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Id L vs. Id L 15th Anniversary
Posted 08 December 2011 - 05:30 PM ( #1 )
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Posted 08 December 2011 - 05:41 PM ( #2 )
There are a lot of different characters, and a character chart can be found somewhere in this topic.
Different colors in the shells.
Different items, as seen in Ra's log.
But the downloads for both are the same. You can get them in the iD L downloads topic.
I think that's it. I really love my iD L, so I definately recommend it, but it seems like the 15th aniverssary ver. has a more nostalgic feeling, with vintage/ura characters and all.
Posted 08 December 2011 - 06:33 PM ( #3 )
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Posted 08 December 2011 - 11:32 PM ( #6 )
Welp... looks like I'm getting the ID L then, the silly puzzle and pacman game looked *yawn*
I can kind of see the appeal of the 15th anniversary's games though; they're more challenging than those built in to the iD L and one of the games actually utilizes all 3 buttons. I don't think Bandai has done that before.
Posted 09 December 2011 - 12:52 AM ( #7 )
Posted 09 December 2011 - 01:19 AM ( #8 )
Is there an english instruction guide on this forum somewhere? I was reading your log OldSchoolTama and you seem to know what each item will make what character happy, how do you know this? I guess I just want to be able to read about how to play and what the menus mean before i get one! Thanks!
Sure! There are usually translated guides for the Japanese Tamagotchis in the Reference and Tips and Tricks sections. I tend to use the Menu and Stats guide to help me out. After playing for a while, you get used to where everything is. You can find what happy items are for which character HERE.
Posted 18 December 2011 - 07:44 PM ( #10 )
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FORT WAYNE – There was no easy way to get there, once upon a time. You lit out west on U.S. 24 and hung a right at Huntington and rode that two-lane snake along the bottomland through Andrews and Lagro – try making that trip at Zero Dark a.m., fog creeping up out of the hollows just about the time your eyelids got heavy – and then it was on to Indiana 25 and more twisting two-lane.
Finally you were there.
Welcome to West Lafayette, voyager.
Ross-Ade Stadium is here. Mackey Arena is here. And, no, it turns out Fort Wayne isn't the rim of the world you think it is, twisting two-lane or no twisting two-lane.
You knew that the minute you walked into Mackey with Walter Jordan down there, and also Eugene Parker. There's Ricky Hall in a team photo, and also Greg Eifert. Here's Tony Jones and Craig Riley and Chris Kramer and Brad Miller, and a pile of others besides.
All these kids from Fort Wayne and surrounding environs, that was your concrete evidence that you could get there from here, and vice-versa. It was concrete evidence that Gene Keady and his staff knew the way to the Fort in particular and northeast Indiana in general, even the tricky parts along the Huntington/Wabash County bottomland.
It's why you'll see your share of Purdue black-and-gold hanging around the fringes during the big AAU tournaments at Spiece Fieldhouse this summer. And it's why you saw Keady's successor, Matt Painter, one night last week, signing autographs and posing for pictures with the local Boilermaker gentry at Fort Wayne Country Club.
There are, after all, two more natives of the city on his current roster – sophomore Rapheal Davis of South Side and incoming freshman Bryson Scott from Northrop – proving once again that this part of the state remains fertile ground for Purdue no matter how many times it's been gone over.
Davis, a 6-foot-5 guard, gave Painter 5.7 points and 3.9 rebounds in 18.9 minutes per game as a freshman, starting 17 games and giving Painter some big nights – 21 points on 8-of-9 shooting in the second half against Notre Dame, 16 on 5-of-6 shooting against West Virginia, 15 and nine boards against Michigan.
Scott, a 6-foot-2 guard for the Bruins who committed to Purdue when he was a sophomore, brings reinforcements to a backcourt that could sorely use it.
I think Bryson Scott's coming in at a real critical time for us, because we need somebody that can step into that backcourt and play a lot of minutes, Painter said during a break in the meet-and-greet. He's gonna have to learn that, but I think he has all the athleticism and the quickness and the work ethic ... to be able to come in and play both guard positions for us. I think he can play alongside some other guys and really give us a lot of athleticism and a lot of quickness.
One of those guys he'll play alongside, presumably, will be Davis, who struggled at times the way just about every freshman struggles, but who also made those now-familiar trips to Fort Wayne worth it for Painter and his staff.
I thought Rapheal did a very good job for us, Painter said. It's hard as a freshman to adjust. A lot of times guys get discouraged, and it affects their effort I thought he came in and kept a good attitude, kept working hard, kept battling and just found his way.
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If you don't want to feel a little queasy this AM, Mobsters, go to jail, go to directly to jail, don't pass Go, don't collect your $200. Either that, or skip the first item.
Watching Looie win and win some more has to be a sick feeling for RedsFan. It's not just that the Cardinals are better now. It's knowing that they will be better for the foreseeable future. The Reds gave them their best shot this year. It wasnt nearly enough.
If you assume Choo won't return — not absolute, but likely — and Arroyo won't either — absolute — you have to believe that on paper, the Reds won't be as competitive in '14. Meantime, Looie is loaded.
The only free agent they have that matters is C. Beltran, and he's 36. Everyone else — Molina, Holliday, Craig, Wainwright — is signed at least through 2017. The very good young guys — Matt Carpenter, Jaime Garcia, Lance Lynn — are either signed or controlled via arbitration. The seemingly endless conga line of kid pitchers throwing 95 — Miller, Rosenthal, Siegrist, Martinez — arent even arb-eligible.
The Cards seem gathered for a long stay in the big chair, in other words.
Position by position, where are the Reds better?
1B — Votto or Craig? Toss-up, this year a slight edge to Craig.
2B — Carpenter
SS – Cozart
3B — Freese or Frazier? Too close to call
LF — Holliday
CF — Jay or Hamilton? Jay
RF -- Bruce
C — Molina
So the Reds are better at 2 of 8 spots.
The Reds rotation certainly can hang with the Cardinals. The bullpen, not so much.
St. Louis is up 3-1 in the NLCS without Craig, its best run producer.They havent started T. Miller, a 22-year-old who won 15 times, in any postseason game. The only important players with any age on them are Beltran, Holliday (33 at the start of this season), Wainwright (31) and Molina (30).
The young arms are scary: Miller, Wacha (21), Rosenthal (23), Martinez (22). Siegrist (23).
Who knows if all these guys will maintain. I'm a sports hack, not a soothsayer. Based on what we see now, this is a team that is better than the Reds, and shows no signs of slippage.
Forever, St. Louis has been the measuring stick for Cincinnati, same as the Steelers have been for the Bengals, and Ville has been for UC. So how do the Reds catch the Cardinals?
Career years from a couple people. Chapman starting. Smart at-bats (though not to the Votto extreme). Luck. A team approach to getting runs home, the same sort Looie has. Better concentration with two outs and RISP. Dusty was absolutely correct about that.
If Bailey isnt dealt, he needs a breakthrough year. Otherwise, he's a .500 pitcher with 2 no-hitters. Cueto has to strengthen his core. I dont care how many stadium steps he runs. Votto has to be better. You decide how to define that. One thing upon which we all can agree: He can't lead the league in errors by a 1B again.
Hamilton has to hit the ball on the ground.
Whoever the manager is has to hold everyone accountable, all the time. If DDBP has another outburst, he needs to sit a game. I dont know what happened to what had been good clubhouse chemistry in 2012, only that it went south in 2013. The manager has to set a standard and enforce it.
And it still might not be enough. The Cardinals are that stocked. There isnt a name for our condition here. Freud would call it Looie Envy.
Now, then. . .
* BEYOND THE STRIPES gets better and better. I dont say that to pimp a show I'm on, or because some corporate/ad/marketing type in a three-piecer asked me to. I say it because it's so. TV stuff is all about comfort and chemistry. After six shows, we're getting there. The star, Paul Dehner Jr., is confident and proficient. The expert, Grumpy Joe, is filled with numbers and insight. The roving reporter Lindsay is nimble and game. Last night our guest, Bengals safety and yoga-meister G. Iloka had the poor woman pretzel-ed, on camera, attempting a deliberately difficult pose, or position, or whatever yoga-philes call it. Better her than me. Er, she than I.
Marvin Jones, singing star, makes a return visit next Tuesday. Be there or have Andre Smith sit on your head.
* SPEAKING OF THE MEN. . . We take a break from the Daily Dalton Dissection, to offer this ponder-ance:
The Lions offense is really good.
Two tight ends who can catch, two running backs who can catch, one Megatron. M. Stafford, finding them all. Zim's boys will earn their money Sunday.
The Lions have 2 dynamic players on O, Mega and Reggie Bush. Stafford seems to be coming into his own. Their defense is lousy, though, so maybe we'll see if A. Dalton can win a shootout.
What I want to see is if the Bengals have enough firepower to rally from, say, 10 down with 10 minutes to play. That would limit the ongoing perfection of the horizontal passing game.
Detroit is 2-0 at home, including a 40-22 thrashing of the Bears. They're sort of the NFC's version of The Men, history and all. Matt Millen = Mike Brown.
We posed this question on Stripes last night: Stafford or Dalton, right now?
Grumpy Joe said Stafford. Dehner argued Dalton. I was judge and jury. I requested a continuance. QBs get too much credit/blame. As important as they are, they still rely on those around them. Ask Dalton, whose solid gold numbers Sunday in Buffalo owed to the kindness of others.
I said I'd render my verdict next Tuesday, after the game. Easy, yes. But prudent and fair.
What say you?
* ANDY, RE-MEET SUH. Remember Dalton's first pro appearance? Against the Lions. Absolute disaster. Suh clocked him, cheaply. Imagine that. And now the league is looking at a hit Suh put on B. Weeden last week. The guy is a very good player. Also, a menace.
* ONLY IN THE NFL would we ask this question, that I asked George Iloka last night:
"For a player playing today, right now, would you rather take a shot to the head, or to the knee?"
A head blow might mean a concussion and one game missed. A knee-whack could mean a career.
The Green Bay Packers believe receiver Randall Cobb will play again this season, but it won't be for at least eight more weeks.
The Packers on Tuesday placed Cobb on the injured reserve/designated for return list. The team's leading receiver left Sunday's 19-17 win against the Baltimore Ravens with a leg injury that ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen confirmed was a fractured fibula.
The hit on Cobb was perfectly legal. Do you think he'd rather have taken one to the head?
Of course he would have.
Players live for today. They get paid today. They need to be as healthy as possible, today. I suggested to Iloka that maybe the NFL should punish players for hits below the waist, and make head-whacks OK. I was joking. I think.
* LENNY WIRTZ HAS DIED. You might not recall Lenny. I do. He's from here. He was an outstanding college basketball ref, and a guy who never took his job or himself too seriously. As a cub reporter in Norfolk, Va., between 1982 and 1985, I covered ACC basketball, the U. Of Virginia specifically. Lenny was an ACC ref at the time. His relationships with all the league's coaches was great, most especially with Lefty Driesell and Dean Smith. Driesell, then at Maryland, loved Lenny. Smith respected him deeply.
Those were incredibly great days to follow the ACC. They were, essentially, the Jordan Years. But also the age of Jim Valvano looking for someone to hug, Ralph Sampson, James Worthy, Sam Perkins, the dawn of the Coach K Dynasty and, tragically, the death of Len Bias. Billy Packer wasnt a hot shot know-it-all at CBS. He was a TV analyst for something called, I believe, Castleman D. Chesley, which produced the ACC telecasts.
I'll ask The Famer. He would know, Carolina Man that he is.
We always think sports were Better Back Then, especially if we were in the thick of things. The years I spent covering ACC hoops were the most fun of my career. Before TV saturation and mercenary, job-chasing coaches made it all bigger and somehow less important.
I had a solo interview with Jordan one day, at the old Carmichael Auditorium. He was a sophomore, known as Mike. He was 15 minutes late. He apologized. He called me Sir. "I'm sorry I'm late, Sir."
Well, OK Mike. Don't let it happen again.
* WHICH PROMPTS TODAY'S ESSENTIAL QUESTION, in memory of Lenny Wirtz:
Did you have your own golden age of sports? When everything was right?
I think today went swimmingly. You?
* TUNE O THE DAY. Continuing my week-long run of the vastly underrated Junior Walker, a remake of a Supremes hit, sauced up in a way only Junior could sauce it. Grab someone you like a lot and find yourselves a room. Shimmy and shake around it
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Webcomic Wednesday: Gut Feelings (excerpt) by Leah Wishnia
Bloody, savage, vulgar, and extremely intelligent, this one-page preview of a short story from cartoonist Leah Wishnia's forthcoming collection Gut Feelings deploys a powerful array of weapons in its quest to convey both physical and emotional violence — it's just that some of them are silencer-equipped. Wishnia's fierce, insistent line; the goggle-eyed madness of her character designs; the coarse and direct language and the artfully artless lettering with which it's delivered; the sanguinary act at the sequence's center — these are all readily apparent. Tougher to discern on the surface but no less crucial to the comic's impact are Wishnia's intrapanel layouts, heavy on dramatic diagonals that force the eye to dart across the page like a lightning bolt, like a knife fight. In the top panel, the attacker's arms and legs, her knife, the nearby step, and the orientation of her looming head to her victim's smaller one slash the panel from the upper right to the lower left. In the middle tier, the arm, the knife wound, and (most vitally) the gutter dividing the two panels at the page's dead center angle back in the opposite direction. The climactic bottom panel is a discordant synthesis in which legs angle outward, arms are thrown inward, the look of terror on the victim's face is offset by the prominence of the attacker's grasping limbs, and the vaginal stomach wound and incongruously old "baby" form a V shape at the center of it all. Wishnia's playing each panel like a drummer building a rhythm, and the rays radiating out from behind the victim in that final panel are the cymbal crash. The tale she's telling is a tale of terror, but it's a tale that lies in the telling just like any other.


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YO…this was by far one of the craziest rap battles I've ever seen in the sense that it actually has me reflecting on it afterwards. First, I'll save y'all a ton of time — just skip to about 35:10 (yes, it's that long of a battle). To get you caught up, prior to this point, Canibus was getting killed by Dizaster, and even started forgetting his lines at certain points. Yeah I know, right? A lot of these online battles aren't actual freestyles anymore and are instead written weeks ahead of time.
You should watch it all the way through to the end though b/c his opponent was throwing some daggers! lol. Not your typical "rap battle" punchlines, but on some pyschological "I'm gonna get real personal and expose your faults as a human being" kind of stuff.
Here are some random thoughts and observations:
It takes a different type of mindset to be a Battle MC. In a lot of people's eyes, part of paying your dues is being in the battle scene, but that's something I'm just not cut out for. I'll be completely honest and up front about that — I'm too nice of a guy to have that much anger pumping through my blood. I'm not saying I'm any better or any worse b/c of that, but I am giving props to Battle MCs in general — y'all are cutthroat!
I was a freshman or sophomore in high school when Canibus came onto the scene and was completely blown away. He was definitely one of my favorite MCs at one point, so to see him just get demolished like this was kind of sad (even though he hasn't put out anything decent since then. lol).
EGO: I've never liked people who are feelin' themselves way too much and this is a perfect example. After Canibus has his meltdown, Dizaster starts rapping at around 41:08 and just exposes him on all the selfish stuff he pulled back in the day. You can have all the talent in the world, but that sense of entitlement will eventually come back to bite you in the ass and no one will want anything to do with you. Some other people that come to mind who are in the same boat: Allen Iverson. Terrell Owens. Chad Ochocinco.
There's almost nothing worse than not knowing when to let go. It's really sad to see folks who are waaaay past their prime and are in denial that those "good ol' days" have been long gone. I'm not saying that life gets worse as we get older, but sometimes people just have to find happiness in other things.
Rappers definitely have a shorter "shelf life" than a lot of other musicians/artists. It's one thing to play an instrument or sing and still keep trying to "make it big" even if you're getting older (by music industry standards), but to do it with hip hop is a slightly different picture. I'll be damned if I'm 45 years old, hitting up open mics, and sellin' CDs out of my trunk hoping that one day I'll get discovered and get signed to some big record company. I might still be recording music, hitting up open mics, and selling CDs at that age, but more so out of the love of it and the message that I want to convey. I guess I'm walking a fine line between being realistic vs. giving up on your dreams, but that's too much to get into right now. One thing I do acknowledge is that Hip Hop is still a young culture in relation to other genres. Our pioneers are probably only in their 50s right now…we don't have those Mick Jagger/Keith Richards icons yet who are still rockin' out in their 60s and 70s.
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A snowboarder's cabin in the Sierras has no bedroom, no bathroom-but a hot tub and a (nearly completed) ski lift. WSJ's Conor Dougherty joins Lunch Break with a look at pro snowboarder Mike Basich's mountain retreat. Photo: Jason Henry for The Wall Street Journal.
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Just about anyone who has ever lived in an over-cluttered home has at some point declared that one day they'll ditch it all and live simply. Mike Basich did it.
Mr. Basich, a 40-year-old pro snowboarder, has spent the past several years building his dream home near Lake Tahoe. About 10 miles outside Truckee, Calif., the house sits 3 miles beyond a quiet road that has a few mailboxes but not much else. In the winter, it can only be accessed by a snowmobile, snowcat or other kind of tracked vehicle.
Mr. Basich, a professional snowboarder, built the home and most of its furnishings.
Mr. Basich's property is 40 acres, crisscrossed with creeks and boasting views of the Sierra Nevada, but the house itself is smaller than the average cramped studio apartment. It's 228 square feet, doesn't have laundry and the bathroom is outside.
"I've eliminated a lot of stuff by choosing to have a small place and a big yard," says Mr. Basich, who has scraggly brown hair and usually needs a shave. The house is about 25% glass and lacks curtains, so he gets up with the sun and goes to sleep with the stars. In between, his typical activities include snowboarding on an adjacent hill or hiking with his Siberian husky, Summit.
The electricity comes from a solar panel on his porch. The running water comes from snowmelt. All of the heat—for warmth, for the soapstone oven, for the hot tub—is generated by wood fires.
Inside the house, there aren't any rooms or closets. The inside and outside walls are made of granite stones that form the house's shell, and the sleeping area is a small loft that sits only a few feet below the ceiling. A range of household items, from baked beans to bear spray, are in open view.
His TV is rarely on and doesn't get reception or cable. On a recent evening, the lone bookshelf had a small collection of snowboard magazines along with a book titled "Tiny Homes." Mr. Basich's indulgences include a hot tub on the porch along with a ski lift that, when finished, will rise 600 feet up a nearby hill.Building is another activity that takes up a good deal of Mr. Basich's time. Over the past decade, he says, he bought and sold a half-dozen rental and investment properties, all of which he extensively renovated. He designed the pentagon-shaped house himself, and has lived on the property—in a tent, under tarps—through various stages of completion. He and friends collected the granite from the surrounding property. He milled all the wood himself, most of it from a combination of pine and Douglas-fir trees on his land.
The copper faucet draws water from a storage tank.
From the deer-antler doorknobs to the oak coffee table inlaid with petrified mammoth bone, nearly everything in the house comes with a story about Mr. Basich's labors. Asked if there was anything in the house he didn't build, Mr. Basich responded deadpan, "My computer."
Mr. Basich grew up in Fair Oaks, Calif., near Sacramento, and became a professional snowboarder in 1991. He competed until 2000 but quit to focus on backcountry riding. Today, sponsors like Flow Snowboards and GoPro pay him to travel the world taking self-portraits of his snowboarding that they use to promote their products.
His house and land, which he calls "Area 241," after a small clothing company he owns, are a part of that image. He has an Area 241 iPhone application with regular updates of his doings. Also, for $2,500 a day, he rents out the property for private parties and commercial shoots (Mountain Dew was a recent client). He says the fees cover his mortgage and then some.
Back when he was a contest professional, Mr. Basich bought a five-bedroom home on a Salt Lake City cul-de-sac. Over time, he started to hate the abundance of space, along with the time and money it took to maintain it. In 2002, after his move to backcountry snowboarding, he sold it to live in his van.
The cabin is powered by a solar panel.
In 2004, a real-estate-agent friend tipped off Mr. Basich to 40 undeveloped acres that were up for sale. He fell in love right away and paid $225,000 for the land and has since put about $20,000—plus five years of labor—into building the house. Bret Churchman, an associate broker with Coldwell Banker in Truckee, says similar lots are on the market for between $500,000 and $1 million, depending on how much infrastructure they have and whether or not they can be divided into smaller parcels.
Mr. Basich, who lives alone, travels about half the year and maintains a small apartment in Colfax, about 40 minutes away. He notes that while it might seem limiting to live in a small house with few appliances, the lack of choice is freeing. This past Christmas Eve, Mr. Basich and his girlfriend made dinner by cooking duck, potatoes, turnips, butter, spices and wine in a pot over the fire.
One of Mr. Basich's complaints is that people don't always respect his privacy. He says a friend recently told him that he and some buddies went to the house and had beers on the porch. The friend said it was too bad Mr. Basich wasn't home.
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The Next day we made the trek up to Lake Tahoe via Donner Summit & stopped by Mike Basich's Area-241 to see the work in progress on his chairlift. Mike owns 40 acres on the Pass and has already constructed his own house, tow-rope and now his personal chairlift. "Each chair will be pieces of art" says Mike, for instance one chair will be a Monkey hanging off the cable and you will sit in it's hand. He also plans on having art work all over the runs, paintings hanging from trees, a 24 ft quarter pipe, 40 ft table top jump & all sorts of Natural Features like Log slides and stuff.
Mike Basich has reported a few flakes here and there nothing much but the progress on the chairlift at his 40 acre ranch on Donner Summit is going pretty good. A few glitches here and there but nothing that's going to stop them. Concrete has been poured, towers have been put in and the job is getting done. Stay tuned about the progress and a chance to be there for opening day…
" This project has already brought so many great people together that are dreamers. It's going to take on a shape and experience of its own." – Mike Basich
Area-241 is a private place. But keep a eye out there at Flow.com for a chance to win a invite to opening day of the lifter experience.
Get updates and more info by downloading the (Area-241) app.
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App Features a Unique Presentation with Innovative Content
San Anselmo, CA – (April 13, 2012) – Mike Basich has partnered with Black Sun Productions to launch a new free iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch app for Area-241 that allows users to experience the world of legendary big mountain snowboarder and Do-It-Yourself master Mike Basich at his Area-241 and on the road. With over 20 years of snowboarding experience under his belt Mike has taken every opportunity to explore and reinvent what it means to live "off the grid". His passion has lead him on a journey of a lifetime. This app brings you all the past and current Area-241 events, as well as photos, videos clips and stories of Mike's Life.
"I am super stoked to see Area-241 come to life in a Mobile app" said Mike Basich, "I spend the majority of my screen time on my iPhone now-a-days and I am stoked to be able to showcase my latest projects and adventures as well as share my snowboard history and personal archives in this cool app."
The Area-241 app features a What's New section that highlights videos and pictures of Mike's recent trips and events; videos of his numerous D.I.Y projects; a gallery of Mike's famous Self Portraits, access to 241 Product and in Mike's Zones you can see videos and pictures of Mike's favorite resort, backcountry, snowmobile and Heli locations. The app also features video of Mike's famous 120 feet Heli Drop in Alaska and the full version of "Open Space – the Untold Stories of Mike Basich" the award winning documentary of his career.
"Our goal was to build an app for Area-241 that would reflect Mike's unique artistic style and vision. We additionally wanted to showcase his talent and the many contributions he has made to the snowboard community over the past 20 years" added Lisa Hudson, President of Black Sun Productions, "we hope you enjoy it"
The Area-241 app was developed by Black Sun Productions and will be updated regularly by Mike. The app is available on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.
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From An Illustrated History of Ireland by Margaret Anne Cusack
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In 1334 Sir Ralph Ufford, who had married Maud Plantagenet, the widow of the Earl of Ulster, was appointed Justiciary of Ireland. He commenced with a high hand, and endeavoured especially to humble the Desmonds. The Earl refused to attend the Parliament, and assembled one of his own at Callan; but the new Viceroy marched into Leinster with an armed force, seized his lands, farmed them out for the benefit of the crown, got possession of the strongholds of Castleisland and Inniskisty in Kerry, and hanged Sir Eustace Poer, Sir William Grant, and Sir John Cottrell, who commanded these places, on the charge of illegal exactions of coigne and livery.[4] The Viceroy also contrived to get the Earl of Kildare into his power; and it is probable that his harsh measures would have involved England in an open war with her colony and its English settlers, had not his sudden death put an end to his summary exercise of justice.
It is said that his wife, Maud, who could scarcely forget the murder of her first husband, urged him on to many of these violent acts; and it was remarked, that though she had maintained a queenly state on her first arrival in Ireland, she was obliged to steal away from that country, with Ufford's remains enclosed in a leaden coffin, in which her treasure was concealed. Her second husband was buried near her first, in the Convent of Poor Clares, at Camposey, near Ufford, in Suffolk.
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[4] Coigne and livery.—This was an exaction of money, food, and entertainment for the soldiers, and fodder for their horses. A tax of a similar kind existed among the ancient Irish; but it was part of the ordinary tribute paid to the chief, and therefore was not considered an exaction.
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Annals of the Famine in Ireland
Annals of the Famine in Ireland, by Asenath Nicholson, still has the power to shock and sadden even though the events described are ever-receding further into the past. When you read, for example, of the poor widowed mother who was caught trying to salvage a few potatoes from her landlord's field, and what the magistrate discovered in the pot in her cabin, you cannot help but be appalled and distressed.
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A HUGE congrats to the amazing Carolina Crown!!! Spectacular performance with a well deserved win!
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As she heads to prison, Jones remains a cautionary tale
In the spring of 2004, as the BALCO steroids scandal was beginning to come into full bloom, Olympic legend Marion Jones, buoyed by a team of lawyers and spin doctors, traveled to Colorado Springs, Colo., to meet with officials from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
It was May 24, less than three months before the 2004 Olympic Summer Games in Athens, and USADA was zeroing in on athletes it believed had used performance-enhancing drugs obtained from Victor Conte of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. The anti-doping agency, aided by documentary evidence seized as part of the government's budding case against Conte, had about a half dozen presumed drug cheats on its list. None was a bigger name than Jones.
Eight days earlier, Jones had firmly, eloquently and indignantly told a throng of journalists at the Olympic Media Summit in New York that she would sue if there was an attempt to keep her from competing in Athens based on some "hunch." Without a hint of deceit, she said, "I know that I've always been drug-free, I am drug-free and I want to continue to be drug-free."
"I'll never forget how adamant she was that any document that she was looking at or evidence that we showed her, she absolutely denied," said Madden, who recently retired after serving seven years as USADA's top executive. "We were absolutely sure she was lying, but she was an extremely poised individual. Frankly, she became a practiced liar. She tried to hoodwink the American public for a period of three to four years."
On Friday, as a result of her lies, Jones reported to the Federal Medical Center Carswell, located on the Naval Air Station, Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth. The prison, about 190 miles north of Jones' home in Austin, specializes in medical and mental health services, but also houses inmates who do not require such care. Track and field's golden girl will serve a six-month sentence.
Jones' free fall from grace stands in stark contrast to the path taken by Kelli White, who in the summer of 2003 had become the first American woman ever to win the 100- and 200-meter races at the world championships. White's name was on that short list of alleged dopers compiled by USADA, too, and the agency confronted her with BALCO documents not long before it met with Team Jones.
Unlike Jones, though, White became a truth-teller. She had admitted her doping to the government at the onset of the BALCO case, and she stayed that course when challenged by USADA in May 2004. White had struggled with the decision to admit her sins publicly, but the weight of the evidence and her conscience finally led her to come clean.
She admitted cheating her way to the top, confessing to the use of an array of performance enhancers, and accepted a two-year ban from competition that saw her world titles wiped off the books. White, though, used the public vetting to regain control of her life, first by becoming part of the anti-doping movement and later by going back to college.
Jones is the first athlete to be imprisoned in connection with the BALCO case. Of all the unforeseen images spawned by sports' steroids scandals -- from the congressional odysseys of Mark McGwire and Roger Clemens to the indictment of Barry Bonds -- this might be the most unexpected.
After the 2000 Sydney Games, Jones had become the rare track and field athlete: A star. Someone who, in a country dominated by the NFL and Major League Baseball, had emerged as an American darling. Gold medalist. Cover girl. Hero to young girls everywhere. Walking ad campaign. Millionaire. She was Marion Jones Inc.
When she returned from Australia, Jones graced the cover of Vogue as the picture of femininity and strength, sporting a form-fitting, sequined red dress. A headline proclaimed her "THE NEW AMERICAN HERO." Inside, along with photos taken by Annie Leibovitz, a story announced, "Hail Marion: Marion Jones isn't just the fastest woman in the world -- she's determined to be the greatest female athlete in history."
Jones is now wearing government-issued garb for telling not one, but two separate sets of lies to federal officials. First, she lied to agents working on the BALCO case about her performance-enhancing drug use. Then she lied to a separate constellation of law-enforcement types about her involvement in an unrelated check fraud scheme.
Contrasting Paths: 'Outside the Lines'
Confronted with evidence of cheating thanks to the BALCO investigation, Kelli White admitted her drug use and accepted a two-year ban. She never ran competitively again. Meanwhile, Marion Jones took denial of her drug use to extremes, and was sentenced to six months in a federal prison camp for lying about it. As Jones' incarceration neared, White spoke with ESPN about her personal downfall through steroids. Sunday morning at 9:30 ET on "Outside the Lines" on ESPN, investigative reporter Mark Fainaru-Wada examines the different journeys of these two women.
In many ways, Clemens' tactics in dealing with allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs seem to come straight out of Jones' playbook. He has forcefully and unequivocally denied that he has ever cheated; he has sued his accuser; he has lobbied politicians and employed a powerful Washington lawyer/strategist. Simply, he has gone on the offensive. And now he's the target of a perjury investigation led by the FBI.
Jones' public denials began in earnest in April 2004, when the San Francisco Chronicle published a story linking her to performance enhancers from BALCO. Her attorney, Joseph Burton, called the piece "character assassination of the worst kind."
On May 18 of that year, Burton wrote to USADA, requesting a meeting in which he decried a "witch hunt" and the "corrosive air of suspicion" bearing down on Jones. The next day, White made her confession that she'd used performance enhancers and agreed to testify against other athletes.
In her meetings with USADA, as she mulled whether to cut a deal, White worried she would suffer while others -- namely Jones -- got away with cheating. Lawyers for other BALCO athletes had called White's attorney, urging him to fight USADA and suggesting that a prolonged legal battle would enable White to compete in Athens despite the evidence she faced.
Three days after White reached her agreement with USADA, Jones said: "What amazes me is that people are praising her for her courage in admitting she took steroids. She's being punished for doing something wrong, but what's courageous about it?"
Tygart, now USADA's chief executive, told ESPN recently: "The ones that were fighting us were mad. They were angry that [White] broke ranks. You hear about the code of silence, this code among athletes who are cheating that they don't tell on each other, the den of thieves."
On May 24, Jones and her attorneys met with Madden and Tygart of USADA for several hours. Within 30 minutes of the end of that meeting, Burton was on a teleconference with reporters, ripping the anti-doping agency.
"Every public representation we have ever made on behalf of any client has been made with the belief and understanding that it was accurate," Lehane wrote in a recent e-mail to ESPN. Of Jones, he said, there was a feeling she was being unfairly targeted and, thus, an aggressive posture seemed appropriate.
Lehane's group used its Washington pull to bring heat on USADA, tried to learn as much as possible about the organization's top officials and suggested that, because the organization received government funding, Congress should investigate its conduct. Ultimately, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., was persuaded to call for a probe of the anti-doping agency, though the inquiry never got off the ground.
Meanwhile, because its rules precluded it from commenting publicly about ongoing cases, officials of USADA said virtually nothing.
"As the CEO of the organization, it was extremely difficult," Madden said. "You have 38 to 40 employees, and your family reads this in the newspaper, and you run into friends and neighbors at school and at church, and they are all asking you what's going on. About all you can say is, 'Be patient; the truth will come out in the end.'"
In June 2004, Team Jones continued with its attacks. First, Burton called on USADA to back down, to be "fair" and recognize that Jones' accomplishments were a product of her "God-given talents." Next, the lawyer asked the U.S. Attorney's office in Northern California to release Jones' grand jury testimony from the BALCO case because it would prove his client "never, ever used performance-enhancing drugs."
On June 16, Jones held a news conference in San Francisco, denouncing USADA as a "kangaroo court" and repeating her denials that she had ever used banned substances. Burton said, "USADA can run but it can't hide."
• Polygraph exams are used extensively by law-enforcement agencies at all levels to make determinations in charging criminal defendants.
• Polygraph exams have been used by the Department of Defense and other intelligence agencies for more than half a century.
• The average pass rate for people charged with crimes is "probably less than 5 [percent]."
The report itself was written by Ronald R. Homer, whose résumé indicated he had spent 21 years as a special agent/polygraph examiner for the FBI. Homer wrote that Jones had been asked "the following relevant questions":
A. Did you ever personally use performance-enhancing drugs? Answer: No.
B. Are you now lying about any personal use of performance-enhancing drugs? Answer: No.
Homer wrote that, in his analysis, the responses were "not indicative of deception." He added that "it is my professional opinion that Ms. Jones was truthful when answering the above-listed relevant questions."
Contacted recently by ESPN, Homer said he could not comment on the Jones case because his work had been done within the context of attorney-client privilege. Asked to speak generally about the effectiveness of polygraph examinations, Homer said, "I appreciate your interest, but I do not want to get involved in this situation."
Ultimately, USADA brought charges against four athletes based on evidence from the BALCO files. Jones was not among them, and Lehane said recently he believes that was testament to the forceful posture taken by Team Jones.
Asked recently if he now sees that as troubling or rather simply as evidence of a job well done, Lehane responded by e-mail, "It is impossible to really answer that from a Monday Morning QB perspective. You make decisions in real time based on what you have been told and in fact believe is the case."
In early December 2004, Victor Conte went on ABC's "20/20" and vividly described how he provided Jones with an array of performance enhancers, and explained how he taught her to inject human growth hormone with a new device. Two weeks later, Jones filed a $25 million lawsuit against Conte. The next day, her people called on the BALCO chief to take a lie-detector test.
In a news release carrying the headline, "JONES TEAM ISSUES CHALLENGE TO VICTOR CONTE," lawyer Rich Nichols wrote, "It is easy to go on national television and, as the lawsuit states, make 'false,' 'malicious' and 'misleading' statements designed to do harm to Ms. Jones' character and reputation -- however, it is quite another matter to take a polygraph examination that will test whether one is a truthful person or an untruthful person who engages in deception."
The lawsuit against Conte was settled out of court less than two months after it was filed. A nondisclosure agreement was attached and no money is believed to have changed hands -- a testament to the public-relations ruse it had been in the first place. Still, it wasn't until nearly three years later that Jones' charade was exposed completely.
In the interim, White, the fallen world champion, had long since moved on with her life and tried to turn her disgrace into something positive. After admitting her sins to USADA and the public in May 2004, she took up the anti-doping cause as part of her negotiated settlement. She told her story at public forums and at televised town halls. She went on national television and wept. She testified at anti-doping conventions and in the halls of Congress.
"I kind of feel like if you're going to come clean, come all the way clean," White told ESPN during a recent interview. "I think it helps everybody when you do because they get to hear the story. They get to hear the pain. They get to hear everything about it. And then hopefully it will deter other people from making the same decision."
White also managed to get her life back together. The two-year ban effectively ended her athletic career, and she turned her focus to a career in marketing. Thanks in part to a letter of recommendation from USADA, White was accepted into an MBA program, which she is scheduled to complete in the next several months.
But even as White regrouped, her fears that Jones would go untouched seemed to be coming true. By the fall of 2007 -- four years after she first lied to federal agents in the BALCO case -- Jones still had her records, her medals and her winnings. Although battered a bit, her reputation remained essentially intact.
All that changed on Friday, Oct. 5, the day Jones pleaded guilty in a White Plains, N.Y., courtroom to lying to federal agents in the BALCO and check fraud cases. Even then, she didn't appear to tell the full story. She minimized her drug use and blamed her coach, Trevor Graham, for initially deceiving her into believing she was taking legal substances.
"That was all part of a continuing act and lie to the American people," Madden said. "That was a continuation of lying. I agree with the federal judge who indicated that she has never been forthcoming with everything she did in the world of track and field to cheat her fellow competitors."
Three days after Jones pleaded guilty, White called Tygart at USADA. He was in a closed-door meeting, but cut it off immediately when he heard White was waiting on the phone.
"Thank you," White said. "As much as I hate to see this and it is bad for track and field, thank you."
White recalled their meetings in the spring of 2004, when Tygart and his colleagues had promised to hold accountable other athletes who had cheated. Tygart asked what else White thought about the Jones case.
"Well, you know, the best thing is I will never have to check the box," White said.
Tygart knew what she meant, but he asked anyway: "What box are you talking about?"
Said White: "The box on the employment application where they ask if you have ever been convicted of a felony."
Mark Fainaru-Wada, co-author of "Game of Shadows," is a reporter for ESPN. Previously, he was an investigative reporter with the San Francisco Chronicle. He can be reached at email@example.com.
- Investigative reporter for ESPN's Enterprise and Investigative Unit since 2007
- Co-author of New York Times best-selling books "League of Denial" and "Game of Shadows"
- Co-winner, 2004 George Polk Award
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• Jones' agent sentenced in bank fraud case
• Jones tells Oprah, 'I made a mistake'
• Jones receives six-month prison sentence
• IAAF annuls Jones' results dating to '00
• IOC might not give anyone Jones' gold
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• Jones' relay mate seems resigned to losing medal
• Greek officials hope Thanou gets Jones' gold
• IOC officials move to erase references to Jones
• Jones' relay mate wants to keep medal
• Jones gives back five medals from 2000 Games
• Jones pleads guilty in steroids, bank fraud cases
• Fainaru-Wada: Jones remains a cautionary tale
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• Jones reportedly admits to steroid use
• Jones fails drug test in June
• Jones 'shocked' by positive test result
• Jones' coach confirms EPO report
• Sources: Jones tests positive for EPO
• Wojnarowski: Jones too good to be true
• Jones withdraws from Weltklasse
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• Conte speaks to ESPN The Magazine
• Hruby: Positive test excuses
• IOC investigating Jones, could strip '00 medals
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Arrow Annotations - "Year's End"
- Written by ThanosCopter on Thursday, December 13 2012 and posted in News with Benefits
Check out the Easter Eggs from this week's Arrow!
Wondering what tidbits and easter eggs from the Green Arrow comic books you missed in last night's episode of Arrow? Arrow Annotations is here to help, providing some additional notes and background info from last night's episode. Arrow spoilers follow!
Adam Hunt - We all remember Adam Hunt, right? Hunt was the first person on the List to be taken down by Ollie in the pilot episode.
Commissioner Nudocerdo - Nudocerdo appears in the comics as the corrupt chief of police in Star City. Nudocerdo clashed with Ollie during the Emerald Archer's time as mayor of Star City and frequently turned to dirty tactics to undermine him. Nudocerdo arranged for Deathstroke and Drakon's release from prison and exposed Ollie's connection to the Outsiders (which were running around as outlaws at the time). He ended up getting killed by an assassin named Nix.
O'Neil and Adams - The street intersection where Detective Lance drops off Meryln's arrow is named for Neil Adams and Dennis O'Neil, the creators of one of Green Arrow's most popular stories. O'Neil and Adams pushed Green Arrow into the world of social issues and forced Ollie (and Green Lantern Hal Jordan) to deal with issues such as racism and drug abuse.
Sagittarius - Sagittarius, the shell company used by Merlyn, is the name of a zodiac symbol and constellation. In Greek mythology, Sagittarius is most often associated with Chiron, a centaur who trained many Greek heroes.
Merlyn - We've briefly talked about Merlyn when talking about Tommy, but let's get into some more detail about the character. Merlyn and Ollie have had a combative relationship in the comic books, starting from when Merlyn publicly challenged Green Arrow to an archery contest and won (sound familiar?). Merlyn later tried to assassinate Batman as a member of the League of Assassins, a group led by the Batman villain Ra's ah Ghul, but was thwarted by Green Arrow, who deflected one of Merlyn's arrows with one of his own. Merlyn is seen as the foremost villainous archer in the DCU and is a well-respected member of the villain community. Merlyn's also been associated with various groups that have tried to bring down the Justice League.
And to close out the year, here's a list of some of the Easter Egg's I've missed in past episodes.
Broome's Restaraunt - In "Legacies", Tommy mentions a "Broome's" restaraunt in Coast City. Green Lantern Hal Jordan and Coast City were both created by John Broome.
Case File 1941: In "Damaged", Ollie's case number is 1941, a reference to the year Green Arrow was created. Another document mentions the number 73, a reference to Fun Comics #73, the comic in which Green Arrow first appeared.
So that's all I found this week. See you all next year!
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It's Wednesday and we do not have any TV wrestling programs today, but we do have a full deck of news for you. Also, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter comes out today. That means all of the good, inside stories that you want is coming out the next few days. Of course, keep it locked on Daily DDT for all the latest. Onto your morning report.
– Here is non-spoiler matches for this weeks edition of Friday night Smackdown:
* Seth Rollins Vs. Kofi Kingston
* Dolph Ziggler Vs. Bad News Barrett.
* Adam Rose Vs. Titus O'Neil.
* Kane Vs. Dean Ambrose.
* Big E Vs. Jack Swagger.
* Bo Dallas vs. Fandango
* Sheamus, Roman Reigns and John Cena Vs. Bray Wyatt, Randy Orton, Alberto Del Rio and Cesaro in a 4-3 handicap match.
– Here is today's schedule on the WWE Network:
- 12am EST – WrestleMania Rewind: Angle vs. Guerrero at 20
- 1am EST – WWE Countdown: Dangerous Divas
- 2am EST – Legends House replay
- 3am EST – RAW Flashback: 10/31/1994
- 4am EST – RAW Flashback: 11/7/1994
- 5am EST – ECW Hardcore TV: 1/16/1995
- 6am EST – WCCW TV: 12/27/1982
- 7am EST – Legends of Wrestling: Heatseekers
- 8am EST – WWE Countdown: Dangerous Divas
- 9am EST – RAW Flashback: 11/7/1994
- 10am EST – RAW Flashback: 11/14/1994
- 11am EST – Legends House replay
- 12pm EST – WrestleMania Rewind: Guerrero vs. Angle at 20
- 1pm EST – WWE Countdown: Dangerous Divas
- 2pm EST – Legends of Wrestling: Bob Backlund and Hulk Hogan
- 3pm EST – Money In the Bank 2012
- 6pm EST – WWE Main Event replay
- 7pm EST – WWE NXT replay
- 8pm EST – Best of RAW: 9/27/1999
- 10pm EST – Best of SmackDown: 7/27/2000
– Here is your pro wrestling history lesson of the day:
4-time AWA Tag Team Champion, Larry 'The Axe' Hennig turns 78 today.
2-time WCW Tag & Hardcore Champion Big Vito turns 50 today.
Former WWE wrestler Bam Neely turns 39 today.
One-time WCW Tag Team Champion Kenny Kaos turns 44 today.
1994: WWF Hall of Fame Ceremony is held in Baltimore, Maryland. Here is the list of the inductees:
* Arnold Skaaland (inducted by Shane McMahon)
* Bobo Brazil (inducted by Ernie Ladd)
* "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers (inducted by Bret Hart)
* Chief Jay Strongbow (inducted by Tatanka)
* Freddie Blassie (inducted by Regis Philbin)
* Gorilla Monsoon (inducted by Jim Ross)
* James Dudley (inducted by Vince McMahon)
1995: WCW's The Great American Bash was held at Hara Arena, in Dayton, Ohio. 6,000 were in attendance to see Ric Flair defeated Randy Savage in the main event.
2005: CM Punk defeated Austin Aries to win the ROH World Title.
2006: TNA Slammiversary was held at the Impact Zone, in Orlando, Florida. 900 were in attendance to see Jeff Jarrett defeated Christian Cage, Abyss, Ron Killings, & Sting in a King of the Mountain Match to win the NWA World Title
2012: Cyndi Lauper made her 1st appearance for WWE since 1985 on Raw to promote her new TV series.
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I grew up in a private sector union family, now an endangered species. My father was a union officer. Today I live in a family day care household and resent the political payoff that would have been a very unwelcome intrusion in our home.
If these are the kinds of measures to which today's unions have to resort in order to expand their membership, their situation is truly pathetic.
... when unions bargained with EMPLOYERS?
You need to separate your general social and economic angst (which I share to a large degree) from this particular issue. The "freeloaders" you are referring to are low-doller self employed persons who have to find their own health insurance, bargain with their customers (not employers or the state) about vacation and sick leave, wipe noses, change diapers, mediate about six quarrels per hour, put up with unfavorable news articles, fill in a minimum of three additional tax forms with hours...
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"I think Danny has a lot of love for her that he kinds of hides or bottles up. I think he thinks she's a great doctor, and he finds her funny at times and amusing but he is also annoyed with her and her lifestyle choices are ridiculous or annoying to him…I think it's been a fun dynamic to explore that kind of love/hate thing. That Sam and Diane, or Moonlighting, Bruce Willis Cybill Shepard. Or I keep thinking about Star Wars and Hans Solo and Princess Leia. I'm not quite sure where we'll go but there is something there." (x)
"I definitely enjoy them being friends. I like over the first season they grew into these buddies. And I don't know what's best for the show, some days I think it would be fun to see them as a married couple bickering and having to work together kind of like a Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn type of thing and sometimes I think it would be nice if they continued on this kind of Harry Met Sally friendship and they keep helping each other out and helping each other out, then disagreeing and disagreeing and helping each other out." (x)
"I think whatever is best for the storyline and I think those are two different shows. It's up to the writers what show they want to make: there's one show where we become a couple and that's a different show, or an on/off thing and that's a different show, and there's these best friends that you're always saying 'they should be together" they should be together, they should be together' as we help each other find love, that's a different show. (x)
"As the season was going on, I certainly was getting responses from people I knew or just random people on the street. There's a handful of people who wanted us to be friends and a handful of people that want us to get married or whatever. All the while, they kept bonding and getting closer. Having the two characters not hate each other is just more fun to watch. I think, for some reason, Mindy Kaling and I have a nice rapport. So I think it will be interesting to see what they do with that for the second season. I don't have a feeling either way of whether these characters should be together or not. I think there's a version of this show where these two characters are married and bickering and fighting and also totally in love with each other. And there's a show where they're best friends and constantly trying to get each other to straighten up, a When Harry Met Sally type of thing." (x)
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Keys for the Houston Rockets as they take on the Boston Celtics Monday Night.
Injury Update
Chandler Parsons has missed the past 3 games with a sore knee, but all indications point to him returning into the lineup.
Rockets' Chandler Parsons has missed three-straight games with a sore knee, but worked out today and is expected to play Monday at Boston.
— Marc J. Spears (@SpearsNBAYahoo) January 13, 2014
The Rockets also have a back-to- back later this week so Parsons may have a minutes limit in his first game back.
New Place, Same Test
The pattern continues for the Rockets and playing against sub-500 teams. The Celtics sure are happy to be back home, having lost 8 straight games, with the last 6 coming on the road. While the Rockets are 10-3 against Eastern Conference teams this year, they must establish the tone early, just like they did Saturday night in Washington.
Searching For The 3
The 3-point shot has not fallen all season, but the Rockets were able to knock some down against the Wizards Saturday. The Rockets also shot 9 for 21 from behind the arc in the first meeting, and the magic number to hit is 45 percent, as the Celtics are just 5-15 when their opponent shoots 45 percent or better from the 3-point line.
Tip: 6:30 PM CT
TV: CSN Houston
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