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text: American College of Surgeons Media Press Releases Journal (JACS) Press Releases Allowing Part-Time Surgeons May Help Address Workforce Shortage Press Releases 2015 Press Releases 2014 Press Releases 2013 Press Releases 2012 Press Releases 2011 Press Releases ACS Quality Programs Journal of the American College of Surgeons Media Resources Media Resources About ACS ACS Health Policy Research Institute Patient Education Quality Programs National Cancer Data Base National Trauma Data Bank ACS Publications ACS in the News Stay Up to Date with ACS Allowing Part-Time Surgeons May Help Address Workforce Shortage Journal of the American College of Surgeons Study Finds Part-Time Employment Models for Surgeons Promote Retention NEWS FROM THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHICAGO (September 12, 2011): More part-time employment for surgeons, particularly retiring older male or young female surgeons taking time off for their families, may considerably reduce the surgeon shortage in the United States by 2030, according to a study published in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Opting to work part-time is gaining popularity among Generation X (currently ages 30 through early 40s) and Millennial physicians (currently mid to late 20s) who want to achieve a better work-life balance by working fewer hours than their predecessors. The study authors found that having the option of a part-time schedule could encourage them to practice more years rather than outright retiring, a situation that would help address the looming shortages in several key surgical specialties. "Health care workforce paradigms are changing rapidly," said Bhagwan Satiani, MD, FACS, vascular surgeon and professor of surgery at The Ohio State University Medical Center, and the lead author of the study. "The trifecta of surgeons working fewer hours, sub-specializing even more, and retiring earlier, will make it difficult to address the shortages we currently face. This study demonstrates that efficient part-time employment models can begin reducing shortages almost immediately." Interestingly, recent physician polls validate these current trends across the spectrum of providers and specialties as well. In an unrelated survey of almost 12,000 physicians, only 51 percent said they would maintain their current work schedules. Eleven percent stated they planned to retire, and 30 percent planned to cut back or work part-time.1 Recent assessments by the Association of American Medical Colleges also found that among physicians over the age of 50 (one-third of physicians), 42.6 percent stated they would remain active past retirement if part-time work were available.2 According to the survey, part-time male physicians over 50 worked an average of 16.6 hours per week, and part-time female physicians worked an average of 21.3 hours per week. The authors of this study used a 2005 workforce baseline of 99,000 surgeons in general surgery and the sub-specialties of obstetrics and gynecology, thoracic surgery, otolaryngology, orthopaedic surgery, urology, and neurosurgery. Study authors assumed 3,635 Board Certificates are earned per year and that the average surgeon will practice for 30 years, with 3,300 retiring each year. Assuming variables are unchanged, researchers calculated that if one-quarter (scenario one), one-half (scenario two), or three-quarters (scenario three) of potential retirees worked half-time for an additional 10 years, the United States would have 4,125 (four percent increase), 8,250 (eight percent increase) or 12,375 (16 percent increase) additional part-time surgeons, respectively, thereby alleviating the predicted surgeon shortage by 14.2 percent, 28.3 percent, or 42.5 percent, respectively. The study authors also concluded that employment models should address flexible work schedules, malpractice premium adjustments, academic promotion, certification and licensure maintenance, and employment benefits. All the evidence indicates that part-time surgeons perform just as well as full-time surgeons do. 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Disney's attempt to trademark "Seal Team 6," two days after SEAL Team 6 got bin Laden, made the national news as an example of trademark law gone insane. It took a of couple weeks, but Disney came to its senses, realized that it was only going to dig itself in a deeper and deeper hole pursuing this, and has now withdrawn the application. Maybe next time, Disney lawyers will think twice before trying to trademark something so well known.
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crade (profile), May 26th, 2011 @ 4:02pmWhy would they think twice when they can just give it a try and withdraw if it someone happens to notice?
Anonymous Coward, May 26th, 2011 @ 4:23pmWhat Disney was attempting to do reflects not a whit on trademark law. It reflects only on Disney.
As between Disney and the USN filing trademark applications, I am much more troubled by what the USN is or may be doing than I am about Disney. -
Anonymous Coward, May 26th, 2011 @ 4:45pm
It's a good thing Disney doesn't use any of its influence on the political class. Could you just imagine? -
Mike Masnick (profile), May 26th, 2011 @ 9:52pm
What Disney was attempting to do reflects not a whit on trademark law. It reflects only on Disney.
I disagree. If Disney didn't think it could do this, it wouldn't have. It reflects poorly on trademark law.
Separately, I find it odd that you always seem to state that any particular awful action is merely an indication of those doing it, and simply refuse to connect the dots. When we point to these sorts of things happening all the time, it seems pretty obvious to anyone paying attention that the problem is the system, not those using it. -
FuzzyDuck, May 27th, 2011 @ 1:18am
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The problem is indeed the system, in a grab what you can system of monopoly rights distributions, you have to grab what you can before others do or you'll loose out to the "competition". In fact you could state that it's a company's duty to its shareholders to participate in this grab fest.
The system is rotten, and makes these companies behave in rotten ways. Of course these same companies lobbied to make the system rotten in the first place. So we can still blame them. -
Anonymous Coward, May 27th, 2011 @ 8:07am
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We will have to agree to disagree.
Frankly, I had expected you to comment on what the USN is/was attempting to do. The USG, and particularly the military, does not have any competitors in the classic sense of the word, except, perhaps, internal competition such as aviation within each of the services. The same is true of virtually every other function within the federal government. If the USN response is proper under law, then why not have other federal groups/agencies/etc. trademark their logos, slogans, and other source identifying indicia? -
theangryintern (profile), May 26th, 2011 @ 5:11pmWhat's funny is they're not even called Seal Team 6 anymore, and haven't been since the late 80s
Bnesaladur (profile), May 26th, 2011 @ 5:56pm
Still, that fact that they are still known widely as Seal Team 6 means that the trademark is already implied. Attempting to file for a trademark on something to which a implied trademark already exists is pretty low. -
Anonymous Coward, May 26th, 2011 @ 6:39pm
quick! copyright DevGru 6! -
JMT, May 26th, 2011 @ 5:22pmSpeaking of tradement madness, did you ask Apple for permission to use the word "App" in the post title?
Lawrence D'Oliveiro, May 26th, 2011 @ 5:40pm
Re: Speaking of tradement madness, did you ask Apple for permission to use the word "App" in the post title?
That�s not a trademark infringement until the app is stored. -
Anonymous Coward, May 26th, 2011 @ 5:49pm
There's an app for that. -
JMT, May 26th, 2011 @ 8:49pm
Tradement? WTF? I meant trademark of course... -
abc gum, May 26th, 2011 @ 6:34pmWhy do the Marines not own the trademark, they should have dibs.
Dementia (profile), May 27th, 2011 @ 11:53am
Umm, NAVY Seals, not Marine Seals. Marines have Force Recon. Army has Special Forces, Ranges, and Delta Force, and the Airforce has Combat Controllers and Pararescue. Any other questions about special ops? -
abc gum, May 27th, 2011 @ 5:00pm
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Ok - why do they not get to use their own mark? -
The Groove Tiger (profile), May 26th, 2011 @ 6:39pmDoes that mean that Team Seal: Revenge of the Hoop-Jumping Orca animated movie is now off the table?
Wolfy, May 26th, 2011 @ 7:07pmabc gum,
The Seals, as well as the Marines, are both owned by the Navy. -
Anonymous Coward, May 27th, 2011 @ 12:41amRemember thst disney is the same group who made a killing off building off other's works while throwing a fit if anyone tried the same with disney's work.
Asshattery from them should be expected at this point. -
darryl, May 27th, 2011 @ 1:41am
Just trademark 'Seal Team Six'
problem solved. -
darryl, May 27th, 2011 @ 1:46am
Or trademark Seal team 5, from under seige.
They might try to tradement Seal Team 5, but they might get Steven Seagull after you, after all he was from sean team 5 in the movie 'under seige' -
Dark Helmet (profile), May 27th, 2011 @ 7:34am
Re: Or trademark Seal team 5, from under seige.
"but they might get Steven Seagull after you"
Meh, no biggie. I hear if you just feed a couple of alka-seltzers to him, he 'splodes. -
anymouse (profile), May 27th, 2011 @ 10:33am
Sounds like a Government Make Work program...
So now every Government Agency is supposed to waste time, effort, and money to 'trademark', 'copyright' and 'patent' their agencies name to protect it?
I can see the reasoning, this will provide much work for all those bored government employees when they aren't too busy spying on models or listening in on private conversations.
It would only take one employee a couple hours to propose an update that said.... "Government Agencies, Names, Acronyms, Internal Designations, and any related nomenclature are not subject to Trademark, Copyright, or Patenting".
Many hours of useless work for many government workers compared to a few hours for one worker..... You know which one they are going to go with


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2011-12-04, 14:25 | Link #17981 | ||
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Likewise with something like Lebanon or the PA it doesn't work at all, as the "enemy" you're dealing with is not a regular armed force, but a mob. A mob is not dismayed by a larger force like that, because they simply switch to irregular fighting. They have nothing to lose, so they keep fighting, forever. To have security you either need to be strong enough to repel them from attacking you, and for the enemies who aren't repelled by your greater strength, you have to eliminate their resource base. In the case of a regular opponent that's easy, you destroy their industry etc. With a guerilla force, you need to eliminate their popular support. When their popular support is destroyed, the organisation can no longer draw new recruits, or secure the funding required for it's operations. Israel can cut the support of palestinians with direct economic measures. With the aid coming from other countries it's far more difficult, but it requires a certain amount of diplomacy. Quote:
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2011-12-04, 14:27 | Link #17982 | |
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Also the term "peace process" was generally introduced sometime in the mid 70's to describe the American led efforts in bringing about a negotiated peace between Israel and its neighbors, so I guess that's why it generally refers to only to Israel. It's the type of "peace process" that Americans only really cared about. I think it's just idiomatic, like anti-semitism. If it makes you feel any better, I have personally never used that term and I suppose if I had to I'd also apply it to the other Arab countries at odds with each other if it seems appropriate.
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your first flawed assumption is that the people fighting us actually fight us because they want to fight us. they fight us because it gets them to power, and once they're IN power, they want to maintain it, which is something they'll risk losing by ACTUALLY fighting us, and hence limit themselves to words and smaller actions rather then continued war. neither Hizballah nor Hamas are organized government bodies, and yet they both understand that attacking Israel brings more problems then its worth (albiet, it required us "explaining it" to them). our border with Lebanon is mostly silent (with Hizballah enforcing that silence against smaller groups), and Hamas knows better then to try the kind of crap they pulled before cast lead and are limiting themselves to small attacks carried out by smaller groups within the strip (sometimes, without Hamas's approval). these people are our enemies, but they are our enemies in charge, and they wish to remain in charge, and so they endeavor to be loud about being our enemies while in practice trying to avoid ACTUAL conflict. and when (not if) the Muslim brotherhood comes to power in Egypt, you'll have the same situation. talking about fighting Israel, thats useful. ACTUALLY fighting Israel, is harmful. your second flawed assumption is that there will ever be a situation where there ISN'T a strong man. Assad is a strong man, sure, but so is Nassralla (from Hizballah) and that Haniya fellow from Hamas. there will always be someone in charge, and that someone will ALWAYS seek to maintain that position. Quote:
it is the thing, and the whole of the thing. guerilla isn't about winning the war, its about attrition, and you can't attrition someone out of their home. THAT requires force. Quote:
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this is the middle east, nothing is ever resolved, nothing is ever truly solved. we signed a peace treaty with Egypt decades ago, and yet i can't be sure said treaty would still exist a couple of months from now. we're at war with Syria, but there hasn't been open hostilities between our countries for a while now. conflict management is more effective them conflict resolution, because conflict management is actually practical.
2011-12-04, 15:16 | Link #17984 | |
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About Syria, in 1974 Israel and Syria reached a disengagement agreement and the tense relations thereafter mean that Syria, unless I'm mistaken, has been supplying arms to Hezbollah, thereby waging a sort of proxy-war. I think the reason nothing is ever truly resolved is because there are too many people in power with that mindset.
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secondly that assumes that Israel can maintain it's position as regional hegemon indefinitely. It can certainly beat any of it's neighbours individually, and has beaten them all at once in the past, but all those countries were much weaker, and Israel had allies in Europe, the US and Turkey. Turkey already has frayed relations with Israel, Europe likewise, and who knows how long America will stick around if Israel keeps ignoring their requests (like to halt settlement construction etc.) No country can exist on it's own without allies. On it's current course, Israel will isolate itself from it's neighbours, and potential allies in the west, afterwhich when shit really hits the fan, no one will be around to help them. What you describe can work, but it's an extremely unstable equilibrium, and can seldom last very long. Quote:
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I haven't seen a growing rift between Hareidim and Secular Israelis. If anything it seems to be improving. Quote:
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Likewise, Jews are driven by their own type of nationalism, commonly called Zionism. Quote:
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Couple that with the venom spewed by extremist clerics against Jews and it seems to me that at least in the hearts and minds of many, the issue is religious not nationalistic. Quote:
Arab voting for Kadima, Labour, Meretz etc is on the rise, though I doubt many would publicly admit to it. I have Israeli Arab friends who are the same. Quote:
You can't say a large proportion are. You can't say they aren't either. You just don't know. I can understand your point of course, but Israel currently does quite a bit to try and minimize civilian casualties. It took them years to respond to the rocket fire from Gaza. Quote:
Why not take Hamas at their word when they say they want to slaughter the Jews? It's a religious war for them. Complete with martyrdom. It's serious business. Quote:
Bedouin are in the invidious position of running into Planning Laws with the High Court. Similar to the Travelling community here in the UK. That's another story, however. Quote:
He also doesn't speak for the right. He speaks for Yisrael Beiteinu voters who compromise a small minority of Israeli society. Quote:
But yes, the Jewish people lived all over. Take the 1 million Jews thrown out of Arab lands in 1948 for example. What's your point? Quote:
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Likewise, regarding the temple mount, they allow christians(or whoever) to pray there largely because there isn't many of them. Jews aren't allowed there because they're the "national enemy". If it was Irish people flooding the Israel, I'm sure they'd promptly ban Catholics too. Quote:
Often times Nations can exist on very tenuous grounds. Palestinians are little different from the Arabs in the countries surrounding them, and yet they label themselves a "nation". Likewise there's little major stuff differentiating the average Irishman from an Englishman, especially after the Irish language faded out of existence. If you look at the Balkans the nations there have an extremely tenuous basis. Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks all speak a similiar language, the only major difference between them is that Serbs are Orthodox, Croats Catholic and Bosniaks Muslim. Religion can often play a part in defining the "nation". Nationalist movements have their place, but they're all based on the central conceipt that their nation exists in some meaningful way, and that they have some special place in history. In reality, a nation does not exist. So agitating that "this land must belong to this nation" is a rather strange thing. Zionism is neither the worst or most extreme example of nationalism, but it is an interesting one, given how dispersed Jews were. Quote:
There's also the issue that these settlements are expanding into land that is not explicitly theres, and most of the surrounding Arab residents strongly object to it. Quote:
So just because one group of Jews were living in Israel, and may even at some point been a majority, though I disagree on that point, it does not justify all the other Jews to have a right to live there. Just as all the Irish Americans in the US don't have some kind of right to live in Ireland, or live in Northern Ireland and crowd out the Ulster Scots. A lot of Irish people live in Boston, and form a majority there. That does not mean that all the Irish people have the fundamental right to immigrate there and take political control. The large minority of Americans would have greater precedence. However Israel exists, and that is a fact. However I disapprove that it is an explicitly Jewish State. It should be a state that is multi-ethnic and multi-religous, reflecting the multi-ethnic character of it's formation and native population. The Holy land was a melting pot of many cultures, and should have been established as such. Jews should not have received preference, nor should have Palestinians, as substantial number of native Jews, Druze etc. were already living there. Quote:
2011-12-04, 21:53 | Link #17990 | ||
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I'm fairly certain that Israel's retaliation would ratchet up if the Palestinians became more aggressive, and Israel certainly has the greater capability to make people miserable if they wanted to. Hence there's a sort of uneasy balance - the militants have to keep proving that they can back up their words, but if they push Israel too far then they may find themselves in a situation that they can't handle. They are ultimately powerless against Israel because of fighting capability; Israel is only limited by the support that its population and allies give for retaliation.
2011-12-04, 22:19 | Link #17991 | ||
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[QUOTE=Ledgem;3887544]While I agree with what you're saying, Hamas is arguably a proxy of Iran. If Iran weren't there to egg on and support further conflict, how likely is it that a powerful, organized group would arise? Not overly likely, I'd imagine.
[quote] To be fair, there's a lot of other Jihadist groups throughout Palestine, Hamas is just the most prominent. Even if it does receive funding from Iran, there's a long history of militant groups receiving funding from wealthy backers. The IRA could not have existed but for wealthy Irish-Americans who donated to it. But both movements were acting on sentiments that were already existing within the populace. Quote:
Furthermore, if Europe and America removed the guarantee from Israel, there'd be no reason for other countries to start interfering, say Russia could start dipping it's fingers back into the region, or European powers could align with Arab powers against Israeli interests. For instance, if I was France, and Egypt offered me exclusive economic rights of some kind in return for backing up Egypt in a treaty negotiation with Israel, well I might take them up on it if I knew the USA wasn't going to interfere. Fighting the 6 day war was a real trick for Israel, but I doubt they could repeat it again, or survive in the long term surrounded by hostile governments, no government has managed to do so previously. Additionally, if Israel gets really stroppy, it may not be the Arabs that are causing them problems... Quote:
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It's easier yes but the said ''wider hammer'' is far from a scalpel. Ground operation might be more precise ( depending of the mean used) but you put your troup much in harm way than from the air.
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To bring some news into the subject while not really changing the subject:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45542885...east_n_africa/ Egyptian election results deepen Israeli fears A question...the Israeli are fencing their borders. Will this become a way to keep people out....or will it turn out to be a thing to keep the Israeli in one giant place.
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It's a way to keep people out. The fence concept isn't new; people complained about it originally, but after it was built, the number of suicide bombing attacks within Israel declined.
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Spoiler alert … spoiler alert … spoiler alert
November's participating club – The WBBC or World's Best Book Club as they are modestly known – was started in a restaurant in 2006-ish and has since met monthly in each other's homes over dinner and drinks and good times.
Books are chosen to reflect ever-rotating genres (from thrillers to cook books, classics to humour, vampires to biography, history to romance), and the WBBC prides itself with being au courant – and often reads books before they win awards or become best-sellers. Additionally, during New Zealand Book Month, the WBBC often invites authors to visit it. Guests have included Sarah-Kate Lynch, Sue Orr, Nalini Singh and Nicky Pellegrino.
Currently, there are nine members in the club – with a long waiting list of hopefuls. Not surprising, given this is – after all – the WBBC.
As so much of the WBBC rotates around food, this description by member Katherine Percy is apt: "The book club flavour for me is like anchovies with lamb, enhancing the complexity and depth of flavour and adding a sometimes subtle (and sometimes not) interest and saltiness."
The members of the book club follow and I did have to abbreviate their selection of favourite reads. Most of the book clubs struggle to give a condensed list of favourites, but none more so than the WBBC.
As always, discussions took place via Facebook, with some still reading as the month went on.
And as always, all bets are off spoiler-wise.
The members discussing John Sinclair's The Phoenix Song are…
Richard Llewellyn, 44 (Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak; Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer; Modesty Blaise, by Peter O'Donnell).
Katherine Percy, 56 (favourite book club reads: This is Where I Leave You, by Jonathan Tropper; The Help, by Kathryn Stockett; The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer; The Ice Princess, by Camilla Lackberg).
Mary Minter, "age younger than you think" ( "I tend to buy authors like: Julie Garwood, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Deborah Smith, Nora Roberts, Jayne Ann Krentz, Lisa Kleypas. From the WBBC, my favourite reads include: A Thread of Grace, by Mary Doria Russell; Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr Paul Farmer, by Tracy Kidder; To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee; and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot").
Steve Allen, 51 (Raising the Dead: A True Story of Death and Survival, by Philip Finch; Consider Phlebas, by Iain M Banks; Stormy Weather, by Carl Hiaasen; The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger).
Monty Wawatai, 51 (Shogun, by James Clavell; Snow White and the Seven Dwarves [1937 Disney version] originally written by Brothers Grimm; Dune, by Frank Herbert; The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Schaffer).
Donella Parker, 46 (The Bronze Horseman, by Paullina Simons; Collapse, by Jared Diamond; Catherine the Great, by Robert Massie).
Philip King, 47 (Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh; A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth; The Balkan Trilogy, by Olivia Manning).
Without further adieu, let the saltiness commence…
Mary: I liked it a lot. It's the kind of story that sent me to Wikipedia looking up info on Harbin etc. The author has painted a compelling and vivid story – but I had troubles with the heroine. And I wanted to know more about other characters, sadly ignored.
Steve: I also enjoyed the historical aspects and the musical details but had trouble establishing any empathy with the characters.
Mary: I had no empathy for the heroine but I have been thinking about her a lot, though. For instance, there is seemingly little free will in Mao's China, yet she expressed a lot – choosing to spy, choosing when to make astute and sometimes dangerous comments, when to run. Yet I had no more understanding of her at the end, or consideration for her, than at the beginning. Does she symbolise a Westerner's view of the mysteries of China?
Steve: I think the lack of empathy stems from the seemingly dispassionate way our heroine observes her life. I really liked the writing though – eg, "before applying the gentle acid of her intellect to erase it from her thoughts."
Katherine: On the surface, the plot has everything I love in a book: politics and culture along with plenty of opportunity to explore the characters' motivations during a time when farmers on mass failed to plant the coming season's food crops. The general willingness to comply is most strongly evoked for me in the interminable group criticism of Debussy. But it is one thing to imagine why young musicians would defer to teachers and more senior party members about whether musicians are good or bad, and another to imagine the motivations behind defecting with an acquaintance.
Richard: I'm still going, and to be honest am struggling a bit. But as a whimsical aside I was pleasantly surprised to learn when originally googling the book that there is a song called The Phoenix Song, by a band called Harry & The Potters.
Philip: I'm only half-way through and am enjoying the general setting and atmospherics but am struggling with the characters….I haven't bonded with any of them. I'm not sure if this is because they live in tough circumstances and have hardened themselves against what may happen or that they are our observers, our eyes, for the bigger things happening around them in a time of a radical social experiment.
Monty: Okay, first impressions: I would have to say I struggled to settle into the rhythm of this book. I find that when reading a book I attempt to see it as a movie so that I can flesh out the characters and the plot. To be frank, I found the book discordant and lacking at least historical flow until the 80th page. The characters, especially the heroine Magou, were particularly flat with little emotional power. Magou's recollection and delivery of her experiences was reminiscent of a Bob Howitt co-authored NZ rugby biography: a series of events with the occasional personal observation. I'm not sure if it was the author's intention; but when thinking of the movie analogy the book seemed to be perfectly "Kiwi movie" in character: an underlying dark thread of menace throughout, and actually little to celebrate.
Katherine: Does anyone with knowledge of music know if there is a back story to the music that is out of favour? After Kasimir and Piroshka's negative reaction to Wagner's music, presumably for his anti-Semitism, I wondered about the significance of the other musicians that fell in and out of favour?
Monty: Shostakovich vs Prokofiev were the two contesting composers at the time of the Russian revolution. Shostakovich probably got the lion's share of favour, and quite understandably so because his symphonies were, in my opinion (for what it's worth musically), overly jingoistic and prone to bold and flash statements, in between discordant stanzas of unfathomable rhythms and melodies. It just struck me that it would be perfect as a background score for some of the All Blacks rugby performances. Magou was a symbol (instrument if you will) of the only inalienable fact: that there is truth in the beauty of music; that it transcends the laws of logic, maths, science and political rhetoric/ideology. And yet… there seems to be no end to the people or organisations who will seek to corrupt and twist its beauty to suit their own purposes. The sad aspect of this book is we were never allowed to feel the depth of the connection between the music and the underlying character of our heroine. Or that of Kasimir and Piroshka.
Katherine: The gaping hole for me in this book is the failure to explore the feelings and motivations of the main characters. The author recounts events but gives too little insight into the feelings that would explain the relationships. What did Magou feel about Kasimir and Piroshka, Ling Ling, Tian Mei Yun and Leon? How does she decide whom to trust? What about the possible consequences of her defection for her mother? The balance in the novel is tilted heavily in favour of plot development, rather than character development. The control imposed on the people is communicated through the events rather than the thoughts and feelings of the people. This works better in non-fiction than in a novel. The book seemed to move faster in the second half and maybe that is due to a reduction in detail.
Monty: I learnt more about the father throughout the book than I did the heroine. Here was a man who was very reminiscent of Oliver Cromwell: killing the bourgeois and expounding the virtues and quotes of the most recent edition of Communist manifesto; whilst secretly hoarding classical (and often banned) European music and Chinese philosophy.
Mary: I too felt I knew the father better than Magou. In terms of writing style, a couple of comments: I felt the first half also got bogged down — not so much in detail but in terms of writing style. Too many similes and metaphors (Bill Manhire's style? Or trying too hard to lose the terse lack of adjectival style needed for policy writing?). And yes, the author mentioned it took 10 years to write so I suspect he just wanted to complete it! Katherine, that was an interesting note about non-fiction versus fiction.
Monty: Perhaps that's why I felt it reminiscent of a Howitt co-authored rugby player's biography: a chronicle of events, where the manner of how a try is scored or punch thrown in the debating chamber that is the front row of a scrum is somehow meant to be a metaphor for life, etc?
Here, I interjected and asked a series of questions to the book clubbers: Do you think the father was most empathetic because the narrator's attention, her focus, was on him? What does Sinclair do well in this novel? And what do you have to say about the title and its relationship to the novel?
Monty: I wouldn't claim to know what Sinclair's intentions were with the father. But perhaps there was a better insight into how the father was thinking because the author is a man. In fact, one of the things Sinclair did well was clarify the roles of each of the men. The discussions the Russians had in the "privacy" of their apartments were borderline hysterical, and he was successful in exposing the absurdities of the Russian and Chinese communist ideology towards life, the universe, music and everything. It is amazing that at the same time the United States (the home of the evil capitalism, rampant consumerism and blonde violinists with impossibly white smiles) was in the grip of McCarthyism and essentially tearing apart the art, literature, music and movie world with their fear of Communist influence. Both of the superpowers were heavily under the influence of ideological idiots, both afraid of each other's social policies and evidently rampantly homophobic.
Mary: Wow, Monty – big thoughts! Loved your comment about the Russians' conversations, and also about the author being able to depict male characters with more ease and clarity than females. I did wonder if the author was a bit in awe of trying to develop a female Chinese character (ie, female and Chinese) and the task was more daunting than simply tackling one unknown.
Monty: It's a tough ask to keep my attention in any book that has made me work for it for the first 80 pages. It did redeem itself in that there was a more conventional proceeding of events through to the end. Question: did anyone get the impression the attention to the detail of events dropped off as the book progressed? I was wondering if there was pressure to get it finished. Rating: it was Okay. Would I recommend it? Yes to other Kiwis in a staunch "support Kiwi writers" mentality. I would probably take it out of a library in the first instance rather than buy it.
Mary: What does Sinclair do well? He really weaves an intricate picture of the complexity of life in China – in Hunan specifically – in the early days of Mao. His picture of Shanghai was not as telling, although the life at the academy was clear and engaging. His use of music to tell his story was inventive and lyrical (ha!), but as I did not know enough about the music he refers to a lot was lost on me and often became filler. In fact, I began to think he was lecturing me a bit in this area. The title of the book was nice, especially as it is explained both in the notes and in the book. For me, the other mythical reference (the Aztec phoenix) also came into play, tying Western and Eastern mythology together.
Monty: There were phoenix notes in the book? My book didn't have them!
Richard: I've been working a lot with a large Chinese company over the last few years, and while reading The Phoenix Song tried to marry my understanding and experience of the concept of Guanxi, and the Chinese way of building business via strong personal relationships, with the way the characters in the book related to each other. To be honest, I struggled to make the connection and I wonder if that is because I am an "outsider" looking in on these fictional characters unable to appreciate the nuances, or if it is a deliberate approach of distancing each from the other, and subtly demonstrating that Western assumptions about Eastern life are misplaced.
Mary: Ah so, grasshopper. A conundrum within a puzzle…
Katherine: What Sinclair did well for me was bring the Russian teachers to life through their dialogue. I couldn't relate much to the father – maths is no more engaging when it is related to music.
Donella: My very first impression was "What can a white Kiwi guy write about China?" Reading the blurb and then reading the author's background seemed to me like a juxtaposition that could never marry. But I thought the story of the time was amazingly well told. This author gave me a great sense of empathy. It is a time of giving to the greater good, which millions of people believed they were doing. The phoenix for me grounded the story in a way that wasn't necessary but that gave a whimsical element to an otherwise grim part of Chinese history. I know and have talked to many Chinese immigrants and their tone is not dissimilar to this book in its extolling of Mao. For us, it seems extraordinary but for them (and they greatly outnumber us so who is right here?) he was and is still a saviour of China.
And on that note the phoenix exits the book club. Whether it is rising or just walking out the door is hard to say.


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Yau C K CK Department of Neurosurgery, Kwong Wah Hospital, Hong Kong - - - 2001
A rare case of dural sinus malformation with dural arteriovenous fistula in an infant is presented. Presenting symptom was progressive macro crania without hydrocephalus. A high flow arteriovenous of the sigmoid sinus associated with jugular bulb diaphragm was demonstrated. Reflux in the intracranial sinus was present. The shunt was successfully ...
Douglas L L - - 2001
Successful chronic haemodialysis requires permanent vascular access. The Scribner procedure which utilizes an external arteriovenous shunt, the internal synthetic arteriovenous shunt and the direct arteriovenous fistula as described by Cimino and Brescia have all been used for haemodialysis. Of the three methods, the arteriovenous fistula is the most trouble-free and ...
Shimizu S - - 2001
A 50-year-old man was treated with stereotactic gamma knife radiosurgery for an incidentally detected small callosal arteriovenous malformation (AVM) with stenosis of the main draining pathway. He suffered two episodes of intraventricular hemorrhage at 4 and 14 weeks after the radiosurgery. Radiological studies demonstrated that the anterior portion of the ...
Sugiu K - - 2001
OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE: Spinal perimedullary arteriovenous fistulae are rarely reported in the literature and can be treated via both endovascular and direct surgical approaches. Coils, glues, and balloons have all been used to embolize these fistulae. Cellulose acetate polymer (CAP) solution is a liquid embolic material that was originally developed ...
Klingebiel R - - 2001
PURPOSE: We present a protocol for the non-invasive angiographic assessment of the arterial and venous cerebrovascular (CV) system by multi-slice CT. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Data acquisition was performed in a multi-slice CT scanner with a scan range from the carotid bifurcation to the vertex and manual scan start following i.v. ...
Yabe T - - 2001
Four cases of fingertip replantation using a single volar arteriovenous anastomosis and drainage with a transverse tip incision are reported. Because of lack of suitable arteries for anastomosis in the amputated finger, in each case a volar radial vein was anastomosed to the proximal digital artery and external drainage was ...
Larsson E S - - 2001
The development of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations is a well-known complication after Fontan operations, and may result in significant morbidity due to increasing arterial desaturation. We compared the use of bubble contrast echocardiography and pulmonary angiography in detecting such malformations. We also examined which anatomical and haemodynamic variables were associated with ...
Sismanis A - - 2001
Tinnitus is a common otologic symptom secondary to numerous etiologies, such as noise exposure, otitis, Meniere's disease, otosclerosis, trauma, medications, and presbycusis. A thorough evaluation is necessary to rule out less common causes, which may include acoustic neuromas, glomus tumors, atherosclerosis of the carotid arteries, arteriovenous fistulae (AVFs), arteriovenous fistulae ...
Intracranial arterial aneurysms associated with arteriovenous malformations: endovascular treatment.
Piotin M - - 2001
PURPOSE: To evaluate the results of endovascular treatment of patients having both arteriovenous malformations and aneurysms. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Two hundred seventy consecutive patients underwent pretherapeutic selective and superselective angiography. In each patient, the following were recorded: demographic information; clinical symptoms; location of the arteriovenous malformation, including presence of aneurysms; ...
Huang P P - - 2001
We report a case of a 19-year-old woman who underwent radiosurgical treatment of a residual arteriovenous malformation. Nine months after treatment, repeat angiography revealed a de novo paranidal aneurysm that was treated endovascularly. We postulate that changes in flow dynamics or vessel integrity after radiosurgery contributed to the formation of ...
Park J Y - - 2001
Pulsatile tinnitus is a rarely occurring symptom of vascular origin. Most frequently, the symptoms are due to an arteriovenous malformation, to a tumor of the jugular glomus or to a local arterial stenosis. A 39-yr-old Korean male suffering from pulsatile tinnitus of the left ear was diagnosed to have dural ...
Garcia-Schürmann J M - - 2001
A 44-year-old woman underwent radial nephrotomy for a symptomatic stone in a caliceal diverticulum. Five days after an uneventful postoperative course of 1 week, she presented with gross hematuria. Routine ultrasound demonstrated a hypoechoic lesion in the kidney; color-coded sonography revealed an arteriovenous fistula. The hematuria ended before the scheduled ...
Fujita A - - 2001
BACKGROUND: Complete interruption of a dural arteriovenous fistula (DAVF) has been confirmed intraoperatively by visual inspection and intraoperative angiography. To confirm complete interruption of the shunt flow during the surgical treatment of a tentorial DAVF, we used intraoperative microvascular doppler monitoring. CASE DESCRIPTION: A 71-year-old man suffered from severe subarachnoid ...
Joseph S - - 2001
Repetitive hemodialysis was made possible through the development of a chronic means of accessing the circulation. This was accomplished through the use of arteriovenous fistulae or grafts, using autologous veins or synthetic materials. Although the arteriovenous fistula remains the access of choice, synthetic arteriovenous grafts are used in most patients ...
Fukai J - - 2001
BACKGROUND: We report a rare case of traumatic dural arteriovenous fistula involving the superior sagittal sinus successfully treated by transarterial intravenous coil embolization. CASE PRESENTATION: A 38-year-old woman presented with tension headache. She had a past history of severe head injury at the age of three. Computed tomography scanning showed ...
Apostolopoulou S C - - 2001
Large pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) carry a significant risk of neurologic complications and present technical difficulties in transcatheter treatment with use of coils or detachable balloons. A 26-year-old man with a giant PAVM, who had undergone unsuccessful attempted closure with use of a Gianturco-Grifka occlusion device in the past, underwent ...
Dufour H - - 2001
OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE: To describe the surgical resection of a giant intracerebral arteriovenous fistula with involvement of dura mater and surrounding bone. Intraoperative bleeding was controlled by hypothermic circulatory arrest. CLINICAL PRESENTATION: This 46-year-old woman complained of persistent headache for 1 year; her diagnostic workup revealed the presence of an ...
Nara T - - 2001
PURPOSE: To report the perioperative management of arteriovenous fistula (AVF) closure in a patient with high-output heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. CLINICAL FEATURES: In a 71-yr-old man, closure of a long-standing massive AVF between the right femoral artery and vein was performed. After closure of the AVF, his pulmonary artery ...
Newfield P - - 2001
Intracranial arteriovenous malformations can occur singly, multiply, and in conjunction with aneurysms and denovo, family, or in conjunction with connective-tissue disorders. Intracranial hemorrhage is the most common presentation, occurring in 20% to 50% of cases. In children, seizures are the second most common presentation occurring in 15% to 20% of ...
Misumi T - - 2001
Coronary arteriovenous fistula is a relatively rare congenital malformation. The course of this malformation is generally benign, and rupture of the fistula is thought to be very rare. We report a case of rupture of an aneurysm of a coronary arteriovenous fistula that originated from the distal left circumflex coronary ...
Szkutnik M - - 2001
Patients with complex congenital cardiac malformations who have been converted to the Fontan circulation with partial exclusion of the hepatic veins may develop progressive cyanosis because of formation of intrahepatic veno-venous malformations. We describe transcatheter closure of a major intrahepatic fistula in such a setting using an Amplatzer septal occluder ...
Klisch J - - 2001
We report a new variation of the well-established experimental arteriovenous malformation (AVM) model in swine. To provide high flow through the rete mirabile (nidus, RM) and thereby to reduce the rate of spontaneous thrombosis of the AVM, we performed an end-to-end anastomosis of the left common carotid artery (CCA) and ...
Vertex epidural hematoma associated with traumatic arteriovenous fistula of the middle meningeal ...
Matsumoto K - - 2001
BACKGROUND: Vertex epidural hematomas are rare. We describe the features of a vertex epidural hematoma associated with an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) of the meningeal artery created by a laceration of the dura mater underlying a linear skull fracture. Although AVF associated with convexity epidural hematomas has been reported, we know ...
Mansueto G - - 2001
PURPOSE: To present a case of massive idiopathic arteriovenous fistula (AVF) successfully treated with an endovascular procedure. CASE REPORT: A 42-year-old woman with microscopic hematuria was found to have a massive idiopathic renal AVF. Percutaneous embolization was undertaken using a dual approach to deliver an occluding balloon through the draining ...
Kiyosue H - - 2001
The hypoglossal canals are an unusual location for dural arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) to appear. One previous report of dural AVFs involving the hypoglossal canal has been published. In the present paper, the authors describe a dural AVF within the hypoglossal canal, which presented with ocular symptoms and was successfully treated ...
Chikamatsu E - - 2001
BACKGROUND: Congenital arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) of the pelvis are relatively rare and are difficult to treat because of diffuse extension and the number of feeding vessels. METHODS: We describe a patient with a pelvic AVM with shunts who also developed iliac vein thrombosis. The AVM was diagnosed during evaluation of ...
Nair R - - 2001
Arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) are uncommon and usually follow trauma or preceding arterial catheterization or puncture. Spontaneous AVFs are rare. A case of spontaneous AVF of the superficial femoral artery and vein in an HIV-infected patient is presented. Histologic examination of the artery showed features similar to those seen in HIV-related ...
Tani S - - 2001
OBJECTIVE: Rich and complicated vascular structures on the spinal cord often interfere with obliteration of a spinal arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Vascular orientation during spinal AVM surgery is essential. The authors recently performed six consecutive spinal AVM surgeries in five patients (two with perimedullary AVMs, and three with dural arteriovenous fistulae) ...
Tsumoto T - - 2001
A 57-year-old male presented with a frontal bone defect associated with a middle meningeal arteriovenous fistula (AVF) manifesting as headache. The patient had a history of head injury 19 years previously. Skull radiography and computed tomography demonstrated a left frontal bone defect. Left external carotid angiography demonstrated a middle meningeal ...
Ito M - - 2000
We report a unique case of a 3-year-old boy with a pial arteriovenous malformation (AVM) in the medulla. The patient presented with a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging revealed a 3 x 1 cm flow void area in the premedullary cistern that was compressing the medulla posteriorly. Cerebral angiography ...
Mattle H P - - 2000
An arteriovenous malformation (AVM) consists of one or more arteries that drain through one or several small openings directly into one or more veins. The capillary system between arteries and veins is missing. The natural history of an unruptured AVM demonstrates a 1-2% bleeding rate and once ruptured a 2-4% ...
Miyasaka K K Department of Radiology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine and University Hospital; Sapporo, - - 2000
The arterial and venous anatomy of the spinal cord was described in terms of extrinsic and intrinsic contribution to the cord substance. Based upon anatomical location of an arteriovenous shunt, spinal arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) were classified into intramedullary AVM, perimedullary arteriovenous fistula (AVF) and dural AVF. This simple classification seems ...
Urness L D - - 2000
The mature circulatory system is comprised of two parallel, yet distinct, vascular networks that carry blood to and from the heart. Studies have suggested that endothelial tubes are specified as arteries and veins at the earliest stages of angiogenesis, before the onset of circulation. To understand the molecular basis for ...
Mhiri C - - 2000
Spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVF), the most common vascular malformations of the spine, are usually supplied by branches of the intercostal or lumbar arteries. Rarely, the DAVF are fed by branches of the hypogastric artery. Only 12 such cases have been reported. A 28 year-old man presented with a 2-month ...
Nakai Y - - 2000
A 58-year-old male presented with a rare association of an infratentorial arteriovenous malformation (AVM) and ipsilateral persistent primitive trigeminal artery (PPTA) manifesting as sudden onset of headache and vomiting. Computed tomography revealed subarachnoid hemorrhage, and digital subtraction angiography demonstrated an infratentorial AVM mainly fed by the left superior cerebellar artery ...
Pollock B E - - 2000
OBJECTIVE: Causes of neurological deficits after arteriovenous malformation (AVM) radiosurgery, including hemorrhage, radiation injury, and delayed cyst formation, are described. CONCEPT: Occlusive hyperemia has been described as a reason for neurological deterioration after AVM resection. Thrombosis of draining veins or dural sinuses is thought to cause postoperative bleeding or neurological ...
DeVita M V - - 2000
There is no single effective means of assessing arteriovenous access function, although monitoring hemodialysis venous pressure (VP) or measuring access recirculation may be of some benefit. The present study assesses prospectively the efficacy of following the peak systolic velocity (PSV) as a single measure to detect arteriovenous graft (AVG) stenosis. ...
Numaguchi Y Y Department of Radiology; University of Rochester Medical Center; Rochester, NY, USA - - - 2000
We report 2 patients with arteriovenous malformation (AVM) associated with complete occlusion of the unilateral middle cerebral artery and moyamoya vessels. Xenon CT CBF study demonstrated diffusely decreased CMF in unilateral or bilateral hemispheres with multiple areas of decreased vascular reserve. A significant reduction of AVM size was seen in ...
Miyachi S - - 2000
This study investigated the angiographic changes in embolised arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) pre- and post-embolisation and preradiosurgery to clarify the usefulness of embolisation as a pretreatment for radiosurgery and the strategy of embolisation for the radiosurgical success. A total of 37 patients with cerebral AVMs treated over a period of 4 ...
Sands A - - 2000
Pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) are a rare but recognized cause of cyanosis in childhood. Lesions may be acquired as in hepatopulmonary syndrome or they may be congenital, particularly in association with certain multisystem disorders. Large fistulas are more common than multiple small connections. Two cases. both boys, presenting in the ...
Ikezaki K - - 2000
A rare occurrence of type IV spinal arteriovenous malformation (intradural perimedullary arteriovenous fistula) is described in an 18-month-old boy initially misdiagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome. An intramedullary mixed-intensity mass lesion at Th1 was demonstrated by magnetic resonance imaging together with flow voids over the dorsal aspect of the swollen spinal cord. ...
Oliveira G H - - 2000
Pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas are rare, usually related to the Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome, and are detected by chest CT scan or pulmonary angiography. In a 14-year-old boy without Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome, but with clinical evidence of a right-to-left shunt, ancillary diagnostic studies were negative for pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas, and the final diagnosis was ...
Iqbal M - - 2000
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) are a rare clinical entity. Most of them are associated with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia. The usual clinical presentation is exertional dyspnoea and hypoxaemia. The initial test of choice for screening is the 100% oxygen method. A pulmonary angiogram is needed to define the anatomy and guide ...
Harris O A - - 2000
High grade gliomas foster an environment rich in angiogenic factors that promote neovascularity. We report a case of a cerebral arteriovenous malformation, which developed in the setting of a high grade astrocytoma. The patient presented with complaints of confusion and left hemiparesis. An initial cerebral angiogram was normal. Repeat angiography ...
Matsubara S - - 2000
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are occasionally associated with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), which is characterized by the presence of multiple mucocutaneous telangiectasia, epistaxis, and familial inheritance. We analyzed the angiographic and clinical characteristics of patients with cerebral AVMs related to HHT. METHODS: Among 638 patients with cerebral ...
Ohtakara K - - 2000
The authors describe the case of a 51-year-old man with a Type 1 dural arteriovenous fistula (AVF) located at the junction of the transverse and sigmoid sinuses. The dural AVF developed after the patient underwent a craniotomy for an acute extradural hematoma. The patient suffered pulsatile tinnitus 3 months after ...
Yamakuchi M - - 2000
Pulmonary arteriovenous fistula (PAVF) is a rare condition which occasionally causes neurological complications. A 43-year-old female with multiple PAVFs presented with several episodes of amaurosis fugax and transient right hemiparesis. She had no other vascular abnormality, and her human leukocyte antigen haplotype did not coincide with previous patients with hereditary ...
Congenital subclavian artery to subclavian vein fistula presenting with congestive heart failure ...
Dogan R - - 2000
Contrary to acquired arteriovenous fistulas, the congenital malformations are very rare. Here we report a case of congenital arteriovenous fistula forming a communication between the right subclavian artery to subclavian vein. To our knowledge, there is no similar case in which an infant has been successfully operated on for cardiac ...
Liu Y - - 2000
We analysed 10 cases of arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) associated with aneurysms and reviewed the literature in order to confirm the clinical characteristics of AVMs associated with aneurysms. The mean incidence of aneurysms in our AVM population was 9.1% and the average age was 38 years. The ratio of male to ...
Rosenow J - - 2000
OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE: Type IVc arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) of the spinal cord consist of multiple high-flow feeding vessels, and they often present a challenging management situation. Their location is intradural and extramedullary, and they are rare malformations that are difficult to treat owing to the risk of thrombosis of the ...
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States of Exemption: The Legal and Animal Geographies of American ZoosIrus BravermanState University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo Law School 2011 Environment and Planning A, Volume 43, pages 1693-1706, 2011 SUNY Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-023 Abstract: The paper explores the interconnections between legal and animal geographies as manifested in American zoos. On the one hand, law shapes not only the zoo's physical facilities, but also the very identity of zoo animals. On the other hand, the peculiarity of zoo animals — and of zoos as public spaces that display such animals — also translates into an anomalous state of zoo laws. The paper is divided into three parts. The first part demonstrates that, despite the numerous official laws that pertain to animals in various settings, exceptions and exemptions that apply to the zoo animal make it into an almost extralegal creature. The second part examines the laws that regulate the zoo's physical facilities, showing how — in this context too — the zoo is regulated mostly through variances and exceptions. The third part focuses on the zoo's self-regulating industry standards, arguing that they provide yet another reason for the peculiar legal state of zoos and their animals. Drawing on a set of interviews, conducted mostly with American zoo professionals, the paper explores the interstitial nature of law, space, and animals, offering a fresh perspective into, and a few interconnections between, the literatures of animal geography and law and geography. Number of Pages in PDF File: 16 Keywords: zoo laws, animal law, Law and Geography (Legal Geography), ethnography, animal geographies, zoo design, more-than-human geography, self governance, industry standards, coproduction of law/matter, states of exemption, state of exception Date posted: October 5, 2012Suggested CitationContact Information
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Deconstructing Canal Corp. v. Commissioner – Part I
By Jonathan Prokup and Dustin Covello
Many practitioners were taken aback by the recent Tax Court decision in Canal Corp. v. Commissioner, where Judge Kroupa issued a stinging opinion that not only recast a leveraged partnership distribution as a disguised sale, but also upheld penalties against the taxpayer for what the judge characterized as the taxpayer's unreasonable reliance on the opinion of its tax advisor. Judge Kroupa's analysis, which should be on the forefront of every tax advisor's mind, raises a number of interesting, if thorny, questions, including:
- Should a fixed and/or contingent fee arrangement necessarily render tax advice unreliable for purposes of avoiding a substantial understatement penalty under the "reasonable cause and good faith" exception?
- Has the enactment of section 6694 undercut the rationale for prohibiting taxpayers from relying on advisors that have a conflict of interest?
- When (if at all) should courts defer to the opinion of a reputable tax advisor in deciding whether to uphold an assessment of penalties against a taxpayer?
Today, we tackle the first of these three questions.
Judge Kroupa focused a great on the fixed and contingent nature of the tax advisor's fee, suggesting that the taxpayer had effectively purchased an "insurance policy" regarding the tax consequences of the transaction rather than receiving an objective legal opinion about its merits. Thus, according to the court, the tax advisor had an "inherent and obvious conflict of interest" that should have prevented the taxpayer from relying on its advice.
In practice, though, attorneys in a variety of substantive areas receive fixed and/or contingent fees for their work on transactional matters, from run-of-the-mill mergers and acquisitions, as well as purely internal reorganizations that are designed to maximize the tax efficiency of a company's corporate structure. In fact, an increasing number of clients are insisting on the use of such alternatives to the traditional hourly rate structure as a way to better align the incentives of attorneys with the clients' business needs. Notwithstanding this trend, Judge Kroupa's analysis seems to suggest that such arrangements should be forbidden per se in the context of rendering an opinion on the federal tax consequences of a transaction.
To be fair, a more nuanced reading of the Canal Corp. decision (and the authorities cited therein) suggests that reliance on an advisor who is earning a fixed and/or contingent fee may be inappropriate only where (i) the transaction is recharacterized or disregarded by a statutory, regulatory, or judicial anti-abuse rule, and (ii) the advisor was a promoter of the transaction being recharacterized or disregarded. See, e.g., New Phoenix Sunrise Corp. v. Comm'r, 132 T.C. No. 9 (2001) (finding no reasonable reliance on the opinion of a law firm that was a promoter of a tax shelter); see also Murfam Farms, LLC v. United States, No. 06-245T (Fed.Cl. 2010) (finding no reasonable reliance on an advisor who was "selling" the subject transaction).
Under this reading of Canal Corp. and the cited authorities, reliance on the advisors' opinions was unreasonable not because of the advisors' fee structures but because the underlying transactions were sufficiently aggressive – as some courts have phrased it, "too good to be true" – that reliable advice could not be given, even if supported by reasoned analyses. Of course, if the court intended to draw such a distinction, it was certainly silent on that point.
Irrespective of the transaction being examined, the court's analysis on the penalty issue is somewhat troubling because of its emphasis on the advisor's fee structure as the source of its conflict of interest. At some level, advisors always have a conflict of interest because the party to whom the advisor is providing the opinion is the party who is also paying the bills. (Hasn't this been the very criticism of the securities rating agencies in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008?)
At least to us, it seems inappropriate for courts to step between clients and their advisors and declare that certain fee arrangements necessarily undermine the ability of a client to rely on its advisor. Especially when sophisticated consumers of legal advice are involved, the merits of the opinion itself should determine whether or not the taxpayer is able to rely upon the advice for protection from penalties. If, as Judge Kroupa found here, the analysis in an opinion is insufficient to warrant reasonable reliance, then that fact alone should be sufficient to undermine a "reasonable cause" defense to penalties.
In sum, although Judge Kroupa may have properly concluded that the taxpayer could not reasonably rely on the substance of its advisor's opinion, the added focus on the fee arrangement between the taxpayer and its advisor seems unnecessary at best. The taxpayer in this case (judging by the advisors chosen to structure the transaction and defend it in court) was a sophisticated consumer of legal advice. Surely, it cannot be the case that a client who desires an alternative to the traditional hourly-based billing model forgoes any ability to rely upon that advisor (or to hold that advisor accountable for dispensing bad advice).
For our further discussion, see Deconstructing Canal Corp. v. Commissioner – Part II and Part III
Explore posts in the same categories: LitigationTags: 6664, disguised sale, good faith, opinions, Penalties, reasonable cause, substantial understatement, Tax Court
You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site.5 Comments on "Deconstructing Canal Corp. v. Commissioner – Part I"
August 19, 2010 at 11:21 pmYour post raises most of the issues that ought to be addressed in this area of tax law. But you say that Judge Kroupa's opinion in Canal raises three questions; that the third is "when (if at all) should courts defer to the opinion of a reputable tax advisor in deciding whether to uphold an assessment of penalties against a taxpayer"; and that you apparently plan to address this question in a later post (since today's post is limited to the first question of three you pose).
Next, however, at the very end of a thoughtful exposition on the first of the three questions you pose, you state:
"The taxpayer in this case (judging by the advisors chosen to structure the transaction and defend it in court) was a sophisticated consumer of legal advice."
Apparently this is a claim that the PwC opinion in the Canal case was entitled to some deference due to PwC's reputation. Let me respectfully suggest that tax opinion writers, whether the tax bar or the major accounting firms, need to cease trading on their credentials as a weak substitute for good tax opinions that are based on an independent reading of the facts and objective professional skepticism.
This is not hard stuff, fellow tax practitioners.
August 23, 2010 at 12:29 pmI find it very strange that the only tax opinion entered into evidence in this case was a draft (which the judge severely criticized both in substance and form). Initially, I thought maybe the final tax opinion was never issued or that perhaps it was issued after the taxpayer filed its tax return was therefore excluded from evidence as irrelevant to the penalty issue. However, I noticed a finding of fact that the final, signed tax opinion was issued on the date the transaction was closed. It probably would not have carried the day on the penalty issue in this case, but the taxpayer would have had a better chance of avoiding the penalty if the final, signed tax opinion was entered into evidence and the tax advisor who signed that opinion was better prepared (or more cooperative) in his testimony.
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The biostratigraphy of the upper Pliensbachian-Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) sequence at Ilminster, Somerset
Boomer, I., Lord, A.R., Page, K.N., Bown, P.R., Lowry, F.M.D. and Riding, J.B. (2009) The biostratigraphy of the upper Pliensbachian-Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) sequence at Ilminster, Somerset. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 28 (1). pp. 67-85. ISSN 0262-821X (print), 2041-4978 (online) (doi:10.1144/jm.28.1.67)
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Temporary road sections for the A303 bypass at Ilminster, Somerset, revealed Upper Pliensbachian and Toarcian sediments from an alternating limestone–marl facies, in marked contrast to the limestone-dominated Dorset coast succession. The lithostratigraphy is described, with the standard ammonite zonation providing chronostratigraphical correlation. The uppermost Pliensbachian (Spinatum Chronozone) and much of the Toarcian (Serpentinum, Bifrons, Variabilis, Thouarsense and Pseudoradiosa chronozones) of the classic Dorset coast Lower Jurassic sequence are represented by the Beacon Limestone Formation, formerly the 'Junction Bed' (a highly condensed carbonate deposit). The Tenuicostatum Chronozone is largely missing from the sequence. Elsewhere in southern and eastern England this interval is poorly or rarely exposed. The argillaceous units have yielded rich microfaunas and -floras (foraminifera, ostracods, calcareous nannofossils and palynomorphs), the biostratigraphical distributions of which are analysed and discussed in relation to contemporary evolutionary patterns and other UK records. This study provides an insight into the micro-biostratigraphy of the Late Pliensbachian to Toarcian interval for onshore southern England.
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Pliensbachian–Toarcian, ostracoda, foraminifera, palynology, nannofossils |
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Take the case of Sobig.F, a virus that was so big, so fast and so annoying that last August, it breached address books nationwide and generated infected messages to everyone in them. At its height, it spawned 73 percent of all e-mail on the Internet. Normally, about 60,000 infected messages would arrive at Hopkins door in a given month, says Ben Reynolds, who runs Johns Hopkins Medicine Center for Information Systems (JHMCIS) central e-mail services. But with Sobig, we were seeing somewhere around 35,000 an hour. The increase in malicious attacks over the last five years prompted Hopkins chief network officer, Mike McCarty, and his network and telecommunication services group to install virus protection systems at the e-mail relays, where messages first arrive. With these virus scanners, special software filters out and dumps messages that carry contaminated attachments before they reach recipients computers. But just as you wouldnt lock your front door and not your windows, protecting the relays isnt enough. So McCartys group also provides users with live-update virus scanning software on their individual workstations and protects about 500 of the Universitys and Hospitals 1,000-plus servers, the devices that provide services and applications to individual computers. Earlier this year, the desktop computing team automated the way Groupwise users can refresh their Microsoft security updates. Now, users simply restart their computers at the end of the day and leave them on. The system applies updates overnight, and users then restart their computers again in the morning for the updates to take effect. Theres a continual effort to keep protection current, says Reynolds. The day before Sobig was released, Symantec and other virus-protection software companies knew about it and were working to get an updated virus pattern file, keeping us informed by pager alerts at every stage. We had the protection in place the next morning before most people had a chance to open their e-mail. While Reynolds group secures e-mail systems, Dean Zarriellos team protects the network from worms, which attack computer operating systems. The group uses firewalls, an intrusion-detection system, and a virtual private network to encrypt data transferred in from off campus, according to Eric Ratliff, the teams senior systems software engineer. The group also constantly scans the network for vulnerabilities and participates with federal and commercial alert-monitoring services. Still, its not an easy task to safeguard such a sprawling beast. More than 30,000 users function on several e-mail systems and every operating system, from Windows to Unix to Mac. Even trickier, not everyone is supported by Hopkins centralized IT services. Many departments opt to manage and protect their own servers. Keeping track of all of this, says McCarty, is like trying to develop a map of the solar system. Thats why the Institutional Computing Standards Committee (ICSC), consisting of representatives from these independent departments and McCartys group, meets monthly to coordinate IT efforts across all of Hopkins. The ICSC finds ways to reach those who dont have any local-area network (LAN) support, such as a new Web site where any Hopkins user can access virus updates (see box, Safeguarding Your Workstation). The meetings are also a forum for sharing successes and failures. Liz Olver, manager of the Department of Medicines network computer services, reports that the department fared well in the rash of viruses and worms that hit Hopkins over the summer, suffering only four compromised PCs out of more than 1,000. On the recommendation of Eric Kuhn, the networks LAN/WAN architect, the department had installed a software update services server last year that keeps customers operating systems current. Its unusual to make an investment in something that might pay off only rarely, says Stuart Ray, an associate professor in Infectious Diseases who now is well-versed in virtual viruses. But without this server, secondary clinical systems and essential data would have been much more vulnerable. The departmental servers can store a terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) of information, allowing for secure file-sharing and nightly back-ups that are periodically sent offsite to protect data from being lost in an attack. Despite the recent successes, however, Reynolds remains concerned about reaching those individual users who arent aware of the importance of regular virus protection updates. Were hoping that people will receive our broadcast e-mail messages and wonder, Shouldnt my PC be managed a bit better? -LR


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One of the things holding back a more widespread push towards the Internet of Things — making everyday objects smarter and network connected — is battery technology. Computing power, and lately storage capacity, have increased and are still increasing exponentially. However battery technology has lagged behind.
If you pry open your laptop you'll find a lot more of it is dedicated to the battery than it was a few years back. While the electronics inside your laptop have decreased in size, and so also has the amount of power it's using for basic computer, overall your laptop is doing so much more for you these days (wifi/4g connectivity, higher-resolution screens running bigger video, longer-expected daytime use) and the power needs have increased, not decreased.
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If developed properly, this technology could enable a lot of new use cases for the Internet of Things, including the permanent installation of embedded devices in hard-to-service areas: inside walls and other structures, and also in everyday objects.
If the person loses their keys, the couch can can use ambient backscatter to communicate with the lost keys, and then alert the user. This technology could enable smart homes, smart cities—and an Internet of Things.
This new technology arriving could also mean that the growing ubiquity of NFC could be short-lived.
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Original paper: Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin Air, Liu, Parks, Talla, Gollakota, Wetherall & Smith, 2013, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference


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