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    References: Budget Process City. City of Orange‚ CA. Retrieved May 5‚ 2014‚ from http://www.cityoforange.org/depts/finance/operating_budget.asp Budget Budget. (n.d.). Orange County‚ California -. Retrieved May 5‚ 2014‚ from http://ssa.ocgov.com/about/budget City Budget Demographic Information. (n.d.). City of Orange‚ CA -. Retrieved May 4‚ 2014‚ from http://www.cityoforange.org/depts/commdev/planning/advanced/demographic_information

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    California by Edan Lepucki is an okay dystopian/apocalyptic novel. It gets the elements right that it needs to succeed: its main characters (Frida and Cal)‚ the apocalyptic situation (a series of natural disasters)‚ and a promising start (the two need to survive in this world against the odds). Unfortunately‚ it falls short in other important areas. The other characters are pretty bland‚ the world isn’t very interesting (as apocalypses should be)‚ and the story fails to be engaging. Frida and Cal

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    UVA-F-DRAFT Version 1.0 CALIFORNIA PIZZA KITCHEN Everyone knows that 95 percent of restaurants fail in the first two years‚ and a lot of people think it’s ‘location‚ location‚ location.’ It could be‚ but my experience is you have to have the financial staying power. You could have the greatest idea‚ but many restaurants do not start out making money – they build over time. So it’s really about having the capital and the staying power. — Rick Rosenfield‚ Co-CEO‚ California Pizza Kitchen1 In early

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    the article “California: A place‚ A People‚ A Dream‚” James Rawls argues that the California dream consists of five main factors. These factors are Health‚ Romance‚ Opportunity and Success‚ Warmth and Sunshine‚ and Freedom. People come from all over the world to live this dream‚ which sometimes turns into a nightmare instead. Based on texts such as The Kite Runner‚ by Khaled Hosseini‚ The Republic of East L.A.‚ by Luis J. Rodriguez‚ California travel guides‚ and others‚ the California dream is perceived

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    Case #33 California Pizza Kitchen Synopsis and Objectives This case examines the question of financial leverage at California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) in July 2007. With a highly profitable business and an aversion to debt‚ CPK management is considering a debt-financed stock buyback program. The case is intended to provide an introduction to the Modigliani-Miller capital structure irrelevance propositions and the concept of debt tax shields. With the background of a pizza company‚ the case provides

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    California Sutter Health Sharon Bauer ACC 281 Christopher Stevens October 8‚ 2012 Imagine a business that could not properly handle its debts or collections. Now imagine that this same business never had real-time information to analyze‚ make important financial decisions‚ or could not set any benchmarks and received all information 30 days late. Do you think this business could survive? The answer is yes‚ in this paper we will discuss California Sutter Health which was in that situation

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    inception to the present time‚ its impact on the California state government‚ and propose a solution to this problematic law. The Three Strikes Rule states that any offenders that committed any violent or serious felony offense (after two or more of the same conviction) are sentenced 25 years to life. I will present how crime has either increased or decreased since the 1990’s. What the perceptions of crime have been in our society. What polices has California put into place from the 1990’s to address crime

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    Recently‚ in the United States‚ there has been a major water shortage due to the lack of rainfall. It is mainly in California and other Western states. According to the U.S. Geological Survey‚ “In 119 years of recorded history‚ 2013 was the dries calendar year for the state of California.” California’s snowpack usually provides about one-third of the water used in Californian farms and cities. In January 2014‚ it measured in at 12%. The water shortage has had many effects of people‚ farming‚ and

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    California trip. This will be my trip to california. From the days 25 throughout the 27. I mom was born there and grew up there. Her grandma is buried there and great grandma and her mom his buried there. We went to many different places. There was my whole family. There was My mom dad then my brothers Dylan‚ Michael‚ Tyler‚ Johnnie‚ and me. When I went to california it was may 25 2012. We went there for fun. Also my mom was born there and we saw the house she lived in. When we went to lunch we

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    something it had never experienced before. How did the California Gold Rush Impact

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