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I have incubators for 10,000 eggs,but i need somebody to look after the birds.how i can sale them? my incubators are still empty.i need contract whit samebody and then i will bay the eggs-they can be chickens,turkey,dugs,quals,etc

How to grow skin? Biotech Hobbyist Starter Skin Kit It is time to wrest tissue culture from the privileged hegemony of the lab and relocate it to your kitchen. The recipe for cultivating tissue culture is simple, but just like a Tamagotchi it takes a bit of tending. The game is to see how long you can keep your culture alive. In order to grow skin you need three essential ingredients: 1. A Cell Line (preferably immortal) o Cambrex--Human endothelial cells o American Type Culture Collection-cell line catalog 2. Growth Medium o Cambrex--Endothelial cell medium o Clonetics--Endothelial cell medium 3. A Body Temperature Growth Environment o Economy Incubator--$325.85 o KwikCulture Incubator--$80.00 o Brinsea Avian Incubator--$93.50 o Hova-Bator Incubator--$59.50 o Incubators Value Line o www.scientific-surplus.com often has cheap used incubators for sale Is it as simple as putting the cell line on the growth medium and incubating or how would you do it? Full article found at: http://xdesign.ucsd.edu/biotechhobbyist/skin.html

is this a scam? ok on a web site i found this and wannted to know if its a scam or not this is what it is: Fertile Parrot Eggs In Incubators For sale - $60 We succeeded in making available fertile eggs for the following species this summer! -Scarlet Macaws, Blue and Gold Macaws, Hyacinth Macaws - -Moluccan Cockatoos-Goffin Cockatoos-Umbrella Cockatoos -Congo African Grey-Timneh African Grey, Eggs are laid and handle in Auto-regulated incubators which rotate automatically. All eggs are candled teste with 100% fertility rate and very healthy babies. The eggs are raised from my adult domestic breeders. The minimum number of orders place is 4 eggs per order which will come with incubator and breeding manual to guide you in the process.Shipping,­ pick up are available according to your location.Contact us for more informations Sample pictures.

anyone know where can i order or get africann grey eggs for sale? hi i am looking for african grey eggs so i can use a incubator and hatch the eggs. i have no experience using a incubator before but wanna try it out. anyone know where they sell fertilized egg.. thanks

Do you have young peacocks or exotic pheasants for sale or trade? Besides willing to purchase young peacocks & pheasants, I have dozens of 3-month old Royal Crown Turkeys for sale or trade that I have hatched via incubator after collecting eggs from mature turkeys that I've raised. Very pleasant and colorful birds. I reside in Washington Court House, OH.

duck incubator info, please? i want to hatch some ducklings. i have done lots of research, however i need help finding a good incubator. i would only like to hatch around a dozen or less, it must have an automatic egg turner, and i dont want to spend more then $100. any suggestions on incubators, or any for sale? thanks!

What do I need to make a homemade incubator for my bearded dragons? hi I have two bearded dragons(one male, one female) and they are mating alot and I would like to keep and sale the eggs when she lays them but I don't want to spend money on an incubator and I want to know what supplies do I need to make a homemade incubator that works great.

Where can I learn about raising a bird from an egg in an incubator? I see a lot of "fertile eggs" for sale for a variety of birds, but I certainly wouldn't want to try and blindly buy an egg only to not be able to care for it after its hatched. Where can I learn about what it takes to raise an unweaned bird?

Can I hatch chicks without an incubator? Hello! My mother raises chickens as pets and for their eggs. For mothers day I want to buy her a rare breed I think she would enjoy. I cant find them for sale already hatched though, only eggs ready to be incubated. I dont want to buy an expensive incubator to use once, any ideas?

fertile eggs for sale? i really want a baby chicken or duck that i can hatch in my new incubator but i only want one egg and the ones i try to by online come in dozens or cost too much ...and i live in florida.....help me!

FERTILE Pekin Duck Eggs for Sale in: CANADA ONTARIO TORONTO AREA!? Help please! I need to buy a PEKIN duck egg from any farm in Canada ontario toronto AREA.. I mean the fertile kinds where I can put in the incubator for hatching! please help a link would be great! and thanks you!~

Bearded Dragon Opinion? Hello, I am very interested in animals and since summer is coming up a have nothing to do 'cause I just moved into the boring country, I was thinking about breeding reptiles. I found a proven breeding pair of "German Giant Bearded dragons" for sale with an incubator and was thinking about breeding them. I have a 250 gallon tank for them and 3 30 gallon tanks for the babies. I know I still need to do a lot of research on them but I would like to get aBeardedd dragon owner's opinion.

Can someone PLEASE summary this article ( 10pts)thankss..!!!? Great ideas are born at universities, where students are challenged to think up new solutions to problems. Once class is over, these ideas often gather dust. At the University of South Florida, however, a small company is now turning great student ideas into reality. Rather than have student inventions remain on the sketchpad or be purchased by someone else, Rehab Ideas is striving to put them to use. Rehab Ideas is run by Professor Stephen Sundarrao. He introduces his engineering students to people with disabilities. Then, he asks his students to create products that will help these people. A few years ago, Travis Watkins was one of Sundarrao's students. When Watkins was asked to design an engineering project to help people with disabilities, the first person who came to mind was his father. His father had once cherished walks along the beach. However, an illness known as Lou Gehrig's disease had left him in a wheelchair, unable to walk. Regular wheelchairs cannot go on the beach. So Watkins came up with a solution. He created a sturdy, wheeled platform that attaches to a wheelchair. It moves easily over uneven, rocky, or sandy ground. Watkins' wheelchair platform is one of a handful of student creations that Sundarrao believes has potential. Other Rehab Ideas products include an aluminum crutch that folds up neatly to fit into a purse. There is also a mechanical arm that can grab a textbook out of a backpack attached to the back of a wheelchair. Rehab Ideas products add to a commercial field that includes replacement body parts, swimming fins for people who have lost limbs, and adaptive equipment for hunting and fishing. Rehab Ideas products range in price from $695 for a tray that attaches to a wheelchair to $4,495 for the beach wheelchair platform. Student designers get a small cut of the profits, said Sundarrao. More importantly, they have the experience of seeing their designs become real products for sale. This is an opportunity that most college students don't get. It is made possible because Rehab Ideas is part of the University of South Florida's business incubator. A business incubator is a program that helps young businesses get started. For a price, the University of South Florida's business incubator gives students and faculty support and guidance. It also provides materials and work space. There are many business incubators at universities around the country. Mike Shipp is director of rehabilitation services at Louisiana Tech University. He says that business incubators not only help businesses, but the universities, too. "I think what universities recognized several years ago is, if you want to attract … and keep good [teachers], and bring new students in, you have to do what you can to support their research and ideas," Shipp said. "Everyone gains from that." Sundarrao and his students are certainly gaining from the university's support of Rehab Ideas. The company's clients are benefiting, too, but in a different way. Christopher Rhoades is 19. He uses a wheelchair. Recently, Rhoades visited Sundarrao's class. His mother accompanied him. She watched as Rhoades maneuvered the wheelchair platform designed by Travis Watkins. She cried as Rhoades used the mechanical arm to take a book from the backpack behind his wheelchair. "It just seems so simple but yet it's such a huge thing. [It is] one less thing that he has to ask someone else to do for him," Rhoades' mother said.

Can I use a 250W heat light for bearded dragon? At rural king they sale 10" heat lamps and lights for 1.99, but they're 250W. I'm heating a 50 gallon tank (4ft long) and it'll be at least 2ft away from basking. While this heat my tank to proper temperature without overheating? Heat lamp:http://www.ruralking.com/light-brooder-10-shade-w-clamp-6ft.html 250W light: http://www.ruralking.com/agriculture/livestock/chicken-supplies/chicken-incubators-accessories/250-watt-clear-heat-lamp-bulb.html they also have a 125W: http://www.ruralking.com/agriculture/livestock/chicken-supplies/chicken-incubators-accessories/heat-lamp-bulb-clear-125-watt.html

Patenting Question for new business??? Hi, i'm an engineering student and that is graduating this year and I am interested in starting my own business for lab and research equipment such as centrifuges, pipettes, incubators, etc... However I have a question regarding patent laws that I was hoping someone could answer. Main question is do I need a patent for all products being produced. There are many companies producing products that are very similar however the external design is slightly different. For example mini-centrifuges there are many companies that produce and sale them, however they are all very similar and I'm guessing that many of them only differ by their external design. Would I need to obtain patent for a similar example or do I need to make modifications and claims that makes mine different from others on the market before production and sales has been started. I am wondering because I have done patent searches on companies and saw that not all there products are patented only a few that are unique.

Analogy of Gods Love in Action? God's Love In Action! On the day my daughter was born, I looked at how beautiful, how pink and perfect, how adorable she was, and I knew that nothing but the best would do for her. I decided right then and there that I would provide for her the same love and support that God has given us, his human children, over our lifetimes. So I built her a special room in my house, with a one-way mirror and an intercom system, and I filled it with everything she would need -- furniture, toys, and special TV monitors with which I could show her educational and inspirational programming. Then I hugged her tightly to me, told her that I would always love her, and sealed her in her room. My wife objected to this strenuously, but as we all know, it was Eve who caused the downfall in the Garden of Eden. So women's opinions can't be trusted. The first few years were pretty easy. I had rigged up arm-length gloves through the wall, like you see in premature baby incubators, and I used those to feed and change her. I never let her see me, but I was always right there, admiring how beautiful and perfect she was. I would stand behind the one-way mirror for hours and watch her cry, and fidget, and fuss about, and -- every once in a while -- smile. I got every educational tape I could about baby and child development and showed them constantly on the monitors. It's with no small amount of pride that I report that she learned to walk and talk in only a few years just by watching the monitors. She learned from prerecorded messages how much I loved and cared for her, that she was my pride and joy, and she need only ask me for anything she wanted. She learned to use the intercom system to talk to me about her desires, her fears, her thoughts on life, and her questions. Of course I never answered her, but sometimes I would sneak in while she was sleeping and give her something nice, and she always used the intercom to thank me. Once, my family hit upon hard times, and I had to sneak in while she was sleeping and take all her toys and furniture to sell at our garage sale. She cried nonstop for about a week, and she must have asked "why?" over the intercom about a hundred times, but of course I never answered. She was only ten years old, and there's no way she could understand the reasons behind my decision, so why bother explaining? Well, today is her eighteenth birthday, the day I promised would come when she could join me and live in my house and explore the great, big world. The thing is, she gradually stopped using the intercom over the last few years, and when her birthday came she had stopped believing that I existed at all! So even though she had followed all my rules of conduct, I reluctantly pushed her out the front door and locked it behind her. Because what does being a good person mean if it's not for my benefit? As I write this she is pounding on the front door and begging for forgiveness. But, you know, rules are rules. I sure hope her little brother turns out better. The Moral Of The Story * We have not received a direct sign from our heavenly father in almost 2000 years to assure those of us who weren't alive back then that He still loves us. * Being omniscient, He knows that the majority of His children will go to Hell, reputedly a rather nasty place. Even the most absentee, deadbeat dad on Earth would at least make a phone call if his child were contemplating suicide, so why do we get less for an eternity of damnation? * Being omnipotent, a phone call is well within God's abilities. * Even creatures much less intelligent than ourselves can be comforted in times of stress (do you not reassure your pet verbally and by touch when taking them to the vet?), yet we are forced to read meaning from seemingly random signs and the multiply-translated scribblings of Iron Age shepherds. * When children ask for candy, parents don't always buy it for them, but they always respond "yes" or "no". Our prayers are never answered with a real answer, always with a cryptic sign. * The world is full of hundreds of religions, preaching vastly different credoes. Therefore, most of them are wrong. If your child were to read a math book and mistakenly conclude that 2+2=5, would you not gently guide them toward the correct answer? Would it be even more imperative if their life were at stake? Their immortal soul? * If you discovered a charlatan using your name to defraud your child of his hard-earned piggybank fund (don't deny that at least some TV preachers are faking it), would you not condemn that charlatan or at least warn your impressionable child that he is giving his money to a con artist? If the Christian God exists, he's a sick, demented, or senile bastard and worthy of no one's worship. Look, I'm not mad at God, as it might appear from this diatribe. You cannot be angry at what does not

Cadidate X or Candidate Y? Candidate X Promises and Plans: 1.)Establish a $10 billion Foreclosure Prevention Fund 2.)Provide $10 billion in Relief for State and Local Governments 3.)Hardest-Hit by the Housing Crisis to Prevent Cuts in Vital Services. 4.)Extend and Expand Unemployment Insurance 5.)Provide a Tax Cut for Working Families 6.)Eliminate Income Taxes for Seniors Making Less than $50,000 7.)Simplify Tax Filings for Middle Class Americans 8.)Fight for Fair Trade 9.)Amend the North American Free Trade Agreement 10.)Improve Transition Assistance 11.)Invest in our Next Generation Innovators and Job Creators 12.)Double Funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership 13.)Invest In A Clean Energy Economy And Create 5 Million New Green Jobs 14.)Create New Job Training Programs for Clean Technologies 15.)Boost the Renewable Energy Sector and Create New Jobs 16.)Create a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank 17.)Invest in the Sciences 18.)Make the Research and Development Tax Credit Permanent 19.)Deploy Next-Generation Broadband 20.)Provide Tax Relief for Small Businesses and Start Up Companies 21.)Create a National Network of Public-Private Business Incubators 22.)Ensure Freedom to Unionize 23.)Fight Attacks on Workers' Right to Organize 24.)Protect Striking Workers 25.)Raise the Minimum Wage 26.)Protect Homeownership and Crack Down on Mortgage Fraud 27.)Address Predatory Credit Card Practices 28.)Reform Bankruptcy Laws 29.)Work/Family Balance 30.)Expand High-Quality Afterschool Opportunities Candidate Y Promises and Plans: 1.)Workplace Flexibility 2.)Relief for Families 3.)Government Reform 4.)Supporting Small Businesses 5.)Cheap and Clean Energy 6.)Better Healthcare 7.)Simpler and Fairer Taxes 8.)Lower Barriers to Trade 9.)Expanding Domestic Oil And Natural Gas Exploration And Production 10.)Taking Action Now To Break Our Dependency On Foreign Oil By Reforming Our Transportation Sector 11.)Investing In Clean, Alternative Sources Of Energy 12.)Protecting Our Environment And Addressing Climate Change: A Sound Energy Strategy Must Include A Solid Environmental Foundation 13.)Promoting Energy Efficiency 14.)Addressing Speculative Pricing Of Oil 15.)DC Personal Protection 16.)The Confiscation of Firearms After an Emergency 17.)Cut The Corporate Tax Rate From 35 To 25 Percent 18.)Seal the Pork Barrel 19.)Stop the Revolving Door and Restore Ethics 20.)Democracy is Not for Sale 21.)Excellence, Choice, and Competition in American Education 22.)Comprehensive Immigration Initiatives for a Secure Nation

Could parrot eggs hatch in a incubator? Ok so there is this dude selling parrot eggs, and he sent me a email saying that He will send me a incubator and parrot eggs. My ? is that will the eggs hatch? Also I'm going to go pick them up from his house. This is his link http://bakersfield.freeclassifieds.com/classified_ads/For_Sale/Pets/D1oFsmBuuHc= THIS IS HIS EMAIL LETTER Thanks very much for the interest you have in my parrots fertile eggs for sale.let me give you a run down of everything : - Timneh greys.$15.00 per egg - Congo African Grey. $15.00 per egg. - Scarlet Macaw. $15.00 per egg. - Blue & Gold Macaw. $15.00 per egg. - Hyacinth Macaws. $20.00 per egg. - Green wing macaws $20.00 per egg.- Black Palm Cockatoo. $20.00 per egg. - Greater Hill Mynahs. $15.00 per egg. - Yellow Napped Amazons. $15.00 per egg. - DYH Amazons. $15.00 per egg. - Umbrella Cockatoos. $15.00 per egg. - moluccan cockatoos. $15.00 per egg. - Rose Breasted Cockatoos. $15.00 per egg. - electus parrot $15.00 per egg. - Toco Toucans/Kell billed toucans. $20.00 per egg. - quaker parrots egg $15.00 per egg. All these eggs are fresh laid and fertile, we give a %100 guarantee on all eggs to hatch or your money fully refunded back to you. eggs are candled tested and are guaranteed fertile. With every 7 eggs you buy there is an extra free 3 eggs of your choice. I will send these eggs with an auto turning incubator because it is save shipping them in an incubator and you only pay a renting fee of $30.00 and return the incubator back to me after these eggs hatched, or you pay a fee of $120.00 to own the incubator for further use. i will also send you a free parrot care guide and cd's which will guide you through the incubation, hatching and hand feeding of several baby parrots if you want. I can either arrange for delivery to come directly to your home, or you can pick up from a local or international airport within a few hours. shipping charge would range from $125.00 to $200.00 depending on where you are and your delivery choice. So i would need to know the list of what you want, your location and delivery choice. thanks again for your time and interest. i still look forward to you. regard

Does this sound like a scam to you i think it does? i emailed some add i found on the internet about fertile parrot eggs for sale and this is the response i got i think its a scam? This is the conversation i had with them Below is the Parrot Eggs pricelist as follows; >> >> >> > >> >> >> > -Congo and Timneh African Gray Eggs..........£30 per Egg >> >> >> > -Blue & gold macaw Eggs......................£35 per Egg >> >> >> > -Scarlet macaw Eggs..........................£35 per Egg >> >> >> > -Hyacinth macaw Eggs.........................£40 per Egg >> >> >> > -Moluccan cockatoo Eggs......................£35 per Egg >> >> >> > -Umbrella cockatoos..........................£35 per Egg >> >> >> > -Eclectus fertile eggs.......................£35 per Egg >> >> >> > -Double yellow Headed Amazons Eggs...........£40 per Egg >> >> >> > -Blue fronted Amazon Eggs....................£40 per Egg >> >> >> > -Black palm cockatoo Eggs....................£35 per Egg >> >> >> > -Rose breasted cockatoo Eggs.................£30 per Egg >> >> >> > -Toco Toucan Eggs............................£55 per Egg >> >> >> > -SWAINSONS TOUCAN Eggs.......................£60 per Egg Above are the price list of my fertile parrot eggs we have for sale. the eggs are candle and tested to be 100% fertile to hatch in a ratio of 1:1 They Eggs will come with 100% hatching guarantee. I shall incubate the eggs and send them together with my Auto Turning Hatching incubator to protect and maintain the fertility of the eggs till they Eggs get Hatched at your home and after the hatching my incubator will be sent back to me I will be waiting to have your full command so that i can prepare we are located now in Cameroon where we shall be sending the eggs to >> >> >> you. >> >> >> >> >> >> we shall like to hear from you soon. >> >> >> best regards./ >> >> >> Roseline and Numfor Primus how will you be able to ship the eggs to England London is that even >> >> > possible and how will i be able to send the incubator back to you >> >> >Thanks very much for the email you sent. >> >> Its very possible for me send the incubated eggs to you in london >> >> with no problem as we have been doing this for a very long time now.. >> >> we always send the eggs through a pet courier flight company that >> >> will deliver the eggs to your home address. they eggs will safe in the >> >> incubator till they get hatch at your home. and you shall then send >> >> the incucbator back to me through same Pet courier flight company to >> >> my same address after the hatching. >> >> So please just let me know how many eggs you shall need and species >> >> so that we can start the incubation process and prepare them for the >> >> transportation as soon as you confirm the order. >> >> we shall be waiting to read from you soon. >> >> best regards. >> >> Primus and Roseline what method of payment do you accept as I cant give my credit card >> > details >> > to you and also will it cost me to send the incubator back to you Thanks very much for the fast email reply. No you are not going to >> pay any money for the incubator to come back. i am going to pay for >> the incubator to return back. thats is, i will pay its fare too and >> fro. >> I accept payments through Western Union International Money Transfer >> which is fast safe and reliable to handle. you are not going to give >> me your credit card nor the information. you can do it online >> www.westernunion.com . >> Or you go to an Agent location of Western Union closer to your home in >> london. >> >> Meanwhile i will be waiting to have our the types parrot eggs you need >> and the number so that i can start arrangements for the incubations >> and transportations to London. >> >> Waiting to read from you soon. >> you can call me at +237 970 76 320 or 00237 970 76 320. >> >> have a nice day and waiting to read from you soonest. >> Best regards >> Primus and Roseline okay I will soon let you know which parrot eggs I want but firstly I need > some proof that this is not a scam as i have read about scams around the > parrot eggs in cameroon Thanks, you are very right about it, there are parrot scams in cameroon but i assure you that in every business there are reliable people. i promise to send your money back incase Thank you everyone yeah its definitely a scam

How do i hatch and raise a chicken? Right i want a pet chicken so i can raise it nicely and eat it. So i need some information right from start to finish with straight to the point answers if possible. I saw some eggs on sale on internet and they are rhode island red chickens. So if i buy some do i need an incubator or can just put it in the airng-cuboard with a few towels? thats my first issue anyway. Gonna need to hatch the thing. i know using an incubator is probably best but i just want to know if it is possible to put it in the airing cupboard. Save money there is a recession you know. So once hatched it'll be all yellow and weak, so what do i feed it? how does it drink water? what age can i start feeding it corn? where shall i keep it when hatched? so those are the questions about hatching it. Next i need to know where i keep it in general i.e a hutch, a cage a run? in the backgarden okay? will it be able to escape cats and other predators? how long before i can eat it? so yeah those are pretty much my major concerns im pretty sure i can figure the rest out. You dont have to take this question seriously if you dont want but i really am keen on getting a chciken so i can raise it free range (to some extent) and hold a good sunday lunch with a chicken i raised from scratch. Thanks for reading and all answers apreciated :) Bare in mind im trying to keep this cost efficient. the eggs are costing me 3.50, is that bargain or a rip off? pack of six.

How much could I get? My bearded dragon is handled daily and is always friendly. Lately she has seemed more aggressive. One minute she will be all clingy and resting on my chest and then the next she has her beard flared and is attempting to bite me. I took her to a store that sales only reptiles and they said she was gravid and placed her in a tank with a male bearded dragon. They mated. The owner of the store said that if any babies come out of it he would like me to think about either selling them to him as a whole or selling through him, in which case I'd have to give him a small portion. I know that breeding is difficult and usually ends bad until you really get the hang of it. But I want to try. I even looked up plans on how to make a home made incubator and bought the supplies today. I'm still researching all I can on everything. My question is, about how much could I get for one of her babies? As I said the store owner said I could either sale all to him or through him, but I don't know what to charge and don't want to be taken advantage of. Here is a link to a picture of her taken during one of her baths a few weeks ago. Her genetics are Red/OGG/Sandfire/Blood X Salmon Hypo/Citrus/Snow/Tangerine Hypo (Het Hypo). (Father X Mother) The male was just an average brown bearded dragon. http://www.flickr.com/photos/57464567@N07/5339141409/in/photostream/

How much should I charge? My bearded dragon is handled daily and is always friendly. Lately she has seemed more aggressive. One minute she will be all clingy and resting on my chest and then the next she has her beard flared and is attempting to bite me. I took her to a store that sales only reptiles and they said she was gravid and placed her in a tank with a male bearded dragon. They mated. The owner of the store said that if any babies come out of it he would like me to think about either selling them to him as a whole or selling through him, in which case I'd have to give him a small portion. I know that breeding is difficult and usually ends bad until you really get the hang of it. But I want to try. I even looked up plans on how to make a home made incubator and bought the supplies today. I'm still researching all I can on everything. My question is, about how much could I get for one of her babies? As I said the store owner said I could either sale all to him or through him, but I don't know what to charge and don't want to be taken advantage of. Here is a link to a picture of her taken during one of her baths a few weeks ago. Her genetics are Red/OGG/Sandfire/Blood X Salmon Hypo/Citrus/Snow/Tangerine Hypo (Het Hypo). (Father X Mother) The male was just an average brown bearded dragon. http://www.flickr.com/photos/57464567@N07/5339141409/ I would also like to add that I got her from Rich Beasley, at this website. http://www.richbeasley.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=11&Itemid=34 As you can see, his beardies are amazingly beautiful.

Can someone Please expalin this to me!!? Thank you for your query. Based on your query form information we would like to see your work. This will be a long email. You might enjoy setting aside some time to really read it (grin). My goals are to 1) get the info we need to make a decision, 2) to let you know about how we think and how we approach the industry, and 3) to let you know what to expect. 1) Would you please EMAIL us an electronic copy of your work for further evaluation? Please hit "reply" so that your Query Form information is with the email and attach your manuscript. Do NOT email it to any other email address (mine for example) We cannot accept hardcopy, see the FAQ below. 2) Would you please answer these 3 questions in the body of the SAME email? Just type your answers below. And don't stress or take too long, simple answers are fine. Q1) Do you consider your writing 'ready-to-go', or do you think it needs some polishing? Please describe it in detail, ie. name/company of editor(s) etc. Q2) Think like a publisher/buyer? Pitch me/them. Who would buy this book? Why would they buy it? If you give seminars or talks, mention it here. We always like authors that give presentations. Q3) How long have you been writing, and what are your goals as a writer? You may send either 3-5 chapters or the entire manuscript, whichever you are more comfortable sending. Your manuscript is completely safe within our company. We take care to properly manage all access to your work and it is safe within our company. Please DO NOT include any questions with your manuscript submission. Most of the questions you may have are answered on the website and at the bottom of this email. Please see the FAQs below. Our preference for receiving your manuscript is via email. ============================================ Or if your filesize is OVER 5 megs you can use http://www.writersliterary.com/hotsheetform.php We've used it successfully in the past. If you simply must mail your work or a CD, please email our question email and request a mailing code and address. Please explain thoroughly why you feel that you must mail the work. (Can you tell by now that we really want to make it difficult to mail? We hate mail. It costs money to ship, buyers don't want hardcopy, etc, etc.) Mailed manuscripts may take up to 6 weeks to reply/process. Emailed manuscripts are processed much more quickly. Please note: Due to the volume of material that we receive we cannot return anything you send us. Please do not send us anything that you can't replace. We believe we are very different than other agencies. ========================================================== We believe that we are unique in that we are willing to develop an author and their talent. We like the metaphor of a "business incubator" as a description of how we will take time to bring an author's work to the proper quality level, even if it takes months to do so. We take pride in the fact that we answer every email personally within 2-3 days. Please, watch your spam filters! Our job is to find a buyer for you, period. You may understand how a Literary Agency works, but many authors don't. As your Literary Agent, our mission is to assist you in finding a publisher and to coach you along the way in various options available to you. We don't edit your work. Our mission is to sell for you. Your mission is to meet or exceed industry quality standards. As for compensation, we get paid on success only. Typically we will receive 10% of what you receive. We do not charge fees, so our compensation is based on success only. We never promise a sale, but we can tell you that we have a model that works. We look forward to receiving your materials. Best regards, The Acquisitions Team

i would like to buy a blue and gold macaw in the net what and were shall i go? i have inquired in the internet just a week ago and these are their respons: sender #1 hello I have both juveniles and grown ups but all of them go for 200usd . this price is fixed but a special discount is offered in which 2 or more of my macaws that are bought, get a 15% decrease in the cumulative price and one is given for free.this is because i offer promotional activities during this time of Christmas.you have to tell me where you are located so that the transport company will tell me exactly how much it will cost you for shipping and how long it will take for the parrot to reach you. So I need you to send me information concerning your location so that you will be clarified on the shipping cost.also tell me if you need either juveniles or grown ups, and how many of these. thanks and hoping to hear from you soon. sender#2 Hello, thanks for the interest to get my birds, they are very welcoming and playful, Do you have any Experience with Pets? Do you want to breed them or for home use? How many of the birds do you need? i do have 4 birds, 2 male and 2 single female. Where are you located? yes i,m in Singapore Are you ready to spoil my birds with love? We are willing to offer these birds to lovely home. so if you are willing to offer them a good home get to us sender#3 Full Message Re: Response to your Ad: Parrot Birds And Fertilize Parrot Eggs For Sale ... From: inpen A <inpen@gmx.com> ... View Contact To:Kugli.com Visitor <freaky_enzo69@yahoo.com> Hi , Many thanks for your email dated November. 21, 2009 We have in stock large quantity of the following species of fertile parrot eggs below: Hyacinth macaw, Blue (and) Gold macaw , Scarlet Macaw ,Umbrella cockatoo, Gallah Cockatoo, Citron Cockatoo , Palm Cockatoo , African Grey,Quaker,Pionus Parrot eggs, Eclectus, Gofin, Toucans,White Dove,Blue crowned mealy amazons,rock peblers,Solomons island eclectus An egg sell for 35 euro each. We send eggs with handling incubator , guide manual and CD for beginers.The eggs are fertile and guarantee to hatch. We do shipping and door step delivery to Asia,Middle East,Europe and The United States Minimum order is 4 eggs. How many eggs in total do you want to buy and which of the species? Have you hatch any parrot eggs species before or have you raised any parrot birds species? Kindly get back with your location and address. We look forward doing business with you. God bless you and have a wonderfull day. Best regards Dr. Elvis and Family Leopoldstraat 9, 1000 Brussels Belgium are these all a scam?

Duck care and breeding? Alright, so i found some call ducks for sale, one female and quite a few males. I've always wanted ducks and calls are so adorable, but I need some tips. What kind of feed is best for ducks? can males get along? or will they fight like roosters? For breeding, do you just keep the male and female in the same pen and then when she lays eggs put them in an incubator? or let her sit on them? and how can you tell if the eggs acually have ducks in them? any other tips on caring for call ducks?? dont worry, i have shelter, pen and pond all taken care of :)

i am looking for call ducks? i am looking for at least two FEMALE call ducks for sale, preferably snowy calls or butterscotch, i keep looking but can only find eggs to be hatched, don't have an incubator, my male is very lonely. if anyone knows where i can buy ducks locally or even online please let me know. most of the online fowl sites i have checked don't have many call ducks available, i live in south haven mi but will travel some for them as long as its in michigan i have googled them and checked many sites online but having no luck

What stores sell Chick Starter Feed (or Chick Crumbles)? We have chicks! Sweet, little, soft chicks! We hatched them from the egg in a incubator. We were given a bag of feed also. But the chick eat a ton of food! We gave them the last bit of food this morning and we need more! I have looked online and found some Chick Starter Feed Crumbles for sale but they will take 3-5 days to ship and we need more food now! Does anyone know of any stores that sell Chick Feed? At this point I don't care if it is medicated or not! I just really care that it is the crumble kind. Please help!

Can Someone Please explain this to me!!!? Thank you for your query. Based on your query form information we would like to see your work. This will be a long email. You might enjoy setting aside some time to really read it (grin). My goals are to 1) get the info we need to make a decision, 2) to let you know about how we think and how we approach the industry, and 3) to let you know what to expect. 1) Would you please EMAIL us an electronic copy of your work for further evaluation? Please hit "reply" so that your Query Form information is with the email and attach your manuscript. Do NOT email it to any other email address (mine for example) We cannot accept hardcopy, see the FAQ below. 2) Would you please answer these 3 questions in the body of the SAME email? Just type your answers below. And don't stress or take too long, simple answers are fine. Q1) Do you consider your writing 'ready-to-go', or do you think it needs some polishing? Please describe it in detail, ie. name/company of editor(s) etc. Q2) Think like a publisher/buyer? Pitch me/them. Who would buy this book? Why would they buy it? If you give seminars or talks, mention it here. We always like authors that give presentations. Q3) How long have you been writing, and what are your goals as a writer? You may send either 3-5 chapters or the entire manuscript, whichever you are more comfortable sending. Your manuscript is completely safe within our company. We take care to properly manage all access to your work and it is safe within our company. Please DO NOT include any questions with your manuscript submission. Most of the questions you may have are answered on the website and at the bottom of this email. Please see the FAQs below. Our preference for receiving your manuscript is via email. ============================================ Or if your filesize is OVER 5 megs you can use http://www.writersliterary.com/hotsheetform.php We've used it successfully in the past. If you simply must mail your work or a CD, please email our question email and request a mailing code and address. Please explain thoroughly why you feel that you must mail the work. (Can you tell by now that we really want to make it difficult to mail? We hate mail. It costs money to ship, buyers don't want hardcopy, etc, etc.) Mailed manuscripts may take up to 6 weeks to reply/process. Emailed manuscripts are processed much more quickly. Please note: Due to the volume of material that we receive we cannot return anything you send us. Please do not send us anything that you can't replace. We believe we are very different than other agencies. ========================================================== We believe that we are unique in that we are willing to develop an author and their talent. We like the metaphor of a "business incubator" as a description of how we will take time to bring an author's work to the proper quality level, even if it takes months to do so. We take pride in the fact that we answer every email personally within 2-3 days. Please, watch your spam filters! Our job is to find a buyer for you, period. You may understand how a Literary Agency works, but many authors don't. As your Literary Agent, our mission is to assist you in finding a publisher and to coach you along the way in various options available to you. We don't edit your work. Our mission is to sell for you. Your mission is to meet or exceed industry quality standards. As for compensation, we get paid on success only. Typically we will receive 10% of what you receive. We do not charge fees, so our compensation is based on success only. We never promise a sale, but we can tell you that we have a model that works. We look forward to receiving your materials. Best regards, The Acquisitions Team

Does this sound like a scam to you i think it does? i emailed some add i found on the internet about fertile parrot eggs for sale and this is the response i got i think its a scam? This is the conversation i had with them Below is the Parrot Eggs pricelist as follows; >> >> >> > >> >> >> > -Congo and Timneh African Gray Eggs..........£30 per Egg >> >> >> > -Blue & gold macaw Eggs......................£35 per Egg >> >> >> > -Scarlet macaw Eggs..........................£35 per Egg >> >> >> > -Hyacinth macaw Eggs.........................£40 per Egg >> >> >> > -Moluccan cockatoo Eggs......................£35 per Egg >> >> >> > -Umbrella cockatoos..........................£35 per Egg >> >> >> > -Eclectus fertile eggs.......................£35 per Egg >> >> >> > -Double yellow Headed Amazons Eggs...........£40 per Egg >> >> >> > -Blue fronted Amazon Eggs....................£40 per Egg >> >> >> > -Black palm cockatoo Eggs....................£35 per Egg >> >> >> > -Rose breasted cockatoo Eggs.................£30 per Egg >> >> >> > -Toco Toucan Eggs............................£55 per Egg >> >> >> > -SWAINSONS TOUCAN Eggs.......................£60 per Egg Above are the price list of my fertile parrot eggs we have for sale. the eggs are candle and tested to be 100% fertile to hatch in a ratio of 1:1 They Eggs will come with 100% hatching guarantee. I shall incubate the eggs and send them together with my Auto Turning Hatching incubator to protect and maintain the fertility of the eggs till they Eggs get Hatched at your home and after the hatching my incubator will be sent back to me I will be waiting to have your full command so that i can prepare we are located now in Cameroon where we shall be sending the eggs to >> >> >> you. >> >> >> >> >> >> we shall like to hear from you soon. >> >> >> best regards./ >> >> >> Roseline and Numfor Primus how will you be able to ship the eggs to England London is that even >> >> > possible and how will i be able to send the incubator back to you >> >> >Thanks very much for the email you sent. >> >> Its very possible for me send the incubated eggs to you in london >> >> with no problem as we have been doing this for a very long time now.. >> >> we always send the eggs through a pet courier flight company that >> >> will deliver the eggs to your home address. they eggs will safe in the >> >> incubator till they get hatch at your home. and you shall then send >> >> the incucbator back to me through same Pet courier flight company to >> >> my same address after the hatching. >> >> So please just let me know how many eggs you shall need and species >> >> so that we can start the incubation process and prepare them for the >> >> transportation as soon as you confirm the order. >> >> we shall be waiting to read from you soon. >> >> best regards. >> >> Primus and Roseline what method of payment do you accept as I cant give my credit card >> > details >> > to you and also will it cost me to send the incubator back to you Thanks very much for the fast email reply. No you are not going to >> pay any money for the incubator to come back. i am going to pay for >> the incubator to return back. thats is, i will pay its fare too and >> fro. >> I accept payments through Western Union International Money Transfer >> which is fast safe and reliable to handle. you are not going to give >> me your credit card nor the information. you can do it online >> www.westernunion.com . >> Or you go to an Agent location of Western Union closer to your home in >> london. >> >> Meanwhile i will be waiting to have our the types parrot eggs you need >> and the number so that i can start arrangements for the incubations >> and transportations to London. >> >> Waiting to read from you soon. >> you can call me at +237 970 76 320 or 00237 970 76 320. >> >> have a nice day and waiting to read from you soonest. >> Best regards >> Primus and Roseline okay I will soon let you know which parrot eggs I want but firstly I need > some proof that this is not a scam as i have read about scams around the > parrot eggs in cameroon Thanks, you are very right about it, there are parrot scams in cameroon but i assure you that in every business there are reliable people. i promise to send your mone Thanks for your help everyone i thought it was a scam too sounds too good to be true

What is this glass dish that has a fog coming out of it? Years ago at a christmas sale in our mall, there was these nifty little glass dishes that are on stands that have some kind of ultrasonic light in them that makes water evaporate looking like steam/fog. I need to raise the humidity in my egg incubator, and the apparatus that is in this bowl would help me. But I don't know what it is called. Help. Please, my eggs depend on it, they are dying left and right because I can't keep the humidity high enough! Where can I find them?

Egg question help me i dont know what i'am doing? well saturday i went to the sale barn and bought a broody turken she cam with 4 eggs brown ok 6 brokme during transport i got home i had some in the incubator i but 4 peeping eggs under her when i went to smoke and check on the peeping eggs she still sitting i look at her she rasied up and she sput her head down to the nest box i put her in and she started pecking the peeping birds then she steped on the egg that she pecked and i removed the other peeping eggs and she steepted on the on and smashed it and ate it then she satred to peck the baby and eat the baby yolk off the babys stomach . why did she smash the eggs and peck the baby to death after she steped on the egg i moe the baby out after she steped on egg and put baby in incubator and it died this moring why did she do that she is a sitting breed but she pecked and steped on one of the peeping eggs than ate the eggs whats up. rember i just brought her home from sale barn when i did that she would not eat the food i gave here eit

I'm 24, & people treat me like a baby. Why am I not allowed to live life normally, like everyone else? Please, please! I really need help. I'm sorry this is so long, but I need helpful advice. Right now, I'm about to cry, I feel nauseated, stomach tightening, about to gag, having the start of a panic attack, feeling like my life is ruined. Why can't I live life normally, because of my mental disability? My life is so complicated. No one really understands. No one cares. People treat me like I don't have a right to live, & family members hate me so much they want me DEAD. I'm not allowed to get a job, a car, or a husband, have kids, take a vacation, do what makes me happy, etc. without people judging me & telling me what I should & shouldn't do, & telling me how I should live my life. I'm tired of people hounding over me, feeling the need to MONITOR me 24/7 because they think I'm too stupid to know left from right. It doesn't matter to others whether I have a college degree or not. I have a BA in Spanish, & people tell me, "I really don't believe you have a college degree. & you stole someone else's degree & made a xerox copy of it & put your name on there." (which is NOT true). People DEMAND an answer for my personal business. I don't have a right to privacy. People look for excuses to trigger off my mental illness symptoms, just to feel powerful & get their kicks off of getting me wrongfully arrested or mentally institutionalized, evne if they feel they need to make up a LIE, just to get me put there, if their original strategy isn't working. I just don't understand. & if I DO get a boyfriend or a job, family members, enemies, acquaintances, etc. do EVERYTHING in their power to get them taken away from me. My OWN twin sister hates me SO much, & she spread lies on me, saying I molested her kids, which is NOT true. She lied to her friends, saying I'm the lesbian, & she's the str8 one. She's the true lesbian, & I'm the heterosexual one. Everything she does wrong, she blames it on me. Or any difficult situation she goes through, she says it's ALL my fault (again, blaming me). We used to be in long-term foster care with abusive foster family members who hiked us up to argue, fight, etc., & students from school used to try to get us to argue & fight, too. 1 person would tell me, "Say girl! Your sister said you *********." [Sorry to sound graphic, but that's what they say]. The foster family used to beat on me & try to murder me, & give STRANGERS permission to "bust my @$$". They told me that I'm gonna wind up in jail or dead & deserve it. After we turned 18, the dumb social worker ENCOURAGED my foster mom to take my checks-my social security back pay & a trust fund from my dad. I didn't know any better. The social worker made me sign over my checks to the foster mom, & the foster mom did "who knows what" with my $$. I was young & didn't know any better. They lied & said that they were gonna give me the money later. I never received it. The bank said it was HER $$ & not mine. & the foster mom is so quick to jump down my throat over a 10-cent piece of gum, saying I spend up ALL my money. She would DEMAND an answer for how much $$ I have in the bank. When I was working during my Sr. yr. in high school, she made me give her my checks. I was very intimidated by her. Still am. They're OBSESSED with talking about how I deserve to get my @$$ kicked, & saying that people have a right to do so. I don't bother anyone. I don't do anyone any harm. People are always controlling & meddlesome. They choose "ME" to pick on, misuse, take their anger & frustration out on, take advantage of me, etc. & when I call the cops, they lie & say that it was all in my head, & that I'm crazy & imagining things, making things up. THIS is NOT made up. Cops say they don't believe me because the people would get fake witnesses who weren't there to see the situation with their own eyes nor hear. The neighbors & the foster boys lie & say I was "cutting up", which means misbehaving. If someone yells @ me & tries to publicly humiliate me for NO reason, & others laugh, OF COURSE I'm gonna throw a fit! They find it AMUSING that I'm 24 & still get bossed around & told what to do. When the foster mom's family members come over, she yells @ me for DUMB reasons, & her family get their kicks out of seeing me be verbally & mentally abused. & she's always starting trouble with me, & when I verbally retaliate, they're READY to jump in & POUND my face into the ground like that (I think it's called a power driver) thingy that construction workers use to break up old cement off the ground. But anyway, when she goes off on me, they LAUGH. They would choke me, beat me, put me in wrestling moves where I can't breathe, & I'm suffocating & smothering. I HATE 99.9% of people I know. Family or not. Past & present. I'm afraid to leave the house & venture out & make new friends. I'm glad I'm out of this situation with them now, & I have my own apt. But now I have to put up with this from my biological family. EXACT SAME TREATMENT & ABUSE! My past abuse treatment is incorporated into my intrusive, unwanted OCD thoughts. I see a psychiatrist & a counselor, but the 50-minutes, once a week sessions aren't enough for me to say what I need to say. I feel like I have NOBODY. I only have 1 friend. That friend is out of the 0.1% people that I DO like & love. I can't even go swimming or listen to my favorite songs on my mp3 player without being considered WRONG or a danger to society. I mean, how can listening to music be a danger to myself? How can going swimming or taking a hike/walk be a danger to myself & others? People always think it's THEIR place to punish me from doing what makes me happy, or make me punish myself. I see people my age married with kids, a good job, people younger than me financially better off than me & OWNING BUSINESSES! I can't even host or throw a casual small party without someone going OFF on me, yelling @ me, & telling me that I shouldn't try to throw a party because I don't know what I'm doing. I can't even have a family get-together @ my house or their house because my holiday would be a disaster with them ganging up on ME & disrespecting me. It's not fair how my twin sister gets treated better than me because she strives for popularity, & I'm considered the antisocial geek. & they say I'm jealous. I have no need to be jealous of wrongful favoritism. We weren't supposed to have any contact with our birth family until after we turned 18 because shortly after birth, my birth mom tried to smother me & kill me because she said she was jealous of how my grandma chose me as the favorite because I was a pleasantly plump baby. We were newborns/infants. & my twin had to stay in an incubator for a long time. My mom is a schizophrenic who uses street drugs & overdoses on steroids. Her mind is so messed up. & people think that just because my mom is schizophrenic, that makes me crazy, too. I don't suffer schizophrenia. Before we turned 18, my twin sister would sneak over there, & she told the family EVERYTHING bad about me before I can even meet them. Then, when I met them, it was like a disgrace. My twin sister has been struggling with her sexuality with all her life. She was in the closet & in denial for yrs., & figured if she married a man who resembled a female & had 3 kids for him, then that would "prove" to the WORLD that she's NOT gay. I never knew she was really a lesbian until now she calls herself a stud. I have nothing against the LGBT community, I'm not homophobic. My friend is BI. She's 1 of the 0.1% of people I love. People think my twin sister has more sense than me, just because she's ghetto & hard, & I'm not. She tries SO hard to try to please & impress the world, when I'm out to please myself. But others won't allow me. Even as an adult, if I try to go to the store to get groceries, meddlesome people (family or not) are always like, "Where are you going? Does yo' mama know where ur at!? Get yo' @$$ back inside...NOW! Before ' I ' bust yo' @$$!" & once again, everyone around laughs. Even though I'm 24, 15-yr. old teens talk to me this way, & their parents tell them that the child has every right to bust my ***. My foster sister's stepdaughter told me @ age 15 that I shouldn't EVER have kids! & this is very bothersome to me. After she left to go back to her mom's house when she turned 16, she got pregnant AS SOON AS SHE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY. & people agree with her "a child's" opinion that I should never produce kids. Why is it OK for my twin sister to get married & have kids, & not me? & also, that same girl (the foster sister's stepdaughter) stole my cellphone @ age 15, using it to call men out of town @ night to talk sexual dirty talk, & she ran up ALL my minutes. She snooped through my phone & listened to my messages. & she had NERVE to say that I'm always complaining about people doing me something. OK. If someone stole your cellphone & did you all these things. Wouldn't you complain, too? Wouldn't you PROTEST against this unfair treatment? People say I'm weak, naive, gullible, & vulnerable. That's why the choose ME to pick on. I hate when groups of people gang up on me, & I have no defense. The foster & biological family are so manipulative that they say if I tell anyone about the way they abuse me & encourage others to abuse me, then they're gonna take me to court for defamation & slander. But I'm telling the truth. I just have no one on my defense. & of course there's no video surveillance or tape recorder. So this is hard to prove in court. & they stalk my MySpace blogs & hack into my account & make threats to sue me. My foster sister's husband is supposedly a technology expert who knows all the hacks & everything. They make it like I'm REALLY supposed to be afraid of them. I suffer OCD, Tourette's, anxiety, & depression, & I had 2 strokes @ age 5. @ I had hearing & speech problems & was at risk for pervasive developmental disorder when I was very young. & I also had a behavior disorder, but my behavior improved TREMENDOUSLY since 6th grade. By 7th grade, I was a person who studied a lot & had my career goals planned & set. My family & the psychiatrist thought it was bizarre, & that I was talking out of my head because @ the age of 12, I had a desire to become a doctor. I tried to pursue a Biology/Pre-Med major in college because I wanted to become an OB/GYN becaause I'm very interested in women's health & childbirth because I think it is very amazing. People took it out of context, saying that I'm pervertic for wanting to be an OB/GYN. I wanted to go to the Air Force, & the foster family pushed EVERYONE in the family to go, but I was eager to join, & they made up lies about me so the recruiters wouldn't accept me. They pushed my twin sister up to go, & when she got in, they were saying that I'm JEALOUS. Why didn't they say SHE was jealous when I graduated high school with 3.6 GPA ranked in the top 10% of my class? 39 out of 404, while my twin sister had to do to summer school. But anyway, I'm not for any comparison or competition. But people always try to compare us 2, & make it like she's better than me & looks better than me because she's hard & ghetto. & when people DECIDE to give her undeserved incentives that " I " worked hard for, that's not right. So why should I be jealous. But over time, I've began to feel more & more depressed. I went through Hurricane Katrina, lost a lot of my belongings, in financial debt because of it. Now debt collectors are trying to sue me, but no employers want to hire me because according to them, I seem throwed off (throwed off, meaning ditzy & klutzy. Like my head isn't screwed on tight.) Well, of COURSE I'm going to seem mentally off if I had 2 strokes @ such a young age, right? Many people tell me I dwell on the negative & the past & complain too much. I know I seem child-like, but I didn't get to live a normal childhood. I was always punished from social functions & social activities. Never get to watch TV or talk on the phone. Never got to go to the mall with friends. The foster family always felt like I needed to be chaperoned. & not because I'm gonna do anything bad. They just want to have a reason to get me punished again. Like I remember this one time when my foster sister took us swimming, & I was in 7th grade. A kid offered to let me play with his swim toy. I think it was those floaties. & my foster sister punished me the ENTIRE evening! & every time people from school would see me, & tell me hi, my foster family would punish ME for saying hi back. & then when we would go to school the next day, that kid no longer had respect for me & was no longer my friend. I can't have friends. I don't want friends. Every new friend I get tries to boss me around & control me, telling me what I should & shouldn't buy, when we go grocery shopping. & they yell @ me & publicly humiliate me in WalMart, & they're not looking out for my best interest, & neither do they care. They just want to have somebody to CONTROL! & then when I see them @ school (college campus) then next day, they turn their nose up @ me. & then I feel like, "Well, I'll be DAMN! If that was the case, I could've bought that 10-lb. bag of sugar that was on sale for $2.", for example. & the only friend I have, she's the ONLY one who doesn't treat me like this. I ain't gon' lie. She USED TO at first, but then as she got to know me, she started to have more respect for me. The guys, who sexually want her, try to to make up lies against me, & they want her to delete me out of her life so they can have her all to themselves. & they think we're sleeping together since we hang out so much. Well, I'm hetero, & she's BI. I have no desire for another female. I want to get married & have kids. But that looks unlikely to happen. =( People don't care about me. Not even my family. It's like, I'm supposed to be single, helpless, & child-like for the rest of my life. I hate being 24 & getting yelled @ by a 14-yr. old BOY. I hate that the foster family allowed the 12-yr. old BOYS to send me to my bedroom as time-out. & those boys got a KICK out of that, too. People say " I " have poor social skills. People scream AHHH & run when they see me, they try to avoid me, they treat me like I'm a pest. & other people say that people don't treat me like this for no reason, & they think that I MUST'VE provoked them to abuse me. So, the fact that I EXIST is provoking you? I'm 24, & a 13-yr. old tells me not to buy McDonald's, & I ignore HIM & do it anyway. & he aims for knocking ALL my teeth out. He doesn't succeed, but he busts my lip. The cops get called, & the foster mom lie & say that I tripped over a rock & fell on concrete or something. Or they say I choked myself, when the foster brother put his knee in my throat & tried to murder me over an argument over something he had nothing to do with. Even the MEN in the family 6'7" tall & try to hurt & try to kill little bitty me, 5'2". & they punch me & pound on me with ALL their strength & might. Last time this happened was like 2 yrs. ago, but it's still bothersome to me. People think I'm an attention-seeking drama queen, when I'm not. When I get sick, they lie & say it's all in my head. It's not. Sometimes it's the side effect of the psych meds. Sometimes it's Irritable Bowel Syndrome pains. People don't want me to be an adult. 1 time, I tried to take my older brother in because he's a lot like me, but he needs people to take care of him because he's more mentally disabled than I am. But we're alike in many ways. The "foster" sister overheard my conversation & ran & told my foster mom, & the foster mom tried to STOP me from trying to take care of my brother. I'm totally different than my twin sister. & this brother surprisingly gets more respect than me, but we still get treated the same way sometimes. & the foster sister's husband tried to butt in. & he told me that I put myself in the position to DESERVE to be abused for dealing with my family because I keep putting my hand in the fire by dealing with them. Well, dealing with HIM-the foster brother-in-law, I guess I'm putting my hand back in the fire. Lots of my situations I could not escape from because of lack of money & access to available resources. In conclusion, I just want to know if this is normal. I know it's not, but what do YOU think? How would you handle dealing with this? How would you feel to have to question the morality of everything you do, think, or say? Would it drive you INSANE to question to yourself if what you're thinking, saying, or doing is rational, logical, making sense, or not. Many people tell me that they couldn't deal with the $hit I had to take off of people for so many yrs. They said they would've committed suicide LONG time ago! Many people think I'm weak because I obsess over this & can't get this out of my head. But then, they say I'm very strong for still @ least TRYING to pursue my career & not giving up. Sorry so long, & thanks for reading.

Are any of you aware of what is going on and how your lives may soon be effected by Feb. 10, 2009? Please read this blog as well as visit http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14953 this website has another article that shows the potential threats to crafters, small business', charites, liability to resalers, E-bay sales, and on and on the list goes in some twisted reponse by our legislatures to response to toys with lead in them from China!!!! Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act of 2008 Earlier this week, news reports began circulating about the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act of 2008 which would require third-party testing on consumer goods (including apparel) used by children. The purpose of the act is to keep lead-filled products away from children. It is directed at lead-based paint and phthalates (chemicals used to keep plastics pliable) in products that children might chew, suck on, or otherwise ingest. Beginning February 10, 2009 (the date the law goes into effect) clothing retailers and thrift stores will be throwing out children's clothing because they do not meet new federal regulations. This is the Consumer Product Safety Council web page that links to the actual legislation and their legal counsel's interpretation on how the law should be applied http://www.cpsc.gov/ABOUT/Cpsia/cpsia.HTML According to some reports, testing for lead and phthalates could cost as much as $30,000 per tested sample. We contacted the office of more than one U.S. Representative and were told that the law has been enacted, but the regulations have not yet been released. There is a chance the law would apply only to producers and importers, not retailers (including thrift stores). The law could also affect initial retailers, but not resellers. These are some of the details that are yet to be determined. Since we don't know exactly who will be affected by the new law, and to what extent the law will impact our ministries, here are some things that missions can do: Contact the Consumer Products Safety Commission at 800-638-2772. This is the agency that is writing the regulations. Ask them for a clarification on what types of outlets will be impacted by the regulations. Voice your concern as to how this will impact services for people in need. Call your member of Congress or Senator. Explain how their constituents might be impacted if the product testing is extended to thrift stores and free clothing distribution. Low income families who currently receive free donated clothing, or purchase them at a thrift store, will be forced to pay retail in a tough economic market. Social services to the poor will be reduced as income from clothing sales at the mission thrift store will decline, resulting in the inability to fund much needed assistance. It will cost jobs. Thrift stores provide employment to individuals; lower revenue means cutbacks. It will have a negative environmental impact as tons of serviceable clothing goes into landfills, rather than aiding needy families. The legislation dramatically impacts helping agencies (rescue missions, Salvation Army, Goodwill, Volunteers of America, churches and other community organizations with clothes closets) during a slow economy, when their assistance is most needed by the community. Ask your legislators for help in exempting missions and other non-profits that serve people in need. Write letters to the editor; include the amount of free clothing given to the community and the numbers of families served. Ask for support in seeing that the regulations not impact the most vulnerable members of the community (you may use many of the points from item #2 above). Voice your concern about lead and phthalates, but ask that the new legislation not place additional hardships on the youngest and poorest citizens. Remember that legislation can be changed and improved. Keep the lines of communication open with members of Congress and Senators for input into future laws of this sort. Don't panic, let the legislative process run its course, then be ready to respond when the full details are known. If you want more information regarding the act, these sites have a lot of good information. http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/new-product-safety-regulations-that-affect-all-manufacturers/ http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/national-bankruptcy-day/ Ronald K. Fox, Executive Director Rochester, NY, United States

question on magic the gathering prices? I got out of the game years ago and i found what remains of my old collection, turns out they were my best cards. im looking to sell them on ebay and im just wondering what price range you guys might think they fall under. if you can even link me to sales to prove it thatd be great. i have 260 ish cards not including over 100 lands, and my rares are as follows Mystic Snake Death Match Yavimaya’s Embrace Peer Pressure Ghastly Remains Attrition Phage The Untouchable Soul Collector Final Punishment Circle Of Solace Plated Slagwurm Thorn Elemental x 2 Thriss, Nantuko Primus Decree Of Savagery Urza’s Incubator Urza’s Blueprints Rhox Root Elemental Crush Of Wurms Krosan Cloudscraper

Why would you think buying a leopard tortoise is a good idea and why do shops sell them? Approx 2 years ago my daughter drove me mad for a tortoise, we saw one in the express and star local paper and went to see it, we were told it was a boy henmans tortoise and would grow no bigger we were told to feed it on baby corn and not to give water, after some research we discovered it was a leopard tortoise and would grow as heavy as my large dog, it did need water and different food different bedding and would eventually need housing as big as a large shed with special heating, it is the 4th largest tortoise in the world and they are being imported into this country in a terrible state, most die, these are hatched from eggs stolen from wild moms. It also turns out we have no vets round here to be able to treat him that is now actually a she not male as we were told initially, my nearest vet who can treat her properly is over an hours drive away! Now I hear a major pet store pets at home is planning on selling these (WHY!!!) and are already for sale in some pet stores, they come in cute little incubators and are cute and small but grow massive in no time and will outlive us! Why is this being allowed?? Its cruel and nast the tortoise trade is vile and why is the goverment and the RSPCA allowing it, and by the way when a lleopard tortoise I was given was sick I called the RSPCA and they told me they couldn't help me!!!!! I cant understand why a trade so vile is being allowed to continue, is anything being done at all?? Also following some research, tesco abroad sells live turtles for eating! And will kill onsite if you wish!! Why would they do this dont they have some code of conduct?? Or is all this just about the MONEY!!!??? I didn't mean noone is doing anything, I have to add the tortoise protection group is fighting hard and are helping me find a new experienced home for my baby, and also shelled warriors is fighting but they are not widely known enough and more people need to fight because nooone is listening. In my own personal experience, I would say if you dont research dont buy. We were wrong just buying a tortoise and not knowing about the care, where is the nearest vets? What is the correct bedding? What is the correct food? What is the correct temp? What is the correct heat lamp/lighting? How long do they live? How big do they grow? To me its a far bigger thing than having a dog or cat, myu mate recently had simlar probs with an african grey parrot exotic pets are stunning but are you really prepared for the day things go wrong? I'm not saying leopards should not be kept, I know there are people out there more than capable of keeping them correctly but there are far more who cant, I am saying people should not just be able to walk into a pet store and walk out with one not knowing much about them, like correct feeding and size potential, correct care and how far their nearest tort vet is.