i am looking for university students to write well-researched original articles on retail management, retail software, CRM systems, fashion, ERP, and other such articles for a news letter i plan to put together. Would anybody be interested? I work for a retail software company and will be coming out with a bi-monthly. I am based in Singapore.

How personal should I get in a personal statement when applying to grad school? I have a 2.99 GPA from community college (first 2 years) and a 3.85 from the school I transferred to for the last two years. A big factor for why my first two years of college went so poorly was that my dad was in prison for several months and I was trying to take care of my two younger siblings, which had me working 60 hours a week. When my dad got out of prison, my family was still very much in shambles and it was a very stressful situation. Additionally, I never received a high school diploma. I got my GED at 17 and went straight to college, but I had taken very little high school classes. And unfortunately, that gets even more complicated to explain. My parents were both addicts, and divorced, and I got bounced between the two of them, as well as other random adults, in an attempt to stay out of foster care. I moved so many times during my teen years that I hadn't accumulated more than a handful of credits. I was eventually kicked out of my last high school for not having a legal guardian in the district. I was told I either had to have someone adopt me, or pay a few grand to stay. I was couch surfing and living out of a backpack at the time so that was nearly impossible. I want to essentially minimize the effect that my "early years" could have on my graduate school options. Until just recently I had never considered graduate school an option, and even obtaining a bachelor's degree impossible. But now that I've got that I'd really like to keep going. How much of this should I include, if any, in my personal statement?

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A horticulturist (plant scientist) complains to the city that a nearby residence is ruining his flowers because of the detergent being used to wash their cars. The soap runs into a stream that goes near his flower beds. As an inquiring scientist, you want to find out whether soap can affect flower growth. You will need to set up your experiment (using the animation below) and publish your findings (see questions below). In the animation you chose a plant, then a pot, then a soil, and then detergent and then you get a result showing the height of the plant: two plants (Marigold and Chamomile) two pots (Plastic and Terracotta) two soils (Potting Soil and Potting Mix) detergent (No Detergent and Detergent) What would be the control group and what would be the experimental group? Would it be the same plant same pot same soil but different detergent or Would it be every type of plant every type of pot every type of soil and different detergent here's a link if it helps: http://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/scientific_method_plant_exp.html

That's worded awkwardly.. Anyway, I'll be studying abroad there and I'm kind of nervous, simply because I do not know any other Americans. Is it easy for an American student in Melbourne to make friends and enjoy her stay? There wont be any anti-American stigmas that would be attached to me will there? Walking down the street will I stick out or sort of blend in? I'd just like to add that I'm transferring from Boston Mass. I don't expect special treatment but I wouldn't want to be greeted with a "yank" comment .. It's not offensive but still. Thanks in advance :) 8 minutes ago - 4 days le

I've been trying to move files from a an OSX partition on my imac to a windows bootcamp partition formatted to NTFS and it's giving me the the file " "is too large for the destination file system while using This shouldn't happen with NTFS and especially if the file isn't over 4GB (tried moving a 32 KB file and stil had the same problem!) Can anyone help? this is pretty important

I really really really need someone & I just need to know if praying will work & how to pray properly please ... :/

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