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They're pretty much all hybrids, so I don't even try to plant them anymore. I did try a few times: leggy, weedy plants and no fruit is the common result. I grow nothing but heirloom varieties now. Cherokee Purple, Banana Legs, Striped German, Green Zebra are favourites; also Valencia, one of the Romas and usually a mix of cherries every year. My usual suppliers, when I do buy seed are OSC or Vesey's open pollinated stock, or Heritage Harvest - pricey as to seed, but cheap delivery. (rarely the big mass-produced ones that show up in Walmart and everywhere. Berton is pretty good, though.)

I've never done anything but collect them off the cutting board into a tea sieve (small, not too fine a mesh) an rubbing gently under cold water until they feel clean to the touch. Then I tap them out onto a coffee filter and air-dry. After a few days, I put them into a re-labelled medicine vial - good recycle and just the right size, since I grow up to a dozen varieties each year. I've never had germination problems with heritage strains. I usually try sprouting a few between blotters before I do the March planting. I haven't tried planting wet seed, but a friend said her father - this would be back in the 1930's and 40's - used to start his by putting a whole ripe tomato in a can of damp soil and divide the seedlings when they were big enough. Strictly anecdotal, fwiw.

Both subjects very much in circulation. It's quite possible that you had come across them previously - indeed, it's hard to imagine anyone connected to the communications webs no to have encountered them - but never had reason to focus on them. Ideas and topics, phrases and names, even colour or flavour combinations, circulate in cultures so that almost everyone who shares the culture is touched by them in some way at some time. There is also thins: As for the duplication, be not perturbed. The other thread is old, and I'm always happy to discuss matters arcane and psychological.

Energy is obtained from stored fat by breaking down large molecules into smaller, simpler ones, until you have usable carbohydrates. The depleted fat cells shrink to fraction of their size, which accounts for the change in body shape.

Not all cinema is worth saving. It's exactly that splashy, glitzy, overpriced and overhyped mass-produced movie that's making the industry unsustainable. It can continue - on a much reduced scale - less location shooting, smaller cast, fewer sequels, more quality than quantity and size (and, fps, less obtrusive soundtrack!). Yes, film is a valuable art form, like boats are a valuable form of transport, but not this!

You can't tell. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/ To a large extent, film stars have been steadily pricing themselves out of the market. Movies are just too expensive to make and too expensive to attend in a cinema - and cinemas have been growing meaner and more claustrophobic for decades, so that going to one is not even a special occasion: might as well wait for the DVD to watch in the comfort of one's home. With all the cosmetic medicine and dentistry available, there are far too many near-identical physically perfect actors anyway; they might as well have been computer generated. And, of course, a number of animated features have been very successful; the audience is ready to accept digital imagery. Maybe someday we'll start going to live performances again, on a more intimate local scale, on a modest budget.... Meantime, streamed and recorded entertainment doesn't differentiate between real and fabricated action.

If the novels you read were by Jane Austen or Dickens, I would find this astonishing. If they're contemporary, however, it may be because the author is familiar with You Tube content - that is, aware of and concerned with the same subjects that are in the public eye. That's just the clairvoyance of AI.

She wasn't training her replacement; she was training the customers to deal with her replacement. As the cashiers in all my grocery stores have been doing. Three years ago, when our Walmart brought in automated checkouts, there was a cashier at each of the three stations; now, there is one supervising all eight, and only three checkout counters operated by a human being. Now, two other food stores and both hardware stores have them. (Obviously, I'm one of the old diehards who stand in line as long as it takes at one of the ever-fewer checkouts with a person who draws a salary, but I know we can't hold out forever.) If there were any justice, studying for her MA in Archeology or home-schooling her children or painting landscapes, or whatever her talents and desires prompt her to do. If there isn't, she'll be on one of the social assistance programs that pay you just enough to survive, not to thrive. AI is just the latest iteration of a technological trend that started.... I suppose you can trace it all the way back to a chimpanzee picking up a stone to crack a nut. Some of us like inventing things and improving on things their predecessors invented; a few like owning the right to monetize those inventions, and the inventive people, in order to enrich themselves; some see technological innovation as a source of improved weaponry; some see the products as fresh fields for criminal activity; a great many consumers believe sufficiently in the labour- and time-saving convenience to devote many effort/hours to their acquisition. There is a cost. We don't generally think much about costs other than what comes out out of our wallets - not even to the depth of the number of hours each $ in that wallet cost us in wasted effort, commuting, frustration, humiliation, lost social opportunities, relationships, leisure, personal interests, emotional health, let alone the costs to our society, other societies, the environment, the ecology at large, etc. Most of the time, when we buy something, we have no idea what its actual cost-to-date is - and we certainly can't project it long-term cost/benefit ratio for the future. Only if you are one of the people who owned a lot of other enterprises and real estate before AI took over. Otherwise, you're out of work, on a pathetic dole from a near-bankrupt government, and can't even afford to dream of such a refrigerator or such foodstuffs. Google keeps you abreast of the latest gossip and entertainment. What you want is one of these guys. How it goes down from here depends on human decisions. Good luck with that!

Yes, a) b) and c) are all present among the many English-speakers who post on the internet, from whatever their current location happens to be. Many never knew the rules in the first place, or were taught the rules but not the reasons or how to discern which application is appropriate. Many others were taught in middle school and have since forgotten. Many do not care. Some never knew and don't care; some have forgotten and don't care. I assume (perhaps incorrectly) that most of those who do care look up the correct usage before making their remarks public - but they, too, may err and fail to notioce, or lack the time to proofread.

Incorrect assumption on my part. I apologize to all North Americans for the mistake. Yes to all, if "the people" includes everyone, on all continents.

"Who think they are not female enough" presumably refers to one group of people's low opinion of another group's femininity, quoted from one of the many North Americans who are not in the habit of reading literate printed material, and choose their words by ear. edit - I was slow with that response. Most of our examples of English usage now come from the internet and the workplace - which for many people are/is the same place. And most of my errors are due to clumsy fingers on the keyboard.

Lax pedagogy. Children are not taught the reason for grammatical rules - if they're even taught the rules at all - and students who should already have learned are not held to a standard of adherence. Add to the poor grasp of written English with which children grow up the fact that they're* not required to write anything on their own, without electronic assistance, and that they are bombarded from all sides with other people's faulty grammar. *they [a]re

Children are told that because they need it brought to their attention that nutritious food, and its ready availability, is the privilege not afforded to all the people in the world; that it should be appreciated and valued, not despised and wasted. (I think a lot of adults in well-off countries need to be reminded!) No - it's quite all right to indulge less in the foods that make us fat and ill.

Most times, if it's fragments or a very small object, yes, it will. Several ways: directly through blood, if the wound remains open long enough; over a few days, via pus, if the wound is locally infected (e.g. slivers or glass fragments in fingers), then drained; over a period of weeks or months, through granuloma formation and sometimes migration (a cat I had once ate a little piece of christmas ornament, and we knew nothing about it until spring when a little plug of skin came loose from her neck with the bit of galls tucked up in it. Clean wound underneath healed without incident.) Larger objects, as a bullet or shrapnel may be dormant for years, then dislodge from one part of the body and move through interstitial fluids, but they're much less likely to find an exit. Pencil lead or ink in the dermis usually stays put. (I had a friend with a pencil dot in his forehead since primary school. It did him no harm.)

Be consoled; there are many.

It keeps changing. I have limited access to current programming though my CBC subscription; otherwise, streaming or DVD when the internet's down. ATM, Dr. Blake on Knowledge Network (they've started to rerun it from the beginning) and I've just finished the Madam Secretary DVD's and started again on Numbers. We have bot X Files and Fringe, but I'm just not in the mood for fictional horror when there is so much of the real thing loose out there.

**SIGH!** If only! My taste buds were run over by radiation treatments some years ago. Some regained consciousness but lost their memory; some have changed, many are gone forever. That's why I mourn any food I can still enjoy tasting, but shouldn't eat because they'll hurt me later. I know what you mean, though. "Does this taste slightly off to you?" "It does now!"

It never used to be a problem for me when younger. At brunch buffets I'd feast on practically nothing but the breads and cheeses and my favourite restaurant meal was linguini Alferdo. I did figure out a moderately skinny version that's not bad. Now I have to be careful of the quantity and kind: okay to put three slices of processed on the macaroni, but only two fingers of the real cheddar; 1% milk for cereal is fine. Otherwise, I get terrible heartburn. In my experience the taste is unaffected by what happens in the stomach. More's the pity - I still like the taste! The pain comes an hour or two later. But I don't think it's about fat content, either: I get the same reaction to some vegetables: cabbage is dangerous; onion, pepper and tomato are impossible.

Yes, they are found on every continent. Stands to reason: people have always depended on rivers; settled near them or travelled on them and fished them. Of course, this also means they sometimes drowned in a river, were carried away by the current; boats capsized, settlements were flooded. Mythological creatures most commonly represent the dangers that the children must be warned against - and what better way than stories? And of course, the creature resemble some aquatic animal - though they often incorporate human features as well.

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The only way to get an estimate is to keep monitoring constantly for at least a month. I mean, you really have to keep a sharp eye on that guy; he's a sharp operator!

Intelligence can't be wholly innate, since brain development and network-formation are affected by external factors, such as nutrition and socialization. Intellectual potential may be a given at birth, but there is no guarantee that it will ever be attained. And, of course, the means of measuring it are far from objective, accurate or consistent. The results of any test are also influenced by the emotional and physical state of the test-taker. Practice does matter: it alters the approach of the test-taker to the kind of problems presented on a test.

I can imagine a bright, curious, restless 12-year-old boy sitting in front of that booklet for two hours. "sheetrock, concrete, macaroni, plaster Which is the odd man out? Plaster has no c in it. Another list of numbers, booooring! Maybe if I cross my eyes I can make those two dots look like they're on the other side of the stick. The little boot-shaped thing goes around... Hey, that's make a neat kick-in-the-pants machine..."

Maybe you have a very good mixer.

Maybe not. I found it made a better texture.