Books on the topic 'Oracle financial'

This chapter explores a range of representations of Magna Carta in the public sphere, and the authors argue that the significance of the Great Charter lies less in constitutional history and more in the different political uses to which the Charter has been put over time. Plans for the 800th commemoration of the Charter in 2015, proposed by both national and local organizations, are examined through oral history interviews with some of the leading participants. These plans ranged from the ideologically conservative and international collaborations of elite national organizations to the more inclusive commemorative activities of the local community. However, the tensions within both local and national projects of commemoration, the absence of broad public involvement, and the financial recession reduced what was intended as high-profile celebration to a more muted and elitist form.

This volume is the continuation of an earlier study of colonial and imperial São Paulo and covers the period 1850-1950. These volumes are the first full scale survey of the economy and society of the state of São Paulo in this two century period in any language. Today São Paulo is the most populated state of Brazil and also the richest and most industrialized one. It is also the world leader in the production of sugar cane and orange juice and houses one of the world’s major airplane manufacturers. Its GDP today is almost double the size of Portugal or Finland and close to the size of the entire economy of Colombia or Venezuela and its capital city is one of the top five metropolitan centers in the world. This volume shows how the region of São Paulo went from being one of the more marginal and backward areas of the nation to its leading agricultural, industrial and financial center. Special emphasis is given to the creation of a modern state government and finances in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as well as the evolution of tis coffee economy and its internal market as well as its leading role it played in the integration of over two million European and Asian immigrants into Brazilian society.

For eight days in March 1970, over 200,000 postal workers staged an illegal "wildcat" strike--the largest in United States history--for better wages and working conditions. Picket lines started in New York and spread across the country like wildfire. Strikers defied court injunctions, threats of termination, and their own union leaders. In the negotiated aftermath, the U.S. Post Office became the U.S. Postal Service, and postal workers received full collective bargaining rights and wage increases, all the while continuing to fight for greater democracy within their unions. Using archives, periodicals, and oral histories, Philip Rubio shows how this strike, born of frustration and rising expectations and emerging as part of a larger 1960s-1970s global rank-and-file labor upsurge, transformed the post office and postal unions. It also led to fifty years of clashes between postal unions and management over wages, speedup, privatization, automation, and service. Rubio revives the 1970 strike story and connects it to today's postal financial crisis that threatens the future of a vital 245-year-old public communications institution and its labor unions.

This work combines black business and civil rights history to explain how economic concerns shaped the goals and objectives of the black freedom struggle. Brandon K. Winford examines the “black business activism” of banker and civil rights lawyer John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978). Born on the campus of Kittrell College in Vance County, North Carolina, he came of age in Jim Crow Atlanta, Georgia, where his father became an executive with the world-renowned North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company (NC Mutual). As president of Mechanics and Farmers Bank (M&F Bank), located on Durham’s “Black Wall Street,” Wheeler became the Tar Heel State’s most influential black power broker and among the top civil rights figures in the South. Winford places Wheeler at the center of his narrative to understand how black business leaders tackled civil rights while continuously pointing to the economy’s larger significance for the success and advancement of the postwar New South. In this way, Wheeler articulated a bold vision of regional prosperity, grounded in full citizenship and economic power for black people. He reminded the white South that its future was inextricably linked to the plight of black southerners. He spent his entire career trying to fulfill these ideals through his institutional and organizational affiliations, as part and parcel of his civil rights agenda. Winford draws on previously unexamined primary and secondary sources, including newspapers, business records, FBI reports, personal papers, financial statements, presidential files, legal documents, oral histories, and organizational and institutional records.

The use of non-prescription drugs is widespread and has a major impact on the health of the individual user and society. In 2006, the British Crime Survey reported that 10% of adults had used one or more illicit drugs in the preceding year, with 3% reporting using a Class A drug. Over 11 million people in the UK are estimated to have used an illicit drug at least once in their lifetime (35%). Drugs abused vary in their intrinsic potential to cause addiction and, with it, more regular and harmful use. Drug users are influenced by trends and fashions, adopting new compounds such as crack cocaine and experimenting with routes of ingestion. Some drugs may become less popular over time, such as LSD, while others, such as cannabis, experience a revival as more potent strains (e.g. Skunk) are developed. A problem drug user is best defined as a person whose drug taking is no longer controlled or undertaken for recreational purposes and where drugs have become a more essential element of the individual’s life. The true economic and social cost of drug use is likely to be substantially greater than the published figures, which are derived from a variety of health and crime surveys which may overlook vulnerable groups such as the homeless. The majority of non-prescription drugs used in the UK are illegal and covered by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The drugs most commonly abused gave rise in 2003–4 to an estimated financial cost in England and Wales of 15.4 billion pounds to the economy, with Class A drugs such as heroin and cocaine accounting for the majority of this. Some 90% of the cost is due to drug-related crime, with only 3% (£488 million) due to health service expenditure, which is mainly spent on inpatient care episodes. This still represents a major health pressure, which in 2006–7 amounted to 38 000 admissions, in England, for primary and secondary drug-related mental or behavioural problems, and over 10 000 admissions recorded for drug poisoning. Clinicians in all specialities can expect to encounter harmful drug use, especially those working in primary care, A & E, and psychiatric services. Presenting problems are protean, ranging from mood disorders, delirium, and psychosis to sepsis, malnutrition, and hepatitis. Blood-borne infections such as hepatitis C and HIV are widespread, as contaminated needles and syringes are shared by up to a quarter of problem drug users. Even smoking drugs such as crack cocaine can lead to increased transmission of hepatitis C through oral ulceration and contact with hot contaminated smoking pipes. Amongst the UK population, over half of IV drug users have hepatitis C, a quarter have antibodies to hepatitis B, and, by 2006, 4662 had been diagnosed with HIV. Non-prescription drug abuse is a leading cause of death and morbidity amongst the young adult population (those aged 16–35). In 2006 there were 1573 deaths where the underlying cause was poisoning, drug abuse, or dependence on substances controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act. The vast majority (79%) were male. Young men, in particular, are at greater risk of violent death through associated criminal activity such as drug supplying and from deliberate and accidental overdose. The male-to-female ratio for deaths associated with mental and behavioural disorder is 6:1.

Los acuerdos firmados por el gobierno con las FARC-EP, movimiento insurgente que ha tenido como una de sus banderas de lucha la reivindicación campesina en materia de tierras, ha puesto el principal énfasis en el campo. Como simples académicos de la juridicidad colombiana, pensamos que la negativa plebiscitaria solo ha sido un traspié transitorio que podrá ser enderezado, y que –esa es nuestra esperanza–, Colombia se alista a pasar la página de la infame guerra interna que durante los últimos cincuenta años ha asolado nuestros campos y ciudades. Es esta una guerra que, además, ha venido suscitando numerosos conflictos de orden jurídico relacionados con el dominio de bienes inmuebles, motivo por el cual, en el caso de que finalmente prospere la paz, deberán ser tratados y resueltos en el posconflicto, dentro de una macropolítica para su formalización, que deberá brindar los espacios jurídicos adecuados para incrementar la riqueza de vastos sectores poblacionales, pues la realidad es que la propiedad, como medio primario generador de riqueza, deberá representar entre 50% y 60% del patrimonio de las familias para asegurar su prosperidad o al menos su estabilidad económica. Así, la búsqueda de un proceso judicial, que brinde trámite expedito para declarar la pertenencia y sanear títulos con falsa tradición, deber tener firmes efectos positivos colaterales en la reducción de la pobreza. Confiamos, entonces, en que bajo el esquema del nuevo procedimiento oral que acoge el C.G.P. se logre este sentido propósito nacional. De otro lado, en cuanto a los predios rurales, la certeza de titularidad de su dominio resulta ser piedra angular para el desarrollo del sector agropecuario, pues ello apareja sustanciales mejoras en la calidad de vida de los campesinos, puesto que, al incrementarse su patrimonio, tendrán mayores posibilidades de acceder a créditos para financiar inversiones a largo plazo. Todo ello resulta imprescindible si se quiere promover efectivos proyectos productivos y se pretende su verdadera ejecución; con ello, sin duda, se logrará una mayor y más eficiente explotación agrícola, como también la implementación y desarrollo de los necesarios planes y programas de sustitución de cultivos. Teniendo en cuenta todo lo anterior, esto es, pensando en el marco de una Colombia del posconflicto, hoy la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Libre de Bogotá se complace en entregar a la comunidad jurídica la presente obra, en donde se recoge el pensamiento y posición jurídica de los docentes del área de Derecho Procesal. El libro que se titula La prescripción adquisitiva consta de siete capítulos, cuya autoría corresponde a sendos docentes del área de Derecho Procesal de la Facultad de Derecho, y en cada uno de ellos se abordan diferentes temáticas relacionas con el proceso de pertenencia. En el primer capítulo, denominado “Introducción al proceso de declaración de pertenencia”, cuyo autor es el Dr. León José Jaramillo Zuleta, se desarrolla el concepto de los derechos reales, sus características, la posibilidad de ser adquiridos a través del proceso de pertenencia y los efectos de dicha declaración; además, se profundiza sobre el alcance social del derecho de propiedad, la función social de la declaración de pertenencia, la declaración de pertenencia vía de acción y de excepción, oponiéndose el autor a esta última forma procesal, considerando que el poseedor demandado en el proceso, por ejemplo, el reivindicatorio, deberá necesariamente hacer uso de la demanda de reconvención para ser declarado propietario del bien por prescripción adquisitiva. El autor igualmente diserta y enfatiza acerca de la necesidad de unificar el proceso de pertenencia, y siguiendo esta línea de pensamiento, toma partido por la derogatoria tácita de la Ley 1561 de 2012, aunque deja a salvo la vigencia de las normas sustanciales de dicha ley, dentro de las cuales incluye las normas sustanciales de la prescripción adquisitiva de las viviendas de interés social contenidas en la Ley 9 de 1989 y las referidas a los predios agrarios. Por último, en dicho trabajo se señala de manera muy precisa cuáles son los bienes que pueden ser objeto de prescripción, quedando absolutamente claro, según su punto de vista, que apoya en referencias históricas, que quedan excluidos los que pertenecen a entidades de derecho público. En el segundo capítulo, denominado “Aspectos sustanciales de la prescripción adquisitiva”, cuyo autor es el suscrito, como indica el título del capítulo, se desarrollan los aspectos sustanciales que regulan este modo particular de adquisición de derechos reales respecto de cosas ajenas, como lo es la prescripción adquisitiva; en él se precisa que los derechos reales, salvo excepciones, son objeto de prescripción adquisitiva respecto de bienes muebles o inmuebles; se indica cuáles son los requisitos para la prosperidad de la pretensión de pertenencia; se hace un estudio acerca de la agregación de posesiones, la interversión del título, la posesión regular y la irregular, la suspensión, interrupción y renuncia de la prescripción adquisitiva, el enfrentamiento legal entre la prescripción adquisitiva y la pretensión de reivindicación, y por último, se hace un estudio de la más importantes reformas al derecho sustancial, en las leyes 9 de 1989, 791 de 2002, 1183 de 2008, 1561 de 2012 y 1564 de 2012.