X-Nico

unusual facts about co-operative



Albert J. Neri

In 2001, Neri and political operative John Verbanac founded NeriVerbanac Public Affairs, a Harrisburg-based political and media consulting organization.

Aldwych

On 18 February 1996, a bomb detonated prematurely on a Number 171 bus travelling along Aldwych, killing Edward O'Brien, the IRA operative transporting the device; it also injured four others.

American Maid

She has also been revealed to be an operative (at least part-time) for the US government and had the former alias of Jeanine Smith during a mission with the Tick and Arthur to rescue Yank, a monkey made temporarily smart by cosmic rays, and subsequently kidnapped by the evil ruler Pineapple Pokopo.

Berlin promotion agency

In October 2010 the Berlin Promotion Agency joined a programme by the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft which enables students to gain practical work experience via a co-operative education programme on-the-job.

Brigade Temporelle

When the series begins, 20th century archeologist Jason Spell on a dig in Mesopotamia is recruited to become a member of Delta Hand 28, a four-person operative unit of the Time Brigade, a time-travelling organization from the 40th century.

Cardiff, New Zealand

Cardiff was one of the constituent dairy co-operatives (the others being Eltham, Stratford, and Normanby) who combined to form the Taranaki Co-operative Dairy Co.

Celestair

Celestair Group represents an alliance of three airlines under the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, AKFED, and benefits from technical and operative support from other airlines owned by the Aga Khan, such as Meridiana and Eurofly of Italy.

Colonial Parkway Killer

Investigators have speculated that the suspect might be a law enforcement officer, someone impersonating one, or perhaps a rogue operative from the Central Intelligence Agency, which has a training facility nearby at Camp Peary in York County.

Crossmyloof

Pollokshaws Road and Minard Road provided the shopping area for Crossmyloof, Shawlands and Langside - mainly in small shop units until the construction of the area's first supermarket by the Co-operative during the 1960s.

Dhiren Barot

Much of the information about Barot's role in the planning of further al-Qaeda attacks came from Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a prominent al-Qaeda operative captured by the Pakistani ISI.

DIA in popular culture

:*Need To Know - a DIA operative George Roca comes in conflict with investigators from NCIS, who are not let on a sensitive DIA operation.

Divine Chocolate

It was originally established in the UK in 1998 as a company limited by shares owned by the Kuapa Kokoo cocoa farmers' co-operative, the Fairtrade NGO Twin Trading and The Body Shop, with support from Christian Aid and Comic Relief.

Göss Abbey

In 1827 the premises were auctioned off and acquired by the wheelwrights' co-operative of Vordernberg, who were primarily interested in the forests of the former abbey's estates.

Gouthu Latchanna

Finally when Jawaharlal Nehru agreed to rehabilitate toddy tappers with their conventional tapping on co-operative basis and written agreement offer to oppose Congress in Visakhapatnam district, merger of Krishikar Lok Party in Congress to create "United Congress Front" had materialised.

Great Company

Great Company (English), first operative in eastern France and Provence in the 1350s, then in Italy, where it became the White Company

Hanover Building

The building was built between 1905 and 1909 and forms part of the Co-operative Estate in Manchester which includes the CIS Tower and One Angel Square.

Hexham, New South Wales

Its central location was again important to the establishment in 1927 of a dairy processing factory by the Hunter Valley Dairy Co-operative, which established the "OAK" milk brand, which is now owned by Parmalat.

Holyoake House

In 1906 the co-operative activist George Jacob Holyoake died and the Co-operative Movement decided to commemorate him by building a permanent headquarters for the Co-operative Union.

Howard Opinsky

Opinsky has also served as a media strategist and campaign operative for a variety of candidates and political leaders including U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) and former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX).

Jim Dobbin

James "Jim" Dobbin (born 26 May 1941) is a British Labour Co-operative politician and microbiologist, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Heywood and Middleton since 1997.

John G. Inglis

He left Westinghouse to become Electrical Engineer for the Co-operative Transit Company in Wheeling, West Virginia.

John R. Hanny

John R. Hanny is an United States chef, author, and political operative and is best known for working in the White House during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson as a special consultant and for serving as a visiting chef for administrations from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton.

Joseph Fernandez

Joseph F. Fernandez, CIA operative and figure in the Iran-Contra Affair

Lakeland Dairies

Lakeland Dairies Group is an Irish dairy co-operative based in Killeshandra, County Cavan, Ireland.

Linda Gilroy

Linda Gilroy (born 19 July 1949) is a British Labour Co-operative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Plymouth Sutton from 1997 until her defeat at the 2010 general election by the Conservative Party candidate, Oliver Colvile.

M.T. v. J.T.

M.T. v J.T., 140 N.J. 77, 355 A.2d 204, 205 (NJ Super. Ct. 1976), is a 1976 New Jersey Superior Court case which affirmed the validity of a marriage of a trans woman to a man, and in particular legally recognized the woman's post-operative gender of the plaintiff.

Maloth

Malom Service Co-operative Bank and the Women Co-operative Bank are the main banking institutions here.

Matt Brandstein

As an actor, Brandstein made a brief cameo as a CIA operative in the 2006 Karan Johar Bollywood blockbuster Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna.

Michael Elston

From there he moved to the Eastern District of Virginia; there he worked on the prosecutions of John Walker Lindh, the American who fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan; and Zacarias Moussaoui, the convicted al-Qaida operative who alternately claimed and denied a role in the September 11 attacks.

Moscow Mission

They are a hacker girl who once broke through Pentagon servers, a former special operative officer who enjoys speed and adrenalin, psychologist, a lady whose beauty outshines her intelligence and her rank of major, and a blind field engineer whose sense of smell and intuition substitute for his eye sight...

Mum Shirl

Two years after her death, Bronwyn Bancroft and the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative organised a tribute exhibition of art works in her honour.

Musselburgh and Fisherrow Co-operative Society

The most notable demutualization plan of a UK retail co-operative was the 1997 failed hostile takeover bid for the Co-operative Wholesale Society by Andrew Regan.

Patrice Warrener

Trained as a printer, Patrice made his mark in the world of light shows: first, with the French co-operative Open Light, and then with his collaboration with the English musician, and electronic music pioneer, Tim Blake, with whom he introduced Laser Lighting effects in their Crystal Machine shows in the early 1970s.

Pediatric plastic surgery

Surgery is defined as treating injuries or conditions with operative instrumental treatment.

Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company

The Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company is located in Prentice, Wisconsin.

R-Type Tactics II: Operation Bitter Chocolate

The game also supports multiplayer combat via Wi-Fi and also has a co-operative two-player mode available through ad hoc connection and game sharing modes.

RELCOM

It was launched in the Soviet Union on August 1, 1990 in the Kurchatov Institute in collaboration with DEMOS co-operative (although the engineering team at DEMOS at the time consisted mostly of Kurchatov Institute employees, some key members (Mikhail Davidov, Vadim Antonov, Dmitry Volodin) in the RELCOM team were never employed by Kurchatov Institute).

Rhodt unter Rietburg

The village has been making wine for over 1200 years, and is one of the centers for Moselle wine as a home of Rietburg wine co-operative.

Rick S. Piltz

Within months, the New York Times exposed White House operative Philip Cooney for editing government climate documents to increase uncertainty about the science.

Robert Bice

Between 1957-1964 Bice made seven appearances on Perry Mason as Frank Faulkner, operative for Mason's private detective Paul Drake.

Sniper Wolf

Extremely grateful, she thought of Big Boss as a modern Saladin and followed him in whatever he did, until his mutiny and later death at the hands of FOXHOUND operative Solid Snake (depicted in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake).

Southern Co-operative

Head office was previously located at Fareham in Hampshire, but since July 2011, is now located at 1000 Lakeside, a business park in North Harbour, Portsmouth.

Stockport County Supporters' Co-operative

After a disappointing start to their first season after purchasing the club, the Trust installed Jim Gannon as manager to the first team who, despite previously having had little managerial experience, has emerged as one of the most highly rated managers in the lower leagues.

The Power of the Dog

Keller has just begun his career as a DEA agent, coming over from operative work with the CIA, and a veteran of Viet Nam's Phoenix Program.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

Although Fisher manages to capture Sadono, Third Echelon learns that a rogue CIA operative, Norman Soth has acquired the last smallpox-armed ND133, and intends to detonate it inside Los Angeles International Airport.

Transport in Badalona

The long-announced L10 is currently under construction, but the stations located within the municipality of Badalona, along with some in Barcelona, are already operative as of 2010.

V. Ponnambalam

Ponnambalam withdrew from political life and in 1978 shifted his residence to Lusaka, Zambia where he taught at the Co-operative College.

Victoria Montgomery

The play, a work by Frederic Townsend Martin, showed scenes from a private car, the RMS Olympic, a millionaire's residence on Fifth Avenue, and a Mexican mine with an operative cage.

WCW vs. nWo: World Tour

These characters were also given extravagant profiles in the game's official strategy guide; Abdullah the Butcher, renamed "Saladin," is described as a former Afghan Secret service operative who refused orders to assassinate Mikhail Gorbachev.

William Tomyn

He faced only one challenger Co-operative Commonwealth candidate Nick Dushenski.


see also

1961 in Israel

1 December – Israel announced plans to establish "the world's first chain of industrial co-operative towns" in the Negev Desert, starting with the community of Mitzpe Ramon.

2 Intelligence Company

Founded by Sir William Stephenson (more popularly known by his codename ‘The Man Called Intrepid’), Camp X operated from 1941 to 1946 as a vital co-operative training ground for agents in Canadian, British and American service, who were subsequently inserted deep in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Advertising Checking Bureau

Playtex Girdle contemplated a co-operative advertising program and hired ACB to compile a retail newspaper advertising report of their own and competitive foundation garments.

Bankmecu

bankmecu, formerly the Members and Education Credit Union (mecu), is an Australian financial co-operative based in Kew, Victoria.

Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin

The BHT maintains a co-operative programme featuring national companies such as the Deutsche Bahn, Burger King, the Berlin promotion agency and Audi.

Birches Bridge

Birches Bridge is home to Bilbrook railway station and Birches Bridge Shopping Centre, which features a HSBC branch, a Co-operative supermarket and an Esso petrol station amongst other shops and eateries.

Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken

The Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken (Federal Association of German 'Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken' Co-operative Banks) is the association of co-operative banks in Germany.

Guild of St George

The early work of this co-operative farming scheme met with only limited success, undermined by a series of disagreements (see William Harrison Riley).

Harlaxton, Queensland

Apart from the quarries, the suburb is home to the Willowburn railway marshalling yard and the original Darling Downs Bacon Company established as a co-operative in 1911 (later KR Castlemaine).

Henry Simpson Lunn

As such, he was the founder of the Co-operative Educational Tours in 1893 and organized meetings of predominantly English church leaders at the annual Grindelwald Reunion Conferences, between 1892 and 1896.

Herbert Vincent Mills

For positive solutions, Mills looked to the independent-minded islanders of St Kilda, and the vagrancy colonies of the Netherlands, concluding that what was required was an “English experiment” in co-operative land settlement.

Ian MacLachlan Arrol

Arrol's first foray into electoral politics was with a different party: he ran as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) candidate in the 1948 Alberta general election in the electoral district of Medicine Hat.

Jaenicke

Frank Jaenicke (1892-1951), a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation member of the Canadian House of Commons

Jim Britt

At the close of the 1950 season, that co-operative arrangement ended and each team decided to air a full schedule of 154 games, home and away.

K. Amarnath Shetty

He joined politics in 1965 and went on to become the President of Paladka Panchayath in Karkala Taluk, Chairman of Moodbidri Town Panchayath, President of Taluk Marketing Society, Karkala, Co-operative Service Bank and District Janata Party of Dakshina Kannada.

Kim Trew

His grandmother, Beatrice Trew, was a founding member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, the predecessor of the New Democratic Party.

Lakeland Dairies

It operates across fifteen counties in the north of the island and is Ireland's second largest dairy co-operative, processing roughly one billion litres of milk annually.

Local Plus

After this the conveco estate of stores was split up with all the Plymouth and South Devon stores being sold on to the Plymouth & South West Co-operative Society, and the rest retained by the Co-operative Group which now trade under the Co-op Welcome fascia.

Margaret McCoubrey

She became general secretary of the Co-operative Women's Guild and in 1922, she was elected to represent the Irish guildswomen on the newly formed International Women's Co-operative Committee, which came into existence at Basel.

Otter Co-op

The need for food preservation was brought to their attention, and in 1946, Co-operative Cold Storage Lockers were made available.

Rhona

Rhona Brankin (born 1950), Labour Co-operative politician and Member of the Scottish Parliament

Rochdale pioneers

The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, an early consumer cooperative at the genesis of the modern co-operative movement

Selwyn Fremantle

He was appointed Registrar of Co-operative Societies in the United Provinces in 1907, Collector and Magistrate of Allahabad in 1913, Commissioner of Bareilly in 1918, Controller of Passages of the United Provinces in 1919, and Commissioner of Meerut in 1919.

Shared Interest

The initial £100,000 funding (subsequently repaid) for the launch of the Society came from Traidcraft, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, and a similar co-operative established in 1975 in the Netherlands, now called Oikocredit.

Social Enterprise London

SEL's first chief executive, Jonathan Bland, brought experience from Valencia where a business support infrastructure for co-operative enterprise was established using learning from the Mondragón region of Spain.

Taep'oong International Investment Group of Korea

Despite the ongoing tension, the Taep'oong has proposed a co-operative solution to the remaining assets of South Korean Hyundai's Mount Kumgang Tourist Region in North Korean territories.

Walsall Wood

Across the road from Oak Park is a Fitness First gym, and several shops including a Tesco Express, a Co-Operative Supermarket opening in 2012 (this had been delayed until Spring 2013), a fish and chip shop, newsagents and more recently an Indian restaurant.