, available on the shelf were inaccurate and very slow to update. High resolution (per second) data is also very important when monitoring from limited supply points to distinguish various appliances.
This was simply not available to purchase.
Therefore the CHTech energy monitor was born.
It was then realised that many people wanted to install their own PV systems but were limited by not being able to export power to the grid due to pre-paid meters and utility reluctance to enable this option.
The energy monitor then evolved into the grid tie limiter to help people manage their own production without the additional costs of batteries.


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For the past few month I worked on a project for my university.
As of now that project is finally publicly available on the following site: https://git.thm.de/bahn-simulator
It is a train simulator consisting of a library to create your own (libtrainsim), a reference implementation (simulator) and some other repositories to help get started with the project.
Sadly the windows build does not work at the moment but it works fine on ubuntu and fedora.
Feel free to try it out and contribute to improve it.


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Raise Your Inner Game (with David Levin)
There are two “games” that we play as creative pros: the outer, and the inner. The outer game is about your mechanics. The inner game is about how you deal with stress, the limiting narratives that prevent you from doing your best work, and the inevitable conflicts you experience in the course of your day. Today’s guest David Levin will share insights into how to improve your inner game with insights from his new book Raise Your Inner Game.
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There’s nothing quite like cooking in a cast iron skillet. For many of us, our skillets and the recipes we craft in them have been passed down from one family member to the next. We cherish them. But not just because of where they came from, but also because of what they can do.
A good skillet is the quintessential work horse of any good Southern kitchen. There’s nothing that can crisp, fry, bake, sear or saute quite like it. And that’s just what you’ll find in this week’s Saturday Seven. This week’s Seven showcases all that our treasured skillets can do and then some!
So let’s fire up those skillets and enjoy delicious one dish meals, dinner pies, side dishes and desserts.
Don’t own a skillet, but would love to have one?
Here is my list of Cast Iron Essentials! They are the perfect pieces if you are just getting with cast iron cooking or just looking for that extra something to add to what you already have!
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Wardak Province ( ps|د وردګ ولايت, prs|ولایت وردگ), also called Maidan Wardag or Maidan, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan
, located in the central region of Afghanistan. It is divided into eight districts
and has a population of approximately 567,600.
[ The capital of the province is Maidan Shar, while the most populous district in the province is Saydabad District. The name of the province is called "Wardak" as stated by the Afghan constitution and IDLG approved documents.
During the communist times, the people of Wardak never gave significant support to the communist government.
Wardak Province was significant during the Civil War in Afghanistan, due to its proximity with Kabul and its agricultural lands. Hezb-e Wahdat had a significant presence in the area. Most of the area was captured by the Taliban around winter 1995. It remains a major Taliban travel route to Kabul with Maidan Shahr a target for terror.
The security situation rapidly deteriorated in Wardak in 2008 and 2009. According to a report by Mohammad Osman Tariq Elias, both Logar and Wardak, by the end of 2008, were under ''de facto'' Taliban control. As of April 2009, the Ministry of the Interior (Afghanistan) had listed the entire province as "High Risk."
In October 2017 US Forces from elements of the 1st Battalion 87 Infantry Regiment and 10th Special Operations Group launched an offensive to wrest the province from Taliban control.
On January 21, 2019 a Taliban attack on a military base and police training center in the province resulted in 125 NDS officers killed. At least 30 people were reported to be injured. The attack came during a time of intense daily violence throughout the country. [Taliban Attack on Afghan Military Base and Police Training Center Kills 12 21 January 2019. Accessed at: http://time.com/5508503/taliban-attack-afghanistan-military-base-12-dead/ Accessed on 1 January 2019/ref>
Wardak province is located in the central and eastern region of Afghanistan; bordering Parwan to the northeast, Kabul and Logar to the east, Ghazni to the south and Bamyan to the west. The capital of Wardak province is Maidan Shar, which is located about 35 km from Kabul. Wardak province covers an area of 9,934 km2. It is mountainous like the rest of the country with plains and many valleys, such as the Tangi Valley. The majority of its residents live in rural areas. The most heavily populated areas are along the Kabul–Kandahar Highway. The rest of the province is thinly populated, with villages concentrated in areas with available irrigation and water sources (CSO and UNFPA, 2003). Famous passes include the Unai Pass and the Hajigak Pass.
Politics and governance
The current governor of the province is Mohammad Halim Fidai. His predecessor was Abdul Jabbar Naeemi. The town of Maidan Shar serves as the capital of the province. All law enforcement activities throughout the province are conducted by the Afghan National Police (ANP) along with the Afghan Local Police (ALP). The provincial police chief represents the Ministry of the Interior in Kabul. The ANP is backed by other Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), including the NATO-led forces.
Economics and industry
In terms of industry, one marble factory is working in the province, and there are marble mines in the provincial center and Sayed Abad District although no mining is currently undertaken there due to the government ban. The majority of commercial activity in Maidan Shahr. Wardak is related to trade in agricultural and livestock products, although stone quarrying is also a growing business in the area. The people from Maidan Shahr are also experts in karez cleaning and repair and go to other parts of the country for this purpose. In Wardak, there are many natural resources like petroleum, iron, rubies, and emeralds.
Agriculture is a major source of revenue for 43% of households in Maidan Wardak province. Four-fifths (79%) of rural households own or manage agricultural land or garden plots in the province. However, nearly a quarter (24%) of households in the province derive income from trade and services, and around half (45%) of households earn some income through non-farm related labor.
The overall literacy rate in Wardak province is 25%. There are around 251 primary and secondary schools in the province catering for 105,358 students. There are 2909 teachers teaching in these schools.
As of 2013, the total population of Wardak province is about 567,600,
which is multi-ethnic and mostly a tribal society. The ethnic groups in this province include Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras and a small population of Qizilbashs.
* Wardak (Pashtun tribe)
* Provinces of Afghanistan
by the Institute for the Study of War
by the Naval Postgraduate School
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Jean-Claude Juncker is European Commission President, in other words, the most powerful man of the E.U. Today, lest there be any doubt, he told us what he really thinks about borders and national sovereignty:
Speaking at the European Forum Alpbach on Monday, Jean-Claude Juncker called on Europe to show “solidarity” with refugees and described borders as the “worst invention” ever produced by politicians.
“We have to fight against nationalism,” said Juncker, who is the president of the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch. “We have the duty not to follow populists but to block the avenue of populists.”
He added: “Borders are the worst invention ever made by politicians… In the concentration of globalisation and European problems, we must not lose our way.”


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November 26, 1901
Mountain View, California
|Died||September 3, 1987 (aged 85)|
Carmel, California, USA
|Genre||Realistic children's literature|
|Notable works||Blue Willow|
|Notable awards||Lewis Carroll Shelf Award|
Doris Gates (November 26, 1901 – September 3, 1987) was one of America's first writers of realistic children's fiction. Her novel Blue Willow, about the experiences of Janey Larkin, the ten-year-old daughter of a migrant farm worker in 1930s California, is a Newbery Honor book and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner. A librarian in Fresno, California, Gates lived and worked among the people described in her novels. She is also known for her collections of Greek mythology.
Doris Gates was born on November 26, 1901, in Mountain View, California, the oldest daughter of Charles Obed and Bessie Louise (Jones) Gates. Her father was a small-town doctor; her mother had a BA from Milton College in classical studies.:119 When she was seven they moved to Charles' parents' prune ranch outside San Jose. It was there, at the age of eight, that Doris began school. According to Gates, her childhood, "even for those times, was unusually happy." She wrote about it in The Elderberry Bush.:118 Later the Gates family moved to Los Gatos. After graduating from high school, Gates found work in a library and a grocery store. Her father then moved the family to Fresno, and in 1924 she enrolled in Fresno State Teachers College.:120
Two years later Gates attended Los Angeles Library School. She then became the assistant in the children's department of the Fresno County Free Library. After one year Gates took a leave of absence to study library science at Western Reserve University, (now Case Western Reserve) in Cleveland. She returned to Fresno to work as the children's librarian at the Fresno County Library in central California from 1930 to 1940.[a]
While in Fresno, Gates had a radio program telling stories to children. She also visited the schools erected for the children of workers displaced by the Dust Bowl, telling stories and sharing books. Budget constraints caused the library to cut back its hours, so Gates used her extra day off to begin writing. Her first published book, Sarah's Idea (1938), is about a girl who wants to buy a burro and helps with the harvest on her family's prune ranch to earn the money she needs. Two years later Blue Willow, a book about the daughter of a migrant farmer like those she worked with, appeared. Also in 1940, Gates began working for San Jose State College, teaching children's literature and storytelling.
Gates was a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Southern California, Los Angeles; and the University of San Francisco. She also spoke around the country to groups of librarians and teachers. In the 1960s she worked for the textbook publishers Ginn and Company editing the Ginn Basic Readers, a series of reading textbooks for elementary schools. Married and later divorced, she moved to Carmel, where she bought and rode horses.:115 Several of her later books reflect this interest, including A Morgan for Melinda.
In 1971 and 1972 Gates made two trips to Greece, in preparation for a series of books retelling Greek mythology. As she later said, "I had a storyteller's knowledge rather than a scholar's knowledge of the myths".:125 In 1972 she published the first two in a series of books based on Greek myths. She returned to Greece in 1983.:125
Doris Gates died in Carmel, California, on September 3, 1987.[b] The children's room at the Central Fresno Library has been named the Doris Gates Room in her honor. Gates' papers are held at the University of Oregon and the University of Minnesota.
Blue Willow was a ground-breaking children's novel. "Many consider Blue Willow to have been the first realistic, problem novel for children, and it was recognized both for its lasting literary merit and for its expansion of the range of subjects which could be explored in books for children." Children's literature expert Anita Silvey says its realistic handling of modern social issues is a "significant contribution to children's literature". Christine Jenkins writes in Literary Trends that librarians for children especially appreciated its "combination of literary quality, child appeal, and positive values." The working class setting and portrayal of migrant families conditions were firsts for children's literature, and the fact that Gates made Janey's best friend a Mexican American was also groundbreaking. Jenkins says "the publication and professional recognition accorded Blue Willow was an affirmation of the value of both imaginative and realistic literature for children."
When Blue Willow was published there was an ongoing debate among teachers and librarians about whether children's literature should be imaginative or realistic. Blue Willow was both; but the story of Janey, her father and step-mother, living in a shack in central California while working in the fields, was generally more recognized for its realism. Julia Sauer, head children’s services librarian in Rochester, New York, was commissioned by the American Library Association to address the divisive issue. In Making the World Safe for the Janey Larkins, Sauer wrote "We need many more books about the Janey Larkins in our literature for children. And when we get them we will need the courage to give them to our children." In Horn Book, Jan/Feb 1945, Howard Pease's essay "Without Evasion" says this: "Only at infrequent intervals do you find a story intimately related to this modern world, a story that takes up a modern problem and thinks it through without evasion. Of our thousands of books, I can find scarcely half a dozen that merit places on this almost vacant shelf in our libraries; and of our hundreds of authors, I can name only three who are doing anything to fill this void in children's reading. These three authors - may someone present each of them with a laurel wreath - are Doris Gates, John R. Tunis, and Florence Crannell Means."
Awards and reception
Several of Gates' books were recognized with awards. Blue Willow was one runner-up for the annual Newbery Medal, was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1961, and was named one of the Best Books of the Year by Horn Book Magazine. It also won the silver Commonwealth Club of California Book Award. Sarah's Idea and The Cat and Mrs. Cary were also named Horn Book Best Books of the Year, and Little Vic was given the William Allen White Award by the school children of Kansas.
Gates' work was appreciated especially for its characterization and sense of place. Twentieth-Century Children's Writers praises her use of traditional story elements and strong sense of structure. According to another reviewer "Gates writes with integrity, combining strength of story line with well-developed characters, authentic settings, and themes of consequence." The reviewer goes on to say her excellent characterization and sensitivity toward her characters make her books "a solid contribution to American children's literature".
- Sarah's Idea, Viking Press, 1938 (illustrated by Marjorie Torrey)
- Blue Willow, Viking Press, 1940 (illustrated by Paul Lantz)
- Sensible Kate, Viking Press, 1943 (illustrated by Marjorie Torrey)
- Trouble for Jerry, Viking Press, 1944 (illustrated by Marjorie Torrey)
- North Fork, Viking Press, 1945 (illustrated by Wesley Dennis)
- My Brother Mike, Viking Press, 1948 (illustrated by Wesley Dennis)
- River Ranch, Viking Press, 1949 (illustrated by Jacob Landau)
- Little Vic, Viking Press, 1951 (illustrated by Kate Seredy)
- Becky and the Bandit, Ginn & Co., 1955 (illustrated by Paul Lantz)
- The Cat and Mrs. Cary, Viking Press, 1962 (illustrated by Peggy Bacon (US) and Shirley Hughes (UK))
- The Elderberry Bush, Viking Press, 1967 (illustrated by Lilian Obligado)
- A Morgan for Melinda, Viking Press, 1980
- A Filly for Melinda, Viking Press, 1984
Myths and legends
- Lord of the Sky: Zeus, Viking Press, 1972 (illustrated by Robert Handville)
- The Warrior Goddess: Athena, Viking Press, 1972 (illustrated by Don Bolognese)
- The Golden God: Apollo, Viking Press, 1973 (illustrated by Constantinos Coconis)
- Two Queens of Heaven: Aphrodite and Demeter, Viking Press, 1974 (illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman)
- The Mightiest of Mortals: Hercules, Viking Press, 1975 (illustrated by Richard Cuffari)
- A Fair Wind for Troy, Viking Press, 1976 (illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak)
- Roads to Everywhere, Ginn, 1961;
- Trails to Treasure, Ginn, 1961;
- Wings to Adventure, Ginn, 1961;
- Along Story Trails, Ginn, 1962;
- Down Story Roads, Ginn, 1962;
- On Story Wings, Ginn, 1962.
- Lois Lenski, also known for her realistic children's regional fiction
- Some sources give the dates as 1931-1940.
- Some sources say Monterey, CA.
- Sarkissian, Adele (editor) (1986). Something About the Author, Autobiography Series, Vol. 1. Gale Research. ISBN 978-0-8103-4450-1.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
- Rehart, Catherine, The Valley's Legends and Legacies, Quill Driver Books, 1996, pg. 267;
- Silvey, Anita, (editor), Children's Books and Their Creators, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1995, pp 267;
- Hansen, Debra Gold, A Pioneering and Independent Spirit, Trafford Publishing, 2010, pg. 41;
- Chevalier, Tracy (editor), Twentieth-Century Children's Writers, St. James Press, 1989, pp. 378;
- "1920-1930". History of Fresno County Public Library. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
- "Doris Gates Papers". University of Oregon Libraries. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
- "Doris Gates Papers". University of Minnesota. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
- "Doris Gates". Open ISBN. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- "Library Trends, Spring 1996" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-05-28.
- "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present | Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)". Ala.org. Retrieved 2012-05-28.
- "Lewis Carroll Shelf Award | Awards". LibraryThing. Retrieved 2012-05-28.
- "A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book | Awards". LibraryThing. 1909-07-25. Retrieved 2012-05-28.
- "California Book Awards". Commonwealth Club. Retrieved 2012-05-28.
- "Little Vic". William Allen White Award. Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- Chevalier, Tracy (editor), Twentieth-Century Children's Writers, St. James Press, 1989, pp. 379;
- Cech, John (editor), Dictionary of Literary Biographies: American Writers for Children, 1900-1960, Gale Research, 1983, volume 22, pp. 209;


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Tencent Games has recently rolled out the PUBG Mobile version 1.0, together with a plethora of gameplay and visual enhancements. Still, it seems like the developer has a few more major updates coming, one of which might give Blackpink fans one more reason to join and play the battle royale mobile game.
Earlier this week, official PUBG Mobile social media pages published a few promo images that stirred rumors about a possible Tencent Games and Blackpink collaboration for the title. The official Twitter page for the game shared a close-up photo of a pink-haired woman wearing a full fringe and pink glasses that shows a reflection of a region in Erangel.
Guess who is coming. pic.twitter.com/7gONmNMGgi
— PUBG MOBILE (@PUBGMOBILE) September 14, 2020
Developers further said: “Guess who is coming.”
While those were are the hints offered in the post, Blackpink fans immediately made the connections and filled the comments section with the suggestion that the image could be a clue of the K-pop group’s addition to the game.
Particularly, fans believe the woman in the photo is Blackpink’s rapper, Lisa, who also has a similar hairstyle. Therefore, gamers and K-pop fans are taking into consideration the possibility that a new character could be coming in PUBG Mobile, which is designed after Lisa.
It is not something new for Tencent Games to add characters based on real-life personalities in PUBG Mobile. Because of the similarities between the character in the teaser and Lisa, the possibility for the popular star to be included in the title cannot be dismissed.
Blackpink fans would be overjoyed to know that the Lisa-based character is not the only PUBG Mobile teaser the developers shared this week. They released a second promo image a few years later of four female characters in a vehicle driving into Erangel.
“‘New color’ is on the way,” the caption reads.
This only fueled the belief that the whole group could be included in the game.
People replied to the teasers and mostly gave positive responses with some of them, even saying they are returning to the game or will at least try it if PUBG Mobile will end up featuring Blackpink.

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Japan’s economy stalls on exportsJapan’s economy grew less than forecast in the three months through June 30 as business spending contracted for a second-straight quarter and exporters struggled with the resurgent yen.
Gross domestic product expanded by an annualized 0.2 percent in the second quarter, less than the median estimate of economists for a 0.7 percent increase. Business spending declined 0.4 percent from the previous three months, according to data released by the Cabinet Office on Monday.
Private consumption increased 0.2 percent over the same period. Net exports subtracted 0.3 percentage point from GDP.
Policy makers are struggling to find a strategy to produce consistent growth, with the economy oscillating between slight expansion and contraction. Businesses and consumers have been reluctant to spend, resulting in negative GDP numbers in five quarters over three years. The data keep pressure on the Bank of Japan to consider more monetary stimulus at its September meeting while increasing the need for the government to tackle structural obstacles to growth.
“With gains in the yen and declines in stocks, companies are holding off their spending,” said Atsushi Takeda, an economist at Itochu in Tokyo. “The yen’s gains are hurting exports when overseas demand remains weak.
“Looking ahead, public works spending will be the only support for the economy as the fiscal stimulus package will be carried out later this year,” said Takeda. “But there’s no change to the picture that the economy lacks a strong driver to boost growth, so we can’t really expect a solid recovery. The Bank of Japan will probably have no choice but to take some easing action at its September meeting,” he said.
Measured quarter on quarter, GDP didn’t budge. Private inventories’ contribution to GDP was zero. The GDP deflator rose 0.8 percent from a year ago. Purchases of regular cars were firm while that of mini cars was weak. TV purchases contributed to growth. There was a decline in eating out.
Purchases by non-residents fell for the first time since the final quarter of 2012. Bloomberg

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Asher Roth Responds to Gay Rumors
It must be nice to know that your label has your back when times get tough, but some things are just better heard from the horse's mouth. After finally getting fed up with the series of scandalous rumors questioning Asher Roth's sexuality, SRC Records Vice President, DJ Vlad posted a blog entry this weekend trying to put a stop to the madness. Vlad not only disputed the rumors that Asher had been dropped from SRC, but he also insisted that Asher was not gay. Still, the masses were not satisfied until Asher finally issued a statement condemning the rumors and scolding everyone for being childish at the dawning of a new, progressive year.
"I hate to disappoint and take away the entertainment of it all but I am straight, not gay. It's disheartening to know such 'news' on someone's personal life can be portrayed as fact with no viable source," Asher said. "This, to me, is an opportunity to expose our vulnerability to lies and manipulation through unprofessional and irresponsible news outlets, in which people consider truth. Further, someone's sexual orientation should never be big news, as it delivers a troubling message to children that they can't be themselves without fear of judgment. Race, creed, and sexual persuasion should not just be tolerated but understood and accepted. It's extremely disappointing that this topic would be used with the intention of being hurtful. We are near 2010 ... 2010!! Yet race, sex and religion still play a major role in a hate-driven society. For the love of the future and humanity ... let's wake up."
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Congressman pushes for reform of `anti-family' welfare policy
What's been happening to a proposal of Rep. Harold E. Ford (D) of Tennessee is symptomatic of a problem that Washington, D.C., shares with the rest of the United States: Practically anything that starts out as a simple idea ultimately becomes complicated. And the basis on which it is finally accepted or rejected may have little to do with its original purpose.
Representative Ford's proposal would require all states to provide welfare payments to families that are otherwise eligible, but for the fact that the father is unemployed and living at home. The measure nearly made it into law early this spring, but it eventually fell victim to a congressional compromise on the budget. Now Ford plans to bring his proposal back for another round of consideration this summer.
States share with the federal government the cost of giving aid to families with dependent children. Almost half the states, however, refuse to provide funds to otherwise eligible children if both parents are living at home. The ostensible purpose is to discourage poor two-parent families from relying primarily on welfare, rather than wages, for income.
But Representative Ford says the policy encourages family breakup by forcing poor fathers to desert their families so that the children may obtain welfare benefits for food and housing. Ford calls this ``the single most notorious anti-family policy that we could have.'' He adds that the policy runs counter to President Reagan's stated commitment to pro-family policies.
Ford's proposal is not a new idea. In the late 1960s it was one of the changes that liberals insisted had to be included in broad welfare reform.
More than half the states made the change, authorizing welfare benefits to families with both parents at home. But the rest of the states did not. Hence the Ford bill, which passed the House last year but not the Senate.
Ford reintroduced the measure this spring, shrewdly appending it to a vital budget resolution. Some opponents protested that, given the size of the budget deficit, this is no time to spend additional federal money, as this proposal would do. Other critics said that every state should be free to decide for itself whether to adopt the idea. The Ford proposal prevailed, however, and was included in budget resolutions approved by both houses of Congress.


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Aspen Specialty Insurance filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court an objection to Patriot National’s Disclosure Statement.
According to the objection, “The Disclosure Statement is glaringly deficient in that it does not even reference the Aspen Litigation or the claims alleged therein – which could potentially result in a judgment of tens of millions dollars against certain Debtor-Defendants…The Disclosure Statement fails to adequately describe how currently unliquidated, litigation-based claims such as Aspen’s will be quantified and treated, and the proposed Plan of Reorganization does not provide for adequate reserves for such claims.”
In addition, “The Disclosure Statement should not be approved because the proposed Plan of Reorganization it describes provides for impermissible releases of third parties, impermissible lien and super-priority claim on the Debtors’ avoidance actions in favor of DIP lenders, and other impermissible provisions, and is therefore unconfirmable as a matter of law.”
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On February 2nd, the Centers for Disease Control announced that they are investigating an outbreak of Salmonella Virchow associated with Raw Meal Organic Shake mix. The mix, which is produced by Garden of Life LLC, has sickened 11 people. Fortunately only one person has had to be hospitalized at this time, but these illnesses have spread across 9 states, including Minnesota and New Jersey who each have 2 cases, and New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, and Wisconsin who have each had 1 case.
On January 29th, Garden of Life LLC issued a voluntary recall for the contaminated shake mix. Four flavors of the mix have been affected by the recall, including Chocolate, Original, Vanilla, and Vanilla Chai. Affected products were distributed across the nation to a variety of retail stores, including health food stores as well as grocery stores. A full list of recalled products and Lot Numbers can be found here.
Health officials have recommended that all recalled shake mix be disposed of. If consumed, the contaminated mix may cause a Salmonella infection to develop over the next 12 to 72 hours. Salmonella infections can cause symptoms including a fever, abdominal cramping, vomiting, and diarrhea. People with certain risk factors, such as children, the elderly, and those with suppressed immune systems may have an increased chance of contracting Salmonella poisoning. Although many cases of Salmonella will go away on their own, it is still important to contact a medical professional if you or a loved one begin to show symptoms of Salmonella poisoning.
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Once the infection develops it will present symptoms including:
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The writer-directors of My Little Sister, Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, were able to introduce their film for the Borderlines Film Festival. They told us it was written for Nina Hoss and was made possible through a chance meeting with the actor. This is one of two Nina Hoss films in the festival and I posted on the other film The Audition (Germany 2019) from Glasgow last year. The two films are similar in some ways with Ms Hoss as an independent woman who finds herself close to someone she considers her charge, her responsibility at a time of crisis – even though this might undermine her marriage. Both films are made by women. My Little Sister was the official Swiss entry for the 2021 Oscars as ‘Best International Feature Film’.
This is a traditional European arthouse film, a drama designed primarily as a psychological study of twins from a Berlin family of actors and writers. It does however have a genre base in the form of a narrative about a potentially terminal illness. As the film opens it appears that it is the Nina Hoss character, Lisa who is facing a serious illness as she lies in a hospital bed attached to various bits of medical technology, but soon we realise that it is her twin brother Sven (Lars Eidinger) who is seriously ill and that Lisa has been donating blood and marrow. This is one of those films that place actors in the odd position of playing roles which replicate aspects of their ‘real lives’. Sven, like Eidinger himself, is a star actor of the Berliner Schaubühne ensemble and the connection is extended through Thomas Ostermeier, the ‘real theatre’ director, who in this film plays David, the theatre director. Sven leaves hospital and visits the theatre hoping that David will take him back as Hamlet, the role he has played many times before. David is clearly wary of Sven’s condition but Sven is determined to spend his convalescence looking forward to returning to a role he knows so well.
Life in their mother’s flat in Berlin is chaotic and Kathy (Marthe Keller, the veteran German star) is not really equipped to keep house for Sven or to organise his medical appointments. Lisa decides to take him to her home in Switzerland where her two small children will be pleased to see Sven. She also has a husband Martin (Jens Albinus, also a lead actor in The Audition) who is the headteacher of an élite private school in the lakeside resort of Leysin (once known for its TB sanatoria). It is quickly apparent that Lisa’s close attachment to her sick twin (he is a few minutes older) is going to cause problems in her marriage. This is the basic plot outline. The genre base of the narrative more or less directs where the story will go but the interest is in the development of the relationships rather than the ‘action’ events.
Lisa has been a writer, including for the Schaubühne. She needs to write for Sven and she needs to write for herself and to stand up to her mother who represents the political theatre of the past. We wonder why she married Martin who is good in bed but whose ambitions for his career don’t really match what she wants for herself and her children. This is a cleverly scripted and beautifully presented film with terrific performances. I don’t really enjoy medical dramas which always make me think of my own mortality. On the other hand I could watch Nina Hoss being magnificent in virtually any kind of film. The connection between Lisa, Sven and the two children is at the centre of the film and it is this that kept me engaged throughout. I’ve said it is an arthouse film, but the narrative drive is strong, powered by the performances. The medical theme could be an ingredient in a melodrama, but in this case I feel that the melodrama possibilities are not developed and the narrative relies more on the performances. One interesting aspect of the film is that Leysin is in Vaud in the South West, part of francophone Switzerland and the school over which Martin presides is anglophone, reflecting its attraction to East Asian parents preferring the idea of an international school. Wikipedia tells me that there was indeed once an American international school in Leysin, but it is now closed. Some of the scenes in the school are interesting as Lisa is roped in by her husband to charm prospective students and their families. Lisa converses in French and then German on the phone as she walks towards the school and is then introduced in English. I should point out that all the films I have seen at the Borderlines Festival are subtitled by default.
According to the festival programme, My Little Sister has been acquired for the UK by 606 Distribution, a small independent which is “Dedicated to releasing female focused films from around the world”. I hope this means we shall see the film in UK cinemas later this year. Nina Hoss is a huge talent who is not well enough known in the UK and the more of her films that open here, the better. Similarly we don’t get many Swiss films and it is always good to see different aspects of European cinema. The US trailer below gives a good idea of the film.


This paper studies the synchronization of two coupled neurons using Fitzhugh-Nagumo model in the fractional-order domain. In general, studying systems in the fractional-order domain provides a wider scope view of their behavior. When the neuron is generalized into the fractional-order domain, the normal behaviors displayed in the integer case change. Furthermore, two neurons display various synchronization patterns. The neurons’ fractional-order system is solved using non-standard finite difference scheme together with Grunwald-Letnikov discretization. © 2016 IEEE.
Armanyos M., Radwan A.G., Madian A.H.
Fitzhugh-Nagumo model; Fractional order; Grunwald-Letnikov; neuron synchronization; non-standard finite difference
2016 3rd International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications, ACTEA 2016, Art. No. 7560133, PP. 168 to 171, Doi: 10.1109/ACTEA.2016.7560133


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The beautiful city of Milford is located in New Haven County in the general New Haven area. It has a population of 48,168 residents and covers over 57 square kilometers of land.