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Boston was settled in 1630 by English Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Company, who, for religious and political reasons, put the Atlantic Ocean between themselves and the Church of England. Ostensibly founded as a commercial venture, the Massachusetts Bay Company, under its governor, John Winthrop, brought its charter—which it regarded as authorization to set up a self-governing settlement in the New England wilderness—along to the New World. The new town was named for Boston in Lincolnshire, the former home of many of the immigrants.
Through necessity, New Englanders turned to the sea for a livelihood and became shipbuilders, merchants, seamen, and fishermen. The Shawmut Peninsula, on which Boston was settled, was an ideal setting for a seaport. It was described in 1634 by William Wood in his New England's Prospect as "fittest for such as can Trade into England, for such commodities as the Country wants, being the chiefe place for shipping and Merchandize." With the triumph of the Puritan Party in England in 1648, people moved freely between New England and the homeland, and close ties of family and trade linked Boston and London. By the end of the 17th century Boston's fleet of seagoing vessels was exceeded only by those of London and Bristol in the English-speaking world. Boston held its place as the largest town in British North America until the mid-18th century, when it fell behind the faster-growing ports of Philadelphia and New York City.
During its first 50 years, Boston was a homogeneous, self-governing Puritan community that the leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Company ruled as they saw fit. The three Puritan churches, established on the Congregational principle, accounted for almost all the organized religion in Boston. Religious dissidents were banished, and some Quakers who persisted in returning were hanged for their pains. The increasing prosperity of the colonial merchants brought Massachusetts Bay to London's special attention, and the company's charter was declared null and void in 1684. In 1686, with the arrival of Sir Edmund Andros as the first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, the authority of the crown was established in Boston itself. With this change, the Church of England first came to the town, and the Puritan isolation ended.
Boston never proved wholly docile. When word of the Glorious Revolution (1688–89) reached them, the citizens on April 18, 1689, ejected Andros from office and imprisoned him. The memory of the autonomous first half-century lingered. When London endeavoured to enforce navigation laws and gain revenue from the Boston trade at the expense of the colonies, the aggrieved inhabitants resisted what they saw as unlawful authority. Disaffection grew after passage of the Stamp Act by Parliament in 1765, and the governor's house was stormed and gutted, an act that destroyed many irreplaceable records of the colony's history. The Boston Massacre of 1770, in which British troops fired on a crowd of civilian hecklers and killed several persons, and the Boston Tea Party of 1773, in which colonists disguised as American Indians dumped three shiploads of tea into Boston Harbor, became renowned events marking the growth of unrest before the American Revolution.
In April 1775, amid the escalating climate of hostility, the British military sent troops to Concord to destroy military stores, and patriot Paul Revere undertook his famous ride from Boston to Lexington to warn the colonists there. The die was cast for the outbreak of hostilities with the confrontations and exchange of shots at Lexington and Concord on April 19. When George Washington's army besieged the British in Boston during the following winter, normal life in the town was suspended. On March 17, 1776, impelled by Washington's artillery positioned on Dorchester Heights, British troops and officials left. Loyalist supporters of the crown, including a number of the principal merchants, accompanied them. A constitution was framed in 1780, and John Hancock was elected the first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Independence gravely imperiled Boston's maritime trade, for, at the close of the Revolution, Boston merchants automatically became foreigners in the ports of the British Empire. Thus, survival depended on finding new channels of trade. Sending ships to distant and hitherto unfamiliar ports solved the crisis. The development of the China trade and other new routes, such as those to India, raised Boston to greater prosperity than ever before.
Throughout the first half of the 19th century, maritime commerce produced substantial fortunes in the city, which were supplemented by others achieved in mercantile and manufacturing pursuits. Bostonians in the 1810s began to establish textile mills, first at Waltham in 1813 and then in new towns to the north of the city along the Merrimack River, where waterpower was plentiful. The advent of railroads in the 1830s brought these once-distant towns suddenly closer. The burgeoning of Boston's population was the result not only of maritime commerce and manufacturing but also of the unanticipated arrival of immigrants from Europe in such numbers that the city grew more than 20-fold during the 19th century. By 1822 the traditional form of government—in which a board of selectmen administered the decisions reached by the vote of all citizens at an annual town meeting—had become unmanageable, and the Massachusetts legislature granted a city charter.
During the early 19th century Boston also assumed a focal position in the religious and educational life of the new nation. The rapid and large-scale infusion of immigrant groups and the loss of dominance by the Congregational descendants of the Puritan settlers were major factors in the change.
By the end of the 19th century Roman Catholics outnumbered Protestants in Boston. Meanwhile, during the early 19th century, reform movements within the dominant Congregational church gave rise to the new, more-liberal denomination of Unitarianism. Unitarians were among the leading figures in the philosophy of Transcendentalism, which affected a great part of the region's artistic output and thought for much of the century; in the abolitionist movement championed by the outspoken writer and editor William Lloyd Garrison and others; and in liberal high-mindedness in social causes, which preoccupied many 19th-century Bostonians at a time when others were simply making money with great Yankee diligence. In the second half of the 19th century, the city was also the place where Christian Science was founded by Mary Baker Eddy. It remains the site of The Mother Church and the international headquarters of the faith.
Educational and cultural institutions had a similarly rapid growth. Across the Charles River in present-day Cambridge, a college had been founded in 1636 to provide the infant colony with religious scholars and ministers. It was named for the Charlestown minister John Harvard, who bequeathed his library to the institution in 1638, and was the sole college in the area until the third quarter of the 19th century. Though Harvard University retained the most prestigious position throughout the century, a host of other major institutions of higher learning were founded, and Boston became synonymous nationally with scholarship and cultural refinement. It also became the mecca for persons—from abroad or from the "less civilized" parts of the country outside New England—who sought these qualities amid the bustling commercialism and rambunctious growth that characterized much of the United States in the 19th century.
The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, which gave New York City easy access to the North American interior, and later the American Civil War (1861–65), which cut off Boston's access to Southern cotton, put an end to shipping as a major consideration in the life of Boston. Banking and investment in manufacturing, railroads, and the development of the rapidly expanding frontier superseded maritime commerce as the principal occupation of Boston in the second half of the 19th century. In the early 20th century, however, the business horizons contracted. Though large sums of money continued to be invested outside of New England, fewer distant companies were controlled from Boston. The city's financial capital was still strong, but the rising strength of New York City and Chicago and of the developing states of the American West gradually reduced the proportion of capital that Boston could muster. Nevertheless, Boston's financial management firms showed a skill in investment that caused them to be well regarded in other parts of the country. This led eventually to a major growth of those Boston companies that administered what are now called mutual funds. Thus, the "prudent man," whether in a private trustee's office or an investment company, survived as a Boston asset, whereas the textile mills and railroads proved to be less permanent. The textile industry passed into crisis in the 1920s, and the region's industrial centres, created by Boston investment, entered on decades of hardship. Some mills went out of business entirely, while others moved to the South in search of cheaper labour and raw materials.
After the Civil War, immigration transformed Boston's social and political life. Irish political leaders, trading votes for favours, gained increasing power and offered their people social and economic advancement. By 1902 the Irish had elected two Irish-born candidates as mayors of the city, and in 1914 James Michael Curley won the first of four nonconsecutive terms of office, dominating Boston politics for the better part of the next 40 years. Resentful of Curley and opposed to what they regarded as his spendthrift ways, Boston's Yankees closed their banks and their pocketbooks to his pleas for money and refused to acknowledge his legitimacy as mayor. During the 1930s and '40s, the impasse between the Irish Catholic Democrats (who controlled the political system) and the economically powerful Protestant Yankee Republicans worsened the city's economic decline and the deterioration of its infrastructure.
After Curley's final defeat in 1949, a series of moderate Irish Catholic mayors worked to bridge the gap between Yankees and Irish at the same time that the region's new technology-centred economy began to expand. Greater funding from state and federal agencies and increased private investment produced a building boom that rapidly transformed the old city. Largely excluded from these alliances, however, was the city's growing African American population. During the 1960s, African Americans demanded equal rights in housing, economic opportunities, and education. In 1974, in order to achieve racial integration in the public schools, a federal judge ordered that students be bused, and subsequent court orders mandated the integration of the city's public housing. Many white residents fiercely resisted integration, and for nearly a decade strikes, boycotts, and ethnic violence occurred in several of Boston's white neighbourhoods. By 2000 economic prosperity and generational change had reduced racial antagonisms, and an increasingly cosmopolitan Boston enjoyed a reputation for cultural and economic vitality. In April 2013 one of the city's most-celebrated institutions, the Boston Marathon, was violently disrupted when two bombs exploded near the finish line, resulting in 3 deaths and more than 170 260 injured spectators and participants. The search for the perpetrators culminated in a gun battle in suburban Watertown that left one suspect dead. The surviving suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was apprehended by police in the wake of a manhunt that brought the Greater Boston area to an unprecedented standstill.
Boston is one of the great historic cities of the United States, but it is not frozen in time; it has remained a vital and evolving metropolis. Having survived generations of political struggle, industrial change, and social turmoil, the city has become a leader in computer technology, a centre for medical research, a focal point of higher education, and an urban community that is in the process of even further expansion and development. The future challenge for Boston is to adapt further to accommodate multinational enterprises and modern technologies without losing its own distinctive identity as a city whose historical traditions, literary preeminence, and high cultural standards once led it to be hailed as the "Athens of America."


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Lindependence in the starting blocks
No, that's not a typo. I meant "Lindependence," as in Linux and independence run together to make what Lewis Carroll used to call a "portmanteau" (read "Jabberwocky" for a great selection of portmanteaus).
Lindependence, short for Lindependence 2008, is the project we have going here in Felton where we'd ideally like the people of the town to throw off their digital chains. More detail can be found here in this interview with nuxified.org.
Read the interview. Meanwhile, people in the area are talking, the groundswell is starting to rise. It's going to be an interesting few months in the San Lorenzo Valley.
(Larry Cafiero, editor/publisher of Open Source and Free Software Reporter, is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)
March 20, 2008 at 6:35 am
Wonderful! The interview was a really interesting read. Lindependence looks promising.
A tiny remark: if you really wanted to impress, you could use the French term that "portmanteau" originates from. The correct spelling of the pural of portemanteau reads "portemanteaux" = )

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Breechloaders in the Revolution
Ferguson rifle made by Durs Egg of London, one of England's best gun craftsmen. The ten-thread breechplug is slotted to help carry powder fouling away. One turn up or down closed and opened the breech for loading. This specimen was bought in North Carolina around 1900, carried to England and returned here recently.
This Photo Gallery is an excerpt from the Gun Digest Book of Classic Combat Rifles.


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I Opened the DoorBy J. D. Daniels
At last I had begun writing my long-planned book about Captain Ahab's doomed enterprise in Moby-Dick—about Robur's doomed enterprise in Verne's Maître du Monde—about the doomed enterprise of Doctor Hans Reinhardt from the 1979 science-fiction film The Black Hole.
Eleven thousand words in, and may God grant that I learn it sooner next time or else not at all, I understood with blinding clarity that my book itself was another doomed enterprise.
As Don Quixote said: y yo hasta agora no sé lo que conquisto a fuerza de mis trabajos—I do not even know what I am conquering.
"Master of the world"! Robur-le-Conquérant!—what a delusion! what a farce! The quintessence of megalomania: Richard Wagner named his dog Robur.


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Ansel Elgort Dances Shirtless to His Own Hit Dance Song 'Totem'
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By Olivia Perez
Ansel Elgort has already made a splash on the big screen. But now, he's making a name for himself in the music world.
Under the DJ name Ansolo, the Divergent actor released his new EDM track "Totem" with music producer Tom Starr on Tuesday. Since then, the bass-heavy song has entered the iTunes Top 10 Dance Chart, alongside Calvin Harris' "Summer" and DJ Snake and Lil Jon's "Turn Down For What."
To give fans a preview of the song, the teen heartthrob shared a video on Instagram of himself dancing (shirtless) while his new hit plays in the background.
"In my studio raging to my newest @ansolo_music track #TOTEM which will come out on Monday!!!," Ansel captioned the video. "Can't wait for you all to hear the full track then! Stay tuned on my twitter on Monday for a livestream and info on how u can win one of 7 Skype calls with me! #TOTEM !!!"
Ansel recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about his growing music career.
"My style is clubby and groovy — you can jump to it, but you don't have to just jump to it. It's not just really bass-heavy and hurts your ears; you move with it, and it sounds kind of tribal," he said to the news outlet.
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WWCC - Loyaulte Mi Lie
"Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself" - Tony Benn
#408. Sixty three not out forever.
Friendly reminder: Volts, speirz, Somers, bi, kingdamo, tozzer, SPF, Tharmi & DCYE still to tip for the round.
Cricket Web's current Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"I don't think that they'll come close to us to be honest."
- Steve Smith before the Ashes
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The man, the mountain, the Mathews. The greatest all rounder since Keith Miller. (Y)
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RIP WCC and CW Cricket
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Lucy is Luke's Twin sister and is musical like Luke....
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Even apart from the need to stimulate employment, the case for doing the work right away is a complete no-brainer.
Moreover, smart public investments also stimulate more private investment.
The strategy will be to stimulate crises that will be amenable to resolution by the transfer of resources.
Hopefully they help and they communicate and they stimulate, but the art is inside the viewer.
R&D tax credits are far from the only measure needed to stimulate high-tech exports.
Crimmins spat carefully, as if to stimulate his imagination.
But Peter is stimulating, even though he does stimulate you into opposition.
He constantly bore away the prizes, and every fresh success only seemed to stimulate him to more ambitious exertions.
All the petrol in the world would not stimulate her into life.
Know, therefore, that the Karaites do not wish to exercise authority; they only desire to stimulate research.
1610s, from Latin stimulatus, past participle of stimulare (see stimulation). Related: Stimulated; stimulating.
stimulate stim·u·late (stĭm'yə-lāt')
v. stim·u·lat·ed, stim·u·lat·ing, stim·u·lates
To arouse a body or a responsive structure to increased functional activity.


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About Lenovo
The power of ideas
Ideas are everywhere
Your life is constant motion. You live outside the box, in the electric neon now where ideas are everywhere and the next one could be your best. Are you ready? In the subway or in the driveway, in the boardroom or in the bedroom, on the beach or on the bus — where do ideas find you?
Wherever your switch turns, Lenovo is there. We help you capture your ideas, carry them, store them and share them — realize them. Bring your ideas to life with our award-winning, exceptionally engineered mobile PCs and desktops.
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What does this mean for you? It means that Lenovo's dedication to building best-of-class PCs delivers an exceptional ownership experience. So, instead of scrambling for ideas, you're free to nurture them, develop them, watch them grow. And as each idea grows, so the world glows.
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1) Do some reading about RIP-2 and find out if the agent in question requires the authentication the Nessus plugin talks about.
2) If traffic on the LAN isn't routed how is it going to get anywhere?
3) If the system in question is a router then this is a big deal as you can re-route or alter traffic crossing the device. If the system in question is a single workstation then you'll only be able to affect traffic to/from said workstation.


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In fact, when one looks at all of the fossils discovered to date, it becomes clear that there is no evolutionary progression, beginning from a common ancestor and slowly turning into apes and present day man.
Daniel E. Lieberman of Harvard University's Anthropology Department commented on Kenyanthropus platyops in an article in Nature magazine:
The evolutionary history of humans is complex and unresolved. It now looks set to be thrown into further confusion by the discovery of another species and genus, dated to 3.5 million years ago. . . The nature of Kenyanthropus platyops raises all kinds of questions, about human evolution in general and the behaviour of this species in particular. Why, for example, does it have the unusual combination of small cheek teeth and a big flat face with an anteriorly positioned arch of the cheekbone? All other known hominin species with big faces and similarly positioned cheekbones have big teeth. I suspect the chief role of K. platyops in the next few years will be to act as a sort of party spoiler, highlighting the confusion that confronts research into evolutionary relationships among hominins.5
The BBC reported the story under such headlines as "Flat-Faced Man a Puzzle," "A Confusing Picture" and "A Scientific Contradiction" and went on to say that:
The discovery by Meave Leakey, of the National Museums of Kenya, and colleagues threatens to blur still further the already murky picture of man's evolution.6
Fred Spoor, the famous evolutionist in University College London said that "the fossil raises a lot of questions."7
As can be seen from these statements and admissions, the theory of evolution is facing a major dilemma. In particular, every new discovery in the field of paleontology presents a new contradiction for the theory of evolution to explain. Evolutionists who produce diagrams of the supposed evolution of mankind seek to incorporate new discoveries by setting the fossils out among extinct species of ape and to human races.


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LONG BEACH - The Long Beach Unified Board of Education today will consider closing summer school and freezing open teaching positions next year in a round of budget cuts meant to save $13 million.
While the passage of Proposition 30 prevented severe program cuts, the district is still facing a $20 million deficit in the 2012-2013 fiscal year due to years of state funding cuts, officials said.
The sales tax hike passed last month is meant to provide funding for California's schools.
The district's structural deficit would have ballooned to $55 million next year had Prop. 30 failed, officials said.
The LBUSD is projecting a $57 million deficit by the end of the 2014-2015 fiscal year if it doesn't make reductions.
The first phase of proposed reductions for a savings of $13.8 million includes: Closing grades six through seven at Burcham School, transportation reductions, eliminating summer school in 2013, eliminating the AVID college prep program, cuts to special education, and freezing open positions for teachers and other staff.
As part of this reduction plan, the board last month voted to close Monroe K-8 school in Lakewood for a savings of $2.7 million. The closing of the AVID program, which stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination, would save $1 million annually.
The board in coming months is expected to also consider other budget reductions, which could include more small school closures, reductions to programs and services, and other measures designed to safeguard the LBUSD's fiscal health, officials said.
The Board of Education meets today at 5 p.m. at 1515 Hughes Way.
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Stay Out!
Stay Alive!
Coal District 1
MSHA Mine Inspector Ralph Bennett teamed up with local mine operators to bring the Stay Out'stay Alive message to nearly 5,000 Pennsylvania students. The presentations included a discussion about quarries and mines; MSHA's role in compliance; a Stay Out/ Stay Alive presentation; and students pledged an oath to "Stay Out" of mines and quarries.


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Kansas Finds New Frontman
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Kansas has a new lead vocalist. The band has tapped singer-keyboardist Ronnie Platt to take over for departing frontman Steve Walsh.
Drummer Phil Ehart says in a Facebook post that Ronnie is "a perfect fit musically and personally," adding that Ronnie's "passion for the band and the music, as well as his musicianship, is exceptional."
Platt admits becoming Kansas' frontman fulfills "a lifelong dream." But he explains that he won't try to replace Steve, because "no one can do that." Ronnie says he feels he's simply being called to "sustain the integrity that is Kansas." Platt adds that he knows he still has to prove himself, and "earn" his spot in the band.
Walsh gave notice to Kansas at the end of June that he was leaving. The band initially appealed to their one-time lead singer John Elefante, who took over after Walsh's departure in 1981, but he declined the offer.
Steve is remaining with the group through the summer, and will play his last show with Kansas in Sioux City, Iowa on August 16th. Ronnie will play his first show with Kansas in Oklahoma City on September 12th.
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Every year, we get together with our neighbors here at our Seattle factory to take part in a summer block party — and you're invited. We'll be serving Bee Pollen Ice Cream (and maybe Honey Ice) from the local Several Gardens Farm, talking about bags, talking about things other than bags, and just having a good time. It's also a chance for you to meet our awesome neighbors (Grand Image, 3form LightArt, Two Beers, Resolute, and others).
Thursday, July 18th from 5:00pm – 8:30pm
TOM BIHN Factory: 4750A Ohio Ave S, Seattle, 98134
And we think we covered the why part, but we'll just say it one more time: Bee Pollen Ice Cream.
P.S. Our Seattle Factory Showroom/store will be open that day from 10:00am – 8:30pm.
Sampling the test batch of Bee Pollen Ice Cream. Best ice cream we've ever had, made with Several Gardens Farm's own honey and bee pollen.


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PHOTO: Raven-Symone smiles for a snap with rumored girlfriend
(Yahoo!) - Raven-Symoné isn't worried about appearances anymore.
The 27-year-old actress posed for a photo with her rumored longtime girlfriend, former "America's Top Model" contestant AzMarie Livingston, at Ludacris' charity event, LudaDay Weekend Celebrity Pool Party, on Monday in Atlanta.
The former "Cosby Show" kid appeared to come out on Twitter last month, when she applauded the Supreme Court's decision in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act.
"I can finally get married!" she wrote. "Yay government! So proud of you."
Symoné hasn't addressed rumors that she's in a relationship with Livingston. However, she has made it clear that her sexuality is not something she cares to discuss.
"My sexual orientation is mine, and the person I'm dating to know," she tweeted in 2012 after a tabloid claimed she and Livingston were living together. "I'm not one for a public display of my life."
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I worked the extra board here in 1980-1983. My mentor was the late Glen Raines, probably one of the most professional operators I have ever had the pleasure to work with. The booth was nearly spotless with Century heads and Ashcraft Super Cinex water-cooled lamphouses. Up until the theater was twinned and prior to its eventual demolition, it ran with an enjoyable "changeover" booth that preceded the challengeless era of platters and "cold" xenon light sources.
The last picture that ever showed there, was Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" in it's initial 1993 run. Saw the film there as it was screened on both screens. The closing and subsequent demolition were imminent, and the lobby was pretty bare, save for a Jurassic Park arcade game and a few merchandisings. It was a pretty haunting atmosphere. I have an old newspaper photo showing one of the "Star Wars" films where the line wraps around the theatre. I will try to post it This theater needs some old coverage.
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Going home after a C-section
You are going home after a C-section. You should expect to need help caring for yourself and your newborn. Talk to your partner, parents, in-laws, or friends.
What to Expect
You may have bleeding from the vagina for up to 6 weeks. It will slowly become less red, then pink, then have more of a yellow or white color. Bleeding and discharge after delivery is called lochia.
At first, your incision will be raised slightly and pinker than the rest of your skin. It will likely appear somewhat puffy.
- Any pain should feel a lot better after 2 or 3 days, but your incision will remain tender for up to 3 weeks or more.
- Over time, the scar will become thinner and flatter and turn either white or the color of your skin.
You will need a follow-up appointment with your health care provider in 4 - 6 weeks.
Incision Care
If you go home with a dressing, change the dressing over your incision once a day, or sooner if it gets dirty or wet.
- Your doctor will tell you when to stop keeping your wound covered.
- Keep the wound area clean by washing it with mild soap and water. You don't need to scrub it. Often, just letting the water run over your wound in the shower is enough.
- You may remove your wound dressings (bandages) and take showers if sutures (stitches), staples, or glue were used to close your skin.
- Do not soak in a bathtub or hot tub, or go swimming, until your doctor tells you it is okay, usually not until 3 weeks after surgery.
If strips (Steri-Strips) were used to close your incision:
- Cover them with plastic wrap before showering for the first week. Do not try to wash off the Steri-Strips or glue.
- They should fall off in about a week. If they are still there after 10 days, you can remove them, unless your doctor tells you not to.
Getting up and walking around once you are home will help you heal faster and can help prevent blood clots.
You should be able to do most of your regular activities in 4 - 8 weeks. Before then:·
- Do not lift anything heavier than your baby for the first 6 - 8 weeks.
- Short walks are okay. Light housework is okay. Slowly increase how much you do.
- Avoid heavy housecleaning, jogging, most exercises, and any activities that make you breathe hard or strain your muscles. Do not do sit-ups.
Do not drive a car for 3 weeks. It's okay to ride in a car, but make sure you wear your seat belt. Do NOT drive if you are taking narcotic pain medicine.
Other Self-care
Try eating smaller meals than normal and have healthy snacks in between. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, and drink 8 cups of water a day to keep from getting constipated.
Any hemorrhoids you develop should slowly decrease in size. Some may go away. Methods that may help the symptoms include:
- Warm tub baths
- Cold compresses over the area
- Over-the-counter pain relievers
- Over-the-counter hemorrhoid ointments or suppositories
Lovemaking can begin any time after 6 weeks. Also, be sure to talk with your health care provider about [contraception after pregnancy-60-NEW].
After C-sections that follow a difficult labor, some moms feel relieved. But others feel sad, disappointed, or even guilty about needing a C-section.
- Many of these feelings are normal, even for women who had a vaginal birth.
- Try talking with your partner, family, or friends about your feelings.
- Seek help from your health care provider if these feelings do not go away or become worse.
When to Call the Doctor
Call your health care provider if you have vaginal bleeding that:
- Is still heavy (like your menstrual period flow) after more than 4 days
- Involves the passing of large clots
- An increase in red bleeding for a day or so about 7 - 14 days after delivery, when the scab that forms at the site of the placenta is shed
Also call your health care provider if you have:
- Swelling in one of your legs (it will be red and warmer than the other one)
- Pain in your calf
- Redness,warmth, swelling, or drainage from your incision site, or your incision breaks open
- Any fever
- Increased pain in your belly
- Discharge from the vagina that becomes heavier or develops a foul odor
- Noticed you are very sad, depressed, withdrawn, or are having feelings of harming yourself or your baby, or are having trouble caring for yourself or your baby
- A tender, reddened, or warm area on one breast (may be a sign of infection)
Beghella V, Landon MB. Cesarean delivery. In: Gabbe SG, Niebyl JR, Simpson JL, et al, eds. Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2012:chap 20.
Review Date: 9/18/2012
Reviewed By: Susan Storck, MD, FACOG, Chief, Eastside Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Bellevue, Washington; Clinical Teaching Faculty, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.


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Selena Gomez & Justin Bieber 'Absolutely' Back Together
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A video of Selena Gomez at a birthday party with Justin Bieber surfaced on Tuesday, leading us all to wonder what is going on with these two.
Are they back together?
"Absolutely," insists TMZ's Harvey Levin, who called in to On Air with Ryan Seacrest on Wednesday morning to update us on the relationship.
"I don't know that they've ever been apart," he adds. "They break up and they get back together. This has been going on for years … On Monday night, they went to Bootsy Bellows in West Hollywood and they were at a friend's birthday party … She was all over him. They spent the day in Malibu … they are definitely back together, definitely back together."
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Ohio's Obamacare Enrollments Fall Short Of Expectations
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSPD) -- Nearly 155,000 Ohioans picked health plans on the insurance marketplace created by the Affordable Care Act, according to the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
The number of enrollees is short of the projected 190,000 expected to enroll by the end of March. That was despite the number of enrollees doubling in the final month.
"I think many individuals looked at those plans and said first of all they're too expensive and second they provide the type of coverage I don't need or want," said Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor who heads the Ohio Dept of Insurance.
Another issue is that only about a third of enrollees are under the age of 35. More than half are women and 85 percent are getting federal subsidies to help pay their premiums.
Almost 286,000 Ohioans were eligible to enroll in a plan.
Organizations who helped enroll residents in health plans, known as navigators, claim in-person assistance was key to getting people to sign up, particularly minorities.
The nonprofit Enroll America said residents were more likely to successfully enroll when they had help from a counselor, compared to consumers who tried to sign up online by themselves.
The federal report also shows that among Ohio residents who voluntarily disclosed their race or ethnicity, 81 percent were white, 11.5 percent were African Americans and about 2 percent Latino.


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Finance Faculty Recognized for Scholarly Output
The Department of Finance in the College of Business has been recognized for excellence in scholarly output, according to a new ranking system that evaluates institutions throughout the country.
The 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index ranks doctoral programs in 104 disciplines at 354 institutions. The Department of Finance ranked third out of all universities.
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Royals Announce Times for 2012 Schedule
KANSAS CITY, MO (January 18, 2012) — The Kansas City Royals today announced their 2012 regular season schedule with times. Opening Day is scheduled for Friday, April 6 at 9:05 p.m. Central when the Royals visit the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at Angel Stadium. Kansas City will begin the home schedule on April 13 vs. Cleveland at 3:10 p.m.
In addition to the 3:10 start for the home opener and a 1:10 start on Labor Day, September 3 vs. Texas, the Royals host 1:10 weekday contests on May 17 vs. Baltimore, June 27 against Tampa Bay and July 19 vs. Seattle. Kansas City's game on Saturday, May 19 vs. Arizona is scheduled for a 6:15 start. Saturday home contests on June 2 vs. Oakland and June 23 against St. Louis will start at 1:10 p.m.
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Vol. 53, No. 1, January 2013
Vending Features
'Healthy' Vending Gives NC Schoolchildren Practical Algebra Lessons
Emily Jed
Seventh graders at Evergreen Community Charter School (Asheville) are honing their algebra skills outside the classroom by calculating which products meet the school's new "healthy" vending standards and deliver the most profit...
All Stop Inks 3-Year Pact With USAT For Telemetry Services; Wants To Go All Cashless By 2014
Nick Montano
Southeastern Florida vending and foodservice operator has signed an exclusive agreement with USA Technologies for cashless payment and telemetry services, and indicated its intention of advancing to 100% cashless equipment...
AMS Unveils Epoch Vender Series With New Look, Enhanced Features
Tim Sanford
Automated Merchandising Systems' Epoch styling is highlighted by a redesigned escutcheon, slightly contoured and finished in silver-gray. A POS card frame and enhanced selector panel improve customer experience...
Canada Puts Cap On Energy Drink Caffeine Content
Emily Jed
Canada's federal health department has issued new regulations that will limit the amount of caffeine allowed in energy drinks. Caffeine will be capped at 180mg. in a single-serving can or bottle...
Canadian Operators Scramble To Accept New Plastic $20 Notes; Do $100s Melt?
Emily Jed
Thousands of vending machines are still not programmed to accept the new polymer $20 banknotes that the Canadian government released two months ago, and operators are blaming the Bank of Canada for not providing enough lead time...
Canteen Acquires Wisconsin's Stansfield Vending; Family Successor Focuses On Music And Games
Emily Jed
Stansfield Vending has 200 employees and serves more than 2,000 vending and amusement accounts in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa...
Census Bureau Releases Detailed Neighborhood-by-Neighborhood Data
Hank Schlesinger
Although relatively unknown by the general public, the American Community Survey is highly anticipated by marketers. Large retailers are expected to use it to pinpoint potential store locations and merchandise selections...
Coca-Cola Buys Sacramento Bottler
Emily Jed
Sacramento Coca-Cola Bottling Co. is the sixth-largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the United States, with exclusive territories in nine northern California counties...
Costa Coffee And PepsiCo Intelligent Vending Machines Take Spotlight At Intel's NRF Exhibit
Tim Sanford
Intel Corp. showed a few of the developments in its "intelligent vending" initiative during this year's National Retail Federation in NYC. Also on display were concepts applicable to micromarket operators...
Crane Co. To Buy MEI Conlux For $820 Million
Nick Montano
The purchase price is 9.6 times greater than MEI's estimated 2012 EBITDA of $85 million. Crane Merchandising Systems and MEI both develop payment solutions for unattended transaction systems in the vending and amusement industries...
David Singer Steps Down As Snyder's-Lance CEO In May; Carl Lee Steps Up
Emily Jed
The Charlotte, NC-based snack maker acknowledged Singer for spearheading a turnaround beginning in 2005, which involved overhauling its supply chain...
Drivers On America's Highways Hit Safety Milestone
Hank Schlesinger
Roads were safer in 2011 than they have been in more than 60 years, the DOT says. This is good news for route personnel who spend a good portion of their days on America's roads...
Eu'Vend+Coffeena Organizers Hail Brisk Exhibit Sales For 2013 Event
Tim Sanford
The sixth presentation of the biennial Eu'Vend trade fair is set for the Cologne Fairgrounds from Sept. 19 through 21 once again in conjunction with the international coffee fair, coffeena...
Flowers Foods Becomes Stalking Horse Bidder For Certain Hostess Bread Brands And Bakeries
Nick Montano
Flowers Foods Inc. on Jan. 11 signed two purchase agreements with Hostess Brands Inc. as the "stalking horse bidder" for certain Hostess assets...
Hostess Hires Liquidator To Help Sell Assets
Emily Jed
Hostess Brands Inc. has received court permission to hire Hilco Trading Co. help sell off real estate and other assets...
Industry Pioneer Sid Rudin Dies; Founded Coffee-Inns Of America
Tim Sanford
Sidney S. Rudin, legendary coffee vending operator and OCS equipment manufacturer, died in Scottsdale, AZ, early in December. He was 87...
Lock America's Chief Steps Down From Daily Operations, Promotes Employees
Emily Jed
"I've been active in the security lock business for over 30 years, and it's time for a new generation to take over operations and marketing for Lock America," LAI Group's Frank Minnella said...
Maryland Legislator Bans Sugary Drinks
Emily Jed
Howard County Executive Ken Ulman signed an executive order to ban the sale of high-sugar drinks in parks, libraries and other county properties, and at county-sponsored events...
MEI Relocates To 60,000-Sq.Ft. Headquarters Facility In Malvern, PA
Tim Sanford
MEI has moved to a brand-new 60,000-sq.ft. building in Malvern, PA, located seven miles from its former home in West Chester. The relocation was completed in early December...
Mondelez Celebrates Rich Heritage, New Beginnings At NYC Oreo Event
Emily Jed
During a festive gathering at the original home of the National Biscuit Co. factory, where the Oreo cookie was invented and manufactured, Mondelez International Inc. recently celebrated its launch...
Mondelez Taps Nine Tech Startups For New Mobile Program
Emily Jed
The chosen startups will participate in a new mobile technology program aimed at driving more impulse purchases and better in-store marketing...
NAMA Names Dell Senior Government Affairs Vice-President
Nick Montano
The National Automatic Merchandising Association has named W. Eric Dell senior vice-president of government affairs. Dell will assume the position on Jan. 2...
NBTY Acquires Balance Bar
by Staff Reporter
NBTY, owned by Washington, DC-based private equity firm Carlyle Group LP, bought Balance Bar from Brynwood Partners...
New York Governor Vetoes Vending Sales Tax Relief Bill
Nick Montano
Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed a bill on Dec. 19 that would exempt vending machine purchases of less than $1.50 from being subject to sales tax in New York State...
Novel Smoothie And Slushie Vending Machine Begins Global Distribution
Emily Jed
The Quinzee from Israel's Nicevend Ltd. prepares and delivers frozen smoothies and slushies at the touch of a button...
NY Vendors Plan Big Showing At Cuomo Gala To Sustain Momentum
Emily Jed
The New York State Automatic Vending Association is urging industry members to attend a birthday celebration for Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Jan. 7. Its goal is to keep in close touch with state lawmakers and the Governor, who vetoed a vending tax relief bill last month...
NYC Soda Sellers Get Grace Period Before Supersize Drink Fines Kick In Mar. 12; Hearing Next Week
Emily Jed
Bloomberg's ban on large-size sodas will take effect in March, but businesses will still have a few months to conform to the new regulations before they're hit with fines...
Obama's Signature Eliminates Redundant ATM Signage Requirement
Hank Schlesinger
The President signed into law a measure that eliminates the requirement for two notifications of fees at ATMs. The redundant regulation had become a source of frivolous lawsuits aimed at ATM operators...
Pay-As-You-Drive Tax Studied In Washington
Hank Schlesinger
What you pay at the pump to gas up route vehicles could soon be based on mileage. With highway infrastructure badly in need of repair, Congress is looking at a program that would...
Philadelphia Installs Condom Venders In High Schools
Hank Schlesinger
he pilot program, intended to combat a purported "epidemic" of sexually transmitted diseases, will serve one-third of the city's high schools...
Redbox Instant Goes Live
Emily Jed
Redbox Instant by Verizon, the much-anticipated video-streaming service that's going head to head with Netflix, has begun selling subscriptions through a beta test...
Salvation Army Raises Hunger Awareness - And Donations - With Synthetic Waste-Filled Vending Machine
Emily Jed
The one-of-a-kind vending machine is part of the multifaceted "Simple Dreams" campaign created for the Salvation Army by advertising agency Gray Canada...
Seaborne Lipton Iced Tea Vender Rewards South African Beachgoers
Emily Jed
Beachgoers can swim out to the buoyant contraption, where they can enjoy a free Lipton Ice Tea, get sprayed with water and take a photograph before making their way back to shore...
Shop24 Opens At Nebraska Tourist Attraction, Shares Revenue With Parks Department
Emily Jed
The first Shop24 robotic convenience store in Nebraska is up and running at the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge in downtown Omaha...
Survey: Consumers Snack More Than They Dine
Emily Jed
Snacks account for more than half of all eating occasions among American consumers, according to research from The Hartman Group...
U.S. Mint Tests Cheaper Coinage, Seeks Minimal Effect On Vending
Emily Jed
The agency is on a mission to find a way to bring the metal and production costs of U.S. coins closer to their actual face value, and with the least possible impact to vending...
USA Technologies On Track To Achieve Profitability In Second Quarter
Emily Jed
In its preliminary results for the second quarter ended Dec. 31, the cashless vending provider expects total revenues to be in the range of $8.8 million to $8.9 million, a 29% increase over the same period in 2011...
Vender In Sweden Rewards Singing Patrons With Free Cokes
Emily Jed
The closed-front beverage vender, adorned with snowflakes, a Christmas tree and the words "Sjung for mig" (sing for me), was equipped with a karaoke machine and touchscreen panel...
Vending Machine Revenues Rise 1.9% On Price Improvements; Amusement Sector Dips 2.7%
Nick Montano
The vending industry began to regain ground in 2011, following a downturn that appears to have bottomed out the year before. The music and games sector had considerable success in slowing an overall decline that became pronounced six years ago...
Vending Operators Share Experiences And Offer Tips On Success In Emerging Micromarkets Sector
By Tim Sanford and Emily Jed
Vending operators who are taking a wait-and-see approach to micromarkets were encouraged to jump on the bandwagon by those who have made the move, and who now are affirming the role these self-checkout stores can play in pleasing locations and boosting sales...
Music and Games Features
2012 Jukebox Play: Aldean Is No. 1 On The TouchTunes And AMI Entertainment Networks
Nick Montano
Jason Aldean's "Dirt Road Anthem" was the most played song on TouchTunes and AMI Entertainment's digital jukebox networks...
AAMA Statement Supports Dialogue On Videogame Content
Nick Montano
A statement by the American Amusement Machine Association explains its position on videogame "violence" in relation to crime...
AMF Bankruptcy: Bowling Center Operator Secures $50 Million For Restructuring
by Staff Reporter
AMF Bowling Worldwide Inc., which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Nov. 12, said it has secured $50 million in new financing that it can use during its restructuring...
AMI Entertainment And Apple Industries Begin Shipping Photobooth Jukebox
Nick Montano
NGX Face Place is powered by AMI's Version 3 operating system and Apple's Smile 2.0 software. It houses the same Mitsubishi dye-sub printer used on Apple's photobooths...
AMI's Maas Says Restructuring Is On Course As Progress Accelerates
Nick Montano
AMI Entertainment's planned reorganization into separate businesses, AMI (music and TV) and Megatouch (games), is proceeding smoothly, according to chief executive Michael Maas. "The two divisions will each operate their own business systems, in their own legal entities," he said...
Are 3D Photobooths Coming? They're Already Here (More Or Less)
Hank Schlesinger
Digital imaging company Direct Dimensions teams up with MakerBot Industries, a designer, manufacturer and marketer of 3D printers, to launch the ShapeShot three-dimensional photobooth...
Atari's U.S. Unit Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
by Staff Reporter
The company filed on Jan. 21 a Chapter 11 proceeding in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan amid "adverse trading conditions and limited development funds"...
Barron Games Shrinks Air Hockey Table To Junior Size For Half-Pint Players
Hank Schlesinger
Quad Air Jr.'s 60" x 60" footprint and 26.5" height trims a full 18" off the playfield dimensions, and 9.5" off the height of the standard-size 4-player Quad Air...
California Industry Will Launch New State Association In January
Marcus Webb
For at least the third time in 25 years, California trade members are gearing up to form a state association. The California Entertainment Machine Association will hold an organizational meeting Jan. 15...
Chuck E Cheese's Redesigns Website
Marcus Webb
New design carries "Promise To Parents" pages detailing security ("Kid Check") procedures and wholesome family fun...
Connecticut Town To Burn Videogames
Marcus Webb
A citizen group calling itself Southington SOS said it plans to sponsor a public burning of videogames deemed "violent" on Jan. 12...
Digital Centre Continues On Path Of Photobooth Innovation; Share Secure ID Protection And Expressions 3.0 Are Latest Enhancements
Hank Schlesinger
By consistently pursuing a strategy of continual innovation, Digital Centre has established itself as a global leader in coin-operated photobooth design and manufacture. The company now is introducing the latest version of its system software and convenient Share Secure identity-protection technology, both of which are expected to improve the consumer experience...
DNA Will Host Daylong Workshop On Jan. 21 In London; Digital Out-Of-Home Entertainment Is Focus
Nick Montano
The one-day London event, before the EAG International, will examine several areas of top interest in the digital out-of-home entertainment (DOE) sector...
Firestone Financial Renews Partners Rewards Program For Vending And Amusement Operators
by Staff Reporter
The program pays customers who finance above their annual target half a percentage point, or a minimum of $250, on all business funded in 2013...
Getlan Leads Redemption Workshop At UK's EAG International Expo
Tim Sanford
Family entertainment center expert Michael Getlan again will conduct his Redemption Master Class in conjunction with the European Amusement and Gaming Expo next week at the Exhibition Centre London...
Ideal Launches Cashless Express Card System For Smaller Locations
Hank Schlesinger
Ideal Software Systems is looking to bend the cost curve for arcades and family entertainment centers wanting the benefits of a cashless payment system...
Illinois Gaming Board Tracks Growing VLT Sector
by Staff Reporter
Operator-run video lottery in Illinois is "off to a slow start...with mixed early results," according to one Midwest newspaper...
Incredible Technologies' Roll-N-Win Cash Rewards Software Hits Silver Strike LIVE In January
Nick Montano
The automatic software patch will install free in January on all registered Silver Strike LIVE games, and it will be instantly available where prize play and Roll-N-Win is allowed...
L.A.'s Family Fun Arcade Closes After Nearly 40 Years
Marcus Webb
The facility, which featured videogames almost exclusively, was one of six standalone arcades left in the area. It's legendary Street Fighter tournaments drew players...
LAI Games Introduces Pay Lockers
Tim Sanford
These are not old-style coin lockers. They offer access-control options like barcodes, RFID or magnetic strip media, as well as PIN entry...
Legacy Coin-Op Rolls Out Virtuo Stands To Enhance Jukebox And Photo Booth Features
Hank Schlesinger
The Song Bird peripheral not only turns the wall-mounted TouchTunes device into a freestanding jukebox, but it also enhances many of Virtuo's services. Operators can deploy the stand in several ways...
Maryland Association To Lobby Against $10 Prize Limit
Marcus Webb
The Maryland Amusement and Music Operators Association held an emergency session on Jan. 3 to review newly proposed gambling regulations in Maryland...
Maryland Operators Fear New Law Could Squash Redemption
Marcus Webb
The Maryland Amusement and Music Operators Association is rallying the industry to ensure that a new gaming law won't be interpreted in such a way as to make redemption games unprofitable...
Media Personalities And Political Leaders Link Videogames To Shootings; Sen. Lieberman Wants To Restore Commission On Violence
Marcus Webb
Within 48 hours after the mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School here on Dec. 14, some U.S. political figures and national and international media voices began linking the tragedy to "violent" videogames...
N.C. Supreme Court Outlaws Sweepstakes Video Gaming; Dec. 14 Ruling Says Games Are Not Protected By Free Speech
Nick Montano
The North Carolina Supreme Court has outlawed Internet sweepstakes gaming. In its ruling announced on Dec. 14, the N.C. Supreme Court reversed an appellate court decision that said the state's law which banned video sweepstakes gaming was overbroad and restricted free speech...
Namco Plans New Restaurant-Arcade Chain
Marcus Webb
Namco Entertainment is reportedly planning an international chain of upscale restaurant-arcades...
Ninety Percent Of NC Sweepstakes Operators To Shut Down; Who's Not?
Marcus Webb
Enforcement of the state Supreme Court's negative verdict on sweepstakes videogames began Jan. 3. But not all operators are shutting down...
NJ Online Gambling Bill Awaits Governor's Signature
Marcus Webb
Gov. Chris Christie has not signaled whether he plans to sign or veto a new measure that passed the Legislature on Dec. 17...
No Stay For North Carolina's Sweepstakes Videogame Ruling; Appeal To U.S. Supremes Is Next
Marcus Webb
Hest Technologies and International Internet Technologies said they will seek to appeal last week's anti-sweepstakes videogame ruling by the N.C. high court...
North Carolina's Operators Hope To Keep Running Sweepstakes Videogames Despite Court Ruling
International Internet Technologies said it is exploring ways to continue providing sweepstakes terminals in North Carolina, where the state's high court ruled them illegal...
Omaha's NTS Offers Progress Report On Digital Advertising Initiative
Hank Schlesinger
Nebraska Technical Services' Joe Wojcik provides update on a two-year-old digital marketing program that now has 1,400 displays in more than 400 Omaha metro-area locations...
Photo-Me's First-Half Profit Rises, Despite Lower Revenues; Begins Placing Coin Laundry Machines Next To Photobooths
Nick Montano
Photo-Me International Plc reports that profit for its first half, ended Oct. 31, increased over last year. Board recommended a higher interim dividend. Starck photobooth placements increase...
Photobooth Maker Apple Industries Hires Jacobs, Promotes LaForce
Nick Montano
At Apple Industries, coin-op industry veteran Paul Jacobs will oversee the sales of Face Place digital photobooths in Europe, Latin America and Asia...
Southern California Arcade To Host Sega Coin-Op Tournament
Marcus Webb
The Super Arcade has scheduled this year's Sega Cup: Virtua Fighter Tournament for April 20. Sega is partnering with Level Up...
TouchTunes Opens New York Warehouse
Nick Montano
The facility is located in Jamaica, Queens, and addresses what the jukebox company said is "surging demand from New York area operators for TouchTunes products and services...
UK Arcades See 10% Earnings Drop
by Staff Reporter
British amusement arcades suffered a 10% drop in revenues between April 2011 and March 2012, while gambling revenues increased, according to a report...
UNIS Opens Dallas Service Center, Names Tim Snelling To Top Post
Nick Montano
Founded in 1993, UNIS (originally Universal Space Video Game) is among the amusement industry's premier contract manufacturers and licensors of original games...
Videogame Violence Debate Explodes After Sandy Hook Massacre
Marcus Webb
On Capitol Hill, there are vague threats of censorship and new bills that would require federal studies of the issue, while industry groups insist that there is no link between fantasy violence and real-life violence...
VLTs Going 'Hog Wild,' Says Illinois Gaming Board
Marcus Webb
Statewide gross revenues in November, the first full month of VLT operations, exceeded $12.2 million, from which the machines kept $3.8 million...
Website Promoting Game Featured Links To Gun Sales; EA Removes Them
by Staff Reporter
A spokesman for Electronic Arts said the company has taken down the links to real-life weapons-makers at its Medal of Honor Warfighter website...
Bulk Vending
China Sets Path For Cautious Currency, Trade Policy In 2013
Hank Schlesinger
No news is often good news for the bulk vending and coin-op amusement industries when it comes to China's trade policy...
NBVA Is Adding More Member Value, Schechner Reports
Hank Schlesinger
How is the National Bulk Vendors Association doing these days? Just fine, says NBVA president Steve Schechner...
Editorial: Vending
Healthier Vending
Tim Sanford
Most operators agree that it's bad business to attempt to gain a competitive edge by discrediting other vendors. They sell by emphasizing their strengths, not the supposed deficiencies of rivals. To that end, there is no warrant for calling a vending machine or service "healthy"...
by Tim Sanford
Editorial: Music and Games
Debunking 'The New Normal'
Hank Schlesinger
A new year prompts an obligatory look back, and for many this won't be a particularly pleasant exercise this time around...
by Hank Schlesinger
When You're On Your Own
Marcus Webb
Let's face it: 2012 was a challenging year for much of the amusement industry. Between Hurricane Sandy and the N.C. Supreme Court's thumbs-down on sweepstakes videogames, trade members encountered some very tough weather. The year's best news?
by Marcus Webb
Bulk Vending and Crane Products
January 2013's Spotlight: What's new for Bulk Vending, Cranes, Amusement Merchandisers and Redemption Counters
Coffee Service News
Aramark Sales Data Illuminates Workplace Coffee-Drinking Habits
Emily Jed
People working in the Houston, Los Angeles and Chicago metropolitan areas consumed the most cups of coffee on the job at Aramark sites. Boston and Philadelphia follow...
Cafe2U Coffee And Foodservice Vans Head Out On The Highways In 5 States
Emily Jed
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D.E. Master Blenders CEO Steps Down
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Lipton Campaign Puts Flagship Black Tea In Spotlight
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Marley Coffee Ships 500,000 Real Cups In First Month
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Real Cups, compatible with most Keurig machines, are now available both in the U.S. and Canada, and reportedly represent the fastest-moving product in the company's history...
Metroplex Data Systems Enhances Off-Site Backup Service For Route Management Software
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MDS's offsite automated backup service allows OCS operators to save business files automatically to safeguard them in the event of a computer system failure, weather-related event or other emergency...
NAMA Releases Coffee Research
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The National Automatic Merchandising Association is now selling its coffee research originally presented at the Coffee, Tea and Water show...
Peet's Owner Buys Caribou Coffee For $340M
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German private investment firm Joh. A. Bensiker has agreed to buy Caribou Coffee, the No. 2 coffeehouse chain in the U.S. behind Starbucks, for $340 million...
Performance Food Group Acquires Fox River Foods
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Parent company of vending and OCS distributor Vistar has entered into an agreement to acquire Fox River Foods Inc., an independently owned broadline foodservice distributor...
Research Links Sweetened Drinks To Depression, Ties Coffee To Lower Risk
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New research suggests that drinking sweetened beverages, especially diet drinks, is associated with an increased risk of depression in adults while drinking coffee appears to slightly lower that risk...
Starbucks Rolls Out $1 Reusable Cup To Reduce Trash
Emily Jed
Starbucks already gives customers a dime discount each time they bring in reusable cups for refills, but it's hoping the new cup's low price will encourage more of them to get into the routine...
Tampa's Community Refreshments Acquires Orlando's CupaCoffee
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Electronic Transactions Association Devotes Day To Mobile Payments At Annual Expo In Spring
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Hello everyone,
Can the Wordpress experts here give me some insight on what they are doing and/or bundles (wamp, xampp, bitnami) or multisite solutions they are using to create several different domain Wordpress sites at one time?
Thank you for any advice you're willing to offer.Brian
Have you tried WO multisite? You can run several WP sites on one installation. Not sure if that was what you were looking for. Here is an article from Mashable about it.
I have had this setup for a while, but I wasn't sure on how to use it. Thank you for this link!
I just wrote a post in the "how to do WP locally thread in this forum that explains what I do:
I don't know the shortcode API and since you mention your shortcode, yet do not provide it, your post useless to me.
Well, your post here isn't exactly the high point of human utility either
I was asking a question any beginner might ask. The utility of the answers or lack there of, doesn't fall to me, if falls to the people who answer my question. Shawn's answer works. You're solution should be just that, a solution, not a complete thought without you providing the tools required to build your solution. Why would you assume that I would know how to write shortcode API given the question I asked?
Well, good luck getting WP multisite to work, especially using it to dev multiple sites at once.
BTW, I tossed it into git, just because:
Too advanced for me man. I'm sure it'll be useful for someone else further along than I am.


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I am turning 40 in twelve days and I have never worn makeup in my life, okay except for maybe a few unfortunate attempts when I was 14 and angry at the world….black eye liner!
Not wearing makeup was never an issue for me, until about a year ago. I have an increasing case of Vitiligo and it has come up onto my face, gone are the cute little freckles that used to speckle themselves whimsically across my nose and down onto my cheeks. It became very noticeable last summer when I was a bit more tanned. I try my hardest to put on sunscreen, wear hats and keep out of the sun, but admit that I spend more of my time accomplishing those sun safety measures for the 3 kids then I do myself. So the places where my skin pigmentation has disappeared are in my opinion, frightfully noticeable.
If I am being 100% honest with myself I do not look like I did even 5 years ago before the rug rats came along. Years of focusing on our infertility, losing a baby, and finally becoming parents has aged me and it shows on my face and my body! I however do not know the first thing about applying makeup and have often thought of going into one of the places I see in the malls to have them show me how to apply it properly, but I am terrified I will come out looking more aged and way less natural then I like to look and feel. To date my only face care routine is washing my face with noxema before bed, and for years I believe my noxema was keeping me looking young, as I was always told I looked years younger then my actual age, but those days are slipping away and those compliments are very few and far between.
I don't even adorn my fingernails with polish and my toes although always out and about in the summer are embarrassingly bare. In our house Daddy shows our 3 year old how to put on her lip smacker, her cheek sparkles and even does the nail polish. Mommy just doesn't know how.
I got my first haircut in almost 20 years and the only reason I decided to do that was because it kept visiting the toilet every time I did, so tired of having to constantly remember to hold my hair up every time I sat down on the loo I reluctantly went and got it cut, and it was stressful. She kept wanting to do something called face shaping, I didn't get it, I was there to get my haircut, not get my face in shape! Regardless, she cut it and way shorter then I had originally wanted, it now does not wrap up properly into my bun that has become my standard mommy do.
Time to suck it up and start doing something to improve the reflection that is staring back at me so wearily in the mornings.
Time to admit to the word that I am a 40 YEAR OLD MAKEUP VIRGIN.
I don't even know where to begin!
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something that is helpful to my generation is...youtube. What a shock :P
I think you should still go to counters to have them match you for foundation and application. And have them decide what all you need. But there are SO MANY talented beauty gurus on youtube. You can practice step by step by watching them. My personal favorites are Kandee Johnson who is a celebrity makeup artist http://www.youtube.com/user/kandeejohnson/featured and TiffanyD who is also a makeup artist http://www.youtube.com/user/MakeupByTiffanyD?feature=watch
Go to a few makeup counters and talk to the consultants, they will be a great help. Make sure they start you out slow, a polish(looks like lotion), maybe blush and lip gloss. Don't buy a whole bunch of stuff. The most important thing is making sure you have great skin care because makeup can and will break you out if you don't wash your face. I am using Laura Mercier exfoliate at the moment and it is wonderful. Also, make sure you have a good night moisturizer(lotion), I'm using ponds(get from target) and I love it. Took my Mom to get me back on the right path, lol.
Also, find a friend whose makeup you admire and ask them to guide you in the right direction. Good luck!


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If you need a friend, get a dog !
My hubby, in spite of his best efforts and use of various creams can't develop more than patchy 'bum' fluff, (a pitiful sight). He longs to feel my talons run through a growth of facial manliness. I cherish the moment I may feel this sensation, too Any advice on how to maximise his production of androgens?
Did you ever slap Picard on the head Benny Hill stylee Oh and question were alll desperate to no , Where the fuck is Osama Bin Laddin
They guy who invented Burpees , is a secret child molester
I would recommend kitting him out in a red Star Fleet uniform and getting him to sit on the edge of the bed leaning forward. The occasional palming of his face may also stimulate manlyness.
Furthermore, taking up the trombone may unleash his inner Frakes.
Awesome thread!!!!!!!!
I'm no gynecologist but I know a cunt when I see one.
Why, thank you sir!
Do you have a question for Frakes?
Referring to yourself in the third person is cool and manly.
Did Troy wax her beard
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Ben Shapiro: Obama admin "anti-Semitic," Emanuel like death camp prisoners who aided Nazis
From Ben Shapiro's April 28 syndicated column [1], "An Open Letter to American Jews":
American Jews, I have one request of you: please pull your heads out of your posteriors.
I mean that in all sincerity. Your continued support for Democrats and an administration that is openly anti-Semitic is a disgrace. Your embrace of a party that seeks to hamstring Israel in the name of a wholly fictitious Middle East peace process is contemptible. Your loyalty to a president who consistently sides with Palestinian and Iranian mass murder-supporters is disgusting.
Your backing of a man who has spent his life surrounding himself with the worst anti-Semites America has to offer -- Jeremiah Wright, Rashid Khalidi (former Palestinian terrorist spokesman), Louis Farrakhan ("I don't like the way [Jews] leech on us"), Samantha Power, Robert Malley, to name a few -- is nothing short of reprehensible. Rahm Emanuel's presence in the Obama cabinet doesn't ameliorate Obama's anti-Semitism -- it just provides it convenient cover. Al Sharpton wrongly called Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell "house negroes"; Emanuel is a kapo.
Dictionary.com defines [2] "kapo" as "a Nazi concentration camp prisoner who was given privileges in return for supervising prisoner work gangs: often a common criminal and frequently brutal to fellow inmates."
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PHOTO: Adorable Puppy Born With HEART On Her Back!
Valerie the puppy born with a perfect heart-shaped patch on her back in Stoke, UK on October 15, 2013. This cute puppy will always be able to show her owners she loves them - after being born with a perfect heart-shaped patch. Adorable 16-day-old Valerie is a Jack Russell-Chihuahua-cross and is one of 25 dogs in the household. But owners Joanne and Dave Boardman will never be able to miss their new addition with the striking brown fur patch which resembles a perfect love-heart on her back.
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Still calling troll on you Leon... Until you show up and take the offer to train with one of the clubs, I shall call troll trollie trollywoo!
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Some serious Aberdeen Angus style beef happening here between the hitman and jimbotine. He is trolling though.
Fuck no-gi
Maybe the worst 2-0 MMA fighter in history. @jimbojitsusbg granitecitygrappling.com
He is real. This is the way he acts in real life too. He believes everything hes saying here. Guys totally fucked up in the head.
Nope , he is a troll, again look at how he writes in a scottish dialect on some posts - when he is trolling hard and then doesnt use the dialect so much when he isnt..
Not bad but seen a lot better.
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He is no troll he is not stable in the head, He has done so much worse than the shit he says about his mma.
It's not for writing in here thats for sure.
The people on here that say he is no troll know him and live in the same town as him...
Many people from the broch and peterhead will speak and type/text the same as this.
The guy just can't help himself. He seriously needs help.


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A THIEF who stole a dozen iPhones from changing rooms at Church Cricket Club was stopped in his tracks after the players gave chase.
The burglar had targetted the changing rooms of away team Haslingden, but he was spotted acting suspiciously, and an off-duty police officer who was playing for Haslingden led the chase when the man escaped with the mobile phones, and tracked him down using GPS technology.
It was dramatic day at the Cricket Club, as play had previously been stopped for an hour earlier after former Church chairman Don Holt was taken ill at the side of the pitch and taken to hospital by ambulance during the match.
Haslingden player Graham Knowles said: "One of the Church lads spotted the thief and our lads gave chase and they caught up with him in a field and retrieved the phones.
"They used another phone to track the phones with GPS tracking.
"One of our teammates is a policeman in Burnley so he led the charge.
"There was a police unit going past so I believe he's now in custody.
"It was quite an interesting day. I "t was not one I've had on the cricket field for 25 years!"
Church player Sam Tucker said: "We were playing cricket and he was sitting in the pavillion, the players area.
"I assumed he was a club official of the away team, but he kept nipping in and out of the changing room.
"I kept my eye on him and he made an exit.
"We chased him through the fields. There was tracking on one of the phones, so we were moving around following the GPS.
"Police had arrived and police dogs and eventually we gripped him, but he didn't have any phones on him, so we had to pinpoint where he had put them in the field with the tracker.
"Technology is amazing, we couldn't have done it without the GPS tracking.
"I've never experienced anything like it on a cricket field before."


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I last testified on the Syria crisis for the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs seven months ago and since then we have seen another 30,000 deaths, reflecting the staggering escalation of violence. In just the last year, the number of reported deaths has tripled from 26,000 to more than 100,000. The number in need inside Syria jumped from 2.5 million people to more than 6.8 million—roughly the equivalent of the combined populations of Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Connecticut. And now with over two million refugees, a national crisis has fully evolved into a regional crisis, putting severe strains on vulnerable communities of neighboring countries.
Since the start of the January 2011 revolution, USAID's portfolio in Egypt has focused on responding to the Egyptian people's demands for jobs, accountability, and rights. In the wake of the events of July 3, these priorities remain intact. We will continue to work with the Egyptian people to address their legitimate aspirations for economic opportunities and democratic governance.
USAID's assistance program in Egypt is a cornerstone of our bilateral relationship, and we are proud of the accomplishments we have made over the last thirty years. Just to highlight a few accomplishments, USAID has achieved significant impact in increasing access to education. Our recently completed early grade reading program improved fluency by 91 percent in pilot schools, and the scaled-up project reached 1.4 million students in all grade-one classrooms across Egypt. Our assistance has awarded 185,000 scholarships to girls and built nearly 100 schools (serving over 44,000 students) in underserved communities throughout the country.
As is well known, Haiti has long struggled with serious development challenges. The devastating 2010 earthquake, coupled with periods of political unrest, other natural disasters, and limited capacity of government institutions, exacerbated these long-standing issues. USAID's program has seen notable successes in overcoming these challenges. However, the long-term sustainability of these programs and the development of Haiti depends on the Government of Haiti's ability to maintain the advances made through these activities and to take the sometimes difficult steps needed so it can better meet the needs of their citizens.
Now, two years later, Somalia has its first effective central government since 1991, with democratically elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and a new Somali Federal Parliament. Somalis have worked hard to establish the foundation of their state based on significant efforts to forge a national consensus. And I am very pleased to report that I recently returned from an international meeting on Somalia focused on peace and prosperity, not famine. In Brussels on September 16, 58 countries and 11 international organizations gathered in support of a compact that outlines a roadmap forward. Emerging from 20 years of conflict will be a long and bumpy road, but Somalia is now heading in the right direction, with the best chance in 20 years to move toward a better future.
Today I am pleased to talk to you about this opportunity, the new frameworks and international partnerships in support of Somalia, and what USAID is doing to help Somalia transition out of conflict, fragility, and chronic poverty.
Humanitarian assistance will not end the bloodshed in Syria. Yet it is saving lives and helping alleviate the very real pressures this protracted conflict has put on the lives of everyday people. As we continue to work with the international community toward a political solution, the United States remains fully committed to a strong and flexible humanitarian response—and to coordinating closely with our international development partners—to help the Syrian people and Syria's neighbors endure this crisis. And, we must continue to press for greater access and security for aid workers. We continue to be deeply appreciative of Congressional support to provide the resources that makes our humanitarian assistance work possible in the region.
Since the political and economic crisis of 2008, Zimbabwe has been in the process of a protracted and difficult transition toward economic normalcy and greater democracy. But the nation's intermittent progress has often been matched by daunting setbacks. While the economy has slowly stabilized since the disastrous crisis of 2008, the recent, deeply flawed elections represent a disturbing political and democratic setback from the cautious and sober optimism five years ago at the formation of the Government of National Unity (GNU).
Since the formation of the Government of National Unity (GNU) in 2008, the United States and other international donors have played an important role in promoting reforms and providing humanitarian and development assistance in order to promote economic and social stability. Although we've seen measurable progress in certain areas, the recent elections in Zimbabwe raise concerns regarding how the United States should continue to support democratic and economic development.
In my testimony, I will address USAID's approach to water management, the funding of the Agency's water programs, and the impact of the water programs. In so doing, I will discuss USAID water programs in Africa, as well as the Agency's newly released Water and Development Strategy, which will guide future development and implementation of USAID water programs.
A key aspect of the Agency's past and future strategic approach to meeting health needs through our water programs is increased coordination with ongoing Agency efforts, particularly our food security and health programs. We believe the impact of USAID funded water programs on human health has been positive. In this regard, from FY 2006 to FY 2012, the Agency has supported water programs which have provided water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) to approximately 50 million people. Going forward, we expect to build upon that impact as we begin to implement the first ever USAID Water and Development Strategy.
The death last year of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi marked the end of an era in Ethiopia. Fully half of the population has never known another leader or another style of governance, and his passing brought with it both hope and trepidation for the country's future. Ten months later, the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) remains firmly in control of all organs of government. This includes the Parliament, which selected a new Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, and Deputy Prime Minister, Demeke Mekonnen, during an extraordinary session on September 21, 2012, marking Ethiopia's first peaceful political transition in modern history. It is significant that neither Hailemariam nor Demeke is a member of the TPLF (Tigray People's Liberation Front), which led Ethiopia since the 1991 overthrow of the Mengistu communist regime, nor are they members of the Orthodox Church, unlike all of their predecessors.
Last year, less than one year after the separation of South Sudan had brought hope for a better way forward, I testified before the House and Senate on a worrisome set of trends emerging across Sudan and South Sudan. Unfortunately, the news remains grim. Millions of people in both countries continue to suffer from the effects of ongoing violence and extreme poverty, and we are seeing some of the worst humanitarian conditions in several years in Darfur, the Two Areas of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile, and Jonglei state in South Sudan. Conflict is escalating and affecting communities on both sides of the north-south border. As my colleague Larry Andre has noted, the U.S. government continues to prioritize resolution of this crisis as a principal foreign policy goal, with focused diplomatic initiatives and humanitarian assistance. In the face of continued challenges to reaching the most vulnerable, USAID maintains an unwavering commitment to help the people of Sudan and South Sudan. We remain firmly committed to doing all we can to meet growing needs and, at the same time, help promote a lasting peace.
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McBride topping own Sky Sox output
Slugging outfielder goes 5-for-5 with two homers, six RBIs
By Jonathan Raymond / Special to MLB.com | May 22, 2013 10:37 PM ET
On May 14, Colorado Springs' Matt McBride went yard twice on a five-RBI night in a win over Omaha. For many, it would have stood for a while at or near the top of the season highlights.
For McBride, it lasted just little over a week.
The outfielder homered twice again Wednesday, but this time finished a perfect 5-for-5 this time -- and came a triple shy of a cycle -- plating six runs in the Triple-A Sky Sox's 9-1 win over the Albuquerque Isotopes.
Both the five hits and the six RBIs were career highs for McBride, who turns 28 on Thursday. He explained most of the hot run by attributing it to a relaxed approach at the plate.
"I really just try and not think about it too much, that can only hurt you," he said. "You stay within your routine, go about your business consistently and try and go out there and have good at-bats, not give any away. I think that's a big part of it, not getting caught up in anything."
He did, however, admit that Wednesday's showing was one he'll remember fondly.
"I think whenever anybody has a day like that, it feels good," he noted. "It was good we got the win, we had lost two in a row, so it's nice to get that. I think no matter what, though, you get five hits and it's a pretty satisfying feeling."
It's been something of a banner year for McBride, who has played catcher primarily this season, but was in right field Wednesday. The 2006 second-round pick would be second in the Pacific Coast League with a .388 average if he qualified. His eight home runs would tie him for fourth and his .800 slugging percentage through 23 games would, quite easily, land him atop the circuit.
"Like I said, I just try and keep things the same. It's pretty boring, but I try not to really think about everything. Do the same process and be consistent with that," he said. "Don't give at-bats away, grind them out if you're not feeling great for some reason on a certain day. Just go out there and battle if you have to, get your work in. Once you're out on the field play hard, have fun."
With eight homers in 23 games this year, it probably won't take long for McBride to surpass the total of 10 he supplied for Colorado Springs in 108 games last season. He thrived for the Sky Sox last year as well, hitting .344/.365/.535 with 87 RBIs, earning him a 31-game stint with the Rockies in which he batted .205 with two homers and 11 RBIs.
The possibility of hitting for a cycle did, indeed, cross his mind as he came to the plate for his fifth at-bat Wednesday.
"I mean you know what you've done previously in the other at-bats," he said. "I think anybody in that situation is aware of what they've done, so you just wanna go out and try and do what you did before, not start trying to do too much. When you try to hit a homer or a triple, usually that's when the end result doesn't work out."
Jeff Manship (3-1) yielded a run on five hits and a walk with six strikeouts in 5 2/3 frames to earn the win.
Jonathan Raymond is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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