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Riverside (6-3, 1-1 2A-3) jumped to an 18-6 lead after the opening period behind the strong inside play of senior post man Alteeno Sain, who had eight first quarter points. Sain, who finished with 17 points and nine rebounds, controlled the glass as the Rebels dominated the opening period of play.
Riverside kept up the pressure in the second quarter, increasing its lead to 36-13 by intermission. Junior guard Caleb Waugh drained a pair of three pointers in the second period while Sain capped off the half with a thundering one handed slam, sending the Rebels into the dressing room with a 23 point advantage. The Rebels stretched their lead to 47-22 entering the final period of play.
Joining Sain in double figures for the Rebels was senior Logan Meurer, who scored 12 points, while Wright, another senior, chipped in 10 points and pulled down 11 rebounds. Waugh and Kollin Stone added nine points apiece. Jacob Jordan scored four while Luke Moyer chipped in two points.
Dilynn Strickland led the Mustangs with 11 points. Nick Bollinger scored eight, Austin Pike, Jacob Sanders and Devon Ballin tallied five points apiece. Stan Fowler and Alan Carmichael chipped in two points apiece to round out the BIC scoring.
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Riverside held a 13-9 lead after the opening period before the Mustangs rallied to take a 26-15 advantage into the dressing room at the half. BIC stretched its lead to 42-23 after three quarters of play.
Trey DePriest led the Mustangs with 16 points while Jerry Cazares added 13 points and 10 steals. Cory Turner scored six, Ryan Austin netted four, Evan Sanders tallied three while Dustyn Myers and Alex Talevera added two points apiece.
Gavin Stone scored a game high 17 points to lead the Rebels. Braden Overman also hit double digits scoring 11 points. Dylan Davis had four, Walling and Luke Baker tallied three points each while Turner and Branden Towery chipped in two points apiece. Andrew Murdie added one point.
Riverside will return to action Tuesday night when they play host to Black Rock. The Rebels will begin play in the Williams Baptist College Tournament which runs Nov. 24-Dec. 1.
The Mustangs will play host to Midland Tuesday night before beginning play in the White County Invitational Tournament Nov. 26.

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Using lessfs to backup or archive your favorite SAN.
One example of how lessfs can be put to work is to use it to archive the data of your favorite storage array. This is much more space efficient then using Equallogic snapshots or replication. A snapshot requires at least 100% extra storage when one wants to be certain that the backup is always valid. If you want your data to be copied to another equallogic your need at least 105% extra storage. lessfs can be used to do the job much more space efficient. The deduplication and compression that lessfs provides compresses the data in most cases at least 30% for the first copy. When a daily backup is needed then lessfs wil require very little extra storage to store a full backup.
Someone might mention that lessfs is a brand new filesystem and that he doesn't trust his data to be stored on a new system. This fear is easily removed by creating a simple script that makes it possible to verify the data.
This is how it's done:
Let's say the server that runs lessfs hash connected an Equallogic snapshot on /dev/sda
The script would simply do something like:
md5=$(dd if=/dev/sda bs=1M | dd5sum – /pooldata/$VOL/$DATE/$lv 2>&1)
This would read from the Equallogic snapshot and write to /pooldata while calculating the md5 hash of the data that is read from /dev/sda. We can easily store the date, volumename and md5sum in our favorite database. This makes it possible to prove that we have a valid backup. It also makes it possible to verify data correctness after we restored the backup in case of a disaster recovery.
It is also possible to copy the lessfs data to another site. This can be done by putting the lessfs databases on drbd or by copying the databases with rsync. Compared to replication with an equallogic array this requires only a fraction of the bandwidth since the data that has to be transferred is highly compressed.
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(Kitco News) - There's been much chatter in gold markets about the size of Comex precious metals warehouse stocks and what this may mean for the market, but much of that chatter is at best misinformed, say veteran futures traders.
The chatter surrounds the size of gold futures positions limits and open interest versus warehouse stocks and how they aren't equal. However, the chatter doesn't understand how the futures market operates, market participants said.
The current size of warehouse stocks is around 7.8 million ounces, and total open interest for the full-sized gold futures contract was 408,535 contracts as of Thursday. One contract is 100 ounces. And while open interest, which represents the number of positions available to trade, is larger than warehouse stocks, they do not have one-to-one relationship.
"Open interest no way reflects what stocks are," said Frank Lesh, futures broker at FuturePath Trading. "For instance, in one day way back when, we traded the size of the entire wheat crop that season. In one day's time."
The total open interest is never available for delivery all at one time, so the notion of every long position holder demanding delivery isn't realistic. Furthermore, when a futures contract is in delivery, the person who needs to make the delivery, a short position holder, can source metal from either the warehouse or from the physical market.
The maximum gold position size for one speculative trader is 300,000 contracts across all contract months, but given that total open interest as of Thursday is just north of 400,000, no one speculator is even close holding to a maximum position size, said Sterling Smith, futures specialist at Citibank Institutional Client Group.
When first notice day for a soon-to-be-expiring contract is approaching, the Comex requires speculative position holders to reduce the size of their position in that soon-to-be-expiring contract to 3,000. That contract is now known as the spot month. The trader needs to have that position reduced by the close of business on the business day prior to first notice day. The time between first notice day and the last trading day is the only time to make or take delivery.
"The vast majority of futures contracts do not go into delivery," said Jim Wyckoff, Kitco's technical analyst.
That's because the futures market isn't designed for delivery. "It's a hedging market and it lets people mitigate their price risk, long or short," Lesh said.
Ahead of first notice day, most precious metals market participants will either roll over their position to another contract month or they will exit the position. For the few participants who want to make or take delivery, there's a process.
"You have the make the exchange aware, you have to make your clearing firm aware that you want to take or make delivery … in advance. You have to get the receipts in order. It's not like you can say one day I want to take delivery and do it the day," said Sean Lusk, director of commercial hedging at Walsh Trading.
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If short positions holders seek to make delivery using warehouse stocks, they produce a numbered receipt. Smith said these receipts are what are usually delivered, rather than the physical gold. Long holders can take possession of physical gold if they choose.
To move gold into warehouses and be considered eligible to meet contract specifications for delivery, it must have an assay certificate from an approved Comex assayer. Gold can be moved without being reassayed as long as the gold moves it from an approved refiner or approved depository via an approved carrier, all which are listed on the 's website. If it's moved outside of an approved entity, to make it eligible again, gold must be reassayed by a Comex approved assayer. The approved facility is responsible to ensure the metal meets the contract specification to be considered eligible for delivery. Platinum and palladium are subject to these rules, too.
While shorts need to prove they can deliver, longs need to prove they can buy the metal, Smith said. Otherwise they need to put a "stop delivery" order on and get out of the position.


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E-books/audiobooks review: fiction
Six Years
by Harlan Coben
In this tale of romantic obsession, college professor Jake Fisher has fixated over the break-up of his whirlwind affair with an artist called Natalie six years ago. The couple had met, fallen in love instantly, vowed to get together - only for Natalie to make a sudden u-turn and return to an old flame, leaving Jake bereft. Harlan Coben has made a lucrative career from dismantling premises like this page by page, adding insights that may or may not stand further scrutiny. Learning that Natalie's husband has died suddenly - and weirdly - Jake tries to make contact, in part to rekindle lost passion, but also to find out why they aren't celebrating their own six-year anniversary. Only the woman Jake sees at the funeral isn't the belle of his ball. And Natalie's sister seems even more confused by his enquiries. Has Jake dreamed the whole thing up? Or are there more plots within plots than the average cemetery? Coben is a rather better thriller writer than romantic novelist: Six Years is gripping if not always convincing. Still, the end is worth the effort.
A Delicate Truth
by John Le Carré
(read by Le Carré)
It is 50 years since John Le Carré published The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, an extraordinary novel of cold war realpolitik driven by a plot with more twists than a high diver. A Delicate Truth deserves to stand alongside his best work - and more importantly has an audiobook read by Le Carré himself. His austere but sensitively cut-glass tones suit the elegant, detailed concision of his prose like a tailor-made suit: "Like much else in the room, the bathrobe, too short for his long legs, reeked of stale cigarette smoke and lavender air freshener." Set in part on Gibraltar, the classic Le Carré plot to arrest a terrorist is derailed - or possibly not - by counter-plots. For Toby Bell, private secretary to the British foreign minister, untangling fact from fiction boils down to a moral decision where doing the right thing becomes a matter of national security. Le Carré struggles slightly with some of the dialogue - he is not at his strongest, for example, when rendering the enigmatic Emily Probyn. But these are quibbles about a really fine, enjoyable novel.
The Hit
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The Hit is part two of a new series by David Baldacci, the master of the conspiracy thriller and sentences that sound silly after a macho fashion but for some reason aren't: "Feeling energised by the death that was about to happen, Doug Jacobs adjusted his headset and brightened his computer screen." Jacobs' contact will later ask if he is "cocked and locked?" which makes that opening sound like Shakespeare. Will Robie is an assassin who kills bad guys for supposedly good governments: here, he is asked to take out Jessica Reel, a former colleague (read: killer). By "take out", I don't mean dinner and dancing. Reel has killed the wrong dictator. The government suspects she is a double agent and sends Robie after her. As ever in Baldacci, not everything is as it seems. Ron McLarty brings a surprisingly light tone to his narration, which robs Robie of some musculature but makes the story trip by. Orlagh Cassidy's breathier reading injects some mystery and urgency into Reel. The emotional punch of the end is surprisingly effective.


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Breakfast reading from the Voice Media Empire: The employees of the medical marijuana dispensary were about to close up shop for the night when a delivery man appeared at the door. But what he had to deliver were burning eyes that led to one trip to the hospital. How large was his haul? Westword has the story.
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MYTH: The pain will go away faster if you ignore it.
Fact: Trying to ignore your pain or keep it from surfacing will only make it worse in the long run. For real healing it is necessary to face your grief and actively deal with it.
MYTH: It's important to be "be strong" in the face of loss.
Fact: Feeling sad, frightened or lonely is a normal reaction to loss. Crying doesn't mean you are weak. You don't need to "protect" your family or friends by putting on a brave front. Showing your true feelings can help them and you.
MYTH: If you don't cry, it means you aren't sorry about the loss.
Fact: Crying is a normal response to sadness, but it's not the only one. Those who don't cry may feel the pain just as deeply as others. They may simply have other ways of showing it.
MYTH: Grief should last about a year.
Fact: There is no right or wrong time frame for grieving. How long it takes can differ from person to person.
MYTH: Moving on with your life means you're forgetting the one you lost.
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MYTH: Friends can help by not bringing up the subject.
Fact: People who are grieving usually want and need to talk about their loss. Bringing up the subject can make it easier to talk about.
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Kismet (Turkish قسمت kısmet, from Arabic قِسْمَة qisma) is the Turkish term for Fate or Destiny.
- Kismet, California, an unincorporated community
- Kismet, Kansas, a village near the state's southwestern corner
- Kismet, New York, a hamlet on Fire Island, New York
Film and stage[edit]
- Kismet (play), a 1911 play by Edward Knoblock
- Kismet (1920 film), starring Otis Skinner and directed by Louis J. Gasnier
- Kismet (1930 film), starring Loretta Young and Otis Skinner
- Kismet (1931 film), directed by William Dieterle
- Kismet (1944 film), starring Ronald Colman and Marlene Dietrich
- Kismet (musical), a 1953 musical version
- Kismet (1955 film), directed by Vincente Minnelli and based on the 1953 musical
- Kismet (1932 film), a Hindi film by Baburao Patel
- Kismet (1943 film), a Hindi film starring Ashok Kumar
- Kismet (1980 film), a Hindi film starring Mithun Chakraborty
- Kismet, a 1999 American short starring Stephanie Niznik
- Kismet (band), a 1993–2002 Australian rock group formed as an offshoot of Mizar
- Kismet (The Mastersounds album), 1958
- Kismet (Adriana Evans album) (2005)
- Kismet (Jesca Hoop album) (2007)
- Kismet, an album by Stelios Petrakis and Bijan Cherimani of the Chemirani Ensemble
- "Kismet" (Elitsa & Stoyan song), the 2013 Bulgarian Eurovision entry
- "Kismet", a song by Elvis Presley from Harum Scarum
- "Kismet", a song by Bond from Born
- "Kismet", a song by Flowing Tears from Thy Kingdom Gone
- "Kismet", an instrumental song by Kamelot from Silverthorn
- "Kismet Rag", a 1913 composition by Scott Joplin
- Kismet (Marvel Comics), a superheroine
- Kismet (DC Comics), a DC Comics character
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- Kismet (robot), a robot intended to demonstrate simulated emotion
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- Kismet (chocolate bar)
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Although most of the industry intel we have received indicates that the SGS4 will not sport a flexible display after-all, that doesn't mean that Samsung isn't still working on the technology. In fact, a new report suggests we will get our first taste of the new tech at CES next year. According to Engadget, Samsung Display (the spin-off display arm of Samsung), will debut a 5.5-inch flexible screen 720p screen at CES in January. Here's a quote with some of the details, What do you guys think... are you excited about this new display tech? Source: Engadget
The display is only half the issue. The digitizer is the part that usually breaks and then messes up the display beneath it. Plus with phones having the digitizer and display as one piece, it doesn't matter if its less likely to break, you'll have to buy it anyways.
Flexible and scratch resistant tend not to go hand in hand. I'll take greater scratch resistance over a flexible screen.
Flexible Display It has more far reaching applications than just small phone displays. Can you imagine computer displays that you could bend around you for simulation or gaming purposes? I mean you could literally look over your shoulder behind you during a game. It would make multi-monitor displays a thing of the past.
I just don't see the market for them perhaps I'm just short sighted. Displays rarely break, it's usually the digitizer that is broken. And this won't prevent cracked screens as its the glass cover that cracks, not the actual display. And if the cover is flexible good luck with all the scratches.
i think by flexible they mean that you can form it into any shape during production and then it's final product is a solid piece just not a flat screen. even though it would be cool to have a bluetooth jacket that could display phone screen on your sleeve.


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Short Sales
The term Short Sale came from the fact that the Lender's payoff is coming up "short". Short Sale happens when a Lender allow to the sale of a property that is less than the amount owed on a mortgage.
When loans have mortgage insurance, properties being purchased as short sales can often represent excellent deals. The actual purchase transaction is more complicated, and often takes more time, but Salt Lake Short Sales are hot items at the moment. Even if you're not looking for them, you will likely encounter Salt Lake short sales as nearly 1 in every four listed properties is a short sale.
Qualifying For A Short Sale in Salt Lake City
With the number of underwater homes in Salt Lake, many potential sellers face the realities of selling as a short sale. Not all people can qualify for short sales. In order to qualify, the person must meet the specific banks requirements, and complete a short sale packet.
A short sale package includes: Purchase and Sale Agreement (from Realtor), Addendum to Purchase (from Realtor), Authorization to Release Information, Two Years FULL Tax Returns , Two Months Bank Statements (Most recent), Last Two Pay Stubs, Fill Out Financial Worksheet, A Handwritten Hardship Letter, If FHA, Form 90036 and Homeownership Counselling Certificate.
The rest of the seller's debt is forgiven with short sale. Rather than suffer the lengthy and expensive foreclosure process, a homeowner agrees to a short sale though the sale of your Salt Lake City home, for instance is less than the owner owes on the mortgage.
Foreclosure is definitely not the only option. A short sale is a better alternative. The Home buyer will get the home in a bargain price. The Seller will get out of the mortgage liability and will definitely not face bankruptcy. On the hand, the lender will not be facing the arduous protracted process of foreclosure even if he agreed to a loss from accepting a short sale.
Short sale is a better option to foreclosure; however, waiting for the lender to agree on it can be a lengthy process. But if you're on the way to short sale your Homes for Sale in Salt Lake City Utah, Realtors advise that you seek help from a real estate agent short sale expert. Here's what they say:
1. Make sure that your Lender agrees in writing to forgive all debts with the short sale.
2. Make sure how the short sale will be reported to your credit report. A short sale can give you a negative credit report although the report will just say as 'settled for less than the full balance,'.
3. Ensure that you ask your agent about the tax repercussions of short sales. So, if your Home in Salt Lake City was agreed to a short sale for $30,000 less, then a 1099 for $30,000 will be issued by your lender and you would have to pay taxes on.
Short sale is a win-win situation according to Real Estate agents. Foreclosure doesn't have any credit advantage over Short Sale yet, the latter is an advantage over the former if you ever decide to buy another home.
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Avocado Boats with Crab and Smoked Salmon
Author Notes: Avocado has such a subtle flavor that I think really compliments the smoked salmon and crab. The herbs and other flavorings should be to your taste, but I've provided small amounts because it's very easy to overwhelm the avocado and seafood. I like the idea of serving these in little avocado peel 'boats', one of each on a table for a cocktail party, but of course you can serve them any way you want. I made some changes to the recipe after I took this picture, so yours might look different. —LucyS
Makes 1 salmon and 1 crab boat
Avocado Smoked Salmon Boat
- 1/2 avocado
- about 1/2 to 2/3 slice of mild smoked salmon
- 1 1/2 tablespoons creme fraiche
- 2 teaspoons chopped dill
- 2-3 teaspoons finely chopped shallots
- salt and pepper to taste
- Carefully scoop the avocado out of its peel with a spoon. Reserve the peel and cut the avocado into approximately 1/2 inch cubes.
- Chop the smoked salmon into about 1/2 inch squares. Mix it with the avocados and all other ingredients. Try to smush the avocado a little bit, but leave some chunks so it's not completely smooth. Add salt and pepper, more shallots or dill to taste.
- Scoop the dip back into the avocado peel. Garnish with a bit of creme fraiche and dill if desired. Serve with toast, chips or other crackers.
Avocado Crab Boat
- 1/2 avocado
- about 1/4 cups lump crab meat, or to taste
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped cilantro
- 2 teaspoons very finely chopped red pepper
- 1 tablespoon very finely chopped cucumber
- salt and pepper to taste
- Carefully scoop the avocado out of the peel with a spoon. Reserve the peel and chop the avocado into approximately 1/2 inch cubes.
- The red pepper and cucumber should be chopped into very small chunks, no larger than pea-sized. Carefully mix the avocado, crab, and the rest of the ingredients. the avocado should be partially smushed, but still chunky to compliment the crab bits.
- Add salt and pepper, and more red pepper, cucumber, or cilantro to taste. Scoop back into the avocado peel and garnish with cilantro if desired. Serve with toasts, chips, etc.
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Police and fire personnel were called to the gas station at 1095 Hanover St. at about 1 p.m. Monday and found that the two injured men were workers for Tank Tech Inc. of Missouri.
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In a press release, the Broadway League outlined how disappointed theatergoers can get their money back for the canceled shows.
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Dr. Steven Brigham arrested, charged with murder in late-term abortions case
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder under the state's viable fetus law, authorities said.
Dr. Steven Brigham, of Voorhees, N.J., was taken into custody Wednesday night and is being held in the Camden County jail, according to police in Elkton, Md. Authorities also arrested Dr. Nicola Riley in Salt Lake City and she is in jail in Utah. Each is awaiting an extradition hearing.
The two doctors were indicted by a grand jury after a 16-month investigation, police said.
The investigation began in August 2010 after a botched procedure at Brigham's Elkton clinic. An 18-year-old woman who was 21 weeks pregnant had her uterus ruptured and her bowel injured, and rather than call 911, Brigham and Riley drove her to a nearby hospital, where both were uncooperative and Brigham refused to give his name, authorities said.
A search of the clinic after the botched abortion revealed a freezer with 35 late-term fetuses inside, including one believed to have been aborted at 36 weeks, authorities said.
Brigham, 55, is charged with five counts of first-degree murder, five counts of second-degree murder and one count of conspiracy. Riley, 46, faces one count each of first- and second-degree murder and one conspiracy count.
The procedure authorities say was botched resulted in the murder case against Riley and three of the 11 murder charges against Brigham, prosecutors told the Cecil Whig in Elkton, Md. The other charges against Brigham relate to four other illegal abortions he performed there, prosecutors added.
Deputy State's Attorney Kerwin A. Miller did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
An attorney for Riley said she had not seen the indictment, but said her client had been inappropriately charged.
"We believe the charges are without legal merit," said Sharon Krevor-Weisbaum. "We believe it's inappropriate for her to be held without bond. She is not a flight risk and she should be released on her own recognizance."
Krevor-Weisbaum said Riley's legal team would comment further after they had seen the indictment.
A message left for an attorney for Brigham wasn't immediately returned. Maryland is one of 38 states with a law that allows murder charges against someone accused of killing a viable fetus.
The 2005 law has so far only been used for cases in which defendants were accused of assaulting or killing pregnant women.
The botched 2010 abortion led regulators to order Brigham to stop practicing medicine in Maryland without a license, and Riley's Maryland license was suspended. Brigham's New Jersey license was also suspended.
According to regulators, Brigham would begin abortions in New Jersey and have his patients drive themselves to Maryland to complete the procedures, taking advantage of Maryland's more permissive laws. Brigham was not authorized to perform abortions in New Jersey after the first trimester, and regulators called his actions manipulative and deceptive.
The allegations are similar to those against Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell, who faces trial in 2013 on charges that he killed seven newborn babies by having their spinal cords severed with scissors. Authorities described Gosnell's clinic as a filthy "house of horrors," and his wife has pleaded guilty to performing an illegal late-term abortion.
Anti-abortion activists hailed the arrests of Brigham and Riley.
"These two individuals are now where they belong and should be in jail for the rest of their lives," the Rev. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, said in a statement. "Even those who believe abortion should be legal can join with us to stop the out-of-control practices of people like Brigham and Riley."


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Edie McGinnis called me this morning and asked me to go to the Garment District Museum. In the 1930s, Kansas City was the second largest manufacturing district. New York City was first. The old manufacturing buildings have been turned into lofts, restaurants and office buildings.
While walking through the museum, I was struck by the waistlines of the dresses. Take a gander at the one above. I'm wondering if women had internal organs in the 1950s....or if we with internal organs are a new development in evolution. How did the zipper close? This must be proof that girdles are be better than Spanx. Girdles created a rigid, controlled waistline.
In 1947, Christian Dior created a new look known as a wasp waist. The skirt was full and voluminous and the waist narrow.
Is she or isn't she breathing? I couldn't tell if she's real or just a great illustration. But no matter....she had a wasp waist and that's all that counts. Lucky gal!!!
The museum has a great poster for sale showing some fashions and the fabric used to make them.
Twirling in her rigid girdle. (You can tell I'm full of sour grapes today!)
Until later!
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- AnonymousJuly 8, 2011 at 5:34 PM
She did not have drive through anything, there was no industry of junk food, food was only eaten at breakfast, lunch and supper - sitting down in the kitchen or dinning room..... and she walked and climbed stairs.
Seems to me skirts are coming back, now if we could just get cotton fabric for our clothes - no spandx or strech I would be a happy campter.
COW in Texas (crabby old woman) - AnonymousJuly 8, 2011 at 6:48 PM
I recently had the task of cleaning out my MIL's house and was shocked at the tiny waistline of her wedding dress! How could it be?
I'm thinkin'...lousy food! :D - AnonymousJuly 8, 2011 at 11:03 PM
Their figures remind me of Kate Middleton....I am so jealous of their teeny-tine waists!
Elizabeth - AnonymousJuly 9, 2011 at 4:48 AM
I remember my mother pulling on her girdle to get dressed for work. Plus, how did women survive in hot summer weather wearing those garments???? She had a 26 inch waist and was 5' 9"; however, I never had a waist that small, plus I am short.
ReplyDelete - Bonnie H.July 9, 2011 at 7:16 AM
The shape of "people" seems to have changed to me over the years. I am certainly not "tiny" -- I'm a healthy size 16. However, I do have an hourglass shape. I have a terrible time finding pants and skirts to fit me in the waist once I get them to fit in the hips. I have to alter purchased clothes or make my own. People today seem to be much straighter - not as much variation between the waist and hips.
I love the fabric from the blue dress! OMG! I am in love with that blue dress! I know exactly what you are talking about with the waistline! I watch a lot of the classic movies and always wondered about the waistlines of the women. I don't see that anywhere these days... even on "thin" women... I figured it must be the hormones in the milk and meat we eat changing our shapes? lol! Thanks for sharing some pics of the museum... I'd love to visit...
ReplyDeleteI remember my mother in the late 50's and early 60's wearing dresses like that, also the hat, gloves and matching handbag when going out. She had a tiny waist but I think there were more choices to be made with food in the late 60's and 70's, tiny waists disappeared or certainly the corset wasn't worn as much.
Unfortunately I did not inherit the skinny waist gene from her!In the 1950s (pre five babies)I had a 24" waist! No girdle! Of course, I was 18 years old, had no boobs, but 34" hips. I remember reading at that time that your breast and hip measurements should be 8" more than you waist. I was an A line before they called it that. Now I am 75 and we won't discuss sizes.
ReplyDelete...once upon a time, and this isn't a fairy tale!! When my daughter was going to get married, 15 yrs ago, she could not get into my dress, and she was and is tiny, tiny!! Especially the forearms, never thought I was that small - funny how we always see ourselves in a different light. I sure don't like how I look now though!! I had all ready posted, but couldn't help looking at those photos again!!! and dreaming!! LOL!!
ReplyDelete- AnonymousJuly 9, 2011 at 10:06 PM
One of my relatives told me how she had bought a fantastic girdle in San Francisco when she was young. It squeezed he waist and seemed to push everything to a dizzying bosom. She put on a dress and went to dinner with a "very ice fellow"-- and ate too much-- and then, when she was laughing very hard, the girdle split!
She got away fast, and never saw that guy again. The GIRDLE! I couldn't wait to get to wear one! It was a rite of passage--and it was a hand me down--LOL! After about a year of it I decided--why--I was tiny-skinny (5'6" and 101) and it only helded up hose--there was nothing else to tighten or smooth as I had nothing except for a bust! LOL--those were the days..... I wore my MIL's satin 1949 wedding dress for our wedding in 1974--and it was a tad big for me and she was tiny too....What memories!
I didn't know there was such a museum in KC--will have to check it out sometime.Oh--and I have the dress! It is all put away in acid free tissue ready for the hopefully next relative. It was wore by my MIL's sister too. None of my DIL's wanted to wear it so hanging onto it incase a grand daughter would like it!
MIL has been married 62 years & we have been married 37 years this month.Don't feel bad about those figures. I have a lot of vintage patterns and the busts are so small also. What grown woman has a 30 inch bust? But the hip measurements are always large in proportion. Everyone must have been pear shaped. When I got my measured for my wedding dress 33 years ago, my measurements were 35-23-24. No wonder my husband was in love with me! Too bad I can't say it's that now days!
ReplyDeleteGreat post! Love those dresses. I too have some vintage patterns and the sizes are definitely different from today's size charts. I wanted to make a dress for my son's wedding from one and the sizes are so odd I would have to stand on my head to wear the dress!!!
My Mother had a 19" waist when she got married and she fit into her wedding dress on her 25th anniversary...even after 8 babies!
She was tiny and my Dad was a strapping 6'3". I can remember him picking her up out of bed on Sunday mornings and carrying her to the breakfast table for her morning coffee!abercrombie & fitch
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Preview clips showed an elaborate Odd Squad headquarters set with a ball pit as a conference room and a slide that parallels stairs from the second floor to the first floor. "Odd Squad" features special effects galore with a computer-generated dinosaur running through one of the show's scenes. The visual look is sort of a pint-sized "Men in Black."
Production on 40 half-hour episodes of "Odd Squad" began in January in Toronto and continues (they're filming episode 19 now). Each episode features two 11-minute stories with interstitials between that continue the math concept theme that runs through each episode.
Lesli Rotenberg, general manager of PBS children's programming, said "Odd Squad" is designed to help children develop positive attitudes about math.
"As kids join in the adventure they learn the importance of working together, communication and perseverance, skills that are critical for success in school and life," she said.
"Odd Squad" creators Tim McKeon ("Adventure Time," "The Electric Company") and Adam Peltzman ("The Electric Company," "The Backyardigans") said they initially had a list of math topics -- time, temperature, geometry -- that they found naturally helped form the backbone of the show's stories.
"Some people say math is boring," Mr. McKeon said. "I think there are boring ways to talk about math. Our challenge is to tell a funny, exciting story. … A show doesn't have to be educational or funny; educational or action-packed. We're trying to be educational and funny and action-packed."
Paul Siefken, vice president of broadcast and digital media for The Fred Rogers Company, said "Odd Squad" is more of a problem-solving show than it is a math show.
"What kids get excited about is not the math, it's about solving the problem," He said. "The way to solve the problem is using math skills."
The Fred Rogers Company's "Peg + Cat," which debuted in fall 2013, continues to unspool its first season episodes, and conversations have begun about a second season. "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood," which premiered in fall 2012, begins its second season Aug. 18 with a one-hour episode that introduces Daniel's new baby sister, Margaret.
'Fargo' details
"Fargo" writer and executive producer Noah Hawley teased out some details for the second season of the FX miniseries late Monday afternoon. Mr. Hawley said there were seeds planted in season one about the plot of season two, particularly all those references to Sioux Falls, S.D.
"That wasn't an accident," he said.
The next 10-hour story takes place in 1979 in Laverne, Minn., in Fargo and in Sioux Falls. Those references to Sioux Falls involved Lou Solverson, played by Keith Carradine in season one. So Lou will be back as a 33-year-old Vietnam War vet but played by a younger actor. Ditto for his daughter Molly, played by Allison Tolman in season one.
"I told Allison unless she could channel her 4-year-old self we weren't going to be able to have her in season two, which is a crime and tragedy and you should all be very mad at us for doing that because I would like nothing more than to see the continuing adventures of Molly and Gus but it felt disingenuous in the service of truthiness to give them another Coen Brothers case," Mr. Hawley said.
Viewers might meet Molly's mother, Betsy, and Mr. Hawley didn't rule out Ms. Tolman returning to play that role but he seemed to lean away from it. Viewers will also meet Betsy's dad, a sheriff.
Another returning character is Lt. Ben Schmidt of the Duluth police department, who will also be played by a new, younger actor.
"There were a lot of clues left in the first season about the events and how they unfolded there and we will do our best to hit those in unexpected ways," Mr. Hawley said.
As in season one, season two will jump off from a completely fabricated story, though it will be presented as a "true story."
"It's about creating truthiness out of falsehoods and a lot of that has to do with the way the story unfolds because truth is stranger than fiction," Mr. Hawley said. "The goal for me is not to find a real-life case; it's to create a fictional case that feels real."
Production begins in January — again in Calgary — and wraps in May, so season two will likely air in fall 2015.
"The most important element to our DNA is tone," said executive producer Warren Littlefield. "More than the time of year or the exact town or the exact character, it's the tone we create that's so unique."
'Men' goes gay
For the final season of CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men," Walden (Ashton Kutcher) and Alan (Jon Cryer) will pretend to be gay and get married for the sole purpose of making it easier to adopt a child.
CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler said Walden has a health scare, leading to an existential crisis where he wants more meaning in his life.
"So he decides he wants to adopt a child," Ms. Tassler said. "He starts the process, and he realizes it's very difficult to adopt a child as a single, straight man. So once and for all he decides he's going to propose to Alan, we're going to get married, and adopt a child as a gay couple."
So, sort of the old "Three's Company" gag reconfigured (Jack Tripper played gay so he could live with two women).
Ms. Tassler said Walden and Alan will adopt an older child — in the 5-to-7 age range — which suggests the child will come from foster care. While infant adoption through an agency may be more difficult for single, straight men, adopting an older child through foster care probably wouldn't be significantly more difficult than it would be for a single woman. But, whatever, this is a sitcom, not an attempting-to-be-realistic drama.
Ms. Tassler indicated the emphasis is going to be more on the notion of marriage equality.
"With the relationship between Walden and Alan, people have always raised questions about Alan's sexuality, and it plays into a very public conversation," she said. "It is legal to adopt children and be married as a gay couple. ... [Executive producer] Chuck [Lorre] has been expert at taking very sensitive topics and bringing them out into the open. We're gonna talk about this and we're gonna laugh about it."
Mr. Lorre said the men will adopt a child that's fallen through the cracks and needs a home.
"It kind of brings the show full circle to two men trying to imbue whatever they know about life and being a man and being a human being to a young boy," he said, "which is really where we started 12 years ago. The intent is really good, to take a child out of the system and give him a good home with people who love him. That's the ultimate intent here and the shenanigans to get there is just that."
Mr. Lorre said Amber Tamblyn will return but no decision has been made about the possible return of former series star Angus T. Jones, who is now in college, Mr. Lorre said.
As for the possibility of original series star Charlie Sheen returning, Ms. Tassler said there are no conversations about a Sheen appearance on the show at this time.
"We have no plans with that as well," Mr. Lorre concurred.
Channel surfing
Cable's TCM will remember the late James Garner Monday by airing 12 of his movies, including "Grand Prix" (9:30 a.m.), "Cash McCall" (12:30 p.m.) and "Darby's Rangers" (4 p.m.). … "Downton Abbey" returns to PBS for its fifth season Jan. 4; "Call the Midwife" back for its fourth season March 29. … On Veterans Day, PBS debuts "Navy Seals – Their Untold Story" (9 p.m. Nov. 11). … PBS's "American Experience" will explore the life of Walt Disney in a four-hour, two-night film in fall 2015. … HBO's concert special "On the Run Tour: Beyonce and Jay Z" will premiere at 9 p.m. Sept. 20.
A portion of this column originally appeared online in the Tuned In Journal blog. Post-Gazette TV writer Rob Owen is attending the Television Critics Association summer press tour. Follow RobOwenTV at Twitter or on Facebook. You can reach Rob at 412-263-2582 or email@example.com.


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Randle reiterates foot won't require surgery after Lakers workout
EL SEGUNDO – Kobe Bryant was warming up before a game in Dallas, and as happens every time the superstar steps on the court, a young fan pleadingly repeated his name.
"Kobe! Kobe! Kobe!"
Bryant kept shooting, and the boy's holler continued.
"I guess he probably got annoyed with me," said the boy, now a 19-year-old power forward who could become teammates with his childhood hero depending on what the Lakers decide to do with the No. 7 pick in next week's NBA draft. Bryant finally stuck his hand behind him, allowing Julius Randle to slap it.
"That was enough for me," Randle said. "I said I wasn't washing my hand for a year, but of course I washed it."
Randle, the Southeastern Conference freshman of the year in his one season at Kentucky, participated in a solo workout for the Lakers as he continues to slide down draft boards amid concerns that he will need surgery on his right foot after the draft. Those reports were emphatically shot down by Randle following a workout last week in Boston, a message he reiterated Tuesday.
Asked if he would require surgery, Randle, still soaked in sweat, shot back, "Did it look like it?"
Once considered a possibility to go No. 1 overall, Randle now seems far more likely to fall at least to the Lakers, if not further in the draft. Regardless of what team selects him, Randle said he will play in the NBA's summer league in July.
"I met with the best foot doctor in the country," Randle said, "and he said he wasn't going to do anything with my foot. So there's no scheduled surgery or anything. I feel healthy, athletic. I'm moving great, no problems recovering. I'm ready to go."
The Texas native is listed at 6-foot-9, 250 pounds, although he said he has slimmed his frame by 10 pounds and that his body fat has been measured as low as 4 percent.
Instead of being compared to players such as Andrew Wiggins and Jabari Parker, dynamic wings still in the mix to go No. 1 to Cleveland, Randle is now talked about in a group of second tier big men available, such as Arizona's Aaron Gordon and Indiana's Noah Vonleh – both of whom have also worked out for the Lakers.
And whatever Randle's shortcomings, confidence will not be among them.
"How do I rate myself against them?" he said, repeating a question posed by a reporter. "I think I'm the best one. I don't put myself second to anybody. That's my attitude on the floor, that's my attitude when I compete, just how I was raised to be."
At Kentucky, Randle averaged 15 points and 10.4 rebounds per game, ranking him ninth in the nation in boards. His high school numbers were more shocking: 32.5 points and 22.5 rebounds as a senior.
Under Wildcats coach John Calipari – once considered a candidate for the Lakers vacancy – Randle said he was held accountable on the defensive end of the court for the first time.
"It wasn't just about taking care of my man," Randle said, "but it was taking care of the man next to you."
That would be a welcome addition to the Lakers, who were one of the NBA's worst defenses last season under Mike D'Antoni. Randle was worked out by Lakers assistants Mark Madsen and Larry Lewis, rather than being pitted against other prospects, a decision Randle said was made jointly by the Lakers and his agent.
"There's no reason for me to go up against anybody," Randle said. "They see me all year. … I had the longest college season out of anybody in the country. Teams don't want to see me bang, but want to see my skill."
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Bill Parcells, Boomer Esiason, Bill Romanowski, Brian Bosworth, Stacy Keibler, Chuck Liddell, Craig Carton And Dan Patrick Guest Star This Season
New York, NY, September 14, 2010 -- Spike TV's hit original scripted sports/comedy series "Blue Mountain State" returns to the gridiron for a second season this fall starting Wednesday, October 20 (11:00 - 11:30 PM, ET/PT). "Blue Mountain State" chronicles the on and off-field antics of the fictional college football powerhouse Blue Mountain State.
Season two of "Blue Mountain State" finds Coach Marty Daniels (Former NFL-er Ed Marinaro) under pressure to deliver a winning season after an embarrassing showing last year that has put his legacy and job security in grave danger. Adding to the coach's troubles is the arrival of his contentious and meddling ex-wife Debra (Denise Richards).
The BMS Goats are led on the field by overzealous team captain Thad Castle (Alan Ritchson), who struggles with the decision to go pro after this season or return to BMS, and top recruit Radon Randell (new cast member Page Kennedy) whose talent is matched only by his outrageous behavior and huge ego. Off the field, the team is once again led by Alex Moran (Darin Brooks), the second string quarterback who is content riding the bench, and his best friend and team mascot Sammy Cacciatore (Romanski). Sammy's troubles also multiply this season when his wild, crazy and sexy party-girl sister Mary Jo (new cast member Frankie Shaw) transfers to BMS.
Season two of Spike's "Blue Mountain State" features numerous guest appearances including Bill Parcells, two-time Super Bowl Champion coach (NY Giants), four-time Pro Bowl QB and 1988 MVP Boomer Esiason (Cincinnati Bengals, NY Jets), four-time Super Bowl Champion Bill Romanowski (Denver Broncos), two-time NCAA All-American Brian Bosworth (Seattle Seahawks), actress Stacy Keibler, UFC� legend Chuck Liddell and renowned sports announcers Dan Patrick and Craig Carton.
Spike.com will also get into all the football action with "Blue Mountain State." In addition to featuring weekly preview clips and highlight segments from each episode once the season starts, bms.spike.com currently features new exclusive season two content including behind-the-scenes footage of the cast, celebrity guests and directors, a girls of Blue Mountain State photo gallery and character biographies. Fans can "Join The Goathouse" to receive weekly emails and exclusive content about "Blue Mountain State" starting now and continuing throughout the season, and can also connect to the series via the official Blue Mountain State Facebook page and follow the all the action on Twitter @BlueMtState.
Additionally, "Blue Mountain State: Season One" will be released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on October 5 from Lionsgate. In addition to all Season One episodes, the DVD and Blu-ray Disc are loaded with uncut and exclusive extras including "Locker Room Rewind" video commentaries, the featurette "Making the Team: What it Takes to be a BMS Cheerleader," outtakes and deleted scenes.
"Blue Mountain State" is produced for Spike by Varsity Pictures' Brian Robbins ("Varsity Blues," "Smallville," "One Tree Hill") and Sharla Sumpter Bridgett and Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF). Romanski, who also stars as Sammy, and Eric Falconer ("The Sarah Silverman Program," "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia") also serve as executive producers and writers.
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It's amazing how Sony manages to create a new game for nearly every major blockbuster ranging from Madagascar in 2005 to Pirates of the Carribean in 2011. What is most clever about this game however, is the game's ability to incorporate lego characters. It makes it more age friendly to younger players who feel less intimidated by the violence of the game. The game involves a lot of puzzles and brain teasers and the player can change characters when they feel like it. The news game is a development from the previous Pirates of the Carribean Playstation games. Fans of the game have been waiting eagerly for its release in May. The hype involving a group of young gamers camping outside a shopping mall waiting for the release of this game reminds me of the term astroturfing. This is a form of propaganda consisting of a few people attempting to give the impression that mass numbers of enthusiasts advocate some specific cause. Although it is not really the case for this game, there are still a large number of dedicated fans who will attempt to increase it's popularity through various ways. There have even been cases of fans setting up various Facebook accounts in order to establish a bigger fan base for the Facebook PlayStation 3 page. This concept is called sockpuppeting. It only goes to show how a good game can attract a sufficient number of fans.
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- Blockbuster climbed high in the 1990s on the videotape-rental business
- The company announced Wednesday it would close its remaining U.S. stores
- Once-dominant chain was done in by DVDs, streaming, Internet
- But when Blockbuster was at peak, Friday-night visits were an American rite
"Be kind, please rewind," the signs used to say in video stores, urging customers to return their rented VHS tapes spooled back to the beginning.
If only Blockbuster could rewind back to the 1990s.
That was the time when the video chain was the colossus of the movie-rental business, with stores in seemingly every city shopping district and suburban strip mall in America. Visiting the store was a weekly rite for many people, who would show up on Friday evenings to check out the latest releases, navigating a crush of couples and families who had exactly the same idea -- only to find out that the last copy of "Air Force One" or "The Lion King" had already been snagged.
That custom is now as gone as a world with three television networks, a UHF station's late show and a Zenith Space Command.
On Wednesday, DISH Network, which purchased Blockbuster in 2011, announced it was closing the chain's 300 remaining U.S.-based retail stores, as well as its distribution centers.
"Consumer demand is clearly moving to digital distribution of video entertainment," said DISH president and CEO Joseph P. Clayton in the press release about the closures. His statement echoes many from recent years about the migration of entertainment from physical objects -- CDs, DVDs, books, games -- to bits, bytes and pixels available on various screens and portable devices.
Blockbuster will continue its Blockbuster @Home brand to DISH customers, as well as its Blockbuster On Demand streaming service. And an additional 50 Blockbuster stores not owned by DISH will remain open for the time being.
Reaction: Jokes and shrugs
The action was long expected. Blockbuster had been closing stores for years, as is obvious from the yawning vacancies still present in many of those very same strip malls. The chain was done in by Netflix, streaming video and a world of Internet options.
Reaction from that Internet was, of course, swift and pithy. Several posts on Twitter made fun of the store's late fees -- the bane of people who couldn't get their rental back in the standard 48 hours -- and the VHS tapes that made Blockbuster's name.
"I knew this day would come. I'm mere months away from owning a VHS copy of The Mighty Ducks without paying my late fees to Blockbuster," wrote Brian Essbe.
"Yes! All the Blockbuster Video Stores are closing! That means they'll never get back that VHS tape of Vampire In Brooklyn. I won!" added actor and comedian Paul Scheer.
Other commenters just shrugged. Many said they didn't even realize Blockbuster had any stores left.
In a headline, The New York Times put it best: "Internet Kills the Video Store."
But Dan Herbert, author of the forthcoming book "Videoland" and a film professor at the University of Michigan, wants to praise Blockbuster, not bury it.
The stores were clean and family-friendly, with wider aisles and a bigger emphasis on movie selection than the mom-and-pops that dotted the landscape in the 1980s, he said.
"They really standardized video rental in general," Herbert said.
As with many franchises, at its height Blockbuster often came in for criticism.
The chain put many mom-and-pop stores out of business. Befitting its name, it generally catered to a blockbuster mentality: Hit releases filled shelves by the dozens, but independent and foreign-language films could be hard to come by. The stores wouldn't carry NC-17 films at all.
And then there was the Blockbuster clerk, easily recognized in a blue knit shirt, who was often depicted as either clueless or snotty, depending on how frustrated you were on those crowded Friday nights.
But Herbert, a former video clerk himself -- though not at Blockbuster -- points out that Blockbuster was successful for a reason. It had more variety than many video stores: Blockbuster stores were required to have a minimum of 7,000 movies and averaged 10,000, more than many of its competitors, he said.
By doing so, it opened up more of America to more movies (and, later, TV show collections). Even though Blockbuster itself primarily stuck to cities and suburbs, it became a model for other chains that opened stores in small towns.
Playing catch-up
If people compared Blockbuster to McDonald's, that wasn't necessarily a knock, said Herbert. "They self-consciously modeled themselves on McDonald's, and at various points hired members of McDonald's upper management," he said.
But over the last decade, business took one hit after another. In a September article, The Billfold's Christopher Tucker described how independent video stores were put out of business. The same trends affected Blockbuster.
First there were DVDs, which were relatively inexpensive and intended for purchase, especially compared to the VHS titles that cost stores up to $100 a pop. With the advent of broadband, people started downloading movies and shows -- not always legally. Netflix and Redbox used the slim size of DVDs to their advantage. And finally, "Hulu was launched, and your average Joe and Josephine were introduced to Cloud Media," Tucker said.
Even Blockbuster's late fees came back to bite the chain in an unlikely way. In 1997, a man named Reed Hastings returned a late copy of "Apollo 13" to his local Blockbuster. He was assessed a $40 fee. Two years later, he founded Netflix.
Blockbuster was caught flat-footed by many of these changes. It could have purchased Netflix for $50 million in 2000, but passed. As Netflix rose, Blockbuster's attempts to compete on Netflix's terms -- especially through the mail -- foundered. It also tried to compete with Redbox using standalone kiosks. That didn't work, either.
By the time Blockbuster was sold to DISH in 2011, it was down to 1,700 stores, more than 7,000 fewer than its peak just seven years earlier. People had long since started devoting their Friday nights to streaming and downloading at home -- and if they were heading out, it wasn't to a Blockbuster.
The Onion, of course, nailed it. In a 2008 video headlined "Historic 'Blockbuster' Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past," the satiric site showcased a Michigan venue that "aims to transport visitors to a time before the Internet."
Like a version of Colonial Williamsburg, it had actors playing clerks and customers who described how the rental process worked. Onlookers watched the performance, stunned.
"It's really amazing that people had to go through so much just to get a movie," says a visitor in the skit.


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Shimla, June 29 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh, whose apple industry is worth over Rs.2,000 crore, will soon have another cold chain storage with grading and packing facility in the apple-growing areas of Shimla district, an official said here Saturday.
An apple packing grading house, having facility of controlled atmosphere stores, would be set up at Kharapathar. This would benefit the farmers, especially fruit growers of Jubbal and Kotkhai areas, a government spokesperson told IANS.
He said Horticulture Minister Vidya Stokes disclosed this at a meeting of the board of directors of Himachal Pradesh Horticultural Produce Marketing and Processing Corp (HPMC) here Friday.
She said the packing and grading house would be funded by the union commerce ministry.
Stokes said techno-economic feasibility reports have been prepared for setting up of 5,000 metric tonnes juice extraction units at Chopal, Rohru and Rampur in Shimla district, Patlikuhl and outer Siraj in Kullu district and Churah and Bharmour in Chamba district.
The reports would soon be sent to the union government for funding, she added.
In July 2012, a 35,000 apple-box-capacity storage facility, involving an outlay of Rs.503 lakh, was opened at Jarol Tikkar near Kotgarh in Shimla district.
Computerised grading and packing units with a capacity of four lakh boxes of 20 kg each were also set up there.
Horticulture department estimates say this year the state is heading for a bumper apple production after two consecutive years of less than normal yield.
A production of over 3.75 crore apple boxes of 20 kg each is expected, Gurdev Singh, director of horticulture, told IANS.
Himachal Pradesh's apple boom is credited to Satyanand (Samuel Evans Stokes Junior), an American missionary, first introduced high quality apples in the Kothgarh-Thanedar belt in upper Shimla in the early 1920s.
His daughter-in-law, Horticulture Minister Stokes, now manages most of the family's orchards.
Apple is the main fruit crop of the state and is grown in nine of its 12 districts. It accounts for about 40 percent of the total area under all fruit crop cultivation.
Besides apple, other fruits like pear, peach, cherry, apricot, kiwi, strawberry, olive, almond and plum are the major commercial crops of the state.
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