California Pizza Kitchen Chris Schroeder FI 602: Financial Strategy and Valuation Fang Chen September 21‚ 2012 Introduction In July of 2007‚ California Pizza Kitchen (CPK)‚ a casual dining pizzeria started in California by co-owners Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax‚ was faced with the decision to invest in a stock repurchase program. Led by Chief Financial Officer Susan Collyns‚ the financial team of CPK was reviewing the preliminary results for the second quarter to determine if the stock
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In the movie Signs‚ directed by Manoj Night Shyamalan‚ Shyamalan’s message from the film is that it covers faith‚ kinship‚ and extraterrestrials. In addition‚ there’s a reason for everything‚ whether it’s good or bad‚ God has a plan for everything. In the movie we’re presented to a family of four called the Hess family. The family lives in Doylestown‚ Bucks County‚ Pennsylvania. The father‚ Graham Hess is a former priest whose wife‚ Colleen‚ died in a horrific traffic accident. No longer practicing
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California DMV In 1987‚ the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) embarked on a major project to revitalize their driver’s license and registration application process. DMV’s project was supposed to deliver everything that the department was looking for: ability to track of the state’s 31 million drivers’ licenses and 38 million vehicle registrations. By 1993‚ after $45 million dollars had already been spent‚ the project was canceled. The San Francisco Chronicle described the situation as
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Look at Picasso’s mural Guernica‚ painted in 1937 (http://www.artchive.com/artchive/P/picasso/guernica.jpg.html). Would you classify Guernica as Expressionism‚ Cubism‚ Dada‚ or Surrealism? Explain your answer by using specific visual and stylistic references. Presumably Picasso’s most appreciated work of art‚ Guernica is undoubtedly his most effective political statement‚ painted as a quick response to the Nazi’s staggering easygoing bombarding practice on the Basque town of Guernica amid Spanish
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if you didn’t have enough water to do your daily activities. California is in a humongous drought. The egocentric farmers are using water for the food‚ but the people need water for themselves. Like taking showers‚ and water for washing their clothes. There isn’t enough water for the people to use the aquifer for their needs. The citizens go months or weeks without showering. The people even have to use bird baths to shower. California should control the aquifer use. Moreover‚ since the farmers
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California is facing the most dramatic drought in history! As a consequence‚ more problems have occurred in the state. People are facing the struggle of not having enough water to bathe‚ wash clothes‚ and do dishes. This massive drought started three years ago and has not gotten any better. Farmers and citizens are fighting over the water. As a result‚ water is running out and the only any to save it is to have laws. Based on the economic problems citizens are facing‚ the county should control aquifer
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In recent years‚ nearly every desert United State has been facing a massive water shortage. In 2010‚ most of California entered a crisis described as an “extreme to exceptional drought‚” a crisis has caused cities and towns to cut water use by as much as 36 percent. Laws have been put in place to limit the length of time and days during which citizens can water their lawns‚ and said citizens are encouraged to switch to fake-lawns and plant-life that require little water like cacti. For many‚ the
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In this exciting story‚ Sign of the Beaver‚ written by author Elizabeth Speare‚ a young teenage boy‚ who was left in the wilderness to fend for himself‚ had many adventures and challenges‚such as bears destroying his house‚and getting stung many times by bees. That’s what leads me to today’s question. Should Matt have become friends with the Indians? My answer to this question is yes! He should have become friends with the Indians‚ and that’s exactly what he did. Let me give you a few reasons why
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Have you ever made a decision that would not only affect your future but greatly affect someone else’s? In the book The Sign of the Beaver‚ Matt’s father had to make one of these tough decisions. Matt’s father bought land in the wilderness of Maine for his family to settle. He and his son left his wife and daughter back in Massachusetts to prepare their property. Together Matt and his father cleared the land‚ built a cabin‚ and planted corn. Matt’s father traveled back to Massachusetts to fetch his
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contrasts of living in an urban environment‚ finding solitude in that environment and of the relief that comes from receiving long awaited rain in a drought stricken state The state of California‚ as many readers will know‚ has been shriveling under the effects of years long drought. This past summer‚ it was so bad‚ that rather than hiking in and generally enjoying the famous golden hills of California‚ those hills took on a grayish tint‚ an ever-present reminder of the parched conditions and‚ what looked
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