PDCA Cycle - Plan, Do, Check, Act is a 4 step process in Quality Control measures created by Deming. It is typically represented as a continuous cycle…

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some famous accidents… from which powerful lessons were learnt and safety policies were imposed

Titanic - 1911, 1500 plus cruise ship members and passengers perished
Challenger Space shuttle - 28 jan 1986, 7 crew members perished
Piper Alpha - 6 jul 1988, 200 on board crew members perished
Gare de Lyon - 27 june, 1988, 56 train passengers perished
Chernobyl reactor [...]

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Book Title: Smart WOmen finish Rich
Author:David Bach
Year written/published: 1999
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Personal Finance for Women
Some extracts:
some myths…
• Make more money and you’ll be rich
• My husband (or father or brother or son..) will take care of me
• The government has finally gotten inflation under control
File folder system…
1. Tax Returns
2. Retirement accounts
3. Social security
4. Investment Accounts
5. Savings and Checking Accounts
6. Household Accounts
7. Credit Card [...]

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Book Title: Mutual Funds - an Introduction to the core concepts
Author: Mark Mobius
Year written/published: 2007
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Mutual Funds introduction
My Comments: Really good one… my first book on mutual funds… it’s great
Contents page:

An introduction to mutual funds
types of mutual funds
making sense of mutual funds documents
analysing preformance
mutual fund cost
buying and selling mutual fund shares
building mutual [...]

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Book Title: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind - Mastering the inner game of wealth
Author: T. Harv Eker
Year written/published: 2005
Book Source: Google Books, Library
My Comments: Great book.. clear and concise.
Some extracts:
so getting a huge sum of money the next day will make us rich?

The vast majority of people simply do not have the internal capacity to [...]

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Book Title: How to be Idle
Author: Tom Hodgkinson
Year written/published: 2004
Book Source: Google Books, Library
My Comments: Loved it… lazy chilling out reading realised that i’m indeed an idler at heart …
Contents page:

8am: Waking up is Hard to do
9am: Toil and Trouble
10am:Sleeping in
11am: Skiving for Pleasure and Profit
Noon: The hangover
1pm: The death of Lunch
2pm: On [...]

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Book Title: Discovery of India
Author:Jawaharlal Nehru
Year written/published: 1933
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary:Father of Indira Gandhi and Grand Father of Rajiv Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India in 1947. He wrote this book while in prison. Discovery of India talks about the history and transition of India to what it is today… [...]

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we can easily turn the top part of a text area into a Rich Text Editor / WYSIWYG Editor / html editor…

example 1
example 2

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textarea tag revisited… this is really simply actually. I wanted to insert codes in the text box, but ‘<’ and ‘>’ could not be shown if your code looks like this
<textarea> codes to be inserted </textarea>
and with the open and close tags…
<textarea name=”string”> ><a> with the tags! </a> </textarea>
ok this is [...]

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Book Title: Chicks Laying Nest Eggs - how 10 skirts beat the pants off wall street .. and how you can, too!
Author: Karin Housely
Year written/published: 2001
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Investment Club - how to set up and carry out an invesment club. Karin writes about how she and other 9 women came together and [...]

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I thought this is one of the most neat audio mp3 flash player plugin for wordpress… an example…

Som points on using this plugin…

syntax is [a udio:link]
name of the audio file must not have any space or punctuations

Other links on similar media player list…

lorelle’s list
wordpress codex list

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Book Title: Belgium - Insight Guides
Year written/published: 2005
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Some extracts:
Belgium…
In Belgium, appearances can be deceptive. The picturesque cities of Bruges and Ghent resemble medieval tapestries woven around a skein of canals.
Same cities name equivalents…

Gand, Gent
Bruxelles, Brussel
Anvers, Antwerp
Mons, Bergen
Lousain, Leuven
Bruges, Brugges

Brussels…

An elegant Upper city and an engaging Lower City: central Brussels is characterized [...]

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Book Title: France - National Geographic Traveller
Author: Rosemary Bailey
Year written/published: 2007
Book Source: Google Books
My Comments: Really informative with driving routes, walking routes and regional maps! France has too many architecture, castles and palace and cathedrals… and they are all so beautiful!!!!
Contents page:

History and Culture
Paris and Ile de France
Northern France
Normandy and Brittany
Loire Valley
Central France and the [...]

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Book Title: How to be Free
Author:Tom Hodgkinson
Year written/published: 2006
Book Source: Library
My Comments: It’s the first of this kind of fun book i’m reading… makes us think about the other side of life. I thought this book really provided a different alternative to taking life too seriously by reaching out for your career, money, goals, fighting [...]

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Book Title: The Ultimate Natural Beauty Book - 100 organic beauty products to make and use easily at home
Author:Josephine Fairley
Year written/published: 2004
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Using totally kitchen and food materials you can create your own cosmetics + skin care products
My Comments: After reading about Anita Roddick i just had to pick up this book… [...]

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Want to see the French Alps without climbing at all?? Take the breathtaking cable car ride from Chamonix and you’ll pass by the Mont Blanc… some links…

cable car
Aiguille du Midi
Chamonix-Mont Blanc (cable car + contact + bookings + online booking + times)
** Aiguille du Midi Cable Car
the interactive route !!!… don’t miss this one
France to Italy over [...]

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there are 500 companies in the S&P 500 index

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Book Title: Confident Investing
Author: Deborah Owens
Year written/published: 2001
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Some extracts:
confident investor…

you save your money for short-term needs of 5 years or less
you invest your money for long-term needs of 5 years or more
reinvest the dividends is a way to increase the number of shares that you own without spending extra to buy [...]

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Book Title: Karen Brown’s France
Author: Karen Brown
Year written/published: 2006
Book Source: Google Books
Summary: Traveling around the French countryside with detailed routes and places to see.
My Comments: Instead of reading about what most people knows about France – Paris, I read about the countryside. It’s filled with rich history, culture and castles. If you are driving and [...]

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Book Title: Women and Money - Owning the power to control your destiny
Author:Suze Orman
Year written/published: 2007
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Some extracts:
some definitions…

savings and loan
credit union - a financial institution that offers the same services as a traditional bank
brokerage firm - a financial institution where you can purchase a range of investments and deposit money into [...]

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