The Occupy movement that began months ago in New York and has since grasped hold of the rest of the country turned violent for the first time on November 2nd in Oakland when a small group of protestors smashed the windows of a Wells Fargo bank branch during a protest of wealth inequalities. The Occupy Oakland movement scheduled a noon rally in front of City Hall and then a free lunch afterward. The day's events were planned to wrap up with a "general strike mass convergence, rally, and labor cookout." Each of these were intended to be peaceful protests, but a small faction began passing out fl...

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... to begin this investigation, it is first helpful to consider what is meant by power in the organization. Boe (2004) in his examination of power reports that, 'One can say that in organizational terms power is the ability to get things done, to produce change. 'Power is the ability to effectively manipulate or control a situation of a person. Power involves changing behavior and ... can be a source of leadership' (p. 140). While there are different types of power that leaders in the organization can acquire 'i.e. legitimate, coercive, etc', Boe asserts ... subtle. According to this auth...

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... Justice retains data for analysis, dissemination, and study to help those in law enforcement and those wishing to research data related to criminal justice. The Bureau of Justice Statistics program under the DOJ, an executive, administrative branch of government, is an extremely useful tool for students to analyze an array of issues including both victim and offender information, including characteristics ... of these populations. The information provided in this database is extremely useful in that the quantifiable information can be used to assist policy-makers with decisions that eff...

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... , parodies, and even some serious discussion. In Great Britain, in October of 2007, a London High Court judge in an uncommon ruling on what secondary school children could be shown in the classroom determined there were nine key errors in scientific fact. Mr. Justice Burton was quoted as saying that some of these points he determined as untrue had been "in ... the context of alarmism and exaggeration," according to The Times Online Edition of October 11, 2007. However, a look at recent news seems to show that Mr. Gore's critics are and will continue to be proven ... wrong at calling him...

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... million in Vatican funds (Rocca). Ten other banks are under investigation for having their fiscal residence in Italy but using the IOR as a shield to hide different dealings, such as tax or fraud evasion (The Straits Times). The investigation began after two suspicious transfers from an IOR account were detected, one for twenty million euros to a German branch ... of countries that comply with international banking standards. Spokesman Father Federico Lombardi issued a letter claiming, "The current problem was caused by a misunderstanding - now being examined - between the IOR and the ba...

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... has alarmingly increased: 1 rich person for every 72 poor.[1] Yet global spending would make war and war-related expenses as the number one item in global spending. Consider the following statistics: • The world spends one trillion dollars in armaments while 800 people million live in extremely bad poverty, 770 million people do not have food for an active working life, 100 million ... 1.8 trillion dollars. • Only 358 billionaires have a total income of 760 billion dollars which is equivalent to the total income of 2.5 billion people. • 20 percent of the world's richest people rec...

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... has alarmingly increased: 1 rich person for every 72 poor.[1] Yet global spending would make war and war-related expenses as the number one item in global spending. Consider the following statistics: - The world spends one trillion dollars in armaments while 800 million people live in extremely bad poverty, 770 million people do not have food for an active working life, 100 million ... to 1.8 trillion dollars. - Only 358 billionaires have a total income of 760 billion dollars which is equivalent to the total income of 2.5 billion people. - 20 percent of the world's richest people recei...

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... has a chance of meeting a "chubby chaser" on the internet, the chances of finding such a man in real life in her locale are slim to none. Most men will overlook the wonderful things about Christina and never give themselves the chance to fall in love with the woman she is. Stuart, a fairly corpulent man himself ... life generally meet in workplace situations, or in similar social settings, or because of mutual friends. It's hard to simply cut bait. On the internet, you can generally click ignore and move on. If it doesn't work out, all you have lost is time. 4) Intimacy ... While physic...

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A landlord of a Philadelphian apartment discovered four mentally handicapped people chained in the basement when he went to investigate a short circuit on October 15th. Turgut Gozleveli discovered dogs locked inside of the boiler room and four adults hiding underneath a blanket. They were hunched together in a space not tall enough for an adult to stand, surrounded in human waste with only a jug of orange juice (Hoye). He unchained them while asking questions about their identity, but he didn't receive any answers. Believing them to be illegal immigrants, Gosleveli called in the police who qui...

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... , but analysts were surprised: Spending was actually even lower than expected. A division of MasterCard showed holiday spending this year was down by as much as 4% over the same period last year, making this year the worst holiday season for them in modern times. Even retail behemoths such as Gap experienced a drop in sales by close to 20 percent. Best Buy and other ... , less powerful retailers, and threaten to put them out of business. Larger, stronger businesses, although they may find themselves with less competition for market share, will also have to face laying off more and more of...

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... treatment. No one expected him to do all this in four years. It was almost a given that we would give him eight. Then the mortgage industry crashed, and the economy tanked with it. Barack Obama will now have to spend at least his first four years putting American back to work, funding projects ... have to wait. There will be no paying down the deficit, at least not anytime soon. Unlike Bill Clinton, Obama is coming into an economy that was bleeding profusely from every portal. He will not simply be able to raise taxes and set things right. He laid out some of his strategies in ... his ec...

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... Wright Jr., later made some critical remarks on both race and America itself which ignited one of the biggest negative campaigns against Obama. This drew heavy criticism, which also created more interest in exactly what kind of faith Obama practiced. Trinity Church is quite different. They"re across from a public housing project, a membership which began with a few dozen members to now close ... to 9,000, and a church. It's pastor, Wright, "wore African dashikis, planted a "Free South Africa" sign on the church lawn, and demanded tolerance of gays and lesbians, a maverick stance for a b...

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... he did it by building from scratch a campaign that would make Americans an offer they couldn't refuse. Although in the end Obama's victory was decisive, his eventual success wasn't always so clearly ordained. During the primary season, he and McCain were neck-and-neck in a Gallup Poll. In the 85 Gallup Poll Daily tracking reports published between March 12 and June 7, thirty-one ... he could not, until October, elbow his way past the 50 percent support threshold. Barack Obama spoke a language that Americans could, and wanted to, understand. More than just being a representative of the Af...

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... by unhappy husbands and wives looking to sign for their freedom on the dotted line. In these tighten-your-belt times, more and more couples are opting to stay unhappy together over doling out money they don't have for the pricey endeavor that is divorce. These days, salaries are stagnating, ... more and more people are losing their jobs, and the value of our homes is creeping ever downward. That is not an ideal ... become more financially interdependent, relying on a combined household income to survive. In an article on MSNBC.com, Pamela Smock, a researcher at the Population Studies Cen...

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... 20 million barrels of oil products every day, according to the Department of Energy. Just less than half of that amount is used for motor gasoline, with the rest of it going toward distillate fuel oil, jet fuel and residual fuel among other things. Each barrel holds 42 gallons of oil, which makes ... about 20 gallons of gasoline, which means that Americans consume around 178 million gallons every single day. It's customary for the price of gas to increase in the warmer months, just as we are all ... one pocket. There is a chain of groups that each contributes to the price of the produc...

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... and we form social relationships online. And, in the presidential race of 2008, Americans got political online. The Internet gave voters a new, direct link to their candidates. News giant CNN and pop-culture portal YouTube collaborated on two debates between the candidates, so that potential votes could ask the candidates the questions they wanted answered. Never before has that been done. ... Because YouTube is such an enormously popular website across a diverse demographic and because the new arrangement allowed for the people's voices to be heard, more and more people got ... involv...

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... theory than practical in application, breakthroughs may soon lead to alternative energy sources. Solar energy in particular will become a physical reality instead of just an eco-friendly dream. Amazing Potential The problem with solar energy has often been its practicality or lack thereof. It is expensive and not all that durable in real life conditions. This is a large part of what ... keeps solar energy on the drawing board. Advances that could change all that, however, are not far away. Instead of building solar energy panels out of glass, scientists are working on making them out of...

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... Greece and Greece must itself take charge in a responsible manner" (Rooney). She is also a surprising successor because the IMF, which is made up of 187 member countries, traditionally votes for a Western European official. However, many developing nations were very happy about the change. They argued that the IMF should consider candidates from rising economic powers in Asia and South Africa (Rooney). "I will make it ... my overriding goal that our institution continues to serve its entire membership with the same focus and the same spirit," said Lagarde (Rooney). The fund was original...

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... agendas, Mr. Obama uses language like "I support" and "I believe we need to." Neither is a lie, but one speaks of promise to act. The other, of promise to react. In other words, on some issues, Mr. Obama has every intention of taking his cause to Congress, and seeks to ... bolster that cause by creating public outcry through the internet, using the amazing network his campaign created during the election season. On other issues, he is merely indicating what his inclinations are should someone else's pet project arrive on his ... Biden support a system that allows undocumented immigrant...

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... phenomenon proved to be - it's a lot of hoopla over a bang that will likely be less than a fizzle. That's likely what lawmakers had in mind when they enacted the law that requires television stations to make the switch which has been rescheduled for June 12, 2009. While certainly 6.5 million households that now receive signal via antennae rather than from satellite or cable will turn ... on their sets on the day of the switch to see snow, the fact is that those folks represent about 2% of the American populous, and tend to be people who don't consider television to be a priority or who ...

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... secure for the end-users. And finally, if you have any problems you can ask for help from the community of users and developers of these programs and usually you should get help quickly. On the other side, not everything is great about the open-source applications. To begin with, in most cases they do not ... come with support from the developers so you can rely only on the community to help you, and that is not enough if you ... really have a problem which has to be addressed urgently. Furthermore, since you did not pay for anything, you cannot complain if the software does not work .....

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... directions to get you where you want to go. Perhaps the only PC feature that an iPhone can't match (yet) is the ability to cut and paste data from one place to another. Apple acknowledges that the need to be able to cut and paste is important to iPhone users, and they claim the feature is on their to-do list for future incarnations of ... the phone. But as for emailing, texting, taking and managing photos and video, playing music and finding your way around (oh, and ... making phone calls, incidentally), the iPhone is changing the way we live our lives. We are on the move more than eve...

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... Aden, which serves as the southern passageway to the Suez Canal, sees about 16, 000 ships pass each year, making it one of the world's most important trade routes. Through this route, ships transport oil from the Middle East and various goods from Asia en route to Europe and North America. The pirates know how important this route is, and they understand the economics of how their ... terrorist acts affect the world. If all of those ships had to be ... itineraries, which would mean more fuel consumption and, ultimately, higher shipping costs. More than that, even, piracy has hampered r...

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... in 1996, when crude oil prices dropped, but has recently been revived. Investors are writing huge checks. Many see algae fields developing into the oil fields of the future. Why is algae farming so exciting? First, it doesn't use valuable farm land, leaving it available for food production. This would ... now be used to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. How much does algae based oil cost to produce? No one is saying, but they will say that it is competitive with drilling or producing other biofuels. Obviously, this method of producing oil will be much more environmentally friendly t...

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... the case of the anthrax killer have yet to reach a satisfactory conclusion. Narrowing It Down To catch the killer, the FBI subpoenaed samples of a particular strain of anthrax from labs around the world. They examined these samples for four mutations that would help identify a match to the ... strain that was used to kill five people in 2001. The first sample received ... from Dr. Bruce Ivins was not properly submitted and was destroyed. He was required to give a second sample, but this sample was of a different anthrax strain than the ... Director Vahid Majidi admits that missteps were...

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