When it comes to improving strength to weight ratio, no training strategy is as effective as weight loss. I wrote a series of express diet plans that we offer with our programs. Today I start one of my own. It's an extension of the Bob Diet that I did last month. Instead of focusing on alkalinity, this time I'll focus on caloric intake.
These diets came about when Jon Congdon, our president, asked me to write out what "seven days of perfect eating" would look like. Since this is different for each person, I wrote a bunch of versions of what a perfect week would look like for someone trying to kick-start a new exercise program. I worked with one of our trainers, Debbie Siebers, and created the 6 Day Express Diet Plan. It was so successful in our test groups that I then created a version for all of our trainers.
These are essentially a just week of ultra clean eating. They are also devoid of all but subsistence calories. Glorified fasts, if you will. They are about the minimum amount you should eat if you're trying to exercise. Even then, they shouldn't be done for long, hence the six-day moniker. We've extended them for up to two weeks, though it's almost always with added calories during the second week.
I don't have a lot of weight to lose, but if I can lose 8 pound, that's nearly 5 percent of my body weight. It's feasible that I could do this over the next month or so. There's no way to gain that much strength in a month. So as long as I can maintain fitness my strength to weight ratio will improve nearly 5%. Massive.
This type of diet is the wheelhouse for supplements. With minimized caloric intake you want to eat nutrient rich foods. Supplements are condensed nutrients, so a strategic supplementation strategy is essential. If done correctly, you will get maximum nutrients out of minimum calories.
This morning's weight is 177.4. Body fat is 14.8%. I'm using an in-accurate scale, as most are, and the highest readings. According to the scale, my body fat percentage went up 3% last night. But I'll take my measurements under similar conditions each day. I don't really care what the figures say as long as they read consistently. And drop, of course.
The King of Pop's legacy might stretch beyond moonwalking, odd adult behavior, unintentionally choreographing the world's most popular film genre, and defining the modern meaning of prodigy. The premature death of one of the world's most iconic figures may finally challenge us to stop turning a blind eye to the abuse of prescription medications.
Since I harp on this subject regularly I'll spare y'all my opinion and offer you the perspectives of a couple of famous MDs.
Being a celebrity does not change the simple fact that the user is a drug addict. And having an M.D. after your name does not change the fact that if you supply the addict you're still a drug pusher.
I've been beaten down all week. Last weekend was long and work has been busy and somewhat frustrating, a combination that has made my training week rather dismal. Despite long days I've barely been outside. My one ride hurt my back and my only gym session was uninspired. Today I serendipitously got my motivation back.
Beata's been wondering what's happened to her training partner all week. Today, feeling guilty, I took her down the street so she could stretch her legs in the park. She seemed a little low on motivation herself so slipped out of my flips and did a barefoot lap around the park to get her going. The resulting sensation was shocking.
From the first stride, the sensation of bounding shoeless on the soft grass brought me back to being a kid. I don't know when the last time I'd run barefoot was but the feel and smell brought on sensations of my youth. I've been training in barefoot-simulation running shoes but it's not close to the same thing. After a couple hundred meters of striding slowly I felt like a different person. Another lap and B was beaming, knowing she had me back. I finally had to stop myself. Barefoot running is something you should approach slowly. And the last thing I need is another injury to deal with. But the switch had been turned on. We came home and started scheduling the next phase of training.
It's funny how sometimes you lose perspective during a training program. I've been doing this stuff all my life. I know the drill because it's happened before, many times. But I still manage to get overly focused during training programs; allowing myself to grow stale when all I need is a change of scenery.
The trick is in figuring out what kind of scenery change will work. From now on I'll consider the power of youth.
This weekend I climbed 10 stars of sandstone (or maybe 9), and far too much of it in the sun. Our objective was to climb a couple of the best multi-pitch free climbs in the world. The result was good training. And that's cool with me.
Mick and I decided to use the longest weekend of the year to attempt the Rainbow Wall. The plumb line up the north face of Red Rock's most impressive formation has been called the best route in the world. Praise across the web could not have been higher. Comments included it being "the pinnacle of my climbing career, makes Cloud Tower and Levitation 29 (two very famous long free climbs) seem like warm-ups, most amazing route I've ever done," and so on. We left Salt Lake's unseasonably-wet spring and headed south towards a perfect weather forecast.
Passing Kolob Canyon I recited the tale of Sand, Sand, and Sand. My friends Kevin Thaw and Scott Cosgrove, fresh off ticking the hardest aid climbs on El Cap's perfect granite, decided to put their stamp on Zion. Their experience on the soft sandstone was less than stellar. After 5 days of "sand in our hair, sand in our sleeping bags, sand in our food…" they bailed one pitch from the summit in disgust. They called their route, Sand, Sand, and Sand in a parody of what was supposed to be the ultra classic in the canyon, Wind, Sand, and Stars. I had no idea our weekend would have a similar result.
Saturday morning we headed to Snow Canyon to try The Richness of it All, a four pitch "5-star" route. This had also received comments such as "the best multi-pitch route I've ever done." We figured it'd be a perfect warm-up for the Rainbow. After driving 'til the wee hours, we'd woken up late but still had time to squeeze it in before the afternoon sun would turn the wall into a microwave.
The first two pitches were nice. The rock was a tad soft, and often hollow, but the protection was fine and the climbing excellent. After dispensing the crux we had two 5.11 pitches to the summit. The first followed "beautiful wind-sculpted features" according to the guide. This, I suppose, was true. However these features tended to be hollow so the climbing had to be delicate. Near the top of the pitch my luck ran out as the sculpted features were gone and all I was left with was a series of sandy holes. I fell a few times trying to figure it out, blowing my onsight, and with the sun coming didn't have time to re-do it. I hoped Mick would have better luck but he didn't. Despite its meager rating, we both felt this pitch in its current condition was much harder than the crux. Climbable, for sure, but on soft sandy rock that was less than inspiring.
We dispensed with the last "amazing" pitch just as the sun came around. It was pretty good, but not nearly as hard or great as advertised. Mick's comment as we arrived back to the car was "that was disappointing. I wouldn't do it again." No worries. We had bigger fish to fry. Little did we know we were the ones about to be fried.
We drove south and by late afternoon were nestled in a small cave at the base of the Rainbow Wall. Our plan was to get up at first light, have a leisurely breakfast, and warm-up as we waiting for the wall to go into the shade. We had heard to expect this by around 9am.
The next morning it wasn't too hot in the sun so we started climbing. 10 pitches later we were still waiting for shade. We'd been sandbagged by our beta, which told us it was impossible to see the Red Dihedral in the sun unless you slept on Over the Rainbow Ledge. But here we were, melting on the ledge below the route's crux, and wondering what happened to the shade that should have been on us hours ago.
Finally the shade hit and we were off. However, our feet, swollen by our black boot rubber's contact with the rock, were killing us. Still, I was somewhat hopeful as I ascended towards the routes crux. At least until I saw the move.
Not being too flexible, stemming is not my favorite thing to do in climbing. This crux was an absolutely brutal stem move up an overhanging corner on miniscule footholds with nothing at all for the hands. Mick, a much better stemmer than I, seemed to have a better chance so I lowered and let him have a shot. No go. And not even close.
Now maybe we could have done this in proper conditions. It's not my kind of move, so I can't really say. But rubber loses strength in the heat and, with our feet in their current condition, power-stemming on the tiniest of rugosities was just not in our bag of tricks. Mick pulled through and climbed the rest of the pitch. I followed, not able to sort the move, even on top rope.
After our failure, we couldn't be bothered to do the final couple of pitches. We weren't here force our way to the summit but to free the route. Nature had beaten us, so down we went.
Except for our feet, and a little sunburn, we felt pretty good. We figured if we hurried down we could make the six hour drive home in time for a decent sleep. From the base of the wall, we made it back to our car in about 1:15, sore feet and all. Getting up had probably taken 1:45. The guidebook said to plan 4 to 8 hours for the approach, and one of the trip reports we found said to plan 6 to 10 hours. On the descent we talked about whether this info was a joke, and then whether maybe all of the hyperbole surrounding the Rainbow Wall was a joke. It's a good route, for sure. But a far cry from the best we've been on. It wasn't even our favorite route in Red Rocks.
pics, bottome to top: a peregrine on over the rainbow ledge who was making little noises that, we're sure, was laughter directed at us; mick, a tad sweaty, and happy to see shade on the way 'if only it'd move a little quicker'; me on the first pitch. devious climbing, exacerbated by warmth; view of vegas from our bivy; mick enjoys a mug of wine in our cave; mick dealing with what once were, apparently, beautiful, sculpted features; me on the "crux" of the richness of it all; even hemlock's broiled steak couldn't save our day. now maybe if we had some wild turkey on the rocks to wash it down..."
My status as a human lab rat means that I must indulge in all of life's various avenues, whether healthy or unhealthy. Last night's little foray into the lower depths seemed innocuous. My wife sandbagged me with some new weird flavor of M&Ms. Both last night and this morning I felt awful. I'm very healthy most of the time but I also experiment with virtually any diet or training program that comes across my desk. In the name of science I drink, smoke, exercise for hours without food and sometimes water, and have been injured so many times from testing the limits of a training regimen I can't begin to count. I'm a human test tube. But not much affects me as negatively as good old American junk food. What is in that stuff?
This will be turned into a more scientific article or series. Today I just wanted to cite some anecdotal observations. I think the last time I felt as bad as I did last night was when Ben and I ate a bunch of Halloween candy. The problem here isn't sugar. I eat sugar all the time. It's usually in a sports concoction of some kind but I also indulge in desserts and nice restaurants and, occasionally, eat a little chocolate or Nutella. But there is something different about standard candy that you find on any convenience store rack. Every time I indulge I feel awful, even if it's for sporting purposes.
Last fall, after a long ride (hours longer than I was planning) with no food I was sugar crashing. I pulled into a Circle K and went for some candy items on sale. I don't remember what they were, exactly (Twix and Reece's come to mind) but eating a few hundred calories of this crap didn't provide the same type of glycogen recharge as, say, Recovery Formula or a bunch of Hammer Gel would have. In fact, I don't think it gave me a recharge at all. I went from feeling famished to feeling sick.
If you read the labels of these foods, as well as much of what you can get in fast food restaurant chains, it may not look too bad. The macro-nutrient profiles can look similar to healthy foods. A Snickers bar, at first glance, looks somewhat balanced. It's under ingredients where things get fuzzy. Here we have an assortment of stuff you can't pronounce, and most of it is some type of food processing by-product that we've found a way to add into our foods that has received very little scrutiny and testing.
One side of this argument is that the food scientists are trying to use Eskimo-like efficiency. The difference is that we were probably meant to consume every part of a whale but our creator never ran the calculations on the effects of genetically modified corn. Those scientists are using us as lab rats and, unlike me, most of you are being used unwittingly.
I once ran some experiments on food combined with long bouts of drinking. Those of you who went to college—especially those who participated in the Greek system—are fairly well-versed in late night eating. The entire chain of Jack-in-the-Box wouldn't exist without this demographic. My experiments including getting schlossed and fueling to the best of my ability, not eating anything, or hitting the post-tavern fast food establishments. On all counts, I fared far worse when I ate junk food.
These experiments could be quite extreme. Drinking seven martinis, chased by only water, yielded a much lighter hangover than seven (or six or five or four) martinis chased by fast food. (Btw, using proper nutritional strategies, such as hydrating with an electrolyte replenisher (Recovery Formula fits this profile), could lead to virtually no hangover.) I then tried the late-night eating without the drinking. What do you think happened? The result was a bad night of sleep and a hangover.
These are just a few examples. I've got a life full. The weird thing is all of this is that eating after drinking doesn't necessarily end badly. Eating normal—but not necessarily healthy food—at home, like cereal, some good cheese (unprocessed) and crackers, a sandwich, etc could have a positive effect. But eating fast food, whether it was from Jack-in-the-Box, 7 Eleven, Winchell's or whatever, always led to worse results. What, in God's name, is in that stuff?
Back to now-not-so-recent trip, here is Romney's account of France. Tres magnifique!
It's a long report, with heaps of pics. Enjoy!
In spite of their reputation for rudeness, I've always enjoyed the French people and their county. Very much so. This trip was being hosted by Americans. Namely, my friends Bruce and Alisa, whom I knew from my climbing days and, also, from hangin' out at the art studio they opened just down the street from where I lived in LA. Like me, they were climbers turned cyclists. Like me, the loved the French lifestyle.
After a few years of riding and racing I began climbing again. This hadn't yet happened with Bruce or Alisa and it just seemed wrong given there were living amongst some of the most beautiful limestone walls in the world. One of the coolest things we did was to get Bruce back on a rope. He was a super strong climber, as well as a climbing instructor, back in the day. It was fun watching him, not only get psyched himself, but how his instructor-ness came back also. I think he taught Lisa more in a couple of days out than I have in a year.
bruce, attempting a F7b on his second climbing day in a decade. rad.
Actually, everything we did was super cool. The trip was amazing. It's always hard to leave Europe and this time was no different. It was probably harder than ever. On our last days we were looking at bed and breakfasts. I hope they buy one because I can't wait to go back.
our hosts and les artists at the incredible museum of the absurd.
Yesterday I used our still-spring-like conditions to put the finishing touches on Ronde van Salt Lake City. It's got to be the best urban ride in the US. Seriously. Okay, so I always say that everything I'm currently doing is the best thing ever. But... seriously. I'm going to organize a group ride in the coming month or so and add coordinates on the web. Everyone should do it. No, really, seriously.
It took me a while, and a fair amount of exploring, to concoct this. But there are very few sections of the entire ride when I'm not looking around and thinking about how cool it is. It's hard, but not impossible for a weekend warrior. And it's laid out in a way where those wanting to abridge the challenge can skip hard climbs or sections of "SLC pave".
I'll post the exact course later, along with a date for a group ride (which will be a Sunday in the next 6 weeks or so). For now, here is the general scope.
16 bergs, the longest of which is less than two miles and many are very short.
10 sections of SLC pave, the longest of which is less than two miles and many are very short.
20 or so bridge crossings, most of which are short (over the Jordan River), but all are made of "wooden cobbles".
It passes by many of SLC's famous landmarks, including great views of every canyon from City Creek to Little Cottonwood, a bunch of mtn bike and hiking trailheads, a few climbing areas, The Jordan River Parkway and most of its parks, most affluent neighborhoods, the hip neighborhoods, the burbs, the hood, downtown, every major sports venue, the U of U, a quarry (you have to ride through a quarry for full Utah experience), and, of course, the crazy downtown LDS complex.
The first 40 miles or so are mainly flat, at which point you're only about 15 miles from where we'll start. This makes it a pretty doable ride for most people. Over the next 40 or so you hit most of the climbs and all of the pave. It's brutal. Over the last 20 or so miles it's almost never flat. If it were a race, any attack here could succeed as there's never a point where a group would have a huge advantage for long. During this last section there is only one stop light to deal with, and probably only 20 or so over the entire ride.
It could be better. It could have real cobbles. It could have Belgian food. But they don't have our scenery, so it stacks up. Because this course doesn't go into the mountains it'll be best as a spring ride. Fall will probably come with too much puncture potential (stickers and such). Summer, when I'm doing it this year, can be brutally hot. So this modern classic will officially begin next spring, though I'm giving it a test run soon. And everyone should come. Seriously.
section of single track that's better on a road bike than a hippie bike. seriously.
I made a little video of the type of things that go into a first ascent. Generally you do all of your cleaning hanging from a rope. This presents its own set of challenges but at least you don't have to dig stuff out of the ground.
The work you do on first ascents can be grueling. We generally never climb on work days because we're completely exhausted. In fact, we used to schedule work phases into our training. Nothing burns calories like building new lines on an overhanging wall. It's like combining aerialist training with construction work. It can also be a little dangerous as you're often wielding heavy machinery. We used to lament that we should be paid for public service. Climbing activists generally have little in the way of funds but spend countless hours doing what is considered highly skilled labor for free.
My friend Micah was in town this week so it became a transitional block as I showed him around the local crags. This worked out well as my tendonitis has really calmed down. I think I'm ready for the next phase of hard training. This I'm going to need. Badly. The above little work session added about 10 reasonably hard moves to my project. And it's not like it wasn't going to push my boundaries already.
At dinner last night with my wife and one of her co-workers we were discussing the declining state of health in our society. There is no longer any question that most of this is due to poor health habits. We eat bad food, we eat too much of it, and we don't exercise enough. The result is that type 2 diabetes and other related lifestyle-induced diseases are the fastest growing illnesses in the world.
I'm in favor of a national health care system of some sort. Dave's main problem with this is covering people who don't bother to try and keep themselves healthy. On this point, I concur, but I pointed out that we do this now. While we don't have an actual health care plan we do have a national system. In this system anyone can use an emergency room. So now our ERs are filled with people who have minor ailments, which interfere with those who need emergency treatment.
While the above paragraph somewhat summarized to talking point of the left and right on health care, the actually issue lies elsewhere. The solution is health practice. As a nation we could easily afford to take care of those who are sick and injuries if we could get rid of the problems associated with poor eating habits and lack of exercise. We've done it in the past, with both alcohol and tobacco, when we realized the national impact it was having. It's high time we begin doing the same thing with other lifestyle behaviors that are costing society.
I'm not going to cite any numbers or details yet. These are just my opening thoughts. I'd like to start formulating a plan. If we can formulate a compelling argument we can use to three or so million of us associated with Beachbody to make ourselves heard on a national level.
We need to make the next step in food labeling. Our current macro-nutrient profiles can hide how our foods are often devoid of phytonutrients. What we need is to have every packaged food to be given a grade by the FDA: A – F.
Then, like using Michi's Ladder, you'd be encouraged to eat higher grade foods. Of course we'd have corporate lobbying and disputed grades but, for the most part, good foods would still be obvious. For example, maybe a good potato chip would get a C while a bad one got an F, but no potato chip could ever get better than a C because no matter how you look at it these have no place in your diet other than as an indulgence. Ditto for ice cream and most desserts. All fruits and veggies would be A or B. No sense splitting hairs here. We'll want to do this as consumers but veggies from nutrient depleted soil are still better than the best French fry.
Next, the government only allows food stamps to pay for A and B grade foods. If we don't allow them to be used for beer and smokes, how can we allow them to be used for Coke and Cheetoes, which are arguably worse for you? There is no way a person on assisted living should be able to be obese. Yet this demographic is now highly obese and putting a huge strain on our health care system because of it.
The insidious reason why is because their diets are mainly made up of cheap processed food. There is no logic to why processed foods should be cheaper than those that take no processing until you understand how large scale food companies operate. Most "convenient foods" are made up of many bi-products from corn and soy production. These ingredients, such as high fructose corn syrup, soy lecithin, etc, etc, should be waste products but we've clever found ways to not only use them in our foods, but make entire foods out of them. Oh, the wonders of what chemical flavoring agents can do with what is essentially trash.
Most of this doesn't have much nutrient merit so we fortify with just enough cheap vitamins and stuff to label it food. Obviously, this gook will be lacking some of nature's subtleties but, hey, if it's crunchy, tasty, and fills us up who's to question it? Maybe the FDA can step in here and do some good.
We may be eliminating health class in school, or having our nutrition taught to us by the soda companies, but it's not going to take an educated person to understand that if their cupboards are filled with D and F labeled foods that they probably could eat a little better. I think this one step would end up saving our country billions of dollars in health care costs. And it's just step one. Next time I'll present my exercise ideas.
I'm intrigued enough to give these a look. A lot of this barefoot simulation that's a new trend in footwear definitely has some merit. I've been using Nike Free's and Newton running shoes since December. Since I've been injured I haven't given them what I feel is a proper test. But will do soon enough. So this is part one of the barefoot trend in footwear.
If you like cycling, you've probably read many accounts of Paris-Roubaix. But you probably haven't read a tourist's account of the race, which Lisa has summed up with her usual style.
Back in the states, I'm still exploring roads, bike paths, steep streets, and other more eccentric places to ride your bike for my upcoming Ronde van Salt Lake City. Took Trent our for some exploration yesterday where we got a couple of "I've never seen a road bike out here" comments. Trent says the ride is going to be stellar. I concur.
Finished my virtual Giro yesterday near the back of the pack. I'd say it was expected but think my lack of winter conditioning made it even worse than expected. I'm tired, of course, but also a weaker climber than when it began.
Training doesn't yield improvements all the time. Sometimes you've got to lose fitness in one area in order to gain fitness overall. This month's concentration on base conditioning and volume has reduced my absolute strength. It's frustrating, but necessary. For one, my overall goals include long hard days and require a strong aerobic system. Also, my focus on climbing exclusively had resulted in a tendonitis flare-up, which also needed (and needs) to be addressed.
At the beginning of the virtual Giro I'd hoped to be able to have long climbing days. I had one, but as my tendon issue wasn't getting better I needed to axe these, as well as the pull-ups, in order to focus on rehab. I did manage about 10 times as much riding and running as I'd done all year. I'm still pathetic in both of those areas, compared to where I've been the last decade or so, but starting to come around.
Dr. Fred Hatfield said, "Power and endurance, ne'er the twain shall meet." My ultimate goals require both, so I want him to be wrong. But he's right in that you can't train both simultaneously. At least not effectively. So for phase two of my 90-day program I'll be heading back into the gym to regain my climbing strength, while maintaining the aerobic gains I made in May, which will actually improve these areas because as I recover I'll get stronger. And my virtual Giro beatdown has the old body screaming for recovery.
pic: I live in a beautiful place. Here's the view from part of my latest concoction, The Tour of Salt Lake, an urban ride that mimicks the Tour of Flanders. With 16 of SLC's steepest bergs, lots of miles, dirt, and SLC pave, this, too, will require improvements in both power and endurance.


Mostly short, powerful boulder problems. Lots of shade. Close to the river which blocks out the sound and smell of cars. Fun place to train circuits.
Approach: Park before pump house, cross river and follow trail for several minutes. Another smaller trail will be on your right and will take you to first cluster.
Access Issues: Stay away from the pump house and you will be fine. There are trails around the parking area.


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Feedlot operations over the years have increased revenue and boosted economies of states and countries, but these operations have resulted in elevated concentrations of nutrients in soils, surface water, and groundwater. Feedlot operations generate large quantities of manure and other waste, which when not managed properly can result in environmental problems.
It is hypothesized that nitrogen can cause a short-term contamination of soils and groundwater beneath abandoned feedlots, but phosphorus can cause both short- and long term contamination, especially in well-drained carbonate and iron-rich soils associated with Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. It is also hypothesized that a spectral vegetation index can be used as an effective indicator of plant-available soil nutrients and optimum soil conditions for precise decision-making in fertilizer application. To test these hypotheses, analysis of soils, graminoid tissues, aerial spectral images, surface water, and groundwater samples from a former feedlot in northwest Minnesota were used to quantify the phosphorus budget, characterize nutrients movement and plant vigor, and determine the fate of nutrients.
Soil analysis revealed elevated concentrations of sequestered phosphorus at the confined animal holding areas, in contrast to varying concentrations of nitrate in the wetlands. Groundwater analysis indicated a steady decline in nitrate concentration due to denitrification, leaching, and plant uptake, with sequestered phosphorus released in soluble form due to reduction conditions. These nutrients are transported into the wetlands for consumption by plants and microbes. Although there was no relationship observed between spectral vegetation indices and plant tissue nutrients, the indices correlated with soil-available nutrient and soil properties. Modified soil-adjusted vegetation index (MSAVI) was the best index for characterizing plant vigor and soil relationships due to its reduced sensitivity to atmospheric conditions and the changes in vegetative cover as compared to the other indices. The lack of any relationship between plant tissue and the spectral indices suggests that acid digestion approach used in plant tissue nutrient analysis may be problematic due to the volatility of some of the nutrients.
This research provides insight into the viability of feedlots abandoned more than a decade as a source of phosphorus to supplement the primary sources of phosphorus used in fertilizer. It is estimated that crops remove approximately 2 to 15 mg kg-1 of phosphorus for growth. Phosphorus concentrations in some areas exceed 50 mg kg-1, which implies no soil phosphorus fertilization is required for plant growth. Agronomists and stakeholders in agriculture and food security should take a holistic approach and conduct feasibility studies on using sequestered phosphorus in abandoned feedlot soils as alternative source of phosphorus fertilizer.
Gbolo, Prosper Prosper, "Quantifying nutrient cycling and fate within an abandoned feedlot and adjacent wetlands" (2014). Theses and Dissertations. 104.


Q1. Hello Henry, How are you today? Let's start off by talking about St Thomas. Can you give us a run down on what the town and it's folk were like.
It was a small community, and tightly knit. That's a necessity in the desert. You have to lean on one another, whether for help in the home or out in the fields. I ran the town garage, but spent a lot of my days in the cotton fields and orchards along the Muddy River, as well as working on the railroad, which came into the western part of town. It made a big difference to us, finally having that railroad to deliver provisions and livestock. The character of the town changed drastically when the government came into buy us all out. A lot of good, hardworking people were forced off their land. They didn't want to leave, but looking back now, what else could anyone do?
I met Ann long ago in church, when I was a young man and still observant. She was sweet, and strong…and stubborn. Had she lived long enough, I'd like to think she would have been right by my side when I turned down the government's offer for our property.
She enjoyed reading, too. It was because of her that I learned to love books.
Q3. Have you always stayed in St Thomas? Ever been travelling? If you haven't been abroad where would the ideal holiday destination be?
Never travelled much beyond the Moapa Valley. No need. St. Thomas is my paradise, I never wanted to leave, and if I had to do my life over again, I'd do it the same way.
Q4. Seeing as you are a character in a book, if you could jump ship and join another book which would you choose and how would you alter the story?
Noel Lord (from Howard Frank Mosher's Where the Rivers Flow North) and I would have made one heck of a team. Not sure I would have made much of a difference in his story, nor he in mine, but we would have raised a little more hell together.
Q5. Here's a question from Abbygayle, aged 7, from Upper Twatton. "What did you do when you was a kid? It must 'ave been totes boring not to have Internet and books an all that.
School, church, helping around the house and in the fields, fishing and playing ball — plus trying to stay cool despite the desert heat — didn't leave time for much else. We did have some books. What is the Internet?
OMG! You don't know what the Internet is? It is sooooooo amazing. You can do so many useful things like watching people pop pimples and Japanese girls eating ice. You can find out what the weather is doing outside if you can't see the window. This boy at school told me about this video where two girls do something with a cup but I've not seen it yet. You really should check it out, it's really cool.
Q6. Could you explain your reasoning behind not selling the house? Did you have a theory on why you thought the water wouldn't reach your house?
Looking back, it was wishful thinking on my part. I had no theory, no idea whether the water actually would or would not reach my home.
But you know, if I sold the house, that was it. Whether or not the lake flooded my land, I'd be out either way. If I refused to sell, I at least had a chance to stay on my property. And remember, I did stay on my property for another full 10 years before my home was flooded. That water had to travel 70 miles before it reached me…and I still can't believe it happened.
Q7. Could you give the readers a book recommendation to sit on our fake library?
Roughing It by Mark Twain, one of my grandson's favourite books. It has some great stories that take place in the Territory of Nevada during its early existence.
Q8. How proud are you of young Henry and what he did with his life?
I couldn't be prouder…wish I could have stuck around a while longer to see more of it. But I'd say that no matter when I passed.
Q9. Describe the perfect meal. Include food, setting and company.
Anything fixed by my wife. She would be there, as would my son, Thomas, my daughter-in-law, Ellen, and my grandson, Little Henry. It would be back home in St. Thomas, just as if nothing had ever happened.
Q10. Normally I have a question about President Trump at the end, instead this time it will be about President Coolidge. If Coolidge was to turn up at your garage with car troubles what would you do?
I'd service his car as I would for anyone else. I'd do my job well, and I'd offer him the same price I'd offer anyone. I'm a businessman, and like anyone worth his salt, I pride myself on quality and fairness.
I wouldn't shake his hand though.
I would like to thank Jackson Ellis for playing the part of his character, it has been great fun. I do recommend you give Lord's of St. Thomas a go, you can find info on Goodreads and Amazon. Also check out Jackson's Website and follow him on Twitter.


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Q: Joining models in django through 2 ForeignKeys Is there a possibility in Django to create a query that would uses two ForeignKeys to create a join between tables?
To illustrate what I mean suppose I have the following models in Django:
class Author(models.Model):
     name = models.TextField()

class Publisher(models.Model):
     name = models.TextField()

class BooksSold(models.Model):
     author = ForeignKey(Author, related_name='books_sold')
     publisher = ForeignKey(Publisher, related_name='books_sold')
     books_sold = models.IntegerField()

class BooksPrinted(models.Model):
     author = ForeignKey(Author, related_name='books_printed')
     publisher = ForeignKey(Publisher, related_name='books_printed')
     books_printed = models.IntegerField()

I would like to join the BooksSold and BooksPrinted tables using the Author and Publisher keys. In sql it would be:
SELECT A.author_id
      ,A.publisher_id
      ,A.books_sold
      ,B.books_printed
FROM table_books_sold A INNER JOIN table_books_printed
ON A.author_id = B.author_id AND
   A.publisher_id = B.publisher_id

The method I am currently using is to iterate over one of the models join in through one of the ForeignKeys and filter with the other ForeignKey, which would be for this example:
   def get_books_printed(books_sold_model):
       return next(b for b in books_sold_model.author.books_printed if b.publisher_id = books_sold_model.publisher_id

   books_sold_models = BooksSold.objects.all().prefetch(author__books_printed)
   for book_sold_model in books_sold_models:
       books_printed = get_books_printed(books_sold_model)

I would like to know if is there is a way to avoid iterating through all of the instances until I find the match with the other ForeignKey

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When you are looking at drum sets for beginners, the ddrum DD1 Plus electronic drum set is almost certainly one you will encounter.
Of course, the question you have is this: Is this a good drum set for beginners or should I look for something else?
If you already know it's the one you want, you can click here to see the DD1 Plus on Amazon.
If you still need more information, read on. The detailed review below should give you a good idea about whether this one is for you or the beginner that you're buying for.
What Features Does the DD1 Plus Have?
Who Should Get the ddrums DD1 Plus Electronic Drum Set?
Since the ddrum DD1 Plus electronic drum set is relatively new (2016), perhaps not many have had the opportunity to try it yet. That said, if it were the greatest new drum set on the market, wouldn't everyone be snapping it up and gushing over it?
Since I don't see that happening, I think it's safe to agree with those who have bought and used it when they say that this is a good set for beginners but not the very best.
The ddrum DD1 Plus is an expansion of the original DD1, which was even more disappointing to owners than the Plus version. Some complained of latency when hitting the pads. That is, you would hit the drum or cymbal and have to wait to hear the sound. It was not immediate as it should be.
The DD1 Plus does have some nice features that you might not expect a drum set in this price range to have, though this does seem to be changing in recent years.
You can see and hear examples of this in the following video. This video doesn't give much information, but you do get to hear what the drums sound like.
See the DD1 Plus at Amazon now.
Perhaps one of the biggest attractions to this kit is its styling. The basic black of the aluminum frame and rubber pads is accented with bright red plastic rims and other highlights. If the venue in which you are going to use this set doesn't mind all this glitz, you have a really snazzy drum set to play.
The sound module brain with its LCD display has all the inputs and outputs you would expect – line input, headphone jack, USB port, MP3, and MIDI. As a beginner, you probably won't use all those connections, but it's good to know they exist for when you want them later.
It has 35 stock kits and a total of 335 sounds. The stock kits consist of 24 preset kits and 11 you can create on your own.
You can try to play along with 60 different songs using the training functions provided within the sound module.
As pictured, you get a snare, 3 toms, and 3 cymbals on this rack. In addition, there is a kickpad and kick pedal, but there is no throne (seat) with this kit that is made in China.
This isn't the most exciting video either, but you can hear more of the different sounds available.
Ready to get the DD1 Plus now? Go to Amazon here.
You get a one year parts and labor warranty on this ddrum product, with the exception of 30 day warranty on the drum trigger.
There's just not a lot more you can say about the DD1 Plus electronic drum set. Experienced drummers generally don't care for it and tend to find fault with it, but it's not made for them either.
As I noted above, it's intended for beginners who will more than likely be satisfied with what they get. And if you are purchasing the DD1 Plus for someone else, you probably are okay with the price you have to pay.
If you've come to the conclusion that the DD1 Plus is not what you want, check out this article about other electronic drum sets that are also made for beginners. You'll probably find one you prefer there.
Get your ddrum DD1 Plus electronic drum set at Amazon today!
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Announcing the New Pat Metheny Unity Group!
"The Unity Band project was life-changing for me," says guitarist Pat Metheny. "I have led many groups of talented musicians, but what went down with that band on a night after night basis was inspiring in a way that was really unlike anything else. When we did our last gig, as we walked off the stage all I could think about was that I didn't want it to end, and I knew it was the same for Chris, Antonio and Ben too"
"For the past few months, I have been trying to find a way to extend our time together. At the same time, I have been feeling the pull to do the kind of lush and harmonically dense music with lots more written material that has always been a big part of my larger groups and projects. One night I woke up with the tantalizing idea of really taking "Unity" concept all the way and forming a platform for the first time that could cover the entire spectrum of things that I have done as a bandleader over the years under one roof. With this lineup, everything from Bright Size Life to Secret Story to all of my Group stuff to Song X could be within range - and more. And I expect to further integrate the Orchestrion concept into the fabric of what this band can be as well."
"An incredible musician appeared on my radar thanks to a recommendation from my friend, bassist Will Lee. His name is Giulio Carmassi. He comes from Italy and I guess you could say that he is a "multi-instrumentalist", but that barely scratches the surface of what he does. He is an excellent piano and keyboard player, plays fantastic woodwinds and brass, guitars, bass, drums and sings like an angel. He told me he was inspired by seeing one of my bands perform in Italy when he was young and often thought about having the multi-instrumentalist seat on one of my projects.
With Giulio added to the core-four of us, with Chris Potter (in addition to being one of the most exciting soloists in jazz on any instrument and already one of the most versatile woodwind players in history, he also happens to be a killer piano player and very good guitarist), with Ben Williams being equally great on both acoustic and electric basses, and with Antonio Sanchez, one of the greatest drummers in the world right now, just about anything will be possible."

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Martin Brinkmann
Updated • Jan 4, 2018
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A picture comparing Apple's iPhone with the iPhone Nano which is supposed to come out in October 2008 was published on Flickr. The iPhone Nano, as usual, will be smaller than it's first generation predecessor but also cheaper retailing for a price of $300 or less.
The iPhone Nano will have a smaller 2,75" screen compared to the 3,5" screen of the iPhone Classic. According to this comparison it will not offer Internet access which is a huge drawback if you ask me. It is still multi-touch and combines a phone and music player in one device but will only ship with either 4 or 8 Gigabytes of Ram compared to the 8 or 16 Gigabytes of the classic iPhone.
I personally can't see that the iPhone Nano will be highly successfully especially if you consider that it will not have Internet and less storage. Do you think it is a wise move to remove Internet from the iPod Nano? Let me know.
Update: It is now 2012 and the iPhone Nano has not been released until now. Rumors have come up every now and then that Apple may be about to release the Nano version of its popular mobile phone, but those rumors until now have always been incorrect.
Apple may however still be working on the device, for instance to push it out in emerging markets and to consumers who do not want or need Internet on their mobile phone. The Internet mobile boom on the other hand may be something that speaks against it, and it is very likely that the device will ship with Internet enabled after all. This would not only mean better connectivity for its users, but also more profit for Apple considering that users make use of the company's app store to install new applications.
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Ocean said on January 2, 2008 at 5:00 pm
There are lots of non-geek types that would never read a site like this one, that would go ga-ga over a $199 or a $219 iPhone.
Take off the geek glasses. :)
Thinker said on January 2, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I think hackers will enable Internet in Nano version and then it will be usable. If I could choose I would take Nano anyway. I hate having a brick instead of small phone in my pocket.
And I wonder if smaller screen would make it work longer.
serena m said on July 6, 2010 at 7:56 am
sme some of those internet obsessors r awesome at things like this but i dont know any :(
Enigma said on January 2, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Removing the internet features is a mistake if you ask me. The number 1 reason why the iPhone was successful was due to the way it handled the internet. Does this also mean the wireless functions have also been removed?
It still does not support 3G and does it still support Edge?
the reason i think they took internet away is so they could make the nano smaller i know it stinks but if you add a myspace app or wtvr or have a ipod touch u prty much fixed the problem :D
Dudley said on January 2, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Even on a 7″ Display(Eee PC) it ain't the "real" Internet, like they try to tell you.
I'll probably never get it, why the hell they highlighted that argument so much.
i think they did that is so the customer dosent sue walmart or target for giving them a jank phone
>The number 1 reason why the iPhone was successful was due to the way it handled the internet.<
Jesse said on January 2, 2008 at 7:26 pm
If I'm gonna pay more than 100 dollars(usd) then it better have the internet and a 2MP camera on it.
WizzKid said on January 2, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I picked up an iPod Touch, and its been amazing. I have always wanted an iPhone, so this might be what I am looking for – dont really need internet as I have my iPod Touch for that :)
WizzKid
linuxeventually said on January 3, 2008 at 2:00 am
I hate to break it to you, but how reliable is your source? Photoshopped: http://www.informationarchitects.jp/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/iphone_2.png ?
electric-curiosity said on January 3, 2008 at 11:43 am
I don't need internet on the go but i do love the idea of a "phone nano" so if it's cheaper without internet it's a pretty good deal compare to the rest of the phone models nowaday
MW said on June 17, 2008 at 5:41 am
Yes!!! I had the org. iPhone and I loved it but I didn't use the internet and e-mail nearly enough to justify the very expensive bill. I gave it to my wife who uses that stuff all the time for her business. The pic above looks awesome, the fact that you will not have to pay for the insane data bill is awesome! I'd rather pay an extra $100.00 more for an iPhone nano with not data that can pick up Wi-Fi like the touch then have to deal with a 70.00 plus bill every month to use the internet/e-mail on the go. Can't wait until October if that's the date!!
Sinz said on July 12, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Firstly thats a scaled version of the original (photoshoped) and its also improbable as the home menu button wouldnt be smaller, because know first hand apples insistance that that particular button be finger/thumb tip sized, no smaller.
[email protected] said on July 25, 2008 at 2:42 am
I think the whole idea of inventing a smaller version of the iphone is a great idea!!!…..BUT, personally I don't think that it will sell just because it doesn't have the internet on it. And on top of that it doesn't have alot of space to hold what you can put on the phone.
anon said on August 5, 2008 at 5:30 pm
there would be no reason for apple to take of the internet unless there was some reason… and i think the reason is because it's going to be a pay as you go phone, so it'll be more affordable and be opening up the iphone to more people.
drea said on August 11, 2008 at 7:49 pm
i think it's a good idea.
then more TEENS whose parent's say they don't need an iphone because it has the internet and they don't need the internet would be able to get it.
which is my case.
that'd be really cool. especially since there's a new iphone that's like 200 bucks, the nano would probably be like 100.
kai said on August 12, 2008 at 4:47 am
yes, the size might be fine.
what no internet means. no wifi?
but you can still pay the EDGE to online, right?
Twerply said on August 13, 2008 at 2:48 am
The Nano is a "beta" for some future development of the iPhone – call it the "Nano Plus" – which will have all the functionality of the Classic (plus any new features that may have been developed in the meantime) with the Nano size and (maybe) price tag.
Apple is releasing the thing in order to get consumer feedback and decide if people like the new smaller size. If they do, then the "Nano Plus" with Internet access will appear in a year or two.
jake said on August 13, 2008 at 6:30 am
WOW is what i have to say. My god i have been waiting for the iphone nano since the iphone came out. O MAN O MAN who needs internet….who needs alot of memory….who the hell needs 3g. I know i dont. im gonna be in line a week before it comes out just so i can get one.
wow apple wow
(dumb F**KS)
Sinz said on August 13, 2008 at 7:55 am
Jake your the dumb f**k if you read anything youd know its a fake and the image is photoshoped
connor said on August 25, 2008 at 2:22 am
If it is a fake then o well but apple may take notice of it and mabye its is a future idea
Mike said on August 26, 2008 at 1:14 am
I think it's a great idea to remove internet. There are a lot of people that choose another phone over the iphone just because they don't want the extra charge, but they would still like to have an apple branded music player and cell phone in one device. People that want internet can just go for the original iphone. Why do you think At&t even SELLS phones like the RAZR v9.
Angel said on August 27, 2008 at 10:56 pm
I don't think they should remove internet. This is one of the things that makes the iPhone so great. I hope they also have email capabilities on it as well. Some of us prefer the larger capacity models for different reasons and professionally it makes sense for people who rarely have the time to sit at a computer. Smaller models should not offer anything less but the space. How people use the room it is entirely up to them. I think all applications should be open to it as well. I think a smaller version of the iPhone makes sense since I have been told by friends that they wish they had one but it's just too costly.
On another note, parents I know tell me how their kids want iPhones. Why not make it easy on the parents' budget, too? I say go for it and leave no feature behind! If the iPhones made such a big hit when they 1st came out, why wouldn't the Nano phone do as well?
Oh did forget one thing. One should be allowed to block internet if they don't use it just as you can do with any other phone that can use internet capabilities..
Marty said on August 29, 2008 at 1:04 am
IT'S FAKE … notice the WIFI logo beside the AT&T…. was it not suppose to have internet ??? theres no icons for all the sofware for internet such as safari, maps, weather, stocks or youtube…. so … must be this picture fake
raider said on September 2, 2008 at 9:37 am
Maybe they removed the i-net because the keyboard was too small as it is. I don't know how typing is possible on that size of screen. This is for the rich OC 10 year olds.
Mandy said on September 7, 2008 at 6:47 am
i was thinking like ok im going to wait for the iphone nano better than the iphone but then i read that it will have NO internet so i was like what? what the hell the internet is one of the reasons why the iphone is succesfull in the first place! they cant do that! i hope them to change their mind or something and keep the internet that will be perfect!
adf said on October 13, 2008 at 6:58 pm
what is wrong with u? its an obvious fake.
Anonymous said on November 11, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I think the people who want internet access will obviously opt for the normal iphone.
But others, such as myself, that already have a blackberry for work, or for those non geeks, who want a cool looking phone will want it.
Brilliant idea to increase there market share for non-internet seeking, yuppyish people.
DJ said on December 10, 2008 at 2:47 am
Ummm, no internet? Why on earth would you cripple a nano iphone with such a useful, inexpensive feature? Are they trying to save the $1 worth of hardware required to make it internet capable?
The nano is exactly the phone I want b/c the classic form factor is a BRICK. I want a small feature rich phone with all the bells and whistles.
Frogs said on December 23, 2008 at 3:55 am
There will be an I phone nano, but it will be dumb if it doesn't have internet. There is also rumor that a cheaper Iphone will be sold at Walmart, but who knows.
Charles said on December 23, 2008 at 6:59 am
iPod touch nano would probably fare much better, especially if they eliminated the other nanos.
steven said on December 24, 2008 at 4:52 pm
well its december and it didnt come out. but there are more rumors. if theres no interent they should price this at 99$ for one with no interent and then make a 16g with interent for 199
Anonymous said on December 27, 2008 at 5:04 am
IT IS FAKE. Thank you have a nice day.
Thomas said on January 1, 2009 at 6:16 pm
I love how it says "no internet" and it has wifi signal!
Jay said on January 4, 2009 at 7:00 am
Come on guys . There is no such thing and it's jan 09 now. And please don't insult apple they would never do it that way. Now the new nokia that looks just like the iPhone coming fall 09 will be something. They stated that they basically copied the iPhone. That's how it's done
john said on January 5, 2009 at 5:04 am
If there is no internet on the iPhone Nano, then why is there a wifi signal?
target said on January 5, 2009 at 2:11 pm
I heard apple patented some new way of typing, because i can imagine it would be hell typingon anything smaller then it already is…
me said on January 14, 2009 at 4:37 am
love it !!!!!!!!!!so beautiful
Steve said on January 15, 2009 at 3:11 am
Look at the vertical spacing between the icons in the third row. It's fake.
james braselton said on January 17, 2009 at 5:13 am
HI THERE WHO WOULD USE THE IPHONE NANO SMAALER AND HAS LESS CAPACITY UNLESS APPLE HAS A MICRO SD OR SD CARD SLOT OR A USB FLASH DRIVE PORT FOR EXTRA MEMORY WICH WOULD LET ME USE A 16 GB MICRO SD CARD A 32 GB SD CARD OR THE CORSAIRE 64 GB USB FLASH DRIVE WICH THEN YOU CAN SQWEEZ A WHOPPING 72 GB OF FLASH MEMORY
Ra said on January 19, 2009 at 3:05 am
Iphone Nano = smaller battery = even shorter battery life. Boo
Derek said on February 6, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Look, The nano appears to still have wifi access which is some common place it is like having 3G, plus the huge cost barrier for a lot of people isn't the cost of the device it is the hugely expensive data plans you have to pay for every month. I think it has a market look at how many people have bought the shuffle (ugh). All that said this point is likely mute since this picture looks faked.
roboticsbm said on February 23, 2009 at 11:57 am
I think it's fake but the iphone robot isn't, check it out:
http://roboticsbm.blogspot.com/2009/02/using-modern-technology-for-robotics.html
go4bacon said on March 12, 2009 at 2:21 am
Apple would never make a phone without internet. Plain and simple. When Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone, he emphasized "a widescreen ipod, revelutionary new phone, and a mobile internet device." Its these things that currently define the iPhone, and the mobile internet is one of the things I use more than any other feature, and I seriously doubt that it would be excluded to make a smaller device. look what they were able to do with the 3rd gen ipod shuffle. More features in a smaller package. this is definitely a fake.
jspeed said on March 16, 2009 at 5:06 am
I'm definitely more interested in an iphone nano if it does exist. As much as I'd love to have an iphone and the internet at my fingertips wherever i go, the $30/month access charge is as much as I pay for high speed to my home. I can't justify paying for internet twice, but having wifi like an ipod touch would be the next best thing. If this doesn't pan out, I'll likely have a phone and an ipod touch to have the best of both world.
Anonymous said on March 23, 2009 at 1:59 am
Im going gaga over it
John Q said on April 7, 2009 at 12:30 am
Why is there a WiFi symbol up top?
megan said on May 8, 2009 at 10:07 pm
i'm sorry but i don't think this iPhone nano thing is very cool. no internet? come on!
mexistache said on May 31, 2009 at 5:47 pm
I know it's pretty obviously a fake but if you need more proof it clearly says no internet, but there is a Wifi signal strength bar in the top left, and the glare on the home buttons is identical meaning it is just a scaled down version of the original picture. Also apple would not do this as the app store's apps would not be compatible with this new hardware.
mo said on June 7, 2009 at 12:58 pm
I think if there is no internet access, that would be a big drawback. In this day and age, our gadgets do need to be up to date. However, from a point of view of cost, it will open the market to those who currently cannot afford the iphone. I love small, as think small is beautiful, however the internet access is such a plus, I personally could not now do without it
hello said on June 8, 2009 at 6:07 am
should be able to have the OPTION if you want to pay for internet or not, but every phone these days SHOULD be available with internet
stephan said on June 10, 2009 at 10:19 am
yeah I agree with the NO INTERNET thing but the iphone has internet and u end up getting a BILL IN A BOX that's how much it costs and for ppl who want an iphone but can not afford 1 would be able to pay for this its like $$$199$$$ and ppl will bye them :) but they r pretty gay lol
what do u mean bill in a box? n anyways i think u can add myspace,twitter,facebook,ect. apps on it its kiinda like ppls own lil lupoles bsides those r prty much all u can go on (not including mail) but if u have the ipod touch its not much of a problem for most people + it is the CUTEST phone ive ever seen in my life lol :D
Sister T. said on August 2, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I actually stopped using my iphone. It is big and bulky and not very female oriented. It doesn't fit in a pocket for girls clothes. It takes up half the space in my purse. I can't take it night clubbing.
I just want a phone, text, and a to-do list app. and my itunes playlist. I sent an e-mail to apple requesting a smaller phone for "tweens". The iphone 3G is for people that have a job and not for students. Parents won't spend that kind of money for data packages for their kids. They will buy a Nano size iphone with basic features without internet for the kids.
I am tempted to try the small iphone that is made in China… I think it is called the K08, with double sim card….
i toootaly agree i dont want the iphone because how huge it is and im afraid when i sit down ill break it in half or itll fall out or SOMTHING you could prbly make a lotta money offf tht plenty of people copy apple but add or take things away and call it theirs apple is an insparation to a lot of companys and some of the people in the hq prbly dont even realize it :o/
raquel said on September 23, 2009 at 4:30 pm
All that costs(is worth) the mobile?
Robert Vasquez said on October 20, 2009 at 7:35 pm
can the nano tex????
yeah not being sarcastic but if you look at the picture the green square with the speach bubble is the button you press to txt
can u add myspace,twitter,or facebook apps or did they just remove the safari and that ability hmmm i think i found a lupole or however u spell it hee hee ;)
am really suprised that taking away at least four GB wasnt enough to make it that small 4 i read this i thought they just took some gb away to make it smaller and cheaper apple made a mistake with that
misxzmkulitsxz2106 said on September 14, 2010 at 10:33 am
what is this i cannot bealive this but i don't lyk this i want bigger, bigger is better a little bit is never enough………….
Asshead said on February 11, 2011 at 3:35 pm
where is it now????
faaiz said on February 14, 2011 at 7:32 pm
this iphone nano is fake ??
Anonymous said on February 27, 2011 at 10:13 am
Why is it iPhone if it doesn't have Internet iPhone means a phone of mac that is made with wifi
Ipod is with no wifi its probaly 7th gen or 20th gen of nano
Jo Jo said on June 12, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Nope, Iphone nano should definitely include internet otherwise people like me will have no choice, but to purchase phones from competitors with smaller, more convenient phones that are internet ready. NO INTERNET< NO SALE. Iternet is standard for smartphones, there is no reason why this iphone nano should be a dumbphone. Not having internet is like not having a steering when for your car.
Emma said on August 30, 2011 at 5:28 pm
That nano pic is not true because it is past 2008 but i have heard rumors about an iphone nano coming out later.
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Paul Strand was, personally, an aloof man. In a new retrospective, we see how this detachment helped him shape modern photography.
One lure of taking photographs is that you get to hide behind a machine and safely observe the world. You get to look, without being seen. This was especially true in the early days of photography when photographic equipment was bulky and when exposing the film or plate required a dark area at the back of the camera. The dark area was created with a black hood. The experience of taking a picture meant getting under that black hood and entering another world from which you could watch the real world outside. The pleasure of it must have been like being in a pillow fort as a child. You are in a safe and hidden space, but you get to peer out through the cracks between the pillows in order to see what all the adults are doing.
"Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography." Through January 4, 2015 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
But even Winogrand's aggressiveness was, I think, a luxury of hiding behind the camera. The camera was his weapon and his defense. He didn't have to encounter anyone in the street face-to-face when he was out there taking pictures. He was never fully naked. He was never fully exposed. Everything he experienced could be filtered through the reality of the lens and the viewfinder. Winogrand once said, "I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me." There is incredible egotism in this statement. There is also the tacit admission of vulnerability. Winogrand badly wanted to look at the world, but only when the world had been safely captured in his image.
The first truly great master of photography-as-the-art-of-detached observation was Paul Strand. Strand was born in 1890 and lived all the way until 1976. The story of Strand's life is, in many ways, the story of how photography became a modern art form. There's a retrospective of the Paul Strand story currently on exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography). The Philadelphia Museum, with its recent acquisitions, currently owns the world's largest collection of Strand's work.
You can see, in the exhibit, Strand's first photographic pictures from the very beginning of the 20th century. Strand was, at the time, heavily influenced by a movement called Pictorialism. Pictorialists wanted to take the rough edges out of photographs. They wanted photography to be more like painting. They used soft focus techniques. They sometimes added color, brushstrokes, and other effects to their prints to enhance the sense that these photographs could be paintings. They made pictures that were moody and diffuse.
Strand showed some of his Pictorialist photographs to the influential and older photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz told Strand to ditch the Pictorialism. He advised Strand, in so many words, to let photographs be photographs. That's a central tenant of Modernism. Don't be afraid of the medium. Embrace it. If photographs produce harsh, extremely detailed images, so be it. The harshness, the detail, the inherent realism — these can all be strengths. With Stieglitz and Strand, photography stopped trying to be like painting and started truly to become its own art form.
One of Paul Strand's most famous early pictures is a portrait of a blind woman (Blind, 1916). The woman is standing on a street corner in New York City. Her right eye is heavily damaged. Her left eye looks sharply off to her left. Around her neck is a hand-painted sign that reads, "BLIND." Above the sign hangs a small medallion with a number on it. It is her vendor's license. Blind couldn't be further away from Pictorialism. It is a rough and confrontational image. It is a gritty picture of social reality in 1916 urban America.
Paul Strand was highly sensitive to social injustice, to the plight of the poor and downtrodden. He wanted to take pictures of real people: workers, peasants, the socially marginalized. This desire eventually led Strand from photography into film. He travelled to Mexico in the 1930s and made a film called Redes (1936) about a fishing village along the Gulf Coast of Mexico. The film is a tale of social justice — or the lack thereof — and class politics. It is a heavy-handed narrative, to say the least. Strand made another film about the working class struggle in the US, Native Land (1942). But the film was released a few days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Union organizing ceased — with the declaration of war against Japan — to be a national priority. Strand had missed his political moment. So, he went back to snapping photographs. Strand realized, in retrospect, that he'd always preferred the solitary and otherwise lonely work of the photographer to the inherently collaborative work of the filmmaker.
The decision to return to photography seems to have been born of an accurate self-assessment. Strand wasn't good at working with other people. He was most at home alone, behind the camera. Strand was personally aloof even when away from the camera. His close friends described him as difficult to know, guarded, unwilling to talk about feelings. In a 1989 documentary about Paul Strand (Strand, Under the Dark Cloth) his second wife, Virginia Stevens, describes Strand as being essentially unavailable to her. Strand took Stevens to the Gaspé in Quebec for their honeymoon mostly so that he could shoot pictures of the beautiful coastline. He showed Stevens how to look at slabs of stone and the wood on the sides of barns. Stevens says this was all a revelation to her. But the revelations were those of a life-teacher and mentor, not a husband. Strand's photography had great passion in it, Stevens says, but as a person Strand "could not sit and touch you and caress you, he could not do that." It has been said by more than one person who knew Strand that he was a lover of humanity in the abstract, but not necessarily of the individuals out of which that humanity is composed.
During his marriage to Virginia Stevens, Strand started seeing a psychologist. When Stevens asked him what they talked about, Strand answered, "Photography." Stevens came to the conclusion that people like Strand are not disposed toward self-analysis. It is dangerous to their art. Strand was obsessed with visual images, with what they reveal in the clarity of their surfaces. He wasn't interested in the insides — his own or anyone else's. Strand needed to strip all the other material of life away, Stevens said, "and be clean and clear and work." Strand's personality mirrored what might be the core dichotomy of the art of photography. Photography draws us closer to human experience by creating images that distance us from that very experience. The photographer gets to look closely at people and things in the world by staring into a little box of reflections. Paul Strand the man was an especially good candidate for being a great photographer. He was fascinated by people and could barely stand to get near them.
The more you look at a picture like Blind, the more you see those two tendencies written right there on the photograph. It is an honest and forthright picture of an individual woman. Strand really and truly looked at this woman, a woman who was mostly invisible (and who lived in a sightless world herself) to the people passing in the street. She can't see and she doesn't get seen. Strand wants to see her.
At the same time, Strand is held at a distance from the woman by the very apparatus he is using to see her. Looking at her in the image on the other side of the camera, the blind woman has already become for Strand a visual specimen to be studied and analyzed. This feeling is enhanced by the medallion with the vendor's number around the woman's neck. She is being numbered and catalogued. Blind Woman, number 2622.
You can see the same tension in the nature photographs Strand took about a decade later. In 1927, Strand took a picture in Maine known as Cobweb in Rain. It shows thousands of individual raindrops captured in a web. Strand is looking very closely at nature here. You want to say he is looking lovingly, but it isn't true. There is too much analysis for that. Leaves and grass and trees are fully alive in Strand's shot, but the picture is a study in the formal properties of nature. Living things have become abstractions. Cobweb in Rain is a picture that is both "close-up" and completely detached.
Strand moved to Europe at the very end of the 1940s and lived mostly in a small town in France for the rest of his life. In the towns and villages of Europe, Strand discovered subject matter that his art had always been seeking. Strand took pictures of dozens of people in Luzzara, Italy. He assembled the photos into a book. The book gradually reveals, page after page, the story of the town. Everyone is related in some way to everyone else. The reality of each individual life and the reality of the social life of the place are interwoven. Nothing is hidden.
With the eye of the machine, Stieglitz … has shown that the portrait of an individual is really the sum of a hundred or more photographs. He has looked with three eyes and has been able to hold, by purely photographic means, space-filling, tonality and tactility, line and form, that moment when the forces at work in human beings become most intensely physical and objective. In thus revealing the spirit of the individual he has documented the world of that individual.
The best illustration of these ideas is a photo generally known by the title The Family. It was taken by Strand in Luzzara in 1953. The Family shows a mother standing in a doorway surrounded by five of her adult sons. The photograph is highly posed. Strand told everyone where to stand and what direction to face. The result is a study of five different kinds of men and a mother, the totality of which make up the reality of this specific family. The son sitting on the ground looks straight at the camera, bemused. His brother to the right gazes to the side, taciturn. The son in the doorway stands directly across from his mother, watching her with a physical protectiveness.


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Unique records, 23 results 23
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The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion Records,, 1 results 1
Rees Jenkin Jones Family Papers, 1 results 1
Sir John Ballinger Papers, 1 results 1
Breese Manuscripts,, 1 results 1
Daniel, David R. (David Robert), 1859-1931, 3 results 3
Ballinger, John, 1860-1933, 2 results 2
Oldfield-Davies, Alun, 1905-1988, 1 results 1
Parry, Robert Williams, 1 results 1
Danaher, Kevin, 1 results 1
Davies, J. Glyn (John Glyn), 1870-1953, 23 results 23
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Lloyd, John Edward, Sir, 1861-1947, 2 results 2
Williams, John, 1840-1926, 2 results 2
Davies, George M. Ll. (George Maitland Lloyd), 1880-1949., 2 results 2
Davies, Clement, 1884-1962, 2 results 2
Wales -- Politics and government -- 20th century, 1 results 1
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Davies, J. Glyn (John Glyn), 1870-1953
Barddoniaeth,
507-8C.
[1901x1921].
Part of Cwrtmawr Manuscripts,
Two notebooks in the autograph of John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd') containing transcripts of 'cywyddau', etc. by the following poets: Wiliam Llyn, Huw Llyn, Morys Dwyfech, Lewis Daron, Sion Wyn Owain, Kadwaladr Kesel, Huw Machno, Edmwnd Prys, Sion Philipp, Gruffydd Phylips, Huw Pennant, Lewis Menai, Wiliam Kynwal, Rissiart Philip, Richard Kynwal, Rhus Kain, Howel Reinallt, Sion Brwynog, Watkin Klewedog, Morgan ap Huw Lewis, Inco Brydydd, Dafydd Na[n]mor, Gruffudd Grug, Iolo Goch, Owain Waed da and Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig hên. Nearly all the poems are eulogies of, or elegies on , persons from Llŷn and Eifionydd. On the first page of MS 507 is the following note by J. H. Davies: 'Codwyd o lawysgrif Mr J. Glyn Davies ? Gan Myrddin Fardd' and it seems probable that the contents of MS 507 and the first ten items in MS 508 were transcribed from J. Glyn Davies MS 2 (though not in the same order), perhaps with a view to publication. The remaining poems appear to have been transcribed from various sources, including Cwrtmawr MS 454. Pasted in after the poems in MS 508 are two newspaper cuttings relating to 'Phylipiaid Ardudwy'.
Letters to the Reverend D. E. Jenkins,
Part of D. E. Jenkins Manuscripts,
Fifty-one letters, etc., from Edward Carey (registrar), University of Liverpool, 1932 (acknowledging receipt of an application for admission to the degree of Litt. D., and enclosing a receipt for the fee), [the Reverend] J[ohn] E[dward] Carey, Treverbyn Vicarage, St. Austell, 1906 ( replying to recipient's query relating to the incumbents of Otterham, the writer's previous parish), [the Reverend] Arthur Carter, Thrussington Vicarage, Leicester, 1903 (enclosing information concerning the descendants of the Rev[erend] John Owen, a former vicar of the parish), [the Reverend] Reginald A[rthur] Cayley, Stowell Rectory, Sherborne, [19]06 ( replying to a query concerning the Rev[erend] James Hooper, rector of the parish, 1820-1828), David R[ ] Charles, Hoylake, 1904 (acknowledging the return of letters, a little memorandum book of Mr. [Thomas] Charles of Bala in the writer's possession, enclosing a portrait of the writer (now kept in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Maps)), C. A. Christie, Roydon, near Ware, [19]06 (requesting the return of 'the Rev. Jones's Diaries'), [Messrs.] R. and R. Clark, Limited (printers), Edinburgh, 1917- 1929 (6) (the disposal, by pulping, of part of the remaining stock of 'Charles of Bala' [recipient's Life of the Rev. Thomas Charles], financial matters, the binding of copies of recipient's work, Bedd Gelert, [its Facts, Fairies, and Folk Lore (Portmadoc, 1899)]), [the Reverend] G[erald] H[enry] Colvile, Weston Rectory, Shifnal, undated (a reply to recipients query re the Rev[erend] Robert Pugh, who, the writer suggests, had been curate of Weston under Redcastle, co. Salop), the Rev[erend] W[illiam] H [ ] Cooper (secretary of the Monmouthshire Presbytery), Abertysswg, [19] 36 (extending the Presbytery's official congratulations to recipient on completing fifty years service with the [Calvinistic Methodist] Connection), the Rev[erend] T[homas] G[eorge] Crippen (honorary secretary, the Congregational Historical Society), London, 1905-1906 (2) (replying to recipient's query concerning [the Reverend] Mr. [S.R.] Pittard [Congregational minister] at Somerton, co. Somerset, circa 1816-1830, a letter from [the Reverend] Thomas Charles to his son Thomas, 1807, in the writer's possession), Miss Frances M. Daniell, North Nibley, near Dursley, [19]08 (a reply to recipient's query concerning the Rev[erend] Charles Thomas [nephew of the Reverend Thomas Charles of Bala], minister at North Nibley, 1832-1838), D. C. Davies (general secretary, Welsh Council of the League of Nations Union), Cardiff, 1921 (a meeting to be held [in Denbigh], the possibility of a canvassing campaign to enrol members), [the Reverend] Daniel Davies, The Rectory, Denbigh, [19]06 (informing recipient that the Rev[erend] John Williams was curate of Denbigh in 1788), [the Reverend] D[ avid] Davies, Llangwm Vicarage, Corwen, [1]905 (a record of the burial of Dorothy Ffoulkes, 1742, and of Tho[ma]s Ffoulkes, 1744, in the Llangwm registers), [the Reverend] David Davies, The Rectory, Trawsfynydd, 1905-1906 ( 2) (searches in the Trawsfynydd registers, an extract re the burial of the Reverend John Pryse, ob. 1809 [curate of the parish]), [the Reverend] D[avid] W[illiam] Davies [vicar of Cilcennin with Llanbadarn Trefeglwys], [19]07 (an extract from the Llanbadarn parish register, recording the burial of the Rev[erend] Timothy Evans, ob. 1837, vicar of the parish), [the Reverend] E[dward] J[ames] Davies, Nantglyn Rectory, Denbigh, 1906 (information concerning the Rev[erend] Rice Pughe, vicar of Nantglyn, 1788- 1806), [the Reverend] E[dward] O[wen] Davies, Bangor, 1927 (advice to recipient on certain [Calvinistic Methodist] denominational matters), Ellis W[illiam] Davies [M.P. for the Eifion division of co. Caernarvon, 1906-1918, and for Denbigh, 1923-1929], House of Commons, 1924 (congratulations to recipient on receiving the degree [of M.A. of the University of Liverpool]), [the Reverend] J[enkin] Davies, Llanfair Rectory, Harlech, [19]06 (the writer's inability to trace the name of a Reverend R[ichar]d Morgan as incumbent of the parish), John Davies, Abergavenny, 1908 (a visit by the writer, in 1884, to ?George Thomas, then of Brynmawr, who claimed to be a nephew of [the Reverend Thomas] Charles of Bala, Thomas's story that his elder brother, Charles, had been sent to Cheshunt College by his uncle, and that he had subsequently been ordained at Dursley, the writer's inference that this was the Charles Thomas who had been a minister at North Nibley, near Dursley [see letter from Frances M. Daniell above], the writer's conversations with 'old people who listened to Thomas Richards preaching [the Reverend Thomas] Charle's Funeral Sermon at Crickhowell'), J[ohn] Glyn Davies (University of Liverpool), Denbigh, [19]28 (enquiries concerning a house in Denbigh), [the Reverend] John H[enry] Davies, St. Mary's Vicarage, H[averford] West, 1904 (the writer's inability to find any information about John Charles), J[ohn] H[umphreys] Davies [registrar, and later principal, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth], Aberystwyth and Cwrt Mawr, Llangeitho, 1905-1906 (3) (a note on some of the descendants of [the Reverend] Peter Williams [1723-1796, Methodist cleric], an inspection of books ? with a view to purchase by the college, a suggestion that a bust of Robert Roberts be placed in the National Library 'when it comes into existence', lack of further information about Tho[ma]s Charles and Marg[are]t Williams), [the Reverend] Joseph Davies, Goytre Rectory, Abergavenny, 1906 (2) (information concerning the Rev[erend] Joshua Davies (ob. 1820), one time curate in the parish of Goytre, and later vicar of Dingestow), L[eonard] Twiston Davies, Rockfield Park, Monmouth, [19]34 (a reply to recipient's query concerning John Davies, Maes y Groes, near Cilcain), R. Davies (town clerk), Denbigh, 1928-1932 (2) (the editing of the Official Guide to Denbigh, 1928, the town council's official congratulations to recipient on his receiving the degree of D. Litt., [of the University of Liverpool]), [the Reverend] F[rederick] W[yldbore] Wingfield Digby, The Vicarage, Charlton Horethorne, 1906 (enclosing a copy of a memorial inscription to [the Reverend] John Taylour (ob. 1785), a former vicar of the parish), and F. J. Dryhurst, Woking and [London], 1925-1929 (12) (genealogical research relating to the Dryhurst family in North Wales) (included with one of the letters is a typescript copy of a letter seeking information concerning the Dryhurst family, written by D. E. Jenkins (with suggested amendments by F. J. Dryhurst), for insertion in the Western Mail).
North Wales Temperance Federation, etc.,
A group of papers of R. A. Jones, Beaumaris, 1919-1928, including holograph letters, receipts, and manuscript, typescript, and printed minutes, circulars, rules, etc. relating to the North Wales Temperance Federation and the North Wales Union of Evengelical Churches. The correspondents include J. Glyn Davies, 1927 and J. Talwrn Jones. The group also includes a letter, 1919, from D. J. Davies, Caernarvon to the Reverend H. P. Roberts, Beaumaris, relating to the rental of a room at Beaumaris for a tent of the Independent Order of Rechabites.
Correspondence,
NLW MS 9485E.
1909, 1918-1923.
Part of Breese Manuscripts,
A draft letter on 'Tariff Reform and the Welsh Slate Trade' sent to the Manchester Guardian by Charles E. Breese, 1909; and correspondence, 1918-1923, by Horatio Bottomley, H. B. Randolph, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, J. Glyn Davies (general secretary of the North Wales Temperance Association), D. Lloyd George and A. Bonar Law (recognition of Charles E. Breese as the Coalition candidate for Caernarvonshire, 1918), Willoughby Gardner, John E. Greaves, W. R. Hughes, Edward Jones, Llanllyfni, K. Jones, Portmadoc, the Marconi International Marine Communication Co. Ltd., J. Pritchard, Llanberis, Sidney Robinson, and Sir Robert J. Thomas.
General letters to O. M. Edwards
AG1/30
Part of O. M. Edwards Papers,
The file includes letters from John Ballinger, Alfred T. Davies, J. Glyn Davies, J. Kelt Edwards, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, J. Towyn Jones, Bishop John Owen (2), Owen Griffith Owen ('Alafon'), W. J. Parry, J. F. Rees (3), J. Machreth Rees, J. Herbert Roberts, Lord Clwyd (2), and Walter Runciman.
Ballinger, John, 1860-1933
Letters: Daltman-Davies, J.,
C1/4.
Part of J. H. Davies, Cwrt Mawr, Papers
The correspondents include: D. R. Daniel (3), 1899-1912, Thomas Darlington, 1901, Sir Alfred T. Davies (3), 1908-1917, D. Cunllo Davies (7), 1913-1923, David Davies, Baron Davies of Llandinam (16), 1901-1925, E. Clement Davies (6), 1907-1909, Ellis W. Davies MP (3), 1909-1912, George M. Ll. Davies (3), 1904-1925, Gwilym Davies, 1923, J. Glyn Davies, 1905, J. Gwynoro Davies (8), 1894-1925, and J. T. Davies, 1915.
Daniel, David R. (David Robert), 1859-1931
Llythyrau amrywiol: 1922-1980
A1/17
Part of Papurau Iorwerth C. Peate,
Llythyrau, 1922-1980, gan gynnwys rhai oddi wrth J. E. Daniel (2); Alun Oldfield-Davies (2); Aneirin Talfan Davies (12); Clement Davies (2); D. Jacob Davies (2); E. Tegla Davies (23, cyfeirir un at Dafydd); George M. Ll. Davies (19); J. Breese Davies (4); J. Glyn Davies (2); Leonard Twiston Davies (6); Nan Davies; R. H. Davies; Rhys J. Davies (2); William Ll. Davies; Myles Dillon; ac A. H. Dodd (4).
Llythyrau amrywiol: 1933-1953 a 1970
1933-1953 a 1970
Llythyrau, 1933-1953 a 1970, a gyfeiriwyd at Iorwerth Peate yn yr Adran Ddiwylliant Gwerin, gan gynnwys rhai oddi wrth Alun Oldfield Davies; J. Glyn Davies; Nan Davies (3); D. Owen Evans; Gwynfor Evans (4); J. C. Wynne Finch; R. M. Fleming (2); Ll. Wyn Griffith; W. J. Gruffydd; D. R. Hughes (22); E. K. Jones; Gwilym R. Jones (3); Sam Jones (8); Ceri Lewis; R. Hopkin Morris (2); J. Dyfnallt Owen (3); Tom Parry (4); Ffransis G. Payne; T. K. Penniman; John Petts; Stewart Sanderson; J. Oliver Stephens; John Summerson; J. B. Willans; ac Ifor Williams. Yn eu plith ceir ymholiadau yn ymwneud â diwylliant gwerin a llythyrau ynghylch gweithiau Iorwerth Peate, megis Hen Gapel Llanbrynmair 1739-1939 (Llandysul, 1939), a Diwylliant gwerin Cymru (Lerpwl, 1942).
Oldfield-Davies, Alun, 1905-1988
The Bible in Wales,
NLW MS 9942D.
Part of Sir John Ballinger Papers
Papers and correspondence relating to the exhibition of Welsh Bibles arranged in the Cardiff Reference Library in 1904 and to the publication of The Bible in Wales, 1906; an annotated draft list of Welsh Bibles, 1903; press cuttings of reviews; and letters by Alfred George Edwards, bishop of St. Asaph, William E. A. Axon, H. Arnold Bemrose, Derby; Joseph Bradney, F. J. Burgoyne, Lambeth Library; J. Glyn Davies, Aberystwyth; W. H. Davey, dean of Llandaff; Charles Morgan Davies, Merthyr Tydfil; D. S. Davies, Denbigh; J. H. Davies, Aberystwyth; John Davies, Pandy; E. S. Dodgson; D. A. Evans, Barry; Griffith Ellis, Bootle; Richard Ellis, Oxford; J. Gwenogvryn Evans; S. J. Evans, Llangefni; John Fisher, Cefn; Mrs. Alan Gough, Gelliwig; C. A. H. Green, Aberdare; Edward Griffith, Dolgelley; Alan Stepney-Gulston; William Haines, Penpergwm; Meredith J. Hughes, Colwyn Bay; Ivor James, Chester; D. E. Jenkins, Denbigh; Lewis D. Jones ('Llew Tegid'); R. J. Jones, Aberdare; R. Saunders Jones, Garston; T. W. Lyster, Dublin; Horace F. Moule, London; Thomas Powel, Penarth; R. A. Roberts, Public Record Office; R. Roberts, Sheffield; R. Gwylfa Roberts; Sidney Robinson, M. P.; Smith Brothers, London; D. R. Thomas, St. Asaph; Edmund Verney, Winslow; and G. J. Williams, Bangor.
Davies, H. Walford - Davies, John
AL1/3
Part of Dr J. Lloyd Williams Music MSS and Papers
The correspondents include H. Walford Davies (3), J. Breese Davies (2), J. Glyn Davies (3), and J. H. Davies (4).
Correspondence relating to the library of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth,
NLW MS 12903B.
Twenty holograph letters and postcards, 1899-1906 and undated, from Lewis Angell, Eastbourne, Henry Blackwell, bookbinder, New York (2), A. W. Davies, secretary of 'Cymdeithas Dafydd ap Gwilym', Oxford [University], [the Reverend] E[van] Edwardes, Caerdeon Vicarage, Dolgelley (2), Geo[rge] Eyre Evans, Aberystwyth, R. Jenkin Jones, Aberdare, M. Mason, Greenwich, Helen Owen, Weston-super-mare, F. S. Price, Swansea, Tho[ma]s Prichard, Amlwch, J. [ ]. Reed, secretary of the Edward Lhuyd Society, Oxford [University] (2), [the Reverend] W[illiam] Rees, Llechryd, A. Roberts, Llanrwst, M. Roberts, Penrhyndeudraeth (2), and D[aniel] Lleufer Thomas, Swansea (2), all relating to the library, and more particularly the Welsh library, of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Most of the letters contain offers to the library, by way of gift, sale, or exchange, of books, periodicals, and manuscript items (mainly correspondence), or suggestions as to persons who might be prepared to donate items. Addressees, where specified, include [Thomas Francis Roberts], principal, T. Mortimer Green, registrar, [Evan] Penllyn Jones, librarian [1872-1902], [J. D. Williams], librarian [1902- ], and J[ohn] Glyn Davies [all of University College, Aberystwyth].
Letters A-D
FR1/1
Part of Rees Jenkin Jones Family Papers
The file includes letters from D. R. Daniel (1), 1914, J. Glyn Davies (3), 1903-1907 and J. H. Davies (2), 1918.
1904, Jan.-June
The file includes letters from T. A. Archer, John Ballinger, Thomas E. Brigstocke, J. Glyn Davies (2), E. Vincent Evans, J. Spinther James, John Edward Lloyd (3), W. J. Parry, R. Silyn Roberts, Sir John Williams Bart, and Mallt Williams.
Letters and papers of 'Dic Aberdaron',
50E i.
A volume containing holograph manuscripts and letters of Richard Robert Jones ('Dic Aberdaron', 1780-1843) comprising portions of an autobiography and notes and letters containing much autobiographical material. Most of the letters, 1837-43, are written from poor lodging houses in Liverpool (many addresses, such as Chisenhale Street, located mainly in the Vauxhall Road area). They describe his misfortunes and deplorable living conditions and also his dreams. There are several references to his Welsh, Greek and Hebrew dictionary and attempts to get it published. A few of the letters, 1840 and 1841, are written from Caernarvon (to Mr Evan Griffith, a sailor, Waterloo Street). There is one letter, 1841, containing drawings and abuse addressed to Richard Robert Jones, Rose Court, No. 1 Chisenall [sic] Street, Liverpool. The other manuscripts include a short work entitled 'The ancient order of harps described according to Greek rules taken from Claudius Ptolemaius ... compared with the old harps of Great Britain by Richard Robert Jones ... of Aberdaron ... 1820', containing a drawing of a harp with descriptive notes in Greek, the text which describes the arrangement of various harps is also in Greek. The manuscript bears a note in pencil 'Presented to me by the writer R. J. at Llwynybrain 1827 St Geo A[rmstrong] W[illiams]'. There is another copy of the text and a similar description of the harp in note form, also in Greek, and a single sheet with a similar drawing of the harp and parallel texts in Latin and Greek of Luke X, 5-11, and an extract from Rabbinic teaching in English and Hebrew. The single sheet bears the note 'Richard Jones (Dic Aberdaron) 1820 - Given to me by Dic himself in the year 1827 St Geo A[rmstrong] Wms'. The other manuscripts consist of short notes, transcripts and translations, mainly in Latin, Greek, English and Hebrew, relating to the Greek and French calendar, 'Zoroastres the Prince of the Magi', the herb Hyoscyamus and its medical attributes, partly extracted from the works of Galen and Pliny, and an extract from [ ] Guerre de l'Amerique, Livre 3, pp. 27-8, relating to the Tories (Loyalists) (French, with an English translation), etc. There is a list, which includes most of the manuscripts, compiled by J. Glyn Davies, 19 November 1892, on which is written the following note by J. H. Davies: 'This list was drawn up by J. Glyn Davies when the MSS belonged to Mr. T. G. Williams I bought them from Mr. Williams & have added a few myself'. There are also letters (3) from Professor T. Witton Davies, 1915, to J. H. Davies, which refer to the manuscripts of 'Dic Aberdaron' and to a volume (Cwrtmawr 50(ii)) of press-cuttings relating to him which had been lent to the writer by J. H. Davies.
Llyfr o Hen Ganeuon ...
166-7B.
[18 cent.], [1900x1926].
Two volumes entitled 'Llyfr o Hen Ganeuon wedi eu cyfansoddi ers 200 mlynedd. 1900'. The volumes are in the hand of J. H. Davies and contain transcripts, with annotations and collations, of 'carolau', 'cerddi', 'dyrïau', 'englynion' and 'awdlau' from the Welsh School and Cymmrodorion groups of manuscripts in the British Museum Additional Collection (MSS 14866-15089). Many of the poems are anonymous but the following authors are named: Richard (Dicc) Hughes, Ll'n ab Hwlkyn ('o Fon'), Cadwaladr Cesail, John Griffiths (Llanddyfnan), Huw Dafi ('o Wynedd') ('nage huw Dafi ap Robert'), Hugh Lloyd (Cynwal), Rolant Vychan ('o Gaer Gai'), H. Hughes ('or foel yn Llandyfrydog o Fon'), Rhys Gray, Davydd Lloyd ('of Sybylltir meddant'), Gwilym Tew ('meddai Llyfr Lewys Hopkin'), 'Gofalus' [Sion Morgan], Thomas Jones ['person Llan fair yn sir Fynwyl], Sion Prus, Lewis Morris, William Roberts ('clochydd Llannor or Llanfor yn Lleyn'), Morgan Evan ('the Bailiff to Thos. Jones Esqre one of His Majesties Just. of the Peace for ye County of Cardigan'), [Richard Morris?], Llywelyn ap Hywel ap Ieuan ap Gronwy, Risiart Parry?, Mathew Owen, Samson Edward ('y Gwehydd'), Hugh ap Ieuan ap Robt. ['o Dolgelleu'], Thomas Siencyn ap Ifan ('o Forganwg'), and Howel Thomas Dafydd. MS 167 also contains a prose text entitled 'Yr Ail Rhan o Bregeth Morgan y Gogrwr'. There are a list of contents and an index of first lines at the end of MS 166 and a list of contents at the end of MS 167. Among the insets are a folio from an eighteenth century manuscript containing an imperfect free-metre poem ('Can'), and transcripts of free-metre poems in the hands of J. Glyn Davies and E. A. Lewis of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
ASC1/5
Part of The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion Records,
Includes letters from: D. R. Daniel (2); Alfred T. Davies (4); Ben Davies (6); J. Conway Davies (4); J. Glyn Davies (5); J. H. Davies (16); Mary Davies (5)
Llythyrau D
Llythyrau, 1925-1982, gan gynnwys rhai oddi wrth Kevin Danaher (5); Glyn Daniel (3); Aled Lloyd Davies; Alun Creunant Davies (7, rhai ohonynt yn ymwneud â Rhwng dau fyd); Alun Oldfield-Davies (3); Alun Talfan Davies (4); Catrin Puw Davies; Idris Davies (2); Ithel Davies (4); Eirian Davies (4); Jennie Eirian Davies (7); J. Glyn Davies (3); Pennar Davies (2); a Tomas de Bhaldraithe (3). Ymhlith yr ohebiaeth mae llythyrau yn ymwneud ag ewyllys Iorwerth Peate, a thir yn ymyl ei gartref, Maes-y-coed.
Danaher, Kevin
The correspondents include Robert Bryan (7), Peter Crossley-Holland (3), E. T. Davies (13), Sir Walford Davies (12, including his correspondence with David de Lloyd, November 1926), Grace Gwyneddon Davies (4), J. Glyn Davies (3), Dr Mary Davies (5), and David de Lloyd (9).
Letters to 'Myrddin Fardd',
1187B.
Eleven autograph letters to 'Myrddin Fardd', 1894-1911, from J. Glyn Davies.
Llythyrau at E. Pryce Jones,
NLW MS 21749D.
Letters to the Reverend Edwin Pryce Jones from J. Glyn Davies (1) 1952, D. Gwenallt Jones (2) 1962 and 1969, R. Hopkin Morris (1) 1953, and Kate Roberts (2) 1951 and 1953.