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"There are real dividing lines in the history of philosophy, but the one between the "analytic" and the "Continental" isn't one of them, though it's interesting today from a sociological point of view, since it allows graduate programs in philosophy to define spheres of permissible ignorance for their students."More here.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Leiter Nails It
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Yes. He makes the same point near the end of the philosophy bites episode. This is very insightful.
- December 19, 2011 at 2:55 PM
He's surely right about that, but I think that's a rather obvious point except to the hardliners on either end.
This is a much better nail-job:
"...far more harm, in my view, has been done to Marx by moralists like G.A. Cohen than by any of the post-modernists.... calling for a moralistic change in the consciousness of individuals, regardless of historical circumstances. This latter, Christian turn in Cohen's thought represents as profound a betrayal of Marxism as Habermas' attempt to supply it a Kantian foundation - in this respect, both Anglophone and "Continental" Marxism betray Marx's original realism.
- December 19, 2011 at 3:56 PM
I take it that Leiter is making some sort of an objection here, but actually, it is necessary to define spheres of permissible ignorance (no one can know everything). I want a reason to believe that the analytic/continental distinction is particularly *bad* way to define spheres of permissible ignorance.
- December 19, 2011 at 4:01 PM
I'm not sure I find Leiter's reasoning particularly persuasive. Perhaps this is in part because Leiter doesn't conceive of the distinction in the same way that I do. And perhaps he thinks of it as more black and white than I do.
I treat philosophy as analytic to the extent that it exhibits clarity of argument, argumentative rigor, precise use of terminology that is defined as clearly as possible, and so forth. Philosophy is continental to the extent that it lacks these obvious virtues. On this understanding, it's patently obvious that there is a distinction being marked, and it's a distinction well-worth marking. Obviously there will be borderline cases, but so what?
- December 19, 2011 at 4:54 PM
But Leiter points out that by your criterion, Michael Dummett is not an analytic philosopher.
- December 19, 2011 at 10:27 PM
So Aquinas was an analytic philosopher?
- December 19, 2011 at 10:30 PM
Reports of the demise of the analytic-continental distinction are exaggerated, if not false. They're in fashion, of course,and yeah, the distinction oversimplifies. But, as Harvey Keitel's "Wolf" puts it in Pulp Fiction, "Let's not start sucking each other's dicks yet." For one thing, we can still identify analytic and continental philosophers -- we know who's which -- with much more ease than we can account for the difference itself (differences are funny that way, as one hackneyed analytic-but-European philosopher famously taught).
In Philosophy Bites, Leiter himself uses the point that Bernard Williams is an analytic philosopher as a counterexample to many of the alleged trademarks of analytic philosophy, and therefore as a way of showing there's nothing to the distinction. Except the example is self-refuting, because it depends on the obviousness that Williams was, after all, an analytic philosopher. Which he was. So how do we know that for sure, unless there's something it is like to be analytic and not continental?
- December 20, 2011 at 3:05 AM
I thought he used Williams as an example of someone whom everyone safely assumes is an "analytic" philosopher and someone who so self-identifies, but then asks what he has in common with Frege, or something like that?
- December 20, 2011 at 7:48 AM
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- December 20, 2011 at 8:55 AM
It seems to me that Leiter talks the talk but does not walk the walk. If he truly believed that the analytic/continental distinction is only useful for non-philosophical purposes, then why does the PGR have a specialty in 20th century continental philosophy? Why not just rank based on whether someone is working in, say, political philosophy? I find it most amusing that, for example, Rawlsians are evaluated as "political philosophers" whereas Habermasians are evaluated as "Continental philosophers." Just because Habermas is German? Ridiculous...
- December 20, 2011 at 8:59 AM
How do you know that's how "Habermasians" are evaluated? There are some Habermasians as evaluators for the political philosophy category. And couldn't this objection apply to 17th-Century Philsophy as a category too? Isn't the distinction between scholars of figures in a period and those doing philosophy?
- December 20, 2011 at 11:03 AM
I want to go back to the point about permissible ignorance. I think that's a genuinely important issue. Leiter's right that folks in the analytic world act as if it is permissible for them to be ignorant of continental philosophy. But why is that bad? And what's a better way? Leiter seems to think that the analytic/continental distinction ought to be supplanted by other distinctions, such as the naturalist/non-naturalist distinction. But it would be a really bad idea for folks in the naturalist tradition to be ignorant of the non-naturalist tradition. (Just imagine a Cornell realist in metaethics who is completely ignorant of Moorean realism!) So, the naturalist/non-naturalist distinction does not provide an adequate basis for spheres of permissible ignorance. But again, what's a better way to go?
- December 20, 2011 at 11:12 AM
Anonymous 10:27 and 10:30, I fail to see how you might possibly think you're raising an objection to my criterion. Perhaps Dummett and Aquinas aren't clear cases. Perhaps Dummett and Aquinas are borderline cases. So what? Only a weak mind would infer from that fact, if it is a fact, that there there is no distinction to be marked.
- December 21, 2011 at 5:32 AM
5:32, the objection isn't that those are unclear cases. It's that your criterion gets the classification wrong.
- December 21, 2011 at 7:15 AM
5:32 Of course there is a distinction. but your criteria don't track it at all. But then again, I do have a pretty weak mind.
- December 21, 2011 at 10:01 AM
"5:32 Of course there is a distinction. but your criteria don't track it at all. But then again, I do have a pretty weak mind."
This barely qualifies as sardonic, when there was an opening for all-out, contemptuous beratement!
Spiros needs to pick up the moderation a bit around here.
- December 21, 2011 at 12:46 PM
4:01 conflates "forgivable" with "permissible." Or so it seems to me.
- December 21, 2011 at 12:56 PM
I don't see what's so bad about classifying Aquinas as an analytic philosopher. On this point--as indeed on all points--some distinctions are in order. Peter van Inwagen puts one relevant distinction this way:
"Analytical philosophy may be thought of as a particular or as a universal.
As a particular, it is a confluence of streams of thought whose springs were in Britain, Austria, Poland and the United States. It has an early-classical or "Cambridge" period (the period of Russell, Moore, and the Tractatus), a middle-classical or "Viennese" period (Carnap and the logical positivists), a late-classical or "Oxford" period (Austin and the "philosophers of ordinary language" and—with apologies to Cambridge University—Philosophical Investigations), and a post-classical or "American" period (Quine, Putnam, Kripke, and David Lewis). (This neat schema, like most neat schemata, is rather too neat and rather too schematic. For one thing, it omits many items that are essential to the story of analytical philosophy: the great pre-positivist philosophers of Austria; Frege; the Lwów-Warsaw school; American pragmatism.)
Thought of as a universal, analytical philosophy is something that recurs periodically in the history of philosophy. Aristotle was an analytical philosopher by any reasonable definition of 'analytical', as were most of the medieval philosophers (both Christian and Muslim), the so-called British Empiricists and Continental Rationalists, and many of the classical philosophers of India. (I'm of two minds about whether Kant belongs in this list.) When I, a fairly typical post-classical analytical philosopher read texts from any of these sources, I know that their authors and I are "up to the same sort of thing"—which is certainly not my reaction when I read the work of Plotinus or Rousseau or Heidegger. They are philosophers of other times and other cultures, but I nevertheless recognize them as colleagues, "fellows of another college," as Littlewood said of the Greek mathematicians."
- December 21, 2011 at 3:27 PM
amb, for the record, I agree about Aquinas. (I think I would mark him 'hors categorie', myself, but if someone wants him with the analytics, I won't argue.)
My point was that the objections weren't about vagueness or borderline cases, but about misclassification.
(This is 7:15AM)
- December 21, 2011 at 5:35 PM
"Public intellectual"? Really?
- December 22, 2011 at 12:05 AM
"I treat philosophy as analytic to the extent that it exhibits clarity of argument, argumentative rigor, precise use of terminology that is defined as clearly as possible, and so forth. Philosophy is continental to the extent that it lacks these obvious virtues. On this understanding, it's patently obvious that there is a distinction being marked, and it's a distinction well-worth marking. Obviously there will be borderline cases, but so what?"
Except that "continental" does not mean "unclear, non-rigorous, etc." If you're going to make a distinction - and at the same time note your terminological clarity - why not use more precise terms? As adjectives, analytical and continental aren't opposites. It's like deciding that there are two kinds of apples: baking apples and New York State apples.
As it's often the analytic philosophers who insist on this distinction - and that same group prides itself on its terminological clarity - why not at least be more precise in the distinction?
- December 27, 2011 at 2:14 PM


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Wed Jul 7 5:40:23 EDT 2010, St Pierre, France
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Issuma at the dock in historic Louisbourg, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. In the background, totally obscured by our frequent companion Fog, is Louisbourg.
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So far, every single law seeking to restrict the sale of violent video games has been struck down by the federal courts; it would seem that such legislation is a losing proposition. So how else might the government try to regulate our favorite pastime? Writing for Joystiq, lawyer and gamer Mark Methenitis offers two possible scenarios which censorcrats might seek to employ.
The first is to impose content restrictions – not on the type of violence that can be shown but on the type of stories that can be told or the types of characters presented. The idea here would be to ensure that games are politically correct so as not to offend anyone and prevent flaps over perceived racism in games like Resident Evil 5, Left 4 Dead 2, or Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood. Of course, this still boils down to regulating speech so it's not likely to be any more successful in the courts than restricting violent content has been.
The second is an idea presented by Jack Thompson during his debate with Methenitis at SGC09 earlier this month. Thompson speculated that the Obama administration might address America's obesity issues by regulating our play time. But how? The government can't just march into your home and turn off your Xbox. While there is no indication that Obama is planning any such thing, Methenitis explains how such a scenario might work:
When the government wants you to stop doing something, they tax it. Alcohol is taxed. Tobacco is taxed. Certain kinds of less-fuel efficient cars are taxed. In short, the theory is "fewer people buy things at a higher cost." And it's something that can be levied against both retail sales and digital downloads.
Taxing games is not a new idea but with the economy the way it is, now seems like the absolute worst time to try it. Still, you never know. Methenitis:
It's always difficult to predict what the government may or may not do, or how the courts may or may not rule. The system, however, relies on the vigilance of the public to ensure that our rights are not infringed….
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Happy Birthday ... hope you have a great day... .
going for a run.. along with horse racing I run marathons.. see ya in a few miles ..
Del Mar race track has booked Weezer and Jimmy Eats World for the Summer concert series.. I think Papa Roach should be there??
the photos of Poland are amazing.. love the crowd surfers.... I am a crowd surfer... being tossed around on the crowd at a Proach concert.. .fun times.. guess making weight to ride race horses has it's advantages.. .. you can fly as a crowd surfer.. lol.. luv ya PRoach
never been to any of the 5.. .. been to Japan and the Emirates.. for horse racing.. .... love ya Papa Roach.. glad you are having a good time on tour.. .. I'm sure you guys will be happy to get home to your families.. .. and Jerry can drive some of those nice cars.. lol.. see ya in Calif
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GAITHERSBURG, Md. (WUSA)--Montgomery County Police are trying to stay on top of a disturbing trend-when warm weather hits, so does outdoor, underage drinking.
Police recently tracked down a group of teenage partiers in the Lakelands neighborhood of Gaithersburg. It all started with an anonymous tip and a wild walk through the woods, wading across a creek and under a bridge.
"The Sergeant approached them and they started running," said Montgomery County Police Officer John Borowski.
Teenage partiers leave behind a backpack and some beer cans in their rush to get away.
Adds Officer Borowski, "We had a younger female hop the fence on us. We had to go after her."
Police surround the woods on all sides, so the teens have no place to run.
Under arrest, six teenage girls-students at Frost Middle School and Quince Orchard High School. The 14 and 15 year-olds tell police they'd been playing spin the bottle-as a drinking game.
Also detained, an 18 year-old boy who tried to run from police. So did this 15 year-old girl, who is defiant.
"None of us here are drunk," insists the girl.
But wait until the preliminary breathalyzer results come in.
"She is 14 years old, and she's a .17, twice the legal limit," says Police Officer Bill Morrison.
"I only had like this much," says a girl, gesturing with her hand and trying to minimize what's she's had to drink. "One beer and a little bit of vodka," she adds.
Shouts Police Sergeant Mark White to a group of girls who are mouthing off, "You have something to say? Then say it loud enough, okay?" He then separates them.
"Stand up," he says. "Stand up. Stand up!"
The 18 year-old had rum and coke in his backpack. Taken from his own home, he says.
Officer Morrison asks him, "You didn't supply any of the alcohol? You just brought that?"
"Yes, sir," he responds.
Asks Morrison, "And that's all you brought?"
"Yes, sir," says the teen.
Morrison then asks, "So if I ask all these other kids, they're going to tell me just that, right?"
"That's correct," the teen responds.
Another officer asks him the date of his last arrest. This isn't the teen's first run-in with the law. Just two months ago, he was busted for marijuana possession.
Nearby, a 14-year-old girl cries while on the phone with her father.
"I'm so sorry," she sobs.
She is the only one of the girls who is visibly upset.
"Don't be mad at me," she cries. Her father is in federal law enforcement.
"You're gonna hate me. You're gonna hate me," she says through tears.
The 18-year-old is released with a court date. And one-by-one, fathers come to pick up their underage daughters.
The 14-year-old girl cries to her father, "I'm sorry."
He responds angrily, "Shut up!"
Another father puts his hand over our photographer's camera lens.
"Do not take any pictures," the father shouts.
Some are angry, like this father, who is collecting his twins. Others appear indifferent.
Officer Borowski explains, "Typically, they might act surprised, some of them might discipline their child right then and there. Other ones say it's the police's fault. When they say so and so, you violated my child's rights and so forth."
Four of the six girls were drinking. Two were not. But all six will be cited.
The two girls who were not drinking still received alcohol citations because of something known as constructive possession. It means they were so close to the illegal activity, they clearly knew it was happening and could have easily been participating themselves.
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One top official wants gun makers in seven states to flee critics and move to Mississippi.
House Speaker Philip Gunn sent letters Thursday to 14 gun manufacturers. He suggests the companies should move to Mississippi, "where their industry and jobs will be appreciated."
The companies are in Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and North Carolina.
Leaders from other states have sent letters to some or all of the companies asking them to relocate to their areas, including Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, South Carolina U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan and officials from Idaho, Pennsylvania and Wyoming.
Gunn's targets include firearms makers in New Hampshire and North Carolina, states with little apparent movement toward tighter gun restrictions.
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It starts with lack of strength training and mobility exercises, poor running mechanics, overuse, and sitting for long periods of time. These eight exercises will help loosen the hip flexors, and strengthen the surrounding stabilizing muscles. Finding the time to execute these exercises can save you from time off due to injury.
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Hip strengthening and mobility exercises should be a part of your routine, whether you're dealing with an injury or not.
Basic exercises like the clamshell and side step are very effective and should be done two to three times a week. The more advanced exercises like the TRX lunge and the single-leg deadlift are great for building balance, and will help detect any imbalances in your legs.
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Lie on your side with your knees slightly bent and legs and ankles together. You can rest your head on an outstretched arm during the exercise. Then open and close your knees like a clam.
Keep your feet together throughout the movement and move slowly to work all of the muscles the exercise involves.
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Take a resistance band and, keeping it flat, place it just above each ankle. Your feet should be shoulder-width apart while bending your knees slightly into a half-squat position. Maintain the half-squat position, than take a lateral step (sideways).
Take 8 to 10 steps in the same direction; be sure to keep your hips level throughout the exercise. Complete three to four sets on each side.
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While prone on the floor, place a lacrosse ball one to two inches to the right or left side of your belly button. Put your forearms on the floor for support; this will look like a plank. Roll the lacrosse ball down towards your femur using small movements.
The psoas accelerates hip flexion and decreases hip extension. It is the most powerful hip flexor in the body, and is used in every running stride. It is often overactive in runners and people who sit at their jobs.
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Lie prone on the floor. Place a foam roller perpendicular to your leg to target the quads.
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Overactive adductors can be one of the causes of your knees moving inward toward the midline of the body during movement (also known as knock knee).
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Lie on your right side, and place the foam roller in a perpendicular position under your hip. Use your hands or forearms as support, cross your left leg over your right leg, and put your left foot flat on the floor.
Roll from your hip down to just above your knee.
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Kneel on left knee, with your lower leg and foot against a box or bench. Put your right foot flat on the floor out in front of you. Keep your right knee aligned with your foot.
Drive hips forward until you feel a stretch in your left quad. Activate your glutes and core while holding the stretch. Hold for 30 seconds to 2 minutes.


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Chicago, IL (Sports Network) - Pablo Sandoval and Angel Pagan each drove in a
pair of runs to help the San Francisco Giants to a 7-6 come-from-behind
decision over the Chicago Cubs in the opener of a four-game series from
Wrigley Field.
Nick Noonan went 3-for-5 with two runs scored in his first major league start
for San Francisco, which rallied from a 5-0 deficit after three innings to
register a fourth straight victory.
Ryan Vogelsong (1-1) rebounded from a shaky showing early on to notch his
first win of 2013, while Sergio Romo earned his MLB-leading sixth save by
protecting the Giants' one-run lead in the ninth.
Vogelsong surrendered five runs -- four earned -- on eight hits in six innings
of work, but struck out five batters and held the Cubs scoreless over his
final three frames.
Cubs starter Scott Feldman (0-2) took the loss after permitting six runs --
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that opened the floodgates in a four-run top of the fourth -- in 4 1/3
Anthony Rizzo had a two-run homer and Brent Lillibridge added a two-RBI single
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Columbia, SC (WLTX) --- The University of South Carolina made a nice jump in the latest BCS Rankings. The Gamecocks are now ranked eighth in the rankings. They were previously ranked 13th.
With the help of teams ahead of them losing coupled with their 38-35 shooutout win over Tennessee, the Gamecocks were able to climb in the polls. Their rival, the Clemson Tigers, also improved. The Tigers are now ranked 13th in the BCS. They were 18th a week ago.
Here's what the top ten of the BCS looks like:
1. Alabama (.9759)
2. Kansas State (.9400)
3. Notre Dame (.9147)
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(SportsNetwork.com) - Jon Lester eyes his fourth win this postseason on Monday
when the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals play a pivotal Game 5 of the
World Series at Busch Stadium.
Lester gave the Red Sox the early advantage in this series, as he scattered
five hits over 7 2/3 scoreless innings to nail down the Game 1 win and improve
to 3-1 this postseason, while lowering his ERA to 1.67.
He is also 2-0 lifetime in the World Series and has yet to allow a run in 13
2/3 innings.
"His physical strength and endurance is unique," said Red Sox manager John
Farrell. "I think the one thing we all recognize is that power stuff wins in
the postseason. He's got it. He maintains it. And in addition to his physical
strengths, there's a degree of concentration that he's capable of maintaining
that gives him the ability to execute consistently."
Of course, during his Game 1 win a St. Louis Cardinals minor leaguer tweeted
out a picture and suggested that Lester may be hiding a foreign substance in
his glove. Videos then surfaced and the story seemed to take on a life of its
own before the Cardinals and Major League Baseball both said there was nothing
to it.
"I'm sure there's going to be a focus on my glove and focus on my hands and
what I'm doing, but I've got to worry about the Cardinals," said Lester. "If
I'm worried about what people are looking at, I'm worried about the wrong
things. I'm going to go out and pitch my game."
St. Louis, meanwhile, will turn to its ace Adam Wainwright, who will be trying
to bounce back from a poor showing in that Game 1 assignment. Wainwright lost
his second straight postseason start in that one and allowed five runs --
three earned -- and six hits in five innings.
The NL wins leader this season with 19, Wainwright is 2-2 this postseason with
a 2.25 ERA.
"I honestly don't know why my mechanics were as bad as they were, why my
delivery was off as much as it was," Wainwright said. "But I feel like I've
put in a lot of good reps in front of the mirror and watching film and feeling
my delivery, learning the basics all over again. I feel like I've made a lot
of good adjustments to be ready to throw some quality pitches the next time. I
threw maybe four or five quality pitches the whole time I was pitching (in
Game 1)."
Wainwright is 4-0 with a 1.07 ERA in eight postseason games -- four starts --
in St. Louis.
Boston evened this best-of-seven set at two games apiece on Sunday with a 4-2
win, as Jonny Gomes cracked a three-run homer in the sixth inning to break a
tie and David Ortiz reached base in all four plate appearances.
The Red Sox bounced back nicely after losing Game 3 Saturday night on the
first walk-off obstruction call in World Series history.
Sunday's game ended abruptly with a pickoff when Red Sox closer Koji Uehara
caught Kolten Wong leaning off first base with Carlos Beltran at the plate as
the tying run for the Cardinals. Wong said his foot slipped as he turned to
get back to the bag.
"I knew I was dead," said Wong.
Gomes -- a late replacement when Shane Victorino was scratched from the lineup
because of lower back tightness -- homered into the Boston bullpen behind left
field with two outs off reliever Seth Maness, who had just entered for St.
Louis starter Lance Lynn.
"The one thing you can guarantee is when I'm in the lineup, I'm going to be
swinging," said Gomes.
Maness threw Gomes five sinkers, leaving the last one up in the zone.
"I just missed my spot," said Maness.
Beltran had an RBI single in the defeat for the Cardinals, who lost for the
first time this postseason when scoring first (8-1).
Of the previous 42 times that a World Series has been tied 2-2, the winner of
Game 5 has gone on to win the series 27 times, but just three times in the
last 10 occasions.
This is the 10th time that St. Louis has been in this position and has won
Game 5 just four times. However, it has gone on to win the series in eight of
those instances.
Boston, meanwhile, has been tied 2-2 three other times and has lost the
series on all three occasions, despite winning Game 5 twice.
This series will shift back to Fenway Park for Game 6 on Wednesday.
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Princess Solorgana dines with her grandmother
IT'S BEEN 29 years since the death of The Emperor. Princess Solorgana, the daughter of Leia and Han (still played by Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford) is leading a pampered but dull life in the imperial palace. Suddenly she is summoned on a quest by two comical droids, and seeks advice from her mentor, Uncle Luke (still played by Mark Hamill).
She starts a journey across the galaxy where she is destined to meet helpers and tricksters, fight increasingly difficult battles, enter a dark cave, confront The Ultimate Evil, go through a symbolic death and resurrection, grow as a person and bring the macguffin back to her people, who will stand and cheer at the end.
Mila Kunis ... has so much charisma she tends to dominate every film she's in.
That's how I'm confident Star Wars Episode VII will go, give or take a few characters and conversations, because it's the Disney formula. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It has been the structure of epics across millennia of human storytelling – as George Lucas well knew when he created the original Star Wars in 1977.
The generation between
Two weeks ago Lucas revealed he had sold the SW franchise to the Disney company for $4 billion, promising to devote his bonanza to educational charities. Disney immediately announced it was starting work on a sequel to the film we used to know as Return of the Jedi. It behoves us to help them get it right.
Australians have an investment to protect. The original Star Wars is the number four biggest ticket seller of all time in Australia, seen by six million of us when shown in 1977 and a further one million when the recut outraged nerds in 1997 (try putting "Han shot first" into google and you'll get 253,000 results).
We don't want another debacle like The Phantom Menace. We got our first clue that George Lucas had lost it with the crawl: "Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo."
Not suitable, even if she brings her own Ewok Photo: AP
Then he gave us Jar Jar Binks, fart jokes, and the midichlorians as a biological explanation of The Force. Before Disney makes similar blunders with SWVII, please offer your input on these questions:
Who should write it? Not George Lucas, obviously. He may have a knack for adapting archetypal narratives, but his dialogue is dreadful. At this point the first draft is being written by Michael Arndt, who won an Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine. So we know he has a sense of humour. Arndt was Oscar-nominated for Toy Story 3. So he can handle fantasy (and merchandising). And he wrote the screenplay for Catching Fire, part two of The Hunger Games, so he presumably has a sense of the political. But an epic needs at least four screenwriters. Tell us who else should be involved.
Who should direct it? Not George Lucas, obviously. He can juggle special effects, but he's hopeless with actors (Hayden Christensen as young Darth Vader?) The shortlist at the moment is Steven Spielberg (too sentimental); Christopher Nolan (too dark); Joss Whedon (too hip) and Peter Jackson (too longwinded). Tell us your choice.
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Who should star? Not Kristin Stewart, obviously. For the feisty princess, Disney will be tempted to go with an allegedly proven star, who showed fighting prowess in Snow White and the Huntsman, and a willingness to work nude in On The Road. But this character needs more than a sulky expression and a hot bod.
It's tempting to nominate Natalie Portman to play her own granddaughter, but she's too old. So is Scarlett Johansson, much as we enjoyed her moves in The Avengers. Mila Kunis seems ideal, but she has so much charisma she tends to dominate every film she's in, and SWVII should be be an ensemble piece. So who is your nomination for an action woman with a range of emotions and a sense of humour?
And what about the villain? Disney will play it safe and seek the services of Ralph Fiennes, but the universe must contain other interpretations of The Ultimate Evil.
The force is with you. To offer your suggestions on how Star Wars can regain its former glory, go to Comments. Here's an extra challenge: What if the writer, director and stars were all Australians?
You have just read the Who We Are column, by David Dale. It appears in printed form every Sunday in The Sun-Herald, and also as a blog on this website, where it welcomes your comments. David Dale teaches communications at UTS, Sydney. He is the author of The Little Book of Australia -- A snapshot of who we are (Allen and Unwin). For daily updates on Australian attitudes, bookmark The Tribal Mind.


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Facebook photos lead to arrests on gang and gun charges
Published: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 6:46 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 6:46 p.m.
Facebook photos resulted in the arrest of two Silver Springs men on weapons and gang-related charges.
Marion County sheriff's detectives reviewed the Facebook profiles of Mario D. McDonald, 23, and Joseph Wayne Edwards, 27, and found several recent photos of the two convicted felons holding a shotgun, according to a Sheriff's Office report.
Both were charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and with criminal street gang activity.
Detectives identified them as members of the "Crazy White Boys" criminal street gang. They said the photographs seen in the profile showed hand signs and clothing that they believe represent gang activity.
Based of the totality of what they saw and the use of social media, officials said they had probable cause for the arrests.
The men were picked up on Monday and taken to the Marion County Jail. Both are being held without bail.
Edwards also had outstanding warrants for grand theft and possession of drug paraphernalia.
In Marion County, gangs are not as active as in major cities, said a sheriff's official specializing in anti-gang work, who because of that did not wish to be identified. "But we're keeping a diligent eye on the ones we have."
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1956: Elvis Presley made the first of two appearances on "The Milton Berle Show." He sang "Heartbreak Hotel" and two other songs. He earned $5,000.
1959: "Charlie Brown" by The Coasters was banned by the BBC because it contained the word "spitball."
1973: Capitol Records released two Beatles greatest hits albums: one covering 1962 to 1966 and the other covering 1967 to 1970.
1996:Rapper MC Hammer filed for bankruptcy.
Today's Birthdays: Actress Marsha Mason is 72. Singer Wayne Newton is 72. Singer Billy Joe Royal is 72. Singer Tony Orlando is 70. Singer Richard Thompson is 65. Bassist Curtis Stone of Highway 101 is 64. Guitarist Mick Mars of Motley Crue is 58. Actor Alec Baldwin is 56. Actor David Hyde Pierce ("Frasier") is 55. Comedian-actor Eddie Murphy is 53. Singer-guitarist Mike Ness of Social Distortion is 52. Singer Sebastian Bach (Skid Row) is 46. Actress Jennie Garth ("Beverly Hills 90210") is 42. Actress Cobie Smulders ("How I Met Your Mother") is 32. Singer Leona Lewis is 29. Actress Amanda Bynes is 28.


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Denver, CO (Sports Network) - Danilo Gallinari poured in 12 of his 27 points
in the fourth quarter to help the Denver Nuggets pull away and take a 118-110
decision over the Houston Rockets on Wednesday at the Pepsi Center.
Gallinari made three of his four triples in the final frame, where Denver
outscored Houston by 11 points to capture its fifth straight victory and 12th
in the month of January. He also tied a career-high with four blocks.
Kenneth Faried added 19 points and nine boards, Ty Lawson scored 16 and Andre
Iguodala totaled 15 points with six assists in the Nuggets' sixth consecutive
win over Houston.
The Rockets came in winners of three in a row, but returned to their sluggish
defensive ways in allowing the Nuggets to shoot 51.2 percent from the field.
Jeremy Lin led the Rockets with 22 points, while Chandler Parsons and James
Harden each followed with 21. Omer Asik amassed 10 points and 18 rebounds in
the defeat.
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Touch 'em All: Jon Miller on constant travel, walking Barry Bonds and night terrors
With the Giants in town over the weekend, one of baseball's great broadcasters made a pit-stop in Kansas City. Jon Miller, "The Voice of the Giants" for the last 12 years and ESPN Sunday Night Baseball Play-by-Play man for the last 19 years, called the Giants versus Royals on Friday. Miller then took off Saturday to Chicago for ESPN's Sunday Night Game of the Week featuring the Cubs and White Sox with his partner, Joe Morgan. Miller has worked in baseball for 30 years and called 11 World Series. He's also broadcast hockey, basketball and soccer during his career calling sports.
While Miller wasn't in Kansas City very long, Around the Horn was able to snap a picture of him and set-up an interview for Sunday morning at 8 a.m. (We were probably his wake-up call). Miller was then gracious enough to give us a full 27 minutes of his time (we only asked for 15). In the interest of saving some bandwidth, here is a condensed version of the interview in what we at Around the Horn hope will become a semi-regular feature – Touch 'em All. We'll be rounding the bases, providing interviews with broadcasters, stadium personalities and anybody else who works in baseball and will give us at least five minutes. Here goes…
Around the Horn: Good morning Jon. How are you doing?
Jon Miller: Good.
ATH: Are you ready.
JM: Yea, sure.
ATH: Alright, let's do this. Here in Kansas City, we never really got to see Barry Bonds. He came here once in 2003 and we played in San Francisco once, but other than that, we never got to see him up close. How was covering Barry Bonds?
JM: For a broadcaster it was great because Bonds was the most exciting player in the game. Everything in a Giants game, the game really revolved around Bonds. He changed everything. The way the opposing manger managed was dictated by when Bonds was going to be coming up. Bonds would routinely draw walks with nobody on base – intentional walks, which you'd never seen.
Mike Scoscia in the World Series in 2002, would walk Bonds intentionally in the first inning with runners at first and second or a runner at first. He just wouldn't pitch to him – things that you never, ever saw. One game in 1998 when Buck Showalter was managing in Arizona, he walked Bonds in the ninth inning with the bases loaded intentionally. He actually walked in a run intentionally and actually moved the possible winning run into scoring position. I think the score was 8-7 after he walked him and there was the possible wining run at second base.
So not only did he do remarkable things, but remarkable things happened just because of his presence. In that way, as a broadcaster, it was great for us because there was always excitement.
ATH: Did you script your home run call of Barry's record-breaking 756th homer?
JM: I get that question a lot actually and I guess I could've. But the job is to capture the moment and how can you do that when it hasn't happened yet. It's not really possible to script it. I mean it is, but I just wanted to do it like any other moment that happens. I actually thought of some great lines afterward on my way home.
ATH: Other than the obvious excitement and enthusiasm toward the records, what's the atmosphere been like in San Francisco when all the TV cameras aren't there?
JM: The last three years, the Giants were not very good. A lot of those years, Bonds basically missed the whole year. He came back for a couple weeks in September. And then the following year he was there all year but didn't have a really good year. He finished well, but not the big year we were used to seeing. And last year when he played, he played well. But he had formerly been a guy who could hit for average, hit for power, steal bases and was a great outfielder. The last couple of years, he was not a fast runner anymore. He kind of clogged up the bases and couldn't really play outfield anymore.
He was really not a National League Player any longer. He had to play the outfield to be in the lineup, but he was not very good at it. So when he was in the lineup – I think he had about 340 or so official at-bats – he was still very good. He had 28 home runs and drew a lot of walks, partly because teams weren't afraid of anyone else in the lineup.
I think these last three years, the team was not good. The fans in San Francisco were tired of the team. It was an old team all three of those years. It was a team that did not have a lot of energy. They'd win big games in September and maybe win four in a row. And if they could just keep that going, they'd be back in the race. The problem was they'd win four in a row and half the lineup would need the day off. They were exhausted.
So I think fans were tired of that team. And considering that Barry was the face of that team, I think the fans were saying the same thing about Barry. I think a lot of people in San Francisco were unhappy last year that the team re-signed Barry. Because they were bringing back the same, basically old team. They were ready for something new at that point.
ATH: This is probably the most common question you have gotten this year, but how are things different without him?
JM: I think a lot of people wish that Bonds had just retired – announced his retirement and gone out that way, but I guess he felt he could still play. So the Giants said we need to go somewhere different. The net result is that people are very excited about this team, even though the record is not that good. They're very excited about all the new players.
I think at least eight players have made their Major League debut for the Giants this season. They've gone deep into the farm system. We've seen a lot of players we've never seen before and we're finding out that some of them can actually play. The best of them seem to be the young pitchers like Lincecum and Cain and Wilson, the closer. Emmanuel Burriss has been a great surprise, the young shortstop. He was at A-ball last year and he seems to be the heir-apparent to Omar Vizquel.
It's funny, the attendance is down, but I think they'll still draw 3 million fans. People are very excited about this team, even though the record isn't very good because they are seeing the future start to form right before their eyes. And after three bad years, I think people are very excited about it.
ATH: It seems like the fans in San Francisco may have something in common with the fans here in Kansas City. The anticipation here is peaking with a new manager and several young players growing on the field.
JM: Hey, those of us who were there Friday night were struck with the similarities. Not only did the teams have identical records, everything about the results was identical as well – their runs scored, runs allowed. But also the make up of the club with some veterans to kind of show the young guys the way and then a whole lot of young talent.
It could be that on the field, for everyday players, the Royals may be ahead of the Giants. Alex Gordon, although he hasn't fully blossomed yet, has the tools to be a star player. I don't think the Giants have anybody in the field yet that you would look at and say 'Well that guy's going to be the best player on the field.' Gordon still has the ability to be that. They've also got guys like Greinke and Hochevar and guys like that in the rotation that I think have the tools that they can be outstanding pitchers. If that pitching comes along, that's what makes a team competitive.
The Royals I think just had that one bad stretch for two weeks. And I think they play in a tougher league than the Giants. It's like NCAA college basketball; their strength of schedule is above the Giants. Everybody in the Giants division has a losing record except Arizona. And the Diamondbacks, after a great start to the season, have not played well for a long time. They are kind of living off that great start, otherwise over the last six or seven weeks, they have kind of fallen off the table like everybody else.
Obviously, the American League Central is one of the most competitive divisions with the White Sox and Cleveland and Detroit. Those are some monsters in that division. And even outside of the division you have to play the Red Sox, Tampa Bay, the Yankees and Anaheim and what not. So I think the Royals play a tougher schedule so they may already be beyond the Giants even though their records are very similar. Although ironically, it may be that their task is more difficult climbing back into being a contender.
ATH: So, you've got it set. Working for the Giants during the week and then every weekend you take off to work for ESPN. You're set.
JM: I think I get the big money for the flying. No, once I'm actually in the cities, I just have to be prepared, go to the ballpark and work the game. I get to go to the park everyday. It's fun being able to get away and see other teams other than the Giants and the National League games. I get to go to Fenway and catch Yankees-Red Sox. Or like, this weekend, see the Cubs-White Sox, which I think is one of the most exciting interleague series. Or leave the Giants and go see a couple of American League teams play. So, I have sort of the best of both worlds.
There is a lot of travel. The Giants on this trip are going to Kansas City and Cleveland. I'm going Kansas City, Chicago and then Cleveland. After a Thursday night game in Cleveland, the Giants go home and they play Oakland next Friday. It'll be one of those nights where they get in like two or three in the morning. And then make the drive over to Oakland. So I'll do that one game and then turn around and fly back to Chicago next Saturday for next week's Cubs-White Sox game.
So occasionally, travel can be a little brutal. But I still wouldn't want to trade jobs with many people. I think I've still got the best job going. That's the trade-off. In the eight months of the season when I go to Spring Training until the World Series is over, I'm probably away from home, five months out of that time. It's not ideal but that's the job and I'm fortunate to have it.
Every once in a while I wake-up in a sweat in the middle of the night and I realize I've just had a nightmare and they tell me "Baseball has gone away and you'll have to get a real job." Talk about a night terror.
ATH: Jon, that wraps it up for us. Thank you so much for your time this morning.
JM: Great, thanks a lot.


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|Rod Ellis to receive kidney from former HHS classmate Clay Warren
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
For over seven years Rod Ellis, formerly of Holyoke, has known he would eventually need a new liver. Knowing in advance, however, didn't make it any easier when he received the news from his nephrologist that he needed to begin looking for a living donor.
In February 2002 Ellis was diagnosed with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). The disease causes cysts to grow inside the kidney, slowing, and eventually stopping, kidney function. November 2008 Ellis and his wife Melodee began the tedious search for a willing person with a compatible blood type.
With many donation cases, close family is the best option for finding a match. Unfortunately, PKD is a genetic disease, ruling out Ellis's family as donors. This led the couple on a search to find a donor elsewhere.
Ellis now lives in Aurora, but his search went nationwide. In an April letter to the editor in the Enterprise he shared his story with his hometown community. He and his family and friends also got the word out via emails and facebook, hoping to find the answer to their prayers.
Two individuals contacted Ellis as prospective donors, but were declined. Although it was difficult for the Ellises to see their options turned away, they did not give up hope. Clay Warren, who graduated from Holyoke High School with Ellis in 1978, had heard about Ellis's need for a new kidney and contacted the family.
Warren is currently a youth minister in Puyallup, Wash. After prayer and discussion with his family, he knew he had made the right decision, and began to prepare for a kidney transplant. The process began in June with tests at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center (PSL) in Denver. On Aug. 12 he had his final test in Washington.
The transplant team met Aug. 19 to make their final decision about the surgery. Warren notified Ellis of their verdict with a text message reading, "Hey, I was wondering if you would like to get together sometime? Maybe play golf or have lunch or better yet, how about surgery." Ellis and his family were overjoyed at the news.
Now with the transplant date approved and set, Ellis and Warren are ready and waiting for their surgeries. The procedure will be completed at PSL on Sept. 3. Warren will have one of his kidneys removed to give to Ellis, and each will function with one kidney. Ellis is indescribably grateful for Warren's decision to donate. It is an 'extended gift of life,' said Ellis, to both him and his family.