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The detained captain of the Sewol ferry that sank off the coast of South Korea, leaving over 300 people missing or feared dead, has defended his decision to wait before ordering an evacuation by saying he was concerned passengers might "drift away and face many other difficulties".
68-year-old Lee Joon-seok was arrested early on Saturday, and faces five charges including negligence of duty and violation of maritime law after he "escaped before the passengers," according to Senior prosecutor Yang Jung-jin.
The ship's third mate, a 25-year-old woman identified only by her surname, Park, and helmsman Cho Joon-ki, 55, were also detained, and each face three related charges, according to the Yonhap news agency.
The accident occurred as the ship's crew were manoeuvring a turn, Prosecutor Park Jae-eok said, adding that investigators were looking at whether the third mate ordered a move so sharp that it caused the vessel to list.
Yang added that Lee was not on the bridge when the Sewol was passing through an area with many islands clustered closely together, even though the law requires the captain to be on the bridge in such situations to help the mate.
The other crew members arrested failed to reduce speed near the islands, conducted a sharp turn and failed to carry out necessary measures to save lives, Yang said.
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Speaking to reporters following his arrest as he left the Mokpo Branch of Gwangju District Court to be jailed, Lee said: "I am sorry to the people of South Korea for causing a disturbance and I bow my head in apology to the families of the victims."
"I gave instructions on the route, then briefly went to the bedroom when it [the sinking] happened," he said.
"At the time, the current was very strong, temperature of the ocean water was cold, and I thought that if people left the ferry without (proper) judgment, if they were not wearing a life jacket, and even if they were, they would drift away and face many other difficulties.
"The rescue boats had not arrived yet, nor were there any civilian fishing ships or other boats nearby at that time," he added.
Helmsman Oh Yong-seok said it took 30 minutes for the captain to give the evacuation order as the boat listed, despite a transcript of a ship-to-shore radio exchange showing that officials at the Jeju Vessel Traffic Services Centre recommended evacuation just five minutes after the Sewol's distress call.
Several survivors said they never heard any evacuation order.
Cho, the arrested helmsman, said outside court: "There was a mistake on my part as well, but the steering (gear of the ship) was unusually turned a lot."
Prosecutors will have 10 days to decide whether to indict the captain and crew, but can request a 10-day extension from the court.
Meanwhile, on Saturday rescuers planned 40 dives in an attempt to enter the ferry and retrieve at least some of the more than 270 people still missing.
A civilian diver saw three bodies inside the ship through windows but was unable to break them, said said coast guard official Kwon Yong-deok.
The Sewol had left the north-western port of Incheon on Tuesday for an overnight journey to the holiday island of Jeju in the south with 476 people aboard, including 323 students from Danwon High School in Ansan. It had capsized within hours of the crew making a distress call to the shore a little before 9am on Wednesday.
With only 174 known survivors and the chances of survival becoming slimmer by the hour, it was shaping up to be one of South Korea's worst disasters, made all the more heartbreaking by the likely loss of so many young people, aged 16 or 17. The 29th confirmed fatality, a woman, was recovered early on Saturday.
Navy divers have attached underwater air bags to the 6,852-ton ferry to prevent it from sinking deeper, and been pumping air into the ship to try to sustain any survivors, the Defence Ministry said.
Three vessels with cranes arrived at the accident site to prepare to salvage the ferry, but they will not hoist the ship before getting approval from family members of those still believed to be inside because the lifting could endanger any survivors, said a coast guard officer.
The country's last major ferry disaster was in 1993, when 292 people were killed.
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Dec 16, 10 at 7:22pm ^Free will and Determinism
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quote ChiroVetteThis is where I think there is an element of semantical confusion in this disagreement. Both on yourself and Aulis Vaara. Choice is definitely not an illusion, it's an action and it cannot be disputed that people make choices based on a whole multitude of reasoning/rationalizations and even irrationalizations. So you are both right, choice is not illusory, but free will is both illusory and an ideological absolute.
It's the causalities that influence or predispose you to make a choice a certain way. There are so many examples of influence; education/culture/media/advertisement/genetics/aversion to dying, hell there are a whole multitude of different factors to predispose someone to choosing a certain way. It doesn't make the case that your choice is an illusion it just makes the case that those choices are not made under pure freedom of will. They are determined partially by these sorts of factors and this is why free will is only an ideological concept that can never be attained more than partially and even then not in any great quantity, globally speaking.
Now I do believe that they can be overcome and someone can make a informed decision/choice to an extent. There will always be causalities that influence you but with objectivity and pragmatism(as well as the personal qualities you described in the first spoilered post), perhaps it's a means to minimalize these causalities to choice. But it's impossible to think you can ever be totally devoid of them to the point that your choices are made with absolute freedom of will.
Bleh, I don't think I did as good a job explaining myself in this as I did in the other 2 non analogy analysing posts which are in the other thread. Anyway, yeah, freedom of will =/= choice. One is indeed an ideological illusory(if only mostly) and the other is an indisputable process of pre-action.
Oh yeah, and I want to make it very clear I disagree with any sort of absolutism going the other way also if I haven't made that clear already; predestined and is alittle too strong and the idea that you cannot even strive towards making a choice that is more free than another I believe is false.
What a hodgepodge *bleep*ing post
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Dec 16, 10 at 7:26pm ^re: Free will and Determinism
I was going to actually have you post in one of the other Free Will threads, but the truth is that none of them that I could find with the search feature got past a couple of pages. One aptly named Determinism Vs. Free Will only got to about 3 pages, and that was way back six months ago. Another thread was from 2007, so I think creating a new thread as you have done is best, Bakka.
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Dec 16, 10 at 8:35pm ^re: Free will and Determinism
I have to agree that there might be some semantic confusion going on here, though clearly Chiro still believes there is freedom of will. But I think, chiefly, choices do of course exist. We make choices everyday. I just cannot accept that these choices are completely arbitrary. There are mechanisms behind every cognition, and every decision that I make. My choices do not come from nothing. They come from very physical, chemical changes in my brain. They are merely neurons and electrical signals fired in a specific manner that cause my limbs and muscles to move. I think the burden of proof lies on you, Chiro, to show us where this mysterious unmoved mover you call a free will comes from. What force miraculously forces the electric potentialities in my brain to behave differently than they were going to based on influences from my body and environment? This has never been observed in any area and is purely based on the emotional need for self-efficacy and autonomy.
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Dec 16, 10 at 8:47pm ^re: Free will and Determinism
Anyone see that study that found the part of the brain responsible for concious thought doesn't activate until after a choice is made? Makes the argument that free will is an illusion. We don't make choices we just rationalize after the fact.
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Dec 16, 10 at 9:00pm ^re: Free will and Determinism
I've heard something to the effect of, you make choices then you try to rationalize them; yeah. That is very good reason to take part in antithetical rationalizations for every belief you hold.
It makes that argument strongly if the choices were arbitrary and after the rationalizations. Not sure I can buy that choices are simply arbitrary choices. I'd guess that they are down to a complicated gut reaction based on beliefs already held and other inclining factors.
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Dec 16, 10 at 9:19pm ^re: Free will and Determinism
Honestly, I'm undecided on it. Basically the science seems to be sound but I don't want to believe that I don't make my own choices.
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Dec 16, 10 at 9:24pm ^re: Free will and Determinism
quote MastixThere might be a burden of proof if one or more of several possibilities existed in terms of my claims:
1. I was making a claim that my OPINION on this matter is absolute and irrefutable and I was claiming that just because I believe in free will that it makes me right, or...
2. ...if I were saying that THERE WAS proof of my postulate somewhere in nature or the laboratory.
3. If my idea was contradicting science, empiricism, or flying in the face of absolute scientific proof that no such entity called free will actually exists.
Since none of those conditions exists, then only the people claiming that free will ABSOLUTELY does not exist are actually saddled with this burden of proof. In other words, say you are on one side of this discussion and I am on the other, which clearly is the case. Since there exists NO preponderance of evidence one way or the other, were we to simply assert our respective opinions, explain our positions, realize we just disagree, and the move on, then neither of us would have any burden or proof. Since NEITHER our positions can be refuted or proved by empirical evidence right now, ONLY someone claiming their ideals as absolute can be said to have the onus of proof placed on them.
I will reiterate: You say you disagree with me and I say I disagree with you and we are two intelligent people who just don't agree. But the MOMENT you say your position has proof, is absolutely true, or that "my position is wrong," then YOU and only you need to offer proof, because I have made no such claims in this discussion.
Look, if I were arguing that 2+2=78, then surely you would be right to demand proof of such a preposterous claim. If I were to say that ABSOLUTELY God created the world in 7 days and the Earth is NOT billions of years old! Then if I cited ONLY the Bible as proof, you would be right to dismiss my claims. Pick your scientific theorem that is proved beyond the shadow of at least reasonable doubt and opinion would have NO bearing on the facts. But in a discussion like this, nobody has the intellectual right to demand proof of an honest, forthright opinion on the matter, because there is no proof one way or the other about this, only belief, philosophical ideology, and hypothesis. I am NOT metaphorically claiming 2+2=78 here. I am not saying God exists proof positive.
quote MastixThere you go, though, speaking in extremes. Free will DOES NOT require complete and utter arbitrariness to exist. There are guidelines, ideas, drives, desires, needs, and even remnant instincts. All of these forces act upon us and give us input, data, feedback, and stimuli. Then we are able to make choices. I never once said choices were COMPLETELY ARBITRARY, nor do I, for one second believe that this is the true definition of free will. That is a concoction, an illusion, that in order for "will to be free" that it has to be arbitrary and not in any way INFLUENCED by external or internal factors. I am not saying choices we make are absolutely without some form of reason or even, to a certain extent, compulsion, strong or weak. In other words, someone puts an actual gun to my head and demands my wallet. In that scenario, I am compelled, by force and the threat of death and violence, to hand over my wallet. So it is DIFFICULT for me to resist the robber if I am unarmed, have no death wish, and no clear-cut way to disarm him. But guess what? I STILL have to make a choice to give him my wallet. Sure, that particular choice has been made far easier by the gun pointed directly at my skull, but I have a choice. I can say, "No! GO *bleep* yourself!" and CHOOSE not to yield if I want to. Foolish choice, but that is my right as a being with free will. That is how, even under a dire circumstance, I have free will. My point is that the absence of desires, needs, compulsion, or some outward force is NOT the only way you can have free will. We are not just some thoughtless projectiles hurling through space subject to the whim of gravitational forces, momentum, and obstacles. Because I have a mind that can make a decision. I certainly am NOT compelled one way or the other unless someone puts actual manacles on me and REMOVES any ability to choose from the equation.
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Dec 16, 10 at 9:36pm ^re: Free will and Determinism
quote MastixI'm likewise going to have to agree that there is a deeply ingrained semantic misunderstanding going on. Determinism doesn't eliminate choice (or what we perceive to be choice), it eliminates free will. We can still be determined and choose things, it's just that our choices themselves will be informed by causality; things such as reasons.
That stated and clarified, I'm going to have to disagree with your claims to an extent, but not because they are ill-rooted, quite the contrary, they're very well thought out; but as a matter of difference of interpretation of this wonderful world and the human mind, I just can't buy it. Mental states and brain states are not the same. You and I can create the same mental state by simply being asked to think of a similar topic or idea such as "I can't wait for Christmas". However, despite the fact that you and I can have this same mental state, I guarantee you our brain states are completely different and are running completely different chemical reactions and electric interactions. Analysis into brain activity has often revealed that even though subjects are asked to think of the same ideas, they in fact have very different brain states. True, they sometimes overlap, but often enough they do not. You seem decently versed in philosophy, so i'm sure I don't have to remind you that it only takes one exception to uproot an axiom. In this case, i'm going to have to say that minds are not brains. Can I prove that per se? No, not yet anyway. If I could i'd probably be regarded as one of the most famous property dualists if not the most famous philosopher ever. However, the physicalists and functionalists, such as you yourself seem to be, have not given a convincing enough argument, at least in my opinion, to hold that the mind is all just brain stuffs. That said, things like qualia and the ontological irreducibility of mental states to the brain also embolden the stance of property dualism.
Now, it's not too terribly hard to conceive a mind that is embedded in physical material, but is compromised of it's own property of said material that is ontologically irreducible. That is to say, I cannot transfer my subjective, first person experiences to you nor the other way around. There is something of my experiences, and my mind, that is not physically transmutable in the same way a heart or kidney is. If there exists such a mind, it's not hard to imagine that there could potentially be a will that is separate of and not influenced by causality, but still limited by it; much in the manner my philosopher hero Jean-Paul Sartre spoke of. While it's true that my choices are often limited by causal restraints, for instance I cannot ever choose to fly , my act of choosing would not be, if the will itself is not acted upon by reasons or compelled (remember guys, freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want, only the ability to act without being compelled or forced). If it chose in an arbitrary and random manner, that was only reasoned out or made sense of by the ego after the act of choosing, the will would be free because it would act in a way that is not compelled to act. It would act without reason and thus be exercising true metaphysical freedom.
Now, I don't say any of this in the hopes of convincing you, but in the hopes of at least opening your minds to the possibility.
And Chiro, free will really does require chaos, or a lack of causes, to exist. I'm being frank and explicit here; by it's definition and complete philosophical understanding that is exactly what it requires. You can do a whole bunch of things, but once you have reasons you're compelled by those reasons. compulsion by reason or by force is only a difference of degree and not kind. Picking chocolate over vanilla because you like it is a compulsion by reason, picking chocolate over vanilla because you'll be killed is a compulsion of force. However, they're both still compulsions and are antithetical to a free will.
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Dec 16, 10 at 9:49pm ^re: Free will and Determinism
Then what we are disagreeing on here is the pure definition of the term "free will."
Nobody in this thread with a functioning brain is denying that there are effects, causes, imnpulses, and as you call "reasons" behind choices. I just reject the premise that free will requires complete and utter chaos. I believe that is an absolute parody of the term, in fact. Don't get me wrong, I see where you guys are coming from, and were you to say that your choices are not unequivocally random and were not without rhyme or reason, I would agree with that, which in a sense is what you are saying. Where we are disagreeing, which is becoming somewhat of a disagreement upon semantics, is on the definition of the term free will, NOT the practical reality of the world we live in, the choices we make, or the ramification of outside forces upon a being's will.
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Dec 16, 10 at 11:39pm ^re: Free will and Determinism
quote ByzantineI'll certainly agree here that the same mental state does not evoke the same brain state. In fact, I've always been of that opinion. The brain is extremely mutable in response to the environment it is in presently and based on its development. It's unsurprising then that different people have vastly different physical brain states for the same thing. That in itself, however, doesn't refute my proposition. It doesn't change the physical nature of the brain and that chemical reactions do seem to govern what goes on inside it. I would hold that the reason people have different brain states for similar mental states is because they developed their brains in a different environment or based on different genetic information. But, nevertheless, those states are of a physical, and therefor deterministic nature. (I take physical to mean deterministic by definition, let me know if that needs further explaining on my part. But basically, what is physical as far as science seems to have revealed obeys strict laws of cause and effect.) But anyway, Occam's razor would justify my use of the environment argument, I should think. It would take a rather large leap to accept the idea of a transcendent will governing the mind, as we have no experience or evidence of anything transcendent in such a sense. If not transcendent to the world, at least transcendent of causality. That's still extremely hard to fathom. By what mechanism could it possibly escape causality, and if so, how does it fundamentally make decisions? How does something happen without being caused? We do, on the other hand, have evidence of differences in environment changing the processes behind certain things. For example, if we invoke a mental state in someone by queuing them with "I can't wait for Christmas," the result in brain state may be different for a younger sibling as opposed to an older one. Even in twins, merely having seen the world from a different perspective (and effectively existing differently), may have altered the physical chemistry of the brain. But there is yet a physical chemistry. I accept that a separate will is a possibility, in any case, but only formally. It seems phenomenally unlikely and I definitely feel more convinced by the physicallist perspective. So I'm rightly accused in that respect.
Chiro, I understand that you're not saying they're COMPLETELY arbitrary. But if a decision is made, there must be a cause to that decision. This is the case in all experience. Why did one thing happen, and not another? Logic and observation tend to show (to the extent possible), that there is a cause behind any effect. If I choose to ignore a threat at gun point, the vast multitude of factors leading up to that moment will have determined that choice. Perhaps even what I had for breakfast that morning will be a determining factor. The factors are so complex and so difficult to account for that you might call my decision inexplicable and even act as if it was a free decision, but nevertheless, the factors were the input for only one possible output. If you accept that we can take all those factors into account and then choose to ignore them, then you are proposing that in the end the ultimate root of our decisions IS arbitrary. This is what I can't accept and seems impossible by definition. Without a cause, there can be no effect.
EDIT: Also, as a loose side note, Byzantine, my philosopher hero is Spinoza. You can see why we might disagree, haha. I have a Deleuzean fascination with the guy.
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Dec 17, 10 at 7:11am ^re: Free will and Determinism
quote MastixAnd this is another area in this discussion we disagree. You see, I DO NOT believe that a person is the sum total of all the events and "reasons" that occurs in one's life. I believe a person is a lot more than just some empty vessel that gets filled up with experiences and that a decision is "mandated" by the sum total of his or her experiences. You make it sound as if there really is no free choice because your actions are, in effect, almost hard-wired (well, in this case soft-wired as in brain software), and in some strange and non-spiritual way predetermined. In effect, to use your breakfast cereal analogy, I am nothing more than all the things that have occured in my life, including my breakfast, and thus, I am not choosing anything really, as the choice has been made for me already by a slew of factors that all conspire to predetermine my dubious decision.
Sorry, but I simply don't agree with this at all. I think that what happens to you can only INFLUENCE your decision, not shape it like life itself is some sculptor and each of us nothing but lumps of human clay. All the things that occur in your life can have an EFFECT, but you can choose to use your will to make a choice that your experience has not prepared you for or predestined for you. Thus, we have free will in my estimation. You are basically saying that all human beings are slaves to their circumstances and any choice you make the result of forces beyond your control.
Like I said in a previous post, this all sounds and reads very good, particularly in the flowery language of academia with all its nusances and aristocratic grace, but there still is no proof, only opinion, ideology, and philosophical construct.
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Dec 17, 10 at 8:25am ^re: Free will and Determinism
quote ChiroVetteThat's what I think, and on the back of that our reasoning furthers the disagreement. You talk of free will as though it is the ability to make any type of personal decision. At least that is the message I get from the gun point robbery analogy and the reasoning that follows it.
That is not the definition of free will that I agree with. Freedom of will to my understanding is the princible that we can make decisions that are not determined by external forces(the causalities that have been over exampled and described in this discussion). My line of reasoning to that is and will always be causality that compels/controls(what ever word is used there are obvious varying degrees that need to be acknowledged) us to act a certain way(whether it's irrational pride for not giving your wallet over or rational survival instincts). There are ways to minimalize these causalities so that some partial freedom of will can be strived for, but free will and absence of causality is only an ideal.
quote ChiroVetteActually I was in the same boat before I responded in the other thread, afew posts got me thinking enough to question and double check my personal definition of free will. Before that I thought it was madness to suggest that free will is unobtainable or inexistent despite what any deity comes down and decrees. I've come to understand that it is ideal that can never be implemented more than 99.9% even under the most fantastical utopian dimensions.
Not going to get into this neuroanatomy stuff but. . . I do agree that predestined and the idea that free will is totally 100% non existant is going a step too far over predisposition and shades of grey. Although, one of the main reasons people tend to lie to themselves is to have a sense of control that isn't actually there. So I can kinda understand that resistance to that idea could be steeped in bias. I'm not pessimistic and haven't given enough deep thought to think that we are utter slaves to causality yet though. It is an interesting perspective though.
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Dec 17, 10 at 10:06am ^re: Free will and Determinism
quote ChiroVetteWhat do you mean? There is plenty of evidence to support my reasoning. All of human experience shows that without a cause, there is no effect, which is what I'm merely applying to this situation. Essentially the main problem I have with free will is a similar problem I often have with God. We ask, where does the world/our decisions come from? It comes from God/free will. Where does God/free will come from? Um... Oops. Free will creates the idea that decisions can be uncaused. But how can that be? Where did the decision come from? All of my experience tells me that without a previous input there is no output. Nothing happens arbitrarily. Now you're proposing that something does happen arbitrarily. Free will. It ignores causality, and in effect acts as a magical Random Number Generator that uses the environment to establish its parameters but is its own original cause making device (I say magical RNG because real RNGs aren't actually random, while this one somehow would be). Every human mind therefor becomes the godlike idea of an unmoved mover. You say I have no evidence, but I'm using the best evidence I have available to come to a reasoned conclusion-- human experience. We've never encountered something like this in reality anywhere. Where's your evidence for this unmoved mover that philosophers have been seeking for millennia and one of which theologists worship?
Yes, I suppose I don't have definitive "proof" of this, as we similarly have no "proof" of anything we claim to know about. But I have a large amount of experience telling me that without a previous set of causes, things won't happen. Unless something interferes, a ball will keep rolling. And there is absolutely no reason for a human to be any different, no matter how much more complex it may be than a rolling ball. Unless we find evidence that the brain can transcend causality (a proposition I find extremely unlikely), I don't see how proof for your side can ever come to pass. You're the one who seems stuck with nothing but opinion and ideology.
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Dec 17, 10 at 10:58am ^re: Free will and Determinism
quote MastixThat is worst reasoning I have ever heard in my life. For thousands of years, all of human experience said the sun revolves around the earth.
You know what? Human experience was wrong.
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Dec 17, 10 at 11:10am ^re: Free will and Determinism
Say what you like, Jimayo, but I hardly think something as fundamental as cause and effect is similar to observing the sun moving through the sky and claiming it must be revolving around the Earth. We didn't experience that at all. We inferred it without strictly analyzing the possibilities. By moving through the sky it could have just as easily been inferred that we moved around it. The result looks no different. However. a billiard ball striking another billiard ball- we can more strictly test that. If the first does not get struck by the second, the second does not move. This is very observable and is actually something we can experience (at least insofar as we can say we experience anything). Sure, we could say that it was mere coincidence that the ball moves every time it is struck, and really it was all synchronized mysteriously, but that seems a bit extreme. I think you've unfairly made my argument sound more absurd than it really is. Of course I could always be wrong, but strict observation through empirical means have been the most effective means of explaining our world so far.
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D-backs shortstop Chris Owings, only a few days removed from learning he won the starting job out of spring training, had the opportunity to reflect on the past year Monday and appeared to be doing so for the first time.
"Las year today I was probably driving to Reno, Nev.," Owings said. "Compare that to today, I'm just trying to get settled in here in Phoenix and it's definitely a huge difference. I'm excited to be where I am right now; I'm excited about this season."
Owings isn't new to the majors, having debuted last September, but is new to the Opening Day experience, one of baseball's most revered traditions. Technically, it was his second Opening Day, given that he was active for the D-backs two-game series in Australia 10 days ago, but the experience is a little different at home.
"It's always seemed like a holiday to me in every city I was at," Gibson said. "People get real excited about it, as they should."
Owings, whose parents flew in to Arizona on Monday to be at the game, said he'd try to treat the game like any other, at least after getting through the first inning. While he may not fully appreciate the experience until later in his career, Owings admitted being an Opening Day starter is the latest dream come true in his young career.
"Getting called up last year was definitely a dream come true," Owings said. "I'm really excited about adding on to that. To be here when the season starts is exciting and I'm just excited to get today rolling and get on with the season."
Short hops
-- With Blanco's addition to the major league coaching staff, Mark Grace will remain in the minors as hitting coach for the short season Class A Hillsboro Hops.
-- David Hernandez will have surgery Tuesday to repair the torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. The diagnosis from Dr. James Andrews confirmed the initial belief Hernandez will need Tommy John surgery, and Andrews will perform the surgery in Pensacola, Fla.
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The document is the latest in a series issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision intended to address various weaknesses in the financial sector. Stress tests performed by banks before and during the crisis were not severe enough, the Committee said, and in any case the results were often ignored by senior management and everyone else outside the risk management office.
The Committee sees stress testing as an essential part of risk management, as it provides a way of dealing with areas such as tail risk that cannot be adequately assessed by other means. The Committee's decision to focus on stress tests was first reported by Risk News in September.
In future, the Committee said, the use of stress tests in risk management should involve board members and senior management, and should be properly documented and regularly reviewed. Firms should use broad stress scenarios that affect the whole bank, and should also employ 'reverse stress tests' in which events that could threaten the survival of the bank are described.
Banks should also correct their failure to model the drop in market liquidity and funding availability in a stress scenario, the Committee added. Institutions should put more effort into modelling complex structured products rather than assuming they would behave similarly to cash bonds with the same credit rating - an assumption shown to have been flawed by the events of 2007-8.
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The Sri Lankan cricketers' involvement in this year's Indian Premier League could be curtailed after the team confirmed a two-match ODI series against Ireland.January 4, 2014, 12:22 pm explore: Cricketnext
IPL 6: In-form RCB look to sail past struggling Pune
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Medical College of Georgia and the University System of Georgia Board of Regents announced today that the university will open a clinical campus in Rome by July 2013.
The school already has clinical campuses in Albany and Savannah and earlier this year opened a branch of the School of Medicine in Athens in conjunction with the University of Georgia.
The Northwest Georgia Clinical Campus will help expand efforts to train students in the Rome area, where they already rotate through the Harbin Clinic, the state's largest physician-owned multi-specialty clinic, according to a news release from the school. Floyd Medical Center and Redmond Regional Medical Center will also contribute facilities to the new program, according to the release. Establishing a residential campus where third- and fouth-year students can do their rotations is a long range goal, according to the release.
Rome was one of two areas of the state considered for future expansion in the medical education expansion plan authored by consultant Tripp Umbach. The state's goal is to expand from 190 to 300 medical students by 2020 to meet a current lack of physicians expected to be exacerbated by a growing population.
Despite the lack of funds and broke taxpayers, the government keeps on spending.
This is good! One of the ways a community helps itself, like building roads, schools, hiring police and firemen. This is infrastructure.
I loved this sentence: "The state's goal is to expand from 190 to 300 medical students by 2020 to meet a current lack of physicians expected to be exacerbated by a growing population."
I think it says it will be 2020 before we "meet" the "current lack of physicians". Wow, by 2020 we will have all the docs we needed in 2010. Since there is a growing population - and not mentioned by the article a growing percentage of elderly, who consume more health care - by 2020 we won't just be 10 years behind, we will probably be 20 years behind!
And, throw this into the equation. Forbes ranks Georgia as one of the top ten most tax friendly states for retirees. Top ten! So, with all the baby boomers retiring we should see even greater growth in retirees who come here to live. So, if there is an accelerated growth in the number of retirees who come here, and retirees need more health care, we will be even further behind!
Better than no improvement, but moving in the right direction. I didn't like the idea of UGA "competing" with Medical College but I am about to change my mind.
I have no problem with another clinical campus. What I find fault with is building another medical school for UGA that will end up costing hundreds of millions and duplicate efforts.
The Athens campus is needed since it's impossible to train 300 students/class at a single site. There isn't a medical school in the country that can support that many students in a single class, at a single location.
Georgia already ranks near last place for physicians per capita, and is one of the fastest growing states in the nation. Since it take 7 years to train a doctor (at a minimum), they are setting up an infrastructure to supply doctors, for the state of Georgia, for a long time coming.
BTW, how is MCG competing with UGA? You have to apply to MCG and get accepted to the school of medicine, before any campus assignment is even made. There's no guarantee that an applicant will be at the Athens campus, nor is there any competition between the two entities. The Athens campus will remain just that.. a satellite campus for MCG's School of Medicine.
Since the state's priemer medical school is now branching out, When is the state's priemere university going to start branching out. ASU would make a good site for the University of Georgia-Augusta campus. After all, the University of South Carolina has a satellite campus in Aiken, and Aiken is much smaller than Augusta.


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After how many miles shoud the transmission fluid in a 2009 4 cyl chevy malibu be changed? Also all fluids used in 2009 chevy malibu 4 cyl ls
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GM recommends changing that (from new), every other oil change to keep it fresh...NO ONE, i mean no one not even the technicians do that....how many miles are on it now, over 60,000 i suggest only if it is slipping on occasion, shows signs, below 60, every 10,000 or so miles, 100+ NEVER!!!!! that far along only add oil, never change it, NEVER EVER FLUSH IT....every shop in the world will recommend a flush, (because they know in 2 months you will be back for a transmission)....
I must agree with John about nobody actually changing the tranny fluid every other oil change, with the exception of non car-knowledgeable people (Notice I don't say stupid or anything derogatory, you may be a doctor or whatever and just don't know cars) that do everything the oil change joints 'recommend' because they (the car owner) can afford it and simply don't know better.
trans fluid is recommended to be changed under normal driving conditions every 50k miles (with filter). flushiing can kick up debris that has settled to the bottom. If you are not sure, the fluid should look pinkish red, not brownish, and should not smell burnt. I hope this helps.
Hello Jsomario, GM recommends changing automatic transmission fluid every 50,000 miles. Change automatic transmission fluid and filter (except 6-speed) if the vehicle is mainly driven under one or more of these conditions: − In heavy city traffic where the outside temperature regularly reaches 90°F (32°C) or higher. − In hilly or mountainous terrain. − When doing frequent trailer towing. − Uses such as found in taxi, police, or delivery service. This information is available in your Owner's Manual pg. 6-6. Good luck with your vehicle. Vanessa GM Customer Service
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NEVER EVER EVER!! agree to do a Transmission Flush unless you have done so since the car was brand new on a regular bases; but the best rule to go by is just like John said. Dont flush it because it WILL stur up debris and cause more damage then solutions; and you run the risk of your car not starting anymore soon after the flush has been completed. True story it happened to a local shop I go to and they will never again agree to complete a flush; in fact they got rid of there flush machine.
I actually need advice, I just got a transmissin flush on my 09 malibu its a 4 cylinder, after the flush I went for a trip I drove about 45 miles and the transmission light came on and it started to bog out, now it wont go in reverse I cant go over 35 miles an hour. The car only has just a little over 80,000 miles. I got the change done at jiffy lube. What can be causing the problem? Is it there fault?
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Azarias- flushing will many times kill a transmission. It breaks up contaminants in the periphery of the torque converter that's should never be messed with. That debris has been caught in a very powerful centrifuge that does a very good job of protecting your transmission. I've seen cars not make it out of the shop driveway after a flush. To service a unit correctly -just drop the pan, change the filter and observe what you see in the pan. And remember this---- SERVICING WILL NOT REPAIR A BAD TRANSMISSION. Changing the fluid's for MAINTENANCE ONLY.
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Lastly, the native Italian Giorgio Morandi, born in Bologna in 1890, studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Bologna where he trained in the classical Italian and Flemish styles of painting. During his last years there, his style began to change, having been briefly influenced by futurism and other modern trends. The arrangements of objects seen in Still Life, 1953 (shown above) and Still Life, 1950 (shown below) reflect his mature style. His earthy and subdued palette corresponds in tone to the Prendergast piece, which draws a connection between the oldest and the newest work on display here, highlighting the continual influence Italy exerted on these artists who depicted its beauty.
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Kevin W. Greenfield, 45, passed away on Thursday. Services are 1 p.m. today at Brown Funeral Home.
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Kevin W. Greenfield, 45, passed away on Thursday. Services 1 p.m. tomorrow at Brown Funeral Home. Receiving 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
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Kevin Wayne Greenfield, 45, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, at his residence.
Born Jan. 25, 1968, in Martinsburg, he is the son of Floyd and Sylvia J. Hensell Greenfield, of Martinsburg.
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He was an avid hunter.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by his wife, Kathy L. Barrett Greenfield; one son, Joshua Shane Greenfield; one daughter, Carly Sue Greenfield; one brother, Rick Greenfield; two sisters, Debbie Houser and Brenda Kidwell, all of Martinsburg; and parents- in-law, Robert Barrett Sr. and Carol Barrett, of Hedgesville.
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