Accounting?

If you had been hired to assess the overal health and performance of a major grocery store change, what management tools will you use to make a thorough assessment about the health and performance of this company? What are the most important managerial and financial accounting skills need for your assessment?

Disk partition help!!!?

I have a laptop and I am trying to partition my hard drive. When I went to start/control panel/performance and maintnence/administrative tools/computer management. I went there and I wanted to do a partition. On my other computer there is this little rectangle at the bottom and there is two parts. One says "unallocated something" and then the hard drive. On my laptop, it only shows my hard drive. How do I partition and how do i make the unallocated part. Because when i went to my other computer and right clicked on unallocated thing, it said "new partition". How do i get the unallocated part on mine?????? Mine doesn't have it!!! Please just tell me how to get the unallocated part on mine???!!!
Also, on that computer, it only allowed me to have 55mb on that partition, I want to have like, 20 or 30 gigabytes on it!! If you can give directions or give me a WORKING link, i will give you BEST ANSWER. Just please help???!!!

Is this right? Laptop power settings?

I was playing around with my laptop power settings today when I notice on acers power management tool thingy that apparantly the graphical performance was better when it was set to 'balanced' than it is on 'high performance'.

On high performance it states graphical performance as 'high' and on balanced as maximum. I mainly run my laptop plugged into a power supply anywho so I figured i'd get the best gaming performance running on high performance... but it seems I'd be better playing games on balanced, is that right?

Seems weird.
I think so far you guy's have managed to miss the point, on balanced it claimed I'll be getting better performance from my graphics card than on high performance.

High performance is the one which uses more power, balanced is lower, but it claims to sport higher performance on my graphics card.

Also I'm fine on system memory, 4GB DDR3 on my laptop and I'm only less than half of that at all times, so I think I'm light leaving epower management settings running for the time being.
Thanks James K. I've been wondering for a long while why my laptops performance was off and I guess I must have accidently changed it somehow, anyway I restored it to default on the acer power management. The performance difference between high and maximum is massive, before I could only run Racedriver GRID on low, and even then I had framerate issues, now I'm on medium high with no problems whatsoever.

Thanks a lot.

How come i cant use Disk Drefrag?

For some reason, i cant use any "Microsoft management console" stuff. Everytime i try to open administrative tools like Disk Defrag or Performance, i get an error window that syas, "MMC cannot open file C:WINDOWSsystem32dfrg.msc.

This may be because the file does not exist, is not an MMC console, or was created by a later version of MMC. This may also be because you do not have sufficient access rights to the file."

this has never happened before. What can i do to use disk defrag? any help would be appreciated. Thank You

WHICH OF THESE FILES/PROGRAMS CAN BE DELETED FROM MY HARD DRIVE TO INCREASE PERFORMANCE?

I Run disk cleanup daily along with disk de-fragment on the weekly basis to keep my computer as clean as possible yet still i haven't gotten alot of free space remaining on my Hard Drive. Here is a list of programs and features through the control panel.

1- ABBYY FINEREADER 6.0 SPRINT
2-ADOBE FLASH PLAYER 10 ACTIVE-X
3-ADOBE FLASH PLAYER 10 PLUGIN
4-AGERE SYSTEMS HDA MODEM
5-HP SMART WEB PRINTING
6-INTEL(R) GRAPHICS MEDIA ACCELERATOR DRIVER
7-JAVA 6 UPDATE 20
8-JAVA 6 UPDATE 22
9-MICROSOFT.NET FRAMEWORK 3.5 SP1
10-MICROSOFT OFFICE XP PROFESSIONAL FRONTPAGE
11-MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2005
12-MICROSOFT SQL SERVER MANAGEMENT STUDIO EXPRESS
13-MICROSOFT SQL SERVER NATIVE CLIENT
14-MICROSOFT SQL SERVER SETUP SUPPORT FILES (ENGLISH)
15-MICROSOFT SQL SERVER VSS WRITER
16-MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ 2005 ATL UPDATE KB973923
17-MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ 2005 REDISTRIBUTABLE
18-MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ 2005 REDISTRIBUTABLE X86 9.0
19-MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ 2005 REDISTRIBUTABLE X86 9.0
20-MICROSOFT WSE 2.0 SP3
21-MICROSOFT WSE 3.0 RUNTIME
22-MOZILLA FIREFOX (3.0.1)
23-MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB936181)
24-MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB941883)
25-MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB954430)
26-NUANCE PDF READER
27-REALTEK HIGH DEFINITION AUDIO DRIVER
28-VISUAL STUDIO TOOLS FOR THE OFFICE SYSTEM 3.0 RUNTIME
29-VLC MEDIA PLAYER 0.9.2
30-WILD TANGENT WEB DRIVER

I NUMERED THESE SO IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE EASIER FOR MEMBERS TO REFERNCE WHICH FILES OF PROGRAMS COULD BE DELETED.

10 POINTS WILL BE QUICKLY GIVEN TO THE ANSWER WHICH IS THE MOST HELPFUL (AND DOESNT MESS MY COMPUTER UP) LOL

I need a bash script?

I need a bash script to
write a command to get a list from your home directory (including the hidden files). use the test command in your program to tell you if you have "x" permission over each file in your home directory.

I Have been working hard at this all week and the assignment is due today, this is the last question and I really have no one to help me the class meets once a week and the teacher doesnt supply his phone number and doesnt answer emails. I have been searching links posting questions in forums, and reading my book but still cant get this, I realize a lot of people will just say to figure it out for myself, but this question is for the programmer that was once in my situation and needed to be bailed out. (it never hurts to ask) Thanks in advance. this is my feeble attempt at writing the script, it only pulls up the files from the current directory and doesnt address the permissions using the test command whatsoever.

homelist=$1:-"ls -a"
$homelist
echo "homelist"

Am I overreacting?

Seven other women and myself formed a group, and every so often we have fun little outings. During spring we discussed having a summer trip together. I had made other plans during the summer, but they fell apart. Naturally, I anticipated finally being able to do something other than work. We discussed places we could go. We agreed on the beach. About a month went by and I heard nothing from the others. Then I got an email about hanging out this evening. Unfortunately, short notice prevented me from going; I had to work, and couldn't get anyone to take my shift. I got home and decided to let the others know that I was sorry I couldn't make it. I went to post on a forum, and saw that two of the girls had pictures from the beach. Four of them went. I called and asked how the beach was. They denied going, and then when I told them about the pictures, they confessed. I'm agitated that I have been deceived, and I can no longer confide in the people that I trusted most. Am I overreacting?
The other plans that I had made over the summer would not interfere with the trip, and the others were aware of that.

Server query with PHP or any other web technology?

I want to learn server query, preferably with PHP first; so i can query a game server and grab stats. Like player count, player names, deaths, kills, ping, etc.

I don't know where to start, i found an already made library in PHP called "GameQ" but i can't get it to work, so i went into the forums and found out that someone else has been having the problem i been having but the forums are dead.

Can someone descriptively point me in the right way please. Every time i google "server query" it comes up with already made scripts that either don't work (maybe i have a bad computer setup for this type of thing) or they don't work with the game i need. I'm doing every thing from my computer at home and i'm behind a firewall but im notified when a program wants to connect to the net or to my computer. So i really don't think its my computer, considering i can get PHP to connect to the net and grab information from websites. I'm also using Xampp with the development setup.

Thank you,
Jason Harris
Im not talking about querying databases, im talking about querying other servers across the internet to get information. You can query game servers (servers that host PC games for online gaming) to get statistics on each game like players, kills, deaths, etc.

Question regarding VA Mental Health Treatment?

I know this is not the best forum for my question, but I hope someone might at least point us in a direction of where to go for help. I'll be as brief as possible. Serious answers only, please.

My sister has been caring for my brother-in-law for 5 years. His health began a steady decline 3 years ago when he suffered 3 debilitating strokes. He was in ICU for weeks and they wasn't sure if he would walk again. They told my sister to prepare herself because they didn't anticipate him living beyond 6 months after that.

He regained mobility and mental capacity, but about a year later, was diagnosed with stroke dementia. By this point, he lost his job and my sister began taking him exclusively to the VA for treatment (he was a Gulf War vet). He received excellent care until this week, which is what my question is about.

It has progressed terribly recently. Last week, he was looking at pornography on the computer in front of their 2 children (both under 13). My sister thought she'd gotten him away from the computer, but he went right back to it. He recalled doing that the next day and it crushed him. He wept all day. He never did anything like that before.

Monday night, he became physical and started hitting my nephew on the arm. He wasn't being malicious, but it was enough to scare both children, they ran and hid in the closet. When my sister had the situation calmed, my brother-in-law told my injured nephew that it was his turn to hit him.

The next morning, my sister called the VA and was told to bring him in at once to the ER. She did. They sat there for over 5 hours and no one even spoke to them. She had to bring him home because he hadn't eaten or had his medication. By the time they did all that, it was time to pick the kids up from school.

The next day, she called and told them what happened the previous days. They now said she needed to involve Social Services (which she did) because the situation had became physical. She had an appointment today to speak with a psychologist.

We all hoped they would admit him for the weekend to adjust his meds (which no longer work) and just ensure they were working properly before sending him home. He has reached the point where he refuses to go to the doctor voluntarily. Well, they adjusted his meds, but told my sister it was her fault and the fault of their children that he acted like he did. She needed to accept her responsibilities and more or less "deal with it."

We were floored. I love my brother-in-law, but he doesn't know what he's doing when he gets like that. I know she and the kids are so exhausted after so long and a few days would have at least let them catch their breath. She is afraid to sleep, she has woken to disassembled appliances, telephones, etc. My brother-in-law nearly cut his arm off last year when he tried to use his band saw. It's been especially bad this week because it has escalated to getting physical. It isn't violent now, but I wish we didn't have to wait for it to get that way.

We have a distant uncle, a dementia patient, who several weeks ago violently attacked his wife and pulled a gun on his son. I don't want to see anything remotely like that happen.

She has absolutely no help and is trying to raise 2 kids who bring home several hours of homework every night. She is not a nurse and can't supervise him 24-7 (which is what he needs). He has a habit of sneaking around and doing things when she is busy (like using the saw). His family does not help and has never helped. We do what we can, but all of us have medical problems in our own families so we are marooned. He is twice as big as my sister and if it came to a physical confrontation, he would easily overpower her.

Is there anything she can do? Would it help to try the administrator or does the VA offer emergency counseling or patient support of any kind? I know he would never raise a hand to his family if he were healthy and he is devastated when he recalls the things he does. She can't care for him like she has been because he's just getting worse. No one, that could, will help her and, if anything happens, it is blamed on her and the kids.

Thank you for reading. I apologize for the length. I appreciate any information at all.
@JohnD- Thank you so much! I will pass it along.

Covering an African Grey's cage and sleep question?

I am almost complete with my research of everything possible. The only question I have left before I buy my african grey is their sleeping habits and covering the cage. I work nights and usually leave around 1030pm and come home around 7am and sleep til 1pm. Would the grey get moody or loud if kept covered in his cage from 1030pm till 1pm the next day? I really want him but with working nights and being able to sleep for awhile when I get home is a bit in reverse. I also have a roomate who sleeps at night so he can't be uncovered at night when I'm at work. Also I ran accross a forum that they said something about night thrashing. Is this common? Whats a good method to prevent any night thrashing? Thanks

Earn a Living By Doing Simple Data Entry from Home?

are there any in the uk thats legit with no money up front or worldwide would appreciate some answers please?

I am trying to do data-entry from home could any one help me I'm not intrested in International?

Does any one know any data processing companies where i can do data entry from home?

can anyone tell me about real data entry from home i m in a need of it. i hv searchd but coud'nt found genuine?

i hv taken from ngo contract based data entry but now i m not able to find it

Are there any companies that will hire a person to do data entry from home? If so which ones.?

Ideas for a home business?

I am looking for ideas on how to make a business from home doing things that an assistant would typically do. Currently I am serving as a volunteer at my church as a Ministry assistant and ADORE my job there. I am currently without my full time job and in need of money and am looking for a way to make this type of thing a full time career. How do I do this? Any ideas at all?!?!?! I would love any kind of input that you may have. Thank you very much!

I want to start my own business, preferably stationed at home. Any ideas!?

cant think of to many profitable businesses, looking for other ideas!

I want to start my own home business. either an online business or mail order. Any ideas for either?

Which is more successful? And any ideas for what i could sell?? What do people want????

Ideas on passing out flyers to get the word out of a home-based business?

I want to get the word out of a homebased business.. So I need any ideas on where to put flyers? Would it be bad to put them on the flags of mailboxes? Any other ideas on how to get the word out would be helpful to. I have over 200 flyers and can always make more. I am already advertising in the paper. My funds are kind of low so I'd like to find some great affordable solutions.

Need ideas on a name for home based business?

I am wanting to start a business that sells girl clothes, accessories, pettiskirts, and also bridal accessories. I'm starting out at flee markets and craft shows but I need a business name for custom orders. Any ideas?
And not rude answers please! Thank you.