Case Study Exercise One Part One SWOT Analysis of adopting a new form of governance for Colorado Springs Utilities: Strengths (internal): • Politically insulates elected officials from unpopular‚ but necessary utility decisions • Reduces risk and legal liability to elected officials • Allows for greater subject matter expertise and focused attention on public utility issues by members of new utility board • Frees council members to focus their attention on other constituency issues • Allows for
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we remember them forever. Ben Carson always mentions that his mother helped shaped his life‚ as well as his family‚ students‚ teachers‚ his strong belief in god‚ and his love for books helped shaped his future. Throughout middle school‚ high school and college these key influences would lead him to what he has become today. In chapter seven Ben Carson mentions during his second half of his sophomore year he joined ROTC mainly because of his brother Curtis. Ben Carson saw his brothers uniform‚ the
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Drama Essay: A Review of “Spring Awakening” I will be reviewing the play titled‚ “Spring Awakening” by Fred Wedekind. This play was produced by The Department of Performing Arts and Humanities of the School of Liberal Arts at and directed by Robert W. Oppel. I saw the play on March 20th Q Building Theatre. The play was excellent and exceeded all expectations due to the professional way the story was presented. “Spring Awakening” is a musical concerning teenagers who explore their individual
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Although winter and spring break are similar in some aspects‚ the routine for each is fairly different. To start off‚ winter break happens during a festive time of year‚ with Christmas coming right around the corner. The trees are decorated with bright‚ colourful lights‚ carolers are singing joyous songs and the warmth of hot chocolate‚ tea‚ and coffee are right at your fingertips. On the other hand‚ spring break doesn’t have any special events that gets the entire nation excited. There aren’t any
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“Listen” to Our Silent Languages A 2009 study of 480 companies found that employers ranked communication abilities first among the desirable personal qualities of future employees. In addition‚ in a survey of recruiters from companies with more than 50‚000 employees‚ communication skills was cited as the single more important decisive factor in choosing managers. Likewise‚ it has been estimated that 75% of a person ’s day is spent communicating in some ways. These show that communication
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Dear Mr. I.C. Spring‚ The following report will provide information on the scheduling of garden tool production for the upcoming month at Spring Garden Tools. Exhibit 1 provides information regarding Lindo input and output based on a model that is designed to minimize the cost from the total production and subcontracting of garden tools‚ while satisfying the demand for each type of garden tool. All matters discussed in this report are based on this information. Using the cost minimization model
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An innumerable number of people love to go out on a spring break‚ they do it almost like a tradition now‚ but why is it so important? Personally‚ I take spring break by the actual name a break from school and our jobs. I do not go out very often on this week I usually just stay home‚ utilize it trouble-easy‚ and facile‚ for example‚ I do not use spring break to party at South Padre and acquire entertainment over there‚ I stayed home to rest‚ consequently I did not receive any trouble this affects
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A Desert Oasis Palm Springs is a desert city about 95 square miles located 111 miles east of Los Angeles with a population of 44‚552. Its history dates back thousands of years to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians who lived in the Coachella Valley. The modern history of Palm Springs was glamorized by Hollywood movie stars in the 1920s because of the great weather and seclusion. Palm Springs was incorporated in 1938 and World War II brought rapid growth to businesses and housing development
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Chapter 2 Spring Quick Start Tutorial Developing Your First Spring Web Application The following chapter is a sample from SourceBeat’s Spring Live book by Matt Raible. Please visit www.sourcebeat.com to access the book. This chapter is a tutorial on how to write a simple Spring web application using the Struts MVC framework for the front end‚ Spring for the middle-tier glue‚ and Hibernate for the back end. In Chapter 4‚ this application will be refactored to use the Spring MVC framework.
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During spring break of my fourth grade year‚ my family and I visited our relatives in San Francisco. It had been a crisp California spring day‚ and we were lounging about at my aunt and uncle’s house. Their dog decided to join us‚ which created it a perfect photo opportunity for my mother. I really liked the dog‚ who was hilariously named Tubby. We did not have a dog at home‚ so this was my only chance to be around them. Tubby was as big as my brother was‚ extremely fluffy‚ and caused the house to
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