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Got one of these for Christmas. Lovely tone and perfect intonation in a small or soprano size. With the traditional headstock (non Tele), converting to lefty was a breeze and didn't have to purchase a new set of strings. Fret board is sweet and as fine quality as expected with a Fender product. Frets are wider apart than some less professional models out there and well appreciated. If you're shopping around for a uke under $100, you won't be disappointed in this one. I wasn't.
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In the online game of hide-and-seek between legitimate business enterprises and the pornographers who wish to use their names to drive traffic to their sites, the pornographers have scored some big wins. As a result, the idea of a separate playground for the X-rated websites became reality. So why, now that the .XXX domain name is over a year old, has it had no impact?
As Leslie Nielsen was asked in one of the Naked Gun films, "Is this some kind of bust?" Leslie's answer could be one now put to the domain registrars: "Yes … it's very impressive, but we'd just like to ask you a few questions."
It has gone like this: back when securing url's (internet domain names) was a little known practice, a universe of entrepreneurs grew up. These are the people known as 'domainers.' They gobble up internet domain names, which are of course internet addresses, and then wait for companies with a business interest to come knocking. Sometimes the name is a common word; we've all heard of the seven-figure pay day for the guy who registered sex.com. Now, almost every dictionary word imaginable has been registered, many to domainers just waiting for an interested business to need a word badly enough to pay for it.
But most domain name transactions are for modest amounts of money. I had a client call me yesterday who was in a hurry to sell a .com domain (still by far the most sought-after) for a $10,000 offer. His investment in the name goes back several years and probably totals $125 at this point. He is not what you'd call a domainer. More like a guy who registered a few names very early on, and has gotten lucky. The real domainer runs a volume business, and makes a big score on some names, while holding thousands of others that they pay to keep alive year after year, which will never find a buyer.
Commercial vendors of products and services have often tried to keep ahead of the domainers and register their names, and variations of names, before someone else does it for them and "offers" to sell the rights back.
There is a well-developed arbitration system which allows brand name owners to wrestle these names back in certain circumstances. In some cases it is extremely effective and inexpensive (relative to litigation and other legal proceedings). But it all depends upon the facts.
This practice of name hoarding has never happened in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. There are two reasons. One, for most of our history, up until 1989, only marks which were in actual use could be eligible to even apply for registration (with a few notable exceptions). Two, once the 1989 law allowed a person to apply on the basis of "intent to use," that "intent" requirement has always had teeth. People wrangle about what "intent" will allow, but what it clearly does NOT allow is hoarding of names and holding them ransom.
While this squatter concept has not existed among U.S. trademarks, it did have precedent in foreign countries. Back when I started practicing trademark law, it was not at all uncommon for a client to call up (they called up back in the 80's) to say they just found out from their subsidiary in Peru that someone had registered their U.S. trademark there and the foreign owner demanded a ransom to return rights in that mark. A combination of new trademark treaties between countries, the speed of electronic communications, and companies' heighted trademark sophistication over the past decades has significantly changed, but not eliminated, that problem. We have had to reclaim more than one trademark from squatters for entertainment industry clients over the past several years.
So when the .XXX domain was invented, the idea was to keep porn purveyors in their own pornographic ghetto. Forget the fact that they thrive on accidental traffic, and by owning variations of names in the .com and other arenas, and people stumble upon their sites. The big push to buy .xxx domain name registrations actually targeted legitimate brand owners. Brand owners thought they'd learned their lesson from prior hijackings. "Ah, not this time," they said. "We'll register our names before someone uses pepsi.xxx for evil instead of good." Seemingly half of all .XXX's are owned by brand name companies and institutions, including universities, who thought an ounce of prevention would save them from chasing after unholy uses of their names.
The XXX people apparently felt that they did not want to belong to any club that would have them as a member. Sure, there are over 100,000 XXX sites which have registered their adult sites under the .XXX domain, according to some published reports. But there's no evidence that anyone has profited from this .XXX domain, except those companies which sell domain name registrations, who made a huge windfall from the fear factor.
The domain registrars may think this has been a success, but for business in general, the answer could well be "Surely you can't be serious."
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( 1906–72), Indian actor and film and theatre director. In 1944 he founded the Prithvi Theatre in Bombay (Mumbai), a company notable for the realism it brought to Hindi drama. Productions, in which Kapoor often played the lead, included Pathan (1947). His son Raj ( 1924–88) was also an actor and film director; his works include Awaara (1951), in which he and his father starred as on-screen father and son.
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For years, the most significant development in the Dutch legal market over the past decade has been the entry of a stream of international, and primarily UK, firms.
Late last year that changed. In a surprise move two of the Netherlands' leading firms - De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek and Nauta Dutilh - revealed radical plans to refocus their strategies specifically on Amsterdam. With De Brauw, the move would mean the closure of its offices in Rotterdam and The Hague.
On paper the firm that had most to lose by this development was the country's largest corporate boutique Stibbe. For years the firm has been the Netherlands' largest single-site corporate heavyweight. Now it would be facing stiffer direct competition not only from the international firms in the city - indeed the move of Simmons & Simmons, which had a sole Dutch office in Rotterdam, to launch in Amsterdam only served to emphasise the trend - but also from its closest domestic rivals.
With Stibbe nearing the end of its 2006 financial year, The Lawyer asked Stibbe managing partner Joost van Lanschot what his reaction had been when he heard the news about his two closest domestic rivals.
"Their moves didn't surprise us. There seems to be a logic to it," says Van Lanschot. "This country is small, the economy is mid-sized, but we've always been able to deal with everything from one office. Stibbe has always solely been in Amsterdam, a deliberate choice. So we understand the move of these two firms very well. It makes a lot of sense."
Competitive marketReassuring words for Van Lanschot's opposite numbers at De Brauw and Nauta, no doubt. But the Stibbe man is keen to stress that the relative pocket-sized nature of the Netherlands cuts both ways when it comes to the highly competitive Dutch legal market.
"Historically our domestic clients have had more of an Amsterdam background than Rotterdam, that's true," he says. "But the size of the country allows us easily to service clients nationwide. Certainly in relation to capital markets, Amsterdam is the Dutch centre of gravity."
Stibbe's projected figures for 2006 suggest that it is not yet suffering from the increased competition from its rivals. Van Lanschot puts the budget for the 2006 financial year at "in excess of" E100m (£67.03m), more than 10 per cent up on 2005. He refuses to be drawn on profit, although Stibbe is regarded as among the most profitable of the Dutch domestic players.
The profitability is likely to have been helped by a reduction in headcount in recent years. Stibbe had around 200 fee-earners in 2000. By 2004 it had shrunk to fewer than 150. The losses included a number of high-profile partners, including telecoms specialist Egbert Dommering and IP partners Jan Brinkhof and Kurt Stoepetie.
Two years later the firm is growing again, with 175 fee-earners and 46 partners. As Van Lanschot puts it: "We've been breathing with the times. But being big has never been an issue for us, although of course you need a certain critical mass."
The firm is not alone in shrinking. Historically, Dutch firms have been proportionately enormous in comparison with their overseas rivals, and both of Stibbe's closest rivals have reduced headcounts recently (Nauta Dutilh in particular).
"The impetus to be smaller came from a generally felt necessity to align, to become more competitive and therefore impose higher standards on ourselves, and therefore be more critical," says Van Lanschot of Stibbe.
He will not comment on other firms, but the inference is clear: the move of De Brauw in particular to be under one roof, and to execute identical standards of working, thinking and practising, is a matter of alignment. The one-office Stibbe is unlikely to find fault with a similar strategy, albeit at a rival.
"We experience great efficiency and cultural cohesion because we've always been under one roof," says Van Lanschot, adding: "It certainly helps with costs."
Strong relationshipsOf course, Stibbe may be small, but it is not alone. The firm has a longstanding three-way international alliance with Herbert Smith and Gleiss Lutz. And nowhere is this so obviously productive than in equity capital markets.
Stibbe is currently working on six IPOs, three of them with Herbert Smith. Earlier this month it bolstered its practice by advising private equity house CVC Capital Partners on the E370m (£248.7m) float of Dutch plastic pipe supplier Wavin on Euronext - itself a major Stibbe client, which it advised on its E15bn (£10.05bn) merger with the New York Stock Exchange.
Stibbe partner and corporate head Heleen Kersten led the deal with senior associate Adam Wells. The same team handled the E540m (£363m) IPO of technology business Tom Tom last year, one of the largest deals of its kind in Europe for five years.
"The alliance is a real success, most notably in equity capital markets," agrees Van Lanschot. "But it's clear that we're firmly above budget, virtually in all practice areas."
Stibbe's number one area of investment currently is recruitment, as might be expected of an M&A heavyweight in a bull market. It has developed a programme called 'STBB2NY', in which 25 Dutch law students are taken to New York for a week to experience life in a law firm. And, no doubt, Manhattan's hospitality.
It has also been hiring laterals. In April it took the former head of the wage tax team at Deloitte, Gerard van Westen, to co-head Stibbe's employment, tax and benefits team with employment partner Jaap van Slooten; and in June this year Stibbe hired Willkie Farr & Gallagher's last remaining Brussels-based competition partner Marc van der Woude for its booming cartel group.
"I see these hires as an answer to our number one strategic driver," says Van Lanschot, "client need."
It is the same impetus that is refocusing Stibbe's rivals in the Netherlands. But it would appear Van Lanschot and his partners are ready for the extra competition. n
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The Nina was built completely by hand and without the use of power tools. Archaeology magazine called the ship "the most historically correct Columbus replica ever built." The Pinta was recently built in Brazil to accompany the Nina on all of her travels. She is a larger version of the archetypal caravel. Historians consider the caravel the Space Shuttle of the fifteenth century.


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Milcah \m(i)-lcah, mil-cah\ as a girl's name has the meaning "queen" and is a variant of Malka (Hebrew).
Milcah has 7 variant forms: Malcah, Malkah, Malke, Malkia, Malkie, Milka, Milke.
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The Atlanta Falcons are having their way with the Seattle Seahawks early in their NFC divisional round matchup. Following a fourth down stop of Seattle, Atlanta drove down the field and extended their lead to 20.
Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan threw a beautiful ball downfield to Roddy White that resulted in a 47-yard touchdown strike.
White has happy to finally break loose from Seahawks All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman, and he wasn't shy after he scored. He got right up in Sherman's grill and gave the Seahawks corner a taste of the trash talk he is used to handing out.
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It's getting ugly in the Georgia Dome. Russell Wilson and the Seahawks need to compose themselves and put some points on the scoreboard before this game is completely out of reach.


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Jerry Kramer, immortalized with the Green Bay Packers teams of the 1960s, was kind enough to spend a couple of hours recently with Lombardiave.com Editor Ray Rivard to talk football and life.
If you missed the first part, you can find it here …
Kramer, who now lives in Boise, Idaho, in what he calls a comfortable apartment, spent many years on a ranch in the western state – loving every minute.
And he should …
He spent his professional football career in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a place he couldn't quite find on a map when he was drafted by the Packers back in 1959. All he knew was that it was "by a big lake."
Much has transpired since those days prior to championships and legacies – not only for Kramer, but for all the coaches, equipment managers, trainers, and fellow teammates who were a part of the Green Bay Packers of the 1960s.
In this second of a two-part audio-video mini-series produced by lombardiave.com's own P.J. Root, Kramer talks about life as a Green Bay Packers, his teammates, and how the game has changed from when he played.
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Adding to this week's great news on marriage equality, today U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Shelby struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban, which was put into the state constitution by referendum in 2004.
One of the far right's standard attacks on the increasing number of judicial opinions striking down discriminatory marriage laws is that judges are "redefining marriage" and "usurping the legislature." No doubt they will do so again in this case. Fortunately, Judge Shelby opens his opinion with a brief but important explanation of how the American constitutional system works:
The issue the court must address in this case is therefore not who should define marriage, but the narrow question of whether Utah's current definition of marriage is permissible under the Constitution.…
[T]he legal issues presented in this lawsuit do not depend on whether Utah's laws were the result of its legislature or a referendum, or whether the laws passed by the widest or smallest of margins. The question presented here depends instead on the Constitution itself…
In his opinion, Judge Shelby also takes apart the harmful, bogus argument that preventing same-sex couples from marrying somehow "elevate[s] the status of opposite-sex marriage":
Rather than protecting or supporting the families of opposite-sex couples, Amendment 3 perpetuates inequality by holding that the families and relationships of same-sex couples are not now, nor ever will be, worthy of recognition. Amendment 3 does not thereby elevate the status of opposite-sex marriage; it merely demeans the dignity of same-sex couples. And while the State cites an interest in protecting traditional marriage, it protects that interest by denying one of the most traditional aspects of marriage to thousands of its citizens: the right to form a family that is strengthened by a partnership based on love, intimacy, and shared responsibilities. The Plaintiffs' desire to publicly declare their vows of commitment and support to each other is a testament to the strength of marriage in society, not a sign that, by opening its doors to all individuals, it is in danger of collapse. (Emphasis added.)
Congratulations, Utah!
WASHINGTON – The Senate today voted to confirm Patricia Millett to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Millett is the first of President Obama's three nominees to the court to receive a yes-or-no vote following the change in Senate filibuster rules in response to unprecedented Republican obstruction.
Marge Baker, executive vice president of People For the American Way, responded with the following statement:
"Finally, we are seeing progress in filling the three vacancies on the D.C. Circuit. There is no doubt that Patricia Millett and the other two nominees to this court -- Nina Pillard and Robert Wilkins -- are eminently qualified. The Republican opposition to these nominees has not been about their merits, but simply about keeping the president from filling these seats with any nominees. Millett will fill a seat that has been vacant since Chief Justice John Roberts was elevated to the Supreme Court in 2005. It's about time this blockade was broken.
"We look forward to the Senate's prompt confirmation of Pillard and Wilkins as well. Relentless Republican obstruction has for too long been crippling our federal courts. Confirming these nominees will be an important step toward getting the Senate, and our courts, working again."
Last month, Senate Democrats were forced to change the rules of the filibuster after Republicans vowed to block all three of President Obama's nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals despite the fact that they had no problem with the nominees themselves.
But in the alternate universe of the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, when it comes to judicial nominations, "Senate Republicans have rarely displayed political courage stopping only a handful of nominees – nominees that ideologically would have been to the left of Hugo Chavez."
Perkins said in his radio address today that the president's nominations have in fact violated God's "specific guidance on the selection of judges."
The now majority leader pushed the nuclear option button effectively silencing the Senate minority and all but guaranteeing the president's nominees will be confirmed. Trust me; Senate Republicans have rarely displayed political courage, stopping only a handful of nominees -- nominees that ideologically would have been to the left of Hugo Chavez. The President is now free to pack the courts with ideologues that will both advance and protect his socialist policies. There is a reason that God gave specific guidance in the selection of judges. Few things will ruin a society quicker than unqualified, activist judges.
Looking through a list of Obama judicial nominees delayed or blocked by the GOP, it's hard to find any who resemble the late Venezuelan president, but the FRC's perception of these things tends to be skewed. After all, the group attacked both of the women in President Obama's slate of nominees to the DC Circuit for being too "feminist," one because she successfully fought for the Family and Medical Leave Act, and one because she supports having more than one woman on the Supreme Court.
On the 700 Club today, Pat Robertson got to talking with the American Center for Law and Justice's Jay Sekulow about President Obama's three nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court. Although Robertson was concerned that there might be a "feminist"among them, Sekulow said he had no problem with the nominees themselves and instead repeated the GOP's flimsy argument that President Obama's nominating people to judicial vacancies constitutes "court-packing."
Sekulow went out of his way to sing the praises of one of the three nominees, Patricia Millett, whom he called "a very bright lawyer," but said the nominees' qualifications are "not the question. The question is are these judges needed?"
Sekulow – like many of his allies in the Senate GOP – might want to check his own record before claiming that President Obama's filling the D.C. Circuit's vacant 9th, 10th, and 11th seats amounts to "court packing." Under President Bush, Sekulow advocated for nominees to the very same seats: He boasted about "working aggressively" to confirm Janice Rogers Brown to the court's 10th seat in 2005, supported Thomas Griffith's nomination to the court's 11th seat the same year, and demanded a vote on Brett Kavanaugh to the 10th seat in 2006.
Despite Sekulow's vague claim that "There's a real question as to the workload of these courts that are at an all-time low in the last ten or fifteen years," the George W. Bush nominee who now runs the official body that recommends adding and subtracting federal judgeships has said the D.C. Circuit's workload has remained "relatively steady" over that time.
Sekulow may also remember that he lobbied in 2005 to change the Senate's filibuster rules in response to Senate Democrats' blocking of a handful of extreme Bush nominees, saying that judicial nominees are "entitled...under the Constitution" to an up-or-down Senate vote.
Although he's happy to rail against President Obama's temerity in nominating qualified, unobjectionable judges to judicial vacancies, Sekulow signaled to Robertson that he would expect a Republican president to do the same, but to fill the vacancies with out-of-the-mainstream judges.
"What's good for the goose is good for the gander," he said of the Senate's recent rules change. "And it means what's going to happen here is when the Republicans are back in control -- which will happen one day, in the Senate, in the White House – look out on who's going to be appointed. There should be no holds barred on these judicial appointments."
The Family Research Council's attempts to paint President Obama's female nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals as "radical feminists" aren't going so well.
First, the FRC attacked Nina Pillard for quoting something the late Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote about the importance of the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Now, the FRC seems to think it's found a winning argument against Patricia Millett, the other woman in the slate of three D.C. Circuit nominees: She thinks there should be women on the Supreme Court.
In his daily email on Friday, FRC's Tony Perkins wrote:
As it stands right now, the D.C. Circuit is evenly divided between Democrat and Republican appointed judges -- but that's about to change. Using the nuclear option, the Senate moved forward with reconsidering Patricia Millett, the first of three previously blocked nominees the President will be employing to pack the court in his favor. Millett has shown an activist tendency in how she views the court, believing it's more important it look a certain way than judge a certain way.
When President Bush nominated Samuel Alito to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Millett bemoaned that O'Connor wasn't being replaced by another woman, as if gender impacts who's most qualified to apply the Constitution to the facts in a case or that our highest court should be seen as a representative body. She sees the redefinition of marriage turning on her own definition of fairness and not the law.
FRC seems to have picked up this line of attack from a talking points document put together by the right-wing Judicial Action Group, which claims that Millett's comment in a 2009 interview that "there was a lot of upset over the failure to put a woman on to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor" shows that she would have a poor "judicial temperament."
Yes, this is actually the argument that FRC is using against an accomplished woman's judicial nomination in 2013.
Here's what Millett actually said, in a 2009 interview about whom President Obama might choose to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court. At the time, there was just one woman on the court and Millett stressed that there were "many qualified women" who would make President Obama's short-list, even if gender was not considered:
There was a lot of upset over the failure to put a woman on to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and…it would be extraordinary to have no women on the Supreme Court in this day and age. But even to only have one is, I think, a sorry statement about the appointment process thus far, and where it's gotten in the last eight years.
So, I think the pressure to have a Supreme Court that looks in many ways – and gender is just one way – that is reflective of the public it serves, would require that a woman gets serious consideration. And there's no doubt that there are many, many qualified women who – entirely apart from their gender, if nobody even considers about their gender –would be short-listed for the Supreme Court in any event, so it makes that easy.
By the way, in case you were wondering about FRC's claim that Millett "sees the redefinition of marriage turning on her own definition of fairness and not the law," that also comes from JAG's talking points. JAG points to an interview Millett gave previewing the Supreme Court's hearing of the DOMA case, in which she referred to the question before the Court – whether DOMA's unequal treatment of same-sex and opposite-sex marriage's violated the Fifth Amendment's due process clause – as the "fundamental fairness question before the Court." That is, she was accurately describing the issue the Court was asked to consider; she never implies that the issue is "turning on her own definition of fairness and not the law."
In their press conference following yesterday's vote to change the Senate rules on filibusters, Democratic senators used a chart provided by PFAW to outline the extremity and unprecedented nature of the GOP's obstruction of President Obama's nominees.
Photos by J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press via The Washington Post
Senate Democrats are looking increasingly serious about the possibility of changing the Senate rules to permit a 51-vote majority to end debate on nominees to the executive branch and lower federal courts – the so-called "nuclear option." The move would come after Senate Republicans abused the filibuster to block votes on all three of President Obama's nominees to fill vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The D.C. Circuit nominees are among 17 federal judicial nominees currently waiting for Senate floor votes. Thirteen of these have been waiting for three weeks or longer; two have been waiting for over 100 days.
And the blanket filibuster of D.C. Circuit nominees is just the latest in the GOP's onslaught of unprecedented obstruction under President Obama. Here are four charts showing just how far Republican obstruction has gone in the Obama administration.
Failed to confirm one-quarter of President Obama's judicial nominees.
At this point in President Bush's term, the Senate had confirmed 91 percent of his nominees to the lower federal courts. As of today, the Senate has confirmed just 76 percent of President Obama's nominees. Those left out include the 17 nominees still waiting patiently for yes-or-no confirmation votes, as well as many nominees who have been forced to withdraw their nominations after meeting a wall of GOP obstruction. Unquestionably qualified nominees forced to withdraw their names include D.C. Circuit nominee Caitlin Halligan, Ninth Circuit nominee Goodwin Liu and Nevada District Court nominee Elissa Cadish.
The unconfirmed 26 percent also includes nominees who have met with Republican obstruction before even getting a hearing from the Senate Judiciary Committee. Because committee chairman Patrick Leahy won't schedule a hearing on a nominee until both of that nominee's home-state senators return "blue slips" signaling their approval for starting the process, Republicans can hold up the confirmation process before it even starts simply by refusing to return a "blue slip." One example is Georgia senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson's year-and-a-half-long (and counting) blockade of Eleventh Circuit nominee Jill Pryor, whom they previously found qualified for a district court judgeship.
Stonewalled the D.C. Circuit.
When President Obama nominated three qualified people to the three vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Senate Republicans put up a coordinated front of righteous indignation, accusing the president of trying to "pack" the court to "rubber-stamp" his agenda. This act was somewhat hard to believe coming from a party that less than a decade ago successfully pushed to confirm George W. Bush's nominees to the very same seats. The cries of "court-packing" were also a little bit undermined by the fact that Senate Republicans had allowed just one of President Obama's nominees to be confirmed to the court, in contrast to four of Bush's nominees and eight of Reagan's.
It all made one believe that maybe the goal was to keep the influential court dominated by conservative Republican appointees.
Forced Obama's judicial nominees to wait over twice as long for confirmation votes as Bush's nominees did.
Senate Republicans have forced even the nominees whom they ultimately confirm to wait weeks or even months just for up-or-down confirmation vote. Since the Senate requires unanimous consent from its members to hold a vote, a single senator can block a vote indefinitely until he is forced to give up or he runs up against a cloture vote. Under President Obama, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has made extraordinary use of these quiet filibusters, sometimes blocking votes on judicial nominees for months, even when (as is the case the overwhelming majority of the time) no Republicans actually oppose the nominees in question.
One example of this was Robert Bacharach of Oklahoma, nominated to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, who was filibustered for nearly nine months despite the fact that both of his conservative home-state senators said they supported him. When Republicans finally allowed Bacharach's nomination to come to a vote, he was confirmed unanimously.
President Obama's confirmed nominees to the lower courts have been forced to wait an average of 107 days between approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee and a confirmation vote on the Senate floor. At this point in George W. Bush's presidency, the average wait for his nominees was just 43 days. This escalation has been especially pronounced among district court nominees, who have historically been quickly approved for trial court positions. President Bush's district court nominees were confirmed in an average of 34 days. Under President Obama, their average wait has nearly tripled to 100 days.
Caused a vacancy crisis on the federal courts.
Senate Republicans often claim the Senate is doing a great job confirming judicial nominees this year. But according to a PFAW fact sheet [pdf], "Since the start of the 113th Congress in January 2013, the confirmation rate has failed to keep up with the number of vacancies," leading to more than one in ten seats on the federal courts being or soon to become vacant.
Since the start of this Congress, the number of federal judicial seats that are or will soon be vacant has risen from 90 to 110, an increase of more than 20 percent. The number of judicial emergencies – vacancies that have caused courts to face extraordinary backlogs in cases -- has risen from 27 to 38, an increase of 40 percent.
The Brennan Center also documents the huge surge in federal district court vacancies and judicial emergencies since the start of President Obama's term.
…and it's not just judges.
Republicans have filibustered more of President Obama's executive branch nominees than were filibustered under all other presidents combined. From 1949 through the end of 2008, the Senate held cloture votes to end filibusters of 20 executive branch nominees. So far in the Obama administration, the Senate has held cloture votes on 27 executive branch nominees. That means the Senate GOP is on pace to filibuster over twice as many of President Obama's executive branch nominees as the total number filibustered under all previous presidents combined.
Among President Obama's executive branch nominees who have faced unsuccessful cloture votes is Rep. Mel Watt, nominated to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, who became the first sitting member of Congress to be blocked from an administrative position since before the Civil War.


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News and Updates
If you haven't been to the conference website lately, you'll definitely want to stop by – many terrific agents and editors have joined the faculty in recent weeks including Andrea Walker, Vice President and Editorial Director at Little Brown, who will be assisting Jeff Kleinman with his Thursday evening "Buy This Book!" workshop. But don't let her fancy title fool you – this workshop will be relaxed, informative, and fun. The cost is just $45, and it's a great way to spend the evening. If you haven't already signed up, there's still time to register!
Nicholas Croce (The Croce Agency), Nicole Resciniti (The Seymour Agency), Jessica Regel (Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency), and Louise Fury and Emily Keyes (L. Perkins Agency) are just a few of the agents who have signed on recently to help with the May 26 Agent-Author Seminar small-group workshops. You can see the full list here.
Dan Conaway of Writers House, and Brittany Hamblin of Harper Collins will join author Susan Henderson (Up From the Blue, Harper Collins, September 2010) for a panel discussion on Friday about the unique challenges and rewards of writing and publishing literary fiction.
Other Friday conference program highlights include a workshop with Jeff Kleinman (Folio Literary Management) and his client, Elizabeth Letts (author of The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse that Inspired a Nation, Ballantine Books August, 2011), on how to write a successful non-fiction proposal; a conversation with Scott Hoffman (Folio Literary Management) and Rachel Griffiths (Scholastic Press) on the agent-editor relationship and how books get sold; a workshop with New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry on how to make money with your writing, and much, much more.
And for those of you who have registered for the May 26 Agent-Author Seminar, workshop assignments are now posted to the conference website. Details below.
If you'd like to expand your conference experience by registering for an additional event, there's still time!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to email Backspace administrators Chris Graham or Karen Dionne. You may also telephone Chris at 732-267-6449.
See you in New York!
May 26 Agent-Author Seminar Workshop Assignments and Format
Your workshop assignments are now posted to the conference website. Every effort has been made to match your specified genre with attending agents' preferences. However, we're not perfect, so if you find an error, please let us know as soon as possible so we can fix it.
The format for the query letter and opening pages workshops is the same:
In small groups of no more than 15 authors, two agents react to the author's material as the author reads aloud as though they'd received it as a submission, stopping the reading when the material stops working for them, and then explaining why.
Authors should be prepared for honest, objective feedback. Naturally, if an agent loves the work, authors are welcome to submit their material at the agent's invitation. But if suggestions for improvement are offered, as is most often the case, authors should not be discouraged. Because these are workshops and not pitch sessions, authors whose materials were not as well-received as they had hoped can apply the suggestions that resonate and submit to these same agents later, according to the agents' regular querying process.
At the end of each small-group workshop, there will be an opportunity for general discussion and to ask questions. Additionally, the 15 minutes between program parts, and the half-hour-long afternoon mixer provide plenty of time for registrants to speak with all of our attending agents. There's no need to be shy about approaching agents – remember, agents come to our conferences because they want to help writers, and because they're looking for great projects!
What to Bring
Each registrant should bring 17 copies of their query letter and 17 copies of their opening two pages to their assigned workshops. We realize this number might seem excessive if your group currently has less than 15 authors assigned to it, but we're still accepting registrations, and by the time of the seminar, your group's size will increase.
QUERY LETTERS should be one page. For the purpose of this workshop, you may begin with the generic "Dear Agent."
OPENING PAGES should include your genre and a one-sentence logline/description of the book at the top in order to give the reading context. Pages should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins. You may start the text at the top of the first page, rather than dropping down a number of lines to begin a chapter in standard manuscript format. Please staple each set of 2 pages together.
All materials should be in 12pt Times New Roman. Be sure to include your name, book title, genre, and contact information on BOTH your query letter and opening pages. Agents frequently bring their copies back to their offices for review, and they need to be able to get in touch with you if your project catches their interest.
May 26 Agent-Author Seminar Schedule
Agents: Jeff Kleinman, Lois Winston, Rebecca Strauss, Kathleen Ortiz, Meredith Barnes, Rachel Vogel, April Eberhardt, Roseanne Wells, Tamar Rydzinski, Kristin Nelson, Jessica Regel, Louise Fury, Emily Keyes, Nicole Resciniti, Nicholas Croce, and more to come!
7:30 to 8:30 – Check-in
8:30 to 9:15 – Agent Panel
9:30: to 10:15 – Agent Panel
10:30 to 12:00 – Query Letter Workshops
12:00 to 1:30 – Lunch (on your own)
1:30 to 3:30 – Opening Pages Workshops
3:30 to 4:00 – Mixer
4:00 to 5:00 – Agent Panel
"Buy This Book!" Workshop
Thursday evening 7 – 9 p.m.
"Buy This Book!" – a role-playing workshop with Jeff Kleinman from Folio Literary and Andrea Walker, Vice President and Editorial Director of Reagan Arthur Books, an imprint of Little, Brown.
Participants are assigned roles in a publishing house; then "sell" their manuscripts to the Editorial Board. Fast-paced, fun, and educational, this workshop will not only explain how publishing works, but more importantly will force attendees to view their work dispassionately, from the eyes of an editor (or agent). Participants must complete a single-page "tip sheet" on site for review and discussion.
7:00 to 9:00 – Please note: this workshop costs $45, and is not included in the conference registration fee. Want to sign up? CLICK HERE.
Questions? Email Backspace administrators Chris Graham or Karen Dionne. You may also telephone Chris at 732-267-6449.
May 28 Donald Maass "Writing the Breakout Novel" workshop
Imagine 8 hours of instruction with uber-agent Donald Maass, author of the book that many authors have used as a guide to take their writing to the next level! This is definitely the can't-miss portion of the 2011 Backspace Writers Conference.
This intensive, hands-on workshop for advanced fiction writers teaches the techniques that make any story feel big. For writers who want to take their fiction to the next level, this workshop shows them how.
If you haven't yet registered, there's still time to add what promises to be an amazing and inspiring day to your conference experience.
The workshop will begin at 8:30 and end at 5:30. There will be an hour for lunch (on your own), and a short break in the morning and the afternoon with light refreshments. Check-in that morning begins at 8.
Participants should bring a WIP and writing materials.
This day-long "Writing the Breakout Novel" workshop is truly a unique opportunity. If you haven't registered, there's still time to do so. And don't forget to tell all your writer friends – we have plenty of room!
Copies of Maass's books will be available for purchase at the conference on Friday and Saturday. Maass will also sign copies of his books at the Friday afternoon group booksigning and evening cocktail reception.
May 27 Conference Program
Agents: Kristin Nelson, Suzie Townsend, Scott Hoffman, April Eberhardt, Diana Fox, Jeff Kleinman, Dan Conaway
Editors: Rachel Griffiths (Scholastic), Brittany Hamblin (Harper Collins)
Authors: Keith Cronin, Karen Dionne, Barb Ferrer, Susan Henderson, Sara J. Henry, A. S. King, Adrienne Kress, Elizabeth Letts, Jonathan Maberry, Jael McHenry, Kelly Simmons, and Dennis Tafoya
9:00 – 10:00
Track One: Women's Fiction Panel: Kelly Simmons, Jael McHenry, Keith Cronin
Track Two: Children's, Young Adult Fiction Panel: A.S. King, Barb Ferrar, Jonathan Maberry, Adrienne Kress
10:00 – 11:00
Track One: Literary Fiction Panel: Susan Henderson, Dan Conaway, Brittany Hamblin
Track Two: Social Media Workshop: Don Lafferty
11:00 – 12:00
Track One: Thriller/Mystery panel: Dennis Tafoya, Jonathan Maberry, Sara J. Henry, Lois Winston (Karen Dionne, moderator)
Track Two: "Tales from the Trenches: Fiction vs. Non-Fiction" – panel: Kristin Nelson, Jeff Kleinman (A.S. King, moderator)
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch (on your own)
1:30 – 2:30
Track One: "Selling the Book: The Agent-Editor Relationship" – panel: Scott Hoffman, Rachel Griffiths
Track Two: "Building Your Non-Fiction Proposal" – workshop: Jeff Kleinman, Elizabeth Letts
2:30 – 3:30
Track One: "Contracts 101″ – panel: Diana Fox, Kristin Nelson, Scott Hoffman, Suzie Townsend
Track Two: "How to Make Money Writing" – workshop: Jonathan Maberry
3:30 – 4:30
Track One: "Publishing Alternatives" – workshop: April Eberhardt
Track Two: "Understanding the Editorial Mind: How to Have a Creative, Problem-Free Relationship with an Editor and Freelance Editor" – workshop: Jerry Gross
4:30 – 5:30
Both Tracks: Keynote Address: Jonathan Maberry
Immediately following Friday's conference program, registrants are invited to attend an author booksigning and cocktail reception, including hors d'oeuvres and an open bar!
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I'm absolutely tickled to hear from you. Words cannot express how much reverence and respect I have for Avatar: The Last Airbender. I came to it rather late in its evolution, but most serendipitously — by way of my two young sons via Netflix.
With all the animated movies and television series out there, Avatar was that first breath of air as one surfaces from a deep-water dive. I didn't know it was possible for someone to create, write, and produce an animated series (much less any series) with such intelligence, depth, and humor that could speak to 40-year-old parents and 5-year-old children alike. Simply magical work that my wife and I discuss to this day.
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Please send me the name of your new blog and I'll be sure to share it with others. And thank you for the kind words about "The Great Cauldron of Story: Why Fairy Tales Are for Adults Again." I'm grateful we could give Maria Tatar the hour she deserves.
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FAN 34.1 (First Amendment News) — 1-A Salons and Floyd Abrams Institute join to host dialogues on free expression
The First Amendment Salon is pleased to announce that it has formed an association with the Floyd Abrams Institute for Free Expression at Yale Law School.
The Abrams Institute is administered by the Yale Information Society Project, directed by Yale Law Professor Jack Balkin. The Institute is both practical and scholarly. It includes a clinic for Yale Law students to engage in litigation, draft model legislation, and give advice to lawmakers and policy makers on issues of media freedom and informational access. It promotes scholarship and law reform on emerging questions concerning both traditional and new media. And it holds scholarly conferences and events at Yale on various First Amendment issues.
"I'm delighted," Floyd Abrams commented, "that the Abrams Institute and the First Amendment Salon will be working together to explore areas in which there is continuing conflict as to the degree and nature of First Amendment protection. The First Amendment Salon has already played a major role in doing so and I'm hopeful that together we can increase still more the impact of debates about the First Amendment in today's American society."
The co-chairs of the Salon are Ronald Collins (University of Washington Law School), Lee Levine (Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz) and David Skover (Seattle University Law School). The members of its advisory board are:
- Floyd Abrams (Cahill Gordon & Reindel)
- Erwin Chemerinsky (U.C. Irvine Law School)
- Robert Corn-Revere (Davis Wright Tremaine)
- Robert O'Neil (University of Virginia Law School, emeritus)
- Paul M. Smith (Jenner & Block)
- Geoffrey Stone (University of Chicago Law School)
- David Schulz (Abrams Institute)
- Nadine Strossen (New York Law School) and
- Eugene Volokh (UCLA Law School)
"The idea behind the salon," Levine explained, "is to engage members of the First Amendment community – lawyers, academics, journalists, and activists – in an ongoing discussion about some of the key free speech issues of our times. We thus welcome this unique association with such a distinguished Institute committed to the same mission."
The Salon hosts a regular series of no-charge, 90-minute discussions concerning contemporary Supreme Court cases, books, articles, legal briefs, memoranda or timely topics. The by-invitation discussions take place at the offices of Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz in Washington, D.C., and New York as well as at the Abrams Institute in New Haven. The salons are privately video cast to the respective venues so as to allow for an exchange of views by people in different locales.
"Part of our mission is to bridge the gap between First Amendment legal scholars and practitioners. This association represents an important step in that direction," Ron Collins said.
Previous featured participants in First Amendment Salons have included: Floyd Abrams, Erin Murphy (Bancroft), Steven R. Shapiro (ACLU), David Skover, Paul M. Smith, and Nadine Strossen.
The next salon is set for November 5th in N.Y.C. with a videocast to the Abrams Institute in New Haven. It will feature an exchange between Steven Shiffrin (Cornell Law School) and Robert Corn-Revere on the topic: "What's Wrong with the First Amendment?" The dialogue will be moderated by Ashley Messenger (NPR associate counsel).
"The marketplace of ideas finds a welcome home in these salons," said David Skover. "As a graduate of Yale Law School (1978), I am excited that my Alma Mater is engaged in the future of the First Amendment Salon," he added.


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From leaving fans fuming at a concert to landing in the hospital (shirtless!), the Biebs has found Britain to be anything but great
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Suffering breathing problems throughout a March 7 show, Bieber collapsed on stage at London's O2 Arena, sucked down some emergency oxygen backstage, then came back to finish his performance before being whisked to the hospital. There, he Tweeted another photo of himself shirtless, blaming his ordeal on the paparazzi and vowing to "get focused" and return to the stage. "Not gonna let them get the best of me again," he wrote.
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