Mr. Barry, who stages fight scenes for Shakespeare productions and Broadway shows and was the battle consultant for the film "Glory," keeps every receipt, confirmation, note, letter and other pieces of paper that he's received in the last 30 years.
The app/website then delivers a confirmation note as well as an exact itinerary plan with departure and arrival times.
No fool, Jackson followed up by sending a confirmation note written on a baseball (which Dell had on his desk during the meeting).
Oculus VR's blog followed up with more confirmation, noting that the consumer model "builds on the presence, immersion, and comfort of the Crescent Bay prototype with an improved tracking system that supports both seated and standing experiences, as well as a highly refined industrial design, and updated ergonomics for a more natural fit".
Lawrence M. Krauss of Arizona State and others also emphasized the need for confirmation, noting that the new results exceeded earlier estimates based on temperature maps of the cosmic background by the European Space Agency's Planck satellite and other assumptions about the universe.
Bobby Sturgell, a deputy administrator who was nominated for the top job at almost exactly this point in President George W. Bush's second term but who never won confirmation, noted that the agency had begun a reorganization to centralize its accounting, acquisitions and information technology.
In fairness to Dell, the e-mail confirmation noted that the estimated delivery date was Nov. 18, 2009, but in fairness to me, I had made quite a point about needing something before my M1530 gave up the ghost.
John Ashbrook, a spokesman for the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, disagreed with the notion that politics was slowing confirmations, noting that the Senate had confirmed a handful of judges before going into its current recess.
Confirmation status notes: Confirmed by previous publication.
Our society has a tendency toward "confirmation bias," noting media effects when perpetrators are young males and ignoring media effects when perpetrators don't fit the stereotype.
But Mindy Tucker, the Justice Department spokeswoman, said that "this is John Ashcroft doing what he said he would do in the confirmation process," noting that Mr. Ashcroft had pledged in his Senate testimony to defend even those laws with which he disagreed.
