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This Bhairav Nath Shukla spoke about a Sanskrit scholar named Shri Ram Sagar Mishr who had 5 younger brothers and he was very close with his youngest brother. It must be noted that some years back a wall was built and their house was partitioned due to a fight between Mishr and his youngest brother.
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Things haven't been too exciting around here. I've used my copious free time to crank out a few projects. I've done a second cowl for another local shop in another scrumptious yarn, I've progressed on several other projects I've got going and I finished another commission – an Elizabeth Zimmerman February Baby Sweater and hat. The yarn is VERY VERY pink, but the client brought it to me to make something cute for her granddaughter.
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This past weekend I was at a wedding for a high school friend, which means after five months my beloved dress made its way from my parents' house to mine.
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Elsie Humphrey is featured in the North Hill Local History Group's publication "The Fallen of North Hill Parish". This page provides additional information which has not been possible to have been included in the book. If you have any knowledge, information, pictures or artefacts which would be useful in telling her story, please contact us.
There are five of the parish fallen who are buried here. There is one in Coad's Green Methodist Churchyard and four in St Torney's Churchyard in North Hill village in Cornwall. Elsie Humphrey is one of those buried at St Torney's.
Elsie was the only woman amongst 'our' fallen. Unlike all the others her role was a non-combat role. She rose to the rank of Sister in the Territorial Forces Nursing Service (TFNS). We know that she lived in North Hill parish for just ten days and that they were her last ten days, which is why she is buried here. She died in 1920 almost 18 months after the end of the conflict from an illness contracted whilst serving as a nurse in a hospital in France.
As far as we have been able to ascertain, she is not remembered on any other memorials. Other than the fact that her service record and her gravestone exist we have not been able to establish any reason for any living person to remember her.
Her story is one of dedication to duty and the care she gave others; it is also about how the authorities failed to give her the care and attention which she gave so freely to others.
Elsie Humphrey's parents were George Humphrey of Mickleham in Surrey and Caroline Taylor.
Caroline Taylor was born in New Zealand, the daughter of a well-to-do London timber merchant. George and Caroline were married in 1878 in the famous church of St Leonard in Shoreditch. At that time Shoreditch was in that poor part of Middlesex, known then and today as the East End, which abutted the City of London. The move to the East End was a drop in status for Caroline who had been living with her parents in affluent Harley Street in 1871.
George Humphrey's age at the time of his marriage to Caroline was given as 30, although he was nearer 33. His bride's age was recorded as 24 although she was not yet 21 and still under the age of consent for marriage without parental agreement. George was described as a merchant clerk but in the next census he stated that he was a clerk working for one of the railway companies. Perhaps their age difference, George's relatively lowly status and the fact that she married without her father's blessing explains why she moved from a more prosperous part of London to Shoreditch. They both gave their address as being in Shoreditch; they both gave their respective fathers' occupations as 'gentleman'. They moved to Romford in Essex shortly after the marriage.
George and Caroline had four children: Francis James in 1879, Evelyn Mary in 1880, Arthur Cecil in 1886 and Elsie Margaret in 1888. Evelyn died in 1887 when she was almost 8 years old. The family breadwinner, George, died in early 1890, leaving Caroline as a widow with an 11 year old son (Francis), a 3 year old son (Arthur) and a baby daughter, Elsie. Evelyn was buried on 6th October 1887 and George was buried on 30th January 1890, both in Romford Cemetery.
In 1891 the remaining family were living in Victoria Road in Romford. Their home was a whole house and was situated almost opposite the junction with Albert Road. The family had a 12 year old live-in servant with them, a local girl named Florence Asplin. It is likely, though, that the family soon fell on hard times and they moved back closer to the metropolis and closer to the poverty which existed there in Victorian times.
Caroline remarried to George John Mann in 1897 in the West Ham area. He was a collector of rates and seven years older than Caroline. With her new husband she had three children born to her quite soon after the marriage: Mary Evelyn in 1898; Doris Harriott in 1899; Irene Winifred in 1901. Sadly, Irene died when just a year old. At the time of the 1901 census Elsie Humphrey and her brother Arthur Humphrey lived in the family home with their mother and stepfather at 48 Tredegar Road in Poplar. Caroline died in 1902 when Elsie was just 12 years old and Arthur was 14. George John Mann died in late 1910. It is likely that Elsie had left the family home by this time to join the nursing service and Arthur was already independent and learning a trade as an electrician.
The census taken in 1911 showed that Elsie was a 22 year old hospital nurse at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. It was here that she met her lifelong friend Mary Alice Brown who will become very important in Elsie's later story. Addenbrooke's was a major training hospital for nurses.
The 1911 census also showed that Elsie's eldest brother, Francis, was an engineer staying at The Garrick Hotel in London's West End. Her brother Arthur has not been found on this census but her two surviving half sisters, Mary and Doris, were living in Ealing with their paternal aunt and uncles.
The conflict which was to be World War One dragged Britain into the fighting on the 4th August 1914. Exactly one week later, on the 11th, Elsie was mobilised into the Territorial Forces Nursing Service and was posted as a staff nurse to the 1st Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge. At the same time as Elsie was mobilised, so was Mary Alice Brown who was also a nurse at Addenbrooke's. It is likely that they had been friends for some time and their staunch friendship was to persist over many years.
The 1st Eastern General Hospital was established by the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1908. It had a close relationship with Addenbrooke's Hospital as medical and nursing staff served in the 1st Eastern in both world wars. It catered for the medical needs of some of the men wounded whilst serving in the front line. During the First World War, the 1st Eastern General Hospital had its headquarters in Trinity College, with beds in the Leys School and in the grounds of Trinity College, and later in temporary buildings on the cricket grounds of Clare College and King's College to the south of Burrell's Walk. It had over 1500 beds by the end of 1915. Various wards of Addenbrooke's ended up being considered an extension of the 1st Eastern. Officially the 1st Eastern had 151 Officer beds and 1191 Other Ranks beds, although various wards of Addenbrooke's ended up being considered an extension of the First Eastern, which continued its war duties until 1920.
Following Elsie's example, her brother Arthur enlisted in the London Electrical Regiment on 2nd October 1914. Like his brother, Francis, he was an engineer and was probably already an electrician when he joined up. Clearly he was well thought of in his unit because he had been promoted to acting corporal by early 1915. He appears to have stuck on that rank until late 1917 when he decided to apply for a commission. The successful jump from acting corporal to 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) marks him out as a bit of a flyer. This sort of advancement was not altogether unknown, particularly in the latter stages of the war when the army was experiencing rapid expansion and good officer material (hitherto not so much sought from the rank and file) was likely to be successful. Arthur did not experience active service on any of the fronts. A commission in the RASC on a home station must have been regarded as a safe and comfortable posting when compared to the horrors of Passchendaele and the might of the German Spring Offensive that would follow in March 1918. He survived the war and was a captain upon his discharge.
Elsie's first annual appraisal came a year later and her matron, Enid Newton, wrote "Nurse Elsie Humphrey has worked for me for the period of one year. She is a fairly good nurse; on the whole her reports are good, she lacks initiative and shows a disposition to shirk the disagreeables. She has quite a pleasant manner and is refined." This document also records her brother F J Humphrey as her next of kin, living at 1 Palace Mansions, Allison Bridge, Kensington, London W.
Another year passed and Elsie's second annual appraisal showed the progress she had made in her career. Her matron, A McDonald, wrote "Nurse Humphrey has worked at the 1st Eastern General Hospital for two years. Very thorough and trustworthy and an exceedingly good nurse. Very good to the patients and liked by them."
Nursing in World War One
There are two highly informative websites, both of which have allowed the use of their images on this page, which give us insight into the life and work of nurses in World War One. "Scarlet Finders" "gives information on all administrative and organisational aspects of the British military nursing services in France and Flanders during the Great War". "The Fairest Force" gives us "a simple account of how the nursing services arose in the years prior to the Great War, and provides details of things such as contracts, pay, uniform, food, leave, sickness, marriage, discipline and much more".
1st Eastern General Hospital
There is a short history and some excellent images of the 1st Eastern General Hospital on the "Roll of Honour: Lest We Forget" website. A more comprehensive history of the hospital with a highly informative and sensitive accompanying video can be seen on the University of Cambridge website.
During October 1916 Elsie fell ill and was diagnosed with lymphangitis, a swelling of lymph nodes, in the upper thigh. She was operated on to remove the inflamed gland on 1st November and a medical board held on 5th December decided that she would be unfit for service for a further three weeks and that the condition was brought on by her military service as a nurse. She was due to resume work on Christmas Day but on Boxing Day another medical board was held to assess her condition. This determined that whilst she was not fit for general service for 2 months, i.e. overseas work, she was capable of working in the UK at that time.
In April 1917, when approaching her 29th birthday, Elsie's work at the hospital was recognised and rewarded with promotion to Sister.
Along with many others, Elsie signed an agreement on the 17th August 1917 saying that she was prepared to work outside the UK. There seemed to still be a need for Elsie to work with returning wounded troops and it was not until 13th July 1918 that Elsie was medically examined and found to be fit to work in a military hospital abroad. Before she left for France, there was still the matter of her annual appraisal, this time by Matron E E Seymour. It read as follows "Miss E Humphrey has been at this hospital since August 1914, was promoted Sister in April 1917. She is a capable and trustworthy Sister, maintains good discipline in her ward and takes a keen interest in her patients' welfare." This was endorsed by her commanding officer's comment of "Very satisfactory".
The War Office had, in the meantime, been constructing its latest plan to bring the war to a conclusion. The plan was to start in August with a major offensive on the German forces around Amiens, to maintain the momentum and to clear the Germans from French soil by forcing them to retreat beyond the Hindenberg Line. This would involve a huge number of ground forces and it was expected that there would be a large number of casualties requiring medical treatment. So, having spent four years caring for wounded soldiers at the 1st Eastern General Hospital in Cambridge, Sister Elsie Humphrey was posted abroad. On 12th September 1918 she arrived at the No.5 General Hospital in Rouen, 75 miles from where the offensive had already begun.
The Hundred Days Offensive, as it later became known, was the final period of the First World War, during which the Allies launched a series of offensives on the Western Front from 8th August to 11th November 1918. The offensive claimed over a million killed and wounded on each side of the line but was followed by the armistice and the war came to an end.
During the First World War, Commonwealth camps and hospitals were stationed on the southern outskirts of Rouen. Almost all of the hospitals at Rouen remained there for practically the whole of the war. They included eight general, five stationary, one British Red Cross and one labour hospital, and No. 2 Convalescent Depot. A number of the dead from these hospitals were buried in other cemeteries, but the great majority were taken to the city cemetery of St. Sever. The story of No.5 General Hospital is explained in words and pictures on the Commonwealth War Grave Commission website pages on the subject of St Sever. Click here to see that page.
Although the war was over, there was still much to do in France and Elsie spent Christmas 1918 at her hospital in Rouen, but she was feeling decidedly unwell. On the 28th December, after just 5 months in France she was diagnosed with influenza.
On 13th January 1919 it was clear that Elsie was getting no better so she was brought back to England and placed in the care of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS). A medical board considered her condition on 21st January, confirmed the diagnosis of influenza and required that the position be reviewed in a month's time. In the interim, Elsie was officially on sick leave until the 27th February and struck off the strength for France.
A report received from Major D V Haig RAMC, commanding the hospital in Rouen, stated that Elsie was "Not sufficiently robust" for service. His report went on to say "Sister E Humphrey joined this hospital 12.9.18 and has had charge of surgical and medical wards. Her nursing ability was very good. Administrative capacity and initiative fair. She was conscientious and reliable and worked hard but did not seem strong enough for very heavy work. She was admitted into hospital and was invalided to UK on 13.1.19". Later reports stated that she had had influenza several times and that just after her medical board her temperature was recorded as 103.4 degrees F. It was agreed that her condition was directly attributable to her service as this was clearly where she was infected.
Elsie had taken rooms at Lyn Cottage, Lynton, Devon for the period of her sick leave and it seems that she was convalescing near the sea where the air would have been thought to be beneficial. She was required to attend the planned medical board at the end of February when her allowed sick leave came to an end. Elsie opted to come to London for the medical board because the tenancy on the rooms in Lynton expired on 27th February. The authorities were reluctant to provide her with a free railway pass for journey because they could set up a medical board closer to Lynton. This was the subject of some distress to Elsie and she wrote to the War Office explaining the situation but received no sympathy for her position.
The medical board considered that Elsie's condition was influenza and that whilst she was not fit for service overseas, she could return to duties in the UK and was ordered to be sent back to the 1st Eastern General Hospital in Cambridge. The board wished to review the matter after a period of three months.
Returning Elsie to duty may have seemed harsh but a letter from the Matron in Chief of the TFNS to the hospital explained that this may have been both pragmatic and in line with Elsie's wishes, who was probably feeling a lot better. The letter, dated 4th March, read "I shall be glad if you will let me know by return if you have a vacancy for the following TFNS member: Miss E M Humphrey, Sister – belonging to your unit who has returned from services abroad. This member has no home and is very anxious to be posted back to the 1st Eastern General Hospital as soon as you can possibly take her." No mention was made of Elsie's medical condition. The Principal Matron of the 1st Eastern General Hospital replied the following day expressing her eagerness that Elsie should be returned to them. On that same day Elsie was treated at the QAIMNS hospital for a swollen foot but there is no indication that she was re-admitted.
On the 7th March Elsie was sent a letter telling her to report for duty to the hospital in Cambridge on the 10th March and was also sent the appropriate travel passes. Having returned to duty, Elsie was still subject to the review by the medical board. Before the board had the opportunity to meet, however, Elsie broke down again. Her period in work had only lasted a fortnight before she was again feeling unwell.
The medical board was convened in Cambridge on the 25th April. At that time she was living in The Hermitage, Newnham, Cambridge. The board report showed that Elsie was still suffering from whatever it was that ailed her but were categorical in what is was not. It was not tuberculosis. The report records "Since last board has returned to duty but has not been feeling well. On 4.4.19 she went sick and has been under observation in S.5.Q. 1st Eastern General Hospital since. There is a frequent slight rise of temperature, generally in the evening, sometimes in the morning. Langour, easily fatigued, no cough. Poor general condition; thin. ... No cough. No TB." The board's view was that it would be two months before Elsie was capable of duties in the UK and six months before she could work overseas. At the end of another two months another medical board would review her condition and her sick leave was extended until the 25th June.
Elsie returned to the seaside where, once again, the clean air would be of benefit to her. This time she went to stay with one of her relatives in Frinton in Essex before moving on to a convalescent home on Clarendon Terrace in Brighton. Whilst in Frinton, Elsie became increasingly unwell and on the 20th May the relative called in a doctor who, having found Elsie's temperature to be 103 degrees F and having been acquainted with the circumstances, recommended that she be taken to the Military Hospital in Colchester. The Colonel at the hospital agreed to take Elsie and by the following day she was ensconced in the sick quarters with a temperature of 102 degrees F. A sample of her blood was taken and sent to the laboratory for analysis.
Four days later Elsie was still in the same ward but progress was being made in the diagnosis of her condition; clearly the blood sample had helped with this. A letter was sent from the hospital by the matron, S A Brown, on the 25th May to the Matron in Chief of the TFNS which reported that they believed that Elsie had tuberculosis and that her nursing was taking place outside during the day, as was customary at the time. A sample of her sputum had been taken on two occasions to assist with the confirmation of the diagnosis and tuberculosis was indeed confirmed. Elsie responded slightly to the nursing she received at Colchester. Elsie was due to appear before her medical board in the near future and the hospital in Colchester wrote to the TFNS Matron in Chief on the 5th June asking if there would be any choice of sanatorium for Elsie and pointed out that MIdhurst should be recommended to the board. Elsie continued to respond to the care she received at Colchester and her temperature was being held below 99 degrees F.
The medical board was held in Colchester on the 16th June and it was duly recommended that she be transferred 120 miles away to a private nursing sanatorium, the King Edward VII Sanatorium in Midhurst, Sussex. The matron at Colchester arranged for Elsie's friends in the neighbourhood to be informed and continued her sympathetic treatment of Elsie. She wrote to TFNS that she would send Elsie as a cot case accompanied by the matron's assistant.
Whilst Elsie was clearly unwell it seemed that everything was now in place to make her more comfortable with the right care in the right place. Everything was not as it seemed and Elsie's case became a problem which nobody wanted to solve.
A month and a half later Elsie was still in Colchester and the Colonel of the hospital wrote to the local Assistant Director of Medical Services (ADMS) on 31st July asking that Elsie be moved to Midhurst as soon as possible. The ADMS passed the problem onto the War Office who passed it around amongst themselves. The Colonel wrote again on 11th August asking how the request for Elsie's move was progressing as she needed the proper treatment that a sanatorium could give. Ten days passed and he wrote again, emphasising this time that Elsie was an infectious case, that Colchester did not have the proper accommodation for her and that she should be either at Midhurst or in a hospital that had appropriate facilities.
More time passed and on the 25th August the Matron in Colchester sent a telegram to the War Office saying that "Sister Humphrey had had a relapse and hoped to be fit to travel in 3 days". Three days later another telegram was sent saying that Elsie could now be moved and that an early date would be most desirable on medical grounds. This was acknowledged the following day by the War Office who said that they thought that the transfer arrangements were being made by the people in Colchester. As it was now clear that was not the case, the War Office wrote a letter to Midhurst asking them if they had a vacancy for Elsie. Three months had elapsed since Elsie was first admitted to Colchester and diagnosed with TB.
The Acting Medical Superintendent at the Midhurst Sanatorium responded with a terse reply on the 1st September to the War Office saying that Colchester had telephoned them on Saturday evening asking about Elsie's admission to the sanatorium, clearly the first he had heard of Elsie Humphrey. He had sent a set of their rules to Colchester and asked for a medical certificate on Elsie's condition. He pointed out that Elsie was a cot case and only early cases of TB were admitted to Midhurst, but he would see what could be done to offer her a place.
He followed this up on the following day up by an offer of a probationary placement at the sanatorium which may be available "in about three weeks". If the probationary period was successful then her stay there could be extended. There was no specified time period for the probationary period and Elsie could have been asked to leave at any time at all.
When the Colchester Hospital heard about the potential delay they immediately sent off a letter to the War Office pointing out that they had received orders to close their hospital immediately and were unable to keep their patient, Sister Elsie Humphrey, any longer. To solve the problem of where to send Elsie, now that there was no definite place for her at Midhurst, they sent Elsie to the Royal Herbert Hospital in Woolwich, a military hospital, on Monday 8th September. They asked the War Office to ensure that both the establishments in Woolwich and Midhurst kept in communication regarding Elsie's condition and potential transfer to sanatorium care.
By the end of September 1919 a period of nine months had elapsed since Elsie first fell ill. In that time Elsie had also suffered a succession of relapses and misdiagnoses as well as the administrative failures in the War Office which prevented her from getting the treatment she both needed and deserved.
On the 30th September Elsie's eldest brother, Francis stepped in to see if he could help to get her the proper treatment. He wrote to the War Office on Tuesday asking for an appointment on Friday afternoon, 4th October. He was offered an appointment at 11 0'clock on Friday morning. A note of this meeting was recorded by the War Office and reads "Brother who is very anxious about his sister has taken a cottage for her near Newquay (when? / until?) she is better".
A note in Elsie's service record which was prepared by the Royal Herbert Hospital on 15th October states that she was admitted there on 8th September, as expected when the Colchester Hospital was closed, but was discharged to the Midhurst Sanatorium on the 15th October. A letter from Midhurst confirmed the date of her admission as being the 15th. None of this seems to take into account Elsie's potential trip to Newquay which appears not to have happened. There then followed a protracted chain of correspondence about who was going to pay for Elsie's stay at the sanatorium, how the payments would be made and whether Elsie has received all her entitled income. She really did not need to become embroiled in these matters but they were eventually sorted out.
Francis visited her sister at Midhurst and continued to be concerned about his sister's health and he called upon the War Office on the 22nd December to make sure that they understood that her condition was worsening. He was also under some pressure from the sanatorium to move Elsie because they considered her case too advanced for their care profile. The War Office agreed and suggested that he take her to his home in Palace Mansions. Francis pointed out that there was nobody in his rooms who could look after her. The only suggestion that the War Office could come up with was to send Elsie to the Millbank Military Hospital, although it was thought that would not be so good for her either. Nonetheless a date was set for her to travel on the 7th January 1920 to Millbank, the date of her next medical board.
On 28th December 1919, a year to the day from when Elsie first felt unwell, the sanatorium wrote to the War Office saying that as her condition was worsening that they would not be able to keep her. The sanatorium was, they maintained, not equipped to deal with advanced cases and Elsie should be re-admitted to a military hospital. At the same time the sanatorium wrote to Francis saying that whilst she might want to stay there, it was not possible and that he should journey down to start to make arrangements for her to move elsewhere.
With no other optins apparently available, plans were put in place for Elsie to transfer to the Millbank Military Hospital run by the QAIMNS and an ambulance was ordered to take her there. The plans were scotched, however, by Elsie. She put her foot down. She was not going to a military hospital. She told the sanatorium authorities that she wished to stay with friends in Cornwall, probably Sister Mary Alice Brown of the TFNS who had rented a cottage in North Hill. Elsie and Mary had become friends when they were serving at the 1st Eastern General Hospital in Cambridge. The sanatorium readily agreed as they really wanted Elsie out of their premises as soon as possible even if it meant that she would have to stay a few more days whilst Francis wrote letters organising where Elsie was to go next.
On the last day of 1919 Francis wrote to the War Office and his letter is shown here. Sister Mary Alice Brown said that she was prepared to provide a home for Elsie in Cornwall provided a nurse was made available and that Elsie could withstand the journey.
This may have been more difficult to organise as Francis then went to Midhurst and persuaded Elsie to agree to the transfer to Millbank. It is possible that Elsie's condition would have worsened under the effects of a 200 mile journey in a rudimentary ambulance on rough roads. The date and time was set for her to leave Midhurst and travel to Millbank. The ambulance would collect her at 11 a.m. on the 7th January 1920. Along with the driver and his mate there would be a Sister in attendance to support Elsie through the 55 mile journey.
As with almost all aspects of Elsie's life since she contracted TB, things didn't go smoothly. Neither the driver of the ambulance, his mate or the Sister knew where Midhurst was. They had no maps and a sergeant had told them it was in Kent, so that was where they went. At some point, having arrived in Kent, they established that Midhurst was in Sussex so they drove there, arriving at 7:30 p.m. This was far too late to move Elsie so the sanatorium arranged to make up sleeping accommodation for the men and the Sister with the plan that the transfer would take place the following day. For this accommodation the sanatorium sent a bill to the War Office for payment saying that the charge for the men was less because they slept on stretchers whilst the Sister had a bed.
On the 8th January 1920, much to her dislike, Sister Elsie Humphrey was admitted to the Millbank Military Hospital in London.
A medical board reviewed her case on the 22nd March and found Elsie was very poorly from the TB and emaciated. She told the board that she wished to go to her home in Cornwall. The Medical Officer in charge of the case and the Board agreed that this would be a satisfactory outcome but until that could be arranged, Elsie would remain at Millbank. The details of the medical board were passed to the War Office and because they stated that Elsie was now wholly unfit for any more service the process was put in place to discharge her not just from Millbank Hospital but also from her beloved TFNS.
Her service record shows she was discharged from the hospital on the 29th March. This was followed two days later by a letter from the War Office thanking her for her service during the war. The letter from Sidney Browne, Matron in Chief of the TFNS read: "As you are leaving the Territorial Force Nursing Service, I wish to take this opportunity of thanking you for the good service you rendered during the war. Your work was excellent and was fully appreciated by all those under whom you served. Her Majesty Queen Alexandra has graciously given permission for you to retain your TFNS badge as you have completed four years' service during the war."
As part of the discharge process a report was requested from the 1st Eastern General Hospital. It read as follows, "Miss E Humphrey worked at the 1st Eastern General Hospital, first as staff nurse and afterwards as a Sister from August 1914 to September 1918, was sent overseas and returned to the 1st Eastern General Hospital in March 1919. She was a kind and reliable nurse and took great interest in her patients' welfare but did not prove able to accept much responsibility".
On the 9th April the official letter discharging Elsie from military service was sent to her at her new home in Kingbear in North Hill in Cornwall where she was living with friend Sister Mary Alice Brown TFNS. Elsie's time in the TFNS came to an end on that day. The War Office wrote to Elsie, "I have received the proceedings of a medical board dated 22nd March 1920, held for your examination, and I regret to note that you have been pronounced permanently unfit for further military nursing services. Your engagement has been terminated from the date of this letter, i.e. 9.4.20 ... R A Riddell, A/Principal Matron, T.F.N.S." A plethora of memos was sent to various departments to tie up the loose ends regarding Elsie's pay and pension arrangements. Elsie had maintained that she had not been paid since December. Elsie Humphrey's service record can be downloaded from The National Archive, click here.
North Hill is a country parish in Cornwall and is divided into two by the River Lynher which crosses it from north to south. Whilst the eastern side is rolling farmland, the western side is made up of the steep flanks of Bodmin Moor leading up to the open moor itself. Port Lane is in this western half and has two old cottages standing near to one another half way up the very steep hill from Berrio Bridge to Kingbear. Above Kingbear is the bleak open moor but through a gap in the trees it is possible to look eastward from these cottages over the beautiful Lynher Valley. Port Lane would have been far too steep for somebody in Elsie's condition to negotiate and it is most likely that the journey up to the cottage would have been the last one she made whilst alive. The question of which of the two cottages was the one where Sister Mary Alice Brown TFNS and great friend of Elsie cared for her has not been resolved but it is believed that the lower cottage was where they lived. This was owned and rented by the Budge family and long term local resident Bill Budge has a memory of his father talking about two ladies who lived together in the Budge's cottage in Port Lane in the 1920s.
Sister Mary Alice Brown of the TFNS was not a local lady. She had been born into a large family in Louth, Lincolnshire in the spring of 1869, the daughter of Charles Brown and Mary Ann Wilkinson. She had served with the nursing service since 1897 and had been trained at Guy's Hospital in London. Mary also worked at Addenbooke's and then at the 1st Eastern General Hospital before being demobilised in 1919. Initially her specialism was midwifery but for the duration of the war she was a very successful Sister at this hospital for wounded soldiers but she never served overseas. For her services to nursing she had been awarded the Royal Red Cross in 1917.
In a letter that she wrote in May 1920 to her employers Mary stressed that although she had been unwell and her handwriting was 'dreadful' she asserted she was getting better. She wrote "... I know I have been very ill but I hope to get well again ready for the next war. The ministry are trying to send me to Bath for treatment at the mineral baths etc ...". Mary had, amongst other ailments, severe rheumatism which was the cause of her eventually leaving the service in 1925, having remained notionally on the roll of the 1st Eastern General Hospital, but inactive, for some while. Taking on the role of caring for an advanced TB case in a cottage with few amenities in an isolated Cornish parish on a very steep hill appears daunting enough. Adding to that challenge the fact that Mary was herself unwell can only demonstrate the depth of her friendship with Elsie.
By the 15th April Elsie had become so weak that she was unable to respond personally to her own correspondence and so her friend Mary Alice Brown wrote on Elsie's behalf. The letter below clearly shows Sister Elsie Margaret Humphrey's dedication and love for her service had not been dented by the manner in which her own medical condition had been handled.
Sister Elsie Margaret Humphrey died at home in Port Lane, North Hill on the 20th April 1920 from tuberculosis.
Elsie was 32 years old and had served in the TFNS for over 5½ years. She was buried three days later on St George's Day in St Torney's Churchyard.
Elsie never married. Indeed it was a requirement of the times that nurses be single but from reading Elsie's service record it is clear that she was wholly committed to the care of the injured soldiers that came into her care.
Elsie never made a will. This seems surprising when you consider the number of casualties that she had come across in her nursing career and that it was common knowledge that soldiers were encouraged to write their wills before going into battle and that she was a nurse who would have understood the uncertain future for one who had been diagnosed with tuberculosis. It must be remembered, though, that she was just 32 years of age and always saw her future as back at the bedsides of those servicemen that needed her care.
Her estate amounted to £497 2s 9d. This would be about £22,000 if measured in today's terms. The administration of the estate was awarded on the 20th August to her elder brother Francis James Humphrey, an engineer. Elsie's home address was recorded as 1 Palace Mansions, Addison Bridge, Kensington in London, which was where her brothers lived, but she died in the cottage in Port Lane in North Hill parish.
Elsie's gravestone is recognized as being one of those for which the Commonwealth War Graves Commission has responsibility. It is not of the usual design and is made of a substantial block of granite once surmounted by a granite cross. The cross which was placed on top has now fallen off and is placed behind the base. It is not known who paid for this to be erected. It would have been expedient for Mary Alice Brown to have made the funeral arrangements locally. Given that Francis had toiled against bureaucracy to help his sister it would not be unreasonable to suspect that he made his way to North Hill for her funeral and erected the stone from the proceeds of the estate. It would be generous to think that Arthur also managed to be there as well.
Elsie's father and sister, buried in Romford Cemetery (or Crow Lane cemetery as it is known locally), had no headstone at all. The Essex Commemoration Project have undertaken to have Elsie remembered in Romford. On 29th August 2014 Steve Fifer of the project wrote "We have a meeting with Havering council ... and we will certainly highlight Elsie's case as one that illustrates missing names and some of the reasons why this is. .... I am adding Elsie to our Havering database and will exert our best efforts to have her added to the Romford War Memorial where she deserves to be." For as yet unexplained reasons, Elsie is remembered on the Roll of Honour in Norwich Cathedral (read more about this).
There are two coincidences worthy of mention. Elsie's best friend was Mary Brown, the matron looking after Elsie's best interests at Colchester was S A Brown and the Matron in Chief at the War Office who was dealing with her case was a Browne. The second concerns the address of the firm of solicitors engaged to settle the issues of Elsie's pay, expenses, war gratuity and other entitlements from the War Office. Resolving Elsie's estate became a protracted affair and Francis and Arthur engaged a firm of solicitors whose address was in North Hill, Colchester.
It would seem that whereas Francis had been the prime mover in Elsie's affairs before she died that after her death her brother Arthur picked up the reins of dealing with her estate. This is despite the fact that Francis was the named executor to the estate. The letters of administration were finally issued on 5th November 1920.
Elsie was eligible for the British and Victory medals (shown left) because she served in France from 10 September 1918 to 13 January 1919 and they, were claimed by Francis Humphrey. They were issued at some time in 1923. Elsie was also awarded The Territorial Forces War Medal (shown right). Her name appears on the medal roll which has been transcribed on the Fairest Force website. The author of that site writes "I can't see that there is any other woman in the TFNS with that combination of initial and surname, and the criteria are so complicated that many nurses did qualify even if they didn't have the pre-war qualifying service."
Both of Elsie's surviving half sisters married. The elder half sister, Mary Evelyn Mann married Ralph Bradwin Langton (b 1893 Iver, Buckinghamshire) in Ealing in 1921. They had two children: Cynthia Margery Langton who was born in 1923 in Singapore and Ailsa Mary Langton who was born in 1925 in the Brentford area and died in 2001 in South Devon. The younger half sister was Doris Harriott Mann who married Henry Fawcett in 1924 in the Brentford area. They both died in the Torquay area in 1980 and 1979 respectively. They had a son who was named Henry, after his father, in 1924 but nothing further is known about him.
Elsie's friend, Mary Alice Brown, was also invalided out of the service. Mary spent some time in the military hospital in Orpington in Kent. Later, she lived in various places in the west country. She died in 1938 in St Columb Minor near Newquay. Mary Alice Brown's service record can be downloaded from The National Archive, click here. The record WO/359/10059 contains an image which would appear to be Sister Mary Alice Brown, the subject of the record. The caption indicates that the image is Sister Mary A Brown of the QAIMNS who was awarded the Military Medal. The image is Sister Mary Ann Brown and should be filed with her record. Sister Mary Alice Brown was in the TFNS, not the QAIMNS. Her record makes no mention her winning the Military Medal. This was pointed out to The National Archives in June 2018 who responded as follows "I am afraid we cannot help with your request. Whilst it may be that you are correct and this newspaper clipping actually refers to a different individual it is an integral part of the file as we received it from the War Office and we are not able to add or remove things from files and so alter the Public Record." This image was used in 2014 to represent Sister Mary Alice Brown in "The Fallen of North Hill" and must now be seen as an incorrect image.
Click here to see the poster generated to remember Elsie at the launch of North Hill's book "The Fallen of North Hill".
The images at the top of the page show the medal worn by the Territorial Forces Nursing Service and Elsie Humphrey's grave in St Torney's Churchyard, North Hill. The image of Romford Cemetery has been provided by Steve Fifer of the Essex Commemoration Project. Letters and other documents are derived from Elsie's service record held at The National Archive.
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Undo #336 "colors are wrong"
Sometimes in your career things will happen as a result of your best intentions that will bite you in the ass.
I didn't even think about this happening…
The situation: I was commissioned for a few t-shirt designs from a client. Good communication, no issues with revisions or contracts, everything went smooth. Then I received a phone call. Something like this:
Client: The colors are all wrong. We just ran 5,000 of these shirts using the Pantone colors you specified in your art and it looks nothing like it is supposed to. We can't sell these.
Now maybe they could have sold the shirts and maybe they did, but there was no getting around the argument that the colors were wrong. I knew they were, and after looking back at it, I should have known they would be wrong. If you are not sure what Pantone colors are then take a break and google it so you can get up to speed. My background started in screen-printing and almost all of the vector art I printed used Pantone colors. This makes the colors consistent if and when the shirts are reprinted. But there is something you should know about Pantone colors: Pantone colors are specific colors, each having a specific name, and there are hundreds of them.
What's the big deal then? The big deal is this, to send the client accurate Pantone colors, I would need to calibrate my monitor to display true Pantone colors, it wasn't. Even then for the client to see the exact colors on their monitor, they would have to calibrate their monitor, and it wasn't. Furthermore, when the client prints out the design on paper, unless the printer prints true Pantone colors… you get the point. The only consistency that could have occurred was that the colors I chose from my Pantone book matched what was printed. The problem with that is, the client wasn't looking at a Pantone book, and they were relying on me to give them the colors. They assumed what they were seeing on their monitor to be the exact colors I specified… and they weren't.
After working with the client the situation was resolved and I did not lose their business. I was honest with them and took full responsibility for the mistake. Being up front and honest is crucial in business, if you screwed up, admit to it. It's always harder to blame someone when they said they did it. I do realize that It could have been possible for the printer to pass the blame onto me. Maybe they didn't mix ink correctly… who knows. But if I had never put those Pantone colors into the file, it probably wouldn't have happened in the first place. Since then, there has been a clause in my contract stating that if I happen to "suggest" Pantone colors for a design that they are only suggestions and that I will not be accountable for the end results. It hasn't been an issues since.
So when presenting artwork to a client you have a choice to include Pantone color specifics or let the client handle the colors with the printer. Either way, make sure your client fully understands how you are stating the colors, specific or suggested. As always, CYA.
*Note: I know this scenario isn't going be relative with all projects. So to be specific, this was a 3-color t-shirt design that was separated from Illustrator using spot colors.
Links you should check out:
Smashing Magazine:
Preparing Artwork for Screen Printing in Adobe Illustrator


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Vietnam Airlines has released photographs of its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner which it will take delivery of from the middle of 2015, as well as a seat map Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Seat Map VNA first Dreamliner will begin life on the on the Hanoi (HAN) to Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) route from 1 June 2015 operating twice daily then after 29 June it will be put in International service on the Hanoi (HAN) to London Heathrow (LHR) route. From the photos the aircraft will feature Economy Class, Premium Economy Class, Business Class cabin Business Class Business Class seats 28 with 7 rows of 4 with seats laid out in a 1-2-1 seating configuration, window seats are angled out and center seats angled inwards, seats have a 42 inch (106.6 cm) seat pitch and convert into a lie flat bed, the In-flight entertainment system is connected to a large 15.4 inch LCD, other features include USB, SMS, in-flight power as well as Wi-Fi connectivity. If you want to compare with their existing product take a look at the following flight review i did for Business on their A330 (Opens in new window so you can continue reading this article) Vietnam Airlines Business Class Flight Review Sydney to Saigon The second photo below looks to be a self-service bar that is located in-front of business. Premium Economy Class Premium is laid out in a 2-3-2 seating configuration all forward facing, in total there are 35 seats in premium economy in 7 rows of 5 seats. Premium Economy seats also have a 42 inch (106.6 cm) pitch just as in business, the IFE system is connected to a 10.6 inch (27 cm) LCD Economy Class Economy Class features 211 seats in roughly 22 rows of 9 seats as well as some additional single row of 7 seats and 2 separate rows of 3 seats. Economy seats have a 32 inch (81.2 cm) pitch and again the IFE is connected to a 10.6 inch (27 cm) display. If you are confused check Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Seat Map
Air New Zealand 787 Dreamliner Seats Revealed Photos
Air New Zealand recently revealed photos of its seating options for its upcoming Boeing 787 Dreamliner which will be launched on the Auckland to Perth route from 15 October 2014. As expected the Air New Zealand's Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner will be a three class cabin with Business Premier, Premium Economy and Economy. Click to navigate to the relevant section: Business Premier Seats | Premium Economy Seats | Economy Skycouch Seats | Economy Seats Also see the: Air New Zealand Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Seat Map Diagram Business Premier Seats Laid out in an angled 1-1-1 seating configuration from rows 1 to 6 there are a total of 18 seats Business Premier Seats which convert into a full lie flat beds. All seats feature inflight power and USB as well as an 11" Capactive Touch Screen Premium Economy Seats Air New Zealand's Boeing 787 Dreamliner Premium Economy seating is located in rows 23 to 25 and feature 21 seats in a 2-3-2 seating configuration. Seats have a 9" (22 cm recline) and a 41" (104 cm) seat pitch. All seats feature inflight power and USB as well as an 11" Capactive Touch Screen Economy Skycouch Seats Air New Zealand's Economy Skycouch seats are an innovative design which allow the back rest part of the seat to be folded down as seen in the pictures below. If you are travelling with kids it's great and gives you more options and room for sleeping. Air New Zealand's Skycouch Seats are located in Rows 36-43 ABC and 36-41 HJK see the blue/aqua coloured seating in the following Air New Zealand Boeing 787 9 Dreamliner Seat Map for the exact location. Economy Seats In total there are 263 Economy Class seats on Air New Zealand's 787 Dreamliner laid out in a 3-3-3 seating configuration. Seats have a 5" (12.5 cm) recline and a seat pitch of 31-32″ (79-81 cm) Entertainment wise each Economy Class seat features a 9" (22 cm) touch screen in addition to inflight power 2 plugs for every 3 seats, as well as USB power in every seat.
Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Completes Firm Configuration
Boeing Today announced that it had completed firm configuration of its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, which involved years of collaboration with airline customers and partners to determine the final configuration of the stretched version of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner The full media release from Boeing can be read below: Boeing today announced the completion of firm configuration for the 787-9 Dreamliner. Boeing reached this milestone after years of collaboration with airline customers and partners to determine the optimal configuration for the new stretch version of the Dreamliner. "Firm configuration means the airplane's structural, propulsion and systems architectures are defined and not changing," said Mark Jenks, vice president of 787-9 development, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Boeing has completed the trade studies required to finalize the airplane's overall capability and basic design, allowing the airplane manufacturer and its suppliers to begin detailed design of parts, assemblies and other systems for the 787-9. As detailed designs are completed and released, production can begin. The first 787-9 delivery is scheduled for late 2013. "We have a disciplined process in place to ensure we have completed all of the requirements for the development stage of the program," said Scott Fancher, vice president and general manager of the 787 program, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "The team has done a fantastic job to get us through this important milestone." The 787-9 is the second member of the 787 family. A slightly bigger version of the 787-8, the airplane will seat 250-290 passengers, 16 percent more than the 787-8. The 787-9 will have a range of 8,000 to 8,500 nautical miles (14,800 to 15,750 km). "We have been working closely with our customers for years to reach this milestone," said Mark Jenks, vice president of 787-9 development. "We are excited about the performance and capability this airplane will offer our customers." The 787 Dreamliner is an all-new twinjet designed to meet the needs of airlines around the world in providing nonstop service between midsize cities with new levels of efficiency. The airplane will bring improved levels of comfort to passengers with larger windows, bigger baggage bins and advances in the cabin environment, including lower cabin altitude, higher humidity and cleaner air. Delivery of the first 787 is planned for the fourth quarter of 2010.


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BEWARE of TRAPS in Mississauga Code of Conduct if filing complaint with integrity commissioner
December 7th, 2011
Once again, apologies for taking so long to write a new blog.
For the record, currently I'm in a protracted research phase —doing a lot of reading, studying actually. Also doing a lot of videotaping while reviewing five years worth of audio and videotape relating to City of Mississauga municipal government. And throughout all this, I've also have to scour Freedom of Information documents going all the way back to January 2007.
Not fun.
Also, I'm preparing a 3-part video on the Mississauga Judicial Inquiry's recommendations as they relate the City of Mississauga's Council Code of Conduct, hiring of an integrity commissioner and other MYTHissauga window-dressing "ethics" initiatives.
Today, the Mississauga News came out with article, Politicians to blame for voter apathy: study.
Some highlights:
The politically disengaged are not as apathetic or ignorant of politics as previously thought — they opt out because they feel the political system has failed them, says a survey of Canadians across the country, including a focus group from Mississauga.
• less engaged Canadians overwhelmingly describe themselves as outsiders. They do not feel they have a voice or any ownership stake in the political system
• Canadians' dislike for politics seems closely related to a perceived gap between the ideals of democracy and the reality of how they are represented politically
• Disengagement is, in fact, a response to people's personal interaction with politics and government
"A common theme across the focus groups was that the political system has failed many Canadians in clear and tangible ways," said Alison Loat, Samara's co-founder and executive director. "Consequently, political disengagement is a learned response — this is a far cry from the conventional wisdom that assumes the disengaged simply do not care."
Kendall Anderson, Samara's communications and project manager, says the research shows most disengaged non-voters start off wanting to be part of the system, but a series of unpleasant experiences ultimately turns them into non-voters.
Love that "perceived gap between the ideals of democracy and the reality of how they are represented politically". Recall how I warn people about the "vast yawning gap between what Mississauga trumpets versus the behind-the-scenes Reality." The perceptive reader will see that "vast yawning gap between what Mississauga trumpets versus the behind-the-scenes Reality" simply means "lie".
Quite convenient for the Mississauga News to come out with their citizen-disengagement article today. Leads in quite nicely to the theme of this video: Our Lying, Deceptive Governments. And how integrity commissioners are just a waste of taxpayers' dollars. A reminder that I truly believe that "The System is CORRUPT, there is no way to fix it."
So. The video, complete with transcript.
BEWARE of TRAPS in Mississauga Code of Conduct if filing complaint with integrity commissioner (7:34 min)
(Click here to go directly to the clip on YouTube)
MISSISSAUGAWATCH reporting from Cooksville 5 & 10 intersection. December 5, 2011
It is Monday, December the 5th, 2011 and I'm parked here at Highway 5 and 10. And I just want to report a little bit, to provide a little bit of an update for you regarding what's been going on in Mississauga.
There's so many competing issues for me right now that the best way for me to describe what's happening is that I feel mired in all kinds of conflicting issues. And mired to the point of paralysis.
And it's not just conflicting and competing but there's also this important kind of thinking that I have to do.
It isn't enough just reading this book, "REPORT ON THE MISSISSAUGA JUDICIAL INQUIRY Updating the Ethical Infrastructure". You need to think about it. You need to think what the implications are.
So, one of the things that I'm doing is I'm reading this [Mississauga Council Code of Conduct April 2011]. Not just reading but understanding the rules —almost to the point of committing certain things to memory.
And then I go back and I read in here [REPORT ON THE MISSISSAUGA JUDICIAL INQUIRY Updating the Ethical Infrastructure] what Commissioner Cunningham recommended for improving the Mississauga Code of Conduct.
And it's taken a lot of time, and a lot of pondering —a lot of thinking.
I'm also filing at least one —at least one complaint with the integrity commissioner.
And it's got to be done right. It's got to be done right because I got really tripped up in a complaint that I filed against City of Mississauga Corporate Security.
And I need to refer you to the series on nursing homes by the Toronto Star. And they were reporting on some of the horrid abuses at nursing homes including one where a male nurse raped one of the women in his care.
The Toronto Star in that particular article also said that when they reviewed the investigation letters in nursing homes, the actual letter, the resolution letter, was sanitized. And that's the word that they used: "sanitized".
And so sanitized that they really couldn't tell what the complaint was about. Or what they were investigating.
So, they couldn't for example, determine from the letters whether something dealt with sexual abuse —or physical abuse.
I can tell you the City of Mississauga Corporate Security do the same thing. They sanitize their resolution letters so badly, when you read the resolution letter and then read what the actual public complaint was about, they're two different things.
And just a little bit of background.
I'd sent an email asking a question through email@example.com. And I got a response that I considered rude enough that I asked for the identity of the individual who sent me the comment. And I repeated my request, for that person to identify himself, over a period of three months.
So I gave the person almost three months to come clean, and identify himself. When he didn't I filed a complaint.
The individual confessed and by "confessing", this person knew that he could stop the investigation and that was it. Basically I got a resolution letter that said, yes, the person was rude, he had been spoken with and I'm to consider the matter closed.
The point is, that again, when somebody reads the letter, oh, a person was being rude, it's been taken care of.
No! No. The individual refused to identify himself!
And when I filed Freedom of Information asking them to follow the trail of where my email was sent, up across the top it said, "Jamie Hillis" —who is the Manager of Corporate Security.
So there's every evidence, that the person who was hiding anonymously in email was actually the Manager, Jamie Hillis, who's charged, by the way, with implementing the public complaints process! And the policy.
By the way, I fought that all the way to the IPC, Ontario's Information and Privacy Commission. And they sided with allowing this individual his anonymity.
It was a mistake that I made —well, first of all, the biggest mistake was I felt now that they had a formal complaints procedure that it would be somehow legitimate. Clearly it wasn't.
And I keep saying that the City of Mississauga has infinite capacity to pervert. They have infinite capacity to pervert policies, procedures, guidelines, provincial legislation and anything else.
And it's the same here [with the Mississauga Council Code of Conduct April 2011]. I know for a fact, just because of prior behaviour, that if I don't file the complaint with the integrity commissioner absolutely according to this [Mississauga Council Code of Conduct April 2011] document —it too will be perverted.
Also just for the record, I don't believe for a minute that when I do file the complaint —or complaints, with the integrity commissioner, that it's even going to matter.
Again. The City of Mississauga has infinite capacity to pervert.
And something else. I've been talking about McCallion-backed councillors. Tovey, Mullin, Fonseca, Crombie, Starr, Mahoney and Saito. Seven of them.
And just a reminder that [Councillor] Nando Iannicca basically said to all the councillors —and he stood by this. And he said, if you did not vote for the Inquiry, you're not fit for public service.
[Video Insert begins]
Councillor Nando Iannicca, Mississauga General Committee, November 2, 2011
If you did not vote for the Inquiry. If you do not agree with its findings. And if you are not appalled at what happened, you are not fit for public service.
Acting Chair, McCallion-backed loyalist Councillor Katie Mahoney, Mississauga General Committee, November 2, 2011
Councillor Iannicca, I am going to cut this deba—
[Video Insert ends]
MISSISSAUGAWATCH reporting from Cooksville 5 & 10 intersection. December 5, 2011
So you understand [laughs] that three of the four councillors who are going to be "working" on this Code of Conduct and in possibly hiring and making recommendations for Mississauga's next integrity commissioner are, according to Nando Iannicca, "not fit for public service".
So that gives me a lot of confidence here!
[Music: Caspian & Grafhic – Matrix Shit]
This thing here with the integrity commissioner —and preparing a complaint, just believe me when I say, it's got to be done in the right order. And you have to make sure as a citizen that you don't fall into the traps that are inherent in this [Mississauga Council Code of Conduct April 2011] document.
And here's an allegation. They were put here on purpose. On purpose.
Councillor Nando Iannicca, Mississauga General Committee, November 2, 2011
If you did not vote for the Inquiry. If you do not agree with its findings. And if you are not appalled at what happened, you are not fit for public service.
Acting Chair, McCallion-backed loyalist Councillor Katie Mahoney, Mississauga General Committee, November 2, 2011
Councillor Iannicca, I am going to cut—
Example of SANITIZED City of Mississauga Corporate Security resolution letter.
Can you tell what the complaint was about?
Can you tell this complaint was against a Security BOSS?
Can you tell from this letter that contrary to Policy, a Security underling "investigated" a superior —and cleared him?
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A Jew Walks into a Mosque in the Middle of the Night
As I listened to the speech of Imam Shahin in Davis several weeks ago, my heart sank and my anger burned. Anger for the violence of the words themselves, being addressed to my community and my people, but also because of the violence done to the Islam I have learned from my Muslim friends across many different communities. And my heart sank knowing how much work it was going to take to repair the rifts — both in the Davis community, and down here in Los Angeles.
My mind wandered to sermons I heard in synagogues struggling righteously with the Torah portion which commands us to to wipe out Amalek. There were inflammatory ones, too. I once had to leave the Bratslav shul in Jerusalem because my Hebrew was good enough to understand the equation being made between the Arabs and Amalek. Another time my husband felt compelled, during synagogue announcements to stand and say, "The sages say there are 70 faces of the Torah. I am sure that was not one of them" in response to a drash arguing the Biblical basis for total war against the Palestinians. I remembered the confusion, shame and anger at seeing the texts I love being used in such hateful ways.
Last week I watched my Facebook feed fill with fear and indignation from Jews, and with clear and unequivocal condemnations from Muslim friends and colleagues, expressing sentiments reflecting a similar combination of shame and anger as I had when my texts were being used to inflame. Behind the scenes I watched the Muslim Jewish network activate to confront the unacceptable rhetoric that had been derived from a tradition that Muslims loved too, challenging in the strongest possible terms and leveraging relationships to create a process of healing.
Our texts can be used to divide or heal. As the final days of Ramadan approached this year, a 17 year old girl, Nabra Hassanen, was murdered in Virginia. It was a difficult time for my Muslim friends. I found myself pulled toward the Islamic Center of Southern California for Taraweeh prayers — not only to support my friends, but for my own experience and understanding, as well.
Taraweeh is a set of late night prayers recited after breaking fast during Ramadan. I had been at other Muslim prayer services, but never this one. I imagined it might have a similar feel to the slichot prayers Jews recite late a night or early in the morning before the High Holidays.
I arrived a little late alongside other stragglers. As Program Co-Director at NewGround: a Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change, the ICSC has become a second home to me. I am there for Fellowship sessions and meetings at least twice a month. I knew I would be warmly welcomed as I had been any time I stepped across the threshold of the building on Vermont and 4th.
As I stepped into the women's section, the evening's sermon was already in progress. I worked my way to a corner from where I could respectfully witness. As I settled in, I heard the speaker say "Many of these verses talk about women, but this one talks about the Torah."
What?! I had just stepped into a mosque. Why are we all of a sudden talking about the Torah?
The speaker, Dr. Laila al-Marayti, continued: "'There is a parable: those who were graced with the burden of the Torah failed to bear this burden; it is like of a donkey that carries a load of books.' So what good are books to an animal that can't read them? Often we look at this as an admonition for the Jews, but this is really for all of us, lest we take our Quran for granted and we get used to just using it in a ritualistic fashion without really reading or understanding it."
She had taken a verse that has been deployed against Jews, and turned it into an opportunity to explore the universal experience of failing to search for deeper understanding. Dr. Al-Marayati's remarks were framed by the larger question about how we "balance mercy and justice" in our daily relationships, a question so familiar to me from repeated Jewish sources advocating that God and humans balance "rachamim" with "din" (compassion with judgement).
Perhaps, as according to both our traditions, herein lies the key. We certainly need justice. We need to hold one another accountable — and hold our own communities accountable — for the ways in which we speak about one another. But that accountability must be balanced with compassion. Compassion comes through relationship. In building empathetic and vulnerable relationships we begin looking not only for one another's culpability, but beyond it, as well. These relationships may offer us the gift of catching one another off guard — in acts of compassion. And it is in the context of these relationships that we, like those who delve meaningfully into the Quran and into the Torah, can learn to read and understand one another on a deeper level.
Andrea Hodos is Program Co-Director at NewGround: a Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change and along with Tasneem Noor facilitates the Professional Fellowship. They are accepting applications for the 2017-18 cohort through August 18th.


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Rencontre Africaine de Défense des Droits de l'Homme (RADDHO)
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Rencontre Africaine de Défense des Droits de l'Homme (RADDHO)
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Mission Statement:
RADDHO is an non-governmental, non-profit organization based in Dakar(Senegal). The objective of RADDHO is to promote, protect and defend human rights in Senegal and in Africa. RADDHO is present in the 10 areas of Senegal. The RADDHO intervenes in the rights of women and children as well as the issues of refugees, torture, and anti-personnel mines. Within the framework of its activities, RADDHO collaborates with NGOs at the local, national and international level.
Contact Information
Full Mailing Address:
Villa 4024 AmitiŽ 2,
AllŽes Seydou Nourou TALL BP 15 246 Dakar Ð Fann,
Dakar, Senegal
Phone Number:
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Community Development
Mission Statement:
The Chatham Department of Community Development's mission is to ensure courteous, consistent, dependable and trustworthy public service through quality management oversight of the Department in the effective performance of duties and responsibilities in four primary division areas: inspectional services, planning, zoning and historic preservation in addition to the Department's support of various Boards and Committees.
Customer Service Theme: "Working together to serve you better"
Customer Service Statement:
On a daily basis the Chatham Community Development Department strives to provide courteous and responsive quality service to our valued customers by fostering a respectful and welcoming environment resulting in a positive experience for all by:
- Listening to your concerns and providing accurate answers and information by responding in a friendly and thoughtful manner
- Being accountable for all we do, recognizing that everyone's needs are important
- Being the "helping hand" in making the permitting process easier and employing a collaborative approach to finding solutions on complex issues, enabling the successful completion of your projects
- Maintaining a commitment to transparency by responding to requests for information to the full extent of Massachusetts public meeting and records law
- And when we do need to say no, to do so in a manner that is informative and educational, explaining the regulatory basis for such decisions
Staff Contacts
|Kathleen Donovan
|Director of Community Development
|(508) 945-5168
|Michele Clarke
|Office Manager Community Development Dept.
|(508) 945-5168
|Aly Sabatino
|Principal Planner
|(508) 945-5168
|Sarah Clark
|Central Permit Coordinator
|(508) 945-5168