observing their christmas festivites. I watched every one was eager to buy a christmas tree‚a real one or an artifical one; Kids were excited in buying a decorative tree where they can pluck their gifts instead of fruits of their choices. Planting a pine tree for christmas season is a huge business in the west. Although‚ it has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus Christ. Every year it brings billions of dollars to the economy of the west. Any ways‚I believe its a great ritual because at least people
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Background Pine Street Capital is a market-neutral hedge fund in the technology field and is facing market risk and has to decide which way to use in order to hedge the risk. It can either use short selling of NASDAQ or options hedging strategy. Each strategy has its own advantage in different economic conditions. As the fund has just gone through a volatile period in NASDAQ’s history‚ PSC has to choose between two choices. Choice 1: Continuing to hedge market risk by short selling Choice 2:
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cities‚ casinos bring in money‚ but most tribes struggle to bring in money. “According to True Sioux Hope Foundation‚ Pine Ridge has a 90 percent unemployment rate and a 70 percent high school dropout rate” (Elder). Pine Ridge is one of the poorest reservations in America with a low life expectancy rate. Suicide has also become a major problem. The White House is working with Pine Ridge to create a better environment and help with jobs (Elders). Population by the 1900’s of the Indians was 250‚000
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dirt roads have a come-hither attraction‚ if for no other reason than to see where they lead. Many of them do not require a tank or a beefy 4WD rig. Few travelers are tempted to abandon the smooth and comfortable black line of freeway between Lone Pine and Bridgeport to investigate the empty high desert east of Highway 395. Rare‚ too‚ are day hikers and backpackers
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For many decades a so called “Devil Creature”‚ named The Jersey Devil‚ is thought to roam the heavily wooded pines of southern New Jersey feeding off of small animals such as dogs‚ chickens‚ and other small wild animals since the beginning of the early 18th century. This creature has pretty abnormal and diverse features. Many people that claim to have spotted The Jersey Devil say that it has a kangaroo like body with a horse like face and antlers sprouting out of the top of its head‚ not to mention
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Nature is an inspiration for innovations Humans have always looked to nature for inspiration to solve problems. The present development is exalted with‚ two important events we have to remember one is apparent diversity of nature and the second one is questioning nature of man about the diversity of nature‚ which had reviled so many fundamental and microscopic unifying facts of nature. For example when we consider varying lengths of fingers of our hand its length variations
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| Pine Street Capital | | | FINA5290 Derivatives Analysiss Individual Assignment 1. What is a hedge fund? How do hedge funds differ from mutual funds? Hedge funds are investment vehicles that explicitly pursue absolute returns on their underlying investments. Hedge Fund incorporate to any absolute return fund investing within the financial markets (stocks‚ bonds‚ commodities‚ currencies‚ derivatives‚ etc) and/or applying non-traditional portfolio management techniques including‚ but
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The scream is cut off when a meaty hand covers my mouth. No longer wearing shades‚ I can now see Paul’s face smiling a devil’s grin at me. One of his eye sockets is a horrible‚ gaping hole. I focus on the other one and instantly regret it when I see the malice there. “How are you‚ my little siren?” His laugh is low and malicious as I start to struggle in his grasp. “Thought you were going to get away that easy? Well‚ you thought wrong. Now that the compound has moved to police headquarters‚ there
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In episode six of Wayward Pines‚ David Pilcher is also known as Dr. Jenkins conducted a scientific experiment on humans to preserve human species’ way of life. I argue that even though many wants to continue the cycle of humankind; using humans to test new experiments can lead to many social issues. For example‚ The Tuskegee syphilis government experiment in which impacted many African-American males in the state of Alabama. While critics may argue that it is noble to experiment on humans if the
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described as a kangaroo like creature with the head of a goat‚ rough bat wings‚ horns‚ small arms with sharp clawed hands‚ divided hooves and a split‚ v- shaped tail. The Jersey Devil‚ was born in Philadelphia Bulletin‚ United States‚ in the region of Pine Barrens‚ New Jersey on January 1909. The surprise of The Jersey Devil’s mother being pregnant with him‚ and him being the thirteenth child was a even a bigger surprise to her. She did not want to have another child‚ she did not want to have thirteen
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