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1917 Jin Feng She 'Nem' or 'New' Map of Shanghai, China
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Early bi-lingual map of Shanghai.
The Nem Map of Shanghai. / 'Recently Measured New Map of Shanghai.' / 最近实测上海新地图
1917 (dated) 20 x 30.25 in (50.8 x 76.835 cm) 1 : 15840
This is the 1917 bilingual 'Nem' map of Shanghai, China by Jin Feng She (金鳳社) / Chojiro Shimazu (島津長治郎). 'Nem' is of course a typo, with the Japanese publisher erroneously inverting the 'W' in 'New'. Centered on the Bund, the primary riverfront business district of the International Settlement, the map covers the International settlement, British Concession (pink), and French Concession (orange)- which had just been radically expanded (light orange area) in 1914. There is an advertisement, to the left of the inset, for 'みやげもの相连' a Japanese specialty and souvenir store on Wusong Road.
Lu Xun Park
This map is unique for its inset in the lower right, actually an extension of the map that can be cut out and pasted to the top of the map, a cleaver and flexible way to deal with irregular urban forms, intended to incorporate the expansion of Lu Xun Park ('New Park'). Also known as Hongkou (Hongkew) Park, this part was initially proposed in 1896 as a shooting range for the multinational Shanghai Volunteer Corps. In 1917, this small park underwent several major expansions, incorporating golf course, tennis courts, a swimming pool and a blowing green. There can be down doubt that interest in these developments inspired the cartography to add it to this map. The park subsequently hosted the Far Eastern Championship Games in 1921.
Shanghai 1910 - 1932
The 1910s-20s were a golden age for Shanghai. While China was ruled by Chiang Kai-shek, Shanghai was dominated by several consolidated foreign trade Concessions. Under the strict administrative control of the Concessions, the city became a cosmopolitan haven in the midst of political unrest and a center for global trade and finance. The Concessions occupied what is today central Shanghai's most desirable land, hugging the Huangpu River and Wusong River (Suzhou Creek). These extraterritorial European, Japanese, and American enclaves had elegant housing, fine roads, streetcars, elegant shops, clubs, and more. It was a place of excess, art, and extravagance, where fortunes could be made by the enterprising - and lost by the foolish. Moreover, lacking the moral constrains that limited social life in Europe and America, Shanghai became nexus for the opium trade, sexual excess, gambling, and other vices. This ephemeral world come crashing down on January 28, 1932, when the Shanghai Incident or January 28 Incident pitted the Republic of China against the Empire of Japan. Responding to Chinese student protests against the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Japanese Navy bombarded Shanghai. Chiang Kai-shek sent the Chinese army in to defend the Shanghai students, threatening to escalate the conflict. The League of Nations, fearing all-out war, united to demand a ceasefire, which was signed. Nonetheless, most consider The January 28 incident to be the opening salvo of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1938 - 1945) which ultimately merged into World War II.
Shanghai International Settlement
The Shanghai International settlement was created in 1863 when the British and American Shanghai enclaves merged. These concessions had been granted to England and the United States as part of the Unequal Treaties that followed the Opium Wars. From about 1854 the settlements were governed by the Shanghai Municipal Council, a British dominated board of government officials and powerful merchants. The board issued restrictions limiting Chinese habitation on International Settlement territory and oversaw the construction of public services, including Trams, a sewage system, highways, and port buildings. The International settlement expanded several times in the late 19th and early 20th century. It became an enclave of peace and prosperity when the Japanese invaded Shanghai in 1937 but this abruptly came to an end with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and subsequent invasion of the International Settlement in 1941. After the war the International Settlement lands were returned to Chinese sovereignty.
Shanghai French Concession - 上海法租界
On April 6, 1849, Lin Kouei (麟桂), the Chinese governor of Shanghai, granted French Consul Charles de Montigny (1805 - 1868) a proclamation ceding extraterritoriality to France in order to establish a trading colony. The Concession initially occupied a narrow collar of land around the northern end of the Chinese City, south of the British settlement, an area of 66 hectares. It was subsequently expended several times. A further small strip of riverside land to the east of the Chinese City was added in 1861, to allow for the Quai de France, docks servicing shipping between China and France. Between 1899 and 1900 the French Concession further expanded, nearly doubling in size with new territory extending west of the original grant. It expanded again in 1914, reaching as far west as modern Huashan Lu (Avneue Haig) - as seen here just 3 years after the expansion. By the 1920s, the western part of the French Concession had become the most desirable residential area of Shanghai, popular both with foreign nationals and wealthy Chinese. The concession was mistakenly bombed during the chaotic 1937 Battle of Shanghai, fought between the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Republic of China (ROC) and the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). In 1943, the French Concession was handed over to the Japanese puppet Wang Jingwei Regime by Vichy France. The turnover was officially ratified after the war by the Sino-French Accord of February 1946, signed by the French Ambassador and Chiang Kai-shek. Today the French Concession, with its tree lined boulevards and French colonial architecture, remains Shanghai's most desirable neighborhood.
Publication History and Census
This map was printed on printed on March 16, Taisho 6, 1917, and released 4 days later on March 20. It was issued by Chojiro Shimazu (島津長治郎) of the Jin Feng She (金鳳社) press. Examples are exceedingly scarce. We have identified no examples outside of China, but at least two examples in Chinese institutional collections. There also appear to be at least two editions, one with and one without the inset in the lower right. It is unclear which is earlier.
Chojiro Shimazu (島津長治郎, fl. c. 1900 - 1927) was a Japanese publisher based in Shanghai, China. Chojiro arrived in China around 1900, establishing himself in the pharmaceutical business. He began publishing in 1912, founding Jin Feng She (金鳳社) press. Under his leadership, the press published several Japanese language guidebooks, maps, directories, and more. Learn More...
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U.N. Approves Resolution Decrying Increase in Anti-Semitism Worldwide
Wire Service: Reuters
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5555-2004Nov22.html
On November 22, 2004 Reuters reported, "A U.N. General Assembly committee approved for the first time Monday a resolution decrying an increase in anti-Semitism along with rising intolerance and violence directed at other religions... The resolution on religious intolerance was adopted 177 to 0 by the...
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Thanksgiving in Allentown NJ, "United in Gratitude"
Source: The Morning Call
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On November 22, 2004 The Morning Call reported, "the theme for an ecumenical Thanksgiving service in Allentown on Sunday was 'United in Gratitude.' The Rev. Tom Cormier, an interfaith minister, expanded on the theme when he began the service... The third annual Interfaith Community Thanksgiving Prayer Service was...
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"Your Muslim Neighbor" Theme for Tenth Annual Islam Awareness Week
Source: IslamOnline
http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2004-11/21/article06.shtml
On November 21, 2004 IslamOnline reported, "Muslims in major cities across the United Kingdom will launch Monday, November 22, the tenth Islam Awareness Week (IAW) with activities and seminars highlighting contributions to the society. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre will play host to the national event organized by the Islamic Society of Britain (ISB) under the...
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Interfaith Vigil Prays for Peace in South
Source: Phuket Gazette
http://www.phuketgazette.net/news/index.asp?id=3796
On November 19, 2004 the Phuket Gazette reported, "About 500 people, including local leaders of the major faiths in Thailand, held a mass session yesterday to pray for peace to return to the troubled provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat.
The congregation gathered at Phuket Provincial Hall in�support of the government's call for mass prayer, which Phuket Governor Udomsak...
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Cardinals Comments Comparing Islam to Communism Spurs Dialogue
Source: CathNews
http://www.cathnews.com/news/411/105.php
On November 18, 2004 CathNews reported, "Last week's reporting of Cardinal George Pell's controversial remarks comparing Islam with communism appears likely to bring the Cardinal face to face with local Muslim leaders, with an official of the Lebanese Muslim Association expressing his wish for 'a friendly meeting' with Cardinal Pell. The Age reports today that Keysar Trad, of the Lebanese Muslim Association, said a speech...
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Source: The Boston Globe
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On November 17, 2004 The Boston Globe reported, "back in the 1950s, political scientists celebrated America for its 'pluralism.' That meant people had multiple, cross-cutting identities. Maybe you were a Catholic and also a trade unionist, a sport fisherman, a member of a veterans...
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Hindus and Muslims Unite in Protest Over Arrest of Swami
Source: The Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/924997.cms
On November 17, 2004 The Times of India reported, "That the residents of Satara town in western Maharashtra observed a day-long peaceful bandh on Tuesday to protest against the arrest of Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi is just half the news. What was noteworthy was the rare show of unity by members of hardcore Hindu and Muslim organisations.
The Muslim...
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25-Year Temple-Islamic Center Partnership Recognized by Interfaith Organization
Source: Canada NewsWir
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/November2004/16/c3998.html
On November 17, 2004 Canada NewsWir reported, "The extraordinary partnership of the Temple Har Zion and the Jaffari Islamic Centre will be recognized at special dinner organized by the Harmony Movement. The two religious centres have been close neighbours for over 25 years, not only sharing the same parking facility but collaborating on number of programs....
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Catholic Bishops Join Broad Alliance of Christians
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UN Aproves Philippine Proposal for Interfaith Dialogue Amont Nations
Source: The Manila Times
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2004/nov/16/yehey/top_stories/20041116top11.html
On November 16, 2004 The Manila Times reported, "The United Nations has adopted the Philippine government's proposal for an interfaith dialogue among nations to support peace-building efforts of the international community. Speaker Jose de Venecia, the original proponent of the interfaith dialogue, welcomed the...
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History of World Religions Should Be Taught by Secular Teachers, Education Minister Says
Source: Pravda.Ru
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On November 15, 2004 Pravda.Ru reported, "Moscow authorities offended Russia's leading confession when substituted lessons in Orthodox culture with lessons in the history of world religions Disputes about religion lessons in the secular school are still heated. It seems to be generally admitted that pupils should know the history of religion as part of the world history. But today the...
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ADL Speaks Out Against Threats to Presbyterian Churches
Source: ADL Press Release
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ChJew_31/4589_31.htm
On November 15, 2004 ADL Press Release reported, "the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today condemned the threatened use of violence against Presbyterian churches because of decisions made by church leaders to pursue a course of divestment from Israel. The League is in dialogue on the divestment issue with the Presbyterian leadership and strongly believes that dialogue, not violence, is the appropriate...
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Jews and Muslims Gather to Mark Anniversary of Synagogue Attacks
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On November 15, 2004 Ha-Aretz reported, "Turkish Jews and Muslims cried in the rain and recited prayers of mourning Monday as they marked the first anniversary of suicide bombings that struck two Istanbul synagogues in attacks blamed on a local Al-Qaida cell.
Some 60 people were killed in November 15 attacks on the Neve Shalom and Beth Israel synagogues and similar attacks five days later...
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Interfaith Youth Efforts in Sacramento
Source: Sacramento Bee
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Closer to closure: Solving homicide cold cases in Arizona
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Caption: (From left) Fabian Cano, 19, was killed January 2012 in a drive-by shooting as the suspected gunman's bullet went through a window striking him in the head. David Hayward, 19, was shot and killed July 2005, after being in an altercation with a male at a house party. Laurie Jean Wardein, 26, was found dead in her apartment by police June 1985. Police say she was stabbed multiple times by a man she went on a date with. (Bottom left) Elvina LeGarde, 69, was killed June 2008, on her way back from a church service when a gunman shot at her car in a road rage incident. Harold Boykin, 33, was killed at a bar called the Jaguar Club in Phoenix March 1985. He was shot after trying to wrestle a gun away from a gunman inside the bar. Nicole Glass and Melissa Mason, both 27, were found strangled in their Phoenix home in December 2010. Mason was also around eight weeks pregnant. The six cases remain unsolved as of 2018. (Phoenix Police Department)
When three armed suspects entered a Dollar Store around 5 p.m. June 16, 2001, the men assaulted a store clerk and murdered a 41-year-old customer. Phoenix Police Department detectives worked tirelessly to find those involved and what motivated the attack.
For 11 years, the detectives' case into the homicide went unsolved. It wasn't until homicide detectives reviewed the case in 2012, using advances in forensic technology, were they then able to uncover a new lead. By resubmitting evidence, police identified one of the suspects as 35-year-old Michael C. Moye and obtained a warrant for his arrest.
While Moye remains in custody since 2014, the two additional suspects in the murder of Jaime Olivera-Perez remain outstanding.
Within the United States in 2015, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported 14,392 murders and nonnegligent manslaughter cases. Of those cases, 61.5 percent were cleared by an arrest.
But for the fewer than four out of 10 cases that go unsolved, families and friends of the deceased are left to carry on the memories of their loved ones without closure.
The Phoenix Police Department's Homicide Cold Case Unit continues to keep the cases open and hunts for leads they hope will end in arrest.
Sgt. Jon Howard has seen the ins-and-outs of how cold cases are dealt with at the Phoenix Police Department. Five years ago, detectives were assigned to specifically look at cold cases. They brought back positive results.
"What they found was they were able to go through and identify pieces of evidence that we still had in our possession and submit them for analysis based on today's standard of technology," Howard said. "We had dozens of cold-case arrests within a couple of years."
Howard said the use of technology is only one of the three main methods used by the department in its approach to the cases.
The department makes sure more than one detective looks at a case to potentially find new approaches. Detectives use their experiences to pick up on something the first detective didn't see.
Howard said over the course of a cold case, the mindset of a witness may change.
"We may go back if we had a witness say 20 years ago that was unwilling to talk with us because of their situation or the type of lifestyle they were living and now we reach out 20 years later and they're willing to share new details with us," Howard said.
The department includes a unit for cold-case sex crimes, and together the units have about 2,500 unsolved homicides and sex crimes in the region dating back to the 1950s.
While police are looking for new leads in a case, an Arizona organization called Homicide Survivors Inc. is helping families spread the word about a loved one's unsolved case.
Becky Porter, a victim advocate with the organization, said the group takes a delicate approach when it comes to homicide cold cases.
"It can be very difficult especially when you have an unsolved case and you see families who are just struggling to get answers," she said. "That can really weigh heavily on anybody, law enforcement included."
She said the cases bring uneasiness to the families who must adjust in their own lives with a feeling of injustice that weighs on them. The organization helps to create opportunities mainly through alerting media of a cold case and creating promotional materials.
"One of the things we did recently, was put up billboards and bus stop ads but everything like that takes money and that's a challenge for a lot of families," Porter said.
An emotional challenge also presents itself to those working with the non-profit.
"Practicing self-care is probably the most important thing that I have learned and for me personally that is exercise and art, those are requirements on a daily basis," she said.
Porter's routine allows her to be the most effective at her job when energy can be expended in other areas of her life, she said.
Howard said the satisfaction of solving a difficult case and being able to notify a family carries him further.
"I can go out and do the bad side of policing. I can go get yelled at and spit on," he said. "And I can solve one case where a family shakes my hand and says thanks — and it carries me for a year."
Shaq Davis is a reporter for Arizona Sonora News , a service from the School of Journalism with the University of Arizona. Contact him at smd3@email.arizona.edu
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Klaus Schwab: Yes, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is about Elites Advancing a Conspiracy
Written by Adam Dick
That select group of elites from around the world who come together at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland really are conspiring to control the direction of society and politics worldwide. It is a conspiracy in practice, not just a conspiracy theory. That is the admission of WEF Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab in his Monday welcoming remarks for this year's WEF annual meeting.
Here is the conspiracy admission from Schwab's speech:
Let's also be clear. The future is not just happening. The future is built by us — by a powerful community as you here in this room. We have the means to improve the state of the world, but two conditions are necessary. The first one is that we act all as stakeholders of larger communities, that we serve not our only self-interest but we serve the community. That's what we call stakeholder responsibility. And, second, that we collaborate. This is the reason why you find many opportunities here during the meeting to engage into very action and impact oriented initiatives to make progress related to specific issues on the global agenda.
The WEF annual meeting is not just some people getting together to chat, socialize, and hear some speeches. It is about, as Schwab states, bringing together a "powerful community" that pushes initiatives that "make progress related to specific issues on the global agenda" and by whom "the future is built."
By the way, don't be too comforted by Schwab's assurance that the conspirators do all this conspiring while acting as "stakeholders of larger communities." It is unlikely that many people at the WEF annual meeting are looking out for you as part of their communities. As the comedian George Carlin famously said, "It's a big club, and you ain't in it."
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12 Apr What's Your Story?
Asked Pete Winemiller, SVP of Guest Relations for the Seattle Sonics, on my first day with the team.
I wasn't sure how to answer. "My story? As in… my life story?" I thought to myself.
I later learned that Pete asks everyone this question, and he waits in silence until you answer. If you try to ask for clarification he'll simply look at you and repeat the question until you answer.
The question could come across as abrupt and off-putting, but Pete has a way of asking it that is quite genuine, inquisitive and sincere. He really is interested in learning more about you.
It is a great question and I have since borrowed it from Pete, and I ask it whenever I meet someone new. It's so interesting to hear the different ways that people reply.
I've heard so many different answers… from people telling me about their childhood to listing their accomplishments as if they're reading from their resume.
Truth is, there is no right answer. Instead, it's a fascinating case study on people, and how they interpret the question's meaning.
It's also a great reminder that we each have our own unique story filled with ups, downs, tragedy, triumph, and everything in-between.
Rich. Poor. Black. White. It's doesn't matter. I've heard incredible stories from all walks of life.
For me, I chose to tell just small part of my story in my tattoos. Each one has a deep meaning, and acts as a visual narrative of important moments in my life.
But my story is far from over. And so is yours.
Still so much to do, see, and experience. After all, each decision you make adds a short sentence to your novel of life. Those sentences then become paragraphs. Then pages. Then chapters.
But, as the author of our own book, we have the power to change the story – mid sentence – if that's what we choose to do. There are no rules.
And once you realize that you ARE the author and begin to deliberately write your story with conviction and purpose, new and exciting opportunities begin to present themselves. I know that was a special day for me.


Hon Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Thursday said that the trade relations between Nigeria and China was skewed to favour the Asian country to the detriment of the West African country.
Consequently, he urged China to open more opportunities for Nigeria to benefit from the bilateral trade agreement between the two countries.
Dogara spoke when he received a delegation from Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led by Mr Ji Pieding in his office.
He said that Nigeria was barely getting economic benefits from the partnership between the two countries, while China, on the other hand, enjoyed patronage from the government and people of Nigeria.
He therefore urged China to help Nigeria develop its market by bringing more of its production plants to the country.
: "As representatives of the people, we must always point out the fact that the balance of trade between Nigeria and China is really, I don't want to use the word skewed, but for want of better word, I will say it is tilted in favour of China and for obvious reasons. We can't pretend to compete with China when it comes to production. We are just starting, we are building the foundation and the infrastructure that we need to be able to produce things we can export and earn foreign exchange but China has a dominant position when it comes to the issue of trade between China and Nigeria and we want that to be better.
"As we serve as consumers, we should be able to export some things to China. In my engagement with the ambassador I told him that for those things that economics of scales determine Chinese businesses can make in Nigeria, we should encourage or open a corridor by which we can attract those businesses into Nigeria and there is huge market. Even if we are not exporting to any part of Africa, 180 million people is a market you will find very difficult to saturate with products.
"And I said if we start looking towards this, it is going to help our relationship move forward. China, of course, is very strong. In Africa, we speak with adages and proverbs, and we say a strong man doesn't run alone. When he runs, he pulls others along. Anytime you see a strong man running alone, it is a sign of weakness. Like they say in other places, together we are stronger and so, China should try to pull others alongside as they move forward and I hope Nigeria will be one of those countries China will pull along."


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Eszter Coombs has shared her first in course writing with our readers. Credit:Louise Kennerley
Warning: graphic content
The Ice Pick
The upper eyelid is bent back as far as possible and the leucotome, a specialised pointed instrument made of surgical steel and closely resembling a household icepick, is introduced to the conjunctival sac 3cm from the midline and inserted at an upward angle. (The lobotomiser should not be concerned if dark purple bruising or swelling appear around the eye as he operates. This is normal in areas of high sensitivity.)
Once the leucotome is felt to have reached the skull, a few enthusiastic taps with a hammer are sufficient to crack through the thin orbital plate and permit access to the patient's prefrontal cortex. If the area of bone is too thick, withdraw the leucotome and employ the larger orbitoclast.
Asking simple questions such as "Who is the president of the United States of America?" or "Could you recite the Lord's Prayer?" allows the lobotomist to gauge the patient's level of coherency as they work, and regulate the extent to which the leucotome is inserted into the eye socket. Once the tool is correctly positioned, a twirling or wiggling motion with the hand severs the white fibres connecting the prefrontal region and the thalamus, thereby dulling the patient's sensitivity to the exterior world and stabilising their emotions.
For Walter Freeman there is something about an untouched frontal lobe, all the synapses perfectly crisp and connected and cohesive, that makes it the most perfect thing in the world. Like snow that has not yet been trodden in.
When Moya Johansson's parents came to visit their twenty one year old, frazzled, naked angry daughter the second day after lobotomy, they found her posing on a stool in front of Freeman's fold-out white backdrop with an assistant applying rouge to her cheeks for a headshot. She was in a salmon pink hat with a piece of thin netting that hung down over her eyes and a salmon pink blazer buttoned up to her neck. Underneath that her blobby thighs hung out of a hospital gown with a large reddish brown stain on it.
Mrs Johansson removed a glove to shake Dr. Freeman's hand. He was in a perfectly fitted suit.
She was very impressed by his suit. On the way home, she said to Mr. Johansson, "Didn't you think his suit was very smart?"
To which Mr Johansson replied, "Yes. Very smart."
Moya shuffled on the spot and the leg of the stool gave a squawk. Moya squawked too, and flapped her arms. The assistant with the camera turned around and gave the Johanssons a funny smile.
A few years before he died, Walter Freeman bought a new van. It was a while after Mortensen and he had colon cancer (he didn't know yet) and he decided to go off in a van and find the people he had operated on so that the tiny niggly feeling that he had high up in his chest (maybe the beginning of his throat, like a lump) would go away. So he bought a van from a dealership in Los Altos a few years before he died. He also bought a portable tape recorder and a tube of pineapple now and laters.
And a multipack of white ribbed socks. That was three weeks in when he realised he hadn't brought enough socks and that his feet felt damp and smelt rubbery. So he stopped the van in a Walmart car park in Weston, West Virginia, and went in for some new socks.
It was about noon on a Tuesday and the Weston Walmart was almost empty. There was a pop song playing and the aisles were very white and the floors were mopped, and a toilet paper pyramid had just been arranged across from the sliding entrance. A teenager who stood next to it said, "Good morning, Sir."
Freeman bought some white ribbed socks. He needed compression stockings for his circulatory issues, but this was Walmart in 1967 and they didn't start selling compression stockings in select branches until 1974.
He kept feeding it pineapple now and laters but the lump got tighter.
Transcript of doctor-patient interchange during a transorbital lobotomy conducted at the George Washington Medical University. Performed on a conscious patient
Doctor: And this is going to help you, isn't it?
Patient: (anxious) Mmm.
Doctor: Alright, then. That's alright. Alright, here we go, . Eyes wide open.
Patient: Jesus, doctor. I don't know. I don't think so.
Doctor: Not long. Here we go.
Patient: Shit! Son of a bitch! You're killing me!
Doctor: (patient digs nails into my hand) You're holding onto my hand real tight there
Patient: Please! You're splitting me open! Aww…
Doctor: Alright. That's alright.
Patient: Stop! Shit! Stop! You're killing me! Youvemadeamistake!
Fig. 2: Diagram showing the manner of incising the white matter of the frontal lobe. Manoeuvre is repeated bilaterally.
Doctor: Nice and calm. Go on and let go of my hand. Patient: Awww…doctor… Aww God.
Doctor: Better? Can you tell me who the president of the United States is? Patient: Aww..
Doctor: Can you tell me that?
Patient: (still shaky) … Rrr-rr-rro (sudden release of breath)
Doctor: – Uh-uh. Come on. Concentrate real hard for me. Next one.
Patient: I dunno, doctor.
Doctor: That's fine. We're done. Well done. Extra well done. Where'd that fear go, huh? Patient: I dunno…went away
Doctor: Feel good?
Patient: mhmm.
Doctor: Will you go ahead and let go of my hand?
Patient: mmm.
Bernadette Rogers was Walter Freeman's 1764th patient. She was very white and very skinny. She was so skinny that her cheeks had sprouted a fine layer of blonde fuzz, like a jacket. She was also so skinny that Walter Freeman could fit his hand round her ankle with extra space. He experimented after some electroshocks.
"Look," he said to the junior neurologist and the nurse, and held up her ankle. "Look how skinny she is."
Uncovered in twelve cardboard boxes sealed with red-and-white FRAGILE tape were 3, 874 black-and-white photographs and 150 reels of 16 mm film. The neurologist who found them, a Dr. Kalina Kalcheva (newly arrived from the Sofia Academy of Medicine) told the local paper; "I could not sleep. Seeing the eyes of those people, I could not sleep for days."
The eyes, everyone agreed, were the worst bit.
Dr. Kalcheva watched the first reel in the faculty auditorium next to the operating theatre. The technology assistant fed the film into the projector.
She crossed her legs.
The auditorium was black for a time and then the screen crackled into a fuzzy image of a very white profile. It was positioned against a very black curtain. And two large hairy arms appeared above it, one decorated with an expensive looking wristwatch. No gloves. No gloves? thought Dr. Kalcheva, who was finicky about protocol.
And one of the hairy arms ended in a set of fingers bent sort of delicately, like fingers holding a crochet hook, around a pointy metal instrument. Sort of delicately, and the camera operator moved to give us a closer view, and all the time white milliseconds were being counted in a black box at the bottom of the frame – 00:02:55.29, 00:02:55: 30, 00:02:55:31, 00:02:55:32, 00:02:55:33, 00:02:55:34, 00:02:55:35, 00:02:55:36, – and the hairy arm that was decorated by a wristwatch brought the pointy metal tool up over the head, and the other arm lifted the eyelid of the head on the table which was positioned against a black curtain and then lifted it a bit more and positioned the leucotome above the eyeball with meaty fingers arranged delicately and pushed it a tiny little bit more and the seconds went 00:03:36:46, 00:03:36:47, 00:03:36:48, 00:03:36:49, 00:03:36:50, and the camera moved to get a good shot of the eye, which could not see because it was in an electrically-induced sleep but which to Kalina Kalcheva seemed to be looking directly at her ("the eyes were the worst bit"), and then the leucotome went in with this strange force, and she watched as it was bonked on the end with a hammer, one time, and another time, and she watched as it was cranked from side to side, and she felt like they were looking right at her and then up and down with a strange force. Oh my God. Kalina Kalcheva uncrossed her legs and looked away. Oh my God.
Irene Martin came in with the jitters. Sitting next to her husband, she bounced gently through the consultation, and then on the way into the operating room, and then she bounced on the table through the first four electric shocks.
Mr. Martin had brought her to Washington after she defecated on their new cream carpet for the first time.
The wall paperers and the carpeters had come the previous afternoon, and the house was a new and beautiful shade of cream. The plates and the tea set were also cream, but a slightly darker shade, because the store had almost sold out of its porcelain selection.
Still, when it was all finished, it really looked quite nice, thought Mr. Martin, closing the cream front door on the men with ladders and paint rollers. Somewhere nice for Irene to spend her day. Somewhere that would calm her nerves.
Mr. Martin had read an article that had been reprinted from the American psychiatric journal which found, in a study of institutions in Nebraska, that off-whites were the most effective paint pigment in soothing patients with psychiatric disorders. Across the country, he read, hospitals were calling in painters to creamify entire buildings. Landscape paintings in greens and reds were being driven off in skips by the hundreds.
She had been getting sicker since their wedding in early June. That was when the jitters started, and the ill-timed secretion of bodily fluids.
The couple arrived in a hotel after a dinner with both of their sets of parents, during which the bride had refused to touch the lamb and potatoes on her plate or say anything to her family.
He unlocked the door and she got into bed in her high heels and closed her eyes. For a few seconds he observed her. She was angelic, really. He had thought she was in a mood, but he saw now that she was angelic. Mr. Martin pottered into the bathroom and took a piss. When he came out, she was further under the covers, with only the top of her head and some little silver barrettes sticking out. He liked the barrettes; he had told her that she should wear the barrettes.
Should he tickle her? Would that be fun? He might reach over and stroke her head silently until she started murmuring and breathing heavily and then she would turn over and look at him with her little eyes … So should he stroke her head? Or start kissing her neck? That's what he had
imagined. He had imagined her gazing at him longingly ("Oh Duncan…") and then him inching over and starting to kiss her neck. But she wasn't gazing longingly at him yet, and he very much wanted her to gaze longingly at him. So maybe he should touch her first to wake her up, get her
to turn over. He could touch her lightly on the shoulder first. He would have to reach a little under the covers and then he would give her a sort of loving pat on the shoulder, so she would turn around in bed and gaze longingly at him. That was good. He was sure she longed.
And that was when the jitters started. Mr. Martin froze. It felt like she sensed his hand coming, and that is what really hurt his feelings.
She let out a yelp and began to bounce gently (or quiver violently) under the bedspread like an epileptic.
Later, he told people "I thought she might be having a fit," which was a lie. Mr. Martin knew that his wife was quivering because of his large sweaty palm which was moving towards her like a meteor that bit by bit was going to block out the world (light and animals and buildings) and make everything into a small cream nothingness.
So she leapt, frog-like, out of the bed with one great big jitter before he could deliver the pat, and urinated in a corner of the hotel room. A large pale yellow stain formed on the carpet.
After that, it was impossible. Mr. Martin went to sleep on the sofa in the adjoining room. Little Irene Martin, in a great white cloud of crepe and chiffon, jittered on top of the covers of the king sized bed until she fell asleep and the odour of bridal piss hung evenly over the whole suite. Then she looked angelic again.
When Mrs. Martin woke up in a hospital bed with a nurse bobbing above her holding a bowl of chicken lemon soup, she did not know where she was, and she started to scream.
The nurse pushed a spoonful of the soup against Mrs. Martin's lips. "Mr. Martin told us it was your favourite."
It was. She stopped screaming and slurped it all up.
Thirty-eight minutes later he entered the room, an intense shade of purply-red, holding a bouquet of lisianthus. His propped-up wife observed him silently with multiple chins.
Mr Martin sat at the end of the mattress. He was careful not to sit on her legs, in case they snapped. He was also careful not to look her in the eyes, because they had him spooked.
When Freeman's career was done with, so a couple of days after the hemorrhage, a man called the office from the Herrick Memorial Hospital. He was sorry to inform Dr. Freeman that the board had made a decision on the outcome of the Helen Mortensen operation.
On Estelle Lamb's last day (although she of course did not know that it was her last day) she thought she might go to the zoo. She got up early and prepared a mortadella-and-pickle sandwich which she put into her skirt pocket. She decided not to do anything special with her hair because she was only going to see animals, and animals do not care about hair.
She rode the 52 bus across town in an outrageous fur coat. It was cold, and the bus windows were foggy. There were only four other people on it. There was a man with a newspaper and an old woman with her hair pulled back into a low bun with a small child, who would not stop biting the old woman's knee.
On the other side of the bus was a very large man who smelled of cigars. Everyone who got on avoided him.
No one said anything except the old woman, occasionally. She would say: "Stop that!" and then she would slap the boy on the neck. After that the boy would go back to biting her knee. She also, every now and then, eyed Estelle's outrageous fur coat disapprovingly.
Estelle knew it was outrageous.
She got off opposite the zoo, having thanked the driver.
At the gates, she bought a day pass and complimented the woman in the box on her hair colour. Estelle felt self-conscious about her own hair, which she had decided not to do. She also felt self conscious about her outrageous fur coat, which was a constant. She sat underneath a large palm tree and ate her mortadella-and-pickle sandwich.
Female, 32, ill three years,
Severe depressive
Mood swings, occasional outbursts
Generally compliant
She threw the crusts and a little chunk of mortadella on the ground, and a group of pigeons warbled over. Pigeons warbled over. Warbled Pigeons warble… that's a noise they make. Warbling. One pigeon, puffing out his chest, pushed through to the front of the pack and ate the chunk.
Estelle wondered if pigeons were allowed to eat processed meat. Because dogs aren't, and humans who eat too much of it get fat. Estelle had a cousin who ate lots of ham, and any time
Estelle went to visit there would be platters of pinky folded strips of ham and her cousin, who was very fat, would say, "Estelle! you have to try this ham you have to I've just come from the deli!" The fat would be the splotches. The mortadella has bits of pepper and splotches in it. What is that? Fatty splotches. That are more pale than ordinary ham colour. And then on top of that (as well as that) it has little bits of pepper in it. How disgusting. The splotches like little bits of fat that do not taste of anything at all,
"Bleurgh," thought Estelle. She had been a vegetarian until she left college.
At college Estelle was a sociology major. She liked it. She met Roy Lamb there in her second year and they went to a spaghetti house on student Sunday where they ate half-price spaghetti and Roy talked. And after a while she said, "excuse me" and went to the bathroom to change her tampon even though it had only been in half an hour because she was paranoid about leaking onto her skirt (or worse, smelling) on her first date with Roy Lamb (and you know how it feels to pull out a dry tampon; Estelle, wincing, made that sacrifice for love) and when she returned and saw him slurping up a long strand of spaghetti in an intelligent-looking corduroy jacket she decided she really was in love.
And they got married after a while.
According to the map she was given, Seal City was holding a live demonstration at 10:00. Seal City had a very small population of two seals, who swam around and around in a big circular tub. At one point there was a viewing deck facing onto a large glass window, through which toddlers would observe the two seals, who were called Hamish and Lavinia, and clap their hands and gargle.
And as Estelle climbed the tiered seats to find a good view of the demonstration, one of the seals lifted its head out of the water and went "auw, auw. Auw, auw auw.", so Estelle turned around and looked Lavinia square in the eyes (tiny, sad and black) for ten seconds, and quietly it seemed she was going crazy, because she thought the stupid seal was talking to her. But she wasn't, and Estelle sat down next to a family and patted her undone hair. Lavinia fell back into the tub.
"Welcome to Seal City!" said a young man in khaki.
On the Saturday that Estelle went to the zoo, a luncheon was held at the Mayflower Hotel.
The private events room in the Mayflower Hotel is a high-ceilinged sort of hall with limited lighting, dark wood walls and a long table. All a bit mediaeval.
The first course was a nice lobster bisque, over which, one by one, Mrs. Edward Lewis, Mrs. John Tillman and Mrs. John Mason took the opportunity to congratulate Dr. Freeman on his achievements.
"Congratulations, Dr. Freeman," they said, "on your achievements."
And Dr. Freeman received their congratulations on his achievements very graciously, doing the thing that people do when they are trying not appear pleased with themselves: bending his head and wincing and giving a little voiceless laugh,
"Oh, thank you very much," he said, "Thank you very much."
The second course was claggy raviolis in a sweet ketchupy sauce. Mrs. Norris L. Crandall, Mrs. John H. Lyons and Mrs. Arch L. Riddick took the opportunity to congratulate Dr. Freeman on his achievements.
"Dr. Freeman," they said, "may I take this opportunity to congratulate you on your achievements."
"Oh, thank you. Thank you very much," he said.
Over dessert there wasn't much left to say.
There was a little bronzey sign hanging on the door which said WALTER FREEMAN, MD PhD. Helen Mortensen knocked two times. WALTER FREEMAN, MD-PhD opened the door.
Radio interview from 1946. The recording is a little fuzzy but Dr. Freeman is the one with the cough and the deep voice.
…Host: Just finally now, Dr. Freeman, 'cos we're about to pass to a commercial, what about the, uh, the risks? I (ha) read one bold young journalist write of your procedure that "sometimes if you hit a broken watch it'll start again." Is that what your tran-transital
Freeman: transorbital.
Host: Yeh. Tra-transorbital. Is that what your transorbital lobotomy is? Hitting a broken watch? I mean, what do you say to the critics? What about the risks? Because it seems to me
Freeman: David, do you have children?
Host: Uh…No. No, I haven't had children.
Freeman: No? Okay that's fine. That's no problem. Let me tell you something then… When I get a phone call from the parents of a young lady who used to refuse to speak to her family, who refused to change out of the one dress for months at a time and sulked at all hours of the day, to tell me that she now, two years after my coming into the institution she lives in and undertaking this procedure on her frontal lobe (coughs) that she now takes pride in her appearance, that she just celebrated thanksgiving with the whole family…David, when I get a call like that, it makes everything I do worth it. So I say simply (coughs again) that my aim is not to produce candidates for the Nobel prize in- in science, nor is it to produce patients with an IQ or a reaction time of
such and such, to pass this test or that test set by the, the…unqualified individuals who set their minds to criticising me. My aim is to relieve the daily nightmare lived by the most fragile among us, so they can return to loving homes. (pause) David, I dare you to find fault with that.
Host: (rustle) No, no, no, well, from what I've heard it sounds like you're doing good, amazing work on the frontlines there. My listeners know we just like to put across everyone's point of view here, Doctor Freeman. So thanks so much for coming in today and speaking with me and after this we'll have a short break.
Freeman: I am always so glad when I can collabora….
The recording ends.
Freeman, in the early days, had a recurring dream. He would find himself at a long banquet table in a high ceilinged hall, around which a few thousand women (his guests) dined, with the tops of their heads cut off and their brains sticking up in the air, wobbling slightly as they conversed. They were all made up a little sloppily, with lipstick smudges on front teeth and a general excess of over-yellow powder, but elegantly dressed, and they chatted quietly amongst themselves, clinking glasses and laughing politely behind little gloved hands. It felt, Freeman always thought to himself, like a wonderfully civilised occasion. And he had the honour of being seated at the head of the table in front of a plate of duck. Prepared rare, with a greyish pinkish tinge.
He woke up after a woman sitting next to him started to pour him a glass of pinot noir, accidentally tipped it onto the front of his scrubs, and exclaimed, "Oh my goodness, Dr Freeman!"
"Oh my goodness, Dr Freeman!"
That was when he woke up, feeling confused.
Roy Lamb was called to the zoo on Auburn Street at noon.
"Your wife," said the woman at the gate, with large eyes, "is in a bad way" —
Mariana Barrios was Walter Freeman's 1256th patient. When he pulled up in his van outside the Weston State Hospital in Weston, West Virginia, she had just celebrated her forty sixth birthday, which involved a hamburger, a pointy hat and a visit from her sister Fernanda.
Mariana, until "well, you know" (as her parents referred to it) had lived in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Barrios and worked in a factory where she canned mashed potato. She was mostly deaf, which, although no one would admit it, everyone found a bit irritating. Nonetheless, her family told people, she seemed happy enough. She seemed happy enough.
In the period that followed "well you know" she was moved to the Weston State Hospital.
Everything at Weston was a whitey-yellow colour that buzzed very faintly because of the faulty neon lighting that the local government installed in 1947 (there was an article in the gazette and a celebration in the staff kitchen involving chips and dip). So anywhere Mariana went – or, more often, was taken – was lit by a strange not-quite-sunlight that refused to keep still.
The person who did the taking was a young woman called Matilda with pretty very thin arms and a mole on the side of her neck that looked like it might be cancerous. Nurse Matilda would take Mariana to sit places after breakfast. Nurse Matilda would read illustrated magazines. Mariana usually found herself thinking about mashed potato, which was odd (this was another thing she thought about) because she had never been very attached to her job in the factory.
She went in to apply three months before the war ended and the morning after her mother accused her of being "una inútil" at the dinner table. That is Spanish for a waste of space.
Mr. Turner gave her a full-time position that paid sixty five cents an hour and involved arriving at 6:30 in the morning six days a week. She would put a white dust coat over her dress and a net over her silly crispy bleached hair, and Mr. Turner and his large moustache would direct her and forty two other "ladies″ (he called them ladies – "ladies, may I have your attention please!" etc.) to their places along a conveyor belt.
There were a few beeps and some levers were pulled, and then the steel vats on the other side of the factory floor would start grinding and sloshing potatoes, which tumbled down a complex
system of interconnected tubes. And by the time the first batch of mush hit the conveyor belt at 6:52 am daily and Turner's ladies held their scoops ready, the product, Turner's Special Formula®, was already perfectly creamy and very slightly grey. Nothing like grubby, lumpy potatoes, but, Mariana sometimes thought as she scooped and canned and pressed and sealed, more like nothing. And so efficient. Turner saw that each lady canned 630 portions per shift, and it was always achieved. Then she could take five cans home. Free (!)
After work Mariana would sit behind the bins out the back, where trucks arrived, and she would eat half a tin of Turner's Special Formula® and a pepperoni stick. When she sat on the ground with her knees bent to her chest, she rocked slightly.
It was the nice time in the morning when lines of white light go zooming around the room every time a nurse walked past the curtains, and Helen Mortensen was watching the zooming with her head propped up. Three neurology students watched her from the tiered seats. Last time there had been more than three. Walter Freeman's head bobbed. When you lie down on an operating table, and when they take the pillow out from under your head, everyone bobs around above you.
Irene went home on a Saturday. It was humid, and her calves were sweaty, and they stuck to the leather seats inside the station wagon.
"Are you hungry?" Mr. Martin asked her.
"I don't know," she responded in profile.
"I have some mandarins," he said, "would you like a mandarin?"
"Do you want a mandarin?"
So Mr. Martin put the key in the ignition and drove out the gates of the George Washington University Hospital.
Mariana did not go home on a Saturday or on any other day. Mr. and Mrs. Barrios died. Fernanda, who worked as a receptionist, and had four children between the ages of two and seven, did not have space for her deaf, diabetic, schizophrenic sister. When she went to visit, and she felt very guilty about this, she found Mariana intensely annoying. Sometimes she felt like slapping her across the face. Which she felt very guilty about. Probably, if she had felt less guilty about how much she hated visiting, she would have visited much less. As things stood, she drove to the hospital every month. Her sister died of something or other the day after her 61st birthday, which involved one of those visits, a hat and a hamburger.
Estelle became very pretty after Freeman put a sharp tool into each of her eye-sockets and cut up her brain. …
She still has the unfortunate beaky nose, but she is very pretty now. Much prettier.
Roy Lamb collected Estelle also, coincidentally, on a Saturday. His was raining though, and cold, for California. He brought a card that read:
"Thank you, Doctor Freeman. We are excited for this new phase in our lives,"
and there was a little pencilled line that drew that message to the open mouths of two tiny smiling stick figures, who were labelled ROY and ESTELLE. Roy had sad eyes.
Dr Freeman put the card in his filing system, between LAGUARDIA and LAMBERT. He thought it was cute.
Turner's mashed potato factory shut down after a group of his ladies went on local radio in early 1952 to expose a violation of labour laws. The minimum wage was in fact seventy five cents an hour.
"I give them free mashed potatoes!" Mr Turner exclaimed, over dinner, to his wife.
"Bitches," said Mr Turner's wife.
Walter Freeman, prominent neurologist, dies aged 77
Walter Jackson Freeman II, the eminent American neurologist and inventor of the five minute 'ice pick lobotomy', has died due to complications arising from an operation for colon cancer performed on Saturday, the 30th April in the Menlo Private Hospital in Los Altos, California.
In a partnership with James Watts that formed during Freeman's three-decade term in the neurology department of George Washington University, he performed upwards of 3500 operations across the United States.
He leaves behind a wife and four children.
Helen Mortensen watched the light zooming around because a nurse was walking past the curtains with a cup of jelly. Some buttons were pressed and she thought how sticky the section of operating table under her arms was, and then Walter Freeman's head bobbed above her and put cloth everywhere except her eyes. She thought maybe she might buy a newspaper on the way back from the hospital. She might tell the taxi to stop so she could go into the newsagent and buy a copy of the Sunday Star and she might ring a number in the classifieds section and get a job in an office not far from her apartment, which might be located on a third floor with a nice view, and she would come in in the mornings in a two piece suit with a nice waist and with stockings that wouldn't hurt when they scraped the hair on her legs in the wrong direction because once she got the job she would start doing something about the hair and on her lunch breaks she might sit in the kitchen and share jokes and baked treats which she would bake on the weekends and her colleagues (suited, very handsome) would say "Helen! These biscuits! You're a star!" and when they nodded that she must have one she would give a little laugh and say she wasn't feeling hungry. Then everyone put their hands on Helen Mortensen, and there were several jolts, which sent her into an electrically induced sleep.
Kalina Kalcheva left the auditorium without talking to the technology assistant and went down to the cafeteria. She was wearing a pair of nude wedges that she liked a lot, and they clonked when she went down the stairs. They echoed. And when she stood in line, she crossed one shin in front of the other, for ease of balance. She bought a wrap and put sixty five cents in the tip jar. The tip jar said TIPPERS ARE SEXY.
"The eyes," she thought, "were the worst bit."
The first thing that happens is that the patient is administered a series of low level electric shocks which stun them into unconsciousness for a period of four to six minutes.
There was a jolt and Helen Mortensen closed her eyes which were the only things that could still feel the cold because everywhere else was covered with cloth. There were a few more jolts and then she couldn't have opened her eyes even if she wanted to.
"Leucotome," said Freeman
A nurse passed him a nice freshly sterilised leucotome.
He took a forefinger and thumb covered in powder-free blue latex and prised open Mrs Mortensen's right eye. The leucotome went in.
Everything was a bit quiet so one of the three neurology undergraduates blinked.
Freeman held out his other hand, and the nurse put a sort of wooden hammer in it. He bonked the end of the leucotome, and coughed again.
Another student took a note in very quick biro.
"Leucotome," said Walter Freeman, and the nurse passed him a second sterilised leucotome.
He did the eyelid again and then the second leucotome slid in. The neurology students looked at each other.
Helen's left eyeball looked at Walter Freeman. It stared at him, and was white. It was very white, and then it became a pale yellow, and then pink, and then a circle of red formed all the way around it, and it was pink and wet with a circle of red around it, and then blood started welling at the edges, and the eyeball wasn't white anymore but it was red and blood was pooling and welling at the edges and trickling out of the edges.
Walter Freeman swore under his breath.
When Helen Mortensen was about seven and a half and her aunt was on the toilet she went into the kitchen and made herself a ketchup sandwich. She didn't want to use a knife in case she cut herself and in case she left evidence that she had been eating ketchup sandwiches which wasn't allowed between meals, so she snipped off the crusts with her teeth and spat them out in the dustbin.
And then she took the sandwich up into the tree in the garden, and propped herself against the trunk and ate it (it was delicious), watching white light go zooming around inside the bubble formed by the leaves, and watching the blue in the cracks in between.
Eszter Coombs was a student at Fort Street High School and state dux of English extension 2 in the 2020 HSC.
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The CAP reform's compatibility with the Green Deal's ambition
Novinski članak20 svibanj 2020Glavna uprava za poljoprivredu i ruralni razvoj
The common agricultural policy (CAP) reform, proposed by the European Commission in June 2018, introduces a more flexible, performance and results-based approach that takes into account local conditions and needs, while increasing EU level ambitions in terms of sustainability. Based on this approach and complemented by new CAP tools, the European Commission considers that the CAP reform proposal is compatible with the Green Deal's ambitions.
Following a request of the European Parliament, the European Commission published today the 'Analysis of the links between the CAP and the Green Deal'. This analysis examines the contribution of the CAP reform proposal to the EU's environmental, climate, and biodiversity protection commitments set in the European Green Deal and identifies the steps needed to make the future CAP fully compatible with the Green Deal and its strategies such as the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies.
Compatibility with the Green Deal
As a first step, the nine common objectives cover economic, social and environmental dimensions. In line with the Green Deal's ambitions, they aim to increase the contribution of EU agriculture to climate change action, improve the management of natural resources, ensure a fair economic return for farmers, and reinforce the protection of biodiversity, among others.
The new way of working proposed for the future CAP is one of the key elements that makes the proposals compatible with the Green Deal. Based on a thorough assessment of the local conditions and needs, Member States will produce a national CAP strategic plan that will explain how they will use CAP tools to achieve the nine objectives, in consultation with stakeholders and competent national authorities. In addition, to ensure that these plans are coherent and consistent with the required environmental ambition, the Commission will approve each CAP strategic plans ahead of their implementation. Finally, quantified targets will allow the Commission to monitor the progress made by Member States when implementing the CAP.
In addition, the CAP proposal includes tools that will further promote sustainable farming practices throughout the EU, crucial to achieve the Green Deal's ambitions.
Among those, the future CAP includes conditionality, which links area and animal-based CAP payments to a range of obligations. In addition it also introduces the new 'eco-schemes' that aim to reward farmers for going further in the implementation of sustainable agricultural practices. These practices could include the implementation of environmentally friendly production systems such as agroecology, agroforestry and organic farming. The rural development framework also includes environmental and climate management commitments, which aim to compensate farmers and other beneficiaries for voluntarily committing themselves to implement sustainable practices.
Furthermore, other tools under rural development can support the transition. For example, funds can be used to invest in green infrastructure, in knowledge transfer and innovation or in developing access to fast broadband in rural areas. On top of this, the CAP proposals include that a minimum of 30% of rural development funds should go towards CAP interventions that address specific environmental and climate-related objectives.
Furthermore, the CAP proposals also include objectives on rebalancing power in the food supply chain as well as contributing to new societal demands related to food and health, including safe, nutritious and sustainable food, food waste, and animal welfare. In practical terms, this means that Member States are required to review their actions in these areas and propose how to use different CAP tools to address challenges identified. For instance, the Commission will continue to support cooperation between producers through producer organisations. These types of organisations allow producers to strengthen their position in the supply chain, increase their resilience and act collectively to enhance sustainability of the supply chain. These objectives are also reflected in the Green deal's ambitions. They will be essential to enable the transition while leaving no one behind.
Key elements for the future CAP
The CAP reform proposals are currently under discussion with the European Parliament and Council. The European Commission highlights in the 'Analysis of the links between the CAP and the Green Deal' the key elements that need to be kept in the negotiating process to ensure compatibility with the Green Deal's ambitions.
One of the key elements highlighted in this section is the idea to oblige Member States to demonstrate, in their CAP strategic plans, how they will achieve a greater level of ambition than at present in terms of environment and climate objectives – the "no backsliding" principle. This ambition also requires that the enhanced conditionality and the ring-fencing requirements for rural development, among other elements, are preserved.
As a new step, the Commission considers that the requirement to spend a specific percentage (ring-fencing) of the Member States' direct payments budget to the new eco-schemes systems can contribute to the ambition of the Green Deal. This would ensure that this tool will be fully utilised and bring concrete results in terms of encouraging the adoption of sustainable farming practices.
Possible action from the Commission for more ambition
The European Commission also proposes additional practical actions from the Commission services to make the implementation more effective in relation to the Green deal's ambitions.
Firstly, it proposes to increase transparency in the approval process of the CAP strategic plans. Concretely this means that the Commission could make public all documents that could help Member States in the design of their CAP strategic plans. This could include documents on how the Commission will assess their plans but also their observations when assessing the quantified targets proposed by Member States.
Secondly, the European Commission proposes to put in place a structured dialogue with Member States already in the preparatory phase of the CAP strategic plans. In this context, the Commission will make recommendations to Member States based on an analysis of each Member State's situation, taking into account the Green Deal's objectives. In this process, particular attention will be given to the new Green Deal targets.
Thirdly, in terms of market-specific support programmes and coupled income support, the Commission will pay special attention to ensure that sustainability is taking into account when designed by Member States, and reflect the Green Deal's ambitions.
Finally, recognising the crucial importance of data when assessing progress and providing farm advice, the Commission will propose to convert its current farm accountancy data network (FADN) into the Farm Sustainability Data Network. The idea would be to collect data on the Farm to Fork targets as well as other sustainability indicators. Through tailored advisory services, this network will provide feedback and guidance to both small and big farmers on best practices to improve their economic, environmental and climate performance.
The 'Analysis of links between the CAP Reform and the Green Deal' concludes that the reform does indeed have the potential to drive forward the Green Deal, shown through concrete examples. Nonetheless, key elements of the proposals must be maintained in the negotiating process, and certain improvements and practical initiatives should be developed to facilitate the achievement of the ambitions of the Green Deal.
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Analysis of the links between the CAP and the Green Deal
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How the CAP 2023-27 will contribute to the European Green Deal
Sustainable agriculture in the EU
Biodiversity strategy
Farm to Fork strategy
A new way of working for the future of farming
The European Commission lays out a vision of a more targeted, more flexible and more effective CAP in its proposals, supported by a new way of working.


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