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As November's sun-angle lowers in the sky and dry nights chill into blanket weather, the season for winter vegetable gardens begins. For these winter gardens, we can draw our inspiration from Padre Kino himself.
Right here, on this very soil of Baja Arizona—through wet seasons or droughts—desert people have been growing their food for 4,100 years. It may be difficult to imagine centuries of desert agriculture, having survived the awesome heat and dryness of the last few years. But archaeologists have shown us the proof: diminutive corncobs dating from pre-Hohokam times, the oldest evidence of maize found north of Mexico.
In the 1690s, Native Americans in the well-established Tohono O'odham village of S-cuk Shon (literally "Black Spring," where there was water at the base of the black hill now known as Sentinel Peak, or "A" Mountain) were cultivating their traditional monsoon gardens on the fertile Santa Cruz floodplain. Father Eusebio Kino chose this site, a day's ride north of San Xavier del Wa:k, for Mission San Agustín, and introduced the residents of S-cuk Shon to entirely new ways of life, steeped in Old World tradition. His vegetable "palette" was a colorful and delectable array of plants attuned to the ways of Mediterranean weather—drought-filled summers and wet winters. Padre Kino's "possible sack" was replete with potential seed-borne experiments, a shotgun approach to gardening in a strange new habitat. With good fortune and prayer, not to mention Sonoran Desert rains, many of his Mediterranean seed trials flourished to feed the Pima Bajo and Desert People who congregated in his mission communities and partook of the bread and wine brought forth from desert soil.
After 300 years, multiple cultural invasions, groundwater pumping and drying of riverine water-sources, agrochemical faddism, the sad loss of gardening and seed-saving knowledge, what has happened to Kino's plants and the seeds he literally sowed?
Saving local knowledge
For more than a century now, vegetable gardeners have been in the habit of going to catalogs, hardware stores, and nurseries, to buy new seed each year—seeds with few clues as to their provenance. But with food insecurity crises looming and the realization that Baja Arizona cities like Tucson have three to five days worth of food available at any one time, we are at last culturally re-learning that we not only need to grow food but we must also re-learn how to save locally adapted seed—two of the most important basic skill sets humans have honed since they first "invented" agriculture.
At the base of Sentinel Peak in Tucson, on the very site where Padre Kino found the Native community of S-cuk Shon and established Mission San Agustín, visionaries at the non-profit organization Friends of Tucson's Birthplace have re-created a beautiful living history orchard. It is a huerta of trees known to be cloned from the original mission trees. In addition to reviving these historic trees, the Friends' goal was to build a vegetable garden each season to grow authentic Mission-period foods. Today, the Friends' new Mission Garden is almost exactly where Kino's original walled Mission Garden was situated, offset intentionally by about 30 feet so that future archaeologists will be able to distinguish the different eras.
Using the model of traditional Hispanic jardineros (gardeners) in towns such as Magdalena, Sonora, where Padre Kino's influence is still very much alive, we placed our jardin de historia viviente (garden of living history) in a low swale, surrounded by young fruit trees planted in 2012 commemorating the Padre's 300th anniversary. In keeping with examples of Sonoran kitchen gardens, we designed the north half of our almost 1,000-square-foot oval space to be tilled and furrowed. The south half of the jardin temporal (seasonal garden) area we designed as waffles, inspired by ancient farming patterns observed in nearby archaeological sites, three- to four-foot squares surrounded by mini-berms to garner and hold water.
When we began the project, the land had not been farmed or gardened since the 1800s. When we took on the job of soil prep, it felt like mud cement. The waffle squares gave our crew of dedicated volunteers a good workout, digging by hand and shovel to loosen the soil and then amend with compost. I still remember how, as I lifted my pickaxe to cleave the compacted floodplain hardpan of the Santa Cruz to break ground for vegetables, I was struck with deep respect for these ancient desert gardeners and farmers. It still moves me, now, that it is our turn to turn the soil here.
A seed search
Now, where would we get seeds of historically accurate Mission Period vegetables—the ones that Father Kino himself would have brought? Fortunately Baja Arizona is blessed with the seed conservation organization Native Seeds/SEARCH, whose plant explorers have been quietly conserving traditional food-crop seeds for more than 30 years and generously provided precious heirloom seed for our living history project.
Three decades ago, NS/S plant-sleuths found seeds of three different varieties of heirloom wheat, which had been continuously used through the three centuries since Padre Kino introduced them (although they had nearly fallen out of cultivation on both sides of the border): White Sonora wheat, Pima club, and early Baart. Beardless varieties of White Sonora wheat and Pima Club wheat were our first choices for the Mission Period winter veggie garden.
From historical missionary documents, we knew to search for Old World pulses: legumes like lentils, garbanzo beans or chickpeas, fava beans, and so-called English peas. In the NS/S seed bank collection, we found Tarahumara pink lentils, a variety which missionaries had long ago introduced to Sierra Madre natives. NS/S also had Tohono O'odham peas, which the padres had brought to the Desert People—perhaps first to the ground we were re-turning.
The Mission Garden Project and the greater Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum community are also blessed with the bi-cultural teacher, farmer, and Hispanic tradition-carrier Jesus Garcia. His family's roots in Magdalena, Sonora, provided us not only knowledge about regional Hispanic gardening practices, but also the very seeds of plants grown by his forebears and saved from the time of Kino's mission on the Rio Magdalena. Garcia brought us local heirloom fava beans (habas), as well as heirloom Magdalena cilantro for its fresh green herb and its fragrant spicy seed. In addition, Garcia brought his family's acelgas seed. Acelgas translates as chard, but this was different from any commercial chard we'd ever seen. Here was an heirloom unknown in the NS/S collection until now, proving that gifts can go both ways.
NS/S located a variety of Tarahumara mostaza roja seed, which produces a giant, leafy, non-biting mustard green called mequasare, originally collected in the Sierra Madre by NS/S founders Barney Burns and Mahina Drees. Definitive information is unavailable whether this mustard green was originally Old World or selected from wild plants by the Raramuri, as they call themselves, though Drees believes it was a mission introduction that came in with wheat.
Root vegetables brought by the padres proved important and healthful. Onions, garlic, shallots supplemented similar wild lily bulbs and roots collected by las indigenes. From the NS/S collection, we garnered a purple-tinted "red" garlic, originally from around Hermosillo, Sonora. Our third root vegetable was an I'itoi's shallot, a prolific multiplier introduced by the Spanish.
Planting designs and lessons
By the time our site was dug, rototilled and finally ready for planting, November was here. To maximize the cooler season, our seed was into the ground by early December.
Water dictates planting. In each waffle square, set with a spiral of leaky hose, we planted spirals of greens, wheat, or pea seed to "shadow" the water source. For repelling unwanted insects, we also planted an outer circle of onion sets or garlic cloves around all greens, forming a shield of strong aroma. This defensive strategy of companion planting seemed to work, as both the greens and the stinky root crops thrived.
The Orach greens grew gangly and tall with a single spike that reached up to five feet high, with a deep purple tinge to the large firm leaves. In two of the waffles, we broadcast the NS/S White Sonora wheat and, as wheat's habit is rapid growth, the wheatgrass outpaced foliage predators. We planted the NS/S Pima Club wheat in two different ways: broadcast in a pool-irrigated panel, and row-planted in the furrowed area. As with the White Sonora wheat, both plantings of Pima Club sprang tall, well over three-feet high. For Mission people, wheat was far more than food: After grain harvest, the long stalks were helpful as bedding, animal shelter, thatch, compost, mulch, and insulation. Modern wheat is less than half the stature, genetically manipulated to put energy only into its seed, and low to the ground to be mechanically harvested. More than two decades ago, NS/S sent Pima Club wheat seed back "home" to San Xavier, where it had been lost for generations. With traditional crops in plentiful production now at San Xavier Coop Association, we can find Pima Club wheat at their Santa Cruz Farmers' Market table, to toast or grind for ourselves.
In paired furrows separated by acequias (ditches), we planted acelgas, habas, and cilantro from Magdalena, commercial garbanzos, Tohono O'odham and Pima wihol (green peas), Tarahumara lentils and mostaza roja. Well-watered Magdalena acelgas were prolific, providing us with tasty greens, better cooked than raw, great for winter fare. So many acelgas seeds were scattered at harvest that our subsequent monsoon garden exploded with volunteer surprise acelgas. Success with the same vegetable in two different climate seasons is rare here indeed.
The Magdalena habas and Tucson Seed Company favas, as well as the Tarahumara lentils, became stunted by the intense winter sun. They bloomed and fruited low to the ground. Some form of shading would have been an advantage. The commercial garbanzos totally bombed, perhaps from being selectively chomped by cottontails or perhaps because they are not heirlooms adapted to our clime. Where our irrigation was plentiful, both the Tohono O'odham and Pima peas grew densely and produced many pods. A watchful eye should be used daily as pods are maturing in order to harvest green fresh peas—they dry quickly. Cilantro produced copious edible foliage but as soon as a February hot spell hit, they bolted. Not a problem, as coriander seed is useful, too.
It was the mostaza roja, the Tarahumara mustard greens, that went off the charts for us. Ever-fresh leaves kept emerging even with weekly plucking through the season, until the branching green mounds were three to four feet around. Steamed, boiled, stir-fried, or chopped fresh in salad, this mostaza roja is delectable right up to its little yellow Crucifer flowers. Here is another double-duty plant whose seed are as plentiful and purposeful as its foliage; after the greens stage its mustard seeds can be added to masa for adding zip to tamales.
Padre Kino's Garden recommendations for winter
Father Kino's Mediterranean gifts offer inspiration to dive into winter garden action. Garlic and I'itoi's onions will be the gifts that keep on giving—in the garden and on the table. Orach greens, acelgas, cilantro, and mostaza roja will provide a profusion of taste and nutrition. With some wind protection or partial shading, fava beans, Tohono O'odham and Pima peas, and Tarahumara lentils should grow productive as winter vegetarian protein sources. White Sonoran and Pima Club wheat will be rewards for the novice gardener. Their grain can be sprouted and eaten for the benefits of wheatgrass. Grow them densely, even in small garden patches for a great reward. Grinding one's own home-grown grain for homemade bread can truly be a religious experience. ✜
Martha Ames Burgess is an ethnobotanist, desert gardener, wild-harvester, teacher, and seed-saver. She also volunteers for Friends of Tucson's Birthplace and Native Seeds/SEARCH.


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Dr. Edward Nissan, a Professor Emeritus of Economics in The University of Southern Mississippi's Department of Political Science, International Development and International Affairs, died Nov. 19 in New York. He was 90.
A funeral service for Nissan was held Nov. 21 at Riverside-Nassau North Chapel in Great Neck, N.Y.
Nissan earned his Ph.D. in statistics and economics from Texas A&M University. He joined the USM faculty in the 1970s, initially in its former Department of Economics, teaching courses in price theory, econometrics, and international trade. His areas of expertise included economic growth and development, gender inequality, economic inequality, business concentration, foreign direct investment and actuarial practices in the insurance industry.
Widely published internationally and a frequent guest lecturer and forum panelist, Dr. Nissan's most recent work examined the effect of bundling in the television market and questions of soft science, with the latter being a continuation of his work as a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics.
Dr. Edward Sayre, chairman of the Department of Political Science, International Development and International Affairs, said Nissan was a dedicated teacher who taught multiple generations of students during a career that spanned nearly 40 years at USM.
"He was one of the most prolific scholars in the history of the economics program here, and authored more than 130 refereed journal articles, but also enjoyed interactions with students and the way in which teaching enlivened his research," Sayre said.
Nissan was a research and teaching fellow with the Academy of Economics and Finance; twice a recipient of both the USM Excellence in Research Award and the Aubrey Keith and Ella Ginn Lucas Endowment for Faculty Excellence Award; and a three-time recipient of the USM College of Business's Peter Brandt Publication Award, among many other honors he earned throughout his career.
Former colleagues Dr. George Carter, who served chairman of the Department of Economics, and Dr. Mark Klinedinst remember Nissan as a humble yet passionate researcher, respected by faculty for his extensive scholarly contributions and collegiality.
"He went out of his way to help students prepare research conference papers and serve as a mentor for others, including myself when I was a young colleague having just joined the department, offering to do papers with me related to my work," Klinedinst said.
Carter and Nissan co-authored nearly 75 publications and together participated in dozens of conferences. He said his friend and colleague was "a true polymath" whose intellectual curiosity led him into a wide range of questions, while always looking for the human element to ensure interest and relevance.
"He always had a valued opinion and saw a way to enhance someone's learning, make a scholarly technical detail or smooth colleagues' inevitable frictions," Carter said. "He has been missed by the University since his retirement, and now he will be missed by his many friends forever."

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I've watched a few episodes of Alias recently and I realised that part of the reason I'm really enjoying it is Jack Bristow. I remember back in the first series when he shoots that annoying CIA guy in cold-blood (looking at an episode guide, was his name Haladki?) that it was a bad guy thing to do. Yet Jack is a good guy. And at that point I wasn't sure if they were just highlighting that Sydney would think twice about that sort of thing because she's a good guy, and perhaps because she hasn't been a spy for quite so long, or that perhaps Jack's not actually such a good guy.
Now I'm watching the fourth series and I still don't know the answer to that question. In one of the episodes I saw recently, just for a minute, there was a bit of uncertainty about whether he'd gone over to the dark side. And actually, come to think of it, no real proof afterwards that he hadn't. Or hasn't.
The other part that was really interesting about him in the second series was his relationship with Irina Derevko. For years she pretended to be Laura Bristow and he loved her. Still does. But Irina betrayed him horribly and he hates her, understandably. Except that he still loves her. I do wonder if perhaps part of the reason he hates her is because he loved her.
And then there's Sydney. Sometimes I think she's the most important thing in his life and he would do anything to save her. Other times I'm not so sure. There's never any easy way to tell how he feels about anyone. I can't work out his feelings about Sloane at all. He doesn't like Vaughn and never has.
I won't say more because it would be a spoiler, but I'm still not sure how he feels about Nadia. I can understand that he would have mixed feelings but the thing about Jack is if you go for the obvious you're probably wrong.
So I'm watching Alias for Jack Bristow. May he continue to puzzle me. And I like Weiss, who is funny, even though they pronounce his name wrong (it's my grandmother's maiden name, so I do know how it should be pronounced).
I'm getting all excited about Alias now I've seen the first episode of series 2 again. It was weird, cos so much has happened since then. Only a few more weeks to wait.
You'd think that going all of three stops from Reading to Goring would be simple, wouldn't you? Well, no. I got to the train station yesterday to find there were no trains, I still don't know why because the announcement was too quiet to hear. I froze on the platform for an hour before three turned up. So I should get 50% back for the train I got on being over an hour late (which will come to �1). Hopefully they'll pay for my taxi too, since there's a gap of 2.5 hours between buses, right when you need them as well. The best bit was that the main screens, the screens on the platforms, the announcements, national rails live departure boards and Thames Trains live departure boards all said different things.
I've done the equivalent of a days work today. I'm probably a bit more then halfway through writing Novick Poland. I really know more about the names of Polish beers than I ever wanted to, frankly.
I got an American-British dictionary yesterday and quite liked the entry for pissed:pissed adj (col) - drunk. It does not mean pissed off (which is used in Britain). The actor David Suchet recalls that when he was at a party in New York and confessed to being 'a bit pissed,' he was puzzled because someone asked, 'I'm sorry. What's wrong?'. This has a number of spin-off terms, such as piss-artist, meaning a heavy drinker, on the piss, meaning on the sauce, and piss-up, a drunken party.
I think I was going to write something exciting but I can't remember what it was. I could be lying though. The Bill was actually quite exciting. Not really looking forward to next week's though. Luke is not gay, it's so obvious. He wasn't gay when he was in it a few years ago, he's not gay now. He was just someone convenient they found to muck up Gilmore's love life (because you can't have anyone being happy any more, can you?).
I saw Alias last night - poor Jack. And that's all I'm going to say. Trying to avoid watching Blakes 7, should be finishing the LOTR DVD - only half the film to go.
I think I will just go and watch Angel.
Getting all excited about going to see The Two Towers again tomorrow night. I've forgotten most of the stuff that went on - apart from the bits in the book, which given that I've just read it, I do remember. Have almost killed Gandalf off in the pre/post-production commentary, just got the design commentary to go and I'll have watched everything on the 4 disks. I'll have to finish off my other DVDs after that. I still don't really know whats on the Alias one!
Had a really weird dream last night. Well, weird as in not very weird, given that mine are usually too weird to describe. It either started off as LOTR, or it could have just been me thinking about it. Then it went into Alias and I was Sydney Bristow. There was some sort of plot going on (shock! horror!) but I don't remember what it was. It was something to do with my friend though (not Francie). Then I met up with Vaughn and for some reason I decided that the right thing to do in this situation was to hug him, but he kissed me instead (only short though, my fantasies are really quite crap aren't they?) and I ran my left hand down his right arm. This is the one thing I remember clearly. Yes, I am weird. After that we were sat on a comfy sofa and I didn't want to tell him about what was going on with my friend, but I did tell him with my head pretty much in his chest (not literally, I'm not that weird). There might have been more plot-related stuff going on after that, I don't remember.
But Aragorn will yet again be opening the doors to Helm's Deep tomorrow and I will have forgotten Vaughn by then. What is it about that scene? I thought it was just me, but Emma said she noticed him at that point too. He was really scruffy and mucky after all the stuff he'd been through and that's the point where he looks most sexy. I really can't explain that one. The other point is the fight against the Nazgul on Weathertop with a sword in one hand and a torch in the other. He looked so cool doing that. Not that it looks choreographed or anything.
Will be good and write the minutes now and watch ST:TNG from earlier (which I've never seen!). Oh, and Farscape? Not sure exactly whats going on or what Katratzi means or where it is. But very good. I think John really has cracked up. Again.
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Red Dwarf:I watched Future Echoes on Friday, as it was on a DVD that came with a DVD magazine. Its only when you don't watch something for so long that coming back to it, it surprises you how good it is. I've only just found out that Samantha Robson was in Psirens. I've seen the episode since she started in The Bill as well, so there's no excuses there. I will have to watch it again, now that I know.
Stargate:I'm going to miss Jonas if he's not in season 7 much. Yes, there are elements of him that are contrived - he learns quickly and does Daniel's job. But the rest of him is interesting, I think. Trying to earn Jack's friendship, learning about Earth from Teal'c. Speaking of which I love Teal'c this season (6). The whole team dynamic has changed, which is interesting to see, but I think Teal'c is loving not being the only alien. And having lived on Eaerth for five years he's a lot less alien than he was previously. He does jokes, sarcasm and interacts with humans without them realising he isn't.
Alias:Having just seen Passage part 1 I really feel for Jack. Having been betrayed by Irina he finds it hard to trust anyone or get close to them since. Maybe he and Sydney not speaking for many years was a part of that. As a result he really hates Irina, doesn't trust her and doesn't know what her motives are. And maybe a little scared that she'll betray Sydney the way she betrayed him. But even with all that he still loves her. I think pretending to be a family must have been really hard to do. We have no way of knowing though what Irina thinks. We can be fairly certain she doesn't love Jack, but she either loves Sydney or is pretending to. She must have been a very good actress to fool Jack for over seven years. Who knows what's really going through her head?
Okay, so that wasn't quite what I was expecting. Next to Sydney Vaughn looks like sucha wimp, being as she can run faster than him and kick his arse if she wanted to. I don't think he is, it's just the comparison. Its the same as Xander looking wimpy next to Buffy and Vila being a coward in comparison to everyone else on the ship. They're the normal people and that's probably how most of us would act in the same situation. Its the ones who can kick arse who are different. And I have to say, I feel sorry for Sloane. I just can't get over the fact he shares his name with a bad guy in Deep Space 9 and looks like Rene Auberjonois (if you don't look too carefully).
I got loads done today, which is good. I have to do some stuff with CDs though tomorrow, so I could watch some more of the Stargate film while I do it I suppose. I could always re-write my essay on the train next weekend. Maybe I'll be bored enough to finish reading The Two Towers, although I doubt it somehow.
Alias went to London on Channel 4 today. You can tell its London because they showed a red bus in the establishing shot. Because of course you don't get those anywhere else. Yeah, right. I doubt they really shoot a few seconds worth in all these different places somehow. I finally remembered to watch Casualty tonight. It was kind of weird to see him in a completely different role but looking the same. I only saw hin in two scenes though because Chris rung in the middle of it and the entire point of Russell Boulter is to listen to him. Not that watching's nice too, but its not quite the same if he's muted. Plus I didn't really want to watch too much of it being as I would quite like to sleep tonight. I'm really going to have to get some sleep in this week in preparation for getting ridiculously tiny amounts next weekend.
At last the week is finally over. I have watched so much Alias this week, and gone to a load (ok, a few) websites and read some fan fic. Oh, and got stung by a massive great but wasp. On the bottom of my toe. Which was really fun. Or not. I am going to update my website this weekend. I think Michael Vartan is going to get added to the guinness list. Not that I'm obsessed or anything. I keep thinking I need something to take my mind off him. I just need to see the rest of Alias, that I can get hold of, then once a week on Channel 4 won't prove much of a problem.
I can see how people get really into Alias. Its the same thing as Farscape, and a few years ago, Babylon 5. And that's only considering American TV. The only trouble is that you have to watch every episode in order to have a clue what is going on, and specially to appreciate it. Alias is the only one of the two that I've seen from the beginning. The trouble is that B5 faced not getting a fifth series (which might well have been a good thing in the end, but still) and Farscape is in imminent danger. Hmm. Doesn't bode very well for Alias then.
Think I will go to bed and watch some late night Friends to put me to sleep (okay, so I taped it earlier so I could watch the film).
Meant to write in this yesterday, but got tired and went to bed about half ten. Then couldn't get to sleep, so ended up watching a bit of Stargate Director's Cut at quarter to midnight. I have noticed some differences as well. Not entirely certain if they're better or worse yet though. Still totally indecisive about going travelling, hence the not sleeping. I should just see how it goes really, try to do some more IT at work, and if I want to go, it doesn't necessarily have to be next summer. I did realise that I really want to see the Northern Lights (can't spell technical name!). Everything I can pretty much take or leave to be honest. Then I'll have seen just about every stellar phenomena there is.
Been watching loads of Alias recently. I've just realised how good it is. Stupidly went to find some websites and accidentally read some spoilers for episodes I haven't seen yet, which is annoying. But I think some of them won't really make sense until I get to those episodes anyway, and I might well have forgotten them. I found some read hair dye in Boots, that is pretty much the colour I want and only lasts 3 washes, which is good. Unfortunately, you need blonde hair for it to work. Bugger.
Run out of other things to do now! Meant to do some work on my website, but haven't got round to it. Need to stop typing though, hand hurts. Will go and watch Stargate instead maybe (bugger all on TV of course).
The SG4 video was really sad, mainly because they played THAT song at the end. So then I went and found the What If video and realised I'd have to watch Meridian at least once for my essay. I think its because I haven't seen any Stargate with Jonas in for a while and I've only really read stuff with Daniel in. It would be cool if Corin Nemec was at SG5 though. Its only 4 weeks to go, which I can't believe. It still seems like such a long way away.
Went to Tae Kwon Do on Friday, which was hard, but good fun. Had completely forgotten until Sally rung yesterday that I was supposed to be going to Rotary tomorrow, so I won't be able to go to Tae Kwon Do. Have to take the Junior's Meeting tomorrow. Scary! I'm getting into Alias now. I just wish they wouldn't leave each episode on cliffhanger, then end it within 2 minutes of the next. Its just a ploy to get you to watch the next one, which if it was good in its own right, you would. We don't need to be treated like idiots who watch soaps. I am continually amazed at how nice Sydney's hair is when she's working undercover, considering how limp it looks any other time.
Ooh, want to know who that bloke is now. How can PoG go from Sean to Puke to another guy that quickly? Distinct lack of phone calls and texts tonight. Discovered I can tape Monkeys, hopefully as I'll be out and my computer won't be on to affect the reception. I can't believe Channel 4 showed the Alias advert before Futurama and during it. Its going to go like Enterprise, they keep showing the same things. Why not give us a trailer for the next episode rather than for the series itself? It was okay at first, but we're halfway through now! I might watch Alias, I think I'll need to see what the usual episodes are like. And I want to know why everyone is raving about it. And if I can manage to stay up till 1am next week I can watch some Highlander.
I think I ought to have another early night, as I'm feeling quite tired. Done something nasty to my knee though. I think I've bruised it inside - usually bruises on the outside don't appear that quickly, or look quite that nasty. I just have to be careful not to touch it. Stargate Infinity reminds me of something, I forget what though. Probably something I watched when I was little. Not only is it not any good, but there's continuity they've not bothered with, and stuff I'm sure they've done purely because its set in the future, where of course people commonly have blue hair.
I quite liked Alias, despite the pinkness of the video. I might watch it again if I'm in, but I'm not that bothered about it. Had a day of not getting much achieved really. Really bored of this week already! Would much rather be back in Derby really. Is it possible to be bored with 899 TV channels I wonder? Hmm, I could quite happily do a study into it...
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The first of these was a new conference, called New Friends. It is generally focused on social (though not always) robots for therapy and education applications, though the majority of work seemed to be more related to therapy, with quite a number of practitioners present, in addition to the more robotics-oriented researchers and organisations. As the first iteration, it was relatively small, though I am intrigued to see how it develops: for now, the second edition has been arranged to take place in Barcelona next year. I presented a short paper on some ongoing work I'm conducting on the potential use of touchscreens to characterise behaviour of children with ASD as they interact with a robot. If you're interested, you can find the paper here (paper number 27 in the oral sessions section). The abstract is as follows:
Robots are finding increasing application in the domain of ASD therapy as they provide a number of advantageous properties such as replicability and controllable expressivity. In this abstract we introduce a role for touchscreens that act as mediating devices in therapeutic robot-child interactions. Informed by extensive work with neurotypical children in educational contexts, an initial study using a touchscreen mediator in support of robot assisted ASD therapy was conducted to examine the feasibility of this approach, in so doing demonstrating how this application provides a number of technical and potentially therapeutic advantages.The second conference was the International Conference on Social Robotics, a far more established conference, this time in its seventh iteration. Bigger, but not by much, this conference does cover a wide range of topics and approaches, with nominally social robots being the common factor. Both the PhD students I co-supervise presented papers (which can be found here and here), which was great, and which seemed to be received well. I myself presented at the WONDER workshop some random thoughts squished into the semblance of a coherent argument about the wider implications of robots in classrooms. The paper can be found here, with the following abstract:
Robots are being increasingly used in schools by researchers keen to assess how they may be used to facilitate learning and provide support. Based on 15 school experiment visits at 9 different schools in the U.K., we outline our observations, specifically focusing on the broader implications of robots in the classroom primarily from the perspective of the teacher. We then outline the basis for future research considerations in HRI, centred around the three themes of pedagogy, methodology, and ethics. For further application of robotics to education, we suggest that these three themes need to form a central part of continuing research.


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What to do with broccoli when you don't want to cook your foods? Its particular structure seems not that attractive and is kind of challenge in a living cuisine. But challenges are opportunities! As soon as you know how to soften its crunchiness, how to sweeten its bitterness, broccoli becomes so accessible, even with its raw bite.
You will love the easiness of this super fast and surprisingly lovely dish. It only takes 10 to 15 minutes to serve dinner.
- Food processor
- Blender
- 1 C raw macadamia nuts or cashew nuts
- 2 TBSP apple cider vinegar
- ¼ à ½ tsp sea salt
- 3 TBSP date paste (simply blend a few dates with some water)
- ¼ C spring water
- 1 medium broccoli
- 1 red onion
- 1 spring onion
- 1 C sunflower seeds, soaked for 20 minutes (while you're prepping the rest)
- ½ to 1 C raisins
- Place the roughly cut broccoli, spring onion and onion in the food processor
- Pulse until you have a coarse, rice-like structure
- Transfer everything to a large bowl
- Mix the raisins and seeds in by hand
- Pour the dressing on top
- Stir well until everything is nicely coated
- Take a ring mold and shape a nice tower on your plate
- Serve as a tasty fancy starter or with salad as a main meal
- This broccoli salad brings spice to every "boring" salad
- Try out other dried fruits such as apricots, figs
- If you don't want to use macadamias or cashews, replace them by pine nuts
- An "ice cream scoop" of this salad in a collard leaf makes a wonderful wrap!
- Or serve a firm scoop in a beautiful Bordeaux radicchio leaf


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Yoshitoki Oima
Published May 26th 2015 by Kodansha Comics
Genres: Manga, Young Adult
Shoya is a bully. When Shoko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shoya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the children's cruelty goes too far. Shoko is forced to leave the school, and Shoya ends up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shoya make up for his past mistakes, or is it too late?
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My Thoughts
Shoko is a new girl in the elementary school. She is very different than any of the other kids, because she is deaf. She writes in her notebook to communicate to the other kids. But there is one kid in particular, Shoyo that really bullies Shoko. Shoyo is really mean to her and some of the other kids in the class is also mean to Shoko. She eventually leaves the school, because she continually gets bullied.
I really liked this manga. I feel so bad for Shoko, kids just don't understand that she can not help that she is deaf. And yeah she may be different, but that does not mean that other kids can be mean to her. Shoyo is such a little punk, I do not like him at all!! How can you be so rude to someone when they are different?
Overall, I definitely recommend this manga!! I can't wait to get into the next volume!!


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Assessment of Generic Computing levels 1 to 4
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Resources have been written to assist assessors of Generic Computing unit standards to develop their own quality assessment material, whether they work in a school, tertiary or industry context.
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- assist assessors to develop resources that promote quality assessment of Generic Computing unit standards
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Planning aspects of some computing standards
Many of the Generic Computing unit standards include processing elements and performance criteria that relate to planning, designing and evaluating tasks and projects that meet the requirements of a brief. These components impact on both assessment activity design and the carrying out of assessment.
See The computing process for guidelines and specific examples for unit standards 2786, 2787, 2788, 2792, 18742, 25657, 25658.
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21 Dec
Meringue Snowflakes
- ngredients
- 2 large egg whites, at room temperature
- 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 cup confectioner""""s sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon flavored extract, such as lemon, peppermint, orange, or almond
- 2 tablespoons colored sugar or edible glitter
- Instructions
- Heat the oven to 200º. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat the egg whites and cream of tartar until frothy, about 3 minutes. Set the mixer speed to high and beat another 3 minutes or so until the eggs whites are fluffy.
- Add the confectioner""""s sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, and continue beating until the egg whites are stiff and glossy, about 5 minutes. Then beat in the extract.
- Line two large baking sheets with parchment paper. Use a pencil to draw snowflake patterns on the paper. The meringues will not spread, so they can be drawn fairly close together. Turn the papers printed-side down and stick them to the baking sheets by dabbing a little meringue in each corner.
- Spoon the meringue into a large pastry bag fitted with a 1/4-inch round tip and pipe it, erring on the thick side so the snowflakes will be less fragile, onto the paper-lined sheets following the patterns. Sprinkle the meringues with colored sugar or edible glitter.
- Bake the snowflakes until dry but not browned, about 1 hour. Carefully slide the parchment paper from the baking sheets to wire racks and let the meringues cool completely.
- Using scissors, cut the paper between the meringues to separate them. Then gently peel away the paper from each one, keeping one hand under the snowflake to support the edges. The meringues will stay crisp for up to 2 weeks if stored in an airtight container at room temperature (do not refrigerate them). Makes about 20.


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I was walking home from a club late at night, having become separated from my friend earlier on in the night. I stopped on the steps of a cathedral close to my house to have a cigarette and look at the view, and as I came down the steps, a man came out of a side street and began to follow me.
He tried to talk to me and I politely told him that I needed to get home, and said goodnight to him. At that point, he began grabbing me by the waist, holding onto me tighter every time I slipped away from him. I turned around and screamed at him to leave me alone, by this point scared and beginning to cry.
As I walked behind the bus stop next to my home, he grabbed me again, this time refusing to let me go. He pushed his hand into my underwear, and sexually assaulted me.
Several cars drove past less than two metres away from where I was being attacked, in full view of the road, and as I can remember it was the fifth or sixth passer by who eventually stopped to help me.
– Anonymous
Location: Oxford Street, Liverpool, UK
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How Disastrously the Church must Misunderstand itself . . .
I'm reading volume one of Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics (I.1, The Doctrine of the Word of God), and he's discussing the nature of the church's talk about God. He highlights that the being of the church is Jesus Christ, and the center of the church's life is proclamation.
This proclamation must be "the repetition of His promise, repetition of the promise: 'Lo, I am with you alway!'" (58-59). Accordingly, the proclamation of the church "cannot be arbitrary religious discourse" (59). He characterizes the preacher in these terms: "the person called must be ready to make the promise given to the Church intelligible in his own words to the men of his own time. Calling, promise, exposition of Scripture, actuality--these are the decisive definitions of the concept of preaching" (59). For Barth, "proclamation must mean repetition of the divine promise. On the basis of the Word which God has spoken to His Church attention is drawn in His Church through men, to the Word which He wishes to speak to His Church" (67).
In this way, the life of the church is to center around the proclamation of the Word and the careful scrutiny of that proclamation (which is the role of theology/dogmatics). "In distinction from all scattered answers to irrelevant questions," Barth comments, "theology, and especially dogmatics, is the concentrated care and concern of the Church for its own most proper responsibility" (76). The role, and more strongly, the responsibility of the church is to guard and evaluate the proclamation of the Word.
After well-establishing this assertion (in fairly even-keeled manner up to this point), Barth sets off a small-print rhetorical explosion (the first that occurs in CD):
How disastrously the Church must misunderstand itself if, on whatever pretext, it can dream of being able to undertake and achieve anything serious in what are undoubtedly the important fields of liturgical reform or social work or Christian education or the ordering of its relation to state and society or ecumenical understanding, without at the same time doing what is necessary and possible with reference to the obvious centre of its life, as though it were self-evident, as though we could confidently count on it, that evangelium pure docetur et recte administrantur sacramenta! as though we could confidently leave this to God and in the meantime busy ourselves with the periphery of the Church circle, which has perhaps been rotating for long enough around a false centre! as though we could put ourselves in God's hands without a care in the world for what happens at this decisive point!
Again, how disastrously the Church must misunderstand itself if it can imagine that theology is the business of a few theoreticians who are specially appointed for the purpose, to whom the rest, as hearty practical men, may sometimes listen with half an ear, though for their own part they boast of living "quite untheologically" for the demands of the day ('love'). As though these practical men were not continually preaching and speaking and writing, and were not genuinely questioned as to the rightness of their activity in this regard! As though there were anything more practical than giving this question its head, which means doing the work of theology and dogmatics!
Again, how disastrously the Church must misunderstand itself if it can imagine that theological reflection is a matter for quiet situations and periods that invite contemplation, a kind of peace-time luxury for which we are not only permitted but even commanded to find no time should things become really serious and exciting!
As though there could be any more urgent task for a Church under assault from without than that of consolidating itself within, which means doing theological work! As though the venture of proclamation did not mean that the Church permanently finds itself in an emergency! As though theology could be done properly without reference to this constant emergency! Let there be no mistake. Because of these distorted ideas about theology, and dogmatics in particular, there arises and persists in the life of the Church a lasting and growing deficit for which we cannot expect those particularly active in this function to supply the needed balance.
The whole Church must seriously want a serious theology if it is to have a serious theology.


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Presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke at a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wisconsin on Wednesday, pledging to simultaneously support auto workers and a national transition to fuel efficient technologies, such as hybrid cars. Obama told the group of autoworkers, "If our government is there to support you and give you the assistance you need to re-tool and make this transition, this plant will be here for another 100 years."
Obama's speech came at the heels of GM's announcement of a $38.7 million loss for 2007 and buyout and early retirement offers to all of its hourly workers. "I know how hard your governor has fought to keep jobs in this plant" said Obama. "But I also know how much progress you've made—how many hybrids and fuel-efficient vehicles you're churning out." American automakers have recently increased their hybrid offerings, but the market is still dominated by Toyota and other foreign competitors.
Obama said as president he would spend billions of dollars to create so-called "green collar" jobs to develop more environmentally friendly energy sources. "My energy plan will invest $150 billion over ten years to establish a green energy sector that will create up to 5 million new jobs over the next two decades—jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced. We'll also provide funding to help manufacturers convert to green technology and help workers learn the skills they need for these jobs."
A Consistent Message On Hybrids and Jobs
This proposal is not the first time that Obama drew connections between domestic auto-industry jobs and green vehicle technologies. In Nov. 2006, Obama and Jay Inslee (D-Wa.) introduced " The Healthcare for Hybrids Act." The bill proposed that up to 10 percent of the retiree health care costs for a qualifying manufacturer be paid by federal financial assistance—that is, if the carmaker invests at least 50 percent of the those savings into hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles, including the retooling of assembly lines and the retraining of workers.
At the time, Walter McManus, an auto economist with the University of Michigan, said, "Senator Obama and Congressmen Inslee have recognized these companies are circling the drain, and with them our national economy and energy security. Their stroke of genius is in connecting the dots: Decreasing oil consumption is clearly a top national priority but it will not happen without a national investment."
"SUVS Become Hybrids"
In Wisconsin on Wednesday, Obama drew a comparison between hybrid production and shifts to wartime manufacturing after the Great Depression. "Prosperity hasn't always come easily. The plant shut down for a period during the height of the Depression, and major shifts in production have been required to meet the changing times," he said. "Tractors became automobiles. Automobiles became artillery shells. SUVs are becoming hybrids as we speak, and the cost of transition has always been greatest for the workers and their families."
In terms of his personal ride, in July 2007, Barack Obama traded in his Chrysler 300C, an eight-cylinder 5.7-liter sedan which gets 15 miles per gallon in the city—for a Ford Escape Hybrid, the first gas-electric vehicle produced by an American carmaker. The Escape Hybrid achieves 34 mpg in the city.


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American Workers Party
The American Workers Party (AWP) was a socialist organization established in December 1933 by activists in the Conference for Progressive Labor Action, a group headed by A.J. Muste.
Organizational history
The American Workers Party was established in December 1933 by activists in the Conference for Progressive Labor Action. The figurative leader of the AWP was A. J. Muste, although the organization had a structure and values that lent its radicalism a highly democratic and collaborative quality.
The AWP sought to find what it called "an American approach" for Marxism at the depth of the Great Depression. The group published a popularly written newspaper, Labor Action, and created Unemployed Leagues that attracted tens of thousands of members and ought not be confused with the Communist Party's Unemployed Councils.
The AWP is best known in labor history for its leadership of the successful 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite Strike, a forerunner that contributed to the creation of the United Auto Workers union. Exerting influence through its Unemployed League chapter, the AWP in Toledo kept the Auto-Lite strike from being broken by desperate job-seekers. Instead, the AWP brought the mass of unemployed to bear as a powerful vehicle for solidarity with the auto parts factory workers on the picket lines. The Auto-Lite strike—along with the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 (led by the Trotskyist Communist League of America) and the 1934 West Coast Longshore Strike led by the Communist Party USA—was an important catalyst for the rise of industrial unionism in the 1930s, much of which was organized through the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
While it never numbered more than a few hundred members, the AWP attracted a number of prominent labor activists, such as J. B. S. Hardman of the needle trades. It also attracted a number of intellectuals, many of them former members of the CP who rebelled against its strictures while remaining radical. The latter included James Burnham, Sidney Hook, James Rorty, and V. F. Calverton.
In December 1934, the AWP merged with the Trotskyist Communist League of America to form the Workers Party of the United States. This was the fusion of two revolutionary socialist organizations that had both successfully led two militant strikes to victory. Most AWP members were absorbed into the mainstream Trotskyist movement, with some, like Burnham, becoming major figures in the subsequent Trotskyist movement of the 1930s. A few others, such as Louis Budenz and Arnold Johnson, did not accept the rapprochement with Trotskyism and instead joined the CP, considering its adoption of the Popular Front to be analogous to what the AWP had tried to accomplish with its "American approach." Others, such as Hook and Rorty, became political independents but remained, for a time, largely sympathetic to the successor organization.
Further reading
- Louis Budenz. This is My Story. McGraw-Hill, 1947.
- Margaret Budenz. Streets. Our Sunday Visitor, 1979.
- James P. Cannon. History of American Trotskyism. Pathfinder Press, 1944.
- Farrell Dobbs. Teamster Rebellion. Monad Press, 1972.
- Sidney Hook. Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the Twentieth Century. Harper & Row, 1987.
- Christopher Phelps. Young Sidney Hook. Cornell University Press, 1997.
- JoAnn Ooiman Robinson. Abraham Went Out. Temple, 1981.
- Alan Wald. The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s. University of North Carolina, 1987.
External links
- A.J. Muste, "My Experience in the Labor and Radical Struggles of the Thirties." (mp3 audio) American Archive Pilot Project, Illinois Public Media, WILL. Speech of February 9, 1966. —Original resides in the archives of the University of Illinois.
- Toward an American revolutionary labor movement; statement of programmatic orientation
- On The 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite Strike, by Ted Selander, a participant in the historic strike (Archived 2009-10-25)
- Street Fighting Man, A Look at the 1934 Auto-Lite Strike
- Defunct political parties in the United States
- Defunct democratic socialist parties in the United States
- Defunct social democratic parties in the United States
- Defunct socialist parties in the United States
- Defunct Marxist parties in the United States
- Political parties established in 1933
- Political parties disestablished in 1934


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Item Number: 3628
Title: "Hurrah, the folks at home have learned English!"
Artist: Unsigned
Size: 19"x25"
Comments: Unusual WWI poster published by Connecticut Council for Defense which encourages immigrants to learn English so they can communicate with their sons in the Armed Services in France. This version has both Hungarian language and Yiddish!
Price: $395
Condition: A- to A, linen mounted, fine color


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Delegate - Goose - 90% Share
Hello! I consider myself new to the crypto world, however I have embraced it whole hearted in the past 6 months and haven't looked back. I've been tinkering with computers ever since I was given a Commodore 64 to play with at a very young age.
I've been somewhat skeptical of blockchain technology and its evolution over the past few years especially given the fact that everyone wants to run their own blockchain. Then I learned about ARK a few weeks ago and was convinced that this platform and smartbridge technology is what will bridge the silos of blockchains I see building up all around us.
I'm proposing myself as a delegate under the nickname goose. You can reach me on slack @goose if you have any questions on my proposal
Based on what I've seen so far, I strongly believe that Ark will be successful because of the fantastic community backing and contributions. I would also like to contribute to supporting the devnet as well. To that end I'm proposing the following. The forged ark share will be 90%.
Other Details:
Forged ark share interval: 211 blocks (approx every 24 hours)
- No minimum/maximum payout.
- tx fees are covered
- Minimum ARK wallet eligible for payment - 1 ARK
Note: distribution times may vary due to when blocks are forged. In addition, if there are network issues with excessive block times (which has happened periodically) it will take slightly longer to hit 211 blocks for share distributions.
As noted below in post 47 (TBW announcement), share interval will switch to 316 blocks (share approx every 36 hours) at 250 voters. After I hit 350 voters share will be set to 422 blocks (approx every 48 hours).
I plan to run 3 nodes (2 mainnet, 1 devnet). Note: I plan to upgrade as needed to meet the needs of the network
Mainnet Node – Primary
Host: Vultr
CPU: 2 vCore
Mainnet Node – Backup (stand by)
Host: Vultr
CPU: 2 vCore
Devnet Node - Home Ubuntu Server
Thanks for reading – vote for me if you can!
NOTE: If any transactions are sent to my delegate in error I will make every attempt to return the funds, however I cannot make any guarantees especially as it is dependent on the timing of said transactions.
Also all my voters are responsible for declaring and paying taxes on earned forged reward distributions.
updated with DevNet and revised profit share
also… if anyone has large balances that can get me forging right away and reduce the total amount of votes I'm flexible on payment arrangements and possibly %share
Update - I am at 85% and need a few more voters. If I can get 300-400k more from a limited number of voters I will remove the fidelity requirements and go to daily payouts.
Update: at about 95%… Almost there
I am now officially forging… looking for some more votes to get a more secure spot in the top 51. Thanks!
Update to daily payment, 24 hour fidelity and limit of 20 voters
still looking for some more voters! I'm forging now so come earn some ARK
update - opening the pool to 50 voters
Looking for some smaller wallets to add to my delegate. Effective immediately I will cover voting fees of any wallet with a balance up to 10000. DM me with your address for reimbursement on slack (@SG).
Payments have continued to flow…and voters fees paid. Enjoy!
Daily payments continue to be processed as usual. Still looking for more voters! If your wallet is less than 10k pm me or dm me on slack to have your vote cost reimbursed
Thanks for all my delegates for supporting me this first month (almost)! I'd like to announce some small changes going forward…
First and most exciting I'd like to announce a 1 month anniversary promotion that I will be running starting October 15, 2017 and will run for 4 weeks. All my voters (and new ones) will be eligible for a weekly raffle for a random voter (raffle results will be recorded and posted in delegate channel). Details are as follows
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Secondly, I am discontinuing my DevNet fund and will be announcing an new initiative SOON for what the 2% contribution will go towards so I'm very excited about that.
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As a 1 month thank you to my voters, today's share rate was 98% (effectively 100% net of tx fees)!
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Looking for 200-300k more voter weight to get in a safer spot. Am currently at #51 so I have the best return rate given share % and voting weight. Vote to keep goose from getting cooked!
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- Antonio da Silva Rego. Documentacao para a Historica das Missoes do Padroado Portuguese do Oriente. Vol. 5: Lisboa, 1951, pp. 395-513. Vol. 7: Lisboa, 1952, pp. 367-369.
- Diogo Barbosa Machado. Bibliotheca Lusitana. Lisbo, 1741.
- J.H. Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara. Ensaio historico da linga Concani. Goa, 1858. ET Theophilus Lobo, in A.K. Priolkar, The Printing Press in India.
A collaborative effort. You are welcome to contribute, especially if you happen to be an expert. The aim is to collect as comprehensive a bibliography of Indian Christian Writings as possible, both primary and secondary, according to author.
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Works of Jesuits and Franciscans in Goa: documentation
Tadkodkar (Goan Christian Marathi Vilapika during the 17th century, 2010, 6) gives the following documentation:
Posted by Ivo Coelho at 11:04
Labels: Franciscans, Goa, Jesuits, Konkani
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Dear Fr Ivo,ReplyDelete
Some of these works can now be accessed online.
Silvo Rego's "Documentação" is accessible from http://memoria-africa.ua.pt/collections/DHMPPO/tabid/218/language/pt-PT/Default.aspx
Machado's "Bibliotheca Lusitana" should be available on Google Books.
Rivara's "Ensaio historico" as well as Priolkar's "The Printing Press" can be read on the Digital Library of India: http://184.108.40.206/
Best wishes,
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Warburg Institute, London
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