After the Revolution. When Martha Ballard began her diary in 1785, the Revolutionary War had been over for just a year. The states, still a confederation and almost entirely agrarian, had a total population of under 4 million.
The Yellowdog Updater, Modified (YUM) is a libre and open-source command-line package-management utility for computers running the GNU/Linux operating system using the RPM Package Manager. Though YUM has a command-line interface, several other tools provide graphical user interfaces to YUM functionality.
Bathgate in West Lothian is home to one of the biggest producers of yum yums in Britain. United Central Bakeries create 40 million of the snacks a year. In November 2007, the company bought a special piece of equipment from the Netherlands to increase their production from 2,500 to 6,000 yum yums an hour.