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Written by Curt Popejoy on 09/24/2011
Like most seasons, this NFL season has the mix of a few really great times, a few really bad ones, and a whole bunch in the middle.
32. Kansas City Chiefs-A team ravaged with injuries and poor coaching.
31. Indianapolis Colts-Peyton Manning gets hurt and the whole team just gave up.
30. Seattle Seahawks-Worst offense in the NFL. Pete Carroll has no talent at quarterback.
29. Carolina Panthers-Cash Newton racking up big passing yards but no W's.
28. Miami Dolphins-Lots of offense but a defense that can't stop a flag football team.
27. St. Louis Rams-This team lacks speed on defense and it's offense is just too beat up to be competitive.
26. Minnesota Vikings-This team should be better than this but right now no chemistry on either side of the ball.
25. Denver Broncos-At this point they may as well just start Tim Tebow and at least God will root for this group.
24. Oakland Raiders-Another team that looks to be a couple of players away from being good.
23. Jacksonville Jaguars-Maybe a quarterback change will fire up a lackluster offense.
22. San Fransisco 49ers-Another team that is hamstrung because they have such mediocre quarterback play.
21. Tennessee Titans-Chris Johnson is playing like a guy who just got a big fat contract. And that's not a good thing.
20. Chicago Bears-No matter how they play you have to assume Cutler is going to cost them a few games.
19. Cleveland Browns-You aren't in the middle of the league without being pretty average across the board and that's what they are.
18. Arizona Cardinals-The offense is feeling some growing pains but the defense is letting them down.
17. Cincinnati Bengals-Great young tandem at quarterback and wide receiver, but not much else to get excited about.
16. New York Giants-Another team that is beat down with injuries and just trying to compete.
15. Tampa Bay Buccaneers-Everyone's sleeper pick is looking a little sly out of the gate.
14. Washington Redskins-One of the nice surprise teams of the year. Everyone playing team football and no mistakes.
13. Detroit Lions-Look out for the Lions as long as they can keep their premier players healthy.
12. Buffalo Bills-Another big surprise. Consistent play, good system and no errors.
11. Dallas Cowboys-Cowboys are more talented than their play indicates most weeks. So goes Tony Romo goes the team.
10. Pittsburgh Steelers-A team on the mend who's going to have to get healthy in a hurry if they want to contend.
9. Baltimore Ravens-Another up and down ballclub with more than enough talent to go to the Super Bowl.
8. Atlanta Falcons-Bigtime offense with a defense that needs to start playing at a higher level.
7. New Orleans Saints-You have to figure with all that offense the Saints will be in every game.
6. New York Jets-Steady consistent football and a team culture that makes them believe they will win every game.
5. Houston Texans-No Colts to contend with and the best wr in the game on the roster. Just have to get Arian Foster healthy to be sure.
4. San Diego Chargers-They are ranked here now, and I hope there's no late year swoon with all that talent.
3. Philadelphia Eagles-The Dream team seems to working out alright so far. Vick's health all season will be the deciding factor.
2. New England Patriots-Dominant passing offense that keeps opposing teams off their games and takes Pressure off an average Pats defense.
1. Green Bay Packers-When you are the defending champions and you are playing at a level this high there's no place for you to be but No. 1.
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ELI WHITNEY — In 1829, Andrew Jackson became the country's seventh president and Susan McCord was born. She ultimately died of pneumonia, contracted after she was kicked by a cow at age 80 and lay unconscious on the frozen ground until she was found.
During her eight decades on earth, she created some of the most breathtaking quilts ever crafted. A dozen of her quilts are displayed in the Henry Ford Museum. One was copied by Alamance County's Mildred Guthrie and was displayed in the old Eli Whitney High School gymnasium during the 82nd annual Uncle Eli's Quilting Party.
Guthrie put "Floral Urn" together from a picture her son obtained and enlarged for her to follow McCord's work. It contains at least four different designs based on McCord's patterns, although Guthrie admits there are a few differences between her's and McCord's that only the creators would recognize.
"Susan McCord loved flowers and gardening," Guthrie said. "I'm a clone" of the famous quilter, Guthrie said, but admitted she and McCord approached some design executions differently.
As crowds moved throughout the gym, taking in the dozens of quilts, most would stop by "Floral Urn." The most asked question was "how long did it take to complete?"
Guthrie said she obviously did not work on the masterpiece continuously, but over a period of about four years. She said her son, when visiting, would always ask her, "are you stitching today or stuffing?"
But as lovely and detailed as Guthrie's rendition of McCord's quilt is, it didn't take nearly the time and effort as the Jane Stickle quilt Guthrie reproduced.
"That quilt has 5,602 pieces," she pointed out. The original was crafted during the heat of the Civil War — 1863 — and features Stickle's signature "ice cream cone" designs.
As Guthrie repeated her recollections of putting the quilts together to each new passerby, she was cornered by a group of novices asking how this was done, how that stitch was accomplished, how that design was tackled.
"Mrs. Guthrie is one of our famous quilters around here," the visitors were told. Guthrie dismissed the accolade but one of the visitors said, "well, if you're not famous your hands certainly are."
Mildred Guthrie, one of the organizers of the quilting party along with Nannie Lou McBane and Pat Bailey, has been plying her craft in excess of half a century. She is still vibrant and her hands are nimble. When asked if she has in projects under way that next year's exhibition would feature, she shrugs her shoulders quizzically.
Uncle Eli's Quilting Party was the brainchild of principal E.P. Dixon, who was looking for a way to bring together the parents of students at the newly consolidated Eli Whitney School. That was in 1931. Now the gathering is believed to be the longest continuously running annual quilting event in the country and has featured quilts from every nook and cranny of the county, state and nation.
This year a quilt, "Little Red School House," in fabrics of red and black, was displayed on one of the several racks in the gym. It was created in 1940 and was made to honor the revered principal Dixon.
"Nannie Lou (McBane) is the caretaker of this one," Pat Bailey said.
In recent years, other craft or textiles have been featured at the show along with the quilts. This year it was handkerchiefs. Not manly bandanas but feminine hankies that every woman would have owned for dabbing tears at funerals and weddings, wiping children's noses, or to be scented with Sweet Betsy to catch the attention of a beau.
Hundreds of hankies were on display featuring delicate drawn work or cut work or shadow work. Some were worn, stained and old enough to have been carried by Noah's wife aboard the ark. Others were old, but never taken out of the box, making the viewer wonder what tale it could tell if it had the power of speech. There were fine examples of eyelet and embroidery, hankies with edges of tatting or crochet or of exotic Brussels lace or hankies rescued from the liberation of Rome in '44 and brought back to the U.S. by some GI with the sensibilities of an artist.
All display elements were not of vintage materials. Barbi Bailey-Smith, an artist and teacher of art at Little River Elementary School in Durham, brought some of her detailed and brightly colored blue bird boxes.
"I buy them from the Eastern Blue Bird Rescue Association," she said. She decorates them with detailed and whimsical scenes. They are numbered, personalized and collectible. Her #17 depicts Uncle Eli's Quilting Party, with gaily colored quilts hanging on a line and gently flapping in a breeze. The rescue association is credited with saving some 65,000 birds through its efforts.
Working with the science teacher at her school, she had her second-grade art students create a couple of quilts entitled "Weather or Not" and "What's the Weather?" The squares are weather scenes — floods, tornadoes, water spouts — which were colored on paper and transferred by hot iron to fabric.
Bailey-Smith is a consultant with Crayola, famous maker of crayons, and the company donated the materials for the quilts, including newly formulated fabric crayons.
One never knows what to expect when viewing the exhibits.
Take, for example, Carol Aldridge. Back in 1999, she was cleaning out her grandmother's attic when she found six quilt tops. She knew her grandmother worked on quilts, but she and the other children had always been instructed not to touch the quilts or go rummaging around in closets and drawers. She brought an example of one of her grandmother's creations. She dated it to 1898 because one of the tops was backed by a newspaper announcing the sinking of the USS Maine, which led to the Spanish-American War.
Donna Harrelson brought a quilt made of sports T-shirts from her daughter, Taylor's, school years from pre-K to 12th grade.
There was a butterfly quilt of handkerchiefs and fabrics bought in Florida and Key West. There was the "Nine-Patch Variation," the last quilt made by Fran Sommer, who had to craft it on a machine due to arthritis and diminished eyesight. There was "Lattices," by Wendy McBane, who attested to the peskiness of matching pieces. There was "Gone Wild at 50" by Wanda Sundermann, who pieced the quilt with "red hat" fabrics, a creation that "evolved." There was "The Wedding Ring," which Daile Thompson Lewis started in the 1950s, put away and finally completed in 2004, thanks to lots of thread and feed sacks. And there was the "Star" quilt, made by Lakota women on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Uncle Eli's Quilting Party is held each year on the first Thursday in April.
There are no tickets to buy or admission fees to view or exhibit at the quilting party. Be they plain, intricate, old or new, all quilts are always welcome. What comes through the doors that day becomes the gallery.
Oh, and there's always a quilt or two on a frame ready for you to test drive your skills, or be guided into what can surely become a traditional habit.


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Escorted by her father and given in marriage by her parents, the bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Climent C. Mills of Kinston.
A 1996 graduate of Kinston High School and a 2000 graduate of Hampton University, she received an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management in 2004. She is a regional account executive with Skillsoft Corporation.
The groom is the son of Ruby Davis of Bronx, N.Y., and the late Ivanhoe Davis. He is a database administrator with Integreon Corporation.
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Sometimes my thoughts go deep. Dealing with death and suffering can do that to an already introspective person.
Health care is messed up. Here I give both an insider's (before I started my new practice) and outsider's view of what's wrong.
I think there is something in us that makes us want to make heroes. This is part of the attraction of sport and other entertainment. We want to see people doing things that are amazing, superhuman, and heroic. As a child, I imagined me hitting the home run in the bottom of the 9th inning, or hitting the basket with no time left on the clock. I imagined the adulation and praise of my skill from the adoring masses. I dreamed of being a hero.
As an incurable compulsive introspect, I tend to brood, ponder, contemplate, and (of course) muse on "big ideas," such as:
Tough questions.
Lately I've been contemplating the nature of human awareness:
Yeah, that's a lot deeper than about dogs watching Oprah.
Good news: my local hospital has the fanciest, newest, coolest computer system (costing major bucks, of course) and now is routinely sending me "transition of care" documents on my patients.
Bad news: they are horrible.
Seriously, we get several of these documents per day and often can't figure out what the document is about. On the bright side, sometimes after taking 10-20 minutes of looking through the 12-14 page document, we do actually gain some useful information.
Dr. Rob:
Long-time reader, first time writer! I want to know why it is that my doctor makes me pay to get my own medical records. It seems like since they are my records, they should be free to me! Can you explain this to me?
- Lucy in Texas
Thanks, Lucy, for asking such an astute question that is near and dear to my heart.
There is, in fact, a simple answer as to why doctors don't want you to lay hands on their medical records, Lucy. It's the same reason you don't want your son's underwear after his first semester in college (known to have broken autoclaves): they stink.
Why do they stink? It's complicated. The best way to see this answer is to look into the past. Way back.
When I say we need more tech, I am not saying we need more computerization so we can produce a higher volume of medically irrelevant word garbage. I am not saying we need to gather more points of data that can measure physicians and "reward" them if they input data well enough. The tech I am referring to is like that I used regarding my father. I want technology that does two things: connects and organizes. I want to be able to coordinate care with specialists and to reach out to my patients. I want my patients to be able to reach me when they need my help. Technology can do this; it sure did for my dad.
"Best" is a relative term. Perhaps it's like being a tall fetus, or like a small quasar. "Best" of Rob's posts. Yep. Either an oxymoron or a low bar to get over.
One of my most popular Series, the physical exam combines real information with total nonsense with an aim to both educate and totally confuse my readers.
Read what I've written about my new practice here. Follow the story from my days of dissatisfaction in my old practice to the whole process of figuring this new thing out.
I was excited. Finally I could get my questions answered by America's doctor darling. Since I know he's a busy guy, I thought I'd need to get his attention. No, I wasn't interested in the miracle antioxidant pill that detoxes my carotid arteries, reprograms my neuronal circuitry, melts away belly fat, and enhances me in the bedroom. I know about that already. I've seen his show.
No, my questions were far more important
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You likely are asking: What's up with this site?
What's up with the author? His mind is not right.
And what is a Llamarick? A word that's created
From a creature that's odd, and a verse often hated?
To answer those questions, to give explanation
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Assuming a reason behind their creation
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No, most of this writing comes right off the cuff
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While some of the prose may get you to thinking
Most will cause people to ponder more drinking
The gist of this poem and following pages
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I may talk of issues that folks are discussing
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Some prose may be poignant, some points may provoke
And others may raise the thought: "What did he smoke?"
What you are reading's the thoughts from my brain
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My New Direct Care Practice: Focused on Patients, Not Payers.
My New Direct Care Practice: Focused on Patients, Not Payers.
My new practice is an attempt to go back to where health care should be: between doctor* and patient. Instead of me being paid by insurance companies or government bureaucracies, I work for my patients, because you work for the person paying you. Being paid by third parties meant that they were the one I had to make happy, not the patient. This is why customer service is nonexistent in health care.
I think people should expect more from their doctors. People expect to have to wait when they shouldn't. They expect to have to come in to have questions answered, even if they are simple questions. They expect for care to be complicated when it could be simple. They expect the doctor to be the center of the health care universe, when they, the patients, should be in that position.
My practice operates on 4 main principles:
People shouldn't view health care as something they need to use. Ideally, people would stay away from doctors, off of drugs, and out of hospitals. The problem is that the whole system we have is aimed at the opposite. My practice is different, taking the time to do the things necessary to keep people well.
I answer the phone. I communicate electronically with my patients. I take the time to get to know them. This is a whole lot better than ordering a bunch of tests, and it's quite a bit cheaper. Unfortunately, communication is penalized by the U.S. system. Fortunately for me, my patients are amazed at the difference they see from a doctor who actually listens.
Health care has been turned into a transaction: find problems, treat them with procedures, and get paid for the number of procedures done (the bigger the better). This has yielded the expected outcome: more care than is needed; lots more. Unfortunately, the focus on treating problems gets in the way with the highest goal of medicine: preventing disease in the first place. My focus is far more on risk reduction and quality of life than on finding disease and doing a treatment (often for diseases that aren't high risk and treatments that are).
If my bank told me that the only way I could get my bank records was to pay for them, I'd fire them and get another bank. This is what doctors tell patients all the time. Why? Because records are not for care, they are for showing the problems and procedures necessary to get paid. I think records should be entirely focused on patient care, not on billing. I think patients are best served to have access to all of their records, especially in this age of mobile computing.M
If you want to see more about my practice, go to my practice website: doctorlamberts.org.
*Obviously, this includes nurses, PA's, NP's, social workers, dietitians, physical therapists, and all of the other members of the health care team. I write the orders as a physician, but care is best done with a good team.
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my website.
I am a doctor
I am an expert on Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
I am a writer
I am making a gigantic change
In September of this year (2012) I stopped working at my old practice so I could build a new solo practice, Dr. Rob Lamberts, LLC. This practice will use the Direct Care model. Go here if you want more information about my practice.
So there it is - if you want to know EVEN MORE about me, keep reading. I tell you about myself in other, less conventional ways....
OK, you got here to my website. If it was on purpose, then you might just want to know a little about me. If it was not on purpose, you might want some good reasons to high-tail it out of here as quick as possible. If you are an insomniac, you might want something to help you sleep better. This post should do the job for all of you. Here's who I am:
A doctor, a doctor, that's just what I am!I eat yummy toast spread with butter and jam. I work down in Georgia, that hot southern state. And sometimes I finish the food on my plate.
I take care of kiddos and folks that are older. I'll drink milk that's warm, but prefer it much colder. I'm a fortunate husband and father of four. If milk is real cold I will often get more.
I alternate verses with food on occasion Mexican's great and I really like Asian I don't know quite why I am writing this way But now I am hungry and want a fillet.
So you get the gist of writer you're reading And also have insight to just what I'm eating I am who I am, a distractible fellow Now if you excuse me it's time for some Jello.
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The Academy of Motion Pictures have hired Ellen DeGeneres again after Seth MacFarlane bombed last year. How will she stack up? Take a look back at hosts past.
1929: Douglas Fairbanks, pictured above, hosted the event with William C. deMille.
1930: Conrad Nagel hosted his first of three appearances. Lawrence Grant played host the following year. Nagel is pictured above with Norma Shearer and Renee Adoree.
1932: Co-host Lionel Barrymore
1934: Will Rogers
1935: Irvin S. Cobb, pictured on the left with his daughter Barbara Cobb and W.C. Fields.
1935: Irvin S. Cobb, pictured on the left with his daughter Barbara...
1936: Frank Capra
1937: George Jessel
1938: Bob Burns, pictured with Jack Benny, left, and brother George Burns, right.
1940: Bob Hope. Hope went on to host 18 more times, including in 1955 when he appeared alongside Thelma Ritter.
1944: Jack Benny, pictured with Marilyn Monroe.
1945: John Cromwell hosted alongside Bob Hope.
1946: James Stewart hosted alongside Bob Hope.
1948: Co-host Agnes Moorehead, pictured second from left.
1948: Co-host Dick Powell, pictured with Louella Parsons, left, and actress Jean Harlow.
1949: Robert Montgomery
1950: Paul Douglas, left, pictured with Alex Mackenzie, Abe Barker and Tommy Kearins.
1951: Fred Astaire
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1954: Co-host Donald O'Connor, pictured above on the left with Ethel Merman and Billy DeWolfe.
1954: Co-host Fredric March
1956: Co-host Joseph L. Mankiewicz, pictured with a colleague.
1956: Co-host Claudette Colbert
1956: Co-host Jerry Lewis
1957: Co-host Celeste Holm appeared with Jerry Lewis.
1958: Co-host Jack Lemmon, who played host at the event four times in his career. Pictured above at center with Rita Hayworth and Robert Mitchum.
1958: Co-host Donald Duck
1958: Co-host Rosalind Russell
1958: Co-host David Niven, who hosted the awards three times, is pictured above with Dolores Del Rio.
1959: Co-host Tony Randall, pictured on right with Jack Klugman.
1959: Co-host Mort Sahl
1963: Frank Sinatra
1972: Co-host Helen Hayes
1972: Co-host Alan King
1972: Co-host Sammy Davis, Jr.
1973: Co-host Rock Hudson
1973: Co-host Carol Burnett (Photo by Online USA)
1973: Co-host Charlton Heston
1973: Co-host Michael Caine
1974: Co-host John Huston
1974: Co-host Burt Reynolds
1974: Co-host Diana Ross
1975: Co-host Shirley MacLaine
1976: Co-host Robert Shaw
1976: Co-host Goldie Hawn
1976: Co-host George Segal
1976: Co-host Walter Matthau
1976: Co-host Gene Kelly, pictured above with Fred Astaire
1977: Co-host Ellen Burstyn (Photo by Newsmakers)
1977: Co-host Warren Beatty, pictured with Natalie Wood.
1977: Co-host Richard Pryor
1977: Co-host Jane Fonda
1979: Johnny Carson, who ultimately hosted the event five times.
1983: Co-host Liza Minnelli
1983: Co-host Dudley Moore
1986: Co-host Robin Williams, pictured on left with two other award alums.
1986: Co-host Alan Alda
1987: Co-host Chevy Chase, pictured above with Joe Piscopo. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect.)
1987: Co-host Paul Hogan
1990: Billy Crystal. Crystal went on to host the awards eight additional times, most recently in 2011.
1994: Whoopi Goldberg, who has hosted the event four times.
1995: David Letterman
2001: Steve Martin, who hosted the awards on three occasions.
2005: Chris Rock, pictured with Ricky Martin.
2007: Ellen DeGeneres (Photo by Chris Weeks/Liaison)
2006: Jon Stewart, who has hosted the event twice.
2009: Hugh Jackman
2010: Co-host Alec Baldwin
2011: Co-host James Franco
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Favorite Star Wars Movie?
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
Favorite Star Wars Movie?
Just to stir the pot (Score:5, Funny)by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @11:37AM (#46929279)I voted for the Phantom Menace just to upset the die hard Star Wars fans...
Me sah berry berry upset at'chu!
by Salafrance Underhill (2947653) on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @04:22AM (#46937311)
I've relayed your post to a distant alien civilisation of immense power, and they've informed me that the Von Neumann Killer Probes have been dispatched. Normally, they just send one, but in your case they sent 1E+09, just to be sure.
I voted for Phantom Menace because I liked it more. And I saw the original in the theater back in 77 as a kid.
by Opportunist (166417) on Thursday May 08, 2014 @03:26AM (#46947043)
Was that that 2 hour commercial for the podracer computer game?
Re:Just to stir the pot (Score:5, Funny)by segin (883667) <firstname.lastname@example.com> on Thursday May 08, 2014 @10:44PM (#46955897) HomepageWhich was a solid game, mind you. Any racing game that drives me to amphetamines to beat the AI has to be good.
Amphetamines??? You should try midi-chlorians instead. Much more effective and with less side effects. Not counting the risk of acquiring a narcissistic personality disorder and walking around with a lightsaber killing everyone who disagrees with you...
Not counting the risk of acquiring a narcissistic personality disorder and walking around with a lightsaber killing everyone who disagrees with you...
You say that like it's a bad thing.
All else is of secondary importance.
I sense a disturbance in the Force, as if millions of fans cried out in pain.
Episode V! (Score:5, Insightful)by MrYingster (594507) on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @11:37AM (#46929283) JournalAt the time of writing this, there are 0 votes for any of the prequel trilogy! That's what I would have hoped for, but not what I expected. Of course, then I noticed that only 19 votes had been cast... Episode 4 was amazing because it was such a well-executed, new idea. Episode 5 was amazing because of the actors' chemistry, the additional special effects, and the twists and surprises. The rest are just money-grabs...
All of the movies were money-grabs. Hope, Empire and (to a lesser extent) Jedi were good movies regardless, but they were just as money-grabby as the prequels.
All of the movies were money-grabs. Hope, Empire and (to a lesser extent) Jedi were good movies regardless, but they were just as money-grabby as the prequels.
MGM's motto notwithstanding, It is hard to find financing to make a movie purely for art's sake
Re:Episode V! (Score:5, Informative)by bzipitidoo (647217) <email@example.com> on Thursday May 08, 2014 @11:56AM (#46949975) JournalMGM = Money Grabbing Moviemakers?
Rotten Tomatoes agrees. Going by RT, the order is V IV III VI II I (from best to worst. And Clone Wars waaay worse than all of them.)
"And Clone Wars waaay worse than all of them."
Well, clearly you opening can't be trusted.
Star Wars wasn't great; but it was probably the most well-executed en media res piece I've ever seen in theater. En media res is difficult: most jump right into a disconnected story, dumping you into a rolling sense of action without a sense of purpose (see: Battlefield Earth). Star Wars opened Episode 4 (and Episode 1) in a tense situation with clear, readily-understood motives.
probably the most well-executed en media res piece I've ever seen in theater.
compared to what?
I can't *disagree* that what you stated is your opinion...but I just don't see how your comparison is meaningful
How many movies have you seen that start 'en media res'? Battlefield Earth doesn't count really b/c no one defends that movie.
'en media res' is really, really easy if your "good guys" and "bad guys" are simplistically drawn characters...like Star Wars characters
I guess my point is, I don't know why what
you're our only hope.
{Ep 1-3} to {Ep. 7-9} isn't going to be any different with Disney bankrolling them. They're still going from suck to blow.
A big question here is what rating will Disney aim for? PG or PG-13? Who is the target demographic this time around?
I'm amazed that Jedi is rated U in the UK (universal, suitable for all ages). Leia's modesty is only slightly preserved by shadows and the poor quality of the film stock. Plus lots of people get shot, cut up and eaten. There is slavery, executions, cute furry things dying.
We seem to have become more conservative since then.
Get off my effin lawn! (Score:5, Insightful)
When I saw Star Wars in the theatre when it was released, it was call Star Wars. None of this "New hope" BS. And it was the one where Han shot first!
And lets also not forget Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress" (which I never saw in theaters but I *have* seen)
So get off my lawn you young whippersnappers.
Hidden Fortress is one of my favorite Kurosawa films. Brilliant(and funny).
Hidden Fortress is one of my favorite Kurosawa films. Brilliant(and funny).
Any Kurosawa film is great.
Re:Get off my effin lawn! (Score:5, Funny)by Rob the Bold (788862) on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @03:27PM (#46932451)
Any Kurosawa film is great.
I don't know about that. Ask 4 different fans and you'd probably get four completely different answers.
Any Kurosawa film is great.
I don't know about that. Ask 4 different fans and you'd probably get four completely different answers.
How about I preface that with "compared to Hollywood"?
Re:Get off my effin lawn! (Score:5, Informative)by Rob the Bold (788862) on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @12:58PM (#46930303)
When I saw Star Wars in the theatre when it was released, it was call Star Wars. None of this "New hope" BS. And it was the one where Han shot first!
For that reason -- seen in a theater on first release -- Star Wars is my favorite Star Wars, too. Among my friends, the question was always: "How many times have you seen Star Wars?"
The Empire Strikes Back is the better movie for plenty of reasons (and the best of the franchise) but Star Wars, just Star Wars, is my favorite.
The Empire Strikes Back is the better movie for plenty of reasons (and the best of the franchise) but Star Wars, just Star Wars, is my favorite.
I disagree. Empire is superior in various aspects (SFX wise, acting wise, mood wise) but I don't think they add up to make a better movie. I think people like it because of all the cool stuff in it (AT-ATs, Yoda, Boba Fett) but if you think about it, it kinda starts in the middle of nowhere, ends in the middle of nowhere, and the heroes lose. It's just nowhere near as satisfying as the original, if you ask me.
Oh, and if you're an old crank like me, was your reaction to the big "revelation" about Darth Vader
So movie are only good if the hero's win? You must hate Rocky.
oh, spoiler.
Empire is a story, the middle of the story, so yeah, it doesn't end. It's better acted, better written, better filmed, and better choreographed then star wars.
"Why all the business about Luke's father being "the best star pilot in the galaxy" if from Empire onward he never pilots a single thing?"
Because he is doing bigger things. When you grow up, some times you end up with different responsibilities
What's all this stuff about Neil Ar
Exactly this. I will never forget 5 yr old me and my 3 yr old brother watching Star Wars with my mom and dad in the theater back in '77. It had a huge pop culture impact on our lives. It's the movie that started it all.
Empire is a better movie, but Star Wars has a special place in my heart.
Hidden fortress is nothing like star wars, and in fact isn't even worth comparing.
Well, once it became part of a multi-movie story it made sense to give it it's own name.
And yes, I was in the theater the day it was released. all day, and the next, and pretty much every weekend until it left the theaters, months later, and Saw HIdden fortress that same summer, in a theater. Special showing in..Balboa I think? meh.
See, I too can make irrelevant statement showing I am old but in no way adding to an argument.
I saw Star Wars in the theater. It had run for AN ENTIRE YEAR - from opening day - in the same theater, and I have to admit it took me that long to go see it.
Mainstream theaters would never do that nowadays. The tiering system is pretty well defined.
Avatar's first run went eight months. Sort of in the ballpark. Just reinforces the idea, though, that doing this requires a top 10 all time box office winner (adjusted for inflation).
I saw star wars and empire strikes back at a drive-in. Sadly the drive-in closed before return of the jedi was released.
When I saw Star Wars in the theatre when it was released, it was call Star Wars. None of this "New hope" BS. And it was the one where Han shot first!
And lets also not forget Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress" (which I never saw in theaters but I *have* seen)
So get off my lawn you young whippersnappers.
When I watched Star Wars, the first film, I was perched in a seat with a massive bucket of popcorn in my lap (as I wasn't very tall, yet, it nearly obscured the screen, such was my love of popcorn.) When that Imperial Star Destroyer cruised "overhead" the piece of popcorn on my tongue rolled out and fell back into the bucket. I was floored by the visual effect. I think I scarcely touched the popcorn throughout the rest of the film and was surprised to find I had a bucket of popcorn at the end. Gripping.
I liked The Clone Wars, you insensitive clod!
I can't even type that jokingly without cringing.
Star Wars Holiday Special (Score:5, Funny)by Zalgon 26 McGee (101431) on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @12:11PM (#46929699)
How could this not be an option?
Re:Star Wars Holiday Special (Score:4, Funny)Who came up with these fucking choices?? They didn't include The Ewok Adventure (1984) and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985), either...
Under 20 years old youngsters don't have the same hostility for the prequels. To them, all six movies are all "old stuff". Even Episode III is almost a decade old now.
The movie started and ended in an exciting way in the middle of an ongoing story. The rebels had just dealt a mighty blow to the empire but were now fleeing from the might of the empire's retaliation. The characters and special effects were developed nicely versus A New Hope. It was a fairly dark movie, the main protagonists were on the run and not in control of things. A major character loses a hand and the big fight at the end of the movie, but lives to fight another day.
And it had AT-ATs, and no Ewoks or Jar-Jar. What's not to like?
It had giant robot camels [youtube.com].
With frickin' lasers! You really mustn't forget the frickin' lasers; they totally pull the concept together.
Hardware Wars.
Enough said.
"You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll kiss five bucks goodbye!"
Yeah, good times.
Spaceballs (Score:5, Funny)
Best Star Wars movie ever.
Evil will always triumph! (Score:4, Insightful)
Because good is dumb...
First and still the best (Score:5, Interesting)by spaceyhackerlady (462530) on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @01:59PM (#46931237)
My fave is still the original Star Wars. It was fresh, it was new, yes, it was hokey, but it worked. Check your sophistication at the door and enjoy the ride!
I find the prequel movies unwatchable.
Some things never change: when The Empire Strikes Back was imminent, they re-released Star Wars in the theatres to get some buzz going. It was accompanied by a short, a trip to the Moon, assembled from NASA footage. Some younger members of the audience expressed loud displeasure at the "fake" movie. They didn't read the credits where it said "Filmed on location by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration".
The Clone Wars Animated Series (Score:4, Informative)
Was pretty darn good as I remember. Not a movie I know, but worth mentioning.
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New Perspective (Score:5, Interesting)
I recently watched thru all 6 episodes in the order they "should be" (started at Episode 1, went straight thru to 6), and I have to say that I have a new perspective on them all. It was NOT what I expected and remembered thru the fog of memory.
- Episode 1 -- still very terrible. easily the weakest of all movies. Does a poor job setting up the story, the characters, the universe, the Force (a very vague reference to bacteria, but nothing beyond that -- what does that even mean?), everything. Not very much action; one of the "biggest" moments is the podrace which is neither in the Stars nor is it a War. Whenever a character tried to explain something, Jar Jar would appear and scream over the lines and take away focus.
- Episode 2 -- much better than I remembered. Jar Jar is not a significant character. It actually does have a fair amount of intrigue/mystery (where the clones came from), and the battle of Geonosis is pretty decent. The main downside -- and probably why most think of it as lower than it actually is -- is the chemistry between Anakin and Padme. It's a little rushed and unnatural, but even that on a second viewing wasn't quite as bad as I remembered. It's more of a pacing issue than anything, and I think Episode 5 has a lot of the same problems.
- Episode 3 -- I actually like what they tried to do with setting up the Jedi Council and the President/Emperor as being suspicious of each other, and tried to keep it vague who was working for who (even though we know the answer, the movie itself I think handled it well). The fighting and battles were much better, the characters finally seemed to be a lot more developed. The main part I didn't like was Anakin's turn so quickly -- again, it actually wasn't too badly done, he has a lot of good motivation if you can keep up, but its a pacing issue. Having characters like Chewbacca show up at the end didn't quite make sense with the continuity, but actually overall I thought it was a strong movie.
- Episode 4 -- actually much weaker than I remember. Doesn't do a very good job of setting up the characters, or story. Just an action flick. Luke especially is extremely whiny. Leia and Han are alright characters, but they don't get enough screen time to develop. C-3P0 actually is like a toned down Jar Jar -- whenever someone is about to say something important, he blathers and worries about something. R2-D2 actually has more of a screen presence and personality than most of the characters. Another interesting thing I noticed is that apart from the first scene of the movie, Darth Vader does not make much of a presence; flying the fighter against Luke at the end doesn't really make him that special other than a commanding officer; he's not nearly as "scary" as I remembered. The Imperial officers actually argue with him a lot and don't take him that seriously. The Death Star being destroyed isn't any less ridiculous than the prequel.
- Episode 5 -- After the initial battle of Hoth, which was pretty good, the action slows down a lot. This is to focus on character development, which the movie does a good job of overall. But Luke is still a whiny character (like father like son?), and Han and Leia's relationship developing is also an issue with pacing -- good presentation, but Leia suddenly liking him seemed to be just as quick as the Anakin/Padme romance. It works a little better because Leia is more expressive with her anger at Han than Padme had toward Anakin (Padme always kept composure), but otherwise I think very similar. Also, Darth Vader seems a little too much in the background of most scenes -- it's implied he does a lot, but we never see him DO it on the screen, so can't really take him seriously yet. In fact, apart from the battle of Hoth at the beginning, you kind of forget an Empire exists because the story focuses so much on following Luke and Han. That's fine to develop characters but there isn't really any sense of urgency of fighting this big empire. 3PO still annoying, R2D2 kind of bad-ass.
- Episode 6 -- until the Ewoks
Yeah Lucas always sucked at writing dialog, especially romance scenes. I remember reading that his wife at the time rewrote a lot of the romance scenes because they were even worse in early drafts.
Yeah Lucas always sucked at writing dialog, especially romance scenes. I remember reading that his wife at the time rewrote a lot of the romance scenes because they were even worse in early drafts.
My favourite... "Being with you is
His wife must have let that one slide by...
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Randal Graves: Which did you like better? "Jedi" or "The Empire Strikes Back"?
Dante Hicks: "Empire".
Randal Graves: Blasphemy.
Dante Hicks: "Empire" had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All "Jedi" had was a bunch of Muppets.
How exactly did episodes 1-3 even make it on this list? Moreover, who in their right mind actually clicked on them??
The summer of '77 was awesome, and the hot ticket was this new movie called Star Wars.
I saw it from about the fourth row, looking up at a screen that was gigantic, and I was mesmerized because the special effects were so advanced for the time. The storyline wasn't awesome, but it was certainly entertaining. With Alec Guiness, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher in the cast, the story moved along nicely.
Episode V was still pretty good, but I think the movies went downhill from there.
It came out when I was 6 or 7. It was enthralling. I wish I could re-experience seeing that movie, at that age, with having only previously seen pre-1977 special effects.
Seriously, the guy can't act his way out of a paper bag. How he keeps getting roles in movies is beyond me.
Return of the with Darth Mouse and Lord Walt [youtube.com] is some epic shit.
I can't wait to see the creativity of this in theaters. Sadly the movie could be just like it is above and I bet there will still be some hardcore nerds who will wait until 12am in line for hours to see it.


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Duke and North Carolina tangle Feb. 12 in Chapel Hill and March 8 in Durham. North Carolina and N.C. State meet Feb. 1 in Chapel Hill and Feb. 26 at Raleigh.
The lone N.C. State / Duke game is set for Jan. 18 in Durham. Wake Forest's ACC home slate begins with North Carolina on Jan. 5 and ends with Duke on March 5.
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verb de·lib·er·ate \di-ˈli-bə-ˌrāt\
: to think about or discuss something very carefully in order to make a decision
Full Definition of DELIBERATE
intransitive verb
: to think about or discuss issues and decisions carefully
transitive verb
: to think about deliberately and often with formal discussion before reaching a decision
See deliberate defined for kids
Examples of DELIBERATE
- The jury deliberated for two days before reaching a verdict.
- They will deliberate the question.
First Known Use of DELIBERATE
14th century
Related to DELIBERATE
- Synonyms
- chew over, cogitate, consider, contemplate, debate, ponder, entertain, eye, kick around, meditate, mull (over), perpend, pore (over), question, revolve, ruminate, study, think (about or over), turn, weigh, wrestle (with)
See Synonym Discussion at think
Rhymes with DELIBERATE
abbreviate, abominate, accelerate, accentuate, accommodate, acculturate, accumulate, adjudicate, adulterate, affiliate, agglomerate, alienate, alleviate, alliterate, amalgamate, ameliorate, amyl nitrate, annihilate, annunciate, anticipate, apostolate, appreciate, appropriate, approximate, arpeggiate, articulate, asphyxiate, assassinate, asseverate, assimilate, associate, at any rate, attenuate, authenticate, barbiturate, bicarbonate, calumniate, capacitate, capitulate, catholicate, certificate, coagulate, coelenterate, collaborate, commemorate, commiserate, communicate, compassionate, concatenate, conciliate, confabulate, confederate, conglomerate, congratulate, consolidate, contaminate, cooperate, coordinate, corroborate, deactivate, debilitate, decapitate, decelerate, decerebrate, deconcentrate, deconsecrate, decorticate, decrepitate, de-escalate, defibrinate, defoliate, degenerate, delineate, demodulate, denominate, depopulate, depreciate, deracinate, deregulate, desegregate, desiderate, detoxicate, devaluate, diaconate, dilapidate, discriminate, disintegrate, disseminate, dissimulate, dissociate, domesticate, effectuate, ejaculate, elaborate, electroplate, eliminate, elucidate, emaciate, emancipate, emasculate, encapsulate, enumerate, enunciate, episcopate, equivocate, eradicate, etiolate, evacuate, evaluate, evaporate, eventuate, eviscerate, exacerbate, exaggerate, exasperate, excited state, excogitate, excoriate, exfoliate, exhilarate, exonerate, expatiate, expatriate, expectorate, expostulate, expropriate, extenuate, exterminate, extrapolate, facilitate, felicitate, fish or cut bait, garrison state, gesticulate, habilitate, habituate, hallucinate, humiliate, hydrogenate, hypothecate, illuminate, impersonate, inactivate, inaugurate, incarcerate, incinerate, incorporate, incriminate, indoctrinate, inebriate, infatuate, infuriate, ingratiate, ingurgitate, initiate, inoculate, inseminate, insinuate, instantiate, intercalate, interpolate, interrelate, interrogate, intimidate, intoxicate, invalidate, investigate, invigorate, irradiate, Italianate, Korea Strait, lanceolate, legitimate, luxuriate, mandarinate, manipulate, matriarchate, matriculate, Merthiolate, necessitate, negotiate, noncandidate, obliterate, officiate, Orange Free State, orientate, originate, oxygenate, participate, particulate, patriarchate, patriciate, perambulate, peregrinate, perpetuate, pontificate, precipitate, predestinate, predominate, prefabricate, premeditate, preponderate, prevaricate, procrastinate, prognosticate, proliferate, propitiate, proportionate, quadruplicate, quintuplicate, reciprocate, recriminate, recuperate, redecorate, reduplicate, reeducate, refrigerate, regenerate, regurgitate, reincarnate, reintegrate, reiterate, rejuvenate, remunerate, repatriate, repudiate, resuscitate, retaliate, reticulate, revaluate, reverberate, scholasticate, second estate, self-flagellate, self-immolate, self-pollinate, seventy-eight, sextuplicate, Singapore Strait, sophisticate, subordinate, substantiate, syllabicate, tergiversate, transliterate, triangulate, vanity plate, variegate, vaticinate, vituperate, vociferate
adjective de·lib·er·ate \di-ˈli-bə-rət, -ˈlib-rət\
: done or said in a way that is planned or intended : done or said on purpose
: done or decided after careful thought
: slow and careful
Full Definition of DELIBERATE
: characterized by or resulting from careful and thorough consideration <a deliberate decision>
: characterized by awareness of the consequences <deliberate falsehood>
: slow, unhurried, and steady as though allowing time for decision on each individual action involved <a deliberate pace>
— de·lib·er·ate·ly adverb
— de·lib·er·ate·ness noun
Examples of DELIBERATE
- She spoke in a clear, deliberate manner.
- He advocates a slow and deliberate approach to the problem.
Origin of DELIBERATE
Middle English, from Latin deliberatus, past participle of deliberare to consider carefully, perhaps alteration of *delibrare, from de- + libra scale, pound
First Known Use: 15th century
Related to DELIBERATE
- Synonyms
- advised, calculated, considered, knowing, measured, reasoned, studied, thoughtful, thought-out, weighed
- Antonyms
- casual, unadvised, uncalculated, unconsidered, unstudied
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WASHINGTON, DC – December 2, 2013 – A team of Danish investigators has shown how to identify pathogens faster, directly from clinical samples. The research, published online ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology appears in the journal's January 2014 issue.
The investigators used a technique known as whole genome sequencing to identify and completely characterize bacteria causing urinary tract infections. In just 18 hours, they identified the culprit microorganisms, characterized the pathogens' patterns of antibiotic susceptibility, and identified specific strains.
"Using conventional methodologies this would have taken several days to weeks, and even using whole genome sequencing on cultured bacteria would have taken an extra day," says Frank M. Aarestrup of the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, an author on the study.
Their work will help patients heal more quickly and avoid unnecessarily prolonged illness and even death. It will also help prevent outbreaks of hospital-acquired disease, and identify emerging infections.
"Rapid identification of the causative agent, and of any antibiotic resistance is crucial to choosing the correct treatment for individual patients," says Aarestrup. "Choosing the wrong antibiotic will lead to longer infections and in the worst case, deaths."
The investigators also identified bacteria in the patient samples that they did not detect using conventional techniques. "Lactobacillus iners, Gardnerella vaginalis, Prevotella, and A. urinae have all been implicated in [urinary tract infections], even though their precise roles as pathogens and normal colonizers of the genital tract have not been firmly established," write the researchers. They note that by conventional methods A. urinae is rarely identified but frequently misclassified.
The ability to identify strains in patients with repeated infections enables the doctor to know whether the patient's infection is new, or recurrent. And the typing of bacterial strains enables rapid comparison of bacteria from different patients, so that doctors can detect the spread of infections within the hospital, and identify emerging infections.
"Whole genome sequencing may still be too expensive for routine use in most clinical microbial laboratories," the researchers write. But they predict that rapidly falling prices and automation will render it a standard technology for infection detection and control, in and out of the hospital.
A copy of the manuscript can be found online at http://bit.ly/asmtip1113c.
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The art of carrying on with your routines throughout the day without actually paying attention to what is going on around you, as if you're floating through the day. e.g, other people, conversations, distractions.
"Holy sh*t! Did you see that fat bitch trip up the curb? Hilarious!"
"...huh? Sorry man I was ghosting"
"...huh? Sorry man I was ghosting"
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V. To Ghost. The action of not attending a specific date, situation or function when it was previously decided that it would be attended. To duck out or to bail from the situation.
When John Smith failed to show up for classes that day, his classmates reffered to him as Ghosting that day.
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The act of ghosting on private torrent trackers is achieved by first downloading the .torrent, opening the file in your torrent client then once connected to a good amount of peers, the user then goes to the properties of the torrent connection and removes the private tracker "Tracker URL". In effect, unseen by the private torrent website's ratio counting systems. Used to get files for free without adding to your downloaded amount thus having a higher membership ratio.
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A term used to define the act of leaving.
"Hey Tiquisha, where's Tyrone?"
"He's ghosted."
"Man's gotta go yard! I'm ghosting."
"He's ghosted."
"Man's gotta go yard! I'm ghosting."
av LolalolalolaBAM 10 oktober 2012
A soccer term created by Brian Dunseth in 2011. The term describes a player switching into Stealth Mode and disappearing behind a defender.
This term can also refer to any type of sneak attack on a fellow human being.
This term can also refer to any type of sneak attack on a fellow human being.
Brian: Here he goes here, ghosting into the box, right there. Just ghosting right in.
av Joey Mackswell Lewis 30 augusti 2011
To put an edible thing('s) into a Females Vagina and then crushing the thing('s) up with her vagina and then spraying (misting) it out.
Travis: Hey, Samantha you enjoy ghosting last night?
Samantha: Oh yeah Travis, it was unique. I never knew my Vagina was so strong.
Dylan: What did you use?
Samantha: A COOKIE!
Dylan: I bet that tasted good Travis.
Samantha: Oh yeah Travis, it was unique. I never knew my Vagina was so strong.
Dylan: What did you use?
Samantha: A COOKIE!
Dylan: I bet that tasted good Travis.
av CanadaCaveMan 27 maj 2011
The act of quickly leaving a bar, party, or function during a blackout without telling any of your friends.
"What was up with the ghosting last night?" I have no idea. After that last shot of tequila I don't know what happened. I think I left my credit card at the bar.
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Eric "Sleepy" Floyd has an entire game named after him.
Not many athletes can say that.
Specifically, "The Sleepy Floyd game" where he went off for 51 points with Golden State against Los Angels in the 1987 NBA playoffs. The same "Showtime" Lakers with Magic, Kareem and fellow Gastonia native James Worthy.
The scoring point guard Floyd set a record for points in a quarter that night, pouring in 29 during the fourth — consistently taking to school two of the top defenders in the league at the time, Michael Cooper and Byron Scott. The Warriors earned their first win of the opening-round series that night but would eventually lose the series, 4-1. The Lakers would go on to win their fourth of five titles in the decade. Still, the game lives on as one of the top individual playoff performances in NBA history.
"Everything slowed down for me," Floyd recently told the Oakland Tribune. "It felt like I was wide open. But when I look at the tape and see the difficult shots I made, I see most of them were contested. It was just a perfect storm of events."
Long before that 1987 All-Star season, folks in Gastonia knew of Floyd's prowess. The son of Robert and Myrtle Floyd, Eric — nicknamed "Sleepy" when he was 8 years old and a ball rolled between his legs during a baseball game — stood out on the courts at the Erwin Center and later at Highland Junior High.
Floyd recalled his formative days on the court and believes the roots of his success were sewed by the many hours he spent on the courts — and against stiff competition — in Gastonia.
"I think about Bubba Wilson and Juan Smith and the great players that came before us," Floyd said. "Our entertainment was going to the park and playing. We had great role models and great teachers.
"We had to stay on the straight and narrow. They could punch you in the back and keep you in line — even if it wasn't your parents. It was an old school philosophy of discipline."
Floyd cemented his legend at Hunter Huss in 1977 as he led the Huskies to their first state title — defeating crosstown rival, Ashbrook, 60-59, at Greensboro Grimsley in the championship game. The win was sweet revenge for the Floyd and Huss, who had lost to Worthy and the Green Wave in the season's previous four meetings.
"You just saw a lot of talent. You would think about, 'What if we just had one high school with all of that talent? You could beat any high school in the state,'" said longtime Ashbrook coach Larry Rhodes about those Huss-Ashbrook battles. "It's uncanny how much (talent) there was."
His success at Huss didn't necessarily land him at Georgetown. Instead, legendary Hoyas coach John Thompson was tipped off by Clarence "Big House" Gaines about the 6-foot-3 guard from Gastonia. Thompson made one trip to the area to see Floyd play in a pick-up game and invited him to Georgetown for a campus visit. Floyd was sold.
"My older sister was at Howard at the time, but I didn't really know much about Georgetown," he said. "I was really impressed with my weekend there. I wasn't promised anything but a great education, and that stood out to me."
Floyd went on to become one of the most decorated players in Hoyas' history. He was an outside shooter, before the 3-point shot was instituted, and still amassed a school-record 2,304 points. Even with dominant center Patrick Ewing on the floor, Floyd led Georgetown in scoring each of his four years. He also ranks second in Georgetown history in steals.
But of course, the 1982 national championship game matchup with Worthy's North Carolina squad will always be what many — especially in Gaston County — remember about his college career. In a tightly contested battle in the New Orleans Superdome, the Tar Heels edged Georgetown, 63-62, thanks to a late shot in the corner by then-freshman Michael Jordan. Similar to their days in Gastonia, Floyd and Worthy were two of the top performers that night with Worthy scoring 28 on his way to Most Outstanding Player honors and Floyd posting a balanced effort with 18 points, five assists and three rebounds.
"It was amazing … to have two guys from Gastonia play in the national championship game in New Orleans in front of 64-65,000 people and to have our story told on national TV. It was great for the city," Floyd said. "There were a lot of people from Huss rooting for Georgetown, and of course a lot of people rooting for North Carolina. People were torn. I still have people come up to me today and talk about James and I and what that did for Gastonia.
"The two schools were so prominent. The two coaches (Thompson and Dean Smith) we played for were leaders of men forever. We were both so blessed to go against each other in that game."
The 13th pick by the New Jersey Nets in 1982, Floyd's pro career spanned 13 years. His most productive stretch was his 1983-88 stint with Golden State, then the following three years with Houston. He finished his NBA career averaging 12.8 points and 5.4 assists per game.
"Playing in the NBA was a total blessing of an opportunity. The relationships I've developed, basketball allowed me to do so much," Floyd said.
Floyd, who currently lives in Charlotte and is a brand ambassador for the mattress, bedding and pillow company Comfort Revolution, has a son, Evan, who followed in his footsteps and attends Georgetown. Evan is a junior business major. His daughter, Cori, is a sophomore pre-med major at UNC who is a hurdler and relay runner on the Lady Tar Heels' track and field team.
The 53-year-old is also working with Coca-Cola to help build-up parks and recreation departments in inner cities.
Floyd said he is honored to be inducted into the Gaston County Sports Hall of Fame.
"It feels extremely good to be recognized by the place that gave you a foundation as far as my work ethic and organizing my thoughts, beliefs and goals wanting to achieve something," he said. "It's a great honor."
Eric "Sleepy" Floyd
Born: March 3, 1960
Education: Hunter Huss 1978, Georgetown 1982
Accomplishments: Floyd shined in all levels of basketball. In high school, he helped his alma mater to its first state title in 1977 in a dramatic win over crosstown rival Ashbrook and its star (and fellow Gaston Sports Hall of Famer) James Worthy. In college, he and Patrick Ewing starred as Georgetown advanced to the 1982 NCAA title game it lost to North Carolina due to Worthy's MVP performance and a late-game shot by Michael Jordan. And, finally, in the NBA, Floyd earned a berth in the 1987 All-Star Game as a member of the Golden State Warriors to join Worthy as the lone NBA All-Stars in county history. A member of the Georgetown Hall of Fame, Floyd was Huss' second 1,000-point career scorer, a member of the inaugural All-Big East team in 1980 and spent 13 NBA seasons playing for four teams. Floyd remains an NBA record-holder for playoff points in a quarter (29) and half (39) in a 1987 playoff game against Worthy's Los Angeles Lakers.