Kaizen

Can you recommend a good basic (no idiots or dummys series, though) book on small business administration?

I’m planning to open a bookstore in Boulder Creek, California, and I need to know which end of the Gordeon Knot to pull on first. A good step-by-step guide is what I have in mind, hopefully with time scales in it.

Full song lyrics to Small Steps ?

I have these lyrics stuck in my head Small steps,
‘Cause I don’t know where I’m goin’
Small steps,
I just take it day to day.
Small steps,
Somehow get myself together,
Then maybe I’ll discover
Who I am along the way…

i really want to know the rest of the lyrics its from a book not a real song but ive searced evry wehere and cannot find my copy if u know the rest plz tell me o and if u hav all the other bits of lyrics from the book that would be help full!!
Its not a REAL SOng its just in a book

a scottish boys day at school ?

TEACHER

‘Good morning children. Today is Thursday, so we’re going to have a
general knowledge quiz. The pupil who gets the answer right can have
Friday and Monday off and not come back to school until Tuesday.’

WeeJock thinks, ‘Ya dancer. Ah’m pure dead brilliant at ma general knowledge
stuff. This is gonnae be a dawdle. Come oan ya radge, a lang
weekend fir me.’

Teacher:
‘Right class, who can tell me who said, ‘Don’t ask what your country can
do for you, but what you can do for your country.”

Wee Jock shoots up his hand, waving furiously in the air. Instead however,
teacher looks round and picks Richard at the front. ‘Yes, Richard?’

Richard
(in a very English accent): ‘Yes miss, the answer is J F Kennedy inauguration
speech 1960.’

Teacher:
‘Very good Richard. You may stay off Friday and Monday and we will see
you back in class on Tuesday.

The next Thursday comes around and Wee Jock is even more determined.

Teacher:
‘Who said ‘We will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them in the
air, we will fight them at sea. But we will never surrender’?’

Wee Jock’s hand shoots up, arm stiff as a board, shouting ‘I know. I
know. Me Miss, me Miss’. Teacher looking around picks Timothy
sitting at the front. ‘Yes Timothy.’

Timothy(in a very, very posh English accent):

‘Yes Miss, the answer is Winston
Churchill, 1941 Battle of Britain speech.’

Teacher:
‘Very good Timothy, you may stay off Friday and Monday and come back to class
on Tuesday.’

The following Thursday comes around and Wee Jock is hyper, he’s been studying
encyclopaedias all week and he’s ready for anything that comes.

He’s coiled in his wee chair, slavers dripping in anticipation.

Teacher:
‘Who said ‘One small step for man, one giant leap for
mankind’?’ Wee Jock’s arm shoots straight in the air, he’s standing
on his seat, jumping up and down screaming ‘Me Miss, me Miss, meeeee.’

Teacher looking round the class picks Rupert sitting at the front.

‘Yes Rupert.’

Rupert
(in a frightfully frightfully, ever so plummy English accent):

‘Yes Miss, that was Neil Armstrong 1969, the first moon landing.’

Teacher:
‘Very good Rupert. You may stay off Friday and Monday and come back into
class on Tuesday.’

At which point Wee Jock loses the plot altogether. He tips his desk and
throws his wee chair at the wall. He starts screaming ‘Where the f**k did
all these English ba**ards come from?’ Teacher looking round the class,
angrily: ‘Who said that?!!’

Wee Jock grabs his coat and heads for the exit, ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie, Culloden,
1746. See yeh on Tuesday ya old cow!’

a scottish joke,ha,ha.?

Teacher:
‘Good morning children. Today is Thursday, so we’re going to have a
general knowledge quiz. The pupil who gets the answer right can have
Friday and Monday off and not come back to school until Tuesday.’

WeeJock thinks, ‘Ya dancer. Ah’m pure dead brilliant at ma general knowledge
stuff. This is gonnae be a dawdle. Come oan ya radge, a lang
weekend fir me.’

Teacher:
‘Right class, who can tell me who said, ‘Don’t ask what your country can
do for you, but what you can do for your country.”

Wee Jock shoots up his hand, waving furiously in the air. Instead however,
teacher looks round and picks Richard at the front. ‘Yes, Richard?’

Richard
(in a very English accent): ‘Yes miss, the answer is J F Kennedy inauguration
speech 1960.’

Teacher:
‘Very good Richard. You may stay off Friday and Monday and we will see
you back in class on Tuesday.

The next Thursday comes around and Wee Jock is even more determined.

Teacher:
‘Who said ‘We will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them in the
air, we will fight them at sea. But we will never surrender’?’

Wee Jock’s hand shoots up, arm stiff as a board, shouting ‘I know. I
know. Me Miss, me Miss’. Teacher looking around picks Timothy
sitting at the front. ‘Yes Timothy.’

Timothy(in a very, very posh English accent):

‘Yes Miss, the answer is Winston
Churchill, 1941 Battle of Britain speech.’

Teacher:
‘Very good Timothy, you may stay off Friday and Monday and come back to class
on Tuesday.’

The following Thursday comes around and Wee Jock is hyper, he’s been studying
encyclopaedias all week and he’s ready for anything that comes.

He’s coiled in his wee chair, slavers dripping in anticipation.

Teacher:
‘Who said ‘One small step for man, one giant leap for
mankind’?’ Wee Jock’s arm shoots straight in the air, he’s standing
on his seat, jumping up and down screaming ‘Me Miss, me Miss, meeeee.’

Teacher looking round the class picks Rupert sitting at the front.

‘Yes Rupert.’

Rupert
(in a frightfully frightfully, ever so plummy English accent):

‘Yes Miss, that was Neil Armstrong 1969, the first moon landing.’

Teacher:
‘Very good Rupert. You may stay off Friday and Monday and come back into
class on Tuesday.’

At which point Wee Jock loses the plot altogether. He tips his desk and
throws his wee chair at the wall. He starts screaming ‘Where the f**k did
all these English ba**ards come from?’ Teacher looking round the class,
angrily: ‘Who said that?!!’

Wee Jock grabs his coat and heads for the exit, ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie, Culloden,
1746. See yeh on Tuesday ya old cow!’

Do you like my plot summary? what would you change? ? (rundown of events)?

Part 1

- Angie realizes that Brent may have gotten rabies because he got bitten by a stray dog
- She rushes him to the hospital, he is being very immature
- She gets a call the next day, he has it and went into a coma for treatment
- Angie concludes that she really loves him, she just never realized it. She is terrified.

- She texts with her friends, none of them are as concerned as she is
- She starts visiting him everyday after school to see if he came out of his comatose state. She has flashbacks of all the good times they had. Each time she visits its another story: Stranded on the island because the raft flew away
- Going camping with friends and getting drunk most of the friends vanish and she and her friend get scared and think that there is a psychopath, etc.
- funny pranks they did on their ex’s.
- She goes out to a concert with her friends, lots of drama going on. Her friend Michael is being an asshole as usual
- She stays behind with her friend Jay, and they run into someone who looks a lot like Brent.
- Its Brent’s father, who left him. Angie is suspicious in why he showed up after all those years.

-Something about Brent’s father is very unsettling
-Michael goes away for 4 months to the army, no one misses him because he is always a selfish jerk
-Angie texts with her friends and talks about the drama going on
- Angie gets involved with her friend Jay, her feelings for Brent slowly subside
- Angie is in her bedroom at night and she sees a light flicker at her window. Someone turned on the lights in Brent’s house.
- She wants to call the cops, but she concludes that its Jay, maybe he went on a walk with his dog earlier and wanted to check in.
- She investigates, someone attacks her and pulls her inside.

-Its Rob Lewis, Brent’s dad.
-He is robbing Brent
-He is smoking in cocaine on the coffee table
-He forces her to smoke in the drugs
-Angie starts fainting. He rapes her.

-The last thing she sees is her friend Jay, cradling her, crying, a gun in his hand, Rob Lewis knocked out cold on the floor.
-Angie’s at the hospital with her family. Jay demonstrates what happens. She keeps blacking out.
-Angie goes through many different feelings, she goes through an emotional trauma
-Angie takes certain unusual steps because of her emotional state.

-Angie starts dating Jay. She then has sex with him to rid of what she feels is the taint Rob Lewis left on her.
-Angie distracts herself with social life, a lot of good stories with friends
-Angie stops checking up on Brent at the hospital.
-After the rape when she visited him, she got a huge headache and several flashbacks of what had happened, Brent looks too much like Rob Lewis.
-Angie breaks up with Jay because he turns out to be a player and doesn’t have the willpower to tone down his player streak

-Angie goes into depression and she feels really low. She feels ashamed for many reasons. She feels like she betrayed her friend by not being emotionally capable of seeing him.
-Angie turns to drugs
-Angies mom catches her smoking in her room

-Her mom intervenes and Angie goes to rehab
-Angie quits and visits Brent
-Angie gets over herself

-After a month Angie is doing much better
-Her friends invite her to a party
-Angie consumes alcohol, her friends try to stop her but she doesn’t listen, after all beer is better than drugs right?

-Angie wake up hammered, she hears the phone ring
-The nurse says that Brent has come out of his coma
-At first Angie feels horrible that she wasn’t there when he woke up, but then she feels excited
-She rushes to the hospital, and gets into a car crash

-She wakes up. After some small talk, Brent lays down beside her, and then they kiss.

Part 2

-The kiss was okay for Angie, not as good as she expected, Jays kiss felt better. Angie is confused she thought that they were really meant for each other, had her heart deceived her?
-They date. Angie still has feelings for Jay, but she ignores them
-Brent has developed bipolar, the rabies attack had tampered with his brain.
-Angie and Brent get into another fight, he hits her.
-Angie goes through an emotional time, Brent apologizes.
-It happens again, Angie breaks up with him. She gets Brent help at a clinic

-Angie feels even more broken than ever before
-Michael comes back from the military.
-Michael seems a bit more mature, he plays his moves on Angie
-Angie secretly has feelings for him, she hates herself for that

-It turns out Michael is even more broken than Angie. Its very complicated. Simply, he never had a good example from his father who beat him, he feels like he killed his mother because she died because of him at childbirth, he feels like if he doesn’t break a girls heart first and doesn’t date with many girls,that one girl will break his heart.
-Angie refuses when Michael asks her out, she doesn’t want to risk being in another failed relationship
-Michael starts dating a girl, who seems perfect and sincere, unlike all the other girls he dated
-That perfect girl does break Michael’s heart, It turns out she was already dating another guy, she was just visiting the city for some “fun”
-Angie visits michael. They talk.

-It turns out Angie and Michael are both attending the same university.
-They go on a few perfect dates.
-Angie and Michael get into a fight. But before it spirals out of control, Michael apologizes.

-Despite everything, Angie and Brent become friends again.
-Heather and Daniel start dating.
-The couples go on vacation to Mexico. Fun night, a lot of things happen.

-Angie goes out for a girls night
-The phone rings, its Michael. He is going through a crisis
-He finds out that his mother is really alive. wen he finds her and talks to her, she is with two children. she says that she never loved he child, shes sorry
-Michael almost turns to drugs
-Angie stops him,’ily’ he says ‘Soulmates’ she says ‘forever’ he says
ink: http://www.buzzle.com/authors.asp?author=34786

I WANT TO CALL IT:

DON’T BLINK OR YOU WILL MISS A TURN

-my life is fast, so honey don’t blink or you will miss a turn

I NEED A TITLE FOR MY STORY? (Plot Summary Included)?

Part 1

- Angie realizes that Brent may have gotten rabies because he got bitten by a stray dog
- She rushes him to the hospital, he is being very immature
- She gets a call the next day, he has it and went into a coma for treatment
- Angie concludes that she really loves him, she just never realized it. She is terrified.

- She texts with her friends, none of them are as concerned as she is
- She starts visiting him everyday after school to see if he came out of his comatose state. She has flashbacks of all the good times they had. Each time she visits its another story: Stranded on the island because the raft flew away
- Going camping with friends and getting drunk most of the friends vanish and she and her friend get scared and think that there is a psychopath, etc.
- funny pranks they did on their ex’s.
- She goes out to a concert with her friends, lots of drama going on. Her friend Michael is being an asshole as usual
- She stays behind with her friend Jay, and they run into someone who looks a lot like Brent.
- Its Brent’s father, who left him. Angie is suspicious in why he showed up after all those years.

-Something about Brent’s father is very unsettling
-Michael goes away for 4 months to the army, no one misses him because he is always a selfish jerk
-Angie texts with her friends and talks about the drama going on
- Angie gets involved with her friend Jay, her feelings for Brent slowly subside
- Angie is in her bedroom at night and she sees a light flicker at her window. Someone turned on the lights in Brent’s house.
- She wants to call the cops, but she concludes that its Jay, maybe he went on a walk with his dog earlier and wanted to check in.
- She investigates, someone attacks her and pulls her inside.

-Its Rob Lewis, Brent’s dad.
-He is robbing Brent
-He is smoking in cocaine on the coffee table
-He forces her to smoke in the drugs
-Angie starts fainting. He rapes her.

-The last thing she sees is her friend Jay, cradling her, crying, a gun in his hand, Rob Lewis knocked out cold on the floor.
-Angie’s at the hospital with her family. Jay demonstrates what happens. She keeps blacking out.
-Angie goes through many different feelings, she goes through an emotional trauma
-Angie takes certain unusual steps because of her emotional state.

-Angie starts dating Jay. She then has sex with him to rid of what she feels is the taint Rob Lewis left on her.
-Angie tries to distract herself with her social life
-Angie stops checking up on Brent at the hospital.
-After the rape when she visited him, she got a huge headache and several flashbacks of what had happened, Brent looks too much like Rob Lewis.
-Angie breaks up with Jay because he turns out to be a player and doesn’t have the willpower to tone down his player streak

-Angie goes into depression and she feels really low. She feels ashamed for many reasons. She feels like she betrayed her friend by not being emotionally capable of seeing him.
-Angie turns to drugs
-Angies mom catches her smoking in her room

-Her mom intervenes and Angie goes to rehab
-Angie quits and visits Brent
-Angie gets over herself

-After a month Angie is doing much better
-Her friends invite her to a party
-Angie consumes alcohol, her friends try to stop her but she doesn’t listen, after all beer is better than drugs right?

-Angie wake up hammered, she hears the phone ring
-The nurse says that Brent has come out of his coma
-At first Angie feels horrible that she wasn’t there when he woke up, but then she feels excited
-She rushes to the hospital, and gets into a car crash

-She wakes up. After some small talk, Brent lays down beside her, and then they kiss.

Part 2

-The kiss was okay for Angie, not as good as she expected, Jays kiss felt better. Angie is confused she thought that they were really meant for each other, had her heart deceived her?
-They date. Angie still has feelings for Jay, but she ignores them
-Brent has developed bipolar, the rabies attack had tampered with his brain.
-Angie and Brent get into another fight, he hits her.
-Angie goes through an emotional time, Brent apologizes.
-It happens again, Angie breaks up with him. She gets Brent help at a clinic

-Angie feels even more broken than ever before
-Michael comes back from the military.
-Michael seems a bit more mature, he plays his moves on Angie
-Angie secretly has feelings for him, she hates herself for that

-It turns out Michael is even more broken than Angie. Its very complicated. Simply, he never had a good example from his father who beat him, he feels like he killed his mother because she died because of him at childbirth, he feels like if he doesn’t break a girls heart first and doesn’t date with many girls,that one girl will break his heart.
-Angie refuses when Michael asks her out, she doesn’t want to risk being in another failed relationship
-Michael starts dating a girl, who seems perfect and sincere, unlike all the other girls he dated
-That perfect girl does break Michael’s heart, It turns out she was already dating another guy, she was just visiting the city for some “fun”
-Angie visits michael. They talk.

-It turns out Angie and Michael are both attending the same university.
-They go on a few perfect dates.
-Angie and Michael get into a fight. But before it spirals out of control, Michael apologizes.

-Despite everything, Angie and Brent become friends again.
-Heather and Daniel start dating.
-The couples go on vacation to Mexico. Fun night, a lot of things happen.

-Angie goes out for a girls night
-The phone rings, its Michael. He is going through a crisis
-He finds out that his mother is really alive. wen he finds her and talks to her, she is with two children. she says that she never loved he child, shes sorry
-Michael almost turns to drugs
-Angie stops him,’ily’ he says ‘Soulmates’ she says ‘forever’ he says
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PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

okay well I have to create a poster with a catchy phrase to motivate people to climb the CN tower to raise money for the WWF foundation (helping animals). I need help creating a phrase, this is all I ,got so far.

” would you rather do it in heels? … take one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind”

This is so sad. nowone cares.?

Sharks’ fins are cut off the sharks, often when they are still alive. Their mutilated bodies are thrown back into the sea, where they die in agony – they drown, get eaten alive by other sea creatures, or bleed to death.

Singapore is the world’s third largest sharks’ fin trading center, after Hong Kong and Taiwan, according to UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. (Credits: CNN.com,“Sharks fin-ished in Singapore”, 2001)

According to Shark Foundation Hai-Stiftung (the foundation we support, please visit: http://www.shark.ch/), each year, more than 600,000 to 700,000 tons of sharks are caught and slaughtered. This is the equivalent to more than 100 million sharks killed per year. In order words, 3 sharks die every second.

Many shark species are endangered – some are even on the verge of EXTINCTION!

We hereby pledge our support to Shark Foundation Hai-Stiftung (http://www.shark.ch/) and its efforts in saving the sharks, and will strive to refrain from selling/consuming shark products.

By taking a small step each – choosing not to consume shark products (e.g. refraining from serving shark’s fin soup during wedding feasts or other meals in the future), switching to alternatives, taking shark’s fin soup off your restaurant menu and passing this message to all the people you know and urging them to sign this petition…….. Together we may make a difference!!!
PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION. I WILL GIVE YOU THE BEST ANSWER IF I SEE YOU PUT YOUR NAME ON IT. I PROMISE. SHARKS DONT HAVE A SAY IN BEING KILLED OR NOT. LETS BE THIER VOICE. SIGN. THANKS.

http://new.petitiononline.com/ssharks/petition-sign.html

HERES THE LINK.

What kept you reading this book?

In the novel, Small Steps, by Louis Sachar, what material in the first paragraph kept you reading the book. In other words, when you read the first paragraph of this story, what got you hooked to keep reading?

Free audio online for the Book Small Steps by Louis Sachar?

I’ve been looking everywhere for this if you happen to know where it is for FREE online I would appreciate it very much. Thanks

Why does my cat get dirty when pooping?

My cat is drained to use the litter box and he does so (thank God!). However, lately, he’s been coming out of there (after he’s done pooping) with poop on him! One time he had, I’m assuming, walked in circles and his tail had a ton which had gotten his side dirty and back legs. A few days ago, his right back paw was covered with it, so much so that we couldn’t clean it. He had stepped in it. I was watching him and he seems to be moving around a lot. Maybe the box is too small? It’s a closed lid box, large, that is cleaned on a daily basis. The litter he is familiar with (wheat) and I just had cleaned the whole box a week ago.
I thought cats are supposed to be clean animals. He’s a little over a year, why does he come out like this? He runs away when we try to bathe him and hides under the couch when we try to wipe him down with any kind of cloth/towel/paper towel. Any suggestions?
Thank you!
oops, i meant *trained*

Just came back from the Reptile Show that was held in San Jose and got my first snake: Ball Python?

Well my step-dad had took me and my little baby sister to the reptile show today and i’ve thought we were just there to look around and take pictures, etc. and hold some of the animals but then when we came across these baby ball pythons my step-dad saw a sign that say $20 each and asked me since it cost that much would I like to get it and I said sure so then we left the show with the baby male ball python and problem was we didn’t have an extra tank because we threw the other one out long ago so we made a quick stop to the thrift store to just grab a “temporary” enclosure probably just for a few days or so but we do not have an heat mat or a lighting bulb so all i could provide the snake with was a dish of fresh clean water and a little paper towel roll hide and some newspaper as substrate but I was surprised to see that they snake could hardly fit in their with the water dish so i took it out for awhile and just left the hide in their and he seems pretty fine and he is tamed too hasn’t even bit me once or tried to flee when I was handling him (surprised?) I know I was but would he be fine if i just left him in that small little fish tank that has a handle on it to carry it around be o.k. just making sure because I always do my research on snakes all the time and have many books on them including the ball but I just don’t have a heating pad or light or a larger tank for him to move around in but i’ve put something heavy on it so would he be fine just for now at least awhile maybe just tomorrow or a few days at least until’ we are able to provide him with a large enough tank the weather during the day is completely fine for him to warm up at least and it’s much cooler at night so yeah i think he should be o.k. just for now but trust me i’m going to get his tank, heating equipment, more hides, larger water dish, etc. and again “I’M ALWAYS DOING MY RESEARCH ON SNAKES IN CAPTIVITY AND HAVE MANY BOOKS ON SNAKE SPECIES, ETC.”

Neil Armstrong!!?

When Astronaut Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he not only gave his famous one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind statement but followed it by several remarks, usual between him, the other astronauts and Mission Control. Just before he re-entered the lander, however, he made the enigmatic remark, “Good luck Mr. Gorsky”.

Many people at NASA thought it was a casual remark concerning some rival Soviet Cosmonaut. However, upon checking, there was no Gorsky in either the Russian or American space programs.

Over the years many people questioned Armstrong as to what the Good luck Mr. Gorsky statement meant, but Armstrong always just smiled.

Four years ago, while answering questions following a speech, a reporter brought up the 26 year old question to Armstrong. This time he finally responded. Mr. Gorsky had finally died and so Neil Armstrong felt he could answer the question.

When he was a kid, he was playing baseball with a friend in the backyard. His frie
When he was a kid, he was playing baseball with a friend in the backyard. His friend hit a fly ball which landed in the front of his neighbors’ bedroom windows. His neighbors were Mr. & Mrs. Gorsky. As he leaned down to pick up the ball, young Armstrong heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky.

“Oral sex? You want oral sex? You’ll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!”

Is Wee Jock the new Little Johnny?

Comment, rate and joke back. Star if you want. I have tried my best to omit all swear words to the best of my ability. Please enjoy the joke.

Teacher: “Good morning children, each Thursday we’re going to have a general knowledge quiz.

The pupil who gets the answer right can have Friday and Monday off and not come back to school until Tuesday.”

Wee jock (a typical Scottish wag) thinks, “Ya dancer. Ah’m pure dead brilliant at ma general knowledge stuff an’ that. This is gonnae be a dawdle, come ahead ya radge, a lang weekend fir me.”

Teacher: “Right class, who can tell me who said ‘Don’t ask what Your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country?’

Wee jock shoots up his hand, waving furiously in the air.

Teacher looking round picks Jeremy at the front.

Teacher: “Yes, Jeremy”

Jeremy (in a very English accent): “Yes miss, the answer is J F Kennedy his inauguration speech in 1960.”

Teacher: “Very good Jeremy. You may stay off Friday and Monday and we will see you back in class on Tuesday.”

The next Thursday comes around, and wee jock is even more determined.

Teacher: “Who said. ‘We will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them in the air, we will fight them at sea. But we will never surrender?’”

wee jock’s hand shoots up, arm stiff as a board, shouting “I know. I know, Me Miss, me Miss!”

Teacher looking round and picks Timothy, sitting at the front: “Yes Timothy.”

Timothy (in a very, very posh, English accent):

“The answer is Winston Churchill, his 1941 Battle of Britain speech.”

Teacher: “Very good Timothy, you may stay off Friday and Monday and come back to class on Tuesday.”

The following Thursday comes around and wee jock is hyper, he’s been studying encyclopaedias all week and he’s ready for anything that comes.
He’s coiled in his wee plastic chair, slavers dripping in anticipation.

Teacher: “Who said ‘One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’?”

wee jock’s arm shoots straight in the air, he’s standing on his seat, jumping up and down screaming “Miss, me miss, meeeeee!”

Teacher looking round the class picks Rupert, sitting at the front: “Yes Rupert.”

Rupert (in a frightfully, frightfully, ever so plumy English accent): “Yes miss, that was Neil Armstrong. 1969, the first moon landing.”

Teacher: “Very good Rupert. You may stay off Friday and Monday and come back into class on Tuesday”

wee jock loses the plot altogether, tips his desk and throws his wee chair at the wall. He starts screaming: “Fur gods sake, where did all these English basturds come from?”

Teacher, looking round the class: “Who said that?”

Wee jock grabs his coat and bag and heads for the door, “Sir William Wallace, Battle of Falkirk, July 1298, See yous on fook’in Tuesday!!”

i have a few question on governnment bonds?

Here are quotes from a report on Indian govt bonds –

QUOTE 1

‘If you could look at the spread for five-year AAA versus the 10-year, the spread compression has happened more at the five-year AAA corporate bond as compared to the 10-year. Therefore I believe that there is some juice left on the ten-year AAA corporate bond as compared to the five-year.’

My Question1 – Please explain what is spread compression, and why is less spread compression better

QUOTE 2

‘Govt has introduced small steps like exchange traded futures strips which will all go long way in deepening bond market’

My Question 2 – What is exchange traded futures strips

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Question 3 – What are the reasons why bond prices rise.

I know one reason – its because IR may come down and everybody chases the higher coupon bond,.

Is this another reason ? govt bonds are redeemed . Does this mean that there is more money in the system which automatically lowers the Interest Rate ? Or is it so that there are less bonds in the system so the value for bonds go up.

Is this another reason ? If the ec is booming we can expect the bonds to rise. But Why ?

i have a few questions on Government bonds?

Here are quotes from a report on Indian govt bonds –

QUOTE 1

‘If you could look at the spread for five-year AAA versus the 10-year, the spread compression has happened more at the five-year AAA corporate bond as compared to the 10-year. Therefore I believe that there is some juice left on the ten-year AAA corporate bond as compared to the five-year.’

My Question1 – Please explain what is spread compression, and why is less spread compression better

QUOTE 2

‘Govt has introduced small steps like exchange traded futures strips which will all go long way in deepening bond market’

My Question 2 – What is exchange traded futures strips

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Question 3 – What are the reasons why bond prices rise.

I know one reason – its because IR may come down and everybody chases the higher coupon bond,.

Is this another reason ? govt bonds are redeemed . Does this mean that there is more money in the system which automatically lowers the Interest Rate ? Or is it so that there are less bonds in the system so the value for bonds go up.

Is this another reason ? If the ec is booming we can expect the bonds to rise. But Why ?

What do you think of this story??!?

okay ive been writing this in my journal for about a week now and i cant stop writing!! if i get it on the internet maybe it’ll clear my thoughts!! please be nice with the answers! not too harsh on the criticism!

The harsh sun of Fransisco burned down on me in the trolley seat.I was on my way to a boarding school for girls. i cried when i left all my friends in houston.It seemed like all the people in the trolley were looking at the small redhead girl with a cowboy hat,green eyes, freckles, and denim jacket in the front seat.my jean pocket buzzed, i flipped open my phone “hello?”i asked. “oh goodness, Sam, you were supposed to be here 2 minutes ago!” my step mom said flustered. “im sorry Rachel, i just caught the trolley!” i said. “First of all, honey don’t call me Rachel secondly its okay, im just excited that’s all!” she tittered “okay,…mom… ill be there in five minutes.” i hung up.well, my mom died when i was five, then my dad married rachel. shes been more of a big sister than a mom. its just that i have to get used to her. my dad, ted is in new york for Business, and then hes going to buy an apartment there. i cant come yet, he cant have any “distractions” during business. i huffed as the trolley doors opened and i stepped out and tumbled into a boy about my age with brown hair. “sorry.” i mumbled as i backed away, “ha, its okay. hi im Sam whats your name?” he asked. when he said ‘my names sam’ my face, already red from bumping into him turned redder. “Hi, um my names Sam too.” i muttered. “oh thats cool. hey are you new around here?” he said-concerned. “yeah-kinda. im moving in with my step mom.” i said. “do you know where your going?” he asked. “yeah, i do ” i read him the adress that i had scrawled on my hand with blue pen. “oh thats easy its right down there ” he said, pointing to a greenish apartment, 6 apartments down. “oh thanks!” i said. “want me to walk you there?” he asked being a gentalmen obviosly. “sure.” i said, my face getting redder.he led me to the door and i knocked, my stepmother opened the door with a shocked look on her face, she looked at
Sam then me then sam. she shrugged and invited us in.
NEXT CHAPTER!!
sorry if i offeneded anybody witht the texas thingie- its just i grew up in texas and that was how me and my sister looked going to sanfran- anyway, heres the rest.

When Sam and i, got inside my stepmom’s house, she gave us a plate of cookies. “thanks mom.” i murmered biting into another cookie. “thank you mrs.” sam said crunching down on his third cookie. Rachel sat in a wicker chair in the living room. i took off my hat. Sam’s phone rang “oh sorry mom-yeah- im at Sam;s house-no- yeah- okay okay be there soon- yeah- bye – see ya mom.” he hung up, “well, Sam, Mrs. gotta go!” he went out the door and into the bakin sanfransisco heat.
“so sam,” Rachel began “your rooms upstairs u can unpack ur things and ill see you at dinner honey” she got up and hugged me. “umm thanks rachel… mom.” stomped up the stairs to see a green door tthat said SAM on the front. i shurgged and marched in. there was a cute little window seat, a plaid bed spread, TV, games, a night light, dresser, and the ADORABLE KITTEN ON THE BED!! “oh, my gawd” i said dropping my things and running to the adoreable calico cat. i scooped it up and cooed to is “aww what a cute wittle putty tawt. awww!!” she smelled like pineapples so i named her Appie. i put her in my pocket of my denim jacket perfect fit!! i went down the stairs and hugged my new mom. i was gonna like her after all

next chapter.
Rachel made us Noodles man!! it tasted awesome, after my third plate Rachel said “your uniform is on the door handle”i froze- “UNIFORM?!?!” i almost screeched. “WHAT UNIFORM!?!?!!?!?!?!?” i yelled. Rachel looked at me apologeticly. “well,… they sent us….
“… the uniform this morning telling me that they changed plans… so your gonna hafta wear that.” she pointed to the plaid uniform that i dreaded.

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Most restaurants in Humble are either Dairy Queens or attached to gas stations. I’m pretty sure the only real restaurant I’ve ever been to is the Rainforest Cafe in Houston, because my parents wanted to “treat” my sister and me. Mama and Daddy, sadly, fit the Texan sterotype perfectly. Die- hard Longhorn fans? Check. Cowboy boots in public? Check. Disgusting Texas accent? Yeah, you get the point. Luckily, most of their hick friends claim I’m “from a different planet.” Probably because I talk like a normal person, choose books over ESPN, and like my head cowboy hat- free. So when I was blessed the opportunity to go on a foreign- exchange program, I snapped it up. I had already expirienced enough Texan public- schools for a lifetime and Humble High School isn’t exactly Harvard. The second I signed up for living in London for a school year, I knew I made the righ choice. In London, people are actually somewhat respectable. They don’t listen to Kenny Chesney or get weekly perms or drink beer with their breakfast. The people in London are my kind of people. Plus, my host family owns a small record label and have two sons, one 14 and the other 15. I’ve talked to the 14 year old a few times over Facebook. His name is Thomas and he’s staying with my family. I doubt he will last three minutes. He comes from people with class, not… Texans. I know I seem like I’m hating on my own kind, but I’ve been dying to get out of Humble the second I arrived. I never belonged. But now, as i step out of my taxi to the equisite, five star London restaurant, I suddenly feel insignificant. I feel like a dirty little small town girl. I feel under- dressed. And for the first time since deciding on living in London for a year, I feel… Scared. Nervous. What if Rick and Emily don’t like me? What if I’ve had a Texan accent my whole life and I didn’t even know it? I tucked a loose blonde wave behind my ear, inhaled a shaky breath, and pushed open the restaurant door.
Suddenly, I was in a different universe. Piano music trickled from the private room, glasses clinked, and wine was poured from bottles priced at more than my mom’s car. Everyone I saw was beautiful. Everyone was elegant, poised, classy. I then realized I had been standing there staring and the host was giving me a dirty look.
“Can I help you?” he snarled, looking at me like I was dirt. His thin black moustache quivered and his beady black eyes scanned me suspiciously. He reminded me of a rat, but he was still the scariest person I had ever seen. Half of me wanted to giggle because I’ve never heard a real British accent before, and the other half wanted to run away. I straightened my back and cleared my throat.
“Yes sir, I’m supposed to be dining with the Thompsons?” It came out more like a question. His expression completely transformed.
“Oh! Of course! You must be Hanna! Yes! They… they mentioned… Yes! So sorry, right this way!” He scurried to the back room with me fast- walking to keep up. I was lead into a small, secluded area with few people. I immeadietly recognized Rick and Emily Thompson.
I had seen a picture of them before, but they were even more beautiful and powerful looking in person. They were the kind of people who had a hold on everyone they knew, and they loved it. I never felt so overwhelmed. I stepped up slowly.
“Hi, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson… It’s me, um, Hanna”
Their heads slowly rose from their plates and peered at me as if to see if I was worthy of being in their presence. But when they recognized me, I felt much better. They stood up and each gave me a quick, loving embrace. Mrs. Thompson held my hands and shot me a dazzling grin.
“Hanna, you are even more beautiful in person. We have been so excited to meet you. And please” she said, waving her hand like she was shooing away a bug, “call me Emily.” Mr. Thompson stepped in.
“And please, call me Rick.” I weakly smiled at them. I’m pretty sure that’s the only thing I could do, just smile and nod. They were so overwhelmingly gorgeous. Emily’s dark brown hair contrasting with her deep green eyes, and Rick’s bone structure carved by the gods themselves. And their accents… better than I imagined. I sat down in the empty chair and they followed. I was suddenly shot question after question, as if it were an interview. They did not seem to want to talk about themselves, they wanted every detail of my life. “What is Texas like?” “How is the school there?” “What languages have you studied?”
I answered each as calmly as I possibly could. It went on for a while, until I realized their champagne being refilled at a startling pace. I could sense them starting to let loose. They laughed a little louder, asked stranger questions, and their words ran together. I felt embarassed for the poor couple. They must be so ashamed for getting intoxicated on our first meeting. I
felt embarassed for the poor couple. They must be so ashamed for getting intoxicated on our first meeting. I laughed nervously at everything they said. Finally, the bill came. I felt relived. I was excited to get home and go to sleep. Rick and Emily hailed a cab and stumbled in, drunkenly laughing at something I didn’t even want to know. I leaned against the window and took it all in. The city lights, the people walking the streets after a party, the cars zooming by. It was uncomprehenable. Suddenly, the car jolted. I waited for them to get out first. They saw my unsure look and laughed.
“Oh! We’re dropping you off! We have a party tonight at a friends house, so sorry. But Charles is home, he can keep you company.” slurred Rick. I felt myself being escored out of the cab. Suddenly, I arrived at the most breathtakinly beautiful building I had ever seen. I stood in awe of its magnificant archetecture when I realized I eventually had to go inside.
I strolled up the steps and knocked on the door. No answer. As I was about to knock again the door was flung open, and the person who opened it was already walking away with a phone attached to his ear. What the heck? Yeah, hello to you too. I craned my neck, trying to see his face.
“Uhh hi?” I said questionably. He pointed up his finger as if to say one second and quickly chattered into his phone. I sighed and closed the door. I took this as a chance to take it all in. There was a majestic staircase to my right, and a sitting area to my left. A large chandelier dangled above my head. I gazed at every detail of the house. Suddenly, I heard mystery man’s phone snap shut. He came towards me. My heart stopped. His dark brown hair was disgruntled, his bone structure was unreal, and his eyes were so green i had to look away. I was in the presence of a god. He tossed me a grin that knocked me off my feet and extended his hand.
I was in a daze. I limply put my hand in his and he squeezed mine. I almost died.
“You must be Hanna? I’m Charlie. Sorry about my parents… they have a party like every night and they tend to put those first.”
I’m pretty sure my mouth was agape and drool was pooling at my feet. I bit my lip and giggled. He strolled into the kitchen, grabbed an apple, and tossed it in the air. “So,” he started “How are you liking London?”
I smiled. “I adore it!” That’s all I could muster out. He smiled back at me
“You have yourself a lil’ Texas accent!”
I gasped audibly and covered my mouth. He chuckled. “No! It’s cute! I like it! It’s different!”
I sighed a little. Charlie bit into the apple and asked me a few questions. I was barely paying attention. All I could comprehend was that i was talking to the most amazing human being I had ever seen and he was smiling at me like I was amusing him. I yawned, exhausted. Charlie quickly rose.
“I’m sorry! You’re probably still recovering from jetlag! Okay, I’ll let you go sleep and I guess I’ll see you in the morning.”
I didn’t want to leave that spot, but I lifted myself up and ascended the stairs. From the kitchen I heard Charlie calling back whoever he had been talking to. I paused, knowing I shouldn’t.
“Yeah… Well… She’s younger than me… I mean she’s pretty but she’s… Yeah, she’s cute… She kept smiling at me in this really goofy way… I just don’t see her like that… No… Maybe after I get to know her..?”
I had heard enough. Okay, so he thought I was “cute”. At least he didn’t think I was ugly! So there was still hope… right?