History of the California Missions (1769-1823) You may already know that there are 21 missions today in the state of California. Starting in San Diego all the way past San Francisco‚ the missions remind us of an earlier time when the Spanish were colonizing Alta California. The California missions were started because the Spanish king wanted to create permanent settlements in the area of the New World called Alta California. The decision to create Spanish missions in California was political
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Mission grapes were the top grape until the early 20th century. It was during the California Gold Rush that the oldest wineries in California were produced. Many East Coast dwellers moved to California in search of gold to get rich and it led to a great increase in the population and it created commercial wineries that are still here.Chinese immigrants served a great role in California winemaking. The immigrants were in search of jobs to take care of their families and became planters
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Nicholas Raffaele Mrs. Porter Period 5 California Science Center Substitute Report The California Science Center seems like a wonderful place‚ filled with exhibits that have many learning opportunities that make it seem like you are not learning‚ but having fun. I severely regret not going. The California Science Center is located south of downtown Los Angeles‚ in the historic Exposition Park‚ near USC (yeah!). Cost of admission is $10.00 (well that’s for parking‚ other than that‚ to get in
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studies at the University of Nebraska and promptly fled the Great Plains for the Elusive Eden. After the light shock of difficult parking‚ high traffic‚ and idiotic housing prices I fell in love with my strange new home in the Bay Area. My first big California surprise was not the preponderance of far out community activists and ridiculous law proposals: Reading up on Berkeley prepared me for that. Nor was I very alarmed by the fatal shooting a few blocks from my apartment on Alcatraz Ave that first
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One moment the California creek beds glimmered with gold; the next‚ the same creeks ran red with the blood of men and women defending their claims or ceding their bags of gold dust to bandits. The "West" was a ruthless territory during the nineteenth century. With more than enough gold dust to go around early in the Gold Rush‚ crime was rare‚ but as the stakes rose and the easily panned gold dwindled‚ robbery and murder became a part of life on the frontier. The "West" consisted of outlaws
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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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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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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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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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