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Colleen Doran spills the beans gives some metrics on what everyone knows—Nielsen's Bookscan Numbers are way low. Especially, it seems, where comics are concerned. She cites several books she has worked on, comparing her royalty statements and Bookscan numbers:
Pre-Orders for 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' are gigantic; great news
I imagine that most people read articles about comic book sales in a darkened room, in a enclosed and private space – perhaps curtained off – so nobody can see their shame. But comics sales aren't just for predicting cancellations – in the case of IDW's forthcoming My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, the sales […]
Indie Month-to-Month Sales July 2012
By Paul Mellerick
For a rare change we get the number one book this month, as Walking Dead #100 breaks records all over the place. Saga and Buffy are still doing decent numbers, while the third Valiant relaunch, Bloodshot does very well too. Elsewhere, Adventure Time and the Trek / Who crossover continue to punch above their weight, while new licensed Transformers and Crow titles launch strongly for IDW.
145 indie books charted this month, up on last month's 135. The bottom book sold 4,187, up on last month's 3,302. They sold approximately 1,717,229, up on last month's 1,344,491, the difference being almost entirely made up of Walking Dead #100. Average sales are 11,842 per book, also up on last month's 9,959, but without Walking Dead it would have been 9,448. As usual, UK and European sales from Diamond UK are not reported in this chart.
Out of the 145 books, 27 went up in sales, a little less th
Sales Charts: THE WALKING DEAD, DC on top in July
The Walking Dead #100 led the charts in July, even as DC just barely edged out Marvel in both dollars and units—a sign that Marvel NOW can't come soon enough perhaps. BATMAN: EARTH ONE led the graphic novel charts, topping a strong month for DC.
Sales were generally flat from June, although remain much higher year to year. Comics were down a tad while GNs declined in dollars but gained in units.
Comics sales up 40% over last year for May 2012
Diamond has released their preliminary information on May's sales charts, and Marvel is back in units and dollars—both hard won victories—while AVX topped the singles chart and the New 52 trades topped the books charts quite handily.
Comics sales are up 40% from May 2011 —so if you want to know if the New 52 was a sales success, there's you answer right there.
Marvel tops March sales charts behind AvX
Marvel bashed its way back to the top in March, winning both dollars and units and the top book with AvX #1. After getting shut out of the top 10 books for the last few months, they had three books, including the AvX 0 issues and AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #1.
AvX #1 is invoiced for March although it only went on sale yesterday, in April, because it shipped to retailers a week early.
Comparative charts showed March 2012 pretty flat with 2011, with only graphic novel sales up appreciably — and that's because of a surge in WALKING DEAD VOLUME 1 sales. This perrennial led the GN chart yet again, buoyed by the TV show no doubt.
Indies show strength in official February 2012 Diamond Sales Estimates
Over the weekend, I did a rough estimate of Diamond Top 100 sales chart. Good 'ole Walking Dead turns out to have sold 32,361 in the "official" estimates vs. the 31,596 from January I used for the estimate. That +2.4%, which is just barely outside standard deviation, so it looks like the initial estimates were close again.
Complete February 2012 Diamond charts
Here are the complete sales charts from Diamond for last month:
Indie Month-to-Month Sales January 2012
Walking Dead and Buffy top the chart again, but the debuts of Lord of the Jungle, Fatale and Danger Girl: Revolver push the Turtles down to sixth. Elsewhere there are two new Transformers ongoings, a few more new Image books, and the end of several titles.
136 indie books charted this month, 10 up on last month and again less Marvel or DC books charting this month. The bottom book sold 2,606, half of what it was 2 months ago. In total those books sold approximately 1,052,459 down from last month's 1,067,927 with more titles. That's the second month in a row that'. Average sales are 7,739 per book, well down from last month's 8,475. As usual, UK and European sales from Diamond UK are not reported in this chart.
This month Image were again the number three publisher, with 5.48% dollar share and a 4.83 market share, followed by Dark Horse with 4.89% dollar share and 3.55% market share, IDW with a 4.35% dollar share and a 3.78% market share, Dynamite with a 3.46% dollar share and a 3.66% market share, Boom with 1.66% dollar share and 1.35% market share and Eaglemoss with 1.47% dollar and 0.30% market share. IDW, Dynamite & Boom are up for the month, everyone else is down.
BookScan: Kids' comics ruled in 2011 bookstore sales
It's our favorite day of the year! The day retailer Brian Hibbs posts the complete BookScan chart for the previous year, with his own analysis. You can download the entire chart for your own edification in the first link above, but we'll just cut to the chase. Here are the top 20 GNs for the year:


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Benedict Cumberbatch on "Sherlock" is pretty incredible. "Frozen" is pretty incredible. How amazing would it be to see both mixed together, allowing Sherlock Holmes to sing "Let It Go"?
Thanks to a brilliant Tumblr user, Sherlockspeare, there is an answer to this question. And the combination of Cumberbatch and "Frozen" is completely amazing.
The basic concept takes cut-outs of Cumberbatch as Sherlock from various episodes and inserts them into an animated background. Captions provide the relevant lyrics. If you need some music to go along with the GIFs, please press play on the video above.
Best of all, the combination somehow makes it look like Cumberbatch is actually singing the appropriate words. Yay for mash-ups!

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What persuades an investor to write a check for an entrepreneur's raw idea? We spoke with active angel investors and venture capitalists, as well as scouring the Web, to compile a list of some of the best startup pitches ever.
From those, we learned a few things to keep in mind if you want to make a great pitch.
- If you don't grab people within the first minute, they're going to start checking their email.
- Tell the story through the problem. It needs to be a story about problems and solutions.
- Have a concrete business plan and drive home how you're going to make money.
- Know your material, and keep the energy up.
- When pitching directly to an investor, make sure you say what you're going to do with the money.
- Finish strongly and sum up why someone should invest in the company.


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This week my family, and many other families across the country, will $125 or $250 depending on their situation to help them with Gas or Heating oil costs. This was a promise our government, our Liberal government, made to the people of Canada and they delivered. We're in the dead of winter right now and every little bit helps.
$125 is enough to heat the average home for a week, $250 obviously for 2 weeks. This is just another example of Liberals looking out for average Canadians, something the Conservatives if they are elected won't do.
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On Thursday, Aaron Murray chatted with reporters for about 20 minutes, discussing his approach to his new role as Georgia's starting quarterback. Among other things, he mentioned he had spent some time chatting with former Bulldogs QB David Greene this offseason -- and planned to talk to Greene a lot more about how to approach life as a starter when you're a redshirt freshman.
As fate would have it, this morning I chatted with David Greene, and I asked him many of the same questions Murray was asked yesterday.
While Murray says he hopes to learn a lot more from Greene in the coming months, comparing what the two had to say leads me to believe he's already taken some very good notes.
Here are some highlights:
David Greene on how a freshman QB should approach his role…
"Both of our situations are pretty similar in the fact that we were playing as redshirt freshmen, and the good situation that he's in that I also had was that he's going to have an experienced offensive line in front of him. That's such a big advantage to have that, and I'd rather have an experience offensive line with a freshman quarterback than I would an inexperienced line with a veteran quarterback. So the key really for Aaron is just like what Coach Richt told me when I was a freshman: 'You've got good players around you, you're just kind of steering the ship and distributing the ball to guys who are open. You don't have to do too much, just take what they give you. Just take care of the football, manage the game and go from there.' Sometimes that's harder said that done because we're all competitive, we want to make plays, but at the end of the day, he does have a pretty good supporting cast around him on that offense."
Aaron Murray on his approach to the job…
"It's pretty much being smart with the football. What Coach Richt always says is respect the football. That's pretty much the main goal going into this year is not to be a superstar or make spectacular plays. It's to respect the football, make plays, make first downs, just utilize the great weapons I have around me. Great plays are going to happen just from ordinary plays because of the athletes we have around us. You can give a 10-yard curl to A.J. Green and he's going to turn it into a 40 or 50-yard play. Me respecting the ball and making the right decisions and letting those guys do the dirty work – I've just got to be smart."
David Greene on the progression of a young quarterback...
"I don't think Coach Richt or anybody wants to hold him back from going out there and being the type of player he is, but at the same time, you've got to play smart. You want him to think things through, where if you're in the red zone, you don't want him forcing a ball and throwing an interception. You've just got to play smart, and as a redshirt freshman, you don't exactly know the speed of the game yet, and you really are learning on the fly. It's going to be no different than anybody else. There will be bumps in the road, you're going to go through a little bit of growing pains. But at the same time, the thing I like about Aaron is he's a kid that's tough, he's a kid that wants to be great. He'll call me up and ask about studying film. He asks a lot of questions because he wants to be good. I'm excited about him. He's definitely accepted the challenge and is working hard."
Aaron Murray on how he thinks he will progress…
"Coach Bobo always jokes with me that you're going to be what Matthew Stafford was in 2007 when we won the Sugar Bowl. You're going to have to show me what you can do and gradually earn more trust. What I'm going to have to do is continue to learn the defense and become a better quarterback."
David Greene on playing in front of a big crowd, as opposed to practice or G-Day...
"It's definitely different going out there and practicing and scrimmaging vs. playing in a game. But most people probably won't remember back in 2002, we had the worst spring game probably in the history of spring games. I played terrible, the team played terrible, and that was probably one of the greatest years we had. We went 13-1. A lot of times, you can't tell what's going to take place from the G-Day game. That's really the first time Aaron got introduced to Georgia when everyone was wondering how this kid's going to be. You can't tell that off of one performance. A lot of times in those spring games, coaches are pretty vanilla because it's on TV, so I wouldn't put too much stock in that. But also, when it comes to game time, he's going to have to be ready to go because it's full tilt."
Aaron Murray on his expectations for what game conditions will be like…
"I've pretty much envisioned by now all the games. I've gone through every team and pretty much pictured the stadiums in my mind going to bed at night – just thinking about my goals for every game. I've definitely envisioned that first game, but it's not going to be anything compared to when we actually get out there in front of 90,000 fans. I'm definitely excited about that."
David Greene on handling the responsibilities of the job as a freshman...
"Sometimes being young and naïve is a plus. When I was a redshirt freshman, what Coach Richt taught me – I thought I knew everything. By the time I was a senior, I realized I didn't really know anything, I just thought I knew everything. Sometimes being naïve and having a young guy on the field is good because he doesn't know any better. It seemed like every year, Coach Richt gave me more and more responsibility. Later in my career there were a lot more checks at the line of scrimmage, but my first year, it was Football 101. I was on a need-to-know basis. If this guy comes, you throw hot. Don't ask why, just do it. That's the way we did it."
Aaron Murray on his expectations of his role…
"I've never played a game before, so I can't just go out there and he's going to have me throw 40 or 50 passes a game. (Bobo) is going to slowly build me up in the offense. The better I do, the more I show him I'm capable of completing certain plays, the more he's going to trust me in the offense."
David Greene on how a young QB earns a leadership role...
"When you come in as a freshman and you haven't really played and you're surrounded by a bunch of guys that have played, you have to lead by example. You can't come in there and talk in front of those guys like they don't know what they're doing. You have to go out there and earn their respect. That's the only way you're going to get it is to go out and work hard every day. Hopefully your play on the field will earn their respect. That's the only way you can do it."
Aaron Murray on how he's trying to earn respect…
"It's not going to be given to me right away and I'm not going to earn it in a week or two from just working hard. It's going to take some time because we have a very senior group – a bunch of seniors who are good leaders on this team. I just need to be me, not be someone I'm not. I've got to find my way of being a leader on this team, my way to motivate people and figure out ways to push them and make them do stuff they never knew they could do. That's not going to come in a week or two. It's going to take some time to better understand the guys and what they can do and motivate them and hopefully by this summer hopefully I'll make some strides in that category."
* I also want to remind fans that David Greene will be part of a Bulldogs charity auction in Buckhead tomorrow night. You can find details on the event HERE and I'll post a bit more on that this afternoon.
Friday, June 18, 2010
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Good job on catching that 'execrations' thing!
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The American Senator
Author | Anthony Trollope |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Satirical |
Publisher | Chapman & Hall |
Publication date
May 1876 to July 1877; 3 volumes, 1877 |
Media type | Serialized; print |
The American Senator is a novel written in 1875 by Anthony Trollope. Although not one of Trollope's better-known works, it is notable for its depictions of rural English life and for its many detailed fox hunting scenes. In its anti-heroine, Arabella Trefoil, it presents a scathing but ultimately sympathetic portrayal of a woman who has abandoned virtually all scruples in her quest for a husband. Through the eponymous Senator, Trollope offers comments on the irrational aspects of English life.
The novel is largely set in and near the town of Dillsborough, in the fictional county of Rufford. The two principal subplots centre on the courtship behaviour of two young women.
The heroine, Mary Masters, is the daughter of an attorney, and has been raised as a gentlewoman. Her stepmother is from a lower social order; believing it best for Mary, she pressures her strongly to accept a proposal from Lawrence Twentyman, a prosperous young yeoman farmer with aspirations to gentility. While Mary respects Twentyman for his excellent qualities, she feels that she cannot love him as a wife should a husband. She admires Reginald Morton, whose cousin is the squire of Bragton and thus one of the two major landowners of Rufford. Reginald admires Mary as well; but for most of the novel, each is ignorant of the other's feelings: Mary, as a gentlewoman, cannot take the initiative in such a matter; and Reginald, misinformed that Mary loves another, is unwilling to make an offer and have it rejected.
The anti-heroine of the novel is Arabella Trefoil. Her father is cousin to the Duke of Mayfair; her mother was a banker's daughter. Her parents are unofficially separated, and living in straitened circumstances. Arabella and her mother, Lady Augustus Trefoil, have no fixed abode; they wander from place to place, visiting people who cannot refuse them without creating social awkwardness. At Lady Augustus's direction, Arabella has spent many years struggling to secure a rich husband who will give her and her mother high social standing, an assured income, and a house of their own. She has lately become provisionally engaged to John Morton, the squire of Bragton and a rising figure in the Foreign Office. He would be an adequate but not outstanding husband by her standards; and when the opportunity presents itself, she attempts to entrap the wealthy and titled young Lord Rufford, concealing these attempts from Morton so that she can accept his proposal should they fail.
John Morton falls ill and dies. Arabella, who is not altogether wicked, visits him at his deathbed despite the fact that this will assist Lord Rufford in escaping her toils. After Morton's death, she accepts an offer of marriage from Mounser Green, a Foreign Office clerk who is taking Morton's place as ambassador-designate to Patagonia. Like Morton, Green is not a brilliant match for her, but an acceptable one. John Morton's death makes Reginald Morton the squire of Bragton; at this point, when Mary Masters fears that he has moved too far above her in status, he confesses his love to her. A proposal ensues and is eagerly accepted.
The American senator of the title is Elias Gotobed, who sits in the US Senate for the fictional state of Mikewa. The guest of John Morton, Senator Gotobed is trying to learn about England and the English. Through his often-tactless remarks in conversation, through his letters to a friend in America, and through a lecture in London titled "The Irrationality of Englishmen", he comments on British justice and government, the Church of England, the custom of primogeniture, and other aspects of English life.
Major themes[edit]
England, America, and utilitarianism[edit]
In Senator Gotobed, Trollope employs a device similar to that used by Montesquieu in the Lettres Persanes and by Goldsmith in The Citizen of the World.[1]:173–4 As an outsider, he comments on the absurd or irrational aspects of English society. Gotobed finds much at fault with his host country: the sale of livings in the Church of England, the sale of commissions in the British army, the custom of primogeniture, the unelected hereditary House of Lords and the lack of proportional representation in the House of Commons, and a system that defers to the wealthy and titled at the expense of justice to those of lower social standing.
It is difficult to know the extent to which Gotobed's views reflected Trollope's own. On the one hand, the Senator's denunciations of clerical livings were very similar to criticisms that Trollope had levelled at Bishop Wilberforce. On the other, some of Gotobed's strongest strictures were directed at fox-hunting, to which Trollope was devoted.[2]:64
Late in 1876, Trollope wrote: "[Gotobed] is a thoroughly honest man wishing to do good, and is not himself half so absurd as the things which he criticises."[3] The novel was written and set during the scandals of Ulysses S. Grant's administration. The dishonest politician was a stock figure in American novels of the time; and Trollope himself had noted the ubiquity of corruption on his postal mission to Washington in 1868.[4]:227–8 Yet Gotobed is an honourable man, and Trollope apparently tried to avoid making a caricature of him, notwithstanding a few quaint Americanisms and episodes of tobacco-chewing.
The key is a character's telling the Senator that his views are "utilitarian rather than picturesque"[5] and his lecture's title: "The Irrationality of Englishmen". To Trollope, the English system was strong precisely because it was picturesque rather than logical, and should not be criticised or adjusted according to utilitarian theories.[4]:232 Fox-hunting was one of the strongest illustrations of this. In Ruth apRoberts' words, "The Senator is too much the rationalist ever to enjoy something he could not think he understood; and Trollope is too much the empiricist to deny the existence of his joy or his sure sense of its beneficence. But he very well knew the absurd aspects of hunting."[1]:178
English social order[edit]
To Trollope, one of the pillars of the English system was a traditional social order in which everyone played his appropriate role. The place of the squire was to occupy his land. Dillsborough is portrayed as slowly declining, a decline that is associated with the long absence of its squire, John Morton. When Reginald Morton, as the new squire, takes up residence at Bragton, the long decline shows signs of coming to an end.[4]:210–12 The new squire also promises to accept the traditional role and responsibilities: although educated in Germany and given more to study than to the traditional pursuits of a country gentleman, at the novel's end he deprecates the philanthropists who attack fox-hunting, and vows to take up the pursuit himself.[6]
Women, courtship, and marriage[edit]
Much of The American Senator is taken up with the parallel courtships of Mary Masters and Arabella Trefoil. There is a physical and moral contrast between them: Mary is dark, honest, and sincere; Arabella is blonde, embellished with pearl powder, paint, and false hair, and insincere.[4]:220 Each is urged to give her heart falsely for the sake of a prosperous marriage: Arabella by her mother, Mary by her stepmother.[4]:218 Arabella obeys her mother, in the process coming to despise her; Mary refuses to obey her stepmother, and the two are reconciled at the novel's end.
The parallels extend to the mother figures. Both Mrs. Masters and Lady Augustus married men who were above them socially, and both brought money to the marriage. Mrs. Masters was the daughter of an ironmonger who married an attorney; her dowry of £1000 "had been very useful" to her new husband.[7] Lady Augustus was the daughter of a banker who married the impecunious younger son of a duke;[8] to further the parallel, malicious gossip makes her the daughter of an ironmonger as well.[9]
It may have been Trollope's intention to make Mary good and Arabella evil. "I wished to express the depth of my scorn for women who run down [pursue] husbands,"[3] he wrote to Mary Holmes. Arabella has been described as a feminine counterpart to Augustus Melmotte of The Way We Live Now or Ferdinand Lopez of The Prime Minister: she engages in courtship as those two engaged in financial speculation.[10]
However, Trollope's native sympathy intruded. A few months later, he wrote: "I have known the woman... all the traits, all the cleverness, all the patience, all the courage, all the self-abnegation,—and all the failure... Will such a one as Arabella Trefoil be damned, and if so why? Think of her virtues; how she works, how true she is to her vocation, how little there is of self indulgence, or of idleness. I think that she will go to a kind of third class heaven in which she will always be getting third class husbands."[11]
Far from an object of contempt, Arabella becomes a tragic figure. Her rank demands that she marry well; her financial situation makes such a marriage virtually impossible. In this position, she cannot afford love or sincerity.[4]:220–1 Hers is "the tragedy of a young woman who recognises decency, but who feels herself trapped into a life that excludes decent behaviour."[12]
Arabella has been badly schooled by her mother; Mary was more fortunate in having been raised by Lady Ushant of the Morton family, who taught her principles that allowed her to resist her stepmother's mercenary urgings. Yet Lady Augustus is no more pure villain than her daughter. With no mother to take care of her,[13] she found herself married to a man who squandered her dowry.[14] She is working to achieve for her daughter the security of which she was robbed in her own marriage.[15] Her own reward for this long arduous struggle is a scant one: after Arabella's wedding, "[s]he knew she was an old woman, without money, without blood, and without attraction, whom nobody would ever desire to see."[16]
Development history[edit]
From 1827–1831, Trollope's mother Frances Trollope lived the United States, attempting to repair the family's fortunes and observing all aspects of the nation. Upon her return to England, she published Domestic Manners of the Americans in 1832.[17]:10–18 Mrs. Trollope strongly criticised the country and its customs: "I do not like them. I do not like their principles, I do not like their manners, I do not like their opinions."[18] The American press responded with strongly negative reviews of Domestic Manners.[2]:64
Trollope fils visited the United States from September 1861[17]:136 to March 1862[17]:143 He published the two-volume North America in May 1862.[17]:143 The book was critical of the country; but unlike Domestic Manners, was written with an evident desire to please, and never patronised. The American reaction was generally positive.[2]:414
Gotobed, told that it might not have been wise to tell the English nation of its collective faults, replies "You English tell us of ours pretty often."[19] Trollope was evidently referring to his and his mother's criticisms of the United States, as well as those of Charles Dickens in American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit;[20]:424 and he may have thought it only just to present criticism of English institutions from an American standpoint.
Indeed, there is much of Trollope in Gotobed's questioning, quarrelsome, and often tactless character.[20]:423 Richard Henry Dana, Jr. later became a good friend of the author; but after their first meeting, he recorded in his diary: "...intolerable, no manners, but means well, & would do a good deal to serve you, but says the most offensive things—not a gentleman."[21]
The origins of Arabella Trefoil are more obscure. In early 1877, Trollope wrote: "I have been, and still am very much afraid of Arabella Trefoil. The critics have to come, and they will tell me that she is unwomanly, unnatural, turgid,—the creation of a morbid imagination, striving after effect by laboured abominations. But I swear I have known the woman..." Not a particular woman, he continues; but all of the traits, good and evil.[11]
Although there was no resemblance in character, Arabella Trefoil's houseless wanderings might be based on those of Trollope's beloved niece Beatrice "Bice" Trollope. Lacking a secure home with her father and stepmother, she was forced to resort to a "sterile round of English visits" and endured several "abortive engagements".[22] More fortunate in matrimony than Arabella, Bice Trollope found a wealthy and well-connected husband in Charles Stuart-Wortley, whom she married in 1880 at the age of 27.[23]
Trollope began writing the novel on 4 June 1875,[24] while visiting his son Fred Trollope's sheep station at Mortray in New South Wales.[17]:344 He completed it on 24 September 1875,[24] while en route from Australia to the United States.[17]:345
Publication history[edit]
The American Senator was serialised in Temple Bar May 1876 – July 1877. A three-volume book version was released by Chapman & Hall (London) in 1877. In that same year, the novel was also published in New York, Detroit, Toronto, Leipzig, and Copenhagen. A one-volume edition was issued by Chatto & Windus (London) in 1878; this edition was re-issued in 1879 and in 1886. Later editions were published in 1931 (reprinted in 1951 and 1962), in 1940, in 1979, and in 1981.[24]
Trollope received £1800 for the novel. He had received £3000 for The Way We Live Now in 1875, and £2500 for The Prime Minister in 1876.[25]
Literary significance and reception[edit]
Contemporary reviews of The American Senator were mixed. British reviewers, even those who regarded the book favourably, almost universally felt that Senator Gotobed and his criticisms would have been better left out of the novel.[20]:424–5[26] Some reviewers felt that Trollope was growing embittered: a notice in The Examiner suggested that the author was suffering an "attack of misanthropy" and accused him of maintaining a "special inkstand supplied with gall, for use when describing fashionable society, against which his rancour appears to be unbounded."[27] Others were more favourable: a review in The Times stated that Dillsborough society was rendered in Trollope's "most entertaining manner".[28]
Later critics took a more favourable view of the portrayal of Arabella Trefoil. In 1927, Michael Sadleir wrote: "The American Senator will be read for the sake of its opening chapters, which set before the reader in a few pages the whole geographical and social pattern of an English county; for the sake of its hunting episodes, which are among the best not only in Trollope, but in the whole of English fiction; and for the sake of Arabella Trefoil, a masterly study of a girl without a heart."[29] More recent critics have found more sympathy for her plight: James Pope-Hennessy calls her "the finest, most fearless and the most tragic of all [Trollope's] doomed and desperate anti-heroines".[30]
Connections to other Trollope works[edit]
The Duchess of Omnium and Lady Chiltern of the Palliser novels make a brief appearance in the novel.
In chapter 70 of The Duke's Children, Senator Gotobed is the American minister in London.
There is no indication that Arabella Trefoil is related to the Dean Trefoil of Barchester Towers.
A three-part adaptation of The American Senator was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Classic Serial program in 2011.[31]
- ^ a b apRoberts, Ruth. The Moral Trollope. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 1971.
- ^ a b c Mullen, Richard. Anthony Trollope: A Victorian in his World. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd. 1990.
- ^ a b Letter to Mary Holmes, 27 December 1876. The Letters of Anthony Trollope. N. John Hall, ed. Stanford University Press. 1983. Vol. II, p. 701.
- ^ a b c d e f Tracy, Robert. Trollope's Later Novels. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1978.
- ^ Trollope, Anthony. The American Senator, chapter 68.
- ^ Kincaid, James Russel. The Novels of Anthony Trollope. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1977. p. 240.
- ^ The American Senator, chapter 3.
- ^ The American Senator, chapter 8.
- ^ The American Senator, chapter 25.
- ^ Polhemus, Robert M. The Changing World of Anthony Trollope. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1968. p. 209.
- ^ a b Letter to Mrs. Anna Steele, 17 February 1877. The Letters of Anthony Trollope. N. John Hall, ed. Stanford University Press. 1983. vol. II, pp. 710–11.
- ^ Markwick, Margaret. Trollope and Women. London: Hambledon Press. 1997. p. 122.
- ^ The American Senator, chapter 13.
- ^ The American Senator, chapter 12.
- ^ Markwick, p. 124.
- ^ The American Senator, chapter 76.
- ^ a b c d e f Super, R. H. The Chronicler of Barsetshire. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1988.
- ^ Trollope, Frances. Domestic Manners of the Americans. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1949. p. 404.
- ^ The American Senator, chapter 78.
- ^ a b c Hall, John N. Trollope: A Biography. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1991.
- ^ Quoted in Mullen, p. 413.
- ^ Glendenning, Victoria. Trollope. London: Hutchinson. 1992. p. 428.
- ^ Glendenning, pp. 481–2.
- ^ a b c Tingay, Lance O. The Trollope Collector. London: Silverbridge Press. 1985. p. 40.
- ^ Trollope, Anthony. An Autobiography. London: Oxford University Press. 1950. p. 364.
- ^ Reviews quoted in Trollope: The Critical Heritage. Donald Smalley, ed. Chatham: W & J Mackay & Co. Ltd. 1969. pp. 428–31.
- ^ Quoted in Trollope: The Critical Heritage. p. 430.
- ^ The Times. 10 August 1877. p. 3. Quoted in Terry, R. C. A Trollope Chronology. Macmillan Press, 1989. pp. 115–6.
- ^ Sadleir, Michael. Anthony Trollope: A Commentary. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1927. p. 395.
- ^ Pope-Hennessy, James. Anthony Trollope. London: Phoenix Press. 1971. p. 344.
- ^ "Classical Serial: The American Senator". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
External links[edit]
- The American Senator at Project Gutenberg
- The American Senator at Google Books
- The American Senator—easy-to-read HTML version at University of Adelaide Library
- The American Senator public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- Plot and characters of The American Senator at the Trollope Society


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. After all, it is they, the line executives, and not IT staff, who are accountable for implementing enterprise-strategic objectives like improved customer retention or better up-sell. If, for example, the line executive wants the abandoned-shopping-cart notification to go to the email system on the third aborted purchase instead of the fourth, the line executive should not have to call the IT department to program that change. Line executives should have a "control panel" that allows them to easily control and monitor the operation and flow of business events through various applications. Having this view of their business processes would allow them to measure the effectiveness of the programs devised to meet the company's goals. Such a tool cuts, or even eliminates, the substantial cost of synchronizing business and IT departments to respond to program changes or adjustments. This kind of control reduces or eliminates the need to create and maintain custom programming on multiple systems.
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Of course, event coordination isn't entirely free. Data remains one of the thorniest problems in systems integration. Simply stated, dozens or even hundreds of applications in any given enterprise may maintain information about key business objects: customers, products, trades, subscribers, households, promotions, and so on. But their implementations, that is, their database record formats, differ. The most common solutions to the data integration problem are enterprise application integration "pipes" and data warehouses. Application integration pipes translate one database format (and semantics) to another, while data warehouses attempt to unify numerous application-specific databases. Both solutions are costly and deployment-intensive. Real-time event coordination elegantly solves the data problem. The IT user is provided with a tool that scans existing data sources that build comprehensive business abstractions, such as a "customer object" or "trade object." These objects contain critical, business-strategic information about their subjects. More important, these business objects are the "payload" of events. Thus, when an e-commerce Web site fires a "purchase event" to the event coordination server, the site also passes as context "customer" and "product" objects, which all connected applications understand. This one-to-one mapping (system-to-object) eliminates nearly all the complexity that current many-to-many integration technologies require.
Realizing the promise
Having then defined the key business events and the objects they carry, enterprises are ready to exploit all the advantages of the real-time enterprise: capturing millions of dollars in missed revenue; restoring control of the business back to those accountable for it; and responding in real time to changing customer, competitor, and market conditions. Moreover, companies can achieve these remarkable goals without replacing any of their existing business applications. Implementing the real-time enterprise is a straightforward, evolutionary step for IT and for business managers. But its effects are truly revolutionary.
About the Author
As CTO and vice president of development, Barry Briggs invented AptSoft's event coordination technology, for which he now leads the development. Previously, as CTO of Wheelhouse, Briggs led the engineering team that developed a new customer relationship management platform that helped companies react more quickly to customer concerns, questions and actions. Before that he served as co--CTO at BroadVision and as CTO for Interleaf, which was acquired by BroadVision in 2000. Prior to Interleaf, Briggs served at Lotus Development Corporation as one of its senior technologists and chief architect of Lotus 1-2-3 among other major technologies.
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JHU decides against submitting proposal to APRC[TamilNet, Monday, 26 February 2007, 21:25 GMT]Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), all monks' party said Monday that it will not table its proposals to the All Party Representatives Committee (APRC) to find a political solution to the ethnic conflict, political sources in Colombo said. JHU reasoned that Mahinda Chinthanaya mandates a solution on the basis of unitary concept of constitution and therefore no alternate proposals are necessary. JHU leader Venerable Ellawella Methananda Thera said his party will support any political solution to the ethnic question without violating the Mahinda Chinthanaya principles endorsed by the masses in Sri Lanka in the 2005 November presidential election. Meanwhile, the main opposition United National Party (UNP) said that it will not participate in the APRC meeting until the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) submits its political proposals before March 15. Tissa Attanayake, general secretary of the UNP Monday confirmed this stand once again, sources in Colombo said. The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) rejected the request made by Minister Tissa Vitarane, Chairman of the APRC to submit is political proposals as the United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) government has gone back in its promises as stated in the Mahinda Chinthanaya |
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John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social
activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a
large fortune from his fiction alone.
Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To
Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The
Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.
London married Elizabeth "Bessie" Maddern on April 7, 1900, the same day The Son of the Wolf was published. Bess had been part of his circle of friends for a
number of years.
London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers.
He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The
War of the Classes.
In later life London indulged his wide-ranging interests by accumulating a personal library of 15,000 volumes. He referred to his books as "the tools of my
In 1905, London purchased a 1,000 acres ranch in Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, California, on the eastern slope of Sonoma Mountain, for $26,450.
He wrote: "Next to my wife, the ranch is the dearest thing in the world to me." He desperately wanted the ranch to become a successful business enterprise.
Writing, always a commercial enterprise with London, now became even more a means to an end: "I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now
belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate." After 1910, his literary works were
mostly potboilers, written out of the need to provide operating income for the ranch.


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Bandits Roost, 2010
– photo by Jacob Riis (or one of his associates) found in the public domain at wikipedia, of Bandits Roost- 59 1/2 Mulberry Street, 1888
This is one of those iconic images from the dawn of the photographic era, the sort upon which entire scholastic careers and political memes are based. It purports to show a group of street toughs at the Mulberry Bend, which Riis described as the very heart of the manifest evil that was Five Points. The part of the Lower East Side described in the 1980's as "Alphabet City" was similarly described as hell on earth by politicians and journalists, but it was actually an ok place- which makes me wonder…
For the purposes of this post though, it is one of those truly rare historical captures that lists a street address, so I headed down to Mulberry and Bayard Streets to see if I could find the spot… however… Riis and his allies in the municipality oversaw the obliteration of Five Points and its wonders, and there is no 59 1/2 Mulberry street in modernity (entire streets were demapped, or had their names changed- the actual Mulberry Bend is now Columbus Park), so I was forced to get a little "batman" on this one…
from nycgovparks.org
Columbus Park was named in 1911 after Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), the Italian explorer credited with discovering America, or at least with awakening Europe to the opportunities there. Bounded by Baxter (formerly Orange), Worth (formerly Anthony), Bayard, and Mulberry Streets, the site has alternatively been named Mulberry Bend Park, Five Points Park, and Paradise Park. Columbus Park is situated in the heart of one of the oldest residential areas in Manhattan, adjacent to the infamous "Five Points" and "The Bend".
Until 1808 the site for the park was a swampy area near the Collect Pond (now Foley Square) and hosted a set of tanneries. In 1808 the pond was filled and became Pearl Street. When the filling began to sink, a foul odor emerged which depressed the living conditions of that neighborhood. As a consequence, the area became host to one of the world's most notorious tenements, known for its wretched living conditions and rampant crime, earning such names as "murderer's alley" and "den of thieves."
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The east side of Mulberry Street still exists, and as evidenced above- this is 62 Mulberry- a modern day parking lot.
also from nycgovparks.org
Mulberry Bend Park was planned in the 1880's by Calvert Vaux, co-designer of Central Park. Vaux saw this park as an opportunity to bring new life and order into the depressed neighborhood. Riis remarked of Vaux's newly designed park that it is "little less than a revolution" to see the slum housing replaced by trees and grass and flowers, and its dark hovels infused with light and sunshine and air. The park opened in the summer of 1897, with bench-lined curved walkways and an expansive, open grassy area.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Just next door- this is 60 Mulberry-
from focpny.org
We have a growing "RAT" problem at Columbus Park and the surrounding neighborhood. The Health Dept. has been doing "RAT" Indexing (research) and hear is what they are saying…
"Columbus Park after years remains a challenging situation………..
- There is an extraordinary amount of food trash left in baskets each day and night;
- abundance of litter within the park that does not get collected on a regular basis;
- many restaurants along Mulberry Street place out their trash each night and the rats have easy access;
- and the park is located over very old subterranean lines of sewer, and even old streams. These subsurface areas no doubt serve as partial replenishes for rat control achieved at surface level. Many of the restaurants on Mulberry have failed for having rats on their premises; and thus there is likely a back and forth swapping of the rats from Columbus Park to Mulberry Street basements.
- Baiting alone will NOT get this done. In fact, long term, it exacerbates it.
- There also appears to be a hawk which is using the park for easy pickings of the rats; and so the Parks Dept will need to weigh in on "the risk to the hawk" if any large scale baiting is done. They will need to make the call.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Just next door- this is 58 Mulberry- so, spinning on my heels at that point equidistant between 58 and 60 Mulberry…
Coincidentally, 58 Mulberry has a back house, according to the NYCDOB, and is an "old law" tenement. Check out this nytimes.com article from 1881 which describes Mayor Grace's tour of the block and includes a description of #56 Mulberry as "a tenement house of the worst class". And also- this one which discusses the mortality rate on this block in 1884.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
This is 56 Mulberry today, but I'm uncertain as to whether this is the original structure which Grace visited.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
This entrance to Columbus Park must be 59 1/2 Mulberry Street, Bandits Roost.
from wikipedia
Old Law Tenements are tenements built in New York City after the Tenement House Act of 1879 and before the so-called "New Law" of 1901.
The 1879 law required that every inhabitable room have a window opening to plain air, a requirement that was met by including air shafts between adjacent buildings. Old Law Tenements are commonly called "dumbbell tenements" after the shape of the building footprint: the air shaft gives each tenement the narrow-waisted shape of a dumbbell, wide facing the street and backyard, narrowed in between to create the air corridor. They were built in great numbers to accommodate waves of immigrating Europeans from troubled nations. The side streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side are lined with dumbbell structures.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
I ask myself, how would Riis have described this 21st century gathering of amiable asiatic card players at 59 1/2 Mulberry Street?
from wikisource.org, "How the other half lives, by Jacob Riis"
Abuse is the normal condition of "the Bend," murder its everyday crop, with the tenants not always the criminals. In this block between Bayard, Park, Mulberry, and Baxter Streets, "the Bend" proper, the late Tenement House Commission counted 155 deaths of children in a specimen year (1882). Their per centage of the total mortality in the block was 68.28, while for the whole city the proportion was only 46.20. The infant mortality in any city or place as compared with the whole number of deaths is justly considered a good barometer of its general sanitary condition. Here, in this tenement, No. 59 1/2, next to Bandits' Roost, fourteen persons died that year, and eleven of them were children; in No. 61 eleven, and eight of them not yet five years old. According to the records in the Bureau of Vital Statistics only thirty-nine people lived in No. 59 1/2 in the year 1888, nine of them little children. There were five baby funerals in that house the same year. Out of the alley itself, No. 59, nine dead were carried in 1888, five in baby coffins.
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[…] Ideal source material for the textural and societal milieu of the Five Points is the admittedly biased "How the Other Half Lives" by 19th century do-gooder Jacob Riis. Speaking the truth that power wants to hear is always a sound move if one considers fiscal realities and historical reputation. Attempts were made to find the modern locale in which Riis shot some of his more famous shots, such as this visit to "Bandits Roost 2010". […]
[…] Read about his search for the site–and the long history of the Bend–here. […]
Thanks so much for doing all that investigation and sharing it. My Great-Great-Grandfather lived at 53 Mulberry Street prior to moving to Brooklyn approximately 1879. It was quite a treat to read all that material. He lived there with his wife and daughters. They were Irish emigrants from County Mayo.
[…] Act of 1848, but the majority of the dead coming to Queens were from a sausage grinder called the Five Points and the Tenth Street Ferry was how you got from points A to B for the […]
The photos of the park where you believed Bandit's Roost was located (along with the anthropologyinpractice site, which did the same thing) inspired me to take pictures of several of the Five Points site and draw sketches of the buildings in the old photos over them.
The thing that helped me the most were the old fire insurance maps, showing exactly where buildings were, and their shapes, construction material, number of floors, etc. You can see many of them here: http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/atlases-of-new-york-city#/?tab=navigation&roots=51:1a45a4a0-c5fb-012f-51df-58d385a7bc34&page=1
So I found that 59½ Mulberry was actually opposite the line between 56 and 58 Mulberry, placing it a bit south of where you have it. (i.e. it wasn't opposite 59 and 60, as one would think). It wasn't that close to the current pavilion, but rather straddled the fence between the walkway and the ballfield:
All I had to do was look behind me at those two buildings across the street, and that's how I determined it. (It was also in the rear, away from the street, and did not even have an exit directly to the street. It was like a maze of alleys back there, and the nearest exit was several lots down, in the 40's).
The actual alley (judging by the two story wooden structure on the left) was really more across from 54, so it may be even slightly left of where I have it! But that's the general area.And to answer your other question; no, the current 56 is not the one from 1888. That is actually a New Law (20th century) building, and not a "dumbbell" tenement. It has the wider rear bay (that opens out into the back yard instead of being narrow and enclosed), characteristic of the early New Law design. (The façade masonry is also more 1900-10). It is is not even there yet in the 1905 map. It was still an older 3 story building with a rear tenement, and #54, which the current building also occupies was still a wooden house. Both shared a rear court.
@Liz, 53 Mulberry was actually the building on the actual "bend", opposite 48-50. So it is visible not only in the familiar "Bend" photo, but also in the background of another common Riis photo called "Bottle Alley". (That alley was on the Baxter side, and was back to back with Mulberry and the passages leading to Bandit's Roost). That was very likely the same building, as the row it was in looked like it was from early in the century.
That side of Mulberry wasn't built up as newly as the east side, and that's why that block was so bad, and had all those alleys, in the first place.


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how much "me" time do you get to yourself on a daily basis? or possibly weekly? my "me" time is every night after dh and dd are in bed. I spend a few hours on the computer until I get tired and go to bed. I'm a sahm and so I don't get much time away from dd, which isn't a bad thing because I love what I do, but we all need a little time alone, kwim?
My husband puts the kids to put pretty much every day which gives me some silent time and then after everyone is asleep inclduing dh I stay up for a bit reading and stuff. Then I go to zumba with my friend one to two times a week for a hour so I count that as me time as well. And then a couple of my friends and I do a girl's night where we go out to dinner and hang out once or twice a month. :-) Pretty soon I'll have a newborn that I'll be taking along to the girl's nights but I'll still have my zumba! Lol!
After dh and the kids go to bed I stay up with my 6 week old or maybe 2 hours until she's ready to sleep ad I watch my tv shows or play on the conputer. Other then that I get none, but dh did just send me to get a haircut by myself and he arranged for his mom to watch the 3 older kids so that he could take me shopping. So that was really nice!


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