Fitted Up is the remarkable story of George Thatcher, who spent two weeks in a death cell awaiting the noose for murder following the Mitcham Co-op robbery in 1962. He was later reprieved, but would still serve twenty years for a crime he did not commit. This is a story of how the corrupt police ''fitted him up'' for the crime; a story of a life of poverty in the 1930s and ''40s as a child and young man - a life of petty crime in London''s bleak 1950s underworld reminiscent of all those black and white gangster films of the period. Thatcher was a non-violent ''peter'' man, a safe-blower, famou
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"On September 11th 1999 the Times newspaper carried the front page article 'Revealed : the quiet woman who betrayed Britain for 40 years. The spy who came in from the co-op.' Melita Norwood, the last of the atomic spies, had finally been run to ground. At 87 she was deemed too old to prosecute. Her crime: the shortening of the Soviet Union's atomic bomb project by up to five years. At a time when the world faces fresh dilemmas caused by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, this is the remarkable story of a much earlier drama. After the atomic bomb strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, British and American intelligence estimated the earliest date for a Soviet bomb to be 1953. In fact, the Soviet Union went nuclear in 1948, and tested an atomic bomb in 1949. The Soviet Union's bomb coincided with the onset of the Cold War, and threatened humankind with extinction. Melita Norwood was a member of one of those communist spy networks in America and Britain, who by guaranteeing those weapons of mass destruction threw down a challenge to America as sole superpower in the post-Second World War era. This fascinating book sets her in the context of the times, and uses her as a prism and focus through which to investigate the whole milieu"--Dust jacket
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This study proposes a reading of the financial statements of co-operatives operating within the Florentine metropolitan area, with a view to underscoring business aspects of a quantitative and monetary nature. The entrepreneurial nature of the co-operatives is taken as read, focusing as with any other corporate entity on assets and economic results as indicators of success. The financial statements were collected from co-operatives with their registered offices in the provinces of Florence, Prato and Pistoia for the financial years 2004-2007, and the accounts were then aggregated, reclassified and analysed. The observations on the resulting data are then broken down by province and by type of co-operative (A or B). - Il presente studio propone una lettura dei bilanci delle cooperative sociali operanti all'interno dell'area metropolitana fiorentina, al fine di evidenziarne le caratteristiche quantitativo-monetarie d'impresa. Si considera come pienamente affermata la loro natura imprenditoriale, dedicando attenzione alle risultanze patrimoniali ed economiche quale modalità tipicamente aziendale di rappresentazione e misurazione del successo. Si è proceduto a raccogliere i bilanci d'esercizio delle cooperative sociali con sede legale nelle province di Firenze, Prato e Pistoia relativamente agli anni di competenza 2004-2007, ad aggregare, riclassificare ed analizzare tali rendiconti e, infine, a commentare i dati ottenuti, articolando le osservazioni per provincia e per tipologia (A o B) di cooperativa.
Political Science - Door de commissie van den Ban is geconstateerd dat de interactie tussen de toekomstverkenningen en het strategisch beleid in het algemeen gebrekkig is. Het gevolg kan zijn dat toekomstverkenningen onvoldoende georiënteerd zijn op strategische beleidsdilemma's en mede daardoor onvoldoende worden benut.
Ein fortschreitender Wasserschaden im Bereich des Aufwachraums und der Schleuse für Patient*innen im OP-Trakt des Vivantes Klinikum Kaulsdorf führte 2019 zu Sanierungsarbeiten im laufenden Betrieb. Die Kapazitätskürzung von vier auf drei OP-Säle zeigte während der Bauphase faktisch keine wesentlichen negativen Auswirkungen auf die OP-Fallzahlen. In der Hypothese formulierte Annahme gilt als widerlegt, da das in die Untersuchungen eingeschlossene Personal zu keiner signifikanten Verkürzung der Wechselzeit und der Schnitt-Naht-Zeit beitrug.
Political Science; Public Administration - In het eerste werkdocument Terugblik op toekomstverkenningen, deed de Stuurgroep T&O verslag van het ex post onderzoek naar de recente generatie toekomstverkenningen. In de tweede helft van de negentiger jaren kon de scepsis over de voorspellende waarde van toekomstonderzoek niet verhinderen dat elke zichzelf respecterende overheidsinstelling een toekomstverkenning liet verrichten. In deze nieuwe generatie toekomstverkenningen is op vele manieren getracht recht te doen aan deze onzekerheden, aan de complexiteit van het omgevingsbeleid, en aan nieuwe sturingsfilosofieën en methodologische inzichten.
Het disfunctioneren van de Nederlandse woningmarkt trekt terecht de aandacht. De koopsector is uit balans door de fiscale bevoordeling, door de geringe prijselasticiteit van het aanbod en door de ruimhartige hypotheekverstrekking. De huursector functioneert in sterke mate marktcontrair en wordt gekenmerkt door een grote mate van regulering. In deze rede wordt aandacht besteed aan de invloed van de koopsector op de huursector. Het hoge prijsniveau in de koopsector dat mede het gevolg is van de fiscale bevoordeling, heeft een verstorende werking op de huursector. De huursector wordt geconfrontee
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Cooperation, Community, and Co-ops in a Global EraCarl RatnerHuman history is largely the story of communities, punctuated by examples of cooperatives--in fact, our level of cooperative behavior is one of the attributes that makes us most human. In recent years, however, concepts such as rugged individualism and social Darwinism have competed against cooperative ideas for supremacy, and today's climate of global economic crisis has found these "me-first" concepts wanting. Now, an important new book posits that current political solutions to acute world problems are inadequate, and that modern society needs to look to its communal roots for recovery--and perhaps survival. Cooperation, Community, and Co-ops in a Global Era argues for a societal paradigm shift and details how such a transformation might be accomplished. Taking the evolutionary long view, its author demonstrates how cooperative principles can make a social system not just more efficient and less wasteful of time and resources, but also more democratic, empowering, and fulfilling for everyone involved. In making this compelling case, he: Explains cooperation as a form of life that can resolve current crises and enhance human development. Shows how most of human history has been cooperative. Explains modern obstacles to cooperation that must be overcome. Explicates a cooperative social philosophy: its psychology, social relations, property relations, governance. Articulates a psychological theory of cooperation that includes comparative research with animals, evolutionary processes, biological issues, and cultural issues. Explains how cooperative enterprises have practiced cooperation. Provides examples of co-op strengths and weaknesses from on-site research into European and American co-ops. Articulates a revisionist history of the cooperative movement that includes relations with socialist theory and the labor movement. Explains implications of cooperation for democracy and interpersonal relations such as love. Social scientists, co-op members, policy makers, social philosophers, mediators, community builders, social reformers, and all those concerned with a viable solution to contemporary crises will find Cooperation, Community, and Co-ops In A Global Era stimulating and informative.
Political science - Eind 2007 bestond de Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid 35 jaar. Ter gelegenheid van dit jubileum werd een speciale publicatie uitgebracht onder de titel Op Steenworp Afstand. Dit boek biedt een beeld van de Nederlandse traditie van advisering aan de overheid, een vergelijking met soortgelijke instellingen in een aantal Europese landen en een blik op de toekomst. Binnen deze brede opzet wordt natuurlijk ook aandacht geschonken aan de geschiedenis van de WRR zelf. Enkele herinneringen aan de WRR zijn gebundeld in een bijlage van Jan Buevink met daarin interviews met o.a. Ruud Lubbers, Piet-Hein Donner en Gerrit Zalm.
