Apr 28

I am creating a website on Online Admission Management system for my college project. I have used HTML & JavaScript to prepare the Web pages & Forms . Now i am unable to connect them to a Database to store the User input data from the forms.Can Anyone Suggest me the procedure or Any simple technique for database connectivity.i would be glad if u mention the code along wit ur answers.

HTML is a markup language and does not have the ability to connect to a database, directly. However, you can of course embed scripts in the html that can connect. Javascript is not going to be the best language to connect directly to a db.

Consider ASP or PHP, one will likely be better suited for the platform you are running on. Below are a few links to get you going with either. Beware that Access is only going to allow a certain amount of web based concurrent users.

Apr 26

Hi !
I am a french law student planning to make a first naw internship abroad for this summer, in capetown, south africa !
Here this is my letter of motivation but obviously there’re must be grammatical’s faults left !
I will be thankful to you guys if you can correct what is wrong !
Thanks a lot ! :D

Currently ending my last year of a law bachelor at the Universit of Evry (France),
my aim is to accomplish an international public law master degree in order to integrate an ngo with a humanitarian vocation
or working within an international cooperation ’s international organisation
In this optic, my bachelor has always been orientated to subjects of public and private international law Whose knowledge were able to deepen tis year
through a one year semester studies at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain).
Starting the June 2010 until august 2010 ( two months in total) , I would like to accomplish a legal internship
within an public institution or an ngo related about international relations and law or any field similar to in the city of Capetown.

To accomplish such an internship, I choose the city of capetown because the current instauration of a law state represent one of the main challenge of south africa
that i want to be part. What concerns international solidarity, management of humanitarian projects, help towards population in difficulties are fields that i want to be concretly confronted.
Moreover, capetown is a known as the ideal city to evolve in an international environnemen where can be explored issues of social change, diversity and learn about new cultures.

I expect sorts of work that make progress meaningfully the activity of the ngo in question and permit me to arrest the functioning of a ngo under any forms as realisations & administrations of current projects of the establishment, seminaries’s preparation, assisting case workers at refugee centers, researching human rights-related legislation both in South Africa and internationally,writing research reports and so on.
My studies has provided me law knowledges and informatics skills that i would be happy to bring to the institution adding a synthetic and analistic spirirt i could have developped through those/it.
My former profesional experiences show that i have an easy social contact and that i am able to work in an different linguistical environnement from mine.

Working in a ngo is more than a volonty to have an international experience but a necessity for my lawyer universitary formation which will confirm the road of my future specialisation in this field.
I consider it as an inedit opportunity to be cocnretly involved inside law affairs; Therefore,
i expect from this internship a practise of my theorics law knowleges by being given , trust, responsabilties and autonomy in every task i can be involved in the law’s field or another similar-
I also hope that every task i’ll be involved into will permit me to gain new intellectual and personal aptitudsand beyond eveything a new human experience.

The end.
I know there’s a lot of faults; I’m trying to translate in english what I exactly mean in french but litteraly it’s not that evident, I just want a objective correction from your part.
Kim, thanks a lot for your efficient help !!
I’ll post my letter on your website ! :) )

I am currently in my last year of a law program at the Universit of Evry (France),
My goal is to accomplish an international public law Master’s degree in order to integrate into an ngo with a humanitarian vocation, or to work within an international cooperation ’s [do you mean corporation?] international organisation
In this optic [what is optic?], my bachelor degree has always been focused on subjects of public and private international law, which was enriched by a one year study abroad program at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain).
Starting June 2010 until August 2010 (two months in total) , I would like to complete a legal internship
within an public institution or an ngo related with international relations and law or any similar field in the city of Capetown.

To accomplish such an internship, I choose the city of Capetown because the current instauration [what??] of a law state represent one of the main challenges of South Africa
that i want to be a part of. [Redo this entire sentence: What concerns international solidarity, management of humanitarian projects, help towards population in difficulties are fields that i want to be concretly confronted.]
Moreover, Capetown is known as the ideal city to [evolve?] in an international environment where issues of social change and diversity can be explored, and I can learn about new cultures.

I expect work that is making progress for the ngo in question, and permits me to understand the functioning of an ngo under any form [this doesn't make sense: as realisations & administrations of current projects of the establishment, seminaries's preparation,] assisting case workers at refugee centers, researching human rights-related legislation both in South Africa and internationally,writing research reports and so on.
My studies have provided me with knowledge of law and informatics[? informational skills?] skills that I would be happy to bring to the institution, adding a synthetic and analistic spirit I developed.
My former profesional experiences show that i make social contacts easily and that I am able to work in a different linguistic environment from my own.

Working in a ngo is more than a [volonty?? do you mean opportunity?] to have an international experience but a necessity for my [lawyer universitary formation?] which will confirm the road of my future specialisation in this field.
I consider it as an [inedit?] opportunity to be concretely involved inside law affairs; Therefore,
i expect from this internship a practise of my theorics law knowleges by being given trust, responsibilities and autonomy in every task i can be involved in the law’s field or another similar-
I also hope that every task i’ll be involved into will permit me to gain new intellectual and personal aptitudsand beyond eveything a new human experience.

This still needs a lot of work, but I made some improvements.
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Apr 24

I’m looking for the best program to organize my digital photos for a specific project. The project entails digitally sticking photographs together to form panoramas. I am looking for software that will allow me to lay the photos on a virtual type desk and size them and everything so I can pick through the good ones (i.e. not blurry or to grainy) to put into photoshop or microsoft ICE. Does such software exist? If so what is it and where can I get it?

Quick answer is no, I have not heard of software that does this… but…

Depending on how many photos you have, you can just use a large sized canvas in photoshop and drag the photos around inside the canvas to see how it will look. To make it easier, you can use the Image Processor in Bridge or via Photoshop directly to make a copy of all the photos smaller, to be more manageable.

OR

You can print contact sheets and cut ‘em out and do it on your trusty wooden desk.

Apr 22

In project management, we use change control Ledger i.e. different from change request form. Does anyone know about it/website that has information on it?
Thanks.

This would be a log that records the status of the various change requests.

Apr 20

Here is my resume, Do you see anything wrong? I didn’t put my name address ect. to conceal my identity on this board:

Kenton Check Advance April 2004 – May 2005 Manager

Solely managed all aspects of check advance business.
Duties included:
Prepared budgets and cash flow statements Maintained records in compliance with state laws.
Implemented special advertising and publicity projects.
Managed customer service, payments, collections, research, accounting, and tax preparation

Family Check Advance March 2003 – April 2004 Assistant Manager

Oversaw monetary loan process on auto titles and check advances.
Duties included:
Managed collections and cash flow statements.
Maintained records in compliance with state and business laws, daily forms and contracts

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company January 2001 – March 2003 Quality Control Tech.

Responsible for the entire operation process of tire machines.
Duties included:
Troubleshoot, set tires, service machines and mechanical equipment.
Tested tire components for quality.
Inspected finished products.
Prepared daily reports for management.
Partnered with builders to ensure quality plus high production.
Proficient on R1’s, R2’s, and R3 tire machines, hot tire processing molders, QS 9000 systems, familiar with six sigma quality system.

American Model Discovery September 1998 – December 2000 State Director

Secured venues for regional beauty pageants.
Purchased trophies and other prizes for contestants.
Promoted pageants.
Supervised the accounting and judging of pageants

Wilson Sporting Goods August 1994 – August 1998 Quality Control Inspector

Responsible for the inspection of golf balls for quality and durability using gauges and scales.
Cross-trained in finishing, buffing, paint room, material handling, packing, warehouse, and payroll.

It needs a face lift…I can rewrite it for you free of charge if you want just email me at MsNina77@aol.com and I’ll do it…..It would help much! Or better yet, I’ll just email you the template and you fill it in, that way your personal info will be for your eyes only…

Apr 18

OK-
So, I’ve seen articles go both ways on this. I am getting my MBA part time. Can I deduct the expenses related to tuition and travel to campus on Form 2106 as business related education expenses (subject to the 2% floor, of course). I spent 17K i ntuition last year. So, its a huge swing between that and just doing a page 1 deduction. I would also amend last year to take it as itemized if it is permissable. Again, I’ve seen articles go both ways. I’m an accounting systems project manager and plan to stay at the position after graduation. About 1/2 of my classes have been either project management, accounting, or technology systems. So, it would seem relavant.

Just wondering if anybody knows or has a strong opinion. Thanks.

Hi, how are you doing? It is good to see you have your head in the game for this one.

On decent tax software, it will run the calculation for you on Form 2106 as a comparison and let you make the choice. For example, Intuit ProSeries is excellent for this. Also, ATX which I believe in some years even prints it out automatically.

For some years I fought tax cases at the Tax and Law Center in Southern California.

Not only have I prepared returns claiming the MBA total expenses including transportation, currently 48.5 cents per mile or actual expenses whichever is greater, I helped a young guy from USC amend returns for 2 prior years.

The refunds were monsters. I think on the prior two years he got in the neighborhood of 7,500. Seems like it. I remember when he paid my fee, he said he had to borrow money from his mom to pay me.

Do it yourself and save the fees but get on it ASAP. Right now you can file for refunds from 2004, 2003, and 2002.

About April 15, 2006, you will lose the right to file for a refund for 2002. 2003 and 2004 remain open until April 15, 2007 etc.

April 15 is a Sunday this year and some states have a legal holiday April 16, so if you try your luck on 2002, mail early!!!!

Good Luck. Let me know if I can be of further help to make sure you pay the correct, lowest possible, tax!!!

I really apprecate your question and the background so I could follow.

Apr 16

<BULLY BLOCKING AT WORK
A Self-Help Guide for Employees and Managers
Evelyn M. Field

CHAPTER TWO | What is workplace bullying?

Workplace bullying is complex

Bullying may feel like a pinprick, a slow-growing cancer or a vicious assault. You can be bullied by one person or mobbed by a group. Some bullies select one target while others bully a number. Sometimes the real bully is disguised, so you only see their puppet. Some behaviours like bantering, teasing, screaming and exclusion occur regularly in your private life with family or friends and function as everyday work practices, whereas other behaviours are violent, abusive and criminal.

More recently, the hazards associated with cyber bullying at school are infiltrating the workplace, providing bullying around the clock. The subtle, passive-aggressive tone of an email, a poorly expressed communication, the requirement to have your mobile phone on night and day, the lack of inhibition online and the use of inappropriate material constitute an abuse of power. The absence of immediate feedback about its impact on the receiver means that the sender cannot see the damage online and remains unaware when they have hurt the receiver.

What is workplace bullying?

Workplace bullying involves the repetitive, prolonged abuse of power.
Unwelcome, unreasonable, escalating behaviours are aggressively directed at one or more workers and cause humiliation, offence, intimidation and distress.
It places your health, wellbeing, safety and career at risk, interferes with job performance, and creates a toxic working environment.
Workplace bullying can attack anyone, in any career, at any level, within any organisation, at any time.

BULLY BLOCKING AT WORK
A Self-Help Guide for Employees and Managers
Evelyn M. Field

CHAPTER THREE | Understanding workplace bullying

Why does it happen?

Bullying can happen in any organisation, small or large, professional, commercial, public or trade. So far, the evidence is confusing and complex. Many factors can encourage bullying behaviours and maintain them such as the tribal cultures, individual personalities, work and social skills of target and bully; the actual work influences such as location, work culture, job stressors, quality of leadership skills, bystander behaviours, organisational structure and responses to bullying. In addition, all social behaviour, including bullying, can be affected by the economy, legislative changes, media, and the political climate.

When the employment world is tough, survival of the fittest, not the most competent, becomes the norm. Anyone working in a hostile environment should be ready to fight or flee to survive, even though this creates a less productive work culture. Many organisations create dysfunctional systems by allowing their boundaries or cultural systems to constantly change. Employees who do not know the rules of the game, or where the goalposts are located, can be oblivious to the onset of bullying and unable to protect themselves when they should. Like most other forms of abuse, bullying also thrives on secrecy and silence. It escalates because no-one con- fronts it and nothing effective is done to stop it when it is finally reported.

Although bullying can occur anywhere, when it occurs at work management is responsible for dealing with its consequences. Unfortunately, work complaints are often regarded as problems by management, although they should be interpreted as valuable feedback. Management may not realise that bullying represents incompetence and mismanagement, thus managers play adversarial games instead of focusing on their major goals. They don’t have effective strategies to deal with bullying, so they employ antagonistic tactics instead of collaborative techniques, thereby exacerbating the situation. Unfortunately most organisations fail to respond quickly, effectively and respectfully when bullying occurs. Their denial of bullying behaviours, lack of responsibility and manipulation of the evidence further sabotages their employees and their company.

BULLY BLOCKING AT WORK
A Self-Help Guide for Employees and Managers
Evelyn M. Field

The main types of bullies

The bullies you may have met at school also go to work. They include the malicious or serial bully, the nonmalicious bully and the provocative bully/target. Most bullies are ordinary people who use a mixture of bullying behaviours to achieve their goals, avoid confrontation or survive at work. They don’t realise that their toxic patterns of behaving are harmful and humiliating, nor do they consciously wish to hurt others.

They can experience real distress when confronted. However, most bullies intuitively identify when their employer and managers encourage, silently condone or passively enable them to bully.

Animal quiz
Have you seen any of these creatures around the office lately?

Lion constantly roaring throughout the w
…orkplace.
Saltwater crocodile enjoys taking you into the death roll.
Wolf charming to your face then attacks from behind.
Octopus slowly engulfs you with aggression from all sides.
Giraffe seems innocent, then leans in from afar to bully.
Peacock so confident they don’t care how their words or actions hurt.
Gorilla only placated by subservient behaviours.
Shark takes a bite out of you first and asks questions later.
Cat scratches away but pretends to be righteous.
Grizzly bear rears up and towers over you, ready to pounce.
Piranha keeps chewing away until nothing’s left.
Spider invites you into their web and then destroys you.
Bee attacks you when it perceives a threat to its hive.

BULLY BLOCKING AT WORK
A Self-Help Guide for Employees and Managers
Evelyn M. Field

CHAPTER ELEVEN | Action for organisations
Respect and resilience

Most organisations want to remain in business, expand if possible and stay profitable. They don’t want to waste or lose money. Although any business is controlled by the economic bottom line, when employees are not feeling safe or respected, they cannot work effectively because their attitudes and values influence their level of work satisfaction and job performance.

Basically, employees who experience constructive working relationships within an open learning culture will be more motivated than those shredded by conflict and backstabbing.

Thus, like a family, school or sports club, the workplace is a system. It requires clear structures to function effectively, and appropriate social skills to work together. A best practice organisation creates a cooperative, collaborative work culture where employees feel safe, involved and empowered. This requires strong leadership and effective management to promote clear goals and values.
Therefore, companies need to review their business ethics, and incorporate ideas such as social responsibility and social and human capital to reinforce the concept of valuing staff. Clearly, it is better business practice to respect every employee and treat them as a valuable asset, instead of fostering gladiatorial survival games.>

Jog on ———————————–>

enough about this collins project you really need psychiatric help if you refuse to move on from this…

Apr 14

evidence that the project had been sabotaged from within ?

<<Level 1: Accidental Automation. The first level of the software testing model–like level 1 in the software process model– is characterized by ad hoc, individualistic, chaotic attempts to get the job done. Important information (for example, what to test) is not documented and must be extracted from in-house experts. Test plans are sketchy. Test results are not documented consistently. Schedules slip. Either products are delayed or testing becomes a cursory, poorly documented exercise. Management is uninvolved or uninformed.

This level has been designated Accidental Automation because the use of any automated tools or techniques comes about almost as if by accident and is not supported by process, planning, or management functions. Products released on the basis of such testing may well be accidents waiting to happen. Testing at this level may be appropriate only for a product that has no potential for harming the patient or user; it is never appropriate for a computerized medical device.

Level 2: Beginning Automation. The second testing level corresponds directly to Level 2Repeatable in the software process maturity model (see Figure 2). There are hundreds of capture-and-replay test tools on the market today that simply repeat the responses of a system under test.5 As in the process model, however, these tools have limited capabilities and lose their economic usefulness quickly as a product changes.

Level 2 testing is still dependent on information locked in the minds of in-house experts, although documentation is beginning to appear in the form of software requirements specifications (SRSs) and test requirements specifications (TRSs). However, in most cases, large portions of these documents are written after the fact and used to meet regulatory requirements rather than to direct the development and test processes. Writing them does, however, provide good practice for moving to level 3.

Level 3: Intentional Automation. At the third level, automated testing becomes both well defined and well managed. The TRSs and the test scripts themselves proceed logically from the SRSs and design documents. Furthermore, because the test team is now part of the development process, these documents are written before the product is delivered for testing. Consequently, schedules become more reliable. Level 3 is appropriate for many medical device manufacturers.

Level 4: Advanced Automation. The highest testing maturity level is a practiced and perfected version of level 3 with one major addition: postrelease defect tracking. Defects are trapped and sent directly back through the fix, test creation, and regression test processes. The software test team is now an integral part of product development, and testers and developers work together to build a product that will meet test requirements. Any software bugs that do occur are caught early, when they are much less expensive to fix. When testing is performed at this level, an FDA inspector can pick up any piece of product documentation and trace the development process all the way from the SRS that describes the feature to the test results that validate it.>>

Not necessarily.

Apr 12

1. Management Information System consists of people, equipment, and procedures to gather, sort, ____________, evaluate, and distribute information to marketing decision makers.
a. Test
b. Arrange
c. Analyze
d. Control

2. The systematic collection and analysis of publicly available information about competitors and developments in the marketing environment is very useful. It is known as:
a. Marketing data
b. Marketing intelligence
c. Web Master
d. Secondary data

3. Which of the following steps in the marketing research process has been left out: defining the problems and research objectives, implementing the research plan, and interpreting and reporting the findings?
a. Developing the research budget
b. Choosing the research agency
c. Choosing the research method
d. Developing the research plan

4. Harvard University is using the systematic design, collection, analysis, and reporting of data relevant to marketing its programs to minority students. What do we call this?
a. Promotion
b. Self-study
c. Marketing research
d. Cost-benefit analysis

5. Which one of the following schemes is TRUE regarding marketing research?
a. Gathering data, analysis, interpretation
b. Analysis, gathering data, interpretation
c. Interpretation, gathering data, analysis
d. Interpretation, reporting, analysis

6. The objective of which of the following research is to gather preliminary information that will help define the problem and suggest hypotheses?
a. Descriptive
b. Exploratory
c. Causal
d. Corrective

7. Which form of data can usually be obtained more quickly and at a lower cost?
a. Primary
b. Census
c. Secondary
d. Tertiary

8. Which one of the following is NOT one of the stages that customers go through in the process of adopting a new product?
a. Awareness
b. Interest
c. Evaluation
d. Culture

9. Which one of the following statements BEST characterizes marketing research?
a. Research is a continuous process, providing a constant flow of information
b. Research is conducted on a special-project basis
c. Research is performed when routine information is required
d. Research is the basis for making recurring marketing decisions

10. If ABC Ltd knows that its market share in Pakistan has dropped 13 percent in the first quarter of the year but does not know what might have contributed to this decline; it is in which stage of the marketing research process?
a. Hypothesis development
b. Symptom identification
c. Problem identification
d. Data interpretation

11. A person on the University Book Shop’s survey asks respondents to tell the shop, in their own words, what they like least about textbook shopping. What is a type of this question?
a. An open-ended
b. A dichotomous
c. A multiple choice
d. A scale

12. Marketing researchers usually draw conclusions about large groups of consumers by studying which of the following small components of the total consumer population?
a. Group
b. Sample
c. Target group
d. Audience

13. The process by which people select, organize and interpret information to form a meaningful picture of the world. It refers to which one of the following?
a. Personality
b. Perception
c. Selective group
d. Habitual behavior

14. Which one of the following concepts refers to the set of actions and activities associated with each position one holds within a family, club and organization?
a. Personality
b. A role
c. Perception
d. An attitude

15. Marketing stimuli consist of the four Ps. Which is NOT one of these Ps?
a. Product
b. Price
c. Political
d. Promotion

16. Groups of people with shared value systems based on common life experiences and situations in a culture represent which one of the following options?
a. Cognitive dissonances
b. Subcultures
c. Motives
d. Attitudes

17. A change in an individual’s behavior prompted by information and experience refers to which one of the following concepts?
a. Learning
b. Role selection
c. Perception
d. Motivation

18. Persons pattern of living as expressed in his or her psychographics represents which one of the following concepts?
a. Personality
b. Culture
c. Lifestyle
d. Motive

19. Maslow has a list of human needs from the most pressing to the least pressing. They include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. Physiological needs
b. Safety needs
c. Need recognition
d. Self-actualization

20. A transaction in which the organization is making an initial purchase of an item to be used to perform a new job refers to which of the following purchases?
a. Straight rebuy purchase
b. Delayed purchase
c. Modified rebuy purchase
d. New-task purchase

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Apr 10

I recently received a performance evaluation which was very heavily slanted to represent a couple of negative events, and virtually had nothing positive to say. The negative stuff seems to get into the evaluation, but it makes it sound like this ‘pattern of behavior’ is a pattern and not just a couple of bad days, which we all have. I am thinking about not signing the evaluation, and placing an adendum on the form, in my words, stating that this is 3 events that did not go well, and where is the 200+ events that did go well. I am at my wits end. I cannot trust my management team at all.

I also worked on a project for 7 months during the reporting period (50% allocation), got an excellent evaluation there, but that only counted as 10% of the overall score.

What can I do, and not do. I am looking for options here.

I was an executive director/ administrator and part of my responsibilities was doing approximately 30 performance evaluations. They had to be signed and dated by myself and the employee and kept in their personnel file. If an employee disagreed with my evaluation they had the right to note that and explain why but they still had to signed dated and filed. If you still are unhappy and feel you have been unfairly evaluated, you have the right to appeal the evaluation to a higher up employer or director on the board.

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