This is a late post, but I wanted to put a word in for Glenn Drowns great selection at Sand Hill Preservation Center as he has 2 exclusive varieties which make my list. 1. Open pollinated Big Boy, for the reason Big Boy with care produces large harvests of a sprite tasting, not too tomatoey, but acidic tomatoe which is cleansing to the palate and one can never tire of. RL (regular leaf) I (Indeterminate) 2. Backfield, this is an early tomatoe of robust tomatoe flavor, huge, huge yields, dark red, hardy plants which ripens all at one time. Spectacular flavor on a determinate plant.. This tomatoe makes other early types like Silvery Fir Tree which is a good early tomatoe taste like those bland store types. It is that good in the heat and is pretty too. FL, D 3. Red Pear, huge yields of cherry tomatoes with Beefstake quality if one allows them to ripen in heat. RL, SD will need staking. 4. Azoychka, A light acidic version of Big Boy in a yellow tomatoe. Very hardy in extreme conditions, germinates well in cool sprouting and has very good yields of good sized fruits. RL, I 5. Rose, this is like most pinks in a work horse for a later tomatoe. It is huge, meaty, plants that resemble weeds for thickness and being tough. The fruit is meaty and sweet and under right conditions will be fruity. (only problem is one must cut the fruit from the vine as the plants are unwilling to give up their treasure.) RL, I Also mentions, Black Krim but one would tire readily if you had to eat just them as they are heavy on the palate. Riesentraub for the Campbell's type juice if you like that. In an additional note, people need to be warned that Brandywine is a musty flavored tomatoe which does have a smooth or slimey type flesh. This tomatoe is one which is the reason why so many people who first taste tomatoes say they do not like tomatoes. It is very distinct. Most people prefer the sweet types like Rose. Sweet types or heavies like Krim will tire people in eating them by the peck. That is why I mix and rely on the acidic types as they allow one to different flavors to keep on eating tomatoes.

Hi MNK, Let's start from the ending, where we both completely and thoroughly harmonize! Any financial planner will do what is best for the client based on their risk tolerance, time horizon and goals. All options are provided and the planner makes their recommendations. The client decides what is best for them. These are my personal views. AND I along with you! NOW let's break down the game film... most specifically addressing fallacies that are again repeated as "facts." (I'll leave the acknowledged "personal opinions" alone... as everyone has a right to their own opinion.) Leverage is utilized by people who have the means to pay off the debt at any time. While this is absolutely true... leverage is ALSO responsibly used, every day, by people prior to accumulating funds to replace the leverage entirely. Buying a home is a responsible use of leverage. Financing education can be a responsible use of leverage. Insuring income during family raising years can be a responsible use of leverage. ... and many other examples are easy to arrive at. "ALL" debt is not equal, nor is all debt bad nor evil. It may make sense for someone with $300k in cash to finance 80-100% for real estate in order to possibly generate a return greater than the mortgage. You advocate leveraging a monthly payment which is not the same. Microsofts acquisition of Yahoo is a good example. They can pay cash for Yahoo but believe they can generate better returns by using leverage. Most people on this forum do not have such means. Still you are taking RISKS. This paragraph makes no sense to me. If you can re-state it I can try to address it. "Keeping a mortgage (with a non-compounding interest rate) and instead maximizing alternative growth accounts (with compounding growth rates, and especially preferring tax-sheltered vehicles) is not only safer and more conservative, but reaches a secure retirement sooner as well." Again no consideration for RISK and VOLITALITY. Au contraire! Risk and volatility would absolutely be primary considerations in the selections and balancing of growth accounts. I am sorry that is ridiculous. To suggest that 100% financed real estate is the way to go is wrong. You may be sorry (and apology accepted,) yet you are spinning off on a tangent. I made no generic recommendation about 100% financing. I merely defined "a perfect hedge" against inflation. Look at those speculators and homeowners who used 100% financing and are now looking at foreclosure. They did not put any savings anyway and what is the benefit of leverage if you cannot pay it off. You're spinning off into anecdotal hinterlands again. While anyone can pull out references to failures (either specific or implied,) anyone can equally point to responsible successes. Further, falling back to an argument that "most people are too irresponsible/dumb/uneducated (add your own insult here) and therefore do not deserve to be made aware of more responsible choices" is a silly position to take at any community message board where people come PRECISELY to learn and grow. "Every dollar you entrap INTO your real estate equity (by surrendering your mortgage leverage) is a dollar you have double-exposed to the deteriorations of inflation." Yet you state that inflation benefits your real estate holding. Exactly! When you've entrapped your cash into your real estate, your cash neither grows nor provides protection. The underlying real estate itself responds to the inflationary pressures regardless of whether it houses your cash or not, so entrapping the cash is merely added risk of illiquidity and wasted growth opportunity. The RISK of losing your home to inability to pay a mortgage is gone. The RISK of losing your home is *ONLY* gone when you maintain enough liquid cash to replace it. There is no other way to completely cover that risk, period. I grant you that with inflation your fixed payment is decreased but so what, it is still a debt payment. Indeed, so what? It is a payment on defensive, conservative leverage that is a reducing burden at the rate of inflation. Even if you are investing in the stock market your real rate of return is decreased by taxes, commissions, mutual funds fees, etc. Obviously the stock market is a generally high-risk/high-opportunity selection for funds, and should be used only to the degree appropriate to a client's financial life stage (and not a dollar less, either.) You are not going to lose your home if your mortgage is gone. HAH... yeah, right. Tell it to Trent Lott (an easily Google-able example) and the thousands like him who lost their paid-in-full homes overnight in Katrina... had to live in miserable subsistence conditions with life completely interrupted and no liquid cash to fall back on... and had to endure long periods of protracted legal battles among the insurance companies (if they were fortunate enough to be sufficiently covered) to finally receive their claim funds. Ask them if they are happy they paid their mortgages off in full... or whether they'd left them fully leveraged for the insurance companies and the mortgage banks to fight over, instead of the individual's getting stuck int he middle. And lest ye accuse *ME* of anecdotal support... that list goes on & on & on... year after year after year... state by state by state... family after family after family. The risk is significantly reduced without a mortgage. Having no mortgage, all else equal, is riskier than having a full mortgage with an equivalent cash position. I could not find anything re: "SLAP" Me neither... darn the search funciton! The risks to equity are S.L.A.P. S.oftening or dropping market resale values, L.itigation exposures, A.cts of God (natural disasters beyond insurability of liquidity,) P.ersonal Disaster (family and health issues that create burdens beyond home management.) BACK TO AGREEMENT: Every family has their own profile, yet the principals of responsibly balanced finance will always apply. A professional advisor will recommend structural plans to fit the family's profile (hopefully setting aside the professional's own biases in favor of the client's best interests,) and ultimately the client must decide which path they choose to take... as it is ultimately their own life and future they will be creating. Cheers, Dave Donhoff Leverage Planner

AnnPann - I did a little digging for you, and although I didn't find any specific sites referring to that situation, I found some books that might address it: Australia-focused home front books: S.J. Butlin and C.B. Schedvin, War Economy 1942Â1945, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1997 Darian-Smith, Kate. On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime, 1939-1945. Australia: Oxford UP, 1990. Saunders, Kay. War on the Homefront: State Intervention in Queensland, 1938-1948 (1993) The Home Front Volume I by Nancy M. Taylor NZ official history (1986) The Home Front Volume II by Nancy M. Taylor NZ official history (1986) Political and External Affairs by Frederick Lloyd Whitfeld (1958) NZ official history Britain: Calder, Angus . The People's War: Britain 1939-45 (1969) Harris, Carol (2000). Women at War 1939-1945: The Home Front. Thrupp: Sutton Publishing Limited. ISBN 0-7509-2536-1. Marwick, Arthur (1976). The Home Front: The British and the Second World War. Rose, Sonya O. (2003) Which People's War?: National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain 1939-1945 Misc: Costello, John. Love, Sex, and War: Changing Values, 1939-1945 1985. US title: Virtue under Fire: How World War II Changed Our Social and Sexual Attitudes Noakes, Jeremy ed., The Civilian in War: The Home Front in Europe, Japan and the U.S.A. in World War II Exeter, UK: University of Exeter, 1992. Then below is a link to an interesting site about a community in London with oral histories etc (won't hurt your eyes).... Might be relevant... Here is a link that might be useful: Hidden Histories: East Community Heritage (London)

Houzz ate my post-actually it's a sign not to write it again But I don't know where to write it. Also you are wise people, which can't be said right now about me. I'm dumb, and extremely unpleasant to be around..weeks of migraines drive me crazier than usual, and if I was a dog, I'd bark and bite. Well it so happened I'm not a dog, so I must bear my unpleasant persona..without barking and biting.. So, to follow up..I didn't show the second draft to my friend back then..but from time to time, something inside me would push me to jump and run and work on it some more. It went for a year (the story is 35 pages. lol. a year!). When I looked at it I felt sick. Literally sick, like one gets sick on a boat in the sea. Nauseous.. Only I couldn't get off the boat. It so happenned that my friend asked to see a final draft. I thought for several days. I was afraid of making her sick too. Then I sent the draft saying, that in all sincerity, it's probably better if she never reads it. But if she does one day-then I, in all sincerity, ask her to tear it apart mercilessly from the outside..both things will help me to get rid of it, probably..leave the boat. I got an answer after a few days, and right away I knew it's a miracle I was never, ever hoping to get. I knew that because I was blinded for several moments, and then deaf foor a couple hours more. "There's thunder, there's lighning". Like a storm. And then it gets really quiet.. She wrote to me it's real. It's real real. It's literature. She wrote to me that if she was a publisher of some big heavy magazine, she'd publish it right away.. I re-read the story..same feeling of sea-sickness.. Now I have this undeserved miracle. And it's really scary. If I keep it as is-I'm still on the boat If I try to see it published-it's scary as hell..it's autbiographical..it's taking my guts and spreading them..even if I take some pseudonym.. The moment I let it go-it's not mine.. Also. rejection is hard(hard to believe somebody would want it. Even when my extremely talented friend tells me so). Asking alone is hard..I, like many people, don't like to ask that much.."Can you take a look at my story?" makes me shudder.. I was hardly able to show it to somebody very close to me.. What drives peple to see their stories in print at all, well, besides hope of gerting paid. maybe? Are they afraid? Were you afraid? I'm so dumb. First, compulsively wrote the stupid story..for a year.))). Then -got a miracle.. So, where's my relief, where is the happinness, why am I still on the boat? Why I'm so scared? Maximum, I don't have to do anything..it's not like somebody's checking on me.. You have your wits about you, I don't. You have expeience maybe that I don't have. Any words of wisdom? Or I don't know..any words? I replied to my friend of course (gadawful letter)..but I need to give her a break from myself. It's too much of me as is. Thank you if you made it through this long post.