Williams Lake mayor releases statement about union's tactics

Mayor Kerry Cook released a statement late Thursday, responding to the "union's tactics."

Her statement is in full here:

?For the first time, the unionized employees of the City of Williams Lake have chosen to go on strike. The mayor and council consider the action unfortunate and designed to inconvenience our citizens but respect our employees right to do so.

With the agreement of the City and the Union, the Labour Relations Board has issued an Essential Services Order which will protect services necessary to protect our citizens? health, safety and welfare during the strike. If necessary, the city will apply for amendments to the order.

Clearly our citizens will be inconvenienced. For example, with Spring Break on the horizon, the union?s actions have lead to the shutdown of all programmes at the Cariboo Memorial Centre. We regret this.

The mayor and council also regret that the union has chosen to undertake a campaign of personal insults and misinformation, attacking city management, our negotiators and the council.

We do not know if the union?s tactics are having the desired effect. We do know that the feedback the mayor and council have been receiving has been overwhelmingly positive.

With regard to our management staff who are working hard to maintain essential services and to the city?s negotiating committee, they are doing a remarkable job under very trying circumstances and are having to endure inexcusable personal insults from the union. Management and our negotiating committee have the full and unqualified support and confidence of the mayor and council.

Before engaging in these personal insults against people doing their job, the union should remember that at the end of this strike, we all have to work together again. Needless antagonism is uncalled for.

Unfortunately the union has chosen to publish untruths and misleading statements. We will publish bulletins as necessary to rebut the union?s falsehoods as necessary and they will appear on the City?s website.?

John Dube, International Operating Union of Engineers Local 882B service representative responded to the mayor's message late Thursday saying the union does not have to justify what it's putting out to the public.

"The union has been very truthful and open and welcomes the public to come and talk to our people to find out that what we're putting out there are the facts. The union does not have to prove itself and that it has not lied to the public."

It was the union that went to the city and said it would supply the operators to make sure the ice remained at the complex, Dube added.

"So it seems funny that when they say they are trying to do something for the public, their idea was to take the ice out. Their track record is lousy," Dube said. "They had to go to arbitration with the Cariboo Regional District [fire protection], they are trying to shove arbitration down our throats because they can't do what they are supposed to do, and it's us that are putting out mis-information?

"They haven't proven that we've put out one piece of misinformation."

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Remarks following the meeting between President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma

BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, February 20, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, met with Dr. Nkosazana

Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission.

This meeting was an opportunity to highlight the strong and rich cooperation between the European Union and the African Union.

President Van Rompuy reaffirmed the EU's support to the newly appointed African Union

Commission and its priorities in particular the continued implementation of a robust

African Peace and Security Architecture, an increased emphasis on women's empowerment, the support to the New Partnership for Africa's Development's (NEPAD) priorities and the strengthening of the institutional capacities of the African Union (AU).

President Van Rompuy and Chairperson Dlamini-Zuma also discussed specific peace and security challenges such as the situations in Mali, Somalia and DRC/Great Lakes where the

AU and the EU work closely together.

Finally, both leaders shared views on the preparation of the fourth Africa-EU Summit which will be held in Brussels next year. They reiterated the strategic nature of this relationship and agreed on the need to review progress achieved with the aim of improving implementing mechanisms and further deepen cooperation.

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FotoFinder Releases handyscope?: Mobile Dermatoscope for iPhone 5

February 21, 2013 - Bad Birnbach, Germany

FotoFinder, manufacturer of medical imaging solutions, announces the launch of its mobile dermatoscope, handyscope^? for iPhone 5. handyscope^? will debut in the United States at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology in Miami, March 1-5, 2013. This new handyscope^? model enables doctors to better examine a mole through a new twin-light system and various new features.

FotoFinder handyscope(R): Mobile Dermatoscope for iPhone 5 (Photo: Business Wire)

The new handyscope^? for iPhone 5 features a slim design and a unique twin-light mode that combines the advantages of cross-polarized and immersion fluid dermoscopy. A quick tap button provides for toggling between both modes and a LED indicates the chosen light option.

The new model enables doctors to take pictures with or without glass contact with the skin. Two front pieces ? one with a glass contact plate and one without ? allow doctors to view elevated lesions and vascular conditions without compression.

handyscope^? has been helping doctors detect skin cancer since 2010. The new handyscope^? is still used with the password protected handyscope^? app. With one tap doctors freeze, save and evaluate an image on-screen, organize and manage images, tag images with patient data and comments, and select the localization using the app?s virtual patient diagrams. A new feature exclusive to handyscope^? for iPhone 5 is a special notch in the case that allows doctors to connect the phone to a monitor so patients can follow an examination, and also charge the phone with handyscope^? attached.

Pictures can be uploaded from the app into a secure private web space on the FotoFinder Hub, a cloud-like internet platform. Once images are uploaded, doctors can request a second opinion on suspicious moles from international skin cancer experts, who rate the pictures within hours.

?The relaunch of handyscope for iPhone 5 is the result of doctors? feedback and requirements for modern mobile dermoscopy. Additional functions like the Hub with web storage and second opinion service create a complete and safe storage solution and the perfect surrounding to detect skin cancer earlier. That?s why handyscope^? is the only device for eDermoscopy,? says Andreas Mayer, CEO of FotoFinder Systems.

FotoFinder Systems:

FotoFinder Systems is a global manufacturer and vendor of medical imaging systems and provides cutting-edge solutions for image management, archiving and diagnostic support.

iPhone is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

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Sorry, Yale: Harvard mints the most billionaires

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has its hedge-fund quants, the University of Southern California has its movie moguls. But if you really want your child to be a billionaire, you might want to send them to Harvard.

Harvard has graduated some 52 billionaires, with a collective fortune of $205 billion, to lead Wealth-X's global list of universities ranked by alumni worth $1 billion or more. That's nearly twice as many as the No. 2 school, the University of Pennsylvania, which has 28 billionaire alumni worth a collective $112 billion.

And these numbers don't include either Microsoft's Bill Gates or Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg both of whom attended Harvard but didn't stay to get their degree. Together they are worth some $45 billion.

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Before dismissing Harvard as a domain of rich kids who mostly inherit their wealth, consider that the school also claimed the highest percentage of self-made billionaires in the study. Seventy-four percent of the school's billionaire alumni "built that," Wealth-X found.

"It shows the power of networks," said David Friedman, president of Wealth-X. "Harvard has this entrenched, powerful network that extends across so many sectors and is incredibly pro-active about connecting its alumni. You get a great education, but you also get access."

Harvard's success, said Friedman, "validates what we all whisper and now we know: It's not just what you know, it's who you know."

Other schools can boast about their networks, too, particularly those with lines into technology and other leading fields for growing wealth.

Stanford University, in the heart of Silicon Valley, has 27 billionaires to its credit, ranking No. 3. M.I.T., whose alumni beat Harvard's for highest average net worth, at $257 million, has sprinkled its number-crunching analysts throughout Wall Street and hedge funds. The University of Cambridge, the only school outside the United States to make the top 10, is a high-tech leader in the U.K.

Top 5 universities ranked by billionaire alumni

1. Harvard, 52 billionaire alums with a total wealth of $205 billion
   
2. University of Pennsylvania, 28 billionaire alums with total wealth of $112 billion
3. Stanford, 27 billionaire alums, total wealth of $76 billion
4. New York University, 17 billionaire alums, total wealth of $68 billion

Source: Wealth-X

And in the broader category of ultra-high-net-worth individuals, which Wealth-X defines as those worth $30 million or more, "there are smaller clusters of successful graduates who have drawn in other alumni," Friedman noted. The University of Virginia, for instance, has many fewer billionaires, but outdid Harvard for the highest percentage of self-made wealthy, at 79 percent.

Monash University, in Melbourne, Australia, is a launching pad for women. Seventeen percent of their ultra-high-net-worth graduates are women. Among top American universities, Northwestern and Brown are conducive to female wealth with 15 percent and 14 percent.

But Harvard led in every other category in the Wealth-X rankings. Its ultra-high-net-worth graduates' sheer numbers ? totaling close to 3,000 ? and their outsized total net worth of $622 billion is enough to make parents whose children won't be going feel left out.

Some quick math, Friedman pointed out, provides a little balm for those suffering from elite education envy. In all, the universities mentioned in Wealth-X's report have helped create 14,355 ultra-high-net-worth individuals out of a total global population of more than 186,000, or about 7 percent. "That leaves 93 percent of the world's super-rich," Friedman said, "who did just fine without attending a top ranked school."

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/sorry-yale-harvard-mints-most-mega-rich-alums-1C8452389

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With 368 square miles to explore, you can walk for hours without seeing another soul, or you can visit some of the renowned attractions - such as Haytor and the interesting Dartmoor Prison Museum. If you're seeking a bit more of a thrill, why not cycle the Drakes Trail or encounter the herds of pure-breed Dartmoor ponies that wander freely along the trails. Dartmoor can easily be reached from many holiday cottages in Devon and it is certainly worth exploration.

The English Riviera: The seaside town of Torquay is the gateway to the English Riviera and is simply bursting with maritime history. In the early 19th century, the town began to develop into a fashionable seaside resort, frequented by members of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars (while the navy was anchored in the bay). Later, the area became increasingly popular with the crme de la crme of Victorian society and the towns fame spread like wildfire.

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