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Parsing Power, Part 1
Last week, I showed how you can parse a selection of text using the Parse button on the Resource palette. In that post I confessed my sins from seminary Greek and promised to show you the power of the Parsing window.
The key to accessing the power of the Parsing window is the key to accessing all kinds of hidden power throughout other parts of the program. It's a keyboard shortcut so useful that I have repeatedly asserted that it is the one keyboard shortcut every Accordance user must learn. It's command-T, which will bring up the various display options for the currently selected zone, tab, or pane. Once you've selected some text and clicked the Parse button, use command-T to bring up the following dialog:
As you can see, there are a lot of options here. You can adjust the font size, the way tags are displayed (as full words, abbreviations, or cryptic tag codes), which words are displayed, and what information you want displayed.
For example, let's say you want parsing help for every word, but you want to hide the lexical form so that you can work at recognizing each word's lemma. Simply uncheck Lexical form in the middle of the dialog, then click OK.
Or let's say you're trying to learn your vocabulary, so you decide to have the lexical form displayed but choose to hide the English gloss:
As you can see, the display options for the Parsing window let you tailor it to your specific needs. And that's just the beginning. I'll have even more to show you in a future post.
Archived Comments
what is the difference between using the parsing button and just holding the cursor over the greek word in your greek text pane. It seems to me the parsing window is an extra step???
Julie Falling
Bob - Parsing gives you something you can print out, and a window that stays readable when you move your cursor. The instant details box can't do that. I have used parsing rarely in the past, but instant details all the time. Parsing would be easier for checking my work.


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Arsene Wenger praises Theo Walcott after Arsenal beat QPR 1-0
Arsene Wenger praised Theo Walcott's growing maturity after the Arsenal winger secured a 1-0 victory over QPR.
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Walcott struck after just 20 seconds at Loftus Road, with the Premier League's fastest goal of the campaign enough to lift Arsenal up to third spot.
The England international is enjoying his best season in front of goal and Wenger outlined why Walcott has improved over the past 12 months.
"His finishing is better, in his duels he is stronger and he plays with more belief," Wenger told ESPN.
"You get to a stage where you're 24, which he is now, that's when a player becomes really more mature and you've seen that with his goalscoring record."
Arsenal are now two points ahead of Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur in the race for UEFA Champions League qualification, but have played two games more than the Blues and one more than their north London rivals.
Wenger added: "Ideally, mathematically you would like to be there without anyone catching you, but it's interesting for everyone in the Premier League.
"For a long time I said that it would be the team with the most consistency. We had a difficult away game today which we won. Now, let's win at home."
The Arsenal manager also praised the performance of Queens Park Rangers, who were playing for the first time since relegation to the Championship was confirmed last weekend.
"The three points were vital for us today and it was a very difficult game," said Wenger.
"I must say, for me, QPR is a good side. If they keep the players together they can come up straight away again."

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Vatican City, Jun 22, 2014 / 07:22 am MT (CNA).- In his Sunday Angelus today Pope Francis stressed the limitless nature of God's love that transforms the heart and life of every Christian.
"One cannot measure the love of God: it is without measure. And so we become capable of loving even those who don't love us: and this is not easy," the Pope said to the crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square on June 22.
His reflections followed Sunday's reading from the gospel of John in which Jesus proclaims himself to be the "living bread sent from heaven."
The Christian community's union with Jesus in the Eucharist, underscored Pope Francis, "obliges us, his disciples, to imitate him, making our existence with our attitudes, bread broken for others, as the Master has broken the bread that is truly his flesh."
"Jesus underlines that he has not come into the world to give something, but to give himself, his life, as nourishment for those who have faith in Him," Pope Francis explained.
Christ's gift of himself in the Eucharist is a not only a model for the Christian life, but acts to transform us interiorly, the Holy Father noted.
"Every time that we participate in Holy Mass and we are nourished by the body of Christ, the presence of Jesus and of the Holy Spirit acts in us, shaping our hearts, communicating interior attitudes to us that translate into behaviors according to the gospel."
"Thanks to Jesus and to his Spirit, even our life becomes 'broken bread' for our brothers," he said.
Pope Francis acknowledged that Christian attitudes and actions can be difficult to practice. "To love someone who doesn't love us… It's not easy! Because if we know that a person doesn't wish us well, then we also carry ill-will."
Nevertheless, "we must love even someone who doesn't love us! Opposing evil with good, with pardon, with sharing, with welcome."
Christians gain a type of "maturity" in following Christ by receiving the Eucharist, including "docility to the word of God, then fraternity amongst ourselves, the courage of Christian witness, the creativity of charity, the capacity to give hope to the disheartened, to welcome the excluded."
Just as Jesus' life was a total gift of himself, so too, his followers are called to make their lives a gift for others.
"Our life, with the love of Jesus received in the Eucharist, is made a gift - as was the life of Jesus," he explained. This self-offering brings "true joy" in "reciprocating the great gift that we have first received, without our own merit."
The Pontiff reflected that Jesus "was made flesh thanks to the faith of most holy Mary," who not only gave birth to him, but "followed him faithfully unto the cross and at the resurrection."
"Let us ask the Madonna to help us rediscover the beauty of the Eucharist, to make it the center of our lives, especially in Sunday mass and in adoration," he said, leading the crowds in the Angelus prayer.
Following the prayer, Pope Francis noted that June 26 is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. "In this circumstance I reiterate the firm condemnation of every form of torture and I invite Christians to oblige themselves to work together for its abolition and to support victims and their families."
"Torturing people is a mortal sin!" he exclaimed. "It is a very serious sin!"
The Pope closed his Angelus remarks by greeting the pilgrim groups who had traveled to the Vatican, and wishing everyone a "good Sunday and a good lunch."
"Pray for me!" he added.
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Obtain 12 Sewer Caps. Deliver the fungus to Eunice Burch in Undercity.
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Such mewling little cretins. Delicious delights abound!
Gather some of the rank, slimy Sewer Caps growing in Undercity's northwest sewer line and return them to me.
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Funny feelings this morning...
I knew a few months ago I would not be able to go to the rally and I was fine with the decision. I've taken on a part time gig with Yamaha and I'm working in Carlisle this week.
I didn't think I'd miss what I call the "Quickening", the feeling I get as I ride to the rally and start to see more beemers.
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As London 2012 closes, Olympic addicts are already getting excited about the 2014 Sochi Winter Games in Russia.
A surprise winner back in 2007, the tourist resort area on the southwest coast of the Black Sea near Russia's border with Georgia won the bid to host the games following intensive campaigning from noted sports fan and Russian President, Vladimir Putin. Sochi beat out Peyongchang in South Korea which, at the time, was considered to be the favorite choice for host city.
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To reiterate, I don't think we should be putting ANBU inside of the Rank property. Not from a "ANBU is an organization" perspective, but from a organization perspective, ShounenSuki already noted the databooks consider ANBU a rank, but a rank outside of the normal ranks (Though I'd like to see the actual statement, could it have actually said that ANBU is a rank within ANBU, rather than a Ninja Rank in general?)
From a good semantic organization perspective considering ANBU a rank just doesn't work out. Someone can be ANBU, but they don't have to have attained Jonin, theoretically someone could be ANBU and later become Kage, someone can also be Jonin or Kage and never have been ANBU. Thus ANBU doesn't fit within a normal hierarchy. The purpose of Rank was to define the hierarchical rank, the reason why we never listed "Genin, Chunin, Jonin" and instead just listed "Jonin" was because Jonin implied Chunin which implied Genin which also implied Academy Student. It was a hierarchy, even if you technically skipped Chunin and jumped to Jonin you could still say that person had reached Chunin rank even though they really just skipped it and went to Jonin. That doesn't work with ANBU, and as a result we get characters like Kakashi who were once ANBU but we list Jonin, and some characters where we list ANBU but never state what actual rank they once had if we knew it.
I'm thinking of redefining Rank and Classification:
- Rank will be for the highest hierarchical rank that someone has attained as given by a village; Academy Student, Genin, Chunin, Tokubetsu Jonin, Jonin, Kage.
- Classification will be for other specialty classifications like titles and memberships in ANBU; Sannin, S-Rank (s-rank criminals), ANBU, ANBU Captain, Per village Kage title (Hokage, ...)
- ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Jun 10, 2009 @ 17:01 (UTC)
- It will avoid a bit of confusion and reverting, but I dont think ANBU fits into classification, as it is technically still a rank...I think for anbu something like Other Rank or something along those lines better suit it...And i think Hokage should also go under Rank..its better suited to Rank than it is to Classification.....Other than that, this seems like the right way to go..AlienGamer | Talk 17:40, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
- If I remember correctly, there was a debate months to a year ago about if Kakashi's classification or something was ANBU, and ShounenSuki showed up with databook knowledge that it was a rank and not a classification. I can't remember for sure, but ask yourself this: Why would I have a false memory of ShounenSuki giving us information? Exactly.--TheUltimate3 (talk) 20:30, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
- Yep....Its in Kakashi's talk page..Talk:Kakashi Hatake/Archive 1#Ninja Rank..AlienGamer | Talk 20:34, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Ya. It's written there. It has to be a rank. As it could be seen that it is only for exetremly powerful ninja's. Also in many sites they have said ANBU is a rank. So it is most likely a rank. Cooltamerboy (talk) 11:58, 12 June 2009 (UTC).
- That's not what's been debated, ShounenSuki already said ANBU is a rank separate from the normal rank hierarchy. What is being discussed is the organization because Rank is supposed to be hierarchical, and because we are including ANBU within rank it's destroying the ability to properly search for characters as some people who were once ANBU aren't listed as ANBU, and some who were ANBU cannot be found by the hierarchical rank they had once. Classification is a catch all term, the actual definition of classification is "one of the groups or classes into which things may be or have been classified." frankly classification could be any sort of group or rank. When setting up the semantic stuff I used classification to refer to any sort of category something could be put into that didn't fit as something else. Like the Jutsu classification which tags Nin/Tai/Gen jutsu, but also tags things that don't fit there such as Kinjutsu, Life transfer techniques, and so on. But I don't think Hokage is something we want in the hierarchical rank, Kage is the rank, Hokage is a title for someone who has become a Kage rank ninja in Konoha, it's closer to something like Sannin. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Jun 13, 2009 @ 02:59 (UTC)
- Wouldn't it be less confusing to simply state both ranks in someone's Rank property if they were both an ANBU and a regular shinobi? If you put ANBU under classification, it would seem as if ANBU wasn't a rank and would actually leave certain people (like Zabuza, Yamato, and Sai) without a rank. --ShounenSuki (talk | contribs) 11:58, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Why don't we just put the rank like Jonin, Chunin, Genin. Then we can put in parenthesis next to it like ANBU ,Sannin, S-Class or other things? Cooltamerboy (talk) 12:53, 13 June 2009 (UTC).
- Sannin and S class arn't ranks...I think Shounsuki hasthe right idea...Say for Kakashi, we put His rank as Jounin, as thats what he is in the current story line, and Under it put ANBU (Former)...AlienGamer | Talk 14:19, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Ya it's much more better and organized. Cooltamerboy (talk) 15:23, 13 June 2009 (UTC).
- Meh, ok, even though I'll have to modify the infobox to support that. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Jun 13, 2009 @ 18:54 (UTC)
I'm not sure what the source is, but if you look at Classification while browsing, you'll see the quantities are off. 14 tailed beasts, 4 Sannin; something is getting doubled somewhere. ~SnapperTo 19:38, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
- Its the subcategories double linking messing it up, i fixed the tailed beast part categories, gonna look how to fix sannin. 220.127.116.11 (talk) 20:01, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Speaking of subcategories I'd love to get rid of those. The Animals category could be handled using the Species annotation, and I suppose we could add another annotation for Villans. I'm going to kill the teams category since it doesn't belong as a subcategory. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Jun 13, 2009 @ 20:56 (UTC)
- Why not make teams a subcategory of Category:Villages. Also how do you want to go about changing category villans to another annotation? 220.127.116.11 (talk) 21:01, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
- I'll probably send a bot to fix the villans tags. For teams I think we'll stick with Teams as it's own category. Special:BrowseData/Teams looks nice. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Jun 13, 2009 @ 21:20 (UTC)
- Yah but, now while in the browsing .. thingy .. ninja clans is appearing with 0 and clans has all the clans in it? 126.96.36.199 (talk) 21:21, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
- That's because that box lists all categories which are not a subcategory of another category. Because the Ninja clans category was turned into a redirect it was not a subcategory of anything and ended up listed there, I swapped it for a category redirect template which subcategorizes it under Category:Category redirects which will fix that issue. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Jun 13, 2009 @ 21:27 (UTC)
- Yah but, now while in the browsing .. thingy .. ninja clans is appearing with 0 and clans has all the clans in it? 18.104.22.168 (talk) 21:21, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
- I'll probably send a bot to fix the villans tags. For teams I think we'll stick with Teams as it's own category. Special:BrowseData/Teams looks nice. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Jun 13, 2009 @ 21:20 (UTC)
Why don't we just put in the infobox a Classification section and a Rank Section. Also if some characters use to have old ranks or classifications then we can put Former Classification and Former Rank. That way is much more organized. Cooltamerboy (talk) 08:47, 14 June 2009 (UTC).
- No formers. They exist in the old infoboxes, however I plan to drop "former" in the new ones. Former does not fit in with a wiki that is supposed to be documenting a series completely independent from any timepoint in the series, it's basically the same as using "current" in articles. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Jun 14, 2009 @ 10:25 (UTC)
Ok, but their has to be a Rank and Classification sections in the infobox. Cooltamerboy (talk) 12:23, 15 June 2009 (UTC).
- Section? Row? ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Jun 15, 2009 @ 20:02 (UTC)
I mean that their has to be these two names in every infobox. Cooltamerboy (talk) 08:10, 16 June 2009 (UTC).
- We already have both a Rank and a Classification row inside the infobox. Noone suggested removing either. The organization was just thinking about moving non-hierarchical ranks like ANBU and Hokage into Classification and leaving Rank for Academy Student-Kage ranks. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Jun 16, 2009 @ 19:29 (UTC)
No they are ranks. An example for itachi is that he was a chunin, but at the same time he was an ANBU. Also everyone started using his ANBU as a rank, but not chunin. While for Hokage. Each of the Great Villages has his own kage, but they wanted it to be slighty different. They add some things at the begining to make it only their villages rank. So I say they are both ranks. Cooltamerboy (talk) 10:23, 17 June 2009 (UTC).
- Cooltamerboy, there is nothing that suggests Itachi was both an ANBU and a chūnin at the same time. It's very well possible, most likely even, that Itachi was promoted to ANBU, losing his chūnin rank as he would if promoted to jōnin. All ANBU members we know have had ANBU given as their rank in the databook. --ShounenSuki (talk | contribs) 18:08, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
The ANBU rank issue.
I take martial art classes consisting of Shou' Shu', Chin Na and other arts, and in our system we rank by belt color. The belt color system is more commonly seen in Japanese martial arts rather then Chinese, but beyond that point, in our system we have a sort of "Side Rank". Our normal ranking goes as listed:
Low Orange
High Orange
Low Purple
High Purple
Low Blue
High Blue
Low Green
High Green
Low Brown
High Brown
Black Prep
Then the 7 animal degrees that follow.
In this system we also have another rank, which is Red. Although my usual rank is Low Green, because I have a red belt, it shows that I outrank anything below Brown. You must receive special training to obtain a red belt as it is showing your authority as an assistant instructor (or Red Belt). So although any High Green Belts would normally outrank me, because I have my Red, it shows I am of higher authority. I believe that the ANBU Rank works somehow similar to the Red Belt rank as a "Side Rank". Since becoming an ANBU member is not mandatory, and yet it still shows a higher authority then a Chunin or Special Jonin might have (depending on the situation of course) I think that an ANBU members rank works just the same. This is simply my opinion of course after noticing something about ANBU rank issue's when opening up Narutopedia (which by the way I am very fond of) so if you have any complaints or comments for me, please direct them to this following e-mail and I will do what I can to answer them with this computer (my computer does not work well... at all).
I'd also like to thank all those who are responsible for Narutopedia's existence, keep up the good work!
Kinda like a less extreme version of emergency powers of a head of state? TomServo101 (talk) 23:06, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
I have to say i agree that anbu shouldnt count as a ninja rank because there more of a special organization the chunin and jonin can be asked to join.
[what i think and i think it makes sense with how things are in NarutoWorld]
1. normal progression of ninja (most especially with Konohagakure) = academy ninja-->genin-->chuunin-->jounin
2. in the tokubetsu jounin case = academy ninja-->genin-->chuunin-->'choose to become or chosen to be an administrative officer (e.g.academy teacher, intelligence officer, medic ninja etc.)'Italic text-->recognized by the council and promoted-->tokubetsu jounin
3. in the ANBU case = any ninja deemed worthy can be an ANBU operative


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Before florescent lights flicker on inside stores and escalators start their continuous rotation, doors at Westfield Eastridge mall open to a fitness-minded bunch.
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They lace up their sneakers and walk the mall corridors to keep in shape.
Martha Parks moved to Gastonia more than 60 years ago. And when the spry 90-year-old woman saw construction along New Hope Road nearly 40 years ago, Parks found a new daily activity.
Parks started walking around the outside of the mall back in the late 1970s. She liked the exercise and the closeness to her home.
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The hospital�s cardiac department started a program, Walk with a Doc.
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Walkers trickle in throughout the morning. Parks is strict about her 8 a.m. arrival. She�s gone before stores open at 10 a.m. Her timing isn�t coincidental.
�That�s when the big crowd comes in, and we�re usually at home by then,� Parks said.
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On a damp Thursday night in July, a half-dozen men gather on the steps of San Francisco's Yerba Buena Gardens, just across from St. Patrick Church on Mission Street. They dress down, mostly wearing the jeans and t-shirts uniform of Bay Area programmers. As the sun sets, they're trading currency in the fog, selling silver and cash for Bitcoins and other crypto-currencies. Every now and then a new trader wanders by, asking, "Buttonwood?"
Welcome to the quickest, most private way to buy the internet's most successful digital currency: in-person and face-to-face.
Buttonwood meetups started in New York a few months ago and fanned out to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Buttonwood is an allusion to the May 17, 1792 agreement, struck under a buttonwood tree at 68 Wall Street, that set down the rules for what became the New York Stock Exchange. The Yerba Buena Bitcoiners see themselves as the modern descendants of these 18th century traders. Like them, they conduct their business in the open and face-to-face.
They also think they're onto something big. They're Bitcoin's true believers, and they're excited to be in on the ground floor. "It's like a new country formed, and they need everything," says John Light, the Bitcoin entrepreneur who organized the San Francisco Buttonwood meetup.
He packed up and moved to the Bay Area from the Washington suburb of Springfield, Virginia, in January, hoping to cash in on the Bitcoin excitement. For him, the event is a return to Bitcoin's roots. "For me it was really about decentralizing the exchange process and giving people an easy way to buy and sell Bitcoins."
A few minutes after I arrive, Zach Copley is looking for a buyer for his two American Eagle silver coins, worth about $27 each on eBay. Everyone is chatting and compulsively checking market updates on their mobile phones. Copley, a bearded 44-year-old "crypto currency enthusiast" with an orange shirt depicting a bomber dropping Bitcoins, asks Light if he'll take them for $56. Light thinks they're worth only $44. After some haggling, Light types Copley's Bitcoin address into his mobile phone and transfers just over half a Bitcoin ($50) to Copley's digital wallet.
These aren't big value transactions, but the Buttonwood crew aren't big-time traders. They're the enthusiasts and the curious, dipping their toes in the world of crypto currencies. They want to meet other like-minded people and trade. Copley tells me he'd rather do everything online, but he's had his online payments reversed by the banks. Meeting face-to-face and leaving with cash (or Bitcoins) in hand is safer. "The easiest and most profitable are the online [trades], however, they're also the most risky," he says.
It's a little unexpected: The world's pre-eminent digital currency is most safely traded face-to-face. But the Bitcoin phenomenon is itself unexpected. Bitcoins were conceived in 2009, in the warm ashes of the world financial meltdown. But they were proposed in a white paper and caught on without the backing of any central authority. In fact, the currency was a reaction against the too-big-to-fail banks that had inflated, and then abruptly paralyzed, the world's economy.
A mathematical genius (some say it had to have been a group of people) under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto first proposed the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network as a way of conducting online transactions without relying on financial institutions and all of their baggage – defaults, clawed-back transactions, service charges, their lack of privacy. "Merchants must be wary of their customers, hassling them for more information than they would otherwise need," Nakamoto wrote in the academic paper explaining how his homemade currency would work, "but no mechanism exists to make payments over a communications channel without a trusted party."
Bitcoin is that mechanism. And four years later, it does what Nakamoto envisioned. The peer-to-peer network that keeps track of the "Blockchain," a running ledger of Bitcoin transactions, is massive. There are over 11.4 million Bitcoins in circulation. They're worth about $90 each, putting the value of the Bitcoin economy at more than $1 billion. But there's a catch. How do people first acquire Bitcoins? How do they sell them for U.S. dollars? "There's a lot of anxiety and angst around the actual buying of Bitcoins," says Light. To use the Mt. Gox exchange, for example, you have to submit photo ID and proof of residency before you can create an account. Processing new accounts can take weeks. Once your account is online, it still takes days to move money in and out of the account. Last month, Mt. Gox temporarily suspended money transfers to U.S. bank accounts. "Those waits can cause anxiety when there are delays or when the companies simply stop doing withdrawals or deposits for a period of time," Light says.
It's traditionally been tough to quickly buy Bitcoins with U.S. dollars, and recently it's become tougher. Regulators at the federal and state level have made it clear that anyone engaged in the business of swapping Bitcoins for cash needs to know who their customers are in order to comply with anti-money laundering laws. That's led to a pretty healthy off-the-books market for Bitcoin traders. Ground zero for this business is a website called Localbitcoins.com, but buyers and sellers can also hook up over Internet Relay Chat at #bitcoin-otc
Localbitcoins.com operates a bit like the Bitcoin world's eBay. It's a marketplace. The site makes its money off of advertising fees, as it brings together buyers and sellers for face-to-face deals, and also for sales over the internet. I heard about it from a Las Vegas trader named Mark Russell, who told me in May that he was using it to run his own over-the-counter business. He'd earned a reputation as a reliable Las Vegas trader who could be counted on for large Bitcoin deals. On his Localbitcoins page, Russell says that he is no longer trading Bitcoins (his business partner told me that he'd been served with a cease and desist letter and was now working on another venture – a bitcoin ATM machine called Robocoin that he hopes to launch in Canada next month) but he had been offering trades between $5,000 and $50,000, with his cut starting at 5 percent.
Most of the San Francisco Bay Area traders on Localbitcoins.com won't trade for less than $200, and when I try out the service, the handful of small-scale sellers I do find are hard to reach. One eventually gets back to me and agrees to meet at a trendy Mission District coffee house on 24th street called Haus. Over tea and a latte, he pulls out his MacBook and I wait as his Bitcoin client syncs up with the network. I explain that I'm writing a story and he's OK with selling me Bitcoins, but he doesn't want me to use his name in this story. He doesn't need the attention, he says. He's unloading Bitcoins because people have been paying him in Bitcoins for software he wrote, and selling face-to-face is the only way to keep things off the books. Like John Light, he runs the full Bitcoin peer-to-peer client on his laptop, but the sheer volume of Bitcoin transactions this days are making this unworkable. He'd been out of town for a few weeks beforehand, and his client was un-synched. It took 40 minutes to catch up to the blockchain before he headed over to the cafe. And now we have to wait a few more minutes for the laptop to synch up again on the wireless network at the cafe.
Then I hand over $20 and I email him my Bitcoin address. He sends me the coins and we wait. Bitcoin transactions are booked on the peer-to-peer network every 10 minutes, so it can take awhile to confirm your deal really has gone through. There's often a minor glitch with these face-to-face transactions. Once, the smartphone software I was using cut-and-pasted my Bitcoin address as a URL, which was rejected by the Bitcoin network. A week earlier, another seller I'd met at a local Bitcoin meetup scanned a QR code on my mobile phone and tried to send the Bitcoins to that address. But it took him several tries to complete the scan and close the transaction. Neither of us knew exactly why, but I sat across from him in a crowded room of people, itching to hand over the $20 bill in my hand. It felt slightly illicit.
The slightly illicit feeling to it all is part of the baggage of being a hot new alternative digital currency. Software developer Chris Rico has been selling and buying Bitcoins at a Saint Louis Bread Company location in St. Louis's Tower Grove district for nearly a year. "I do often wonder what it looks like from the outside," he says. "We're sitting here at this table drinking our coffee, eating our baguettes or whatever, and the other person will hand me a wad of cash. We'll fiddle with our phones for a minute and then we'll walk off."
These Bitcoin deals sometimes feel illicit because they are.
This much was true one Tuesday night at the Uptown Bar in San Francisco's Mission District. As the American League wins baseball's All-Star game on television, a college student – he's asked us not to identify him – waits for his Bitcoin connection. After a few minutes, a 30-something white guy in baggy jeans and a loose hoodie comes in and orders a Tecate. Then he takes out an Android phone and puts it on his lap. The buyer takes out a envelope of cash and hands it over for counting. Ten minutes later, the Bitcoin seller is gone, and the college student says he's going to use the 14 Bitcoins he's just picked up to buy MDMA on the Silk Road.
This is his second face-to-face buy. The previous one was from a guy in his mid-60s at a local Starbucks. He used to buy and sell on a (temporarily shuttered) marketplace called Bitinstant. But a few months ago, "it started to ask for too much of my information," the student says. Given the nature of his business, he wants to buy Bitcoins without being tracked. "Localbitcoin is the last anonymous way of doing it," he says.
These are the kinds of deals that have regulators worried. But if you ask state or federal regulators whether people who are trading Bitcoins in person need to register as money lenders, it's impossible to get a definitive answer.
Do the Buttonwood traders need to register as money transmitters? "It depends," says Steve Hudak, a spokesman with the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). This is the department that sets the regulations designed to keep the crooks out of the U.S. financial situation, and it's had an uneasy relationship with Bitcoin companies. In May, Mt. Gox had a U.S. bank account shut down because the feds said it did not comply with FinCEN guidelines.
But according to Hudak, some face-to-face traders probably need to register with the federal government as money transmitters. But there's no hard and fast rule about who needs to register. The difference, he says, is how serious you are about trading cash for Bitcoins. "FinCEN is primarily concerned with those who are making a business out of exchanging Bitcoins for money," he says. "Depending on the facts or circumstances of the activity, they may need to register as a money transmitter."
At the Buyer's Best Friend Mercato in North Beach, you can try out stone ground organic chocolate, pick up a box of Vata teabags, or pick up a two-pound bag of sprouted wheat flour. If you want, you can buy a few Bitcoins, too.
I learn about this on Localbitcoins.com and decided to walk into my local Buyer's Best Friend, just a few blocks from my home. It's my first time in Buyer's Best Friend. Tourists looking for an early lunch walk in the sun along Columbus Avenue, mingling with locals running errands. I step inside the tiny shop and have no idea what to do. There are packages everywhere, and yet I don't recognize a single brand. That's the store's specialty: High quality niche groceries. I walk to the cashier.
"I heard that you guys sell Bitcoins. Can I get some here?"
She says yes, but has no idea how to sell them. Can I wait, she asks. She calls the company's founder, an ex-Googler named Adam Sah who explains things to me on the telephone. I hand the clerk a $20 bill. She hands me a sharpie. I write my email address on a paper towel. The clerk tells me I'm her first-ever Bitcoin buyer. She's a photographer, but she only does film photography, she says. "Digital doesn't really exist," she tells me.
A few minutes after I leave the store, Sah sends me a sixth of a Bitcoin using an online service called Coinbase.
Later, we meet up face-to-face and Sah tells me that he's smoothed out his system. No more paper towels. And he says that technically, my Bitcoin buy was a violation of company policy. Buyer's Best Friend will give you Bitcoins back for cash, much like you can get cash back from a credit card, but you are supposed to purchase something first.
For Sah, the Bitcoin trading is not a line of business; it's way to get customers in the door. "Right now it's all experimental," he says. "For me it's all about attracting new customers." With some word of mouth buzz, and a listing on Localbitcoins.com, Buyer's Best Friend does about two to three Bitcoins worth of sales each day.
By the time I hit the Buttonwood meetup, a few weeks after Buyer's Best Friend, I've done three separate Bitcoin buys. So when I meet John Light, I decide it's time to sell. But by now, I don't want cash, I want to get ahead on the next big crypto-currency trend. "Got any Litecoin?" I ask him. He does, but I don't yet have a Litecoin wallet. And neither of us can figure out how to set one up on my iPhone. So I do something I'd probably never do over the internet. I trust him and send him the Bitcoins. Light says he'll send me six-and-two-thirds Litecoins just as soon as I set up my wallet.
Three days later, I install the full Litecoin client on my PC and send him my address. It takes a few hours for the peer-to-peer software to download the entire history of the Litecoin blockchain and synch up with the network. But for the first time, I'm not trusting a third party like Coinbase to hold onto my wallet. Third parties can go out of business or get hacked, but with the wallet saved on my desktop, everything's up to me. As long as I don't get a keylogger- or a Litecoin-stealing Trojan on my computer, my virtual currency is secure.
Of course, I am trusting John Light not to take the Bitcoins I've given him and run.
A few hours later, the Litecoins come through. Untouched by any bank or exchange, they're delivered via the peer-to-peer network. And though trading an obscure crypto currency may sound very modern, the whole transaction has a decidedly old-fashioned and human flavor to it. Yes, I can almost feel the shade of the Buttonwood tree.**
With additional reporting by Kif Leswing


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By Kristen Powers
She is clearly a trailblazer for women, throwing her hat into the highest ring in politics. But while Michele Bachmann became the first female presidential candidate of the 2012 campaign this week, she does not, interestingly enough, view herself as a feminist.
Unlike Sarah Palin, who has brandished the feminist moniker and spoken of an "emerging conservative feminist identity," Bachmann told me in an interview Tuesday that she wouldn't call herself a feminist—instead, she simply described herself as "pro-woman and pro-man." When I pressed her on the matter, the Minnesota congresswoman said she sees herself as an "empowered American."
Bachmann seemed loath to engage in the kind of girl-power rhetoric utilized by Palin and Hillary Clinton, who both invoked the perennial—and so far unbreakable—presidential glass ceiling.
Said Bachmann: "I'm a woman comfortable in her own skin. I grew up with three brothers. My parents didn't see us [as] limited [by gender]. I would mow the lawn and take out the trash; I was making my own fishing lures. I went along with everything the boys did."
Bachmann is still doing everything the boys do, but as a female candidate she endures indignities that are foreign to your average male pol. Yet she takes it all in stride.
In a joint interview with Bachmann last year, then-Sen. Arlen Specter lectured her to "act like a [lady]" when she strenuously disagreed with him on a point. A recent Rolling Stone diatribe by Matt Taibbi called her "completely batshit crazy" with a "retro-Stepford image." MSNBC's Chris Matthews has accused her of being "hypnotized" on the air and has referred to the three-term House member and former tax attorney as a "balloon head."
And over the weekend, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace asked Bachmann if she was a "flake." She was not pleased. "It seemed very insulting," she told me. "But he did give me a call and he did offer me an apology." (Wallace also posted a video apologizing and explaining why he asked the question.)
As for Matthews, she has received no apologies, but she is unfazed. Unlike Palin, who frequently decries the "lamestream media," Bachmann doesn't attack the attackers. "The media is what the media is," she says. "It's part of the territory. A person has to accept that there are difficult questions and unfair questions and it is a part of this process and it is what it is."
While Bachmann was dismissed by much of the punditocracy before turning in a top-notch performance in the CNN debate this month and snagging a second-place spot in a recent Iowa poll, there is no clear explanation for why she has been overlooked or underestimated—at least, not if you've spent any time with her.
True, the media have a field day playing up her every misstep—most recently her assertion that the Founding Fathers "worked tirelessly" to end slavery—but we should know by now what that is about. (Hint: She's a woman with presidential aspirations.) If Joe Biden's gaffes had received half the attention of Bachmann's, nobody would take him seriously, either.
In person, Bachmann seems eerily disconnected from the TV caricature. She is bright, quick, charming, and thoughtful. She will civilly and gamely debate any issue.
In a time when people are so tired of the shenanigans of the political parties, Bachmann calls herself "post-partisan." She blames both parties for the mess the country is in. She identifies with the Republican Party as a conservative, but she isn't going to carry water for its members or make excuses for their reckless spending.
When the Iowa native speaks of her childhood, which involved hardship, she is devoid of self-pity. After her parents divorced when she was 13, her family had little money, and she used babysitting proceeds to buy her own clothes. She told me that she was thankful that her family didn't have money and she had to work her way through college because it taught her the importance of hard work and the value of the dollar.
In a conversation last year, she marveled to me that Democrats were bragging that their health-care plan allows parents to keep their kids on their health-care plans until age 26. "Why would any parent want their kid on their health-care plan when they are 26?" she asked. "Parents want their kids to grow up and take care of themselves. A 26-year-old is an adult."
Bold words in today's culture of eternal adolescence.
In late 2010, when conservative pundit S.E. Cupp told CNN's Larry King that she thought Bachmann should run for president, the panel erupted in giggles. King was puzzled: "Are you kidding or do you mean that?"
Nobody should be laughing now.
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Lifts were the main way of moving between the levels in the headquarters of the Ministry of Magic. They were a fast mode of transportation to move people or goods between floors or levels of the building. They were located at the far end of the Atrium hall, on Level 8 of the Ministry, behind a pair of golden gates. Behind these gates was a smaller hall with at least twenty lifts standing behind wrought golden grilles. When the lift reached a floor, a voice announced the department residing on that level and its subdivisions.
Prior to Lord Voldemort's take-over of the Ministry, there was an attendant within each lift from Magical Maintenance, to ensure everything went smoothly. In addition to people, interdepartmental memos entered the lift to relay messages between people from different letters. They were in the form of pale violet-coloured paper aeroplanes; the Ministry previously used owls but the mess became too much to bear. Despite the lifts descending deeper into the ground, Magical Maintenance enchanted the windows to decide what weather they have each day. There were also gold ropes hanging from the ceiling for passengers to hang onto when the lifts go sideways, backwards, or stop violently.
Harry's usage
In the summer of 1995, Harry went to the Ministry with Arthur Weasley to be escorted to his trial before the Wizengamot for use of underage magic. He entered the Atrium, and after having his wand checked at the Security Desk he headed for the lifts. They first ascended the lifts from Level 8 to Level 7 (the voice announced Department of Magical Games and Sports, incorporating the British and Irish Quidditch League Headquarters, Official Gobstones Club, and Ludicrous Patents Office), in which Harry saw an untidy looking corridor with various posters of Quidditch teams tacked lopsidedly on the walls before the lift doors closed. They then brought him to Level 6, the Department of Magical Transport, incorporating the Floo Network Authority, Broom Regulatory Control, Portkey Office, and Apparition Test Centre. It was here that several interdepartmental memos zoomed in.
The lift then stopped at Level 5, and the voice announced that the floor was the Department of International Magical Cooperation, incorporating the International Magical Trading Standards Body, the International Magical Office of Law, and the International Confederation of Wizards, British Seats. When the doors opened, two of the memos flew out but several more came in. The lift than stopped at Level 4, the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, incorporating Beast, Being, and Spirit Divisions, Goblin Liaison Office, and the Pest Advisory Bureau. When the lift reached Level 3, the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes, incorporating the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad, Obliviator Headquarters, and Muggle-Worthy Excuse Committee, the only people in the lift were Harry, Arthur, and a witch reading a long piece of parchment. The lift then reached Level 2, Department of Magical Law Enforcement, incorporating the Improper Use of Magic Office, Auror Headquarters, and Wizengamot Administration Services, and Harry and Arthur got off the lift at this floor.
1997During Harry's infiltration of the Ministry, he, Ron, and Hermione used the lifts to get from the Atrium to Umbridge's office on Level 1, Yaxley's office on Level 2, and the Courtrooms of the Muggle-Born Registration Commission.
Behind the scenes
- The Ministry of Magic lift voice was provided by Daisy Haggard.
- To readers of the American editions, a lift is more commonly referred to as an elevator.
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Chinese portal Sohu says profit down, revenue up
Sohu.com Inc., which operates a popular Chinese Internet portal, said Monday its quarterly profit fell 9 percent as rising expenses offset strong revenue growth for online games.
The company earned $23 million, or 60 U.S. cents per share, in the three months ending Dec. 31. Revenue rose 22 percent from a year earlier to a record $229 million, driven by a 29 percent rise in online game revenue to $158.9 million.
Beijing-based Sohu operates online media, search, gaming and community services.
Chinese Internet companies have seen revenues improve as the country's economic growth rebounds from a three-year low last year but face high costs for technology development and bandwidth.
For the full year, Sohu's profit fell 49 percent from 2011 to $78 million, or $2.03 per share. Revenues rose 25 percent to just over $1 billion.
"Despite the slowdown in China's economic growth, I'm pleased that the Sohu Group's total annual revenues rose 25 percent year-on-year and surpassed the $1 billion mark for the first time in our history," said chairman Charles Zhang in a statement.
Expenses rose 12 percent to $141.5 million driven by higher costs for staff and marketing.
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Philadelphia Phillies – Awards: Earned Run Average.
During the Phillies' 127-year existence as a member of the National League, that had lead the league in ERA only four times, being done by just three men.
The first Phil to lead the lead in ERA was Dan Casey, who led the NL in 1887 with an ERA of 2.86. The second Phil to have the lowest ERA was Hall of Fame Grover Cleveland Alexander who did so during his pitching triple crown seasons of 1915 (1.22), when he help lead the Phils to their first NL pennant, and 1916 (1.55). The third, and at the moment, last Phil to lead the NL in ERA was Hall of Famer Steve Carlton, who did it during his pitching triple crown year of 1972 with an ERA of 1.97.
Of the three Phils to lead the National League, two of them (Alexander and Carlton) are in the Hall of Fame. Of the four time that a Phil led the league, it was done once in the 19th Century and three times in the 20th Century. Grover Cleveland Alexander had the lowest ERA, with his 1.22 in 1915, while Dan Casey had the highest with his 2.86 in 1887.
Who is the most likely Phil who is most likely to next lead the NL in ERA? More than likely it would be Roy Halladay, although Cliff Lee is also likely to do it.
Philadelphia Phillies – Year 5: Finishing in 2nd place for the first time.
In 1887, in the fourth year of Harry Wright's tenure as the Phillies/Quakers' managers, the team would finish in second place for the first time in the team's long existance.
The 1887 season would see some more changes within the National League. First, the Kansas City Cowboys, after finishing in seventh place in 1886, would not be offered another chance by the league. Their place would be taken up by the American Association Pittsburgh Alleghenys (now the Pirates) who had finished the 1886 AA season in second place. Meanwhile, the St. Louis Maroons would transfer their assets to Indianapolis, becoming the Indianapolis Hoosiers, leaving St. Louis once again without an entry in the NL (the city's previous representative, the St. Louis Brown Stockings, were dropped after being in the league for the 1876-1877 seasons.). The rest of the Phillies' opponents for 1887 would be the Beaneaters, the Giants, the Nationals, the Wolverines and the White Stockings. The Phillies would play their games in their new home, the Philadelphia Base Ball Grounds, later known as Baker Bowl, which was located between North Broad Street, West Huntingdon Street, North 15th Street and West Lehigh Street in North Philadelphia.
The Phillies would begin the season in late April, facing their eastern rival, the New York Giants, for three games, the first two to be played in New York, and the third in the Phillies' new home, the Philadelphia Base Ball Ground. The Phils would lose both games played in New York, by close scores of 4-3 and 7-4, before winning the first game to be played in their new park, by the score of 15-9, giving them a record of 1-2 for the month of April. They would then start May at home, facing the Beaneaters for three games. They would lose the first two games, then win the away game by the score of 12-0, ending their short home stand with a 2-2 record. The Phillies would next go on the road for three games against the Nationals, and then three more in Boston. The Phils would start the road trip with a 5-5 tie with the Nationals, before winning the next two games against them, and then winning the first game in their three-games series with the Beaneaters. They would then split the next two games with Boston, winning the series, 2-1, and ending the road trip with a 4-1-1 record. The Phillies would then start a second three-games series with the Giants, this time playing the first two games in Philadelphia and then the final one in New York. The Phils would split the series at home, before winning the final game in New York by the lopsided score of 17-2 for a 2-1 record in the series. The Phillies would then come home for a long home stand with three of the western teams, playing first four games against Detroit, then four against Chicago and finally three against Indianapolis. They would be swept by the Wolverines, then lose their first game with their western rival, the White Stockings. After ending their five-games slide by defeating Chicago, they would split the next two games with them, for a 2-2 record in their series, before winning all three games against the Hoosiers, ending the home stand with a respectable record of 5-6. The Phillies would then end the month of June by playing the Alleghenys in Pittsburgh for the first time for three games, including a doubleheader on June 30. The Phillies would split the doubleheader with their cross-state rival, winning the first game by 2-1 and then losing the 'nightcap' by a score of 6-4. They would then win the final game of their short road trip, giving them a record of 2-1, a 14-11-1 record for the month of May and an overall record of 15-13-1.
The Phillies would begin June with a short home stand against their eastern rivals, with three games against the Beaneaters, and then three more with the Giants. The Phils would lose their series with the Beaneaters, going 1-2, before tying the first game against the Giants, 6-6. They would then split the last two games with the Giants to end the series with an 1-1-1 record, and to end the short home stand with an overall record of 2-3-1. They would then go on the road to face these two teams again for two more three-games series. The road trip would end up being an 1-5 fiasco, with their only victory coming in their first game in New York, 5-4, with their worst defeat being a 29-1 shalacking by the Giants in the last game of their three-games series. The Phils would then come home for a short three-games home stand against the Nationals, which the Phillies would win 2-1. The Phillies would then go west for an eleven-games road trip against the White Stockings (3), the Hoosiers (4) and the Wolverines (4), to end June and start July. The Phillies would lose the first two games of their series with Chicago, before tying the final game at 7-7. They would then go to Indianapolos, losing the first game, and then winning the next three with the Hoosiers, including a 24-0 thumping on June 28, before going on to Detroit, where they would split the final two games of the month of June, ending the month with a record of 9-13-2 and an overall record of 24-26-3.
They would begin the month of July by losing their final two games with the Wolverines, ending the series with a record of 1-3, and the road trip with a record of 4-6-1. They would then go home for a fifteen-games home stand, to face the Alleghenys for three games, including the second doubleheader between the two teams, this one to be played on July 4, followed by three games with Chicago, three with the Hoosiers, three with Detroit and then the final three games with the Alleghenys. The Phillies would split the doubleheader with Pittsburgh, winning the first game, 9-5, then losing the 'nightcap' by 8-5. They would then win the last game of the series, to give them a series win at 2-1. Then would then get swept by the White Stockings, before going on an eight-games winning streak, sweeping first the Hoosiers and then the Wolverines and then winning the first two games of their second home series against the Alleghenys, before losing the last games in the series, by 4-3, winning the home stand as they went 10-5. The Phils would then go on a long road trip for the rest of July and the beginning of August to face the Nationals (3), the Alleghenys (3), the Wolverines (3), the White Stockings (1), the Hoosiers (2) and the White Stockings (3) again for 15 games. The Phillies would begin their long trip by losing their series with the Nationals, 1-2, before going on to Pittsburgh to win their series with the Alleghenys, 2-1, ending July with a record of 13-10 and with an overall record of 37-36-3, and poised to make a pennant run, as Harry Wright prepares to turn his best starter, Charlie Ferguson, into an everyday player, as well as his pitching ace, because of Ferguson's .300 batting average.
The Phillies would start August in Detroit, winning the first game of the series, before ending it with an 1-2 record, as they would lose the next two games. They would then win the next four games, winning their one-game series in Chicago, then sweeping the Hoosiers, before going back to Chicago and winning the first game of their three-games series with their western rival. They would then split the next two games to win the series, 2-1, and go back home with a winning record of 9-6. They would go home for a long seventeen-games home stand for the rest of August and the start of September, facing the Nationals for three, the Giants for four, the Hoosiers for three, the Wolverines for two, the Alleghenys for three and the White Stockings for two. The Phils would start their long home stand by sweeping the Nationals, and then winning the first two games of their series with the Giants before having their winning streak snapped at six games with a 10-8 lost. The next game with the Giants would end up in a 5-5 tie, ending the series with a 2-1-1 series win. The Phils would then sweep the Hoosiers, before spliting their two-games series with Detroit. They would then lost their three-games series with Pittsburgh, ending August with a 16-7-1 record and an overall record of 53-43-4.
The Phillies would start off the month of September by splitting their two-games series with the White Stockings, ending the home stand with a record of 11-5-1. They would then go on an equally long road trip for most of September, facing the Beaneaters for three games, the Nationals for three, the White Stockings for three, the Hoosiers for three, the Wolverines for two and the Alleghenys for three. On the eastern half of the trip, after losing the first game with the Beaneaters, they would win the next five games, including a three-games sweep of the Nationals. They are then swept in Chicago by the White Stockings, before beginning what would become a seventeen-games no-lost streak, as they would first sweep the Hoosiers in three straight, then the Wolverines for three and finally end the trip by sweeping the Alleghenys, ending their long road trip with a record of 13-4. They would then end the month of September with two games at home against the Nationals, which they would also sweep, giving them a record for the month of 16-5, and an overall record of 69-48-4.
They would continue the home stand in October with three games against Boston, sweeping the Beaneaters with ease. They would then end their season the same way they had started it, with a series against the Giants, this time facing them for two games in New York, a one-game series in Philadelphia and then one final game in New York. The Phillies would sweep the short two-games series in New York, tied their final home game in Philadelphia, going 5-5, and then winning their final game of the year, 6-3, ending October with a 6-0-1 record and the season with a record of 75-48-5, with a winning percentage of .610, their best record to date in their short existance. This would put them in second place, three games ahead of the third place White Stockings and six and a half games behind the 1887 National League Champions, the Detroit Wolverines (This would be the Wolverines only title.).
In 128 games played, the Phillies would have a home/road record of 38-23-3 at home and 37-25-2 on the road. The Phillies would have good records against all but three teams, with their best record being against the Hoosiers (17-1), followed by the Nationals (13-3-1), with their worst record being against their nemesis the White Stockings (6-12-1). They were 7-2 in shut outs, 17-11 in 1-run games and 37-13 in blowouts. The Phillies would play before 253,671 fans in their brand new park.
The Phillies' offense and pitching would be among the league leaders in 1887. In batting, they would end up being first in doubles (213), second in at-bats (4630), runs scored (901), hits (1269) and walks (385), fourth in batting average (.274), on-base percentage (.330), slugging percentage (.389) and stolen bases (355) and fifth in triples (89), home runs (47) and strikeouts (346), while also knocking in 702 RBIs, while being hit by the pitch 52 times. The pitchers, meanwhile, would lead the league in innings pitched (1132), shut outs (7) and runs allowed (702), be second in ERA (3.47), saves (1) and strikeouts (435), third in walks (305), fourth in hits allowed (1173) and home runs allowed (48) and sixth in complete games (119), while also finishing nine games, giving up 436 earned runs, throwing 56 wild pitches, no balks and hitting 34 batters.
Individual offensive leaders for the Phillies in 1887 would be Ed Andrews in batting (.325), hits (151) and singles (121), Jim Forgarty in on-base percentage (.376), games (126), at-bats (495), total plate appearances (587), doubles (26), walks (82) and stolen bases (102), while being tied with Sid Farrar in the number of times HBP (10), George Wood in slugging percentage (.497), runs scored (118), total bases (244), triples (19), home runs (14), strikeouts (51), and extra-base hits (55), and Charlie Ferguson in RBIs (85). Ferguson would also lead the pitching staff in winning percentage (.688), saves (1) and games finished (4), while going 22-10. Dan Casey would lead the staff in ERA (2.86), wins (28), games pitched (45), games started (also 45), complete games (43), shut outs (4), hits allowed (377), walks allowed (115), hit batters (14) and batters faced (1660), while Charlie Buffinton would lead in strikeouts (160), home runs allowed (16), losses (17), earned runs allowed (135) and wild pitches (25). On the staff, there would be three twenty games winners, as Buffinton would win 21 games, to go along with Ferguson's 22 and Casey's 28. Fogarty would also be the league leader in total plate appearances and walks among the batters, while Casey would be the league's ERA and shut outs leader, while Ferguson would be tied for the league's lead in saves among pitchers.
As the Phillies would spent the off-season preparing to hopefully win their first pennant, the Detroit Wolverines would face the American Association's pennant winner, the St. Louis Browns, in a fifteen games World Series, which would be won by the Wolverines, 10 games to 5.
Sources: Wikipedia, Baseball Almanac.com and Baseball-Reference.com


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Prosecutors say an attorney for Rick Springfield has entered a not guilty plea on the rocker's behalf in a drunken driving case.
Los Angeles County district attorney's spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons says Philip Cohen entered the plea during a hearing Tuesday in Malibu.
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Andrew Jenkins owns and operates a custom-design portrait studio located in St. Johns, Michigan. After graduating with a degree in photography, he purchased a home-based business and relocated it to a 100-year-old Victorian-style home, complete with a carriage house and a beautiful portrait park. He goes home in the evening to a wonderful wife, Emily, and three children, Alex, Gabriella and Caroline.
Very successful in state and national photographic competitions, Andrew is also a Certified Professional Photographer and holds both the Master of Photography and Photographic Craftsman degrees from PPA. He has been honored with Top Seven Photographers in Michigan many times over the past years, and he was awarded Photographer of the Year in the state of Michigan in 2005 and 2007. In addition, Andrew has received the ASP Bronze Medallion and has placed second in the Kodak Gallery Elite Awards. Many of his images have been published in PPA Loan Collection as well as Showcase books. He has also been honored as a PPA Photographer of the Year for the past seven years.
Along with his multiple awards, Andrew is very involved in the photography community. For example, he is a past president of the Michigan Triangle of Professional Photographers. He has also served on the Professional Photographers of Michigan board and has been a trustee for the Great Lakes Institute of Photography. Currently, Andrew is a PPA Councilor, serves as a national affiliated juror and is part of the Burrell Colour Imaging Mentor Program.


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