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Quite proud of myself today - I got up early and went out for a walk before work. I'm really not a morning person, so it's an effort! It was a lovely morning though, and I was glad to have done it. Called my Mum on the way back and had a short but nice catch up with her. "I don't half miss you", she said. I feel the same!
Had a decent work day after that. It's all feeling a bit calmer at the moment, and I'm managing to get things ticked off my list. I'm sure it'll all go mad again soon, but I'm appreciating it while it lasts.
Tim went for a follow up appointment at the hospital this afternoon - all good. I cooked us a big chicken tray bake for dinner, and now we're looking forward to a new series of Taskmaster. We know how to live! lol
February 12, 2017. On a snowy blustery day I spent the day indoors working on AWS. Thanks to Taskmaster Buddha, who kept me at it, I succeeded in getting a version of my site running on the cloud. Once I'm happy with it I'll see how cloning it goes, and then I can spawn a whole bunch of mini-cMOOC sites people can use. Among other things. Taskmaster Buddha is another acquisition from the auction a few weeks back.
WLDR Chair Elizabeth Phillips, my taskmaster, with the top 15 overall. 13 of them prd, and an amazing 41 of the top 65 prd as well.
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ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF PAWTUCKET
standing on Providence river at the foot of Ship Street. When the financial panic of 1829 broke over the country, Slater was temporarily embarrassed. He did not owe any personal debts, but he had endorsed for the Wilkinsons and others who had failed, and was thereby liable for $300,000. His property, however, amounted to $690,000. Through an arrangement effected by Moses Brown and other friends he was enabled to continue his business, and in a short time paid his indebtedness. In readjusting his affairs he sold his interest in the old mill and the Slatersville property to William Almy, but he ultimately repurchased the latter. He also became the sole possessor at the same time of the steam mill in Providence, and the mill at Wilkinsonville, Mass., in which he was a joint owner with David Wilkinson. As a result of these occurrences his industrial connection with Pawtucket was severed and was never renewed. The later years of his life were spent at Webster, Mass., where he died April 21, 1835, in his 67th year. He left a large estate, which has increased in the hands of his descendants, who are people of consequence and standing in the community. His sons and grandsons have been manufacturers of prominence. After his second marriage his wife erected a brick mansion house, which is still standing at No. 69 East Avenue, in a good state of preservation. Here, after his decease, his widow lived until her death, Dec. 23, 1859, aged 81 years. Slater was one of the founders of the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and a tablet to his memory, erected by Mrs. Slater, is in the vestibule of the church edifice. Soon after starting his machinery, Slater is said to have begun a Sunday school* after the plan of those with which he was familiar in England. Instruction was given in the regular branches, and the school was not originally religious in character. His pupils were the boys and girls employed in the mill, and Slater is presumed to have taught them himself at first, but afterwards teachers were hired and the expense paid by the firm. Oziel Wilkinson and members of his family also assisted. This was probably the first regular school in Pawtucket. Other manufacturers took up the idea and it was productive of great benefit. The Sunday schools of the First Baptist church, and of the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church are claimed to be direct descendants of these original “first day schools,” which were among the first of the kind in America. In his personal appearance Samuel Slater was of a commanding figure. He was nearly six feet in height, of a large frame, stout, but not fat, and his weight was over 200 pounds. His complexion was light, “his features regular, his forehead broad and high, and his expression intellectual.” He always dressed plainly, mostly in cloth of his own manufacture, and his garments were loose and ill-fitting, as judged by present-day standards. In his manner he was slow and dignified, but he was a strict disciplinarian, and expected the utmost diligence from those who worked for him. In that sense he was a severe taskmaster. He kept a close watch over all his employees, especially the boys, and would not tolerate any carelessness or Waste of time or material. His character was as strongly marked as his personal appearance. He was self-reliant; confident of his own ability; shrewd, exact, careful, discerning, energetic and laborious; hated show and display; was cautious, but enterprising; had great executive ability; his integrity was unquestioned, and he was scru- [scrupulously]
*White’s Memoir of S. Slater, pp. 281-2.
Gouache on board by (James) Jacques-Joseph Tissot, French, 1836-1902.
The paintings were reproduced in "La Sainte Bible : Ancien Testament . . . / Compositions par J.-James Tissot"; with preface by A. D. Sertillanges. 2 vols. 40 plates; 360 illustrations to text. Paris: M. de Brunoff & Cie, 1904.
Photos by Philip De Vere: Tissot in Brunoff at John Rylands www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive/share/kq7jBR4DkA1VIbQ5isRelyH...
Weather started lifting on Thursday, breaking through into full sun for a couple hours around noon when we were up on Rothorn for arguably the best runs of the week.
Linds took a lesson from a Swiss ski instructor she described as taskmaster, and David, George, and I met her for a late 235pm lunch after we skiied nonstop from get-go until then. Best ski day of the trip.
That night, to the Whymper-Stube fondue and raclette restaurant tucked inside the Monte Rosa hotel.
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Improved official Lego minifigure of Taskmaster. I gave him an orange cape under the white one that came with him, and added the dish to his shield.
I don't mind you using my ideas, though I would be grateful if you gave me credit, as I've spent some time getting the correct parts. Thanks for looking!
Митя looks away from the the overwhelming Stalin banner floating in the sky, turning his back on his taskmaster.
Used in: www.lithchat.com/culture-etc/stalin-adamkus-and-picasso.html
Aight new week babyyyy, i uhhhhhhh got some Work done this morning and then i did some drawing. Im very proud of my art progress over the last few months ngl. Then dad n i took my laptop back to the shop and then I did some driving on the way back to get those hours in. I shud really revise for my theory exam. whoops. watched More taskmaster in the evening... its sO GOOD
The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Mortimer using a ½d. stamp on Saturday the 10th. November 1906. Mortimer is a village in Berkshire which is officially named Mortimer Common.
The card was sent to:
Mrs. Frewin,
164, Milkwood Road,
Herne Hill,
London.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Arrived home safe but
very tired. Will write letter.
Also can you send your
Black Collar Rose (illegible)
that you wear.
Love Beryl."
Josef Kramer
So what else happened on the day that Beryl posted the card?
Well, the 10th. November 1906 marked the unfortunate birth of Josef Kramer.
Josef Kramer was a Hauptsturmführer in the SS and the Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau (from the 8th. May 1944 to the 25th. November 1944), and Bergen Belsen (from December 1944 to its liberation on the 15th. April 1945) concentration camps.
Dubbed The Beast of Belsen by camp inmates, he was a German Nazi war criminal, directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.
Kramer was detained by the British Army after the Second World War, convicted of war crimes, and hanged on the gallows in the prison at Hamelin by British executioner Albert Pierrepoint.
-- Josef Kramer - The Early Years
Josef Kramer, an only child, was born and raised in Munich in a middle-class family. His parents, Theodore and Maria Kramer, brought him up as a strict Roman Catholic.
In 1915, the family moved from Munich to Augsburg, where Josef Kramer attended school. He began an apprenticeship as an electrician in 1920, however from 1925 to 1933, except for briefly working in a department store and as an accountant, he was mostly unemployed.
-- Josef Kramer's Career
Kramer joined the Nazi Party in 1931 and the SS in 1932. His SS training led him into work as a prison guard and, after the outbreak of war, as a concentration camp guard.
In 1934, Kramer was assigned as a guard at Dachau. His promotion was rapid, obtaining senior posts at Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps.
Kramer became assistant to Rudolf Höss, the Commandant at Auschwitz in 1940. He accompanied Höss to inspect Auschwitz as a possible site for a new synthetic oil and rubber plant, a vital industry, given Germany's shortage of oil.
-- Kramer at Natzweiler-Struthof
Kramer was named Commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in April 1941. Natzweiler-Struthof was the only concentration camp established by the Nazis on present-day French territory, though there were French-run transit camps, such as the one at Drancy.
At the time, the area in Alsace-Lorraine in which it was established had been annexed by Nazi Germany.
As commandant at Natzweiler-Struthof, Kramer personally carried out the gassings of 86 Jewish men and women. These unfortunate individuals were part of a group of 87 selected at Auschwitz to become anatomical specimens in a proposed Jewish skull collection to be housed at the Anatomy Institute at the Reich University of Strasbourg. One male victim was shot as he fought to keep from being gassed.
The 87 inmates had been transported to Natzweiler-Struthof. The deaths of 86 of these inmates were induced in an improvised gassing facility at the camp, and their corpses, 57 men and 29 women, were sent to Strasbourg.
-- Kramer at Auschwitz
Kramer was promoted to the rank of Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in 1942 and, in May 1944, was transferred to become the Lagerführer (camp commander).
He was in charge of operations at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the main centre used to kill inmates within the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, from the 8th. May 1944 to the 25th. November 1944.
He was brought to Auschwitz to manage the gassings of new transports in May 1944, according to the Prosecution Judge Advocate at the War Crimes tribunal that convicted him of being responsible for the deaths committed at Auschwitz.
There were a number of witnesses who said that he took an active part in the selection parades in that, for instance, he loaded people into the trucks and beat them when they resisted.
At Auschwitz, Kramer soon became known among his subordinates as a harsh taskmaster. One of the defendants at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, Dr. Franz Lucas, testified that he tried to avoid assignments given to him by Kramer by pleading stomach and intestinal disorders.
When Lucas saw that his name had been added to the list of selecting physicians for a large group of inmates transferred from Hungary, he objected strenuously. Kramer reacted sharply:
"I know you are being investigated
for favouring prisoners. I am now
ordering you to go to the ramp, and
if you fail to obey an order, I shall
have you arrested on the spot."
-- Kramer at Bergen Belsen
In December 1944, SS-Hauptsturmführer Kramer was transferred from Birkenau to Bergen Belsen, near the village of Bergen.
Belsen had originally served as a temporary camp for those leaving Germany, but during the war it had been expanded in order to serve as a convalescent depot for the ill and displaced people from across north-west Europe. Although it had no gas chambers, Kramer's rule was so harsh that he became known as the "Beast of Belsen".
As Nazi Germany collapsed, administration of the camp broke down, but Kramer remained devoted to bureaucracy. On the 1st. March 1945, he filed a report asking for help and resources, stating that of the 42,000 inmates in his camp, 250–300 died each day from typhus.
On the 19th. March, the number of inmates rose to 60,000 as the Germans continued to evacuate camps that were soon to be liberated by the Allies. As late as the week of the 13th. April, some 28,000 additional prisoners were brought in.
With the collapse of administration and many guards fleeing to escape retribution, roll calls were stopped, and the inmates were left to their own devices. Corpses rotted everywhere, and rats attacked the living too weak to fight them off.
Kramer remained even when the British, led by Major Brian Urquhart, arrived to liberate the camp, and took them on a tour of the camp to inspect the "scenes". Piles of corpses lay all over the camp, mass graves were filled in, and the huts were filled with prisoners in every stage of emaciation and disease.
-- Kramer's Imprisonment and Execution
Kramer was incarcerated at the prison in Hamelin. Along with 44 other camp staff, Kramer was tried in the Belsen Trial by a British military court at Lüneburg.
The trial lasted several weeks from September to November 1945. During the trial Anita Lasker testified that Kramer had taken part in selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz.
Kramer was sentenced to death on the 17th. November 1945, for crimes both at Auschwitz and at Bergen-Belsen, and was hanged at the age of 39 at Hamelin Prison by Albert Pierrepoint on the 13th. December 1945.
This procession of women-workers is reminiscent of bygone days when helpless slaves were driven to and from the fields by the whips of pitiless taskmasters. "Other days, other ways," and the native workers of the twentieth century eagerly proffer their services in return for the tempting wages paid by the planters. During the harvesting the need of hands is severely felt, and native workers are gathered in from all sides. The women are generally foremost in the field.
This CAPT Wade, master of the "Rebecca T. Ruark." He is a fifth-generation waterman and has been on the Bay for over 50 years and is the only third-generation skipjack master working today. When we worked with him, he was a wonderful taskmaster who never lost his temper, was always eager to teach our Stevenson volunteers, and who displayed the patience of Job.
From www.twofrog.com/clip066.html. Property of Sonja Keohane
Weather started lifting on Thursday, breaking through into full sun for a couple hours around noon when we were up on Rothorn for arguably the best runs of the week.
Linds took a lesson from a Swiss ski instructor she described as taskmaster, and David, George, and I met her for a late 235pm lunch after we skiied nonstop from get-go until then. Best ski day of the trip.
That night, to the Whymper-Stube fondue and raclette restaurant tucked inside the Monte Rosa hotel.