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MCAT wrote: People really need to read the boating regulation especially the markings on buoys. Just because there are buoys, doesn't mean you can't boat past them, there are many types and most on Okanagan Lake are not marked with a diamond with a cross inside, that is the ONLY marking that prohibits navigation past the buoy, all others you are good to pass. Just to give an example, all the buoys around gallatly bay are white with orange strip which are mooring buoys only and have no navigation Whatsoever meaning you are free to boat between them and shore. Know the regulations and boat happy.
Having a buoy with such markings, who actually has the right to place them? I do not believe JOHN DOE can just say, enough is enough no more boats. Purchase ten buoys and cut off access to his beachfront.
I do not believe it works that way.
Then you can expect to be charged criminally and risk have your boat seized and storage fees applied until your case is heard before a judge in about 2 years. Good luck with that.
Is the reward really worth the risk?
What are your qualifications to make you an expert on this matter? None, therefore it is just your opinion.
Why is it so important that they be allowed to do that, so close to shore and foreign objects in that particular location? Wouldn't it be safer to be 200 feet away? Does somebody have to be killed before safety measures are implemented?
I personally would not suggest cutting them free.
However, tie to them if you like and I don't think there is anything that can be done.
Google has agreed to pay US$500 million to settle allegations from the U.S. government that it let online pharmacies in Canada use its AdWords system to advertise prescription drugs to U.S. consumers, resulting in illegal importation of the medicines into the U.S.
"The forfeiture, one of the largest ever in the United States, represents the gross revenue received by Google as a result of Canadian pharmacies advertising through Google's AdWords program, plus gross revenue made by Canadian pharmacies from their sales to U.S. consumers," the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement on Wednesday.
According to the DOJ, Google became aware as early as 2003 that the shipment of prescription drugs from abroad, and specifically from Canada, to U.S. residents is usually illegal, potentially violating several statutes, including the Controlled Substances Act, and endangering the health and safety of consumers. Yet, Google didn't attempt to modify its practices until 2009, after it became aware that it was being investigated by the U.S. government, the DOJ said.
"While Canada has its own regulatory rules for prescription drugs, Canadian pharmacies that ship prescription drugs to U.S. residents are not subject to Canadian regulatory authority, and many sell drugs obtained from countries other than Canada which lack adequate pharmacy regulations," the DOJ statement reads.
In response, Google said that it stopped selling ad space to Canadian pharmacies "some time ago."
"However, it's obvious with hindsight that we shouldn't have allowed these ads on Google in the first place. Given the extensive coverage this settlement has already received, we won't be commenting further," Google said in a statement.
Google had disclosed months ago that it was setting aside $500 million to potentially settle a U.S. government investigation into its advertising practices.
As part of the settlement, Google admits improperly assisting Canadian online pharmacy advertisers on running ads to target U.S. consumers via AdWords, the DOJ said. The agreement also establishes "compliance and reporting measures" Google must adopt to make sure it doesn't again engage in this type of advertising practices, according to the DOJ.
The agency is a joint interior and defense ministry project.
However, the opposition Greens criticized the project. “This agency wouldn’t increase our information technology security, but further endanger it,” said Greens lawmaker Konstantin von Notz.
A 17-year-old cancer patient does not have the right to refuse treatment for her disease, the state of Connecticut’s highest court has ruled.
In a significant decision Thursday, the State Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling allowing the girl, identified as Cassandra C. in court papers, to be forced to undergo treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma, according to the Hartford Courant. Her doctors say that she will die unless she undergoes chemotherapy.
Cassandra’s mother, Jackie Fortin, says her daughter believes the chemical treatment will do more damage to her than the cancer. Fortin said she respect’s Cassandra’s decision.
Cassandra was removed from Fortin’s care after the mother and daughter missed follow-up appointments and placed into the custody of child welfare officials, who forced her to undergo the cancer treatment. The teenager ran away from hospital after just two days of chemotherapy.
The court made its expedited decision Thursday following a 45-minute hearing, during which lawyers for Cassandra and her mother argued that even though Cassandra is a minor, she can make her own health decisions. Cassandra is months away from turning 18.
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The prestigious University of California system has raised the minimum grade point average needed for acceptance, a move some argue will hurt the chances of many African-American and Hispanic students to gain admission.
The board of regents voted 14-6 on Sept. 23 to increase the minimum gpa required for admission to a 3.0, from a 2.8. The change will go into effect for the freshman class entering in 2007.
The state’s 1960 master plan for higher education dictated that only one-eighth, or 12.5 percent, of the state’s high school graduates should be eligible for admission to the UC system, which enrolls just over 154,000 undergraduate students on nine campuses across the state.
This past May, the California Postsecondary Education Commission reported that 14.4 percent of graduates were eligible for admission under the current criteria, up from 11.1 percent in 1996.
The May report raised red flags because it showed that the percentage of students eligible for admission to the UC system was well above the targeted rate, which in turn promised to strain even further the already financially strapped system. Minority admission rates to California’s public colleges and universities has been an emotional issue, especially since 1996, when voters approved Proposition 209, which barred the use of race in making admissions decisions and in other publicly funded programs.
Currently, the percentage of California high school graduates estimated to be eligible for UC admissions, by race and ethnicity, under the current 3.0 threshold is 5.2 percent for blacks, 5.7 percent for Hispanics, 29 percent for Asian-Americans, and 14.7 for whites. Those rates would not change by more than a percentage point for any one group, according to UC estimates.
Nonetheless, the Sept. 23 vote drew strong protests from several Democrats in the state legislature, civil rights groups, and students.
California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez questioned whether the cpec data were accurate, and urged the regents to re-examine the 44-year-old master plan’s policy.
The impact from the change will be felt equally by students of all backgrounds, the report said.
“This is not a policy the regents would have even considered unless they had the requirement to keep the eligibility numbers at the level the master plan identifies,” said Michael W. Kirst, a co-director of Policy Analysis for California Education, an independent research and policy group, and an education professor at Stanford University.
The UC system includes campuses in Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. A 10th campus in Merced is scheduled to open in fall 2005. Eligibility is based on a formula that includes gpas, test scores, and high school courses.
According to the Board of Regents, 75 percent of incoming UC freshmen have gpas of 3.5 or higher, and many of the individual UC campuses require an even higher gpa for admission.
The regents had postponed discussion on the new admission standards from July until last month. Initially, they had considered a plan that would increase the minimum gpa to 3.1, but decided against that move because they feared it would cut off too many students.
The new plan is expected to reduce the number of high school graduates who are eligible for admission by up to 750 each year, to about 12.8 percent of the state’s high school seniors. In 2003, more than 48,000 students were eligible, although many chose not to attend UC schools.
“No Child Left Average?,” April 28, 2004.
“Stand Fast, Gatekeeper,” January 15, 2003.
“UC System Takes Broader Approach To Admissions Criteria,” December 5, 2001.
“Scholar Prescribes Policies To Treat 'Senioritis' in U.S. High Schools,” May 16, 2001.
UN receives reports of looming crisis from two border states where the army is fighting armed groups.
The United Nations has received alarming reports of malnutrition in two Sudanese border states where the army is fighting armed groups, a senior UN official has said.
Fighting broke out in June between the Sudanese army and Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North rebels in South Kordofan and spread in September to the state of Blue Nile. Both states border newly independent South Sudan.
"I received alarming reports with respect to malnutrition and the food situation, particular in areas that are controlled by SPLM-North," Valerie Amos, UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, told reporters in Khartoum on Wednesday.
She urged Sudan to lift a ban on international UN staff travelling to both border states.
Since the outbreak of fighting, UN agencies and aid groups have only been able to keep small teams of local staff on the ground and the government has stopped any aid workers visiting areas where there has been fighting.
"We need to ensure that the UN capacity, which is there to support government efforts, is made up of a mix of UN staff, national and international, to make sure we have the right skill set of support," Amos said after talks with Sudanese officials.
Amira Fadhil, the social and welfare minister, told journalists the ban was there to protect foreign workers and would stay in place.
"We fear for the security of foreigners. That's why we think the presence of a Sudanese organisation makes sense. But we want to grant access as soon as possible," she said.
The violence has already forced about 417,000 people to flee their homes, more than 80,000 of them to South Sudan, the United Nations estimates. Locals have faced air raids and sporadic ground fighting, according to rights groups and refugees.
South Sudan declared independence in July, under the terms of a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war with the Khartoum government.
Both Blue Nile and South Kordofan contain groups who sided with the south in the civil war and say they continue to face persecution inside Sudan.
SPLM-North is one of a groups of rebel movements in underdeveloped border areas who say they are fighting to overthrow Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and end what they see as the dominance of the Khartoum political elite.
Ambassador of Ireland to the United States: Who Is Daniel Mulhall?
Daniel Mulhall has been Ireland’s 18th Ambassador to the United States since August 2017. He succeeded Anne Anderson, who served as Ireland’s first woman ambassador to the U.S. starting in September 2013. From 2013 until recently, Mulhall served as ambassador to the United Kingdom, which is the only country more important to Ireland than the U.S.
Born April 8, 1955, and raised in Waterford, Ireland, Daniel Mulhall earned three degrees in Irish history at University College Cork: a BA in 1975, an HDE in 1978, and an MA in 1979.
Mulhall joined Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on March 31, 1978, and served early career assignments at DFA Headquarters in Dublin at the Economic Division (March 1978 to January 1979), Development Cooperation Division (February 1979 to March 1980), and Political Division (September 1983 to March 1985).
Mulhall’s first overseas posting was as third secretary at the Irish Embassy in New Delhi, India, where he served from April 1980 to August 1983. In March 1985, Mulhall took special leave without pay, which ended in April 1987.
Upon his return, Ireland sent Mulhall to Vienna, Austria, to be first secretary at the Irish Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from May 1987 to March 1989, when he began a brief stint in Dublin at the Economic Division from April 1989 to July 1990.
From August 1990 to October 1994, Mulhall was first secretary at Ireland’s Permanent Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium.
From November 1994 to August 1995, Mulhall was detailed to the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, established by Ireland in 1994 to promote political dialogue regarding Northern Ireland. From September 1995 to August 1998 he served as press councillor in the DFA Press Section, and thus was part of the Irish Government’s delegation at the time of the Good Friday Agreement in April 1998.
From September 1998 to September 2001, Mulhall served as Ireland’s first ever consul general to Edinburgh, Scotland.
Mulhall was then awarded his first ambassadorship, serving in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from October 2001 to August 2005. At the same time, Mulhall was also accredited as ambassador to Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Mulhall’s service coincided with the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004, which killed more than 230,000 people, including 68 in Malaysia.
Back in Dublin, Mulhall served as director-general for European Affairs from September 2005 to October 2009.
From November 2009 to August 2013, Mulhall was ambassador to Germany, after which he was ambassador to the United Kingdom starting in September 2013. While in Britain, he spoke regularly on political, literary and historical topics at universities and literary festivals all over the country.
Mulhall is an active writer who has made many contributions to books, newspapers, and journals published in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, and the U.K. He is the author of A New Day Dawning: A Portrait of Ireland in 1900 (Cork, 1999) and co-editor of The Shaping of Modern Ireland: A Centenary Assessment (Dublin, 2016).
Daniel Mulhall and his wife, Greta, have a daughter and a son.
Gary Neville has criticised Pep Guardiola after the Manchester City boss only named six substitutes for the side’s clash with Burnley.
Sean Dyche accused Guardiola of abandoning his principle of bringing through youth players ahead of the match after the Premier League leaders signed Aymeric Laporte for a fee of around £70million in January.
Laporte will have to wait for chance as Guardiola named the defender on the bench at Turf Moor and the Frenchman will only be joined by five of his new team-mates in the dugout.
City are without David Silva, Fabien Delph, John Stones, Gabriel Jesus and Benjamin Mendy and Neville believes a youth player should have been given the opportunity with the first-team on Saturday afternoon.
Asked about the Catalan’s squad selection for the match, Sky Sports pundit Neville raged: ‘I think it’s a joke if you are a youth team manager. Ring him up and ask him which kid deserves that boost.
The Manchester United legend accused Guardiola of making an unnecessary ‘protest’ with his squad selection.
He added: ‘If you are working at the academy must think I’m wasting my time. Six players on the bench…it’s a protest.
‘He’s an incredible manager but things like this let you down. He doesn’t have to bring a kid off the bench.
Explaining the decision, Guardiola told Sky Sports: ‘We don’t have any more players, that is thee reason why. We have one goalkeeper and five players.
‘We could take one from second team but they played a game yesterday.
‘Aymeric made an impressive debut following his club-record move from Athletic Bilbao in the January transfer window, but the France international was left on the bench with Vincent Kompany restored to the first team.
The deadly wildfires in California have been burning for nearly two weeks, destroying everything in their path. More than 1,350 Red Cross disaster workers have answered the call to help over the past 12 days, and 740 are still on the ground helping support people affected by the wildfires. Monday night, more than 950 people stayed in 13 Red Cross and community shelters across California. Working with partners, the Red Cross has served more than 66,600 meals, distributed more than 16,700 relief items for people forced from their homes, and volunteer mental health, health services, and spiritual care volunteers have made more than 19,900 contacts to provide support and care to evacuees. People are also relying on Red Cross reunification services, including use of the Safe and Well website. There all almost 9,000 Safe and Well registrations for the wildfires, more than 82,900 searches, and more than 2,000 matches through Safe and Well.
Super Typhoon Yutu crashed into the Mariana Islands October 24 with sustained winds of 174 MPH, leaving massive destruction in its wake. More than 170 Red Cross disaster workers are helping support people affected. More than 15,700 overnight stays at community shelters have been provided to people in need. Working with partners, the Red Cross has served more than 98,300 meals and snacks, distributed more than 50,500 relief items, and volunteer mental health and health services professionals have made some 3,000 contacts to provide support and care to evacuees.
HOW YOU CAN HELP The Red Cross depends on financial donations to be able to provide disaster relief immediately. Help people affected by disasters like wildfires and typhoons by visiting redcross.org, calling 1.800.RED.CROSS or texting the word REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation. Donations enable the Red Cross to prepare for, respond to and help people recover from these disasters.
Were Cellular Powerhouses Once Parasites?
Mitochondria, the organelles known to every junior high school student as “the powerhouses of the cell,” go back some two billion years. Although these energy producers were identified in the 1800s, how they became fixtures in cells is still under debate.
Mitochondria's ancestor was a free-living bacterium that another single-celled organism ingested. Most biologists think that the bacterium benefited the host: in one hypothesis, these premitochondria supplied hydrogen to make energy. Other researchers think that when atmospheric oxygen rose sharply in that era, anaerobic cells needed the bacteria to clear out the gas, which is toxic to them. However the match was made, the two lived so harmoniously that they eventually became mutually dependent and formed a long-term relationship.
A new analysis of evolutionary relationships by Martin Wu and Zhang Wang, both then at the University of Virginia, brings up the possibility that the mitochondrial progenitor was actually a parasite. Their claim derives from their recently constructed evolutionary tree for mitochondria, which resolves ancestral relationships among the organelles and their closest living bacterial relatives based on their genomes. Those DNA data led Wu to deduce that mitochondria sit within an order of parasitic and pathogenic bacteria called Rickettsiales and that they evolved from an ancestor that produced an energy-stealing protein. At some point, this parasitic predecessor lost the klepto gene and gained another that enabled it to supply energy to its host, as mitochondria do today. The researchers published their findings in October 2014 in the journal PLOS ONE.
But other scientists take issue with the paper's conclusions. Dennis Searcy, who studies the origin of mitochondria at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, says the authors interpreted their evolutionary tree wrongly when they decided that mitochondria descended from Rickettsiales. Such a miscalculation would clearly corrupt their analysis. And Michael Gray, who researches mitochondrial evolution at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, thinks that the rapid evolution of the organelles makes it difficult to say with certainty where the once free-living entities sit within their branch of the tree.
Phoenix - President Donald Trump opened his political rally in Phoenix with calls for unity and an assertion that "our movement is about love." Then he erupted in anger.
He blamed the media for the widespread condemnation of his response to violence at a Charlottesville, Virginia, protest organized by white supremacists. And he shouted that he had "openly called for healing, unity and love" in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy and had simply been misrepresented in news coverage.
He read from his three responses to the racially charged violence — getting more animated with each one. He withdrew from his suit pocket the written statement he'd read the day a woman was killed by a man who'd plowed a car through counter-protesters, but he skipped over the trouble-causing part that he'd freelanced at the time — his observation that "many sides" were to blame.
That, as well as his reiteration days later that "both sides" were to blame for the violence that led to the death of Heather Heyer and two state troopers, led Democrats and many Republicans to denounce Trump for not unmistakably calling out white supremacists and other hate groups.
Trump also suggested he still intends to pardon former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is awaiting sentencing in Arizona after his conviction in federal court for disobeying court orders to stop his immigration patrols. But he left little doubt that he wanted to do it. He said he'd aimed to avoid "controversy" by not immediately granting the pardon. But Trump also said, "I'll make a prediction: I think he's going to be just fine."
Of his media criticism, the president told the crowd of thousands shoehorned into the Phoenix convention center: "You know where my heart is. I'm only doing this to show you how damned dishonest these people are."
Well after his appearance had ended, Trump sent a tweet on his Twitter account saying: "Not only does the media give a platform to hate groups, but the media turns a blind eye to the gang violence on our streets."
Trump's broadside against the media, and the "fake news" he says is out to get him, was one of several detours he took from his prepared remarks at a rally where he was introduced by Vice President Mike Pence and other speakers appealing for unity and healing.
He went on to skewer both of Arizona's Republican senators, insisting that his coy refusal to mention their names showed a "very presidential" restraint. He said his aides had begged him, "Please, please Mr. President, don't mention any names. So I won't." Yet he'd clearly described Sen. John McCain as the reason Congress didn't repeal and replace the much-maligned Affordable Care Act, and he labeled Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake as "weak" on law enforcement and immigration.
He followed up Wednesday morning on Twitter, writing "Phoenix crowd last night was amazing - a packed house. I love the Great State of Arizona. Not a fan of Jeff Flake, weak on crime & border!"
As for how he would assist with the upcoming Herculean tasks facing Congress — passing tax reform, raising the debt ceiling, and agreeing on a budget — Trump offered little detail. He did threaten that if legislators force a government shutdown "we're building that wall," a reference to his campaign promise to close off the border with Mexico.

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